Season 2

September 16, 1967 - March 29, 1968

30.  Catspaw  - The Enterprise encounters two people who use magical means to convince the humans that they're to be taken seriously when they say they are would be conquerors. While their powers play upon normal human superstitions, Spock remains singularly unaffected and oddly ignorant of the way the supernatural can affect humans fears. However their tricks prove to be nerve-wracking to Spock who must watch as first Sulu, the McCoy become zombies.



31.  Metamorphosis - The Shuttlecraft Galileo is waylaid by a strange cloud while conveying the ailing Asst. Commissioner Hedford to the Enterprise, and brought to a planet where the only apparent inhabitant is a space pioneer thought long dead.

32.  Friday's Child - The Enterprise visits Capella IV to stop the Klingons from making allies of the warlike natives. When Kirk saves the Capellan leader's wife he violates their traditions, and he, Spock and McCoy become hunted fugitives on the planet. In this episode McCoy utters another variation of his classic line: "I'm a doctor, not an escalator."

33.  Who Mourns for Adonais? - A huge green hand appears in space and holds the Enterprise motionless. The crew is brought to Pollox IV, where a humanoid claiming to be the god Apollo wants the to stay, become shepherds, and spend their lives worshipping him.

34.  Amok Time -  Spock has entered a phase called Pon farr, the Vulcan mating cycle, and must return to Vulcan where he has been betrothed to T'Pring, his bride who is know more interested in another vulcan named Stonn. Spock must fight to be her mate. Unwilling to risk Stonn T'Pring chooses Kirk to be her champion and he accepts not realising this is a fight to the death.

35.  The Doomsday Machine - Commodore Matt Decker loses his crew, the men and women of the Constellation, to the planet-devouring appetite of the space-going ultimate weapon. With Kirk stuck aboard the helpless Constellation, Decker takes over the USS Enterprise. Finally, forcibly relieved of command by Spock (in the exchange that climaxes in the now-famous "Vulcans never bluff").



36.  Wolf in the Fold - On Argelius II, where Chief Engineer Scott has taken shore leave a number of young women have been brutally murdered. Scott is circumstantially implicated, and an investigation follows-including an Argelian empathic ceremony with the eerie feel of a séance. Ultimately the real murderer is discovered to be an inhuman ancient life form that once manifested on Earth as Jack the Ripper.

37.  The Changeling - A probe named Nomad goes, through a mishap of programming, around obliterating all life forms not deemed "perfect". Upon encountering the Enterprise it mistakes James T. Kirk for Jackson Roykirk its creator and decides to return to Earth to sterilize that planet of imperfections.

38.  The Apple - Kirk and a landing party Gamma Trianguli VI are plagued by lightning, exploding rocks and poisonous plants. The childlike inhabitants are ruled by Vaal, a computer which threatens the safety of the Enterprise and its crew.

39.  Mirror, Mirror - Kirk, McCoy, Scott and Uhura are transposed by an ion storm-induced transporter malfunction to a parallel universe-a perversely savage version of the universe in which the USS Enterprise operates like a pirate ship within a brutal Galactic Empire. Most importantly they quickly realize that their chances for short-term survival ride on their abilities to adjust instantly to this barbaric universe and keep their true identities hidden.

40.  The Deadly Years - Chekov discovers the dead body of an emaciated and greatly aged man on Gamma Hydra IV. All too soon Kirk and the officers show the same ominous signs of rapid ageing. Kirk Battles against a failing memory and the indignity of competency hearing that removes him from command. A desk-bound, paper-pushing commodore who takes charge of the bridge sends the starship blundering into the Romulan Neutral Zone.

41.  I, Mudd - Harcourt Fenton Mudd stumbles on a planet full of androids just begging to serve and wanting to study him as a sample of Homo Sapiens. Harry brings a replacement sample, namely starship captain James T. Kirk. Then the androids announce their plan to use the Enterprise to go out and control humanity, which the androids see as an altogether self-destructive group of beings unable to run their own affairs.

42.  The Trouble with Tribbles - On space station K-7 Kirk has little patience for orders to protect a grain shipment or for the arrival of a group of Klingons. But the fast-multiplying, fluffy tribbles brought by a space trader turn out to be his biggest headache. Many will say that "Tribbles was one of the best episodes and one reason is that this one uses gentle humour driven by character to entertain.

43.  Bread and Circuses - Seeking the lost crew of the Beagle the USS Enterprise trace them to a planet remarkably resembling olden-day Rome, complete with televised gladiatorial events. Naturally, Kirk, Spock and McCoy find a way to end in front of the arena themselves.

44.  Journey to Babel - The Enterprise is assigned to ferry a valuable cargo of ambassadors. While a mysterious ship is following the Enterprise. Spock's father Sarek is on of the ambassadors and has a heart attack due to an illness and at the same time the Enterprise is attacked and Kirk seriously wounded. Spock's sense of duty will let his father die rather then risk the Enterprise.

45.  A Private Little War - On a pastoral planet, Klingons supply the Hill People with flintlock rifles and these weapons are used to attack the villagers led by the peaceful Tyree, whom Kirk had befriended. Kirk's dilemma: Do nothing, or re-establish a balance of power by supplying weapons to Tyree's people. This episode pretty much echoed US government justifications for intervention in Vietnam, something TV networks have never liked to do.

46.  The Gamesters of Triskelion - Kirk, Uhura and Chekov are abducted by a transporter beam which brings them to the planet Triskelion. There they are used a gladiators, fighting for the amusement of the planet's ruler.

47.  Obsession - The title comes from the fact that the Captain encountered a cloud 11 years before. It killed the captain and half the crew of the USS Farragut. Now Kirk is determined to stop the cloud from doing the same to his crew.

48.  The Immunity Syndrome - The Enterprise encounters a gigantic, one-celled life form destroying everything in its path in need for life-sustaining energy. To stop it Spock enters the life form to seek out what is causing the creatures need for energy and cure it.



49.  A Piece of the Action - An Enterprise landing party checks on the progress of lotia, visited 100 years earlier by the USS Horizon. They find the Lotians live in imitation of the Chicago gangland mobs of the 1920s, based on a book left by a crew member.

50.  By Any Other Name - A race called the Kelvans hijack the Enterprise for their return trip to their home in the Andromeda galaxy. They assume human form and the crew of the enterprise takes advantage of this by satisfying their various temptations of the flesh.

51.  Return to Tomorrow - Answering an S.O.S. from a dead planet, the crew find three beings who have encased their minds in containers, and wish to "borrow" the bodies of Kirk, Spock and Dr. Anne Mulhall while building android bodies for themselves.

52.  Patterns of Force - When the Enterprise arrives for a routine check of Ekos, they come under nuclear attack, and find that a Federation historian has violated the prime directive and inadvertently effected a chilling recreation of Nazi Germany.

53.  The Ultimate Computer - In spite of Kirk's misgivings. Starfleet allows a new computer, M-5 to control the Enterprise in a test with a reduced crew. During manoeuvres, the M-5 destroys another starship, and refuses to return control of the ship to Kirk.

54.  The Omega Glory - The Exeter is discovered orbiting Omega IV its crew turned to powder by a virus. Kirk, Spock and McCoy beam down to the planet's surface to discover the Exeter's captain has violated the prime directive in search of immortality.



55.  Assignment: Earth - The Enterprise returns to Earth of the late '60s and encounter Gary Seven, an Earthling raised by mysterious aliens. Armed with a nasty little weapon he appears determined to cause a rocket mishap that will trigger WWIII. Kirk and Spock race to stop him, while realizing that they're not in their correct era and could cause more harm than good.

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