Like the other reviewer said, the Red Hour is nigh. The author of the episode shows the audience a skewed view of societal controls through repression and the extraction of the human soul by allowing ceremony and ritual, however harmful, to establish an unhealthy norm.
Without elaborating on specifics, and in this way revealing possible spoilers, I'll say that Kirk once again uses his guile and wits to baffle yet another integrated circuit board cranium.
Here again we witness some innovation by the production crew to use period costume to revive and re-energize the sense of an alien world. The viewer is given some tangibility with the props and sets, but the theme and more "alien" aspects of this episode are presented when the deeper impetus of the story is revealed.
A commentary on everything from drunken rioting at sporting events to other like group behavior that people think justified because "everyone else is doing it". Yet another bit of profundity from the creative minds at Desilu Studios.
Enjoy.
Without elaborating on specifics, and in this way revealing possible spoilers, I'll say that Kirk once again uses his guile and wits to baffle yet another integrated circuit board cranium.
Here again we witness some innovation by the production crew to use period costume to revive and re-energize the sense of an alien world. The viewer is given some tangibility with the props and sets, but the theme and more "alien" aspects of this episode are presented when the deeper impetus of the story is revealed.
A commentary on everything from drunken rioting at sporting events to other like group behavior that people think justified because "everyone else is doing it". Yet another bit of profundity from the creative minds at Desilu Studios.
Enjoy.