“The Doomsday Machine” will always hold a special place in my heart. It was not the first episode of Star Trek I ever saw (I don’t remember which one was), but it was the very first episode (not just of Star Trek, but of any show) I bought on videotape. I saved $35 from my earnings as a paperboy to buy the videocassette in 1985, back when Star Trek was the first television show to be released in its entirety on home video. Twenty years later, I was able to buy the whole Star Trek television series on DVD for $125, far less than the $2,800 it would have cost to buy the entire series on videotape.
Windom stars in “The Doomsday Machine” as Commodore Matt Decker, who commandeers the Enterprise in a suicide mission to destroy the planet-killing ice cream cone that wrecked his ship and killed his crew. Decker ultimately completes the mission on his own via shuttlecraft. 1979’s Star Trek: The Motion Picture is sort of an unofficial sequel to “The Doomsday Machine,” with Stephen Collins starring as Decker’s son Will, who is personally recommended by Admiral Kirk to become the new captain of the Enterprise before having to relinquish command to the Enterprise-obsessed Kirk in the wake of an intergalactic threat too big for the small screen.
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--Raj Manoharan
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