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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…

Summary Enterprise discovers a planet identical to Earth, with a very important exception: a few centuries earlier, a devasting plague struck. All of the adults were killed, but the children somehow survived – and still survive, hundreds of years later,…

Summary Roger Korby, described as the “Pasteur of archaeological medicine” has built a reputation recovering the knowledge of dead alien civilizations, until five years ago when his entire expedition was lost on the frozen world Exo III. Or was it?…

Summary The Enterprise recovers Harcourt Fenton Mudd from within an asteroid belt. His crew is also his cargo – wives for settlers on Ophiuchus III. These women are very beautiful, and have oddly compulsive effects on the male crewmembers. Having…

Summary An odd, yellowish ore with magnetic properties on a crewman’s clothing affects the transporter, and when Kirk is subsequently beamed up, he is split into two “halves”. One half of him possesses his benevolent qualities, but is indecisive. The…