The legendary screen actor Peter Cushing, gives a remarkable performance in this episode. His huge screen presence makes this story a memorable one.
This episode has a dark and sinister overtone to it, also it has elements of the Star Trek pilot The Cage.
It is a morality tale of the difference between right and wrong. It also questions the issues that two wrongs don't make a right, or does it?
That is the question?
Missing Link deals with politics, hate, love, power, beauty, fear, the illusion of the human mind, everything that makes up the human persona within society.
For once you get a chance to see the vulnerable psychology of the Moonbase personal, in which they start to crack up or fight each other physically.
Towards the end Doctor Helena Russell has no choice but to carry out a sin with our permission policy, by having the power of life and death over Commander Koenig.
What I like about this episode is the beginning which takes place before the opening titles. The highlight of it is the special effects, and the dramatic situation in which our main characters find themselves in. It sets up the whole plot of the story, that is to take place within the next hour.
To see Commander Koenig in a vulnerable and horrific situation gives this episode a chilling effect.
One of the best episodes of season one.