This one is essentially "Mr Scott in love", which seems rather contrived, and not very believable, based on our previous experience of Scotty. We observe him blatantly besotted,falling over Lt Romaine, a beautiful and young neophyte to the Space Service. She is some type of librarian or records officer, supervising the storage of data. She is no great actress and has that "Stepford wife" vibe. Scotty is acting like a teenager, even shirking his work. The Captain is a little annoyed, but cuts Scotty some slack, due to his many lonely years. It seems ludicrous though, that the Captain would be putting information about the crew's love life into the official Ship Log.
The next thing you know, an alien life force and/or computer takes over the beautiful lieutenant's mind and tries to destroy the ship! The Doctor and Mr Spock attempt to help undo the damage by studying the intricacies of her psychological profile,focusing on "telepathy" and "ESP" which was all the rage in 1968.
Would true love save the day? Would the Lt's love for Scotty help her break free of the alien? I am pretty sure Leonard Nimoy was rolling his eyes at some of the dialogue.
If you like camp and a plot full of silly holes, this is an episode for you. Naturally we never again hear of the romance between lieutenant and Scotty.
The statements made by McCoy about the Lt's psychological profile were ridiculously dated in 1968, not to mention 2268. Also, the notion of needing an entire planet devoted to a library is anachronistic. Paper books were antiques in the 23rd century , as we know from other episodes. Everything you needed was on the ship's computer, which came true not that many years later!
The next thing you know, an alien life force and/or computer takes over the beautiful lieutenant's mind and tries to destroy the ship! The Doctor and Mr Spock attempt to help undo the damage by studying the intricacies of her psychological profile,focusing on "telepathy" and "ESP" which was all the rage in 1968.
Would true love save the day? Would the Lt's love for Scotty help her break free of the alien? I am pretty sure Leonard Nimoy was rolling his eyes at some of the dialogue.
If you like camp and a plot full of silly holes, this is an episode for you. Naturally we never again hear of the romance between lieutenant and Scotty.
The statements made by McCoy about the Lt's psychological profile were ridiculously dated in 1968, not to mention 2268. Also, the notion of needing an entire planet devoted to a library is anachronistic. Paper books were antiques in the 23rd century , as we know from other episodes. Everything you needed was on the ship's computer, which came true not that many years later!