Category Archives: Star Trek

The Enterprise encounters an ancient unseen adversary, the Romulans, who emerge from their Neutral Zone confinement to test Earth’s defenses.   This is a striking episode, one of the best, but also problematic in its astronomical illiteracy, in a way … Continue reading →

A transporter malfunction splits Kirk into two beings, one a savage Kirk, one a docile Kirk, while crew members on a freezing planet below cannot be rescued until the malfunction is fixed. In the enhanced graphics, we see a nice … Continue reading →

The Enterprise rescues the crew of a rogue spaceship and deals with Harry Mudd, whose scheme is to sell women to lonely miners on distant planets. As the story begins the Enterprise pursues renegade ship, Harry Mudd’s. In the enhanced … Continue reading →

The Enterprise encounters an enormous alien vessel that blocks its path and threatens its destruction. Now watching the episodes in production order; this one is production order #2, after “Where No Man Has Gone Before”; this was the first episode … Continue reading →

An infection brought on board the Enterprise causes crew members to reveal their innermost fears and desires, as the ship spirals in toward a disintegrating planet. This time the planet is blue, appropriately, since it’s a cold ice-planet. In the … Continue reading →

In this second series pilot, the Enterprise encounters an energy barrier at the edge of the galaxy that triggers ESP in two crewmembers. Watching the current CBS blu-ray set of these episodes, here we see nicely enhanced graphics of the … Continue reading →

The Enterprise picks up a human orphan who’s grown up supposedly alone on an alien planet. The enhanced graphics, which in an episode like this matter only in scenes of ships rendezvousing or sailing through space, show a more detailed … Continue reading →

(This was, chronologically, my first post of notes and annotations I re-watched Star Trek TOS, The Original Series, beginning with this episode because it was the first broadcast is thus the first episode on the Blu-Ray set TOS that I … Continue reading →