One of Our Planets Is Missing

This episode of the animated "Star Trek" is very reminiscent of several other Trek episodes--particularly "The Doomsday Machine" and especially "The Immunity Syndrome". Because of its familiarity, Trekkies will probably like it since it seems much more like a real Trek show than the previous episodes. On the other hand, it's not exactly original and the ending is pretty stupid.

There's a planet-eating cloud in space. It's going to eat Mantilles and kill millions unless the Enterprise can stop it. But there is a problem--the Prime Directive doesn't want Federation craft killing other life--and the cloud is alive! So what will they do? Yup-- call on Spock to do a mild meld with this thingie and ask it to leave, of course! You just have to see this part of the show--it's unintentionally funny.

I gave this one a 5 because like all these cartoons, the animation totally sucks and the story idea not exactly original.

This is the tired old plot line that was used about six times in the original series. There is a life force out there that needs energy to survive. The Enterprise encounters a cloud that is "eating" everything in its path. Unfortunately, one of the things is a planet with millions of people on it. They will all die when the planet is consumed. The ship must negotiate the inside of the thing and avoid touching the walls. It would cause an explosion and destroy the ship. Since this cloud is sentient, what can Enterprise do to make it understand their plight? Sadly, the solution is tired and far-fetched, to say the least. I imagine some of these plots were thrown together with a deadline in sight.

There's a cloud that likes to eat and digest, planetary matter it aims to divest, starship goes down the channel, of its elementary canal, before finally being expressed.

A gaseous anti-matter sentience consumes populated planets for energy before Spock makes it aware from inside the error of its ways.