Star Trek: The Original Series Tape Summary Star Trek
 The Original Series

TAPE CODE: A (STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES)
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Episode

103

Mudd's Women
Kirk encounters Harry Mudd, a convicted smuggler who is traveling through space with three stunning women.
103

The Enemy Within
A malfunction in the transporter unit causes Kirk to be transformed into two people: one meek, and the other violently animalistic.
104

The Man Trap
Kirk finds trouble when he stops on planet M-113 for the annual medical checkup of two archaeologists.                                          

104

The Naked Time
McCoy searches for an antidote to a strange disease that seems to be driving the crew members insane.                                          

105

Charlie X
Spock is suspicious of a space orphan who claims he was the only survivor of a spaceship crash---and managed on his own for 14 years.

105

Balance of Terror
Kirk must make a decision that could trigger a galactic war. An alien flagship is testing the earth's defenses, and Kirk's only alternative is a counterattack.

106

What Are Little Girls Made of?
Kirk finds the long-missing Dr. Corby still alive on a frigid planet, where Kirk becomes a guinea pig in the doctor's mad experiment to create a civilization of obedient androids.

107

Miri
The crew of the Enterprise battles a terrifying plague that prolongs life in children, but kills adults.                                          

107

The Conscience of the King
Kirk treads the fine line between justice and vengeance as he tries to prove that one of his passengers slaughtered 4000 people.

108

The Galileo Seven
After crash landing with six others aboard his shuttlecraft, Spock must figure a way to get his crew off a hostile planet.

108

Court-Martial
A computer offers damaging evidence against Kirk, who has been brought to trial for criminal negligence.

110

The Squire of Gothos
On an uncharted planet, Kirk and his crew become the playthings of an omnipotent being, who is fascinated by his human toys.

111

Arena
The fate of the Enterprise hinges on the outcome of a personal duel between Kirk and the lizard-like commander of an alien spaceship.

111

The Alternative Factor
Kirk's investigation of an energy force takes him to an uncharted planet, where he encounters a weird creature (Lazarus)

112

Tomorrow Is Yesterday
An accident sends the Enterprise back in time to the 1960s, and Kirk must erase all evidence of his ship's journey before returning to his own era.

112

The Return of the Archons
Kirk's search for survivors of a missing ship leads to a unique society where visitors are treated like infections---which must be absorbed or destroyed.

113

A Taste of Armageddon
The Enterprise is caught in a bizarre 500 year-old interplanetary war fought entirely by computers, but with real deaths.*

113

Space Seed
"Space Seed" concerns a race of superhumans frozen in space for 200 years. Ricardo Montalban plays Khan, his role in the movie "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan," which was based on this episode.

114

This Side of Paradise
Kirk seeks an antidote to paradise when his crew deserts the Enterprise for a planet where colonists enjoy an idyllic existence.

114

The Devil in the Dark
On a distant mining colony, the men of the Enterprise grapple with a creature capable of moving through solid rock.

115

Errand of Mercy
A peace-loving people give Kirk a lesson in warfare when they hesitate to interfere in a war between Kirk's Federation and invaders.

115

The City On the Edge of Forever
A time portal leads Kirk, Spock and Dr. McCoy to the New York City of the 1930s, where their actions could affect the course of history.

116

Operation: Annihilate!
On the planet Deneva, Kirk, Spock and McCoy battle an epidemic of parasitic creatures that drive their victims insane with pain.

116

Catspaw
Castles, dungeons, witches and black cats prevail as Kirk seeks a rational explanation of---and escape from---forces that lured him to an alien planet.

122

I, Mudd
Kirk and company fall prey to their old nemesis Harry Mudd, who is now both ruler and captive of an android civilization.

122

The Trouble With Tribbles
Kirk, assigned to protect a grain shipment, finds that he has trouble with "tribbles," balls of purring fluff that live on grain and are incredibly prolific.

123

Bread and Circuses
The Enterprise officers are forced into gladiator combat on a planet where a savage Roman Empire uses 20th-century technology.

124

A Private Little War
Kirk takes dangerous steps to restore the status quo on a primitive planet, where the Klingons are escalating the development of weapons.

124

The Gamesters of Triskelion
On an uncharted planet, Kirk, Uhura and Chekov are shackled in collars and trained for mortal combat to amuse their captors.

125

The Immunity Syndrome
The Enterprise becomes an antibody to penetrate an energy-draining invader that has annihilated an entire star system and is about to reproduce.

126

A Piece of the Action
An alien culture patterns itself after 1920s gangland Chicago.                                                                                    

126

By Any Other Name
Kirk tries to outwit colonizers from Andromeda who assume human form to seize the Enterprise for their 300-year journey back home.

127

Return To Tomorrow
An experimental transplant between formless creatures and three members of the Enterprise crew works well until the creature in Spock's body elects to keep its new form.

127

Patterns of Force
On the planet Ekos, Kirk tries to prevent history from repeating itself when a self-styled fuhrer begins leading his people down a bloody Nazi path.

128

The Ultimate Computer
"The Ultimate Computer" probes the problem of man vs. machine. The question is more than academic for Kirk, who has been temporarily replaced by a computer that can think---and will ensure its own survival at any cost.

128

The Omega Glory
On Omega IV, Kirk battles a starship captain who is using advanced weaponry to decide the outcome of the planet's civil war.

129

Spectre of the Gun
For violating Melkotian space, the crew is made to appear as the Clanton gang in Tombstone, Ariz., to be met---and killed---by the Earps and Doc Holliday at the OK Corral.

131

The Enterprise Incident
The Enterprise is captured by a Romulan ship, whose beautiful commander charges Kirk with espionage and sets about wooing Mr. Spock.

131

And the Children Shall Lead
Attorney Melvin Belli stars as Gorgan the Friendly Angel, the incarnation of pure evil who uses children to unleash the beast in human souls.

132

Spock's Brain
A bizarre search for Spock's brain ensues when a beautiful woman deftly removes the organ and vanishes.

132

Is There in Truth No Beauty
Jealousy is the catalyst when the Enterprise picks up two passengers: an alien whose ugliness drives humans mad, and his stunning woman companion.

134

For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky
The Enterprise encounters a spaceship ruled by an oracle, who prevents his people from knowing that their "world" is on a collision course with another planet.

134

The Day of the Dove
The Enterprise is invaded by an alien life form that transfers enemy Klingons to the starship---and arms the Klingons and the Enterprise crew with swords.

135

Plato's Stepchildren
A literal battle of wills ensues when the arrogant, sadistic inhabitants of Platonius order McCoy to remain on their planet, and Kirk refuses.

135

Wink of An Eye
Kirk battles invisible beings who are using his crewmen to continue their species. Problem: the process renders humans susceptible to cell damage, rapid aging---and death.

136

That Which Survives
An Enterprise landing party is stranded on a planet replete with inexplicable physical and biologicalphenomena and a sad-faced siren whose touch means instant death.

136

Let That Be Your Last Battlefield
Two aliens bring their age-old battle aboard the Enterprise.                                                                                   

137

Whom Gods Destroy
Kirk and Spock fall into the hands of Garth, the murderous leader of an inmate revolt at an intergalactic insane asylum.

137

The Mark of Gideon
Kirk mysteriously vanishes while beaming down to a planet. But from the captain's point of view, he's still on the Enterprise and the crew has disappeared.

138

The Lights of Zetar
The Enterprise is besieged by an unfamiliar life form: twinkling lights that attack various areas of the human brain.

138

The Cloudminders
On the planet Ardana, Kirk and Spock are drawn into a class struggle when they try to obtain zeenite, the only antidote to a botanical plague.

139

The Way To Eden
The Enterprise captures six spaceship-snatching rebels who are led by a long-robed fanatic determined to reach the mythical planet Eden.

139

Requiem For Methuselah
The crew intrudes on a paradise inhabited by two individuals: a man of extraordinary accomplishments; and his ward, superbly educated---but unacquainted with human emotions.

140

The Savage Curtain
On a planet of molten lava, Kirk and Spock battle four of history's most ruthless killers.                                          

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

* indicates that the description comes from "The Star Trek Encyclopedia: A Reference Guide To The Future"

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