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Metamorphosis

Episode aired Nov 10, 1967
TV-PGTV-PG
50m

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7.3/10

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While returning to the Enterprise aboard the shuttlecraft, Kirk, Spock, McCoy and a seriously ill Federation diplomat find themselves kidnapped by an energized cloud.While returning to the Enterprise aboard the shuttlecraft, Kirk, Spock, McCoy and a seriously ill Federation diplomat find themselves kidnapped by an energized cloud.While returning to the Enterprise aboard the shuttlecraft, Kirk, Spock, McCoy and a seriously ill Federation diplomat find themselves kidnapped by an energized cloud.

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7.3/10

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Director
- Ralph Senensky
Writers
- Gene Roddenberry
- Gene L. Coon
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William Shatner and Glenn Corbett in Star Trek (1966)

Leonard Nimoy, William Shatner, DeForest Kelley, Glenn Corbett, and Elinor Donahue in Star Trek (1966)

Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, and Elinor Donahue in Star Trek (1966)

Glenn Corbett and Elinor Donahue in Star Trek (1966)

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Trivia
A few scenes featuring Elinor Donahue had to be re-shot, because the original film negatives were damaged and couldn't be used. Portions of the planet set had to be rebuilt, since other episodes were shot there by that time, using different sets. Meanwhile, Donahue got pneumonia and lost ten pounds. To hide this, they put Hedford's scarf around her neck and upper body. However, her weight loss is still visible on her face. The re-shots were not directed by Ralph Senensky.

Goofs
The shuttle craft used is called the "Galileo". The Galileo was destroyed in The Galileo Seven (1967), however the Enterprise would have put in for re-supply at least twice in the time since then. "Galileo" was simply replaced.

Quotes
Captain James T. Kirk: You say you can communicate with it. Perhaps you can find out what we're doing here.
Zefram Cochrane: I already know.
Captain James T. Kirk: You wouldn't mind telling us?
Zefram Cochrane: You won't like it.
Captain James T. Kirk: I already don't like it.

Alternate versions
Special Enhanced version Digitally Remastered with new exterior shots and remade opening theme song

Connections
Featured in Cinematic Excrement: Spock's Brain (2014)

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Music credited to Alexander Courage
Sung by Loulie Jean Norman

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7/10

Living forever is an endless boredom!!!

The fine actor Glenn Corbett was the guest star of this odd and fantastic Star Trek episode, Captain Kirk, Spock and McCoy are escorting in Shuttlecraft a famous Federation diplomat Nancy Hedford (Elinor Dunahue), actually she is ill and they have to hurry to get on Enterprise in time, but suddenly appears a strange energetic cloud that forced the Shuttlecraft lands on a small planet, there they meet a lonely survivor Zefram Cochrane, appalled by such oddity they try get a fairish answer by Cochrane, who explain that an entity called just by The Companion, a sort an energetic field that cover up him to communicate thru thinking, saves his life and they were invited by this entity to stay there forever, sounds a dead end, one the best screenplay on the series, seems at first look unavoidable, because the strange being didn't get any human fair emotion, nevertheless the results are unpredictable, the writer Gene L. He made the unattainable becomes in an immaculate solution!!

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First watch: 2020 / How many: 1 / Source: DVD / Rating: 7.75

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