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I Have You Now, My Pretty: Sylvia tries to pull this on Kirk in a rare genderflip of this trope. Kirk, being Kirk , quickly flips it into his favor. Magic Wand : Korob has one with a crystal on the end.
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A landing party of Sulu, Scott, and Crewman Jackson on Pyris VII is overdue for a routine check-in, when Jackson finally answers the USS Enterprise's urgent hails. His disconcerting message: one to beam up. Captain Kirk and Dr. Leonard McCoy are present in the transporter room when Jackson is beamed aboard by Kyle. Jackson materializes on the transporter pad and then immediately falls off down to the floor, where McCoy pronounces him dead. But then a sonorous voice from Jackson's dead lips te...
Act One
1. "Captain's log, stardate 3018.2. Crewman Jackson is dead… and there are no apparent physical causes. Mr. Scott and Mr. Sulu are still out of touch on the planet below. Leaving Assistant Chief Engineer DeSalle in command of the Enterprise, I'm beaming down to the planet's surface to find my two missing crewmen… and discover what killed Jackson." With two crewmen missing and a mysterious death, Kirk doesn't plan to leave just yet. He organizes a second landing party: himself, Spock, and Dr....
Act Two
Awakening, the landing party discovers they are manacled to the dungeon walls. Scott and Sulu appear, and Kirk is at first relieved to see his missing men. Then he realizes they're marching to someone else's drum: alive, but unresponsive and no longer allies. The two enthralled men free Kirk, Spock, and McCoy, and herd them towards the door at phaserpoint; a brief scuffle is halted when all the men are suddenly – elsewhere, in the presence of a strange robed man. This is Korob, decked out in...
"Captain Kirk! Can you hear me? There is a curse on your ship. Leave this place, or you will all… die!" 1. - Jackson's mouth speaking in Korob's voice warning Kirk "Captain Kirk! … Captain Kirk! … Captain Kirk!" "Go back! … Go back! … Go back!" "Remember the curse!" "Wind shall rise!" "And fog descend!" "So leave here, all, or meet your end!" 1. - ...
Production timeline
1. "Broomstick Ride" is published in Super-Science Fiction: December 1957 2. Story outline by Robert Bloch: 9 March 1967 3. Revised story outline: 14 March 1967 4. First draft teleplay: 29 March 1967 5. 2nd draft teleplay: 14 April 1967 6. Final draft teleplay by D.C. Fontana: 24 April 1967 7. Revised final draft by Gene Roddenberry: 27 April 1967 8. Additional page revisions by Gene Coon: 4 May 1967, 5 May 1967, 10 May 1967 9. Filmed: 2 May 1967 – 11 May 1967 9.1. Day 1 – 2 May 1967, Tuesday...
Title
1. The title of this episode, "Catspaw", is a term that describes a person used by another as a dupe; as McCoy points out, Scott and Sulu are used as catspaws to lure more crewmen down.
Story and production
1. Robert Bloch based this episode very loosely on his own short story "Broomstick Ride." Bloch also wrote "What Are Little Girls Made Of?" In both episodes, the "Old Ones" figure into the guest characters' backstories. 2. Although this was the first episode of TOS Season 2 in production (filmed in early May 1967), it did not premiere until the week of Halloween, 1967. It was, in fact, written in a Halloween-type theme for just that reason. This episode also remains to date the only Star Trek...
Starring
1. William Shatner as Captain Kirk 2. Leonard Nimoy as Spock 3. DeForest Kelley as Dr. McCoy
Guest star
1. Antoinette Bower as Sylvia
Co-starring
1. Theo Marcuse as Korob
This beautiful witch, Sylvia, who wears a diamond pendant on her black dress, explains that they are explorers from another galaxy; however, Kirk and Spock must find a means to escape their grasp before they return to the Enterprise. —garykmcd
When Korob aids Kirk and company to escape, Sylvia changes into a gigantic black cat and crushes him. Kirk destroys the "magic wand" transmuter device, causing the castle to vanish and the aliens to resume their actual forms.
SYLVIA: (holding a phaser) Korob was wrong. I didn't destroy all your weapons. Give me the transmuter. Give it to me! (Kirk smashes the wand against the table, and there is a blinding blue light.) EXT. PLANET SURFACE (Kirk is standing on the rocks holding a phaser. Spock approaches wearing his tricorder. McCoy, Scott and Sulu follow him.)
Oct 1, 2016 · Quickly, she demonstrated by allowing Kirk to contact the Enterprise crew, then using sympathetic magic to cook their innards by dangling a toy ship over an open flame. Kirk silently mouthed a blood-vow to light that witch up if it was the last thing he did.
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SYLVIA: (holding a phaser) Korob was wrong. I didn't destroy all your weapons. Give me the transmuter. Give it to me! (Kirk smashes the wand against the table, and there is a blinding blue light.) [Planet surface] (Kirk is standing on the rocks holding a phaser. Spock approaches wearing his tricorder. McCoy, Scott and Sulu follow him.)
