Episode 18 : "Condition: Red"

Summary

Lots of little things that don't add up.

Review

Throughout the '60s, and throughout every decade, for that matter, there was a legion of busy television actors who made their living as guest players on just about every TV show imaginable. Jason Evers and Antoinette Bower were two such performers. They both guest-starred on "Star Trek," for example. Simon Scott (the General) was another. You've seen them, you've rooted for them, you've booed and hissed them, but you probably didn't know their names. Most Hollywood actors live and work that way until they get lucky and land a regular role on a hit series -- then you learn their name and their life story. Mr. Evers was one of the stars of "The Guns of Will Sonnett", but the show flopped. But anyway, on to the episode at hand. There are a number of little things about "Condition: Red" that bother me. 1. Why do the aliens go to all that trouble to drown a man, when all they had to do was use one of their cerebral hemorrhage discs? 2. You see the "Big Board" at NORAD, a map of the United States, with targets moving all over it, presumably airplanes. For anything to move fast enough to register that way on a board that size, it would have to move at many thousands of miles per hour. I smell a blooper! 3. What's this business with the computer tapes? You put on the right tape and it tells the system to ignore any bogey coming in on a certain vector moving at a certain speed? I don't get it. 4. Once again, David Vincent manages to worm his way into the highest security clearance area in the country, and just happens to be there when the aliens attack, just in time to save the day. 5. And would a bunch of reporters really be allowed anywhere NEAR the Top-Secret NORAD base underneath Cheyenne Mountain?

Review by Gerald Fitzgerald, submitted 2002-12-05

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