Stardate: 3417.3
Quick Summary: The Enterprise arrives at Omacron Seti 3 expecting to find no survivors from an agricultural colony, except the settlers are all alive and in perfect health even though there's no other animal life on the planet. The secret is the the spores of a certain plant which make everyone exceedingly lovey-dovey, so much so that the Enterprise crew slowly becomes infected and has a mutiny against Kirk, refusing to go back to the ship. Kirk eventually discovers that getting in touch with one's emotional anger snaps them out of the spore-induced hypnosis, so he ticks off everyone and thus all is right with the universe again.
Review: Eh. I'm starting to dread these everyone-gets-hypnotized-or-goes-insane episodes. They come across as silly rather than sci-fi.
I still can't figure out why Kirk was the only person not infected by the spores. Was this explained and I just missed it? Maybe next time I'll slow down on the beer as I watch. The episode also feels like it was filmed entirely in a public park. Or in someone's backyard.
It's only saving grace are a few standalone scenes that make you say "Wowsers": Kirk and Spock getting into a fistfight! Spock's ex-girlfriend Layla gazing at the sky and saying "I've never met a dragon", to which Spock deadpans, "I have. On Baron Garius 7". That's just delicious. Also, McCoy's horribly over-the-top Southern accent. And Spock admitting that he has another name, but that "you couldn't pronounce it".
Otherwise, we were going nowhere in a hurry. Kirk's big "maybe we weren't made for paradise" speech at the end seemed to contrived. Like the rest of it.
Throwaway episode.
Review: 2 stars
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