“The Deadly Years” After their return a landing party, including Kirk, Spock and McCoy, suffers from accelerated aging. One crew members dies. Commodore Stocker assumes command and endangers the ship entering the Neutral Zone, but luckily a cure is found and Kirk resolves the situation with his “corbomite maneuver” Summary by Ex-Astris-Scientia
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“Friday’s Child” Trying to prevent a Klingon intrusion into the antiquated warrior civilization of Capella IV, Kirk intervenes himself when he saves a pregnant woman from a ritual execution, whereupon they have to take refuge in the mountains. The new-born baby, Leonard James Akaar, finally becomes the designated ruler of the planet. summary by […]
“Journey to Babel” The Enterprise ferries delegates from several planets, including Spock’s parents, to a conference that is supposed to decide about Coridan’s admission to the Federation. Sarek, Spock’s father, suffers a heart attack just as an alien ship begins to attack the Enterprise. Kirk is stabbed by the assassin, and Spock must choose between […]
“Metamorphosis” Kirk, Spock, McCoy and Federation official Nancy Hedford are forced to land on a planet where they surprisingly meet Zefram Cochrane, the inventor of the warp drive who should have died a long time ago. The other inhabitant of the planet is “Companion”, a strange energy being who lives in a sort of symbiosis […]
“I, Mudd” The crew is held hostage by a civilization of androids led by the only human, Harry Mudd. However, when they learn the androids want to take over the galaxy, the humanoids work together to disable them, using their best weapon, absence of logic. After they have found out that one of the androids, […]
“Catspaw” Two alien beings with apparently superior power hold the Enterprise hostage and create a castle of horrors to scare the human crew members. When their matter transmuter is destroyed, they turn out to be two tiny creatures not able to survive in the planet’s atmosphere. summary by
“The Doomsday Machine” Obsessed to take revenge on an enormous machine destroying whole planets and having killed his whole crew, Commodore Decker takes command of the Enterprise, leaving Kirk on the heavily damaged U.S.S. Constellation, Decker’s ship. When Decker is relieved of his command by Spock, he takes a shuttle and enters the machine on […]
“The Apple” Any progress on a planet is prevented by a powerful computer worshipped by the primitive inhabitants as Vaal. When Vaal threatens the Enterprise, Kirk decides the machine has to be destroyed with the side effect that the society on the planet is given a chance to develop. summary by
“Mirror, Mirror” Kirk, Uhura, Scotty and McCoy are accidentally transported into a parallel universe aboard the I.S.S. Enterprise, while their brutal counterparts of the parallel universe are beamed aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise. Reluctantly the four officers try to fit in their unusual roles. When they attempt to return to their world, they get unexpected help […]
“The Changeling” The Terran space probe Nomad has gained enormous power after merging with an alien robot, Tan Ru, and now strives to “sterilize” everyone and everything that is not perfect. The probe wipes out all life in the Malurian system. Assuming that Kirk is actually Jackson Roykirk, Nomad’s creator, Nomad agrees to be beamed […]