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"Fool's Gold" - The Enterprise heads to Auros III with the goal of retrieving a cache of valuable matter uncovered by a Federation science team that has the potential to revolutionize matter replication. When they arrive, they find the scientists have managed to terraform the planet...or so it seems. With Klingons in hot pursuit of the same objective, this substance creates powerful illusions but the planet is in fact as barren as ever. It also has the unfortunate side effect of breeding a different kind of madness - that of comfort, lassitude, and ennui. Which means it might be a powerful weapon to subjugate enemies - but one might wind up falling in their own trap.

Next episode: "The Birdhouse"
 
The Birdhouse

While studying the nebula Oris II, the Enterprise discovers an M-class planet nearby, inhabited by a pre-warp civilisation. When Kirk beams down with a landing party, disguised to blend in with the locals, they get to know the local populace, the Iluun. The Iluun are a happy and healthy people, yet they only inhabit a small portion of their world’s land, and have no interest in improving their rudimentary technology. With the help of Spock and Scotty, Kirk finds that the Iluun are confined to their small living space by an energy field, and that the resources inside the field have been artificially enriched, presumably by a more advanced civilisation. This advanced civilisation provides everything the Iluuns need, hence their lack of interest in technology. Kirk attempts to take one of the Iluuns, a young woman named Mirai, outside the energy field, but as soon as they step foot outside, the Enterprise is attacked by the advanced civilisation, called the Zaar, who are angry that their “pet project” has been interfered with. Kirk had to decide whether to leave the Iluun to their voluntary captivity, where they will live at the whim of the Zaar, or break the Prime Directive and interfere in another civilisation’s affairs.

Next episode: Those Halcyon Days (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/halcyon)
 
Those Halcyon Days

The Enterprise is ordered to mediate a disturbance on Federation member Zaniah V where two factions are on the brink of civil war. One faction won its supporters with promises to return the society to its customs from an earlier time, but the crew of the Enterprise learn of the dark customs that took place during those times and the hidden motivations of those faction leaders to return to those customs.

Next episode: Lilith
 
LILITH

Ambassador Lilith McAllister (Kathy Garver with short-cropped hair) seems awfully young to mediate Terran/Romulan/Klingon peace treaties (she's seven years younger than Chekov), but Admiral French gave her his high recommendations to Kirk. But when Klaatubaradaniknak (Jack Nicholson in swarthy makeup) kidnaps her younger siblings Bufee and Johday it's a potentially tragic family affair for Starfleet. This episode needed four minutes of filler so Uhura provides a jaunty jingle titled ''Swing It, Mista Spock.''

Next Episode: WHO PUT THE GUARD IN THE CHOP AND DROP?
 
WHO PUT THE GUARD IN THE CHOP AND DROP? (aka "The Guardian"): Enterprise is escorting the preteen daughter of a deceased Peluran ambassador to the Federation boarding school she is to attend as an exchange student, along with her private governess, who is acting as her chaperone. When one of the security officers assigned to her detail kills the other one, and dies himself from his wounds, or so it seems, the crew has a mystery on their hands. The girl believes herself guilty of the killings, something that scares the daylights out of her, but the governess is in fact responsible, wanting to keep the girl under her control by using her manipulative abilities to convince her she is bad. Can Spock and McCoy get to the bottom of the mystery, and save Kirk, who is falling under the governess's influence?

Next episode: "The Sleep of the Just"
 
The Sleep of the Just

The Enterprise is ordered to Earth to deliver the captured Romulan Commander for classified interrogation following her capture in "The Enterprise Incident." But when a Starfleet tribunal opens an official inquiry into the mission’s legality, Kirk and Spock are forced to justify their deception under oath. Confined to Earth under political pressure, the Commander calmly challenges Starfleet’s moral high ground, turning the hearing into a philosophical battle over espionage, loyalty, and trust. As public opinion wavers, Kirk begins to question whether the cost of victory was too high. With tensions escalating across the Neutral Zone, Starfleet demands silence—but the Commander refuses to play the villain...


Next: And the Stars Themselves Shall Tremble
 
And the Stars Themselves Shall Tremble

The Enterprise discovers a massive machine syphoning power from a star. The ancient machine sparks curiosity for Spock in particular who feels a connection with it. They discover that in a matter of years the machine will deplete all the stars energy and will destroy the entire system along with the pre-warp inhabitants of one of its planets. The crew tries to find a way to stop this with McCoy taking the position that they need to destroy the machine before it destroys the planet, while Spock argues that they have no right to destroy the machine, which may be sentient.

Next Episode: The Binding
 
THE BINDING

Leave it to Chekov to sneak into Kirky's quarters while the Captain pontificates on the bridge. And also leave it to CheeGoof to accidentally rip JTK's antique gift from Samuel T. Cogley, Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex But You Were Afraid To Ask, 1981 hardback edition! He was trying to install an updated communications setup for Kirk's 40th birthday, but now Chekov may not have much more of those. Uhura and Sulu attempt to fix the damage, and if this strikes you as a B-Plot, you're quite right. The A-plot involves a gigantic glowing green mammary gland appropriately blurred for the broadcast TV viewscreen with the voice of Barbara Babcock. If Kirky, Spocko, McC and Scotty the Man Cannot defeat the gigantic bazumba, Earth will be the next planet to drown in creamy milk galore. Guest starring Woody Allen as Admiral Nebbishar. Parental discretion advised, of course.

NEXT WEEK: Jimmy Crack Corn, And I Don't Care
 
Jimmy Crack Corn, And I Don't Care

Responding to a distress call from the Constitution class USS Merrimac, Kirk and crew find the ship downed & abandoned on a the planet surface of Keltex IV, with no crew in sight, nor it's current captain, Kirk's old academy nemesis, Finnegan. Retrieved records from the ship suggest that the crew lost control of the mental facilities, from some unknown medical condition, & they wilfully abandoned their ship. It's up to Kirk's away team to find them & persuade the derelict Finnegan to come to his senses.

Next Week on Star Trek: The Missing Star
 
Mojochi said:
Responding to a distress call from the Constitution class USS Merrimac, Kirk and crew find the ship downed & abandoned on a the planet surface of Keltex IV, with no crew in sight, nor it's current captain, Kirk's old academy nemesis, Finnegan.
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(Even if Bruce Mars couldn't return for this, there's always Steve Martin.)

THE MISSING STAR...........
 
The Missing Star

The enterprise is on a routine visit to a federation colony, only to find the entire system missing. While investigating the disappearance a planet re appears almost destroying the Enterprise. They try and evacuate the colony before the system disappears again.

Next episode: The Judas Goat
 
"The Judas Goat": Lieutenant Burt Desmond is rescued from an alien craft he claims to have repaired, an ex-officer attached to the colony ship Windward, whose crew and passengers vanished seven months previous. He tells Kirk he can lead the Enterprise to the ship's wreckage for salvage and closure purposes. What he doesn't tell them is that he is bait, as the Meccar aliens dispatched him to bring back more people for knowledge consumption - the draining of minds of all knowledge, leaving empty husks behind, who languish and die. They are using the life of his sister, Artemis, as incentive. He has been "mind-twinned" with Mouteth, his Meccar handler, who speaks to him telepathically with images and voices, to avoid comm detection, and is able to see his sister suffer when he hesitates. The twist is that Artemis and Mouteth have merged minds - she is inseparably both at once - Artemis's body is dead, but her mind and Mouteth's both want the same thing - the combined knowledge of worlds of minds in one person. Can Spock untwine them, or will Desmond have to give his life for the crew to go free?

Next episode: "Parachute"
 
Parachute

When Kirk's mentor, a retiring admiral, comes aboard, he explains that as part of his retirement agreement, command has permitted his return to the alien world he was forbade from interacting with, as per the Prime Directive, because due to an incident, there is a native there who he'd fallen in love & conceived a child with. The trust they've placed in him carries the weight of him never being able the divulge the truth of who he really is, but the mission to place him among the population is wrought with difficulties.

Next Episode: Damage Report
 
DAMAGE REPORT

In the most gripping classic-crew episode yet, the rehired Ben Finney (now played by Lawrence Pressman circa 1970?) makes another mistake in battle as the Enterprise takes on the Bastardians from Alpha Sector Nine. Finney presses a majorly wrong button. How bad is it? All right, since you asked: all 435 crewmembers below the bridge are simultaneously annihilated by deadly radiation. Luckily for us, Scotty, Bones, Chapel and Kyle read the script in advance and hot-foot it to the bridge before all hell breaks loose. But Finney is also dead from radiation (jerk) and the bridge is still threatened by the Bastardian commandant Osmo Gepetto....old but tough......and played to the hilt by Daniel J. Travanti. I anticipate at least two facial slaps from Kirk in the final act. That usually gets the chief villain to lose it. Anyhow, hilarity does not ensue, except perhaps in the epilogue.

Next week: IN LIES THERE IS NO UGLINESS
 
IN LIES THERE IS NO UGLINESS

The Enterprise comes face to face with a race of aliens that thanks to chance, or perhaps some uncareful encounters in the past, have become an immitation of Stalanist Russia, at least so it appears on the surface. Chekov, naturally being one who is familiar with his homeland's history is drafted by Spock when the initial awayteam is arrested and threatened to be sent to a gulag for 'anti-revolutionary crimes, defasement and debasement of State property, and attempts at corrupting State Institutions.'

How now must Chekov confront the ugliest part of Russian history for the sake of captain and crew?

NEXT WEEK:
And know that place for the first time
- T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets
 
And know that place for the first time

Musical episode!

The crew of the Enterprise enter into a sector of the galaxy known for producing various types of strange radiation that cause various disturbances on the ship, some humorous, some dangerous. The crew are baffled, though, as various members randomly break out into song.

Kirk sings "I love my ship"
Spock sings "Emotions are hard"
Scotty sings "Everyone keeps abusin' me poor bairns"
McCoy sings "I'm a doctor not your fantasy"
Sulu sings "Oh my, stuck behind the helm controls"
Uhura sings "I'm just a space operator"
Chekov sings "Everything was inwented in Russia"
Chapel sings "The lovin' a stoic guy blues"

In a big finale, all sing "The warp drive shuffle" while doing Riverdance.

Then, it's figured out that the effects of the radiation can be neutralized with fondue and Tang, and the crew agree never to speak of it again. Kirk's log is strangely silent on the matter.

Next episode: Smuggler's Blues
 
"Smuggler's Blues": The unallied Human colony of Rhantem lies just beyond the Klingon border 3 years after new lines were drawn in the region. An outbreak of Stappul's disease is affecting the children of the colony, but under the treaty, no Federation ships may enter. Kirk, McCoy, and Scott are forced to work with Stadia Marais, an independent trader with her own ship, to transport the medication over the border, despite misgivings she might betray them if in a bind.

Next episode: "Fair Is Foul"
 
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