Product: Star Trek - The Original Series, Vol. 33, Episodes 65 & 66: For The World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky/ Day Of The Dove (1966)
Rating: 3.0
Barely Average Episodes from the Worst Season!
Given that this volume comes from the worst season of classic Trek, this volume comes under the "buyer beware, non-essential viewing" category. In what is actually a touching love story involving Dr. McCoy, the problem lies in the far-fetched storyline. A dying race decides to go cross-galaxy to find a suitable habitat. Questions: why decide to go in a hollowed-out asteroid? Why couldn't they find a suitable planet without having to travel for thousands of years? Why have a machine take control and keep this mission a secret upon pain of death? This episode just seems to be a shabbily put together one just to have an excuse for a love story; weak indeed.In the second episode, we get a parable where an entity that feeds upon fear and violence ("A Wolf in the Fold" revisited?) creates and perpetuates ill feelings among the Klingons and the Enterprise crew who have to join forces and literally tell the entity to leave them alone. What's the moral? The devil feeds on violence and anger and tempts the unsuspecting into perpetually feeding him until you renounce these actions and cast him out.