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S T A R T R E K E P I S O D E G U I D E
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Space, the final frontier.
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These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise.
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Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds,
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to seek out new life and new civilizations,
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to boldly go where no man has gone before.
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Classifications of the Star System:
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*/2: The best part is the opening credits.
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*: Poor, scientifically-unsound plot, with mediocre acting.
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* 1/2: Mediocre plot and acting, scientifically sound but highly
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implausible.
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**: Average Star Trek, typical acting, not especially
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intriguing.
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** 1/2: A two-star show with some novel twist added.
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***: A minimal "entertaining" episode.
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*** 1/2: Fair, scientifically-sound plot, good acting. Usually has
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at least one outstanding scene.
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****: Good plot, damned good acting, no major flaws. To see such
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an episode, a hard-core Trekkie would be willing to miss a
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midterm in a non-departmental course.
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**** 1/2: Excellent, well-developed plot, unparalleled acting. Only
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flaw is in falling slightly short of full development of the
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theme, or containing a minor error important to the plot. A
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Trekkie would be willing to miss any midterm to see it.
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*****: To see a 5-star episode, a Trekkie would be willing to skip
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a final, to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous
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fortune, to cross into the Romulan Neutral Zone, to boldly
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go where no man has gone before.
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The various classifications of the Star System were assigned
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between stardates 1974.3 and 1975.5 by a general consensus
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among members of the Bridge Crew, the regular Trek-watchers
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of Stevenson Hall, at Princeton University.
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FIRST SEASON
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"THE MAN TRAP" [**]
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First aired September 8, 1966. The Enterprise is ravaged by a
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creature that sucks the salt from its victims' bodies, and that is
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capable of assuming any identity.
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"CHARLIE X" [***]
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First aired September 15, 1966. A teenager, raised by aliens and
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possessing some of their unusual powers, proves incapable of adjusting
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to human society and emotions.
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"WHERE NO MAN HAS GONE BEFORE" [****]
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First aired September 22, 1966. In passing through an energy barrier
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at the edge of the galaxy, some Enterprise crew members find their ESP
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powers enormously heightened.
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"THE NAKED TIME" [*** 1/2]
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First aired September 29, 1966. A strange malady strikes the crew of
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the Enterprise, causing them to succumb to their innermost desires.
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"THE ENEMY WITHIN" [* 1/2]
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First aired October 6, 1966. A transporter malfunction splits Kirk
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into two personalities, one brutal and incapable of control, the other
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gentle and incapable of command.
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"MUDD'S WOMEN" [** 1/2]
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First aired October 13, 1966. Jack-of-all-illegal-trades Harry Mudd
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is transported aboard the Enterprise along with his cargo, three
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irresistibly beautiful women.
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"WHAT ARE LITTLE GIRLS MADE OF?" [**]
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First aired October 20, 1966. Nurse Chapel's long-lost fiance turns
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up in control of a mechanism capable of producing android replicas of
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live beings.
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"MIRI" [**]
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First aired October 27, 1966. The landing party contracts a disease
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that strikes after puberty, while the children still alive on the
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planet refuse to let them contact the ship for help.
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"DAGGER OF THE MIND" [***]
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First aired November 3, 1966. A deranged escapee from a penal planet
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causes Kirk to investigate the psychiatric treatments being
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administered there.
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"THE CORBOMITE MANEUVER" [***]
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First aired November 10, 1966. To stave off an attack by an alien
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vessel, Kirk concocts the now-famous "Corbomite" bluff.
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"THE MENAGERIE (part I)" [**** 1/2]
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First aired November 17, 1966. Spock risks the death penalty by
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hijacking his old commander, Captain Pike, to Talos IV. Court-martial
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testimony (actually scenes taken from "The Cage", Star Trek's original
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pilot episode) recreates the story of Pike's earlier encounter with
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the Talosians.
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"THE MENAGERIE (part II)" [****]
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First aired November 24, 1966. The conclusion to the previous
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episode, in which the remainder of the earlier visit to Talos IV is
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shown, and Spock makes clear why he felt it necessary to return there
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with Pike.
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"THE CONSCIENCE OF THE KING" [*/2]
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First aired December 8, 1966. The star of a Shakespearean acting
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company may be the infamous "Kodos the Executioner".
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"BALANCE OF TERROR" [*** 1/2]
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First aired December 15, 1966. Kirk matches wits against a Romulan
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commander in the first encounter between the species to occur in
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several decades.
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"SHORE LEAVE" [**]
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First aired December 29, 1966. The crew of the Enterprise takes shore
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leave on a planet where their every thought is immediately converted
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to reality.
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"GALILEO SEVEN" [* 1/2]
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First aired January 5, 1967. Spock finds himself in command of the
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shuttlecraft Galileo, stranded on a hostile planetoid.
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"THE SQUIRE OF GOTHOS" [** 1/2]
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First aired January 12, 1967. The crew of the Enterprise are made
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unwilling guests of the powerful but capricious General Trelane
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(retired).
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"ARENA" [***]
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First aired January 19, 1967. Kirk and a reptilian alien must duel to
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the death to determine whose ship will survive.
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"TOMORROW IS YESTERDAY" [****]
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First aired January 26, 1967. The Enterprise is accidentally flung
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back to the year 1967, where they find they must take desperate
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measures in an attempt to avoid changing history.
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"COURT-MARTIAL" [**]
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First aired February 2, 1967. Kirk is placed on trial when the ship's
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record tapes show he committed an error that cost a man's life.
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"RETURN OF THE ARCHONS" [**]
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First aired February 9, 1967. An entire planet is under the total
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mental control of a mysterious being known as "Landru".
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"SPACE SEED" [*** 1/2]
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First aired February 16, 1967. The Enterprise runs across a "sleeper
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ship" full of supermen fleeing their defeat in the Eugenics Wars.
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"A TASTE OF ARMAGEDDON" [***]
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First aired February 23, 1967. The Enterprise and its crew are
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declared casualties in an interplanetary war entirely simulated by
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computers.
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"THIS SIDE OF PARADISE" [*** 1/2]
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First aired March 2, 1967. Strange spores cause the entire crew of
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the Enterprise to mutiny and beam down to a planet where all work is
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done in unity and contentment.
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"THE DEVIL IN THE DARK" [***]
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First aired March 9, 1967. A mining operation is ravaged by a monster
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that dissolves men's bodies.
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"ERRAND OF MERCY" [*** 1/2]
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First aired March 23, 1967. Kirk and Spock, stranded on Organia,
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attempt to interfere with the Klingon occupation of the planet,
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despite the Organians' insistence upon the non-necessity of violence.
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"THE ALTERNATIVE FACTOR" [*]
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First aired March 30, 1967. A schizophrenic personality named Lazarus
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seems to be the key to an anomaly in the space-time fabric of the
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universe.
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"THE CITY ON THE EDGE OF FOREVER" [**** 1/2]
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First aired April 6, 1967. McCoy, suffering from an overdose of
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cordrazine, vanishes through a time portal and somehow changes the
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past. Kirk and Spock follow in an effort to rectify whatever it is
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that McCoy has done.
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"OPERATION--ANNIHILATE" [**]
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First aired April 13, 1967. The Enterprise faces an onslaught by
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parasitic creatures that invade the nervous system to take control of
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their hosts.
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SECOND SEASON
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"AMOK TIME" [****]
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First aired September 15, 1967. Spock is forced by the instinctive
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Vulcan mating cycle to return to his home planet and take a wife.
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"WHO MOURNS FOR ADONAIS" [**]
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First aired September 22, 1967. The Enterprise is seized by a being
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claiming to be the god Apollo, who requires their worship to sruvive.
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"THE CHANGELING" [***]
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First aired September 29, 1967. Nomad, an ancient Earth probe, has
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combined with an alien probe to form an incredibly powerful mechanism
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that is determined to destroy all "imperfect" life forms.
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"MIRROR, MIRROR" [***]
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First aired October 6, 1967. Kirk, McCoy, Scott, and Uhura are
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accidentally exchanged with their counterparts in a parallel universe,
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where instead of the Federation they find a violent, dictatorial
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Empire.
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"THE APPLE" [**]
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First aired October 13, 1967. The Enterprise finds itself under
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attack by Vaal, a machine that guides the actions and even the
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environment of a primitive populace.
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"THE DOOMSDAY MACHINE" [**** 1/2]
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First aired October 20, 1967. The starships Enterprise and
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Constellation battle an enormous machine that destroys planets and
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consumes them for fuel.
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"CATSPAW" [* 1/2]
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First aired October 27, 1967. Amidst an atmosphere of witches and
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dungeons, a pair of aliens use seemingly magical powers in an attempt
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to trick further scientific information from the people of the
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Enterprise.
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"I, MUDD" [*** 1/2]
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First aired November 3, 1967. The Enterprise is forced to a planet
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populated by androids and ruled by their old nemesis, Harcourt Fenton
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Mudd.
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"METAMORPHOSIS" [*]
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First aired November 10, 1967. A shuttlecraft is forced down to a
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planet as company for a stranded spaceman, who has been kept young by
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a gaseous alien called the "Companion".
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"JOURNEY TO BABEL" [***]
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First aired November 17, 1967. Crisis piles atop crisis when the
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Enterprise is in charge of transporting a volatile cargo of Federation
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diplomats, including Spock's parents.
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"FRIDAY'S CHILD" [***]
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First aired December 1, 1967. Negotiations over mining rights become
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a battle for survival when McCoy unintentionally violates a tribal
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taboo.
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"THE DEADLY YEARS" [****]
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First aired December 8, 1967. Kirk is relieved of command when he and
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other officers contract a disease that results in senility and death
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by old age within days.
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"OBSESSIONS" [*** 1/2]
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First aired December 15, 1967. Kirk disregards all other
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responsibilities in an effort to destroy a gaseous cloud that absorbs
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red corpuscles from human bodies.
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"WOLF IN THE FOLD" [* 1/2]
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First aired December 22, 1967. Scotty appears to be the only logical
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suspect in a bizarre series of murders.
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"THE TROUBLE WITH TRIBBLES" [*****]
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First aired December 29, 1967. Kirk must put up with Federation
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bureaucrats and hordes of hungry tribbles while protecting a shipment
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of quadrotriticale (wheat) against Klingon sabotage.
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"THE GAMESTERS OF TRISKELION" [**]
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First aired January 5, 1968. Kirk, Uhura, and Chekov are captured for
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use in gambling conflicts.
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"A PIECE OF THE ACTION" [*****]
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First aired January 12, 1968. Kirk must figure out a way to
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counteract the effects of an earlier expedition, which caused a
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planet's civilization to pattern itself after the Chicago mobs of the
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Twenties.
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"THE IMMUNITY SYNDROME" [****]
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First aired January 19, 1968. A gigantic single-celled creature,
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which feeds on the energy necessary to our form of life, invades our
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galaxy.
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"A PRIVATE LITTLE WAR" [***]
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First aired February 2, 1968. When the Klingons hasten the arms
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development of one faction on a hitherto peaceful planet, Kirk must
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arm the other side in order to maintain a balance of power.
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"RETURN TO TOMORROW" [** 1/2]
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First aired February 9, 1968. Highly advanced alien minds "borrow"
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bodies, including those of Kirk and Spock, in order to build permanent
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android bodies. One of them, however, does not wish to leave his
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borrowed body.
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"PATTERNS OF FORCE" [**]
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First aired February 16, 1968. A Federation historian ignores the
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Prime Directive and reshapes a planet's society along the lines of
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Nazi Germany.
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"BY ANY OTHER NAME" [** 1/2]
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First aired February 23, 1968. A group of aliens from the Andromeda
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galaxy commandeer the Enterprise to make the journey back home.
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"THE OMEGA GLORY" [*]
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First aired March 1, 1968. Captain Tracy, believing he has found a
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planet containing the secret of eternal youth, interferes in the
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struggle between the two planetary cultures, the Yangs and the Kohms.
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"THE ULTIMATE COMPUTER" [*** 1/2]
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First aired March 8, 1968. The Enterprise is put under total control
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of a new type of computer, which then refuses to relinquish control.
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"BREAD AND CIRCUSES" [*]
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First aired March 15, 1968. The Enterprise encounters a civilization
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that combines the features of the Roman Empire with 20th-century
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technology.
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"ASSIGNMENT: EARTH" [****]
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First aired March 29, 1968. On a historical fact-finding mission to
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1969, the Enterprise accidentally intercepts an interplanetary agent
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out to sabotage an orbiting nuclear platform.
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THIRD SEASON
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"SPOCK'S BRAIN" [*]
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First aired September 20, 1968. A mysterious woman surgically removes
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Spock's brain.
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"THE ENTERPRISE INCIDENT" [****]
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First aired September 27, 1968. Kirk goes mad and Spock turns traitor
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in an attempt to steal an improved cloaking device from the Romulans.
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"THE PARADISE SYNDROME" [*** 1/2]
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First aired October 4, 1968. In a state of amnesia, Kirk marries and
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finds happiness with Miramanee, an Indian maiden. Meanwhile, Spock
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must find a way to save her planet from an impending meteor collision.
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"AND THE CHILDREN SHALL LEAD" [*]
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First aired October 11, 1968. A group of children, under alien
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domination, play on the crew members' secret fears in order to gain
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control of the ship.
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"IS THERE IN TRUTH NO BEAUTY?" [** 1/2]
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First aired October 18, 1968. Miranda, a telepath, is jealous of
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Spock's greater abilities in forming a mind-link with Kollos, an alien
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so ugly that the very sight of him can drive a man insane.
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"SPECTRE OF THE GUN" [***]
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First aired October 25, 1968. Kirk et al find themselves on the
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losing side of the gunfight at the OK Corral.
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"DAY OF THE DOVE" [** 1/2]
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First aired November 1, 1968. Klingons and the Enterprise crew must
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unite to overcome an alien who feeds on the hatred between them.
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"FOR THE WORLD IS HOLLOW, AND I HAVE TOUCHED THE SKY" [**]
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First aired November 8, 1968. McCoy, suffering from a fatal disease,
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finds himself romantically entangled with the priestess governing a
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planetoid/spaceship on a collision course with another planet.
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"THE THOLIAN WEB" [**]
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First aired November 15, 1968. The Tholians entrap the Enterprise,
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not believing that the crew is merely trying to save Kirk from a
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hyperspace warp.
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"PLATO'S STEPCHILDREN" [*]
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First aired November 22, 1968. The dwarf Alexander's lack of
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mind-over-matter abilities may be the only clue to aid Kirk in
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defeating a band of telekinetics.
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"WINK OF AN EYE" [* 1/2]
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First aired November 29, 1968. The Enterprise is invaded by beings
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who move too fast for human eyes to detect.
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"THE EMPATH" [*/2]
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First aired December 6, 1968. Kirk, Spock, and McCoy are manipulated
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by aliens who use them to teach compassion to a girl capable of
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absorbing the pain and injuries of others.
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"ELAAN OF TROYIUS" [** 1/2]
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First aired December 20, 1968. The Enterprise's task of transporting
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an imperious woman to another planet for marriage is complicated by
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Kirk's falling in love with her.
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"WHOM GODS DESTROY" [* 1/2]
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First aired January 3, 1969. Captain Garth, having taken over the
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penal planet where he was being treated, uses his ability to change
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shape in an attempt to get aboard the Enterprise.
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"LET THAT BE YOUR LAST BATTLEFIELD" [*/2]
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First aired January 10, 1969. Two two-toned beings try to get Kirk to
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take sides in their racial disputes.
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"THE MARK OF GIDEON" [** 1/2]
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First aired January 17, 1969. Kirk is decoyed into a replica of the
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Enterprise. While Spock searches for him through a maze of diplomatic
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red tape, the people of Gideon are using him as a source of alien
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infection.
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"THAT WHICH SURVIVES" [** 1/2]
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First aired January 24, 1969. A mysterious woman whose touch is death
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threatens the landing party.
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"THE LIGHTS OF ZETAR" [***]
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First aired January 31, 1969. An electrical cloud formed by the
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life-essences of the long-dead Zetarians seeks to possess the body of
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Scotty's new-found sweetheart.
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"REQUIEM FOR METHUSELAH" [**]
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First aired February 14, 1969. Flint, an immortal, uses Kirk to rouse
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emotions in an android, so that she will become fully human and can be
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a suitable, immortal mate.
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"THE WAY TO EDEN" [*/2]
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First aired February 21, 1969. A group of space hippies are searching
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for the legendary planet of Eden.
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"THE CLOUD MINDERS" [**]
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First aired February 28, 1969. Kirk's attempt to pick up a shipment
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of a vital mineral embroils him in the demands of the oppressed miners
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against the rulers.
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"THE SAVAGE CURTAIN" [**]
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First aired March 7, 1969. Lincoln of Earth and Surak of Vulcan join
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Kirk and Spock in battle against a group of villains, while alien
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observers examine the distinctions between good and evil.
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"ALL OUR YESTERDAYS" [***]
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First aired March 14, 1969. A rescue mission to a planet whose sun is
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about to nova results in Kirk, Spock, and McCoy being sent to various
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eras in the planet's past.
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"TURNABOUT INTRUDER" [* 1/2]
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First aired March 28, 1969. A woman bitterly jealous of Kirk uses an
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alien device to exchange her consciousness with his, and then attempts
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to kill her body and thus Kirk's mind.
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