The crew dreams of Darwin including an evil dictator named Tezlof (Shatner). Tezlof comes aboard to get help for his son from Darwin.The crew dreams of Darwin including an evil dictator named Tezlof (Shatner). Tezlof comes aboard to get help for his son from Darwin.The crew dreams of Darwin including an evil dictator named Tezlof (Shatner). Tezlof comes aboard to get help for his son from Darwin.
Christopher James Miller
- Caesar Tezlof
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- TriviaWhen guest-star William Shatner's character appears on a vid-link, the caption underneath him reads "JTK NCC 1701" which stands for "James T. Kirk", the character he played on Star Trek (1966) and the registry number of the U.S.S. Enterprise.
- GoofsWhen Kristin and Malcolm hide under the table as the helicopter is firing at the ground, you can clearly see the bright green blocking tape for this scene.
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I really like this series, but this episode is just plain stupid. I'm writing this without spoilers to avoid spoiler tags, but it has elements that not only make no sense, but they aren't even needed to for the "plot" to work. (Especially since the "plot" doesn't "work" anyways.)
To be a bit more specific, this show relies on "suspension of disbelief" when it comes to Darwin, the computer-assisted talking Dolphin. In fact, give the show a leeway in terms of decades and "their technology is different than ours" and most the time the speech synthesizer and what Darwin says actually makes sense, but this episode pointlessly pushes things to whole new levels for no reason whatsoever other than, perhaps, to distract the viewer from a lack of an interesting plot...
The damage done is not just the episode but to the credibility of the series in general. For that reason alone, I'd suggest just skipping over this episode.
As far as William Shatner, it's a cute surprise to see "Captain Kirk" show up, and honestly, "back in the day", I think Bill Shatner was a better actor than most of the scripts allowed him to be. Unfortunately, this is very much an example of such an episode. His dialog is pretty monotone, boring (and with respect to the plot not-credible) for most of the episode, and in the end, he has one emotional moment which was so badly performed (IMO) that I suspect someone(s) just didn't even care enough to shoot a second take.
I really don't like picking on Sci-fi shows that I like, but again, I think this is one of those cases where saying "Pretend this episode doesn't exist" helps the series significantly. Oh, by the way: I suggest you pretend this episode doesn't exist, or if it does, hopefully it was just a really bad dream.
To be a bit more specific, this show relies on "suspension of disbelief" when it comes to Darwin, the computer-assisted talking Dolphin. In fact, give the show a leeway in terms of decades and "their technology is different than ours" and most the time the speech synthesizer and what Darwin says actually makes sense, but this episode pointlessly pushes things to whole new levels for no reason whatsoever other than, perhaps, to distract the viewer from a lack of an interesting plot...
The damage done is not just the episode but to the credibility of the series in general. For that reason alone, I'd suggest just skipping over this episode.
As far as William Shatner, it's a cute surprise to see "Captain Kirk" show up, and honestly, "back in the day", I think Bill Shatner was a better actor than most of the scripts allowed him to be. Unfortunately, this is very much an example of such an episode. His dialog is pretty monotone, boring (and with respect to the plot not-credible) for most of the episode, and in the end, he has one emotional moment which was so badly performed (IMO) that I suspect someone(s) just didn't even care enough to shoot a second take.
I really don't like picking on Sci-fi shows that I like, but again, I think this is one of those cases where saying "Pretend this episode doesn't exist" helps the series significantly. Oh, by the way: I suggest you pretend this episode doesn't exist, or if it does, hopefully it was just a really bad dream.
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