Talk:Obsession (episode)

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Contents 1 Episode talk page 1.1 Maintenance links 2 Filming dates 3 Rewrites 4 "no natural phenomenon can move faster than light" 5 Removed

[edit] Filming dates

The The Star Trek Compendium lists this episode as being filmed in early and mid-October 1967 and the previous episode, "The Gamesters of Triskelion" as being filmed in late October of that same year. As with "Space Seed" and "A Taste of Armageddon" I'm not sure whether the author had the filming dates mixed up or whether post-production work was being taken into account, or if the episodes were for some reason filmed out of an assigned production order.

[edit] Rewrites

I rewrote the two items listed under the subsection "Cast."

* Eddie Paskey (Lt. Leslie) is killed by the vampire cloud in this episode, but reappears in later scenes (and the very next episode "The Immunity Syndrome") very much alive! According to Paskey, a scene in which a miracle potion saved his life was cut from the show. To see Leslie post mortem, look to see him walk by McCoy in a corridor in a red shirt. Later he walks by McCoy's office door in a yellow shirt when Nurse Chapel enters.

The exclamation point had to go, and the POV was all wrong in the next-to-last sentence.

* Jerry Ayres, who is killed by the vampire cloud, ...

Good lord, I hope Mr. Ayres wasn't killed, but rather his character was. -- Bridge 11:42, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] "no natural phenomenon can move faster than light"

In a different episode - and I'll need some reminding as to which one - we are told that no natural phenomenon can move faster than light. Yet the cloud-creature in "Obsession" reaches speeds up to warp 8. --207.112.81.51 05:18, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

that would be from this sites namesake episode "The Lights of Zetar". --Morder 05:55, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

perhaps no existing natural phenomenon, since the dikironium cloud creature clearly did not walk away from this episode. 68.145.128.30 08:51, 4 March 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Removed

Removed the following nitpick.

- Dr. McCoy wears an Engineering symbol on his assignment patch, instead of his usual Sciences symbol. [http://www.st-spike.org/images --31dot 20:02, 20 July 2009 (UTC)