The last disc of season one only has two episodes. The first, The City On The Edge Of Forever, was broadcast April 6 1967. It's a pretty darn good episode. The Enterprise detects some temporal disturbances on a planet. Dr McCoy accidentally injects himself with a drug that makes him super crazy. He gets all paranoid and transports down the planet. Kirk some others beam down to look for him. McCoy manages to run into that portal above right. That's the Guardian Of Forever. It tells them that it's been there a long time and it likes questions. McCoy has gone to the Earth of the 1930's and changed the future. Kirk and Spock take the portal back in time and fix McCoy's blunder.
The Captain steals some clothes to hide their uniforms. They get jobs in a Mission run by Joan Collins and Jim falls for her. Sadly she has to die in the car accident that McCoy saved her from. She has to die or their future won't be the same. The German's will win WWII and that would be the end of that. Kirk and Spock are looking for McCoy and they find him just in time for Kirk to stop him from saving Joan. Sadly poor old Jim has to take a punch in this one. It's a great episode which won the 1968 Hugo for Best Dramatic Presentation. Harlan Ellison wrote and re-wrote the episode before it was ready for tv. His original treatment had drug dealing and physical Guardians of Forever. In the aired version the portal does all the talking. This is because it was too expensive to make a show as it was written. It was still one of the most expensive episodes to do. The average episode of Star Trek was about $185,000 and TCOTEOF was about $250,000. When Babylon 5 started airing in 1995 those episodes were about a half a million a pop and episodes of Deep Space Nine and Voyager were being produced for about a million bucks each.
Captain Kirk loses his brother in Operation: Annihilate! and that's just after losing Joan Collins. It a Tough life in the space fleet. Something has killed off the populations of several planets. I guess it's a tough life on planets too. If you travelled from the first planet that everyone died on to the last you'd travel in a path that would lead you to the planet that Kirk's brother is stationed at. They get there too late to save the brother but his wife and son are ok. They figure out what the problem is and how to take care of it.
I remembered the plastic fake barf like critters that are causing all the problems. They infect people and that eventually kills them. Spock gets infected and he manages to fight off the sickness with Dr McCoy's help. The cure blinds him but his super Vulcan eyelids help out. The last show of the first season aired April 13 1967 and while it wasn't as good as the previous episode it was pretty entertaining.
There a 90 minute doumentary called Beyond The Final Frontier that mixes cast and creator interviews with footage about a big auction of Star Trek ships and costumes and props. The people interviewed are from all the series not just the original and so were all the auction items. The interviews were ok and the stuff in the auction went for a lot of cash. It was cool to see the props as they were uncrated. The auction was only impressive for the cash flow. The other short featurette is about a Star Trek Online Game. I didn't really pay attention to it.
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