''Laddies, if you don't like it, can the rest of us still leave?''-----Scotty
''I fail to understand the humor in-----oh, @#$% this crap!''-------Spock
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''I fail to understand the humor in-----oh, @#$% this crap!''-------Spock
BRING ME THE HEAD OF CYRANO JONES!
Harry Mudd is back! This time having gotten into a spat with one Cyrano Jones over the salvage rights to a craft of unknown origin! It is up to the Enterprise to settle this dispute as the craft houses valuable data on new and as yet unexplored regions of the galaxy. Unfortunately the craft is emitting a psychic signal that stimulates the aggressive tendencies of every sapient that comes within five hundred kilometers of it. How can Kirk and the Enterprise's crew complete their mission when they are largely at each other's throats?
Next Episode: Walking in the Light
Ref: 1 John 1:7
Harry Mudd is back! This time having gotten into a spat with one Cyrano Jones over the salvage rights to a craft of unknown origin! It is up to the Enterprise to settle this dispute as the craft houses valuable data on new and as yet unexplored regions of the galaxy. Unfortunately the craft is emitting a psychic signal that stimulates the aggressive tendencies of every sapient that comes within five hundred kilometers of it. How can Kirk and the Enterprise's crew complete their mission when they are largely at each other's throats?
Next Episode: Walking in the Light
Ref: 1 John 1:7
"Walking in the Light": After exposure to a strange alien artifact found on an away mission, a member of Enterprise's archaeology department hands in his resignation, saying that he's quitting Starfleet to pursue a different calling. After much discussion and rumination on the sudden but not unlikely change, Kirk agrees to drop him off at the next starbase. However, he is only the first of many who begin to "follow the light", all after exposure to the artifact. Realizing there's a problem, Kirk puts the ship into quarantine and refuses to dock anywhere, heading back to the planet where they found the artifact in search of answers. Things escalate when the affected crewmen, including Uhura and Chekov, attempt to "follow the light" into the heart of a volcano.
Next episode: "The Pauper's Tears"
Next episode: "The Pauper's Tears"
This reminded me of Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey. I'm imagining the crew of the Enterprise challenging Death to Battleship, Clue, Electric Football, and Twister.
"Did you know zhat Scrabble vaz inwented by a 12 year old boy in-"
"Shut up, Pavel!"
"Shut up, Pavel!"
"The Pauper's Tears"
On a routine survey mission the enterprise crew get caught up in a trade dispute between neighboring star systems. One uses money, and the other has recently abandoned the concept of money but still wants to keep trade going with their neighbor.
Note: Given the time frame and the VERY anti communist not so much nudge as outright ORDERING pro capitalism? I'm unsure how this episode would play out. Maybe the idea of wealth and profit having a wider definition than Species A has? Maybe Species B were very... Robber Baron in how they run things and that is part of why Species A got rid of money when they did.
Next Episode: To Serve Two masters
Reff: Matthew 6:24-25
On a routine survey mission the enterprise crew get caught up in a trade dispute between neighboring star systems. One uses money, and the other has recently abandoned the concept of money but still wants to keep trade going with their neighbor.
Note: Given the time frame and the VERY anti communist not so much nudge as outright ORDERING pro capitalism? I'm unsure how this episode would play out. Maybe the idea of wealth and profit having a wider definition than Species A has? Maybe Species B were very... Robber Baron in how they run things and that is part of why Species A got rid of money when they did.
Next Episode: To Serve Two masters
Reff: Matthew 6:24-25
Or perhaps a religious order that eschewed wealth and counted poverty as holy took over?
"To Serve Two Masters" - Commander Hugh Victor escorts his daughter, Margaret to her first Starfleet posting on USS Enterprise, and asks Kirk to take good care of her. Secretly, however, he has a mission for her: act as his spy aboard Enterprise and report on Kirk's mismanagement of the ship; this because he wants the job. When she finds nothing, he suggests that she make problems. This is all happening when Enterprise is exploring ancient ruins on Gerivo II - plenty of opportunities for "accidents". Margaret may have to choose between the life of her father (when he tries to kill Kirk himself) and that of her captain and her duty.
Next episode: "The Prospector"
Next episode: "The Prospector"
Spock: Captain, we've already defeated Death in Battleship, Clue, and Electric Football, but he is insisting on another match.
Kirk: Any suggestions?
Spock: I believe a more physical approach might be in order here. I suggest the ancient Earth trial by combat known as...Twister.
McCoy: My God, man! Do you know how punishing that game was? It would be torture!
Spock: Yes, Doctor. Precisely why it is called for in this situation.
Kirk: Who among us is the best fit to take on Death in Twister?
Spock: I have studied Kohlinar and 15 forms of Vulcan martial arts. I believe I am the logical choice.
McCoy: Do you have any idea what Twister could do to that Vulcan body of yours?
Kirk: All right, Spock. All our hopes.
Scotty: Watch out for "left foot on red." It's a killer!
Later:
McCoy: "Spock, just because your blood is green doesn't mean you have to touch nothing but green dots."
Spock: (moaning in pain from the ache) "It was....only...logical."
(Anybody got an idea for my title suggestion above?)
McCoy: "Spock, just because your blood is green doesn't mean you have to touch nothing but green dots."
Spock: (moaning in pain from the ache) "It was....only...logical."
(Anybody got an idea for my title suggestion above?)
"The Prospector"
The Enterprise is responding to an automated distress beacon that takes them to a mining world on the edge of federation space. As they approach, the colonists claim to have sent no signal. It is up to Spock to decipher why the mining colony's computer is acting strange.
Next Episode: When the Stars threw down their Spears
Reff:
The Enterprise is responding to an automated distress beacon that takes them to a mining world on the edge of federation space. As they approach, the colonists claim to have sent no signal. It is up to Spock to decipher why the mining colony's computer is acting strange.
Next Episode: When the Stars threw down their Spears
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"When the Stars threw down their Spears" - Enterprise is monitoring a meteor shower that was first observed long-distance by Vulcans four hundred years ago. It happens every forty-three years. Starfleet meteoritics specialist Miriam Lerner believes the shower is not natural but is being controlled by an intelligence, a belief discounted by most scientists, and hopes to prove it, even if it means heading to the surface of Ailor IV, a dangerous world in the throes of geological upheaval, and searching for its source. The Ailorans believ their world is coming to an end, and blame the landing party for the destruction. Can the crew prove Lerner right and the Ailorans wrong and make it off Ailor IV alive?
Next episode: "Once I Was a Sword"
Next episode: "Once I Was a Sword"
"Once I Was a Sword"- On a mission to a remote colony, Kirk reunites with his old commander, retired Admiral Robert Winter. The admiral is now a monk and an avowed pacifist. Kirk is a little shocked by this, Winter was a brilliant Starship captain and tactician, with countless victories under his belt.
When the Romulans come calling, Winters pacifism is put to the test. The Romulans brutally attack the colony under the pretext it is in Romulan space. The monastery is of Romulan origin, but the monks long ago disavowed the Empire. Winter and the other monks steadfastly refuse to aid in the defense of the world. This makes them pariahs among the colonists. Kirk is also having trouble with Winter's pacifism. He even berates his old commander for his stance.
Is Kirk right? Is Winter wrong? Can the colony be saved?
Next Episode: "Giants In The Earth"
When the Romulans come calling, Winters pacifism is put to the test. The Romulans brutally attack the colony under the pretext it is in Romulan space. The monastery is of Romulan origin, but the monks long ago disavowed the Empire. Winter and the other monks steadfastly refuse to aid in the defense of the world. This makes them pariahs among the colonists. Kirk is also having trouble with Winter's pacifism. He even berates his old commander for his stance.
Is Kirk right? Is Winter wrong? Can the colony be saved?
Next Episode: "Giants In The Earth"
"Giants In The Earth"
Mudd, using the name Hawkens, has sent a call specifically for the enterprise about 'a wonderful thing he has found the Federation should see.' It is a giant ... Man. This man has made friends with Mudd and at first seeks only to know more about these 'friends' Mudd has told him about. What game is Mudd playing at? Why is Mudd wearing a starfleet uniform? Is this giant a singular being or one of an entire race?
Next Episode: "Believing where we cannot prove"
Reff: https://poets.org/poem/memoriam-h-h
Mudd, using the name Hawkens, has sent a call specifically for the enterprise about 'a wonderful thing he has found the Federation should see.' It is a giant ... Man. This man has made friends with Mudd and at first seeks only to know more about these 'friends' Mudd has told him about. What game is Mudd playing at? Why is Mudd wearing a starfleet uniform? Is this giant a singular being or one of an entire race?
Next Episode: "Believing where we cannot prove"
Reff: https://poets.org/poem/memoriam-h-h
Countless advanced technological drones swish past the Enterprise at Warp 47. Admiral Gordon and Vice-Admiral O'Hara are stumped, as is Kirk. Must conclude with Hanna-Barbera musical number.
But seriously:
Next ep: BELIEVING WHAT WE CANNOT PROVE
"Believing Where We Cannot Prove" - The Enterprise makes first contact with the Shiel, an alien race that lives on a different plane of existence than our universe, when they congregate around a star and begin to siphon energy from it, forcing a landing party to take shelter on Mevonic II in peril as they work to repair the automated relay station there. The Shiel refuse to stop until Kirk, Spock, and McCoy can convince them of one thing: that the Enterprise and its crew exist.
Next episode: "All Are of the Dust" https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ecclesiastes 3:20&version=KJV
Next episode: "All Are of the Dust" https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ecclesiastes 3:20&version=KJV
"All Are of the Dust"
The Enterprise is on a survey mission to Arv'niss III when several security officers go missing they query the local population that tell Doctor McCoy that they 'are of Niss.' It is only later that the Enterprise crew learn that 'Niss' is the native word for Dust, and everyone who has gone to the surface has been infected with the same pathogen.
Next Episode: "Upon the threshold of the mind"
Reff: https://poets.org/poem/memoriam-h-h
The Enterprise is on a survey mission to Arv'niss III when several security officers go missing they query the local population that tell Doctor McCoy that they 'are of Niss.' It is only later that the Enterprise crew learn that 'Niss' is the native word for Dust, and everyone who has gone to the surface has been infected with the same pathogen.
Next Episode: "Upon the threshold of the mind"
Reff: https://poets.org/poem/memoriam-h-h
"Upon the threshold of the mind" - While attending a medical conference, McCoy reconnects with Dr. Maureen Routh, a schoolmate who is doing cutting-edge research into separating mind from body and existing as consciousness. She believes she's found a way to do so through an alien serum formula and asks McCoy to help her experiment with it. McCoy believes her desire to find her parents, who mysteriously disappeared years ago, is her underlying motivation, and unhealthily so, believing a disembodied mind is immortal and can access all the knowledge of the universe. Can he stop her from taking a bite out of the apple no man was meant to taste before she is lost to the stars forever?
Next episode: "The Halo"
Next episode: "The Halo"
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"The Halo"
The Enterprise comes upon a world with an artificial ring around it that turns out to be host to a civilization of techno-primative colony that started post World War Three. Horse drawn wagons, simple life. Yet all at a terrible terrible price as the halo they live upon hides a dark secret from a long dead civilization.
Next Episode: "When thy heart began to beat."
Reff: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tyger
Yes I have a habit of 'primitive' civilizations. Concession to the realities of budget and existing props. Might as well get SOME use out of the western themed lots and kit. Plus the 'Halo' itself is easy to do as a matte drawing that can be put around whatever glowball planet they're wanting to use for space shots.
The Enterprise comes upon a world with an artificial ring around it that turns out to be host to a civilization of techno-primative colony that started post World War Three. Horse drawn wagons, simple life. Yet all at a terrible terrible price as the halo they live upon hides a dark secret from a long dead civilization.
Next Episode: "When thy heart began to beat."
Reff: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tyger
Yes I have a habit of 'primitive' civilizations. Concession to the realities of budget and existing props. Might as well get SOME use out of the western themed lots and kit. Plus the 'Halo' itself is easy to do as a matte drawing that can be put around whatever glowball planet they're wanting to use for space shots.
"When thy heart began to beat" - Enterprise is sent to study an unstable star, Omega Irian, and are surprised to encounter a species of humanoids emerging from centuries-long hibernation. The Oo'oris' lives are uniquely tied to their sun; when it sleeps, they sleep, and when it wakes, they wake. If it dies...their entire race will die. Can the crew of Enterprise save Omega Irian, the Oo'oris, and their crew, who have fallen under the star's spell?
Next episode: "Daughters of Medea" (this need not be literal, can be metaphorical) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medea
Next episode: "Daughters of Medea" (this need not be literal, can be metaphorical) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medea
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