We return to the "Shore Leave" planet from the original series. This is where an advanced race created a planet that generates robots and settings based on your dreams.
McCoy, Sulu, and Uhura beam down for some R&R. However, something's gone wrong, and the Queen of Hearts (from Alice in Wonderland) wants to take out McCoy. Uhura is captured. She is being held by the planet's computer to protect her from the Enterprise! A search party goes down, but communications and the transporter are cut off. They find out the "Keeper" of the planet is dead. The Enterprise can't even open the shuttle bay doors.
Uhura tries to escape, and finds out the computer wants to "make a change". McCoy inadvertently wishes for signs to the underground entrance, and up pops a sign. Pterodactyls and then a giant cat arrives to attack them. Meanwhile, the ship is tossed around--the planet's computer wants to control the Enterprise as well. Then, the gravity turns off.
The landing party decides to fake an injury to get the computer to help them. Kirk and Spock get in, and have a discussion with the planet's computer. It wants to leave the planet and find his "brother computers". A new computer appear on the ship. Kirk, Spock, and Uhura explain the truth to the computer and it relents.
Some things to look for:
- The voice of M'ress, played by Majel Barrett, is very annoying
- The Pterodactyls appear to be borrowed from Jonny Quest
- Once the gravity is cut off, bridge personnel either have gravity belts or are just strapped into the chairs. The latter would come in handy when the ship is tossed around (which happens a lot).
- This show has barely no continuity. In one shot, a substitute officer is in Sulu's seat on the bridge, and in the very next shot, Sulu (who's down on the planet at that point) is there.
Remember, you can play along by watching the show on Netflix!