Month: October 2021

Synopsis: Mr. Spock’s first command is a mission on the shuttlecraft, Galileo, sent out to investigate Murasaki 312, a quasar, that becomes marooned on planet Taurus II. “The Galileo Seven” illustrates what happens when we rely solely on our rational mind to get us out of an Underworld situation. When the Galileo is affected by… Continue reading Star Trek: The Original Series Season 1, Episode 16: “The Galileo Seven”

Synopsis: The Enterprise crew, in need of rest and relaxation, comes across a planet where any fantasy can become a reality. This episode illustrates what happens when our unconscious fantasy world is repressed for too long. While orbiting an uninhabited planet in the Omicron Delta region of space, Mr. Spock speaks to Captain James T.… Continue reading Star Trek: The Original Series Season 1, Episode 15: “Shore Leave”

Synopsis: The Enterprise comes across a Romulan vessel at the Neutral Zone. In this episode, after over one hundred years of truce two opposing races finally see and confront each other. This meeting can be interpreted as an illustration of Jung’s concept of the union of opposites, and the consequences of this coming together not… Continue reading Star Trek: The Original Series Season 1, Episode 14: “Balance of Terror”

Synopsis: The Enterprise transports an acting troop to the Benecia Colony that may include an actor who was once “Kodos the Executioner.” There are a couple topics regarding this episode that I want to briefly touch on. First, there is the title “The Conscience of the King.” The way I remember how to spell “conscience,”… Continue reading Star Trek: The Original Series Season 1, Episode 13: “The Conscience of the King”

Synopsis: Mr.-Spock is court martialed for taking over the Enterprise in order to take his former commander, Captain Pike, to the forbidden planet of Talos IV. I will discuss both these episodes together because their story is too interwoven to be separated, along with the original pilot for Star Trek, “The Menagerie,” which in a… Continue reading Star Trek: The Original Series Season 1, Episodes 11 & 12: “The Menagerie, Parts 1 & 2”

Synopsis: While engaged in star mapping the Enterprise encounters an alien object. I have been anxious to re-watch “The Corbomite Maneuver” since reading one of Leonard Nimoy’s autobiographies, I Am Spock, in which he writes about being taken aside by the director of this episode, Joseph Sargent, and being given a perspective as to how… Continue reading Star Trek: The Original Series Season 1, Episode 10: “The Corbomite Maneuver”

Synopsis: The Enterprise investigates the procedures of the Tantalus Penal Colony. In my recent post about the episode “Where No Man Has Gone Before,” I wrote about the difference between what Carl (C. G.) Jung would consider a psychological narrative and a visionary one (1950/1978). For the most part, because of the plot of this… Continue reading Star Trek: The Original Series Season 1, Episode 9: “Dagger of the Mind”

Synopsis: On a planet that is a duplicate of Earth, a landing party finds a virus and immensely old children. Re-watching this episode in January 2022 it is difficult to see it through any eyes other than those of someone trying to survive in the midst of our own global pandemic. But on this duplicate… Continue reading Star Trek: The Original Series Season 1, Episode 8: “Miri”

Synopsis: On planet Exo III, Captain Kirk and Nurse Chapel visit her former fiancé, Dr. Roger Korby. When Captain James T. Kirk and Nurse Christine Chapel come across Dr. Roger Korby, he is living in underground tunnels, ruins left by the former inhabitants of the planet Exo III. The “old ones” also left technology to… Continue reading Star Trek: The Original Series Season 1, Episode 7: “What Are Little Girls Made Of?”

Synopsis: The Enterprise rescues Harry Mudd and three unusual women. What can you say about Harcourt Fenton Mudd, who masquerades as Captain Leo Francis Walsh, transports women aboard an unregistered transport vessel, and in the process drains the Enterprise of almost all her power? So much attention of the male gaze in this episode is… Continue reading Star Trek: The Original Series Season 1, Episode 6: “Mudd’s Women”