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Tag: The Original Series

“His logical selection was compassion”: The Ultimate Computer (Original Series) vs. Warhead (Voyager)

A sentient computer weaponizes the Enterprise, and a sentient weapon commandeers Voyager.

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“A hundred quatloos on the newcomers”: The Gamesters of Triskelion (Original Series) vs. Tsunkatse (Voyager)

It’s old-fashioned fisticuffs, Star Trek style, as Captain Kirk and Seven of Nine fight for their lives.

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“Previously, on Star Trek”: The Menagerie (Original Series) vs. If Memory Serves (Discovery)

The Original Series revisits its original, unaired pilot episode … and half a century later, so does Discovery.

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“Sipping jippers on a beach somewhere”: I, Mudd (Original Series) vs. The Escape Artist (Short Treks)

We look at the evolution of Harry Mudd, as Captain Kirk outsmarts yet another artificial intelligence, and Mudd outsmarts everyone.

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“Life is a great deal more complicated in this red uniform”: Court Martial (Original Series) vs. Rules of Engagement (Deep Space Nine)

In the space-justice system, Kirk and Worf are put on trial. These are their stories.

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“The Great Balance is a lie”: A Taste of Armageddon (Original Series) vs. The Sound of Thunder (Discovery)

Prime Directive? What Prime Directive? Kirk and Saru each take the law into their own hands.

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“Shaka, when the walls fell”: Arena (Original Series) vs. Darmok (TNG)

Captain Kirk faces mortal combat with an alien opponent, while Captain Picard gets into a war of words … so to speak.

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“Up north, quite a ways”: Spectre of the Gun (Original Series) vs. North Star (Enterprise)

Kirk and Archer take their respective Enterprises into the Wild, Wild West … but, you know, in space.

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“He was the best of the tyrants”: Space Seed (Original Series) vs. The Arik Soong Arc (Enterprise)

We meet an iconically charismatic villain for the first time, and encounter another charismatic villain with a familiar face.

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“Did humans really talk like that?”: A Piece of the Action (TOS) vs. The Royale (TNG)

Away teams from two Enterprises encounter echoes of Earth’s past on far-off planets … and also cheat at craps (and fizzbin).

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