Holy crap…Sylvia is still alive??
Have you *seen *the things they put together? They were basically made from pipe cleaners and party feathers! They could easily have found some other way to move them, like with a blow dryer f’rinstance.
Hey, 85 is the new 60! :o
Yeah, but the le-matya squaring off against I-Chaya does resemble a cat.
I was in my 30s before I realized what ‘catspaw’ even meant. While there was probably a pun there as there was indeed a cat in the ep, I assumed that the title was a reference to the feline guest star.
All they did was die.
Comander Street received the Medal of Honor. What were is crew, chopped liver?
Interesting they showed the death of two very small, puppet aliens. Something the audience had no attachment too.
I guess showing the two human like figures die wouldn’t be as family friendly.
Korob was already dead. Sylvia killed him in the dungeon, in human form.
Oops! :smack:
I’d forgotten that Korob died earlier.
I always found the way Star Trek handled death interesting.
Gunsmoke, Matt Dillion shot the bad guy down in the street. Then had a stiff drink in the Long Branch.
Star Trek always manipulates it as a regrettable result of Kirk protecting the ship & crew. He rarely just shoots somebody with a phaser set to kill.
It’s so unfortunate the aliens died after smashing the transmuter thing. 
Catspaw is one of my favorite episodes.
On The Rifleman, Lucas would sit around reading the Bible after washing the dinner dishes with Mark.
I don’t think he ever personally killed someone, did he? Even when he had the chance to finish off the Gorn, he refused to do it.
Ordering your WO to destroy an enemy vessel with hundreds of crew aboard isn’t the same as zapping them yourself.
So, apparently, did everyone else. 
A quandary: it seems Korob died in the dungeon when the door fell on him, however after Kirk wrecks the transmuter and the aliens revert to their actual forms, Korob is still moving (he’s the one on the right [I’m screwing witcha]) along with Sylvia (she’s the one on the right :smack:) and they both expire shortly after–I just watched a YouTube clip of it. Explain.
They spent $500 on both puppets and by God, they were going to **use **them, no matter what!
I figured the incongruity was just to emphasize how elaborate the illusion had been.
It really looks like smoking killed them. 
I always assumed his original form was not yet dead. Just his artificial human form. That form seemed to be complete, even giving them emotions they’d never had before. It makes sense that killing it might not instantly kill the original, leaving him moving around but unable to interact with the illusions.
That’s pretty much what I always thought, I was just poking the bear (terentii). 
Kirk killed plenty of people personally. Even in “Arena.” He did, after all, handle the mortar with Spock.