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100				OBSESSION
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WRITER: Art Wallace

GUESTS: Stephen Brooks (Garavik?)
	Jerry Ayres

AIRED:  December 15, 1967

HACK-MAN rating: .425
Usenet rating:   .576

QUOTES:
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 - "Crazy  way to travel...  spreading a man's  molecules all over the uni-
   verse." --McCoy
 - "This is impossible.  Nothing could do that." --Redshirt (who gets it)
 - "What happened is medically impossible." --McCoy
 - "If we keep this speed, we'll blow up any minute now." --Scotty
 - "Thank heavens" --Scotty.   "Mr Scott, there was no deity involved;  it
   was my cross-circuiting to B that recovered them" --Spock.  "Well, then
   thank pitchforks and point[ed|y] ears." --McCoy.


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PLOT:
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Kirk disregards  all  other  responsibilities  in  an  effort  to destroy a
gaseous vampire cloud that feeds on red corpuscles.   Kirk  was supposed to
rendezvous with the USS Yorktown in two  hours because  vaccines are needed
on Theta 7.  Eleven years ago something happened to the USS  Ferrigut.  The
captain (Garavik) and half the crew died (200 people).  This  was Lt Kirk's
first mission.    Everyone has  been calling  it "the  creature", then when
Spock calls it "the creature", McCoy questions this name.   Kirk has ensign
Garavik accompany him on the planet, where  he attacks  Kirk in  a flash of
bravery/stupidity (isn't this a court-martial offense?)

FACTS:
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 - Rock is 21.x times harder than diamonds.
 - They use "phaser two" again.
 - Spock's hemoglobin is based on copper, not iron.

OPINIONS:
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Not an outstanding episode, but not one that should be avoided.