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Daughters of Medea- On a derelict spacecraft the Enterprise finds a woman near death. They rescue her and bring her back to health. She is quite beautiful and Kirk of course falls for her. Though she is very cagey about where she is from and how she got on the ship.

This is answered when a ship appears and they demand the woman's return. She is guilty of regicide and has killed the leader of their world. Kirk finds this hard to believe and offers the woman sanctuary. Spock and McCoy warn him against this as it could spark and interstellar incident.

A landing party beams down to the planet to discuss and negotiate the matter. While there Spock and Uhura investigate their culture. They discover that in this society women are powerless and have no legal status. The woman they found is a member of a secret group of female assassins who mete out justice. Her victim, the King, was the most prominent person to fall under their blades.

Now Kirk is in a quandary. He disagrees with this culture but is obliged to follow their laws and turn the woman over to them.

Next Episode: "In the Palm of My Hand"
 
"In the Palm of My Hand"
Harry Mudd has managed to buy up the rights to a planet that was listed as uninhabited. As it turns out there is an existing population there that Mudd conveniently forgot to detail in his rights/purchase request.

The Enterprise is sent out to untangle this mess and find out that, at least on the surface, everything is actually going swimmingly well. Mudd is respecting the local people's right to self govern. He's drawing up plans for tourism and commerce with 'Mudd's Planet' as a trading hub and layover for crewed ships in sector. There's just one problem. One of the locals wants to assassinate Mudd and take those plans in a far more militant direction, including threatening to ally with the Romulans. Can Kirk save Mudd from the one plan of his that went perhaps a little too right?

Edit: What can I say? I like Harry Mudd episodes. They're a fun excuse for comedy usually and i like the idea of comedy masking a serious bend.

Next Episode: "The morning comes to consciousness"
Reff: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44214/preludes-56d22338dc954
 
"The morning comes to consciousness": The crew attends a ceremony on Bremokan II to celebrate the beginning of the new day, it being a planet whose orbit means days last for hundreds of years, at the ceremonial hall. Everyone is shocked when the statues/idols in the hall come to life. They are people whose unique physiology freezes them all "night" long, and in the intervening time, while originally served and revered, they became regarded as little more than objects, of ridicule or ignoring. One of these people, Cassear, does not wish to be called a god - he just wants to be a man, but everyone insists on either worshipping him anyway. He decides to leave the planet on Enterprise, but the people pursue the ship, wanting their "god" back. In addition, he begins to suffer physical effects of leaving his planet, and may have to go back to save his life.

Next episode: "Here Be Bylgors" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Here_be_dragons)
 
"Here Be Bylgors"- On a patrol beyond know space, the Enterprise encounters a warning buoy broadcasting a message to go no further. Long range sensors show nothing ahead for light years. No planets, no ships and oddly no stars. It's like the entire sector has been wiped clean.

In the briefing room they discuss possibilities. Doomsday machine? Space Amoeba? Spock dismisses those as the scans do not match those phenomena. One clue is the word “Bylgor”, but Uhura can’t find a match for it in the Linguistics Database.

As they venture through the "empty zone" sensors pick up a star system. They also pick up a large object systematically destroying it! The object is the size of the Moon! They watch as the planet the "moon" is orbiting it reduced to rubble and fed into the ship to be processed.

Spock scans the system and lets the Captain know that their are no life signs in the system. Kirk is grateful for that, but then the red alert alarm goes off. The ship has been caught in the ship's tractor beams and is being drawn into it's maw.

They try firing phasers and full reverse on the engine. But nothing can break the beams hold. Kirk orders Uhura to contact the moonship. She tries but too no avail. They are drawn closer and closer. Uhura in desperation transmits on all know lingua codes hoping for a match. At the last minute a familiar voice sounds over the bridge

"Why are you in this area? Did you not heed the warning buoy?"

An image forms on the screen that of the fearful visage belonging to Balok's puppet

Kirk is stunned

"Balok from the First Federation?"

"You are partially correct, I do represent the First Federation, but my name is Blygor. "

The image changes to that a diminutive alien with a wide smile. He explains that this sector is to be the new home of the First Federation. Kirk and his crew are confused. Blygor's ship has destroyed all the planets, how can his people live there.

Blygor explains, the First Federation is contained on their massive ships. Every planet, star and inhabitant reduced to energy patterns and held in stasis. They have searched centuries for the right sector to revive their culture. The planets of this sector are now fuel to operate the devices that will restore the First Federation down to the last grain of sand.

Kirk watches as a fleet of ships similar to Balok's enter the system to be fueled up to start the process. Among them are Balok's who sends greetings from Lt. Bailey and himself.

Next Episode "Fear the Night"
 
"Fear the Night": While making a geological survey of Inimius III, Uhura, Kirk, Spock, and Chekov are taken to a hidden underground city ruled by a monarch that no free inhabitant within its walls has ever seen, yet they fear him with much dread because those who do go into his palace never leave, taken by night for some infraction or other, by the mysterious shadow guards, ghostly wraith-like creatures who terrify the people. These guards are none other than their own people, transformed by a strange device into violent creatures that are far from humanoid. Can Kirk save his crew from the monarch's clutches before they become unrecognizable?

Next episode: "The Harpy's Veil"
 
"The Harpy's Veil"- On a routine patrol of the Romulan Neutral Zone, the Enterprise runs afoul of a privateer using a Romulan Bird of Prey, complete with cloaking device. The ship is wreaking havoc on both sides of the border. To track down the privateer Kirk is forced to co-operate with Tal, from the Enterprise Incident, now a Commander. To make matters worse, Tal reveals that the privateer Captain is none other than his old Commander. Disgraced by her failure in the Enterprise Incident, she stole a ship and has taken to the "high seas". Even pooling their resources, Kirk and Tal have a hard time tracking the elusive rogue Romulan who knows the Neutral Zone like the back of her hand.

Using experimental technology, the privateer can punch through shields and board any ship in range taking what they want and then beam away to "The Harpy's Veil" and then vanish under cloak. The Enterprise is targeted and the privateers kidnap Spock. Their Captain has a score to settle with him.

Can Kirk rescue Spock?

Can Scotty block the "boarding beam"?

What will the Privateer do to Spock?

Next Episode- "Tomes"
 
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"Tomes" - Enterprise is delivering hard copies of multiple Starfleet ship's/station's logs (including their own) to Salome, a private planet that is archiving literature and Starfleet records for posterity and public access (so those things that the public is allowed to know). Among the experiences they offer people are the ability to enter a book/record, as written (via a headset) and live the experience of a bystander or the author/narrator. Needless to say, not everyone has written something as it happened. So some of the crew go on shore leave into the worlds of these stories. Kirk gets to experience a (heretofore not the subject of an episode) incident, but as McCoy (he still looks like Kirk, but everyone calls him that, except other real crew similarly in his scenario), and the story is told from the biased POV of someone (not how it actually happened) Meanwhile, others are stuck in a revisionist history of some war or other. When the library suffers a power failure, Kirk and the others are trapped in their stories. Meanwhile, Scotty and Spock must fix the library's systems or they will never come back to consciousness.

(So kind of like "All Our Yesterdays" without actual time travel and no enigmatic mystery man, I guess)

Next episode: "Let Them Eat Cake" (but the episode need not be about Marie Antoinette/her alien counterpart)
 
Let Them Eat Cake

This is a light-hearted episode, where no matter what the crew orders for their meals, all they get is cake in various forms. In the end, the cause of the problem is traced to a space anomaly, and when the ship retraces its course in reverse through the anomaly, everything returns to normal.

There isn't much story in this, but perhaps enough for a TAS episode.

Next episode: I'm a Doctor, not a....
 
"I'm a Doctor, not a....": Enterprise go on a covert mission to provide medical aid to an embedded Federation agent whose long-term cover is a Rasebian politician, whose job it is to guide Raseb away from the Klingons and into Federation alliances. McCoy plays the role of her estranged brother, and he finds himself in the middle of diplomatic intrigue as Klingons try to assassinate the agent, and Rasebians try to convince McCoy to use his influence. Top that off with Kirk and Spock, playing the roles of McCoy's strong silent bodyguard and his medical assistant, respectively. Can they help the agent fulfill her mission, heal her wounds, and stay alive?

Next episode: "The Meandering Moon"
 
The Meandering Moon

Around an unusual world, a wormhole that opens every 500 years releases a moon, with inhabitants who wish to join the Federation. The problem? The wormhole will reclaim their home in less than 24 hours. Kirk & his crew will have to expedite proceedings, to add these new friends, before they're lost to this strange temporal anomaly for another half millennium.

Next episode
Karpathians' Lot
 
Karpathians' Lot

While on patrol near the Karpathian Nebula, the Enterprise gets a distress call from the survey team on Demeter V. The call comes from a Dr. T'Oll, a Vulcan. Kirk and McCoy are somewhat dismissive, as the call is in the usual flat and emotionless Vulcan manner. Spock assures them that T'Oll is very much in distress and the Enterprise should proceed to Demeter V immediately.

Arriving at Demeter V, they beam down and discover the survey team is perfectly fine. Even T'Oll, who retracts his previous claim that the team was acting oddly. This of course raises Kirk's suspicions rather than assuaging them. Unique atmospheric conditions prevent the landing party from beaming and they are invited to stay the night.

They spend the time looking at the catacombs the survey is examining. They are elaborate structures with loculi carved in the walls accompanied by writing in an unknow alphabet. Spock surmises that this civilization was quite advanced, but is curious as to why no corpses have been found. T'Oll suggests that animals might have carried them away.

The Enterprise party is then invited to a feast given by the survey team. The center of the feast is native animal, expertly prepared. McCoy warns that the meat is high in sodium and nearly toxic. Spock is shocked to see T'Oll consuming the meat. Something is not right here. They begin to realize the entire survey team has been replaced by Salt Vampires!

There is the usual kerfuffle and the survey team is discovered alive. The Salt Vampires are native to this world and the feast animal is part of their normal diet. The Vampires hibernate for a part of their solar year and the survey team disturbed them. The team was replaced after T'Oll's warning, in hope that the Enterprise would see everything was normal and move on. The Vampires really just want to be left alone.

Next Episode: A Study in Scarlet
 
We interrupt this game to bring you an idea I just had for an episode title that has already been answered:

The Meandering Moon:

The Enterprise is ordered to find out what ever happened to Earth's moon that was blasted out of Earth's orbit after an atomic explosion in 1999 as well as to the crew of Moonbase Alpha. (The moon we see orbiting Earth after that is an artificial construction made to look and act exactly as Earth's natural moon did.) The task is made harder by the fact that shortly after leaving Earth's orbit, the moon travelled through a black hole and could now literally be anywhere.

And now, back to our regularly scheduled game...
 
Interesting 60s era prediction. Eugenics Wars, no doubt?

"A Study in Scarlet" - Enterprise winds up on yet another Earth parallel world, full of alien Southern belles and hospitality - all the glamorous exterior trappings of Civil War southern US - to investigate. McCoy puts on his cultural advisor hat, then he and Spock becomes Watson and Holmes when a member of the vanished, found to be enslaved Vulcan crew of the USS Providence is murdered. To do so, McCoy may have to romance Auralie, a beautiful belle, while Spock joins the other Vulcans.

Next episode: "The Freak Show"
 
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THE FREAK SHOW

Kirk, McCoy, Scott and the just-hired Admiral Nogura (James Shigeta) gather together to secretly discuss Starfleet's dirty secret: 3 percent of all transporters are experiencing malfunctions. Nobody has died, but there have been survivable arm-mergings between previous Enterprise crew members Angela Martine and Lt. Stiles, Riley with Yeoman Landon, and inevitably Spock and Chapel. She always said she'd give up her right arm if he loved her, but it's still not altogether likely. Since this is a quite serious episode, Uhura tastes Sulu's salad in the B-plot.

Next episode: BRING ME THE HEAD OF MONTGOMERY SCOTT
 
Bring Me The Head of Montgomery Scott"- On a return visit to Sigma Iotia II, Scotty finds himself much in demand. The Iotians are now mimicking Starfleet and the "Miracle Worker" is legendary thanks to Jojo Krako (Vic Tayback) singing Scott's praises.

The gangs have now rebranded themselves as Departments: Red, Blue and Gold and are fighting over who will get Scotty. The Reds have figured out transporter technology and beam Scotty down to the planet. What follows is an elaborate game of keep-a-way as Scotty is passed from faction to faction while Kirk tries to find him and prevent "inter-departmental" war.

Next Episode- "Go Fish"
 
"Go Fish" - Enterprise responds to a distress call and finds themselves snared in a giant energy net. When they trace the energy signatures to a field generator on a nearby planet, they find a civilization on a wasteland planet that is hoping to escape their current circumstances by snagging a ship to leave. Unfortunately, there are some hungry inhabitants who have other plans to turn the crew of Enterprise into supper...and they may not be able to leave alive.

Next episode: "Decoy"
 
"Decoy"

The Enterprise crew has found a Klingon ship in federation space being surrounded by Tholians that are weaving an energy net around it to prevent its escape. Not all is as it seems, and the Enterprise's crew must find out what is really going on if they are to prevent a potential war with either the Klingons or Tholians.

Next Episode: From an Antique Land
Reff: Ozymandias
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"From an Antique Land" - The Enterprise answers a distress call from the Maid Marian, a four-man cargo ship for hire, in the Geruis system. When they arrive, they find they and the cargo ship are unable to move. Surrounding them are ships of a bygone era, their crews long dead, trapped by the Shape, a mysterious undulating force field that speaks, telling the ships they can only leave if they correctly solve a riddle. They each have three guesses - if they fail to guess the right answer, they and their ships will be trapped here forever. For each incorrect guess, a penalty will be levied - possibly in blood. Compounding matters is the suspicion that the Shape has taken human form and replaced one of the Marian's crew (but which one?), putting Enterprise crew in peril as they work to help repair the ship, damaged by its contact with the field.

Next episode: "The Bishop"
 
“The Bishop” - Kirk, Kor and their respective crews are stuck playing an anthropomorphized alien chess game; Kirk as king, Uhura as queen, Spock and Scotty as rooks, Sulu and Chekov as knights, McCoy and Chapel as bishops, and a series of redshirts as pawns. Opposite of Kor as king, his wife Kali as queen and members of his crew filling out the board. As Kirk’s team is dependent on McCoy and Chapel placing Kor in check to end the game, the rest of the crew keep an eye out for one of the bishops on Kor’s team – a fugitive who got both crews in this mess to begin with by activating an ancient board game in a bid to escape Klingon custody.

Next episode: “Fourth Watch”
 
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“The Bishop” - Kirk, Kor and their respective crews are stuck playing an anthropomorphized alien chess game; Kirk as king, Uhura as queen, Spock and Scotty as rooks, Sulu and Chekov as knights, McCoy and Chapel as bishops, and a series of redshirts as pawns. Opposite of Kor as king, his wife Kali as queen and members of his crew filling out the board. As Kirk’s team is dependent on McCoy and Chapel placing Kor in check to end the game, the rest of the crew keep an eye out for one of the bishops on Kor’s team – a fugitive who got both crews in this mess to begin with by activating an ancient board game in a bid to escape Klingon custody.

Next episode: “Fourth Watch”
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Sounds more like something the TNG staff would come up with.
 
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