Nimoy had a good voice, even if his singing career was something less than stellar. I remember he was a guest performer on Where the Action Is, singing, IIRC, “The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins”.
I used to watch Wild, Wild West, although I don’t remember that particular episode. Bit of trivia: Michael Dunn, (Alexander of “Plato’s Stepchildren”) also played the villain Dr. Miguelito Loveless, a recurring role in Wild, Wild West.
The Night of the Burning Diamond, Season 1. One of the B&W episodes. The villain was stealing diamonds, and when he burned them, they created an elixir that made his metabolism accelerate. As doubletalk tech goes, it’s not quite as good as “Scalosian water” because they never said what was in that. But diamonds, burned or unburned, won’t superspeed humans.
Well, now, that’s only because you haven’t applied handwaveium!
Thanks for the link. Sounds worthy of Netflixing.
In the original story, wasn’t Deela pregnant at the end?
Perhaps more interesting, how would verbal communication (i.e., “talking”) been affected by their acceleration? Seems to me that at any given time, Kirk, e.g., would have been long gone by the time Deela’s speech reached him, since sound propagates at a fixed speed.
At the very least, it would have been out of synch.
The effect wouldn’t work as described in either episode.
If you were going at, say, 500X normal speed, merely walking at your normal pace through the air would heat you up as if you were a jet in flight. You’d get burns, or at least have your hair messed up. You’d have to be careful even setting your hand down on the table, left you break our hand from the force of impact. Throw a rock as fast as you can throw it, and it might exceed the sound barrier.
Of course, you couldn’t throw a rock that fast, any more than you could now. You would barely be able to move anything. If you had the strength to lift a pen too fast off the table, watch out because it’ll fly out of your hand and go through the ceiling.
Just by walking past normal speed people, you’ll knock them over from the air blast.
but I still like the episodes.
That’s my memory, but I don’t have any cites for that conclusion.
Hmmm…space seed, indeed!
Was it in the Blish adaptation? I’ll have to check later.
From Memory Alpha:
*The story concept has an even earlier pedigree: the writer of ***The Wild, Wild West ***episode, John Kneubuhl (who made an uncredited story contribution to “Bread and Circuses”) based it on an H.G. Wells short story called “The New Accelerator.” An episode of the 1966 Lone Ranger animated series also used this plot. *
So, while he didn’t write the episode (unless he used a pen name), Gene Coon (aka “Lee Cronin”) almost certainly brought the concept with him when he moved from ***WWW ***to TOS.
Well, yeah. But aside from these minor details… :rolleyes:
hey I said I liked the episodes.
This board has posters that hate the idea of FTL in and of itself and consider it a deal breaker. I can nitpick hyper acceleration in the name of fun.
And that’s not even getting into Dr Loveless transporting people into paintings, or shrinking people to 6 inches tall, or a villain that uses actual real magic. Star Trek’s got nothing on WWW in the fantastical department.
That was also the plot in one episode of The Avengers, “Mission … Highly Improbable.”
Whom Gods Destroy
This episode is kind of a guilty pleasure for me. Sure, it’s silly. But there’s something about the character of Garth that keeps me interested. He’s a grand, over-the-top madman who you can’t really take too seriously because you know he’s going to crash and burn. Marta is a hoot, as well. (“I did too write this poem by Shakespeare!”)
Maybe they should have gone for straight comedy? Also, I wish the other inmates could have had larger roles to play. Garth and his Green Girlfriend are an entertaining pair (well, until her kills her, of course), but surely the others are worth at least a line or two.
Let That Be Your Last Battlefield
Heavy-handed and slow-moving, although it didn’t seem so the first time I watched it.(To my younger self, it seemed like cutting edge drama). I was also a fan of the Batman TV series, so I was excited to see “The Riddler” playing a role in Star Trek.
On a re-watch, this episode doesn’t hold up well at all. The message, of course, is as relevant as ever, but the style is very dated. Plus, it has all the subtlety of a mack truck crashing into your living room.
Tell the truth: Wouldn’t you have loved to see Frank Gorshin in his pink tights come leaping out of the turbolift and cackling “Riddle me this, Captain Kirk…!”
Gorshin could play a pure psychopath like few others. 
There was a great deal of debate about using half-black/half-white characters in this episode, BTW. Eventually they decided on a vertical division that was reversed to make the difference more dramatic (or less subtle, whichever you prefer).
LORD Garth!!!
You know that Yvonne “Batgirl” Craig played Marta in Whom Gods Destroy, don’t you?
Yes! I would dearly love to see that!
I stand corrected.How could I have forgotten?:smack:
But she was better in green.
Somebody explain to me, please, how Garth was not only able to alter every cell in his body but his attire as well? :dubious:
The Salt Vampire could get away with masquerading as someone because she (he?) had the power to cloud men’s minds. Was that part of Garth’s shtick too? 
Who knows? It’s not a very well thought out episode. Quite a cool ability to have, though, being able to shapeshift your clothing as well as your body. Would certainly save on wardrobe expenses.
I’d also like to know how he was able to find the materials to make a super-strong explosive while being incarcerated in a prison for the criminally insane. Would they leave dangerous chemicals just sitting around?
He didn’t change his clothes. He was naked all the time…that’s his skin.