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4 ALL OUR YESTERDAYS

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WRITER: Jean Lisette Aroeste
GUESTS: Ian Wolfe (Mr AtoZ)

Mariette Hartley (Zarabeth)
AIRED: March 14, 1969
HACK-MAN rating: .770

Usenet rating: .702
QUOTES:
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- "There *are* witches!" --Fat Man
ALL OUR YESTERDAYS
PLOT:
=====
A rescue mission to a planet whose sun is about to [super]nova results in
Kirk, Spock, and McCoy being sent to various areas of the planet's past.
Kirk is to be tried as a witch, but eventually gets back to the present
with the help of another time-leaper.
Spock and McCoy are sent to a glacial age. Spock falls in love with
Zarabeth, a redhead convict, who was sent back into the glacial age as
punishment. The librarian (Mr. AtoZ) runs the time machine with android
clones of himself. You put a disc of the time period you want to travel to
and jump through a portal. The discs look surprisingly a lot like compact
discs!
FACTS:
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- 1 Stardate = 1.25 hours to 16.08 hours.
- McCoy is this week's dork.
- The people of the planet have mastered time travel but not space travel.
- Since Spock is in the past, he is capable of early Vulcan lust and
anger.
- Nominated for "Outstanding Achievement in Art Direction and Scenic
Design" Emmy in 68-69 (Walter M. Jeffries, Jr., Art Director, and John
Dwyer, Set Decorator).
OPINIONS:
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A pretty good (and original) story. There were a few minor flaws, however.
Why does Spock revert to a 5000 year old Vulcan but McCoy doesn't revert to
a 5000 year old human? Spock mentions that "Kirk has gone through the
portal to a different time, much later", but didn't Kirk go through the
portal *after* McCoy and Spock? How did Spock know that Kirk was even *in*
the portal?
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6 THE ALTERNATIVE FACTOR
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WRITER: Don Ingalls
GUESTS: Robert Brown (Lazarus?)

Janet MacLachlen
Richard Derr
Eddie Paskey

Usenet rating: .170
QUOTES:
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- "[But you'll be trapped as well, forever, at each others' throat, for-
ever through time]." --Kirk "Is it such a large price to pay for the
safety of *two* universes?" --Lazarus
THE ALTERNATIVE FACTOR
PLOT:
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Lazarus is a schizophrenic time traveler whose personalities are fighting
each other through time and space. There is a rip in the space/time fabric
and Lazarus seems to be the key to the anomaly. There's a fire in
engineering started by Lazarus to steal dilithium crystals (which he needs
to power his ship in order to kill his alternate personality).
FACTS:
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- Planet has zero gravity for a split second.
- They evacuate to 100 parsecs.
- Alternate universe.
- Magnetic field.
OPINIONS:
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This episode dragged a minimal plot out for an hour, but had some fair
acting and one of the better quotes in Star Trek.
There are, however, a couple of major flaws regarding anti-matter. If the

one Lazarus himself is anti-matter, he should have been destroyed
immediately when he came into contact with *any* matter, not just his
counterpart. (likewise for kirk in the anti-matter universe.) also, if
the two lazari did manage to annihilate each other, they would make a big
boom (E=mc2), but it shouldn't destroy the entire universe(s).
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8 AMOK TIME
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WRITER: Theodore Sturgeon
GUESTS: Arlene Martel (T'Pring?)

Celia Lovsky (T'Pau)
Lawrence Montaigne (T'Pring's lover Stonn?)
Byron Morrow
AIRED: September 15, 1967

Usenet rating: .826
QUOTES:
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- "Are you a doctor or aren't you?" --Kirk
- "He's as tight-lipped about it as an Aldeberan Shellmouth." --McCoy
- "You've been called the best first officer in the fleet." --Kirk
- "Vulcan biology - meaning the biology of Vulcans?" --Kirk
- "Humans have no conception." --Spock
- "Doctor, if you don't cease your meddling, I will most certainly break
your neck!" --Spock
AMOK TIME
PLOT:
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The Enterprise is headed for Altair 6 for some dumb ceremony (that Star
Fleet Command says they must attend or it will cause a disturbance that
will create ripples felt all the way to the Klingon Empire). Spock steals
the Enterprise and goes to Vulcan to take a wife (T'Pring, the woman to
whom he was betrothed), due to Pon Far, the instinctive Vulcan mating cycle
which strikes adult male Vulcans every seven years.
T'Pring doesn't want to marry Spock, so she calls for Kunut Kalifee, a
fight to the death. Spock and Kirk end up fighting for T'Pring. T'Pau (a
high-ranking (female) Vulcan official) oversees the ceremony.
McCoy complains that the fight wouldn't be fair to Kirk because of the thin
Vulcan atmosphere. T'Pau allows him to give Kirk a triox compound to
compensate, but he gives Kirk a neural paralyzer instead. This makes it
appear as if Spock has actually killed Kirk (since he appears dead). They
beam Kirk's body back up to the ship and McCoy revives him.
FACTS:
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- T'Pau is the only person ever to refuse a seat on the Federation
Council.
- Vulcan has 2000 years of history.
- They defy Star Fleet Command and Kirk.
- Nurse Chapel has the hots for Spock.
- The giant eel-bird of Regulus 5 return to their nest every eleven years.
- Kirk and Bones make a mockery of Kunut Kalifee (a ceremony where two
people try to kill each other instead of killing the annoying bastards
shaking the big tambourines).
- This is the episode where Ensign Chekov makes his debut (1st episode,
2nd season). (Catspaw was the one he was first filmed in, although this
aired after Amok Time).
- This was the first episode with the Vulcan "live long and prosper"
salute.
OPINIONS:
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This is a pretty good episode (and it set up for quite a bit of history for
Mr. Spock).
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10 AND THE CHILDREN SHALL LEAD
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WRITER: Edward J. Lakso
GUESTS: Craig Hundley (Tommy Starnes)

James Wellman (Professor Starnes)
Melvin Belli (Gorgan (The Friendly Angel))
Majel Barrett (Nurse Chapel)
Pamelyn Terdin (Mary)
Caesar Belli (Steve)
Mark Robert Brown (Don)
Brian Tochi (Ray)
Lou Elias (1st Technician)
AIRED: October 11, 1968

Usenet rating: .050
QUOTES:
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- "Hail, hail, fire and snow..." --The Children
AND THE CHILDREN SHALL LEAD
PLOT:
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A group of brats under the leadership of the Friendly Angel steal the
Enterprise, after killing their parents. The Friendly Angel convinced them
that with their parents out of the way they'd be able to have much more
fun. The children play on the secret fears of the crew to make them
imagine things that aren't there (e.g.: Sulu sees knives coming at the
screen and refuses to change course.) Kirk eventually convinces the brats
that they miss their parents by showing them visual recordings of them
playing on the planet.
FACTS:
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- Kirk beams two red shirts into space, thinking they are still in orbit
around the planet.
OPINIONS:
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Pretty lame.
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12 THE APPLE
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WRITER: Max Ehrlich
GUESTS: Keith Andes

Celeste Yarnall
Jay Jones
Shari Nims
David Soul

Usenet rating: .216
QUOTES:
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- Kirk hits a peaceful man, then says "I will not hurt you."
- "We come in peace" <<WHAM>> --Kirk
- "The center is deep in the *earth* beneath us." --Spock
- "Like nothing I've ever seen before." --Scotty (about the antimatter
drain)
- "I guess you'll have to fire me, sir." --Scotty
- "Mister Spock, do you know anyone on this ship who even remotely
resembles Satan?" --Kirk
- [You've earned your pay for the week]." --Kirk (to Sulu)
THE APPLE
PLOT:
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The Enterprise is under attack by Vaal, a big stone idol that the primitive
natives feed. It is really a machine that guides the actions and
environment of the populace. There are no children on the planet.
Everyone speaks perfect English except they don't know the words "children"
or "love". The natives laugh at Spock's speech.
FACTS:
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- Kirk fires Scotty.
- Exploding rocks.
- Flowers shoot darts.
- Chekov falls for Yeoman Martha London.
OPINIONS:
=========
The plot was a bit drafty with all the holes in it (knowing all but two
words of English, etc) and the acting wasn't the best I've seen, but not
the worst episode by any means.
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14 ARENA
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WRITER: Gene L. Coon (from a story by Fredric Brown)

GUESTS: Carole Shelyne
Jerry Ayres
Grant Woods
Tom Troupe
James Farley
Sean Kenney
AIRED: January 19, 1967

Usenet rating: .652
QUOTES:
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- "Gravity is down to .8" --Background voice
- "Yes... yeeeesssss...." --Spock
- "A sustained warp seven will be dangerous." --Spock
- "Diamond is the hardest known substance. --Spock
- "It's impossible." --Sulu
- "[You have displayed] the advanced [trait] of mercy." --Metron
- "He knows, doctor. He has reason[ed it out| to doubt]." --Spock
- "They've locked on to my tricorder!" --Spock (how *dare* they!)
ARENA
PLOT:
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The Gorns (a race of lizard-like beings) destroyed the Federation's Cestus
3 outpost. The Enterprise is in pursuit, when Kirk and the Gorn commander
are transported to a planet by the Metrons (a highly advanced race who live
1500+ year lives) for a duel to the death, winner is allowed to leave with
his ship. The two ships are allowed to view the battle on viewer screens.
Kirk wins, but refuses to kill the Gorn, saying that they can probably talk
out their differences.
FACTS:
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- The Enterprise is moved 500 parsecs instantly at the end of the show.
- When Kirk finally manages to build a cannon to shoot the Gorn, the scene
is strikingly similar to the beginning of the episode.
- The Metron says that the loser's ship will be destroyed, but then when
Kirk wins, the metron acts as if letting Kirk live was an afterthought.
The book version clarifies this by saying the Metron lied; he'd intended
to destroy the winner's ship all along.
OPINIONS:
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- Why does long life imply intelligence? There are quite a few species on
the Earth that live longer than humans.
- The Gorn commander was foolish to attempt to kill Kirk *after* lifting
the rock off him (since Kirk has the speed/maneuverability advantage).
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16 ASSIGNMENT: EARTH
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WRITER: Art Wallace
GUESTS: Robert Lansing (Gary Seven)

Terri Garr (Miss Lincoln)
Jim Keefer,
Morgan Jones
Lincoln Demyan

Usenet rating: .709
QUOTES:
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- "And a large star-shaped mole on her..." --Gary Seven's computer, just
before Miss Lincoln manages to shut it up.
ASSIGNMENT: EARTH
PLOT:
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The Enterprise travels back in time ("using the light speed breakaway
method") to 1968 on a historical research mission. A plot develops when
they accidentally intercept a long-range (1000 light years away)
transporter beam.
Gary Seven, along with his cat Isis, were on their way to Earth from a
hidden planet to check on the development of his fellow agents who were
supposed to sabotage and destroy a U.S. nuclear warhead [or was it an
orbiting nuclear platform?] to prevent World War Three. He claims to have
been taken from Earth ages ago by another planet. Kirk must decide if he
is telling the truth or if he is a time-travelling saboteur. Gary Seven
finds out that his fellow agents died in a car accident and decides to
finish their mission. Miss Lincoln is a bimbo secretary of his deceased
agent cohorts.
FACTS:
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- The Bridge Crew at Princeton claim the Enterprise went back to 1969, but
I checked--it's 1968.
- Gary Seven uses a talking computer with a round screen (like round
screens are more high-tech; remember how long it took us to get to
square screens?)
- Spock's neck pinch doesn't work on Gary Seven.
- Large wall safe is a transporter portal.
- Use Enterprise deflector shields to avoid being seen from the planet.
- This was supposed to be the pilot for a new show that never made it off
the ground (which explains all the strange remarks at the end).
- Nominated for "Outstanding Achievement in Film Editing" Emmy in 68-69
(Donald R. Rode). Weird, since it was a 67-68 episode.
- Kirk somehow makes a log entry with no communicator and a gun is trained
at his head (just after a commercial).
OPINIONS:
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- Good idea for a plot, and a fairly decent execution. Some of the
writing for Teri's part was pretty bad, however.
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18 BALANCE OF TERROR
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WRITER: Paul Schneider
GUESTS: Mark Lenard (Romulan Commander)

Paul Comi
Lawrence Montaigne
John Warburton
Stephen Mines
Barbara Baldavin
Garry Walberg
AIRED: December 15, 1966

Usenet rating: .809
QUOTES:
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- "We are of a kind, you and I. [Under other circumstances] I could have
called you friend." --Romulan Centurion
- "[Scotty, you've earnwed your pay for the week.]" --Kirk (and/or in "The
Doomsday Machine")
BALANCE OF TERROR
PLOT:
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Kirk matches wits against the Romulan commander, trying to guess his next
moves, after following a shadow into the neutral zone near where some
outposts were destroyed.
Now the Romulans have a cloaking device and superior weapons, but the
Enterprise has superior speed (to the point that they can almost out-run
the photon torpedoes [or were these just Romulan energy disruptors?]!) An
Enterprise crew member (Mr Styles) is prejudiced against Spock when they
see that Romulans look like Vulcans. The two races were once a single race
according to Spock.
FACTS:
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- Astrodidium is the hardest metal known to science.
- Enterprise phasers are short bursts like photon torpedoes.
- Uhura takes over navigation.
- Mr Styles is this week's dork.
- Neutral zone outposts 2(?), 2, 4, and 8 were trashed by the Romulan ship
before the Enterprise was able to engage (#4 was the one they saw get
destroyed on the viewer).
- Karl says this is the first encounter with the Romulans. I think the
show said it is the first time any Federation people have *seen* a Rom-
ulan, but that the Earth and the Federation fought a nuclear war with
the Romulans 100 years ago (before they had viewer screens).
- The "Bridge Crew" at Princeton think it is the first encounter between
the species to occur in several decades.
OPINIONS:
=========
Would have been better without Styles, but it introduced a good enemy, new
technology, and a further look into Vulcan history.
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20 BREAD AND CIRCUSES
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WRITER: Gene Roddenberry and Gene L. Coon (from a story by John Kneubel)
GUESTS: William Smithers

Logan Ramsey
Ian Wolfe
Rhodes Reason
Lois Jewell
Bart La Rue
Jack Perkins

Usenet rating: .554
QUOTES:
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- "He commands not only a spaceship - but a *starship*" --???
- "What do you call those?" --??? "I call them 'ears'." --Spock
- "If you're speaking of worship, we serve many beliefs." --McCoy
- "I don't want to injure you." --Spock (before hitting a man with a
shield)
- "Medical men are *trained* in logic." --McCoy "Trained? Judging from
you, I would have guessed it was trial and error." --Spock
- "______ died in your first world war, ______ died in your second world
war, 37,___,___ died in your third world war." --Spock (speaking about
Earth)
- "An excellent example of Hodgkin's Law of Parallel Planet Development."
--Kirk
- "I was told I am to be your slave tonight." --Drusilla
- "I'm trying to thank you, you pointed-eared hobgoblin." --McCoy
BREAD AND CIRCUSES
PLOT:
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The crew of the Enterprise encounter an alternate Earth where Rome never
fell. Looks Roman except for 20th century technology.
FACTS:
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Slaves.
OPINIONS:
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I wasn't that impressed. But then, you can only take *so* many "alternate
Earth" stories...
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22 BY ANY OTHER NAME
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WRITER: Dorothy Fontana and Jerome Bixby
GUESTS: Warren Stevens

Barbara Bouchet (Kelinda)
Stewart Moss
Robert Fortier
Carol Byrd
Leslie Dalton
Julie Cobb
AIRED: February 23, 1968

Usenet rating: .608
QUOTES:
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- "Spock, what's the chance of human forms evolving outside our galaxy?"
--Kirk "The chances are very much against it." --Spock (even though 98%
of the life forms they meet *inside* the galaxy seem to be in human
form)
- "Oh, you're trying to seduce me." --Bimbo
- "What is it?" --Andromeda Dude "Uh...It's green." --Scotty
- "Would you please apologize to me again?" --Bimbo
BY ANY OTHER NAME
PLOT:
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An alien race known as the Kelvins come from the Andromeda galaxy over many
generations and wreck their ship. Pretty stupid, huh? Their galaxy is
becoming unlivable, so they wish to take the Milky Way for themselves by
force. They steal the Enterprise and turn the crew into cubes. They take
human form to save on the budget of the show, but now are getting human
emotions and senses.
FACTS:
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- Kirk falls in love with this Kelinda bimbo.
- The Enterprise leaves the galaxy.
- Spock sort of does the mind meld through solid rock.
OPINIONS:
=========
Pretty entertaining, as long as you don't try to over-analyze it.
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24 THE CAGE
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WRITER: Gene Roddenberry
GUESTS: Jeffrey Hunter (Captain Christopher Pike)

Majel Leigh Hudec (Number One)
Susan Oliver (Vina)
AIRED: Autumn, late 1980s (though written in 1965)

Usenet rating: .325
QUOTES:
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- "We're passing through an old-style distress signal." --Extra
- "Oh, I should have smelled trouble when I saw the swords and the armor.
Instead of that I let myself get trapped in that deserted fortress and
attacked by one of their warriors." --Chris Pike
- "Engage." --Pike
- "Time warp... factor seven." --Pike
- "Have I permission to send out scouting and scientific parties now?"
--Number One "Affirmative on the..." --Pike "You appear to be healthy
and intelligent, Captain; a prime speciman." --Vina "I didn't get that
last message, Captain." --Number One
- "She was born almost as we crashed." --Scientist
- "I have to wear soiething, don't I?" --Vina
- Switch to rockets--we're blasting out." --Spock (after engines wouldn't
pull them out of orbit)
- "Their brains are three times the size of ours." (and are therefore much
more intelligent) --Spock
- "The Women!" --Spock
- "I'm willing to bet you created an illusion this laser is empty. I think
it just blasted a hole in that window and you're keeping us from seeing
it. You want me toi test my theory out on your head?" --Pike
- "She has illusion and you have reality. May you find your way as
pleasant." --Keeper
- "All ship's doctors are dirty old men." --Pike
THE CAGE
PLOT:
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Captain Christopher Pike, his first officer Number One, and science officer
Spock, are shown on board the Starship Enterprise on a mission to Vega
where they were going to heal some Earth-folks. They respond to a distress
call on Talos IV, where they find the remaining crew of an earlier Earth
exploration (on the USS Columbia) which crashed on the planet. The
colonists are all aging (male) scientists except for Vina, who is a cute,
blonde who was born around the time they crashed (about 18 years back).
The Enterprise crew soon realize that the whole colony is a fake as the
Talosians take Pike and Vina down an elevator to their zoo, where they have
various races that they are studying. Pike refuses to live out any
fantasies that the Talosian Buttheads want him to (especially mating
fantasies), so the Buttheads bring down Number One and another woman from
the Enterprise (which prompts Spock to exclaim "The Women!!!") Pike
doesn't want to mate with them either, so the Buttheads are wondering if
they'll *ever* find a race to succeed them (the Buttheads are dying out
because they're so smart that they are bored silly). Pike finally gets out
of his cage, sees that Vina is horribly disfigured and wants to stay on the
planet, and allows her to stay (along with her fake beauty and a hologram
of Pike).
FACTS:
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- Pilot Episode.
- Spock limps through the entire episode. They might have explained this
as a casualty from their last mission.
- Gravity of Talos IV is 0.9 of Earth
- They just came from Rigel Seven.
- Pike is responsible for 203 crewmembers (which may or may not imply that
there are only 203 people on board).
- Doc Phil has insignia with a globe of the western hemisphere; Pike has
normal Enterprise logo (like Kirk/Spock have).
- The Talosians search the Big E's computer banks and see pictures of
Washington, Lincoln, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, flowers, animals,
body parts, solar system, ships, etc.
- Spock smiles upon seeing flowers that sing when near living flesh.
- 2 to 9 dead.
- The Enterprise is the only earthship to go to Talos IV.
- "The Menagerie" takes place 31 years after the USS Columbia crashed,
which is 13 years after the crew visits the planet in "The Cage".
OPINIONS:
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Good premise. Decent execution considering the time period it was made in.
I'm glad they got rid of Pike and the old fart doctor. Kinda humorous to
hear Spock shouting. You almost have to wonder what the series would have
been like with Pike at the helm.
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26 THE CORBOMITE MANEUVER
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WRITER: Jerry Sohl
GUESTS: Anthony Hall

Clint Howard
AIRED: November 10, 1966

Usenet rating: .522
QUOTES:
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- "What am I, a doctor or a moon shuttle conductor?" --McCoy
- "If I jumped every time a light came on I'd end up talking to myself."
--McCoy (to self)
- "I'd like to get my hands on the person who assigned a female yeoman to
me." --Kirk (after being nagged)
- "Radiation level has entered the lethal zone" --Spock (although no one
seems to have died from it.)
- "What is it's mass?" --Kirk "It goes off the scale" --Spock
- "It's over a mile in diameter." --Sulu
- "You have an annoying fascination for timepieces, Mr. Sulu. --Scotty
THE CORBOMITE MANEUVER
PLOT:
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To stave off an attack by an alien vessel, Kirk concocts the now-famous
"Corbomite" bluff. Charting uncharted space, the Enterprise comes upon a
warning buoy in the form of a rotating cube. They decide not to heed its
warning and continue onward. A short guy in huge ship with smaller
separatable ship offers tranja and "demonstrates superiority" by turning
off visual on the Enterprise. Spock learns poker and the art of bluffing.
Bailey is a weapon-happy dork who wants to shoot the buoy and anything else
that moves.
FACTS:
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- During the power outage, a yeoman uses a hand-phaser to heat up some
coffee.
- Engine temperature reaches 8600 degrees (6400 is the maximum safe
temperature.)
- This episode has Spock, Sulu, Scotty, Bones, Uhura.
- Slightly higher oxygen content.
- Spock says his mother is from Earth.
OPINIONS:
=========
Plot dragged out a bit, but was sound.
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28 CATSPAW
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WRITER: Robert Bloch and Dorothy Fontana
GUESTS: Antoinette Bowers (Sylvia?)

Theo Marcus (Korub?)
Michael Barrier (DeFalco?)
Jimmy Jones

Usenet rating: .381
QUOTES:
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- "Analysis, Mr. Spock?" --Kirk "Very bad peotry, Captain." --Spock
- "You'd be a natural." (for Halloween) --Kirk (to Spock)
- "[I'll] bet credits to navy beans we can [punch a hole] in it." --DeFalco
CATSPAW
PLOT:
=====
Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Scotty, and Sulu are thrown in a dungeon by Korub and
Sylvia (black cat) to trick Kirk into giving them further scientific
information. They probed their minds and reached the subconscious instead
of the conscious, so are unaware that the Halloween charade they are
putting on is not the norm for humans. They hang a toy Enterprise over a
flame and the Enterprise becomes hot; also put a force field around it.
Three witches.
FACTS:
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This is the first episode filmed with Ensign Chekov, though "Amok Time" was
aired earlier.
OPINIONS:
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30 THE CHANGELING
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WRITER: John Meredyth Lucas
GUESTS: Blaisdell Makee

Vic Perrin (voice of Nomad)
Arnold Lessing

Usenet rating: .442
QUOTES:
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- "You are the creator; you are the Kirk." --Nomad
- "Intelligence does not require bulk, Mr. Scott" --Spock (referencing his
weight?)
- "Congratulations, a dazzling display of logic." --Spock "Didn't think I
had it in me, did you?" --Kirk "No." --Spock
- "Your logic [is|was] impeccable, Captain. We are in grave danger."
--Spock
- "My son, the doctor." --Kirk (referring to Nomad)
THE CHANGELING
PLOT:
=====
An ancient Earth probe Nomad collided with an alien biology probe (The
Other) and both were damaged. It rebuilt itself as one probe, incredibly
powerful, and thinks its mission is to sterilize all imperfect life forms.
Kirk talks it into blowing itself up.
FACTS:
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- Jackson Roykirk created Nomad.
- Nomad confused the similarity (phonetically, at least) between "Jackson
Roykirk" and "Captain James Kirk".
- Uhura's entire memory is wiped, but she is re-educated in a month or
two.
- One Yeoman is killed (Nomad damaged him too much to fix).
- The Other was known as Tan Ru.
- Scotty dies.
- Spock Mind Melds with Nomad
OPINIONS:
=========
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32 CHARLIE X
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WRITER: Dorothy Fontana
GUESTS: Robert Walker, Jr. (Charlie X?)

Abraham Sofaer
Patricia McNulty
Charles J. Stewart
Dallas Mitchell

Usenet rating: .241
QUOTES:
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- "Your illogical approach has its advantages." --Spock (apparently
winning is illogical)
CHARLIE X
PLOT:
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A teenager, raised by aliens and possessing some of their unusual powers,
proves incapable of adjusting to human society and emotions. Charlie kills
three, and erases another woman's face (but brings at least one of the
people back. He killed 20 on the SS Antares. Charlie has the hots for
Yeoman Rand, and slaps her on the posterior (after seeing someone else do
similarly).
FACTS:
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- Kirk wins at 3-D chess after Spock announces mate in one.
- 428 crew on Enterprise.
OPINIONS:
=========
Sucked rocks.
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34 THE CITY ON THE EDGE OF FOREVER
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WRITER: Harlan Ellison
GUESTS: Joan Collins (Edith Keeler)

Bartell LaRue
John Harmon
AIRED: April 6, 1967

Usenet rating: .968
QUOTES:
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- "Since before your sun burned I have awaited a question." --Guardian
(the question was not asked of it, and other questions were asked
before, but it didn't answer those.)
- "[My friend here is obviously Chinese.] I see you've noticed the ears.
[Well, they're] easy to explain. --Kirk "[Perhaps the unfortunate
accident I had as a child...] --Spock "[Yes, the unfortunate accident
he had as a child... You see, he got his head caught in a mechanical]
rice [picking machine. Fortunately, there was an American missionary
nearby who was really a skilled plastic surgeon]..." --Kirk
- "I'm a surgeon, not a psychiatrist." --McCoy (but he HAS a degree in
psychiatry).
- "I am attempting to make a [neumatic|pneumatuc|mnemonic] memory circuit
[using] stone knives and bearskins." --Spock
- "Let's get the hell out of here." --Kirk
- "He knows, doctor. He knows." --Spock
THE CITY ON THE EDGE OF FOREVER
PLOT:
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The Enterprise is orbiting a planet with ripples in time. While

investigating, McCoy (suffering from an overdose of cordrazine) vanishes
through a time portal (The Guardian of Forever, a giant talking
donut-shaped rock) and somehow changes the past. One side effect is that
the Enterprise and Star Fleet no longer exist, but for some reason the crew
that are on planet still do. Kirk and Spock follow him to Earth's 1930s in
an effort to rectify whatever it is that McCoy has done.
FACTS:
======
- Tricorder says the Guardian is ten million years old.
- A 2030 A.D. novelist from a star in the left side of Orion's Belt
advises "Let me help" over "I love you" as the three most important
words.
- Ellison wrote the original version of "City on the Edge of Forever". It
had McCoy drugged *NON*-accidentally among other things. It was a bit
of a different story than what the aired version turned into. It needed
major re-writing because most of the characters were out of character
(as they had been defined in earlier episodes), the script had to be
re-written, Ellison didn't like that, and the rest is history. If you
get a chance, read both versions of the script.
- Kirk falls for Edith Keeler.
- First time "hell" was used on television as a ___.
- Seven people beam up at the end (on to a transporter pad that hold six).
OPINIONS:
=========
One of the best-written stories in science fiction. Period.
Probably the best acting I've seen out of DeForrest Kelley. Excellent
portrayal of someone accidentally shot up.
I'm not sure who was filling in for William Shatner this week, but the part
of Kirk was played to perfection. The viewer can actually GET *IN* to the
part, FEEL what Kirk felt for Edith, and HURT inside when he had to watch
her die. One of the few episodes that can send chills up your spine.
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36 THE CLOUD MINDERS
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WRITER: Margaret Armen (from a story by David Gerrold and Oliver Crawford)
GUESTS: Jeff Corey

Diana Ewing (Droxine?)
Charlene Polite (Vanna?)
Fred Williamson
Ed Long

Usenet rating: .432
QUOTES:
=======
- "May I point out that a first officer is more expendable than either a
captain or a [first officer[?]]" -- Spock
THE CLOUD MINDERS
PLOT:
=====
Kirk's attempt to pick up a shipment of a vital mineral embroils him in the
demands of the oppressed miners (Trogs) against the cultured rulers on
cloud city. The planet Ardona is the only place where senite exists. The
dust in the mines causes mental retardation in the Trogs, who want Kirk to
help them. Kirk doesn't want to get involved, but needs the senite..
FACTS:
======
- Yes, it is "Cloud Minders", not "Cloud Miners". I checked the video-
disc.
- Kirk defies Star Fleet Command. - Spock falls in love with Droxine.
- Kirk falls for Vanna.
OPINIONS:
=========
An interesting (and fairly original) plot. Would have been interesting to
see them expand on it a bit. The storyline is very socially conscious with
respect to 1960s USA.
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38 THE CONSCIENCE OF THE KING
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WRITER: Barry Trivers
GUESTS: Arnold Moss (Kodos?)

Barbara Anderson (Lenore)
Bruce Hyde
Eddie Paskey

Usenet rating: .377
QUOTES:
=======
- "My father's race was spared the dubious benefits of alcohol." --Spock
"Oh. Now I know why they were conquered." --McCoy (In some other
episode it is mentioned that Vulcan has not been conquered in known
history)
THE CONSCIENCE OF THE KING
PLOT:
=====
Kirk suspects the star of a Shakespearean acting troupe may be the infamous
"Kodos the Executioner", presumed dead for twenty years.
Twenty years ago a supply ship was delayed and all people on the planet
were doomed to die of starvation. Kodos divided population into two
groups, the ones that would live and the ones that would die. This plan
would at least save half of the population. For some reason Kodos is
condemned for trying to save half the people instead of letting *everyone*
die ("the death of the many outweighs the death of the few"?).
FACTS:
======
- This is the episode that features the only Federation doorknob (other
than Kirk). It's right after the opening credits; not sure why it was
important. Someone else thought there was a doorknob in The Menagerie.
- This is the only episode to show the Big E Observation Deck.
- Also the only episode to feature a "double red alert" (when the phaser
was on overload).
- Sort of defy Star Fleet Command.
- Lenore Karidian woos Kirk in order to kill him.
OPINIONS:
=========
Plot was okay and didn't drag too much, but the reason Kodus was disliked
was a bit bogus.
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40 COURT-MARTIAL
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WRITER: Don M. Mankiewica and Stephen W. Carabatsos
GUESTS: Percy Rodriguez (Attorney?)

Elisha Cook, Jr.
Joan Marshall
Richard Webb
Alice Rawlings
Hagan Beggs
Winston DeLugo

Usenet rating: .532
QUOTES:
=======
- "You may be able to beat your next captain at chess." --Kirk.
COURT-MARTIAL
PLOT:
=====
Kirk is placed on trial when the ship's records show that he committed an
error that cost a crewmember's life. The "dead" crewman changed the ship's
computer tapes so it shows Kirk jettisoning the pod during YELLOW alert
instead of red alert. Spock wins at 3-D chess against the computer five
games in a row, convincing him that the ship's computer has been tampered
with (the best he should have been able to achieve was a draw since he
programmed the game in himself.) McCoy masks out the heartbeat of all
remaining crewmembers after most have beamed down to see if anyone is
hiding. For some reason they can tell how many life forms are on a planet
they are orbiting, but not on their own ship! McCoy masks Spock's
heartbeat out as if it were in the human position rather than the Vulcan
position. They then listen to the noises with the heartbeats masked out
and hear another single heartbeat (and for some reason don't hear their
voices amplified about a billion times).
FACTS:
======
- The crewman "died" at stardate 2945.7.
- Kirk was an ensign on the USS Republic NCC-1371.
- Kirk's serial number is S [D|C] -937-0176-CEC (Captain, Starship
Commander).
- Spock's serial number is S-179-276-SP (Lt. Commander, First Officer,
Science Officer).
- McCoy is Lt. Commander, Ship's Surgeon.
- Kirk mentions amplifying "one to the fourth power"
- Kirk was hot for Areel Shaw. He might also have had a tryst with
Yeoman Helen Johannson.
OPINIONS:
=========
Pretty minor offense for losing one's captaincy over. Seems like they'd be
firing captains every day if this were the policy.
They make a big deal of "books" and "rights of the accused".
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42 DAGGER OF THE MIND
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WRITER: Shimon Wincelberg
GUESTS: James Gregory (Van Gelder?)

Morgan Woodward
Marianna Hill
Suzanne Wasson

Usenet rating: .645
QUOTES:
=======
DAGGER OF THE MIND
PLOT:
=====
A deranged escapee from a penal planet causes Kirk to investigate the
psychiatric treatments being administered there. The rehabilitation planet
has a mind controller/neural neutralizer.
FACTS:
======
- First use of the Vulcan mind meld on a human (Dr. Van Gelder).
- 1 Stardate > 10 hours.
OPINIONS:
=========
Good acting on the part of VanGelder (Spock isn't too bad either).
Kirk falls for Dr. Helen Noel. He apparently had his way with her at the
Science Lab Christmas party.
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44 DAY OF THE DOVE
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WRITER: Jerome Bixby

GUESTS: Michael Ansara (Kang?)
Susan Howard (Mrs. Mara Kang?)

Usenet rating: .676
QUOTES:
=======
DAY OF THE DOVE
PLOT:
=====
Klingons and the Enterprise crew must unite to overcome an alien pinwheel
that feeds on hatred. The alien has the Klingons and the Enterprise crew
kill each other, then brings them back to life to cause more hostility.
FACTS:
======
- Klingon == Kang?
- Klingons have no devil (they apparently get one (named Feklar) in the
next hundred years, according to TNG's "Devil's Due")
- Chekov tries to rape Kara.
- While under the influence of the pinwheel, Chekov thinks he has a
brother.
OPINIONS:
=========
Some good humor, and good dialog at the end between the two "superpowers",
and the Klingon slapping Kirk's back.
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46 THE DEADLY YEARS
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WRITER: David P. Harmon
GUESTS: Charles Drake

Sarah Marshall
Beverly Washburn
Felix Locker
Carolyn Nelson
Laura Wood

Usenet rating: .683
QUOTES:
=======
- "I'm not a magician, I'm just an old country doctor." --McCoy
- "If I live long enough, I'm going to run out of samples." --Chekov
THE DEADLY YEARS
PLOT:
=====
Kirk is relieved of command when he and other officers contract a disease
from a passing comet that induces senility and death by old age within
days. The planet Gamma Hydra 4 passed through the tail of a comet. Chekov
doesn't age like the rest; they try to explain this because he was scared
and got his adrenaline flowing. Some diplomat who's never come close to
commanding a starship (Commodore Stocker) is put in charge instead of
Chekov, and decides to take a shortcut through the Romulan Neutral Zone
like a dork. Kirk bluffs about corbomite to Star Fleet Command in a code
he knows the Romulans have cracked, saying that it will make this area of
space uninhabitable for two solar years. The Romulans back off and Kirk
gets out of there.
FACTS:
======
- Starbase 10 has better medical facilities than the Enterprise.
- McCoy refers to Spock's age as "the high side of 100".
- Kirk had a fling with Dr. Janice Wallice.
- Kirk was 34, but now is 65-72.
- They use a needle on Chekov (I thought needles had been replaced by
hypos).
- Stardate 3478.2-3579.4 ???
OPINIONS:
=========
Can be hard to follow the plot on the first viewing, but not all that bad
an episode once it sinks in.
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48 THE DEVIL IN THE DARK
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WRITER: Gene L. Coon
GUESTS: Ken Lynch (Vandenburg?)

Janos Prohaska
Barry Russo
Brad Weston
Biff Elliott

Usenet rating: .496
QUOTES:
=======
- "Phaser One is far less powerful than Phaser Two" --Spock
- "Silicon based life is physiologically impossible" --McCoy
- "I'm a doctor, not a brick layer" --McCoy
- "Shoot to kill" --Kirk.
- "I'm beginning to think I can cure a rainy day." --McCoy ?
THE DEVIL IN THE DARK
PLOT:
=====
A mining operation on a planet with the richest abundance of minerals
anywhere is plagued by a series of mysterious and grisly deaths. Add to
that the mysterious disappearance of their life-support pump (there's no
oxygen down there).
The Enterprise is called upon to investigate and/or evacuate the remaining

miners. Kirk, Spock, and McCoy find a bunch of silicon globes (the miners
have been keeping them as souvenirs and/or destroying them) and a series of
tunnels that have been carved recently.
Upon further investigation, they find that the deaths were caused by a
silicon-based horta that moves through rock as easily as humans move
through air. It is the last of its species and the globes that were found
were her eggs. It was killing the miners with her acid in self-defense to
keep her species alive (and stole the life-support system to try to make
the miners go away). It is described as a "hairy beast", but is later
found to be a highly intelligent breathing rock.
Kirk and Spock discuss the possibility of silicon-based beings (or beings
not carbon-based) apparently forgetting that Nancy the salt-sucker was
silicon-based. McCoy later comes down and says that silicon-based life is
impossible.
Kirk wants to kill it, despite the fact that it is the last of its species,
and refuses to weigh his options. Their phasers don't do too much to slow
it down. Kirk orders the remaining miners up to the ship (most have
already beamed up), but they (lead by this week's dork, Vandenburg) want to
fight it with clubs (maybe clubs are more powerful than phasers, eh?) Kirk
(in an attempt to win back the "dork of the week" prize) says "good"
(non-sarcastically).
Spock mind melds with it in an attempt to communicate, and senses how much
pain she's in. She finds humans rather ugly, but likes Spock's ears. It
then writes "no kill i" by burning away rock with its acid. Kirk is unsure
if she means that she doesn't want to kill or that she doesn't want to be
killed. They beam McCoy down to help repair the damaged horta.
Eventually, they strike up a bargain. The miners don't destroy any more
eggs and don't harm the horta. The horta will make their tunnels in the
direction the miners want.
FACTS:
======
- Kirk is this week's dork: not trying to preserve life, etc.
- This is the last episode to be watched by me. It took until 6/7/88 for
me to see it.
- Every 50,000 years the race of horta all die save the one mother horta.
- Spock mind melds with the horta.
OPINIONS:
=========
Bogometer was in the "high" range through most of the show.
The opening looked like a bad 1920 movie. This is why I probably never saw
the episode until 1988; I didn't realize I was watching "Star Trek".
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50 THE DOOMSDAY MACHINE
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WRITER: Norman Spinrad
GUESTS: William Windom (Matt Decker)

Elizabeth Rogers
John Copage
Richard Compton
John Winston
Tim Burns

Usenet rating: .749
QUOTES:
=======
- "I'm a doctor, not a mechanic." --McCoy
- "They can't take much more of this." --Spock (about the deflectors)
- "Gentlemen, I suggest you beam me aboard." --Kirk
- "[Scotty, you've earned your pay for the week]." --Kirk (and/or in
"Balance of Terror")
THE DOOMSDAY MACHINE
PLOT:
=====
The Starship Enterprise and the damaged Starship Constellation (sans its
400 crew) battle an enormous horn/carrot-shaped machine that destroys
planets and ships for fuel. It came from outside the galaxy, and is headed
for the Rigel system, the most densely populated part of the galaxy. Its
hull is solid neutronium. Commodore Matt Decker, who somehow got to be a
starfleet officer (and good friend of Kirk, naturally), steals the
Enterprise (after destroying his own ship - the Constellation NCC-1017 -
and his 400 crew), and eventually kamikazes himself into the horn with an
Enterprise shuttlecraft. The seven planets in system L370 are destroyed,
and all but two planets on system L374 (Decker beamed his crew to the third
planet).
FACTS:
======
- Decker has a different insignia on his shirt--like a script capital "I".
- No Uhura.
- Decker is this week's dork.
- USS Constellation's log is Stardate 4202.1.
- Nominated for "Outstanding Achievements in Film Editing" Emmy in 67-68
(Donald R. Rode).
- Wil Decker (from the movies) is probably Matt Decker's son.
- Transporter malfunction.
OPINIONS:
=========
The plot was okay, but Decker was bogus. Is there some unwritten law in
Star Fleet that you can't be a high-ranking official unless you're
borderline insane?
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52 ELAAN OF TROYIUS
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GUESTS: France Nuyen (Elaan)

Jay Robinson (Petri)
Tony Young (Kryton)
Lee Duncan (Evens)
Victor Brandt (Watson)
Dick Durdock (Guard #1)
Charles Beck (Guard #2)
K.L. Smith (Klingon)

Usenet rating: .450
QUOTES:
=======
- "If I have to stay here for ten light years..." --_____
- "Are you out of your Vulcan mind?" --McCoy
- "Spock, the women on your planet are logical. It is the only planet
that can make that claim." --Kirk
ELAAN OF TROYIUS
PLOT:
=====
The Enterprise is transporting Princess Dolman (a spoiled wench) to be
married (poor groom) to the ruler of a planet her people are at war with.
Things get complicated when Kirk falls in love with the princess. Women of
Elas have magic tears that make you fall in love with them when touched and
the spell never wears off (as if Kirk need a *reason* to fall in love with
a woman). There is no antidote to the spell the tears cast. McCoy spends
the entire episode trying to come up with an antidote, and finally does
just before the end of the episode. It isn't needed, though, because Kirk
is able to resist her on his own due to his first love--that of the
Enterprise. Kinda makes you wanna retch, eh?
Dolman is wearing a dilithium crystal necklace. Dilithium crystals are

abundant on Elas, which has the Klingons interested in the planet.
Klingons sabotage Enterprise's warp drive so it will go kablooie. If the
Enterprise had used warp as the Klingons wanted, *both* ships would have
been destroyed!!
FACTS:
======
- Kirk wants the princess to eat chicken (or something with very little
meat on a bone) with *silverware*.
- Elaan Dolman is the spoiled white Elasian.
- Ambassador Petri is a blue Troyian.
- 1 Enterprise crewman dead (engineering).
- Telon star system.
- Planet Elas.
- Aphrodisiacal tears.
- The Elasian is let on board with personal atomic weapons?!
- The Elasian ship had atomic propulsion.
OPINIONS:
=========
She was a bit too much to take, and detracted from whatever plot there was.
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54 THE EMPATH
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WRITER: Joyce Muskat
GUESTS: Kathryn Hays (Gem)

Alan Bergman
Willard Sage
Jason Wingreen
Davis Roberts

Usenet rating: .240
QUOTES:
=======
- "I'm a doctor, not a coal miner." --McCoy
- " !" --Gem
THE EMPATH
PLOT:
=====
A mute woman (Gem) is capable of absorbing the pain and injuries of others.
The Vians (fathead aliens) manipulate Kirk, Spock, and McCoy, administering
pain, to see if they can teach Gem compassion. In order to do this, the
Vians have to put McCoy in so much pain that he'll die or Spock in so much
pain that he will [go insane|become a vegetable].
FACTS:
======
- McCoy mutinies.
- At the end, Scotty tells the "Tale of the Merchant" (the parable of the
pearl of great price from the Christian gospels.
OPINIONS:
=========
The plot dragged out to long.
Pretty cheap set.
Great dialogue from Gem.
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56 THE ENEMY WITHIN
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WRITER: Richard Matheson
GUESTS: Jim Goodwin

Edward Madden
Garland Thompson

Usenet rating: .521
QUOTES:
=======
THE ENEMY WITHIN
PLOT:
=====
A transporter malfunction splits Kirk into two bodies, each possessing half
of his personality. One Kirk is brutal and incapable of control; the other
is gentle and incapable of command.
FACTS:
======
- Yeoman Janice Rand's quarters = 3C 36 (?).
- Stardate 1672.1-1672.9-1673.1-1673.5-1673.1 (confirmed!)
- Unicorn dog.
- Kirk tries to rape Janice.
- Planet is 120 degrees below zero.
OPINIONS:
=========
Plot was good for an early episode.
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58 THE ENTERPRISE INCIDENT
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GUESTS: Joanne Linville (Romulan Commander Chick)

Jack Donner
Richard Compton
Robert Gentile
Gordon Coffey,
Mike Howden

Usenet rating: .819
QUOTES:
=======
- "Is it true or just myth that Vulcans are incapable of lying?"
--Romulan Commander Chick "It is no myth." --Spock
- "I, too am moved emotionally." --Spock
- "Who are you who could do this to me?" --Romulan Commander Chick "First
officer of the Enterprise. What is your present form of execution?"
--Spock
THE ENTERPRISE INCIDENT
PLOT:
=====
Kirk goes insane and orders the Enterprise across the neutral zone into
Romulan space. Spock scans no ships within one parsec, then three Klingon
vessels appear (Romulans are now using Klingon design and have a cloaking
device). Romulans have Kirk and Spock beam on board; Lt Commander Scott takes
over. Spock falls in love with Romulan Commander Chick. Spock instinctively
uses the Vulcan death grip on his captain when Kirk attacks him. Kirk is
brought back to Enterprise, adds ears and eyebrows, and returns to the Romulan
ship to steal the cloaking device.
FACTS:
======
- Spock has served the Federation for 18 years.
- Romulans got Klingon warships in a trade agreement.
OPINIONS:
=========
Pretty darn good. Some nice new sets, a decent plot, and some better-than-
usual acting.
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60 ERRAND OF MERCY
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GUESTS: John Abbott

John Colicos (Klingan Commander Kuul)
Peter Brocco
Victor Lundin
David Hilary Huges

Usenet rating: .764
QUOTES:
=======
- "The odds? It's difficult to be precise. Approximately 7824 to 1."
--Spock
- "Fascinating... pure energy... pure thought." --Spock (used in the
Minneapolis band Information Society's song "Pure Energy")
- "I'm a soldier--not a diplomat." --Kirk
- "Even the gods did not spring into being overnight." --Spock
- "[Well, the Federation has spent a lot of money on our training; it's
time they got a] return [on their] investment." --Kirk
ERRAND OF MERCY
PLOT:
=====
Klingons are taking over Organia, a peaceful planet. Kirk and Spock are
stranded on Organia and try to interfere, despite the Organians' insistence
of non-violence. I like the fact that the Organians see that they have a
choice of dealing with the Federation or dealing with their enemies instead
of blindly thanking Kirk for interfering! The Klingons decide to kill a
hundred Organians an hour until Kirk and Spock are turned over to them.
The Organians don't really care, because they don't need their humanoid
bodies anyway. Organians are pure energy; pure thought.
FACTS:
======
- First episode with Klingons.
- Code 1 = war.
- Klingon commander Kuul.
- Kirk asks Spock how much StarFleet has invested in him. Spock gives an
accurate figure.
- All weapons heated to 350 degrees (on some scale; likely Fahrenheit).
OPINIONS:
=========
A "fun episode".
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62 FOR THE WORLD IS HOLLOW, AND I HAVE TOUCHED THE SKY
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WRITER: Rik Vollaerts
GUESTS: Kate Woodville (Natira)

Byron Morrow
Jon Lormer
HACK-MAN rating: .???

Usenet rating: .563
QUOTES:
=======
FOR THE WORLD IS HOLLOW, AND I HAVE TOUCHED THE SKY
PLOT:
=====
McCoy, suffering from a fatal disease, falls in love with Natira, the
priestess of a planetoid/spaceship on a collision course with another planet.
McCoy has one year to live and agrees to marry Natira, but ends up leaving
her.
FACTS:
======
- People live underground.
- Embedded pain disks in head.
- Oracle.
- Great title! :-)
- McCoy agrees to marry, but sails away.
OPINIONS:
=========
They mention at the end that they'll be back in a year. Sounds like a
setup for a sequel. It's been a loooong year. :-)
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64 FRIDAY'S CHILD
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GUESTS: Tige Andres

Michael Dante
Julie Newmar
Cal Bolder
Kirk Raymone
Ben Gage, Robert Bralver

Usenet rating: .512
QUOTES:
=======
- "I'm a doctor, not an escalator." --Bones
- "Oochy woochie goochy coo, Captain?" --Spock
FRIDAY'S CHILD
PLOT:
=====
Negotiations over mining rights become a battle for survival when McCoy
unintentionally violates a tribal taboo by touching the leader's pregnant
wife. The Enterprise and the Klingons are on Capella 4 trying to get a
contract with a seven foot tall race to mine trapoline. Things get
complicated when the tribal leader dies.
FACTS:
======
- The child is named "Leonard James Akah-ar".
- Boomerang weapon.
- USS Carolina.
- SS Diadra is a freighter (warp 2 is max speed for a freighter).
- In the book version of this episode, the planet is called Ceres.
OPINIONS:
=========
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66 THE GALILEO SEVEN
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WRITER: Oliver Crawford and Shimon Wincelberg
GUESTS: Don Marshall

Peter Marko
Rees Vaughan
Grant Woods
Phyllis Douglas
John Crawford

Usenet rating: .461
QUOTES:
=======
- "I'm *depending* on luck." --Kirk
- "I say we hit them dead on." --Boman "[un?]fortunately, I am in
command" --Spock
- "Spock, remind me to tell you that I'm sick and tired of your logic"
--McCoy "A most illogical attitude" --Spock
- "You reasoned that it was time for an emotional outburst." --Kirk
- "You're not going to admit that, for the first time in your life, you
made a completely emotional decision based on desperation?" --Kirk "No,
sir." --Spock "You are a very stubborn man, Mr. Spock" --Kirk "Yes
sir" --Spock
- "We're getting a mass of readings I've never seen before." --Sulu
THE GALILEO SEVEN
PLOT:
=====
Spock finds himself in charge of a small crew and the shuttlecraft Galileo,
stranded on a hostile planetoid (Tarrus 2). McCoy, Scotty, and four extras
(making seven) deal with Spock's logical leadership, trying to guess the
next illogical move of a group of Neanderthals (eleven foot tall furry
creatures similar to Hansen's planet). They are unable to communicate with
the Enterprise because of a quasar-like formation (Morisaki), they
encountered on the way to Marcus 3. The Neanderthals don't behave as Spock
guessed they would because they are too primitive to think logically.
McCoy and the others want to kill the Neanderthals rather than just scare
them off (like Spock wanted). Spock doesn't like the low regard humans
have for life (though he *can* kill when he feels like it (ref A taste of
Armegeddon).
Meanwhile, back on the Enterprise, Kirk is under time pressure by some

diplomat to get him to some conference or something, so Kirk has to give up
searching for the stranded seven.
The shuttle drained most or all of its power just landing safely, so they
are unable to reach escape velocity. Even if they could, the shuttle could
only lift the weight of four bodies, even after getting rid of unneeded
machinery. Spock must decide who lives and who stays on the planet to die
(kinda like Kolus the Executioner from "Conscience of the King").
McCoy and Mr. Boman would rather have random chance decide which four will
pilot the shuttlecraft instead of who is qualified to do so. What's worse,
McCoy would rather that six people die instead of one. Mr. Boman would
rather bury a dead guy instead of fixing the ship and having a chance to
escape alive.
Spock's calmness when in command seems to be what really pisses Bones off.
The castaways finally get the shuttlecraft airborne by draining their hand
phasers into the power supply of the shuttle. Spock then logically decides
to be emotional by jettisoning the last of the shuttlecraft's fuel as a
signal to the Enterprise. For some illogical reason, Spock doesn't want to
keep enough fuel to land again for when the Enterprise returns.
At the end, the entire bridge crew laughs openly in Spock's face.
FACTS:
======
- 1 stardate is 22.86 hours.
- 1 stardate < 36.23 hours.
- Space normal speed is less than warp one.
- Galileo NCC-1701/7 also used in "Metamorphosis" although it is destroyed
in this episode.
- Shuttlecraft Columbus is sent out to find the Galileo shuttlecraft.
- Sort of defy Star Fleet Command.
- High [Commander|Commissioner] Ferrus is this week's main dork.
- McCoy and Mr. Boman split the award for best supporting dork.
- Spock has personality problems when in command (see also "The Tholean
Web".
OPINIONS:
=========
General question that I thought of while viewing this episode: The
Federation doesn't care about killing flies. Spock doesn't want to kill
the Neanderthal creatures in this episodes, but apparently it would be okay
to since several members of the landing party want to. How much
intelligence does a being have to have before they can't kill it according
to Star Fleet Command? A fine line must exist, and how do they measure
this?
If you ignore the three dorks, it's a pretty good episode of "Gilligan's
Island" in space.
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68 THE GAMESTERS OF TRISKELION
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WRITER: Margaret Armen
GUESTS: John Ruskin (Galt)

Angelique Pettyjohn (Shahna - Kirk's Drill Thrall)
Steve Sandor
Jane Ross
Victoria George
Mickey Morton

Usenet rating: .394
QUOTES:
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- "Can people [survive] that long as disassembled atoms?" --McCoy "I
don't [believe I've heard of such] a study being done; it would be a
fascinating [study, however]." --Spock
- "I am pursuing the Captain, Lt. Uhura, and Ensign Chekov, not wild
aquatic fowl." --Spock
- "Thank you...'Miss'?" --Chekov
- "You are a fine specimen. I like you better than the others." --M____
(Chekov's Drill Thrall)
THE GAMESTERS OF TRISKELION
PLOT:
=====
Kirk, Uhura, and Chekov are captured for use in gambling conflicts. The
Providers (3 brains without bodies) bid for people in auction. G[o|a]lt is
auctioneer. They bid in quatloos. They keep the three in cells, feed
them, and have drill thralls to keep them company. Kirk gets a decent
drill thrall in Shahna, but Chekov's (Tamoon) is less than appealing.
FACTS:
======
- At SD 3259.2 Kirk et.al. had been missing for 2 hrs.
- Angelique Pettyjohn has been in a few X-rated movies and sells posters
of herself in revealing drill thrall gear at Star Trek conventions.
OPINIONS:
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70 I, MUDD
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WRITER: Stephen Kandel
GUESTS: Roger C. Carmel (Harry Mudd)

Richard Tatro (Norman?)
Mike Howden
Michael Zaslow
Kay Elliott
Rhae Andrece
Alice Andrece
Tom LeGarde
Ted LeGarde
Maureen Thornton
Colleen Thornton
Tamara Wilson
Starr Wilson

Usenet rating: .668
QUOTES:
=======
- "Spock, you're going to love it here - they all talk just like you."
--Mudd
- "I think of her constantly, and every time I do I go further out in
space." --Mudd (about his wife Stella)
- "Why should I leave?" --Android chick "Because we don't like you,
shush, shush, shush." --Kirk
- "A whole plethora of series." --Spock
- "I fail to see why I should induce my mother to purchase falsified
patents." --Spock
- "Logic is a [little] tweeting bird [chirping in a meadow]; logic is a
wreath of [pretty] flowers that smell bad. Are you sure your circuits
are registering correctly? Your ears are [turning] green." --Spock
(lying, although he can't lie.)
I, MUDD
PLOT:
=====
The Enterprise is forced to a planet populated by 207,809 androids and
ruled by their old nemesis, Harcourt Fenton Mudd (III?). Norman (the main
android) had been a member of the Enterprise crew for three days, then
diverted the ship to Mudd's uncharted planet (4 solar days at warp 7,
arrived at SD 4513.3). They didn't realize he was an android, though McCoy
or someone thought he was a bit too stiff.
Andromeda residents built the androids, but then their sun novaed, and the
few remaining beings died off eventually. Mudd's stolen ship had to land
on this planet, where the androids want to serve him and learn about him.
He had them create an android replica of his wife Stella. Mudd and Norman
have Kirk, Spock, Bones, Sulu, and Uhura beam down, and eventually beams
the entire crew down (after beaming up androids to take over their
positions). A human brain can be put in android body and live 500,000
years (the immortality and eternal beauty intrigue Uhura initially).
FACTS:
======
- Kirk and company talk more androids to death with illogic.
- Mudd rules a class K (can support life with pressure domes and life
support system) planet.
- If all the crew are on the planet and all androids are disabled, how do
they get back to the ship? They mentioned in "This Side of Paradise"
that they cannot get back up to the Enterprise unless one person remains
behind. No automatic - that sounds like a great idea for a starship!!
- Spock lies, though he is incapable of lying.
OPINIONS:
=========
This was a pretty good episode. The casting, dialog, and acting for the
characters of Stella and Harcourt were excellent!
*Real* computers have circuit breakers. :-)
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72 THE IMMUNITY SYNDROME
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WRITER: Robert Sabaroff
GUESTS: None
HACK-MAN rating: .
Usenet rating: .598
QUOTES:
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- "Tell Doctor McCoy he should have wished me luck." --Spock
- "Shut up, Spock, we're rescuing you." --McCoy "Why, thank you, Captain
McCoy." --Spock
- "I've never encountered readings like this before." --Spock
- "I've never experienced anything like it." --Scotty
THE IMMUNITY SYNDROME
PLOT:
=====
A giant single-celled creature, which feeds on the energy necessary to our
form of life, invades our galaxy. I assume it's from another galaxy.
Spock ventures into the amoeba (zone of darkness) in a shuttlecraft, and is
almost stranded.
FACTS:
======
- USS Intrepid.
- 400 Vulcans dead on Starbase 6.
- 1 stardate is less than 2.5 hours.
OPINIONS:
=========
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74 IS THERE IN TRUTH NO BEAUTY?
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WRITER: Jean Lisette Aroeste
GUESTS: Diana Muldaur (Dr. Miranda Jones)

David Frankham (Larry Marvick)

Usenet rating: .411
QUOTES:
=======
IS THERE IN TRUTH NO BEAUTY?
PLOT:
=====
Miranda Jones, a telepath, is jealous of Spock's greater abilities in
forming a mind-link with Kolos, an alien so ugly that the very sight of
him can drive a man insane.
Kolus is in a small box (great way to save on the F/X budget). Spock
forgets to wear his visor (with some help of Miranda), causing him to go
crazy and take the Enterprise out of the galaxy.
Spock deduces that Miranda is blind, and McCoy realizes that her dress is
giving her information on her surroundings (she can judge distances much
more accurately than unaided humans).
FACTS:
======
- Kolos is a Medusan.
- First use of prosthetic visual device (Miranda's dress sensor array).
- Spock wears the IDIC out of respect for Dr. Jones. IDIC = Infinite
Diversity in Infinite Combinations.
- Kirk doesn't wear his protective visor at the end of the episode, but
since he's superhuman anyway, apparently he isn't effected.
- Spock mind melds with the Medusan.
OPINIONS:
=========
Why didn't McCoy know about this dress thing? Was it Federation science or
alien?
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76 JOURNEY TO BABEL
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GUESTS: Jane Wyatt (Amanda)

Mark Lenard (Sarek)
William O'Connell
Reggie Nalder
John Wheeler
James X. Mitchell

Usenet rating: .766
QUOTES:
=======
- "Offense is a human emotion" --Sarek.
- "Threats are illogical and payments are usually expensive" --Sarek.
- "Worry is a human emotion" --Spock.
- "Indeed... I would estimate the odds..." --Spock "Please don't."
--Amanda
- "Shut up!" -McCoy to Spock
- "What do you know... I finally got the last word in." --McCoy
JOURNEY TO BABEL
PLOT:
=====
Crisis piles atop crisis when the Enterprise is in charge of transporting a
volatile cargo of Federation diplomats (114 delegates, many of them
admirals), including Spock's parents (Sarek and Amanda). Sarek is having
problems with his heart, though he hasn't told his wife about it.
First, Spock uses illogic to say that the death of the two outweighs the
death of the one. Amanda argues (logically) that "why should you both
die?" Kirk gets injured and cannot command the ship (confined to sick bay
or he'll bleed a lot). Now (reversing her logicity) Amanda says Spock
should do the transfusion.
The intruder is signaling to a small kamikaze scout ship which is going at

warp 10. Andorians are blue aliens with antennae. Telleroids are
snout-nosed aliens, hot to pick a fight with Sarek over his vote in the
upcoming vote of whether or not to let some dilithium-rich planet into the
federation.
Sarek shows almost human pride according to Amanda. Kirk (not wanting to
let Spock "commit patricide" although he "can't condemn him for his
loyalty") pretends to be okay so he can take command back, then give
command immediately to Scotty. But before he can call Scotty, the
Enterprise is under attack so he tells Scotty to forget it (even though the
battle seems to go on for a long time (plenty of time for Scotty to come up
and take over and let Kirk get back to sick bay)).
Spock figures out the answer, so naturally (instead of letting him save ALL
the lives on board) Nurse Chapel sedates him so there's a CHANCE of saving
his father (who might die along with everyone else now that Spock can't
tell Kirk what he knows).
FACTS:
======
- Spock and Sarek haven't spoken in eighteen years.
- Spock hasn't been to Vulcan in 4 years.
- Sarek is 102.437 Earth years old (young for a Vulcan).
- Sarek's blood type is T negative (rare even for a Vulcan). Spock's blood
is the same type, but has human elements mixed in with it (but they can
be filtered out).
- After slapping Spock, Amanda walks to a door, it opens, she walks
through, and it closes. Spock starts to follow, walks up to the door,
and it doesn't open.
- Amanda mentions that Spock had a pet salek (selat?) (a live, fat teddy
bear with six inch fangs) when he was a child, and McCoy teases him
about it.
- Sarek thinks that Amanda embarrassed Spock, but my guess is that
embarrassment is a human emotion.
- Tal-shiah is the Vulcan art of neck-breaking.
- Rigelian physiology is similar to Vulcan.
- Sarek married Amanda because "at the time it seemed the logical thing to
do."
- Shatner pronounces it "bAY-bel".
- A red shirt discovers a dead diplomat and hits a communications panel;
the artificially intelligent comm panel KNOWS that he wants to talk to
the bridge and connects him there without even saying anything.
- When Kirk calls Spock's mother "Mrs. Sarek" she says to call her
"Amanda" because the family name is too hard to pronounce (although she
has been able to after quite some time). Is Kirk's remark something like
calling his wife "Mrs. Jim"? McCoy continues to call her "Mrs. Sarek"
throughout the show (apparently he prefers being incorrect to being
familiar).
- McCoy gets the last word in.
- At the end of the show, Uhura is the highest ranking officer left, but
since the writers (or whomever) couldn't stomach the idea of putting her
in charge, Chekov takes the con.
OPINIONS:
=========
Pretty good episode.
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78 LET THAT BE YOUR LAST BATTLEFIELD
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WRITER: Oliver Crawford (from a story by Lee Cronin)
GUESTS: Frank Gorshin (Beel)

Lou Antonio (Lokai)

Usenet rating: .220
QUOTES:
=======
LET THAT BE YOUR LAST BATTLEFIELD
PLOT:
=====
Two two-toned beings, each the last member of their respective race on the
planet Sharon, try to get Kirk to take sides in their disputes. They steal
the Enterprise and end up beaming down to their old planet to finish the
fight. For 50000 Earth years Beel (the Black/White) has chased Lokai (the
White/Black slave). Kirk tries to self-destruct the Enterprise.
FACTS:
======
- Beel (the one who was black on our left (his right)) was played by one
of the actors who portrayed the Riddler on the Batman TV series.
- For the self-destruct: Kirk: sequence 1 code 1-1A Spock: sequence 2
code 1-1A-2B Scotty: sequence 3 code 1[B|D]-2[B|D]-3.
- After someone leaves in a turbolife, another is immediately available.
OPINIONS:
=========
Dragged longer than it should have, not unlike the original "Twilight Zone"
television series. I could have done without the stupid camera tricks as
well (the eyes and zooming in and out on flashing lights).
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80 THE LIGHTS OF ZETAR
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WRITER: Jeremy Tarcher and Shari Lewis
GUESTS: Jan Shutan (Mira Romane?)

John Winston
Libby Erwin
Bud da Vinci

Usenet rating: .389
QUOTES:
=======
THE LIGHTS OF ZETAR
PLOT:
=====
An electrical cloud formed by the life-essences of the long-dead Zetarians
seeks to possess the body of Scotty's new-found sweetheart, Mira Romane.
Her brain pattern matches that of the cloud. She is put into a pressure
chamber to rid her of the cloud.
FACTS:
======
- Mira has lights in her eyes when possessed.
- It is an unnatural phenomenon because no natural phenomenon can move
faster than the speed of light.
- Defy Star Fleet Command.
OPINIONS:
=========
Scotty probably should have been put on report for his oversights during
this episode.
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82 THE MAN TRAP
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WRITER: George Clayton Johnson
GUESTS: Jeanne Bal (Nancy Crater?)

Francine Pyne
Alfred Ryder
Michael Zaslow
Bruce Watson
Vince Howard

Usenet rating: .294
QUOTES:
=======
THE MAN TRAP
PLOT:
=====
The Enterprise is ravaged by a creature that sucks the salt from its
victims' bodies. It is capable of assuming any identity, including McCoy's
old flame Nancy Crater, a crewman Uhura has the hots for, McCoy, etc.
FACTS:
======
- Since several people were looking at the being at the beginning and
seeing different people, I would assume that is a mind controller, not a
shape-changer.
- The salt-sucker suit shows up later as part of General Trelane's
collection in "The Squire of Gothos".
OPINIONS:
=========
Not the tightest plot, but fairly decent for first-season.
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84 THE MARK OF GIDEON
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WRITER: George F. Slavin and Stanley Adams
GUESTS: Sharon Acker (Odona)

David Hurst
Gene Kynarski
Richard Derr

Usenet rating: .295
QUOTES:
=======
THE MARK OF GIDEON
PLOT:
=====
Kirk is decoyed into a replica of the Enterprise, empty except for Odona, a
dizzy chick. Spock is on the Enterprise, searching for him through a
slough of red tape, and eventually defies Star Fleet Command. The people
of Gideon are trying to get infected by Kirk to control their
overpopulation problem.
FACTS:
======
- Spock defies Star Fleet Command.
OPINIONS:
=========
Stank on ice.
You can only take so many of these "1960s social issues" episodes (popu-
lation control).
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86 THE MENAGERIE (part 1)
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GUESTS: Jeffrey Hunter (Young Pike)

Susan Oliver (Vina)
Malachi Throne
Julie Parrish
Hagan Beggs
Peter Duryea
Meg Wylie
John Hoyt
Majel Barrett (Number One)

Usenet rating: .780
QUOTES:
=======
- "We've learned to tie into every human organ except one: the brain"
--McCoy
THE MENAGERIE (part 1)
PLOT:
=====
Spock steals the Enterprise and its old captain, Christopher Pike (who is
now an invalid incapable of speech or movement, except for a blinking
light). Kirk and another officer (Commodore Mendez) chase after him in a
shuttlecraft. Spock beams the two aboard after the shuttlecraft runs out
of fuel.
Spock sets the ship on automatic control (destination: Talos IV) and kills
the override (crosses it with life-support). Three captains are present,
so court-martial proceedings can take place, with Spock showing scenes from
"The Cage" (Star Trek's original pilot episode), the Enterprise voyage 13
years ago, as testimony.
FACTS:
======
- Someone claims there is a doorknob on the door to Captain Pike's
quarters, and that it is the only doorknob in a federation setting. This
is really ironic, since Captain Pike is the only person who is not able
to turn such a knob!
- The only way to get the death penalty anymore is to go to Talos IV
(general order 7).
- The shuttlecraft that Kirk is on is a class F shuttlecraft with
theranium hull.
- Spock served under Pike for 11 years, 4 months, 5 days.
OPINIONS:
=========
Captain Pike's one-bit prosthetic device is pretty lame. We have better
technology than that in this century. Why didn't they just hook up a
universal translator to a mind-reading device, as in Metamorphosis, or just
assign him a nurse from a telepathic species? There are many better
solutions than a single light which he can blink once or twice. How about
three lights on the front of his chair: A green one for "yes", a red one
for "no", and a yellow one for "now *there's* a hot babe; I wouldn't mind
getting into *her* pants if I weren't confined to this damn wheelchair!"
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88 THE MENAGERIE (part 2)
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GUESTS: Jeffrey Hunter (Young Pike)

Susan Oliver (Vina)
Malachi Throne
Julie Parrish
Hagan Beggs
Peter Duryea
Meg Wylie
John Hoyt
Majel Barrett (Number One)

Usenet rating: .743
QUOTES:
=======
- "Captain Pike has illusion, and you have reality. May you find your way
as pleasant." --The Keeper
THE MENAGERIE (part 2)
PLOT:
=====
Spock shows more scenes from "The Cage", the third captain disappears (he
was never really there, the Talosians were making the crew think he was
there to keep them occupied with the hearings). Pike returns to the
fatheads, who make him think he is cured and can walk and is young and
everything. Talosians make your dreams come true.
FACTS:
======
- Spock defies Star Fleet Command, Kirk, and Pike.
- Thirty-one years ago USS Columbia crashed on Talos IV.
- Thirteen years ago the USS Enterprise (Pike, Spock, Number One, 203
crew) went to Talos IV.
- The Enterprise is the only earthship to go to Talos IV.
OPINIONS:
=========
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90 METAMORPHOSIS
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GUESTS: Glenn Corbett (Zephran Cochran)

Elinor Donahue (Miss Hepburn)

Usenet rating: .426
QUOTES:
=======
- "Let me feel the earth beneath my feet [blah blah] sun." --Someone (but
since they weren't on the Earth, they should have said "ground", etc.)
METAMORPHOSIS
PLOT:
=====
While transporting an annoying Starfleet ambassador/observer wench
somewhere (she caught a disease on her last assignment and McCoy is worried
the whole show that she is going to die), the Enterprise receives a
distress signal. An Enterprise shuttlecraft (along with the wench, who
went along to the planet for some reason) is forced down to the planet that
the signal originated at. On the planet they find Zephran Cochran, who has
been kept immortal by a cloud of electricity called the Companion, who
brought Kirk, et.al. to the planet to keep Zephran company.
FACTS:
======
- First episode with Gene Roddenberry in opening credits?
- Shuttlecraft Galileo.
- Miss Hepburn was this week's dork.
- Class H-M planets can support human life.
- Zephran Cochran (of Alpha Centauri) was supposed to have died 150 years
ago at the age of 87. He was the inventor of the warp drive.
OPINIONS:
=========
Plot was fine, but the wench spoiled it.
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92 MIRI
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WRITER: Adrian Spies
GUESTS: Kim Darby (Miri?)

Michael J. Pollard
Jim Goodwin
John Megna
Ed McCready
Dawn Roddenberry (kid)
___ Shatner (kid)
___ Shatner (kid)

Usenet rating: .264
QUOTES:
=======
- "On the ship... I wanted to get you to look at my legs..." --Janice Rand
(to Kirk)
MIRI
PLOT:
=====
The landing party contracts a disease that strikes after puberty, while the
children (the only ones alive on the planet) refuse to let them contact the
ship.
FACTS:
======
- 300-year-old children die at age 300.
- The children call the crew "grupps" (grownups).
- Earth-like planet (outline of North America) except for the lack of
clouds, circa 1960's.
- 1 stardate = 12.97 hours.
- 1 stardate > 24.05 hours.
- One of Shatner's kids may have an uncredited acting role in this one.
OPINIONS:
=========
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94 MIRROR, MIRROR
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GUESTS: Barbara Luna (Marlena Monroe)

Vic Perrin

Usenet rating: .824
QUOTES:
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- "I'm a doctor, not an engineer." --McCoy "Now you're an engineer."
--Scotty
- "You want credits, Spock? I'll make you a rich man." --Mirror-Kirk
- "I've never seen perfection, but no woman could come closer to it."
--Kirk
- "Regrettable that this society has chosen suicide." --Mirror-Spock
- "I'll have you all executed!" --??? "I think not." --???
- "Jim, [let me stay]." --Scotty (the only time he called Kirk "Jim")
MIRROR, MIRROR
PLOT:
=====
Due to a transporter malfunction, Kirk, McCoy, Scotty, and Uhura are
accidentally exchanged with their counterparts in a parallel universe,
where the Federation is a violent, dictatorial Empire. In the alternate
universe, the crew murder to rise in rank (Kirk took command of the ISS
Enterprise after assassinating Captain Pike, etc). On the ISS Enterprise,
the captain's woman, Marlena Monroe, shows Kirk the Tantalis Field, which
can destroy a person without being present.
FACTS:
======
- Alternate universe.
- Spock has a beard in the alternate universe.
- Mirror-Kirk assassinated Pike, ___, then assassinated colonists on Vega
9.
- The Halokin predict galactic revolt.
- Alternate-Sulu makes a play for Uhura.
- Kirk falls for the alternate Marlena.
- The Mirror-Spock estimates the overthrow of the Empire in 240 years.
- Mirror-Spock mind melds with McCoy.
OPINIONS:
=========
Pretty good episode, and it let the actors be out of character, which is
always good.
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96 MUDD'S WOMEN
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WRITER: Stephen Kandel
GUESTS: Roger C. Carmel (Harry Mudd)

Keren Steele (Eve?)
Susan Denberg (Bachelorette #2?)
Maggie Thrett (Bachelorette #3?)
Gene Dynarski (miner?)
Jim Goodwin (miner?)
Jon Kowal (miner?)
Seamon Glass

Usenet rating: .463
QUOTES:
=======
- "This is me cargo" --Mudd (referring to the three women)
- "The fact that my internal organization differs from yours pleases me to
no end." --Spock (after McCoy makes some crack about his heart being
around his left hip)
MUDD'S WOMEN
PLOT:
=====
Jack-of-all-illegal-trades Harry Mudd is transported aboard the Enterprise
along with his cargo, three irresistibly beautiful women. Mudd uses beauty
pills "Venus drug" to make women beautiful, then sells them to wealthy
single miners. Kirk uses up the dilithium crystals chasing Mudd into an
asteroid field and goes to Rigel 12 to get new ones, where he replaces
Mudd's pills with gelatin (thus proving to the women that it wasn't really
the drug that made them beautiful; beauty comes from within (barf)).
FACTS:
======
- Mr Ferrill is this week's dork.
- Spock thinks dilithium crystals are "beautiful".
- Dilithium crystals are referred to as "lithium" crystals in this epi-
sode.
- Harcourt Fenton Mudd's master's license revoked on stardate 1116.4.
- Stardate 1329.9 (?) to 29.1 to 29.2 to 30.1
- Kirk falls for Eve McHuron.
OPINIONS:
=========
An average episode overall. Not bad for an early episode. The Mudd
character is always a joy to watch.
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98 THE NAKED TIME
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WRITER: John D. F. Black
GUESTS: Stewart Moss (Tormolen)

Majel Barrett (Christine)
Bruce Hyde (Riley)
Grace Lee Whitney (Yeoman Rand)
William Knight (Amorous Crewman)
John Bellah (Laughing Crewman)

Usenet rating: .642
QUOTES:
=======
- "It's like nothing we've dealt with before." --Spock
- "I can't change the laws of physics; I've got to have 30 minutes."
--Scotty
- "...my beautiful yeoman..." --Kirk
- "Skin temperature is 2170 degrees" --Spock(?)
- "Take D'Artangian to sick bay." --Spock
- "242 pulse, blood pressure almost non-existent (that is if you call that
green stuff in your veins blood)." --McCoy "The readings are [okay]. As
for my anatomy being different from yours - I am delighted." --Spock
- "I'll save you, fair maiden." --Sulu
- "Don't you think I'd shut if off if I could?!" --Uhura
THE NAKED TIME
PLOT:
=====
A strange malady strikes the crew of the Enterprise, causing them to
succumb to their innermost desires. Everyone goes insane.
FACTS:
======
- Spock cries.
- Sulu fancies himself a swashbuckler.
- Sulu makes a play for Uhura.
- They go back in time.
- Nurse Chapel has the hots for Spock.
- They have to cold-start the engines.
- Kevin Thomas Reiley is this week's dork.
OPINIONS:
=========
Another wonderful episode where the actors are allowed to step outside of
their usual personas.
They show a clock when they go back in time. The clock is one of those old
"spinning dials with numbers on it" type digital clocks. The label on it
says "minutes", but in "The Savage Curtain", Lincoln asks if they still use
minutes, and Kirk says "we can convert".
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100 OBSESSION
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WRITER: Art Wallace
GUESTS: Stephen Brooks (Garavik?)

Jerry Ayres

Usenet rating: .576
QUOTES:
=======
- "Crazy way to travel... spreading a man's molecules all over the uni-
verse." --McCoy
- "This is impossible. Nothing could do that." --Redshirt (who gets it)
- "What happened is medically impossible." --McCoy
- "If we keep this speed, we'll blow up any minute now." --Scotty
- "Thank heavens" --Scotty. "Mr Scott, there was no deity involved; it
was my cross-circuiting to B that recovered them" --Spock. "Well, then
thank pitchforks and point[ed|y] ears." --McCoy.
OBSESSION
PLOT:
=====
Kirk disregards all other responsibilities in an effort to destroy a
gaseous vampire cloud that feeds on red corpuscles. Kirk was supposed to
rendezvous with the USS Yorktown in two hours because vaccines are needed
on Theta 7. Eleven years ago something happened to the USS Ferrigut. The
captain (Garavik) and half the crew died (200 people). This was Lt Kirk's
first mission. Everyone has been calling it "the creature", then when
Spock calls it "the creature", McCoy questions this name. Kirk has ensign
Garavik accompany him on the planet, where he attacks Kirk in a flash of
bravery/stupidity (isn't this a court-martial offense?)
FACTS:
======
- Rock is 21.x times harder than diamonds.
- They use "phaser two" again.
- Spock's hemoglobin is based on copper, not iron.
OPINIONS:
=========
Not an outstanding episode, but not one that should be avoided.
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102 THE OMEGA GLORY
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GUESTS: Morgan Woodward

Toy Jensen
Irene Kelley
David L. Ross
Eddie Paskey
Ed McReady
Lloyd Kino
Morgan Farley

Usenet rating: .367
QUOTES:
=======
- The ham-acting at the end is a pretty good quote by Shatner.
THE OMEGA GLORY
PLOT:
=====
Captain Tracy (who somehow became an officer in Star Fleet) defies Star
Fleet Command because he thinks he's found a planet of eternal youth, and
decides to meddle in the struggle between the Yangs and the Coms. This
alternate Earth has the U.S. flag, some American documents, and a book
with a picture of Satan who looks like Spock. Kirk and Spock are in a cell
and try to befriend a larger inmate.
FACTS:
======
- Alternate Earth.
- Captain Tracy is this week's dork.
- Defy Star Fleet Command.
- Spock sort of uses the Vulcan mind meld across a crowded room.
OPINIONS:
=========
Shatner's ham-acting is the only real reason to watch this episode. The
basic plot isn't all that bad, but the execution of it isn't carried off
all that well.
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104 OPERATION--ANNIHILATE!
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WRITER: Stephen W. Carabatsos

GUESTS: Dave Armstrong
Craig Hundley
Joan Swift
Maurishka
AIRED: April 13, 1967

Usenet rating: .576
QUOTES:
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- "[I don't care what it takes or costs, just help him]." --Kirk
OPERATION--ANNIHILATE!
PLOT:
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Parasitic creatures (flying pizza bats/fried eggs) cause insanity in
victims by landing on their backs and entering the nervous system via the
spine, which they wrap around. Jim's brother Sam Kirk is dead on the
planet, but they manage to save Jim's nephew Peter Kirk.
Spock is infected by one of the parasites. McCoy thinks light might

destroy them (1000 candles per square inch), so Spock logically decided to
get blinded instead of wearing protective goggles. Vulcans have a second
eyelid that Spock never thought to bring up and McCoy for some reason was
unaware of. The eggs came 8 months ago (they are actually brain cells of
some larger being). Enterprise outside hull temperature is 1000 degrees
and rising when they chase a small ship into the sun.
FACTS:
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- Mass insanity in Denoba system.
- George Samuel Kirk (Sam) is a research biologist.
- Sam Kirk's private frequency is "______, subspace frequency three".
- Colonized 1000 years ago.
- Sick bay register #2: the K3 indicator displays the level of pain.
- This is the last episode with "the" final frontier in the opening.
- McCoy thinks the good of the none outweigh the good of the many (doesn't
want to kill millions to save billions when the millions would die
either way.)
- The Enterprise is at warp 8 inside a solar system (I thought you
couldn't use warp inside a solar system?)
- Kirk says "I don't care what it takes or costs, just help him."
("Costs"? I didn't think they still had money in that century)
- Scotty made the asteroid belt run as an engineering advisor.
OPINIONS:
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Plot was enjoyable, but Spock was bogus.
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106 THE PARADISE SYNDROME
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WRITER: Margaret Armen
GUESTS: Sabrina Scharf (Mirimani)

Rudy Solari (Mirimani's old mate?)

Usenet rating: .646
QUOTES:
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- "Each kiss is as the first." --Mirimani
THE PARADISE SYNDROME
PLOT:
=====
The Enterprise has to deal with a meteor that is about to collide with a
planet of American Indians. Kirk accidentally enters a temple in which he
accidentally pushes a button, causing him to lose his memory. Spock gives
up the search for him in order to deflect the meteor. Kirk is seen
emerging from the temple and is assumed to be a god by the Indian populace
(brought from Earth by aliens). Kirk marries Mirimani, who has his child,
but she dies before it is born during a stoning of her and Kirk for being a
fraud.
FACTS:
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- Alternate Earth (transplanted Earth colony).
- Nurse Chapel has blue underwear.
- This episode spans more than 59 days.
- "He Has Walked Among Us" and "Paleface" were combined into "The Paradise
Syndrome", according to speculation by Allen Asherman and David Gerrold.
Reportedly, only Gene Coon knew for sure, and of course he's been dead
for about 15 years...
OPINIONS:
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It's really hard not to like this episode.
The Preservers probably also seeded humans on Omega IV ("The Omega Glory"),
Ekos (""), The Second Earth ("Miri"), The Roman Planet ("Bread and
Circuses"), Paradise Planet ("The Paradise Syndrome").
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108 PATTERNS OF FORCE
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GUESTS: David Brian (John Gill?)

Skip Homeier (Mal*)
Richard Evans
Valora Norland (Blond spy)
William Wintersole
Patrick Horgan
Ralph Maurer
Gilbert Green
Bart LaRue
Paul Baxley
Pater Canon

Usenet rating: .648
QUOTES:
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- "He must be dead." --McCoy (about Gill)
- "You should make a very convincing Nazi." --Spock to Kirk
- "The pain!" --Kirk
- "[I'm starting to see why humans enjoy gambling.] No matter how
[precisely one calculates the odds...] --Spock "Very good, Spock. We
may make a human out of you yet." --Kirk "I [certainly] hope not."
--Spock
- "I don't care if you hit the broad side of a barn." --Kirk "Why should
I wish to aim at such a structure?" --Spock
- "What in blazes is this?" --McCoy
- "Note the [___] eyes and the malformed ears. Obviously [an inferior
race]" --Mal?k*
- "[Note the low forehead]. The dull look of a trapped animal." --Mal?k*
- "Is he dead, Captain?" --Spock "Dead." --Kirk
- "Absolute power corrupts absolutely." --McCoy
- "[ , ]Alexander, [___], Caesar, [___] Napoleon [___], Hitler, [___] Li
Quan." --Spock
PATTERNS OF FORCE
PLOT:
=====
A Federation historian (John Gill - Kirk's instructor at the Academy)
ignores the Prime Directive (as seems to be a prerequisite for entrance
into the Federation) and reshapes a planet's society along the lines of
Nazi Germany. Landing party implants subcutaneous transponders under their
skin to be used as transporter locators for Kirk and Spock.
FACTS:
======
- Alternate Earth (changed to be patterned after Earth).
- Spock's whip marks are green; Kirk's are red.
- Vulcan mind probe.
OPINIONS:
=========
Another episode that's hard not to enjoy.
The transponders were a great idea in general, but this is the only episode
where they used them, and then they didn't use them for their intended
purpose! Of course, the real reason is that a lot of episodes would be way
too short if it were possible to beam our heroes out of trouble.
making a laser out of a transponder and a light bulb is somewhat bogus, and
especially being able to aim it as accurately as they did.
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110 A PIECE OF THE ACTION
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WRITER: David P. Harmon and Gene L. Coon
GUESTS: Anthony Caruso (Bella Oxmix)

Victor Tayback (Georgeo Krako)
Lee Delano
John Harmon
Steve Arnold
Dyanne Thorne
Sharon Hillyer
Sheldon Collins

Usenet rating: .848
QUOTES:
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- "Fascinating." --Spock (after staring at the posterior of a woman in a
short skirt walking by)
- "This is like coming home." --McCoy "Home was never like this." --Kirk
- "Don't give me those baby blue eyes." --Gangster
- "That man's dead back there." --McCoy
- "Published in 1992." --Kirk
- "On Beta Antares Four they play a card game..." --Kirk
- "The name of the game is called fizbin. Each player gets six cards
exceptfor the dealer and the player on the dealer's [right]." --Kirk
- "The odds of getting a royal fizbin are astronomical... Spock, what are
the odds of getting a royal fizbin?" --Kirk "I have never computed
them." --Spock
- "Makers of bang-bang... the sweetest little [heater|cereal] in the..."
--radio
- "I just think your behavior is arrested." --Kirk "I ain't never been
arrested in my whole life." --Krako
- "Why would he put a bag on my captain?" --Spock
- "They can't do nothin' til they're through sparklin'" --Gangster
- "Sir, you are employing a double negative." --Spock "Eh?" --Oxmix
- "[...] logic [...] ---Spock "You admit that." --McCoy "To deny that
would be illogical." --Spock
- "Get out of the clothes." --Kirk
- "Captain, you are an excellent Starship Captain, but as a taxi driver
you leave much to be desired." --Spock
- "Where'd you get them ears?" --Kid "Young man!" --Spock
- "Out of the mouths of babes..." --Kirk "Who you callin' a babe?"
--Young Man "I'm calling you a babe... but [don't take it personally.]"
--Kirk
- "Who's your friend with the ears, Kirk?" --Krako
- "I believe it would be wise to do as he says. I believe I [just heard]"
--Spock "[Just heard the] sound of a machine gun bolt being pulled
back." --Kirk
- "That's peanuts to [an outfit like the] Federation. Right?" --Kirk
"Unquestionably." --Spock "*Right*?" --Kirk "Right." --Spock
- "Miniscule... a very... small... piece [of the action]" --Spock
- "Check?" -Kirk "Right." -Spock
- "Right?" --Kirk "Check." --Spock
- "It looks like *we* put the bag on you." --Scott
- "[___] you'll be wearin' concrete galoshes." --Scott "You mean cement
overshoes?" --Krako "Aye." --Scott
- "You afraid of cars?" --Kirk "[No], it's your driving." --Spock
- "[ ] neutronium, but [ ]." --Scott
- "I would advise *youse* to keep dialing, Oxmix." --Spock
- "I'm comin' over with a couple of my boys and I'll... mother." --Boss
- "The transtator is the basic [component] in all of our machinery."
--Kirk
- "Daddy, daddy, I hurt myself!" --Boy "Whatsa matter kid, you hurt
yourself?" --Guard
A PIECE OF THE ACTION
PLOT:
=====
Kirk must find a way to counteract the effects of an earlier expedition,
which caused a planet's civilization (Iotians) to pattern itself after the
Chicago mobs of the Twenties. Kirk calls McCoy "Sawbones" and calls Spock
"Spocko".
FACTS:
======
- Alternate Earth (the Iotians are imitative and pattern their lives after
a book about the 1920s).
- The USS Horizon left the book.
- Vulcan nerve pinch.
OPINIONS:
=========
A good "campy" episode; entertaining in much in the same way as the old
"Batman" television series was. Another one of those wonderful episodes
where the actors are able to step out of character.
It could have been worse. They could have accidentally left a really bad
novel behind... like maybe "The Royale". :-)
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112 PLATO'S STEPCHILDREN
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WRITER: Meyer Dolinsky
GUESTS: Michael Dunn

Liam Sullivan
Barbara Babcock
Ted Scott
Derek Partridge

Usenet rating: .450
QUOTES:
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"I stopped aging at 30... I am 2300 years old" --Main chick
PLATO'S STEPCHILDREN
PLOT:
=====
Telekinetic Greeks get their power from the local food. Alexander the
dwarf doesn't have the power. Spock sings and laughs.
FACTS:
======
- They got the power ____ months after their food supply ran out and they
had to start eating the local food.
- First inter-racial kiss on television. The only reason it was likely let
by the censors is that the kiss was "forced" by the gods.
OPINIONS:
=========
One of the least annoying performances of a dwarf in all of videodom.
Another of those episodes where they make a great discovery (how to induce
telekinesis), but they never use it again in later episodes.
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114 A PRIVATE LITTLE WAR
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WRITER: Gene Roddenberry (from a story by Judd Crucis)
GUESTS: Nancy Kovack (Nona)

Michael Witney (Nona's old hubbie?)
Booker Marshall
Arthur Bernard
Joe Romeo

Usenet rating: .565
QUOTES:
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- "War isn't a good life, but it's [a] life." --Kirk
- "Well, you got what you wanted[, Captain]." --McCoy "Not what I
wanted... what had to be." --Kirk
- "Beam us up home." --Kirk
A PRIVATE LITTLE WAR

PLOT:
=====
When the Klingons arm one tribe on a once-peaceful planet, Kirk decides to
arm the other tribe. Kirk is jumped by a furry white beast, then saved by
Nona who cuts her hand, then uses a live root to heal him, which acts as a
love potion (like it's needed for Kirk to fall in love with a chick). Nona
finds herself surrounded by her enemies, and tries to offer Kirk's phaser
in orser to stay alive. When help arrives, her captors think it was a
trap, and fatally stab her.
FACTS:
======
OPINIONS:
=========
Plot was original, but Kirk was bogus.
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116 REQUIEM FOR METHUSELAH
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GUESTS: James Daly (Flint)

Louise Sorel (Rana Kepec)

Usenet rating: .564
QUOTES:
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- "Do you think the two of us can handle a drunk Vulcan?" --McCoy
- "We put on a pretty poor show, didn't we?" --Kirk (a good quote to take
out of context :-)
- "Forget..." --Spock
REQUIEM FOR METHUSELAH
PLOT:
=====
The Enterprise crew has contracted Rigelian fever (the modern equivalent of
the bubonic plague). Flint is an immortal being. Kirk falls in love with
android Rana, who was built and taught by Flint, and has the equivalent of
(16?) university degrees. Flint built the M4 robot to serve him. Spock
experiences envy for Flint's art collection, drinks 100 year old Brandy,
plays piano, and erases part of Kirk's memory. Flint wanted to use Kirk to
rouse emotions in Rana, so that she would become fully human and would be a
suitable, immortal mate.
FACTS:
======
- Flint was born in 834 B.C.
- Flint was lots of famous people: Methuselum, daVinci, Socrates, Moses,
Brahms.
- 1 stardate is about 960 hours!
- Spock wipes Kirk's memory (form of mind meld).
OPINIONS:
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Another good idea with a fairly decent plot execution.
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118 RETURN OF THE ARCHONS
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WRITER: Boris Sobelman
GUESTS: Harry Townes

Torin Thatcher
Charles Macauley
Christopher Held
Brioni Farrell
Sid Haig
Jon Lormer
Morgan Farley
Ralph Maurer
Eddie Paskey
David L. Ross

Usenet rating: .451
QUOTES:
=======
- "Are you of the body?" --McCoy
- "Festival!" --Crowd
- "Impossible. He's under extremely strong mind control." --Spock
RETURN OF THE ARCHONS
PLOT:
=====
An entire planet is under the total mental control of a mysterious being
known as "Landru", who turns out to be the ruling computer. Kirk, et.al.
find a cult-like society where everyone is mindless, spaced out, content,
except during "festival" when everyone goes crazy. Hooded people keep
order, using hollow rods as weapons.
Kirk decides that this isn't the way a society should live, and destroys
the computer (again).
FACTS:
======
- Is Torin Thatcher related to Kirk Thatcher ("Star Trek IV")?
OPINIONS:
=========
You gotta watch this episode just for McCoy's facial expressions when he's
brainwashed. :-)
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120 RETURN TO TOMORROW
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WRITER: John Kingsbridge
GUESTS: Diana Muldaur (Ann Mulhall)

Usenet rating: .438
QUOTES:
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- "All readings are off the scale, Captain." --Ann Mulhall
RETURN TO TOMORROW
PLOT:
=====
Highly advance alien minds in globes "borrow" three bodies, including those
of Kirk and Spock, in order to build permanent android bodies. One of them
does not wish to leave his borrowed body. Sargon is one of the aliens.
FACTS:
======
OPINIONS:
=========
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122 THE SAVAGE CURTAIN
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WRITER: Arthur Heinemann and Gene Roddenberry
GUESTS: Barry Atwater (Surak)

Phillip Pine (Col. Green)
Arell Blanton (Chief Security Guard)
Carol Daniels DeMent (Zora)
Robert Herrun (Kahless)
Nathan Jung (Ghengis Khan)
Lee Bergere (Lincoln?)
Janos Prohaska
Bart LaRue
Lt. Arell Blanton

Usenet rating: .574
QUOTES:
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- "Scotty, inform Starfleet Command; disengage nacelles, jettison if
[possible]." --Kirk
- "[My adversary packs a pretty good punch] for someone [who doesn't
exist. But I forget, you don't believe I exist]." --Lincoln
- "A Vulcan would not cry out so." --Spock (therefore this isn't really
Surek we hear calling for help , but let's walk into the trap anyway,
ok?)
THE SAVAGE CURTAIN
PLOT:
=====
Lincoln of Earth and Surak of Vulcan join Kirk and Spock in battle against
Ghengis Khan, Mr. Green (from Earth's 1990's?), a Romulan/Klingon, and
some evil chick, while a hot alien talking rock observes the differences
between good and evil.
Surak refuses to fight because he's a pacifist. Spock idolizes Surak, but
will fight by Kirk's side. Lincoln doesn't mind fighting as much. Surak
and Lincoln both die. Good triumphs over evil (again) and Kirk refuses to
kill his enemy (again).
FACTS:
======
- Surak is the Buddha/Socrates/Jesus figure of Vulcan culture
OPINIONS:
=========
Pretty good for yet another "Good vs Evil" story.
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124 SHORE LEAVE
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WRITER: Theodore Sturgeon
GUESTS: Emily Banks (Yeoman Tonia Barrows?)

Oliver McGowan (Finigan?)
Perry Lopez
Bruce Mars
James Gruzaf
Shirley Bonne (Ruth?)
Sebastion Tom

Usenet rating: .566
QUOTES:
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- "Stardate 3025-point-ahhhh-3." --Kirk
- "The more complex the mind, the greater the need for the simplicity of
play. --Kirk
SHORE LEAVE
PLOT:
=====
The crew of the Enterprise takes shore leave on a planet where their every
thought is immediately converted into reality, including Alice and the
White Rabbit and Kirk's friend (?) [Finigan|Finnegan].
FACTS:
======
- McCoy dies.
- McCoy falls for Yeoman Tonia Barrows.
- Kirk is about 35 years old.
- First episode with McCoy in opening credits?
- Kirk imagines his old flame Ruth.
OPINIONS:
=========
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126 SPACE SEED
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WRITER: Gene L. Coon and Carey Wilbur
GUESTS: Ricardo Montalban (Khan)

Madlyn Rhue (McGivers?)
Blaisdell Makee
Mark Tobin

Usenet rating: .763
QUOTES:
=======
- "Irritation? I am not capable of that emotion" -Spock
- "Superior ability breeds superior ambition" --Spock
- "I am surprised to see you, Captain, though pleased." --Spock
SPACE SEED
PLOT:
=====
The Enterprise runs across an atomic-powered sleeper ship (the SS Botany
Bay, with transistors) full of supermen fleeing their defeat in the
Eugenics War on Earth (1993 - where superior humans were cross-bred).
McGivers is a Enterprise crewmember skilled in 20th century Earth history,
who falls in love with Khan and chooses to be banished with him at the end.
FACTS:
======
- The Enterprise was on its way to Starbase 12.
- Earth used cryogenics through 2018.
- McCoy gives Khan instructions on how to kill him.
- When Kirk smashes Khan's glass container, his phaser falls off and McCoy
keeps looking at it, wondering if they're going to re-shoot the scene!
- Khan's ship is atomic powered.
OPINIONS:
=========
Ricardo Mantalban does the best acting job on any trek episode.
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128 SPECTRE OF THE GUN
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WRITER: Lee Cronin
GUESTS: Ron Soble (Wyatt Earp)

Bonnie Beecher (Sylvia)
Charles Maxwell (Virgil Earp)
Rex Holman (Morgan Earp)
Sam Gilman (Doc Holliday)
Charles Seel (Ed)
Bill Zuckert (Johnny Behan)
Ed McCready (Barber)
Abraham Sofaer (Melkotian Voice)
Gregg Palmer
Richard Anthony

Usenet rating: .541
QUOTES:
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- "There's nothing I can do, Jim." -McCoy (when Chekov dies)
- "History cannot be changed." --Spock (even though they almost change
history often)
- "Energy output increasing beyond measurable levels, Captain." --Spock
- "Impossible, Dr. McCoy. My transporter was working perfectly." --Scotty
- "That's impossible. Things like this can't happen." --Scotty
SPECTRE OF THE GUN
PLOT:
=====
Kirk, Spock, Scotty, McCoy, and Chekov find themselves on the losing side
of the gunfight at the OK Corral when they choose to ignore a warning buoy
(shaped like a boxkite) and cross into Melkotian-owned space. Kirk hears
the warning in English, Spock in Vulcan, Uhura in Swahili, [and Chekov in
Russian?], so it was likely done with telepathy.
They try various ways of convincing the people of the town that they are
not who they appear to be, but everyone thinks they are in character.
They try to leave town, but find a force-field. They try to stay in town
and avoid the O.K. Corral, but are transported there. Spock mind-melds
Kirk, Scotty, and McCoy (Chekov was already shot dead) into believing that
the bullets are not real.
FACTS:
======
- October 26, 1881.
- Star Date 4385.3
- Warp 2.
- Kirk is this week's dork for ignoring the warning.
- Chekov falls in love with Sylvia and dies.
- Spock in a mind meld orgy.
OPINIONS:
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Some pretty good character acting in this episode.
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130 SPOCK'S BRAIN
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WRITER: Lee Cronin
GUESTS: Marj Dusay (Kara)

James Daris (Creature)
Sheila Leighton (Luma)

Usenet rating: .163
QUOTES:
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- "[Givers of] pain and delight [she said...]" --Kirk "[Well, surely you
noticed] the delightful aspects." --McCoy "[I certainly did notice]
those delightful aspects." --Kirk
- "Brain and [more] brain; what is brain?" --Bimbo
- "[Yes, it's so simple] a child could [do it]..." --McCoy
- "He's operating at warp speed." --Scotty.
- "While I might trust the doctor to remove a splinter or lance a boil, I
cannot trust him to replace a brain." --Spock
- "[The knowledge to reconnect a brain] does not [exist yet in the
galaxy.] --Spock
- "I never should have re-connected his mouth." --McCoy
SPOCK'S BRAIN
PLOT:
=====
A race of imbecile women steal Spock's brain to lead them. McCoy and
Scotty hook up Spock's body to move via remote control. Kirk must decide
which of three habitated planets Spock's brain was taken to, although none
of them should possess the technology to surgically remove a brain.
Naturally, after Chekov's descriptoins of the planets evolution and
population, Kirk chooses the most primitive planet.
Women live underground in a climate-controlled cave, while the men must

survive in the Arctic temperatures on the surface. McCoy puts on the
"Teacher", a thinking cap that gives you lots of knowledge for a short
while (in order to re-install Spock's brain.) Without Spock to keep
everything running, the women have to start *thinking* again.
FACTS:
======
- Planet is Sigmus Dricomus 7.
- Givers of pain and delight.
- How come when everyone is unconscious Kirk always wakes up first?
- The bimbo's ship uses ion-propulsion, so they know it is highly ad-
vanced.
- Star Date goes from 5431.4-4351.5-5431.6-5432.3
- They have 24 hours to put Spock's brain back in.
- At Star Date 5431.4 they have 8.x hours left.
- At Star Date 4351.5 they have 8.x hours left.
OPINIONS:
=========
Not as bad as some people claim, as long as you take it for its comedic
value rather than looking for a deep plot. There are times I find myself
laughing out loud at this episode.
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132 THE SQUIRE OF GOTHOS
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WRITER: Paul Schneider
GUESTS: William Campbell (Trelane)

Richard Carlyle
Michael Barrier
Venita Wolf

Usenet rating: .528
QUOTES:
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- "'Fascinating' is a word I use for the unexpected, 'interesting' shall
suffice here." --Spock
- "I object to you. I object to intellect without [...], to power without
constructive purpose." -- Spock
- "[Spock,] you have one saving grace after all: you're ill mannered."
--Trelane
- "You cheated!" --Trelane
- "I woulda won! I woulda!" --Trelane
THE SQUIRE OF GOTHOS
PLOT:
=====
The crew of the Enterprise are made unwilling guests of the powerful but
capricious General Trelane (retired). This weapon-happy person made the
planet Gothos a copy of the Earth as he sees it (900 years ago since he is
900 light years away) - Napoleonic. Kirk destroys his power source hidden
behind a mirror, which only makes Trelane more angry. Eventually, his
parents tell him to come home; that he is being a naughty boy.
FACTS:
======
- James Doohan does the voice of Trelane's father.
- The salt-sucker suit from "The Man Trap" shows up in Trelane's
collection.
- They got their math wrong on this episode with respect to how long it
has been since the time of Napolean.
- Trelane knows what kind of gun killed Alexander Hamilton, who hadn't
been killed in the time he was viewing Earth.
OPINIONS:
=========
Trelane appears to be an earlier version of the ever-popular "Q" character
from "Star Trek: The Next Generation".
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134 A TASTE OF ARMAGEDDON
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WRITER: Robert Jamner and Gene L. Coon
GUESTS: Gene Lyons

David Opatoshu
Robert Sampson
Barbara Babcock
Miko Mayama
David L. Ross
Sean Kenney

Usenet rating: .598
QUOTES:
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- "Sensor readings just shot off the scale." --Ensign DePaul
- "There is a multi-legged creature crawling on your shoulder." --Spock
A TASTE OF ARMAGEDDON
PLOT:
=====
The Enterprise and her crew are declared casualties in an interplanetary
war that has been going on for 500 years and is entirely simulated by
computers. Kirk learns this after ignoring a code 7 (like a complete
dweeb) and approaching the planet anyway. By entering the airspace of the
planet, the Enterprise is a valid target and is "hit" by a computer
simulated missile. The crew must follow the other 126,520 casualties into
the disintegration chambers or the two planets will have a full-scale REAL
war. Kirk refuses in the hopes that the planets would rather talk peace
than fight a non-simulated war.
FACTS:
======
- The USS Valiant was lost.
- Code 7 means to stay away.
- Star cluster NGC-321.
- Scotty defies Star Fleet Command.
- The Federation diplomat is the main dork this week, with an assist by
Kirk.
- The onboard ambassador and Kirk split the honor of being this week's
dork, the former for his idiotic actions ("of course we will lower the
shields, as a sign of friendship") and the latter for ignoring the code
seven in the first place.
- General Order 24 (toast the planet if I don't get back to you).
OPINIONS:
=========
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136 THAT WHICH SURVIVES
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GUESTS: Lee Meriwether

Arthur Batanides
Naomi Pollack

Usenet rating: .395
QUOTES:
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- "I have come for you." --Bimbo
- "I'll sit on the engines..." --Scotty
- "My name is 'NotImportant', yours is 'Watkins'." --Bimbo
- "This thing is going to blow up, and there's nothing in this universe
that can stop it!" --???
THAT WHICH SURVIVES
PLOT:
=====
Three Kalandan girls have the death-touch and threaten the landing party of
three. Each girl is programmed to come after one of the landing party.
They are controlled by a cube-shaped computer on the ceiling.
FACTS:
======
- Phasers heated to 8000 degrees Celsius.
OPINIONS:
=========
Plot dragged out too long.
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138 THIS SIDE OF PARADISE
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GUESTS: Jill Ireland (Leila Kalomi)

Frank Overton
Grant Woods
Dick Scotter

Usenet rating: .766
QUOTES:
=======
- "You never told me if you had another name." --Blonde "You couldn't
pronounce it." --Spock
- "That cloud looks like a dragon on Baron Garrius Seven." --Spock
- "Your father was a computer and your mother was an encyclopedia."
--Kirk "My father is an mbassador and my mother is a teacher from
Earth." --Spock
- "Striking a fellow officer is a court-martial offense." --Spock "If
we're both in the brig, who'll build the subsonic transmitter?" --Kirk
- "Even with automatic pilot, I can not pilot it alone." --Kirk "What a
stupid concept!" --HACK-MAN
- "Poetry, Captain. Non-regulation." --Spock
- "For the first time in my life - I was happy." --Spock
THIS SIDE OF PARADISE
PLOT:
=====
Strange spores cause the entire crew of the Enterprise to mutiny and beam
down to a planet where all work is done in unity and contentment, where
sickness and hatred do not exist. Gee, what an original thought, eh Gene?.
If Kirk beams down, they will all be stranded and be unable to beam back
up, since the idiots who designed the ship made a requirement that someone
be aboard to operate the transporters (the first person to board must have
used a shuttlecraft, eh?).
Spock finds a blonde he met on Earth six years ago (Leila) and falls in
love with her. Kirk is shot by the spores and is ready to beam down, but
because of his superior dedication to the ship (or some such bogus
handwaving) he snaps out of it. He calls Spock to say he will be coming
down, but needs a hand with carrying down some supplies. Kirk then insults
and strikes Spock in order to get HIS emotions riled to shake the spell of
the spores.
FACTS:
======
- Spock's mother was a teacher on Earth.
- Spock show emotions.
OPINIONS:
=========
A really enjoyable episode. One of the few that can make this claim
without a lot of action or humor.
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140 THE THOLIAN WEB
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WRITER: Judy Burns and Chet Richards
GUESTS: None

Usenet rating: .632
QUOTES:
=======
"Space itself is breaking up." --???
THE THOLIAN WEB
PLOT:
=====
The Enterprise is sent to investigate the disappearance of he USS Defiant,

which has been missing for three weeks. The Defiant is found adrift in an
unexplored quardant of space, trapped between universes, and her crew
murdered each other because of the rip in space. Kirk, Spock, McCoy, and
Chekov beam to the fading ship in space suits. The transporter is weak, so
all but Kirk beam back, trapping Kirk in hyperspace.
Meanwhile, the Tholians arrive (at velocity 0.15c) and ask the crew to
leave their territory. Spock, in command, says they are rescuing their
captain from a rip in space, and that they will leave in 132 minutes. The
Tholian ship disturbed the space, however, causing Kirk not to fade back in
at the appropriate time.
The Tholians, known for their punctuality (even though they are a race
unknown to the Federation), fire upon the Enterprise. Spock shoots back in
self-defense (since they closed off communications). Another Tholian ship
arrives and the two very slowly put up a web-like force field. Meanwhile,
the crew of the Enterprise is becoming murderous (due to the strange
physical properties of the area surrounding the rift), McCoy is flaming
about Spock wanting command of the Enterprise.
Spock declares Kirk dead. Kirk appears in Uhura's mirror, in engineering,

then on the bridge. Spock zooms out 2.72 parsecs (with Kirk (almost out of
oxygen) in the transporter beam apparently - I'll bet his stomach loved
that). Spock and McCoy both LIE to Kirk and say that they didn't listen to
his last orders. Spock says there are (not "there might be") several
universes in parallel.
FACTS:
======
- Won an Emmy for "Best Special Effects".
- Nominated for "Special Classification of Outstanding Individual
Achievement" Emmy in 68-69 (Special Photographic Effects) (Van Der Veer
Photo Effects, Howard A. Anderson Company, The Westheimer Company, and
Cinema Research).
- The name of the Tholian commander who first attacks the Enterprise
after Kirk is lost is Commander Loskene.
- Spock has personality problems when in command (see also "Galileo
Seven").
OPINIONS:
=========
The plot dragged a bit (a la Twilight Zone), but was enjoyable.
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142 TOMORROW IS YESTERDAY
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GUESTS: Roger Perry (Fighter Pilot?)

Hal Lynch
Ed Peck
Richard Merrifield
John Winston

Usenet rating: .658
QUOTES:
=======
- "I made an error in my computations." --Spock "This may be an historic
occasion." --McCoy
- "Warp eight... off the scale." --Sulu
- "Gravity [down to] .8." --Voice in background.
TOMORROW IS YESTERDAY
PLOT:
=====
On their way to Starbase 9, the Enterprise is accidentally flung back (by a
black star that pulled them in) to the year 1967 (isn't it odd how they
always end up in the 1960s?), and through space to Earth (Spock does some
hand-waving to explain that they were headed sort of Earth-ward at the
time), where they must take desperate measures in an attempt to avoid
changing history. The Enterprise used up all of its power; propelled away
fast.
A ground radar crew spots the Enterprise and sends up a US Air Force pilot,
who sees the ship and reports it as a UFO. The plane starts breaking up
when the Enterprise puts a tractor beam on it, so Kirk has the pilot beamed
aboard.
To get back to the present, the crew slingshot around the sun. They beam
back the USAF Captain to his plane just as he was being beamed out - I
might be convinced to buy that, but the guy with the green beret hat is
beamed into his other body long before he was beamed away (he was still
standing in the hallway) - how do they explain the fact that his mass just
doubled?
FACTS:
======
- The Earth has no clouds!
- Kirk mentions that there are "12 like her in the Fleet" (referring to
the Enterprise).
- The Enterprise passes many stars on its journey between the Earth and
the sun!
- The USAF Captain's (unborn) son (Col Shawn Jeffrey Carpenter) heads the
first Earth Saturn mission.
- Only episode which shows the Enterprise from the bottom?
OPINIONS:
=========
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144 THE TROUBLE WITH TRIBBLES
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WRITER: David Gerrold
GUESTS: William Schallert

William Campbell (Klingon Commander Koloth)
Stanley Adams
Whit Bissell
Michael Pataki
Charlie Brill
Ed Reimers
Guy Raymond
Paul Bradley
David L. Ross

Usenet rating: .818
QUOTES:
=======
- "Storage compartments? Storage compartments?" --Kirk
- "Wheat? So what?" --Kirk
- "Kirk may be a swaggering, overbearing, tin-plated dictator with
delusions of godhood, but he's not soft." --Klingon first officer
- "He called you a tin-plated, overbearing dictator with delusions of God-
hood!" --Scotty "And *that's* when you hit him!" --Kirk "Ah, no, sir.
We're big enough to take a FEW insults!" --Scotty
- "Scotty, you're confined to quarters." --Kirk "Yes, sir. *Thank you*,
sir! That'll give m e a chance to catch up on me technical journals!"
--Scotty
- "... where [they'll] be no tribble at all." --Scotty
- "Extremely [little] joke, Ensign." --Spock
- "On the contrary, sir...it is *you* I take lightly." --Kirk
- "[Scotch] was invented by a little old lady from Leningrad." --Chekov
THE TROUBLE WITH TRIBBLES
PLOT:
=====
Kirk must put up with Federation bureaucrats and hoards of hungry tribbles,
while protecting a shipment of quadrotriticale (wheat) against Klingon
sabotage.
The tribbles get in through the air vents and eat all the grain from the
storage compartments.
There was one Klingon agent who was (apparently) modified to pass as a
human.
FACTS:
======
- Tribbles multiply quickly.
- Tribbles have no mouths.
- Tribbles hate Klingons.
- It will take 17.9 years to dispose of all the tribbles on the base (but
it took practically no time to get all the fuzzballs off the ship).
OPINIONS:
=========
The best of the "campy" episodes.
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146 TURNABOUT INTRUDER
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WRITER: Arthur Singer
GUESTS: Sandra Smith (Janet Lester)

Harry Landers (Dr. Coleman)

Usenet rating: .460
QUOTES:
=======
- "Nothing I've ever encountered." --Dr. Coleman (about radiation poison-
ing)
- "To my knowledge, such total transfer has never been completed success-
fully in this galaxy." --Spock
TURNABOUT INTRUDER
PLOT:
=====
Kirk's old flame (Janice Lester) envies his power and performs mindswap,
then orders Kirk's mind (in her old body) court-martialed. She then orders
Spock (and McCoy and Scotty) court-martialed for mutiny when they question
the decision.
General order four is the only way to execute anyone, and no one violated
it.
FACTS:
======
- This was Shatner's favorite episode because he got to play a woman.
- Spock used mind meld on Janet/Kirk.
OPINIONS:
=========
Shatner makes a good fem, but the PMS scenes are a bit much to take.
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148 THE ULTIMATE COMPUTER
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GUESTS: William Marshall (Richard Daystrom)

Barry Russo (Admiral Wesley)
Sean Morgan (Harper)

Usenet rating: .579
QUOTES:
=======
- "[Unfortunately] there is nothing currently to replace the ship's
surgeon." --Spock. "[If they could, they] wouldn't have to. I'd
resign." --McCoy
- "There are certain things men must do to [remain] men." --Kirk
- "Only a fool would stand in the way of progress." --Kirk
- "You have my psychological profile. Am I afraid of [losing control]?"
--Kirk
- "Why don't you ask James T. Kirk. He's a pretty honest guy." --McCoy
- "What are you doing here Bones?" --Kirk
- "Computers make [efficient and practical] servants, but I do not wish to
serve under them. --Spock
- "This isn't chicken soup. I make a Finibal's Folly [that's known from
here to ___]" --McCoy
- "Do you know the one: 'All I ask is a tall ship...'" --Kirk
- "[It's] not acting logically." --Spock "Do me a favor [Spock, and]
don't say it's fascinating." --McCoy "No, but it is interesting."
--Spock
- "I've been updating that course for hours." --Sulu
- "Pursuing a wild goose." --Spock
- "You are great; I am great." --Daystrom to M5
- "Murder is contrary to the laws of man and God." --M5
- "Daystrom felt that such an act was an offense against the laws of God
and man, and the computer that carried his engrams also believed it."
--Kirk
- "Compassion? That's the one thing no machine ever had. Maybe it's the
one thing that keeps men ahead of them. Care to debate that, Spock?"
--McCoy "No, doctor, I simply maintain that computers are more
efficient than human beings, not better." --Spock
- "It would be most interesting to impress your memory engrams on a
computer, doctor. The resulting torrential flood of illogic would be
most entertaining." --Spock
THE ULTIMATE COMPUTER
PLOT:
=====
Star Fleet Command puts the Enterprise under total control of the m5
multitronic unit, a new computer that can do everything the entire crew can
do, and much faster. (Seeing that this obvious improvement would obviate
the need for any actors, Roddenberry decided to make believe that computers
err more often than humans.)
Kirk is called "Captain Dunsel" by Admiral Wesley (quite out of character

for high officials). A dunsel is a useless piece of machinery.
M5 can run the ship with a crew of 20.
M5 refuses to relinquish control, and starts firing on any ship, manned or

unmanned, friend or foe. M5's creator (Richard Daystrom, who has fallen
from the spotlight of his bright, intelligent youth) also refuses to have
m5 relinquish control.
FACTS:
======
- Commodore Enright.
- Commodore Bob Wesley.
- Wargames.
- Federation ships USS Excalibur, USS Lexington, USS Potempkin and an ore
ship.
- Spock holds an A7 [______] computer [rating], which is why he knows so
much about ___.
- One Enterprise crew dead.
- Daystrom made the duotronic breakthrough when he was [25].
- Full phasers on an unshielded ship only shakes it a little?
- Kirk talks M5 into killing itself.
OPINIONS:
=========
How stupid are all these high-ranking Federation officers?
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150 THE WAY TO EDEN
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WRITER: Arthur Heinemann
GUESTS: Skip Homier (Doc Sevrin)

Charles Napier (Adam)
Mary-Linda Rapelye (Irina)
Victor Brandt (Tongo Rad)
Elizabeth Rogers (Lt. Palmer)
Deborah Downey (Girl #1)
Phillis Douglas (Girl #2)

Usenet rating: .432
QUOTES:
=======
"Power beyond critical. Explosion is imminent." --Spock
THE WAY TO EDEN
PLOT:
=====
A group of space hippies steal the Enterprise (not a hard task to
accomplish, is it?) and search for the legendary planet Eden. Spock jams
on a harp-like instrument with a chick playing backup on a bicycle wheel.
The six hippies, led by Dr Sevrin (waffle ears), had stolen the Space
Cruiser Aurora, and the Enterprise had to enter the Romulan Neutral Zone to
save them.
They call Kirk "Herbert", a person known for his rigid and limited patterns
of thought, but Spock is one with them (since he was unlike the people he
grew up with). Dr. Sevrin was a brilliant man from Tiberon, but now is a
carrier of some disease.
Chekov's old flame from SF Academy (Irini Galliulin) tries to persuade him
to join them. They find Eden (with some help from Spock), but Adam and Doc
Sevrin die as they find out that all the plant life is acidic.
FACTS:
======
- Spock plays a harp-like instrument.
OPINIONS:
=========
One of the more dated episodes, but always good for a laugh.
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152 WHAT ARE LITTLE GIRLS MADE OF?
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WRITER: Robert Bloch
GUESTS: Michael Strong (Roger Corby)

Sherry Jackson (Andrea)
Ted Cassidy (Rock)
Majel Barrett (Christine Chapel)
Harry Basch (Brown)
Vince Deadrick (Mathews)
Bud Albright (Rayburn)

Usenet rating: .498
QUOTES:
=======
- "Mind your own business, Spock. I'm sick and tired of your half-breed
interference." -- Kirk
-
WHAT ARE LITTLE GIRLS MADE OF?
PLOT:
=====
Nurse Chapel's long-lost fiance, Roger Corby, turns up in control of a
mechanism capable of producing android replicas of live beings. Kirk is
copied on a horizontal wheel, and Dr. Corby wants to place his android
Kirk in control of the Enterprise. Kirk puts all his thoughts into Vulcan
bigotry as he is being copied, in hopes that the copy will think insulting
Spock is a commonplace occurrence.
Rock is a smarter android left behind by "the others", but doesn't know how
long he's been around. Mention is made of Kirk's brother George Samuel
Kirk ("Only YOU call him Sam").
FACTS:
======
- Rock is played by the actor who portrayed Lurch on "The Addams Family"
television show, not to be confused with Lwaxana Troi's servant in "Star
Trek: The Next Generation", who played Lurch in the "Addams Family"
movie.
- Kirk falls for Andrea, an android.
OPINIONS:
=========
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154 WHERE NO MAN HAS GONE BEFORE
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WRITER: Samuel A. Peeples
GUESTS: Gary Lockwood (Gary Mitchell)

Sally Kellerman (Doctor Dayna)
Lloyd Haynes (Alden)
Andrea Dremm (Yeoman Smith)
Paul Carr (Lt. Lee Kelso)
Paul Fix (Doctor Piper)

Usenet rating: .638
QUOTES:
=======
- "Irritating? Oh, yes, one of your Earth-emotions." --Spock (smiling way
too much)
- "Gravitation on automatic." --Kirk
- "Gravity is down to .8" --Extra in background
- "Yeah, she's a nova--that one." --Gary Mitchell
- "If I hadn't aimed that little blonde lab technician at you..." --Gary
"I almost married her!" --Kirk
- "I felt for him, too." --Spock "I believe there's some hope for you
after all, Mr. Spock" --Kirk.
- "Morals are for men--not gods." --Gary Mitchell
WHERE NO MAN HAS GONE BEFORE
PLOT:
=====
In passing through an energy barrier at the edge of the galaxy, some
Enterprise members find their ESP powers greatly heightened, their eyes
glow, and they get god-like powers. Kirk's good friend Gary Mitchell gets
the powers and starts losing respect for Kirk, and eventually tries to kill
him and bury him in the ground. He creates a garden of Eden for himself
and his goddess.
FACTS:
======
- Although this was the third episode aired, it was actually filmed before
the others and was the 2nd pilot made for the show. The first, "The
Cage" was later made into the two-part episode, "The Menagerie".
- Kirk's middle initial is given as "R" (on the tombstone Gary Mitchell
makes).
- They leave the galaxy.
- First episode *filmed*.
- Most of the crew is wearing yellow sweaters.
- It has Sulu, Scotty, and two doctors (a lady who dies and an old fart
who gives *pills* to bring people back to consciousness) but no Uhura,
McCoy, or Chekov.
- Only episode with a microphone attached to the captain's chair which
echoes all over the ship.
- Spock is always shouting.
- Kirk wins at 3-D chess.
- No words at start ("Space...the final...") and no "whooooosh!"
- The SS Valiant has been missing for two centuries.
- Consoles are on *fire*.
- Gary Mitchell reads through half the ship's library in under a day.
- Dr. Dayna recites a poem from 1996.
- They drop Gary on Delta [B|V]ega, a planet which is slightly smaller
that the Earth.
- Kirk carries a light phaser cannon that we never see again.
OPINIONS:
=========
I'm glad they got rid of that doctor.
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156 WHO MOURNS FOR ADONAIS
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WRITER: Gilbert Ralston and Gene L. Coon
GUESTS: Michael Forest (Apollo?)

Leslie Parrish (Carolyn Palamas)
John Winston

Usenet rating: .368
QUOTES:
=======
- "On the other hand, she's a woman. One day she'll find the right man and
off she'll go, out of the service." --McCoy
- "Mr. Sulu, our forward tractor beams, adjust to repel." --Kirk
- "Insults are effective only where emotions are present." --Spock
- "[I am Apollo.]" --Apollo "And I am the Czar of all of Russia."
--Chekov "Mr. Chekov..." --Kirk "Sorry, I haven't met a god before."
--Chekov
- "You seem wise, for a woman." --Apollo
- "Scotty doesn't believe in gods." --McCoy
- "The Captain requires complete information." --Chekov "Spock's contami-
nating this boy, [Jim]." --McCoy
- "He disappeared again, just like the cat in that Russian story."
--Chekov "Russian? Don't you mean American? The Cheshire Cat." --Kirk
"Cheshire? I don't think so. Minsk, perhaps." --Chekov
- "Perhaps I can assist you [with the babe]" --Chekov "How old are you?"
--Kirk "22, sir." --Chekov "Then *I* better handle it." --Kirk
- "Man or woman, it makes no difference, we're both human." --Kirk to babe
WHO MOURNS FOR ADONAIS
PLOT:
=====
The Enterprise is seized by a giant hand-shaped force field belonging to a
being who claims to be Apollo. Apollo journeyed to Earth 5000 years ago
from Pullox 4 and was worshiped along with the other "gods" by the
populace. Now he requires the worship of the crew for survival.
Enterprise historian Carolyn Palamas falls in love with Apollo, who enjoys
her worshiping him. Kirk must rely on her loyalty to destroy the god and
win their freedom.
FACTS:
======
- When the "hand" grabs the Enterprise, the hull pressure is 1000 gse and
climbing.
- Pullox 4 is a class M world by starbase 12.
- Apollo is 4 billion years old.
- Apollo only called himself "Apollo" to the landing party; yet Spock (on
the Enterprise) calls him "Apollo" (Spock shouldn't know who the being
is.)
- Uhura is connecting/fusing the bypass circuits under the console (first
time in years she's had to do anything like that).
- Spock calls her "Miss" Uhura.
- Scotty falls for Carolyn.
- Scotty dies.
OPINIONS:
=========
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158 WHOM GODS DESTROY
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WRITER: Lee Erwin
GUESTS: Yvonne Craig (Marta)

Steve Ihnat (Garth?)
Key Luke
Richard Geary
Gary Downey

Usenet rating: .547
QUOTES:
=======
WHOM GODS DESTROY
PLOT:
=====
Captain Garth, the insane polymorph, takes over the penal planet where he
was being treated. He is a shape-changing psychopath on an insane asylum
planet which is protected by force field. He changes into an official of
the institute and also James Kirk in an attempt to get aboard the
Enterprise and escape from the planet. Kirk set up a code to be used
before transporting up, based on 3-D chess. Spock must choose which is the
imposter Kirk and stun him.
FACTS:
======
- Password is "Queen to queen's level three". The correct response is
"Queen to king's level one".
- Kirk claims that there are an infinite number of responses to the chess
move (which is, of course, an incorrect statement).
- Marta, the loopy Orion girl, is played by the actress that played
Batgirl in the Campy "Batman" TV series.
- Andorian.
OPINIONS:
=========
Was there any reason why Spock couldn't have stunned *both* Kirks and
decided which was the imposter later? Other than this point, the episode
was quite enjoyable.
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160 WINK OF AN EYE
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WRITER: Lee Cronin
GUESTS: Kathie Brown (Deela)

Jason Evers
Eric Holland
Geoffrey Binney

Usenet rating: .544
QUOTES:
=======
WINK OF AN EYE
PLOT:
=====
A race of fast people steal the Enterprise. All the crew hear is an
occasional buzzing sound when they talk. Kirk is sped up when his coffee
is spiked by one of the aliens. Kirk leaves a message on a tape and leaves
it where the crew will eventually find it. At the end, Spock speeds
himself up and makes repairs to the ship.
FACTS:
======
- This is the episode where we see Kirk pulling on his boots after (what
we are supposed to assume is) a roll in the hay with the Deela bimbo.
- Another in a long list of episode where they are handed a great techno-
logical breakthrough which could be used to get them out of a jam in a
later episode, but apparently are pretending never existed (and if it's
too dangerous to use, because of the possibility of "damage", then how
come they let Spock use it to make the repairs?)
OPINIONS:
=========
My bogometer went off the scale on this episode. (1) Spock wouldn't have
had time to play the tape and walk all over the Enterprise in the few
seconds of time that elapsed. (2) The fast folks can duck a phaser bolt?
(3) the phaser bolt doesn't blow a hole in the wall of the ship? (4) They
completely ignored the T-squared effect of apparent gravity.
It was, nonetheless, an exceptional episode from a imaginative and new

idea, despite the plethora of logic flaws.
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162 WOLF IN THE FOLD
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WRITER: Robert Bloch
GUESTS: Joh[n?] Fiedler

Charles Macauley
Pilar Seurat
Joseph Bernard,
Charles Dierkop
Judy McConnell
Virginia Ladridge
Judy Sherven
Tania Lemani

Usenet rating: .566
QUOTES:
=======
- "With an armful of this stuff I wouldn 't be afraid of a supernova."
--Sulu
- "Pi is a transcendental figure without resolution." --Spock
- "[you'll all die horribly! die, die,] everybody die, ah ha ha ha ha!"
--Jack T. Ripper
WOLF IN THE FOLD
PLOT:
=====
Scotty blacks out and appears to be the only logical suspect in a series of
bizarre murders on the peaceful planet Argilias. It turns out to be an
entity who has traveled to many worlds killing lots of people. It started
out on Earth as Jack the Ripper, and spread out into the galaxy when the
Earth-people did. He is now blamed for many mass murders, including
Earth's 1974 USS ____, 2105 Martian Colony murders, ____ Rigel murders,
etc.
When they figure out who he is, Jack the Ripper non-physically enters the
computer. McCoy gives "happy shots" to the entire crew (except Spock and
Kirk, but for some reason Jack the Ripper doesn't enter their bodies) to
keep Jack from possessing their bodies.
Spock has the computer compute to the last digit of pi (which of course, it
devotes all of its memory to).
FACTS:
======
- The names that the entity was referred to by were Jack the Ripper,
Baratis, Redjac, Kesla, Mr. Hengist.
- Scotty's serial number is #SE197514.
- No Uhura.
- Scotty falls for Kara, the belly dancer.
- The timid guy from the old "Bob Newhart" show plays Jack the Ripper.
OPINIONS:
=========
It has its moments.
The first viewing will keep you guessing. There's enough action and plot
development that requires deductive reasoning to make this a very good
episode.

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4 ALL OUR YESTERDAYS

WRITER: Jean Lisette Aroeste

GUESTS: Ian Wolfe (Mr AtoZ)

AIRED: March 14, 1969

HACK-MAN rating: .770

ALL OUR YESTERDAYS

WRITER: Don Ingalls

GUESTS: Robert Brown (Lazarus?)

AIRED: March 30, 1967

HACK-MAN rating: .100

THE ALTERNATIVE FACTOR

There are, however, a couple of major flaws regarding anti-matter. If the

WRITER: Theodore Sturgeon

GUESTS: Arlene Martel (T'Pring?)

AIRED: September 15, 1967

HACK-MAN rating: .780

WRITER: Edward J. Lakso

GUESTS: Craig Hundley (Tommy Starnes)

AIRED: October 11, 1968

HACK-MAN rating: .010

AND THE CHILDREN SHALL LEAD

WRITER: Max Ehrlich

GUESTS: Keith Andes

AIRED: October 13, 1967

HACK-MAN rating: .440

WRITER: Gene L. Coon (from a story by Fredric Brown)

AIRED: January 19, 1967

HACK-MAN rating: .660

GUESTS: Robert Lansing (Gary Seven)

AIRED: March 29, 1968

HACK-MAN rating: .650

WRITER: Paul Schneider

GUESTS: Mark Lenard (Romulan Commander)

AIRED: December 15, 1966

HACK-MAN rating: .440

GUESTS: William Smithers

AIRED: March 15, 1968

HACK-MAN rating: .530

BREAD AND CIRCUSES

WRITER: Dorothy Fontana and Jerome Bixby

GUESTS: Warren Stevens

AIRED: February 23, 1968

HACK-MAN rating: .890

BY ANY OTHER NAME

WRITER: Gene Roddenberry

GUESTS: Jeffrey Hunter (Captain Christopher Pike)

AIRED: Autumn, late 1980s (though written in 1965)

HACK-MAN rating: .325

WRITER: Jerry Sohl

GUESTS: Anthony Hall

AIRED: November 10, 1966

HACK-MAN rating: .440

THE CORBOMITE MANEUVER

WRITER: Robert Bloch and Dorothy Fontana

GUESTS: Antoinette Bowers (Sylvia?)

AIRED: October 27, 1967

HACK-MAN rating: .440

WRITER: John Meredyth Lucas

GUESTS: Blaisdell Makee

AIRED: September 29, 1967

HACK-MAN rating: .560

WRITER: Dorothy Fontana

GUESTS: Robert Walker, Jr. (Charlie X?)