Episode 5
Friday 3 December 2021
Star Trek: The Original Series
Series 1, Episode 10
Stardate: 1512.2
First broadcast on Thursday 10 November 1966
Tensions are running high this week, as the Enterprise is attacked by a series of regular geometric solids and the bridge crew’s morale starts to crack under the pressure. Is this a ropey and glacially paced moment of disposable 60s TV, or the beginning of something indescribably magical?
Episode 84
Friday 6 October 2023
Star Trek: The Original Series
Series 1, Episode 16
Stardate: 2821.5
First broadcast on Thursday 5 January 1967
When a metal box containing seven strange creatures lands outside his village, gentle giant Oleg (Buck Maffei) leaves a pregnant wife and an ailing mother in his humble yurt and trudges off to present the creatures with his people’s traditional gift of welcome — a set of giant novelty spears. This simple act of hospitality is met with violence, and soon matters escalate despite Oleg’s repeated attempts to appease the newcomers’ anger — giving one an affectionate hug, offering the others his precious polystyrene boulder, and finally trying to hold down the box when the wind threatens to blow it away. A heartrending story of faith and hope in the face of indifference and cruelty. Five stars.
Episode 43
Friday 2 September 2022
Star Trek: The Original Series
Series 2, Episode 1
Stardate: 3372.7
First broadcast on Friday 15 September 1967
What thee are about to see comes down from the time of the beginning, without change. This is the Vulcan heart. This is the Vulcan soul. This is our way.
In this Classic Episode of Untitled Star Trek Project, Joe and Nathan find themselves unexpectedly involved in a fight to the death — for the love of a beautiful woman!
Episode 32
Friday 10 June 2022
Star Trek: The Original Series
Series 2, Episode 3
Stardate: 3541.9
First broadcast on Friday 29 September 1967
When the Enterprise takes on board an inexplicably touchy and unreasonable box of flashing lights dangling from a fishing line, hilarity ensues. Also, racism.
Episode 26
Friday 29 April 2022
Star Trek: The Original Series
Series 2, Episode 6
Stardate: 4202.1
First broadcast on Friday 20 October 1967
A nameless and unknowable monster which has destroyed whole star systems and wiped out an entire Starfleet crew is now heading towards the most populated part of the galaxy. The only things standing in its way: a dramatic soundtrack, a memorable guest actor, an incredibly confident production, and William Alan Shatner. It doesn’t stand a chance.
Episode 101
Friday 15 March 2024
Star Trek: The Original Series
Series 2, Episode 13
Stardate: 3619.2
First broadcast on Friday 15 December 1967
A few tense moments this week, as a fragrant dikironium vampire kills a bunch of redshirts before threatening some characters with names and ultimately the Enterprise itself. But the real suspense comes from an entirely different direction: Will this episode teeter over the edge of camp into baffling semicompetence? Will Kirk’s obsession turn him from a jovial and beloved authority figure into a massive idiot? Will any cue from the Star Trek music library go unused? (No, no and no, fortunately.)
Episode 65
Friday 19 May 2023
Star Trek: The Original Series
Series 2, Episode 14
Stardate: 3614.9
First broadcast on Friday 22 December 1967
When simple, mild-mannered lackwit Montgomery Scott (James Doohan) stabs three women to death in the space of a couple of hours, the crew of the Enterprise become suspicious enough to start an investigation, which mostly consists of getting Majel Barrett to read them a bunch of Wikipedia articles. But just as we’re all about to nod off, someone claims responsibility for the murders — beloved childhood plaything Piglet (John Fielder), who immediately inputs himself into the ship’s computer and attempts to generate terror by making a series of increasingly unimaginative violent threats. Understandably, the crew respond to all this by taking a bunch of drugs and waiting for the closing credits to kick in. Which is how we recommend that you respond to this episode as well.
Episode 53
Friday 9 December 2022
Star Trek: The Original Series
Series 2, Episode 15
Stardate: 4523.3
First broadcast on Friday 29 December 1967
In one of the best episodes in Star Trek history, our show learns very early on that it can shoot for ridiculous and hit funny and entertaining. What more can we say? It’s brilliant.
Episode 79
Friday 1 September 2023
Star Trek: The Original Series
Series 2, Episode 26
Stardate: Unknown (1968)
First broadcast on Friday 29 March 1968
It’s the pilot of a thrilling new spy-fi series, in which Gary Seven (Robert Lansing), his plucky secretary Miss Lincoln (Teri Garr), and his cat Isis (herself) hang out in the twentieth century’s most stylish decade, drinking cocktails after lunch and occasionally foiling America’s military–industrial complex. Is it time for us to end our trek through the stars so that we can complete an assignment here on earth?
Episode 11
Friday 14 January 2022
Star Trek: The Original Series
Series 3, Episode 1
Stardate: 5431.4
First broadcast on Friday 20 September 1968
A young woman wearing fabulous boots materialises on the Enterprise, renders the crew unconscious, and then removes Spock’s brain. And soon we discover — to our horror — that everyone else involved in making this episode has had their brain removed as well.