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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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#51: Star Trek: The Original Series, season 2, episode 17 "A Piece of the Action"

Written by David P. Harmon & Gene L. Coon, directed by James Komack.

Stardate unknown (July 2268)

"Astonishing. An entire culture based on this." - Commander Spock

The Enterprise follows a transmission from a Starfleet vessel lost over 100 years ago, the Horizon. to the Sigma Iota system. Because the message was sent using conventional radio instead of subspace, it originated from a time before the Federation's non-interference laws and the crew prepares to meet a culture that has been contaminated by Human contact. Captain Kirk receives instructions to beam down from an odd-sounding person and the away team finds themselves standing in the middle of a city designed to look like Chicago in the early 20th century, surrounded by gun-toting gangsters.

Originally released: 12 January 1968

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World Is Dancing, episode 1

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Not much of a joke to this one, just Gomez doing a spooky shadow puppet for Wednesday, as Morticia looks on.

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That time their grandparents annexed territory from the Czech Republic.

Every month 14 ships leave a quiet port on the west coast of Ireland, carrying alumina towards St Petersburg.

Alumina is a fine white powder. Once smelted, it becomes aluminium, a metal essential to modern industry and also to military production, including aircraft, armoured vehicles, missiles and other weapons systems.

I began investigating this supply chain after reading a report in The Irish Times earlier this year. I contacted the refinery with questions, but my calls and emails went unanswered.

So I booked a flight home to Ireland and decided to investigate it myself.

What I expected to be a short report about a single supply route became one of the largest and most difficult investigations I have ever undertaken.

It led me through the ownership of the refinery, its connections to Russia, the environmental damage experienced by people living nearby, the silence surrounding the operation and the political system that allowed it to continue largely unchallenged.

I met local people who had been asking questions for years. Farmers who said their lives had been devastated. Workers who were frightened to speak publicly. Independent reporters who had tried to raise the alarm long before the rest of the country began paying attention.

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The videos received more than 11 million views across my platforms. Within days, the investigation moved from social media into local, national and international coverage. Ministers were questioned. European officials became involved. A refinery that very few people had heard of suddenly became the centre of a major argument about Ireland, Russia, sanctions and the war in Ukraine.

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It includes the investigation itself, the people we met, the political confrontations, the moments that happened behind the scenes and the extraordinary chain of events that followed once the public began paying attention.

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The original Sci-Fi Channel special from 1996.

The Making of Star Trek Deep Space Nine Trials And Tribble-ations was a documentary which was broadcast on the Sci-Fi Channel in the US on November 4th, 1996. The documentary looks at the writing and production of the episode and features footage filmed during production of the episode. Some of the interviews later appeared as special features in the DS9 Season 5 DVD.

The documentary features interviews from the actors Terry Farrell, Armin Shimerman, Rene Auberjonois, Alexander Siddig, Colm Meaney, Cirroc Lofton, Michael Dorn, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei, and Charlie Brill; the writers Ira Steven Behr, Rick Berman, Ronald D. Moore, Rene Echevarria and David Gerrold; and the production staffers Gary Hutzel, Herman Zimmerman, Michael Westmore, Michael Okuda, Joe Longo, Dennis Madalone, Mary Ellen Bosché, Kevin Bouchez, and Don Lee.

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According to a school official, the instructor's family says he saw a psychiatrist last week.

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#50: Star Trek: The Original Series, season 2, episode 15 "The Trouble with Tribbles"

Written by David Gerrold, directed by Joseph Pevney.

Stardates 4523.3 through 4525.6 (July 2268)

"Well, the nearest thing I can figure is that they're born pregnant." - Doctor McCoy

The Enterprise is approaching Deep Space Station K-7, which is right on the border of Klingon Space and within range of a planet in dispute between them and the Federation, when K-7 issues a Priority-1 distress call. Captain Kirk orders the ship to race the rest of the way to the station. Only, once they arrive, Kirk doesn't find a battle, but a bureaucrat named Nilz Baris (William Schallert) flexing his authority and demanding Kirk's men guard a shipment of special grain designed to grow on the disputed planet. Kirk grits his teeth and tries to appease Baris while giving his crew shore leave aboard K-7 when a Klingon battleship appears. But instead of fighting, they insist on using K-7 for shore leave as well. Now two rival crews must share the same station where a shady character has merchandise to sell... including a fuzzy little creature called a Tribble.

Originally released: 29 December 1967

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In this video, we’ll explain the filmmaking process of Star Trek: First Contact (1996) and break down the CGI and VFX.

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A nice, little video focusing on how much First Contact relied on practical effect and how that made it age very well.

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#49: Star Trek: The Original Series, season 2, episode 8 "I, Mudd"

Written by Stephen Kandel, directed by Marc Daniels.

Stardate 4513.3 (July 2268)

"This place is even better than Leningrad!" - Ensign Chekov

A man named Crewman Norman transfers aboard the Enterprise. After days of rubbing Doctor McCoy the wrong way for his robotic behavior, Norman forced his way into auxiliary control with superhuman strength and sabotages the Enterprise into redirecting to coordinates in unknown space. Once the sabotage is complete, and measures are taken to prevent the crew of the Enterprise from undoing it without destroying the ship in the process, Norman reveals he is an android and shuts down until the days-long journey is completed. There, in orbit of an unknown planet, Norman tells Captain Kirk, Commander Spock, Doctor McCoy, Lieutenant Uhura, and Ensign Chekov to beam to the surface saying that his kind needs their help. On the surface, Norman introduces the away party to his master; Harcourt Fenton Mudd. Mudd announces that he is the King of this planet and that they are staying there for the rest of their lives.

Originally released: 3 November 1967

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