Star Trek: The Original Series Season 1

SPOILERS AHOY

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122: Space Seed 1967 February 16

(First watched 2008-03-03)

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123: A Taste of Armageddon 1967 February 23

(First watched 2008-03-04)  Interesting concept.  A culture makes war more survivable by having the fights be false, but the deaths real, so the society isn't harmed.  This makes war drag on forever since it's so survivable.

However, and I suppose as the very first season of Star Trek it's got to have some leeway, but... it really wasn't the place of the ambassador or Enterprise crew to be forcing themselves on this society and changing their way of life just because they think it's awful.  Prime Directive, sir!  Also, I was sure it was going to be revealed later on that the General Order 24 thing was a big bluff... but it wasn't.  So Starfleet actually has a numerical designation for an order to destroy the entirety of a planet's surface?  And Kirk was going to use it if the society they'd been meddling with didn't let the handful of captives go?  What the hell?

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124: This Side of Paradise 1967 March 2

(First watched 2008-03-05)  Boy oh, did those flowers ejaculating spores onto people look ridiculous.

I found myself wondering why Kirk was at first immune to the spores, and even once affected was sound enough of mind to be able to fight it off.  I suppose it's a difference between old and new Trek.  In a recent Trek show, there'd have been some eventual explanation about how his blood type was resilient and yada yada yada, but in old Trek he can just get away with it because he's Mr. Awesome.

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125: The Devil in the Dark 1967 March 9

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