Star Trek TOS: Episode 62 - DAY OF THE DOVE

Excellent episode. Finally the Klingons are starting to look like those brutes that we all love. Except for the female, she just looks like a white lady in racist black face … which I find arousing. Commander Kang is awesome and is a classic Star Trek character.

There is this weird energy cloud that gets off on causing violence. The thing forces the Klingons and the humans to fight, hand to hand with swords. In reality the Enterprise crew would be slaughtered because the Klingons actually train in this kind of combat … I doubt they are sword fighting at Starfleet Academy. But, nobody dies. Kirk figures out what’s really going on and he convinces the female Klingon that the energy cloud is the cause. In the end the humans and Klingon’s band together to laugh at the energy cloud until it leaves the ship.

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Star Trek TOS: Episode 61 - SPECTRE OF THE GUN

The episode starts off innocent enough. The Enterprise is intercepted by the Melkotians and they sentence the crew to death. They are then transported to a strange planet. Then suddenly …. Boom … cowboy planet. Kirk, McCoy, Spock, Scotty and Chekov must interact with the likes of Doc Holliday and The Earps in this half built replica of Tombstone. It’s not that bad of an episode, it’s just that the plot is stupid and pointless. Why would the death penalty be to fight Wyatt Earp … I mean seriously, why??? They survive because Kirk forces the crew to spare the Earps lives, the Melkotians are impressed. Why do I feel that I’ve seen this plot at least 10 times. Of all of the things that these aliens could have done, they recreate the Old West on Earth. I wonder if this had to do with them already having the pieces for the set???

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Star Trek TOS: Episode 60 - IS THERE NO TRUTH AND BEAUTY?

“The Enterprise travels with an alien ambassador who must travel inside a special black case because his appearance causes insanity”

The weirdest episode ever. There’s an alien in a box, it’s so ugly that it will drive you mad. No, I’m not talking about Sonia Sotomayor, I’m talking about … well, I don’t really know because they don’t show it. Anyway, the box has a guardian, she can look at the thing without losing her shit … because she is blind. There’s another dude on the ship and he loves the blind broad. I think he’s jealous of the box … not hers but the one that the alien is in. He tries to kill the thing, but ends up going mad and taking over the ship. 

Spock melds with the box … not hers but the one that the alien is in. He saves the ship but goes crazy and Kirk shoots him. Then the blind lady melds with him … oh yeah she’s also psychic … and Spock is saved. Everybody wears these funky goggles and the camera perspective is just odd … ever see the SNL sketch The Continental with Christopher Walken? Like that. Oh and by the way, there IS no truth in beauty.

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Star Trek TOS: Episode 59 - AND THE CHILDREN SHALL LEAD

"The crew of the Enterprise rescues a group of children stranded on a planet, along with their evil "imaginary" friend."

For the most part this episode sucks, but the concept is decent enough. It's sort of a ghost story, but in space or something. Um, yeah. It rehashes the same "killer kids" plot from Miri. In this one the children are under the control of an "evil spirit" named Gorgon. He tells them to do bad things. The children summon him by saying the following "Hail, hail, fire and snow, call the angel, we will go, far away, for to see, friendly angel come to me." Those are the best 80's metal lyrics ever. ...anyway, terrible episode. Interesting note on these kids, the Asian kid is Takashi from Revenge of the Nerds, the girl was the voice of Lucy in the Peanuts cartoons and the dude on the left went on to create the musical scores for some of the Star Trek movies.


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Star Trek TOS: Episode 58 - THE PARADISE SYNDROME

"A mysterious alien device on a planet with a predominantly American Indian culture erases Captain Kirk's memory, and he begins a life with them as a member of their tribe"

This episode is so ludicrous and racist ... i friggin love it. ARE YOU READY TO KIROK!  So there's an asteroid that's going to destroy this planet. Kirk, Spock and McCoy beam down to examine. They see that it looks like North American pine forest and they see actual Native Americans (by this I mean white actors playing Native Americans in a very discriminatory way). There is an idea out there that aliens did abduct Native Americans, most notably the Anasazi.

The crew find a huge obelisk, suddenly Kirk falls into it and is zapped. He then gets amnesia and thinks he is an Indian. Just like Lou Diamond Phillips. The Natives see "Kirok" as their savior and choose him to stop the asteroid.  Kirk also takes this smoking hot woman as his wife. The scene that always makes me laugh is when Kirok is trying to open the obelisk but can't, at this point the Indians realize that he is a sham and begin to stone both him and his "wife". It's crazy! In fact the woman ends up dying of internal injuries!! This is how the episode ends, she dies in Kirks arms as the credit role.
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Star Trek TOS: Episode 57 - THE ENTERPRISE INCIDENT

"The crew of the Enterprise attempts to steal a Romulan cloaking device."

A decent episode for Season 3. The Romulans are usually interesting to watch and the stealing of the cloaking device is pretty cool. It starts off with Kirk ordering the Enterprise into Romulan space, they are soon surrounded and taken captive.Spock tells the Romulan Commander that it was all Kirks idea. She (the Commander, who is rather sexy I must say) has a thing for Spock. There is a very long and stupid sensual scene between this woman and Spock. It's just way too long and pointless. One thing leads to another and they steal the cloaking device and also the Commander. The Romulans give chase but Scotty imploys the newly discovered cloaking device on the Enterprise.They then procede to bring the device and the commander to a starbase. Weird that they captured her because she actually hasn't done anything wrong. It seems odd that Starfleet would order Kirk to go on a suicide mission with an entire Starship full of crew members.

Well, now that Mugato is back to work, after being unemployed forever, he has less time to watch Star Trek. This is very sad. But I will try to watch at least three per week and update Sunday, Wednesday and Friday.
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Star Trek TOS: Episode 56 - SPOCK'S BRAIN

The first episode of season three and I think we can all agree that this episode is shit. A an all female alien group steals Spock's brain and use it to run their home base. The woman on this planet live underground and are highly advanced and the men live on the surface and are stuck in the ice age. I think. This has nothing to even do with the plot really.

The plot holes in this episode are too numerous to count and it's  just flat out embarrassing to watch. How did this woman remove Spock's brain in a matter of minutes, also Spock lives. Bones then turns Spock into a robot. Kirk goes down to the planet to retrieve Spock's brain, they meet these sort of hot alien girls. They have Spock's brain running the underground lair and somehow it can talk. Kirk gets the brain and then in a rediculous scene, Bones reattaches the brain ... with Spock's help vocally. That's it, I'm done talking about it.

The network seriously cut the budget for Star Trek in season and the show really suffered. This is the type of episodes that had been produced, they just didn't have the money to be as creative as they wanted to. A funny thing is that Spock's Brain is written by Lee Cronin ... who is actually Gene L Coon using a fake name.

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