Star Trek: The Animated Series (TV Series) The Infinite Vulcan (1973) User Reviews

Telepathic Transplant...

[Xstal · 7/10 · 28 February 2022]

Phylosian philosophy is primarily built on botany but has tentacles and twisting shoots resident in most biology and they've genetically and evolutionary become advanced in organic chemistry while displaying light years in advance their skills with rocket technology.

Planet of the plants kidnap Mr. Spock and drain his essence for their plans to save a universe that's not taking root.

Intelligent Plants, a 40 foot clone of Spock and an outcast for the eugenic wars.

[GroovyDave1973 · 2/10 · 15 December 2006]

The crew beam down to the planet Filos inhabited by intelligent plants. Sulu is bitten by a Replaw plant, which injects a deadly poison into him, a talking plant called Agmar then administers an Antidote that saves Sulu.

Flying plants then Kidnap Spock and Agmar he is being taken to "the master" as Spock is a "perfect specimen". Agmar then introduces Kirk to Dr Stavos Kaniculus 5 a clone of a survivor from the eugenics war who is 40 feet tall.

Kaniculus then clones a 40 foot Spock, leaving the original close to death. Kaniculus reveals that he and "Spock 2" will roam the galaxy to enforce peace. With Spock close to death Kirk manages to persuade Kaniculus that peace already exists and Spock 2 then mind-melds with Spock to revive him.

Kaniculus and "Spock 2" agree to remain on the planet and help the intelligent plant rebuild their society.

This was written by Walter Koenig and is quite honestly a terrible plot that makes no sense. To think that there is a 50 foot Spock clone who turned into a gardner is just beyond comprehension.

Worst episode of TAS I have seen (so far!)

"I'm not sure I can take too much of this..."

[planktonrules · 1/10 · 9 April 2015]

The animated "Star Trek" series sucked in many ways. However, often the scripts were decent enough you could almost ignore that the animation was drawn by chimps. Well, in the case of "The Infinite Vulcan" you have the worst of both worlds--terrible animation and an incredibly dopey story--one written by Walter Koenig and Gene Roddenberry!

When I try to explain the plot, bear with me. This is because I really have no idea what I saw and the story is an incomprehensible mess! The crew land on a planet ruled by sentient plants and their leader is a giant clone of a crazy plant-lover from over two centuries ago! His plan was to invade the galaxy and impose peace on everyone. Now, for no real reason, they abduct Spock and try to make a giant Spock to rule over everyone. Huh?!

This is just crap...total crap. I don't know how the voice actors could even utter such dopey lines as you'll hear in this one and my suggestion is that you take heed from the summary--which was spoken by Dr. McCoy during the episode!

A classic trek story

[PaxD75 · 9/10 · 29 November 2022]

Intelligent plant-based lifeforms, cloning - with some 100 feet tall, eugenics, galaxy conqueror, Spock being Spock no matter what size he is, material that is 600x more dense than lead, plant based giant bats (I think they were bats), plants that move and lay down their own roots and move again, the original crew seeks/finds new life, Scotty at the helm making the tough choices (I always felt he never got enough credit)...

I loved this episode. I'm watching this series for the first time, nearly 50 years later (Nov/2022). This is the Trek I know. It's a time capsule for me. A lesser known series that tries to capture the essence of The Original TV Series in animated form. This episode does a good job of that.

I missed this kind of story-telling. The mystery, the reveals, the pure Sci-fi, the ideas, the thought that goes into building a good story, dialogue that's based on real life/death issues or mysteries you are reacting to.

A lot of today's Sci-fi dialogue are about feelings, discomforts, perceptions.

Some people work best when they are on mission, when they are humanely interacting toward an end goal. Trek was always best when it was about the mission. Even if it never felt that way, they were always on mission. The end goal in this episode's mission? To prevent calamity in the future by healing the present.

Spock and the Plant People

[Samuel-Shovel · 2/10 · 4 December 2018]

In "The Infinite Vulcan", the Enterprise visits a vegetated planet where Sulu gets stung a poisonous plant. A group of sentient, advanced plants save Sulu and take the group to their civilization. A flock of birds kidnap Spock for the planet people. It's all a ploy from the genetic clone of a human from the Eugenics Wars who landed on this planet to make a race of superhumans to enforce peace upon the galaxy. But in the meantime, peace was found through the founding of the Federation.

Spock's brain and thoughts is transferred to a giant Spock clone. Giant Spock realizes that this is not right and does a Vulcan mindmeld to return Spock's consciousness to him before little Spock dies. The giant human mad scientist clone and giant Spock clone decide to stay on the planet and continue to experiment to help the vegetable people with their problems.

Dumb. Dumb dumb dumb! The plot makes no sense. The idea of a giant Spock out there roaming somewhere is hysterical though, I'll give you that. But nothing else here is worth much. The concept of plant people is fun; I understand why Gene liked it. But they don't really serve too much of a purpose here unfortunately. Probably the worse episode of ST:TAS thus far.

Just Make It Up As You Go

[Hitchcoc · 2/10 · 18 March 2017]

This animated series seems to be getting worse as it goes along. The guys go to a planet that is inhabited by plants that move around. Sulu picks up a plant with his bare hands (a little stupid considering it's an alien planet). He would be killed except the walking, talking plants save him. Then we find out the place is being run by some big human who is the fifth clone of some other guy. He has some plans for the master race and kidnaps Spock using dragons with corkscrews. Then McCoy creates a plant spray and..... I can't even try to explain what happens. This has got to be about as ridiculous as one can get. I know this was Saturday morning stuff, but it pretends to have an intelligent basis. It's as if some writers were in a room with about an hour to put together a plot and they turned in the first draft.