Best Episode of Star Trek (original series):Round 1c

[Lord Jubjub]

The episodes are being presented in order of numbering. The airdates are in a slightly different order.

Episode Title: 'Dagger of the Mind'
Synopsis: "While delivering supplies to a facility for the criminally insane, Kirk is taken hostage by a power-hungry doctor who uses a neural neutralizer to control the minds of his patients."

Episode Title: 'Miri'
Synopsis: "On a planet of decades-old children, one of whom develops a crush on Captain Kirk, the away team becomes infected with a genetically engineered disease that prolongs youth but kills adolescents."

Episode Title: 'The Conscience of the King'
Synopsis: "When the leader of a traveling theatrical troupe is suspected of being a genocidal governor, the suspicious deaths of people who could identify him concerns Kirk - especially since he's one of the survivors."

Episode Title: 'The Galileo Seven'
Synopsis: "An away mission led by Spock falls victim to a disastrous crash on a hostile planet, where Spock and McCoy fight over the ineffectuality of his strictly logical approach to the situation."

Episode Title: 'Court Martial'
Synopsis: "Kirk is put on trial for negligence when the computer records contradict his logs about the death of a crewmember during a shipboard crisis."

[SpecialEd]

"Miri" only because I had huge 12-year-old crush on Kim Darby.

[Lord Jubjub]

Grrr, I slipped up with the title in the poll. That should be conscience not conscious. I thought something looked odd when I wrote it.

Moderator?

[ToSeek]

Grrr, I slipped up with the title in the poll. That should be conscience not conscious. I thought something looked odd when I wrote it.

Moderator?

You rang?

[Lord Jubjub]

Thank you.

[Lord Jubjub]

Miri was simply too slow paced.
Dagger was good and the ending was appropriate.
Conscience and Galileo were interesting character studies.
I had mixed feelings about Court Martial. It really felt manipulative--as though Kirk knew exactly what he was doing from the opening scene, but the plot didn't support the rationals.