Imitation Trek

I confess to the guilty pleasure of watching the imitation-TOS series Star Trek Continues. Mostly, it's fun to see James Doohan's son playing Scotty.

The fourth episode (I think) starts off with Kirk getting a brain disease and being cured of it (instant cures a specialty!) using an experimental non-approved drug. (Take THAT, FDA!) Kirk then remembers a gal that Spock had mind-melded him to "forget... forget...."

So instead of watching the Continues episode, we hauled out the original - "Requiem for Methuselah." I thought I had all the old ones memorized, from back in the college days when we got them from three different TV stations. But apparently I had blocked this one out, alllll out.

Boy, was it bad! Kirk falls in love with an android within about five minutes. I mean love, not his usual lust. Then he and the Lazarus Long character - the andorid gal's "father/lover" (!!) physically wrestle over her and she dies because love.

Made me not want to watch the follow-up Continues episode now.

Did they ever do a real "wagon train to the stars" episode (as Roddenberry sold it to the network)? I can't think of one. Those old half-hour westerns used to have some great tales. The lost art of TV drama.