User:Wikip rhyre/Star Trek TOS Episode Themes

Kirk uses the power of logic to convince a computer to shutdown or self-destruct.

• The Return of the Archons
• I, Mudd
• The Ultimate Computer
• The Changeling

Kirk travels to a strange planet and encounters a weird creature.

• The Squire of Gothos
• Shore Leave (Star Trek)
• The Man Trap
• Operation Annihilate
• Arena (Star Trek)
• What Are Little Girls Made Of?
• The Devil in the Dark
• Catspaw (Star Trek)
• Metamorphosis (Star Trek)
• Wolf in the Fold
• Who Mourns for Adonais?
• The Apple (Star Trek)
• A Private Little War
• Requiem for Methuselah
• Obsession (Star Trek)
• The Savage Curtain
• By Any Other Name
• And the Children Shall Lead
• The Empath

• Return to Tomorrow

Kirk woos a nice lady from another planet:

• Elaan of Troyius
• The Paradise Syndrome
• Is There in Truth No Beauty?
• Wink of an Eye
• Requiem for Methuselah
• The Mark of Gideon

The Enterprise visits a planet of English-speaking people with a serious social problem.

• A Private Little War (War)
• The Mark of Gideon (Overpopulation)
• The Cloud Minders (Slavery)
• Let That Be Your Last Battlefield (Racial intolerance)
• The Way to Eden (Charismatic but psychotic leaders, or Dirty Hippies)

Spock must figure out a piece of alien technology to save lives.

• Spock's Brain
• The Paradise Syndrome
• For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky

Powerful beings mess with the crew of the Enterprise

• Return to Tomorrow
• Day of the Dove Ep66]]The Enterprise is invaded by an alien lifeform that transfers enemy Klingons to the starship and arms the Klingons and the Enterprise crew with swords.
• Operation Annihilate
• Arena (Star Trek)
• The Devil in the Dark
• Catspaw (Star Trek)
• Metamorphosis (Star Trek)
• Wolf in the Fold
• Who Mourns for Adonais?

• The Lights of Zetar Ep73

The Enterprise is besieged by an unfamiliar lifeform, twinkling lights that attack various areas of the human brain.

• Plato's Stepchildren Ep67

A literal battle of wills ensues when the arrogant sadistic inhabitants of Platonious orders Dr. McCoy to remain on their planet-and Kirk refuses.

• That Which Survives Ep69

An Enterprise landing party is stranded on a planet replete with inexplicable physical and biological phenomena, and a sad faced siren whose touch means instant death.

71 "WHOM GODS DESTROY" Kirk and Spock fall into the hands of Garth, the murderous leader of an inmates revolt at an intergalactic insane asylum.