Eric's Excruciatingly Detailed Star Trek (TOS) Plot Summaries

This file contains links to episode summaries for all episodes of Star Trek: The Original Series.

It has taken a huge amount of time to write all these (there are more than 50,000 words in this document), so please acknowledge your source if you reproduce them anywhere in part or whole. Detailed summaries for a few episodes are still under construction. Thanks to Brian York for creating the index, and to David Landis for pointing out spelling and other corrections. David's corrections, as well as many minor editorial changes, were implemented on Feb 10-16, 1997. David's Hypercard version was then edited by Peter Vince, who provided a number of "official" Star Trek spelling corrections. These corrections were implemented on Apr 6, 1997.

The summaries can be searched using the above form, downloaded as a single large very file (not recommended unless you enjoy drinking from a fire hose), or viewed an episode at a time.

Index

A Piece of the Action	A Private Little War	A Taste of Armageddon
All Our Yesterdays	The Alternative Factor	Amok Time
And The Children Shall Lead	The Apple	Arena
Assignment: Earth	Balance Of Terror	Bread and Circuses
By Any Other Name	The Cage	Catspaw
The Changeling	Charlie X	The City on the Edge of Forever
The Cloud Minders	The Conscience of the King	The Corbomite Maneuver
Court Martial	Dagger of the Mind	Day of the Dove
The Deadly Years	The Devil in the Dark	The Doomsday Machine
Elaan of Troyius	The Empath	The Enemy Within
The Enterprise Incident	Errand of Mercy	For The World Is Hollow, And I Have Touched The Sky
Friday's Child	The Galileo Seven	The Gamesters of Triskelion
I, Mudd	The Immunity Syndrome	Is There In Truth No Beauty?
Journey to Babel	Let That Be Your Last Battlefield	The Lights of Zetar
The Man Trap	The Mark Of Gideon	The Menagerie I
The Menagerie II	Metamorphosis	Miri
Mirror, Mirror	Mudd's Women	The Naked Time
Obsession
The Omega Glory	Operation: Annihilate!	The Paradise Syndrome
Patterns of Force	Plato's Stepchildren	Requiem for Methuselah
The Return of the Archons	Return To Tomorrow	The Savage Curtain
Shore Leave	Space Seed	Spectre of the Gun
Spock's Brain	The Squire of Gothos	That Which Survives
This Side of Paradise	The Tholian Web	Tomorrow is Yesterday
The Trouble with Tribbles	Turnabout Intruder	The Ultimate Computer
The Way to Eden	What are Little Girls Made Of?	Where No Man Has Gone Before
Who Mourns for Adonais?	Whom Gods Destroy	Wink of an Eye
Wolf in the Fold

Web-accessible Star Trek: TOS resources making use of my summaries include the following:

Oak Mountain Software Star Trek Stacks are Macintosh Hypercard stacks. The TOS summaries are mine, but there are summaries from the more recent TV series as well.
alt.startrek.rpg provides a Windows95 "help" file using my plot summaries.
Brian Yorke's YorkeSite Star Trek TOS Episode Guide gives short synopses, cast information, as well as lots of bells and whistles. Long synopses are provided using links to my page.

Other Star Trek: TOS resources on the web include:

Armagosa Observatory has some nice links
Barry Cochran gives links to other TOS sites.
A posting from rec.arts.startrek.misc gives a chronological list, together with stardates and first air dates.
CGSuccess Television Site for TOS gives a collection of links.
The Star Trek Lovers Archive gives a list of episodes with episode numbers, subjective ratings, and cast.
HTML versions of Otto Heuer's TOS plot synopses, which are shorter than mine, but include quotes, facts, and some other interesting goodies, can be found at The Star Trek Society.
Judy Fabian's Star Trek TOS Site gives short synopses by season (Season 1, Season 2, Season 3).
Robert Lentz's Star Trek Links
Spoiler-Free Star Trek Opinion Summary
Star Trek WWW is an excellent well-organized site giving links to other TOS sites.
Trek 30 is a nice collection of TOS links.
TotalTV has a nice collection of TOS links.

Change Log

98-11-21: Corrected "Kirk, Bones, and McCoy" to "Kirk, Bones, and Spock" in The Empath.
98-11-03: fixed grammatical errors in The Enterprise Incident.
98-09-11: removed Obsession summary which was accidentally appended to The Naked Time. Corrected Sulu's rapier-brandishing fetish from "Samurai warrior" to "French cavalier" and corrected description of the time warp (thanks to John Hawley for pointing out the errors).
98-09-02: corrected movie in which Cochrane re-appeared (Metamorphosis).
98-08-16: corrected mis-statement about Dr. Piper (Where No Man Has Gone Before).
98-08-13: corrected spelled of "Ryetalyn" (Requiem for Methuselah).
98-05-24: added link to single file containing all summaries
98-05-16: split off episodes into individual files and added search box.
97-12-09: removed outdated link to Otto Heuer. Corrected spelling of Stonn and fixed typo (ha to had) (Amok Time)
97-11-12: added award from Armagosa Observtory
97-05-27: changed Loskeen to Loskene (Tholian Web)