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Movie: Star Trek Into Darkness

When the crew of the Enterprise is called back home, they find an unstoppable force of terror from within their own organization has detonated the fleet and everything it stands for, leaving our world in a state of crisis. With a personal score to settle, Captain Kirk leads a manhunt to a war-zone world to capture a one man weapon of mass destruction. As our heroes are propelled into an epic chess game of life and death, love will be challenged, friendships will be torn apart, and sacrifices must be made for the only family Kirk has left: his crew.
posted by gauche on May 25, 2022 - 27 comments

Movie: Star Trek: Generations

A space anomaly appears to kill Captain James T. Kirk. But 78 years later, he emerges from the anomaly alongside Captain Jean-Luc Picard—onto his last battlefield. [more inside]
posted by CheesesOfBrazil on Aug 26, 2020 - 32 comments

Movie: Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

Earth is threatened by a mysterious deep space voyager. To save the home planet of the Federation, the exiled James T. Kirk and his crew must boldly go to the year 1986 on a desperate mission. [more inside]
posted by CheesesOfBrazil on Sep 8, 2017 - 38 comments

Movie: Star Trek III: The Search for Spock

On the dying Genesis planet, an incredible discovery awaits James T. Kirk, who must steal the U.S.S. Enterprise—only to face terrible sacrifice and an implacable foe. [more inside]
posted by CheesesOfBrazil on Sep 1, 2017 - 29 comments

Movie: Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

Back in command of the Enterprise, Admiral James T. Kirk meets an old flame and an old foe. Meanwhile, he wrestles with his own aging when confronted by a next generation: a brash new Vulcan lieutenant, and the son he never knew he had. [more inside]
posted by CheesesOfBrazil on Aug 23, 2017 - 42 comments

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Trials and Tribble-ations  Rewatch   Season 5, Ep 6

DS9 goes Zelig, as the crew gets groovy. [more inside]
posted by Slothrop on Apr 21, 2016 - 18 comments

Star Trek: Turnabout Intruder  Rewatch   Season 3, Ep 24

Captain Kirk switches personalities with an insane Dr. Janice Lester who finally gets a chance to become captain of the Enterprise. [more inside]
posted by Benway on Feb 6, 2016 - 10 comments

Star Trek: All Our Yesterdays  Rewatch   Season 3, Ep 23

The USS Enterprise arrives at the planet Sarpeidon to evacuate its population as its star is soon to go supernova. When Kirk, Spock and McCoy investigate the disappearance of the doomed planet's population, they find themselves trapped in different periods of that world's past. [more inside]
posted by Benway on Jan 30, 2016 - 13 comments

Star Trek: The Savage Curtain  Rewatch   Season 3, Ep 22

Kirk, Spock, Abraham Lincoln and Vulcan legend Surak are pitted in battle against notorious villains from history for the purpose of helping a conscious rock creature's understanding of a concept he does not understand, "good vs. evil". [more inside]
posted by Benway on Jan 23, 2016 - 4 comments

Star Trek: The Cloud Minders  Rewatch   Season 3, Ep 21

The U.S.S. Enterprise comes to the planet Ardana to acquire zienite, a rare mineral needed to stop a planet-wide plague on Merak II. While investigating the planet, Kirk and Spock are caught in a civil war between the mining class Troglytes and the intellectuals and artists of Ardana that live in a Utopian city in the sky. [more inside]
posted by Benway on Jan 16, 2016 - 3 comments

Star Trek: The Way to Eden  Rewatch   Season 3, Ep 20

Chasing the stolen vessel Aurora, the U.S.S. Enterprise rescues the thieves just before the Aurora is destroyed. The group is led by Dr. Sevrin in a search for a mythological planet named Eden, a planet reputed to be a paradise. [more inside]
posted by Benway on Jan 9, 2016 - 6 comments

Star Trek: Requiem for Methuselah  Rewatch   Season 3, Ep 19

While seeking a cure for a fever ravaging the Enterprise, Kirk and Spock encounter Flint, a hermit-like Earthman, and his beautiful young ward. [more inside]
posted by Benway on Dec 26, 2015 - 15 comments

Star Trek: The Lights of Zetar  Rewatch   Season 3, Ep 18

As the Enterprise heads for the planetoid Memory Alpha, a mysterious, twinkling mass of sapient energy ravages an important starfleet archive and Scotty's new girlfriend may have an unusual link to the being. [more inside]
posted by Benway on Dec 19, 2015 - 2 comments

Movie: Star Trek: The Motion Picture

Come on, we're getting the band back together! (Oh sorry, wrong movie...) An alien cloud nears Earth, and only Kirk and the Enterprise can stop it. Shatner chews the scenery somewhat less than usual, and the cast spends a lot of time staring at impressive special effects. [more inside]
posted by computech_apolloniajames on Dec 16, 2015 - 35 comments

Star Trek: That Which Survives  Rewatch   Season 3, Ep 17

After the Enterprise landing party beams down to investigate a new but thriving planet, their ship is hurled across the galaxy. Kirk and crew find a deserted outpost guarded by the deadly image of a beautiful woman named Losira. [more inside]
posted by Benway on Dec 12, 2015 - 2 comments

Star Trek: The Mark of Gideon  Rewatch   Season 3, Ep 16

Captain Kirk beams down to the planet Gideon and appears to find himself trapped on a deserted Enterprise. Spock on the real Enterprise must use his diplomatic skills to deal with the uncooperative inhabitants of Gideon and find the Captain. [more inside]
posted by Benway on Dec 5, 2015 - 3 comments

Star Trek: Let That Be Your Last Battlefield  Rewatch   Season 3, Ep 15

The Enterprise intercepts a stolen shuttlecraft carrying a duo-chromatic humanoid fleeing his home planet. After taking refuge aboard the Enterprise, the crew encounters a similar humanoid and finds themselves in the middle of an age old conflict. [more inside]
posted by Benway on Nov 28, 2015 - 4 comments

Star Trek: Whom Gods Destroy  Rewatch   Season 3, Ep 14

Kirk and Spock deliver medicine to an insane asylum where a former Starfleet captain is being held, only to discover that he has freed the inmates and is running the place. [more inside]
posted by Benway on Nov 21, 2015 - 3 comments

Star Trek: Elaan of Troyius  Rewatch   Season 3, Ep 13

While transporting an arrogant, demanding princess for a political marriage, Captain Kirk must cope both with her biochemical ability to force him to love her and sabotage on his ship. [more inside]
posted by Benway on Nov 15, 2015 - 2 comments

Star Trek: The Empath  Rewatch   Season 3, Ep 12

The Enterprise is ordered to evacuate a research station on the planet Minara II whose sun, Minara, is about to go supernova. The Kirk, Spock, and Dr. McCoy find themselves transported to an alien research facility where they are subjected to brutal experiments. [more inside]
posted by Benway on Nov 7, 2015 - 7 comments

Star Trek: Wink of an Eye  Rewatch   Season 3, Ep 11

The Enterprise responds to a distress signal only to find a barren planet with a persistent insect-like hum. The crew discover the Scalonians, an accelrated race, who try to take over the crew and use them as breeding stock. [more inside]
posted by Benway on Oct 31, 2015 - 3 comments

Star Trek: Plato's Stepchildren  Rewatch   Season 3, Ep 10

The Enterprise searches for a rare element called kironide on an unknown planet. They encounter a race of non-aging telekenic humanoids who claim to have organized their society around Ancient Greek ideals. [more inside]
posted by Benway on Oct 25, 2015 - 8 comments

Star Trek: The Tholian Web  Rewatch   Season 3, Ep 9

While trying to rescue the Starfleet ship USS Defiant, Captain Kirk disappears when the dead ship is pulled into interspace. The Enterprise is then attacked by a mysterious local race, the Tholians. [more inside]
posted by Benway on Oct 17, 2015 - 7 comments

Star Trek: For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky  Rewatch   Season 3, Ep 8

The Enterprise must deflect an asteroid on a collision course with an inhabited planet...but discover the asteroid is a spaceship with a population unaware of the outside world. [more inside]
posted by Benway on Oct 10, 2015 - 4 comments

Star Trek: Day of the Dove  Rewatch   Season 3, Ep 7

Responding to a distress call on Beta XII-A, Captain Kirk encounters Klingons who are convinced the Enterprise destroyed their ship. But, both humans and Klingons have been lured by a formless entity that feeds on hatred and has set about to fashion them into a permanent food supply for itself. [more inside]
posted by Benway on Oct 3, 2015 - 5 comments

Star Trek: Spectre of the Gun  Rewatch   Season 3, Ep 6

Having been found trespassing into Melkotian space, Captain Kirk and his companions are sent to die in a re-enactment of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral. [more inside]
posted by Benway on Sep 19, 2015 - 15 comments

Star Trek: Is There In Truth No Beauty?  Rewatch   Season 3, Ep 5

The Enterprise serves as escort to Medusan ambassador Kollos and Vulcan-trained human Dr. Miranda Jones, who intend to attempt an unprecedented interspecies mind link so that Medusan technology might be adapted for Starfleet. [more inside]
posted by Benway on Sep 12, 2015 - 3 comments

Star Trek: And the Children Shall Lead  Rewatch   Season 3, Ep 4

After beaming to the planet Triacus III, Kirk, Spock and McCoy find a dead scientific team and a group of children who, unknown to the crew, have unusual powers due to a ghost of an ancient race that demands their loyalty. [more inside]
posted by Benway on Sep 6, 2015 - 7 comments

Star Trek: The Paradise Syndrome  Rewatch   Season 3, Ep 3

Trapped on a planet whose inhabitants are descended from Northwestern American Indians, an alien device wipes Kirk's memory and he is proclaimed a God while the crippled Enterprise races back to the planet before it is destroyed by an asteroid. [more inside]
posted by Benway on Aug 29, 2015 - 8 comments

Star Trek: The Enterprise Incident  Rewatch   Season 3, Ep 2

Acting irrationally, Captain Kirk takes the Enterprise into the neutral zone to be captured by the Romulans in order to steal a cloaking device. [more inside]
posted by Benway on Aug 23, 2015 - 7 comments

Star Trek: Spock's Brain  Rewatch   Season 3, Ep 1

An alien female beams aboard the ship, and after incapacitating the rest of the crew, surgically removes Spock's brain. Kirk and the crew have just hours to locate and restore it before Spock's body dies. [more inside]
posted by Benway on Aug 15, 2015 - 11 comments

Star Trek: Assignment: Earth  Season 2, Ep 26

Engaged in "historical research", the Enterprise time travels to 1968 Earth where they encounter an interstellar agent planning to intervene in 20th Century events with motives uncertain to Kirk and Spock. [more inside]
posted by Benway on Aug 10, 2015 - 20 comments

Star Trek: Bread and Circuses  Rewatch   Season 2, Ep 25

The Enterprise investigates the disappearance of the SS Beagle and discover a planet modeled after a modern version of the Roman Empire where the crew must participate in brutal gladiatorial games. [more inside]
posted by Benway on Aug 1, 2015 - 4 comments

Star Trek: The Ultimate Computer  Rewatch   Season 2, Ep 24

An experimental M-5 computer is installed in the Enterprise which has been ordered to test it with a skeleton crew, but when the computer takes over and wreaks havoc on the Federation fleet, the crew must find a way to disable the device. [more inside]
posted by Benway on Jul 25, 2015 - 13 comments

Star Trek: The Omega Glory  Rewatch   Season 2, Ep 23

Responding to a distress signal on planet Omega IV, Kirk finds Captain Ron Tracey of the U.S.S. Exeter violating the prime directive and interfering in a war between the Yangs and the Kohms to find the secret of their longevity. [more inside]
posted by Benway on Jul 18, 2015 - 5 comments

Star Trek: By Any Other Name  Rewatch   Season 2, Ep 22

Galactic alien scouts capture the Enterprise for a return voyage and a prelude to invasion. Kirk's one advantage - they're not used to their adopted human form. [more inside]
posted by Benway on Jul 11, 2015 - 3 comments

Star Trek: Return to Tomorrow  Rewatch   Season 2, Ep 20

The Enterprise is guided by distress signal to a distant, long-dead world where survivors of an extremely ancient race that exist as disembodied energy take over the bodies of Kirk, Spock and astro-biologist Ann Mulhall. [more inside]
posted by Benway on Jun 27, 2015 - 4 comments

Star Trek: A Private Little War  Rewatch   Season 2, Ep 19

Peaceful, primitive peoples of planet Neural get caught up in the struggle between superpowers, with Kirk unhappily trying to restore the balance of power disrupted by the Klingons. [more inside]
posted by Benway on Jun 20, 2015 - 4 comments

Star Trek: The Immunity Syndrome  Rewatch   Season 2, Ep 18

While the Enterprise crew travels to Starbase 6 for some much needed R&R, Spock senses the death of 400 Vulcans aboard the Intrepid. While investigating the disaster, the crew encounter a strange energy draining being. [more inside]
posted by Benway on Jun 13, 2015 - 5 comments

Star Trek: A Piece of the Action  Rewatch   Season 2, Ep 17

The Enterprise travels to a planet suffering from cultural contamination from an earlier expedition. The society is modeled after Chicago gangsters of the 1920s because of a single book left behind by a Federation starship, the Horizon, a century before. [more inside]
posted by Benway on Jun 6, 2015 - 12 comments

Star Trek: The Gamesters of Triskelion  Rewatch   Season 2, Ep 16

Kirk, Uhura and Chekov are trapped on a planet where abducted aliens are enslaved and trained to perform as gladiators for the amusement of bored, faceless aliens. [more inside]
posted by Benway on May 30, 2015 - 10 comments

Star Trek: The Trouble with Tribbles  Rewatch   Season 2, Ep 15

To protect space station K7 with a vital grain shipment, Kirk must deal with Federation bureaucrats, a Klingon battle cruiser and a peddler who sells furry, purring, hungry little creatures as pets. [more inside]
posted by Benway on May 23, 2015 - 10 comments

Star Trek: Wolf in the Fold  Rewatch   Season 2, Ep 14

The Enterprise crew take sabbatical on the pleasure planet Argelius II when a series of women are murdered. Mr. Scott is accused of the crimes and it is up to Kirk and the psycho-tricorder to prove his innocence. [more inside]
posted by Benway on May 16, 2015 - 3 comments

Star Trek: Obsession  Rewatch   Season 2, Ep 13

Captain Kirk hunts for a creature from his time aboard the U.S.S. Farragut. The crew must try to understand the strange entity that feeds on human blood. [more inside]
posted by Benway on May 9, 2015 - 1 comment

Star Trek: The Deadly Years  Rewatch   Season 2, Ep 12

On the way to Starbase 10, the U.S.S. Enterprise stops to deliver supplies to the colonists of Gamma Hydra IV. The crew encounters a strange radiation that rapidly ages them meanwhile creating fears that they will be unable to remain in command of the Enterprise. [more inside]
posted by Benway on May 2, 2015 - 9 comments

Star Trek: Friday's Child  Rewatch   Season 2, Ep 11

Captain Kirk, along with fellow crew members Spock and McCoy, must find a way to bring peace to a race of aliens whose lives revolve around a dichotomy of honesty and savagery. Adding to their difficulty is the presence of the Klingons, whose sole desire is obtaining what they need through guile and/or violence. [more inside]
posted by Benway on Apr 25, 2015 - 6 comments

Star Trek: Journey to Babel  Rewatch   Season 2, Ep 10

The U.S.S. Enterprise is appointed to transport ambassadors from many worlds to the Babel Conferences. Among those aboard are Ambassador Sarek of Vulcan and his human wife, Amanda — Spock's parents. In transit the crew must apprehend an assassin amongst the crew. [more inside]
posted by Benway on Apr 18, 2015 - 13 comments

Star Trek: Metamorphosis  Rewatch   Season 2, Ep 9

When their shuttle is diverted to Gamma Canaris N by an amorphous entity known as the "companion", Kirk, Spock, and McCoy encounter Earth's Warp Drive pioneer, Zefram Cochrane, who appears to have survived there alone for 150 years. [more inside]
posted by Benway on Apr 11, 2015 - 4 comments

Star Trek: I, Mudd  Rewatch   Season 2, Ep 8

Harry Mudd returns to the Enterprise with a plot to take over by stranding the crew on a planet populated by androids under his command. [more inside]
posted by Benway on Apr 4, 2015 - 9 comments

Star Trek: Catspaw  Rewatch   Season 2, Ep 7

The Enterprise travels to planet Pyrus VII and discovers alien visitors that attempt to connect with human consciousness but wind up tapping into the regions of human nightmares instead. This episode is the Star Trek Halloween Special of 1967. [more inside]
posted by Benway on Mar 28, 2015 - 9 comments

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