- Minireview: Where No Man Has Gone Before
- Minireview: The Corbomite Maneuver
- 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
- Minireviews: Miri
- Minireviews: The Conscience Of The King
One Sentence Synopsis
Kirk creeps on a slightly post-pubescent girl to stop a genocidal dictator from killing the witnesses to mass murder.
Scene setup
Kirk is one of two surviving witnesses to the horrors wrought by Kodos The Executioner who made the logical decision to kill half an Earth colony’s population in order that the other half may survive. The survivors revolted against this genius plan and Kodos was presumed killed in the chaos.
Oh, and by a coinkydink both witnesses are assigned to the USS Enterprise!
Kirk grows to suspect that the head of a traveling Shakespeare company may be Kodos traveling incognito. But how to ensnare the dastard?
C’mon, People. This is Captain James T. Kirk.
There’s only one answer:
Hunt down the man’s slightly-older-than-street-legal daughter and Keep. On. Macking.
Should you watch it?
Yes! Between Trek being a product of the 1960’s and the Shakespearean framing this episode features so much over the top acting that in comparison Shatner delivers a flat out understated performance- witness the clip above. That’s quite a stylized performance from our guest actress, Barbara Anderson.
Vital Statistics
| What Happened? | This adventure | All time | Notes |
| HR Incident | 0 | 11 | |
| Shirtless Kirk | 0 | 5 | |
| Hookups? | 1 | 6 | Bitches be cray cray. |
| Encounters with exes? | 0 | 3 | |
| Redshirt Kills? | 0 | 0 | |
| Non Redshirt Kills? | 0 | 3 | |
| Offscreen Federation Kills? | 0 | 9 | |
| Non Federation Kills? | 1 | 3 | Poor Thomas Leighton. Not a good second half of life. |