This week’s classic Star Trek episode is Obsession. You can watch the episode on the official Star Trek site here and the episode synopsis is here. While on a routine survey mission Kirk and the landing party encounter a deadly cloud creature capable of draining all the red blood cells from your body. Kirk on his first deep space mission eleven years ago encountered the creature while serving on the USS Farragut commanded by Captain Garrovick. Ignoring his next mission to deliver much needed medical supplies Kirk goes on an obsessive quest to destroy the creature. Kirk blames himself for hesitating back then and costing the lives of half of the crew of the Farragut and Captain Garrovick.

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A guest blog by Mindless-Droid

This week’s classic Star Trek episode is The Deadly Years you can see the episode synopsis here http://www.startrek.com/database_article/deadly-years-the but for some reason the episode is missing from the official sites video list. Here’s the link to the episode page on Memory Alpha

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A guest blog by Mindless-Droid

“Perhaps to be a Teer is to see in new ways. I begin to like you, Earthman… and I saw fear in the Klingon’s eye.”

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A guest blog by Mindless-Droid

“Threats are illogical. And payment is usually expensive.” Sarek of Vulcan

This week’s classic Star Trek episode is Journey to Babel you can watch the original version on the official site here http://www.startrek.com/watch_episode/GtLcottjZf2a and the episode synopsis is here http://www.startrek.com/database_article/journey-to-babel . This episode brings a lot of new things to the table in the original series. We are introduced to several new alien members of the Federation plus we get to meet Spock’s parents and delve a little deeper into Vulcan society.

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