Summary Enterprise stops at Cestus III, there to visit Commodore Travers, who enthusiastically invites Kirk to bring his key people to the surface. Beaming down, Kirk discovers the outpost has been destroyed! The landing party comes under attack, but Kirk…
Summary Within a “star desert” the crew encounter the odd, storm wracked planet Gothos. Then Kirk and Sulu disappear from the bridge. The planet’s sole inhabitant is the foppish Trelane, who lives in a manor house be believes represents modern…
Summary Enterprise is en route to the New Paris colony to deliver much needed medical supplies, needed to counter a plague. It passes Murasaki 312, a quasar like system. Since there is time, Kirk’s standing orders require him to dispatch…
Summary Enterprise visits an idyllic planet, where McCoy encounters a large white rabbit that is “very late”. And shortly afterwards, a little girl who is following him. McCoy isn’t becoming insane; it soon becomes apparent that thinking about a thing…
Summary The Enterprise tries to intercept a Romulan warship that is testing the Federation’s defenses along the Neutral Zone separating the two. Our Take A strong episode with a couple of wobbles, but Star Trek: The Original Series keeps its…
Summary Dr. Leighton calls Enterprise to his home on Planet Q with the promise of a new food source that could end hunger. But this is a ruse: Leighton is one of the few remaining survivors of Kodos the Executioner,…
Summary As the court martial continues, Kirk learns the Talosians meant to breed Pike with an earlier survivor, Vina, to produce their slave race. But Pike convinces them that Earthmen would prefer death to such slavery, however pleasant illusions could…
Summary Spock diverts the Enterprise to Starbase 11, where Kirk discovers that Spock’s former commander, Christopher Pike, has been seriously injured and disabled by exposure to delta rays, experienced while saving a class of cadets. Pike is now confined to…
Summary Mapping star systems, Enterprise encounters an odd cube. Apparently solid, it senses the ship, moves to block it – and when Enterprise attempts to disengage, pursues while emitting dangerous radiation. Kirk is forced to order its destruction. He probes…
Summary Enterprise stops at the Tantalus penal colony to deliver drugs and collect research materials. Except that the research materials box contains a dangerous madman, Simon van Gelder – the former director of the colony. Kirk and psychiatrist Helen Noel…