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Spock’s Brain | Star Trek: The Original Series Season 3 Episode 1 Review Brain and brain! What is brain? Season 3 of Star Trek: The Original Series opens with one of the most infamous episodes in franchise history. A mysterious alien woman beams onto the Enterprise, knocks out the crew, and surgically removes Spock’s brain. Captain Kirk and the team have just 24 hours to recover it before the Vulc...

The Enterprise slingshots back to 1968 for “historical research,” intercepts a mysterious transporter beam, and accidentally beams aboard the sharp-suited Gary Seven (Robert Lansing) and his black cat Isis. What follows is a backdoor pilot for a spin-off that never happened: Kirk and Spock chasing an alien-trained agent through 1960s New York, a rocket about to go nuclear, and a very young Teri Ga...

Bread and Circuses | Star Trek: The Original Series Season 2 Episode 25 Review | Sceam Me Up Botty Beam aboard for another wild parallel-Earth adventure on Sceam Me Up Botty. This week we’re diving into Bread and Circuses — the one where the Enterprise finds the wreckage of the SS Beagle and ends up on a planet that looks like 20th-century Earth… if Rome never fell. Gladiatorial death matches are...

The Ultimate Computer | Star Trek: The Original Series Season 2 Episode 24 Review What happens when Starfleet tries to replace the crew with a supercomputer? Dr. Richard Daystrom’s M-5 Multitronic Unit takes control of the Enterprise, and things go from efficient to catastrophic in a hurry. This week on Sceam Me Up Botty we dive into “The Ultimate Computer,” one of Season 2’s sharpest and most uns...

The Omega Glory | Star Trek: The Original Series Season 2 Episode 23 Review A parallel Earth. Two warring tribes. A sacred document that looks a lot like the U.S. Constitution. And Captain Kirk delivering one of the most memorable (and meme-worthy) speeches in Trek history. This week on sceam me up botty we beam straight into “The Omega Glory,” the Season 2 episode that mixes Cold War allegory, wi...

In this episode of Sceam Me Up Botty, we beam straight into one of Star Trek: The Original Series’ wildest second-season outings — “By Any Other Name” (Season 2, Episode 22). When the Enterprise is hijacked by a group of advanced aliens from the Andromeda galaxy who’ve taken human form, Kirk, Spock, and the crew find themselves reduced to polyhedrons, forced to play host, and scrambling for any ch...

Beam yourself up for another wild ride on Sceam Me Up Botty! This week we’re diving deep into Star Trek: The Original Series Season 2, Episode 21 — “Patterns of Force.” When the Enterprise goes looking for a missing Federation historian, Kirk and Spock beam down into a world that’s gone full Nazi cosplay… complete with jackboots, armbands, and a very familiar (and very forbidden) regime. What star...

Return to Tomorrow | Star Trek: The Original Series Season 2 Episode 20 Review Sceam Me Up Botty beams back aboard the Enterprise for one of the most ambitious (and slightly unhinged) episodes of Season 2. In “Return to Tomorrow,” Kirk, Spock, and McCoy play host to three ancient, disembodied aliens with god-like power, a tragic love story, and zero respect for personal boundaries. What follows is...

In this episode of Sceam Me Up Botty, we beam straight into one of the most controversial and politically charged stories of Star Trek: The Original Series. Season 2, Episode 19 — “A Private Little War” — sees Kirk, Spock, and McCoy return to a peaceful planet only to discover the Klingons have been quietly arming one side of a tribal conflict. What follows is a messy, morally grey tale of proxy w...

“The Immunity Syndrome” – Star Trek: The Original Series Season 2, Episode 18 Review Beam us up, because this week on Sceam Me Up Botty we’re tackling one of the most epic space microbe nightmares in TOS history: “The Immunity Syndrome”! The Enterprise is supposed to be heading for some well-earned R&R when a garbled distress call pulls them into the Gamma 7A system. What they find is total devast...

Buckle up, Trekkies-things are about to get gangster on Sceam Me Up Botty! In this episode, we're diving into "A Piece of the Action" (Star Trek: The Original Series, Season 2, Episode 17). When Kirk, Spock, and McCoy beam down to the planet Sigma lotiall, they discover a society that's taken the Chicago mob era of the 1920s to the extreme-complete with pinstripe suits, Tommy guns, and a whole lot...

The Gamesters of Triskelion | Star Trek: The Original Series S2E16 Review This week on Sceam Me Up Botty, we beam down into one of the wildest, most unhinged episodes of classic Trek yet: "The Gamesters of Triskelion." Kirk, Spock, and Uhura get kidnapped by glowing brains who treat gladiatorial combat like the galaxy's most high-stakes casino. Cue ridiculous fight scenes, color-coded slave collar...

"The Trouble with Tribbles" - Star Trek: The Original Series, Season 2 Episode 15 gets the full Sceam Me Up Botty treatment! In one of the most beloved (and furry) episodes of classic Trek, Captain Kirk and the Enterprise crew face their fluffiest threat yet: an adorable, rapidly multiplying alien species that could derail a critical diplomatic mission. Between bar brawls with Klingons, a very gru...

Beam aboard Sceam Me Up Botty for a chilling detour into the fog-shrouded streets of Argelius II! In Season 2, Episode 14 - "Wolf in the Fold," the Enterprise crew's much-needed shore leave turns deadly when a series of brutal murders rocks a planet known for its peaceful, hedonistic culture. Scotty finds himself in the wrong place at the wrong time - knife in hand, standing over a dead woman with...

Beam aboard Sceam Me Up Botty as we dive into one of the most intense and personal episodes of Star Trek: The Original Series yet! In Season 2, Episode 13 - "Obsession," Captain Kirk comes face-to-face with a deadly, cloud-like creature that drains the red blood cells of its victims... and it's one he's met before. Eleven years earlier, while serving aboard the USS Farragut, Kirk hesitated during...

The years are catching up... fast. On this week's episode of Sceam Me Up Botty, we're reviewing Star Trek: The Original Series Season 2, Episode 12 - "The Deadly Years." When a routine mission leaves Kirk, Spock, and the senior crew rapidly aging, the Enterprise faces a crisis only the young can solve. We're breaking down the aging effects, the desperate race against time, the classic Trek science...

Beam aboard Sceam Me Up Botty for another warp-speed deep dive into the final frontier! In this episode, we're reviewing "Friday's Child" - Star Trek: The Original Series Season 2, Episode 11. Captain Kirk, Spock, and Dr. McCoy beam down to the warlike planet Capella IV to secure a vital mining agreement for the Federation. But things get messy fast when a Klingon agent shows up, a tribal power st...

Join us as we beam aboard one of the most beloved and emotionally rich episodes of Star Trek: The Original Series - "Journey to Babel" (Season 2, Episode 10). The Enterprise becomes a interstellar diplomatic vessel, ferrying a contentious collection of alien ambassadors to a critical Federation conference on the planet Babel. Tensions run high, old family wounds are reopened, and a mysterious thre...

"Join us as we explore one of the most romantic and introspective episodes of Star Trek: The Original Series - Season 2, Episode 9: 'Metamorphosis'! A shuttlecraft carrying Kirk, Spock, McCoy, and a gravely ill Federation Commissioner crash-lands on a seemingly uninhabited planet. There they discover Zefram Cochrane - the legendary inventor of warp drive — alive and well after 150 years, cared for...

Beam aboard for a hilarious deep dive into Star Trek: The Original Series Season 2, Episode 8 - 4, Mudd'! The Enterprise is hijacked by a suspiciously logical crewman named Norman (who turns out to be an android), forcing Kirk and a landing party to a planet populated entirely by sophisticated robots. There they reunite with the galaxy's most lovable con man, Harcourt Fenton Mudd - now styling him...

Join us for a spooktacular deep dive into Star Trek: The Original Series Season 2, Episode 7 - 'Catspaw'! When a landing party goes missing on the foggy planet Pyris VIl, Kirk, Spock, and McCoy beam down into a full-blown Halloween nightmare: a creepy haunted castle, a hissing black cat, zombie crewmen, and a pair of eccentric aliens playing warlock and witch. Written by Robert Bloch (of Psycho fa...

The Doomsday Machine" - one of the most intense, high-stakes episodes in all of Star Trek: The Original Series - gets the full treatment in this review. In Season 2, Episode 6, the Enterprise encounters a nightmarish, planet-destroying alien weapon of unimaginable power... and a lone, half-mad starship captain hell-bent on revenge against it. Kirk and crew are forced into a desperate battle agains...

Beam up for another deep dive into classic sci-fi! In this episode, we review Star Trek: The Original Series Season 2, Episode 5 - 'The Apple! Kirk, Spock, and the crew land on the idyllic planet Gamma Trianguli VI, only to discover a paradise with a deadly secret: a mysterious god-like entity called Vaal that demands total obedience from its people. What begins as a lush tropical getaway quickly...

"Mirror Mirror" - one of the most iconic episodes in all of Star Trek - gets the full treatment this week! In Star Trek: The Original Series Season 2, Episode 4, Captain Kirk and his landing party are accidentally transported into a brutal parallel universe where the Enterprise is a ship of the Terran Empire: a ruthless, dog-eat-dog version of Starfleet where assassination, torture, and betrayal a...

In this episode we beam into Season 2, Episode 3 of Star Trek: The Original Series — 'The Changeling! The Enterprise responds to a distress call from the Malurian system, only to discover an entire population of over four billion wiped out. The culprit? A mysterious, meter-long cylindrical probe with the destructive power of dozens of photon torpedoes. When the probe beams aboard and declares Capt...