--------------------------------------------------------------------------- 28 CATSPAW --------------------------------------------------------------------------- WRITER: Robert Bloch and Dorothy Fontana GUESTS: Antoinette Bowers (Sylvia?) Theo Marcus (Korub?) Michael Barrier (DeFalco?) Jimmy Jones AIRED: October 27, 1967 HACK-MAN rating: .440 Usenet rating: .381 QUOTES: ======= - "Analysis, Mr. Spock?" --Kirk "Very bad peotry, Captain." --Spock - "You'd be a natural." (for Halloween) --Kirk (to Spock) - "[I'll] bet credits to navy beans we can [punch a hole] in it." --DeFalco CATSPAW PLOT: ===== Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Scotty, and Sulu are thrown in a dungeon by Korub and Sylvia (black cat) to trick Kirk into giving them further scientific information. They probed their minds and reached the subconscious instead of the conscious, so are unaware that the Halloween charade they are putting on is not the norm for humans. They hang a toy Enterprise over a flame and the Enterprise becomes hot; also put a force field around it. Three witches. FACTS: ====== This is the first episode filmed with Ensign Chekov, though "Amok Time" was aired earlier. OPINIONS: =========