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THE GALILEO SEVEN
GUEST STARS...
Don Marshall and Buck Maffei.
PLOT SUMMARY...
When an Enterprise shuttlecraft team, piloted
by Mr. Spock, crashlands on a planet, they encounter giant cavemen.
QUICK SCAN...
This episode features an opportunity to see Mr.
Spock in command. This episode introduced shuttlecrafts to the "Trek"
viewing audience. Spock and McCoy have their first real argument. The
giant cavemen/aliens would have looked more at home on a "Lost
in Space" episode than on Star Trek. Ironically, Spock's use of
logic results in the death of several crew members.
SYNOPSIS...
The shuttlecraft Galileo 7 crashes on a planet.
With Spock in charge, the shuttle crew attempts to survive.
The locals, huge cave men, threaten Spock and
company. While following Spock's "logical" orders, several
shuttle team members die. Mutiny is in the air.
Scotty gets the shuttle repaired and they take
off. In space, Spock sets off all the shuttle's remaing fuel, acting
like a signal flare, which the Enterprise sees and responds to.
The Review...
Director Robert Gist's, "THE GALILEO SEVEN," is one of the
weaker Classic "Trek" episodes. This is the only "Trek"
episode Gist directed.
An Enterprise shuttlecraft, with Spock in charge, approaches the planet,
Taurus II. It crash lands.
Spock and gang encounter huge, caveman-like aliens. Spock attempts to
deal with their situation in a logical way, with dire results.
Spock and McCoy bicker a lot in this episode. It's ultimately more irritating
than amusing, however.
Spock's actions on the planet, as leader of the shuttlecraft mission
on the planet, Taurus II, seem out of character. In the interest of
"logic," Spock gives commands that result in the deaths of
several expedition members, turning the surviving expedition group members
against him. Spock has been in command before, including on the bridge
of the Enterprise, but rarely have his actions seemed so at odds with
the survival of others.
The scenes of "huge" cavemen, dropping boulders on the shuttlecraft,
are rather silly. It's more in the style of "Voyage to the Bottom
of the Sea" than Classic "Trek". Oliver Crawford ("The
Cloud Minders," "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield")
and S. Bar-David ("Dagger of the Mind") are responsible for
the less than classic script.
Late in the episode, Spock commits the illogical act of using the remaining
shuttle fuel, to signal the Enterprise, though the odds of this "flare"
being noticed are extremely remote. Why the logical Vulcan should take
such action is unclear.
"THE GALILEO SEVEN" may be somewhat watchable for some Sci-Fi
viewers.
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