Star Trek: The Original Series Season 2
Star Trek: The Original Series
Star Trek: The Original Series Season 1
SPOILERS AHOY
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201: Amok time 1967 September 15
Spock's surprised outburst of "Captain! Â Jim!" has got to be one of his top moments on the show.
Also, Chekov.
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202: Who Mourns for Adonais? 1967 September 22
This is an interesting episode concept, but admittedly I'm a bit of an ancient astronaut theory whore. Â I can't help but think there should've been a way to reach a better outcome, but maybe I'm thinking too TNG here. Â Apollo wants things to be as they once were, but if he could make a bit of compromise there'd still be a place for him. Â Surely if knowledge of him got to the Federation at large there would be people willing to become voluntary followers. Â Or he could've found new purpose with a non-human species, since he clearly has no equivalent to the Prime Directive.
Enterprise seems to have a knack for getting crewgals who fall for the wrong ancient guy. Â This time one goes for Apollo, and it was just a few episodes back that one fell for Khan.
Also, Chekov is only 22? Â Didn't realize I'd started passing up TOS Enterprise crewmembers in age.
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203: The Changeling 1967 September 29
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204: Mirror, Mirror 1967 October 6
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205: The Apple 1967 October 13
(First watched 2008-03-19) Â MORE flowers shooting people, this time with goofier sound effects.
Though as usual I disagree with Kirk that forcing the people away from their life was the necessarily right thing to do... in this case I think they were justified from a self-defense standpoint in taking out Vaal. Â I wonder if Vaal's name came from Baal?
Again convenient that Spock is Super Vulcan. Â Early on Vaal vaporized a redshirt with a lightning bolt, but Spock got away with second-degree burns.
Also, so nice of Kirk to say Spock looks like Satan.
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206: The Doomsday Machine 1967 October 20
(First watched 2008-03-20) Â Considering weapons technology of now (or even the late 60s), it seems like a few hundred years from now man would be able to make a 97 megaton explosion a bit more cheaply than sacrificing a Constitution-class starship. Â Just how powerful are those photon torpedos supposed to be anyway? Â That does seem a relatively easy explosion for destroying something that destroys planets; that they conjecture was a final effort doomsday device of some unknown civilization.
At least in the original special effects, the shuttlecraft appears huge. Â 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.
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