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Mr. Spock diverts the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701 to his home planet Vulcan, as it is his time to mate with his betrothed T'Pring. Captain Kirk and Dr. McCoy accompany Spock to the planet's surface, where his koon-ut-kal-if-fee marriage ceremony is set to take place. T'Pring exercises her right to choose a challenger to Spock, and surprisingly selects Kirk. Not knowing the fight is to the death, the Captain accepts, rather than allowing Spock to fight Stonn, whom T'Pring ultimately desires as her mate. During the fight, McCoy injects Kirk with a neural paralyzer simulating death, and the Vulcans, including Spock, believe Kirk to have been killed. Spock then releases T'Pring from her marriage obligation and returns to the ship, where he discovers Kirk alive.

"Amok Time" marked the first and only episode of the original Star Trek in which Mr. Spock's home planet Vulcan was seen. Several other important Vulcan firsts were featured, including the Vulcan phrase "Live Long and Prosper" and the Vulcan hand salute. Actor Lawrence Montaigne, who played Spock's rival Stonn in "Amok Time," had previously appeared in the episode "Balance of Terror" as a Romulan subcommander.

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Led by Captain Christopher Pike, the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701 responds to a 20-year-old distress signal emanating from planet Talos IV. Pike and his landing party soon learn that the distress signal was merely a ruse perpetrated by the mind-controlling Talosians, who capture the captain and attempt to mate him with the beautiful human Vina. The Talosians create a series of illusions, including Vina as an irresistable, green-skinned Orion slave woman. The Talosians mind tricks prove no match for the indomitable Pike, who ultimately permits Vina to remain among the aliens after finally discovering her beauty to be an illusion as well.

Although regarded as the very first episode of Star Trek and the show's original pilot, "The Cage" never aired during the show's initial run in the 1960s. This classic first episode did become the basis, however, for the two-part episode "The Menagerie," which aired during the show's first full season, 1966-67. The role of Captain Christopher Pike, originally played by Jeffrey Hunter, was also revived in "The Menagerie." When Hunter was unavailable the second time around, actor Sean Kenney stepped in as the extremely disfigured Pike.

Captain Kirk responds to a distress call from planet Beta XII-A only to discover the Federation colony there destroyed and a band of Klingons as the only suspects. Klingon commander Kang, however, accuses Kirk of disabling his own ship and attempts to take control of the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701. The culprit actually turns out to be an unknown energy being which thrives on the destruction and conflict. The energy being sends the Enterprise warping out of control as the confrontation with the Klingons intensifies. Kirk ultimately convinces Kang that they must set aside their differences in order to drive the alien being from the ship, and the two defeat their common enemy.

Famed character actor Michael Ansara played the Klingon warrior Kang, who would again appear on Star Trek Deep Space Nine nearly 30 years later in the episode "Blood Oath." Ansara appeared in that later episode along with William Campbell and John Colicos, who played the Klingons Koloth and Kor in the original Star Trek series. Although they were largely considered the Federation's greatest foes in the original Star Trek, the Klingons only appeared in five of the show's 79 episodes. The Klingons first appeared in "Errand of Mercy," followed by "Friday's Child," "The Trouble With Tribbles," "Day of the Dove" and "The Savage Curtain."

The U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701 travels to planet Janus VI to investigate mysterious deaths among a colany of pergium miners. Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock soon discover that the creature responsible for the deaths moves through solid rock as easily as humans move through air. Kirk and Spock hunt down the creature and wound it with phaser fire. Spock then performs the Vulcan mind meld in an attempt to communicate with it and learns it is called a "Horta," a silicon-based life form. Spock also learns that the Horta killed only to protect its eggs that the miners unwittingly had been destroying. After Dr. McCoy heals the creature, the miners and the Horta reach an agreement to work together to mine pergium, and peace is restored to the planet.

"The Devil in the Dark" marked the first time that Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy would utter his famous catchphrase "I'm a doctor, not a ______." When asked by Captain Kirk to heal the wounded, silicon-based Horta, McCoy retorted, "Im a doctor. not a bricklayer." McCoy later used his most memorable line in "Friday's Child" (escalator), "The Doomsday Machine" (mechanic), "Mirror Mirror" (engineer) and "The Empath" (coal miner). The late Janos Prohaska was once of the more prolific creators of alien beings during Star Trek's three-year run. He made and wore not only the Horta costume for "The Devil in the Dark" but also the anthropoid ape and humanoid bird in "The Cage," the Mugato in "A Private Little War" and the Excalbian Yarnek in "The Savage Curtain."

The U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701 enters Romulan space, where three Romulan war ships immediately surround it. The female Romulan commander arrests Captain Kirk for spying, and Mr. Spock assumes command of the Enterprise. Spock appears to betray the federation and to kill his captain with the mythical "Vulcan Death Grip." The ruse continues with Kirk being revived aboard the Enterprise and returning to the alien ship disguised as a Romulan. Meanwhile, Spock seduces the Romulan commander, whose distraction enables Kirk to steal her ships cloaking device. Mr. Scott enables the device, and the Enterprise escapes Romulan space.

"The Enterprise Incident" marked the second and last instance in which the Romulans were a featured enemy of the Federation during the original Star Trek series. The only other episode to involve the Romulans was "Balance of Terror" in the show's first season. This episode provided Mr. Spock with one of his rare opportunities to develop a personal relationship with a female. In addition to his involvement with the unnamed Romulan commander, the typically unemotional Spock also expressed rare feelings for Nurse Chapel in "The Naked Time," for Leila Kalomi in "This Side of Paradise," for T'Pring in "Amok Time," for Droxine in "The Cloudminders" and for Zarabeth in "All Our Yesterdays."