66) For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky

Enterprise Incidents with Scott & Steve

Soon after Dr. McCoy is diagnosed with a rare disease that leaves him with one year to live, the Enterprise encounters Yonada, an asteroid that's on a collision course with an inhabited planet. But as Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock soon discover, Yonada is not an asteroid, but is in fact a spaceship designed to look like an asteroid -- the truth of which is being withheld from its own people. That's where McCoy meets Natira, the High Priestess of Yonada. They immediately become smitten with each other, leading him to make the decision to stay behind to live out the rest of his days with her. But if time is running out for McCoy, it is also running out for the people of Yonada. If Kirk and Spock cannot figure out a way to put the ship back on course, they will have to blow it out of the sky in order to save billions of people from annihilation. After 2 1/2 seasons on "Star Trek," DeForest Kelley finally gets to shine in a love story for Dr. McCoy, and he is terrific with guest star Katherine Woodville. But instead of making that a great episode, "For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky" is merely a good episode and -- dare we say it? -- a "touching" one that reveals a little-seen side of our beloved ship's surgeon.

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