Koenig: "We do not commit mindless violence."
Elizia: "Then you do deprive yourself of pleasure."
What a line. And with this episode, Space: 1999 meets Roger Corman (...while anticipating similarly red-spandexed-clad-female warriors of Octopussy... surely, I'm not the only one to notice?). So many of these season two episodes harkened back to the previous season one themes ("The Troubled Spirit" = "The Lambda Effect," "Guardian of Piri" = "The Bringers of Wonder"), this might be seen as a companion piece to season one's similarly suggestive male-vs-female, "The Last Enemy." This was one of the more memorable season two episodes, especially considering it consists entirely of just Koenig, an alien guest cast and the Alpha "B" cast of red jackets. The "night shift" Alpha actors shine here; Ed, Bill & Alibe all make an impression (Ed's Sam Dastor is the only link between the previous "Dorzak" episode and this, John Hug pretty much steals every season two scene he's in, while Alibe makes us cry despite of the fact we haven't seen her before). Perhaps due to necessity, the alien culture here is given a complex nuance that we rarely see in other episodes. Overall, another welcome uptick in quality seen the underrated second half of season two.