From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: bob44ovenden@yahoo.com   
   Subject: Re: Star Trek Rating and Review-The Apple   
      
   In article <20020603194904.14059.00002524@mb-ma.aol.com>   
   connmo...@aol.com (ConnMoore) wrote:   
   >   
   > Rating TOS Episodes, one by one.   
   >   
   > Today's episode, The Apple   
   >   
   > Episodes from Season Two rated so far:   
   >   
   > Amok Time:  ----------------------------------------9   
   > Who Mourns for Adonis--------------------------6   
   > The Changeling-------------------------------------5   
   > Mirror, Mirror---------------------------------------10   
   >   
   > Season One Averaged out to a 7.035-On a scale of One to Ten.   
   >   
   > ==========================================================   
   [snip]   
   >   
   > Moore Rating for The Apple on a scale of One to Ten..One being bad enough to   
   be   
   > a Lost in Space episode, and Ten being Science Fiction uber classic,   
   >   
   > I give The Apple, a this piece of fruit is full of worms grade of  2   
      
   This episode is an overall disappointment, but better than a 2.   
   It starts out great, with some mood-setting ideas worthy of Philip K. Dick:   
   Killer plants, explosive rocks, lightning that tracks you down,   
   and natives that cry when you hit them. But the episode bogs   
   down because Vaal's inability to kill the humans easily doesn't   
   make sense. Why couldn't he just fling some explosive rocks   
   at their heads? Why is he pinpoint accurate with the lightning   
   unless the humans are in the trees? He can sense the location   
   of the Enterprise in orbit but not the humans on the planet?   
   They needed to have had a conversation like this in it, at least:   
      
   [after dodging the lightning]   
   Kirk: Spock, why doesn't he just aim some rocks at our heads   
   to kill us?   
   Spock: Apparently, the robot is incapable of moving material   
   matter. It can manipulate energy in the form of force fields   
   or lightning, but, for example, it cannot feed itself. It must   
   communicate with the natives and tell them to move the food   
   to its mouth.   
      
   So the episode is half good, therefore a grade of 5.   
      
   Bob   
      
      
      
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