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- Minireview: Mudd’s Women
- Minireview: The Enemy Within
- Minireview: The Man Trap
- Minireview: The Naked Time
- Minireview: Charlie X
- Microreview: Balance of Terror
- Minireview: What Are Little Girls Made Of?
- Minireview: Dagger of the Mind
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One Sentence Synopsis: Poorly Trained Crew Member returns contaminated from an away mission and gets the crew REAL fucked up.
Scene setup: Poorly Trained Crew Member sits down for a meal after returning filthy from an away mission. His unhinged rant reveals the writer’s uncertainty about the show’s premise.
Should you watch it?
Yes. We get our first Vulcan Neck Pinch, plenty of insight into Spock and Kirk sprinkled with funny little moments from secondary characters. And Navigator of the Week Reilly is a treat.
Vital Statistics (This episode / series to date)
| What Happened? | This adventure | All time | Notes |
| HR Incident | 0 | 7 | I’m saying no, but Kirk slaps a sobbing Spock to get him with the program, Sulu sexually harasses several male members of the crew by running around topless and Navigator of the Week Kevin Reilly annoys the shit out of everyone with his off-key caterwauling. However, I give them a pass because of the contamination. |
| Shirtless Kirk | 0 | 2.5 | McCoy rips Kirk’s sleeve off to administer a hypo. Keep Trying, Doc! |
| Hookups? | 0 | 2 | There were a couple of clumsy hookups, one involving Nurse Horsey and a second featuring Uhura but no huggin or kissin. |
| Encounters with exes? | 0 | 1 | |
| Redshirt Kills? | 0 | 0 | OMG get it over with! |
| Non Redshirt Kills? | 1 | 7 | You just saw it: suicide by butter knife. Boss move, Joe. Boss move. |
| Offscreen Federation Kills? | 6 | 15 | I have six in my notes; this is the count of scientists that I suppose died at the research station during the teaser. |
| Non Federation Kills? | 0 | 1 |