A wire-to-wire 10 for me, with a + to top off the reveal. I was thinking doomsday machine and then a Borg offshoot, just waiting to see what this new big bad feared even by the Gorn could be--and voila, we have seen the enemy, and he is us! Sure, there's a lot to back fill there, but it was a delicious and unexpected surprise. I enjoyed the way Kirk started out so nonchalantly egotistical, until the stakes and circumstances humbled him, giving him his first taste of the sometimes tragic repercussions of command. You could just see the seeds of the Kirk-Spock relationship being down, too. The dynamic between Scotty and Kirk also foreshadowed what was to come at a later point. Very well done. I even didn't mind the contribution by Pelia with the hard-wiring solution, since it was mercifully brief. The solutions to the twin dilemmas might have been a bit paint by the numbers, but well executed, and since it culminated in that reveal, excusable...