Star Trek: "The Immunity Syndrome"

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Title: Star Trek: “The Immunity Syndrome”
Year: 1968
Network: NBC
Episode: the eighteenth (of twenty-six) from season two; 50 minutes
Creator: Gene Roddenberry
Director: Joseph Pevney
Writer: Robert Sabaroff
Starring: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley
Music: Alexander Courage (theme); Sol Kaplan, Fred Steiner
I saw it: on video and TV several times, most recently a couple days ago (have on DVD)
Synopsis: giant space amoeba of death

My reaction
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Subjective Rating: 7/10 (Good, ). The action/sci-fi side of the episode is great - some absurd science, but fun absurd science in the best pulp adventure tradition. The character side of the episode, on the other hand, is pretty bad - and an unreasonably large part of the episode.
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