Star Trek: "The Deadly Years"

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Title: Star Trek: “The Deadly Years”
Year: 1967
Network: NBC
Episode: the twelfth (of twenty-six) from season two; 50 minutes
Creator: Gene Roddenberry
Director: Joseph Pevney
Writer: David P. Harmon
Starring: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Charles Drake, Sarah Marshall
Music: Alexander Courage (theme); Sol Kaplan, Fred Steiner
I saw it: on video and TV several times, most recently a few days ago (have on DVD)
Synopsis: a disease causes rapid aging

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Subjective Rating: 7/10 (Good, ). Some nice ideas, not executed especially well. Why do we have to stop the action mid-way through the episode to have a prolonged scene of Kirk making an ass of himself? Blah.
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