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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”

Synopsis: A transporter malfunction results in the creation of a duplicate, opposite Captain Kirk. This was the episode that first made me realize that Star Trek could be interpreted through a depth psychological perspective, and a telling of its message was a part of my solo show, Soul Trek: My Sci-Fi Journey Toward Wholeness, which… Continue reading Season 1, Episode 5: “The Enemy Within”

Synopsis: A crewmember investigating the condition of a science party on Planet Psi-2000 becomes contaminated with an unknown disease and brings it aboard the Enterprise. It was eerie re-watching “The Naked Time” yesterday, in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic. The parallel to the pandemic is seen when Crewman Tormolen beams down to Planet Psi-2000… Continue reading Star Trek: The Original Series Season 1, Episode 4: “The Naked Time”

Synopsis: On the edge of our galaxy an unknown entity gives two members of the crew of the Enterprise powerful ESP abilities. This episode had been intended by Gene Roddenberry to be the second pilot of Star Trek: The Original Series, created after the first pilot was deemed unacceptable – however, the earlier attempt was… Continue reading Star Trek: The Original Series Season 1, Episode 3: “Where No Man has Gone Before”

Synopsis: The Enterprise is given the assignment to provide transport to a youth with amazing powers. In my most recent re-viewing of “Charlie X,” in the early scene when Charles Evans, the youth who has been stranded for fourteen years alone on a planet, asks Yeoman Janice Rand: “Uh, are you a girl?”, it brought… Continue reading Star Trek: The Original Series Season 1, Episode 2: “Charlie X”

Synopsis: On a routine medical mission on Planet M-113, the U.S.S. Enterprise encounters a creature that can take any form and needs salt and love to survive. The first episode of Star Trek: The Original Series, “The Man Trap,” premiered on Thursday, September 8, 1966. It introduced viewing audiences to two aliens that night. One,… Continue reading Star Trek: The Original Series Season 1, Episode 1: “The Man Trap”