Star Trek Review: THE IMMUNITY SYNDROME

Director Joseph Pevney's, THE IMMUNITY SYNDROME, is an exciting, vividly colorful, Sci-Fi episode. Pevney directed many other classic Trek episodes, including: "Devil in the Dark", "Wolf in the Fold", and "The Trouble with Tribbles". His feature films include: "Air Cadet" (1951) and "Away All Boats" (1956).

This is one of those episodes where we really see how deeply ol' "Bones" McCoy (DeForest Kelly) cares about the Vulcan. His guilt over Spock (Leonard Nimoy) risking his life in a shuttle mission is touching.

This is also one of many episodes involving mindless killing entities in space, threatening the Enterprise and life in the galaxy. The amoeba, however, as a recognizable like form, seems more "real" than the threats in most of the other such episodes. Perhaps it is easier to fear the one that you know, than the one you don't know.

The episode is a little vague about how this living creature survives in the vacuum of space. I guess, in addition to turning matter into energy, (by absorbing stuff), it's also extracting some oxygen out as well, or something.

The FX, involving the Enterprise and the giant amoeba, are quite good. The colors of the amoeba are so vivid, it brings to mind the colorful crispness of TNG, more than Classic "Trek". People with color TV's, in the 60's, got quite an eyeful out of this show.

THE IMMUNITY SYNDROME should be fairly watchable for most Sci-Fi viewers. FX fans will particularly appreciate this episode.

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