Journey to Babel

This is my kind of Trek episode, one with lots and lots of stuff going on. This one truly has a mini-movie feel and the entire cast gets lots of face time (although Scotty and Sulu and totally missing in this one)

Spock's mom is one helluva strong willed woman and not afraid to speak her mind. She sets pretty much everyone straight at some point or other. Now let's see, you get to see Spock attempt to teach McCoy the "live long and prosper" hand thingy, you get to see Kirk battle an alien hand to hand, you get to meet lots of alien races, you get a big space battle, and you get to know Spock's family...not bad! I guess the only thing missing is Kirk doesn't get a chance to score with any alien babes...oh well. Oh yeah, Chekov gets to take Spock's place at the science station on the brig...that was cool.

It was worth the price of admission just to watch Spock and Sarek try like crazy to out Vulcan each other...ha. Spock won out cause he was willing to let his dad die in order to command the enterprise while Kirk was out of action. My only complaint about the entire episode was the rather weak way Kirk won the space battle...those must have been some incredibly stupid aliens.

Yeah, this is an awesome episode, the show was really hitting its stride at this point, this being episode 44. The more I re watch these old Treks the more I wonder at how such a miraculous creation ever made it to TV of all places???