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201: '''Amok Time''' ''[[1967]] [[September 15]]''

Also, Chekov.

202: '''Who Mourns for Adonais?''' ''[[1967]] [[September 22]]''

Also, Chekov is only 22?  Didn't realize I'd started passing up TOS Enterprise crewmembers in age.

203: '''The Changeling''' ''[[1967]] [[September 29]]''

Somehow Kirk's joking about Nomad at the end seems inappropriate.  "My son, the doctor!"  After it vaporized four of the crew it doesn't seem like the kind of thing to say.

204: '''Mirror, Mirror''' ''[[1967]] [[October 6]]''

205: '''The Apple''' ''[[1967]] [[October 13]]''

Also, so nice of Kirk to say Spock looks like Satan.

206: '''The Doomsday Machine''' ''[[1967]] [[October 20]]''

At least in the original special effects, the shuttlecraft appears huge.  At least, the shots of it next to the planet killer don't make it seem much smaller than the shots of Constitution-class starships next to the planet killer.

207: '''Catspaw'''  ''[[1967]] [[October 27]]''

The little marionettes used at the end were funny, in that the strings were quite visible.

208: '''I, Mudd''' ''[[1967]] [[November 3]]''

The set design was particularly interesting in this episode.  Really weird door and chair shapes.

209: '''Metamorphosis''' ''[[1967]] [[November 10]]''

Also, what the hell kind of story is Kirk going to make up for their strange problems that doesn't mention Cochrane but ''does'' explain away how they lost an entire diplomat they were supposed to be helping.

210: '''Journey to Babel''' ''[[1967]] [[November 17]]''

Kirk sure seemed sure the unidentified ship was like nothing the Romulans had.  I guess in the past half year or so they went from having no knowledge of the Romulans over the last century to knowing about everything they have.  Considering [[Mark Lenard]] was the main Romulan in that episode, I wonder how many viewers back in the day thought Sarek was some sort of Romulan spy.

211: '''Friday's Child''' ''[[1967]] [[December 1]]''

Kirk seemed more pissed than usual at the death of his redshirt.  But seriously, the guy was asking for it.  Seeing a Klingon and immediately preparing to fire on him is what Kirk considers a purely instinctual defensive move?

212: '''The Deadly Years''' ''[[1967]] [[December 8]]''

I like the callback to corbomite.

213: '''Obsession''' ''[[1967]] [[December 15]]''

So what was the big deal about needing someone to set off the antimatter bomb immediately before beaming out?  It's not like it was such a tiny bomb that it would only kill things within 5 feet of it.  Set a 10 second timer and beam out.

214: '''Wolf in the Fold''' ''[[1967]] [[December 22]]''

I noticed one of the historical bits of serial-killery mentioned was in [[2156]].  I wonder, if it had gone on a season or two longer, if they would've tried to make an [[Star Trek: Enterprise|Enterprise]] episode about that; though of course it couldn't reach a full conclusion.

215: '''The Trouble With Tribbles''' ''[[1967]] [[December 29]]''

Kirk is a dick to Baris.  Sure, it turns out to be Baris's assistant who is the behind-the-scenes trouble, but his initial worries about the safety of the grain weren't unwarranted, and Starfleet Command backed him up on it.

216: '''The Gamesters of Triskelion''' ''[[1968]] [[January 5]]''

Well, OK.  I did find it funny that the first time they had a fight, Kirk took the easy way out and went against the normal-sized guy.  Chekov got a giant, and Uhura went against two women!

217: '''A Piece of the Action''' ''[[1968]] [[January 12]]''

Fizzbin was a pretty weird idea... but really was pretty lame as a distraction.  I mean, his deception didn't end up having anything to do with the game, but with dropping a card on the ground.

218: '''The Immunity Syndrome'''

Where did this thing come from, though?  They were worried about it doubling and doubling and doubling... but if this one wasn't the first, that's still an unresolved issue.

219: '''A Private Little War'''

I wonder what became of this.  They were talking about how if the Klingons were interfering with the planet it could lead to war, but clearly that didn't happen.  Did the situation on this planet continue escalating?  What's it like in the 24th century?  Or even a few decades later, when Federation/Klingon hostilities have cooled off?

220: '''Return to Tomorrow''' ''[[1968]] [[February 9]]''

Who knew Pulaski was so old?

221: '''Patterns of Force''' ''[[1968]] [[February 16]]''

(First watched 2008-04-10)  Uh-huh.  So some brilliant Federation observer decides to meddle with a society by trying to institute... ''good'' Nazism?  Right down to the symbols, names, and uniforms?

222: '''By Any Other Name'''

I suppose they made peace, but didn't share their technology.  Certainly the Enterprise didn't keep going around at warp 11.

223: '''The Omega Glory'''

I recently said it'd be nice if the captains were more fallible.  Well, considering every time Kirk runs into another starship captain they've either gone mad or evil or dead or something, maybe it's a good thing there's at least one successful one?

224: '''The Ultimate Computer'''

Funny at the end how they're talking about the potential/horror of a [[Star Trek: Voyager|computerized doctor]].

225: '''Bread and Circuses'''

Nice McCoy/Spock scene when they're in a cell alone together, and more serious than banter for a change.

226: '''Assignment: Earth''' ''[[1968]] [[March 29]]''

This episode was followed up in the [[Star Trek: The Eugenics Wars: The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh Volume 1|Eugenics Wars novels]].

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