--------------------------------------------------------------------------- 90 METAMORPHOSIS --------------------------------------------------------------------------- WRITER: Gene L. Coon GUESTS: Glenn Corbett (Zephran Cochran) Elinor Donahue (Miss Hepburn) AIRED: November 10, 1967 HACK-MAN rating: .450 Usenet rating: .426 QUOTES: ======= - "Let me feel the earth beneath my feet [blah blah] sun." --Someone (but since they weren't on the Earth, they should have said "ground", etc.) METAMORPHOSIS PLOT: ===== While transporting an annoying Starfleet ambassador/observer wench somewhere (she caught a disease on her last assignment and McCoy is worried the whole show that she is going to die), the Enterprise receives a distress signal. An Enterprise shuttlecraft (along with the wench, who went along to the planet for some reason) is forced down to the planet that the signal originated at. On the planet they find Zephran Cochran, who has been kept immortal by a cloud of electricity called the Companion, who brought Kirk, et.al. to the planet to keep Zephran company. FACTS: ====== - First episode with Gene Roddenberry in opening credits? - Shuttlecraft Galileo. - Miss Hepburn was this week's dork. - Class H-M planets can support human life. - Zephran Cochran (of Alpha Centauri) was supposed to have died 150 years ago at the age of 87. He was the inventor of the warp drive. OPINIONS: ========= Plot was fine, but the wench spoiled it.