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Star Trek: The Original Series

Star Trek is an American science fiction television series
created by Gene Roddenberry, produced by Desilu Productions
(later Paramount Television). Star Trek was telecast on NBC
from September 8, 1966, through June 3, 1969. Although this
TV series had the title of Star Trek,

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The Cage (Pilot)
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The Cage (Pilot)

The Cage (Pilot)

"The Cage" is the original pilot episode of Star
Trek: The Original Series science fiction series and
resulting franchise. It was completed in early 1965 (with a
copyright date of 1964), but not broadcast on television in
its complete form until the autumn of 1988. The episode was
written by Gene Roddenberry and directed by Robert Butler.
It was rejected by NBC in February 1965, but they ordered a
second pilot: "Where No Man Has Gone Before".
Much original footage from "The Cage" was later
incorporated into the first season two-part episode:
"The Menagerie".

Plot
The USS Enterprise, under the command of Captain Christopher
Pike, receives a radio distress call from the fourth planet
in the Talos star group. A landing party is assembled and
beamed down to investigate. Tracking the distress signal to
its source, the landing party discovers a camp of survivors
from a scientific expedition that has been missing for 18
years. Among the survivors is a beautiful young woman named
Vina.
Captivated by her beauty, Pike is caught off guard and is
captured by the Talosians, a race of humanoids with bulbous
heads who live beneath the planet's surface. It is revealed
that the distress call, and the crash survivors, except for
Vina, are just illusions created by the Talosians to lure
the Enterprise to the planet. While imprisoned, Pike
uncovers the Talosian's plans to repopulate their ravaged
planet using himself and Vina as breeding stock for a race
of slaves.
The Talosians try to use their power of illusion to interest
Pike in Vina, and present her in various guises and
settings, first as a Rigellian princess, a loving
compassionate farm girl, then a seductive, green-skinned
Orion. Pike resists all forms, so the Talosians lure Pike's
first officer and yeoman — both women — down from the
Enterprise to offer further temptation. By then however,
Pike discovers that his primitive human emotions can
neutralize the Talosians' ability to read his mind, and he
manages to escape to the surface of the planet along with
his landing party.
The Talosians confront Pike and his companions before they
can beam up, but the captain refuses to negotiate, even
threatening to kill himself and the others rather than
submit to the Talosians' demands. Frightened at losing
their only hope in their future, the Talosians analyze the
Enterprise's records and realize the human race is far too
"violent" to be of adequate use to them.
Faced with no other options, the Talosians let the humans
go. The others beam up, but Pike remains behind with Vina,
urging her to leave with him. Vina then claims she is unable
to leave the planet. It is revealed that an expedition had
indeed crash landed on Talos IV; Vina was the sole survivor,
but was badly injured. The Talosians were able to save her,
but as they had no understanding of human aesthetics at the
time, she was left horribly disfigured. With the aid of the
Talosians' illusions, she is able to appear beautiful and
in good health.
Realizing that the continued Talosian illusion of health and
beauty is necessary for Vina, Pike is ready to return to the
Enterprise. In an act of goodwill, the aliens show him that
Vina sees an image of Pike next to her, and they walk up to
the entrance that takes them into the Talosian habitat. Pike
then beams up after the Keeper's closing words: "She
has an illusion and you have reality. May you find your way
as pleasant."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cage_(Star_Trek:_The_Original_Series)

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The Man Trap (S1E1)
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The Man Trap (S1E1)

The Man Trap (S1E1)

"The Man Trap" is a first season episode of Star
Trek: The Original Series. It originally aired on September
8, 1966, and was the first episode to be shown on NBC. It
was written by George Clayton Johnson, and directed by Marc
Daniels.
Although it was first aired, it was not the first produced
(the pilot "Where No Man Has Gone Before" and
several regular episodes had been produced before it). The
current official timeline considers "Where No Man Has
Gone Before" to be set first.

Plot
Stardate 1513.1: The Enterprise arrives at planet M-113 for
routine medical exams of archaeologist Professor Robert
Crater and his wife Nancy. First Officer Mr. Spock is left
temporarily in command. Kirk, McCoy, and Crewman Darnell
beam down and Kirk gives McCoy a friendly hard time that he
and Nancy Crater were an item ten years ago. Nancy arrives
and each of the three men seems to see her differently:
McCoy as she was ten years ago, Kirk as she should look
age-wise, and Darnell as a totally different attractive
younger woman. Kirk sends the dazed Darnell outside and when
Nancy goes out to fetch her husband, she beckons Darnell to
follow her.
Professor Crater arrives and doesn’t appear happy to see
them, telling them that he and his wife don’t need a
medical examination. But then, he adds that he's glad to
see McCoy as an old friend of his more social wife. Nancy
appears, nervously insisting they restock their salt
tablets. Kirk orders Crater to submit to the medical exam
but before McCoy can proceed they hear a scream from
outside. They go out to find Darnell, dead, with red
ring-like mottling on his face. There’s a plant root in
his mouth and Nancy comes up, saying she saw Darnell taste
the plant and she couldn’t stop him. Kirk is skeptical
that an experienced crewman would taste an unknown plant.
Kirk has Darnell’s body beamed up to the ship.
Spock analyzes the plant, the Borgia root (named for
Lucrezia Borgia, a notorious poisoner) and confirms records
showing it’s poisonous but skin mottling is not a usual
symptom. McCoy conducts the initial exam but can’t find
any cause of death, poisoning or otherwise. Kirk and McCoy
compare notes on Nancy, and McCoy admits he might have been
seeing her the way he imagined her from ten years ago.
Kirk decides to remain to investigate Darnell’s death.
McCoy, along with Spock, finally determine that Darnell had
every bit of salt drained from his body. Spock adds that he
would die almost instantly. Kirk beams back down to the
planet with McCoy and two crewmen, Green and Sturgeon. They
spread out but Crater slips away and calls out to Nancy
saying he has salt. Kirk and McCoy find Sturgeon’s body,
unaware that Nancy is nearby over Green’s corpse. Both the
bodies have the same red rings on the faces. She pauses and
then changes her shape, turning into a duplicate of Green.
He meets with Kirk and McCoy and they beam back up to the
ship to conduct a search from orbit.
"Green" roams the halls and runs into Rand, who
is taking a food tray to Sulu in his quarters.
"Green" is attracted to the salt and follows her
in, but the plants react badly to him. He leaves and runs
into Uhura, taking the hypnotising form of a crewman from
her memories. Rand and Sulu arrive and Uhura is summoned to
the bridge.
In his quarters, McCoy is trying to get some sleep. Kirk
reminds him of the sleep medication McCoy gave him once.
Spock confirms that the scans only show Crater on the
planet, and he and Kirk beam down to capture the professor.
"Nancy" assumes her female form and goes to
McCoy’s quarters, and seems reassured by the fact he has
strong memories of her that she can rely on. Nearby, Sulu
and Rand find a dead crewman with the same red mottling.
McCoy is already asleep when the general alert sounds, and
"Nancy" takes on his form and goes to the
bridge. On M-113, Kirk and Spock find Green’s body and
realize an imposter is on-board. They find Crater, who tries
to frighten them off with phaser fire. They flank and then
stun him, and the dazed Crater says that his real wife died
a year ago, killed by the creature. Crater rambles on that
the creature still appears to him as Nancy out of true
affection. He adds that it's like the Earth buffalo, the
last of its kind and he helped to keep the creature alive.
Kirk immediately communicates with the ship "It's
definite Mr. Sulu, the intruder can assume any shape -
crewman, you, myself, anyone, do you understand ?"
Sulu acknowledges, and Kirk adds "Go to General
Quarters-4." As they're about to transport to the
Enterprise, a frustrated Kirk tells the Professor,
"Your creature is killing my people !"
With Crater, Kirk calls a meeting. McCoy & Spock join
them, but the officers are unaware that McCoy isn’t McCoy.
"McCoy" suggests they try to deal with the
creature peacefully and Crater clearly recognizes it for
what it is. Kirk prefers to eliminate the predator creature
and insists that Crater help identify it. Refusing, Kirk
orders McCoy to administer truth serum. They go to sickbay
and a suspicious Spock insists on going with them. The alert
goes off and Kirk arrives in sickbay to find an injured
Spock. Crater is dead, killed by the increasingly desperate
creature. Fortunately, Spock’s Vulcan blood made him
immune to the creature’s hunger.
Back in her "Nancy" form, the creature goes to
McCoy’s quarters and asks him for help. Kirk arrives with
a phaser and a handful of salt and tries to entice the
creature into attacking. McCoy refuses to believe Nancy is
false and gets in the way so the creature can attack Kirk.
It hypnotizes him and starts to feed off of him while McCoy
holds the phaser, indecisive. Spock arrives and tries to use
his superior strength against the creature, but it is
stronger than Spock. McCoy realizes the creature isn’t his
"Nancy" and, with his phaser, fires at it. The
creature reverts to its true alien appearance and McCoy
continues firing, finally killing it, saving Kirk.

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Charlie X (S1E2)
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Charlie X (S1E2)

Charlie X (S1E2)

"Charlie X" is a first season episode of Star
Trek: The Original Series, first broadcast on September 15,
1966. It was repeated by NBC on June 1, 1967. It is episode
#2, production #8. It was written by D.C. Fontana, with the
story by Gene Roddenberry, and directed by Lawrence Dobkin.

Plot
On stardate 1533.6, the starship USS Enterprise, commanded
by Captain James T. Kirk, takes charge of Charlie Evans
(played by Robert Walker Jr.), a teenage boy from a small
cargo vessel called the Antares. As a 3 year old child, he
was the sole survivor of a transport ship that crashed on
the planet Thasus. For fourteen years Charlie grew up there
alone, stranded in the wreckage, and only learned how to
talk from the ship's computer systems that somehow remained
intact.
The boy is to be transported to his nearest living relatives
on planet Alpha V and the crew of the Antares speak nothing
but praises about Charlie. They seem, however, more than
pleased to see the boy removed from their ship as soon as
possible and after the transfer, they bid the Enterprise an
unusual and very hasty goodbye and quickly proceed on their
way. Charlie undergoes a cursory medical examination by Dr.
McCoy and Charlie tells the doctor that the crew of the
Antares did not like him very much, and that all he wants is
for people to like him.
Charlie quickly becomes obnoxious, and shows signs that he
possesses strange powers. First, he develops an infatuation
with Yeoman Janice Rand, who is evidently the first human
female he has ever seen. He presents her with a bottle of
perfume, which turns out to be her favorite scent, even
though there is none of it in the ship's stores. Having
observed a man in engineering seal an agreement to go to the
rec room with a friendly slap on the rear, he does the same
to Rand, to which she of course objects. Charlie meets Rand
later in the rec room, where Mr. Spock (whom Charlie later
calls Mr. Ears) plays a Vulcan lyre, and Lt. Uhura sings.
Charlie is annoyed with Uhura's performance as Rand is
paying more attention to her than to him, so he causes Uhura
to abruptly (but temporarily) lose her voice.
When the Antares gets nearly out of sensor range, it
transmits a warning message to the Enterprise, but the
message gets cut off. Charlie makes the curious and sinister
comment, "It wasn't very well constructed",
shortly before Spock determines that the Antares has blown
up. Afterward, more bizarre events begin to take place
aboard the Enterprise. For example, a cook (voiced by
Roddenberry) reports that the synthetic meatloaf has been
transformed into real turkeys.
Back in the rec room, Kirk defeats Spock at
three-dimensional chess, beating Spock's logic with his own
quirky move. Charlie is intrigued with the game and tries to
duplicate the same feat but loses quickly. Kirk and Spock
leave the room but an angered Charlie stays behind and
causes the white chess pieces to melt, revealing he has both
a bad temper and powerful telekinetic abilities.
In an attempt to get Charlie interested in a woman his own
age, Rand introduces him to Yeoman third-class Tina Lawton,
but Charlie only has eyes for Rand and brushes Tina off,
angering Rand. Later, Kirk tries his best to instill Charlie
with some manly qualities, and attempts to teach the young
man how to fight. Sam, Kirk's training partner, laughs at
one of Charlie's falls, and Charlie makes him "go
away" — Sam literally vanishes into thin air.
Shocked by what he has witnessed, Kirk calls for security
guards to escort young Charlie to his quarters, but Charlie
says he will not let them hurt him; he then makes their
phasers disappear. Kirk suspects Charlie has been given the
powers which legend ascribes to the ancient race of Thasians
and confronts Charlie about it. Charlie admits he used his
powers to destroy the Antares, but says the ship would have
blown up on its own sooner or later, and regardless,
"they weren't nice to me".
Charlie discovers Kirk's plans to divert from Alpha V, and
he takes control of the Enterprise and members of the crew.
He forces Spock to recite Earth poetry, turns Tina into a
lizard, and chases down Rand. When she resists his advances
he gets angry and makes her disappear, saying "she
wasn't nice at all". Charlie tells everyone that he
can make them all go away, anytime he wants to. Kirk and
Spock attempt to confine him in a detention cell, but to no
avail. Charlie goes on a rampage, turning a young crew
member into an old woman and removing the faces of other
crew members who are laughing.
Meanwhile, a Thasian ship approaches the Enterprise. The
Thasian commander appears on the bridge, saying that his
race has given Charlie his powers to help him to survive on
their world, and that it would be too dangerous for Charlie
to live among humans. The Thasians return Yeoman Rand and
repair the damage Charlie has done. They apologize to Kirk
and promise to take Charlie to live with them. Charlie begs
Kirk for forgiveness and pleads frantically with him to not
let the aliens take him away, as the Thasians do not
understand human emotional needs. When Charlie finally does
vanish, Kirk agrees that it is for the best.

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Where No Man Has Gone Before (S1E3)
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Where No Man Has Gone Before (S1E3)

Where No Man Has Gone Before (S1E3)

"Where No Man Has Gone Before" is the second
pilot episode of the television series Star Trek: The
Original Series. It was produced in 1965 after the first
pilot, "The Cage", had been rejected by NBC. The
episode was eventually broadcast third in sequence on
September 22, 1966, and was re-aired on April 20, 1967. It
was the first episode to be shown in the UK by the BBC on
July 12, 1969.[1]
"Where No Man Has Gone Before" was written by
Samuel A. Peeples, directed by James Goldstone, and filmed
in July 1965. It was the first episode of Star Trek to
feature William Shatner as Captain James Kirk, James Doohan
as Chief Engineer Scotty, and George Takei as Helmsman Sulu.
In the episode, the Starship Enterprise journeys to the edge
of the galaxy, where two crew members develop dangerous
psychic powers. The episode's title was adopted as the
final phrase in the opening credits' voice-over that
famously characterizes the Star Trek series, and has entered
popular culture.

Plot
The Starship USS Enterprise, commanded by Captain James T.
Kirk, is on an exploratory mission to leave the galaxy.
While en route, it discovers the "black box"
recorder for the SS Valiant, a lost Earth starship, and it
beams aboard the battered device. The 200-year-old recorder
is barely functional, but it indicates that the Valiant had
been swept from its path by a "magnetic space
storm". It holds data about the last moments aboard
the ill-fated ship, and shows that the crew had been
frantically searching for information about extra-sensory
perception (ESP) in the ship's library computer. The tape
ends with the captain of the Valiant giving a self-destruct
order.
Kirk decides that they need to know what happened to the
Valiant, and the Enterprise crosses the edge of the galaxy.
It encounters a strange barrier, which causes serious
electrical damage to the ship's systems, forcing the vessel
to retreat. At the same time, Helmsman Gary Mitchell and
ship's psychiatrist Dr. Elizabeth Dehner are both knocked
unconscious by the field's effect. After they awaken,
Mitchell's eyes glow silver, and he soon begins to display
remarkable psionic powers.
Over time, Mitchell becomes increasingly arrogant and
hostile toward the rest of the crew, declaring he has become
godlike. He enforces his desires with fearsome telepathic
and telekinetic powers. Mr. Spock believes that the Valiant
may have experienced the same phenomenon and that its crew
developed such powers, as well. The other crew members must
have destroyed the ship to prevent the power from taking
over the galaxy. Spock hints that Kirk may have to destroy
Mitchell before his powers develop further, but Kirk angrily
refuses.
Kirk, alarmed that Mitchell may eventually take over the
Enterprise, decides to maroon him on an unmanned
lithium-cracking facility on the remote planet of Delta
Vega. Once there, the landing party tries to confine
Mitchell, but his powers are too great. He eventually goes
on a rampage, kills navigator Lt. Lee Kelso and escapes,
taking Dr. Dehner, who has now developed similar powers,
with him.
Kirk follows and appeals to Dr. Dehner's humanity for help.
As Mitchell prepares to kill Kirk with his psionic powers,
Dr. Dehner attacks Mitchell to weaken him. Mitchell fatally
injures Dehner, but before he can recharge, Kirk creates a
rock slide, killing Mitchell.
Back on the bridge, Kirk places in the official log that
both Dehner and Mitchell gave their lives "in
performance of duty", rationalizing that they did not
ask for what happened to them.

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The Naked Time (S1E4)
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The Naked Time (S1E4)

The Naked Time (S1E4)

"The Naked Time" is an episode of Star Trek: The
Original Series first broadcast September 29, 1966, and
repeated on April 27, 1967. It is the fourth episode of the
first season, and was written by John D. F. Black and
directed by Marc Daniels. It has a sequel in Star Trek: The
Next Generation, the episode "The Naked Now".

Plot
On stardate 1704.2, the starship USS Enterprise, under the
command of Captain James T. Kirk, beams a landing team down
to a research station on the planet Psi 2000, a world in the
midst of breaking up. The team finds all six of the
scientists manning the station dead. The circumstances of
their deaths are not apparent; however, the life support
systems had been found shut down and all control systems
frozen solid.
One of the Enterprise crewmen, Joe Tormolen, carelessly
removes his gloves and is contaminated by a strange red
liquid. When Tormolen and Mr. Spock return to the ship they
are given a clean bill of health by Dr. McCoy. Later
however, Tormolen notices a strange itch and begins to act
irrationally. He threatens Lt. Sulu with a knife, then
attempts to turn it on himself. Tormolen is stopped and
escorted to the sickbay where he later dies apparently from
the superficial wounds he caused himself during the
incident. Dr. McCoy is left bewildered, especially since
Tormolen's wounds were not that serious—Tormolen seems to
have simply lost the will to live.
Soon Tormolen's bizarre affliction begins to affect other
crew members and quickly spreads through the ship. They each
begin to display both comical and horrific exaggerations of
character. McCoy finds nothing like it in Starfleet
records.
As the affliction spreads, Sulu abandons his post on the
bridge and runs around the ship shirtless, brandishing a
sword, and challenging everyone to a duel. Ship's navigator
Lt. Kevin Riley wanders down to Engineering where he takes
over control of the ship, then declares himself the new
Captain of the Enterprise. He requests "double
portions of ice cream" for everyone, then begins
flipping random switches, fouling up ship systems and
warbling "I'll Take You Home Again, Kathleen"
repeatedly over the PA system. The Enterprise starts to
drift out of control and slowly falls out of orbit, pulled
down by the erratic gravity of Psi 2000.
Nurse Chapel confesses her deepest desires for Spock, though
Spock rejects her. Spock himself shows troubled emotions and
begins weeping uncontrollably because he can't tell his
mother he loves her. He tells Captain Kirk that he feels
ashamed when he feels friendship toward him. Captain Kirk is
also affected, first becoming overly romantic toward the
ship, then exhibiting paranoia, breaking down for fear that
he is losing his ability to command.
McCoy manages to avoid the affliction and finds that somehow
on Psi 2000, water has changed to a complex chain of
molecules and once in the bloodstream, it acts like alcohol,
depressing the centers of judgment and self-control.
Eventually Riley is stopped and control of Engineering is
regained. However, Riley has turned the engines off and the
Chief Engineer Scotty tells Kirk that he is going to need
more time to restart them than they have left. When Kirk
challenges this, Scotty says, "Captain, I can't
change the laws of physics!"
To avoid crashing into the planet, Captain Kirk orders that
they are now forced to attempt a full-power restart, mixing
the matter and antimatter in a cold state. To prevent the
starship's warp engines from exploding, they will need to
balance them into a "controlled implosion", but
this has never been done before. Spock explains the physics
behind this: that there is an intermix formula based on the
theoretical relationship between time and antimatter, but
this theory has never been tested out in an actual
starship.
Although the restart is successful, it does send the
Enterprise into a space-time warp, which results in the
Enterprise and her crew being sent back about 71 hours in
time. While they are recovering on the starship's bridge,
Spock says that they have three days to live over again, to
which Captain Kirk replies hopefully, "Not those last
three days." Spock also points out that since the
formula worked, they can go back in time to any planet, any
era. Kirk then replies, "We may risk it
someday."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Naked_Time

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The Enemy Within (S1E5)
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The Enemy Within (S1E5)

The Enemy Within (S1E5)

"The Enemy Within" is an episode of Star Trek:
The Original Series, and was broadcast on October 6, 1966.
It is the fifth episode of the first season, and was written
by Richard Matheson and directed by Leo Penn.

Plot
On stardate 1672.1, the USS Enterprise, under the command of
Captain James T. Kirk, is on a geological exploration of the
planet Alpha 177. Geological Technician Fisher falls from an
embankment and injures his hand. He is immediately beamed
back to the Enterprise for medical treatment. During the
beamup, the transporter system behaves oddly. Nearly losing
the technician, Mr. Scott immediately checks over the
transporter equipment, but finds nothing wrong. He only
notices magnetic dust from some ore samples covering
Fisher's uniform when the technician materializes. Scotty
orders him to have the uniform decontaminated.
Soon afterward, Captain Kirk beams back to the ship. The
transporter seems to work smoothly, but Kirk feels
disoriented. Scotty escorts him out of the room, leaving it
empty. A moment later, a second Captain Kirk materializes on
the transporter pad and no one is aware of his arrival. This
Kirk is the "other half" of the Captain's split
persona: a physical manifestation of his more selfish and
evil qualities.
The first thing the "evil" Kirk does is head to
Sickbay, where he demands a bottle of Saurian brandy from
Dr. McCoy. McCoy doesn't understand this sudden, aggressive
mood swing.
Back in the transporter room, Scotty beams up an animal
specimen from the landing party, which appears to be a
small, horned, dog-like creature. Two "dogs",
however, arrive on the transporter pads. One is extremely
vicious, while the other is very timid, yet both look
identical. Confirming that the team only beamed one animal
to the ship, Scotty realizes that something is very wrong
with the transporter system. He is forced to strand the
remaining landing party (including Lt. Sulu) on the planet
until further notice.
Meanwhile, the evil Kirk, appearing drunk and disorderly,
enters the quarters of Yeoman Janice Rand and lies in wait
for her. When she arrives, he grabs and assaults her. She
manages to fight back, scratching his face with her sharp
fingernails, and then tries to escape. She cries out for
Crewman Fisher to call Mr. Spock. Unfortunately, the evil
Kirk incapacitates Fisher before he can help.
Simultaneously, elsewhere on the ship, the good Captain Kirk
begins to show signs of weakness, apparently losing his
ability to make decisions and give orders, the so-called
"power of command".
The evil Kirk acquires a phaser from a crewman, whom he also
incapacitates, and then hides in the lower levels of the
ship. Anticipating his moves, the good Kirk finds the evil
Kirk on the Engineering Deck, and Spock disables the latter
with a Vulcan nerve pinch. Spock is unsure how to proceed
until he observes the evil Kirk showing signs of fatigue,
which indicates that he may be dying.
It is quickly surmised that neither Kirk can survive for
long in his separated state. Time is running out not only
for the Kirks, but also for the stranded landing party, the
members of which are slowly freezing to death as night falls
on Alpha 177.
Scotty reports that the transporter unit ionizer is damaged
and would normally take a week to repair; however, he and
Spock rig up a connection to power the transporter from the
ship's impulse drive. They recombine the dog-creature, but
it dies as a result of the strain. Not giving up hope,
Scotty continues to work on the problem.
In the meantime, the good Kirk releases his opposite's
bindings in Sickbay when the evil Kirk promises not to fight
back. However, the opposite does just that: he overpowers
the good Kirk and rushes off to the bridge, where he orders
the ship to leave orbit. The good Kirk follows and confronts
him. The evil Kirk soon collapses from the strain. Good Kirk
takes him to the transporter room. With fingers crossed,
Spock dematerializes both Kirks, and finally a single Kirk
returns. Demonstrating that his power of command has
returned, along with his intelligence and compassion,
Kirk's first words are: "Get those men aboard
fast." The landing party members are beamed up, who,
aside from a "little" exposure and frostbite,
are fine.
Back on the bridge, Kirk is himself once again. He tells
Spock: "Thank you, Mr. Spock—from both of us."
When asked what to tell the crew, Kirk says that the
intruder is back where he belongs and to leave it at that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Enemy_Within_(Star_Trek)

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Mudd's Women (S1E6)
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Mudd's Women (S1E6)

Mudd's Women (S1E6)

"Mudd's Women" is an episode of Star Trek: The
Original Series first broadcast October 13, 1966 and
repeated May 4, 1967. It is the sixth episode of the first
season, and was written by Stephen Kandel, based on a story
by Gene Roddenberry and directed by Harvey Hart. The episode
introduces the recurring character Harcourt Fenton Mudd, a
galactic conman and his beautiful female
"cargo".

Plot
On stardate 1329.1, the USS Enterprise, under the command of
Captain James T. Kirk, is in pursuit of a stolen J-class
cargo ship. The ship, overloading its engines to avoid
capture, tries to make a daring run for an asteroid field.
Kirk orders the Enterprise's shields cast around the craft
to avert its imminent demise until the ship's occupants can
be transported aboard the "Enterprise". This
action, however, destroys all but one of the lithium crystal
circuits in the Enterprise's engine core.
The Enterprise manages to beam aboard the cargo ship's
passengers (three women) and captain (one man) at the same
time as an asteroid impact destroys their vessel. In the
transporter room, the man steps forward and introduces
himself as Leo Francis Walsh. The three women who accompany
him are stunningly beautiful and distract many male crew
members. The women are destined to be wives for settlers on
Ophiuchus III and are introduced as Ruth Bonaventure, Magda
Kovacs, and Eve McHuron.
Kirk has Walsh taken into custody and convenes a ship's
hearing. With Walsh in the spotlight, he's forced to reveal
his real name, Harcourt Fenton Mudd, a criminal wanted in
several star systems and with a long rap sheet of crimes.
Kirk doesn't charge Mudd's women with anything at the
moment. For now, he has a bigger concern: the welfare of his
ship. Meanwhile, in sickbay, Dr. McCoy notices a strange
reading on his medical panel when Ruth walks in front of it.
He has her walk past it again and asks whether she's
wearing some exotic perfume or something radioactive. Ruth
innocently replies, "No, I'm just me," and
leaves Sickbay while McCoy remains baffled by his medical
panel.
As a result of the lithium burnout, the Enterprise must limp
on reserve power to Rigel XII, a planet plagued by constant
storms, for new crystals. Mudd, however, obtains
unauthorized use of a communicator, radios ahead and makes
his own deal with Rigel XII's lithium mining chief, Ben
Childress. Mudd's deal is for Childress to give lithium
crystals to Kirk in exchange for Mudd's women, and to have
Mudd released. Taking one look at the women's stunning
beauty, Childress and his fellow miners (Herm Gossett and
Benton) excitedly agree.
Kirk flatly refuses this deal. Time, however, is running out
for the Enterprise, whose orbit now begins to decay,
threatening an eventual burnup in the planet's atmosphere.
Kirk is forced to give in and allows Mudd and the women to
beam down to the planet. Childress instantly becomes so
involved with Eve that he forgets all about the plight of
the Enterprise. Annoyed and wondering what's taking so
long, Kirk nervously watches the last bit of reserve energy
dwindle down.
Eve becomes dissatisfied with being treated as a sex object.
She runs away in anguish, enduring harsh dust storms, and
Childress pursues her. Using ship's sensors, Kirk tracks
down Eve and discovers the secret to the women's startling
beauty. Mudd has been giving the women the illegal
"Venus drug", which makes them appear much
lovelier and more exciting than they really are. Without the
drug, the women appear to be plain. Once the deception is
uncovered, the angry Childress confronts Mudd for pulling a
fast one.
Kirk gives Eve a placebo of the Venus drug, which she
believes to be authentic, and she unknowingly begins to
reveal her natural inner beauty, impressing Childress.
Ultimately, Mudd's women decide to marry the miners, Mudd
is handed over and faces charges, and Kirk obtains his
lithium.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mudd%27s_Women

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What Are Little Girls Made Of? (S1E7)
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What Are Little Girls Made Of? (S1E7)

What Are Little Girls Made Of? (S1E7)

"What Are Little Girls Made Of?" is episode
seven of the first season of Star Trek: The Original Series.
It was first broadcast October 20, 1966. It was repeated two
months later, on December 22, 1966, and was the first
episode of the series to be repeated on NBC. It was written
by Robert Bloch and directed by James Goldstone. The title
of the episode is taken from the fourth line of the 19th
century nursery rhyme "What Are Little Boys Made
Of?".

Plot
On stardate 2712.4, the USS Enterprise, under the command of
Captain James T. Kirk, travels to the icy planet of Exo III
to search for the exobiologist Dr. Roger Korby (played by
Michael Strong). Korby is the fiancé of Dr. McCoy's
temporary assistant, Nurse Christine Chapel, and is known as
the "Louis Pasteur of archaeological medicine".
Chapel has been searching for her missing lover for quite
some time, and signed on to the Enterprise for just this
reason.
At Korby's request, only Kirk and Chapel beam down. When
Korby is not there to meet them, Kirk has two security
guards beamed down, but they are quickly disposed of by a
large humanoid in the caves. Matthews is pushed off a cliff
and Rayburn is suffocated. Kirk and Chapel find the doctor
living in an underground complex of caves, left by an
extinct race who once lived on Exo III. He refers to them
only as "The Old Ones". Korby shows Kirk and
Chapel machinery which is used to create androids. With the
help of Ruk (who had killed the two red shirts moments
before), a still functioning android left behind since the
days of the Old Ones, Korby created more androids, one being
a lovely woman he calls "Andrea".
Chapel recognizes Korby's aide Dr. Brown, but is surprised
the man does not remember her. In reality, Brown is also an
android created as a prototype for Korby's diabolical plan
that will replace key personnel in the Federation with
android duplicates under his control.
Korby keeps Chapel at his side, but imprisons Kirk and makes
an exact android duplicate of him. As the Kirk android is
created, Kirk repeatedly says "Mind your own business,
Spock. I'm sick of your half-breed interference! Do you
hear?". The new Kirk android is so like Kirk himself
that it can fool even Chapel. The Kirk android even knows
Kirk has a brother named George Samuel Kirk, whom only he
calls "Sam".
Korby has the duplicate Kirk beamed aboard the Enterprise
with orders to go to Minas V to begin the spread of android
duplicates throughout the galaxy. Korby is convinced the
duplicate Kirk will fool the Enterprise crew, but Spock
realizes something is wrong. When Spock questions the Kirk
android's orders, it repeats the insulting words Kirk had
said during his replication. Spock then forms a security
team and follows the Kirk android back down to Exo III to
investigate what he is up to.
Meanwhile, the real Kirk, while being guarded by Ruk,
convinces the android that his master Korby is a threat to
his continued existence and must be destroyed. Bestirred,
Ruk remembers that the same kind of clash between the Old
Ones and the androids led to his civilization's demise
centuries ago, and gradually concludes that under present
circumstances, conflict is again inevitable. Korby enters
and Ruk confronts him, but Korby destroys Ruk with a phaser.
Shortly afterwards, in a struggle with Kirk, Korby gets his
hand caught in a door. When the skin tears back, it reveals
to Chapel's horror that he is also an android.
Believing it to be the original, Andrea destroys the
duplicate Kirk with a phaser when "he" refuses
to kiss her.
It is now revealed that Dr. Korby, when dying from severe
frostbite, had transferred his mind to an android body so
that he might live on. However, Kirk convinces Korby that he
is nothing more than a machine and has lost his humanity
forever. Chapel is also repelled by what her fiancé has
done to himself and the insanity that was evidently the
result of it. Realizing she loves Korby, Andrea kisses him
and in despair, Korby fires Andrea's phaser between the
embracing pair, destroying them both.
Spock arrives with the security force, but finds that the
crisis has passed, since Kirk and Chapel are now safe. When
Spock inquires about Dr. Korby's whereabouts, Kirk replies:
"Dr. Korby was never here." In the end, Chapel
decides to stay on with the Enterprise and finish out her
tour of duty.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Are_Little_Girls_Made_Of%3F

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Miri (S1E8)
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Miri (S1E8)

Miri (S1E8)

"Miri" is the eighth episode of the first season
of Star Trek: The Original Series, that was first broadcast
October 27, 1966, and repeated June 29, 1967. It was written
by Adrian Spies and directed by Vincent McEveety.

Plot
On stardate 2713.5, the starship USS Enterprise, under the
command of Captain James T. Kirk, follows an old planetary
distress call leading to a planet that looks exactly like
Earth in every detail.
Kirk assembles a landing party consisting of himself, Mr.
Spock, Dr. McCoy, Yeoman Janice Rand, and two security
personnel, to investigate this remarkable find. Upon their
arrival, they find the planet is virtually a duplicate of
Earth of the 1960s, but it all seems abandoned. As the team
curiously inspects a tricycle, they are attacked by a ragged
man who seems infected by a horrible disfiguring mutation,
but shows incredible strength. Spock attempts to stun the
man with his phaser, but the man drops dead at that point.
The security guards then spot another figure running into a
building.
The team chases the figure down, discovering that it's a
terrified girl, who appears physically normal. She
identifies herself as Miri (Kim Darby), and when asked why
she ran away from them, she tells them because they are
"grups" (a contraction of "grown
ups"), and the grups killed and hurt the children
before they died. When asked where her family are, Miri
tells them that she is an "Onlie", and she and
her friends are the "only ones" left as all the
adults are dead.
Soon the landing party starts to notice painful blue sores
are forming on their bodies; Spock however remains immune.
Miri informs them that these are the first sign of the
disease, and they will soon become like the other adults.
The team searches an abandoned hospital for clues to the
mysterious condition. They discover the disease infects only
those who have reached puberty. It is an accidental
side-effect of an experiment to prolong life; the technique
works on children, but when they reach puberty, they enter a
short period of violent rage and then die. Shockingly, they
learn that the children are over 300 years old, having aged
only one month's time every century.
McCoy also discovers that once the disease starts, they only
have 7 days to live. Even though Spock seems immune to the
disease, he believes he is still a carrier and could infect
the Enterprise if he returns.
Meanwhile, the rest of the hiding children, who do not trust
these new grups, decide to meddle with their plans. Their
leader, a boy named Jahn, steals the landing party's
communicators, which renders McCoy's search for a cure
nearly impossible without assistance from the Enterprise
computers. Miri however, doesn't agree with the other
children's mischief and stays near Captain Kirk, on whom
she appears to have a crush. However, when Yeoman Rand
becomes hysterical over their impending fate and Kirk tries
to console her, Miri becomes jealous and runs away to scheme
with her friends. The children devise a "foolie"
prank and kidnap Rand.
Returning later, Miri is confronted by Kirk, who tells her
she and the others will eventually contract the disease just
like the grups if they don't help him find a cure. In fact,
he grabs Miri's arms and shows her the blue sores that are
already forming on her skin.
Miri takes Kirk to the schoolhouse where Rand is held
captive. He confronts the children and tries to get it
through their heads that none of this is a game. At first
the children don't listen and continue to harass him,
encouraged by Jahn. They become increasingly menacing until
one of them finally beats Kirk nearly senseless with a
wrench. Bruised and bloodied, Kirk implores them to think of
the youngest onlies, who will be left without resources when
the older ones are dead. He warns them that the stores of
food and supplies are nearly depleted. He also points out
that the children have hurt him and now have blood literally
on their hands, exactly like the grups they are afraid of.
"I'm a grup," he says, "and I want to
help."
Kirk rounds up the children and returns to the hospital, but
finds that Spock has previously found that McCoy, unable to
accurately test his experimental serum, has injected himself
with a full dose and collapsed to the floor. Soon however,
his sores fade away. The serum is found to be safe and
completely destroys the disease. After curing the landing
party and the children, Kirk informs Starfleet to send
teachers and advisers to the duplicate Earth, to help the
children start their lives over again.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miri_(Star_Trek:_The_Original_Series)

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Dagger of the Mind (S1E9)
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Dagger of the Mind (S1E9)

Dagger of the Mind (S1E9)

"Dagger of the Mind" is a first season episode
of Star Trek: The Original Series. It is episode #9,
production #11 and was broadcast November 3, 1966. It was
written by Shimon Wincelberg (under the pen name "S.
Bar-David"), and directed by Vincent McEveety. The
title is taken from a soliloquy by the title character in
Shakespeare's play Macbeth.

Plot
On stardate 2715.1, the USS Enterprise, commanded by Captain
James T. Kirk, makes a supply run to Tantalus V, a
rehabilitation colony for the criminally insane. After
transporting supplies, they receive cargo from Tantalus for
delivery elsewhere. Unbeknownst to the staff, the box
contains an escaped inmate. Upon contacting the Tantalus
administration, Kirk, Spock, and McCoy discover that the
stowaway is Dr. Simon van Gelder, former assistant to Dr.
Tristan Adams, the Director of the Tantalus facility.
Appearing very distressed, van Gelder subdues the
transporter technician and makes his way to the bridge. With
a phaser in hand, he demands asylum but is quickly subdued
by Mr. Spock with a Vulcan Neck Pinch. Dr. Leonard McCoy
suspects something is wrong and wants to keep van Gelder for
examination. He urges Captain Kirk to investigate, and Kirk
transports to the colony with Dr. Helen Noel, a beautiful
ship psychiatrist he met at a Christmas party.
Upon arrival, Dr. Adams introduces them to a blank,
emotionless woman named Lethe and gives Kirk and Noel a tour
of the colony. Adams is affable and accommodating, but his
staff seem blank and detached. Adams shows Kirk and Noel the
device that caused Dr. van Gelder's injury, an experimental
beam called a neural neutralizer. Adams explains that van
Gelder felt compelled to test the device on himself before
using it on inmates. He was blasted by the beam at full
power and driven insane. Dr. Adams claims the machine is
perfectly harmless at low intensities and is only used to
stabilize and calm deranged inmates. Dr. Noel is satisfied
with this explanation, but Kirk remains suspicious.
Meanwhile, on the Enterprise, Van Gelder issues increasingly
frantic warnings that the landing party is in extreme
danger. His warnings contain cryptic references to the
neural neutralizer, but whenever he tries to elaborate, he
is racked with pain and unable to continue.
Spock mind-melds with Dr. van Gelder to obtain a clearer
picture of his story. The mind-meld reveals that Dr. Adams
is actually insane and is using the neural neutralizer to
control both the inmates and the facility staff. After
receiving this information, Spock assembles a security team,
but the colony's force field blocks transport and
communication.
In the mean time, Kirk examines the neutralizer without Dr.
Adams and decides to test it, on himself, with Dr. Noel at
the controls. The test begins and Dr. Noel playfully
suggests that their Christmas party encounter went further
than it did. Suddenly, Adams appears, grabs the controls and
increases the intensity of the neutralizer. He brainwashes
Kirk to believe he has been madly in love with Dr. Noel for
years, and Kirk and Noel are subsequently taken prisoner and
confined to their quarters.
Dr. Noel escapes into a ventilation duct. She reaches the
facility's control room and interrupts Kirk's neutralizer
session by shutting down all power in the complex. Kirk
regains his wits and subdues Adams, leaving him unconscious
on the floor of the treatment room. A guard discovers
Noel's sabotage and restores power. He turns his attentions
towards Noel, and after a hand to hand struggle, she sends
him hurtling into the electrical equipment, whereupon he is
electrocuted. After killing the guard, she again turns off
the power and returns to the ventilation duct. With the
force field down, Spock, McCoy and a security team beam to
the planet. Spock restores power to the colony after
disabling the force field, unwittingly reactivating the
neural neutralizer in the process.
When the neural neutralizer restarts, Dr. Adams is still
lying on the floor of the vacant treatment room; the
neutralizer empties Adams's mind and kills him. Van Gelder,
having recovered his sanity, takes charge of the colony and
destroys the neural neutralizer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagger_of_the_Mind