"[But you'll be trapped as well, forever, at each others'
throat, forever through time]."
--Kirk
"Is it such a large price to pay for the safety of two
universes?"
--Lazarus
PLOT
Lazarus is a schizophrenic time traveler whose personalities are fighting
each other through time and space. There is a rip in the space/time fabric
and Lazarus seems to be the key to the anomaly. There's a fire in
engineering started by Lazarus to steal dilithium crystals (which he needs
to power his ship in order to kill his alternate personality).
FACTS
Planet has zero gravity for a split second.
They evacuate to 100 parsecs.
Alternate universe.
Magnetic field.
OPINIONS
This episode dragged a minimal plot out for an hour, but had some fair
acting and one of the better quotes in Star Trek.
There are, however, a couple of major flaws regarding anti-matter. If the
one Lazarus himself is anti-matter, he should have been destroyed
immediately when he came into contact with any matter, not just his
counterpart. (likewise for kirk in the anti-matter universe.) also, if
the two lazari did manage to annihilate each other, they would make a big
boom (E=mc^2), but it shouldn't destroy the entire universe(s).
