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| Title: | The Paradise Syndrome |
| Episode Number: | 59 |
| Season: | 3 |
| Season Episode #.: | 3 |
| Production Number: | 60043-058 |
| Original Airdate: | Friday October 04th, 1968 |
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The Enterprise is sent to deflect the path of an asteroid that is on a collision course with a Class-M planet. They reach there with enough time to go down to the planet's surface and explore it. Kirk, Spock, and McCoy beam down and find the planet is much like Earth. It is even populated by groups of people similar to Native Americans. Kirk goes missing and the Enterprise is forced to leave him behind and divert the asteroid's path without him.
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| Filming location: Franklin Reservoir above Los Angeles
| The working title for this episode was "Paleface".
| Although not mentioned on screen, the planet in this episode, according to the script, was called Amerind.
| The stunning obelisk was built especially for this episode.
| Other than the street sword fight in "All Our Yesterdays," this was the only episode with outdoor shooting in the entire third season.
| During the villages shots, some extras can be seen working on canoes.
| Several unique visual effects are used in this episode in the forced perspective engine set, as Scotty's "bairns" are put under a great deal of stress.
| The memory beam that hits Kirk has a modified Enterprise door sound in it.
| The original script had Miramannee surviving with Kirk's child.
| Only in this episode do we see the ship firing its gold deflector beam.
| The asteroid would be recycled later as Yonada.
| Several months pass over the time of this episode, making it by far the longest time period in a single episode of the original series.
| As the episode progresses, Shatner's sideburns increase in size to reflect the passage of time.
| Although Nichelle Nichols is not credited, she is seen briefly on the bridge due to recycling of stock footage from "And the Children Shall Lead."
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| Scotty: That Vulcan won't be satisfied until these panels are a puddle of lead!
| Scotty: My bairns. My poor bairns.
| Salish: Behold the god who bleeds!
| Spock: His mind-- he is.....an extremely dynamic individual.
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| What Changed in the Remastered Version
The planet and the Enterprise received the usual CGI make overs, as did the asteroid on collision course for the world. The beam emitted by the asteroid deflector changed from a pale blue ray to a gold and red ray of much greater intensity, with pulses along its length. A nice touch was that when it hit the asteroid, it imparted angular momentum because it did not hit dead on. The memory beam inside the obelisk was silent in the original episode, but during the remastering, a sound was added; this sound was the Enterprise door sound, sped up several times.
| The syndication cuts for the remastered episode were particularly maladroit. In addition to greatly cutting down the length of the fight between Kirk and Salish, the cuts omitted mention of Miramanee's pregnancy. And, Miramanee told Kirk that he was to "make the blue fire come from the temple" - yet the remastering team changed the effect to a red/gold beam.
| One must ask why the Preservers made certain decisions. With the large number of planets in the galaxy, why select one in continual danger of meter collision? There must have been other good choices. One explanation is that they sought a planet that precisely duplicated Earth conditions, and the closest one they found was near an asteroid belt. Perhaps, at their level of technology, they did not regard such a belt as a threat. But if so, why require manual control? It is clear that the obelisk had sufficient detection capability to locate its target, for it aimed and fired correct when Spock pressed a single button. A possible explanation of this is a desire on the part of the Preservers to place some responsibility for their safety in the hands of the saved: that the Preservers felt if these people couldn't press a button every so often, they did not deserve to live. But that attitude seems a little callous for people who secretly visited Earth, uprooted members of a tribal group, and brought them across "half the galaxy" to another world.
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