--------------------------------------------------------------------------- 66 THE GALILEO SEVEN --------------------------------------------------------------------------- WRITER: Oliver Crawford and Shimon Wincelberg GUESTS: Don Marshall Peter Marko Rees Vaughan Grant Woods Phyllis Douglas John Crawford AIRED: January 5, 1967 HACK-MAN rating: .500 Usenet rating: .461 QUOTES: ======= - "I'm *depending* on luck." --Kirk - "I say we hit them dead on." --Boman "[un?]fortunately, I am in command" --Spock - "Spock, remind me to tell you that I'm sick and tired of your logic" --McCoy "A most illogical attitude" --Spock - "You reasoned that it was time for an emotional outburst." --Kirk - "You're not going to admit that, for the first time in your life, you made a completely emotional decision based on desperation?" --Kirk "No, sir." --Spock "You are a very stubborn man, Mr. Spock" --Kirk "Yes sir" --Spock - "We're getting a mass of readings I've never seen before." --Sulu THE GALILEO SEVEN PLOT: ===== Spock finds himself in charge of a small crew and the shuttlecraft Galileo, stranded on a hostile planetoid (Tarrus 2). McCoy, Scotty, and four extras (making seven) deal with Spock's logical leadership, trying to guess the next illogical move of a group of Neanderthals (eleven foot tall furry creatures similar to Hansen's planet). They are unable to communicate with the Enterprise because of a quasar-like formation (Morisaki), they encountered on the way to Marcus 3. The Neanderthals don't behave as Spock guessed they would because they are too primitive to think logically. McCoy and the others want to kill the Neanderthals rather than just scare them off (like Spock wanted). Spock doesn't like the low regard humans have for life (though he *can* kill when he feels like it (ref A taste of Armegeddon). Meanwhile, back on the Enterprise, Kirk is under time pressure by some diplomat to get him to some conference or something, so Kirk has to give up searching for the stranded seven. The shuttle drained most or all of its power just landing safely, so they are unable to reach escape velocity. Even if they could, the shuttle could only lift the weight of four bodies, even after getting rid of unneeded machinery. Spock must decide who lives and who stays on the planet to die (kinda like Kolus the Executioner from "Conscience of the King"). McCoy and Mr. Boman would rather have random chance decide which four will pilot the shuttlecraft instead of who is qualified to do so. What's worse, McCoy would rather that six people die instead of one. Mr. Boman would rather bury a dead guy instead of fixing the ship and having a chance to escape alive. Spock's calmness when in command seems to be what really pisses Bones off. The castaways finally get the shuttlecraft airborne by draining their hand phasers into the power supply of the shuttle. Spock then logically decides to be emotional by jettisoning the last of the shuttlecraft's fuel as a signal to the Enterprise. For some illogical reason, Spock doesn't want to keep enough fuel to land again for when the Enterprise returns. At the end, the entire bridge crew laughs openly in Spock's face. FACTS: ====== - 1 stardate is 22.86 hours. - 1 stardate < 36.23 hours. - Space normal speed is less than warp one. - Galileo NCC-1701/7 also used in "Metamorphosis" although it is destroyed in this episode. - Shuttlecraft Columbus is sent out to find the Galileo shuttlecraft. - Sort of defy Star Fleet Command. - High [Commander|Commissioner] Ferrus is this week's main dork. - McCoy and Mr. Boman split the award for best supporting dork. - Spock has personality problems when in command (see also "The Tholean Web". OPINIONS: ========= General question that I thought of while viewing this episode: The Federation doesn't care about killing flies. Spock doesn't want to kill the Neanderthal creatures in this episodes, but apparently it would be okay to since several members of the landing party want to. How much intelligence does a being have to have before they can't kill it according to Star Fleet Command? A fine line must exist, and how do they measure this? If you ignore the three dorks, it's a pretty good episode of "Gilligan's Island" in space.