Star Trek: TAS--One of Our Planets is Missing / by Mark

From the sublime of "Yesteryear", we move to the ridiculousness of "One of Our Planets is Missing".  A mysterious cloud is eating planets.  A deep discussion on whether to warn an endangered planet ensues.  The Enterprise gets caught by the cloud, which turns out to be alive.  McCoy gives a lecture about human anatomy. Scotty rigs a way to regenerate the engines using parts of the antimatter cloud.  More deep discussions--do they kill the cloud to save a planet?  Spock mind melds with the cloud, and convinces the cloud to leave the galaxy.

 Some things to look for:

  • Finally, Arex gets a name and a voice
  • More crewman lounging in a hallway
  • A reminder of the "Trash Can" theater animation, as big balls of "antimatter" fly past the ship
  • More plumbing than we've seen before in the ship
  • The cloud has a lot of problems understanding things--we hear "explain?" a lot
  • Random shots of Earth to convince the planet to stop--Filmation stock shots
  • Kirk saying "Quiet!" for no apparent reason

Remember, you can play along by watching the show on Netflix!