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Rating:  25 reviews
Media: Video On Demand
ASIN: B000HL2ISY
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 Amazon problems with downloads - never resolved. April 30, 2007
1 out of 7 found this review helpful
I tried downloading this when the service started by using
the free tokens. It never downloaded, and with several
emails with tech reps who could not resolve the issue
I was "blown off" because I did not spend "real money" on
the download. ("Oh it didn't really cost you anything. . .")
I will never try this service again! (and it has been since then
to show my resolve)
 ...When I was very small... March 4, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This episode of Star Trek, "The Man Trap" is my earliest memory of what would become a lifelong enjoyment of the franchise. Truthfully, "The Man Trap" terrified me (I was maybe two, or three, although I am sure by that time the series was limping along in it's third season and I was seeing a repeat for the first time); Star Trek was considered "adult programming", and as such I was not allowed to watch it - I used to sneak behind the couch while my grandfather watched it on nights I stayed at their house, then would lay awake in my bed scared by what I'd seen, but excited just the same. Like another space show I enjoyed and was terrified by (Lost in Space), I didn't recognize Star Trek as anything but a world I wanted very much to be in, but remained frightened of anyhow (I was, as I said, very young).
 one of the best February 17, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This episode is a classic, and is one of the best in the series. It explores time travel and alternate time lines, and it's storytelling had paved the way for many screen plays that followed.
The Episode to See January 20, 2007
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
This review applies to Season 1, Episode 14, " Balance of Terror", ASIN B000IAXVGW Star Trek
Any fan of The Original (Star Trek) Series (herein referred to as "TOS") will enjoy this episode, but let me address you youngins out there that may have enjoyed The Next Generation or any of the later series, but who never saw (or did not like what they saw of) TOS. TOS could certainly be quite uneven from episode to episode, but this is the episode to watch to understand what made TOS great when it did work.
This is ostensibly an episode about a space battle, but it really is a character story. Primarily about the two captains: our man James T. Kirk and the never-named Romulan captain. It's a gripping cat and mouse play pitting two men against each other; Men with greatness and ability, but also with flaws and doubts. Men who are opposite sides of the same coin.... men who might be good friends were the circumstances different. It's a story both of strategy and of character.
This episode introduces for the first time many devices that have become mainstay of the Star Trek Universe. This is the very first time we meet the Romulans, and are introduced to their martial, duty-driven culture. This is the first time we hear of the neutral zone, and the Earth-Romulan "conflict" that necessitated its creation. And this is the first time that we, and the Federation, find out about the cloaking device than can hide entire star ships. (Also be sure to check out another great episode: "The Enterprise Incident" ASIN:B000HKYN7O, where Kirk steals said cloaking device).
I may take some criticism for this, but one of the merits of this episode is the acting of Mr. William Shatner. We are all familiar with his campy, over-the-top style, but in this episode Captain Kirk is a real person and we can see inside his thoughts and feelings. As an example, right before the first cut-away (preceding the credits) look at Shatner's face as he walks away from the communicator. This is fore-shadowing... we see only a glimpse, but it is a glimpse of duty and foreboding for the lives of the crew under his care.
Sure the special effects will still disappoint if not taken in the context of time in which this was produced, and some of the plot devices are contrived, but in the format and time limitation of this episode it excels in being what it sets out to be: an entertaining and gripping story or conflict between two great men and two great machines of war.
Star Trek: City on the Edge of Forever January 10, 2007
3 out of 11 found this review helpful
My favorite show of the Trek series but there's no way I'd buy another individual program from Amazon. It will ONLY play on their downloaded player ...won't burn to DVD so can't play it on my television. Don't bother buying this ...just go for the Trek collection on DVD.
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