The Empath

This Story: Season 3 Episode 12 (production code 3.8)
TOS Overall: Story 67, Episode 68
Trek Overall: Story 67, Episode 68
Airdate: 6 Dec 1968
Written by Joyce Muskat
Directed by John Erman

Notes

• Joyce Muskat was a fan who got their script submission purchased.  Was her only script sale ever.
• One of the few episodes to directly quote the Bible, specifically Psalm 95, Verse 4.  There is a second reference by Scotty at the end, calling out the Gospel of Matthew 13:45-56.
• The sequence when Gem absorbing the illness of others at the end of the episode took eight hours to film due to the stop motion techniques used.  it was on screen for just a few seconds.
• The events of this episode are referenced in dialogue in the series finale “Turnabout Intruder“.
• The couch that Gem sits on is a gigantic version of the agonizers seen in “Mirror, Mirror” and “Day of the Dove”.

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