Synopsis: On the Enterprise spaceship sailing in the vast starry sky, Captain Peck is caught in painful self-blame, remorse and doubt, it turns out that during the last landing expedition, his crew suffered casualties, he has doubts about his ability, and is tired of being responsible for the whole ship, and even thinks of resigning to live his casual life. Just as the ship's doctor was enlightening him, they received a primitive radio distress signal, and Captain Peck, who was blaming himself, was initially reluctant to take any more risks, but after verifying the authenticity of the signal, decided to go to the rescue.
After the landing crew teleported to the ground through the energy-matter conversion system, they encountered a group of survivors who lived a primitive life and claimed to have crashed the research ship 18 years ago. But when Little V led Peck alone to the top of the mountain, several ugly aliens with huge light heads appeared, they stunned Peck and led him underground, and the survivors disappeared at the same time.
The crew began to rescue the captain, using their own flashlight, oh no, a phase gun, or even a fully charged (?) The Phase Cannon (the most powerful infantry weapon ever seen in all episodes) bombards the cave, but to no avail. Peck was imprisoned in a zoo-like facility as a sample by aliens, and through contact with aliens and little V, Peck gradually learned that aliens are a highly developed race. Due to the reasons of war, the surface is not suitable for survival, so aliens have moved to the underground to live, in order to adapt to the boring life underground, aliens have evolved a strong thinking ability, can detect people's thoughts, and emit a certain signal to affect the brain's feelings, can make people in a variety of imaginary environments, and feel very real. Aliens, addicted to the beauty of this imaginary environment, have become addicted to drugs and have lost the ability to work, so they have to find a species as slaves to keep in captivity, repair the various machines left by their ancestors, and produce them, Peck and Little V are such samples.
Due to Captain Peck's strong resistance, the aliens thought that Little V could not get Peck's satisfaction and approval, so they designed to lure the intellectual first officer and young signalman of the Enterprise, but Peck has found that the aliens cannot perceive the original anger, and uses the aliens' negligence to resist the various painful illusions created by the aliens, captures an alien as a hostage, and returns to the ground.
But the aliens have used the illusion to influence the various judgments and operations of the Crew of the Enterprise, paralyzing the entire spacecraft. At this time, the aliens downloaded and checked the information of human civilization recorded on the spaceship, and found that human beings were very resistant to enslavement, strong resistance, in modern parlance, it is wild and difficult to train, and the aliens can only abandon the captivity plan, let go of Peck and his party, and admit the imminent demise of their race.
Then at this time, Xiao V was unwilling to leave with Peck and others, it turned out that Xiao V was the only survivor on the wrecked spaceship that year, had already entered old age, and his body was greatly damaged that year, although the aliens saved him, but because they had never seen a real human, they had to graft her into the human body by imagination, resulting in an ugly monster. Little V can only live in the illusion created by the aliens, and finally the aliens specially created an illusion for her to live with Captain Peck, and everyone is happy.
Comment: Because it is just beginning to prepare to produce this kind of genre of work, the producer is not sure, so there is this pilot broadcast, the reaction of the audience market, and due to the impact of funding and technology, the special effects of this episode are also very general, which seems to be simply crude today. However, the creativity of this episode is very classic, using the way to influence the brain's perception signal to create an illusion, making people unable to distinguish between reality and illusion, bringing original creativity to later blockbusters such as "The Matrix" and "Inception".
And from the perspective of human nature, the same thing, different people may have different independent choices, you can hardly say which is right and which is wrong. At the same time, this episode also shows that there is a way out for strong oppression, and only a thorough and resolute resistance, without giving up, without abandoning, can there be a way out. There is also the beauty of that era, really pure natural pollution-free organic green type, is really green skin Oh.
Classic line: If your race learns the power of illusion, you will also be addicted!
Creative sophistication: ★★★★
Sci-fi hardcore degree: ★★★★★
Philosophical Speculation: ★★★★
Special effects refinement: ★