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From: muffy@lll-crg.ARPA (Muffy Barkocy)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: Space 1999, UFO, et al
Message-ID: <699@lll-crg.ARPA>
Date: Wed, 17-Jul-85 11:28:10 EDT
Article-I.D.: lll-crg.699
Posted: Wed Jul 17 11:28:10 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 20-Jul-85 06:30:24 EDT
References: <234@dcl-cs.UUCP> <7800012@orstcs.UUCP>
Reply-To: muffy@lll-crg.UUCP (Muffy Barkocy)
Organization: Lawrence Livermore Labs, CRG group
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Summary: 

In article <7800012@orstcs.UUCP> richardt@orstcs.UUCP (richardt) writes:
>
>About shapechangers in Star Trek.  Besides Garth, there were the
>two 'magicians.'  I don't remember the name of the episode, but Sulu,
>McCoy, Kirk, Spock, and a few Red-shirts were captured by shapechanged
>aliens.  At the end of the show they turned out to be small, blue
>green critters that were a cross between a starfish, an amoeba, and a
>chicken.
>
>					orstcs/richardt
>"If I'm human, what are *YOU*?"

As has already been mentioned, this episode was "Catspaw."  However,
the aliens were not, as I recall, shape-changers.  Rather, they cast
illusions of various forms, while actually retaining their own forms.

        Muffy