Mike's Guide to Star Trek
Star Trek:
Episode Descriptions


The 

Original Star Trek

    Pilot
  1. The Cage

  2. Capt. Pike is taken prisoner on Talos IV and is forced by the Talosians to select a female to populate the planet.

    First Season
  1. The Man trap

  2. A shapeshifter is killing people by absorbing salt from their bodies.

  3. Charlie X

  4. A stranded teenager that has aquired amazing mental powers has trouble fitting in on the Enterprise.

  5. Where No Man Has Gone Before

  6. The Enterprise's First Officer is given superhuman powers.

  7. The Naked Time

  8. A condition causes the crew to uncontrollably reveal their innermost feelings.

  9. The Enemy Within

  10. A transporter malfunction splits Kirk into two individuals, one good and one evil.

  11. Mudd's Women

  12. A cargo ship carrying beautiful women is hoping to trade them to some lonely miners for lithium crystals.

  13. What Are Little Girls Made Of?

  14. An eminent biologist is using androids to replace people.

  15. Miri

  16. The children of an Earth-like planet are contracting a disease upon reaching a certain age.

  17. Dagger of the Mind

  18. A scientist's psyche is nearly shattered by his neural neutralizer.

  19. The Corbomite Maneuver

  20. The Enterprise encounters an alien ship after destroying a dangerous warning buoy.

  21. The Menagerie, Part I

  22. The Menagerie, Part II

  23. Spock kidnaps his former commanding officer and hijacks the Enterprise to go to the forbidden Talos IV.

  24. The Conscience of the King

  25. An actor in a touring Shakespeare company is believed to be Kodos the Executioner.

  26. Balance of Terror

  27. The Enterprise encounters the elusive Romulans, an offshoot of the Pre-logic Vulcans.

  28. Shore Leave

  29. The crew takes a vacation on a planet where all of their thoughts become reality.

  30. The Galileo Seven

  31. A shuttlecraft from the Enterprise crash-lands on a planet with hostile inhabitants.

  32. The Squire of Gothos

  33. Some of the crew is kidnapped by a being who turns everything into a game.

  34. Arena

  35. The Enterprise tracks down a ship that destroyed a Federation outpost.

  36. Tomorrow is Yesterday

  37. The Enterprise is accidentally thrown back in time to the late 1960's.

  38. Court-Martial

  39. Kirk is faced with evidence that he was responsible for the death of a crew member.

  40. The Return of the Archons

  41. Kirk must outwit a computer programmed to oversee a world's population.

  42. Space Seed

  43. The Enterprise encounters a sleeper ship carrying genetically engineered people.

  44. A Taste of Armageddon

  45. Two planetary neighbors are fighting by computer, and then killing the computed casualties.

  46. This Side of Paradise

  47. The crew is affected by spores causing them to become uncontrollably cheerful.

  48. The Devil in the Dark

  49. A creature is killing miners that are unknowingly destroying its eggs.

  50. Errand of Mercy

  51. The Enterprise and the Klingons must work together to fight the ultra-powerful Organians.

  52. The alternative Factor

  53. A man's extra-dimensional counterpart is trying to kill him.

  54. The City on the Edge of Forever

  55. McCoy is accidently thrown back to 1930's New York.

  56. Operation- Annihilate

  57. Kirk's brother and his family are killed on a planet being infested with alien creatures.

    Second Season
  1. Amok Time

  2. Spock undergoes pon farr, and must fight Kirk to the death to claim his betrothed mate.

  3. Who Mourns for Adonais?

  4. An alien, who claims to be the Olympian god Apollo, is upset when the crew does not humble themselves before him.

  5. The Changeling

  6. Due to errored programming, a sentient machine is destroying lifeforms not deemed "perfect".

  7. Mirror, Mirror

  8. An ion storm causes a transporter malfunction, causing Kirk, McCoy, Scott and Uhura to transport into an alternate universe.

  9. The Apple

  10. The people of a Garden of Eden-like planet must learn to exist on their own after the computer that controls them is destroyed.

  11. The Doomsday Machine

  12. An obsessed Commodore Decker attempts to kill the being that destroyed his ship.

  13. Catspaw

  14. Two would-be conquerors use magic and superstition to make zombies of the crew.

  15. I, Mudd

  16. Harry Mudd lures the Enterprise to a android-inhabited planet so that he may escape.

  17. Metamorphosis

  18. Kirk and crew encounter the inventor of warp drive, at the age of 237, after have been presumed dead.

  19. Journey to Babel

  20. Spock's parents are two of the many ambassadors going to a conference on the Babel planetoid to decide whether to admit Coridan to the Federation.

  21. Friday's Child

  22. Kirk attempts to establish a trade agreement with the fierce warriors of Capella IV.

  23. The Deadly Years

  24. After visiting Gamma Hydra IV, the entire landing party, except Chekov, begin to age rapidly.

  25. Obsession

  26. Kirk must stop a cloud that killed half of his shipmates 11 years ago.

  27. Wolf in the Fold

  28. Scotty is accused of muder on Argelius II.

  29. The trouble with tribbles

  30. Fast-multiplying furry creatures infest the Enterprise.

  31. The Gamesters of triskelion

  32. Aliens kidnap all sorts of life forms throughout the galaxy to put in combat for their entertainment.

  33. A Piece of the Action

  34. Kirk and Spock try to repair the damage done to the Iotian culture, who have based themselves on a ganster book left behind by another ship.

  35. The Immunity Syndrome

  36. A giant one-celled alien life form is devouring everything it can to find life-sustaining energy.

  37. A Private Little War

  38. Kirk must decide whether to supply weapons to a peaceful planet, after being attacked by a people supplied with weapons by the Klingons.

  39. Return to Tomorrow

  40. Three disembodied survivors of a war transport their consciousnesses into Kirk, Spock, and Dr. Mulhall.

  41. Patterns of Force

  42. On the Ekos planet, one of Kirk's Academy teachers has patterned society to that of Nazi Germany.

  43. By Any Other name

  44. The Kelvans use the bodies of the crew to assume human form, so that they may return to the Andromeda galaxy.

  45. The Omega Glory

  46. A starship captain believes he has found a fountain of youth.

  47. The Ultimate Computer

  48. The inventor of the Enterprise's computers is attempting to develop a computer that can replace the captain.

  49. Bread and Circuses

  50. While looking for a lost crew, the Enterprise finds its way to an planet resembling Ancient Rome.

  51. Assignment: Earth

  52. The Enterprise returns to the late 1960's to stop an Earthling raised by aliens from causing World War III.

    Third Season
  1. Spock's Brain

  2. Spock's brain is surgically removed from his body.

  3. The Enterprise Incident

  4. Kirk sends the Enterprise into Romulan space, is captured, and then killed at Spock's hands.

  5. The Paradise Syndrome

  6. An amnesiac Kirk is stranded on an idyllic world.

  7. And the Children Shall Lead

  8. A malevolent being is using children to spread his power throughout the galaxy.

  9. Is There In truth No Beauty?

  10. A noncorporeal being and a telepathic woman are taken aboard.

  11. Spectre of the Gun

  12. The Melkotians put Kirk and crew in an Old West setting.

  13. Day of the Dove

  14. An entity that feeds on violent emotions lures the Enterprise and a Klingon ship to it.

  15. For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky

  16. The High Priestess Natira of Yonada must challenge an omnipotent computer.

  17. The Tholian Web

  18. Kirk is thrown into another dimension and is presumed dead.

  19. Plato's Stepchildren

  20. The telekinetic Platonians force the crew to do humiliating things.

  21. Wink of an Eye

  22. The Scalosians want Kirk and the crew to help repopulate their planet.

  23. The Empath

  24. Kirk, Spock, and McCoy teach a young empath about self-sacrifice and compassion.

  25. Elaan of troyius

  26. The Dohlman of Elas must marry to end 200 years of war.

  27. Whom Gods Destroy

  28. A mentally ill man takes over an asylum.

  29. Let That Be Your Last Battlefield

  30. Racial prejudice is threatening to start a civil war on the planet Cheron.

  31. The Mark of Gideon

  32. A transporter accident causes Kirk to disappear, while he thinks that everyone else has.

  33. That Which Survives

  34. A holographic projection designed to protect a scientific outpost is trying to kill Kirk.

  35. The Lights of Zetar

  36. A crewmember becomes possessed with the emotional residue of aliens who once lived on a library planetoid.

  37. Requiem for Methuselah

  38. The Enterprise goes to great lengths to get a substance to cure a Rigellian fever.

  39. The Way to Eden

  40. A group of idealistic nonconformists hijack the Enterprise to go to a planet named Eden.

  41. The Cloud Minders

  42. A cloud-dwelling species believes that the minds of those of a lower class have all been affected by a dangerous gas.

  43. The Savage Curtain

  44. A group of aliens force the Enterprise officers to compete against other beings from history.

  45. All Our Yesterdays

  46. As a sun is about to go nova, the inhabitants of a planet seek refuge by going back in time.

  47. Turnabout Intruder

  48. Kirk and Dr. Janice Lester exchange minds.

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  1. More tribbles, More troubles

  2. Harry Mudd creates trouble on the Enterprise after stealing a Klingon-bred tribble predator.

  3. The Infinite Vulcan

  4. Dr. Keniculus 5, a giant clone on Phylos, is convinced he can spread peace throughout the galaxy by cloning Spock.

  5. Yesteryear

  6. The Guardian of Forever forces Spock to go back in time to aid his young self undergo the kahs-wan rite of passage.

  7. Beyond the Farthest Star

  8. An artificial life form infiltrates the Enterprise computer banks to propagate itself throughout the galaxy.

  9. The Survivor

  10. A shape-changing life form impersonates person after person to lure the Enterprise into the Romulan Neutral Zone.

  11. The Lorelei Signal

  12. Women on Taurus II lure Kirk, Spock and McCoy to the surface to leech the life from them to make themselves more beautiful.

  13. One of Our Planets is Missing

  14. A cloud-like being eats worlds as it journies through the universe.

  15. Mudd's Passion

  16. Harry Mudd returns with a love potion for Nurse Chapel to use on Spock.

  17. The Magicks of Megas-tu

  18. A Devil-like creature transports the crew to a magical realm.

  19. The Time trap

  20. The Enterprise and a Klingon cruiser find themselves caught in a portal with other trapped starships.

  21. The Slaver Weapon

  22. Uhura and Sulu transport a "slaver weapon" to Starbase 25 via shuttlecraft.

  1. The Ambergris Element

  2. Kirk and Spock are turned into aquatic beings, acting as catalysts as they search for medical information about the surface dwellers left behind.

  3. The Jihad

  4. Kirk and Spock are called to find a statue that would start a religious uproar if the people of the planet knew it was missing.

  5. The Terratin Incident

  6. A domed city on a planet bombarded by constant volcanic activity shrinks the Enterprise to get them to help them.

  7. The Eye of the Beholder

  8. The inhabitants of Lactra VII kidnap the crews of the Ariel and the Enterprise to be zoo exhibits.

  9. Once Upon A Planet

  10. The Amusement Park Planet's Keeer has died, and the computer rebels against what it considers servitude.

  11. Bem

  12. A Pandron Observer assigned aboard the Enterprise gets captured in order to study Kirk's response before they give the Federation their medical technology.

  13. Albatross

  14. McCoy is arrested for a plague that ravaged Dramia II, 19 years ago, when he was in charge of an inoculation program.

  15. The Pirates of Orion

  16. The Orion Pirates raid a Federation ship carrying a drug needed to save Spock's life.

  17. The Practical Joker

  18. The ship's computer is turned into an automated practical joker.

  19. How Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth

  20. The Enterprise comes in contact with an alien race that placed the Mayan race on Earth centuries before.

  21. The Counter-Clock Incident

  22. Captain Robert April, the first captain of the Enterprise, is heading for retirement when the crew begins growing younger.

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