I feel like I write this every night now, but wow what a strange episode! It is mostly a mix of the big three getting messed with an woman who can't talk trying to learn to sacrifice herself I guess. The whole whole of the evil kidnapping aliens is unclear. They are trying to decide if they should save the woman's people from planetary destruction, so they have decided to test if she will sacrifice her life for some one else. Also, can no one on her planet talk? Not really explained. Also, she appears to heal after absorbing peoples injuries, but I guess it hurts her energy or something???
The episode begins like so many others with the Enterprise checking in on a lonely outpost. And like so many others there is no sign of life. They find a recording and it shows the crew they are looking for arguing and then suddenly disappearing. They soon do the same and find themselves alone with an unconscious woman. She wakens but can apparently not talk so McCoy names her Gem. Two more ominous aliens appear and threaten them for no apparent reason. The hit Kirk with a stun weapon for talking back and then leave with no explanation. Gem uses her empath powers to heal Kirks injury. They follow Spock's tricorder to a lab with the two missing Federation crewmen dead in test tubes with their names on them. There are also test tubes labeled for Spock, McCoy and Kirk. Nothing ominous about that! One of the evil looking aliens appears and treasures them it is cool, don't worry. Spock gives him the neck pinch and they steal the alien weapon.
The aliens show up again and take Kirk for torture so they can learn about his will to live or something. This goes on for a while and then he is returned to the others and Gem heals him again, but this time she appears to temporarily have his wounds. The aliens tell Kirk he must pick either Spock or McCoy to be tortured next. Spock works on the alien weapon thing and McCoy knocks Kirk out with a hypo. Spock then explains that means he gets to go since his now in charge so McCoy gives him a knockout hypo too.
The aliens nearly torture McCoy to death and then leave him with Gem. They explain to Spock and Kirk that the only reason they are doing all this is to decide if Gem is a good enough person for them to save her planet. But they also keep talking about how she is learning all these things for the first time or something so I am not sure what they hope to learn about her people. In any case she mostly heal him, but Spock figures out how to get Kirk and him free and they overwhelm the aliens and use their tools to heal McCoy. The aliens fly off into darkness with Gem and the crew return to the Enterprise to talk about how much they liked Gem I guess.
Review: Not a great episode by any measure. I kinda forgot the mention the two or three times it jumped back to the Enterprise to see what they were doing, but it felt like the writer forgot them as well.
3 out of 10
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