Trekking Through Compliance

In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the episode Turnabout Intruder, which aired on June 3, 1969, Star Date 5298.5. After receiving a distress call from a science party on Camus II exploring the ruins of a dead civilization, the Enterprise rushes to assistance. All party members appear dead except the leader Dr. Janice Lester and the medical officer Dr. Arthur Coleman. Accor...

In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the episode All Our Yesterdays which aired on March 14, 1969, Star Date 5943.7 On a mission to evacuate the population of the lone planet Sarpedon before its sun explodes, Spock, Kirk and McCoy beam down to investigate why sensors indicate no humanoid life remaining on the planet. They discover a "library" staffed by Mr. Atoz ("A to Z") w...

 In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the episode The Savage Curtain which aired on March 7, 1969, Star Date 5906.4. While scanning planet Excalbia, Spock detects strange readings which seem to indicate the presence of carbon cycle life forms. The subsequent appearance of Abraham Lincoln on the viewing screen and his transportation to the Enterprise demonstrate that whatever...

In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the episode The Cloud Miners, which aired on February 28, 1969, and occurred on Star Date 5818.4 When a botanical plague threatens to destroy all vegetation on the planet Merak II, the Enterprise visits Ardana, the only known source of the xenite mineral needed to halt the plague. Despite High Advisor Plasus's request that they beam to th...

In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the episode The Way To Eden, which aired on February 21, 1969, and occurred on Star Date 5832.3 In its tribute to the Summer of Love and the hippie generation, a group of alternative lifestylers come aboard the Enterprise and bring their message of love and simplicity to the crew of the Enterprise. They manage to shanghai the crew into ta...

In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the episode Requiem for Methuselah, which aired on February 14, 1969, and occurred on Star Date 5843.7. The Enterprise lands on a planet which has an immortal who is trying to build the perfect AI companion. He has gone through several models of her. Kirk brings her to the verge of humanity but choosing between Kirk and her creator is too...

In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the episode The Lights of Zetar, which aired on January 31, 1969, and occurred on Star Date 5725.3. On its way to the Memory Alpha planetoid, the storehouse of all Federation's cultural history and scientific knowledge, sensors detect a strange storm. The storm travels at a speed of Warp 2.6, indicating that it cannot be a natural phenome...

In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the episode That Which Survives, which aired on January 24, 1969, and occurred on Star Date Unknown. McCoy, Sulu, Kirk, and senior geologist D'Amato beam down to investigate a strange planet the size of the Moon but with the mass of the Earth. The planet has no magnetic field but a well-developed atmosphere and plant life---despite the fa...

In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the episode The Mark of Gideon, which aired on January 17, 1969, and occurred on Star Date 5423.4 In an attempt to establish diplomatic relations with planet Gideon, Kirk beams down to the sensor-shielded planet using coordinates supplied by Gideon ambassador Hodin. When Kirk materializes, he finds himself still on the transporter pad abo...

In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the episode Let That Be Your Last Battlefield which aired on January 10, 1969, and occurred on Star Date 5730.0 On its way to decontaminate the planet Arianis, the Enterprise intercepts a shuttlecraft stolen from Starbase 4 together with its pilot. The pilot is an alien who is solid white on his right side and solid black on his left. His...

In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the episode Whom Gods Destroy which aired on January 3, 1969 and occurred on Star Date 5718.3 Kirk and Spock are on a medical mission to deliver sanity saving drugs to an institute for the incorrigibly criminally insane. An inmate is a former commander. He  is also a homicidal, master-strategist. As a former Starship commander, he takes o...

In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the episode Elaan of Troyius, which aired on December 20, 1968, and occurred on Star Date 4373.5 Kirk and crew are playing taxi to Elaan from Elas and an ambassador from Troyius. (She is one of the greatest spoiled brat characters in all of TOS.) Their mission: get everyone safely from point A to point B. Sounds easy, right? Now add in El...

In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the episode The Empath, which aired on December 6, 1968, and occurred on Star Date 5121.5 In this episode, the Vions attempt to see if a planet of empaths is worth saving by forcing one of their people to choose between her life or an Enterprise crew landing party. Compliance Takeaways: 1.     What is a gap analysis? 2.     Who should be...

In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the episode Wink of an Eye which aired on November 29, 1968, and occurred on Star Date 5710.5 While exploring an outer quadrant of the Galaxy, the Enterprise receives a distress call from the planet Scalos. However, a landing party cannot locate the transmission's source. Kirk thinks he detects the buzzing of insects, but the tricorder do...

In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the episode Plato's Stepchildren which aired on November 12, 1968 and occurred on Star Date 5784.0 This is one of the most difficult episodes of TOS to watch. It involves a planet of immortal mind-control beings who take pleasure through the torment of others with their psychokinetic powers. They have their own personal plaything (read: s...

In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the episode The Tholian which aired on November 15, 1968 and occurred on Star Date 3842.3. When the Enterprise attempts to ascertain the fate of the U.S.S. Defiant which vanished 3 weeks ago and Spock reports strange sensor readings. They visually detect the Defiant, but sensors indicate it is not there. A landing party beams aboard and w...

In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the episode   For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky which aired on November 1, 1968, Star Date Unknown. McCoy calls Kirk to sickbay and informs him that the ship's Chief Medical Officer (himself) has contracted an incurable fatal disease called xenopolycythemia and has only one year to live. However, McCoy assures Kirk that h...

In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the episode Day of the Dove which aired on November 1, 1968, Star Date Unknown. Compliance Takeaways: How to use disruption as an innovation. Integrating compliance into the business. Hitting the ground running as a new CCO.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the episode Spectre of the Gun, which aired on October 25, 1968, Star Date 4385.3. On a mission to establish contact with the reclusive Melcotians, Kirk ignores the message of a space probe. The landing party encounters a Melcotian who informs them they are an outside disease that must be destroyed. Their trespassing is to be punished by...

In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the episode Is There No Truth in Beauty which aired on October 18, 1968, Star Date 5630.7. The Enterprise is given the mission of transporting the Medusan ambassador Kollos, a member of a species so ugly that the mere sight of it causes humans to go insane back to his home planet. The ambassador arrives enclosed in a specially designed bo...

In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the episode And The Children Shall Lead, which aired on October 11, 1968, Star Date 5027.1. An alien named the ‘Gorgon’ takes over the minds of the children of colonists on Triacas. He causes the children to mind trick their parents into committing suicide as the colonists feel compelled to destroy themselves to escape what they call "the...

In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the episode The Paradise Syndrome, which aired on October 4, 1968, Star Date 4842.6. In this episode, Kirk suffers from amnesia while living among natives on an idyllic planet. They treat him as a god until they don’t and try to kill him. Unfortunately, they only succeed in killing his native wife and their unborn child. Meanwhile, the En...

 In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the episode The Enterprise Incident aired on September 27, 1968, Star Date 5031.3. In this episode, Captain Kirk feigns mental illness while crossing over to the Neutral Zone, and Mr. Spock woos the Romulan commander. All in an effort to steal a Romulan cloaking device, which they do. Compliance Takeaways: The power of NO in compliance....

In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the episode Spock’s Brain, which aired on September 20, 1968, and occurred on Star Date 5431.4. Almost universally panned as the work Star Trek TOS episode, the story involves a race of beings who literally kidnap Spock’s brain to run a planet-wide computer system for insipid beings, both male and female. Compliance Takeaways: 1.     How...

The Enterprise has used the light-speed breakaway factor to propel itself backward in time. It can monitor Earth communications while on a historical fact-finding mission to study how Earth survived the turbulent year 1968. While in orbit, the Enterprise accidentally intercepts a transporter beam originating more than 1000 light years away, beaming aboard interplanetary agent Gary Seven and his pa...