SPOILER: This story has its roots (if you will) in episodes of Star Trek and Lost in Space, though in no one episode directly. It hearkens in the main to Star Trek: This Side of Paradise (#1.24) in having plants infect humans and mind-controlling them in order to spread out and infect others. (This might also come across as similar to Invasion of the Body Snatchers.) It then can be considered to include a nod to Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Naked Now (#1.2) (a retread of Star Trek: The Naked Time (#1.4)), where the infection carries out through the sense of smell. (Sally herself uses the word "naked" a few times.) Those infected walk about with placid smiles on their faces, like in Star Trek: The Return of the Archons (#1.21). Adam's statements about his willingness to sacrifice self to the superiority of plants hearkens to Dr. Smith's far more flowery speech in Lost in Space: The Great Vegetable Rebellion (#3.23).
The action and acting are quite good here. Not so much the usual discernible efforts at enunciating diction, either. Sally takes the lead for a change and is very effective. Adam, smiling benignly, has never looked more the description of adorable (mentioned in a few previous episodes) as he does here. The flowery take-over also has a slight sense of cultishness about it — an adult leader and his flower children followers meeting in a circle in the woods.
The action and acting are quite good here. Not so much the usual discernible efforts at enunciating diction, either. Sally takes the lead for a change and is very effective. Adam, smiling benignly, has never looked more the description of adorable (mentioned in a few previous episodes) as he does here. The flowery take-over also has a slight sense of cultishness about it — an adult leader and his flower children followers meeting in a circle in the woods.
