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#13 The Ambegris Element

What rating would you give "The Ambegris Element"?  

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  1. 1. What rating would you give "The Ambegris Element"?

    • 5. It's great, I loved it!
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    • 4. It's good
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    • 3. It's average
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    • 2. It's not that good
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    • 1. I hated it!
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#13 The Ambegris Element

Written by: Margaret Armen

Directed by: Hal Sutherland

Airdate: Dec. 1, 1973

Stardate: 5499.9

 

Review Pending...

 

Voice Credits:

 

Regular Characters:

Captain Kirk William Shatner

Mr. Spock Leonard Nimoy

Dr. McCoy DeForest Kelley

Scotty James Doohan

Nurse Chapel Majel Barrett

Lieutenent Arex James Doohan

 

Guest Characters:

Lt Clayton James Doohan

Domar James Doohan

Rila Majel Barrett

Cadmar James Doohan

Lemus James Doohan

Nephro David Gerrold

Aquan female voices Majel Barrett

Aquan male voices James Doohan

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On a visit to the planet Argo, the crew is attacked by a giant sea creature. When Spock and Kirk wake up from the attack, they discover that they are no longer able to breathe air, but now have gills and webbed fingers.

 

This is another average episode as Kirk and Spock try to discover a cure for their problems and are routinely mistaken as enemies with harmful intentions just like on almost every episode of Star Trek. As stated, this episode pretty much goes by the book when it comes to Trek episode. You already know how it will end before this episode really does start to begin. It is still a pretty good story that isn't boring, but it isn't a shocking episode that will leave you on the edge of your seat. Overall, pretty good, but could have been better.

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3. But a weak 3. Ambergris caused the mutations? By that logic, we'd all be mutated into Aquns from prolonged exposure to perfume! Again, the stiff-necked elders vs. the younger citizens who won't learn their places kind of diatribe where the presence of the Federation acts as a catalyst for them.

 

There were two things that brought this episode up to a 3. The first is that they managed to keep the tectonic problems in mind and in dialogue. They never abandoned it, and even helped stabilize the Aquan planet. The second was the recurrence of the Sur-Snake. They have to defend themselves from it upon first arrival, when trying to recover old texts, and then "What a twist!" They actually have to pursue it to get something from it. The dialogue could have used a recognition of that irony, but it didn't suffer from a lack of it.

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