The Mark of Gideon
Kirk finds himself on an almost empty Enterprise and tries to find out what has become of his crew.
The Enterprise is at planet Gideon, a candidate for Federation membership as it is reported to be a paradise and free of disease. However, a sensor jamming shield is in place and the Gideon Council have asked the crew not to scan their planet surface. Providing coordinates for Kirk's beam down directly to the council chambers. However, Kirk does not materialise there forcing a diplomatic standoff between Spock and crew against Hodin and the Gideon Council.
It is later discovered that the coordinates provided were wrong and Kirk was in fact beamed elsewhere - a duplicate Enterprise, where he meets a girl wandering the ship as well, named Odona.
As events unfold, Kirk learns that Odona's planet is filled to the brim with people, while here, on the duplicate Enterprise she feels free. Odona's planet ultimately is Gideon and once she begins feeling ill, her father, Hodin appears. The Gideon deceived Kirk in order to infect the population with mortal illness, Kirk being the donor.
Kirk refuses and Spock, who defies orders to beam down to Gideon, is able to assist in bringing Kirk and Odona back to the Enterprise where Odona is treated and cured.
This episode covers the issue of overpopulation. Made worse that planet Gideon has no disease and the people don't believe in birth control. The council went to extraordinary lengths here. How they were able to gain access to the plans for the Enterprise in order to create a convincing replica of the ship is unknown. No doubt they had the resources and people to construct it, but it's a very elaborate thing to have done. The episode also touches on diplomatic red tape and different departments within the Federation and Starfleet not wanting to cooperate or assist a starship so far away. It was interesting noting Spock's own 'frustration' at negotiating with Hodin and this eventually leads to Spock acting against orders.
Overall Rating: 7.5/10
That Which Survives
Investigating an extraordinary planet, Enterprise crew members are seeing the image of a beautiful woman whose touch will kill them.
Kirk, Spock, Sulu and geologist D'Amato beam to the planet's surface as the transporter chief is killed. The landing party are then unable to contact the Enterprise and experience an earthquake. Simultaneously, the Enterprise is sent 990.7 light years away in an instant.
The landing party are stranded and cannot locate the Enterprise in orbit. On a search for food, D'Amato encounters the woman and is killed. Light years away, the Enterprise crew are working to return to the planet when an engineer is also killed - but is able to alert Scotty to the woman's presence.
Heading towards the planet at maximum Warp (8), the engines begin racing out of control - having been sabotaged. Spock and Scotty work to stop the engines from destroying the ship in the nick of time while Kirk, McCoy and Sulu face off against three versions of the woman named Losira. Spock and a landing party are able to beam down in time and destroy a central computer controlling the woman's image.
It turns out the planet was an outpost for the Kalandan's, a race that was wiped out by a disease with Losira being the last survivor. She programmed the computer to defend against other lifeforms. Taking her image, the computer destroyed anything it came into contact with but had one flaw, it replicated Losira's personality and could regret killing life forms.
This episode deals with the mystery of a planet that shouldn't exist and a strange woman who kills on touch. The Enterprise breaks all the speed records by travelling at Warp 13, but I'd assume this is before the recalibrated warp scale of the 24th century Star Trek's comes into effect.
Overall Rating: 7/10
The Lights of Zetar
The Enterprise is transferring Lt Mira Romaine, a woman Scotty has become romantically involved with, to Memory Alpha, the Federation's central library when it encounters a strange energy storm. Intercepting it en-route to Memory Alpha, the storm penetrates the ship's shields.
Crew members all feel as though they have been attacked in some way, but Lt Romaine seems most affected, collapsing on the bridge. Meanwhile, the storm resumes course for Memory Alpha and engulfs the entire planetoid. Mira is somehow aware of the attack and sees the Memory Alpha staff dead in a vision. When the Enterprise arrives, most of the staff are found dead, except one woman who appears consumed by coloured energy and dies as the energy leaves.
Kirk orders pursuit of the cloud and fires phasers as a warning shot at first and then directly into the phenomenon, which injures Lt Romaine. Somehow the storm and Mira have become connected. The storm enters the ship and appears to the crew as coloured lights. The lights take over Lt Romaine and identifies themselves as energy beings from the dead planet Zetar. They take claim to Lt Romaine's body but Scotty refuses. McCoy puts Romaine's body into a pressurisation chamber and activates it, eradicating the Zetar.
The ideas in this episode are interesting and the only visual reference of Memory Alpha occurs here. However, the episode seems to lack any pace, and while it was nice to see Scotty have a girl for a change, his infatuation and neglect of his duties as a result seemed out of character and annoying as a viewer, and for Kirk it would seem.
Overall Rating: 6.5/10
Kirk finds himself on an almost empty Enterprise and tries to find out what has become of his crew.The Enterprise is at planet Gideon, a candidate for Federation membership as it is reported to be a paradise and free of disease. However, a sensor jamming shield is in place and the Gideon Council have asked the crew not to scan their planet surface. Providing coordinates for Kirk's beam down directly to the council chambers. However, Kirk does not materialise there forcing a diplomatic standoff between Spock and crew against Hodin and the Gideon Council.
It is later discovered that the coordinates provided were wrong and Kirk was in fact beamed elsewhere - a duplicate Enterprise, where he meets a girl wandering the ship as well, named Odona.
As events unfold, Kirk learns that Odona's planet is filled to the brim with people, while here, on the duplicate Enterprise she feels free. Odona's planet ultimately is Gideon and once she begins feeling ill, her father, Hodin appears. The Gideon deceived Kirk in order to infect the population with mortal illness, Kirk being the donor.
Kirk refuses and Spock, who defies orders to beam down to Gideon, is able to assist in bringing Kirk and Odona back to the Enterprise where Odona is treated and cured.
This episode covers the issue of overpopulation. Made worse that planet Gideon has no disease and the people don't believe in birth control. The council went to extraordinary lengths here. How they were able to gain access to the plans for the Enterprise in order to create a convincing replica of the ship is unknown. No doubt they had the resources and people to construct it, but it's a very elaborate thing to have done. The episode also touches on diplomatic red tape and different departments within the Federation and Starfleet not wanting to cooperate or assist a starship so far away. It was interesting noting Spock's own 'frustration' at negotiating with Hodin and this eventually leads to Spock acting against orders.
Overall Rating: 7.5/10
That Which Survives
Investigating an extraordinary planet, Enterprise crew members are seeing the image of a beautiful woman whose touch will kill them.Kirk, Spock, Sulu and geologist D'Amato beam to the planet's surface as the transporter chief is killed. The landing party are then unable to contact the Enterprise and experience an earthquake. Simultaneously, the Enterprise is sent 990.7 light years away in an instant.
The landing party are stranded and cannot locate the Enterprise in orbit. On a search for food, D'Amato encounters the woman and is killed. Light years away, the Enterprise crew are working to return to the planet when an engineer is also killed - but is able to alert Scotty to the woman's presence.
Heading towards the planet at maximum Warp (8), the engines begin racing out of control - having been sabotaged. Spock and Scotty work to stop the engines from destroying the ship in the nick of time while Kirk, McCoy and Sulu face off against three versions of the woman named Losira. Spock and a landing party are able to beam down in time and destroy a central computer controlling the woman's image.
It turns out the planet was an outpost for the Kalandan's, a race that was wiped out by a disease with Losira being the last survivor. She programmed the computer to defend against other lifeforms. Taking her image, the computer destroyed anything it came into contact with but had one flaw, it replicated Losira's personality and could regret killing life forms.
This episode deals with the mystery of a planet that shouldn't exist and a strange woman who kills on touch. The Enterprise breaks all the speed records by travelling at Warp 13, but I'd assume this is before the recalibrated warp scale of the 24th century Star Trek's comes into effect.
Overall Rating: 7/10
The Lights of Zetar
The Enterprise is transferring Lt Mira Romaine, a woman Scotty has become romantically involved with, to Memory Alpha, the Federation's central library when it encounters a strange energy storm. Intercepting it en-route to Memory Alpha, the storm penetrates the ship's shields.Crew members all feel as though they have been attacked in some way, but Lt Romaine seems most affected, collapsing on the bridge. Meanwhile, the storm resumes course for Memory Alpha and engulfs the entire planetoid. Mira is somehow aware of the attack and sees the Memory Alpha staff dead in a vision. When the Enterprise arrives, most of the staff are found dead, except one woman who appears consumed by coloured energy and dies as the energy leaves.
Kirk orders pursuit of the cloud and fires phasers as a warning shot at first and then directly into the phenomenon, which injures Lt Romaine. Somehow the storm and Mira have become connected. The storm enters the ship and appears to the crew as coloured lights. The lights take over Lt Romaine and identifies themselves as energy beings from the dead planet Zetar. They take claim to Lt Romaine's body but Scotty refuses. McCoy puts Romaine's body into a pressurisation chamber and activates it, eradicating the Zetar.
The ideas in this episode are interesting and the only visual reference of Memory Alpha occurs here. However, the episode seems to lack any pace, and while it was nice to see Scotty have a girl for a change, his infatuation and neglect of his duties as a result seemed out of character and annoying as a viewer, and for Kirk it would seem.
Overall Rating: 6.5/10
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