Stardate: 3478.2
Synopsis: The Enterprise crew beams down to the colony on Gamma Hydra 4 to find that, surprise, all of the inhabitants are prematurely old and dying. Naturally, once back on board the ship, all of the crew members who had beamed down to the planet are aging prematurely now too. That's basically the entire story. Oh yeah, an antidote is found and everyone returns to normal.
Review: It's somewhat amazing they managed to take this plot and develop a full hour's worth of TV for it. Sure, they added a little wrinkle of Spock and Commodore Stocker removing Kirk from command by holding a long, drawn-out competency hearing, and there was a totally worthless side trip involving Jan and the love affair she and Kirk apparently had several years ago, but these went nowhere; as did the pointless "battle" with the Romulans at the end. And radiation in a comet's tail is not the most intellectually stimulating of culprits.
My 7-year-old niece could have predicted the outcome here and identified early on how Chekhov being the only crew member who beamed down to the planet not being affected by the rapid aging sickness was the key. The only real insight offered was how the writers apparently associate little else with being old than being cranky. Which is how I feel right now after viewing this thing. ROARRRR!!!
Review: 2 stars
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