William Shatner is the guest this week and he plays Major Kurt Brown, a man who was born in Germany but left with his family as the Nazis were rising to power. However, he holds no fondness in him for the Germans and his hatred of them is practically rabid. That is why after completing his required 25 missions to go Stateside, he remains in action flying mission after mission. This is a double-edged sword. While it's made him an excellent pilot, he's also joyless and disliked....and is ready to snap. Things do change when he falls for a German woman....and for the first time he sees a reason to survive the war.
While I like William Shatner in many things and think he's a fine actor, with the wrong material and director, he does sometimes have a habit of overacting. Here we have such a case. There's no subtlety and his emotions are reminiscent of a few old "Star Trek" episodes, such as "Turnabout Intruder". As a result, while the idea for the episode is sound, it's not especially good.