rsadtler

Firstly, I hate flashbacks. Stale, overused gimmick.

Much more importantly, two of the three best songs were cut from the score. I would rather watch the WORST amateur production featuring "Blow High, Blow Low" and "The Highest Judge of All" than this butchered waste of film.

What tin-eared hack was responsible?

This episode single-handedly justifies the entire time, effort, and expense of the remastering! This was one of the better episodes of TOS, but the remastering made all the difference.

The planet killer has been compared by reviewers to a cornucopia, a cigar, a stalactite, and a hollow log. To me, it always resembled a stool sample, floating through space like my digestive atrocities in the bowl. Most of my life, I even referred to it as, "the space t**d." Most episodes only benefit from the remastering when ships or planets are displayed. This episode, however, is night and day.

How did we ever get by without such effects...