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Star Trek The Original Series -
The Complete Second Season
Editorial Review:
Description:
Star Trek: The
Complete Second Season features many exciting adventures
with the Enterprise crew, including Spock experiencing the
Vulcan mating drive, the crew being captured by a powerful
alien once worshipped on Earth as the Greek god Apollo, the
return of an ancient space probe launched centuries ago, aging
at an incredible rate after exposure to an unknown form of
radiation, and other episodes.
Amazon.com:
The most famous
episode in franchise history, "The Trouble with Tribbles," is
one of the highlights of the second season of Star Trek:
The Original Series. A deserved classic, the humorous
story centers on an ever-expanding mass of furry creatures
that memorably rain themselves down on top of Captain Kirk
(William Shatner) and into the middle of a Federation-Klingon
showdown. It inspired one of the most memorable episodes in
the spin-off series Deep Space Nine, "Trial and
Tribble-ations." Also in the second season, the Vulcan culture
of Mr. Spock (Leonard Nimoy) is fleshed out in "Amok Time" (in
which Spock is faced with the possibility of killing his
captain and friend) and "Journey to Babel" (introducing
Spock's father, played by Mark Sarek, in what would turn out
to be a long-recurring role). A new character, navigator Pavel
Chekov (Walter Koenig), was introduced; his Monkees haircut
was intended to appeal to the younger audience, but he was
also a Russian, which at the height of the cold war reflected
Gene Roddenberry's optimistic vision of a more enlightened
future. Other social-commentary opportunities presented
themselves in "The Omega Glory," "The Doomsday Machine," and
"Assignment: Earth," the last also one of those periodic
opportunities to scrimp on the budget by time-traveling to an
earlier version of Earth. Another example was "A Piece of the
Action," a comic episode set in the Roaring Twenties and
memorable for, among other things, Kirk's teaching a made-up
card game called Fizzbin. In other significant episodes, "I,
Mudd" saw the return of the bounder from season 1, "The
Changeling" was the original inspiration for the first
Trek feature film a decade later, "Wolf in the Fold"
(penned by the author of Psycho) provides an example of
the series' great writing, and "Mirror, Mirror" introduced the
concept of the parallel universe inhabited by vicious, amoral
counterparts of the regular crew, another theme later borrowed
(more than once, and to good emotional effect) by DS9.
Special features are a bit lighter than on the season
1 set, but they do feature such contributors as Shatner,
Nimoy, George Takei (Sulu), Koenig, Nichelle Nichols (Uhura),
and editor-writer D.C. Fontana. Of chief interest are "To
Boldly Go," a 20-minute season recap; " Kirk, Spock &
Bones: The Great Trio," discussing the interplay among Kirk,
Spock, and Dr. McCoy (DeForest Kelley); "Star Trek's
Divine Diva," shining the spotlight on the development of
Nichols's character (she was originally considered to play
Spock); and "Writer's Notebook: D.C. Fontana," discussing her
various roles in the series (she used her initials to avoid
the anti-female bias in science fiction at the time).
--David Horiuchi
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