"The Immunity Syndrome" Full Reaction! - Star Trek: The Original Series Season 2
Added 2024-05-31 17:53:42 +0000 UTCSorry about the camera! Don't know what happened!
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Confirmed about the hypo, but there is one other feature it has that you did not mention. The hypo can be set to deliver different meds.
Carlos Stevens
2024-06-07 05:02:24 +0000 UTCSomething I just noticed all these years later. There are a lot of sweaty episodes; especially on a climate-controlled starship. Understandable here, as they are being drained of their life-force and struggling against it. The only one not sweating is Spock. I guess since he is accustomed to a much high temperate clime on Vulcan and his Vulcan stamina, he isn't fazed.
Mark Gosine
2024-06-03 00:23:51 +0000 UTCSolid entry, and excellently executed sci-fi episode.
Mark Gosine
2024-06-03 00:18:16 +0000 UTCAnd magnetic seat belts.
3dbadboy1
2024-06-02 00:32:28 +0000 UTCISFP I believe is what I got. I wonder if I retook it if I would get the same thing
bunnytails
2024-06-01 17:47:28 +0000 UTCI think the essence of this episode (in regards to the dynamics between Kirk, Spock and McCoy) truly highlights the juxtaposition between intuition, intelligence, and emotion. (Kirk - ENFP primary function, extroverted intuition, Spock - ISTJ primary function introverted intelligence, McCoy - ENFJ primary function extroverted feeling). This juxtaposition really became a subtle underlying theme in ALL of the Star Trek series (and for the record anything after Enterprise I do not consider Star Trek). I find myself wondering if Bunny has ever taken the Myers-Briggs personality test. My guess... she's an ENFP.
Carlos Stevens
2024-06-01 03:59:42 +0000 UTCLOL, this was another meme episode. This is the meme where everyone on the bridge is falling out while Captain Kirk is wiggling back and forth in his chair. That Captain's chair has some kind of gravity compensator.
Carlos Stevens
2024-06-01 03:40:06 +0000 UTCTo answer your question... No there is no needle in Dr. McCoy's hypo. The Hypo can be adjusted to inject various inoculates. It uses injects pneumatically... with air... no needles.
Carlos Stevens
2024-06-01 03:13:45 +0000 UTCQuantum Entaglement.
Carlos Stevens
2024-06-01 01:57:42 +0000 UTCOh Dear God! The Space Amoebae Episode.
Carlos Stevens
2024-06-01 01:57:30 +0000 UTCI've always wondered how Spock was able to sense the death of the Intrepid at its exact moment of death. It seems it was telepathic in nature but, considering the distance, are we to assume that Vulcan thought travels faster than light? Are Vulcan brain waves transmitted through subspace somehow? Just an overlooked or unexplained technical detail, not to get in the way of the story, and to explore some of Spock's restrained sensibilities. A nice touch.
J. Scott Phillips
2024-06-01 01:49:52 +0000 UTCWow, this WAS a great episode bunny! Thanks for this!
ded cowbowee
2024-05-31 23:20:02 +0000 UTCVery entertaining from both screens. Thanks.
William Terry
2024-05-31 22:52:42 +0000 UTCThis is (another) one of my favorite episodes in TOS. This is basically Doomsday Machine 2.0 without Commodore Decker. I love the concept of a giant Eldritch ... creature in some starless space that completely reverses the laws of the universe. On top of the drama between Kirk, Spock, and McCoy--and you can really see the relationship between McCoy and Spock here--this is basically the plot of a feature film. Regarding Spock's "Vulcan force" moment in the beginning of the episode, a lot of people think Star Wars took inspiration from that specific scene. "...as if millions of voices cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced". Personally, I thought it was a stretch. ^^;
SuicuneSol
2024-05-31 21:14:46 +0000 UTCLooks like you were being filmed in the famous Jerry Finnerman "soft focus" style, Bunny! Finnerman was the director of photography on TOS for its first two seasons and part of season three, and was responsible for the unique look of the series (which was his first job as DP). Finnerman is perhaps best known for the way he shot the female guest stars in close-up: instead of the usual sharp focus, he created a soft-focus effect, either by filming through thin layers of plastic or using a diffusion filter. So don't think of this as a camera malfunction, but rather an accidental tribute to one of the unsung heroes of the original series. This episode has a great deal in common with its recent second-season predecessor "The Doomsday Machine:" both present a vast destructive entity that has destroyed not only an entire star system, but a fellow Federation starship as well, and require the near-sacrifice of a senior officer in order to neutralize the threat. Both were "bottle" shows (using only existing sets and no location shooting), and the score for "Doomsday Machine" is rather prominently featured in this episode, as well. But I think there were more than enough differences between the scripts to enjoy this as a unique story. One continuity error in this episode stands out for me: after McCoy and Spock have their contentious conversation outside the hangar bay, Spock steps toward the hangar entrance and a blue-sleeved hand punches the wall controls to open the doors. But McCoy wears his short-sleeved tunic throughout the episode, so the insert of "his" hand was probably filmed after the fact and with a stand-in wearing the wrong uniform. (That short-sleeved shirt caused continuity problems with at least one previous episode; in "The Corbomite Maneuver," Bones goes from his standard uniform shirt to the short sleeve version from one scene to the next, without ever leaving the bridge!)
Lee
2024-05-31 20:48:22 +0000 UTCI'm glad you enjoyed this episode a lot Bunny as this one is also one I love -- it's in my Top 10, actually, for the reasons you started. Great ideas and plot in this, amazing acting from everyone, edge on your seat tension and excitement, some wonderful one liners and humor now and then to break up the tension, and as the person above me commented, some great lines as well. So you asked about the hypospray. They never talked about it much in the original series, and TNG and other shows explain it better, but your right in that it doesn't use needles. The idea behind it is that it delivers a microscopic burst of the drug or whatever it's injecting you with into a pore so that it goes right though the skin and into your vain. Not only is this a faster and more efficient way to deliver meds then though a traditional shot, but there's no pain -- and without needles, it's safe to re-use again and again. You notice that McCoy can even inject someone through cloth, due to the micro nature. Scientists have been working on a version of this for use in our real world, and to a degree they succeeded -- I heard about one study where one was invented and used, although it wasn't as efficient as the one we see in Star Trek. Still, like with many devices and techs Star Trek invented, this is one that looks like sooner or later will be widely used. No consistent usage of WHAT measurements to use shown here again -- in this same episode we have things described both in terms of the English system (miles) and the Metric system (kilometers). They would finally settle on using just the Metric system in later shows. The scene with Kirk and McCoy nodding at each other on the Bridge after McCoy delivers his "Shut up Spock, we're rescuing you!" is a popular meme pic that I've seen floating around for years. You also can see how short some of the uniforms REALLY are in this show with some of the girls laying down on biobeds in Sickbay. :) One thing I always loved about Star Trek, and this episode shows this as well, is just how diverse the crew is. In a time when non white actors were either ignored, not treated well, or cast type to certain roles, you always see shots of whites, blacks, asians, etc. working together as equals, in high positions of rank, and nobody cares one bit. They never make a big deal out of it on the show, as they should not, but just quietly show you again and again so that you get the message about how things SHOULD be. Finally, one interesting thing about this episode I just learned from checking the Wikipedia article on it: When this episode was filmed, George Takei was filming The Green Berets and therefore unavailable to portray his character, Lt. Sulu. John Winston's character, Lt. Kyle, occupied Sulu's helmsman's seat, wearing a gold command tunic instead of his usual red engineering tunic that he wore as transporter chief. However, Kirk repeatedly mispronounced his name in this episode as "Cowell"
Greg Polander
2024-05-31 19:18:51 +0000 UTCBeing a trekkie techno-geek, I love the little details in this episode. Things like "Launch probe at zero acceleration. Forward thrust off 1/10 of a second". Translation: to be as accurate as possible, the ship had to be steady. So they did it by cutting engine power and firing the probe at the same time :)
3dbadboy1
2024-05-31 19:04:10 +0000 UTC
