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104			 OPERATION--ANNIHILATE!
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WRITER: Stephen W. Carabatsos

GUESTS: Dave Armstrong
	Craig Hundley
	Joan Swift
	Maurishka

AIRED:  April 13, 1967

HACK-MAN rating: .775
Usenet rating:   .576

QUOTES:
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 - "[I don't care what it takes or costs, just help him]." --Kirk


			 OPERATION--ANNIHILATE!

PLOT:
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Parasitic creatures  (flying  pizza  bats/fried  eggs)  cause  insanity  in
victims by landing on their backs and entering  the nervous  system via the
spine, which  they  wrap around.   Jim's  brother Sam  Kirk is  dead on the
planet, but they manage to save Jim's nephew Peter Kirk.

Spock is  infected  by  one  of  the parasites.   McCoy  thinks light might
destroy them (1000 candles per square inch), so Spock  logically decided to
get blinded instead of wearing protective goggles.   Vulcans  have a second
eyelid that Spock never thought to bring up and  McCoy for  some reason was
unaware of.  The eggs came 8 months ago (they  are actually  brain cells of
some larger being).   Enterprise outside  hull temperature  is 1000 degrees
and rising when they chase a small ship into the sun.

FACTS:
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 - Mass insanity in Denoba system.
 - George Samuel Kirk (Sam) is a research biologist.
 - Sam Kirk's private frequency is "______, subspace frequency three".
 - Colonized 1000 years ago.
 - Sick bay register #2: the K3 indicator displays the level of pain.
 - This is the last episode with "the" final frontier in the opening.
 - McCoy thinks the good of the none outweigh the good of the many (doesn't
   want to  kill  millions  to save  billions when  the millions  would die
   either way.)
 - The Enterprise is at  warp 8  inside  a  solar  system  (I  thought  you
   couldn't use warp inside a solar system?)
 - Kirk says  "I don't  care what  it  takes  or  costs,  just  help  him."
   ("Costs"?  I didn't think they still had money in that century)
 - Scotty made the asteroid belt run as an engineering advisor.

OPINIONS:
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Plot was enjoyable, but Spock was bogus.