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Charlie X & Where No Man Has Gone Before had essentially the same concept. A crew member gains God like powers, and it becomes a test of will and ego between the antagonist and Kirk. Why did they broadcast two similar stories back to back? Especially when they aired episodes out of filming order anyway?
Edit: Thread title changed.
You could add to this on the one hand 'Who Mourns for Adonis?' Consider the female anthropologist and mythologist who is seduced to inflate into a goddess on Apollo's planet, and how she basically resembles the female psychiatrist in WNMGB, who is seduced by the godlike accelerated powers of the intellect, telling him he's divine.
That was one of the big topics in Analytical Psychology at the time, or 'psychological inflation' as Jung called it, identification of the ego with the collective unconscious. Or, 'leaping off the pinnacle of the Temple' if you like. In turn these episodes overlapped with 'Squire of Gothos' and that one about the stranded hippy children, with a theme of immature children and power. And 'The Cage' overlaps with the one involving everyone in idyllic settings in farmboy overalls, as well as 'Adonis' .... the seduction of unreal Paradises.
They were recurrent themes because they just ARE recurrent themes, especially in the inner journey.
Of course, Bill Shatner, the conscious ego, is always the answer to bring everybody down to earth.
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Anyone know how the Doomsday Machine "model" was filmed? It never looked like a physical model to me. I always assumed it was paper animation. (for a lack of a better description) Of course the inner core was traditional back lit 2D animation.
I said to Gene, “After I went through all the work on this, this is what you shoot? It looks like a wind sock dipped in cement.” Gene, having been a pilot, said to me, “That’s what it is, it’s a wind sock dipped in cement. We didn’t have any money for anything else.” - See more at: http://www.startrek.com/article/doomsday-more-with-norman-spinrad-part-1#sthash.wn01MCXF.dpuf
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