--------------------------------------------------------------------------- 52 ELAAN OF TROYIUS --------------------------------------------------------------------------- WRITER: John Meredyth Lucas GUESTS: France Nuyen (Elaan) Jay Robinson (Petri) Tony Young (Kryton) Majel Barrett (Nurse Chapel) Lee Duncan (Evens) Victor Brandt (Watson) Dick Durdock (Guard #1) Charles Beck (Guard #2) K.L. Smith (Klingon) AIRED: December 20, 1968 HACK-MAN rating: .205 Usenet rating: .450 QUOTES: ======= - "If I have to stay here for ten light years..." --_____ - "Are you out of your Vulcan mind?" --McCoy - "Spock, the women on your planet are logical. It is the only planet that can make that claim." --Kirk ELAAN OF TROYIUS PLOT: ===== The Enterprise is transporting Princess Dolman (a spoiled wench) to be married (poor groom) to the ruler of a planet her people are at war with. Things get complicated when Kirk falls in love with the princess. Women of Elas have magic tears that make you fall in love with them when touched and the spell never wears off (as if Kirk need a *reason* to fall in love with a woman). There is no antidote to the spell the tears cast. McCoy spends the entire episode trying to come up with an antidote, and finally does just before the end of the episode. It isn't needed, though, because Kirk is able to resist her on his own due to his first love--that of the Enterprise. Kinda makes you wanna retch, eh? Dolman is wearing a dilithium crystal necklace. Dilithium crystals are abundant on Elas, which has the Klingons interested in the planet. Klingons sabotage Enterprise's warp drive so it will go kablooie. If the Enterprise had used warp as the Klingons wanted, *both* ships would have been destroyed!! FACTS: ====== - Kirk wants the princess to eat chicken (or something with very little meat on a bone) with *silverware*. - Elaan Dolman is the spoiled white Elasian. - Ambassador Petri is a blue Troyian. - 1 Enterprise crewman dead (engineering). - Telon star system. - Planet Elas. - Aphrodisiacal tears. - The Elasian is let on board with personal atomic weapons?! - The Elasian ship had atomic propulsion. OPINIONS: ========= She was a bit too much to take, and detracted from whatever plot there was.