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Number / Name
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Why I liked it
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30 / 2:7
Catspaw
|
Our crew meets
witches.
Humor.
Loyal, brave, not bribable.
Seduction.
|
31 / 2:9
Metamorphosis
|
Immortality. Or freedom?
An
inter-racial relationship. With an important lie/omission.
Life is
better with obstacles.
Accept eventual death, for the joy of the
moment.
|
32 / 2:11
Friday's child
|
Apologizing when you're wrong.
Hurt
feelings less important than a hurt arm. No taboos for the doctor!
|
33 / 2:2
Who mourns for Adonais?
|
Our crew meets a "Greek God".
A
"God", wanting worshop, demanding it, needing it.
A woman, angering a
"God".
A historian meets history.
|
34 / 2:1
Amok time
|
An extreme need to mate, to marry. In
extreme privacy.
A logical creature, suddenly emotional. And when
logical again, has an emotional slip.
The captain disobeys orders, to
save his friend.
Friends having to fight to the death.
The captain
dies! Well, almost.
Vulcan culture.
Having is not as good as
wanting.
Grand!
|
35 / 2:6
The doomsday machine
|
A weapon, capable of destroying both
sides.
A captain losing a command - and losing his mind?
Suicidal.
Recklessness.
A helpless captain seeing his ship in
danger.
A senseless death, later making sense.
|
36 / 2:14
Wolf in the fold
|
Pleasure above all.
|
37 / 2:3
The changeling
|
The engineer dies! But is
repaired.
The communications officer is erased. And is like a
child.
Computers like the logical science officer. :-)
The logical
road to suicide.
|
38 / 2:5
The apple
|
Non-violent people. No love either. No
aging. No "feeling and touching". Innocents discovering all
this.
Reciprocity.
The right to grow.
Who decides what happiness
is?
Prime directive.
Freedom.
|
39 / 2:4
Mirror, mirror
|
A more violent version of our universe.
It is illogical to side with the loser.
A strong woman (Uhura).
One man can make a difference.
|
40 / 2:12
The deadly years
|
Kirk as an old man!
|
41 / 2:8
I, Mudd
|
You have to have freedom to do whatever you want to, including hurt yourself.
Practical application of logic.
|
42 / 2:15
The trouble with tribbles
|
Humor.
Kirk drowning in tribbles.
A population explosion.
|
43 / 2:25
Bread and circuses
|
Parallel development, resulting in the Romans existing in the 20th century.
And with slavery as an institution.
Prime directive.
A friendship where one didn't expect it.
Roleplaying (1).
|
44 / 2:10
Journey to Babel
|
Conflict between father and son.
Feeling of duty.
Differences between cultures.
|
45 / 2:19
A private little war
|
To fight or die.
The right choice is to make a peaceful people violent!
War is not a good life, but it's a life.
Not a happy end!
|
46 / 2:16
The gamesters of Triskellion
|
Love.
Freedom.
"Mentally superior" does not equal slavery, rascism, murder!
|
47 / 2:13
Obsession
|
Obsession.
Intuition.
Guilt.
|
48 / 2:18
The immunity syndrome
|
I wonder what would happen to mankind, if you could always feel it when a human died?
When colleagues are also friends.
|
49 / 2:17
A piece of the action
|
If our people met the gangsters in Chicago.
Humor.
Why the prime directive is good.
A creative solution to a problem.
Grand!
|
50 / 2:22
By any other name
|
It is good to have senses! And feelings.
Humor.
|
51 / 2:20
Return to tomorrow
|
Senses/feelings are good.
Humans do things, sometimes because they are dangerous.
If somebody we know as serious and honest becomes joking and crooked.
Life can be such, that death is better - for the sake of other people.
|
52 / 2:21
Patterns of force
|
One should not interfere.
Power corrupts.
|
53 / 2:24
The ultimate computer
|
Computers always have one more bug.
You can't be loyal to a machine.
|
54 / 2:23
The omega glory
|
Yangs/kohms (yankees/communists) after the war.
Bacterial warfare is stupid.
Eternal life is impossible.
The American constitution is good.
|
55 / 2:26
Assignment: Earth
|
Our crew in the "present".
Some people helping Earth, in secret.
Technology and science developed faster than the social sciences.
Violence is wrong.
Intuition.
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Anne McCaffrey
