Return to Tomorrow SEASON 2 EPISODE 20
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A pretty good episode, with Diana Muldair appearing as Dr. Ann Mulhall (she was Dr Pulaski(?) in one season of NextGen), and adding an awful lot of talent to the Star Trek pool. She's really terrific in this episode, bringing intelligence and charisma to the role (sometimes lacking in the 'lady of the week').
Also Nimoy gets some great acting in, smiling, and being an Iago figure and orchestrating things so he comes out on top. Shatner also gets in some slightly more nuanced acting than he usually gives.
The whole final kiss also seemed like the spiritual parent of the end of the movie 'Ghost', and worked quite well imo.
I did like the whole story and some of the scenes, but unfortunately slightly better writing and dialogue would have got this into the 'classic' range of Trek, instead of being just a pretty good episode. I detect Roddenberry's hand in a lot of the writing here, getting very hippy-dippy in places (like the scene where Kirk is giving people the choice on how to proceed...since when was Kirk running a democratic ship?)
Redshirt Count: 19
Classics -
Amok Time (S2E01)
The City on the Edge of Forever (S1E28)
The Naked Time (S1E04)
The Corbomite Maneuver (S1E10)
Balance of Terror (S1E14)
The Enemy Within (S1E05)
The Squire of Gothos (S1E17)
Devil in the Dark (S1E25)
Mirror Mirror (S2E04)
Arena (S1E18)
Miri (S1E08)
A Taste of Armageddon (S1E23)
Charlie X (S1E02)
Space Seed (S1E22)
Very Good
This Side of Paradise (S1E24)
A Piece of the Action (S2E17)
The Trouble with Tribbles (S2E15)
Return to Tomorrow (S2E20)
Wolf In The Fold (S2E14)
Decent
Return of the Archons (S1E21)
Mudd's Women (S1E06)
I Mudd (S2E08)
Journey to Babel (S2E10)
Operation Annihilate (S1E29)
The Menagerie (S1E11+12)
Shore Leave (S1E15)
Court Martial (S1E20)
The Conscience of the King (S1E13)
Where No Man Has Gone Before (S1E03)
The Man Trap (S1E01)
What Are Little Girls Made Of (S1E07)
Dagger of the Mind (S1E09)
Galileo Seven (S1E16)
The Changeling (S2E03)
Catspaw (S2E07)
Errand of Mercy (S1E26)
Tomorrow Is Yesterday (S1E19)
The Apple (S2E05)
The Doomsday Machine (S2E06)
Ho-Hum
The Gamesters of Triskelion (S2E16)
A Private Little War (S2E19)
Obsession (S2E13)
The Deadly Years (S2E12)
Who Mourns for Adonais? (S2E02)
The Immunity Syndrome (S2E18)
Friday's Child (S2E11)
Metamorphosis (S2E09)
Terrible -
The Alternative Factor (S1E27)