Nomad Gets Pluto-ed - "The Changeling" (TOS)
I recently saw "The Changeling" for the first time. I had read summaries of it before, and basically knew what to expect - V'Ger -lite - but I was pleasantly surprised with the quality of its execution. When Scotty was pronounced dead and it cut to a commercial my attention was captured. Sure, I knew Scotty would come back somehow, and I could guess that Nomad would be the one to bring him back, but somehow it still managed to be shocking. Scotty was dead! And perhaps in an even more daring move for which Nomad did not have a magic reset button, Uhura's mind had been erased! I also enjoyed some of the camera work - particularly when the camera followed right along side Nomad . On one hand it was smart from a technical standpoint because Nomad could appear to be floating without having to find some way to conceal the strings or rods that held him up. But from an aesthetic standpoint it created a very eerie almost claustrophobic feeling, a very real sense that this dead...