May 2012
16 posts
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136. [TOS] Who Mourns for Adonais?
SCORE: (5/5 stars)
In the vein of so many first season episodes, the Enterprise yet again encounters a god-like being, but this one is different. He’s a being we’re familiar with. Five thousand years ago, the Mediterranean was visited by a group of interstellar travelers with technology granting them vast power. To the Greeks, it was obvious: they were gods. We know them today as...
Anonymous asked: I don't know if this is the right section for this, but I have a critique/suggestion. The reviews seem to be becoming more of just plot summaries, and less reviews. The main body is just a summary of the episode, with only the small "nitpicks" section to offer any suggestion of why you choose to rate the episode how you did. Also, the table of contents hasn't been updated in a...
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135. [TOS] Friday's Child
SCORE: (4/5 stars)
The Enterprise is sent to negotiate mining rights on Capella, a primitive planet with a very complex code of honor and taboos. McCoy served some time on the planet in the past providing medical care, so he has a legitimate reason to tag along on the away mission, being experienced with their ways. The redshirt on the away mission also has a legitimate reason to tag along, being...
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134. [TOS] Metamorphosis
SCORE: (5/5 stars)
Kirk, Spock, and McCoy, being the three most important people (aside from Scotty) essential to the smooth operation of the Enterprise, naturally are the ones who are chauffeuring ambulatory shuttle service for a sick charge d’affaires. They’re forced to say bon voyage en route to their Enterprise rendezvous when they find themselves vis-a-vis an energy being that...
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133. [TOS] Catspaw
SCORE: (4/5 stars)
After an away team of Sulu, Scotty, and Officer “All-My-Red-Shirts-Were-In-The-Wash-So-I-Wore-Gold” Jackson fails to return, save the dead one (three guesses as to which!) Kirk, Spock and McCoy beam down to the planet’s surface, leaving a redshirt in command of the bridge. (Offscreen, the Enterprise immediately explodes from this oversight.) On the surface, they find...
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132. [TOS] Season 1 Review
SCORE: (3.72/5 stars)
The beginning of the Star Trek saga starts off with quite a bang and doesn’t let up. While Enterprise was far more about action (as most sci-fi has become these days), The Original Series is about putting a lens to modern issues by removing our preconceived notions. Unlike the other series which are far more of an ensemble show, this show is very much Kirk’s...
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131. [TOS] Operation — Annihilate!
SCORE: (4/5 stars)
A path of destructive insanity has been cutting a straight line through colonies in the galaxy over the years, and based on Spock’s analysis, the next site that could be hit by this unexplained insanity is Deneva, a colony with a million people, including Kirk’s brother and his family. As they approach the planet, they are unable to contact anyone on any frequency,...
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130. [TOS] The City on the Edge of Forever
SCORE: (5/5 stars)
Approaching a planet that’s sending off disruptive time waves, Sulu is injured in a tremor, and McCoy gives him a small dose of a stimulant to get him back up. Just then, another tremor hits… and causes McCoy to dose himself with the entire vial of the stimulant. He becomes agitated, paranoid, and confused. He keeps yelling “assassins!” and overpowers those who...
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129. [TOS] Errand of Mercy
SCORE: (5/5 stars)
In AD 2267, war was beginning. Relations between the Federation and the Klingon Empire, rocky since Archer’s time, are on the verge of collapse, and Starfleet is preparing for all-out war with Qo’noS. The Enterprise is ordered to the neutral planet of Organia, because it is the only M class planet in the disputed territory and a prime location for the Klingons to...
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128. [TOS] The Devil in the Dark
SCORE: (5/5 stars)
Mining operations at Janus VI have been disrupted the last few months. There’s a mysterious creature roaming the caverns deep beneath the planet’s surface, and it’s been attacking colonists with increasing frequency. Even phasers don’t seem to stop it. Once the body count reaches fifty, they send a distress call that the Enterprise answers. After they...
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127. [TOS] This Side of Paradise
SCORE: (3/5 stars)
The Enterprise crew are surprised to find a colony, thought dead due to lethal exposure from an unusual form of radiation, alive and well after three years. Berthold rays break down living animal tissue within a week of exposure, so that only plant life should be able to survive it, and yet the colonists are unharmed—better than that, even. McCoy finds an appendix in a...
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126. [TOS] Space Seed
SCORE: (4/5 stars)
The Enterprise encounters a derelict DY-100 class starship, registry SS Botany Bay. Chekhov, who has not yet been cast and we assume is working in the ship’s mess, screams out “Botany Bay? Oh no!” They detect faint heartbeats, and since this ship is at least 200 years old and from Earth, Kirk decides to put the ship’s historian to work for a change and bring her...
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125. [TOS] A Taste of Armageddon
SCORE: (5/5 stars)
The Enterprise is on a diplomatic mission to a section of space notorious for the loss of ships. Unfortunately for Kirk and Co, they’ve got a nice, pampered, impractical diplomat who likes to wave the chain of command like it’s his penis. Despite the planet Eminiar sending the Enterprise a “under no circumstance approach this war zone of a planet” message, the...
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124. [TOS] The Return of the Archons
SCORE: (3/5 stars)
In the search for the remains of the starship Archon, lost one hundred years ago, the Enterprise discovers a planet populated almost entirely by the town of Stepford, Connecticut. They’re all smiles wrapped around an echo chamber of a head, until Festival, an annual 24-hour occurrence where they all go mad and start fighting, vandalizing, and (it’s implied) raping...
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123. [TOS] Tomorrow is Yesterday
SCORE: (3/5 stars)
After escaping a black hole by using an orbital slingshot, the Enterprise finds herself in orbit of Earth, but not as they know it. No Starfleet communications are being broadcast, no other ships are in the system… but a radio broadcast makes mention of the upcoming Apollo moon mission. They’ve slingshotted themselves back to 1969, an unintended side effect of...
