Catspaw
- Episode aired Oct 27, 1967
- TV-PG
- 50m
Very alien visitors to our galaxy attempt to connect with human consciousness but miss, winding up tapping into the regions of human nightmares instead.Very alien visitors to our galaxy attempt to connect with human consciousness but miss, winding up tapping into the regions of human nightmares instead.Very alien visitors to our galaxy attempt to connect with human consciousness but miss, winding up tapping into the regions of human nightmares instead.
- Korob
- (as Theo Marcuse)
- DeSalle
- (as Mike Barrier)
- Crewman Jackson
- (as Jimmy Jones)
- Lieutenant Hadley
- (uncredited)
- Yeoman
- (uncredited)
- Lieutenant Leslie
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
- Gene Roddenberry
- Robert Bloch
- D.C. Fontana(uncredited)
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- TriviaThe voices of the little creatures in the final scene are the sounds made by newly-hatched alligators calling for their mother.
- GoofsThe initial landing party makes no sense. Kirk almost always leads the landing party himself. The planet is seemingly uninhabited and has sparse plant life. If he doesn't go himself, he would send Spock with a team of professional scientists with a heavy concentration in geology and meteorology. Instead, Kirk sends an engineer, an amateur botanist, and a command-track officer. Not a blueshirt in the bunch.
- Quotes
First Witch: Wind shall rise.
Second Witch: And fog descend.
Third Witch: So leave here, all, or meet your end.
[wailing witches cackle and vanish]
Captain James T. Kirk: Spock. Comment.
Mr. Spock: Very bad poetry, Captain.
Captain James T. Kirk: A more useful comment, Mr. Spock.
Mr. Spock: What we've just seen is not real.
Captain James T. Kirk: That's useful.
- Alternate versionsSpecial Enhanced version Digitally Remastered with new exterior shots and remade opening theme song. Highlights include a wider establishing shot showing the entire castle, not just the front door.
- ConnectionsEdited from Star Trek: Where No Man Has Gone Before (1966)
In trying to understand humans the aliens tapped into human nightmares which evidently do not occur in the alien species. So, they present the Star Trek cast with these black magic nightmares, assuming they are part of the human paradigm.
Still, it is done in a little campy, silly style which was common in the sixties. Nevertheless, I first watched this as a child and still love it. One of my big pet peeves about TV series is the lack of story diversity and I never felt that about Star Trek, this episode is a perfect example. Even as a child I understood that special effects in TV series was laughable (movies not much better), but I still dream of traveling the stars. The wonder of Star Trek and traveling is always meeting someone new and learning new things, it goes a long way to reducing bigotry and increasing compassion.
- talonjensen
- Feb 27, 2018
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