Product Details

• Actors: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Nichelle Nichols, James Doohan
• Directors: Anton Leader
• Writers: Gene Roddenberry, Hendrik Vollaerts
• Producers: Edward K. Milkis, Fred Freiberger, Gene Roddenberry, Gregg Peters, Robert H. Justman
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: CBS Paramount International Television
• VHS Release Date: April 15, 1994
• Run Time: 46 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6300988619
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #275,941 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

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Dr. McCoy gives babe magnet Kirk competition when the big-haired High Priestess (statuesque Kate Woodville in a form-hugging green wrap) of the runaway planet Yonada falls for the old country doctor, who has just been diagnosed with an incurable disease. Yonada is actually a spaceship in the guise of an asteroid, a kind of interstellar Ark on a trip to the promised land. A godlike computer known as the Oracle (voiced by James "Scotty" Doohan, minus the brogue) keeps the citizens in blissful ignorance and enforces its will with shock therapy, but it's dangerously off course and McCoy must break religious commandments and challenge his lover's will to set it right. A promising story that tackles dogma and blind faith is undercut by a timid script and a passionless affair (McCoy isn't getting married, he's negotiating a contract!), turning potential tragedy into just another shore leave fling. The episode earns its name from an inspired moment of poetic defiance: an aging citizen proclaims the truth in the face of the computer's wrath and dies in McCoy's arms. The rest of the episode never achieves the power of that moment. --Sean Axmaker

From the Back Cover

Kirk and company board Yonada, an asteroid/spaceship that must be diverted before it collides with a heavily populated Federation world.

TREK TRIVIA
This episode is best remembered for presenting McCoy's first romance. Listen for James "Scotty" Doohan as the voice of the Oracle.
Byron Morrow, who had portrayed Admiral Komack in "Amok Time", appears here as another Starfleet admiral, Admiral Westervliet.

Customer Reviews

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars An underrated episode, June 21, 2001

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jasenao (Dothan, Alabama, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Star Trek - The Original Series, Episode 65: For The World Is Hollow And I Have Touched The Sky [VHS] (VHS Tape)

"For The World Is Hollow And I Have Touched The Sky" is in my opinion an underrated episode of Star Trek. Dr. McCoy has been diagnosed with a deadly illness, but insists to accompany Captain Kirk and Spock to a planet. Shortly after reaching the planet, the Enterprise crew learns of a group of people who don't even know about any world other than the closed-in ship that they live on. Oh yeah, Dr. McCoy also falls for a woman on the planet.

"For The World Is Hollow And I Have Touched The Sky" has a few more plot elements to it, but I'll let you watch the episode on your own in order to find out what they are. If you like other episodes of Star Trek The Original Series such as "Return of The Archons," I would recommend purchasing "For The World Is Hollow And I Have Touched The Sky." It's an interesting and entertaining episode. It also has good special effects (for the time) and a great performance from everybody.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A lesser known, but interesting episode, March 29, 2000

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Jon D. Stewart (San Antonio, Texas United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Star Trek - The Original Series, Episode 65: For The World Is Hollow And I Have Touched The Sky [VHS] (VHS Tape)

The Enterprise crew land on a moving asteroid that is in the form of a planet on the interior and find it to be ruled by a computer, similar to "The Apple". At the same time, Dr. McCoy finds he has succumed to an incurable disease with less than a year to live. This is one of the few episodes shown with McCoy in love. Kate Woodville, who played the high priestess Natira, never had a very illustrious career and apparently quit the movie business long ago. A shame for such a beautiful and talented actress. She also co-starred with Kirk Douglas in Posse.

6 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars This episode gets a D+ grade and is ranked 71st out of 80, October 25, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Star Trek - The Original Series, Episode 65: For The World Is Hollow And I Have Touched The Sky [VHS] (VHS Tape)

At the same time McCoy discovers that he has a year to live, the U.S.S. Enterprise encounters the asteroid Yonada which is determined to be artificially propelled. Its center is occupied by humanoids, whose ancestors built the asteroid "vessel" in an effort to escape the destruction of their solar system. However, the controls have become defective and Yonada is heading for collision with a Federation planet. The people are ruled by Natira, a priestess who takes her orders from the central computer. While Kirk and Spock search for the central controls that will redirect the ship, McCoy and Natira fall in love. Kirk and Spock return to the U.S.S. Enterprise but McCoy, wishing to spend what little time he has left with the woman he's come to love, stays behind, marries Natira and accepts the "Instrument of Obedience" which punishes wrong thinking. Soon after the marriage, McCoy calls Kirk, telling him that he may have found the controls for the asteroid. However, he is struck down by the "Instrument of Obedience" before he can tell them where. Kirk and Spock beam back to Yonada, remove the sensor from McCoy, and locate the controls. They manage to put Yonada back on course. In deciphering the computer's library, Spock finds a cure for McCoy's disease, and the doctor returns to the U.S.S. Enterprise. Natira must stay on Yonada to guide her people and so bids McCoy good-bye.