Trekking Through Compliance

In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the episode Bread and Circuses, which aired on March 15, 1968, and occurred on Star Date 4040.7. On a routine patrol, the Enterprise happens upon space debris from the S.S. Beagle. This survey ship disappeared 6 years ago, commanded by Captain R.M. Merrik, an academy associate of Kirk. When Spock projects the path of the wreckage back in...

In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the episode The Ultimate Computer, which aired on March 8, 1968, and occurred on Star Date 4729.4. The Enterprise is ordered to be part of a test of the new M5 Multitronic System, a computer designed to replace a starship crew. In an unscheduled drill at Alpha Carinae 2, M5 defends the Enterprise against attacks from the starships Excalib...

In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the episode  The Omega Glory, which aired on March 1, 1968, and occurred on Star Date unknown. The Enterprise finds the U.S.S. Exeter in orbit with no one aboard. The boarding party then plays the medical log and is warned that they are dead men who must not return to their ship and told that their only chance for survival is to beam down...

In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the episode By Any Other Name, which aired on February 23, 1968, and occurred on Star Date 4657.5. A landing party beams down to investigate a distress call, and two "perfect" human life forms register and put in an appearance. They are members of the Kelvin Empire from the Andromeda Galaxy. They want a return trip home, which will take s...

In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the episode  Patterns of Force which aired on February 16, 1968, and occurred on Star Date 2534. When the Enterprise approaches the inner planet Ekos to investigate the cessation of communication with researcher John Gill, it is attacked with a rocket carrying a nuclear weapon. Kirk and Spock beam down to investigate and discover that a N...

In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the episode  Return to Tomorrow, which aired on February 9, 1968, and occurred on Star Date 4768.3. The Enterprise receives a distress call from a planet hundreds of light years too distant to have been visited by any Earth ship. Spock determines that the planet is similar to Earth but older and that its atmosphere was ripped away half a...

In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the episode A Private Little War, which aired on February 2, 1968, and occurred on Star Date 4307.1. Spock, Bones, and Kirk beam down to a planet Kirk surveyed 13 years ago and are attacked. Spock is shot while trying to escape. Kirk speculates that the Klingons have violated the treaty governing the "neutral planet", which restricts both...

In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the episode The Immunity Syndrome, which aired on January 19, 1968, and occurred on Star Date 4307.1. The Enterprise is diverted to investigate the mysterious cessation of communication with the Gamma 7A star system. While on its way, Spock telepathically senses the destruction of a starship manned by Vulcans. The Enterprise encounters a...

In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the episode A Piece of the Action, which aired on January 12, 1968, and occurred on Star Date 4598.1. The Enterprise crew attempts to contact the inhabitants of planet Sigma Iotia II, whose inhabitants of Sigma Iotia II have built a culture around the book Chicago Mobs of the Twenties accidentally left behind a hundred years ago by the S....

In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the episode The Gamesters of Triskelion, which aired on January 5, 1968, and occurred on Star Date 3211.7. Kirk, Uhura, and Chekov prepare to beam down to Gamma 2, and they have whisked away from the transporter platform. They are captured and fitted with "collars of obedience" by Galt, master Thrall of the planet Triskelion. Spock finds...

In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the episode The Trouble with Tribbles which aired on December 29, 1967, Star Date 4523.3 The Enterprise is called to Deep Space Station K7 by a priority 1 distress call. A Klingon ship arrives at the space station and requests that its crew be granted shore leave. Meanwhile, the intergalactic trader Cyrano Jones gives Uhura a thrilling cr...

In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the episode Wolf in the Fold, which aired on December 22, 1967, Star Date 3614.9. Scotty, Kirk, and McCoy beam down to Orgellius II for shore leave when Mr. Scott is accused of murder. His fingerprints are the only ones on the murder weapon, and he has a concussion and amnesia. Mr. Scott claims that he felt the presence of a foul, cold, e...

In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the episode Obsession which aired on December 15, 1967, Star Date  3619.2. On a planet Kirk notices a sweet, honey-like odor which he recognizes.  He orders the security guards to scan for choronium and fire at any gaseous cloud they encounter. Before they can do so, 2 are killed and one seriously injured. Kirk becomes obsessed with the d...

In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the episode The Deadly Years which aired on December 8, 1967, Star Date 3478.2. When Chekov, Spock, Lt. Gallway, McCoy, Kirk, Scotty beam down to resupply the experimental colony on Gamma Hydra 4, they initially find no one home. They then find the leader, Robert Johnson, along with his wife Elaine. Both appear to be extremely old. Kirk b...

In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the episode Friday’s Child, which aired on December 1, 1967, Star Date 3497.2. Kirk attempts to secure a mining agreement for a topline on Capella 4, where Bones had once been stationed. He warns Kirk that although the Capellans are scrupulously honest, they are war-like. After beaming down, a security guard pulls out a phaser to shoot a...

In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the episode Journey to Babel which aired on November 17, 1967 and occurred on Star Date 3842.3. The Enterprise transports ambassadors to a conference to discuss the admission of Corridon to the Federation. Sarek is the ambassador from Vulcan, is accompanied by his wife Amanda. To Kirk's surprise, they turn out to be Spock's parents. Also...

In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the episode Metamorphosis which aired on November 10, 1967 and occurred on Star Date 3219.4. Commissioner Nancy Hedford, who had been on a diplomatic mission to stop a war, is ill with Sicuro's disease and needs treatment aboard the Enterprise. The shuttlecraft is forced down on a small planetoid and Kirk is unable to contact the Enterpri...

In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider episode I, Mudd, which aired on November 3, 1967, and occurred on Star Date 4513.3. The Enterprise finds Harry Mudd (Harcourt Fenton Mudd) on a planet and the "ruler" of 500 robot women. Mudd is being studied by the robots, who are accommodating but refuse to let him go. The androids tell Kirk people from the Andromeda galaxy built them....

In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the episode Catspaw which aired on October 27, 1967 and occurred on Star Date 3018.2. Strange things happen to a landing party consisting of Jackson, Sulu, and Scotty when they beam down to planet Pyrus 7. When Kirk, Spock, and McCoy beam down to investigate, leaving DeSalle in command and Chekov as his sidekick, they are enveloped in fog...

In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the compliance and leadership lessons from the episode The Doomsday Machine which aired on October 20, 1967 and occurred on Star Date 4202.9. The Enterprise responds to a distress beacon from the Starship U.S.S. Constellation, then find the battered remains of the ship itself. Kirk sends a boarding party to the Constellation to investigat...

In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the compliance and leadership lessons from the episode The Apple, which aired on October 13, 1967, and occurred on Star Date 3715.0. A Landing Party finds danger on a seemingly pristine planet as the Enterprise is threatened. The planet's inhabitants are the feeders of Vaal. Kirk asks to be taken to Vaal, just as Scott reports that the En...

In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the episode Mirror Mirror which aired on October 6, 1967, Star Date unknown. During transport in an ion storm, the Away Team is transported into a parallel universe and a mirror image Enterprise. There they find members who are mirror images of themselves and belong to an evil Federation known as the Empire. Kirk, Uhura, McCoy, and Scotty...

In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the compliance lessons from the episode The Changeling, which aired on September 29, 1967, and occurred on Star Date 3451.9. The Enterprise encounters a probe that identifies itself as Nomad, which believes that Kirk is its creator of Nomad. Nomad says its mission is to destroy that which is not perfect, unfortunately including humans. Ki...

In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the episode Who Mourns for Adonais?, which aired on September 22, 1967, Star Date 3468.1. While approaching Pollux 4, an energy field in the shape of a giant green hand stops the Enterprise dead in space. An apparition wearing a laurel wreath then appears, addresses the crew as his “children,” and congratulates them for venturing forth fr...

In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the episode Amok Time, which aired on September 15, 1967, Star Date 3372.7. Spock begins to request that he be granted leave on his home planet, Vulcan, which is granted. Spock is forced to explain that he is undergoing pon farr, a condition male Vulcans experience periodically throughout their adult lives, and that he must mate or die. K...