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#52: Star Trek: The Original Series, season 2, episode 22 "By Any Other Name"
Written by D.C. Fontana & Jerome Bixby, directed by Marc Daniels.
Stardates 4657.5 through 4658.9 (August 2268)
"To use this ship, you have a to use our form." - Captain Kirk
Captain Kirk beams down to a lush planet with an away team to track down the source of a distress call. Out from the trees emerge two humanoids with expressionless faces who confidently announce to Kirk that they will take over his ship. The moment Kirk begins to protest, the aliens freeze the entire landing party in place with some sort of device. The y are held captive on the planet while more of their kind materialize on the Enterprise through the shields and systematically take over the ship. They are Kelvans from the Andromeda galaxy. They crashed in the Milky Way galaxy when their scout ship passed through the galactic barrier and they need the Enterprise to return home - a 300-year journey across the void between galaxies.
Originally released: 23 February 1968
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What did you think?
Ooof.
Laddie, I was terrified by... yes.
Some of our beloved crew.
Reduced to little geometric forms, then crushed in front of our eyes.
I hated that like I've never hated TOS before.