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This is an especially fun episode, and real crowd pleaser!
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Shore Leave - episode #17

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____________ Star Trek TOS Shore Leave Trailer


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This episode probably doesn't rate as high with other fans because it lacks the deep meaning or undertone of those really great ones. But even in this respect there is some subtext here — that we humans need to work off our tensions in a certain way or we don't function normally.

Also, as with the best stories, there are actual explanations provided in the end for why all the weird stuff is happening, as opposed to some cop out where things are kept mysterious and the audience has to play guessing games with itself.

The premise here was re-used in later films such as Westworld and the bland TV series Fantasy Island.

BoG's Score: 9.5 out of 10




Extra Trek Trivia: Finnegan, Kirk's nemesis from his cadet days, is played with gusto by Bruce Mars; he also played a small role as a cop in the episode Assignment:Earth.

The female officer here, Angela (Barbara Baldavin), looks like the same lady who was widowed in Balance of Terror.

McCoy has fond memories of a cabaret on Rigel II and . . . a couple of women there.

Theodore Sturgeon scripted this one, and he also wrote the episode Amok Time and the famous story Killdozer.



BoG
Galaxy Overlord Galactus
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)