--------------------------------------------------------------------------- 150 THE WAY TO EDEN --------------------------------------------------------------------------- WRITER: Arthur Heinemann GUESTS: Skip Homier (Doc Sevrin) Charles Napier (Adam) Mary-Linda Rapelye (Irina) Majel Barrett (Nurse Chapel) Victor Brandt (Tongo Rad) Elizabeth Rogers (Lt. Palmer) Deborah Downey (Girl #1) Phillis Douglas (Girl #2) AIRED: February 21, 1969 HACK-MAN rating: .775 Usenet rating: .432 QUOTES: ======= "Power beyond critical. Explosion is imminent." --Spock THE WAY TO EDEN PLOT: ===== A group of space hippies steal the Enterprise (not a hard task to accomplish, is it?) and search for the legendary planet Eden. Spock jams on a harp-like instrument with a chick playing backup on a bicycle wheel. The six hippies, led by Dr Sevrin (waffle ears), had stolen the Space Cruiser Aurora, and the Enterprise had to enter the Romulan Neutral Zone to save them. They call Kirk "Herbert", a person known for his rigid and limited patterns of thought, but Spock is one with them (since he was unlike the people he grew up with). Dr. Sevrin was a brilliant man from Tiberon, but now is a carrier of some disease. Chekov's old flame from SF Academy (Irini Galliulin) tries to persuade him to join them. They find Eden (with some help from Spock), but Adam and Doc Sevrin die as they find out that all the plant life is acidic. FACTS: ====== - Spock plays a harp-like instrument. OPINIONS: ========= One of the more dated episodes, but always good for a laugh.