Or rather, narrates again.
I have to say each time I watch this episode I am more and more impressed, Vic not only plays Captain Kirk, he dabbled with some of the music, and he writes most of these stories.
The fact that he was involved in writing this episode reveals a huge knowledge of Star Trek. He knows details about each of the five women that are clouding Kirks memory in this episode.
Details that we have mostly forgotten... Well, details about one of them are an untold story, because it takes place with a character from one of his earlier ships, The ship from "obsession". And that was another interesting thing to add to this story, it's just another untold story of Kirk. But each of these women have had a profound effect on Kirks psyche.
We forget that Kirk got extremely lucky in "The Paradise Syndrome" with "Miramani"- but he also got lucky with Deela in "wink of an eye"- but it is even more blatant in Paradise. And the level of that is shown in this episode, because we all know that Miramani was carrying Kirk's child.
And this episode is basically built around a character never really born. Of all of the five girls that Kirk has to interact with to get his memory back, the one that has the key to his secret password was the one that never existed as a person.
In reality that is, she does exist in Kirks mind to a very large degree. And the ironic thing here is that he never knew it.
This also brings back memories of another forgotten "woman" Rayna- and she was also "not real" in a certain sense, although to Kirk, she was very real.
This also gives us another look at the original enterprise "Holodeck", which would have been revealed had there ever been a fourth season of the original series. So in effect, this is the first "holodeck episode", unless you count the first episode where Apollo comes back.
The story happening in the background with the planet applying for Federation membership, that's not really the important story here.
I have to say each time I watch this episode I am more and more impressed, Vic not only plays Captain Kirk, he dabbled with some of the music, and he writes most of these stories.
The fact that he was involved in writing this episode reveals a huge knowledge of Star Trek. He knows details about each of the five women that are clouding Kirks memory in this episode.
Details that we have mostly forgotten... Well, details about one of them are an untold story, because it takes place with a character from one of his earlier ships, The ship from "obsession". And that was another interesting thing to add to this story, it's just another untold story of Kirk. But each of these women have had a profound effect on Kirks psyche.
We forget that Kirk got extremely lucky in "The Paradise Syndrome" with "Miramani"- but he also got lucky with Deela in "wink of an eye"- but it is even more blatant in Paradise. And the level of that is shown in this episode, because we all know that Miramani was carrying Kirk's child.
And this episode is basically built around a character never really born. Of all of the five girls that Kirk has to interact with to get his memory back, the one that has the key to his secret password was the one that never existed as a person.
In reality that is, she does exist in Kirks mind to a very large degree. And the ironic thing here is that he never knew it.
This also brings back memories of another forgotten "woman" Rayna- and she was also "not real" in a certain sense, although to Kirk, she was very real.
This also gives us another look at the original enterprise "Holodeck", which would have been revealed had there ever been a fourth season of the original series. So in effect, this is the first "holodeck episode", unless you count the first episode where Apollo comes back.
The story happening in the background with the planet applying for Federation membership, that's not really the important story here.