Eric's Excruciatingly Detailed Star Trek (TOS) Plot Summaries
 Eric's Excruciatingly Detailed Star Trek (TOS) Plot Summaries
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Detailed summaries for some episodes are still under construction.
 
 
All Our Yesterdays
On a mission to evacuate the population of the lone planet Sarpedon before its sun Beta Niobi novas, 
Spock, Kirk and McCoy beam down to
investigate why sensors indicate no humanoid life remaining on the planet.  They discover a ``library'' staffed by Mr.
Atoz (``A to Z'') and his clones which contains history tapes.  Kirk offers to evacuate Mr. Atoz, but he tells
them to hurry up and pick a destination, and that he himself plans to join his wife and family when the nova
comes. By inserting the record tapes into a machine called the Atavachron, people can be sent back in time.  Mr. Atoz
confirms Kirk's suspicions that this is indeed what has happened to the inhabitants of the planet.  While viewing a tape,
Kirk hears screams and accidentally sends himself to a time period of witch hunts.  McCoy and Spock rush after him, but
end up transported themselves to 5000 years in the past when the planet was in an ice age.  Meanwhile, Kirk has
``rescued'' a woman from being poked with a sword by challenging her attacker to a swordfight.  Only after chasing him
away does Kirk discover that the woman was a thief attempting to rob the gentleman and that there is no entrance back to
the library.  Kirk goes to the wall from which he had emerged and is able to talk to McCoy and Spock, but cannot get to
them.  When Kirk is arrested by the authorities for aiding a thief, McCoy and Spock ask him what is going on, and the
authorities also hear the voices.  The woman then betrays Kirk and denounces his as a witch, claiming that he and the
``spirits'' made her steal against her will.
Spock and Bones, on the verge of freezing, are discovered an sheltered by a woman known as Zarabeth. She has been exiled
because her kinsman tried to assassinate Zorcon the Tyrant.  Meanwhile, in prison, Kirk is questioned by the Prosecutor.
When Kirk mentions the library, the Prosecutor becomes extremely uncomfortable.  At first, he tries to maintain that Kirk
might indeed be innocent.  But when the guard insists that he heard voices talking to Kirk, he is forced to back off.
When Kirk then starts repeating the word ``library'' to the Prosecutor, he gets flustered and rushes out saying he wants
nothing to do with Kirk.  Zarabeth tells Spock that the Atavachron alters cell structure and that he therefore cannot
return to the future. Meanwhile, Kirk escapes from his cell when he grabs the guard who is trying to pour soup into his
bowl and knocks the guard out. When the Prosecutor comes to take Kirk to the inquisition, Kirk realized that he is also
sent from the future, and threatens to denounce him as a witch if he does not help Kirk. The Prosecutor then informs Kirk
that the Atavachron, which alters cell structure and brain patterns to prepare people for the past.  The Prosecutor has
been prepared and cannot return, but Kirk can only survive a few hours and must return.  Kirk then finds his way back to
the brick wall from which he emerged, and steps back into the library.  Mr. Atoz insists that Kirk be prepared, and
Kirk is forced to lock one copy of him in a closet and knock out another.  The real Mr. Atoz then arrives and zaps Kirk.
Back in the ice age, Spock's personality is slipping to that of the barbaric Vulcans of 5000 years in the past, and he
falls in love with Zarabeth and believes her when she tells him he can not go back.  McCoy notices the changes in Spock
(especially when Spock responds to an insult by grabbing him by the scruff of the neck and announcing ``I don't like
that'') and guesses that Zarabeth is not being completely truthful so that she can keep Spock with her.  Spock also
begins to notice that he is not himself when he eats animal flesh and enjoys it.  However, this knowledge does not stop
him from telling Zarabeth that she is beautiful and then making love to her. While kissing her, he also cracks one of his
rare smiles.  Meanwhile, Kirk has managed to recover enough to avoid having Mr. Atoz wheel him into the Atavachron.  He
overpowers Atoz and forces him to help him locate Spock and McCoy by trying various disks. McCoy has somehow figured out
that it is only Zarabeth who cannot return, and confronts Spock with this fact as well as with the fact that he has
reverted to the mental state of his barbarian ancestors. Spock manages to drag himself away from Zarabeth and returns
with McCoy to the library by following Kirk's voice. With everyone back, Mr. Atoz puts in a disk and rushes to join his
family before it is too late.  Kirk, Spock, and McCoy return to the Enterprise, which warps out of orbit just as
the star novas.
The Alternative Factor
As the Enterprise maps a planet with iron-silicon surface and oxygen-hydrogen atmosphere and begins heading
towards Starbase 200, the ship is twice subjected to massive disturbances.  Spock reports that the magnetic field of the
surrounding space ``blinked'' and the gravity of the planet momentarily reached 0.  Spock then finds a human life form on
the planet's surface and Spock, Kirk, and a security detail of 3 beam down to investigate. They find a spaceship and a
bearded man who yells something about having time to still stop ``him,'' then jumps or falls off a cliff.  Kirk discovers
that the phenomenon drained the Enterprise's dilithium crystals, giving them 10 hours before the orbit decays.
Starfleet command reports that every quadrant of the galaxy has been subjected to magnetic, gravimetric, and electric
disruption, and Kirk and Starfleet fear it may be a prelude of an invasion.
Kirk interviews the fallen man, who claims he is chasing a murderer who destroyed his entire civilization. He himself was
saved because he was inspecting magnetic communication satellites.  He attempts to enlist the Kirk in his fanatic
pursuit.  It turns out that the strange phenomena are caused as the man, whose name is Lazarus, battles his anti-self in
a corridor between parallel universes and that the ship on the planet surface is a time-travel machine. The universe is
returned to normal when the corridor is sealed off at both ends, trapping Lazarus and his anti-self for all eternity.
Amok Time 
McCoy noticed that Spock is growing restless and also that he has stopped eating.  He also is becoming extremely
irritable, throwing out Nurse Chapel and physically flinging the Vulcan Plomeek soup she ha specially prepared for him.
After this outburst, he demands a leave of absence on his home planet Vulcan from Kirk.  Kirk is baffled by Spock's
behavior, but has no choice but to divert to Vulcan.  However, a priority message forces him to change course back to
Altair 6 in order to be on time for the new president's coronation.  As soon as he leaves the bridge, Spock orders
the course changed back to Vulcan.  Kirk orders Spock to sickbay, where Bones examines him and finds that if he is
not brought to Vulcan within eight days, Spock will die due to extreme stress produced by chemicals being pumped
through his body.  When Kirk confronts Spock, Spock says he cannot tell the cause of his problem, because it is a 
deeply personal affair.  Kirk eventually cajoles Spock into revealing that his problem is ``Vulcan biology,'' which
Kirk correctly concludes means Vulcan reproduction.
The Vulcan time of mating is known as Pon Farr, and is a very painful and personal experience.  It strips logic away from
Vulcans, and forces them to return to Vulcan to take a mate.  Spock compares the need to return to Vulcan to the Eel
Birds of Regulus 5, who return every 11 years to the caverns where they hatched, and to Salmon on Earth who must return
to the stream where they were born in order to spawn.  Kirk contacts Admiral Komack at Starfleet Command sector 9 to
request permission to divert to Vulcan.  The Admiral denies permission, but Kirk ignores the order (since he would be one
of three Starships there in any case), and re-directs to Vulcan. Spock is flipping out in the meantime, mashing his
viewing screen to pulp when Uhura tries to contact him.  However, he recovers when he learns that the Enterprise
is headed for Vulcan.  He invites Kirk and McCoy, as his two best friends, to join him on the surface for a ceremony.
On Vulcan, Spock prepares for his Kunat Kalifee, or ``marriage or challenge'' ceremony with T'Pring, to whom he ha been
betrothed by their parents when they were 7 years old. Kirk and Spock comment how hot it is Vulcan, and Kirk (who
evidently is no physicist, says this is because Vulcan's atmosphere is thinner than Earth's). The master of
ceremonies is T'Pau, the only person ever to turn down a seat in the Federation council. As the ceremony begins, T'Pring
rejects Spock and challenges (Kalifee) him to battle with her champion, who she names as Kirk.  This upsets her lover
Staan, and pains Spock.  After learning that another champion will be chosen if Kirk declines the challenge, so Kirk
accepts battle with Spock, not realizing that the fight is to the death.  Before Spock can kill Kirk with a lurpa (a rod
with blade on one side and mallet on the other), Bones steps in and gives Kirk a shot supposed to be a triox compound
which will accommodate him to the Vulcan climate and temperature. Instead, Bones actually injects him with a
neuroparalyzer which simulates death.  When Kirk konks out, McCoy pronounces him dead and contacts the Enterprise
to beam the two of them up.
Spock confronts T'Pring, she explains that she was in love with the Vulcan Staan.  By choosing Kirk as her champion, she
was guaranteed a desirable outcome.  If Kirk won, we would not want her, and she would have Staan, together with Spock's
name and property.  If Spock won, he would not take her for daring to challenge, and furthermore would be tried by
Starfleet and interned. Believing that he has killed Kirk, Spock loses all interest in his treacherous mate and returns
to the Enterprise. Here, he is overjoyed to find Kirk alive,  betraying his emotion with a big smile (another
smile occurs in The Cage and repeated in The Menagerie, Part
I).  Kirk is let off the hook for disobeying orders when Starfleet retroactively grants permission to divert to
Vulcan at T'Pau's request.
And the Children Shall Lead
When the Enterprise responds to a distress call on the scientific colony on Triacus, Bones, Kirk, and Spock
discover that all of the adults to have committed suicide using the drug cylotin.  Kirk spots a single survivor, Prof.
Starnes, but he does not seem to recognize Kirk and subsequently dies in Kirk's arms. A recording reveals that the
colonists felt compelled to destroy themselves to escape what they call ``the enemy within.''  However, the children of
the colonists (Tommy Starnes, Don Tsing Tau, Mary, Steve, and Ray (Janowski, O'Connel, and Wilkins, not necessarily
respectively), appear to be in fine health and pay no attention to the absence of their parents.  They are beamed up to
the Enterprise, and an examination by McCoy reveals nothing amiss.  Kirk tries to question the children, and finds
that they hated the planet and felt resentful that their parents liked it.  Before Kirk can find out anything else, they
begin repeating ``busy, busy, busy,'' and refuse to say anything more.  Kirk tries talking to Tommy alone, but he only
repeats the behavior of his friends.
When they are left alone, they perform a summoning ritual for the ``friendly angel.''  The angel gives them instructions
for their next ``task,'' which consists of bringing the Enterprise to Marcus 12 instead of Kirk's intended
Starbase 4.  On Marcus 12, the angel promises that they will find many friends to make them strong, and that this will
allow him to take over the universe and allow the children unlimited freedom and play.  The children prepare to use
strange powers (invoked by up and down motions of a clenched fist) to influence the minds of the crew and take the
Enterprise out of orbit and towards Marcus 12.
Clues to events which took place on Triacus are given by a series of recorded messages by Prof. Starnes.  These document
the onset of paranoia and loss of control over actions immediately following the excavation of a cave by Wilkins.  Tommy
enters the bridge, and uses the opportunity to cause the record tape to malfunction before his father's message can be
completed.  Tommy remains on the bridge after Kirk and Spock leave to consult in private.  Tommy influences Sulu to leave
orbit, leaving him with the illusion that the viewing screen shows the Enterprise to still be in orbit.  When
Uhura notices that the Enterprise is no longer in orbit, she confronts Sulu, but the children soon give her the
illusion that the ship is still in orbit. In the engine room, another child causes two engineers to guard the controls,
and knock out Scotty when he tries to get them back and put the Enterprise back on course. Spock and Kirk listen
to the rest of Dr. Starnes' tape in private, and finds that he was being influenced to do things against his will,
including requesting a spaceship from Starfleet despite the fact that he had no need for it. Consulting the computer's
memory banks, Spock discovers a legend that Triacus was previously inhabited by a band of marauders who terrorized the
Epsilon Indi system.  The legend also maintains that the marauders, who were eventually wiped out, are waiting to return
and maraud again.
Kirk beams down a pair of guards to take over from the security detachment on Triacus.  When he then attempts to beam up
the security detachment, Spock is unable to lock on, and Kirk is forced to face the fact that he has just beamed two men
into a vacuum.  When Kirk and Spock rush to the bridge, the get a look at the alien influencing the children (who have
assembled on the bridge and performed another summoning ritual).  Kirk gives commands to Sulu and Uhura to change course
and send a message to Starfleet, but the children make Sulu see a passage of knives and Uhura a picture of herself as old
and sick, and neither carries out the order.  Kirk then orders Spock to send the message to Starfleet, but he is also
unable to obey.  When Kirk tries to order the security officer to confine Sulu to quarters, the children cause his speech
to sound garbled.  Kirk then becomes paranoid about losing the Enterprise, but Spock grabs him and the two of them
escape from the bridge on the elevator.  They go to auxiliary control and try to enlist Scotty's help in overriding the
ship's controls, but Scott and his engineers are firmly under the children's control. Chekov and two security guards
attempt to arrest Kirk and Spock at phaser-point, but Kirk and Spock are able to fight their way out of it. Kirk manages
to free the children of the Gorgon's evil influence and regain control of the Enterprise by replaying the taped
ritual and summoning the Gorgon. With the help of tapes of the children playing with their parents, Kirk shows the
children the Gorgon's wickedness in killing their parents. When the children cry and desert him, the Gorgon 
becomes disfigured, then disintegrates, chanting ``death to you all.''
The Apple
When Kirk beams down with a large landing party to investigate planet Gamma Trianguli 6, a flower turns toward security
guard Hendorf and sprays him with deadly spores.  Scott reports that the matter-antimatter pods are inexplicably losing
potency. He believes it to have something to do with the planet's unusual magnetic field. Kirk sends Valery and Marple to
scout out the way to the nearest village. Spock then detects the presence of a humanoid watching them, and also detects
planet-wide vibrations.  Spock also finds a curious low density rock which explodes unexpectedly when he tosses it away.
Spock runs in the way of another flower which is about to spray Kirk, and catching the darts in his chest.  McCoy injects
Spock with masaform D, but he does not respond, and Kirk asks Scotty to beam them all up.  The Enterprise's
matter-antimatter pods have already been drained by what Scott now identifies as some sort of beam from the planet, and
Scotty's attempt to beam them up now fails, leaving the landing party stranded.
Spock recovers, but the landing party is then surprised by a rapidly moving electrical storm despite the absence of
nearby clouds.  The ground also begins to smoke. Valery attempts to report in by communicator, but his communication is
jammed.  The landing party goes to investigate, but Valery is tragically killed when he runs over one of the exploding
rocks.  The humanoid returns, and Kirk has Chekov and Spock create a diversion while he sneaks up on the watcher.  Kirk
attacks him, evoking tears.  Kirk promises not to hurt him again, says his name is Akuta, and that he is the chief of the
primitive people he calls the feeders of Vaal.  Spock notices antennae emerging from either side of his head. Kirk asks to be taken to Vaal, just as
Scott reports that the Enterprise is being dragged into the planet by a tractor beam from the planet.
Akuta takes Kirk to Vaal, who appears to be a door into a hill in the shape of a dragon's head.  Spock's tricorder shows
that the entrance leads into the planet's interior, and is surrounded by a force field.  When Akuta takes the landing
party to meet with the rest of the people of Vaal, Kirk notices a strange lack of children, and finds that Vaal has
forbidden love, and provides ``replacements'' as they are needed. Seana introduces herself to Spock, and is greatly amused
when he tells her his name.  McCoy finds that the people are in perfect health without any disease or aging.  Kirk and
Spock then witness a ceremony in which the people of Vaal provide it with fuel. Chekov seduces Marta, and this is
observed by two of the people of Vaal (Makora and his newfound girlfriend), who proceed to imitate it.  This angers
Vaal, who gives Akuta instructions.
As Kirk and party are resting, Akuta explains to his people that they are to kill the strangers, and gives them
instructions on how to bash their heads in using a heavy stick.  They then disappear, and the Kirk and Spock go to
confront Vaal.  Vaal responds by calling a thunderstorm and striking SPock with a lightning bolt. The people of Vaal then
attack, killing a security guard.  As usual, the rests of the landing party fends off the attack and get off unscathed.
Vaal weakens as the feeders are prevented from feeding him, and Kirk has Scott attack Vaal with the ship's phasers to
weaken it further.  This drains Vaal's power reserves, and frees the people from his grip.  Spock accuses Kirk of 
giving the people the equivalent of the apple of knowledge and driving them from their Eden, but Kirk maintains that
Spock's resemblance to the Devil is much more apparent than his own.
Arena
A landing party from the Enterprise beams down to Cestus 3 for a dinner engagement with Commodore Traverse. Upon
arrival, they discover that the Earth observation outpost has been obliterated, and that the outpost had been destroyed
several days ago, so the messages received from the base must have been faked.  The landing party (Kirk, Spock, Lang,
Kellowitz, O'Herlihy, and Harold) discovers a survivor, but then comes under attack by the aliens responsible for the
massacre.  O'Herlihy is vaporized.  The Enterprise simultaneously comes under attack by an alien vessel and is
forced to raise its shields, preventing the landing party from beaming back up.  Kirk is able to locate the arsenal of
the outpost and locate a mortar.  The aliens overload Spock's tricorder, causing it to explode.  Kirk is able to use
the mortar to fire a blue sphere which destroys the alien attackers.
After returning to the ship and giving chase to the alien vessel, the survivor reports that they were attacked by a ship
which approached at space normal speed, then proceeded to bombard the outpost.  The Enterprise increases its speed
to Warp 8 in order to catch the alien. Both the Enterprise and the alien ship are scanned and incapacitated by an
advanced civilization calling itself the Metrons in an uncharted solar system.  The Metrons force Kirk and the reptilian
captain of the alien Gorn ship to duel to the death to determine which ship will survive.  Both combatants are provided
with auto-translation walkie-talkies, but Kirk thinks the device is only a recorder and so gives away his location and
intentions to the Gorn. However, although the Gorn is physically stronger than Kirk, is is slower. Kirk rolls a boulder
down a cliff and flattens the Gorn, only to see it push the rock aside and get up unscathed. Kirk then becomes ensnared
in a set of ropes laid by the Gorn, but is able to escape, albeit with an injured leg.
After Spock's entreaties to the Metrons, the crew of the Enterprise is permitted to watch the spectacle on their
video monitor. Kirk is eventually able to outwit it by finding the minerals for making gunpowder (sulfur, carbon, and
potassium nitrate=saltpeter) and using it to propel native diamonds (also found on this geologically unlikely planet) at
the Gorn, using a hollowed-out bamboo reed as the gun barrel.  After winning a victory, Kirk convinces the Metrons not
the destroy the Gorn ship, since it is possible that they viewed the Federation base as an encroachment on their
territory.  Kirk is returned to the Enterprise, which is the mysteriously transported back to its original position
on the way to Cestus 3.
Assignment Earth
The Enterprise has used the light speed breakaway factor to propel itself backward in time. It monitors Earth
communication while on a historical fact-finding mission to study how Earth survived the turbulent year 1968.  While is
orbit, the Enterprise accidentally intercepts a transporter beam originating more that 1000 light years away,
beaming aboard interplanetary agent Gary Seven and his partner Isis, disguised as a black cat.  Seven discovers that the
Enterprise is from the future, and demands to be beamed down to continue with his mission.  Seven claims he is a
human from the Twentieth Century who has been living on a different planet, with wishes to remain hidden.  When Kirk
decides to confine Seven to a detention cell until he can learn more, Seven overpowers the guards and even brushes off
Spock's nerve pinch, but Kirk temporarily stuns him with a phaser.  Ho does not long remain in his cell, however, using a
``servo'' device disguised as a pen to deactivate the force field and put his guard to sleep.  He is rejoined by Isis on
his way to the transporter room, and beams down before Kirk can stop him, materializing inside a safe concealed behind a
sliding rack of glasses in what appears to be an otherwise normal office.
However, the office turns out to be anything but normal, and a Beta 5 computer (capable of analytical decision) is also
hidden behind a bookcase.  Gary Seven asks the Beta 5 computer the status of agents 201 and 347, and discovers that their
location has not been reported for 3 days. In order to access the computer, Gary Seven (who is known as agent 194, a
Class 1 Supervisor), he is forced to summarize the nature of his mission.  The agents turn out to be descendants of human
ancestors taken from the Earth 6000 year ago and specially trained, and their mission is to prevent Earth from destroying
itself before it can become a peaceful society, since science and technology has progressed faster than political and
social knowledge.  Seven learns that the agents' mission was to disable a rocket to launch an American orbiting nuclear
platform which will take off in an hour to counter a similar platform launched by an ``opposing power.''  Seven compares
this situation to the one which almost resulted in the destruction of planet Omicron 4.
Meanwhile, Roberta Lincoln, a secretary hired by Seven's fellow agent shows up (late) for work, and Seven mistakes her
for one of the agents and shares some of his gadgetry with her, including a voice-activated typewriter. However, Seven
convinces her that he is a CIA agent, and that she should remain silent about what she has seen in the interests of
national security.  Just after Seven learns from the Beta 5 that agents 201 and 347 were killed in an automobile accident
on Highway 949, 10 miles north of McKinley Rocket Base, Kirk and Spock (who have beamed down in an attempt to locate
Seven) barge into the office.  However, Lincoln stalls them long enough to allow Seven to escape into the
safe/transporter, and also manages to call the police to the office (which is located at 811 East 68th Street, number
12B).  When they arrive, Kirk beams them up to the Enterprise along with himself and Spock, then immediately
returns the policemen to the apartment.
Seven rematerializes on the rocket base, and stuns a guard who confronts him with his pen gizmo before he can complete a
call to security.  He then makes his way to the gantry elevator, and begins sabotage the wiring when he reaches the
top.  Just as the guard Seven put to sleep awakes, Kirk and Spock materialize in front of him and he escorts them to an
interrogation in the launch complex. Meanwhile, Lincoln accidentally discovers the sliding glass rack, opening it by
depressing a pen on the desk.  She then picks the lock to the safe. Meanwhile, Scott locates Seven manipulating wires on
the rocket using the ships sensors, and attempts to beam him up.  Lincoln, however, accidentally pulls him back to the
office while fiddling with the controls.  Seven then using the Beta 5 exceiver circuits to cause the third stage to
malfunction and veer off course.  He also arms the warhead, and is shortly thereafter konked on the head by Roberta.  The
arming of the warhead is noted by Chekov aboard the Enterprise, who attempts to contact Kirk for instructions.
Spock nerve pinches the guard, and has Scott beam Kirk and him to Seven's apartment.  Here, they watch while Seven
explodes the warhead 104 miles above ground. Records from the Enterprise show that exactly such an event occurred,
and that it furthermore caused the nuclear powers to re-assess the risks of placing hydrogen bombs in orbit.
Balance of Terror
The Enterprise investigates the lack of response from Earth outposts 2 and 3 (and 8) monitoring the neutral zone
between planets Romulus and Remus and the rest of the galaxy.  Kirk gets ready to marry Angela Marteen and Robert
Tomlinson when Earth outpost 4 reports itself to be under attack by an unknown space vessel.  The outposts have been
constructed on asteroids by treaty following the atomic war with the Romulans more than a century earlier.  No human or
Romulan, however, has ever seen one another.  Navigator Styles is bitter because his forefathers were killed in that war.
Commander Hansen from outpost 4 reports attack from unknown weapon on a spaceship which subsequently vanished.  The
starship becomes visible briefly, destroys the outpost, then vanishes again. Kirk is able to track it despite its cloaking
device, and flies on a parallel course.  Spock is able to lock in to Romulan transmissions, and the crew of the
Enterprise gets a glimpse of the Romulans, who have pointy ears!  This leads Styles to question Spock's allegiance.
The Romulan commander, meanwhile, questions his mission of starting a war, and discusses it with his centurion. Debris
from outpost 4 shows disintegrated cast roginium, the hardest substance known to science, and Spock surmises that a
plasma weapon was used.  The Enterprise takes advantage of the passage of the Romulan vessel through a magnitude 7
comet tail to attempt an attack.  Meanwhile, the Romulans are planning to turn and attack the Enterprise when the
comet rendered its sensors ineffective.  Kirk fires phasers at random in hopes of hitting the Romulan and scores a minor
hit. Unfortunately, this overloads the phasers and renders them temporarily unusable.  The Romulans fire a plasma-ball
and the Enterprise retreats at full speed, which fortunately dissipates partially before making contact. The
Enterprise fires again, and again does minor damage.  The Romulan ship ejects debris including the body of the
centurion who was killed in the second Enterprise attack.  The Enterprise sits motionless for 9 hours, 47
minutes hoping the Romulan ship will make a move and reveal itself.  Spock accidentally sets off an alarm while fixing
the phasers, and the Enterprise begin maneuvering and fires off another salvo.  The Romulan vessel then ejects
debris, inside of which it has placed a nuclear weapon.  Spock detects a metal object, and the Enterprise destroys it
before running into it, but 22 casualties, mostly radiation burns, still result. Styles and Tomlinson are overcome by
pink gas in the phaser room, but Spock is able to get there and fire manually. This is enough to render the Romulan
inoperative, and its captain self-destructs.  Tomlinson dies, but Spock is able to save Styles.  Kirk must then comfort
Marteen.
Bread and Circuses
When the Enterprise happens upon space debris from the S.S. Beagle, a survey ship which disappeared 6
years ago.  The Enterprise projects the wreckage of the SS Beagle (a class 4, a star drive vessel with a
crew of 47, commanded by Captain R.M. Merrick, an academy associate of Kirk) back in time, it discovers a civilization of
modern-day Romans on Planet 4 of the 892 System. They intercept a television transmission showing a gladiator killing
the ``last of the Barbarians,'' who turns out to be Beagle flight officer William B. Harrison.
After beaming down, Spock, Bones, and Kirk are confronted by a cadre of rifle-toting escaped slaves.  They are taken to
their leader Septimus, a former Senator who now worships the ``sun.'' Although Flavius wants to kill them, Septimus
accepts them as friends and offers them hospitality.  The similarity of civilization to the Roman civilization
demonstrates, according to Kirk, the validity of Hodgekin's Law of Parallel Planet Development.  When Kirk asks about
Merrick, he finds that a man named Merricus is the leading First Citizen. When they say they want to capture Merricus,
Flavius Maximum (a former gladiator) offers to accompany them. However, they are captured by Roman forces and put in
prison.  Kirk questions Flavius to find out about the institution of slavery, and finds that slave uprisings virtually
ceased after they were slowly given rights such as medical care and a pension.  Kirk, McCoy, and Spock attempt to escape
when their guards escort them to talk to Merrick, but Merrick has anticipated this, disarms them, and then brings them
to his quarters for a conversation.
Merrick says he has meteor damage.  Iridium ore for repairs, met First Consul Claudius Marcus, decided he could not bring
word of the planet to the Federation.  Merrick agreed to stay, but killed those of his crew members who could not adapt
by sending them into the Arena be killed in a fight.  The Consul orders Kirk to transport his crew down a few at a time.
Instead, Kirk gives the code word ``condition green'' alerting Scott that he is in trouble but that Scott is not to
interfere.  For refusing to comply, Merrick sends McCoy and Spock to fight in the Arena against gladiators Achilles and
Flavius. Spock stuns his opponent and nerve pinches Flavius when McCoy gets into trouble.  McCoy and Spock are returned
to prison, but Kirk is entertained by the Proconsul's slave Druscilla prior to execution.
Scott prepares to disrupt power to the entire planet from the Enterprise just as Kirk is about to be executed on
live Roman T.V.  Before the execution can take place, Flavius intervenes, but is killed by machine gun fire before Scott
cuts power.  Kirk then frees McCoy and Spock, only to be surrounded by Roman guards.  However, Merrick has stolen a
communicator and signals the Enterprise to beam them up.  In the middle of this, he is slain by the Proconsul.
Merrick throws the communicator to Kirk, who has Scotty beam them up just before their cell is criss-crossed with machine
gun fire.  Back aboard the Enterprise, Uhura discovers that the escaped slaves were not sun worshippers, but
worshippers of the Son of God.
By Any Other Name
After a landing party beams down to investigate a distress call, they initially find no life form readings.  Shortly
thereafter, two ``perfect'' human life forms register and put in an appearance.  They thank Kirk for responding so
quickly to the distress call, and demands that Kirk surrender the Enterprise.  Before Kirk can take any action,
they press buttons on their belt which paralyzes the landing party's muscles. It turns out that the commander Rojan and
his companions (Tomar, Hanar, Draya, and Calinda), are members of the Kelvin Empire from the Andromeda Galaxy. They are
members of a scouting party sent to search for a new planet, since their old one will become unlivable within 10 millenia
do to high radiation levels.  However, their ship was destroyed by an energy field at the edge of the Milky Way Galaxy.
They were able to use a shuttle craft to reach their current planet, but need a new ship to return.  They also plan to
modify the ship's engines to allow the intergalactic trip to be made in 300 years. While Rojan explains this to Kirk
on the planet's surface, other Kelvins take over the Enterprise.
When imprisoned behind bars similar to diburnium (but more dense), ensign Shay advocates a forcible breakout, but in an
out-of-character move, Kirk suggests that Spock using a Vulcan mind probe on Calinda, as he had done to the guard on
Emmeniar 7.  Spock is violent thrown back by Calinda's reaction, but when she enters the cell to investigate, Kirk knocks
her out and attempts to escape.  They don't get very far, however, and the Kelvins reduce Shay and Yeoman Thompson to two
small gray polyhedra, which are purported to contain their essences.  Rojan crushes Thompson's polyhedron as a warning to
Kirk, but restores Shay to human form. Using the mind probe, Spock reports that the Kelvins are actually immense beings
with 100 limbs which resemble tentacles. Spock pretends to be ill by going into a self-induced Vulcan coma, and is
permitted to be beamed up with McCoy. On board, McCoy tells Nurse Chapel to prepare 2 cc's of stochaline (don't argue
Nurse, just get it). McCoy pretends that Spock will be fine in several hours, and is only suffering from a flare-up of
Rigelian Casaba fever.
Calinda admires the plants on the planet surface, and compares them to Kelvin sashir (``a rose by any other name,''
according to Kirk).  Spock and Kirk are beamed up to the ship, and discover the Kelvin power source.  Spock and Scott
prepares to explode the Enterprise when it passes through the negative energy barrier at the edge of the Galaxy.
However, Kirk hopes to avoid destruction, and so refuses to give the order.  (Actually, the Kelvins had discovered the
plan and rendered it ineffective in any case.) As soon as the Enterprise is past the energy barrier, the Kelvins
begin reducing the entire crew with the exception of Kirk, Scott, McCoy, and Spock to gray polyhedra. After Tomar wishes
to sample the ship's food, Spock notes that since the Kelvins have taken human form, they seem to be indulging in sensory
experiences which were hitherto unknown to them.
Kirk suggests that this unfamiliarity with senses can be used to confuse the Kelvins.  Bones uses the stimulant formazine
on Hanar to irritate him (telling him it is a vitamin shot), Kirk attempts to seduce Calinda by kissing her, Spock plays
on Rojan's jealousy over the kissing incident, and Scotty loads Tomar up on Sorian Brandy (and when he runs out, resorts
to his secret stash of Scotch Whiskey), but Draya is unaccountably left unaffected.  When Rojan tells Calinda to stay
away from Kirk and she refuses, Rojan loses his temper and threatens to neutralize the rest of the humans.  As Scott is
about to celebrate drinking Tomar under the table, he too keels over in a dead faint.  Rojan becomes increasingly jealous,
and engages in a fist fight with Kirk over Calinda. The Kelvins are dismayed by their very human responses and fearful
that by taking human form, they have betrayed their own form and culture.  They are therefore convinced by Kirk and Spock
to work with the Federation to find a habitable planet in the Milky Way for their people, and Rojan returns control of the
Enterprise to Kirk.
The Cage (Original Pilot)
This pilot episode was later incorporated into the two-part Star Trek episode The
Menagerie, Parts I and II.  The only characters retained in the original Star
Trek series were Leonard Nimoy (as Spock) and Majel Barrett (who took a large demotion from ``Number 1'' in the
pilot to Nurse Chapel in the series).
Catspaw
Strange things happen to a landing party consisting of Jackson, Sulu, and Scotty when they beam down to planet Pyrus 7.
Sulu and Scott disappear, then Jackson beams aboard the Enterprise and promptly dies without readily apparent
cause.  A strange voice coming from Jackson's mouth then tells Kirk that there is a curse on the Enterprise, which
must leave or the crew will all die. When Kirk, Spock, and McCoy beam down to investigate, leaving DeSalle in command and
Chekov as his sidekick, they are enveloped in fog. They also detect multiple life readings,
despite the fact that the Enterprise's sensors detect only the landing party. The landing party subsequently
encounters three witches and a medieval castle.  Upon entering the castle, they are confronted by a black cat. While
exploring the cobweb-draped interior, they fall through a hole in the floor which opens up beneath them and then suddenly
find themselves held in irons in the castle's dungeon.  Sulu and Scott, now both Zombies, release the prisoners and begin
leading them away.  When Kirk attempts to overpower them, they all materialize in front of the robed Korob and his
``precious'' black cat who he appears to consult for advice.
Spock questions Korob as to why previous surveys have not previously detected life on the planet, and Korob admits that
he is not native to the planet.  Korob makes a meal magically appear, but Kirk, Spock, and McCoy profess not to be
hungry.  He then makes plates full of gemstones appear and offers them as an incentive for leaving without further
inquiry, but Kirk claims that the Enterprise can manufacture them in bulk and is not impressed.  The cat leaves,
and shortly thereafter Korob's colleague Sylvia appears.  However, around her neck is the same diamond pendant as had
been worn by the cat. Kirk overpowers the Zombie Scott, takes his phaser, and demands that Sulu and Scott be released and
that their weapons and communicators be returned.  Sylvia responds by waving a model of the Enterprise over a
candle.  The real Enterprise experiences extreme heat, and narrowly avoids burning up when Kirk removes the model
and offers to cooperate.  To prevent interference from the Enterprise, the model is encased a glass, surrounding
the actual Enterprise with a force field it cannot break free from.
Kirk and Spock are chained again in the dungeon, and McCoy is meanwhile added to the collection of Zombies. Sylvia is
meanwhile enjoying the sensual pleasures of her new existence, and mocks Korob for being afraid to use his power when he
complains that she is abusing the specimens. Kirk pretends to fall in love with Sylvia in order to pump her for
information.  She responds by changing into a number of different attractive forms. Kirk learns that Korob and Sylvia
have been sent to study the galaxy, using a device called the transmuter. However,  Sylvia discovers by probing his mind
that Kirk is manipulating her, and becomes angry. Meanwhile, the Enterprise is breaking free through the efforts
of La Salle.  Korob releases the Enterprise from its encasement, then sets Kirk and Spock free and tells them to
leave immediately because be can no longer control Sylvia. Sylvia changes to a giant black cat, attacks Korob, and
attempts to kill Kirk and Spock.  Kirk grabs Korob's scepter, which he suspects to be the mysterious transmuter. After
fending off attacks from McCoy, Scott, and Sulu, Kirk tells Sylvia that he has the scepter.  Sylvia tries to finagle it
away from him, but he breaks the scepter in front of Sylvia.  The castle vanishes, and Sylvia and Korob appear as the
bizarre blue and yellow puppet-like alien beings they are. Unable to survive in this galaxy without the transmuter, they
shrivel up and melt away and Sulu and Scott are returned to normal.
The Changeling
When the Enterprise investigates a distress call from the planet Mulour, a planet of population 4 billion, Spock
reports that sensors detect no life forms. There is no word even from Dr. Manway, head of a Federation science team on
the planet who has his own transmitter. The Enterprise's shields then come up automatically when it encounters a 1
meter long, 500 kg, cylinder which attacks the Enterprise with energy bolts having the strength of 90 photon
torpedoes.  Kirk torpedoes the object, but the energy is simply absorbed by the target. Kirk then transmits a message to
the object, and it stops firing, requests communication, and allows itself to be beamed aboard the Enterprise.
The probe identifies itself as Nomad, and refers to Kirk as the creator. Checking records, Spock finds that a
Nomad probe was indeed launched to explore the far reaches of the galaxy and seek out new life. Apparently,
Nomad believes that Kirk is Jackson Roy Kirk, the original creator of Nomad. Nomad insists, however,
that his mission is to destroy that which is not perfect (including all biological ``infestations.'')  Kirk leaves Lt.
Singh in charge of Nomad. When it hears Uhura singing over the intercom, however, it slips away to seek her out.
Upon finding her, still singing, Nomad questions her as to what form of communication she was practicing and she
replies music, it erases her mind, calling her a mass of conflicting impulses. When Scotty tries to intervene,
Nomad kills him. When Kirk is displeased, Nomad offers to ``repair'' the unit Scott, claiming that it was
only acting in self defense.  Kirk then asks Nomad to repair Uhura, which it claims it cannot since it has erased
her memory banks.  Nurse Chapel therefore begins re-educating her on how to read, and reports that she can be back on the
job in a week.
Kirk then tells it to accompany two security guards to a waiting area, actually a top security cell. Spock attempts to
study Nomad, but it only lowers its shields when Kirk explicitly tells it to. However, Spock is not able to learn
full details from his scan, and therefore resorts to a Vulcan mind meld. Spock discovers that Nomad collided with
an alien probe called Tan-Ru, designed to obtain and sterilize soil samples from other planets, and was severely
damaged. Some of its memory was lost, and it subsumed Tan-Ru's directive, interpreting it to mean sterilize
imperfections.  Spock is shaken by the experience, and Kirk is forced to pull him away and tell Nomad to stop
communicating.  Kirk again confines Nomad to the cell, but it waltzes right through the security field and kills the
two security guards when they attempt to stop him with phaser fire.
Nomad then makes his way to the engine room, and increases the ``efficiency'' of the engines 57% by increasing the
matter-antimatter reaction rate.  Kirk orders Nomad to reverse changes to the matter-antimatter reactor, as the
Enterprise cannot stand the stress. Kirk confronts Nomad, telling him that his contempt of biological units
is illogical, since its creator is a biological unit.  Kirk tries to get the probe to return to the holding cell, but it
kills the two security guards sent to accompany it and heads to sickbay.  Here it examines Kirk's medical history,
attacking Nurse Chapel when she tries to stop him.  It then shuts down life support systems throughout the ship in order
to destroy the imperfect units aboard it without destroying the Enterprise.  Kirk then gets Nomad to admit
that it that it must sterilize everything which is in error. Kirk defeats Nomad by showing it its own
imperfections: it thought he was Jackson Roy Kirk, it did not discover its mistake, and it did not exercise its prime
function by eliminating itself because it was imperfect.  While attempting analyzing the situation, Nomad is beamed into
space.  It is caught in a logic loop while attempting its errors, causing it to self-destruct.
Charlie X
The Enterprise (crew of 428) takes charge of Charlie Evans from the science probe vessel/survey ship/transport
ship Antares (crew of 20) to transport him to his nearest living relatives on earth colony Alpha 5. Captain Remard
and navigator Nellis sing the praises of Charlie, the sole survivor of a transport crash on the planet Thesus 14
years ago.  They then beat a hasty retreat to their ship.  Charlie has learned to talk from the crashed ship's data
tapes.  He tells McCoy that the members of the transport ship didn't like him, and that he wants people to like him.
Aboard the Enterprise, Charlie falls in love with Yeoman Janice Rand.  He pats her rump (which she objects to) and
gives her a bottle of perfume, her favorite kind.   Charlie meets Rand later in the Recreation room, where Spock is
playing a Vulcan musical instrument and Uhura is (attempting) to sing.  Charlie shows good taste be not enjoying the
singing, and causes her to run out of breath.  When the Antares is almost out of communications range it starts to warn
the Enterprise about something, then disintegrates.  Charlie comments ``It wasn't very well constructed.'' Shortly
thereafter, the cook reports that the synthetic meatloaf has been transformed into real turkeys. Kirk beats Spock at 3-D
chess, and Charlie tries to duplicate the feat. He loses, and causes the white chess pieces to melt.
Rand introduces Charlie to Yeoman third class Tina Lawton, but he is only interested in Rand and brushes Tina off. Kirk
attempts to teach Charlie how to fight.  When Sam laughs following a fall by Charlie, Charlie makes him ``go away.''
This demonstrates to Kirk and Spock that Charlie has the power to manipulate matter. Kirk calls security guards to escort
Charlie to his quarters, but Charlie objects and causes all phasers on the ship to vanish. Kirk, suspecting that Charlie
has been given powers spoken of in legend to be held by the Thesians, confronts Charlie, who admits he destroyed the
Antares by making the warped baffle plate on the shield of the energy piling go away (although he claims it would
have blown up anyway). When Charlie discovers that Kirk plans to divert from Alpha 5, he takes control of the
Enterprise and its crew. He forces Spock (``Mr. Ears'') to recite poetry (Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright and Once
Upon a Midnight Dreary).  He then turns Tina into a lizard and bursts in on Rand.  When she spurns his advances, he makes
her disappear.  Kirk and Spock attempt to lock Charlie in a detention chamber, but to no avail. Charlie goes on a
rampage, turning a young crew member into an old woman, and removing the faces from some crew members who are laughing.
Kirk, Bones, and Spock try to distract Charlie by overloading him with activity, but do not meet with success until a
Thesians vessel approaches the Enterprise and takes Charlie away.
City on the Edge of Forever 
As the Enterprise investigates ripples in time which are resulting in space disturbances, Sulu has a heart flutter
after his control panel short circuits.  Bones gives Sulu cordrazine, a mind-blowing drug at high dosages but a valuable
cardiac medicine in small dosages.  Sulu immediately recovers, but McCoy accidentally injects himself with the remainder
of cordrazine in the hypo when the Enterprise passes through a particularly strong space disturbance.  McCoy
freaks out and becomes extremely paranoid, knocking out the transporter chief and beaming down to the planet to
escape the ship of ``murderers.''   The transporter had been locked in on the center of the time ripples, and when Kirk,
Spock, and a landing party follow McCoy down, they discover 10,000 year-old ruins surrounding the annular structure from
which the time distortions are emanating.  The structure, calling itself the Guardian of Forever,  turns out to be a time
portal.  Spock finds the crazed McCoy and nerve pinches him, but McCoy recovers and rushes through the portal before
anyone can stop him.
Communication with the Enterprise immediately ceases, and the landing party concludes that McCoy's actions in the
past have changed the future.  To return the present to what it was, Spock and Kirk enter the time portal at a time
shortly before McCoy did so that they may find McCoy and prevent him from changing history.  They materialize in America
during the 1930s Depression, and are forced to steal clothes so as not to draw attention to themselves.  When questioned
by a policeman, Kirk explains Spock's ears by claiming that Spock was caught in a mechanical rice picker as a child.
After escaping and hiding in what they think to be a deserted building, they meet Edith Keeler (played by Joan Collins),
guiding light of the 21st Street Mission.  They agree to do odd jobs for her to obtain the funds necessary for Spock to
construct a mnemonic memory circuit to read the information in the tricorder and discover what historical events McCoy 
has changed. They discover that Keeler is the link, either dying in a traffic accident or meeting with the U.S.
President.
Unbeknownst to Kirk and Spock, Bones appears and is given shelter at Edith's mission.  After his arrival, he accosts a
man on the street and then falls down unconscious.  The man then accidentally vaporizes himself using McCoy's phaser.
McCoy recovers from his cordazine trip, and tells Edith he is chief medial officer on the U.S.S. Enterprise. At
first he does not believe he is in 1930 America, but soon realized he is. After hours of careful work using primitive
vacuum tube circuits, Spock discovers that McCoy, if not stopped, will prevent Keeler's death.  Keeler will then found a
peace movement which will delay U.S. entry into World War II and allow Germany time to develop the atom bomb and conquer
the world.  On his way to see a Clark Gable movie with Edith, Kirk learns from Edith that Dr. McCoy is in town and then
immediately sees Bones across the street.  Despite his love for Edith Keeler, Kirk holds Bones back to prevent him from
saving Keeler as she crosses the street in front of a car.  The future is returned to what it was, and Kirk, Spock, and
McCoy return to the planet of the Guardian where their landing party has been waiting, but for only a few seconds of real
time. Communications with the Enterprise are restored, and when the Guardian asks if anyone else desires to make
a journey in time, Kirk responds ``Let's get the hell out of here.''
The Cloud Minders
When a botanical plague threatens to destroy all vegetation on the planet Merak II, the Enterprise makes a visit
to Ardana, the only known source of the xenite mineral needed to halt the plague.  Despite High Advisor Plasus's request
that they beam to the cloud city Stratos, Kirk and Spock beam directly down to the xenite mine entrance, where they are
lassooed by the xenite miners.  Kirk and Spock fend the miners off, and those who are not quick enough at running away
are killed by security guards who beam down with high advisor Plasus from Stratos.  Kirk and Spock are entertained as
guests on Stratos until the xenite can be found.  During their stay, they discover that Ardana is a divided planet, with
the Trogglytes toiling in the cold and dirt of the mines and the city-dwellers enjoying the benefits.  Although Kirk and
Spock do not witness the event, a Trogglyte who is captured after defacing artwork in Stratos refuses to reveal the names
of the rebel disrupters, preferring instead to fall to his death by jumping out of a window.
Plasus' daughter Droxine is fascinated with Spock (she likes his ``exquisitely shaped ears''), but the city servant and
secret Trogglyte leader Vanna has an interest of a different kind for Kirk: she attempts to take him hostage at
mining-implement-point.  Kirk recognizes her from the planet's surface and tries to question her.  She does not fully
cooperate, but does tell Kirk that the Trogglytes believe the Enterprise has been sent to intimidate them.  He
calls Spock and Droxine, who in turn summons a sentinel to escort Vanna away.  Vanna's screams as she is being tortured
with rays in an attempt to learn the names of other disrupters draw Kirk and Spock.  Kirk is outraged by the torture,
and his forceful protests prompt Plasus to order their immediate departure from the city.
Back aboard the Enterprise, Kirk learns from McCoy that unprocessed xenite emits an odorless, invisible gas which
temporarily diminishes mental ability and heightens emotions.  Spock then realizes that the leaders of the disrupters have all been
isolated from xenite emissions by their service aboard Stratos.  Kirk proposes that the Trogglytes be supplied with
xenite masks, but Plasus is not interested.  Kirk then violates Plasus's ban from Stratos by secretly beams down to
Vanna's cell on Stratos, armed with a mask, and offers his assistance in achieving equality for her people if she will
produce the xenite. Vanna seems to agree, but takes Kirk hostage (despite Midro and Anka's desire to kill him) after
she and Kirk overpower the guard and escape to the mines on the planet's surface.  Vanna then forces Kirk to experience
life as a Trogglyte and dig with his hands.
Kirk regains his phaser from Vanna after she has sent Midro and Anka on errands.  He uses it to seal the cavern and
orders the Enterprise to beam Plasus down as well for a small demonstration on the effects of an invisible gas.
The demonstration proves quite effective, when Kirk forces Plasus and Vanna to dig xenite.  When Vanna and Plasus grow
faint due to the diminishing oxygen in the sealed chamber, Kirk strikes him and the two begin hand-to-hand combat with
mortes. The three are saved from suffocation only when Vanna gets Kirk's communicator during the combat and tells the
Enterprise to beam them up.  Once the effect of the gas has worn off, Kirk agrees to provide Vanna with
masks and help the Trogglytes obtain equality in exchange for the xenite, despite the protests of Plasus.  Kirk and
Plasus drop charges against each other, and Kirk and Spock return to the Enterprise with xenite in hand.
The Conscience of the King
After recognizing the actor Anton Kerridian as Kodos the Executioner , Thomas Layton pulls the Enterprise to the
Signia Minor Earth Colony, 300 ly off its course, with a phony message.  Layton tells Kirk his suspicions, but is
murdered shortly thereafter.  Kirk consults the computer banks and discovers that Kerridian's history begins exactly
where that of Kodos ends.  Of the nine witnesses of Kodos' murder of 4000 colonists on Tarsus IV 20 years previously,
Kirk finds that Layton, Kevin Riley, and himself were the only survivors (E. Molsen, D. Eems, and the other four were all
dead).  Kirk finds further that the death of all these witnesses had occurred when the Kerridian players were nearby.
Hoping to conclusively establish the identity of Kerridian, Kirk requests his friend Captain Daily not to pick up the
acting company.  At the request of Kerridian's 19-year-old daughter Lenore, Kirk then uses the Enterprise to
take them to the Benecia colony (8 ly off course).  While the players are aboard, Riley's milk is poisoned and a phaser
on overload is hidden in Kirk's room.  Kirk confronts Kerridian, but is not conclusively convinced off his guilt.  After
Riley escapes from sickbay and tries to kill Kerridian, Kirk overhears the psychopathic Lenore telling her father that it
was she who had been killing the eyewitnesses to his deeds of the past.  Kirk tries to take Lenore into custody, but she
grabs a phaser from a security guard.  She tries to shoot Kirk, but her father intervenes and is accidentally killed.
The Corbomite Maneuver
On the third day of star-mapping (with Lt. Bailey as navigator in place of Ensign Chekov), the Enterprise
discovers a giant multi-colored spinning cube.  McCoy, who is giving Kirk his quarterly medical examination, fails to
inform him about the crisis, quipping (to himself)  ``If I jumped every time a light went off around here, I'd end up
talking to myself.'' (o Kirk's chagrin, his diet is changed to salad following the exam.  As the Enterprise tries
to maneuver away from the cube (which holds a distance of 1593 m, is 107 m on an edge, < 11,000 metric tons in weight,
and has a mode power which, according to Scotty, ``beats me what makes it go''), the cube begins emitting deadly
radiation, so Kirk is forced to destroy it.  Responding to the destruction of the buoy, the mile-diameter spherical
flagship Thesarius of the First Federation rushes to the scene.  Its pilot threatens to destroy the
Enterprise for violating First Federation space and destroying the warning buoy.  Balok gives the crew of the
Enterprise 10 minutes to consult with their deity before they are destroyed.  Spock is able to give a visual look
at the imposing Balok on the ship's monitor during this waiting period.
Kirk saves the day by pretending that the Enterprise is equipped with a ``corbomite device'' which will destroy
any vessel which attacks it.  Balok then offers to spare the crew of the Enterprise by towing it to a First
Federation planet, interning the crew there, and only then destroying the Enterprise.  However, Kirk waits for the
tow ship to expend its power, then pulls away, crippling the power systems of the tow ship.   Kirk, McCoy, and Bailey
transport to the main ship Thesarius to render assistance.  Balok, pilot of the ship, greets the landing party and
offers him ``tranya'' to drink.  Kirk et al. find that the image of Balok they had glimpsed was a phony puppet,
since Balok is actually an unintimidating midget.  In turns out that Balok was simply testing the Earth mean to see what
their true intentions were, not trusting the information he gleaned from his scan of the Enterprise's data banks.
Dave Bailey, who had panicked during the crisis on the bridge of the Enterprise, remains on the Thesarius
to exchange cultures with Balok after a tour of the Thesarius by Balok.
Court Martial
After sustaining severe damage from an ion storm, the Enterprise is forced to seek repairs at Starbase 11.
Here, Commodore Stone investigates the loss of records officer Ben Finney, who was killed when the ion pod ion which he
was taking readings had to be jettisoned to save the Enterprise. Stone finds that despite Kirk's insistence to
the contrary, the computer record shows that Kirk ejected the pod during yellow alert, before red alert had been
signaled.  Kirk is further incriminated when it is learned that although they were once close friends, Finney had deeply
hated Kirk and held him responsible for Finney's lack of promotion.  This stemmed from an incident aboard the 
Republic (NCC 1371), when Kirk had replaced Finney on watch and discovered a circuit open to the atomic matter piles
that should have been closed.  Finney was sent to the bottom of the promotion list, and began to blame Kirk for ``keeping
him down.''  Kirk stands by his testimony, and draws a court martial for perjury and culpable negligence.  His former
flame Ariel Shaw is the prosecuting attorney, and Kirk seeks the services of Samuel T. Cogley. 
Testimony from McCoy, Spock (S 179-276 SP), and himself (SC 937-0176 CEC) proves unenlightening, and Spock is forced to
admit that there is nothing mechanically wrong with the computer (confirmed by a later megalite survey).  Just as
sentence is about to be pronounced by Stone, Space Command Representative Linstrom, and starship captains Chandra and
Crisnowski, Spock discovers something amok in program bank of the Enterprise after he is able to beat the computer
5 times, despite the fact that its program should not be capable of losing.  Spock rushes down to the Starbase, and the
entire court reconvenes aboard the Enterprise to determine what is going on.  Using a auditory sensor (intensified
by a factor of 1 to the fourth power), the computer detects one more heartbeat aboard than can be accounted for.  Kirk
soon locates the hiding Finney, who has managed to tap out the primary energy circuits. Finney tells Kirk how to return
power and prevent the Enterprise from burning up in the planet's atmosphere only when Kirk tells him that his
daughter Jamie is aboard.  Kirk's record is cleared, and Samuel Cogley takes on a new case: defending Finney.
Dagger of the Mind
Mr. Berkeley tries to beam supplies down through a security shield of the Tantalus penal colony as the Enterprise
makes a routine stop.  After the colony drops the shield, they beam aboard a box of research material inside of which
Simon van Gelder, former assistant to penal colony director Doctor Tristan Adams, is hiding.  van Gelder karate chops the
transporter technician, then makes his way to the bridge with a phaser has has taken from a security guard.  He demands
asylum, but Kirk and Spock overpower him.   Bones suspects something amiss, and wishes to keep van Gelder on board for examination.  Kirk and
Helen Noel, an acquaintance from a Christmas party of years past, beam down to investigate.
After Kirk and Helen beam down, van Gelder tells Spock about Adams's use of a neuroneutralizer to empty the minds of his
inmates.  He warns that Kirk is in danger, and consents to have Spock mind meld with him to discover the truth.  Kirk and
Helen observe the neutralizer being applied to a patient by Adams's assistant Eli, and becomes suspicious. When Kirk and
Helen secretly examine the neuroneutralizer by having Helen use it on Kirk at minimum intensity, Helen suggests that they
renew their Christmas party encounter.  Adams wrenches controls from her, turns the neutralizer to high intensity, and
forces Kirk to drop his phaser and communicator.  The two are taken prisoner.  Helen escapes through a ventilation duct
(her escape is reported by Lethay, a ``cured patient''), and Kirk is saved from having his mind seriously harmed during a
second neuroneutralizer session when Helen turns off all power to the colony, including the energy shield. Helen is
waylaid in the shield room, but pushes her attacker int a high voltage transformer.  Kirk knocks out Adams and his
assistant, and goes in search of Helen.  Spock, noticing that the shield is off, beams down and restores power to the
colony.  Adams, still unconscious in the treatment room, is subjected to the neuroneutralizer and is killed of loneliness
when the machine empties his mind, despite having only been left at low intensity.  Van Gelder is left behind to
destroy the treatment room and reconstitute the colony.
Day of the Dove
Called to Earth colony Beta 12A by a distress signal which claimed to be under attack by a ship, Kirk and his landing
party (Bones, Chekov, and security guard Johnson) find no traces of the 100 men, women, and children who inhabited the
colony.  Kirk's suspicions of Klingon involvement seem confirmed when the Enterprise detects the approach of a
Klingon battlecruiser.  Strangely, however, the cruiser is disabled and heavily damaged.  Commander Kang and his landing
party beam down and subdue the Enterprise's landing party, accusing the Enterprise of attacking and killing
400 Klingons aboard his ship.  He demands that Kirk beam the Klingon landing party up to the Enterprise.
Meanwhile, Kirk accuses Kang of destroying the colonists of 12A.  Chekov attempts to attack the Klingons, accusing them of
attacking and killing the members of a Federation outpost on which his brother Pyoter was stationed---despite the fact that
he has no brother.
Kirk pretends to comply with Kang's order after Chekov is tortured, but actually warns Spock by pressing a special button
on his communicator.  Scott then holds the Klingons in transit until security guards can cover the transporter room. Kang
and his landing party are then beamed aboard and taken prisoner along with the rest of the Klingon crew (including Kang's
wife Mara) who have been beamed to the Enterprise from their stricken ship. Soon thereafter, the Enterprise
spontaneously accelerates to warp 9 and traps all but 38 crew members below deck.
When Kirk confronts Kang and accuses him of being responsible for the trapping of the Enterprise's crew, phasers
and room ornaments turn into swords.  Thus armed, the Klingons escape and take control of engineering. Their attempt to
cut off life support to the bridge is foiled, however, when normal functioning returns for no apparent reason.
Meanwhile, Spock has ascertained that there is an unfamiliar alien life force aboard.  After watching his crew turn at
each other throats, seeing Chekov seeking revenge for the death of his non-existent brother Pyoter at the hands of the
Klingons (as well as attempting to rape Kang's wife), and observing that fatal wounds (Johnson's heart wound, for
instance) are mysterious healing, Kirk realizes that the alien (a rotating, multicolored energy field) is influencing
matter and human and Klingon behavior, somehow deriving sustenance from violent emotions they experience.  Kirk and
Mara use intra-ship beaming to pass through the Klingon defenses. With the help of Mara, and after fighting Kang
in a sword battle which ultimately involves all Klingons and Enterprise crew members, Kirk eventually convinces
Kang to cease hostilities and participate in temporary gestures of goodwill.  These drive the creature away.
The Deadly Years 
Chekov, Spock, Lt. Gallway, McCoy, Kirk, Scotty beam down to resupply the experimental colony on Gamma Hydra 4, they
initially find no one home.  Kirk is puzzled, since he had just talked to the leader of the expedition an hour earlier.
Chekov finds a dead man (Alvin) in one of the colony's buildings who appears to have died of old age.  However, Spock
maintains that this cannot be true because no one that old was a member of the expedition.  The leader, Robert Johnson
(age 29) then appears, along with his wife Elaine (age 27).  Both appear to be extremely old. Kirk beams the landing
party up together with those of the colonists who are still alive.  Aboard the Enterprise, the colonists die of
old age.  Kirk puts Spock, Commodore Stocker (who is on his way to Starbase 10), and his former flame (of 6 years, 4
months, and some odd days ago) Dr. Janet Wallace on the investigation.  The only unusual event which Spock can determine is
that an unusual comet passed by the planet shortly before.
Kirk begins to lose his memory and displays advanced arthritis. Scott, McCoy, Lt. Gallway, and Spock all show signs of
aging (30 y/day), but Chekov curiously does not.  Spock finds the cause of the affliction.  Apparently the comet whose
tail Gamma Hydra 4 passed through (and is now in quadrant 448) is emitting low energy radiation.  Commodore Stocker
becomes increasingly concerned about Kirk's condition, and forces Spock to hold a competency hearing. Meanwhile, Lt.
Gallway dies of old age and Chekov continues to remain unaffected.  Kirk is found incompetent, and Commodore Stocker take
over.  He order the Enterprise to head directly for Starbase 10, through the neutral zone. Meanwhile, McCoy and
Kirk realize that the one difference between their experience on the planet and Chekov's was that Chekov was scared to
death upon encountering the dead body.  McCoy recalls that early investigations showed adrenaline to be a potentially
useful drug from combating radiation, but was subsequently abandoned when hyronaline was discovered.  Spock developed an
injection containing adrenaline, which is first tried on Kirk. Fortunately, the shot is effective, and Kirk is able to
assume control of the Enterprise, which is under attack by the Romulans thanks to Stocker's incompetence in
violated the neutral zone.  Kirk transmits a message using Code 2, which has been broken by the Romulans, that the
Enterprise has inadvertently strayed into neutral zone. Kirk claims he will destruct using a corbomite device
which will destroy everything within a 200,000 km diameter, and that the explosion area will have to avoided for 4 years.
The Romulans give a little ground, and Kirk immediately races out of the neutral zone at warp 8 an escapes.
Devil in the Dark
The Enterprise is sent to investigate a string of sabotages and murders on pergeum mining planet Janus 6.
(Actually, Janus 6 is also uranium, cerium, platinum are also present in plenty.) After opening up a new level (level 23)
30 months previously, something started killing 50 people in the mines, including the guard Schmitter.  The were all
burned to a crisp.  Chief Processing Engineer Ed Appel caught site of a big fuzzy object and shot it with a phaser, but
it had no effect. Spock, McCoy, and Kirk beam down to confer with Chief Engineer Vanderberg.  Spock notices a spherical
silicon nodule, which he describes as a geological odditity, and also that the creature must have been moving at a great
speed to be responsible for the deaths when and where they occurred.
The creature's next move is to kill the guard of the PXK pergeum reactor room and removes the main circulating pump of
the reactor, placing it in danger of going supercritical.  Scotty is able to rig up a replacement, but only expects it to
last 48 hours. Spock and Kirk speculate that the creature may be based on silicon instead of carbon, and suggest that if
that were the case, then phaser 2 would be much more effective than the phaser 1 used by the miners.  They equip a
landing party with phaser 2 and go in search of the creature.  The creature finds one of the search party, and promptly
fries him. Spock examines a nearby tunnel and discovers it to have been newly cut.  The creature then shows itself and is
fired upon.  It escapes, but the shot chips off a chunk of fibrous silicon material which is apparently its skin.
The rock-like creature is then located by Spock's tricorder tunnelling through solid rock.  Spock finds that there is
only one creature, and has second thoughts about killing it, but Kirk is firm in his determination to destroy the
creature. Kirk wants Spock to remain behind rather than join in the search lest they both be killed, but when Spock
points out that the odds of both of them dying are 2228.7:1, Kirk is forced to relent.  Kirk is trapped in the creature's
lair, containing many nodules, after the roof collapses.  Kirk tells Spock that the creature is 10 feet way from him, and
Spock rushes to the scene.  Spock mind melds with the creature, but not physically touching it because of the corrosive
acid it emits.  He discovers that the creature is in pain, and the creature uses the the knowledge it has gained from the
melding experience to tell Kirk and Spock that it is peaceful by corroding the words ``No kill I'' in stone.  Spock then
actually touches the creature, which he has learned calls itself a Horta.  Spock discovers that the mining activity has
accidentally killed off many of the Horta eggs (the silicon nodules).  McCoy treats the Horta's phaser injury using
cement, but complains ``I'm a doctor, not a bricklayer.''  Spock finds where the stolen pump is, and Kirk goes to
retrieve it.  Meanwhile, the miners overpower the security detail from the Enterprise and storm in to kill the
Horta.  However, they relent when Spock informs them that all the Hortas but this have died off as a normal part of a
30,000 year reproductive cycle, and that the Horta must now protect the eggs which are being accidentally destroyed by
the miners, so that its kind can flourish again.  In fact, they become big Horta fans when Kirk suggests that the miners
can take advantage of the Horta's tunnelling abilities.
As the Enterprise prepares to leave, Vanderberg informs Kirk than he and his men are getting along well with the
hatching Hortas, although adjusting to their appearance is a little difficult.  Spock mentions to Kirk that the Horta
found human appearance repulsive, although apparently liked pointed ears so that he did not have the heart to tell it
that they were not a universal human characteristic.
The Doomsday Machine 
The Enterprise responds to a distress call and finds that all seven planets in system L370 have been destroyed.
They then enter L374 and discover all but the two inner planets have also been destroyed.  They detect a distress
beacon from the Starship U.S.S. Constellation, and find the battered remains of the ship itself. Scans show the
bridge to be uninhabitable, but the rest of the ship to have reserve power and to be inhabitable. Subspace interference
prevents good communication and Kirk is unable to contact Commodore Matt Decker, Captain of the Constellation, so
a boarding party therefore beams aboard the Constellation to investigate.  They find no sign of the crew, and
Scotty determines the warp drive to be inoperable and the phasers to be exhausted.  Kirk then locates Decker in the
auxiliary control room, but Decker is in a state of shock and not very coherent.  Even after an injection by McCoy,
Decker is able to say that his ship was attacked by ``that thing.''
Kirk and Scott play back the Constellation's record tape, in which Decker reports discovering destroyed solar
systems, and entering L374 to investigate the breakup of the fourth planet by Science Officer Masada.  Decker reports
that his ship was attacked and damaged, so he beamed his crew down to the third planet.  The attacker then returned,
further damaged the Constellation (including the transporter), and then proceeded to destroy the third planet
while Decker remained helpless on the Constellation. Washburn reports that the antimatter in the warp drive has
been deactivated, and Kirk surmises that this is connected with subspace interference.  Decker informs them that the
attacker was a miles-long robot which uses a pure anti-proton beam to destroy objects in its path, then digests them as
fuel.  Sulu computes that the path of the robot has brought it from outside the Galaxy.
Kirk beams Decker and McCoy back to the Enterprise.  They arrive just as the conical ``doomsday machine/planet
killer'' (with a sparking interior) makes a reappearance and pursues the Enterprise.  It attacks them and damages
the Enterprise's transporter, then heads for the densely inhabited Rigel 7 system.  Commodore Decker pulls his
rank and assumes command of the Enterprise (using Order 104, Section B, Paragraph 1a) over Spock's objections.
Decker orders an attack on the doomsday machine despite Spock's protest that its shell is made of neutronium and is
therefore impermeable to attack from a single ship.  The Enterprise is attacked by the doomsday machine, but
manages to survive, and Decker then attacks the doomsday machine with phasers, which have no effect.  The doomsday
machine then attacks again, destroying the Enterprise's shields and then begins pulling it into its interior with
a tractor beam. From the Constellation, Kirk sees what is going on, and begins heading towards the doomsday
machine using impulse power.  He distracts it by firing phasers, freeing the Enterprise, and is then in turn saved
when the Enterprise fires again.
After the Enterprise restores ship-to-ship communications, Kirk angrily orders Spock to re-assume command on his
personal authority, which he does. After Spock assumes command, Mr. Montgomery accompanies Decker for an examination in
sickbay.  On the way, Decker overpowers Montgomery, then steals a shuttlecraft.  Decker pilots the shuttle into the
planet killer's maw, killing himself, but producing a small power drop in the doomsday machine.  Kirk reasons that the
explosion of a starship might be capable of destroying the alien vessel.  Scott rigs the Constellation to explode,
then transports to the Enterprise, leaving Kirk behind.  The transporter then malfunctions, and Scott is able to
fix it only just in time to beam Kirk aboard before the Constellation is swallowed. At the last second, Kirk is
beamed aboard the Enterprise. The Constellation then explodes, producing an explosion of 97.835 megatons,
which turns the planet killer into a space junk.
Elaan of Troyius 
The Enterprise is on a top secret mission to the Tellan star system.  It takes aboard Petrie, ambassador from
Troyius (the outer planet), then continues on the the inner planet Elaas.  Here it beams aboard three Elaasian guards who
check that all is secure, then the haughty Dolman of Elaas.  Kirk is surprised by her bearing (she demands that Kirk and
everyone else, whom she calls inferior, ask her permission for Kirk to enter and leave her presence), until Petrie
explains that she is to be taken to Troyius for a marriage with the ruler of Troyius in order to stop a bloody war.  The
Elaasian Council of Nobles and Troyius Tribunal have agreed that Petrie shall teach Elaan the customs of Troyius (i.e.,
the rudiments of civilized behavior), but Elaan has other ideas.  She also complains and hurls things about the room when
she is unsatisfied with her quarters (which Uhura has vacated for her). At Petrie's request, Kirk proceeds on to the
return trip on impulse engines only so as to allow plenty of time for the ``education.''  Not surprisingly, the lessons
do not go well, and Elaan stabs Petrie in the back with a knife, fortunately not fatally.  To make matters worse, the
Federation commissioner sends a coded signal to the Enterprise that he plans to attend the wedding.
Meanwhile, Spock detects a ``ghost'' paralleling the Enterprise's course.  After fading in and out of sensor
range, it finally ventures closer and reveals itself to be a Klingon warship.  Kirk tries to take over the tutoring, but
doesn't get much further than Petrie, and has a knife thrown at him. In another plot complication, one of the Elaasian
guards (Kriton, who is in love with Elaan and has thrown in with the Klingons in a fierce jealousy over having to give
up Elaan to the Troyian leader) booby-traps the warp engines, killing an engineer who discovers and tries to question
him. Despite Elaan's orders to the contrary, Kirk enters her chamber (after Spock stuns the two guards) and attempts to
administer another lesson.  At first, Elaan tries again to kill him (locking herself in a closet and telling him she will
wait there 10 ``light-years'' if she has to), but then changes her mind.  She cries and tells him she wants to make
people like her. Kirk unwisely touches her tears (which contain a biochemical substance which causes men to fall in love
with their shedder), and is snared.  Kriton transmits a signal to the Klingon ship using a Klingon communicator, but is
then caught. Before Spock can use the Vulcan mind meld on him, he uses a concealed phaser to commit suicide.
The Klingon ship then heads for the Enterprise at warp speed.  Luckily, just before Kirk gives orders to maneuver,
Scott discovers that the matter-antimatter pods are rigged to explode as soon as the Enterprise goes to warp
speed. The Klingon ship streaks by the Enterprise without firing, presumably waiting for it to go to light speed
and blow itself up.  Unfortunately, Scott finds that the dilithium crystals have been completely fused, and that power
for the warp drive and phasers is therefor not available.  The Klingons demand that the Enterprise prepare to be
boarded or destroyed.  When Kirk does not comply, the Klingon attacks. Spock has been wondering why the Klingons are
interested in Elaan in the first place, but discovers the reason when Elaan comes to the bridge and  bridge sensors show
that the ``common stones'' in the Dolman's necklace are made of dilithium crystals.  Scotty is able to effect repairs to
the engines using the crystals, and Kirk blows up the Klingon using photon torpedoes on its next pass. Kirk is able to
resist the effects of the tears (to McCoy's's annoyance, since he has actually managed to find an antidote), and the
Dolman is transported safely to Troyius.
The Empath
When the Enterprise stops by to pick up scientific staff Linke and Ozaba from the planet Menarian 2, which is in
orbit around a star which is about to supernova, Kirk, Bones, and McCoy discover the station has been abandoned for three
months. Meanwhile, Scott reports a massive solar flare measuring 3.51 of Ritter scale.  Kirk informs him to move the
Enterprise to a safe distance until the flare passes, putting it out of communication range for 74.1 solar hours.
The landing party reviews the record tapes to see what has become of the scientific staff. It the tape, a high pitched
whine begins, and Linke and Ozaba are whisked away one at a time while attempting to cover their ears.  After reviewing
the tape, Kirk and company are subjected to the same high-pitched whine, and are transported underground to the chambers
of the Vions, 121.32 m below the surface.
Here, they discover a timid, mute, woman.  McCoy starts to approach, but Kirk holds him back.  When McCoy protests that
she seems harmless enough, Spock reminds him that ``The sand bats of Maynard 4 appear to be inanimate rock crystals,
doctor, before they attack.''  Kirk wonders how he will communicate with the woman, unless she is a telepath.  However,
Spock notes that this is unlikely, since 98% of known telepathic species send as well as receive thoughts.  McCoy dubs
the woman Gem.  While Kirk is trying to question Gem, two Vions appear.  When Kirk tries to secure freedom for the
landing party, the Vions trap McCoy, Spock, and Kirk in a force field which draws energy from their bodies.  The Vions
then vanish, releasing the landing party.  Gem then touches Kirk's forehead, transfers the wound there to her own head,
the heals it, revealing herself to be an empath.  Spock reports that his tricorder now reveals a collection of machinery
which did not appear to be there before.  When they go to investigate, they discover Linke and Ozaba encased in plastic
cylinders.  In addition, there are three empty cylinders, labelled ``Subject McCoy,'' ``Subject Kirk,'' and ``Subject
Spock.''  One of the Vions then reappears, but Kirk distracts him while Spock nerve pinches him.  However, the Vion is
only pretending to have fainted, and the landing party does exactly what they want them to when they head up to the
planet surface.
On the surface, the Vions create an illusion that Scotty is on the surface with a search party.  This distracts McCoy and
Spock while the Vions study Kirk and offer to let the others go if Kirk offers himself as a ``specimen.'' The Vions
torture Kirk without apparent reason.  They then let him go, but Kirk finds that McCoy and Spock are still subterranean
prisoners.  Gem cures Kirk's injuries (including a case of the bends), but then faints from the strain. Although Kirk
does not yet realize it, it turns out that the Vions are testing the empath Gem to see if she will sacrifice herself by
saving members of the Enterprise's crew.  The Vions have the ability to save the inhabitants of only one out of
several planets doomed to destruction, and wish to see if Gem's planet is worth saving.  The Vions require another test,
and give Kirk the choice of selecting McCoy (who will likely be killed) or Spock (who will likely suffer permanent brain
damage).  While Bones is bemoaning bing trapped underground, he reports ``I'm a doctor, not a coal miner.''  Bones
tranquilizes Kirk to give him rest (and to prevent him from picking Spock), but Spock points out that he is now in
command and will select himself.  McCoy then sneaks up on Spock and tranquilizes  him as well, leaving only himself when
the Vions come for a volunteer.
Spock adjusts a control device he has obtained from one of the Vions to work off his own brainwaves, and transports Kirk,
himself, and Gem to the torture chamber, where McCoy is tied up and nearly dead (almost no pulse, internal injuries,
bleeding in the chest and abdomen, hemorrhage in the spleen and liver, and 70% kidney failure). Gem attempts to save
McCoy, but stops before she kills herself in the process.  She tries again, but McCoy pushes her away. Spock meanwhile
manages to release himself from the force field by suppressing all emotion.  He takes one of the control devices away fro
the Vions, but is unable to use it to cure McCoy. Kirk secures freedom and a promise to save Gem's planet when he
convinces the Vions that Gem has already earned her planet's survival, and that the Vions are furthermore being
hypocritical by causing pain, while lacking the very emotions they are trying to evince from Gem.
The Enemy Within
While gathering specimens on planet Alpha 177 (whose night temperature reaches -120 degrees), geological technician
Fisher falls off a cliff and injures his hand.  He also becomes covered in a magnetic yellow ore. He is beamed aboard the
Enterprise, where the transporter behaves strangely but appears to work correctly when Kirk beams aboard shortly
thereafter.  However, the ore causes a transporter malfunction, and Kirk is split into two alter-egos, the evil one
(hostility, lust, violence) which arrives a few minutes after the good Kirk (compassion, love, tenderness) when the
transporter room is empty.  The evil Kirk makes his way to sickbay, where he demands brandy from McCoy.  The transporter
mishap also results in the production on an ``evil'' horned poodle from a shy, quiet animal specimen.  Scotty realizes
the consequences, and is forced to strand the remaining 4-man landing party (including Sulu) on the planet's surface.  In
the meantime, the evil Kirk enters Yeoman's Janice Rand's quarters and lies in wait for her. She scratches him when we
attacks her, but she manages to warn Fisher to call Spock.  The evil Kirk incapacitates Fisher before he can get the word
out.  The good Kirk shows signs of losing his decisiveness and ability to command.
The evil Kirk applies powder to his face and tricks transporter technician Wilson into giving him his phaser, then knocks
him out. The evil Kirk hides in the lower decks, but Kirk and Spock anticipate this move and hunt him down.  Spock
identifies the evil Kirk and gives him a nerve pinch.  Scotty finds that the transporter ionizer is destroyed and will
take a week to repair.  The evil Kirk shows decreased constitution, and appears to be in danger of dying. Spock and Scotty
rig the transporter to run off the impulse engines, and recombine the dog-creature.  Unfortunately, the strain of
recombination proves fatal.  When the good Kirk tries bring the evil Kirk to the transporter, he is overpowered. The evil
Kirk goes to the bridge and orders the Enterprise to leave orbit, but the good Kirk follows him there. Kirk is
eventually returned to normal when the transporter is modified and used to fuse the two parts of him back together.  The
landing party is also beamed back up suffering from frostbite, but nothing worse.
The Enterprise Incident
Apparently suffering from the stress of command, Kirk begins acting irritably and irrational, and orders the
Enterprise across the neutral zone into Romulan space. Despite sensor scans which show nothing within a parsec,
the Enterprise is immediately surrounded by three Romulan ships. Kirk promptly sends a coded sub-space message to
Starfleet command appraising them of the situation. Sub-commander Tau of the Romulan fleet demands immediate surrender of
the Enterprise, then allows it an hour of time to decide.  Meanwhile, the Romulans allow Kirk and Spock to beam
aboard for an interrogation by the Romulan commander, beaming two Romulans aboard the Enterprise simultaneously as
hostages. Kirk claims that navigational errors led the Enterprise to stray into Romulan space, but Spock refuses
to corroborate his story.  Spock then says that the strain of command has led Kirk to act irrationally, and that Kirk
ordered the Enterprise across the neutral zone on his own initiative, and is not sane. 
Spock pretends to be a traitor in testifying against Kirk, and the Romulan commander convicts Kirk of espionage and
courts Spock to join the Romulans as a commander of the Enterprise under Romulan command. The Romulan commander
takes a special interest in Spock, Spock uses the opportunity to seduce her.  Kirk is injured while trying to escape
detention, and McCoy is allowed to beam aboard to treat him.  McCoy says the Kirk is not fit for command, and has been
under extreme stress. Spock agrees to take command of the Enterprise and lead it to a Romulan base.  He is
immediately attacked by Kirk, and defends himself using the ``Vulcan Death Grip.''  The dead Kirk is then returned to the
Enterprise with McCoy.  However, it turns out that Kirk and Spock have been operating under Federation orders to
steal the newly developed Romulan cloaking device, and that Spock has only given Kirk a nerve pinch in order to simulate
death.
Back aboard the Enterprise, Kirk is disguised as a Romulan Centurion with the aid of plastic surgery to his ears
and beamed back to the Romulan ship. He reports the Kirk by communicator that the cloaking device is located near the
commander's quarters.  The communication is detected, but Spock is able to distract the Romulan commander (who has
changed into an evening gown at Spock's request) long enough to enable Kirk to steal the cloaking device (which looks
like a white sphere with a protuberance at the top). The Romulan commander is outraged by Spock's treachery, and
nonplussed when he asks her straightforwardly what the present Romulan method of execution is.  Spock gains another delay
by demanding the Romulan right of statement. Before Spock can finish, Scott locates Spock and beams him back on board the
Enterprise.  The Romulan command is able to grad hold of him and be transported together. Kirk attempts to use the
Romulan commander as a hostage, but this scheme backfires when she orders Tau to destroy the Enterprise
immediately. Luckily, Scott is able to connect the cloaking device to the shields as the Enterprise speeds away at
warp 9.  Thus cloaked, the Enterprise disappears from the Romulan sensors and escapes back to Federation
territory.  While accompanying the Romulan commander to the brig, Spock reveals to her that he was not unaffected by
her charms.
Errand of Mercy
After negotiations with the Klingons break down, the Enterprise is sent to block Klingon expansionism on the Class
M planet Organia, described by Spock as class D- on the Richter scale of culture.  After being attacked, the
Enterprise destroys a Klingon vessel. Shortly thereafter, Uhura reports that a state of war has been declared.
The Enterprise enters orbit around Organia, despite the warning from Unit XY75847 that a fleet of Klingon ships is
in their sector.
Spock and Kirk beam down to the planet Organia to warn the populace. The Organians do not appear the least concerned
about strangers beaming down in their midst, and do not appear the least worried by the prospect of Klingon occupation.
Ayelborne, Chairman of the Council of Elders, greets them and invites Kirk to speak to the council.  Kirk offers them
protection from the Klingons, but Ayelborne says his people have no need of defenses and are in no danger.  Spock reports
that the society has been completely stagnant for tens of thousands of years.  In the meantime, the Klingon fleet arrives
and Sulu is forced to hightail the Enterprise out of the vicinity, stranding Kirk and Spock.  A party of heavily
armed Klingons then beams down, according to one of the elders, despite the fact that Spock's tricorder has no way of
ascertaining this. The Organians disguise Kirk and Spock as natives in an attempt to protect them from harm at the
Klingons' hands.
Ayelborne bids welcome to the Klingon Kor, who declares himself military governor of Organia, and claims that Kirk is
Barona, one of Organia's leading citizens.  Spock is harder to explain, but claims he is a dealer in kevis and trillium.
Kor finds Kirk's lack of complacency and obvious hatred of the Klingons refreshing on a planet otherwise filled with
passive Organians, and declares him liaison between the Klingons and the people of Organia. Despite force 4 scanning of
Kirk's mind by a Klingon mind-probe device, Spock is able to maintain his merchant pretext and is allowed to go free.
Kirk and Spock attempt to interfere with the Klingon occupation and incite the natives to defend themselves by blowing up
a Klingon munitions dump.  When Kirk admits what he has done to Ayelborne, he is admonished.  Unfortunately, Kor has
bugged the Council chambers and prepares to mind-probe Kirk and then execute him.  However, Ayelborne declares that this is
unnecessary, since Barona's true identity is actually James T. Kirk of the Starship Enterprise.
Kor then threatens to fry Kirk's mind and dissect Spock to find how he is capable of foiling the mind scanner unless Kirk
tells him all he wants to know.  He is given 12 hours, and thrown into a cell with Spock in the meantime.  However,
Ayelborne lets them out, despite the fact that the Klingons are vigorously guarding the cell and observe nothing.  As
revenge, the Klingons initiate mass executions of 200 Organians, and threatens to kill 200 more every 2 hours unless the
escaped prisoners are returned.  However, the Organians continue to insist on non-violence.  Kirk then threatens physical
injury to Ayelborne unless he returns their phasers, which he wants to use in a two-man suicide attack against the
Klingons.  Ayelborne is shocked by Kirk's behavior, but agrees to let him have the phasers.
Spock reports that the odds of them returning alive from their mission are 7824.7:1.  They begin by killing two Klingon
guards, then waylay and pump another Klingon for information.  Spock reports that their odds of surviving have now
improved to 7000:1.  Kirk and Spock take Kor prisoner, but at this point the Organian council brings all weapons and
instruments of violence to a temperature of 350 degrees, including those on the Enterprise. Ayelborne then
immobilize all fighting forces of both sides, producing an immediate cessation of hostilities which the Federation and
Klingons subsequently maintain.  Ayelborne also reports that in the future, Klingons and Earthlings will be allies, a
prediction that is not bourn out until the Star Trek IV movie and Star Trek, The Next Generation television
series. It turns out that the Organians are actually advanced beings capable of creating illusions, and so were never
actually inconvenienced by the Klingons to start with.  Spock notes that the Organians are as far above humans on the
evolutionary scale as humans are above the amoeba.
For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky
After the Enterprise is attacked by chemically fused missiles and forced to destroy them, it diverts to find that
the point of original is an asteroid 200 km in diameter. The asteroid is actually a nuclear-powered spaceship on a
collision course with planet Daren 5 (population 3 billion 724 million, 396 days until impact).  Spock detects no life
forms, so a landing party consisting of Kirk, McCoy, and Spock beams down.  While exploring a set of pink cylinders, the
landing party is attacked by plaid-clad soldiers. McCoy is knocked out, but proves to be fine. After informing the
``Oracle'' which advises the priestess-leader of the ship that they come in peace, the Oracle treats them to an
electrical shock to show them what it is like to be enemies.  The inhabitants of the world called Eonada do not know that
they are on a spaceship, except for one old man who had climbed a mountain when he was young.  He gives herbs to the
threesome after their electrical experience, but confides to them that things are not as they seem, ``For the world is
hollow and I have touched the sky.''  After uttering this, the oracle punishes him with death by means of a subcutaneous
``instrument of obedience.''
Spock recognizes Fabrini writing on wall of the oracle chamber and a symbol showing 8 planets, as in the Fabrini system.
The sun of this system supernovaed 10,000 years ago, so the inhabitants of Eonada appear to be their descendants. The
oracle tells Natiera that the people will reach a world of plenty ``soon'' (which turns out to be 390 days after the
appropriate course correction).  This is foretold in the book containing the knowledge of their creators.  Kirk and
company must convince the inhabitants to alter the ship's course before it eliminates the 3+ billion inhabitants of Daren
5.  In the meantime, the priestess Natiera governing the asteroid/spaceship, has asked McCoy to become her mate, despite
the fact that McCoy is suffering from the incurable fatal disease xenopolycythemia and has only one year to live. McCoy
agrees and permits insertion of an instrument of obedience, but Spock and Kirk commit sacrilege by breaking into the
Oracle chamber. Luckily, Natiera allows them to return at McCoy's request.
Bones finds out about the book and tries to tell Kirk (who has returned to the Enterprise) about it by
communicator, but is incapacitated by the instrument of obedience.  Kirk and Spock beam down, and Spock removes the
gizmo.  They tell Natiera, who goes to confront the Oracle and ask to be told the truth.  She is punished and nearly
killed, at which point McCoy removes her instrument of obedience.  When Kirk and Spock try to access the book by pressing
the three lower planets on the left side, the Oracle heats the chamber to incandescence.  But Kirk gets the book and
finds instructions on how to access the controls by applying pressure to the center of the Oracle until it slides aside.
They disable the Oracle and put Eonada back on course.  They also discover databanks of the Fabrini containing a great
deal of medical knowledge, including the cure for McCoy's xenopolycythemia.
Friday's Child
Kirk attempts to secure a mining agreement for topeline on Capella 4.  Coincidentally, McCoy had been stationed on the
planet for two months, and warns Kirk that although the Capellans are scrupulously honest, they are a war-like people, 7
feet tall and extremely strong.  Their conventional weapon is a throwing-star type weapon called a Kleeat.  Before beaming
down with McCoy, Spock, and a red-shirted security officer, Kirk warns Scott that the Klingons are thought to be active
in the Capella 4 sector.  Upon beaming down, this prediction is born out.  As McCoy greets the Capellans, the landing
party learns that the Klingons have arrived there first and are presumably already engaged in negotiations.  Before he
can be restrained, Brad the security guard pulls out a phaser to shoot the Klingon emissary and is instantly killed by a
Kleeat-wielding Capellan.  After the landing party agrees to hand over its weapons and devices as the Klingon did before
them, they are treated as honored guests.  A Capellan woman offers Kirk some food, but Kirk is luckily restrained by
McCoy before touching her, since it turns out that touching a Capellan woman mandates hand-to-hand combat with her
closest male relative.
Kirk and the Klingon negotiate with Tierr Aka-Ar, leader of the ten tribes of Capella.  While the Tierr seems to favor
the Federation, Mahab and the Tierr's consort favor the Klingons. The Tierr is then challenged to a duel by Mahab. Before
this can take place, a factional fight for power take place.  In the fighting, Aka-Ar is killed and Mahab becomes Tierr.
Upon becoming Tierr, however, Mahab's perspective changes, especially after seeing fear in the Klingon's eyes when Kirk
challenges him to a fight. Meanwhile, a Klingon vessel diverts the Enterprise with a phony distress call from the
freighter SS Diadra (maximum speed: warp 2).  Upon arriving at the scene, they find no trace of the Diadra.
They also notice that the distress call asked for the Enterprise by name, despite the fact a freighter would not
have knowledge of their whereabouts. As the Enterprise high-tails it back to Capella, the Klingons try again with
a distress call from the USS Carolina.  Scott ignores it citing the saying ``fool me once, shame on you, fool e
twice, shame on me'' (which Chekov reports was invented in Russia).  Before they can get there, they are confronted by a
Klingon warship.
Aka-Ar's pregnant wife Ellien is sentenced to death because she carries a royal child.  Kirk intervenes, in the process
antagonizing the Capellans and Ellien herself, who demand's his death for laying hands upon her.  The Enterprise
landing party is put under guard with Ellien, and McCoy prepares to treat her wounded arm.  The landing party takes the
opportunity to overpower their guards and run away to save Ellien.  They hide out in the hills, where McCoy treats
Ellien's arm, and also discovers that she may give birth at any time.  Ellien begins to become interested in McCoy.
Using their communicators, Kirk and Spock set up an avalanche which blocks and kills some of the Capellans tracking them.
The Klingon uses the opportunity to steal  one of the confiscated phasers from a wounded Capellan, and them stabs him to
death. Kirk find a cave in which to shelter Ellien, but the climb there is difficult.  Ellien will only let McCoy help
her make the climb until McCoy remarks ``I'm a doctor, not an escalator.'' In the cave, they make a fire using a
magnesite nitron tablet.  While McCoy delivers the baby, Kirk and Spock construct bows and arrows.
After giving birth, Ellien hits McCoy on the head with a rock and runs to give herself up to the Capellans.  She claim to
have killed the child and the Earth men as they slept.  The Klingon does not believe her, and demands of the Capellans
under threat of phaser fire that they verify Ellien's story.  Kirk shoots the Klingon with an arrow, and an exchange
between the Capellans and Kirk and Spock follows.  The Klingon threatens to shoot anyone who raises a weapon against him.
Mahab exchanges his life for that of Ellien by confronting the Klingon, and Kieel uses the opportunity to kill the
Klingon with a Kleeat.  After all this takes place, Scott and a landing party arrive. When McCoy re-unites Ellien with her
child, he confounds Spock with his use of ``obscure earth dialect'' oochie-woochie-coochie-coo. Kirk gains mining rights
when the Ellien acts as regent for the child Tierr-to-be, named Leonard James Aka-Ar.
The Galileo Seven
Commissioner Farris wants Kirk to hurry to New Paris on Marcus III, but Kirk is under orders to study all quasars and
quasar-like phenomena.  He therefore launches the shuttlecraft Galileo (NCC 1701/7) with Spock, Scotty, McCoy,
Bowma, Lattimir, Guitanno, and yeoman Yeers aboard. The 24-foot-long shuttlecraft is pulled off course into the Murasaki
312 electromagnetic storm (``Murasaki effect''), and crash lands on Taurus II. It and its crew are in one piece, but the
shuttlecraft is greatly damaged. As Spock puts it, ``Picturesque descriptions will not mend broken circuits, Mr. Scott.
I believe you have your work cut out for you.''  Taurus II seems safe at first (atmosphere 70 mm Hg of oxygen, 140 mm Hg
nitrogen, and acceptable quantities of Ar, Ne, and Kr), so Spock sends Lattimir and Guitano outside to scout the area.
Meanwhile, Commissioner Farris continued pressuring Kirk to leave the shuttle behind in order to get needed medicine to
the plague victims in New Paris, but Kirk continues the search until the last possible moment.
Kirk sends out shuttlecraft Columbus to search Taurus II (the only planet which is habitable in the area, and the
one which is closest to the center of the Murasaki effect). Spock gets his first taste of command, much to the resentment
of his crew, stating ``I neither enjoy the idea of command, nor am I frightened by it.  It simply exists.''   Scott
determines that much fuel has been lost, and that the shuttlecraft's weight must be reduced by 500 lbs. if it is to
achieve escape velocity. Lattimir and Guitano enter a thick mist, where they hear a croaking noise and are shortly
thereafter attacked by the planet's 10-12 foot high ape-like inhabitants.   Lattimir is killed by a spear whose tip
resembles a Folsom point, but Spock's archeological knowledge just makes his crew more resentful.  Bowma insists on a
funeral for Lattimir, but Spock remains inside the craft with Scott trying to fix it.  Unfortunately, they lose the
remaining fuel when a line breaks. The crew wants to attack the apes, but Spock does not which to unnecessarily take
like, so he instructs them to fire to frighten, but not kill, the beasties.  Spock orders Bowma back to help with
repairs, while Guitano is left behind, has his phaser knocked away, and he is mauled to death.
Scotty proposes powering the shuttlecraft by draining energy from phasers, which is all well and good, except that it is
the only defense against the creatures.  Spock goes to investigate what has become of Guitano, and carries his body back
despite a rain of spears from the ape-creatures.  Spock is surprised that his logical decisions have resulted in two
deaths and the antagonism of his crew.  They retreat to the craft, which is then set upon by one of the apes with a large
rock.  Spock comes up with the idea of draining the batteries to electrify the exterior of the ship, which grants them a
temporary respite. Kirk beams down landing parties, but they are unable to discover anything. Lt. Killowitz from landing
party 2 reports one dead, two injured by the anthropoid creatures, who databases classify as order 4AG and resembling
creatures from Hanson's planet.  Farris forces Kirk to abandon the search when his time runs out, under Title 15 of the
Galactic Emergency Procedures.  Scotty manages to get the shuttlecraft off the ground after tarrying shortly to give
Spock time to get on board after he is slightly injured. The Galileo's crew is saved when Spock jettisons and
ignites the fuel to serve as a flare.  This gives them only a few minutes before re-entering, but allows them to be
seen by the Enterprise.  Kirk needles Spock about his act of desperation, which Spock defends as a logical 
action given that all other alternatives had been exhausted.
The Gamesters of Triskelion
Kirk, Uhura, and Chekov prepare to beam down to Gamma 2, an uninhabited planetoid with automated communication and
astrogation station.  Before Scotty can beam them down, however, they are whisked away from the transporter platform.
They reappear on the pad bearing a three-pronged triad logo on a different planet entirely.  They are then accosted by
four armed assailants from planets spread throughout the galaxy. Phasers and communicators no longer work, and for once
they are defeated when they resort to hand-to-hand combat. They are then fitted with ``collars of obedience'' by Galt,
master Thrall of the planet Triskelion, and taken by to their cells. When they try to escape, the collars are activated,
subjecting them to great pain and rendering them helpless.
Meanwhile, Spock scans the entire solar system, but is unable to find any trace of the lost landing party. Ensign Haynes
notices an ionization trail from a hydrogen cloud, and Kirk follows it across the galaxy to N24 Alpha, 11.630 light years
away. Uhura's in introduced to her drill Thrall Lars, Kirk to blue-haired Shahna, and Chekov to Tamu. Kirk is forced to
fight the whip-equipped Kloog as punishment for Uhura refusing to fight.  Upon witnessing Kirk's successful battle, the
``providers'' bid for ownership of the newcomers (in Quatloos). While on a training run, Kirk tries to distract Shahna by
telling her about love.  When Kirk asks her about the providers and she begins to answer, her collar is activated.  When
she recovers, Kirk seduces her.  The providers find this amusing and do not punish Kirk, but make him stop.  Back in his
cell, he knocks her out and uses her key to free Uhura and Chekov.
Spock and McCoy attempt to beam down Triskelion, but are prevented by the Providers.  They are then put in audio
communication with Kirk, who is still on the planet's surface. The Providers then reveal themselves to Kirk as three
glowing brains (yellow, green, and orange). They threaten to destroy Kirk and the Enterprise, but Kirk makes a bet
with the gamesters about his ability to survive in combat.  If he wins, the Providers must free Kirk and the Thralls.  If
he loses, he offers the entire crew of the Enterprise up as Thralls.  However, the gamesters insist that Kirk fight
three opponents simultaneously: Kloog, Lars, and an Andorian.  They also grant the crew of the Enterprise the
opportunity to observe the conflict.  Amazingly enough, Kirk wins, even after one of the opponents is replaced by Shahna.
Kirk, Chekov, and Uhura are returned to the Enterprise, leaving behind a saddened Shahna.
The Immunity Syndrome
On its way to a much-needed rest stop at Starbase 6 (with Lt. Kowal in place of Sulu), the Enterprise is diverted
to investigate the mysterious cessation of communication with the Gamma 7A star system.  While on its way, Spock senses
the destruction of the Intrepid, a starship manned by Vulcans, and claims that all 400 Vulcans aboard have been
killed.  Starbase 6 then orders the Enterprise to Sector 39J to investigate the loss of communications with the
Intrepid.  The Enterprise encounters a strange field which drains all energy, whether mechanical or
biologically generated. Spock reports that he has never encountered a phenomenon like this before, and it shows up on the
viewing screen as a dark whole in space.  The Enterprise launches a probe into it, but is returns only a high
pitched whine which causes half the people on board to faint.  When the Enterprise prepares to fire again, the
whine returns, and the Enterprise experiences a 5\% power drain.  The stars vanish from the viewing screen, and
Spock reports that they have entered some ``zone of darkness'' boundary layer which is draining the ship and its crew.
Spock finds that the zone of darkness is a negative energy field.  Scott prepares to use full power to yank the
Enterprise out of the zone, but the best he can do is hold position.  A giant one-celled organism 11,000 miles
long and 2,000-3,000 miles wide makes its way to the Enterprise.  They send a probe, which penetrates the organism
and discovers it to be living and to be filled with protoplasm.  Kirk decides to send a shuttlecraft, and must decide
between sending Spock or McCoy.  Spock sets out in the shuttlecraft Galileo II (NCC 1701/7), and heads for the
nucleus.  He also reduces life support systems to the bare minimum, causing Chekov and Kirk to become concerned.
Furthermore, Spock establishes that the organism has stored enough energy to reproduce and that the 40 chromosomes in the
nucleus are ready to come together.  Kirk shuts off the Enterprise's engines and switches all power to the
shields, causing the Enterprise to be sucked into the organism.
Kirk then fills a probe full of antimatter, and prepares to plant it in the nucleus.  Chekov reports that the probe is
``ready for lunch,'' and successfully lodges in the nucleus.  Meanwhile, aboard the shuttlecraft, Spock makes a log tape
in preparation for his own death.  As the Enterprise high-tails it out of the organism before it blows up, it
detects Spock's shuttlecraft and pulls it free of the creature right before implosion using a tractor beam.  Spock is
alive and well, and reports he has some fascinating data on the organism.  However, McCoy is furious that he has botched
the acetylcholine test.
I, Mudd 
A man named Mr. Norman has been aboard the Enterprise for 72 hours, and strikes Dr. McCoy as odd. His suspicions
are confirmed when Mr. Norman overpowers Ensign Jordan, the auxiliary control operator and re-directs the ship.  Security
guard Ruhr reports that the directional controls are unworkable.  Mr. Normal then barges into engineering, increases
speed to warp 7, and sets up a booby trap to prevent tampering. He hijacks the Enterprise and takes it on a
four-day trip to an uncharted planet of robots who exist solely to serve humans. Harcourt Fenton Mudd, previously
encountered in the Mudd's Women episode, is the ``ruler'' of the robots. He has
created an army of 500 robot women after escaping from prison while condemned to death for fraud.  He has also created an
android version of his nagging wife Stella, who follows instructions and is forced to shut up when he tells her to.
Mudd is being studied by the robots, who are accommodating, but refuse to let him go.  The androids tell Kirk that they
were built by people from the Andromeda galaxy.  The civilization was destroyed by a supernova, and the androids were
left uncoordinated.  They have found new purpose in Mudd.  Spock makes inquiries, discovers that there are 207,809
androids, and that they seem to be controlled by some central coordinating power.  Mudd beams androids aboard the
Enterprise and has them send down the entire crew. Chekov is fascinated when he finds that the female robots have
been programmed to carry out all activities which of human females are capable.  Uhura also doesn't find captivity so
unpleasant when she is promised immortality. Mudd attempts to take over the Enterprise and strand Kirk and the
crew on the planet in his place.  However, the robots do not permit Harry to carry out his plan.  They find people too
destructive, and plan to take over and ``serve'' all humans (according to their programming) in the galaxy in order to
control them.
Spock learns that there are many robots of each Alice, Oscar, etc., series, but only a single Norman.  He speculates that
Norman is the central coordinator, and suggests that they coordinate their efforts on him. They tranquillize Mudd and then
claim they need to beam aboard the Enterprise to cure him.  The androids are about the grant the request until
Uhura pretends to reveal that this is merely a ploy to get aboard the Enterprise.  She claims her motivation is
that she wants to be made immortal. The landing party (including Spock), then engage in a series of illogical (and
moronic) actions in order to confuse and overload the androids.  This culminates in the immobilization of Norman himself
when Harry tells him ``everything I say is a lie.''
Kirk leaves Harry on the planet with his attendant robots as an example of human failure.  The robots have been
reprogrammed to carry out their original task of rendering the planet fit for human life.  As a final blow, Kirk also
leave behind several copies of his shrewish wife Stella.
Is there in Truth no Beauty?
The Enterprise is given the mission of transporting the Medusan ambassador Kollos, a member of a species so ugly
that the mere sight of it causes humans to go insane, back to his home planet. Spock is able to wear a visor which will
protect him, but all humans are forced to leave the bridge before the ambassador arrives.  The ambassador arrives
enclosed in a specially designed box, but is also accompanied by the telepath Dr. Miranda Jones, who is looking after the
ambassador's needs. Larry Marvick, one of the designers of the Enterprise, also has beamed aboard.  He is in love
love with Jones.  Like Spock, Jones is able to look at a Medusan through a visor, since she has studied on Vulcan.  At
a welcoming dinner, the senior crew all drool over Miranda, but the mood is spoiled when she reports that someone
nearby is contemplating murder.
When Marvick's advances are snuffed by Miranda, she discovers that he is the one considering murder, although she does
not know who against.  Marvick seeks revenge against Kollos for taking Miranda away from him, but is driven insane when
he inadvertently looks at Kollos while attempting to shoot him with a phaser.  The insane Marvick commandeers the
Enterprise, pilots it to an unknown location outside of the galaxy, raves about being suffocated in his sleep, and
then dies for no apparent reason.  In order to return the Enterprise to the galaxy, either Spock or Miranda must
mind meld with the ambassador who, as all Medusans, is a master navigator.  Spock is given the task, but fears
interference from Miranda, who is fiercely jealous of Spock's ability to mind meld. Kirk discovers that Miranda is afraid
of human emotion, and wishes to go with Kollos partly to avoid having to deal with it.  However, she learns of Spock's
plans telepathicaly, and demands that she be taught to pilot the Enterprise so that she can mind meld with Kollos.
Bones uses the opportunity to reveal that Miranda is blind (her dress is a highly complicated sensor web which allows her
to see, as well as to measure Kirk distance from the door as 1 m 4 cm), which is why she is able to ``look'' at Kollos.
Kirk suggests that Miranda take up the issue with Kollos, who agrees to her horror that Spock should be the one to make
contact. Using the visor to protect his Vulcan half from the sight of the Medusan, Spock melds minds. A now smiling and
cheerful Spock greets the other senior crew members, then pilots the ship successfully back to the Milky Way.  However,
when Spock reverses the mind meld, he forgets the visor, sees Kollos, and goes crazy.  Kirk asks Miranda to help Spock,
and when she claims to do be able to do nothing, Kirk accuses her of having used her mental powers to make Spock forget
to put on the visor. Luckily, Miranda's has a change of heart and uses telepathy to bring Spock back to health, Miranda
and Kollos are delivered to their destination.  Upon parting, Kirk presents Miranda with a rose.  Miranda queries ``I
suppose it has thorns,'' and Kirk responds, ``I never met a rose that didn't.''
Journey to Babel
The Enterprise transports ambassadors to a conference to discuss the admission of Corridon, a star system composed
of many mutually combative races, to the Federation.  Corridon contains a nearly unlimited supply of dilithium crystals,
but its small population have invited illegal mining operations by outsiders seeking to exploit its natural resources.
Sarek is the 102.437-year-old ambassador from Vulcan, and is accompanied by his wife Amanda.  To Kirk's surprise, they
are Spock's parents.  Also to Kirk's surprise, Sarek is cool towards Spock, apparently because Spock has chosen to devote
his life to Starfleet instead of Vulcan science. The conference is to take place on neutral planet codenamed Babel. McCoy
questions Amanda about Spock, and finds that, as a youth, he has a pet sela, a sort of fat Vulcan Teddy bear with 6 inch
fangs.  Meanwhile, Uhura has detected an unidentified transmission from the Enterprise, and Chekov subsequently
detects a small ship of unknown origin paralleling the Enterprise just out of phaser range at warp 10.
From Section A3 on Deck 11, Lt. Joseph reports that Tellerite ambassador Gav has been murdered.  McCoy ascertains that
death was instantaneous following an expert breaking of his neck (known to Vulcans of Tel-Shaha).  This brings Sarek under
suspicion, since he had been involved in an altercation with the Tellerite after accusing his people of smuggling from
Corridon.  However, when Kirk begins asking Sarek questions, Sarek suffers from a malfunction in one of his
heart valves, the Vulcan equivalent of a heart attack.  
Meanwhile, Spock detects tritanium emissions from the alien ship's hull after it transmits a message which Uhura
determines that the reception occurred somewhere aboard the Enterprise.  Spock is unable to decode the fragment of
the message which Uhura has intercepted. Sarek reveals that he has had three previous Vulcan heart attacks, and has been
taking Bengacydrine to combat it.  He requires an open heart operation, but the ship's stores do not have a sufficient
supply of blood, especially of Sarek's rare Vulcan T- blood.  Despite the fact that Spock's blood is a mixture of human
and Vulcan factors, he provides a blood transfusion to Sarek after McCoy uses an experimental stimulant to increase the
rate of blood production.
The Andorian Thelu, a minor member of the ambassador's staff, attacks Kirk near Deck 5.  Kirk requires medical attention,
so Spock assumes command.  Under these circumstances, he says he cannot take time off to give the transfusion, and cannot
pass command on to anyone else because he is the best qualified person to command the Enterprise. His mother
pleads with him, but he only agrees when, with McCoy's approval, Kirk pretends to be well.  Another transmission
originates from the Enterprise,, and this time it is pinpointed to the Andorian in the brig.  A search by security
reveals a transceiver hidden in one of his fake antennae. The Enterprise is then attacked by alien ship while
Sarek and Spock are on the operating table, endangering both their lives.  It is moving to quickly to be hit by the
Enterprise and is able to damage the Enterprise sufficiently that it loses one of its shields. Kirk fools
the alien ship by turning off shields, internal power and luring the enemy ship in for the kill. When it begins looking
over the Enterprise, Kirk hits it with phasers and disables it.  Before he can ask them to surrender, they blow
themselves up. The prisoner was apparently attempting to sow discord and distrust among the Federation members, but he
dies of self-administered slow poison shortly after his ship is destroyed by the Enterprise.  However, Spock,
who is recovering from the operation, surmises that the perpetrators were from Orion, who are known to have been
smuggling dilithium from Corridon and are anxious to prevent interference.  The episode ends with McCoy getting in the
last word, since Kirk and Spock are both confined to sickbay recovering from their respective ordeals.
Let that be Your Last Battlefield
 
On its way to decontaminate the planet Arianis, the Enterprise intercepts a shuttlecraft stolen from starbase 4
and its pilot, Beel.  Shortly thereafter, Loki is deposited on the bridge of the Enterprise by a spaceship
before it disintegrates.  Beel (black on right, white on left) and Loki (white on right, black on left), both from the
planet Charon, have been pursuing each one another across the galaxy for 50,000 years.  Loki attempts to force the 
Enterpriseto Charon, but returns control to Kirk when he threatens to self destruct the Enterprise (Kirk:
sequence 1, code 11A; Spock: sequence 2, code 11A2B; Scott: sequence 3, code 1B2B3; final code: 000 DESTRUCT 0; abort
code: 123 CONTINUITY ABORT DESTRUCT ORDER).  After the Enterprise has decontaminated Arianis, Beel forces the
Enterprise to Charon, only to discover the all life there has been destroyed by years of racially-motivated
fighting.  Beel and Loki transport the surface and continue their struggle on their dead planet.
The Lights of Zetar
On its way to the Memory Alpha planetoid, storehouse of all cultural history and scientific knowledge of
the Federation, sensors detect a strange storm.  The
storm, however, is traveling at a speed of warp 2.6, indicating that it cannot be a natural phenomenon.  The storm heads
right for the Enterprise, penetrating the shield and attacking different centers of the brain in different crew
members (Uhura could not move her hands, Chekov could not turn his eyes, and Sulu could not speak).  Lt. Mira Romaine,
aboard to oversee transmission of data newly gathered by the Enterprise to Memory Alpha, seems the hardest hit.
Much to the concern of Scotty, who is head over heels in love with her, Mira faints.  When McCoy revives her, she makes
strange growling noises and then seems normal again.  However, she then refuses to cooperate with McCoy when he
attempts to examine her.
The storm then heads for shieldless Memory Alpha, killing all those aboard and burning out the central memory core. Kirk,
Spock, McCoy, and Scott beam down to see what damage has been done, and see a scene of which Mira has had a premonition
(a dead technician).  The landing party finds one technician alive, but she begin making strange growling noises, turns
a series of colors, and then dies of brain hemorrhage.  Mira is then beamed down, and she warns everyone to return to
the Enterprise because the storm is returning. Scans from the Enterprise confirm this, and the landing
party returns to the ship.  Mira is suspended in transit, but is subsequently beamed aboard. Further scans of the
``storm'' indicate that it is composed of 10 life units.  Kirk tries to communicate with it using the universal
translator, but receives no response.  As the storm draws closer, Mira has another vision.  Kirk fires phasers across
its path, but again elicits no response.  He the fires at the storm, but at the same time causes Mira to crumple,
causing Scott to become alarmed and forcing Kirk to desist from further firing.
A thorough analysis of Mira's record shows her to responses to be extremely flexible response to new learning situations.
A Steinman analysis shows nothing unusual, but a hyperencephaligram show Mira's brain circuitry pattern to have been
altered to match those from the last tracking of the aliens.  They seems to explain her visions, and Mira reveals that
she had one additional vision: that of Scotty dying. In an attempt to rid Mira of the alien influence before the aliens
attack again, Kirk rushes her to a gravity/pressure chamber. The aliens attack too soon, however, and Mira becomes
completely possessed. Speaking through Mira, the aliens identify themselves as the last survivors of the planet Zetar.
They have had to discard their bodies and have been searching for a millennium for one such as Mira's in which they can
live out their lives. Before Mira's consciousness can be completely subjugated, Scotty puts her in the pressure chamber.
Here, the aliens are killed and Mira is freed.
The Man Trap
Members of the Enterprise's landing party beam down for the annual checkup of scientist Bob Crater and his wife
Nancy, who have been on the planet M113 for 5 years.  Without realizing it, each crew member sees a different appearance
for Nancy Crater, each the most attractive for that particular man.  Crewman Darnell, for instance, sees a voluptuous
blonde he met on Ripley's pleasure planet, Bones sees an attractive woman of 25, and Kirk sees an older woman with more
mature charms.  After requesting additional salt, Dr. Crater does his best to have the crew leave.  Darnell is
mysteriously killed after following her, and red mottling is found all over his body.  A borja plant (same family as
nightshade; an alkaloid poison) is found in his mouth, which Nancy claims to have seen him eating.  Bones knows alkaloid
poison when he sees it, however, and knows that something is amiss.  Further test show that Darnell's body is completely
devoid of salt.  When a landing party beams down, Sturgeon and Green are killed by having their salt removed. 
Nancy assumes the form of Green (one of the murdered men) and transports aboard the Enterprise with Kirk and
Bones, the only survivors of the landing party.  Green make his way into Sulu's quarters after a lunch tray with a salt
shaker, but leaves when Sulu's pet plant begins shrieking at him.  Green then transforms into a handsome Swahili man who
attempts to seduce Uhura, but is prevented by passing crew members.  Meanwhile, a scan of the planet's surface reveals
only a single life form, and Spock and Kirk begin to wonder where she might be.  She kills a crew member on the
Enterprise, and then takes the form of Nancy again and pays a visit to McCoy.  She puts McCoy to sleep with his
own sleeping pills in the guise of helping him rest, and then takes over his form.
In the meantime, Spock and Kirk beam down to the planet to question Dr. Crater and discover Green's body. After
questioning Dr. Crater, they find that Nancy is dead and that her form has been taken over by the last remaining creature
of the planet.  This creature is capable of assuming any form and requiring salt to live.  Dr. Crater is also beamed
aboard, where he recognizes Bones but refuses to reveal him.  The creature kills Dr. Crater and attacks Spock, but
because of his different blood, escapes without major injury.  Bones prevents Kirk from killing the creature as is about
to stand by and allow her drain Kirk.  Spock rushes in and demonstrates that it is not really Nancy by striking her
without producing any effects.  When the creature attacks Kirk again, its true alien form is revealed, and Bones kills it
with a phaser, even after it reverts to appear as Nancy.
The Mark of Gideon
In an attempt to establish diplomatic relations with planet Gideon, Kirk beams down to the sensor-shielded planet using
coordinates supplied by Gideon ambassador Hodin (875 020 079).  Gideon has refused to let any ambassadors beam down or to
permit any sensor scans, but has indicated to the Federation that their planet is virtually a paradise.  However, they
agree to let Kirk beam beam alone. However, when Kirk materializes, he finds himself still on the transporter pad aboard
the Enterprise.  To his great surprise, he appears to be completely alone and there is no sign of the crew.  After
noticing a bruise on his arm, Kirk encounters a girl named Odona. Odona denies any knowledge of how she got there or what
is going on.  She tells Kirk her last memory is of being in an overcrowded auditorium struggling for air, and how
wonderful it is to have such freedom of movement.  Back aboard the real Enterprise, Spock is attempting to
determine why ambassador Hodin denies the fact that Kirk has ever been beamed down.  His attempts to obtain authorization
to search for Kirk are foiled when Starfleet beaurocrats insist that he contact the Federation diplomats in the
Department of Planetary Treaties, and vice versa. After beaming up and down Hodin's assistant Krodak from the council
chamber (coordinates 875 020 709) to test the transporter, Hodin refuses to allow Spock to beam down, despite the fact
that he had previously agreed to do so.
Meanwhile, on the deserted Enterprise, Odona tells Kirk that there is no place on her planet which is not filled
with people, and that the inhabitants would kill or die for the privilege of being alone.  While Kirk is busy kissing
Odona, he does not notice that the ship's viewing screen has become filled with the faces of people.  After leaving the
bridge, Kirk hears a strange sound outside the ship and opens the viewing port. To his surprise, he briefly sees the
faces of a crowd, which quickly fade into stars.  Kirk begin to suspect that something is very wrong, but when he
confronts Odona, she complains that she feels very strange, then collapses. Kirk carries her towards sickbay, but is met
by Hodin and taken into custody.  Hodin tells Kirk that Odona is his daughter, and that she has been infected with Vegan
coreomenengitis from Kirk's blood.  Hodin explains that the germ free atmosphere and an increasingly long life span on
Gideon have created a vast overpopulation problem, and that he hopes to bring it under control by introducing disease.
When Kirk asks why the population was not sterilized, Hodin says the the organs of the people of Hodin regenerate
themselves.  When Kirk then asks Hodin why the people of Gideon have not practiced birth control, Hodin replies that the
people of Gideon believe life is sacred and that the love of life is the greatest gift, and that they therefore cannot
interfere with the creation of life.  Hodin tells Kirk that he must stay to provide the virus to infect the people of
Gideon and bring the population under control.  Kirk points out that Odona need not die, and that there is furthermore no
need for him to stay since if Odona survives, her blood can provide the virus.  However, Hodin tells Kirk that Odona's
voluntary death at such a young age will bring forward dedicated young volunteers to also be infected.
By this time, Spock has discovered that the two sets of coordinates he has been provided with do not match. After Admiral
Fitzgerald continues to refuse to let Spock beam down, Spock disobeys orders and beams down to the first set of
coordinates.  He discovers the exact replica of the Enterprise to which Kirk was beamed and locates Kirk.  Spock
overpowers the guards, and he and Kirk beam up with Odona to the real Enterprise.  As he is leaving, Spock quips
to the ambassador, ``Your excellency, please do not interfere; I already have one serious problem to resolve with upper
echelons.'' McCoy heals Odona, and she is beamed back to Gideon where her blood can now serve as the source of Vegan
coreomenengitis for her people.
The Menagerie, Part I
This episode and the sequel are derived from the original pilot for the Star Trek series,  The
Cage. The Enterprise diverts to Starbase 11 after Spock reports receiving a sub-space message from former
Captain of the Enterprise Christopher Pike.  However, the Commodore on the Starbase tells them that Pike has been
injured from exposure to delta rays (resulting from a ruptured baffle plate while inspecting an old Class J starship) and
could not have sent the message.  Pike is confined to a wheelchair operated by brain waves and can only signal yes (one
flash of a light) or no (two flashes).  Pike refuses to speak to Bones and Kirk, but agrees to speak to Spock in private.
Spock, who had served under Pike for 11 years, 4 months, and 5 days, prepares to mutiny in order to take Pike to Talos 4
(the fourth planet out of 11 in the Talos system), despite Pike's protests.  Meanwhile, an investigation of the tapes
reveals that Spock received no transmission, but Kirk refuses to believe it possible that Spock could have been
responsible for a deception. Spock nerve pinches Chief Hobol at the computer center and sends the Enterprise bogus
instructions using tapes he has made of Kirk's voice.  Another technician discovers Spock cross-circuiting the 
communications panel and attempts to stop him, but is nerve pinched for his efforts.  Spock informs Mr. Hansen that the 
coded transmissions he has sent will navigate the ship automatically.  McCoy is tricked into returning to the 
Enterprise by a request for medical assistance.  Spock then transports himself and Pike aboard.
Right After Miss Piper (who knows about Kirk from mutual fried Helen Johansen) notices that Pike is gone on a monitor,
the Enterprise warps out of orbit towards Talos 4.  Kirk and Commodore José Mendez pursue Spock and the
Enterprise in a Class F shuttlecraft.  Navigator Hanson is made unnecessary as the instructions Spock fed into the
computer are carried out.  When Spock notices that the shuttlecraft has nearly exhausted its fuel, he activates tape Abel
7 Baker, which stops the Enterprise and beams aboard Kirk and Mendez.  Spock has set up the computer so that it
cannot be disengaged without terminating life support systems until the Enterprise reaches Talos 4. Spock is then
put on trial.  Not only is mutiny a court martial offense, but visiting Talos 4 is an offense punishable by death.  The
hearing proceeds because Pike is still listed as on active duty, so three command officers are present as required by
regulations. During the hearing, Spock introduces a recording of the experiences of the original crew of the 
Enterprise on Talos 4 as evidence.
In the tape we see footage from the original Star Trek pilot episode, The Cage.
The tape recounts how 13 years previously the Enterprise, commanded by Pike and with Dr. Phil Heinz as chief
medical officer, received a distress signal from the survey vessel S.S. Columbia, lost 18 years earlier. The
Columbia reported making a forced landing on the Talos star group 18 years ago.  Mr. Spock (the only character
from the original pilot retained in the original series) reports that Talos contains 11 planets, number 4 of which is
Class M (oxygen atmosphere). Captain Christopher Pike orders to continue on to the Vega colony in the absence of evidence
that there are survivors.  He then retires to his cabin, where he is met by Dr. Phil Heinz.  Pike recounts his traumatic
experience on Rigel 7 in which his yeoman and two others were killed and 7 injured.  Pike faults himself for allowing
himself to be trapped in a deserted fortress and attacked by one of the Rigel warriors.  He also complains that he is
tired of being responsible of 203 lives and has been thinking of resigning. A follow-up message from the Columbia
indicates that 11 crew members survived the crash, and the Enterprise diverts to investigate.  Talos 4 is found to
have an oxygen-nitrogen atmosphere and gravity equal to 0.9 that of Earth.  On Talos 4, Spock and Pike find a blue-leaved
plant, and we are treated to one of the few Spock smiles of the series, and the only one when he is not under some alien
or hallucinagenic influence.  The landing crew of 6 finds the survivors, mainly old male scientists (include Dr. Theodore
Hat, American Continent Institute), and a young woman named Veena, born of now dead parents shortly after the
Columbia crashed. Unbeknownst to the landing party, their actions are being monitored by native Talosians.  The
Doctor notices that the condition of the survivors is better than could be reasonably expected, by Veena leads Pike to a
trap. Pike is drugged an captured by the Talosians, and the survivors are found by the rest of the landing party to have
been illusions.  The landing party tries to blast through the rock into which Pike was spirited away, but their phasers
have no effect.
Uhura then reports that the Enterprise has been receiving transmissions from Talos 4 and Kirk is relieved from
duty by order of the Starfleet Command Consul.
The Menagerie, Part II 
In Part 2, the recording continues, despite instructions from Starfleet command that no further transmissions are
permitted.  The recording shows Pike confined in a cell.  Here, he discovers that the Talosians are illusionists, capable
of making a man see anything they wish exist on the planet and telepaths, communicating without speaking.  The Talosians
wish Pike to remain on the planet as Veena's mate.  Meanwhile, the crew of the Enterprise beams the ship's power
down to the surface in a fruitless attempt to blast through the mountain where the Talosians were seen to disappear.
The Talosians re-enact Pike's encounter on Rigel 7 in his mind, but with the addition of Veena.  In this re-enactment,
Pike kills the beast who is attacking them, then is returned to his cell with Veena.  Veena tells him that the Talosians
retreated underground after a war two thousand years ago, and have been developing mental powers.  She also reveals that
she is a real human and not an illusion. Pike discovers that the Talosians cannot penetrate primitive, strong emotions
with their telepathy.
The next virtual reality trip for Pike and Veena is at Pike's farm, complete with his horse Tango.  As Pike uses the
opportunity to scheme, Veena has the Talosians shift venues to a Roman court with a Veena playing the part of a green
Orion slave girl dancer.  Again, Pike does not cooperate.  A landing party from the Enterprise beams down in
attempt to find Pike, but only Number One and the yeoman transport out of a landing party of six. The Talosians now give
him a ``selection'' of specimens for starting a human community of slaves. Pike uses the phasers brought down by the
landing party as bait, and captures one of the Talosians as he tries to recover them from a sliding panel.  Pike fires
one of the phasers through the wall, sees no effect, but then forces the Talosian to show him the hole which was produced
or else have the ``nonfunctional'' phaser tested on his head.  Pike and the women escape to the surface, but it turns out
that this was actually the first part of the Talosians' plan to re-populate surface. The Talosian learn of Pike and
humankind's unshakable hatred of captivity, and this forces the Talosians to let the Enterprise's crew go, as they
are too violent a species for their needs.  All but Veena and Pike return to the ship.  Before Pike leaves, he discovers
that Veena's beauty is illusional, and that she was actually severely deformed in the Columbia's crash and ``put
back together'' by the Talosians.
When the tape is complete, Mendez disappears and turns out to have been an illusion used to distract Kirk from regaining
control of the Enterprise).  Kirk, with the authorization of Starfleet (who have also been viewing the images from
Talos 4), permits the now-disfigured Pike to transport to Talos 4. All charges against Spock are dropped, and the
Enterprise continues on its way.  Kirk speaks to Spock about a tendency towards flagrant emotionalism, but
Spock quips, ``I see no reason to insult me, Sir.  I believe I've been completely logical about the whole affair.''
Metamorphosis
Kirk, Spock, and McCoy ferry Commissioner Nancy Hedford from Epsilon Caneris 3 to the Enterprise in the
shuttlecraft Galileo. The Commissioner, who had been on a diplomatic mission to stop a war, is ill with Sicuro's
disease and needs treatment aboard the Enterprise. The shuttlecraft is forced down on a small planetoid by a
sparkling cloud of ionized hydrogen.  The planet has an oxygen-nitrogen atmosphere with traces of krypton, argon, and
neon, and a surface temperature of 75 degrees.  Kirk is unable to contact the Enterprise, despite the fact that
the communications equipment appears to be functioning perfectly. On the planet, they find a man name Cochran, who claims
he has been marooned there.  Cochran tells them that there is some sort of damping field on the planet which will prevent
them from being able to get their shuttlecraft working.
Hedford begins developing a temperature, the first manifestation of here disease. Cochran turns out to be space pioneer
Zephram Cochran of Alpha Centauri, the discoverer of the Space Warp. Thought to have been dead for 150 years, Cochran has
been kept alive and young for centuries by a doting gaseous alien called the ``Companion.''  The companion intercepted
his disabled ship, brought him to the planet, and rejuvenated him.  Cochran had set out in a ship at the age of 87 to die
in space.  Cochran also tells Kirk that he and his associates have been brought to keep him company by the Companion.
As Spock attempts to fix the Galileo, the Companion drops by to investigate.  Spock attempts to touch it, but is given an
electric shock.  The Companion also takes the opportunity to fry the Galileo's electronics.  Using his newfound
knowledge that the Companion is at least partly an electrical phenomenon, Spock builds a device to short-circuit it.
Cochran is not at all happy about this endeavor, but agrees to summon the Companion.  After the Companion arrives to
commune with Cochran and Spock activates his short-circuit box, Cochran is shocked, and the Companion destroys the device
and attacks Kirk and Spock.  Fortunately, Cochran regains his composure and summons the Companion away before it can harm
them.  Kirk then comes up with the idea of using the shuttlecraft's universal translation devices, which converts
brain-wave frequencies, to attempt to communicate with the companion. This proves successful, and the Companion turns out
to be a female entity who is ``in love'' with Cochran. Kirk attempts to convince the Companion that humans pine away in
captivity (or ``cease to exist,'' as he puts it), but the Companion does not believe him.
Cochran is greatly disturbed by the knowledge that the Companion is in love with him, and storms out saying them he
doesn't want to be ``fodder for any inhuman monster.''  At the same time, Hedford, in a feverish daze, remarks that it is
strange that Cochran runs from love while she herself has never had the opportunity to be loved.  Kirk then tries to
convince the Companion that she is not capable of giving Cochran true human love, and that if she really loves Cochran,
she will let him go.  Instead, she occupies and cures the body of Commissioner Hedford, who had been on the verge of
death. She also restores the shuttlecraft and communication devices to working order.  The Companion is unable to leave
the planet without dying, and Cochran decides to remain with her.  Meanwhile, the Enterprise
had discovered the asteroid field, containing some 7000 bodies, and had begun searching them one at a time for the lost
shuttlecraft.  Fortunately, their search is greatly simplified by the resumption of communications.  As he prepares
to depart, Kirk agrees not to mention his adventure with Cochran.
Miri 
When the Enterprise responds to a distress signal from a planet which just happens to look exactly like Earth
(mass: 6 x 1021 tons, density 5.517, circumference 24,874 miles, oxygen-nitrogen atmosphere) Kirk, Spock,
Yeoman Janice, McCoy, and two security guards beam down and find a copy of Earth in the mid-1960s. On the planet's
surface, they are attacked by a creature while examining a tricycle.  The creature appears to be a disfigured human, but
with extremely accelerated metabolism.  He dies shortly after the encounter, but a security guard spots another
inhabitant.  Following it into a building, the landing party finds a 300-year old piano.  They also discover their quarry
to be a young girl named Miri.  Miri is afraid of them because they are `grups', and the grups killed and hurt children
before they all died.
The landing party soon learns that they are all infected by a strange disease which causes death to anyone who has
reached puberty.  At a deserted hospital, they discover that the disease causing blue rashes with which they are
afflicted and which was accidentally created by a project to prolong life.  They discover that the ``lonelies''
(children) on the planet are actually over 300 years old, having aged only one month for every hundred years of real
time.  Kirk is attacked by Louise, a girl who has just gone through puberty, and stuns her with a phaser.  Like the first
creature, she dies.  The landing party find old records and discovers that they have only 7 days to live. The children,
led by John, steal the landing party's communicators, making their search for a cure almost impossible. When Janice
becomes upset, and Kirk hugs her to comfort her, Miri becomes jealous and runs away to scheme with the rest of the
children.  Their ``foolie'' consists of kidnapping Janice.
Kirk tries to convince Miri that all children eventually contract the disease, despite her protestations that it only
happens ``sometimes.''  Miri takes Kirk to the children, who proceed to attack him. After Kirk has shown them that it is
they who are doing the hurting, and convinced them that they will die without his help, the children finally listen to
the ``grups.''  Kirk returns to the hospital, only to find that Bones has injected himself with a possible vaccine.
Fortunately for Bones, the vaccine is found to be safe and effective, and all are inoculated.  They leave the children
behind and contact Starfleet to send advisors and teachers.
Mirror, Mirror
After Kirk fails to convince the Halkan Council to allow the Federation to mine dilithium crystals on their planet, the
landing party (Kirk, McCoy, Scotty, and Uhura) returns to the Enterprise.  Interference from an ion storm,
however, causes them to be transported into a parallel universe and a mirror image Enterprise.  Aboard this
I.S.S. Enterprise (Imperial Starship), the landing party discovers a mirror image crew members who are members of
an evil Empire.  Their first experience is the torture of transporter operator Mr. Kyle with an agonizer for his alleged
failure to beam the landing party up quickly enough.  Immediately, Kirk realizes that there a mirror image landing party
(including an anti-Kirk) must have been beamed aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise.  Kirk, Uhura, McCoy, and Scotty
impersonate their mirror image counterparts while finding a way to return to their universe.  Kirk learns that he has
been ordered to annihilate the the Halkans, but piques Spock's curiosity by ordering the Enterprise to hold its
fire for 12 hours. Kirk then survives an assassination attempt by Chekov when one of his party defects, and then subjects
Chekov to the agony booth. Kirk also uses the computer to determine that he succeeded to command by assassinating
Christopher Pike and was responsible for the death of 9000 colonists on Vega.
While Scotty is adjusting the transporter to return them back to the correct universe, Kirk meets Marlena, the
anti-Captain's ``woman.''  Meanwhile, anti-Spock ha received order to kill Kirk if he does not carry out his orders by
destroying the Halkans on the Enterprise's next orbit. Marlena shows Kirk the Tantalus Field, which he recovered
from a lost civilization and has been using to eliminate his enemies.  Another assassination attempt, this time by Sulu,
is crushed when Marlena uses the Tantalus Field on Sulu's co-conspirators. Kirk stalls Spock by knocking him unconscious,
and Uhura, Kirk, and Scott head for the transporter room while McCoy stays behind to make sure that Spock is all right.
Spock comes out of his self-induced trance and mind melds with McCoy. Discovering that a switch has occurred, Spock then
assists Kirk in returning his landing party to their own universe so that the Empire landing party may return to its.
When Kirk and the party return, they find that their Empire counterparts were immediately recognized and put in
detention, because it was easier for logical men to appear barbarous than it was for barbarous men to appear civilized.
Mudd's Women
Harcourt (``Harvey'') Fenton Mudd, attempts to evade the Enterprise with his small class J cargo ship, and leads
it into an asteroid field.  The Enterprise extends its shields over Harvey's ship, in the process burning out
three of its four lithium crystals.  Just before Mudd's cargo ship is destroyed by an asteroid, Harvey and his ``cargo''
are beamed aboard the Enterprise. Mudd pretends his name is Leo Francis Walsh, but is eventually forced to admit
his true identity.  The crew of the Enterprise,including Sulu and navigator Johnny Farrell, become fascinated with
the three beautiful women, Ruthie (from a planet of Sea Ranchers), Magda (from Halium Experimental Station), and Evie
McCurin (from a farm planet). comprising Mudd's ``cargo.''  The women are destined to be wives for settlers on Ophiuchus
3.  McCoy notices a strange effect on his medical panel when one of the women walks near it.
When the Enterprise is forced to divert to Rigel 12 to obtain new crystals, Mudd obtains a communicator and
bargains instead with the lithium miners (Chief Ben Childress, Benton, and Herm Gosset) on the planet.  (By this time,
the stardate has mysteriously changed to 1329.2.)  At Mudd's prompting, the miners offer to provide Kirk with lithium
only in exchange for Mudd's freedom and the three women.  On Rigel 12, Evie runs away, and Kirk uses ship sensors to
search for her.  In the meantime, he learns the secret to the women's beauty: Mudd has been providing them with the Venus
drug.  Childress rescues Evie, but wants nothing to do with her when her beauty wears off.  Kirk beams down to collect
the lithium from Childress, at the same time providing Evie with red gelatin she believes to be the Venus drug.  Evie
believes herself once again to be beautiful, and lets her true beauty shine through.  Kirk gets his lithium, Evie remains
with Childress, and Mudd is taken into custody to be turned over to the authorities.
Mudd makes a second appearance in the episode I, Mudd.
The Naked Time
A landing from the Enterprise party beams aboard Psi 2000, an ancient planet about to break up. They find the crew
of 6 of the research station of the planet dead, all under strange circumstances, with life support systems off and
frozen. Crewman Joey unwisely removes his gloves is contaminated by a red liquid.  When he and Spock return to the
Enterprise, both are given a clean bill of health (for Spock, this is a pulse of 242 and a practically
nonexistent blood pressure). However, Joey notices a strange itch and begins to act irritably and irrationally,
threatening Sulu with a knife, then attempts to turn it on himself.  To McCoy's surprise, Joey dies from his
inconsequential wounds.  The infection spreads, and almost all crew members of the Enterprise become infected.
As the planet shows a shift in magnetic field (and mass!), the Enterprise begins a close orbit requiring
constant vigilance.  Meanwhile, Sulu abandons his post for a jaunt at the gym, believing himself to be a
rapier-brandishing samurai.   Riley takes over the engine room, declares himself Captain.  He demands ice cream for the
entire crew, and begins a ship-wide broadcast of his personal rendition of classic Irish ballads (his favorite being
Kathleen).  As the Enterprise begins spiraling downward, Scotty attempts to cut through the bulkhead to regain
control from Riley.  Nurse Chapel infects Spock and professes to love him. The infection causes Spock to become
excessively emotional. Bones finds the antidote just in time and Riley is dislodged.  An experimental time warp, causing
the chronometer to run backwards, is then used to allow the Enterprise to escape the breakup of the planet.  The
time warp returns them 71 hours into the past.
Obsession 
After beaming down to a planet to examine tritantium deposits (21.4 times as hard as diamond), Kirk notices a sweet,
honey-like odor.  He recognizes it as something he encountered 11 years ago, and orders the security guards to scan for
choronium and fire at any gaseous cloud they encounter.  Two security guards are killed by the gaseous creature after it
removes the red corpuscles and feeds on the hemoglobin. Kirk, Spock, and Ensign Rizzo survive, but Rizzo has much of his
hemoglobin removed and must be beamed back to the Enterprise for treatment.  Kirk becomes obsessed with the
destruction of the creature, which killed half the crew of the U.S.S. Farragut (as well as its commander Captain
Garravick), Kirk's first deep-space assignment.  Kirk appears to willing to miss his rendezvous with the U.S.S.
Yorktown, the ship he is supposed to rendezvous with to deliver perishable vaccines for the planet Theta 7.
After Rizzo dies, Kirk beams back down with a landing party which includes Ensign Garravick (Captain Garravick's son).
Garravick fires his phaser 2 when he spots the gas cloud, but not before two other officers have been attacked.
Kirk grills Garravick, accuses him of ``freezing up'' and being responsible for the death of one officer and 
severe injury of the other, and relives him of duty.  Reading the log file of the Farragut incident, Spock
learns that Kirk's obsession is fueled by the fact that he was the one who ``froze'' 11 years previously, and
has been blaming himself for the deaths of half the ship's crew members even since.  When Chekov detects the creature
leaving the planet's surface and heading into space, Kirk pursues it.  
Scanners report that the creature is in a border state between matter and energy.  The creature slows and then heads for
the Enterprise.  Neither phasers nor photon torpedoes damage it, and it enters the ship through the number 2
impulse vent, which had been left open by Scott after performing maintenance.  Spock realizes that this is because it is
able to move itself in time to avoid phaser fire. On board the Enterprise, the creature attacks to crew men, and
entered the ventilation system.  Spock goes to explain the creatures ability to avoid being hit by phasers to Garravick,
but is then attacked by it when he tries to prevent it from entering Garravick's room though the ventilation shaft.
Spock is saved only become his hemoglobin is based on copper.  (McCoy: ``That green blood of his... left a bad taste in
the creature's mouth''; Spock: ``Colloquially expressed, but essentially correct.'')   The creature then leaves the ship
and heads away at warp speed. Kirk has a hunch of where the creature is headed.  He sensed that ``home'' of the creature
is planet 4 of the Tycho system, the location the Farragut was attacked.  Spock is in favor of the chase, since
his sensor readings indicate that the creature is about to fission into multiple copies.  Kirk and Garravick beam down
and bait it with hemoplasm, but the creature takes the bait before the explosive charge of antimatter is ready. Kirk
proposes to use himself as bait and orders Garravick back to the ship.  Garravick attempts to knock him out and act as
bait himself, but Kirk overcomes him.  The two are then beamed up in the knick of time and the charge of antimatter set
off.  After some difficulties with the transporter, Garravick and Kirk arrive back on board safe and sound.
The Omega Glory
As the Enterprise approaches planet Omega 4, they discover the U.S.S. Exeter in orbit, but with no one
aboard.  McCoy, Kirk, Spock, and Gallaway beam aboard the ship, and find the hip left on automatic and empty uniforms
strewn everywhere containing only white crystals.  McCoy analyzes these and finds them to contain 35% potasium, 18%
carbon, 1.5% calcium, and 1.0% potassium, the contents of the human body when the body's 96% of water is taken away.
They then play the medical log and are warned that they are dead men, that they must not return to their ship, and that
their only chance is to beam down to the planet surface and find commander Ron Tracy.
On the Omega 4, they find Tracy who, together with Lee-Yang and Wu (two ``Coms''), is in the process of torturing a pair
of savage ``Yangs.'' Kirk, Spock, Gallaway, and Bones discover that they have been contaminated with a substance which
removes all the water from the bodies of humans, but that the surface of planet Omega 4 provides a natural immunization
against the contaminant.  Tracy has apparently become mentally unstable, and Kirk finds he has been interfering with the
planet's development.  Spock and Gallaway are attacked by Yangs while on a fact-finding mission, but Spock has already
discovered the discarded power packs which Tracy has used to slaughter hundreds of Yangs.  However, when Kirk attempts to
communicate this fact to the Enterprise, he is confronted by a phaser-bearing Tracy.  To show he means business,
Tracy vaporizes the injured Gallaway with his hand phaser.  Tracy contacts the Enterprise and claims that the
landing party has been found unconscious.  Kirk blurts out a warning to Sulu, but is instantly knocked out by Coms.
Tracy is convinced that the substance in the atmosphere which protects them from death also prolongs human life, and
cites the fact that Wu has lived to 462 years old and his father is more than 1000 years old as evidence.  He is obsessed
by finding the cause, and proposes that McCoy isolate it.  He wants to sell it to the highest bidder, and believes that
the significance of the discovery outweighs the force of the noninterference directive.  Kirk attempts to overpower him,
but is overpowered and is thrown into a cell with the captured Yangs. The male Yang attacks him, but retreats after Spock
nerve pinches the female from a neighboring cell. When Kirk and Spock mention the word ``freedom'' while plotting a
jailbreak, the Yang perks up and tells Kirk that he has spoken a worship word.  The Yang then assists Kirk in prying a
bar loose from the window, but then proceeds to wield it on Kirk's head and make his escape with his female friend.
7 hours and 8 minutes later, Kirk regains consciousness.  He then helps Spock escape, and they find McCoy.
Bones has discovered that the virus resulted form a biological war in the distant past.  Nature has apparently developed
a way of conferring immunity, if only people stay on the planet long enough.  The landing party is free to return, and
the crew of the Exeter would have survived if only they had stayed on the planet a bit longer.  Furthermore, the
inhabitants live to such old ages simply because their ancestors were unusually fit, and there is, in fact, no
age-prolonging serum.  In desperation, Tracy attacks Kirk (who has threatened to turn in Tracy for court martial), but
they and McCoy and Spock are taken prisoner by the victorious Yangs.  Kirk realizes that ``Yangs'' and ``Coms'' are
actually distorted forms of ``Yanks'' and ``Communists,'' and this somewhat implausible observation is confirmed when the
Yangs display a tattered old U.S. flag.
A trial headed by the Yang leader Cloud William, who is the escaped prisoner, follows.  Kirk recognizes the invocation a
a distorted form of the Pledge of Allegiance, and surprises the Yangs by completing it unassisted. Tracy tries to
convince the Yangs to kill Kirk by claiming he is servant of evil, as evidenced by his association with Spock (whose
pointy ears match those in a picture in his ancient book, and who apparently has no heart---at least not in the correct
anatomical location). Kirk attempts to prove his innocence by completing the ``holy words,'' since the Yangs believe that
the a liar who speaks them will have his tongue burned by fire.  When Kirk cannot, Kirk and Tracy are pitted against one
another in a fight to the death. Kirk is in trouble until Spock uses a mysterious mental power to influence Cloud
William's woman to activate a captured communicator.  A landing party beams down, although Kirk has already turned the
situation around and has Tracy at knife-point by this time.  Kirk now realizes that the holy words are actually the
preamble to the U.S. Constitution, and reveals the true meaning of the words to Chief William. Kirk and his landing crew
then return to the Enterprise, bringing Tracy along as a prisoner.
Operation-Annihilate 
After losing contact with the planet Deneva (population 1 million) for more than a year, the Enterprise goes to
investigate. Uhura's attempts to make contact at all frequencies, including private GSK783 subspace frequency 3, but
without success.  Spock consults the computer and discovers that waves of mass insanity have swept along a straight path
through planetary systems Beta Portalin, Lavinius 5 (200 years ago), Theta Cygni 12, and Ingrahem B (2 years ago).
Deneva (colonized a century ago and one of the most beautiful in the area) is the next planet on this path, and Kirk
expects the worst for his brother Sam and his family.  While approaching the planet, the Enterprise encounters a
Denevan ship heading straight for the sun.  Attempts to convince the pilot to change course fail, and the pilot flies
into the sun.  Just before being vaporized, the pilot makes the cryptic statement ``I did it.  It's finally gone,'' and
claims that he is finally ``free.''  Uhura finally gets through to the private transmitter, and hears the message
``Please hurry help us, I don't have much time.  They'll know,'' being transmitted by Sam's wife Arelin.
When Kirk beams down with a landing party, a group of armed men attempt to attack them with clubs, while at the same time
shouting that they don't want to hurt them.  Responding to a scream, the landing party finds Sam (who was a research
biologist) dead and his wife Arelin and son Peter in great pain.  Arelin refers to invaders, but the tricorder shows
nothing unusual.  After Arelin and Peter have been beamed to the Enterprise and questioned as far as they can be,
Arelin reports that the invaders came from planet Ingraham B 8 months ago after forcing the crew to take them there.  She
reports that the invaders use pain to control the people and are forcing the residents of Deneva to build ships for them.
Kirk, Spock, and a landing party enter a building in which they find hundreds of small creatures which look like plastic
pancakes.  The creatures do not register on the tricorder and are resistant to phaser fire.  When leaving, one of the
creature whirls towards them and attaches itself to Spock's back.  Back on the Enterprise, McCoy finds that
Spock's nerves are being surrounded with strange tissue.  Despite his incredible pain (as shown by the K3 indicator),
Spock escapes from the sickbay and attempts to take over the bridge before being subdued and tranquillized. However, he is
subsequently able to bring himself under control.  He escapes again, and overpowers a transporter technician before
Scotty covers him with a phaser.  When he point out to Kirk that he is the reasonable choice to beam down to the planet
to collect an alien for study since his nervous system is already compromised, Kirk allows him to go.  On the planet
surface, he is attacked by a man wielding a pipe, but is able to overpower him. He then phasers one of the alien pancakes
and places it in a little red specimen box using a pair of plastic tweezers.
A one-cell creature resembling a brain cell, which may be composed of physically separate parts. McCoy tries to find the
agent responsible for killing the creature when the Denevan ship flew into the sun. The aliens seem unaffected by all
radiation and heat, but McCoy initially neglects to try visible light.  Intense light kills the study specimen, and Spock
volunteers to see if light also kills the alien material wrapped around his nerves.  The experiment is a success, but
Spock is blinded by the intense light.  Seconds later, McCoy receives test results which demonstrate that the ultraviolet
portion of the spectrum was all that would have been needed.  The Enterprise consequently rings the planet with
210 ultraviolet trimagnesite intridium satellites (at 72 miles altitude), which bathe Deneva in ultraviolet radiation and
kill the aliens.  Meanwhile, Spock's eyes recover and his sight is restored because of a (hitherto unknown to us) Vulcan
inner eyelid.
The Paradise Syndrome
Kirk, Spock, and McCoy beam down to a planet about to be destroyed by an asteroid as big as the Earth's Moon on a
collision course.  They have 30 minutes to investigate before they must return to the Enterprise and deflect the
asteroid. They beam down in the middle of a pine forest next to a lake, and wonder at the astronomical chances that
another planet should have developed so similarly to Earth.  They soon discover an obelisk made of an alien metal which
resists sensors, and which is inscribed with inscrutable alien writing. They also find that the planet is inhabited by a
group of American Indians consisting of Navaho, Mohican, and Delaware tribes.  When Kirk returns to investigate the alien
structure, he accidentally falls inside it while in the process of initiating communicator contact with Scotty. Search
parties and sensor scans fail to locate him, and Spock and Scott are forced to leave in order to divert the asteroid, and
return for Kirk later.
Inside the alien structure, Kirk's memory has been erased, and he can no longer remember who he is or what is instruments
do.  After he finds his way out of the structure, he is discovered by Indians leaving an offering at their ``temple'' and
is taken for a god.  The elders are somewhat doubtful of his authenticity, and asks for him to prove his godhood. When a
drowned boy is brought before the elders, Kirk practices mouth-to-mouth resuscitation and brings him back to life after
he been pronounced dead by the medicine man Salesh, who jealously gives up his medicine badge.  Meanwhile, the
Enterprise makes it ways to the deflection point and attempts to push the asteroid off course.  However, it
suffers from mechanical problems and loses power before it can sufficiently deflect the asteroid.  Salesh's jealousy is
increased when his betrothed Meromani (the chief's daughter) tells him she cannot marry him, because she is betrothed to
the new medicine man ``Kirak.''  She asks Kirk to set the ``joining day,'' and he, oblivious of the oncoming asteroid,
Kirk settles on tomorrow.  In short order, he gets Mirimani pregnant. He is attacked by Salesh, who discovers that he
bleeds and therefore cannot be a god.  Kirk has also discovered that the secret of the temple has been lost because
Salesh's father died before passing it along to his son.
Spock the attempts to fragment the asteroid with phasers, blowing out most of Scott's circuits in the process. He then
retreats in front of the astroid, despite Scott's pronouncement that he can do nothing to fix the damage without the help
of a starbase.  Spock blames himself for Kirk's marooning and for the failure to destroy the asteroid, and refuses to eat
or sleep until he solved the mystery of the obelisk.  On the planet, the winds begin blowing fiercely and the sky to
darken.  The Indians tell him that he must go to the temple and stop the the natural phenomena before the earth begins to
tremble.  Kirk finally agrees, but can do nothing since he does not remember how to get inside.  Spock discovers that the
symbols on the obelisk are musical notes left behind by a super race known as the Preservers.  The preservers passes the
the galaxy rescuing primitive cultures in danger of extinction, and the obelisk is a giant astroid deflector.  Meanwhile,
Kirk and Mirimani are stoned by the Indians at the temple.  Kirk and  Spock beam down and frighten the Indians off, but
not before Mirimani has been mortally wounded. Spock uses the Vulcan mind fusion on Kirk and manages to restore his
memory.  When he activates his communicator and says ``Kirk to Enterprise,'' a sliding panel opens up and grants
them entry. Inside the temple, Spock is able to read the symbols and activate the astroid repulsion beam.
Patterns of Force 
When the Enterprise approaches the inner planet Ecos to investigate the cessation of communication with John Gill,
it is attacked with a rocket carrying nuclear weapon, technologies that neither the outer planet Zeon nor Ecos should
possess.  The Enterprise retreats to maximum orbital distance and Kirk and Spock beam down (after having
locating transponders surgically implanted in case of mishaps).  Kirk and Spock discover that a
Nazi movement has swept the planet, complete with genocide of the ``Zeon pigs'' residing on Ecos.  They view a public
newscast in which the Iron Cross second class is presented to Daris, hero of the Fatherland.  Kirk and Spock are also
shocked to learn that Gill appears to be the leader of the planet's Nazi movement.  When they are approached and
questioned by a Nazi Lieutenant, they overpower him and Spock steals his uniform.  Spock then pretends that Kirk is a
Zeon he has captured, and then nerve pinches a Gestapo commander who wishes to take charge of Kirk.  This
provides Kirk's uniform, and Spock compliments Kirk by telling him ``You should make a very convincing Nazi.''
As Kirk and Spock make their way to see the Führer, they are confronted by a Nazi S.S. Major after Spock neglects to
salute him.  The Major becomes suspicious, and Spock is exposed when he is forced to remove his helmet. Spock and Kirk
are then whipped in the process of being interrogated. Nazi Party Chairman Ennig interrupts the ``questioning,'' and
tells the Nazis to lock up Kirk and Spock for an hour, in contradiction to standing orders to execute prisoners after
interrogation. In prison, they speak to an imprisoned Zeon (whom they had previously encountered being beaten on the
street by the Nazis), and find that the Nazi movement began several years ago, corresponding with the arrival of Gill.
They escape from prison by making a primitive laser from the rubindium crystals in their transponders using their cell's
incandescent bulb as a excitation source. Spock hides outside the cell, and then nerve pinches the guard when Kirk
summons him under the pretext of wanting to talk.  They also allow the Zeon prisoner to tag along.
Kirk and Spock penetrate Nazi headquarters with the help of Secretary Daris and Chairman Ennig.  They discover
that Gill is only the drugged puppet of deputy Führer Melicon. Gill is machine-gunned after he is given an injection
by Bones and denounces the Nazi movement on television, but the Nazi movement is overthrown and Kirk and company return
to the Enterprise.
A Piece of the Action 
The crew of the Enterprise attempts to make contact with the inhabitants of planet Sigma Iosha 2, and Uhura puts
Kirk in communication with Boss Oksmyx.  The intelligent and imitative inhabitants of Sigma Iota 2 have built a culture
around a book Chicago Mobs of the Twenties (published 1992) which was left behind a hundred years ago by the
S.S. Horizon.  The Horizon was subsequently lost in space, and its report only reached the Federation two
months previously because it was sent by conventional radio instead of sub-space communication.  At the time of the
Horizon's visit, the noninterference directive was not in effect, so Kirk, McCoy, and Spock wonder what sort of
``contamination'' they will encounter when they beam down at the agreed upon rendezvous point: a street intersection next
to a yellow fire hydrant.  Upon arriving, they are held at gunpoint (``heater''-point) by Oksmyx's men (including Kalo),
but are taken safely to the Boss after a machine gun attack by rival boss Krako.
Oksmyx reports that there are a dozen or so Bosses across the planet, each controlling his own ``territory'' (plus
assorted small fry).  He asks Kirk to supply him with weapons so that he can take over the planet, and becomes upset when
Kirk tells him this is impossible.  He has his men escort them to a warehouse and hold them prisoner, then uses Kirk's
communicator to demand that Scott beam down a supply of phasers within 8 hours or he will ``burn'' the landing party.
Kirk wrangles his way out of imprisonment by pretending to teach the Ioshans the card game ``Fizzbin.''  Fizzbin is
purported to originate on the planet Beta Antares 4, and is played by dealing each player six cards (except the player on
the dealer's right, who gets 7).  A second card is turned up, except on Tuesdays.  Two Jacks are a half-Fizzbin, but any
player with three Jacks is said to have a ``shrank,'' and is disqualified.  There are a number of additional rules, and
when Kirk asks Spock the odds of getting a Royal Fizzbin, Spock he replies, ``I have never computed them.'' Having
thus distracted the guards, Kirk and Spock overpower them.  Kirk instructs Spock and McCoy to use the radio station to
contact Scotty and beam back to the Enterprise.  As soon as Kirk leave the warehouse, he is kidnapped by some of
Krako's men.
Jojo Krako, who is Boss of the southside territory, also wants heaters and instruction on how to use them, and offers
Kirk 1/3 of the proceeds of their use.  He is not amused when Kirk suggests a sit-down conference to discuss planet-wide
unification, and has his men notify Serl the Knife that he may have a job.  Oksmyx learns about Kirk's capture, and
contacts the Enterprise. By promising a truce, he gets McCoy and Spock to agree to beam down to discuss how Kirk
can be free.  Before beaming down, however, Spock instructs Scotty to set the ship's phasers on wide dispersion stun for
the region surrounding their beam-down point.  As Spock suspected, he and McCoy are immediately taken prisoner.  However,
Kirk has been able to escape from his prison cell by pretending to be hurt, then subduing his guards.  He makes his way
back to Oksmyx's office and frees Spock and McCoy.  He also forces two of Oksmyx's men to exchange clothes with himself
and Spock, and the two make their jerky way to Krako by stealing a manual-transmission ``flivver.''  While staking out
Krako's place, they are accosted by a young hoodlum who offers to help them with the ``hit'' in exchange for a piece of
the action.  He distracts the men guarding the door by pretending to be hurt.  Kirk and Spock pretend to be his family,
and then overpower the unsuspecting guards.  Once inside, however, they find that they have been expected and are being
covered by machine-gun wielding gangsters.
Kirk convinces Krako that the Federation is moving in, and that if Krako cooperates he will be cut in for a piece of the
action.  He then has Scotty beam Krako up to the Enterprise, although Scott is initially perplexed  by Kirk's
gangster lingo.  Kirk then gives the same story to Oksmyx, and has him call the other Bosses (including Teppo).  Scott
locates the the people on the other end of the phone line, and transports them all to Oksmyx's chamber.  They seem to
agree to unification under the Federation (which gets a 40\% cut), but then demand to see proof that Kirk and Company
actually have some muscle backing them up.  At this point, a hit begins on Oksmyx's men, and Krako used the opportunity to
again take Kirk, McCoy, and Spock hostage.  He does grant Kirk a last transmission to the Enterprise,  which Kirk
uses to tell Scott to stun the battling gang members using the ship's phasers.  The Bosses are impressed by this display,
and agree to Kirk's original proposal, which Oksmyx as head Boss and Krako as his Lieutenant.  Spock has reservations
about the idea of leaving a criminal organization in charge, and also of how he plans to collect a 40\% cut every year.
As the Enterprise is leaving, however, McCoy realizes that he has left his communicator behind in Bella's office,
which contains a transtator, the integral part found in all machinery found of the Enterprise.
Plato's Stepchildren 
When the Enterprise diverts to answer a medical emergency on un unknown planet, they discover a group of natives
of the star Sandara who went to Earth during the time of Plato and Socrates when their star supernovaed.  When Greek
civilization died, they left and settled on their current planet, which they call Platonius. The Platonians have very
long life spans but are easily injured, and are sadistic psychokinetics who amuse themselves by manipulating Alexander
the Dwarf.  McCoy attempts to treat a minor cut their Philosopher-King Parman has sustained and which has become
massively infected.  However, Parman has a high fever and begins to become delirious.  Unfortunately, his delirium
translates into moving, shaking, and breaking of objects, and also to that of the Enterprise.  When McCoy hypos
Parman, the psychokinetic fits end. When Parman comes to, Parman, Queen Shirana (who is 2300 years old), Dianide,
Eristethis, and the other Platonians, begin to make life miserable for Kirk, McCoy, and Spock in order to convince McCoy
to stay behind and act as their personal physician.
Parman first makes Kirk slap himself in the face repeatedly, then makes Kirk and Spock sing and perform silly songs for
them.  He also makes Spock laugh.  When McCoy begs Parman not to continue forcing Spock to laugh, Parman makes him cry
hysterically.  In the final insult, Kirk acts as a whinnying horse while Alexander rides on his back. Spock and Kirk
question Alexander and find that the Platonians' powers developed 6 months 14 days after their arrival.  Spock surmises
that a substance found in the planet's food, is responsible for their mental powers, since the Platonians began consuming
native foods after consuming their 2-3 months of supply. The chemical kironide is found to work in conjunction with
pituitary growth hormone, explaining why the dwarf Alexander is unaffected.
The Platonians force Uhura and Nurse Chapel to beam down for their further amusement.  They force Spock to serenade
Chapel, and Kirk to kiss Uhura.  They also are forced to take a hot poker and a whip and pretend to use them on the
women.  Alexander tries to stab Parman, but is discovered and forced to turn the knife on himself. However, Kirk gives
the Platonians a taste of their own medicine when he stops Alexander using the psychokinetic power he has acquired using
a kironide injection given him by McCoy.  Mind games between Parman and Kirk reveal Kirk to have the stronger power, and
Parman backs down and promises to behave in the future.  Kirk takes Alexander with him, leaving the Platonians to their
own devices and warning that he can recreate the psychokinetic power if it should be needed.
A Private Little War
Spock, Bones, and Kirk beam down to a planet to obtain biological specimens.  McCoy reports that the planet is a medical
treasure trove.  Kirk is familiar with the planet since 13 years ago, it was the first planet he surveyed, and reports to
Spock that the planet's inhabitants are peaceful and are only just beginning to learn how to forge iron.  He is therefore
extremely surprised to see villagers with rifles lying in ambush for a party of hill people which includes Kirk's former
friend Tyree.  To distract the ambushers, Kirk throws a rock, which causes the rifle to go off.  However, it also brings
on a chase, and Spock is shot with a flintlock while trying to escape.  The landing party beams up to the
Enterprise, where they find a Klingon ship heading towards them, but managed to remain concealed by keeping the
Enterprise on the opposite side of the planet.  Kirk speculates that the Klingons have violated the treaty
governing the ``neutral planet'' which restricts both parties to scientific research, and provided them with rifles. Kirk
and McCoy beam down to investigate the Klingon's activities, leaving Dr. M'Benga in charge of Spock.
After beaming down, Kirk is attacked by the poisonous mogatu, a large white beast resembling a gorilla with a horn on its
head and fins on its back.  There is no antidote to the poison, but the hill people find McCoy and Kirk and take them to
Tyree, who is now their leader. The Kanutu woman Nona is a medicine woman, as well as being the power-hungry
manipulative wife of Tyree. She cures Kirk using a mako root (a plant which moves) and by having Tyree make a cut
across her hand.  After Kirk is healed, the wound on Nona's hand vanishes. Tyree reports that the firesticks are made by
the village people, and that they first appeared about a year ago. Nona wants Kirk to use his weapons to vanquish the
village people and make her husband a powerful man.  She is greatly disappointed when Tyree's pledge not to kill and
Kirk's reluctance to share his knowledge.
Kirk and McCoy enter a village and discover the Klingon Krell advising the village leader Apella, as well as carbon-free
steel and other technological innovations too advanced for a primitive society. Unfortunately, they are discovered when
McCoy accidentally triggers his tricorder.  They are able to escape. Meanwhile, Spock recovers aboard the
Enterprise, but tells Nurse Chapel ``hit me'' when he comes out of his self-induced healing trance.  Nurse Chapel
is hesitant at first, but then complies, only to be restrained by a shocked Scott.  Dr. M'Benga then continues, and with
the aid of the pain thus induced, Spock is able to come out of his trance.  On the planet, Kirk furnished the hill people
with rifles, and site as his model the brush conflicts on the Asian continent in which two great powers fought through
surrogates by supplying the opposing sides with roughly equal weaponry, but nothing capable of mass destruction (an
obvious reference to the Viet Nam War).
Nona uses an herb to seduce Kirk.  Although Tyree witnesses the seduction, he cannot bring himself to fire the gun he is
holding and runs off.  Meanwhile, Nona is attacked by a mogatu and Kirk uses a phaser to kill it.  Nona repays the favor
by hitting Kirk on the head with a rock and stealing his phaser. However, when she attempts to turn it over to the
village people, they are only interested in molesting her. When the hill people arrive, the village people kill Nona,
believing that she has set them up. The village people are killed by the hill people, but Nona is mad with anger and asks
Kirk for many weapons with which to kill the village people.  Kirk begins to comply, then thinks better of it, and leaves
his friend in the lurch by beaming up and away to the Enterprise.
Requiem for Methuselah
When Kirk, Spock, and Bones beam down to a small planet in the Omega system to obtain ritallen to counter the epidemic of
Rigellian fever sweeping the Enterprise, they detect a life form despite the fact that ship's sensors had
indicated it to be uninhabited. They are then attacked by a droid called M4, which is then called off by its owner, Mr.
Flint. Mr. Flint demands that the landing party leave the planet immediately, and threatens to kill them if they do not.
Kirk then calls his bluff by ordering Scotty to lock phasers on their position, so that an attack on the landing party
will result in the death of all of them.  When McCoy tells Flint that the crew of the Enterprise is suffering from
a disease which has effects similar to bubonic plague, Flint recalls the progress of that disease in Constantinople in the
summer of 1334. He then permits the crew two hours on his planet, and offers M4's services to collect it.  He then
invites them to his home.
In Flint's home, McCoy is impressed to find a Shakespeare first edition, Gutenberg Bible, and creation lithographs by
Terra Nullus of Centaurus 7. Spock then examines the extensive collection of unknown Da Vinci paintings, but his
tricorder reveals the materials used to be of contemporary origin.  Meanwhile, Flint has consulted with his protege Rayna
Kontec, who begs him him to allow the landing party to stay a bit longer. Flint then promises to have M4 process the
ritallen, and introduces Rayna to the landing party, who are smitten with her.  She, however, seems most interested in
discussing field density and its relationship to gravity phenomena with Spock.  Flint claims Rayna's parents were killed
in an accident while in his employ and that he has raised her, and that possesses the equivalent of 17 university degrees
in the arts and sciences.  While Kirk plays billiards with Rayna, Spock discovers a waltz on the piano and plays it while
Kirk and Rayna dance.  Spock is greatly surprised (for a Vulcan, at least), when he recognizes the waltz as an unknown
work of Johannes Brahms written in his own hand. 
In Flint's lab, McCoy discovers that the ritallen is contaminated with iridium at nearly 1 part per thousand, rendering
it inert and useless.  While Flint goes to collect uncontaminated ritallen, Kirk takes the opportunity to romance Rayna,
with whom he has fallen in love.  While thus engaged, M4 returns and prepares to attack Kirk, who is saved when Spock
destroys it with a phaser.  Flint explains that M4 misunderstood Kirk's actions as an attack and was attempting to defend
Rayna.  As Kirk is beginning to feel more comfortable after M4's demise, a replacement M4 created by Flint 
makes its appearance.  Kirk contacts the Enterprise to try to find information on Flint and Rayna.  However, the
only information Uhura can provide is that the planet was purchased 30 years ago by a wealthy financier and recluse named
Mr. Brack.  Spock finds another piece of the puzzle when he surreptitiously performs a tricorder scan and discovers that
Flint is 6000 years old.
When Rayna goes to say goodbye to Kirk, Kirk urges her to come away with him.  Meanwhile, the ritallen has also
disappeared.  When Kirk follows tricorder readings past a sliding panel, they find a chamber containing a series of
android Raynas created by Flint to act as companions.  Flint then admits to having been born in Mesopotamia as the
soldier Acarin in the year 3834 BC.  After falling in battle, he learned that he was immortal.  In his lifetime, he was
also Abramson, Alexander, Brahms, Da Vinci, Lazarus, Merlin, Methuselah, Reginald Pollock (from the 20th century),
Shakespeare, Solomon, the painter Sten (from Marcus II), and many more people.  Because of his immortality, he 
created a mate who would not age and die.  Having learned Flint's secret, Flint refuses to let the landing party go.
When Kirk tries to warn the Enterprise to leave the area, Flint suspends the Enterprise as a small tabletop
model.
Flint is happy that Kirk has stirred emotions in Rayna and wishes to turn them towards himself.  When Kirk refuses to
back down, he and Flint fight one another. As a result of the conflict of Kirk wanting her to come away and Flint wanting
her to stay, Rayna is caught in a logic loop because she is unable to hurt Kirk or Flint and dies.  Kirk is devastated,
but obtains uncontaminated ritallen from Flint and returns the the Enterprise.  On the Enterprise, Bones
discovers that Flint is dying, having been removed from the Earth whose complex ``fields'' were the source of his
immortality.  Kirk's emotional trauma at the loss of Rayna is healed only when Spock uses a Vulcan mind meld and makes
him ``forget.''
The Return of the Archons 
 
While searching for survivors of the starship Archon which disappeared under mysterious circumstances, the crew
of the Enterprise encounters a culture of zombies controlled by the computer Landru.  Landru regulates the life of all
planet members, purging their systems of violence and anger at specified times known as ``festivals'' and leaving them
blankly contented for the rest of the time.  Landru succeeds in absorbing Sulu, and attempts to do the same with the rest
of the crew. When Kirk points out to Landru that he has violated his program by allowing human culture to stagnate,
Landru disintegrates in a shower of sparks and frees the planet from his control.
Return to Tomorrow
The Enterprise receives a distress call from a planet hundred of light years too distant to have been visited by
any Earth ship. Spock determines that the planet is similar to Earth, but older, and also that its atmosphere has been
ripped away a half million years ago.  Spock also detects no sign of life. As they near the planet, a voice identifying
itself as Sargon asks Kirk to assume a standard orbit about the planet.   The voice also addresses the crew of the
Enterprise as ``my children.''  Spock detects a power source originating 100 miles below the planet's surface, and
Kirk and McCoy prepare to beam down.  Kirk wants Spock to stay on board, but the Enterprise loses all power when
he states this.  When Kirk changes his mind to bring Spock along, all power comes back on. Astrobiologist Dr. Anne
Mullhall also tags along, claiming she has received an order to accompany them, despite the fact that Kirk has given no
such order.  Strangely, the security guards get left behind.  Furthermore, the communicators function through 100 miles
of rock despite the fact that they should not.
When the landing party beams down, it discovers evidence of an ancient culture on a planet whose habitable surface was
destroyed long ago by a self-inflicted cataclysm.  Sargon is revealed as a spherical receptacle containing pure energy
which is the ``essence'' of Sargon.  Sargon reports that his people colonized the galaxies 6000 centuries ago, and that
humans and Vulcans may be their descendants.  When Kirk asks Sargon how he can help, Sargon occupies Kirk's body. This
transference causes great stress on Kirk's body, causing McCoy to become alarmed.  Sargon then asks to borrow the bodies
of Spock and Anne Mullhall for the surviving minds of Filisa (his wife) and Hanoc (from the opposing side in the great
war), the only other two survivors, so that they may construct androids.  Kirk, Spock, and Mullhall voluntarily agree,
and the receptacles are beamed aboard the Enterprise for transference.  As before, however, the stress is too
great on the human bodies, although Spock's body is rugged enough to sustain Hanoc temporarily.  Sargon leaves Hanoc in
charge of formulating a metabolism depressant, but Hanoc takes the opportunity to doctor the formula to kill Sargon (and
Kirk) so that he can stay in Spock's body.  Nurse Chapel notices that the formula is incorrect, but Hanoc erases her
memory of having notices this.  While he is possessed by Hanoc, Spock flashes a smile of several occasions.
Hanoc finds that Felissa is also desirous of keeping her body and does not wish to return to her receptacle. Meanwhile,
Sargon is feeling the effects of the incorrect serum, and even Dr. McCoy cannot save him from dying, in Kirk's body.
Felissa attempts to engage McCoy in her scheme to remain in Mullhall's body while pretended to have left it, but then
relents.  Sargon, who reveals himself to still be alive, and expresses his approval.   He and Felissa now scheme to force
Hanoc to leave Spock's body.  They restore Kirk to perfect health, but destroy the receptacle containing Spock's
consciousness in order to prevent Hanoc from returning to it, and attempt to administer a deadly poison.  Hanoc has taken
control of the ship, but Nurse Chapel manages to inject him.  It turns out that Sargon had been sharing consciousness
with Nurse Chapel, and that the hypo had actually only contained a tranquillizer.  Spock is therefore returned to perfect
health, but Hanoc, who had fled Spock's body believing it to have been poisoned, is now destroyed. Sargon realizes that
the temptation for he and Filisa to abuse their god-like powers is too great, and he and Filisa desert their bodies and
fade into oblivion.
The Savage Curtain
While scanning planet Excalbia, Spock detects strange readings which seem to indicate the presence of carbon cycle life
forms.  Because of the planet's molten surface, the reading are discarded as impossible until the Enterprise is
scanned from the planet.  The subsequent appearance of Abraham Lincoln on the viewing screen and his transportation to
the Enterprise demonstrate that whatever intelligence resides on the planet has the ability to read minds and
manipulate matter.  Kirk orders full honors and courtesy be extended to their guest (including Lt. Dickerson and his
security detachment).  Shortly before beaming Lincoln aboard, Spock reports that sensors showing an object resembling
living rock with claws at the same position.  
On board, Lincoln appears to be human with knowledge of technology from the mid 1800's, but is strangely also aware of
the Vulcan philosophy of Nom (meaning all). When Kirk accepts Lincoln's invitation for Spock and him to beam down to the
newly-created patch of Earth-type environment on the planet (over McCoy and Scotty's strong objections), they encounter
Surak, the father of Vulcan civilization.  A piece of rock suddenly becomes animated and informs them that the
inhabitants of the planet are conducting an experiment to discover which of the opposing human philosophies is stronger:
good or evil.  The inhabitants of Excalbia will witness the ``drama,'' as will the crew of the Enterprise.  In
this first experiment, the goal will be a simple one: survival.
To carry out their experiment, the rock creatures pit Lincoln, Surak, Kirk, and Spock (whose phasers and tricorders
failed to beam down with them) against Genghis Khan, Colonel Green (who led a genocidal war in the early 21st Century),
Zora (who experimented with the body chemistry of subject tribes on Tiburon), and Kalis the Klingon (who set the pattern
for the Klingon Empire's tyrannies) in a battle to the death.  Col. Green (who was notorious for attacking his enemies
while in the midst of negotiations) begins the conflict by pretending to call a truce with Kirk while his associates
prepare to attack.  However, after fending off the attack, Kirk does not wish to begin hostilities. As incentive to
fight, the Enterprise is rigged to blow up if Kirk cannot succeed within four hours.  Kirk begins making tactics
(and Lincoln compares his leadership qualities to those of Ulysses S. Grant), but Spock and Surak refuse to cooperate and
Surak seeks out the other group to negotiate.
Green appears to parlay with Surak, but sends his associates to sneak up on him.  They then attempt to trick Kirk's party
into rescuing him when he (apparently) screams out in pain.  Lincoln attempts to sneak into Green's camp, but this action
had been expected.  As he discovers that Surak is already dead, Lincoln is speared while trying to save Surak. Col.
Green's party then attacks Spock and Kirk.  Spock kills Col. Green, and the others are forced to flee. The rock creatures
discover that evil is defeated when directly confronted by good, and Spock, Kirk, and the Enterprise are released.
Shore Leave
An Earth-like uninhabited planet in the Omicron Delta region seems the ideal location for rest and relaxation for the
tired crew of the Enterprise. However, strange things soon begin to happen to the landing party.  McCoy sees Alice
and a white rabbit, Sulu finds an antique Police special gun, Yeoman Barrels is accosted by Don Juan, and Esteban
Rodriguez and Angela see birds.  No one believes McCoy until Kirk beams down and they spot a giant rabbit track. Kirk
cancels shore leave, and is himself confronted with practical joker Finigan from Starfleet Academy and his former
girlfriend Ruth. Meanwhile, Sulu has been attacked by a Samurai, Rodriguez and Angela have been confronted by a tiger,
and Bones is making moves on Barrels, who has found princess's clothes.
Spock meanwhile reports from the Enterprise that he has detected a sophisticated power field from the planet which
is draining the Enterprise's energy. Spock beams down to help investigate just as communications with the ship are
becoming impossible. Pleasure soon turns to terror when Bones is lanced by a knight. After bones is skewered, Kirk shoots
the knight with the gun he has confiscated from Sulu.  Investigation of the knight show him to have the same cellular
structure as the plants on the planet, and Spock surmises that it has been ``manufactured.''  Angela is then killed by a
Zero, and the bodies of knight and McCoy disappear.  After asking Kirk what he was thinking about prior to encountering
Finigan, Spock realizes that the apparitions are being created out of the minds of the landing party.  Upon thinking
about the Academy again, Kirk conjured up Finigan and heads off on a wild chase after him.  After catching up with him,
Finigan lays him out flat.  After more fighting, Kirk finally succeeds in doing something he had never done before,
defeating Finney.
Suddenly, the planet's ``caretaker'' appears with a ``repaired'' McCoy (on the arms of two cabaret girls from Rigel 2).
The caretaker apologizes for the misunderstandings and offers the services of the ``amusement park'' planet to the
Enterprise's weary crew.  Kirk accepts and authorizes the crew to beam down, but Spock has had his fill of shore
leave and requests to be returned to the Enterprise.
Space Seed 
The derelict DY100 class spaceship SS Botany Bay built in the 1990s is discovered by the Enterprise.
Biological scanners detect life aboard, but only 4 heartbeats a minute, so Bones does not believe them to be produced
by humans.  The Enterprise has no record of the ship, but this is not surprising as many records were lost in the
great World War of eugenics fought during that period.  Bones, Scotty, Kirk and historian Marla McGuyvers beam aboard and
discover it is indeed an old Earth ship powered by primitive nuclear power. The crew is in suspended animation, but the
leader is accidentally awakened when the lights are turned on.  Kirk is forced to break the glass and remove him from his
chamber when the revival procedure fails and he is almost killed. McCoy and the man are beamed aboard the
Enterprise.
As the Enterprise proceeds to Starbase 12 in the Gamma 400 Star System, historian McGuyvers falls in love with the
leader (who is discovered to be Khan Noonian Singh).  Khan makes a miraculous recovery, and holds Bones at scalpel-point
to find out where he is.  Khan and his crew are products of the eugenics wars of the 1990s.   In 1993, a group of
supermen simultaneously seized power in more than 40 nations.  Spock reveals to Kirk that his research has determined
that that there were 80-90 supermen unaccounted for at the end of the war.  This, together with Khan's extreme strength
and physical potential lead Kirk and Spock to wonder if there passenger might be one of these.  Through subtle
questioning, Kirk get Khan to inadvertently admit that he is one of the supermen, with the outburst, ``We offered the
world order.''  Kirk and company look of Khan in the database, and find him to have been the most dangerous of the
supermen, and at one time to have ruled a quarter of the Earth.
Khan uses his great strength to break out of his cabin, and McGuyver's helps him to transport to the Botany Bay.
Khan awakens the 72 out of 84 superhumans (30 of them women) whose life support systems are still functioning and takes
over the Enterprise with their help.  Khan cuts off life support to the bridge, knocking out Kirk, Spock, McCoy,
Scott, Uhura, Technicians First Class Tooly and Harrison, and Lt. Spinelli.  When Khan puts Kirk in a decompression
chamber to force the other command crew members to join him, McGuyvers relents and helps Kirk regain control of the ship
by cutting off the monitor camera on the chamber, injecting the guard, and releasing Kirk.  Kirk then helps Spock escape
when he is brought to the chamber for his turn.  They gas the entire ship, but Khan escapes to engineering and attempts
to cause the ship to self-destruct.  Kirk takes on Khan in had-to-hand combat, and is able to overcome him using a rod
which he pulls from the control panel. Kirk maroons the superhumans on Ceti Alpha 5, leaving them sufficient supplies to
enable them to colonize the uninhabited planet.  On hearing this, Khan asks Kirk if he has ever read Milton, and Kirk says
yes, he understands. The reference is the statement Lucifer made when he fell into the pit, ``It is better to rule in
Hell than suffer in Heaven.'' Kirk gives McGuyvers a choice between court martial and being left behind with Khan, and
she elects to stay with him.
This episode was the basis for the movie Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.
Spectre of the Gun
On a mission to establish contact with the reclusive Melcotians, Kirk ignores the message of a space probe which uses
telepathy (each crew member hears the message in his own language) to warn the Enterprise to immediately leave
Melcot space.  Kirk tries to contact the Melcotians, but there is no response to his message. When Spock, Kirk, Scott,
McCoy, and Chekov beam down to Melcot, they materialize in a fog bank not recorded by ship's sensors.  In addition,
tricorders and communicators cease functioning. The landing party encounters a Melcotian who informs them that they are
outside disease which must be destroyed.  Their trespassing is to be punished by death, and that the pattern of their
death will be taken from Kirk's memories, since it was he who ordered that the Melcotians' warning was disregarded.
Because Kirk's ancestors pioneered the West, the landing party finds itself teleported to Tombstone, Arizona on October
26, 1881.  The townsfolk  refer to Kirk as Ike Clanton, Chekov as Billy Clayborn, Scotty and Billy Clanton, Bones as Tom
McCloury, and Spock as Frank McClary.  Spock recalls that at 5:00, on this date in history, the Clanton Gang shot it out
with Doc Holiday and Morgan, Virgil, and Wyatt Earp at the OK Corral and were defeated.
On their way to the local saloon, the landing party witness the shooting of a bar-goer by Morgan Earp.  Inside the bar,
Chekov is accosted by a woman name Sylvia who claims to know him.  Both Kirk and Chekov narrowly avoid a gunfight with
Morgan Earp. Kirk tries unsuccessfully to make peace with the Earps. When this fails, he and the landing party attempt to
leave town so as not to be around at 5:00, but they are stopped by a force field.  Desperately, Bones and Spock cooperate
to build a tranquillizer bomb which will incapacitate the Earps.  McCoy tries to borrow chemicals for his
bomb from the local dentist, only to find that the dentist is Doc Holaday. Nevertheless, Holaday lets him take the
chemicals, telling him that he better be finished using them before his 5:00 date with destiny.
Meanwhile, Chekov has fallen in love with Sylvia, with whom Morgan Earp is unfortunately also in love with.  When Morgan
picks a fight over the girl, Chekov is shot and killed.  Spock is puzzled by this, since William Clayborn survived the
battle at the OK Corral. Kirk takes it to mean that the outcome of the conflict does not necessarily correspond with the
historical outcome.  Kirk tries to get the Sheriff to call the shootout off, but finds that he is more interested in
having the Clanton gang kill the Earps. With time running out, Scotty volunteers to test the potion Bones has cooked up.
Despite Bones' careful preparation, it does not work.  Spock is the only one who understands the significance of this
fact, saying, ``You do not seem to understand.  It did not function.  But it must function.''  Spock realizes that
nothing around them is real; the whole scenario is taking place in their minds.
Kirk vows not to leave the bar until after 5:00, but finds himself and the others transported to the OK Corral at a few
minutes before 5:00.  Attempts to leave the Corral reveal that it is encircled by a force field to that escape is
impossible. Using a mind meld, Spock convinces everyone else of his certainty that nothing around them, including
bullets, is real.  So convinced, the Earps shoot their imaginary bullets right through the landing party.  When the Earps
have stopped firing and after Kirk has spared their lives, the landing party finds itself whisked on board the
Enterprise on the way to Melcot with a healthy Mr. Chekov who is alive because the only thing that was real to him
was the girl. The Melcotian probe, once again directly in front of them, emits M waves and then disintegrates.  The
Melcotians, impressed that Kirk did no kill, then extend an invitation to establish relations with the Federation.
Spock's Brain
The Enterprise encounters an ion-propelled ship of unusual configuration, which then generates a transferral beam
which transports a mysterious woman appears on the bridge of the Enterprise. Upon arrival, she stuns everyone with
a gizmo on her bracelet.  She examines the stunned crew on the bridge, and appears to take a special interest in Spock.
So much so, in fact, that she surgically removes Spock's brain, a McCoy and Kirk discover when they come to a short time
later. Luckily, due to Vulcan physiology, Spock's body can be maintained alive mechanically while Kirk goes in search of
Spock's brain. When the Enterprise follows the ion trail of the woman's ship, they are led to the Sigma Draconis
system.  Out of three habitable planets (3, 4, and 6), scanners detect none which is capable of having constructed an
advanced ion-powered craft.  Planet 3 rates letter B on the industrial scale (Earth equivalent 1485), planet 4 letter G
(year 2030), and planet 6 shows no sign of industrial development and is in a glacial age.  Uhura detects regular
emission of high energy from planet 6, in contradiction to its supposed primitive status. Playing a hunch, Kirk beams
down with a landing party to planet 6.
Sigma Draconis 6 is indeed in the middle of an ice age, but Kirk has no trouble locating inhabitants (who attack them,
believing them to be ``the others.''). When Kirk captures one of the attackers (who calls himself a 
Morg) and questions him, the Morg warns Kirk about the
``givers of pain and delight.''  Kirk asks Morg about females of his kind, only to meet with befuddlement.  When Kirk
asks Morg to help him find the ``others,'' Morg runs away in terror.  The landing party soon locates a ``dead and buried
city,'' and locates a trap elevator. Kirk has Bones beam down together with Spock's mechanically controlled body, then
intentionally triggers the trap elevator which takes them deep below ground.  At the end of their downward journey, Kirk
encounters the female (Imorg) Luma and stuns her with a phaser before she can activate her bracelet.  Questioning leads
nowhere, since Luma has the mind of a child.
Spock makes contain with the landing party through a communicator, but before anything can be done, Kirk and his party
are apprehended by Kara, the Imorg leader leader.  the landing party is equipped with irremovable belts capable of
producing intense pain. In response to Kirk's questions about the whereabouts of Spock's noggin, Kara  responds ``Brain
and brain: what is Brain?''  Bones assures Kirk that all the Imorg have low intelligence and could not be capable of
removing a brain.  The answer to this riddle is discovered when Kirk and crew overpower their guard, and follow Spock's
instruction to the central ``controller'', which is actually Spock's brain.  Here, they also find Kara, who immediately
immobilizes them using their pain belts. Kirk uses the remote control to command Spock to grad Kara's wrist and press the
red release button on her bracelet.
Spock's brain informs Kirk via communicator that the Imorg are able to gain temporary understanding of the ancient
knowledge from a machine called the ``teacher''. Kirk forces Kirk to put on the teacher, but she uses her new-found
sophistication to level a phaser at them.  Scott pretends to faint, and Kirk grabs the phaser away from her. McCoy
therefore uses the teacher and discovers how to perform a brain transplant (``Of course, a child could do it.'').  He
surgically restores Spock's brain to his mechanically sustained body using a trilaser connector and a sonic separator,
just before the knowledge's three-hour period is exhausted (a which the assistance of Spock himself, whose vocal
chords McCoy has managed to re-connect)  Kirk tells Kara that the Imorg will have to move to the
surface and live as the Morg do, and offers the Federation's assistance.
This episode contains (at least) two inconsistencies.  First, after identifying the planet as number 6, Kirk refers to it
as number 7.  The second error occurs when Kirk mistakenly states the stardate as 4351.5 instead of 5431.5.
The Squire of Gothos
Eight days away from colony Beta 6 on a supply delivering mission, the Enterprise encounters an unknown planet in
quadrant 904.  Sulu and Kirk then vanish from the bridge, and are presumed to have been transported to the planet.
However, Geophysicist Karl Jäger reports no soil or vegetation, extremely hot toxic atmosphere on the planet.  The
Enterprise receives a message ``Greetings and Felicitations,'' followed by ''Hip hip hoorah.  Tallyho.''  McCoy,
navigator DeSalle, and Jäger beam down to find Sulu and Kirk, only to find that the planet's surface is lush and the
atmosphere breathable.  However, their communicators are inoperable. They discover a castle, and are introduced to its
occupant, the playful harpsichord-playing alien calling himself General Trelaine.
Trelaine, who amuses himself using machines with the ability to transform energy and matter, has been making a study of
earth and believes it to be as it was 900 years previously (the light travel time from his planet).  Trelaine insists that
they all stay, but Kirk and DeSalle try to stun him with a phaser.  Trelaine confiscates the phaser, and amused himself
in vaporizing his statuary.  Bones' tricorder fails to register Trelaine at all, and Jäger notices that the fire is
giving off no heat. Spock is able to beam them aboard the Enterprise by beaming up every life form in the area.
Trelaine puts in an appearance on the bridge, then quickly brings the landing party back to his planet Gothos, this
time including Spock, Uhura, and Yeoman Teresa Ross.  Spock tells Trelaine ``I object to you. I object to intellect
without discipline.  I object to power without constructive purpose.''  
Kirk notices Tremaine never strays far from a mirror, and guesses that the mirror hides the source of Trelaine's power.
Kirk therefore challenges Trelaine to a duel, giving the impression that he is offended by Trelaine's attentions to
Ross.  He instead uses the opportunity to destroy the mirror.  Kirk's supposition is proved correct, and the landing party
once again escapes to the Enterprise.   As the Enterprise attempts to warp away, Gothos keeps appearing
directly in its path.  Kirk is forced to re-enter orbit and beams down to have it out with the Squire. Trelaine becomes
upset and condemns Kirk to death by hanging in a ``trial'' for the crimes of treason against a superior authority,
conspiracy, and the attempt to foment insurrection.  Kirk convinces Trelaine that there is no sport in a simple slaying,
and manages to escape death in a deadly hide-and-seek game, for which Trelaine agrees to let the Enterprise go.  
The wayward Trelaine is finally taken away by his ``parents''  to be disciplined.
A Taste of Armageddon
The Enterprise is en route to star cluster  NGC321 to open diplomatic relations with the civilizations there,
including the Emmeniar 7, principal planet of the star cluster.  Emmeniar 7 send a Code 710 signal, telling the
Enterprise not to approach under any circumstances.  The Federation knows very little about Emmeniar 7, except
that it has had space travel for several centuries but has never ventured beyond tits own solar system.  When first
contacted by the Federation, it was at was with its closest neighbor.  The federation ship making the report never
returned and was listed as lost in space.  Kirk, Spock, and three crew members (including Osborne and Tamara) beam down
and are met by a security detachment of two plus Mea 3, who takes them to Anon 7 and members of the High Counsel. Anon 7
claims that Emmeniar 7 has been at war with Vendicar, the third planet in the system, for 500 years. However, no evidence
of warfare is evident to the landing party who witness a fusion bomb ``attack.''  Yeoman Tamara's tricorder shows no
radiation disturbances, despite Anon 7's claim that half a million people have just been killed.  A counterattack is
ordered by Anon 7 and carried out by Sava's activation of the ``attack unit.''  Spock realizes that the war is being
fought by computers, who calculate casualties, and the citizens declared ``dead'' report to disintegration chambers.
Unfortunately, the Enterprise is declared destroyed by a tri-cobalt satellite explosion from Vendicar, and all
persons aboard the Enterprise are ordered to report for disintegration within 24 hours.  Kirk and the landing
party are held hostage until the crew reports. Mea 3 is also declared a casualty, and so must report for disintegration.
Anon 7 attempts to trick the crew down by imitating Kirk's voice and declaring that full diplomatic relations have been
established.  Scott smells a rat, and analyzes the transmission on the computer, which determines with 98% certainty
that a voice duplicator has been used. Spock uses a Vulcan mind trick to get the guard to open the confinement cell, at
which point is is knocked out and has his weapon stolen by Kirk.  The escapees happen across disintegration chamber 12,
and Spock takes its operator out of commission by distracting him with the line ``Sir, there is a multi-legged creature
crawling on your shoulder,'' then nerve pinching him.  Kirk then blasts the chamber.
Anon 7 gives orders to open fire on the Enterprise.  Fortunately, Scott has raised the shields and the disrupter
fire of magnitude 1812 decibels causes no damage, as reported by navigator De Paul. Fox attributed the attack
to a ``misunderstanding,'' and communicates with Anon 7, who claims that an error in their sensors indicated that the
Enterprise was about to attack them.  Stuffed-shirt Ambassador Robert Fox beams down, and is almost disintegrated
after he beams down to make diplomatic advances.  Meanwhile Kirk is subdued and recaptured while trying to recover the
phasers.  Spock and the escaped landing party (dressed as Emminiarian) rescue Fox and disintegrate another disintegration
chamber.  When Anon 7 contacts the Enterprise to demand that the crew beam down, Kirk manages to tell Scotty to
issue General Order 24 (destruction of the planet) in two hours. Kirk then overpowers his guards, and is joined by Spock.
They enter the computer center and destroy the central computer, which causes all the computers to be destroyed in a chain
reaction.  This nullifies the treaty, and initiates a real war, unless Anon 7 agrees to make peace with Vendicar.  Now
faced with the grisly consequences of a real war, Anon agrees, and Fox offers to mediate the negotiations.  As the
Enterprise heads on its way towards Organna 2, Fox reports from Emmeniar 7 that the outlook is hopeful.
That Which Survives
When McCoy, Sulu, Kirk, and senior geologist Di Amato beam down to investigate a strange planet the size of the Moon but
with the mass of the Earth, with no magnetic field, and with a well-developed atmosphere and plant life---despite the
fact that the planet appears to be only 1000 years old. As the landing party is beaming down, a strange woman appears,
says ``wait, you must not go,'' and kills the transporter operator. The landing party discovers that more is afoot than
reaches the eye, when both they and the Enterprise are tossed wildly.  Much to the surprise of the landing party,
Helmsman Riya, Spock, and Scott, the Enterprise is knocked 990.7 light years away from the planet. An autopsy
performed on the transporter operator by Dr. Sanchez yields that he died because every cell in his body has been
disrupted.  Spock does not know what to make of this, but returns to the planet at warp 8.
The landing party splits up, and Sulu reports a magnetic spike, which then vanished. Di Amato is sent in search of
underground water by Kirk, but is killed by the woman who zapped the transporter operator when she says ``I am for you''
and then touches him.  When Kirk tries to dig a grave using his phaser, he makes no progress, and discovers that the
rocks of the planet are composed of diburnium osmium alloy.  The burial is then accomplished by covering Di Amato with
rocks. Meanwhile, aboard the Enterprise, Engineer grade 4 John B. Watkins is killed by the woman when he checks
the bypass circuit, but not before he warns Scott that a strange woman is aboard.  The cause of his death is found to
be cellular disruption of every cell in his body.
Back on the planet, the woman appears in front of Sulu and tries to touch him.  Sulu tries to shoot her, but the phaser
is ineffective.  She manages to touch Sulu when he trips over a rock, but is only able to damage his shoulder before Kirk
interposes himself and finds that she cannot harm him. On the Enterprise, the woman rigs the engines to explode by
fusing the emergency bypass circuit on the matter/antimatter integrator. The Enterprise begin accelerating out of
control, and Spock estimates that the Enterprise will explode in 14.87 minutes, with no way to stop it.  Back on
the planet, Kirk's phaser overloads itself and Kirk is forced to fling it away.   The woman appears again and tries to
touch Kirk, but is prevented by McCoy and Sulu. She identifies herself as Loceera, commander of the station, but she does
not register on McCoy's tricorder. Kirk follows the off-scale reading to an entrance, which then opens.
Scotty saves the Enterprise from exploding by reversing polarity on the magnetic probe and returning the magnetic
flow to normal.  The Enterprise then begins decelerating from its peak speed of warp of warp 15.2+ (although Riya
counts down warp 14.1, 14, 15.9, ...).  When the landing part enters the chamber, they find a glowing cube and a copy of
Loceera who is ``for'' James T. Kirk.  At firsts he is protected by Sulu and McCoy, but two more Loceeras then appear,
one for McCoy and one for Sulu. Spock rescues the landing party at this juncture when he beams down and destroys the
computer which was projecting the image of the woman Loceera.  When a record tape is automatically played, they find out
that the planet they are on is actually a space outpost built by the Calandans, who were all killed by a disease they
created while building the planet.  The outpost was left on automatic, with the computer attempting to fend off all
explorers but the expected Calandan ship.  As Kirk prepares to return to the Enterprise, he comments in response to
a statement by Spock that beauty such as Loceera's is transitory, that ``beauty survives.''
This Side of Paradise
When the Enterprise speeds to the agricultural colony Omicron Ceti 3, they expect to find none of the 150 men,
women, and children colonists alive, as the planet is being bombarded with deadly and newly discovered Berthold rays.
Kirk, Spock, McCoy, DeSalle, and another crewman are surprised indeed to find the colonists and their leader Elias
Sandeval alive and in perfect health.  Too perfect health, Bones discovers, when he finds that Sandeval now has a healthy
appendix despite the fact that it was removed in an appendectomy.  Sulu and the landing party are also struck by the
absence of non-human animal life.  Kirk orders Sandeval to prepare his group to be evacuated to Starbase 27, but Sandeval
refuses.  Meanwhile, the colonist Leyla Colomi, shows Spock (who she has a crush on) the colonist's secret: plants which
spray spores that take up residence in the brain and, in return, provide perfect health and complete well-being. 
Furthermore, the plants thrive on Berthold Rays.  Sulu is soon given a similar treatment, and remarks to Kirk ``Of course we can't remove the colony. It'd be wrong.''
Alarmed by what he sees, Kirk tries to get in touch with Spock who is at present frolicking with Leyla and pointing out
cloud formations shaped like dragons from Bering Deria 7.
In the meantime, McCoy is infected.  Not only does he make himself a mint jullip, but he also sends up hundreds of plants
to the Enterprise. Kirk is beamed up by an infected transporter operator (``Well sure.  If you want,'') who is
systematically beaming down the crew of the Enterprise.  Uhura has short circuited all communications except ship
to surface.  Kirk is soon the only one left aboard, and he too is soon infected by a stray plant on the bridge. After
opening his safe (combination 5231) and looking through its contents, Kirk becomes upset as one side of him wants to beam
down and the other side is devoted to the ship.  These violent emotions, Kirk soon discovers, drive the spores out.  He
subsequently has Spock beam up, and gets him angry by calling him a ``mutinous, disloyal, computerized, half-breed.''
Spock beams up Leyla to explain to her what has happened, but the pain of finding out she has lost Spock causes the
spores to be driven out from her as well.  Leyla asks Spock if he has another name, but he only replies ``You couldn't
pronounce it.''
Spock prepares a subsonic transmitter which will broadcast over the communicators and provoke those on the planet to
irritability and anger.  Fights begin to break out between Sulu and DeSalle, then McCoy and Sandeval, and soon the spores
are driven out of everyone on the planet.  The crew beams back up and the Enterprise is free to continue on its
way.  Spock is back to his old self, but we find out that on the planet, he was happy for the first time in his life.
The Tholian Web
When the Enterprise attempts to ascertain the fate of the U.S.S. Defiant, which vanished 3 weeks ago, the
warp engines begin to lose power, and Spock reports strange sensor readings.  They visually detect the Defiant,
but sensors indicate it is not there.  Kirk, Spock, Chekov, and McCoy beam aboard wearing life support suits, and find
the entire crew dead.  The captain's neck is broken, and the landing party initially suspect mutiny.  An inspection of
the ship, however, reveals that all crew members are dead, and McCoy concluded that they killed each other.  When McCoy
tries to touch one of the dead crew members, his hand passes right through him, revealing that the Defiant is
starting to disintegrate.  The transporter aboard the Enterprise is meanwhile behaving erratically, and only
Spock, McCoy, and Chekov are successfully beamed back aboard, leaving Kirk alone on the Defiant.
Kirk and the ship are trapped in a parallel universe by the weakening of the surrounding fabric of space, and the
computer calculates that the next time of spatial interphase will occur in two hours.  Meanwhile the crew of the
Enterprise begins suffering from a state of insanity caused by a weakening of the fabric of space, and Chekov must
be put under restraint.  The appearance of two hostile Tholian ships disrupts the spatial interphase which would have
allowed Kirk to reenter his own universe.  Spock is able to convince the Tholians to wait until the interphase occurs, but
when it does, the Enterprise is unable to beam Kirk aboard.  After this time has expired, the Tholian fires and
damages the Enterprise. The Enterprise is forced to fire on Tholian commander Loskeen's ship, and the
Tholians respond by surrounding the Enterprise with an energy web.
McCoy and Spock, believing Kirk to be dead, review a recording left behind in his cabin.  Kirk has predicted that Spock
will be making difficult decisions and that McCoy will be critical of them, and instructs the two of them to work
together, Spock tempering his decisions with human insight, and McCoy restricting his criticisms to take into account
human fallibility.  Uhura sees a vision of Captain Kirk and reports to McCoy that he is alive. McCoy believes Uhura is
going mad, and confines her to sickbay.  Scott then sees the same vision, and rushes to the bridge, where everyone,
including Spock, see it as well. A therigram derivative (therigram, in its pure form, is a deadly nerve gas used by the
Klingons) is found to act as a cure.  Scott is hesitant, until McCoy informs him that he has prepared it using alcohol as
a solvent and that, after drinking it, a man could be hit with phaser stun without feeling it. The Enterprise is
able to hold Kirk in the transporter beam at the next interphase, and then escapes from the completed Tholian web by
using ship's power to disrupt space-time and throw the Enterprise 2.72 parsecs distant.  Kirk's oxygen is just
about to run out, but McCoy is ready with a hypo of triox just as Kirk beams aboard and faints.  Back on the bridge,
Kirk reminisces about have a universe all to himself, but admits he likes a quiet one better.  He then asks Bones
and Spock if they reviewed his last orders, but Spock avoids the question, and McCoy lies about it.
Tomorrow is Yesterday 
When the Enterprise is accidentally warped back in time to the late 1960s by a black star, Kirk is forced to
beam the jet-interceptor pilot John Christopher (serial number 4857932) aboard.  On the Enterprise (one of only
12 ships in the fleet), Christopher learns much he should not know about (like the computer which addresses Kirk
as ``dear'' after having been overhauled on the woman-dominated planet Cygnet 14).  Because Christopher knows the future,
Kirk cannot return him to earth.  A computer analysis by Spock, however, shows that Christopher and his wife will have a
son, Sean Jeffrey Christopher who will head the earth-Saturn probe mission. After recovering all records tracking the
Enterprise from the military (and accidentally beaming up an MP, who samples chicken soup from the food
dispenser), the Enterprise warps forward in time by accelerating towards and then breaking away from the sun.  As the
Enterprise travels back in time, Christopher is beamed back into his jet at the exact moment in time he saw the
ship and the MP is returned to the base just as he heard a noise.
The Trouble with Tribbles
The Enterprise is called to Deep Space Station K7 by a priority 1 distress call.  The space station and planet are
in a quadrant disputed between the Federation Klingon Empire.  The quadrant was the site of the battle of Domatu 5, which
occurred 23 years ago. The terms of the Organian peace treaty were that the Sherman's planet would revert to whichever
side could manage it most efficiently. Kirk is furious after the distress call issued by Niels Barris, undersecretary in
charge of agriculture in this quadrant and person in charge of the development of the planet's development, turns out to
have been without justification.  In fact, Barris just wants someone to guard the quadrotritikali grain (a four-lobed
high yield grain) bound for Sherman's Planet. Barris's assistant is Arn Darvin, and Mr. Lurie is the manager of the Space
Station.
A Klingon ship arrives at the space station and requests that its crew be granted shore leave. Kirk tells the Klingon
leader Kola that he can bring members of his crew down 12 at a time, but that he will provide one security guard for each
Klingon which beams down. Meanwhile, the intergalactic trader Cirano Jones gives Uhura a trilling creature called a
tribble.  She brings it to the Enterprise, where it begins reproducing.  Jones also tries to sell tribbles to
Klingons on the Station, but the tribbles respond by emitting high-pitched yelps. Trouble breaks out between Klingons and
members of the Enterprise's crew, also on shore leave, when one of them compares Earthers to Regulan bloodworms.
This infuriates Chekov, who then becomes more upset when the Klingon goes on to call Kirk a swaggering, overbearing,
tin-plated, dictator with delusions of godhood.  However, Scott holds Chekov back, even after the Klingon called Kirk a
Denebrian slime devil.  However, when the Klingon called the Enterprise a sagging old rust-bucket which is
designed like a garbage scull, Scott punches him, precipitating a bar room brawl.  When Kirk questions his crew, no one
admits to starting the fight. However, when Kirk questions Scott alone, he admits that he started the fight, and also
reveals that he refrained from fighting while Kirk was being insulted, but was forced to take action when they insulted
the Enterprise.
The tribbles begin proliferating throughout the Enterprise, and Kirk even accidentally sits on one while taking a
seat in his command chair.  Kirk orders Uhura to clean the tribbles off the ship, and beams down to the space station to
confront Cyrano Jones.  However, since the only animals it is illegal to transport are dangerous one, and tribbles are
not dangerous, Kirk can do nothing. After Kirk find tribbles have spread aboard the Enterprise through air vents,
he becomes concerned that they may have infested the grain storage lockers on the star station as well.  His hunch proves
correct; opening the overhead storage bin produces a rain of tribbles on Kirk's head.  Spock calculates that 1,771,561
tribbles are likely to exist on the station, assuming each tribble has a litter of 10 every 12 hours over a period of 3
days. However, Spock notes that many of the tribbles are dead. When the station transporter room is being cleared of
tribbles, one of them yelps at Barris's assistant Darvin. Kirk verifies that tribbles coo for humans (and even Vulcans:
``obviously the tribbles are very perceptive creatures,'' according to Spock), but yelp for Klingons, and then has McCoy
do a scan of Darvin.  McCoy verifies that that Darvin is a Klingon, and also reveals that the grain was poisoned. Darvin
admits to being a Klingon agent and to be responsible for poisoning the grain.  Darvin is arrested, Kirk tells the
Klingons to leave Federation territory, and Jones is ordered to pick up every tribble on the space station, a task which
Spock estimates will take 17.9 years.
Another freighter is diverted to provide replacement grain for Sherman's planet. The tribbles are finally removed from
the Enterprise when Scotty transports them into the Klingon ship.
Turnabout Intruder
After receiving a distress call from a science party on Camis 2 exploring the ruins of a dead civilization, the
Enterprise rushes to assistance.  All members of the party appear to be dead except the leader Dr. Janice Lester
and the medical officer Dr. Arthur Coleman.  Kirk and Lester had been in love in Starfleet Academy, but Lester's
inability to rise to command status because of her gender led them to drift apart.  According to Dr. Coleman, Lester is
suffering from some unknown sort of radiation poisoning.  However, when the rest of the Enterprise landing party
goes to aid a dying science part member leaving Kirk and Lester alone, she activates an alien device she has discovered
to exchange bodies with Kirk. Lester is driven by jealousy and a persecution complex and complains to Kirk of the agony
of being a woman and tries to strangle Kirk.  Kirk, McCoy, and Coleman return before she can finish, having been too late
to save the scientist from selebium poisoning.  Lester orders everyone to be beamed about, and takes over the role of
Kirk. Aboard the Enterprise, Dr. Coleman reveals that Lester deliberately sent the science team where she knew the
selebium shielding was weak, and that she was supposed to kill Kirk during the interval provided by Coleman on the
planet.
The imposter Kirk removes Bones as chief medical officer and installs Dr. Coleman, a former starship doctor who has been
found incompetent by the Starfleet Surgeon General, in his place.  Dr. Coleman attempts to prevent Kirk (in Dr. Lester's
body) from interacting with the crew by sedating her, but she escapes to sickbay to talk to Bones and Spock. However,
Kirk is there as well waiting for a physical examination ordered by McCoy.  He proceeds to knock Lester out and orders
her be put in isolation and incommunicado. Meanwhile, Lester delays a rendezvous with the Potemkin to conduct
gravitational studies of the Beta Aurigae binary system and insists that course be set for the Benicia colony, despite
the fact that Starbase 2 is on the way and that Benecia possesses only primitive medical facilities. 
Spock suspects something amiss, and goes to speak to (the real) Kirk in solitary confinement.  At Kirk's request, Spock
does a Vulcan mind probe and discovers the truth. Meanwhile, McCoy tests Lester's dermaloptic reaction to color
wavelengths using a Rubiana dermaloptic test to compare his basic emotional structure to previous results. Spock tries to
escape with the real Kirk, but is stopped by Kirk and security guards.  This leads to a court martial trial for Spock.
Spock puts Lester on the stand and testifies that Kirk's mind is in actually in Lester's body.  Scotty talks to Bones in
the hallway about the vote, and the conversation is recorded by Lester.  Lester then orders the death penalty for Scotty,
Bones, Lester (who is actually Kirk), and Spock, despite the fact that general order 4 is the only crime for which the
death penalty is still in effect.  In the meantime, Sulu and Chekov refuse to obey Kirk's orders and Kirk and Lester
experience a temporary reversion of minds.  In fact, to prevent reversion, Coleman informs Kirk that Lester must be
killed.  However, he is too late carrying out the task, and  Kirk's and Lester's minds revert to their appropriate
bodies.
The Ultimate Computer 
The Enterprise is summoned to a space station without explanation and told that his crew will be removed to the
space station.  Upon arriving, Kirk is contacted by Commodore Enright that Commodore Bob Wesley will be beaming aboard.
Kirk finds out from Wesley that has been given the ``honor'' of testing of Dr. Dastrum's M5 Multitronic System, a
computer designed to replace the crew of a starship.  McCoy has misgivings about the test, but Kirk has no choice but to
go along with the test.  Spock is impressed with the device, and believes it to be potentially more important than
Dastrum's advances in duotronics.  Kirk learns that the device is called M5 because the first four generations were not
entirely successful, spawning his own misgivings.  Kirk does not believe that his misgivings are entirely due to
his own jealousy that his job could be partially or completely replaced by a machine.
The M5 appears to function normally at first.  When it is engaged to enter orbit around Alpha Carinae 2 and make
recommendations for a landing party, Kirk is chagrinned to find out that the M5's recommendations are the same as his own,
with the exception that he and McCoy are not included since they are ``nonessential personnel.''  Meanwhile, M5 begins
turning off power to unoccupied parts of the ship, at the same time drawing an increased amount of power. In an
unscheduled drill at Alpha Carina 2, M5 defends the Enterprise against attacks from the starships Excalibur
and Lexington, the latter which is commanded by Wesley.  The M5 is declared the victor of the simulated contest,
prompting Commodore Bob Wesley to call Kirk ``Captain Dunsel.''  Spock explains the meaning of dunsel to McCoy as a term
used by midshipmen at the Federation Academy for a part which serves no useful purpose.
In a short time, however, M5 takes control of the Enterprise despite Kirk, Sulu, and Scott's attempts to regain
control.  It then locks phasers at full power and destroys the automated ore freighter Logan when it passes
nearby. When Kirk tries to disconnect the M5, he discovers that M5 has generated a protective force field which prevents
any one from getting near it.  Scott assigns a technician to unplug the connection, but he is immolated by a when he
tries to disconnect it, as M5 picks this exact time to creates between itself and the connector so that it may draw power
directly from the warp engines.  Spock and Scott attempt to manually override before a scheduled rendezvous with the
exercise force.  Dastrum is surprised by the M5's actions, but views its behavior as mistakes made by a ``child'' who
is still learning.
Unfortunately, implementing manual override fails when M5 reroutes helm and navigation control using the H279 elements
and rendering the G95 systems dead. When Dastrum is questioned about M5's irrational behavior, he reveals that he has
impressed human engrams in the circuitry, providing a system nearly as complicated as human synapses.  At the scheduled
rendezvous point, the M5 attacks the Excalibur, Lexington, Hood, and Potemkin, killing many
crew members (53 on theLexington and initially 12 on the Excalibur, including its Captain Harris and first
officer).  Dastrum now reveals that the engrams were his own, and Kirk and company surmise that they therefore suffer
from the mental instability which Dastrum now reveals (as he rails on his colleagues for laughing behind his back and
becoming successful by building on his work).  Kirk finally shuts off M5 by pointing out that it has violated its
programming of saving men from dangerous activities such as space exploration by killing humans.  Since the penalty for
murder is death, the M5 then concludes that it must die, and shuts itself down.  While preventing Kirk from regaining
control, it also drops shields, leaving the Enterprise open to retaliatory attacks from the task force.
However, when Wesley sees that the Enterprise has dropped its shields, he calls off the attack. Dr. Dastrum is
committed to a program of rehabilitation, but Spock still refuses to respond to McCoy's prodding that that human
compassion outweighs any advantages computer may have, and that people are more pleasant to be around than computers.
The Way to Eden
The Enterprise destroys the stolen space cruiser Aurora when it uses tractor beams to prevent it from
entering Romulan space and the Aurora continues to use full power in an attempt to flee.  The six passengers are
beamed aboard the Enterprise before their ship's destruction, and prove to be Tongo Rad, the son of the Katulan
ambassador (and must be handled with extreme delicacy because of ongoing Federation negotiations with Katula), Irina
Galilulan (Chekov's former girlfriend and a Starfleet Academy dropout), Dr. Sevrin (a well-known research engineer in the
fields of acoustics, communications, and electronics on from Tiburon), the musician Adam, and two unidentified girls.
The group is dressed in far-out clothing, is disrespectful of authority, and call Kirk ``Herbert'' (who was a minor
official notorious for his rigid and limited patterns of thought---i.e., Herbert Hoover).  The hippies demand to be taken
to a planet called Eden and refuse to cooperate with Kirk.  However, Spock seems to partially understand them when he
makes a symbol and speak of the ``One,'' and they therefore allow him to lead them to sickbay.
Medical examination of Sevrin reveals him to be a carrier of the synthecoccus novae virus and to be on the verge of
insanity.  Kirk orders Sevrin into isolation before he can endanger any crew members who may not have received complete
vaccinations.  The hippie object by calling Kirk ``Herbert'' again, and make up a protest song. Spock attempts to reason
with Sevrin and offers to assist him in finding Eden and colonize it, if he agrees to cooperate.  However, Sevrin is so
resentful of the impositions placed on him as a carrier of his disease (which has been created as a by-product of
technological advancement) that he is oblivious to the damage he can impose on others and wants only to be free of the
technology which his resulted in his infection.
Led by Sevrin, the hippies take control of the Enterprise by distracting crew members. Adam distracts Spock with
music and arranges to hold a concert which is broadcast ship-wide (in which Spock joins in), and Irina distracts Chekov
with love and finds out out to access the computer banks and navigate the ship.  Finally, Tongo distracts Sulu with his
hobby of botany.  Tongo then knocks out Sevrin's guard and frees Sevrin, and the two up them knock out Chekov and take
over the ship from auxiliary control and direct it toward Romulan space.  The hippies then complete Spock's search and
find the planet they call ``Eden,'' which indeed lies in the Romulan sector.  The hippies use hypersonics to incapacitate
the Enterprise crew members and then proceed to land on the planet using the Galileo 2 shuttlecraft
(1707/7). Kirk manages to reach the auxiliary control panel and stop the sound.  Kirk, Spock, Chekov, and McCoy then
follows the hippies down using the transporter and find a beautiful planet.  They quickly learn otherwise when Chekov's
hands are burned when he touches a flower, and McCoy determines that all the plant life on the planet contains acid.  The
landing party discovers that Adam has been killed after eating appetizing-looking but deadly indigenous fruit.  Sevrin
refuses to leave and then deliberately eats a fruit which kills him. The landing party takes the remainder of the
hippies (whose bare feet have been burnt) back to the Enterprise for medical attention.
What are Little Girls Made of?
Trouble begins when the Enterprise travels to the planet Exo III to investigate the fate of Roger Corby, Nurse
Chapel's former fiancee.  Security guards Matthews and Rayburn are both killed after beaming down with Kirk and Nurse
Chapel.  Corby, known as the Pasteur of archeological medicine, has discovered the remains of an ancient culture.  Using
machinery he has found, he creates androids Braun and Andrea with the help of Rok, a still-functioning android from the
old times.  Corby creates an android of Kirk so that he will be taken to Minas 5 and start spreading androids throughout
the galaxy.  The real Kirk and android are indistinguishable; the android even knows that Kirk has a brother named George
Samuel Kirk (called Sam by Kirk only) who saw Kirk off with his wife and three sons.  
While Kirk's mental patterns are being duplicated, Kirk concentrates on the words ``Mind your own business Mr. Spock.
I'm sick of your half-breed interference!  Do you understand?''  Spock suspects something is amiss and follows the
android down to investigate.  In the meantime, Corby has been forced to destroy Rok, who has remembered the equation
``existence, survival must cancel out programming,'' realized that the same kind of clash between humans and androids
that led to his civilization's demise centuries ago is becoming inevitable, and attempted to kill Corby.  Corby then
catches his hand in a door, and exposes the fact that he himself is an android.  After Andrea destroys the Kirk android
when he refuses to kiss her, she tries to kiss Corby, and Corby destroys them both.
Where No Man has Gone Before
 
The very first Star Trek episode (not counting the pilot episode, The Cage).  During the theme song at the
beginning there is no ``Space, the final frontier'' voice-over. Near the edge of the galaxy, the Enterprise
discovers a 200-year-old ship recorder from the SS Valiant. Shortly thereafter, the Enterprise passes
through an unknown phenomenon which causes major damage and knocks out navigator Gary Mitchell and Dr. Elizabeth Dehner
(who both have high ESP ratings).  When Gary recovers, he begins to acquire telepathic and telekinetic powers.  Kirk,
alarmed at the prospect of having his ship taken over, is convinced by Spock to maroon Mitchell at the lithium cracking
plant of Delta Vega.  Dr. Piper has no explanation for what is happening.  Gary kills Lee Kelso, and escapes from his
imprisonment.  Kirk follows him and is able to destroy him with the help of Dr. Dehner, who is also beginning to acquire
the power, but in the process, kills herself.
Who Mourns for Adonais?
Scott falls in love with Lt. Carolyn Polamis, a specialist in Archaeology, Anthropology, and Ancient Civilization, who has stayed
up all night preparing a report on Pollux 5, in preparation for the Enterprise entering orbit around Pollux 4
(class M planet, oxygen-nitrogen atmosphere, age approximately 4 billion years).  While approaching Pollux 4 in the Beta
Geminorum system, an energy field in the shape of a giant green hand stops the Enterprise dead in space.  Kirk tries to
wiggle free and to apply forward tractor beams, but is unable to break the grip of the force field.  An apparition
wearing a laurel wreath then appears, addresses the crew as his ``children,'' and congratulates them for venturing forth
from the hills and valleys of Earth. When Kirk demands to be set free, the apparition causes the hull pressure to rise
(100 gsc and climbing), and Kirk is forced to back down.  The apparition invites Kirk and a landing party down to visit,
but specifically excludes Spock, who he says reminds him of Pan (who is boring).
The landing party Kirk, McCoy, Scott, Carolyn, Chekov, discovers a humanoid who identifies himself as the god Apollo.  He
tells Kirk that he will not allow the landing party to leave, renders their communicators ineffective, and demands
worship.  When Kirk refuses, Apollo causes himself to grow 20 feet tall.  Apollo makes advances towards Carolyn which
Scotty finds offensive, but has his phaser mangled when he attempts to shoot at Apollo.  Apollo clothes Carolyn in a
toga, again angering Scott.  When Scott tries to intervene, he is shocked and thrown back by Apollo. Carolyn falls in
love with Apollo, and questions him about history.  Carolyn finds out that Apollo was indeed one of the ancient Roman
gods.  (According to McCoy, he has an extra organ whose function is a complete mystery to him.) Apollo tells Carolyn that
he and the other gods left after the ancient people of Earth stopped worshiping them.  Without worshippers, even the
immortal gods weaken, and all but Apollo have ``spread themselves to the wind'' and faded away.
After Kirk and company again defy Apollo, he zaps them all in rage, and then appears to fade away.  Kirk suspects that
use of his godly powers tire him, and theorizes that he requires time to recuperate.  He decides to deliberately anger
Apollo. Unfortunately, this scheme comes to naught when Carolyn intervenes and convinces Apollo to be lenient. Apollo
instructs Kirk to make arrangements to bring the Enterprise's crew down, after which he will destroy the ship.
Although Carolyn is in love with Apollo, Carolyn puts duty ahead of self when, acting on Kirk's instruction, she rejects
Apollo (telling him she was only interested in studying him) in order to weaken him.  Meanwhile, Uhura has been able to
reestablish contact, and Kirk and Spock formulate a plan.  Apollo's power is destroyed when his energy source in the
temple is located and blasted out of existence by the Enterprise's phasers, despite Apollo's attempts to destroy
the Enterprise with lightning bolts.  A sorrow-stricken Apollo appeals to the other gods to take him away, now that
he has realized that there is no room left for gods anymore.  Kirk, too, is saddened, wondering if it would have hurt
them to have gathered just a few laurel leaves.
Whom Gods Destroy 
Kirk and Spock beam down to Elba II to deliver a revolutionary medicine to the insane asylum located there which houses
the 15 incorrigible insane criminals of the Federation.  Elba II is surrounded by a poisonous atmosphere.  Inmate Marta
warns Kirk and Spock that their host is not really governor Donald Cory, but they do not believe him.  Upon viewing Cory's
cell, however, Kirk and Spock discover that the inmate and former starship fleet captain Garth of Isar has imprisoned
Cory in his cell and is running the facility with the aid of the other inmates.  Garth imprisons Kirk with Cory, and
destroys the medicines Kirk and Spock have brought. Garth is able to change form at will using the technique of cellular
metamorphosis (learned on Antos) and attempts to gain control of the Enterprise to escape and punish his former mutinous
crew by impersonating Kirk. Garth is thwarted by the password Kirk has arranged with Scotty when Scotty queries ``queen
to queen's level 3'' and Garth does not know the proper response: ``queen to king's level 1.''
Garth then invites Kirk to dinner with the inmates and Mr. Spock.  At the banquet, the green poet inmate Marta recites
Shakespeare (which she claims to have written herself) and performs an exotic dance (which Spock find similar to a dance
performed by Vulcan school children).  We find out that Garth has charted more new worlds than any man in history, but
then tried to destroy Antos 4.  When Kirk refuses to reveal the counter password, Garth tortures Cory in a specially
modified therapeutic chair.  When Kirk still refuses, he is strapped in and tortured.  However, Marta convinces Garth to
let her try more persuasive techniques.  She begins making love to Kirk, then attacks him with a knife.  She has arranged
for Spock to be freed, and he luckily steps in and nerve pinches her before she can stab Kirk. Kirk and Spock make it to
the control room where they contact the Enterprise. Kirk smells a rat, and demands that Spock give the
countersign.  Spock, who is actually Garth in disguise, then puts the force field back on and assumes his true form
before a security team can be beamed down.  Kirk attempts to turn the force field back off, but is stunned by Garth
before he can do so.
Garth then holds a ceremony in which he declares himself ruler of the universe, Marta his consort, and Kirk his heir
apparent.  He then threatens to use a powerful new explosive he has invented on Marta, who is dragged out into the
poisonous atmosphere.  Garth then carries out his threat, and commands that Spock be brought in.  Spock pretends to be
knocked out in his cell, then nerve pinches the two guards who have come to fetch him.  He makes his way to the control
room, where he is confronted be what appear to be two identical Captain Kirks.  Spock tries to distinguish the real from
the imposter by asking what maneuver was used to defeat the Romulan ship near Tau Ceti.  One Kirk correctly gives the
maneuver as the Cochran deceleration, but the other Kirk points out that this is a classic battle maneuver.  The two
Kirks then have it out, and Spock is able to identify Garth when the real Kirk tells Spock to stun them both in order to
assure the safety of the Enterprise.  Control of the institution is returned to Cory and Garth and his colleagues
are cured using the new drugs.
Wink of an Eye 
While exploring an outer quadrant of the Galaxy, the Enterprise receives a distress call from the planet Scalos.
A group of five Scalosians claims to be the last survivors of a civilization of 900,000. However, a landing party
consisting of Kirk, Spock, McCoy, and Compton is unable to locate the source of the transmission. Kirk thinks he detects
the buzzing of insects, but the tricorder does not register. Queer goings-on follow when Compton mysteriously disappears
right in front of McCoy. When Kirk and the landing party return to the Enterprise, a number of malfunctions occur
aboard the ship which cannot be explained.  As Kirk is being examined for ill effects, he again notices the buzzing sound
from the surface, and Kirk concludes that aliens have been beamed aboard.
Spock detects an alien machine being installed into the environmental control, but the two security guards are not
permitted to enter the chamber, while Kirk and Spock are allowed to proceed.  However, when Spock attempts to disconnect
it, he is prevented by a force field.  When Kirk and Spock attempt to phaser it, their phasers instantaneously disappear.
Back on the bridge, Kirk's coffee is drugged, and Kirk's metabolism is accelerated as a result. In accelerated phase,
Kirk meets the Scalosians who have been accidently beamed aboard, including the Scalosian queen Deela, who responds by
embracing and kissing him.  Kirk tries to stun Deela, but she steps aside before the normal speed phaser beam can get
close.  Kirk rushes to the life support room, but is blocked from entering by Compton.  Kirk forces his way past, but
is then stunned by the Scalosians.  However, Compton is injured by the Scalosian head scientist, and suffers cell
damage, and Kirk witnesses the rapid aging which has resulted in Compton's death.
Because the Scalosian men are sterile, the crew members of the Enterprise are to be frozen by a machine hooked in
the life-support system and used as mating stock for generations to come.  The Scalosians have been forced to use this
technique of propagation ever since their water was polluted by radiation released by volcanic eruptions, resulting in
sterility of the males. Kirk himself is to be the husband of Deela, much to the chagrin of her chief scientist Rea.  Kirk
makes a tape for Spock in which he explains all this, and places it in a tape slot for McCoy to find.  He then sabotages
the transporter so that he cannot be beamed down in order to gain more time, and also pretends to be smitten with Deela
in order to steal her weapon.  McCoy discovers the tape and Spock is able to read the tape by greatly slowing it down.
Meanwhile, Rea is jealous of Kirk's romancing with Deela, and attacks him before Deela makes him stop at phaser-point.
Bones discovers a way to decelerate Kirk and Spock accelerates himself to the Scalosian level by drinking Scalosian water
(before McCoy can stop him) in order to deliver the remedy.  Rea activates the device in life support, but Kirk then
steals Deela's weapon.  He meets up with Spock, and the two of them stun Rea.  They also destroy the Scalosian machine.
The Scalosians are returned to their planet to live out the rest of their lives, recognizing that the Federation will not
permit any more Starships to enter the area.  Kirk successfully tries McCoy's concoction and returns to normal speed in
front of a surprised Scotty.  Meanwhile, Spock repairs damage to the Enterprise in record speed while still
hyperaccelerated.
Wolf in the Fold
Scotty, Kirk, and McCoy beam down to Orgellius II for therapeutic shore leave. There, they enjoy Orgellian hospitality
and belly-dancing.  Scotty becomes enthralled with the belly-dancer and invites her for a romantic walk in the fog.
Shortly thereafter, the dancer Kara is found stabbed to death, with Scott in shock nearby holding the murder weapon.  His
fingerprints are the only ones on the murder weapon, he has a concussion and amnesia.  The chief administrator of
Argellius II, the strategically important and only spaceport in the quadrant, Mr. Hingust (from Rigel 4) is put in charge
of the investigation. Prefect Jarrus suggests that his wife Sebo use Orgellian empathic contact to learn the truth, but
Kirk suggests that they beam down psychotricorder to probe Scott's mind while Sebo meditates.  Lt. Karen Tracy beams down
to administer the test to Scott, but is then stabbed to death.  Again, Scott is the only one present and, again, he does
not remember a thing.  The only other entrance is a door which has been locked for years.  Kirk questions two men 
who were present at the céfe, her father and former fiance Morla (from Contaba Street).
Sebo then holds a séance in which she senses a monstrous evil ancient terror, devouring all light and life, bearing
hatred towards women and all living things.  She gives the evil the names Boradis, Keslack, Rejick, but the lights
suddenly dim.  When they come back on, Scott is standing behind her and she has been stabbed.  This time, however, Scott
does not black out. Hingust, Jarrus, Morla, Kara's father, and the landing party then beam aboard the Enterprise
to have Scott analyzed by the computers.  The computer verifies that Scott is telling the truth when he claims that he
felt the presence of a foul, cold, evil creature.  Morla then takes the stand, and the computer verifies that he is not
responsible for the murders.  Kirk then decides to run the names spoken by Sebo through the computer.  It identifies
``Red Jack'' (Rejick) as a name for the mass murderer of 1920's Earth, known more commonly as Jack the Ripper. Spock then
speculates that a creature who derives nourishment from the emotion of fear.  The computer verifies that such a creature
could exist, and if so would likely be formless and could exist as electromagnetic impulses.  It cites creatures of Alpha
Carina 5 who subsist on the emotion of love.  The computer also suggests that the creature could take solid form at will,
as the Miletus cloud creature of Alpha Madoris can change from gaseous to solid.
A search of crime records shows the following pattern of unsolved mass murders: 1932 Shanghai (7 killed), 1974 Kiev (5
killed), 2105 Martian colony (8 killed), and 2156 Heliopolis on Alpha Eridani 2 (10 killed). Spock notes that all these
lie sequentially between Argellius and Earth. The computer then identified Kesla as the name given to an unknown mass
murderer of women on Deneb 2, and Boradis as the name given to a mass murderer of Rigel 4 (1 solar year ago).  This
immediately implicates Hingust, who recently arrived from Rigel 4.  Computer analysis of the knife shows the blade to be
boridium, the handle irinite, and the inlay to identify it as originating from the hill people of the Argus river region
of Rigel 4. Mr. Hingust then makes a dash to get away, but is knocked out by Kirk.  McCoy pronounces Hingust dead, but it
turns out that has abandoned his body and taken up residence in the Enterprise's computer.  In order to avoid
making the creature stronger by allowing him to feed of the fear of the crew, McCoy injects everyone with a tranquillizer.
Sulu's reaction is typical, and he remarks that with a armful of McCoy's ``stuff,'' he wouldn't even be afraid of a
supernova. The creature is purged from the computer and flees to a new body when Spock commands the computer to calculate
pi to the last digit.
Only McCoy, Jarrus, Spock, and Kirk remain to be tranquillized, so Kirk surmises that the creature has taken up residence
in one of them.  McCoy agrees to inject himself, but when Kirk attempts to inject Jarrus, he is met with the outburst
``no no kill you all die make you suffer.''  Thus revealed, the creature returns to Hingust's body.  However, Hingust is
quickly subdued and tranquillized, and Spock transports him into empty space with widest possible separation.  Kirk and
Spock must then wait 6 hours for the tranquillizer to wear off their extremely ``happy'' crew.
 
July 16, 1996
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