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I borrowed Season Four from my local library. Given that I am VERY familiar with Leonard Nimoy's work as Mr. Spock of Star Trek, I was VERY impressed with his work as "Paris", the newest member of the IM Force. I also had a lot of fun spotting other Star Trek actors and remembering the episodes that I had seen them in, (i.e. who remembers T'Pring from Amok Time?). I enjoyed the fact that Leonard Nimoy, (the former Mr. Spock), was in an episode that involved his "former Vulcan wife".

I was also pleasantly surprised to spot other actors from other TV series from my childhood, i.e. Pernell Roberts, formerly of Bonanza, and Barry Williams, formerly of The Brady Bunch. Seeing their faces again brought back fond memories.

However, the final episode of Season Four, "Martyr", was NOT to my liking! To me, it felt like the script writers took the Star Trek episode, "The Way to Eden" and recycled it. The writers also seemed to have forgotten one very important ingredient....persuading the audience into having a willing suspension of disbelief. This episode expected me to believe that Paris, (Leonard Nimoy), could pass for a 25-year-old college student in 1970. By this point, Mr. Nimoy was well into his 30's, possibly approaching 40, and there was NO way I could believe he was a 25-year-old. Handsome as he is, in 1970, he did not have a 25-year-old face. He was clearly much older than the character he was pretending to be.

Because of the way this last episode of Season Four was produced, I'm giving the Fourth TV Season of Mission Impossible four stars instead of five.Get more detail about Mission Impossible - The Fourth TV Season.