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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: Patterns of Force  Rewatch   Season 2, Ep 21

Looking for a missing Federation cultural observer, Kirk and Spock find themselves on a planet whose culture now models the German Nazi Party of old Earth in the 1930's. [more inside]
posted by Benway on Jul 4, 2015 - 5 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 - 7 comments

Star Trek: The Doomsday Machine  Rewatch   Season 2, Ep 6

The starship Enterprise comes into contact with its sister ship, the USS Constellation which has been heavily damaged by a huge fortified planet-killing machine from another galaxy. Kirk and his crew must find a means to stop the device heading for heavily populated areas of our galaxy, and deal with the heavily traumatized Commodore Decker, the Constellation '​s only survivor. [more inside]
posted by Benway on Mar 21, 2015 - 6 comments

Star Trek: The Apple  Rewatch   Season 2, Ep 5

The Enterprise crew beams down to the planet Gamma Trianguli VI, and find what appears to be an idyllic paradise. They quickly discover, however, that the planet is deadly, sporting plants that shoot thorns, rocks that explode, and incredibly accurate lightning bolts all controlled by an intelligent computer named Vaal. [more inside]
posted by Benway on Mar 14, 2015 - 5 comments

Star Trek: Mirror, Mirror  Rewatch   Season 2, Ep 4

A transporter accident places Capt. Kirk's landing party in an alternate universe, where the Federation is a barbarically brutal empire. [more inside]
posted by Benway on Mar 7, 2015 - 17 comments

Star Trek: The Changeling  Rewatch   Season 2, Ep 3

A powerful artificially intelligent Earth probe, with a murderously twisted imperative, comes aboard the Enterprise and confuses Capt. Kirk as his creator. [more inside]
posted by Benway on Feb 28, 2015 - 5 comments

Star Trek: Who Mourns for Adonais?  Rewatch   Season 2, Ep 2

A powerful being claiming to be the Greek god Apollo appears and demands that the crew of the Enterprise disembark onto his planet to worship him. [more inside]
posted by Benway on Feb 21, 2015 - 9 comments

Star Trek: Amok Time  Rewatch   Season 2, Ep 1

In the throes of his Pon Farr mating period, Spock must return to Vulcan to meet his intended future wife, betrothed from childhood. [more inside]
posted by Benway on Feb 14, 2015 - 19 comments

Star Trek: Operation: Annihilate!  Rewatch   Season 1, Ep 30

The Enterprise crew attempts to exterminate a plague of amoeba-like creatures from possessing human hosts at a federation colony. The crew must stop the creatures from spreading throughout the galaxy. This is the final episode of Season 1. [more inside]
posted by Benway on Feb 7, 2015 - 4 comments

Star Trek: The City on the Edge of Forever  Rewatch   Season 1, Ep 29

The crew of the Enterprise finds itself exploring a "temporal disturbance" near an unknown planet. After accidentally injecting himself with "super adrenaline" McCoy loses his mind and beams to the planet where he finds a portal in time. Kirk and Spock must travel into the past in order to prevent a deranged McCoy from altering history... and eradicating their own past. [more inside]
posted by Benway on Jan 31, 2015 - 2 comments

Star Trek: The Alternative Factor  Rewatch   Season 1, Ep 28

While investigating and scanning an uncharted planet, the Enterprise and its quadrant of space are subjected to a violent force that seems to cause a 'blinking out' of everything near them. The crew goes to the planet's surface and encounters Lazarus, a reality jumping madman. [more inside]
posted by Benway on Jan 24, 2015 - 10 comments

Star Trek: Errand of Mercy  Rewatch   Season 1, Ep 27

Kirk and Spock beam down to the surface of planet Organia to negotiate for the erection of a Federation base. Hostilities between the nearby Klingon Empire and the Federation have reached alarming heights and it is feared that the medieval culture of the Organians will not be able to withstand a Klingon attack. However, the Organian Council, comprised of five seemingly pleasant, benign elderly men, insist that they prefer to stay with their more primitive culture. [more inside]
posted by Benway on Jan 17, 2015 - 7 comments

Star Trek: The Devil in the Dark  Rewatch   Season 1, Ep 26

The Enterprise is called to a mining planet, where the personnel are being killed by an invisible creature. Said creature turns out to have a point of view too; she is 'the Horta' the mother of her race and the human miners have been carelessly destroying her eggs - thinking they are nothing but a curious mineral formation. [more inside]
posted by Benway on Jan 10, 2015 - 6 comments

Star Trek: This Side of Paradise  Rewatch   Season 1, Ep 25

The Enterprise crew is trapped in paradise when they come to rescue colonists who have fallen to pacifying alien spores and become infected themselves. [more inside]
posted by Benway on Jan 3, 2015 - 4 comments

Star Trek: A Taste of Armageddon  Rewatch   Season 1, Ep 24

The crew of the USS Enterprise visits a planet whose people fight a computer-simulated war against a neighboring planet. Although the war is fought via computer simulation, the citizens of each planet have to submit to real executions inside "disintegration booths" to meet the casualty counts of the simulated attacks. The crew of the Enterprise is caught in the middle and are told to submit themselves voluntarily for execution after being "killed" in an "enemy attack". [more inside]
posted by Benway on Dec 27, 2014 - 4 comments

Star Trek: Space Seed  Rewatch   Season 1, Ep 23

Captain Kirk and his crew find and inadvertently revive a genetically augmented world conqueror (Ricardo Montalbán as KHAN!!!!) and his compatriots from Earth's 20th century. [more inside]
posted by Benway on Dec 20, 2014 - 8 comments

Star Trek: The Return of the Archons  Rewatch   Season 1, Ep 22

The Enterprise travels to Beta III to learn the fate of the U.S.S. Archon, gone missing a century earlier. One member of the landing party disappears, and one returns in a strangely blissful state. Kirk beams down with another landing party; amidst the chaos of "Festival" their hosts asks if they are "Archons." To learn more, Kirk must convince Betan citizens to disobey Landru, the man who has ruled them for 6,000 years - or find those who already resist. But with the Lawgivers everywhere, that task is going to be difficult... [more inside]
posted by Benway on Dec 13, 2014 - 3 comments

Star Trek: Court Martial  Rewatch   Season 1, Ep 21

Captain Kirk's career is at stake when he is put on trial for the loss of a crewman during an ion storm. [more inside]
posted by Benway on Dec 6, 2014 - 6 comments

Star Trek: Tomorrow is Yesterday  Rewatch   Season 1, Ep 20

The Enterprise narrowly avoids a collision with a black hole and is thrown back to Earth in the 20th century, where they must find a way back and erase any trace of their presence. Matters become complicated when they rescue an Air Force pilot and cannot return him without changing history...but if he disappears that will change history as well. [more inside]
posted by Benway on Nov 29, 2014 - 2 comments

Star Trek: Arena  Rewatch   Season 1, Ep 19

For bringing hostility into their solar system, a superior alien race pits Captain Kirk in single combat against the murderous reptilian captain of an alien ship he was pursuing. [more inside]
posted by Benway on Nov 22, 2014 - 7 comments

Star Trek: The Squire of Gothos  Rewatch   Season 1, Ep 18

On stardate 2124.5, the USS Enterprise is snagged by an unknown force near a barren planet, and Sulu and the captain are kidnapped. Upon beaming down to search for them, the landing party finds itself the unwilling guests of the quirky Trelane (William Campbell), a strange lifeform with unusual powers and particular tastes for being amused. [more inside]
posted by Benway on Nov 15, 2014 - 3 comments

Star Trek: The Galileo Seven  Rewatch   Season 1, Ep 17

The Galileo, under Spock's command, crash-lands on a hostile planet. As the Enterprise races against time to find the shuttlecraft, Spock's strictly logical leadership clashes with the fear and resentment of his crew. [more inside]
posted by Benway on Nov 8, 2014 - 5 comments

Star Trek: Balance of Terror  Rewatch   Season 1, Ep 15

The Enterprise must decide on its response when a Romulan ship sends an armed probe into Federation territory. The Romulans, using their cloaking capabilities, force the Enterprise into neutral territory to stop the threat. [more inside]
posted by Benway on Oct 25, 2014 - 5 comments

Star Trek: The Conscience of the King  Rewatch   Season 1, Ep 14

While Captain Kirk investigates whether an actor is actually a presumed dead mass murderer, a mysterious assailant is killing the people who could identify the fugitive. [more inside]
posted by Benway on Oct 18, 2014 - 5 comments

Star Trek: The Menagerie Part 2  Rewatch   Season 1, Ep 13

At Spock's court martial, he defends himself with mysterious footage which retells an ailing Capt. Pike's kidnapping by powerful illusion casting aliens thirteen years prior. [more inside]
posted by Benway on Oct 11, 2014 - 2 comments

Star Trek: The Menagerie Part 1  Rewatch   Season 1, Ep 12

While visiting Starbase 11, the Enterprise is hijacked by Mr. Spock, leaving Captain Kirk behind while abducting the recently crippled Captain Christopher Pike, former commander of the Enterprise. [more inside]
posted by Benway on Oct 4, 2014 - 4 comments

Star Trek: The Corbomite Maneuver  Rewatch   Season 1, Ep 11

Traveling into uncharted space, the Enterprise encounters a mysterious alien probe. When the probe poses a threat, Kirk is forced to destroy it, much to the ire of the apparently superior alien race that created it. The alien commander, Balok, subsequently sentences the Enterprise to destruction for trespassing in their space. [more inside]
posted by Benway on Sep 27, 2014 - 6 comments

Star Trek: Dagger of the Mind  Rewatch   Season 1, Ep 10

While on a routine cargo drop to the Tantalus Penal Colony, Kirk and psychiatrist Helen Noel are trapped on a maximum security penal colony that experiments with mind control and Spock must use the Vulcan mind-meld to find a way to save them. [more inside]
posted by Benway on Sep 20, 2014 - 8 comments

Star Trek: Miri  Rewatch   Season 1, Ep 9

The Enterprise discovers an exact duplicate of Earth, where the only survivors of a deadly man-made plague are some of the planet's impossibly old children. [more inside]
posted by Benway on Sep 13, 2014 - 11 comments

Star Trek: What Are Little Girls Made of?  Rewatch   Season 1, Ep 8

While searching planet EXO-III to learn the fate of Dr. Roger Korby after his last communication 5 years prior, the Enterprise finally receives a transmission from Korby and Nurse Chapel is ecstatic that her fiancé has been found. [more inside]
posted by Benway on Sep 6, 2014 - 7 comments

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