Comments on: “The Empath” Review, Screenshots and FX Video

By: Susan

Susan — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:46:14 +0000

A flawed episode, but – as a Christian who values agape,* a fan of trio
buddiness, and a McCoy fan – I am very fond of the episode. I am
aware of another McCoy fan who ranks this as her favorite episode. I have a hunch women like it better (on average) than men.

McCoy really turns into the self-sacrificial lamb bigtime in Season 3, though – usually for Spock’s sake. In addition to The Empath, he risks his life in the embarrassing Spock’s Brain, and he tries to get Spock to leave him to freeze to death in All Our Yesterdays. Ya gotta death wish, Doc? (Spock said in The Immunity Syndrome McCoy had a martyr complex.) Oh, and he’s willing to be left among the Platonians, in Plato’s Stepchildren.

*Greek; love that is disinterested, an act of the will rather than a matter of emotion

By: Paul Lee

Paul Lee — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 02:24:27 +0000

Wonderful episode. Kathryn Hays’s performance is one of the most powerful that I’ve ever seen.

By: Billy Bobby

Billy Bobby — Mon, 11 May 2009 19:58:42 +0000

Isn’t it ironic that the brainless Doomsday Machine was aired the same weekend the unintelligent Star Trek movie came out? Coincidence?

By: Billy Bobby

Billy Bobby — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 18:13:18 +0000

This episode is amazing. If you can’t see that, go back to watching The Doomsday Machine. I personally love The Doomsday Machine, but it is for the most part mindless. This episode should have a TV IQ 125 (similar to the TV Y7). I am tired of fans degrading awesome episodes. Fans just go along with the easy classics (The Doomsday Machine, Amok Time, Mirror, Mirror) and mindlessly say that the Third Season was crap. I have noticed that a lot of people hate episodes because they don’t pay attention to the dialog. And this is an episode where all of your attention has to be focused on the episode. Did any notice when Gem touched Spock on the shoulder, showing that he DOES have feelings?

By: john adama

john adama — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 01:34:32 +0000

I think they are interns. I don’t think they had real professionals on this. I doubt they would pay to upgrade such an old show. So it probably was a bunch of interns.

By: smarty-pants of wisdom

smarty-pants of wisdom — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 03:04:59 +0000

I think the original clips of the enterprise was about equal to this awful stuff that CBS digital came up with. How hard is it to make a circle and color it? Are they interns?

By: Engon

Engon — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 10:36:14 +0000

137.
The episode I could not bear as a teen was “Charlie X.” Evans was pretty much the only developed teen character to come aboard the Enterprise and he was pathetic, obnoxious, and dangerous all at once. Yet, as an adult, I regard “Charlie X” as one of Trek’s best episodes and see noww appreciate Charlie as an incredibly tragic character.

On the other hand, despite its apparent layers of symbolism, I find it hard to warm to “The Empath,” possibly because Gem, due to her nature, is not a very well-developed character. For me though, what’s admirable about “The Empath” is that you can tell everyone was trying very hard to pull off something special. The commissioning of the original score is just one indication of this.

By: Redjac

Redjac — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 12:06:56 +0000

What Fried Burger did to Space 1999 was FAR WORSE than what he did to Trek. With Trek, he seemed somewhat constrained. With 1999 he just went stark raving mad — changing as much as Gerry Anderson would let him get away with.

I think the divorce and departure of Sylvia Anderson was a big blow to 1999.

By: Andy Patterson

Andy Patterson — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 03:59:43 +0000

If anyone’s still reading this I just figured out the Vyans are Skrulls, complete with wrinkled chins. Any Jack Kirby fans will know what I’m talking about.

By: J.H.

J.H. — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 02:31:08 +0000

>>I was always confused by calling both the girl and Kirk “Jim”.<,

I agree. “Ruby” would have been a better name.