Category: The Original Series

When the Enterprise bumps into Clint Howard, Kirk trades chess for poker and ultimately demonstrates humanity’s respect for all life forms.

What’s an alternative to imprisonment for the criminally insane look like, and, supposing that a treatment were available, would we require consent?

Children of the Corn visits Mayberry in this creepy episode of Star Trek.

Nurse Chapel’s long-lost fiancé is found – along with his androids feat. Lurch! *snap* *snap* Is it enough to simply exist? Are we going to visit every crew person’s former lover?

Star Trek does a lot of exploiting beauty stereotypes and expectations, but occasionally also points out how dumb they are. Would you take the venus drug? Would you let Harry Mudd sell you to another man as a spouse?

Why do we assign strength as an evil quality while empathy and goodness are seen as weakness? Is it ethical to force good and evil Kirk back together?

When our inhibitions are removed revealing our hidden selves, who do we become? Which one is the true self? Also, should we even be out in space considering humans seem to destroy everything we touch? It’s the birth of a classic #StarTrek story that gets retold time and again.

When Gary Michell gets Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds eyes, it prompts the question: does godhood necessarily lead to an out of control, power hungry, jealous, vindictive god like the god of the Bible? What killed Dr. Dehner? Will we ever see Gary Mitchell again?

Charlie X was a really complicated episode for us. We ended up talking about the US justice system, people with attraction to minors, the needs of the many vs the needs of the one… it was a real journey. We were very tortured by this ep. It’s social awkwardness, it’s puberty, it’s powerful, and it’s super cringy… do you want Charlie dead or do you feel for him? I’ve still got the heebie-jeebies.