This week in 1968, Star Trek was pre-empted by a dramatic special, “Flesh & Blood”. In keeping with our effort to post episode reviews on the anniversary of the episode first airing, we were unable to write one this week.
Have a Trektacular week. 
Have you ever wondered what it must be like to be a celebrity? Seriously, while the money must be pretty nice, I would imagine that it must be pretty awkward being recognized in public everywhere you go. And, there’s also the added awkwardness if you happen to be a female celebrity. How do you think Jeri Ryan or Jolene Blalock feel about having their pictures adorning the inside of high school gym lockers or set as desktop wallpapers across the world?
Personally, I think obscurity sounds pretty good.
It never has been mentioned, to my knowledge, anywhere in Star Trek, but after re-watching the TNG episode “Data’s Day”, I am convinced that the Enterprise-D has a three-dimensional viewscreen on the bridge.
In the last few minutes of the episode, Captain Picard is talking to the Commander of a Romulan ship. When the camera is positioned directly in front of the viewscreen, we see the Romulan Commander straight on, as expected.
A few seconds later, however, the camera cuts to a shot where we see the main viewer at an angle. What we should see on the screen is like what you would see if you displayed the above picture on your monitor, then viewed your monitor from a 45-degree angle; no extra detail and some distortion of the details that are there. Instead, we see this image:
Instead of the flat, distorted picture we should see at that angle, we see detail that doesn’t show up in the straight-on view: the curve of the back of the Commander’s head, the doorway that’s to his right, the way the necktie-looking thingumy on the front of his uniform is above the uniform, not just a flat pattern on his shirt …
Personally, I can’t wait for television to develop this technology. Three-D without having to wear goofy glasses or cross your eyes would be too awesome!
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Help me out here. I have in my mind a very clear image of Harry Mudd smoking Rocky Patel cigars, but I can not actually remember a single frame of footage that shows my favorite villain smoking a cigar.
So, was Harcort Fenton Mudd a smoker, or is my mind playing tricks on me?
Even if he never did smoke cigars, he just looks like someone who would be very comfortable with a stogie in his mouth.
“The Immunity Syndrome” is a second season episode of Star Trek: The Original Seriesfirst broadcast January 19, 1968 and repeated June 7, 1968. It is episode #47, production #48, written by Robert Sabaroff and directed by Joseph Pevney.
Plot Summary
The crew of the Enterprise encounters an energy-draining space creature.