What is “That Which Survives“? A fancy way of describing Twinkies? A documentary about the survival traits of the cockroach? No, it’s a middle-of-the-pack third-season episode of Star Trek, which Dayton Ward and I verbally dissect this week for the tor.com Star Trek Re-watch.

She just needs to touch you, but be warned—it’ll be a bad touch.

As always, please leave all comments on the Tor.com article, so that it’ll look as if someone gives a damn about what a pair of fat-assed writers think of a 42-year-old television episode.

Join us next week when we get blinded by “The Lights of Zetar.” Till then, The Mack Abides.