Star Trek 6: The Undiscovered Country (4 Stars)

This was an emotional film for the cast of the Star Trek TV series. It was the last film in which they appeared together. From left to right we can see Spock (Leonard Nimoy), McCoy (DeForest Kelley), Chekov (Walter Koenig), James T. Kirk (William Sharner), Scotty (James Doohan) and Uhura (Nichelle Nicholls). Who's missing? The tattered chair at the front is empty, because Sulu (George Takei) has been promoted to captain of a shiny new starship, the Excelsior.

Sulu appears in a few scenes, but never together with the others because he's on board a different ship. I've never seen him smiling as smugly as in the opening scenes when he's just recorded his captain's log with the information that he's completed his first three-year mission. It's as if he's out of character and he's smiling in front of his fans, telling them "Look how far I've come".

Janice Rand (Grace Lee Whitney) also appears as the communications officer on the Excelsior. There's no reason that she should be there, as far as the story is concerned. She was just included to make the Star Trek fans happy. She was a minor character who only appeared in eight episodes of the original series, but she won over the hearts of the fans and they wanted to see her again.

This film answers questions that fans had been asking for the last four years. When "Star Trek: The Next Generation" started in 1987 the Klingons were members of the United Federation of Planets after being bitter enemies in the original series. How did it happen? "The Undiscovered Country" tells the story in a very elegant way. The Klingons are a race of warriors, so it would have been infeasible for them to suddenly become peaceful. They began negotiations out of a position of weakness. A natural disaster polluted the atmosphere of the Klingon Empire, so they were facing extinction within 50 years. In theory they could have started a war to conquer planets where they could relocate, but they chose to seek peace with the Federation instead.

Peace isn't easy after so many years of war. An alliance of humans, Vulcans, Romulans and Klingons tries to execute the leader of the Klingons in order to torpedo the peace deal.

Unlike the previous five films there are subtle humorous touches in "The Undiscovered Country". The Klingons are of the opinion that William Shakespeare was a Klingon playwright whose works were later translated into English. That's an interesting theory. Kirk's main enemy in the film is Chang, a Klingon general who is constantly quoting Shakespeare. It's difficult not to like him, because his literary quotes give him an aura of dignity. Am I too old to start quoting Shakespeare?

After having re-watched the first six Star Trek films over the last six months I have to praise their quality. They're nowhere near as bad as many people claim. I can see how they sometimes depart from the atmosphere of the original TV series, but they're a worthy epilogue to the adventures of Captain Kirk and his comrades.

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Star Trek 5: The Final Frontier (4½ Stars)

Of all the Star Trek films starring the original cast, this is the one I like the most. It's ironic that it was the least successful film at the box office, and also the film with the lowest rating from the critics. It's possible that I'm biased because the film's topic and its philosophical background appeal to me.

There's a planet in the Neutral Zone, Nimbus 3, which has been designated a planet of peace, where members of the three rival empires can live together side by side. To facilitate this, weapons have been banned on the planet. That's the theory, at least. The descendants of the original settlers have degenerated into savages. Since they aren't allowed to import weapons from other planets they've developed their own primitive weapons which resemble the old guns from the 15th Century. They aren't as efficient as phasers, but they can still kill. Official representatives from the Federation, the Klingons and the Romulans sit in sleazy bars drinking alcohol to pass the time.

A Vulcan renegade called Sybok, who happens to be Spock's never previously mentioned half-brother, kidnaps the representatives to attract a starship. The Enterprise is the ship sent to Nimbus 3. Sybok takes over the ship by using a subtle form of brainwashing. His intention is to fly to the centre of the galaxy to a legendary place called Shakari where it's said that God lives.

I think I'm allowed to use spoilers with a film that's almost 30 years old. When Sybok, Kirk, Spock and McCoy finally meet the supreme being in Shakari they're initially in awe, until they realise he's not omnipotent. He claims to be the God behind countless religions on Earth and other planets, but he's trapped in Shakari and needs a starship to escape. When Kirk refuses to give him the Enterprise he gets angry and attacks Kirk.

This is proof to the four travellers that the being on Shakari is a fake God.

I'm not so convinced.

Read the story of Moses in the Old Testament. Is that an omnipotent God? Is that a God who never loses his temper?

The God of Moses was carried by Israelites in a vessel commonly called the Tabernacle or the Ark of the Covenant. Why did an omnipotent God need to be carried? If you reply that he didn't need to be carried, he just wanted to, my question is how was it possible to carry God?

God became angry when the Israelites prayed to the Golden Calf. He wanted to destroy them and create a new race descended from Moses alone. He changed His mind after Moses pleaded with Him. Can God change his mind? There are numerous theological excuses for this, but that's all they are: excuses.

Maybe this being really was God the Creator, but the question is whether Kirk as a representative of mankind should want Him to return. If God is trapped on a planet in a remote part of the galaxy, why not leave Him there? We can get by without Him. Nietzsche said that God is dead, but maybe He's only trapped. This gives mankind the responsibility of deciding whether or not to free Him. Atheists don't have a choice. Anyone who doesn't believe in God, whether it's through ignorance or a conscious choice, has rejected the responsibility. It's a difficult and monumentally important choice for those who believe in God to decide whether they want to invite Him back to rule over mankind.

There's a small piece of trivia I'd like to share with you about the film. It ends with Kirk, Spock and McCoy on shore leave, sitting around a camp fire in Yosemite National Park. This wasn't just the last scene of the film, it was the last day of shooting. After the wrap the three actors remained around the fire eating and drinking until late into the night, reminiscing about the times they'd spent together making the television series 20 years previously. They were more than actors, they were friends, and they remained friends for the rest of their lives.

DeForest Kelly (Leonard McCoy) passed away on June 11th 1999.

Leonard Nimoy (Spock) passed away on February 27th 2015.

William Shatner (Jim Kirk) is still alive today, aged 87 and in good health. "Star Trek 5" prophecies that he would outlive his friends. In the opening scene he says that he knows he will die alone.

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Star Trek 4: The Voyage Home (4 Stars)

The plot of this film is undoubtedly the most ridiculous of all the Star Trek films. It's so unfeasible that it sounds like a parody.

The Earth is being destroyed by an unmanned alien vessel. Spock deduces that the only way to save the Earth is to travel back to the 20th Century to find whales able to talk to the vessel.

Did Nichelle Nichols ever dream she would have to deliver a line like that? No wonder her face looks so horrified.

But let me go out on a limb. However ridiculous the plot sounds, it works. I've watched this film a few times, and the plot never bothers me. Within the parameters of the Star Trek universe it's credible. It's a lot better than any of the films made since the franchise was rebooted with new actors in 2009. I could imagine this story having been made as an episode of the original series 20 years earlier. That's the highest compliment I can give it.

Nevertheless, I can't help wondering how the story was sold to the studio bosses who probably weren't Star Trek fans. Didn't the plot outline make them throw their arms in the air in dismay? Maybe the story was acceptable as a conservationist epic. In 1986 humpback whales were in danger of becoming extinct. The film assumes that by the 23rd Century they will already be extinct. This is short-sighted, because only humpback whales can save humanity. Save the whales! That's a slogan the screenwriters had to keep chanting to drown out the complaints from the studio bosses.

Somehow I always feel sad when I see Leonard Nimoy in a Star Trek film. He's not the only one of the original cast who's died, but he's the one I miss the most.

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Star Trek 3: The Search for Spock (4 Stars)

Spock is dead. Long live Spock!

At the end of the second Star Trek film Spock died. His death scene and his funeral are shown again at the beginning of this film. Soon afterwards we're given hints that he might not be dead after all.

Spock's father, Ambassador Sarek, comes to visit Jim Kirk to ask him why he didn't preserve Spock's consciousness before his death. It's customary for a Vulcan to pass on his essence, made up of his memories and his soul, to his best friend by mind meld before his death. This had not been possible because Spock was already trapped inside the warp drive containment room when Jim arrived. However, it's discovered that he had already mind melded with Leonard McCoy a few minutes earlier.

It's then revealed that the power of the Genesis Project has caused Spock's dead body to regenerate, so he's now been reborn as a young but rapidly ageing child on the planet called Genesis. Sarek requests that Spock's essence be transferred back from McCoy to Spock's body in a rarely used Vulcan ceremony called fal-tor-pan.

My question is, what's done with Vulcan essences if the body isn't miraculously regenerated? It was unexpected for Spock's body to return. Would the essence have remained in McCoy, transferred to an unborn child or stored in a Vulcan essence super-computer? Has this question ever been answered in the Star Trek canon? Please let me know.

Saavik (Robin Curtis)

Saavik (Kirstie Alley)

I felt slightly disappointed when I saw that Saavik was played by a different actress in this film. I don't like inconsistencies in casting in film series. Look how "The Dark Knight" was spoilt by replacing Katie Holmes with Maggie Gyllenhaal. However, I changed my mind as the film progressed. Robin Curtis looks more like a Vulcan than Kirstie Alley. I hope that doesn't offend any of my Vulcan readers. It might just be that I'm prejudiced in my ideas of what Vulcans should look like. At the fal-tor-pan ceremony there's a Vulcan banging a gong who looks Chinese. Maybe there's more racial diversity among the Vulcans than I suspect.

And while we're on the subject of the women in the film, could it be that Nichelle Nicholls is getting more beautiful with age? I liked her appearance in the last two films, but she looks even better now. She's stunning, even at the age of 52.

"Star Trek 3" has a minimal cast, compared to the previous films. We're used to seeing dozens of extras playing the crew of the Enterprise. In this film Jim Kirk steals the Enterprise from a space dock, so his only companions are his closest friends: McCoy, Scotty, Sulu and Chekov. Uhura and Saavik join him later.

This is an odd film. Is it worse than the even films? I don't think so. It's just as good as the second film, "The Wrath of Khan".

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Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan (4 Stars)

Very often after watching a film, especially old films, I read the thoughts of other fans and critics before starting my review. I don't want to copy them, but I'm looking for inspiration and possibly trivia about the making of the film that I didn't already know. In the case of "Star Trek 2", released 35 years ago in 1982, there are literally hundreds of online reviews. I checked a few of them, but I'll only pick up on one statement. One writer wrote that "all Star Trek fans agree that Star Trek 2 is the best Star Trek movie". He should change that to "almost all". Admittedly, it's a long time since I watched the films, but as I remember I enjoyed the fourth film the most. I'll get round to reviewing it soon.

Having said that, I need to praise one thing about the film. The scene in which the two star ships manoeuvre around one another in the Nebula is more like a Star Trek episode than anything else in the film series. It's a classic battle of wits, Jim Kirk as he was before his promotion to Admiral. Maybe this is why so many Star Trek fans call it the best film?

This is a sequel to "Space Seed" an episode in the first season of "Star Trek". It features the return of Khan, a genetically engineered human being from the 20th Century, who was exiled at the end of the television episode. Khan says that it's been 17 years since his exile, but this is possibly incorrect. It's 17 years in our time, because the episode was aired in 1967 and the film was made in 1982. The first Star Trek film takes place two and a half years after the end of the Enterprise's five-year journey, of which the first three years were shown (out of order) in the TV series. Assuming that the adventure with Khan took place in the first year that would mean the first film took place about seven years after Khan's banishment. It's not clear how much time has passed between the first two Star Trek films, but it's obviously less than 10 years.

Stardates can be used as clues, but they don't help much, despite the attempts of Star Trek apologists to correlate them to our time. The whole point of using stardates in the original series was to prevent viewers being able to pinpoint the real dates of the episodes. As stated in the writer's guide for the original series:

We invented "Stardate" to avoid continually mentioning Star Trek's century (actually, about two hundred years from now), and getting into arguments about whether this or that would have developed by then. Pick any combination of four numbers plus a percentage point, use it as your story's stardate. For example, 1313.5 is twelve o'clock noon of one day and 1314.5 would be noon of the next day. Each percentage point is roughly equivalent to one-tenth of one day. The progression of stardates in your script should remain constant but don't worry about whether or not there is a progression from other scripts. Stardates are a mathematical formula which varies depending on location in the galaxy, velocity of travel, and other factors, can vary widely from episode to episode.

The stardate for any episode is random, according to the writer's guide, but it's a number of days. If we wanted to be pedantic in our analysis we would get into contradictions. The earliest episode is "Where no man has gone before" (Stardate 1312.4), and the last episode is "All our yesterdays" (Stardate 5943.7). That means the last adventure takes place 4630 days after the first, which is more than 12 years. So much for the "five year journey". The first adventure of "Star Trek: The Next Generation" takes place in Stardate 41153.7, which would be 96 years after "All our yesterdays". That sounds roughly right, but I think it's more by chance than deliberate. Each Star Trek series has aligned its stardates differently, making an exact analysis impossible.

One big improvement in the second film is that the costumes have been improved. The Star Fleet insignia are now metal badges. In the first film they looked like patches sewn onto sweatshirts.

There's something curious in this film. There's a new Vulcan officer, Lieutenant Saavik. Jim Kirk repeatedly addresses her as "Mr. Saavik". Is this supposed to imply that in future generations gender-specific titles will be abolished? Or does it mean that Kirk is getting old and can't tell the difference any more?

It's also significant that at Spock's funeral Saavik is the only person crying. Even pure-blooded Vulcans have difficulty keeping their emotions under control.

I just mentioned that Spock dies in this film. I hope that's not a spoiler for the 0.2% of the world's population who haven't seen this film yet. Yes, he dies, but he comes back to life in the third film, which I intend to watch tomorrow. That's just like in Marvel comics: "Nobody remains dead except for Bucky Barnes and Ben Parker". (Except that Bucky Barnes didn't remain dead, and Ben Parker has to die again every time the Spider-Man film franchise is rebooted). What I'm curious about is whether Spock was intended to remain dead when "Star Trek 2" was made. I haven't managed to find a clear answer online. Indirectly the answer is Yes, because William Shatner says he expected it to be the last Star Trek film. Luckily for us fans he was wrong.

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Star Trek: The Motion Picture (4 Stars)

There are two conflicting opinions about the Star Trek films. Some people say that the odd-numbered Star Trek films suck. Others say that they all suck. Both opinions are generalisations that I can't accept, but I do have to admit one thing: none of the Star Trek films are as good as the television series that they're based on.

I don't blame the writers or directors of the Star Trek films. I blame the source material. Even though the original Star Trek series, broadcast from 1966 to 1969, was made up of standalone episodes, we still needed to watch a lot of episodes to get to know the characters. This is in contrast to films, where only a few minutes are available to introduce characters before their story begins.

This film was made in 1979, ten years after the last episode of the TV series was broadcast. This anniversary is only a coincidence. In the late 1970's there were plans to make a new Star Trek series featuring the original cast. After the massive success of "Star Wars" in 1977 the studios decided they could make more money with a film than with a new series. They were probably right. A successful film earns millions within a few weeks of being released, more than a successful TV series earns in years. It's a shame that money is the most important factor when it comes to making art. A new TV series would have been far superior.

The film assumes that the viewers are already familiar with the TV series. That was a reasonable assumption. Despite being prematurely cancelled because of poor viewing figures, throughout the 1970's the series was being repeated on American television all year round. The popularity was surging. In the 1960's Star Trek was ahead of its time, but in the 1970's audiences were catching up. For this reason, none of the members of the original cast are explicitly introduced. We know who they are. As soon as we see William Shatner walking through Star Fleet headquarters we immediately know that he's Captain James Kirk. We're only slightly wrong. We're told that he's been promoted to the rank of admiral.

Leonard Nimoy returns as the half human, half Vulcan Spock. He seems colder than he was in the TV series. Maybe this is deliberate, because Spock has spent the last few years further suppressing his emotions. Maybe it's just Leonard's personal interpretation of the role changing over the years.

DeForest Kelley is third of the main trilogy of characters from the series in his role as Leonard "Bones" McCoy. In the film his technophobia is exaggerated, making him a caricature of his former self. He's more of a moaner and a whiner than he was in the series.

I'm glad to see that Nichelle Nicholls is back as Uhura. She hardly aged in her ten years. My only problem is the uniform. In the series the women wore super-short mini-dresses that hardly covered anything. Now the short dresses are gone and she keeps her legs covered. Why? Are uniform regulations changed so often in Star Fleet? The new Star Trek films also get the uniforms wrong.

This screenshot of Uhura from the original series shows what the Star Trek uniforms should look like. This is how the women should dress in all future films and TV series. No excuses allowed!

Despite his relatively small screen time in the TV series, Scotty, played by James Doohan, was always one of my favourite characters. I can relate to him, because he talks the way I did in my career as a programmer. He says he needs 48 hours to do a job; he's told he only has six hours; he complains that the new schedule is unrealistic, but he manages to do the job in six hours anyway.

One of the standard themes of the original Star Trek series was that on their journeys the crew of the Enterprise regularly met alien races who were so far superior that they could barely be understood. This aspect was toned down in "Star Trek: The Next Generation" (TNG). In TNG there are occasionally far superior beings, such as Q, but humans are generally shown travelling in space as equals to the other races that they meet. In many episodes the races encountered are culturally and technologically far inferior, which is why the Prime Directive is mentioned a lot more frequently in TNG.

In this film we return to the theme of the Starship Enterprise unfathomably superior beings. A creature is travelling across space destroying everything in its path. It's heading towards the Earth, because it wants to merge with Earth's creator. Didn't anyone tell him that God is dead?

"Star Trek: The Motion Picture" isn't a bad film. I enjoy it. But it's not up to the level of the TV series. Not even close.

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R.I.P. Leonard Nimoy

You and I have learned the song of love, and we sing it well.

The song is ageless, passed on heart to heart

By those who have seen what we see 

And known what we know 

And lovers who have sung before.

Our love is ours to have and to share.

The miracle is this: the more we share, the more we have.

Yesterday a great man passed from this Earth, a man who will be remembered for generations to come. I'm sure that if he could hear me praising him he would casually dismiss it and say he was just a normal man. Such modesty only makes him even greater in my eyes. Leonard Nimoy, in his portrayal of Spock in the original "Star Trek" series, was both fascinating and inspiring. He was a half-breed, with a Vulcan father and a human mother, a man struggling to find his identity. He chose to follow the path of his father, but he still carried his mother's traits in him, the emotions that he considered to be weakness. This was, of course, an allegory for modern man. Are we to follow our head or our heart?

Today I watched three "Star Trek" episodes in remembrance of Leonard Nimoy.

1. The Galileo Seven (first season)
2. Where no man has gone before (the second pilot)
3. Mirror, Mirror (the second season)

"The Galileo Seven" is probably my favourite episode from the whole series. It's also an episode that shines a spotlight on Spock's struggle between logic and emotion more than any other. He's stranded without Captain Kirk on a hostile planet and has to take command of the six men with him to escape from the planet. All his decisions are correct and logical, but he has to admit that the situation is steadily worsening. In the end he saves the others by making an irrational act of desperation, which he later tries to deny.

"Where no man has gone before" is a pilot episode, the second pilot that was made after the original pilot, "The Cage", was rejected. It shows a slightly different Spock. His skin is more yellowy than in the later episodes, and he shouts a lot. He says that "one of his ancestors" married an Earth woman, although it was established in later episodes that his mother was human. Apologists try to argue that he said "one of his ancestors" to play down his human heritage, but the fact is that it was a mistake. The series was in its formative phase, and it hadn't yet been decided that he would be half human. We see something similar in "The Sopranos", where the cafe Satriale's is called Centrali's in the first episode.

"Mirror, Mirror" is one of my favourite episodes, despite the logical problems it creates. I like it because it's the only episode in which Lt. Uhura (Nichelle Nichols) wears thigh high boots. But it's also the only episode in which Spock has a beard.

William Shatner may have been the series' leading actor as Captain James Kirk, but for me it was Leonard Nimoy who made "Star Trek" truly great. He could express the deepest emotions with his facial expressions, the very expressions that his character was trying to hide. The following six screenshots from the end of "The Galileo Seven" show what I mean.

Apart from being an actor, Leonard Nimoy was a taxi driver and a poet. Driving a taxi was his regular day job while he was a small-time actor struggling to make ends meet. Ironically, when "Star Trek" was cancelled after only three seasons he went back to driving a taxi. "Star Trek" was ahead of its time in 1969. The series wasn't fully appreciated until years later. Still, I wish I'd been around to hail a cab in New York and be picked up by this amazing man. That would have been an experience.

I first heard about Leonard Nimoy's poetry in the late 1970's. I was talking with some fellow "Star Trek" friends, and one of them said, "Did you know that Leonard Nimoy writes poetry? Don't bother with it, it's crap". But I was curious, so I bought a book, and it was very good. Maybe my friend thought it was crap because it wasn't at all like Spock. Spock speaks of logic, but Leonard Nimoy writes about love. The poem at the head of this post is a typical example.

Leonard Nimoy
March 26, 1931 – February 27, 2015

TV Series: Star Trek

I just want to make a few remarks about the order in which the episodes in the original series are presented in the currently available DVD box sets, which isn't optimal. There are several ways to order the episodes:

1. The broadcast order (the order in which they were originally shown on American television, and is also used for the DVD box set releases).
2. The production order (the order in which they were made, which is also the order in which they were first shown on British television).
3. The stardate order (the order in which the episodes "really happened", which is based on the captain's log entries in the episodes).

The most useful order to watch the series in is the production order, because this best shows the development of the characters. This is most obvious in the case of Spock, who often raised his voice in the first few episodes filmed, but spoke more calmly as Leonard Nimoy developed a style for his character. The costumes were inconsistent in the first episodes until the producers decided what ranks should wear what colour.

Stardates are useful to know the order in which things happened, but it's impossible to correlate stardates and real dates as we know them. The series creator Gene Roddenberry used "stardates" because he didn't want people to fix dates. All he wanted the viewer to know was that the adventures happened in the future. It's been suggested that 1000 stardate units express one year in the original series. In "Star Trek: TNG" one stardate unit is one day. In the films there are further inconsistencies that make an exact correlation impossible.

The following table (which can be copied and pasted into a spreadsheet) lists the name, production number and stardate of each episode. Five episodes have no stardate, so a sensible guess has been made where they fit in. The pilot episode, "The Cage", is said to have taken place 11 years before stardate 3012, which would put it in a pre-stardate era.

Episode	Name	Prod-Nr	Star-Nr	Stardate
1.01	The Man Trap	6	5	1513.1
1.02	Charlie X	8	6	1533.6
1.03	Where No Man Has Gone Before	2	2	1312.4
1.04	The Naked Time	7	8	1704.2
1.05	The Enemy Within	5	7	1672.1
1.06	Mudd's Women	4	3	1329.8
1.07	What Are Little Girls Made Of?	10	12	2712.4
1.08	Miri	12	13	2713.5
1.09	Dagger of the Mind	11	14	2715.1
1.10	The Corbomite Maneuver	3	4	1512.2
1.11	The Menagerie Part I	16	18	3012.4
1.12	The Menagerie Part II	16	19	3013.1
1.13	The Conscience of the King	13	15	2817.6
1.14	Balance of Terror	9	9	1709.2
1.15	Shore Leave	17	21	3025.3
1.16	The Galileo Seven	14	16	2821.5
1.17	The Squire of Gothos	18	10	2124.5
1.18	Arena	19	22	3045.6
1.19	Tomorrow Is Yesterday	21	24	3113.2
1.20	Court Martial	15	17	2947.3
1.21	The Return of the Archons	22	27	3156.2
1.22	Space Seed	24	26	3141.9
1.23	A Taste of Armageddon	23	28	3192.1
1.24	This Side of Paradise	25	35	3417.3
1.25	The Devil in the Dark	26	29	3196.1
1.26	Errand of Mercy	27	30	3198.4
1.27	The Alternative Factor	20	23	3087.6
1.28	The City on the Edge of Forever	28	25	3134.0
1.29	Operation: Annihilate!	29	33	3287.2
2.01	Amok Time	34	34	3372.7
2.02	Who Mourns for Adonais?	33	36	3468.1
2.03	The Changeling	37	39	3541.9
2.04	Mirror Mirror	39	40	3580.0	(approx)
2.05	The Apple	38	43	3715.3
2.06	The Doomsday Machine	35	46	4202.9
2.07	Catspaw	30	20	3018.2
2.08	I Mudd	41	51	4513.3
2.09	Metamorphosis	31	32	3219.4
2.10	Journey to Babel	44	44	3842.3
2.11	Friday's Child	32	38	3497.2
2.12	The Deadly Years	40	37	3478.2
2.13	Obsession	47	42	3619.2
2.14	Wolf in the Fold	36	41	3614.9
2.15	The Trouble With Tribbles	42	52	4523.3
2.16	The Gamesters of Triskelion	46	31	3211.8
2.17	A Piece of the Action	49	53	4598.0
2.18	The Immunity Syndrome	48	48	4307.1
2.19	A Private Little War	45	47	4211.4
2.20	Return to Tomorrow	51	57	4768.3
2.21	Patterns of Force	52	11	2534.0
2.22	By Any Other Name	50	54	4657.5
2.23	The Omega Glory	54	55	4690.0	(approx)
2.24	The Ultimate Computer	53	56	4729.4
2.25	Bread and Circuses	43	45	4040.7
2.26	Assignment: Earth	55	59	4990.0	(approx)
3.01	Spock's Brain	61	64	5431.4
3.02	The Enterprise Incident	59	60	5027.3
3.03	The Paradise Syndrome	58	58	4842.6
3.04	And the Children Shall Lead	60	61	5029.5
3.05	Is There in Truth No Beauty?	62	67	5630.7
3.06	Spectre of the Gun	56	50	4385.3
3.07	Day of the Dove	66	68	5660.0	(approx)
3.08	For the World Is Hollow	65	65	5476.3
3.09	The Tholian Web	64	69	5693.2
3.10	Plato's Stepchildren	67	74	5784.2
3.11	Wink of an Eye	68	70	5710.5
3.12	The Empath	63	62	5121.5
3.13	Elaan of Troyius	57	49	4372.5
3.14	Whom Gods Destroy	71	71	5718.3
3.15	Let That Be Your Last Battlefield	70	73	5730.2
3.16	The Mark of Gideon	72	63	5423.4
3.17	That Which Survives	69	66	5579.0	(approx)
3.18	The Lights of Zetar	73	72	5725.3
3.19	Requiem for Methuselah	76	77	5843.7
3.20	The Way to Eden	75	76	5832.3
3.21	The Cloud Minders	74	75	5818.4
3.22	The Savage Curtain	77	78	5906.4
3.23	All Our Yesterdays	78	80	5943.7
3.24	Turnabout Intruder	79	79	5928.5
0.01	The Cage	1	1	0.0

TV Series: Star Trek

Don't you just hate it when you have to take one disk out of a box to get to another? They should ban DVD boxes like this. It's disgusting!

Good tv series, though.