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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Beauty survives?, August 17, 2002
This review is from: Star Trek - The Original Series, Episode 69: That Which Survives [VHS] (VHS Tape)
In this, the 69th episode of classic Trek, Kirk and crew are exploring ruins found on a class-M planet that seems to have developed a livable climate in only a few thousand years. The Enterprise landing party is attacked by Losira, a woman who kills a crewman with just a touch of her hand. Meanwhile, the Enterprise is thrown almost a thousand light years away by the planet's hidden defense system. More landing party members are attacked by Losira, until it is discovered that she can only attack the party member that she calls by name. The remaining party then keep her from attacking the named crewmember. Meanwhile, Scotty repairs some sabotage to the engines that Losira had accomplished before throwing the Enterprise out of orbit, and then hurries back to Losira's world. Kirk discovers a hidden room with a highly advanced computer, and the defense mechanism there creates three Losiras - which keep them from protecting each other as they had previously. The cavalry, in the form of Spock and a landing party, arrive just in time to deactivate the computer. The previously taped message reveals that the planet had been artificially enhanced by colonists, who were affected by a disease that killed them all off. The disease then followed the colonists back to their homeworld, supposedly wiping out the entire civilization. Nothing but the computer program, which defends the planet from anyone who is not of Losira's race, remains. The colonist's relief ship never arrived. Kirk says beauty survives, because the computer continues to project an image of Losira even after delivering the message about the colonist's destruction. My score - 5 out of a possible 10.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Not My Favorite, April 29, 2000
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This review is from: Star Trek - The Original Series, Episode 69: That Which Survives [VHS] (VHS Tape)
Well, I'm not really sure what we are supposed to take away with us from "That Which Survives." Kirk and Spock do exchange a little meaningful dialouge at the very end, but most of the show was so silly it was hard to swallow. "That Which Survives" (despite, what I think, is a very poetic title) plays out like a bad horror movie. Kirk, Bones, Sulu, and a blueshirt (instead of a redshirt) beam down to a planet (I forget why) and then the Enterprise disapears. A mysterious woman shows up and her touch is deadly. She walks around reciting lines like a robot, touching people and killing them through the whole show. This concept is pretty brainless, but even more brainless is Spock's terrible dialouge. After the ship has been hurled about and Uhura asks him what happened, he says something like, "I believe my cranium unit collided with the armrest of the captain's chair." Everytime Spock sees Scotty he tells to ignore his emotions and get back to work. There is hardly anything worthwile in this show. I would only recommend it if you want a full collection of TOS tapes, but even then don't watch it too often.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
This episode gets a C+ grade and is ranked 44th out of 80, November 23, 1999
This review is from: Star Trek - The Original Series, Episode 69: That Which Survives [VHS] (VHS Tape)
As a landing party prepares to beam down to a previously unexplored Class M planet, a beautiful woman, Losira, appears. She touches an ensign and kills him. Already dematerializing in the transporter beam, Kirk and the rest of his party are helpless to stop her. Losira disappears. The surge of power that Losira's appearance caused hurtles the Enterprise 990.7 light years away from where they were. Spock calculates that it will take 11.33 hours at warp 8.4 to return to the planet. On the surface of the planet, Kirk, McCoy, Sulu and geologist D'Amato discover the vegetation is poisonous to humans and the rocks are made of an alloy that did not develop naturally. Losira appears again and kills D'Amato, again, by merely touching him. She vanishes, then reappears, this time for Sulu, but he avoids her and they realize she can only harm the person whose name she calls. Kirk, Sulu and McCoy band together to keep her from killing them. Losira reappears on the Enterprise, in engineering, and kills another crewman. When Scotty insists that something "feels" wrong with the ship, they discover that Losira had sabotaged the matter/antimatter integrator. Scotty repairs the device before it has a chance to explode. On the planet's surface, the landing party finds a chamber in the rocks that houses a computer. They realize that this is where Losira appears from. Losira appears to them again, this time in threes, so that she can touch each officer at once. Spock and a security team arrive and destroy the computer what was projecting Losira's image. A visual recording triggered by the computer shows that the planet was once an outpost of the Kalandan race. It was ravaged by a deadly organism which supply ships unknowingly carried back to their home world. With the computer destroyed, the last of the Kalandans' is also dead.
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