"If I have to stay here for ten light years..."
--_____
"Are you out of your Vulcan mind?"
--McCoy
"Spock, the women on your planet are logical. It is the only planet
that can make that claim."
--Kirk
PLOT
The Enterprise is transporting Princess Dolman (a spoiled wench) to be
married (poor groom) to the ruler of a planet her people are at war with.
Things get complicated when Kirk falls in love with the princess. Women of
Elas have magic tears that make you fall in love with them when touched and
the spell never wears off (as if Kirk need a reason to fall in love with
a woman). There is no antidote to the spell the tears cast. McCoy spends
the entire episode trying to come up with an antidote, and finally does
just before the end of the episode. It isn't needed, though, because Kirk
is able to resist her on his own due to his first love--that of the
Enterprise. Kinda makes you wanna retch, eh?
Dolman is wearing a dilithium crystal necklace. Dilithium crystals are
abundant on Elas, which has the Klingons interested in the planet.
Klingons sabotage Enterprise's warp drive so it will go kablooie. If the
Enterprise had used warp as the Klingons wanted, both ships would have
been destroyed!!
FACTS
Kirk wants the princess to eat chicken (or something with very little
meat on a bone) with silverware.
Elaan Dolman is the spoiled white Elasian.
Ambassador Petri is a blue Troyian.
1 Enterprise crewman dead (engineering).
Telon star system.
Planet Elas.
Aphrodisiacal tears.
The Elasian is let on board with personal atomic weapons?!
The Elasian ship had atomic propulsion.
OPINIONS
She was a bit too much to take, and detracted from whatever plot there was.
