“Who Mourns for Adonis” The Enterprise is held hostage by a powerful being claiming to be the Greek god Apollo. The “god” expects to be worshipped and feels attracted to Lt. Palamas, and the crew takes advantage of this weakness to defeat him. summary by
“Amok Time” Spock experiences Pon farr and returns to Vulcan for his mating ceremony. His fiancée T’Pring, however, demands Spock to fight for her to the death in an old ritual - against Kirk. The situation is saved by McCoy who fakes Kirk’s death. Correctly assuming that Spock wouldn’t want her now that Kirk […]
“Operation: Annihilate” The planet Deneva is struck by a fatal epidemic insanity caused by neural parasites, also costing the lives of Kirk’s brother and his wife. Trying to investigate the parasites, Spock is infected as well. McCoy finds a cure exposing the parasites to intensive solar radiation. Spock agrees to test the treatment, and only […]
“The City on the Edge of Forever” Driven by a cordrazine overdose, McCoy accidentally enters “The Guardian of Forever” and changes Earth’s history. The Federation ceases to exist, the Enterprise is gone, and only the landing party is unaffected. When Spock and Kirk follow him, they discover that Edith Keeler who Kirk has fallen in […]
“The Alternative Factor” Following spatial disturbances, a landing party finds a man named Lazarus. He claims to be fighting an evil enemy who is actually his own equivalent from an antimatter universe. Finally, the two versions of Lazarus get trapped at the border between the two universes, thereby preventing their mutual annihilation. summary by Ex-Astris-Scientia
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“Errand of Mercy” The Federation is alarmed when the Klingons occupy a planet and suppress its peaceful inhabitants, the Organians. Kirk and Spock, in disguise, do everything to convince them to defend themselves against the Klingons or let the Enterprise interfere, but they refuse. The Organians are actually no humanoids but energy entities, and they […]
“The Devil in the Dark” A silicon-based being continuously killing workers of a mining colony is hunted and eventually severely hurt by the miners with the help of an Enterprise away team. Through a mind-meld Spock finds out that Horta was only protecting her children, silicon “eggs” the miners have been collecting. An agreement is […]
“This Side of Paradise” Spores have made a group of colonists immune against lethal radiation, however, they have also lost their sense of reality. The infection is spreading among the Enterprise crew likewise, who one by one leave their duty on the ship. Even Spock being affected, Kirk is the only one left on the […]