Tag: Halloween

Automated Ghost, TOS: S3E17 “That Which Survives”

October 31, 2023

Malfunctioning medical equipment features in some of my favorite SciFi stories. In the Dr. Who episode “The Curse of the Black Spot” a menacing specter which kidnaps all the main characters turns out to be an automated tissue sampling device. With a similar robotic commitment, the Aperture Science research AI take over the facility long … More Automated Ghost, TOS: S3E17 “That Which Survives”

Irrational Thought Police, TOS: S2E7 “Catspaw”

October 31, 2020

When the fog gathers, the witches cackle, and the air grows cold under the full moonlight, our tenuous grasp on rational thought gives way to self-preserving fear.  This is the time of year when the boundaries between the spiritual and physical worlds were said to be at their thinnest.  This is Halloween!  Although the spiritual … More Irrational Thought Police, TOS: S2E7 “Catspaw”