Spock gets a family, and unlike Kirk's relatives last season these ones get to live. While the episode was a lot of fun, I had some problems with…
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Another episode with an important later tie-in, with Zefram Cochrane making his first appearance. He'll be back in the movie First Contact. He must have aged in a…
So, what was the first protagonist to recur on Star Trek? The Romulans? No. The Kinglons? No. The Mirror Universe? No. Nope, none of those, or any other…
I was not previously aware that Star Trek had done a Halloween episode. All things considered, I think I preferred it when I didn't know. I couldn't shake…
Star Trek so far hasn't been quite as 'preachy' in its messages as later shows. This, however, was a bit of an exception. The 'nuclear weapons are bad'…
One thing they never really show in Star Trek is the sexual harassment contact officer. It must be a full time position on Kirk's enterprise, with Mr Chekhov…
A Star Trek episode so iconic that it has entered into common usage. Everyone knows that your evil universe counterpart [has a beard](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BeardOfEvil). Again, the episode gives Kirk…
Ah, the good old 'talk the all powerful computer into a logical inconsistency' ploy. Pretty sure we have Isaac Asimov to blame for that one. If I remember…
My first question after watching this episode was 'who on Earth is Adonais'? It's a strange episode title, easily the strangest so far. As an episode, it's not…
Season 2 is off to a very good start. It's not hard to imagine that the genesis of this episode was the contract negotiations with Leonard Nimoy demanding…