PLOT SUMMARY... Kirk, Spock, and McCoy are captured and tortured by strange
aliens.
QUICK SCAN... This episode features the gruesome torture of Kirk and Dr,
McCoy. The simple, mostly darkened sets for "The Empath"
help convey a nightmare-like mood. Kathryn Hays ("The Guiding
Light") offers a powerful, mute performance as the empath
Gem.
SYNOPSIS...
The Enterprise arrives at a planet in the Minarvan Star System.
Their mission is to determine what happened to a missing research
team. They beam down.
On the planet, aliens take them captive. One by one they are
tortured. They encounter a female empath, who heals their wounds.
Kirk teaches their alien captors about morality. Kirk and gang
are let go.
