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Sunday, July 14, 2013

“Watch...your future's end.": The City on the Edge of Forever

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“I am my own beginning. And my own ending.” “So. You've found the courage to speak to me face to face at last, have you? I must co...
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Thursday, July 11, 2013

“Work for peace at any price, except the price of liberty.”: Errand of Mercy

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"Tell me, Jim: Why do you fight?" “Errand of Mercy” is the moment where all the themes and motifs Gene Coon has been working ...
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Tuesday, July 9, 2013

“I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.”: The Devil in the Dark

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This is the weirdest orgy I've ever been to... “The Devil in the Dark” is one of the most beloved episodes of the Original Series t...
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Sunday, July 7, 2013

“One morn a Peri at the gate/Of Eden stood disconsolate”: This Side of Paradise

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Oh, I give up. “This Side of Paradise” is a story about how dangerous idealized societies are. It's also about how the pursuit of s...
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Thursday, July 4, 2013

“Marooned for all eternity in the center of a dead planet.”: Space Seed

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Shame I already used "I got your gun". I suspect if there's one episode of the original Star Trek that my readers will e...
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Tuesday, July 2, 2013

“A strange game. The only winning move is not to play.”: A Taste of Armageddon

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Jimmy wants big boom. What's most immediately interesting, to start with, is that we seem to have encountered a temporal event of o...
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Sunday, June 30, 2013

“You Will Be Assimilated”: The Return of the Archons

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Kirk sees no reason why he can't have both a frock *and* a gun. Let's take care of the obvious first, shall we? We've got G...
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