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