Chekhov (OK, Walter Koenig) writes an episode. It's a little clumsy, to be honest. There's a lot of flat out exposition, and some quite silly 'peril' scenes. There…
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OK, so the Enterprise runs into a lost celebrity, and his fiance just happens to be on board? Suspension of disbelief tested. A shape changer who changes into…
Another great episode. It would have been easy to do an exact rehash of the previous tribble episode, but the story here is probably actually a little better…
Here's a handy rule of thumb. If you're ever writing an episode of Star Trek and you find the need to use the phrase 'I am the Head…
A very 'Star Trek' episode - find a strange new threat to a planet, talk it out of eating everyone. Generally I found this episode a bit flat,…
After the previous episode this was a positive shock. Wow. A great setup, and some very interesting backstory on Spock. A lot of which got picked up in…
I'm just going to do one paragraph reviews of these animated series shows, which are (after all) just 22 minutes long each, including credits. If you close your…
Overall there's probably more good than bad in the third season of Star Trek, but only just. I think that there were five or so good episodes, another…
So it would appear that the 23rd century Star Fleet is trapped in the 1960s when it comes to gender equity. Personally, I find that a bigger leap…
Right in the dying moments of The Original Series, another pretty strong episode. There are some silly bits - the musketeers who arrest Kirk, for instance. But for…