One Perfect Shot: TOS ‘What Are Little Girls Made Of?’
The crew of the Enterprise goes in search of Roger Korby, a famous scientist missing for over five years and gets much more than they bargained for in season one’s ‘What Are Little Girls Made Of?‘....
View ArticleOne Perfect Shot: Star Trek’s ‘Miri’
In the entire history of Star Trek, episodes that feature stories centered on children are some of the weaker installments, but season one’s ‘Miri‘ is the exception to the rule. After responding to a...
View ArticleOne Perfect Shot: TOS ‘Dagger of the Mind’
While on a routine cargo drop to the Tantalus Penal Colony, the Enterprise takes on a stowaway, the violently insane Dr. Simon Van Gelder. The episode’s one perfect shot depicts Spock preparing for...
View ArticleOne Perfect Shot: TOS ‘The Corbomite Maneuver’
Back in 2006 CBS Home Video began airing the first episodes of Star Trek: The Original Series in their newly re-mastered format. These episodes featured improved CGI effects, HD picture quality and...
View ArticleOne Perfect Shot: TOS’s ‘The Menagerie Pt. I & II’
There are a few shots from the original series that fans like myself consider highly iconic. Today’s one perfect shot from the two-part episode The Menagerie is one such image. The shot features a...
View ArticleOne Perfect Shot: Star Trek’s ‘The Conscience of the King’
The Enterprise is called to Planet Q by Dr. Thomas Leighton, a research scientist and friend of Captain Kirk. Leighton’s suspects Anton Karidian, the leader of a Shakespearean acting troupe currently...
View ArticleOne Perfect Shot: Star Trek’s ‘The Balance of Terror’
The crew of the Enterprise gets their historic first look at the enigmatic Romulans as Kirk is called to defend a string of Federation outposts along the Neutral Zone. A mysterious ship that seems to...
View ArticleOne Perfect Shot: Star Trek’s ‘Shore Leave’
Some of my favorite episodes of classic Star Trek feature plots that venture from science fiction into the realm of the surreal. The series wasn’t afraid to take chances with stories that seemed...
View ArticleOne Perfect Shot: Star Trek’s ‘The Galileo Seven’
Back in 1967, fans of Star Trek were a little more than a dozen episodes into the new series and were craving to explore stories about one of their favorite new characters – the logical and enigmatic...
View ArticleOne Perfect Shot: Star Trek’s ‘The Squire of Gothos’
There are so many omnipotent aliens in Star Trek it’s hard even for a Trekker like myself to keep track of them all. One of the very first such super-beings Kirk and company encounter is Trelane of...
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