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Star Trek OS Ep27 The City on the Edge of Forever
Catch up on the episode here “Edith Keeler must die.” We are faced with an emotionally torn captain who must let a woman he loves die so that the timeline he comes from can survive. This is a classic sadistic choice offered to heroes in our stories to test their values and their resolve. The hero is put into a situation where they must allow their loved one to die or something else, usually something bigger. Some examples include Gambit in (vol. 2) X-Men #33 who must choose between his brother and the women he loves,...
read moreStar Trek OS Ep 27 The Alternative Factor
Catch up on the Episode: The Alternative Factor Lazarus is a man in conflict with himself who threatens to destroy the universe. In fact he threatens to destroy two of them. He has no real interest in the universe at all, but what he cannot stand is having a double. Once the Lazarus in Kirk’s universe discovers the Lazarus from a different dimension he embarks on a mission to find and destroy this doppelganger. Like the great Greek myths of old Lazarus fails to learn his lesson and is cursed into an enduring labour, one that will last...
read moreStar Trek OS Ep26 Errand of Mercy
The Debrief: The Federation’s negotiation with the Klingon Empire is deteriorating. In a pre-emptive measure the Federation orders the Enterprise to go to Organia and secure the population’s safety and avert the Klingons from claiming the planet. The Organians are a peaceful people with minimal technology, but a Federation or Klingon base there would prove a strategic advantage. En route a Klingon vessel fires upon the Enterprise. Kirk orders the Enterprise to retaliate and destroys the enemy ship. Lt. Uhura receives a message...
read moreStar Trek OS Ep 25 The Devil in the Dark
The Debrief Strange things have been happening on mining colony Janus VI. By strange things I mean deadly things. That is, people are dying if you didn’t catch my drift. We begin with Sam, an edgy security guard for the mining company, doing his rounds. He is startled when Schmitter arrives to relive him of his duty. Schmitter looks nervous about being left alone. Within moments of leaving with some other miners Sam hears a blood-curdling scream. Sam and the others run back to find that Schmitter has been reduced to a pile of...
read moreStar Trek OS Ep 24 This Side of Paradise
Enterprise travels to Omicron Ceti III to collect the remains of a settlement that was lost to this planet. After settlement it was discovered that the planet was under constant bombardment by Berthold rays, a radiation that will decay flesh within a matter of weeks. The Federation has not heard from the settlement for several years. Kirk, Spock, Bones and Sulu take some Red Shirts down to the planet to explore. Much to the landing party’s surprise they find the settlers alive. After examination Bones discovers that the settlers are...
read moreStar Trek OS Ep 23 A Taste of Armageddon
The Enterprise is on mission carrying Ambassador Robert Fox to build diplomatic relations with civilisations living in the NGC 321 cluster. Strategically a base in this area would be a huge support to the Federation of Planets, but this has been impossible prior due to the constant waring between two planets in the system. While on route, Enterprise receives a priority message code 7-10, which demands that ships stay away at all costs. At this point the Ambassador takes control and we realise that he is a massive jerk. He demands that the...
read moreStar Trek OS Ep 22 Space Seed
We start in the thick of action. The Enterprise has detected a vessel with its scanners in a region of space not visited in many years by any Earth ship. The Enterprise investigates and finds a human vessel that dates back to the 1990’s; a DY-100 class named Botany Bay, named after the Australian penal colony. Bones detects heartbeats but no respiration. A search party is sent comprising of Kirk, Bones, Scott, and the resident historian, Lieutenant McGivers. On board the Botany Bay the party discovers that the ship is full of stasis...
read moreStar Trek OS Ep 21 Return of the Archons
The Enterprise is sent to investigate the whereabouts of the Archon, a ship that crash-landed on Beta III one hundred years earlier. Sulu and O’Neil are sent as a landing party and find themselves in a town that resembles the old west. Sulu and O’Neil are on the run for their lives from men dressed in gowns with hoods. Hoodies, they are such a menace. Anyway, O’Neil wants to run but Sulu assures him that the Enterprise will beam them up shortly. He does not wait and sprints off leaving a worried looking Sulu waiting to get beamed. Too...
read moreStar Trek OS Ep 20 Court Martial
An ion storm wreaks havoc on the Enterprise. As is protocol the officer at the top of the duty roster is sent into the ion pod to… to do…. Umm. I don’t know what it does. In fact, because the pod did not retract when it was suppose to after a red alert was called, it had to be jettisoned so now I guess I will never know. The result of the jettisoned pod was the death of crewman Finney. Kirk reports in to Commodore Stone at Starbase 11. Stone orders the ship records to be brought to him. Spock, who is running late as he was examining the...
read moreStar Trek OS Ep19 Tomorrow is Yesterday
Caught in the gravitation pull of a black star the Enterprise must use all its warp power to escape. Suddenly breaking free the Enterprise is flung at speeds higher than warp 10 and inadvertently sent backwards in time. The crew is shaken and secondary systems on the ship are knocked out. The Enterprise was near Earth and the sling shot effect of the star has thrown the Enterprise into a low orbit. Kirk orders a higher orbit from Scotty who informs the captain that they only have impulse engines at the moment. Not realising that they have...
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