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Game TOS Episode Pitch Game

"Rhapsody in Blue" - Sickbay sees an influx of sciences staff reporting trouble sleeping, disturbing dreams, etc. Christine mentions it to McCoy, but he suggests it may have something to do with crew evaluations coming up, staff turnover, heavy workloads, etc - just the usual stuff, but he says he'll make a note of it and recommend shift changes, leave for the staff, that sort of thing. She's satisfied until some of the women begin reporting similar images in their dreams - a strange voice and presence speaking to them. Concerned, she runs a detailed analysis on their life signs, biochem readings, etc, on her own time, and finds certain similarities between them. Things become even more crazy when one of the women who are in sickbay for a rest suffers a breakdown and dies. Everyone else is now convinced that something's up, but don't know where to begin looking. Christine decides to recreate the similarities between the women in herself, in the hopes that whatever is affecting them will find her. She becomes locked in a dreamscape, communicating with the being who is searching the sciences crew for a compatible mind-mate. Can Spock and McCoy bring her out of it, before she becomes joined with the being to save the crew further trouble?

Next episode: "Of Mars and Men"
 
"Of Mars and Men"- The Enterprise has been called to a colony on a world near the Klingon border. The struggling agricultural colony is being harassed by Klingons who have also set up a colony there. The situation is getting volatile and there are rumblings of war.
The colonists have accused the Klingons of destroying their equipment and crops. The Klingons accuse of human colonists the same. Making matters worse, a Klingon battle cruiser is also in orbit.
Kirk must reluctantly team with Klingon Commander Kor to uncover what is happening on the planet. Is it the colonists or some unseen third party who could take advantage of the resumption Federation-Klingon hostilities?
Next Episode- "Ghost In The Machine"
 
"Ghost In The Machine" On a supply mission to an earth colony, the Enterprise finds the planet deserted them all dead. The crew tries to find out what happened to the colonists in the process Kirk is killed by the colonists computers security system. Kirk soon awakes in a digital world with the colonists. He learns that a plague was killing them so in a last ditch effort to save themselves they stored their minds in the computer. Believing now that the computer has gone rogue Spock orders the system to be destroyed. Kirk must find a way to stop and communicate with Spock in order to save himself and the colonists.

Next Episode: "Mercury Rising"
 
"Mercury Rising" - McCoy is put in the uncomfortable role of mediator when half the crew of a medical ship becomes convinced that an epidemic of Gedlidite fever aboard their craft was deliberately inflicted upon them by a visiting Gedlidian medical exchange team. As fevers and tempers soar, he falls under suspicion when they fail to catch the illness. Kirk must then stop them from throwing McCoy and the visitors into the core of their ship to save those who haven't succumbed yet - the fever causes paranoia and rage, too.

(Okay, similar to "Albatross", but they did get similar pitches to each other coincidentally then.)

Next episode: "Blind Man's Bluff"
 
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Blind Man's Bluff

During a contentious encounter over claim to a mineral rich nebula, A Klingon ship, A Romulan ship & The Enterprise become ensnared in it like a trap, wherein all their systems begin degrading from its effect, making sensors useless, meaning none of them can no where one another are. Will their fear cause them to attack at first sight, or will they survive only through helping one another?

Next Episode: The Reel McCoy
 
The Reel McCoy - A Federation journalist is filming a special report on frontier medicine, featuring McCoy's sickbay. While interviewing the crew, she seems eager and optimistic initially, but her relationship with McCoy sours when it becomes clear she's determined to criticize his style of practicing medicine. Enterprise responds to a damaged alien craft's distress call, and her arguments with McCoy are misunderstood by the aliens, who hold crew members hostage when it appears (falsely) that a supposedly bigoted McCoy/Starfleet is withholding care from them. Spock may be the only one who can convince them otherwise, even if it means pretending to take their side.

Next episode: "Business on Dreborion"
 
Business on Dreborion

Kirk & crew find themselves embroiled in a situation on a world where nations ruled by corporations have been the driving force behind ongoing hostilities between factions, where some simple lines of paywall protected computer code, that are virtually child's play for The Enterprise, could make the difference for millions of oppressed people, losing their lives in combat, who lack the resources to pay for it.

Next Episode: The Tribble Tribunal
 
"The Tribble Tribunal" - While taking part in a landing party on a new planet, Spock and Scott are arrested and taken to the Klingon Homeworld to stand trial for crimes against the Klingon Empire. To wit, releasing a plague of tribbles on a Klingon ship that has spread across the Empire.

Next Episode - "Best Interests"
 
"Best Interests" - The Enterprise's shuttle crash lands on Borphidos. Kirk and three others stagger away from the crash, carrying a badly injured McCoy. They are rescued by the Borphidee and taken to a compound, where McCoy's injuries are determined to be beyond their capacity for care, so they decide to euthanize him. Kirk must battle for his friend's life by convincing one of the planet's doctors to treat him using a life-restoring treatment that has been banned on their world due to its controversial use in the past to revive and kill torture victims many times.

Next episode: "The Inscrutable Cipher"
 
"The Inscrutable Cipher" - As Enterprise prepares for a routine warp, a previously unknown subspace phenomena overcharges warp coils, and in less than a minute Enterprise is well outside the galaxy, the entire Warp Drive system rendered unusable due to sustained damage. Switching to backup power, Enterprise has about few weeks before they will run out of resources to sustain themselves. While the crew decides what to do next, an incoming message is received, coming from an self-aware ship crying for help. However, understanding the exact contents proves to be much harder than anticipated, as not only the message itself, heavily garbled due to damage to self-aware ship's computer systems, but whatever legible parts of it still exist are heavily obfuscated by encryption system that eludes even the most advanced of Universal Translator algorithms. Worse still, Enterprise's systems themselves are going nuts upon attempting to approach the distressed ship, forcing them to back out lest they risk even worse, potentially fatal malfunctions. So the crew has no choice, but to try their best to decipher what the ship actually wants, and figure out the way to get them both (Enterprise and self-aware ship) out of this situation and back to their homes.

Next Episode: "Orion Arm"
 
"Orion Arm": Enterprise's landing party boards an Orion craft and finds its dead crew members have killed each other. The two who died last have their hands frozen in a death grip around a purple gemstone half the size of a man's head. Kirk brings it aboard and shows it to the crew, then hands it over to the science department. Spock studies it but is attacked and the stone disappears. The thief is then found dead - no stone. The second thief is cornered and is shot when he doesn't back down. Kirk keeps the stone on his own person while McCoy treats Spock. What is it about this stone that makes people thirst after it? Kirk must fight his own people off. When another Orion ship demands the stone back, Kirk wants to warn them that it's too dangerous, fearing that destroying the stone may have unforeseen consequences.

Next episode: "Letter of Marque" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_of_marque
 
Letter of Marque
Kirk and crew are pitted against an Orion pirate fleet working as a Romulan proxy in attacking earth colonies and federation outposts on the neurtal zone. Spock manages to convince the pirate admiral, a Female Orion who takes a liking to him that it will be more profitable to prey on the romulan side of the border.

Next episode: Five Years
 
"Five Years" - A ship suddenly appears and is headed towards Enterprise at warp speed. They brace for impact, only for the ship to pass right through them.Everyone blacks out. When they awaken, everything is normal, except the ship's computer is scrambled, and there are unexplained objects in various places. Investigation reveals that a large amount of data has overloaded the computers. Uhura and Scott work to unscramble the data, and find that much of it is personal logs and scans. Kirk and crew are dumbfounded when video shows that the ship which apparently crashed into them is in fact the Enterprise...or a ghost version of it. Spock becomes hysterical and keeps waking up, shouting incoherently, but Chapel and McCoy sedate him while they run tests. He may have the key to determining what happened to the crew of the Phantomprise (having absorbed the memories of Phantom Spock) and may be able to keep their five year mission from ending in tragedy.

By no means is this the end of the game, but I could see this as a possible series finale.

Next episode: "The Gallery"
 
The Gallery- Uhura has been framed for a murder and Kirk and Spock must prove her innocence. Spock believes that the true culprit will be in attendance at the trial. The episode takes place almost entirely inside the courtroom. They uncover that the murderer is an ex boyfriend of Uhura's and the scene devolves into a hostage situation.

Next Episode: Archangel
 
Archangel- The Enterprise finds an alien planet that worships "the archangel", a large computer-shaped thing that creates a paradise which suppresses their cultural development. The crew, well-experienced to things like this, decide to unplug the "archangel" to free the people of the planet. The twist is that this happens within the first ten minutes of the episode. It turns out the archangel was -among other things- an atmospheric regulator. Without it, a bunch of particles go in the atmosphere that block the transporter. The crew are trapped on the planet until a shuttle can get there, and see riots and death without the archangel. Eventually, they realize the archangel was built by an ancient civilization native to the planet as the culmination of their advancement, and what they thought saved the natives has driven them back to savage barbarism. Our heroes fix the archangel before they leave, learning a valuable moral lesson about making assumptions.

Next episode- "In Memory Of Tomorrow"
 
"In Memory Of Tomorrow" - The crew of the Enterprise visit the supposedly thriving Nerrifas IV, which is found to be a barren wasteland, after detecting a lone beacon. On the planet are two men, the only soldiers left alive after a brutal battle, others having been buried shortly thereafter and at various times over the years. One of them is dying from the aftereffects of his war wounds, and nothing can be done unless someone comes to help. Upon investigating, the crew learns that the battle they fought in has not happened yet - their future Nerrifas IV (400 years later) has swapped places with the past one, meaning the planet is green and heavily populated in the future instead of the past. Much ruminating about the cost of war ensues. When it seems the planets begin to switch back, the landing party may be caught with them, as the healthy soldier has sabotaged the shuttle - transporters don't work - and enacted the planet-wide shields - he doesn't want to go back alone. Can Kirk talk him down, and assure him that the future is full of hope and help, too?

Next episode: "A Pound of Cure"
 
A Pound of Cure

During an emergency starbase evacuation, the Enterprise has to hastily assign crew to aid in shutting down its sensitive & dangerous science experiment, over the objections of McCoy, who fears the repercussions to the exposed crew. As per his fears, the exposed crew become contaminated, and under time constraints, Bones has to administer treatment to more crew than his staff can get to.

Next Episode: Under A Pale Blue Sky
 
"Under A Pale Blue Sky" - The Enterprise visits Ulivea, a planet whose atmosphere blocks out the stars and that has no sun, illuminated instead by the planet itself, which emits a glow. When the landing party beams down into a meadow, they are thought to have sprung up from the ground, too, and are treated not as gods, but as gifts from the gods, to be kept, cherished, and pampered, lest the gods believe them ungrateful. When an Enterprise crew woman becomes injured in a terrible accident, the planet begins to experience a violent storm, stranding them there with no beamout possible. McCoy tries to help her as best he can without an operating room, while the people fret that their gods are angry and decide to confine the crew in a safe place so they can't come to more harm. Meanwhile, on the ship, a rescue party plans to fly a shuttle to their location to help them escape. Can Kirk convince these people that some gifts are not for keeps?

Next episode: "The Challenge of Serkanos"
 
Nightmare

Ambassador Sarek returns to the Enterprise to conduct a first contact with a telepathic race, but the exchange of minds causes Spock's father to fall into a coma, that is having catastrophic effects on the rest of the Enterprise crew, by disrupting their sleep with terrible dreams. With much of the crew struggling, Spock has to assume command of the mission, and take his father's place, in the now urgent but dangerous & precarious mind exchange, with the new aliens, refusing McCoys demands that only he might be able to save his father with a mind meld.

The elder Vulcan's life hangs in the balance because his son won't risk melding with him. Instead he manages to make contact with the aliens, protected by the fact that he is half human & therefore not as easily susceptible to their effect. He's successful in not only making content with them, but as well in enlisting them to render aid to Sarek, saving his father & the crew from their ugly fate.

Next Episode: The Morning Dove
 
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