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#22: Star Trek: The Original Series, season 1, episode 19 "Tomorrow is Yesterday"

Written by D.C. Fontana, directed by Michael O'Herlihy.

Stardates 3113.2 through 3114.1 (October 2267)
(Some events take place during July 1969)

"You're as much a prisoner in time as I am." - Captain John Christopher

An American Air Force base in Omaha scrambles fighters to intercept a UFO that suddenly appeared hovering in the skies overhead. It's the Enterprise. A dark star caused the ship to slingshot backwards through time to 1960s Earth. While the damage to the Enterprise is light and can be easily repaired, one of the fighters makes visual contact with the Enterprise. Captain Kirk orders the fighter to be held in a tractor beam, which causes the fragile aircraft to break apart. Kirk has no choice but to beam its pilot; Captain John Christopher (Roger Perry) aboard and try to explain things to him. In addition to figuring out how to get back to the 23rd Century, the problem now includes how to get Captain Christopher back to Earth and erasing all records of the Enterprise's presence without contaminating the timeline any further than it already has been.

Originally released: 26 January 1967

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#21: Star Trek: The Original Series, season 1, episode 27 "The Alternative Factor"

Written by Don Ingalls, directed by Gerd Oswald.

Stardates 3087.6 through 3088.7 (September 2267)

"He could not live knowing that I lived. He became obsessed with the idea of destroying me." - Lazarus

The Enterprise is surveying a planet when the ship is suddenly rocked by multiple shockwaves. Commander Spock's instruments suggest the impossible - the planet and the ship blinked out of existence for a split second. Enterprise then receives an alarming message from Starfleet; The phenomenon occurred across the entire known universe, and was centered on the planet they are orbiting. Starfleet Command thinks this could be prelude to an invasion by an unknown force and all nearby starships have been ordered to escape the area... leaving the Enterprise all alone to act as bait.

Originally released: 30 March 1967

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#20: Star Trek: The Original Series, season 1, episode 18 "Arena"

Written by Gene L. Coon & Fredric Brown, directed by Joseph Pevney.

Stardates 3045.6 through 3046.2 (September 2267)

"We will resolve your conflict in the way most suited to your limited mentalities." - The Metrons

Captain Kirk takes a landing party down to the Federation colony of Cestus III with the expectation of relaxing. They find the entire colony has been destroyed by an unknown force and soon both the landing party and the Enterprise come under fire. After a tense moment, Kirk on the ground and Sulu on the bridge of the Enterprise manage to push back their attackers. Once back aboard, Kirk orders pursuit of the enemy vessel with visible anger and at great risk to the ship's engines. When they do catch up to the enemy vessel, is has suddenly stopped and is without power. The Enterprise herself is also ground to a halt and held in place by an unknown force. Both ships have entered the solar system of a highly advanced race that despises violence. As punishment, both ship's Captains are made to fight to the death on a barren planet.

Originally released: 19 January 1967

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#18: Star Trek: The Original Series, season 2, episode 7 "Catspaw"

Written by Robert Bloch, directed by Joseph Pevney.

Stardates 3018.2 (September 2267)

"We could have entered your galaxy in peace." - Korob (Theo Marcuse)

Captain Kirk is waiting for the landing party on Pyris VII to report in with increased anxiety. Once they finally do report, only one beams back to the Enterprise - who promptly drops dead in the transporter room. As if that wasn't enough, the crewman's corpse relays a verbal warning to the Enterprise that death awaits them if they try to return to the planet. Kirk, McCoy, and Spock beam down to the surface to investigate and are met with all the Human imagery of Halloween, from a black cat & witches to a haunted mansion.

Originally released: 27 October 1967

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#17: Star Trek: The Original Series, season 1, episode 11 & 12 "The Menagerie"

Written by Gene Roddenberry, directed by Marc Daniels & Robert Butler.

Stardates 3012.4 through 3013.2 (September 2267)

"It's your life now. At least a chance for life." - Commander Spock

The Enterprise is called to Starbase 11 by an urgent summons. However, when they arrive Commodore Mendez (Malachi Throne) reveals that they sent no message to the Enterprise. While on base, Mendez reveals sad news to Captain Kirk, and especially Commander Spock - Captain Christopher Pike (the man who commanded the Enterprise prior to Kirk, and Spock's former Captain) has been gravely injured in an accident and is undergoing treatment right there on Starbase 11. When they go to see him, Pike is a shell of his former self and demands everyone except for Spock leave his quarters. When Kirk & Mendez suspect that the message was sent by Pike himself, Mendez reads Kirk into a top secret report about Pike's mission to a planet called Talos IV and how it is now forbidden for any starship to travel there. While they are talking, Spock reboards the Enterprise with suspicious, classified orders to embark for Talos IV immediately... leaving Kirk behind.

Originally released: 17 & 24 November 1966

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#16: Star Trek: The Original Series, season 1, episode 20 "Court Martial"

Written by Don M. Mankiewicz and Steven W. Carabatsos, directed by Marc Daniels.

Stardates 2947.3 through 2950.1 (August 2267)

"I spent my whole like training for decisions just like that one." - Captain James Kirk

The Enterprise docks at Starbase 11 for extensive repairs due to an encounter with an ion storm, and also due to the loss of a crewmember during that storm. Everything is a matter of procedure until Commodore Stone (Percy Rodriguez) notices a discrepancy between Captain Kirk's report and the computer logs. Kirk is faced with the horrible decision between being permanently grounded and losing command of the Enterprise or standing trial for the murder of the officer under his command.

Originally released: 2 February 1967

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#15: Star Trek: The Original Series, season 1, episode 16 "The Galileo Seven"

Written by Oliver Crawford & S. Bar-David, directed by Robert Gist.

Stardates 2821.5 through 2823.8 (August 2267)

"Mr. Spock, that was a good gamble." - Lieutenant Montgomery Scott

In an effort to catalog a quasar while delivering critical medical supplies to New Paris, the shuttlecraft Galileo crashes on an unexplored world. Commander Spock, one of the shuttle's occupants, takes command for the first time and attempts to balance his rational, logical understanding with the frayed emotions of the other stranded crewmembers who must now follow his orders. Meanwhile, Captain Kirk fights a ticking clock to locate and rescue the lost shuttle occupants while High Commissioner Ferris (John Crawford) breathes down his neck to reach the life or death rendezvous on time.

Originally released: 5 January 1967

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#14: Star Trek: The Original Series, season 1, episode 13 "The Conscience of the King"

Written by Barry Trivers, directed by Gerd Oswald.

Stardates 2817.6 through 2819.8 (August 2267)

"I no longer treasure life, not even my own." - Kodos

The Enterprise is diverted from its course by Doctor Thomas Leighton (William Sargent), a childhood friend of Kirk's, simply to watch a performance of Macbeth. Doctor Leighton explains that he believes the lead actor, Anton Karidian (Arnold Moss), to be none other than Kodos the Executioner; a colonial governor that was responsible for killing over 4,000 people after the planet suffered a blight that caused a severe food shortage. Kirk is extremely skeptical of Doctor Leighton's accusation despite having been there with him all those years ago. Kodos was suppose to be dead. But once Doctor Leighton turns up dead himself, Kirk arranges to have Karidian and his troupe travel to their next destination as guests onboard the Enterprise in order to give him time to conduct his own investigation.

Originally released: 8 December 1966

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#13: Star Trek: The Original Series, season 1, episode 9 "Dagger of the Mind"

Written by S. Bar-David, directed by Vincent McEveety.

Stardates 2715.1 through 2715.2 (July 2267)

"Can you imagine the mind emptied by that thing? Without even a tormentor for company." - Captain James Kirk

The Enterprise is sending and receiving supplies between the Federation penal colony on Tantalus V when a prisoner makes an attempt to escape by stowing away in a cargo container. When subdued, Captain Kirk and Doctor McCoy discover that the escapee is in fact Doctor Simon Van Gelder (Morgan Woodward), part of the colony's staff. The Administrator of the penal colony, Doctor Tristan Adams (James Gregory), explains that Doctor Van Gelder's condition was the result of an accident when he was testing experimental equipment meant to rehabilitate convicts. However Doctor McCoy becomes suspicious of Doctor Adams' story after closely examining the mentally-addled Doctor Van Gelder.

Originally released: 3 November 1966

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@startrek Anyone who doesn't think "Academy" lives up to every single thing Trek means... well... it does. And it's good.

Paramount will apparently be getting Warner Bros. and with it all of DC.

I'm posting this here because I'm worried this is going to have some kind of adverse effect on any new and existing Star Trek (that Paramount's priorities will likely shift to DC).

Do you think this is good or bad (or irrelevant) for Star Trek? Because it feels bad to me.

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#12: Star Trek: The Original Series, season 1, episode 8 "Miri"

Written by Adrian Spies, directed by Vincent McEveety.

Stardates 2713.5 through 2717.3 (July 2267)

"Look at the blood on my face. Now look at your hands. Blood on your hands. Now who's doing the hurting?" - Captain James Kirk

In a distant region of space, the Enterprise encounters a planet that appears to be an exact duplicate of Earth. But once on the surface, all they find is the decaying ruins of a civilization that once resembled 20th-century America. Hidden amongst those ruins are packs of children being led by children, but no adults to be found.

Originally released: 27 October 1966

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#11: Star Trek: The Original Series, season 1, episode 7 "What Are Little Girls Made Of?"

Written by Robert Bloch, directed by James Goldstone.

Stardate 2712.4 (July 2267)

"That was the equation! Existence! Survival must cancel out programming." - Ruk

The Enterprise (and Nurse Christine Chapel (Majel Barret)) are in search of Dr. Roger Korby (Michael Strong), a famous scientist that hasn't been heard from in over five years. When they do find him he is cloistered underground with a strange group of people and ancient technology. Instead of agreeing to return to the ship, he forces Captain Kirk to remain on the planet and insists that he hear him out because the discoveries he has made will change everything.

Originally released: 20 October 1966

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The game comes out today. Has anyone had a chance to check it out yet? I played the demo and wrote my review below.

I played the demo on steam deck and I mostly enjoyed it. It more or less plays out a tutorial mission while the events of the pilot play out.

Game play (in the demo) had 4 distinct parts: space combat, away missions, navigating and flying around space, and ship "stuff".

I disliked the space combat the most. It was an odd mix of turnbased and real-time actions. I never knew where the enemy ship was, and I had trouble balancing the repairs i needed to survive.

Away missions are essentially choose your own adventure text games with some cool art depicting the scenes based on who you select for your mission and what they do.

Navigating and flying around space was fun, but I can see it getting very boring very quickly. Fly from wherever you are to the next system. fly around the planets picking up resources, investigating signals, talking to civilizations. I think if they find a creative way to mix this part up, it can be tons of fun.

Ship "stuff" is very derivative of games like fallout shelter. You have a sideview of the entire ship. you can repurpose rooms for different things, assign personnel to various places like medical or engineering. You can even install new weaponry or equipment to use in space combat or for flying around.

I'll be picking up this game eventually, I am curious what anyone else thinks about it, too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgK-FubKQd4

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#10: Star Trek: The Original Series, season 1, episode 17 "The Squire of Gothos"

Written by Paul Schneider, directed by Don McDougall.

Stardates 2124.5 through 2126.3 (March 2267)

"I object to intellect without discipline. I object to power without constructive purpose." - Commander Spock

In an area of space devoid of star systems, the Enterprise finds a lone planet that shouldn't be there. On that planet is an Earth-like castle, and within in they find a humanoid who calls himself Trelane (William Campbell). Trelane has been watching Earth for a very long time so he is excited to finally meet Earthlings in-person... and he doesn't want them to ever leave.

Originally released: 12 January 1967

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#9: Star Trek: The Original Series, season 1, episode 14 "Balance of Terror"

Written by Paul Schneider, directed by Vincent McEveety.

Stardates 1709.2 through 1709.6 (December 2266)

"You and I are of a kind. In a different reality, I could've called you 'friend.'" - Romulan Commander

Earth outposts along the Romulan Neutral Zone are suddenly going silent. The Enterprise is rushing to rendezvous with Earth Outpost 4 when it, too, stops transmitting. They manage to send one final message, that they were attacked by an unknown vessel, just before it is completely destroyed. This unknown vessel is strongly believed to be Romulan in origin. It not only possesses a deadly new type of weapon, but can make itself invisible. Captain Kirk must find a way to engage and stop this rampaging ship without jeopardizing the Enterprise and its crew or starting an interstellar war.

Originally released: 15 December 1966

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