Title: Star Trek: “Obsession”
Year: 1967
Network: NBC
Episode: the thirteenth (of twenty-six) from season two; 50 minutes
Creator: Gene Roddenberry
Director: Ralph Senensky
Writer: Art Wallace
Starring: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Stephen Brooks
Music: Alexander Courage (theme); Sol Kaplan
I saw it: on video and TV several times, most recently yesterday (have on DVD)
Synopsis: pursuit of a deadly creature made of gas
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Subjective Rating: 8/10 (Great,
). The "Moby Dick in Space" idea had a lot of potential to go wrong, but they handle it surprisingly well. Judging from how rarely it's done, it must have been difficult to pull off this sort of character-driven story back in the days of put-everything-back-the-way-you-found-it-by-the-end-of-the-episode TV.Objective Rating (Average):
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