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Star Trek Episode 1.24: This Side of Paradise

AKA Yet Another Creepy Utopia Planet

Our episode begins with the Enterprise heading in to orbit around an Earthy-looking planet named Omicron Ceti 3. Omicon Ceti is a real star, by the way—also known as Mira or Mira A, it’s a red giant and part of a binary star system with its sister Mira B. It’s not a real likely place to go looking for such a nice homey sort of planet, though, because Mira is a pulsating variable star, which means its size and brightness is constantly fluctuating, and it’s hard to evolve life when your sun keeps flickering like a neon sign in a noir movie all the time.

Uhura reports to Kirk that she’s been transmitting a contact signal every five minutes just as he ordered, but she’s only getting dead air in response. Kirk tells her to keep it up until they get into orbit, then moves on to talk to Spock. “There were one hundred fifty men, women and children in that colony,” he says. “What are the chances of survivors?”

Looks like the chances are, uh...not great. And by ‘not great’ I mean ‘nonexistent’. Spock explains that ‘Bertold rays’ are a recent enough discovery that there’s still a lot not known about them, but one thing that is for sure known is that exposure to these rays causes living animal tissue to disintegrate. Nasty. Evidently this planet is heavily exposed to these rays, because a group of colonists-- “Sandoval’s group”-- came here only three years ago and Spock says there’s no possibility they could have survived. Well why the heck would anyone build a colony in such a place? All Spock can say is “They knew there was a risk.”

Kirk questions whether they can risk sending a landing party down under such conditions, but Spock says the disintegration doesn’t start immediately, so they’ll be alright if they don’t stick around too long. The helmsman reports that they’ve successfully established orbit, and he’s found a settlement—or at least, something that was a settlement at one point. Kirk tells Spock to equip a landing party of five to accompany him down there, including a biologist and McCoy. That’s gonna be a fun mission briefing. “Yes, we're beaming down to a planet bombarded with deadly radiation, but no need to worry, crew, your tissues will probably only disintegrate a little bit."

Sometime later, the landing party—Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Sulu, a blueshirt and a goldshirt—materialize into a meadow near a dirt path and a picket fence. They’ve thoughtfully arranged themselves into a nice alternating pattern.

[ID: A shot of a sunny meadow with a dirt road, a few trees and a white picket fence in the background. Newly beamed down are six Enterprise crewmembers standing in two rows: in the front are Kirk and Spock, in the back are McCoy, a goldshirt, a blueshirt, and Sulu.]

The goldshirt, incidentally, is DeSalle, who we last saw back in The Squire of Gothos. The character was originally written for this story as Lt. Timothy Fletcher, but was changed to DeSalle after the production crew realized they’d cast an actor who had already appeared in the series. Yes, really. AGAIN. The blueshirt is Kelowitz, who showed up briefly in The Galileo Seven and Arena, and likewise started out as another character but was renamed after being cast. I don’t know how this situation managed to happen so often on TOS, but apparently it did. At least they both seem to have managed to hold onto more or less the same positions that they had the last time we saw them, a rare feat for any minor TOS crewmember.

The group walks forward towards some nearby farm buildings arranged around a dirt yard, with a horse-drawn cart sitting out in front of one of them. But there’s no horse to be seen, and no people either. They wander through the yard and over toward what looks like a paddock, but without any animals in it. Everything seems quite thoroughly deserted.

Kirk leans on the paddock fence and glumly muses, “Another dream that failed. There’s nothing sadder. It took these people a year to make the trip from Earth. They came all that way...and died.” Hold on, it took them a year? What, do they not give colony ships warp drives? Did they have to hitchhike here?

“Hardly that, sir,” someone says, and suddenly we see three men in green jumpsuits standing at the edge of the yard, looking very relaxed and also very not dead.

As the landing party all turn around to stare in shock the man in front strides forward and says, “Welcome to Omicron Ceti 3. I’m Elias Sandoval.” McCoy looks like he’s getting ready to spray the dude with holy water.

After the titles, we get a brief captain’s log to sum things up, just in case everyone forgot what happened during the commercial break:

“Captain’s Log, Stardate 3417.3. We thought our mission to Omicron Ceti 3 would be an unhappy one. We had expected to find no survivors of the agricultural colony there. Apparently, our information was incorrect.”

The colonists start happily shaking hands with the landing party—but happily as in “oh, it’s so nice to meet you” not “oh thank god you came to rescue us we’re all on the brink of death”. Sandoval says they haven’t seen anyone outside the colony since they left Earth four years ago, although they’ve been expecting someone to come by for a while. Apparently their subspace radio didn’t work right and they don’t have anyone who could “master its intricacies”. Now, I’m no expert on establishing colonies on alien planets, but ‘person who can work our only communication device’ does rather seem like a position you would want to make sure was filled before you left.

Kirk has to explain that they haven’t come to visit because of the dead radio. He does not explain why they did decide to come when they did. Spock’s comment about the colonists knowing there was a risk indicates that whether or not Bertold rays specifically were known about before the colonists left, they at least had reason to believe there was something dangerous about the planet. So why’d the Federation let them go and then wait another three years before sending anyone to check up on them? Eh, probably just another failing of twenty-third century space bureaucracy.

Sandoval’s not bothered about it, though. He tells Kirk that it doesn’t make much difference—the important thing is the party is here now and the colonists are happy to see them. Then he invites them on a tour of the settlement and casually strolls off, leaving the landing party to stand there and try to process what the hell they just witnessed.

“Pure speculation, just an educated guess...I’d say that man is alive,” McCoy says. Thanks Bones.

Spock says that his scans show that the planet is getting ray’d just as their reports indicated, so that’s not the issue. Under this intensity, the landing party could safely hang out here for a week if necessary, as per the usual Star Trek rule that you can be exposed to a deadly thing and be just fine up until the exact moment it kills you, but there’s a mighty big difference between a week and three years. Or as Kirk succinctly puts it, “These people shouldn’t be alive.”

“Is it possible they’re not?” Sulu asks. Great out of the box thinking there Sulu, love it.

Kirk takes a moment to consider that, which is fair—compared to the kind of weird shit they’ve encountered so far, the walking dead wouldn’t even stand out that much. But McCoy points out that when they shook hands with Sandoval, “His flesh was warm. He’s alive. There’s no doubt about that.” Spock fires back with a reminder that, “There’s no miracle connected with [Bertold rays], doctor, you know that. No cures, no serums, no antidotes. If a man is exposed long enough, he dies.” Okay dude, calm down, all McCoy said was “he’s alive” not “my god! Bertold rays have been fake all along! wake up sheeple!"

As Kirk points out, this whole debate is pretty pointless anyway for the moment—they’re arguing in a vacuum, and they’ll need more answers if they want to get anywhere. So they go to follow Sandoval, who leads them towards a nearby farm house, while a few colonists do various farm chores nearby. Sandoval explains that the colonists split into three groups, with forty-five people at this settlement and two more settlements elsewhere on the planet. Apparently they thought that arrangement would give each group a better chance for growth, since if some disaster struck one group the other two would probably still be alright.

“Omicron is an ideal agricultural planet,” he says. “We determined not to suffer the fate of the expeditions that went before us.” It’s rather vague what expeditions he’s referring to here, since at no other point in the episode are any previous attempts at settling Omicron Ceti 3 mentioned. But given that Sandoval specifically mentions the possibility of disease afflicting one group as a reason to split up, and Spock earlier said that Bertold rays were a recent discovery—and that the colonists knew coming to Omicron Ceti 3 was risky-- it seems possible that previous groups tried to settle the planet and, without knowing about the Bertold rays, mistook their effects for some kind of disease native to the planet. Of course that doesn’t explain why this group of colonists decided it would be a good idea to try to settle here again anyway, but if there’s one thing I’ve learned over the past few months, it’s that not everyone sees the possibility of dying to a terrible disease as a compelling reason to change their plans in any way.

As they stand in the farmhouse talking about this, a woman steps forward from another room in the house. She’s in soft focus, just in case we might forget she’s a woman, and instead of the green jumpsuit all the male colonists are wearing, she’s wearing green overalls over a lavender shirt, a combination that somehow manages to be an even worse fashion disaster than the jumpsuits themselves. She starts to say something to Sandoval, then stops in surprise as she sees the landing party. But for once the romance-o-vision isn’t for Kirk—it’s Spock that the camera zooms in on as the woman stares at him.

“Layla, come meet our guests,” Sandoval says cheerfully, oblivious to the wistfully romantic background music. He introduces her as Layla Colomi, their botanist. Layla says that she and Spock have met before, but “It’s been a long time.” Kirk gives Spock a bit of a side-eye for that, but Spock offers no details.

Well, all romantic tension aside, they do still have a mission to attend to here, as Kirk reminds Sandoval. Sandoval tells them to go ahead with any examinations or tests they want. “I think you’ll find our settlement an interesting one. Our philosophy is a simple one: that men should return to a less complicated life. We have few mechanical things here, no vehicles, no weapons. We have harmony here. Complete peace.” Oh yeah, that bodes well. Remember the last place we saw complete harmony and peace? At least that explains why everyone on this farm is using equipment straight out of Stardew Valley, which is presumably not the most advanced agricultural technology available by the twenty-third century. I’m not sure why Sandoval’s idea of a simpler lifestyle excludes vehicles, though. They’re not exactly the most recent thing on the timeline of human technological advancements.

Sandoval tells the landing party to make themselves at home, and they all head off. All except for Spock, who lingers just a few seconds more to give Layla a completely neutral look before walking away as well.

Everyone goes off to conduct their respective investigations. Sulu and Kelowitz wander through a yard over towards another farm building. Kelowitz isn’t sure what exactly they should be looking for, though. “Whatever doesn’t look right—whatever that is,” Sulu replies, climbing up to sit on a railing on the building’s porch. “When it comes to farms, I wouldn’t know what looked right or wrong if it were two feet from me.” I hope you enjoyed that line, because “didn’t grow up on a farm” is about all the backstory TOS is going to give us for Sulu until the movies.

[ID: Three screenshots showing Sulu pulling himself up to sit on the railing of an old-fashioned farmhouse as he says, "When it comes to farms, I wouldn't know what looked right or wrong if it were two feet from me." Growing up from the ground nearby are two large plants with thick brownish-purple stems and large pink flowers on top.]

Hey Sulu, what's that about two feet from you? Oh well, I'm sure it's not important.

Kelowitz opens up a nearby barn and notes that there’s no cows there—in fact, the barn isn’t even built for cows, just for storage, and indeed it only looks big enough to be useful for holding cow, singular. Having a storage barn isn’t itself that weird, although the fact that there is nothing currently stored in the storage barn is a bit strange. But also, as Sulu points out, come to think of it, they haven’t seen any animals here, native or imported. No cows, no horses, no pigs, not even a dog. Which is a bit odd for an agricultural colony. They must have had or expected to have animals at some point—otherwise what was pulling that cart?

Back in the house, Sandoval is asking Layla about Spock (once again referred to as a ‘Vulcanian’). She says that she knew Spock on Earth, six years ago. Sandoval, apparently having noticed the dreamy background music by now, asks if Layla loved Spock. She says that if she did, “it was important only to myself...Mr. Spock’s feelings were never expressed to me. It is said he has none to give.”

“Would you like him to stay with us now? To be one of us?” Sandoval asks. Layla smiles at him. “There is no choice, Elias,” she says. “He will stay.”

Elsewhere in the house, McCoy is scanning a colonist. He doesn’t look exactly happy with the tricorder result he gets, but all he says is, “That’ll be all, thank you very much,” and the colonist leaves, passing Kirk coming in. Incidentally, I can’t help but note that this room contains two paintings on the wall and what appears to be a cabinet full of china. I suppose the paintings could have been done by a colonist, but the china could surely only have been brought there. Who decided to pack fancy china on a year-long space voyage to an agricultural colony?

[ID: A shot of the interior of a farmhouse with blue walls, with a large wooden table in the middle of the room, a cabinet with china and glassware in the corner, a wooden desk with a copper tea kettle and some other kitchen items on it against the back wall, and a painting hanging on the wall showing some blurry trees. Sandoval, a middle-aged white man with short brown hair wearing a green jumpsuit, walks past the camera as he says, "Oh, captain, I've been looking for you."]

Kirk asks if McCoy’s found anything yet. McCoy replies that he’s surveyed nine men so far, ranging in age from twenty-three to fifty-nine. And they’re all in perfect condition. Not just healthy—perfect. Textbook responses across the board, from all of them. “If there are many more of them,” McCoy muses, “I can throw away my shingle.”

At that point Kirk’s communicator goes off. It’s Spock, calling in from one of the crop fields. He’s made the same observation as Sulu—there’s no life on the planet aside from the colonists and the plants. No animals, no insects. Spock doesn’t have any explanation yet, so Kirk tells him to carry on with his investigation and hangs up.

McCoy notes the absence of animals as peculiar, and Kirk says it’s especially so because the expedition records show that they did bring animals with them to raise for food. And pull their carts, presumably. But it seems none of them are still around. McCoy says he’d like to see the expedition’s medical records, a request Kirk has apparently anticipated because he’s got the floppy disc on hand with him.

Sandoval comes in and says that he’d like to take the two of them on a tour of the fields, to show off what the colony’s accomplished. McCoy says he’ll have to bow out, since he’s still working on the medical examinations. “However, if I find everyone else’s health to be as perfect as yours...”

“You’ll find no weaklings here,” Sandoval says, which uh, sure is a hell of a way to phrase that. “No weaklings! None of those miserable, pathetic sods with imperfect health! Only the strong survive! THE SLIGHTEST BLEMISH SHALL BE CAUSE FOR EXILE!”

Leaving McCoy behind, Kirk and Sandoval head out to the fields, where Sandoval gushes to Kirk about how great this place is: they’ve got moderate climate, moderate rains all year round, and the soil will grow anything they stick in it. Which is pretty miraculous, considering there’s no such thing as growing conditions that are perfect for every plant. But as we’re about to see, that’s not the only weird thing going on with their farming practices.

The conversation is interrupted by DeSalle arriving to give Kirk the biology report. Sandoval excuses himself to attend to work elsewhere, leaving Kirk and DeSalle alone to discuss the report. At first, it seems to be just as Sandoval said: they’ve got a variety of crops growing here successfully. The weird thing is that they don’t actually have very many of those crops. There’s enough to keep the colony going at the size it currently is, but barely more than that. Which tracks with what we’ve seen of the place so far: a couple of tiny fields that look more about the size for someone’s backyard garden than for a prosperous farm, tended by the occasional person idly scratching at the ground with a hoe. For a supposedly bounteous agricultural colony, that’s pretty weird. What have they been doing all this time?

“It’s like a jigsaw puzzle all one color,” Kirk muses, taking a moment to stroll a few steps away so he can say this dramatically in the distance instead of actually talking to DeSalle. “No key to where the pieces fit in. Why?”

Kirk’s communicator goes off. It’s McCoy, saying Kirk had better get back over there. “Trouble?” “No, but I’d like you to see this for yourself.” Of course. No one can ever just explain something over the phone, can they.

So Kirk heads back to the house, where the thing that Kirk just absolutely has to see for himself turns out to be McCoy just telling him what he’s found out, but he definitely couldn't do that over the communicator for, uh, reasons. What he’s found out is pretty interesting, though: McCoy checked up on Sandoval’s medical records from right before the colonists had left, which said that Sandoval had had an appendectomy, and had scar tissue on his lungs from childhood pneumonia (the weakling!). Yet when McCoy scanned Sandoval himself today, the results came back just as perfect as all the other colonists’. Kirk’s first thought is instrument failure, but McCoy says no, he thought of that and tested it by scanning himself, and it recorded him just fine, down to “those two broken ribs I had once.” Which sounds like an interesting story. But Sandoval’s scan? No scar tissue, and one healthy appendix. That’s right, Sandoval’s apparently managed to regrow an entire organ. Do you think you would notice that happening? Like, would it itch?

While Kirk and McCoy try to figure that out, Spock is hanging out in a field scanning with his own tricorder, while Layla stands nearby smiling ominously at him. Spock muses that there’s “Nothing. Not even insects. Yet your plants grow, and you’ve survived exposure to Bertold rays.” Yeah, how are those plants growing without insects? Presumably the native plants have evolved some way around that, but the ones the colonists have brought from Earth would need some help. Are the colonists just manually pollinating everything? Maybe that’s why they haven’t grown very much.

Layla says this can be explained, but when asked to do so, she just says, “Later.” Spock looks annoyed and remarks, “I have never understood the female capacity to avoid a direct answer to any question.” Hey! Cut that bullshit out. No one on this colony has directly answered a question since you got here, there’s no call to go ragging on a whole gender for it. Besides, just saying “Later,” is hardly a stunningly deft diversion, it’s not like she threw a smoke bomb down and disappeared.

“And I never understood you,” Layla says, walking over and placing a hand on his chest. “Until now. There was always a place in here where no one could come. There was only the face you allow people to see. Only one side you’d allow them to know.”

[ID: Three screenshots of Spock and Layla, a white woman with a lot of long blonde hair wearing a lilac shirt and green overalls, standing outside in a field with a large tree in the background. Layla, seen from behind, is pressing her hand to Spock's upper chest and saying, "There was always a place in here where no one could come." Spock replies "you know that's not where my heart is right".]

If Layla was hoping this little speech would prompt Spock to cry out that yes, she’s figured him out, he does love her but has never been able to show it! she’s disappointed, because he just looks uncomfortable and steps away. He tries to steer the conversation back onto the mystery of the colonists. “If I tell you how we survive,” she asks, “will you try to understand how we feel about our life here? About each other?”

That’s a pretty vague thing to make a promise about, so Spock deflects by saying that emotions are alien to him; he’s a SCIENTIST. “Someone else might believe that—your shipmates, your captain—but not me,” Layla says. Oh sure! Obviously none of the people who have lived, worked, and risked death alongside Spock can be expected to know anything about Spock. Only you are the Spock Expert, gifted with incredible insight by virtue of having a crush on him.

“Come,” she says, sauntering off through the field with her hand outstretched to him. Spock rather pointedly folds his hands behind his back instead and follows her.

Back in the house, Kirk and McCoy are struggling to have a conversation with Sandoval. Kirk tells Sandoval that he’s received orders from Starfleet Command to evacuate everyone on the colony, since, y’know, deadly rays and all that. He expects Sandoval to start making preparations. But Sandoval, calmly, casually, says, “No.” It’s not necessary, he insists—they’re in no danger.

But...but the Bertold rays. Sandoval is unmoved, pointing out that as McCoy’s own instruments show, the colonists are in perfect health and there have been no deaths. Okay, what about all those animals? What happened to them? “We’re vegetarians,” Sandoval says blithely. Which, as Kirk points out, does absolutely nothing to answer the question. Actually it raises further questions.

Sandoval remains thoroughly unbothered and thoroughly unhelpful. “Captain, you stress very unimportant matters. We will not leave,” he says, and goes back to gazing out the window, evidently considering the conversation over.

Elsewhere, Spock and Layla are still walking, and Spock is getting annoyed that Layla still hasn’t explained just what it is they’re going to see. “Its basic properties and elements are not important,” Layla says helpfully. “What is important is that it gives life, peace, love.” Oh boy.

Spock is dubious, but Layla pulls him forward, over towards another one of those large pink flowers. “I was one of the first to find them,” Layla says. “The spores.”

[ID: A gif of Spock approaching a large pinkish-purple flower and saying, "Spores?" The flower then sprays a cloud of white spores all over his face and torso while Spock recoils.]

For a moment Spock just looks startled, but then he starts clutching his head and falling onto his knees in the grass, dropping his tricorder and gasping, “No--” For the first time all episode, Layla’s absolute serenity starts to fracture slightly. Over Spock’s agonized protests, she insists that it shouldn’t hurt—it didn’t hurt any of them. But, as Spock gasps out, he’s not like them. Whoops, did the biologist forget to account for biological differences before handing out a facefull of spores? I bet you didn’t even check if he had any allergies first, did you?

Just as it’s looking like this might put actually put a crack in Layla’s blissed-out impassivity, Spock stops thrashing about and starts seeming less anguished and more confused. Layla’s concern vanishes once again, and she goes back to smiling happily while stroking his face. “Now...now you belong to all of us...and we to you. There’s no need to hide your inner face any longer. We understand.”

Spock still seems unsure, but then he takes Layla’s hand in his and smiles. Not the slight hint of a smile or sardonic quirk of the lips you’d expect to see from Spock, but a huge, broad grin from ear to ear. “I love you...I can love you,” he says, and then he kisses her.

Hoo boy.

After the break, we get a quick Captain’s Log to recap:

“Captain’s Log, supplemental. We have been ordered by Starfleet Command to evacuate the colony on Omicron 3. However, the colony leader, Elias Sandoval, has refused all cooperation and will not listen to any arguments.”

Sure enough, we see Sandoval exiting the farmhouse, followed by McCoy and an extremely frustrated Kirk. “Captain, your arguments are very valid, but do they not apply to us,” Sandoval says, as calm as ever. He tries to walk off, but Kirk grabs his arm and pulls him back.

“My orders are to remove all the colonists,” he says, “and that’s exactly what I intend to do with or without your help.”

“Without, I should think,” Sandoval says, and strolls off, leaving Kirk standing there fuming.

Sulu and Kelowitz come walking up to report that they’ve checked out everything and it all seems normal, except for the missing animals. Of course, they also both said they had no idea what to look for in the first place, so maybe take that with a grain of salt. Kirk tells them about the evacuation orders, and says he wants landing parties to start gathering the colonists and preparing them to leave. And by the way, where did Spock and DeSalle go? Sulu says they haven’t seen either one in some time, but McCoy says DeSalle was going to examine some native plants he found. Native plants, huh? I think we can guess what happened to DeSalle.

Since Spock still hasn’t reported in, Kirk gives him a call. Or tries to, at least—Spock doesn’t pick up. On the other end of the line, we see why that is: Spock's communicator is laying abandoned on the ground, while Spock himself, now dressed in the same horrible green jumpsuit as the colonists, is stretched out on the grass with Layla, watching clouds. The communicator beeps away while Spock happily describes how one of the clouds looks like a dragon. "I've never seen a dragon," Layla says. BEEP BEEP. "I have." BEEP BEEP. "On Barengarius 7." BEEP BEEP. "But I've never stopped to look at clouds before." BEEP BEEP. "Or rainbows." BEEP BEEP. "You know, I can tell you exactly why one appears in the sky, but considering its beauty has always been out of the question." BEEP BEEP.

"Not here," Layla says (beep beep), and they smile dreamily at each other before going into another makeout session. Meanwhile, Kirk is still on the line, and not getting any happier about it. Layla finally picks up the communicator and holds it up for Spock, who takes a break from kissin' to say, "Yes, what did you want?"

Naturally, this throws both Kirk and McCoy for a loop. While McCoy stands there with a "what the fuck" look on his face, Kirk takes a moment to recover and then demands, "Spock, is that you?"

"Yes, captain, what did you want?"

"Where are you?"

"...I don't believe I want to tell you."

[ID: Three shots of Kirk and McCoy standing in front of the farmhouse, Kirk holding his communicator while McCoy looks on. Kirk has a stunned expression on his face and looks around with his mouth open, trying to figure out what to say.]

Kirk plows on ahead, telling Spock that, whatever the hell he thinks he's doing, he's got orders: they're getting the colonists out, and Spock is to meet back at the settlement in ten minutes.

"No, I don't think so," Spock says casually. "You don't think so, what?" "I don't think so, sir."

Kirk has to take a moment after that one. It's rather amazing that McCoy's made it this far into the conversation without saying anything himself. Presumably he's just in shock. Eventually Kirk tells Spock to report in immediately, but by now Spock and Layla have gone back to kissing, leaving the communicator open but abandoned in the grass once more.

"That didn't sound at all like Spock, Jim," McCoy says, putting in his bid for the Enterprise’s bi-weekly Massive Understatement contest.

"No, it--I thought you said you might like him if he mellowed a little."

"I didn't say that!"

"You said that."

"Not exactly,” McCoy protests, and then somewhat grudgingly adds, “He might be in trouble.”

I'm sure McCoy did say that, or something like it, but "I hope Spock has his brain taken over by alien spores" was presumably not where he was going with it. He obviously sees this sudden change of behavior as something to be concerned about--even moreso than Kirk, who seems more irritated than anything. But then, it's only been a couple episodes since McCoy had his own run-in with an alien influence making people act a lot more mellow than usual, and he didn't enjoy that experience at all, so it's not surprising that "trouble" is his first thought here.

Kirk tells McCoy to take over the landing party detail and start getting the colonists up to the ship, and to make sure the party works in teams of two, with nobody being left alone. Meanwhile, Kirk himself takes Sulu and Kelowitz and heads off to find Spock, using the open frequency from Spock's communicator as a homing signal. They follow a dirt path out of the main settlement and soon find said communicator, laying open and abandoned in the grass just off the path. As Kirk picks it up, they hear laughter nearby, and Sulu points in astonishment further down the path, where Layla is watching Spock dangle upside-down from a tree branch like a kid on a jungle gym.

[ID: A shot of Spock and Layla among some trees at the end of a dirt path. Layla is standing on the ground and holding hands with Spock, who is hanging upside-down by his knees from a large tree branch, laughing.]

For a moment all Kirk can do is stare weakly at this weird spectacle. Then he collects himself with a stern AHEM and marches over like a principal about to deliver some very serious detention.

Meanwhile, back at the main hub of the colony, the landing party seems to have gotten well underway with preparations for departure, with several colonists and crewmen piling up luggage and equipment in the middle of a field while McCoy stands nearby overseeing everything, a job I’m sure he’s enjoying since we all know administrative work is McCoy’s favorite thing. Then DeSalle arrives, carrying a couple of the spore flowers and tells McCoy to take “a good, close look” at them, because they’re very interesting. McCoy steps forward to check them out right before the scene cuts away again, leaving us with little doubt as to what’s about to happen next.

During that little interim, Kirk and his crew have made it over to where Spock and Layla are cavorting. Spock just grins happily at Kirk, clearly not bothered one bit, even as Kirk asks if Spock’s out of his mind. He didn’t report to Kirk, he says, because...he didn’t want to.

Kirk glances back and forth between Spock and Layla, who’s standing there smiling rather smugly, and tells Layla that she’ll need to come get ready to evacuate with the rest of the colonists. Spock cheerfully says that there’s not going to be any evacuation. “But perhaps,” he adds, “we should go and get you straightened out.”

That really doesn’t bode well, but rather than ask just what Spock means by that, Kirk tells Sulu that Spock is under arrest in Sulu’s custody until they get back to the ship. Which will certainly work out well because it’s not like Spock is strong enough to chuck Sulu all the way across the field barehanded or anything. Not that Spock seems especially perturbed about being under arrest; instead he just shrugs, drops down from the tree, and says, “Very well. Come with me,” before heading off across the field, leaving else to follow in confusion. That’s how you arrest someone, right?

Of course, Spock leads them right to another group of spore flowers, which the group stops and stares at obligingly for a moment. Then the flowers explode a bunch of spores at them. Somehow, even though he’s standing right next to Sulu and Kelowitz, Kirk manages to totally avoid getting any spores up his sinuses, while the other two are immediately affected. “Yes...I see now,” Sulu says blissfully, with that trademark Very High grin that George Takei does so well. “Of course we can’t remove the colony. It’d be wrong.”

Kirk grabs him by the shoulders—Kirk’s go-to method for snapping people out of it--but when this somehow fails to bring Sulu back to his right mind, all Kirk can do is say that he doesn’t know what these plants are or how they work, but “you’re all going back to the settlement with me, and those colonists are going aboard the ship.” This stern proclamation has absolutely no effect on anyone. The whole group just stands there happily watching Kirk stomp back toward the colony. “I can see the captain is going to be difficult,” Spock remarks.

Kirk’s day isn’t about to get any better, because upon making it back to the colony he’s greeted by McCoy, who we can immediately tell is under the influence as well because his accent is absolutely out of control. It’s so thick even the subtitles pick up on it.

[ID: A screenshot of McCoy walking through a meadow with his communicator out, saying, "Sho’nuf."]

“Hiya, Jimmy boy!” McCoy very happily says to a very unhappy Kirk. “Hey, I’ve taken care of everything. Now all y’all gotta do is just relax. Doctor’s orders!” With a very resigned look, Kirk asks how many plants McCoy’s beamed up to the ship, and McCoy says it must be going on a hundred by now.

So Kirk beams up to the ship and heads right to the bridge, where he tells Uhura to put him through to Admiral Komak at Starfleet, though what he expects Komak to do about all this I don't know. But it’s too late. Uhura turns around to show that she’s smiling as happily as everyone else, and says, “Oh, I’m sorry Dave, I mean, captain. I can’t do that.” She’s short-circuited all the ship’s communications, except for ship-to-surface, since they’ll need that for a little while yet. Then she leaves, pausing in the door of the lift to tell Kirk that it’s really all for the best.

Kirk stands there seething for a moment, then stomps over to grab a plant that’s been left in Spock’s chair. He throws it across the bridge, and the camera lingers ominously on it as Kirk heads back into the lift.

Things aren’t any better on the rest of the ship. Kirk soon finds a long line of crewmembers of all different shirt colors, patiently waiting to transport down to join the colony. Out of what I can only assume is some desperate futile hope that someone will follow his orders if he just keeps trying, Kirk orders them all to go back to their stations at once. Unsurprisingly, they all ignore him. Kirk points out to one of the redshirts that this is MUTINY! but it doesn't get him very far.

[ID: A gif showing a young white man with brown hair wearing a redshirt as he says, "Yes, sir, it is." The camera then zooms in very dramatically on Kirk's stunned face.]

So...they’re all going down to join the colony? All four hundred thirty of them? Or four hundred twenty-nine, I guess, if Kirk refuses to join the fun. That’s almost ten times the amount of people the colony currently has in it. That seems like it could present a bit of a problem, because if you’ll recall DeSalle told Kirk earlier that right now the colony’s growing enough food to feed their current population, with little left over. How are they going to handle such a large and sudden influx into their population? Do they have housing for all these people? Or are they just all going to eat dirt and sleep on the ground because they’re all too high to notice anyway?

After we’ve had a commercial break to contemplate this shocking turn of events, Kirk takes some time out to give vent to his feelings in a captain’s log:

"Captain's Log, Stardate 3417.5. The pod plants have spread spores throughout the ship, carried by the ventilation system. Under their influence, my crew is deserting to join the Omicron colony, and I can't stop them. I don't know why I have not been infected, nor can I get Doctor McCoy to explain the physical, psychological aspects of the infection."

And indeed, just in case we had any doubt, we then see McCoy strolling through the field and happily telling Kirk, “I’m not interested in any physical, psychological aspects, Jim-boy. We all perfectly healthy down here.” Kirk grumbles about how much he’s been hearing about things being perfect lately. “I bet you’ve even grown your tonsils back.” “Sho’nuf!”

Kirk tries desperately to get McCoy to do something to figure these spores out—run a blood test, take a scan, type the symptoms into WebMD, something, anything—but McCoy is more interested in rambling on about mint juleps. Meanwhile, back in the farmhouse, Sandoval’s having tea with Spock while they talk about how nearly everyone’s beamed down from the ship and things are “proceeding quite well.” Kirk storms in and demands to know where McCoy’s gotten to, and Spock says he went off to make that mint julep. Which could prove quite difficult unless this tiny half-assed farm colony has somehow managed to set up a working distillery around here somewhere, but Kirk’s got bigger concerns right now than where McCoy’s going to get his bourbon.

Sandoval wants to know why Kirk won’t join them in their private, spore-sponsored paradise. Kirk asks where these spores came from, anyway, and Spock exposits that there’s no way to know—they just drifted through space until they arrived at this planet, which is perfect for them because it turns out they actually thrive on Bertold rays. The plants act as a repository for the spores until they can find a human—or half-Vulcan—body to inhabit. No explanation is forthcoming as to how Spock knows any of this.

Spock and Sandoval insist that the planet is “a true Eden” with belonging and love and no needs or wants for anyone, but Kirk is skeptical. “No wants, no needs. We weren’t meant for that. None of us. Man stagnates if he has no ambition, no desire to be more than he is.” Of all the things wrong with this situation I’m not sure “BEING TOO HAPPY IS BAD FOR YOU” is the take I would go with, but okay. Spock says that Kirk doesn’t understand, but he’ll come around...sooner or later.

Kirk, disgusted with this whole conversation, goes back to the ship. The bridge is dark, silent, and utterly empty. We get a slow pan of the blinking lights and displays of the consoles, with no one left to man them. Kirk walks over to his chair, hits the intercom, and starts calling one part of the ship after another, with no response from any of them. With nothing else left to do, he sits down in his chair and starts glumly recording a captain’s log so angsty it could be a LiveJournal entry:

"Captain's Log, Stardate 3417.7. Except for myself, all crew personnel have transported to the surface of the planet. Mutinied. Lieutenant Uhura has effectively sabotaged the communications station. I can only contact the surface of the planet. The ship...can be maintained in orbit for several months, but even with automatic controls, I cannot pilot her alone. In effect, I am marooned here. I'm beginning to realize...just how big this ship really is, how quiet. I don't know how to get my crew back, how to counteract the effect of the spores. I don't know what I can offer against...paradise."

Hold on hold on HOLD ON what do you MEAN the ship can be maintained in orbit for several months? Every time someone takes their hands off the controls for five seconds we get told that the orbit is decaying and they’re gonna plummet into some hapless planet within a few hours at most but now all of a sudden it’s fine to hang out up there for several months? MAKE UP YOUR MIND.

Kirk gets up to go sit at the helm, just to get a change of scenery mid-mope, and as he finishes his log/rant the camera slowly pans down to reveal the spore flower that he chucked across the bridge earlier. Which is weird because we just got a wide shot of the bridge and that flower definitely wasn’t there then.

[ID: Two shots. The first is a wide shot showing Kirk alone on the empty, darkened bridge, preparing to sit down at the helm. There is nothing in on the floor in front of the helm. The second shot is a closer shot of Kirk sitting at the helm with his chin in one hand, now with a large spore flower poking up in the front of shot.]

The flower promptly shoots Kirk in the face, and for a moment he just continues to sit there with spores in his hair and a “yeah, this might as well happen” expression. But then he slowly starts to smile, suddenly as happy as everyone else. Exactly why Kirk’s been unaffected by the spores up until now, even after hanging out for quite a while on a ship that’s supposedly been thoroughly contaminated by them, is never really explained. Maybe he's just on a lot of Zyrtec. But it seems even Kirk’s determination to not be happy can’t hold out against a point-blank spray in the face. He calls Spock to say that he finally understands now, which Spock is happy to hear. Kirk says he’ll be down just as soon as he packs up a few things, so Spock says he and Layla will wait for him at the beamdown point.

So Kirk goes off to his quarters to pack up a suitcase, the contents of which seem to mostly consist of uniform shirts. Apparently paradise for Kirk does not include one of those green jumpsuits, which, really, who can blame him. He opens a small vault by his bed and pulls out a couple of black cases, one of which he opens to reveal a medal. This seems to stir some sense of conflict because he sits down and stares at it for a long moment, but then puts it aside and heads to the transporter room, where he puts the suitcase on the platform and then prepares to set the controls.

But then Kirk hesitates, and stands there for a moment looking conflicted. Possibly he’s still having feelings about those medals, or maybe he’s having second thoughts about whether he packed enough shirts. In any case, he eventually exclaims, “No...No! I...can’t...LEAVE!” Then he punches the console for good measure.

Apparently this little emotional outburst is all it takes to cure the spores, because Kirk gasps a little, looks momentarily confused, and then seems to be back to his old self. “Emotions...violent emotions. Needs...anger,” he tells the empty room. “Captain’s log, supplemental. I think I’ve discovered the answer...but to carry out my plan entails considerable risk. Mr. Spock is much stronger than the ordinary human being.” Then he treats us to this remarkable line:

[ID: A shot of Kirk in profile at the transporter controls as he says, "Aroused, his great physical strength could kill."]

Down on the planet, Spock and Layla are still waiting at the beamdown point when Kirk calls Spock up and says he’s realized there’s some equipment on the ship that they’ll need for the colony, and he needs Spock’s help to get it all beamed down. Really, you’d think there’d be quite a lot of equipment on the Enterprise that a farming colony could make good use of, but I guess they’re really determined to stick to the whole no-technology approach. Despite this, Spock cheerfully accepts the explanation, gives Layla a quick smooch, and beams up.

But upon materializing, Spock is greeted not with a smiling Kirk ready to go move some equipment with his bro, but Kirk standing there holding some nonspecific heavy metal rod thing that he’s smacking threatening against his hand. “All right, you mutinous, disloyal, computerized half-breed,” he says, “we’ll see about you deserting my ship.”

Spock reacts to this bar-brawl-starter with nothing more than a nonplussed expression and polite correcting Kirk on his syntax. Kirk, determination unshaken, continues laying into him with a stream of insults that would have made that fucker from Balance of Terror go, “Whoa, hold on there a minute.” Undeterred by not being able to use any actual expletives, he compares Spock both to a machine and to various fairy-tale creatures, makes fun of his ears, and rounds it all off by having a go at the entire Vulcan race. He even insults Spock’s parents.

[ID: 1. A shot of Spock standing in the transporter room looking perplexed as Kirk, off-camera, says, "Whose father was a computer and his mother an encyclopedia?" 2. A gif from Monty Python and the Holy Grail of John Cleese as the French knight on the battlements yelling, "Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries!"]

Spock stands there taking it all stoically for quite a while, even as the background music gets increasingly tense. He finally starts to crack when Kirk goes after Spock’s relationship with Layla, and when Kirk keeps going despite Spock angrily telling him, “That’s enough,” Spock finally flips out big time. You know what that means, it’s time for a STAR TREK FIGHT SCENE! This one’s got it all: close-up shots of the actors intercut with long shots of very obvious stunt doubles; cardboard props getting punched; even people picking up random unidentifiable bits of starship equipment that may or may not have ever been there before to use as weapons. The only thing we’re missing is Kirk doing some kind of weird wrestling move.

[ID: Three gifs showing a fight scene between Kirk and Spock. First we see a long shot where Kirk and Spock are clearly being played by stunt doubles, as Spock punches a metal rod Kirk is holding, bending it in half. He then punches Kirk in the jaw, sending him careening into the wall. Then a close-up of Nimoy and Shatner as Spock advances on Kirk and throws a punch but misses, denting the control panel in the wall behind Kirk. Kirk dodges out of the way towards the console, and Spock throws another punch that hits the side of the console. Then back to a long view with the stunt doubles as Spock throws Kirk into the opposite wall, which Kirk careens off of, falling on his back on the floor, while Spock picks up something resembling a square metal stool or stepladder and raises it over his head. Finally, we see Nimoy and Shatner again as Kirk lays on the floor looking up at Spock, raising the thing he's carrying over his head.]

We dramatically cut to black as Spock stands poised above Kirk, raising whatever-the-hell-that-thing-is over his head threateningly. Apparently the ad break gives him enough time to cool down, though, because instead of bringing the thing down on Kirk’s skull, he hesitates.

“Had enough?” Kirk asks. “I didn’t realize what it took to get under that thick hide of yours.”

Spock slowly lowers the thing, looking a bit regretful about having to do so. Kirk says he doesn’t know what Spock’s so mad about, anyway. “It isn’t every first officer who gets to belt his captain...several times.” Dude, you just stood there and unleashed a screed of personal and racial insults at your best friend here. A “sorry” probably wouldn’t go amiss here.

“You did that to me deliberately,” Spock realizes, and then realizes that the spores are gone. “I don’t belong anymore.” Kirk explains that since the spores are “benevolent and peaceful,” violent emotions overwhelm and destroy them—that’s the answer. Which...definitely makes sense, chemically speaking. Sure.

Spock, still looking pretty glum about all this, points out that Kirk’s method might have worked out alright for curing one person, but they’ve got over five hundred infected people down there, and trying to pick a fight with all of them probably isn’t going to go so well. But no worries, Kirk’s got another plan. He wants Spock to rig up a subsonic transmitter that they can hook up to the ship’s communications system and then broadcast to all the communicators. Spock says he can do that, but hesitates as Kirk turns to leave. “Captain. Striking a fellow officer is a court martial offense,” he points out.

Kirk mulls over that one for a moment. “We-ll...if we’re both in the brig, who’s gonna build the subsonic transmitter?” he says, and Spock concedes the point. Besides, it’s a bit late to be worrying about striking fellow officers now.

[ID: A gif from The Naked Time of Kirk and Spock standing in an Enterprise conference room. Kirk slaps Spock across the face, and Spock retaliates by backhanding Kirk so hard he is thrown across the table in the center of the room and falls onto the floor on the other side.]

But what with the insults and the punching and de-sporing and everything, it seems that something has clean slipped Spock’s mind: Layla’s still down there waiting for him to come back. As she stands around the field, McCoy wanders over and asks what’s up. When she tells him that she’s been out here for some time now waiting for Spock and Kirk to come back, he gentlemanly offers to fix that for her and calls the ship. Spock picks up, and Layla asks if everything’s okay up there.

With obvious discomfort, Spock tells her that yes, he’s...quite well. Layla, oblivious to anything being wrong, asks if she can come up there, because she wants to talk to him, and besides, “I’ve never seen a starship before.” Wait a minute, never seen a starship before? You’re on a planetary colony! What, did you drive here?

Spock asks if she’s still at the beamdown point, and if McCoy’s there. Layla says yes to both, so Spock tells her to give the communicator back to McCoy, since she won’t need it to transport, and he’ll have her beamed up in a few minutes. One might think that at this point they might take this easy opportunity to also beam up McCoy and get him cured (it shouldn’t be hard, McCoy is already 85% comprised of negative emotions to begin with), so he can start investigating these spores, just in case Operation Go For the Eardrums doesn’t work. But they don’t. Kirk awkwardly asks Spock if he’s sure about talking to Layla while she’s still spore’d, but Spock just nods and heads to the transporter room.

He beams Layla up, and she happily runs over to give him a hug—they’ve been parted ever so long, after all—but when he just stands there stiffly, not reacting at all, she slowly pulls back and says, “You’re no longer with us, are you?”

Spock says it was necessary. Layla begs him to come back to the planet and belong again, but he says he can’t. She starts crying and saying she loves him. "I said that six years ago, and I can't seem to stop repeating myself. On Earth, you couldn't give anything of yourself. You couldn't even put your arms around me. We couldn't have anything together there. We couldn't have anything together anyplace else. But we're happy here. I can't lose you now, Mr. Spock, I can't." Look, if the only time the relationship you want can possibly work out is when the other person is being mind-controlled by alien spores, I think it may be time to consider whether this is really a relationship you should be pursuing in the first place.

“I have a responsibility to this ship...to that man on the bridge,” Spock gently tells her. “I am what I am, Layla. And if there are self-made purgatories, then we all have to live in them. Mine can be no worse than someone else’s.”

Layla soon realizes that all this anguish has resulted in her getting de-spore’d as well, and she’s not happy about it. “And this is for my own good?” she demands angrily. Well...yes, I mean, it is, but Spock doesn’t say that. Nor does he respond when she asks, “Do you mind if I say I still love you?” but she hugs him again anyway.

[ID: Layla tearfully embraces Spock and says, "You never told me if you had another name, Mr. Spock." Spock replies, "You couldn't pronounce it."]

ROMANCE

We’re obviously supposed to read this little story arc as the tragic tale of true love destined never to be, because Spock is only able to express his feelings for Layla under the influence of the spores. He has experienced paradise, but alas, he cannot linger there, and so on. It’s never set all that well with me, though. The problem is we never really get Spock’s side of the story and so it leaves open the question of how much he actually did want this relationship in the first place. Layla said earlier that “Mr. Spock’s feelings were never expressed to me” so evidently he never outright said “I love you but I can’t be with you” or anything of that sort to her. When they’re alone in the field before Spock gets spore’d he seems stiff, standoffish, awkward, and deflects all of her overtures with what appears to be discomfort, even annoyance. He clearly has no interest in talking about whatever history they had together, even when they’re all alone. For all that Layla goes on about how she can see a side of Spock that his crewmates don’t, we see interactions with those crewmates multiple times throughout the show that prove that Spock is perfectly capable of showing people that he cares about them, even if the ways he does it are usually a bit atypical. We don’t see any of that in his initial interactions with Layla.

If we accept the premise that the spores only make people act as they would if they had no inhibitions or fears holding them back, then yes, Spock saying he loves Layla after he’s been spore’d would indicate that he did secretly love her all along. The problem is that we know the spores make people do things that they would not ordinarily want to do. You think all of those four hundred thirty people on the Enterprise secretly longed for a quiet life among the soil but all chose to instead join the space navy for some reason? Should we believe Scotty is actually deep down perfectly okay with abandoning his beloved ship to a slowly decaying orbit? I doubt that Kirk has always harbored a subconscious desire to give up exploring the final frontier to pursue a peaceful agrarian lifestyle, but he very nearly does do just that. So the question of how much a relationship with Layla is what Spock “really” wanted seems to be a bit hazy.

Mind, I’m not saying this makes Layla an evil person who deliberately drugged Spock so she could have a relationship with him or anything like that. It’s clear throughout the episode that the spores induce those who are infected by them to spread them around to anyone nearby who’s not in the spore fandom yet, so there’s no reason to believe Layla would act as she did if she wasn’t under the influence herself. I just personally find it hard to buy into the tragic romance of a star-crossed relationship when the thing crossing the stars is that one of the participants is only enthusiastic about the whole thing when they’re not fully sober. It makes me question how much of their previous relationship really was Spock having feelings for Layla but being unable to express them, versus Layla projecting a lot of feelings onto him and writing off his disinterest or discomfort as denial.

Kirk and Spock go back to working on the signal, while Layla deals with her heartbreak by disappearing into thin air for the rest of the episode. Spock says that the sound they’re going to send out is on a frequency that won’t be heard so much as felt, but apparently it will be felt quite emphatically. Kirk compares it to putting itching powder on someone. Which may seem like another silly technobabble deus ex machina, but speaking from personal experience, driving someone into a frantic frustrated fit by playing an obnoxious noise just on the edge of hearing sounds totally legit. All they need to complete the sensory overload meltdown experience is find a way to simulate some flickering florescent lights and put tags on the backs of the uniform shirts.

And indeed, as the device starts to work, we see Sulu and DeSalle working in one of the fields—for a certain value of ‘working,’ anyway, they’re kind of just digging around aimlessly—when Sulu accidentally elbows DeSalle in the back. He apologizes, but DeSalle shoves him back, and before long they’re having a full-on brawl right there in the field, which can't be good for the crops. As the device on the ship hums away, two more crewmembers start their own fight over by the farmhouse, and when a third tries to break them up he promptly gets dragged into it as well.

The effects haven’t quite reached everyone just yet, though, as we see McCoy chillaxing under a tree with some unspecified concoction. Sandoval strolls up and says that he’s been thinking about what sort of work he could assign McCoy to. When McCoy protests that he does one kind of work and that’s doctorin’, Sandoval says that he’s not a doctor anymore—they don’t need any doctors here.

This does not go over well.

[ID: A gif showing McCoy reclining against a tree in a grassy meadow, a stalk of grass in one hand and a grass of something brown with several leafy stalks in it. Sandoval is standing over him. McCoy says, "Oh, no?" and then slowly stands up, tosses his grass stalk aside, looks Sandoval in the eye and says, "Would you like to see just how fast I can put you in a hospital?"]

Undeterred, Sandoval says that he’s the leader and he’ll be assigning McCoy whatever work he wants to, but when he tries to walk away McCoy pulls him back and snarls, “You’d better make me a mechanic. Then I can treat little tin gods like you.” Sandoval throws a punch at him, but McCoy dodges and whacks Sandoval in the stomach, putting him out flat on the ground. See, I told you it wouldn’t be hard to cure McCoy. Everyone else on the Enterprise was perfectly happy to give up their careers to go do a bit of light farming, but tell McCoy he can’t be a doctor anymore and no amount of spores are going to save you.

While Sandoval is busy rolling around on the ground, McCoy stands there looking confused for a moment, then—presumably having only just now noticed that instead of a mint julep he’s actually been drinking a coke with a bunch of cilantro in it—throws his drink aside and admits that he’s not sure why he just clobbered Sandoval. But Sandoval has other concerns for the moment. With a look of dawning horror familiar to all us chronic procrastinators, he abruptly realizes that they haven’t actually been doing anything all this time. “No accomplishments, no progress. Three years wasted. We wanted to make this planet a garden...”

McCoy points out that the colonists really will have to leave—they can’t survive here without the spores handling all that radiation for them. But the dream’s not over; the colonists could be relocated to start again somewhere a bit less deadly, if that’s what they want.

“I think I’d...I think we’d like to get some work done,” Sandoval muses. “The work we set out to do.”

McCoy calls Spock and says that Sandoval wants to talk to Kirk. Spock notes to Kirk that the crew are all starting to rather sheepishly call in by now. Sandoval tells Kirk that the colonists will fully cooperate with the evacuation now, and Kirk tells him to start making the preparations. Real ones, this time.

Sometime later, everyone’s back on the bridge getting ready to head out. McCoy reports that he’s examined all the colonists and they all remain in perfect health. “A fringe benefit left over by the spores.”

One would think that this would have been quite the eventful afternoon for the medical sciences, given that they just discovered spores with such incredible healing powers that they can make people regrow organs, and McCoy just confirmed that anything healed by the spores stays healed after the spores are gone. Sure, they’ve got some side effects, but Kirk’s already discovered a simple way to get rid of the things once they’re no longer needed. Strap someone to a bed, give em a facemask full of spores, let them lay there for a while having a nice buzz while they heal their cancer or whatever, then play an irritating noise at them until they sneeze the spores back out again. Boom. Done. You’ve solved medicine. Or, y’know, we could vacate the planet and never speak of it ever again, that works too.

Notably unmentioned by anybody during this little denouement is the fate of the other two settlements on the planet that Sandoval mentioned back near the beginning of the episode. The length of the timeskip isn’t specified, so it’s possible that the crew went and collected them as well in the interim, but we never get any details as to how that little adventure went, assuming that it did happen and that the Enterprise isn’t about to get halfway to the next starbase before Kirk realizes he forgot something.

As they watch the planet diminish behind them on the viewscreen, McCoy muses that this was “the second time man’s been thrown out of paradise.” Kirk disagrees. "No, no, Bones, this time we walked out on our own. Maybe we weren't meant for paradise. Maybe we were meant to fight our way through--struggle, claw our way up, scratch for every inch of the way. Maybe we can't stroll to the music of the lute. We must march to the sound of drums."

Spock remains unimpressed by this bit of philosophizing. “Poetry, Captain. Nonregulation.” Kirk notes that they haven’t heard anything from Spock about this whole ordeal, since, y’know, that definitely seems like something Spock would want to talk about. He says he’s got little to say about Omicron Ceti 3.

[ID: A close-up of Spock on the bridge as he says, "Except that for the first time in my life...I was happy."]

oh my god someone needs therapy

On that INCREDIBLY CHEERFUL note, the Enterprise flies away and the episode ends.

It’s somewhat baffling to me that of all the quite reasonable objections available to the whole situation with the spores, the main problem that Kirk—and by extension, the episode—seems to have is that “the spores make things too EASY and mankind was meant to STRUGGLE!!!” I mean, effectively what we had going on here was people being drugged without their consent into a state that overwrote their own desires, ambitions, emotions and much of their individual personalities and replaced them with bland, happy conformity to a goal and lifestyle none of them actually chose. That seems a bit worse to me than “people weren’t working hard enough.” Kirk goes on and on about how the spores made things too easy, but what they really did was make people apathetic to whether they succeeded at anything or not. Sandoval’s horrified when he’s cured of the spores because the colonists had much different plans for their colony; far from making those plans easier, the spores made them impossible. The dreams and desires of the Enterprise crew for a life of exploration among the stars would have been forever unmet if they had permanently joined the colony, they just wouldn’t have been able to care. Kirk seems to believe that the ultimate evil of the spores is that they deprive people of ambition; to me it seems that the worse evil is that they deprive people of their individuality and their autonomy.

Then there’s the fact that while the spores make people happy and friendly, they also make them remarkably blasé about the well-being of anyone who isn’t part of their collective. They have to be—caring about whether someone else is upset or hurt would make them unhappy, after all. Spock and McCoy are completely unconcerned with the mounting distress of their best friend, and beyond peer pressuring him to get with the program and take the spores like everyone else, they don’t seem to much care if he remains the only unhappy person on the planet. The colonists seem completely unbothered by the fact that all the animals they brought with them died a rather grueling death by radiation poisoning. Everyone on the Enterprise is happy to abandon the ship and join the colony with no message left behind for Starfleet, with apparently not a thought to spare for any friends and family back home, who would only ever know that their loved ones disappeared into space never to be seen again.

Or at least, they would if things actually went according to plan, which they probably wouldn’t, because the spores also made everyone cheerfully oblivious to the idea that anything could potentially cause a problem or pose a threat to them. After all, if Kirk hadn’t had a recovery at the last minute, the Enterprise would have been left unmanned in orbit around the planet, with no way for anyone in the colony to get back onboard. Uhura also goes out of her way to make sure that they no longer have any off-planet communication. So it’s probably not going to be long before Starfleet notices that one of their prize starships has abruptly gone incommunicado, and I’m willing to bet they’d be a bit quicker on that investigation than they were about checking on a tiny backwater colony (although it is Starfleet, so who knows, really). And since they know exactly where the ship was headed on its last recorded mission, it probably won’t take them long to find it. If Starfleet sends another ship along to investigate quickly enough, they’ll find the abandoned Enterprise hanging out in orbit around the planet, and Kirk’s log clearly lays out what happened, so all the other ship has to do is figure out how to neutralize the spores and everyone’s going to get rescued from Omicron Ceti 3 pretty quickly whether they want to be or not.

If Starfleet doesn’t show up in time...Kirk says the ship can be “maintained in orbit” for several months, but then what? It can’t stay up there forever. Sooner or later, the orbit will decay and the ship’s going to crash into the planet, and if it crashes anywhere near one of the colonies, their magic healing powers are going to be put to the test. Also their magic agriculture powers--rich soil and mild weather is all well and good, but is that going to be enough to carry all those crops through the ensuing environmental effects of an impact that big? Especially since, as already mentioned, the colony has enough to feed them and that’s about it—so they really can’t afford to lose any crops for very long.

Sure, maybe the Enterprise wouldn’t crash close enough to any of the colonies to ruin them, but why take the risk? All they had to do was have a helmsman set it on a course out of orbit, then take a shuttlecraft back to the planet. Doesn’t occur to anyone, evidently. Nor do we see anyone bothering to bring any supplies or equipment from the ship to the colony, even though there’s gotta be lots of stuff up there that would be useful. All in all, it seems quite likely that Paradise would have eventually collapsed in on itself simply because the spores make people unable to pay attention to any potential threats or obstacles long enough to do anything about them.

So what’s the moral here? ‘Society can’t survive if everyone is stoned all of the time’? I mean, okay? Sure? Cool? Glad we sorted all that out.

That said, despite having ranted for the past nine hundred words about the weird moral, I’m not saying this episode is bad. As a serious point about human nature I don’t find it especially compelling—YMMV, but I just personally tend to side-eye stories that center around the idea of “wouldn’t it be awful if we all had it too easy??”--but as fifty minutes of extremely Star Trek-y silliness it’s glorious. We’ve got Spock hanging from a tree and talking about dragons while making out in the grass, McCoy going full Georgia and wandering about with something he thinks is a mint julep, Kirk stomping around in increasing agitation as he tries to get some sense out of somebody and then making emo log entries while he sits on the bridge alone...it’s great.

The original draft of this episode apparently had the romantic subplot be for Sulu, who would have been motivated to stay with Layla after having been diagnosed with a serious medical condition that was cured by the spores, kind of like the eventual plot with McCoy in For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky. D.C. Fontana rewrote the story to focus on Spock, since if you have an episode about something that causes a strong emotional reaction, throwing Spock and his ever-present internal conflict into the mix is kind of the most immediately obvious way to generate some pathos and drama. The spores originally granted those affected with them telepathic abilities, enabling them to link with everyone else who’d been spore’d and form a hivemind. There are some traces of this in the final episode with spore’d people talking about “joining us” and “being one of us” and so on, but without the telepathy part it just kind of makes it sound like they’re in a cult. Also, the cure for the spores would have been consuming alcohol, so presumably in that draft McCoy never got infected.

For the purposes of the Trek Tally I’m going to count the spores as a Space Disease, which might be broadening the umbrella of that term a bit but hey, close enough. Next time we’ll be looking for life, Jim, but not as we know it, in The Devil in the Dark.

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Entertainment 2017

Mainly for myself but I’m going to keep track of all the books, movies, tv shows, youtube series, plays, and audio dramas I consume this year. I’ve tried it in the past but I want to actually keep it up this year so I can look back on it at the end of the year.

Books 1. Scrappy Little Nobody: Anna Kendrick 2. The Gargoyle Gets His Girl: Kristen Painter 3. The Professor Woos the Witch: Kristen Painter 4. The Witch’s Halloween Hero: Kristen Painter 5. THe Last Anniversary: Liane Moriarty 6. The Werewolf’s Christmas: Kristen Painter 7. Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children: Ransom Riggs 8. Kill The Father: Sandrone Dazieri 9. Behind Her Eyes: Sarah Pinborough 10. Where the Wild Things Bite: Molly Harper 11. BIg Vamp on Campus: Molly Harper 12. Woman No. 17: Eden Lepucki 13. Behind Closed Doors: BA Paris 14. All the Missing Girls: Megan Miranda

Movies 1. La La Land (2016) 2. Sing (2016) 3. Annie (2014) 4. XXX (2002) 5. XXX: State of the Union (2005) 6. John Wick (2014) 7. Constantine (2005) 8. Doom (2005) 9. Race To Witch Mountain (2009) 10. Newsies: Live (2017) 11. Rio 2 (2014) 12. Trolls (2016) 13. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find THem (2016) 14. The Last Witch Hunter (2015) 15. The Pacifier (2005) 16. Moana (2016) 17. Guardians of the Galaxy: Volume 2 (2017) 18. National Treasure (2004) 19. National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2007) 20. Dirty Dancing (2017) 21. Guardians of the Galaxy: Volume 2 (2017)

Plays 1. An American in Paris 2. The Little Mermaid (Ballet) 3. Hedwig and the Angry Inch 4. The Curious Incident of the Dog In the Nighttime 5. Something Rotten 6. Matilda

Radio Dramas 1. Carmilla 2. Torchwood: Broken 3. Torchwood: Forgotten Lives 4. Torchwood: More than This 5. Ninth Doctor Chronicles: The Bleeding Heart 6. Ninth Doctor Chronicles: The Window on the Moor 7. Ninth Doctor Chronicles: THe Other Side 8. Ninth Doctor Chronicles: Retail Therapy

TV Shows

The 100: 4.01: Echoes The 100: 4.02: Heavy Lies the Crown The 100: 4.03: The Four Horsemen The 100: 4.04: A Lie Guarded The 100: 4.05: The Tinder Box The 100: 4.06: We Will Rise The 100: 4.07: Gimme Shelter The 100: 4.08: God Complex The 100: 4.09: DNR The 100: 4.10: Die All, Die Merrily The 100: 4.11: The Other Side The 100: 4.12: The Chosen The 100: 4.13: Praimfaya 2 Broke Girls- 6.12: And the Riverboat Runs Through It 2 Broke Girls- 6.13: And the Stalking Dead 2 Broke Girls- 6.14: And the Emergency Contractor 2 Broke Girls- 6.15: And the Turtle Sense 2 Broke Girls- 6.16: And the Tease Time 2 Broke Girls- 6.17: And the Jessica Schmessica 2 Broke Girls- 6.18: And the Dad Day Afternoon 2 Broke Girls- 6.19: And the Baby and Other Things 2 Broke Girls- 6.20: And the Alley-Oops Arrow- 5.02: The Recruits Arrow- 5.03: A matter of Trust Arrow- 5.04: Pennance Arrow- 5.05: Human Target Arrow- 5.06: So it Begins Arrow- 5.07: Vigilante Arrow- 5.08: Invasion (3) Arrow- 5.09: What We Leave Behind Arrow- 5.10: Who are You? Arrow- 5.11: Second Chances Arrow- 5.12: Bravta Arrow- 5.13: Spectre of the Gun Arrow- 5.14: Sin Eater Arrow- 5.15: Fighting Fire with Fire Arrow- 5.16: Checkmate Arrow- 5.17: Kapiushon Arrow- 5.18: Disbanded Arrow- 5.19; Dangerous Liasons Arrow- 5.20: Underneath Arrow- 5.21: Honor Thy Fathers Arrow- 5.22: Missing Arrow- 5.23: Lian Yu Baby Daddy- 6.01: To Elle and Back Baby Daddy- 6.02: Pro and Con Baby Daddy- 6.03: Ben Rides a Unicorn Baby Daddy- 6.04: A Mother of A Day Baby Daddy- 6.05: When Elle Freezes over Baby Daddy- 6.06: Third Wheeler Baby Daddy- 6.07: The Sonnymoon Baby Daddy- 6.08: You Cruise You lose Baby Daddy- 6.09: The Rebound Baby Daddy- 6.10: What’s In the Box Baby Daddy- 6.11: Daddy’s Girl The Bachelor- 21.01: Season 21 Premier The Bachelor- 21.02: Wedding Photo Shoot The Bachelor- 21.03: Episode 3 The Bachelor- 21.04: Episode 4 The Bachelor- 21.05: Week 5: New Orleans The Bachelor- 21.06: Week 6 The Bachelor- 21.07: Week 7 The Bachelor- 21.08: Hometown Dates The Bachelor- 21.09: Week 9: Finland The Bachelor- 21.10: Week 10: Finland The Bachelor- 21.11: The Women Tell All The Bachelor- 21.12: The Final Rose The Bachelor 21.13: After the Final Rose The Bachelorette- 13.01: Episode 1 The Bachelorette- 13.02: Week 2 The Bachelorette- 13.03: Episode 3 The Bachelorette- 13.04: Week 4 The Bachelorette- 13.05: Week 5: Part 1 The Bachelorette- 13.06: Week 6 The Bachelorette- 13.07: Week 7 The Bachelorette- 13.08: Week 8 The Bachelorette- 13.09: Week 9: Overnight Dates The Bachelorette- 13.10: Men Tell All The Bachelorette- 13.11: Week 9: Season 13 Finale Bachelor In Paradise- 1.01: Week 1, Part 1 Bachelor in Paradise- 1.02: Week 1, Part 2 Bachelor In Paradise- 1.03: Week 2, Part 1 Bachelor In Paradise- 1.04: Week 2, Part 2 Bachelor In Paradise- 1.05: Week 3, Part 1 Bachelor In Paradise- 1.06: Week 3, Part 2 Backstage- 1.01: The First Day Backstage- 1.02: Groups of Two Backstage- 1.03: The Brightside Backstage- 1.04: Take Me Out Backstage- 1.05: Stand Tall Backstage- 1.06: Dig Deeper Backstage- 1.07: In Their Shoes Backstage- 1.08: On Deck Backstage- 1.09 Sotto Voce Backstage- 1.10: The Understudy Backstage- 1.11: Lose Yourself Backstage- 1.12: Plays Well WIth Others Backstage- 1.13: Hold On Backstage- 1.14: Twelve Hours to Showtime Backstage- 1.15: Showtime Backstage- 1.16: Restart Backstage- 1.17: Juggle Backstage- 1.18: Eyes Forward Backstage- 1.19: Once in a lifetime Backstage- 1.20: Da Capo Backstage- 1.21: Friend or Foe Backstage- 1.22: Verite Backstage- 1.23: Step Up Backstage- 1.24: Ensemble Backstage- 1.25: After the Flood Backstage- 1.26: Try Again Backstage- 1.27: Fallout Backstage- 1.28: Lead the Way Backstage- 1.29: Me Backstage- 1.30: We Best Friends Whenever- 2.01: Princess Problems Best Friends Whenever- 2.02: Worst Night Whenever Best Friends Whenever- 2.03: Epic Girl’s Day Best Friends Whenever- 2.04: Girl Code Best Friends Whenever- 2.05: Derby Little Secret Best Friends Whenever- 2.06: Night of the Were-Diesel Best Friends Whenever- 2.07: The Friendship Code Best Friends Whenever- 2.08: The Lying Game Best Friends Whenever- 2.09: Working Nine to Fudge Best Friends Whenever- 2.10: Its not Ye Its Me Best Friends Whenever- 2.11: The Christmas Curse Best Friends Whenever- 2.12: Revenge of the Past Big Brother- 19.01: Season Premier (Part 1) Big Brother- 19.02: Season Premier (Part 2) Big Brother- 19.03: Den of Temptation Big Brother- 19.04: Power of Veto #1 Big Brother- 19.05: Live Eviction #; Head of Household #2 Big Brother- 19.06: Hoh #2; Den of Temptation #2, Nominations #2 Big Brother- 19.07: Power of veto #2 Big Brother- 19.08: Live Eviction #2 Big Brother- 19.09: Head of Household #3, Nominations #3 Big Brother- 19.10: Power of Veto #3 Big Brother- 19.11; Den of Temptation #3, Live Eviction #3 Big Brother- 19.12: Battle Back Big Brother- 19.13: Head of Household #4, Nominations #4 Big Brother- 19.14: Power of Veto #4 Big Brother- 19.15: Live Eviction #4, Head of Household #5 Big Brother- 19.16: Nominations #5 Big Brother- 19.17: Power of Veto #5 Big Brother- 19.18: Live Eviction #5, Head of Household #6 Big Brother- 19.19: Nominations #6 Big Brother- 19.20: Power of Veto #6 Big Brother- 19.21: Live Eviction #6 Head of Household #7 Big Brother- 19.22: Temptation Competition #3, Nominations #7 Big Brother- 19.23: Power of Veto #7 Big Brother- 19.24: Double Eviction Big Brother- 19.25: Special Friday Night Big Brother- 19.26: Head of Household #9, Nominations #9 Big Brother- 19.27: Power of Veto #9 Big Brother- 19.28: Live Eviction #9 Big Brother- 19.29: Head of Household #10, Nominations #10 Big Brother- 19.30: Power of Veto #10 Big Brother- 19.31: Live Eviction #10 Broadchurch- 3.01: Episode 1 Broadchurch- 3.02: Episode 2 Broadchurch- 3.03: Episode 3 Broadchurch- 3.04: Episode 4 Broadchurch- 3.05: Episode 5 Broadchurch- 3.06: Episode 6 Broadchurch- 3.07: Episode 7 Broadchurch- 3.08: Episode 8 Bull- 1.10: EJ Bull- 1.11: Teacher’s Pet Bull- 1.12: Stockholm Syndrome Bull- 1.13: The Fall Bull- 1.14: Its Classified Bull- 1.15: What’s Your Number Bull- 1.16: Free Fall Bull- 1.17: Name Game Bull- 1.18: Dressed to Kill Bull- 1.19: Bring it On Bull- 1.20: Make Me Bull- 1.21: How to Dodge a Bullet Bull- 1.22: Dirty Little Secrets Bull- 1.23: Benevolent Deception Bunk’d- 2.01: Griff is in the House Bunk’d- 2.02: Dance In My Pants Bunk’d- 2.03: Zuri has a Little Lamb Bunk’d- 2.04: Weasel Out Bunk’d - 2.05: Queen of Screams Bunk’d- 2.06: Luke Out Below Bunk’d- 2.07: Camp Kiki-Slasher Bunk’d- 2.08: Treehouse of Terror Bunk’d- 2.09: Tidal Wave Bunk’d- 2.10: Fog’d In Bunk’d- 2.11: How the Griff Stole Christmas Bunk’d- 2.12: Food Fight Bunk’d- 2.13: Mother May I? Bunk’d- 2.14: Mud Fight Bunk’d- 2.15: Dog Days of Summer Bunk’d- 2.16: Bad Dog! Bunk’d- 2.17: Camp Stinky Waka Bunk’d- 2.18: Cabin vs. Cabin Bunk’d- 2.19: Dreams Come True Bunk’d- 2.20: We Didn’t Start the Fire Bunk’d- 2.21: The great Escape

The Catch- 2.01: The New Deal The Catch- 2.02: The Hammer The Catch- 2.03: The Dining Hall The Catch- 2.04: The Family Way The Catch- 2.05: The Bad Girl The Catch- 2.06: The Hard Drive The Catch- 2.07: The Birthday Party THe Catch- 2.08: The Knock-off The Catch- 2.09: The Cleaner The Catch- 2.10: The Mockingbird Class- 1.01: For Tonight We Might Die Conviction- 1.10: Not Okay Conviction- 1.11: Black Orchid Conviction- 1.12: Enemy Combatant Conviction- 1.13: Past Prologue and What’s to Come Crazy Ex-Girlfriend- 2.01: Where is Josh’s Friend? Crazy Ex-Girlfriend- 2.02: When Will josh See How Cool I am Crazy Ex- Girlfriend- 2.03: All Signs Point to Josh or Is It Josh’s Friend? Crazy Ex-Girlfiend- 2.04: When Will Josh and His Friend Leave Me Alone Crazy Ex-Girlfriend- 2.05: Why is Josh’s Ex Girlfriend Eating Carbs Crazy Ex Girlfriend- 2.06: Who Needs Josh When you Have a Girl Group?Crazy Ex Girlfriend- 2.07: Who’s the Cool Girl Josh Is Dating? Crazy Ex Girlfriend- 2.08: Who is Josh’s Soup Fairy? Crazy Ex Girlfriend- 2.09: When Do I get to Spend Time With Josh? Crazy Ex Girlfriend- 2.10: Will Scarsdale Like Josh’s Shayna Punim? Crazy Ex Girlfriend- 2.11: Josh is the Man of My Dreams Right?

Crazy Ex Girlfriend- 2.12: Is Josh Free In Two Weeks? crazy Ex Girlfriend- 2.13: Can Josh Take A Leap of Faith Criminal Minds- 12.01: The Crimson King Criminal Minds- 12.02: Sick Day Criminal Minds- 12.03: Taboo Criminal Minds- 12.04: Keeper Criminal Minds- 12.05: The Anti-Terror Squad Criminal Minds- 12.06: Elliott’s Pond Criminal Minds- 12.07: Mirror Image Criminal Minds- 12.08: Scarecrow Criminal Minds- 12.09: Profiling 202 Criminal Minds- 12.10: Seek and Destroy Criminal Minds- 12.11: Surface Tension Criminal Minds- 12.12: A Good Husband Criminal Minds- 12.13: Spencer Criminal Minds- 12.14: Collision Course Criminal Minds- 12.15: Alpha Male Criminal Minds- 12.16: Assistance is Futiel Criminal Minds- 12.17: In the Dark Criminal Minds- 12.18: Hell’s Kitchen Criminal Minds- 12.19: True North Criminal Minds- 12.20: Unforgettable Criminal Minds- 12.21: Green Light Criminal Minds- 12.22: Red Light Dancing With the Stars- 24.01: Premier Dancing With the Stars- 24.02: Week 2 Dancing With the Stars- 24.03: Week 3: Vegas Week Dancing With the Stars- 24.04: Week 4: Most Memorable Year Dancing With the Stars- 24.05: Week 5: Disney Night Dancing With the Stars- 24.06: Week 6: Boy Bands vs. Girl Groups Dancing With the Stars- 24.07: Week 7: A Night at the Movies Dancing With the Stars- 24.08: Week 8: Trio Night Dancing With the Stars- 24.09: Week 9: Semi-finals Dancing With the Stars- 24.10: Week 10: Season-Finale Part 1 Dancing With the Stars- 24.11: Week 10: Season Finale Part 2 DC Legends of Tomorrow- 2.01: Out of Time DC Legends of Tomorrow- 2.02: The Justice Society of America DC Legends of Tomorrow- 2.03: Shogun DC Legends of Tomorrow- 2.04: Abominations DC Legends of Tomorrow- 2.05: Compromised DC Legends of Tomorrow- 2.06: Outlaw Country DC Legends of Tomorrow- 2.07: Invasion DC Legends of Tomorrow- 2.08: The Chicago Way DC Legends of Tomorrow- 2.09: Raiders of the Lost Art DC Legends of Tomorrow- 2.10: The Legion of Doom DC Legends of Tomorrow- 2.11: Turncoat DC Legends of Tomorrow- 2.12: Camelot/3000 Dc Legends of Tomorrow- 2.13: Land of the Lost DC Legends of Tomorrow- 2.14: Moonshot DC Legends of Tomorrow- 2.15: Fellowship of the Spear DC Legends of Tomorrow- 2.16: Doomworld DC Legends of Tomorrow- 2.17: Aruba Designated Survivor- 1.11: Warriors Designated Survivor- 1.12: The End of the Beginning Designated Survivor- 1.13: Backfire Designated Survivor- 1.14: Commander in Chief Designated Survivor- 1.15: One Hundred Days Designated Survivor- 1.16: Party Lines Designated Survivor- 1.17: The Ninth Seat Designated Survivor- 1.18: Lazarus Designated Survivor- 1.19: Misalliance Designated Survivor- 1.20: Bombshell Designated Survivor- 1.21: Brace for Impact Doctor Who- Christmas Special: The Return of Doctor Mysterio Doctor Who- 10.01: The Pilot Doctor Who- 10.02: Smile Doctor who- 10.03: Thin Ice Doctor Who- 10.04: Knock Knock Doctor Who- 10.05: Oxygen Doctor Who- 10.06: Extremis Doctor Who- 10.07: The Pyramid at the End of the World Doctor Who- 10.08: The Lie of the Land Doctor Who- 10.09: Empress of Mars Doctor Who- 10.10: The Eaters of Light Doctor Who- 10.11: World Enough and Time Doctor Who- 10.12: The Doctor Falls Fear the Walking Dead- 1.01: Pilot Fear the Walking Dead- 1.02: So Close, Yet So Far Fear the Walking Dead- 1.03: The Dog Fear the Walking Dead- 1.04: Not Fade Away Fear the Walking Dead- 1.05: Cobalt Fear the Walking Dead- 1.06: The Good Man Fear the Walking Dead- 2.01: Monster Fear the Walking Dead- 2.02: We all Fall Down Fear the Walking Dead- 2.03: Ourboros Fear the Walking Dead- 2.04: Blood in the Streets Fear the Walking Dead- 2.05: Captive Fear the Walking Dead- 2.06: Sicut Cervus Fear the Walking Dead- 2.07: Shiva Fear the Walking Dead- 2.08: Grotesque Fear the Walking Dead- 2.09: Los Muertos Fear the Walking Dead- 2.10: Do Not Disturb Fear the Walking Dead- 2.11: Pablo and Jessica Fear the Walking Dead- 2.12: Pillar of Salt Fear the Walking Dead- 2.13: Date of Death Fear the Walking Dead- 2.14: Wrath Fear the Walking Dead- 2.15: North The Flash- 2.07: Gorilla Warfare The Flash- 2.08: Legends of Today (I) The Flash- 2.09: Running to Stand Still The Flash- 2.10: Potential Energy The Flash- 2.11: The Reverse Flash Returns The Flash- 2.12: Fast Lane The Flash- 2.13: Welcome to Earth-2 The Flash- 2.14: Escape From Earth-2 The Flash- 2.15: King Shark The Flash- 2.16: Trajectory The Flash- 2.17: Flash Back The Flash- 2.18: Versus Zoom The Flash- 2.19: Back to Normal The Flash- 2.20: Rupture The Flash- 2.21: The Runaway Dinosaur The Flash- 2.22: Invincible The Flash- 2.23: The Race of His Life The Flash- 3.01: Flashpoint The Flash- 3.02: Paradox The Flash- 3.03: Magenta The Flash- 3.04: The New Rogues The Flash- 3.05: Monster The Flash- 3.06: Shade The Flash- 3.07: Killer Frost The Flash- 3.08: Invasion (2) The Flash- 3.09: The Present The Flash- 3.10: Borrowing Problems From the Future The Flash- 3.11: Dead or Alive THe Flash- 3.12: Untouchable The Flash- 3.13: Attack on Gorilla City (1) The Flash- 3.14: Attack on Central City (2) The Flash- 3.15: The Wrath of Salvitar The Flash- 3.16: Into the Speed Force The Flash- 3.17: Duet (2) The Flash- 3.18: Abra Kadabra The Flash- 3.19: The Once and Future Flash The Flash- 3.20: I Know Who You Are The Flash- 3.21: Cause and Effect The Flash- 3.22: Infantino Street The Flash- 3.23: Finish line The Fosters- 4.11: Insult to Injury The Fosters- 4.12: Dream a Little Dream The Fosters- 4.13: Cruel and Unusual The Fosters- 4.14: Doors and Windows The Fosters- 4.15: Sex Ed The Fosters- 4.16: The Long Haul The Fosters- 4.17: Diamond in the Rough The Fosters- 4.18: Dirty Laundry The Fosters- 4.19: Who Knows? The Fosters- 4.20: Until Tomorrow Fuller House- 2.09: Glazed & Confused Fuller House- 2.10: New Kids in the House Fuller House- 2.11: DJ and Kimmy’s High School Reunion Fuller House- 2.12: Nutcrackers Fuller House- 2.13: Happy New Year Baby Game of Thrones- 6.01: The Red Woman Game of Thrones- 6.02: HOme Game of Thrones- 6.03: Oathbreaker Game of Thrones- 6.04: Book of the Stranger Game of Thrones- 7.01: Dragonstone Game of Thrones- 7.02: Stormborn Game of Thrones- 7.03: The Queen’s Justice Game of Thrones- 7.04: The Spoils of War Game of Thrones- 7.05: Eastwatch Game of Thrones- 7.06: Beyond the Wall Game of Thrones- 7.07: The Dragon and the Wolf Gilmore Girls- 1.01: Pilot Gilmore Girls- 1.02: The Lorelais’ First Day at Chilton Gilmore Girls- 1.03: Kill Me Now Gilmore Girls- 1.04: The Deer Hunters Gilmore Girls- 1.05: Cinnamon’s Wake Gilmore Girls- 1.06: Rorys Birthday Parties Gilmore Girls- 1.07: Kiss and Tell Gilmore Girls- 1.08: Love and War and Snow Gilmore Girls- 1.09: Rory’s Dance Girlmore Girls- 1.10: Forgiveness and Stuff Gilmore Girls- 1.11: Paris Is Burning Gilmore Girls- 1.12: Double Date Gilmore Girls- 1.13: Concert Interruptus Gilmore Girls- 1.14: That Damn Donna Reed Gilmore Girls- 1.15: Christopher Returns Gilmore Girls- 1.16: Star Crossed Lovers and Other Strangers Gilmore Girls- 1.17: The Breakup Part 2 Gilmore Girls- 1.18: The Third Lorelai Gilmore Girls- 1.19: Emily in Wonderland Gilmore Girls- 1.20: PS I love You Gilmore Girls- 1.21: Love, Daisies, and Troubadours Gilmore Girls- 2.01: Sadie Sadie Gilmore Girls- 2.02: Hammers and Veils Gilmore Girls- 2.03: Red Light on the Wedding Night Gilmore Girls- 2.04: The Road Trip to Harvard Gilmore Girls- 2.05: Nick & Nora/Sid & Nancy Gilmore Girls- 2.06: Presenting Lorelai Gilmore Gilmore Girls- 2.07: Like Mother, Like Daughter Gilmore Girls- 2.08: The Ins and Outs of Inns Gilmore Girls- 2.09: Run Away Little Boy Gilmore Girls- 2.10: The Bracebridge Diner Gilmore Girls- 2.11: Secrets and Loans Gilmore Girls 2.12: Richard in Stars Hollow Gilmore Girls- 2.13: A Tisket a Tasket Gilmore Girls- 2.14: It Should’ve Been Lorelei Gilmore Girls- 2.15: Lost and Found Gilmore Girls- 2.16: There’s the Rub Gilmore Girls- 2.17: Dead Uncles and Vegetables Gilmore Girls- 2.18: Back in the Saddle Again Gilmore Girls- 2.19: Teach Me Tonight Gilmore Girls- 2.20: Help Wanted Gilmore Girls- 2.21: Lorelai’s Graduation Day Gilmore Girls- 2.22: I Can’t Get Started Gilmore Girls- 3.01: Those Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days Gilmore Girls- 3.02: Haunted Leg Gilmore Girls- 3.03: Application Anxiety Gilmore Girls- 3.04: One’s Got Class and the Other One Dyes Gilmore Girls- 3.05: Eight O’Clock at the Oasis Gilmore Girls- 3.06: Take the Deviled Eggs... Gilmore Girls- 3.07: They Shoot Gilmores Don’t they Gilmore Girls- 3.08: Let the Games Begin Gilmore Girls- 3.09: A Deep Fried Korean Thanksgiving Gilmore Girls- 3.10: That’ll Do Pig Gilmore Girls- 3.11: I Solemnly Swear Gilmore Girls- 3.12: Lorelai Out of Water Gilmore Girls- 3.13: Dear Emily and Richard Gilmore Girls- 3.14: Swan Song Gilmore Girls- 3.15: Face-Off Gilmore Girls- 3.16: The Big One Gilmore Girls- 3.17: A Tale of Poes and Fire Gilmore Girls- 3.18: Happy Birthday Baby Gilmore Girls- 3.19: Keg! Max! Gilmore Girls- 3.20: Say Goodnight Gracie Gilmore Girls- 3.21: Here Comes the Son Gilmore Girls- 3.22: Those are Strings Pinocchio Gilmore Girls- 4.01: Ballrooms and Biscotti Gilmore Girls- 4.02: The Lorelai’s First Day at Yale Gilmore GIrls- 4.03: THe Hobbit, the sofa, and digger stiles Gilmore Girls- 4.04: Chicken or Beef Gilmore Girls- 4.05: The Fundamental Things Apply Gilmore Girls- 4.06: An Affair to Remember Gilmore Girls- 4.07: The Festival of Living Art Gilmore Girls- 4.08: Die, Jerk Gilmore Girls- 4.09: Ted Koppel’s Big Night Out Gilmore Girls- 4.10: The Nanny and the Professor Gilmore Girls- 4.11: In the Clamor and the Clangor Gilmore Girls- 4.12: A Family Matter Gilmore Girls- 4.13: Nag Hammadi is Where they Found the Gnostic Gospels Gilmore Girls- 4.14: The Incredible Sinking Lorelais Gilmore Girls- 4.15: Scene In A Mall Gilmore Girls- 4.16: The Reigning Lerelai Gilmore Girls- 4.17: Girls in Bikinis, Boys Doin’ the Twist Gilmore Girls- 4.18: Tick, Tick, Tick, Boom Gilmore Girls- 4.19: Afterboom Gilmore Girls- 4.20: Luke Can See Her Face Gilmore Girls- 4.21: Last Week Fights This Week Tights Gilmore Girls- 4.22: Raincoats and Recipes Gilmore Girls- 5.01: Say Goodbye to daisy Miller Gilmore Girls- 5.02: A Messenger Nothing More Gilmore Girls- 5.03: Written in the Stars Gilmore Girls- 5.04: Tippecanoe and Taylor, Too Gilmore Girls- 5.05: We Got us a Pippi Virgin Gilmore Girls- 5.06: Norman Mailer, I’m Pregnant! Gilmore Girls- 5.07: You jump, I Jump, Jack Gilmore Girls- 5.08: The Party’s Over Gilmore Girls- 5.09: Emily Says Hello Gilmore Girls- 5.10: But not as Cute As Pushkin Gilmore Girls- 5.11: Women of Questionable Morals Gilmore Girls- 5.12: Come Home Gilmore Girls- 5.13: Wedding Bell Blues Gilmore Girls- 5.14: Say Something Gilmore Girls- 5.15: Jews and Chinese Food Gilmore Girls- 5.16: So... Good Talk Gilmore Girls- 5.17: Pulp Friction Gilmore Girls- 5.18: To live and Let Diorama Gilmore Girls- 5.19: But I’m A Gilmore! Gilmore Girls- 5.20: How Many Kropogs to Cape Cod? Gilmore Girls- 5.21: Blame Booze and Melville Gilmore Girls- 5.22: A House Is Not A Home Gilmore Girls- 6.01: New and Improved Lorelai Gilmore Girls- 6.02: Fight Face Gilmore Girls- 6.03: The Ungraduate Gilmore Girls- 6.04: Always a Godmother, never a god Gilmore Girls- 6.05: We’ve Got Magic to Do Gilmore Girls- 6.06: Welcome to the Dollhouse Gilmore Girls- 6.07: Twenty-one is the Loneliest Number Gilmore Girls - 6.08: Let Me Hear You Balalaikas Ringing Out Gilmore Girls- 6.09: The Prodigal Daughter Returns Gilmore Girls- 6.10: He’s Slippin’ em bread dig? Gilmore Girls- 6.11: The Perfect Dress Gilmore Girls- 6.12: Just Like Gwen and Gavin Gilmore Girls- 6.13: Friday Nights Alright For Fighting Gilmore Girls- 6.14: You’ve Been Gilmored Gilmore Girls- 6.15: A Vineyard Valentine Gilmore Girls- 6.16: Bridesmaids Revisted Gilmore Girls- 6.17: I’m Ok, You’re Ok Gilmore Girls- 6.18: The Real Paul Anka Gilmore Girls- 6.19: I Get a Sidekick Out of You Gilmore Girls- 6.20: Super Cool Party People Gilmore Girls- 6.21: Driving Miss Gilmore Gilmore Girls- 6.22: Partings Gilmore girls- 7.01: The Long Morrow Gilmore Girls- 7.02: That’s what you get folks, for makin whoopee Gilmore Girls- 7.03: Lorelai’s First Cotillion Gilmore Girls- 7.04: ‘S Wonderful, ‘S Marvelous Gilmore Girls- 7.05: The Great Stink Gilmore Girls- 7.06: Go Bulldogs! Gilmore Girls:- 7.07: French Twist Gilmore Girls- 7.08: Introducing Lorelai Planetarium Gilmore Girls- 7.09: Knit People Knit! Gilmore Girls- 7.10: Merry Fisticuffs Gilmore Girls- 7.11: Santa’s Secret Stuff Gilmore Girls- 7.12: To Whom It May Concern Gilmore Girls- 7.13: I’d Rather Be In Philadelphia Gilmore Girls- 7.14: Farwell My Pet Gilmore Girls- 7.15: I’m A Kayak Hear Me Roar Gilmore Girls- 7.16: Will You Be My Lorelai Gilmore Gilmore Girls- 7.17: Gilmore Girls Only Gilmore Girls- 7.18: Hay Bale Maze Gilmore Girls- 7.19: Its just Like Riding a Bike Gilmore Girls- 7.20: Lorelai? Lorelai? Gilmore Girls- 7.21: Unto the Breach Gilmore Girls- 7.22: Bon Voyage

Girl Meets World- 3.01: Girl Meets high School (1) Girl Meets World- 3.02: Girl Meets High School (2) Girl Meets World- 3.03: Girl Meet Jexica Girl Meets World- 3.04: Girl Meets Permanent Record Girl Meets World- 3.05: Girl Meets Triangle Girl Meets World- 3.06: Girl Meets Upstate Girl Meets World- 3.07: Girl Meets True Maya Girl Meets World- 3.08: Girl Mets Ski Lodge (1) Girl Meets World- 3.09: Girl Meets Ski Lodge (2) Girl Meets World- 3.10: Girl Meets I Do Girl Meets World- 3.11: Girl Meets the Real World Girl Meets World- 3.12: Girl Meets Bear Girl Meets World- 3.13: Girl Meets the Great Lady of New York Girl Meets World- 3.14: Girl Meets She Don’t Like Me Girl Meets World- 3.15: Girl Meets World of Terror 3 Girl Meets World- 3.16: Girl Meets Her Monster Girl Meets World- 3.17: Girl Meets Hollywood Girl Meets World- 3.18: Girl Meets a Christmas Maya Girl Meets World- 3.19: World Meets Girl Girl Meets World- 3.20: Girl Meets Sweet Sixteen Girl Meets World- 3.21: Girl Meets Goodbye Girls- 6.01: All I Ever Wanted Girls- 6.02: Hostage Situation Girls- 6.03: American Bitch Girls- 6.04: Painful Evacuation Girls- 6.05: Gummies Girls- 6.06: Full Disclosure Girls- 6.07: The Bounce Girls- 6.08: What Will We Do This Time About Adam? Girls- 6.09: Goodbye Tour Girls- 6.10: Latching The Good Fight- 1.01: Inauguration The Good Fight- 1.02: First Week The Good Fight- 1.03: The Schtup List The Good Fight- 1.04: Henceforth Known as Property The Good Fight- 1.05: Stopable: Requiem For An Airdate The Good Fight- 1.06: Social Media and its Discontents The Good Fight: 1.07: Not so Grand Jury The Good Fight: 1.08: Reddick v. Boserman The Good Fight: 1.09: Self Condemned The Good Fight- 1.10: Chaos The Good Place- 1.10: Chidi’s Choice The Good Place- 1.11: What’s My Motivation The Good Place- 1.12: Mindy St. Claire The Good Place- 1.13: Michael’s Gambit The Great Indoors- 1.09: The Mediocre Outdoors The Great Indoors- 1.10: The Explorers Club The Great Indoors- 1.11: Mason Blows Up The Great Indoors- 1.12: Paul’s Surprise The Great Indoors- 1.13: DTR The Great Indoors- 1.14: Friends Like These The Great Indoors- 1.15: Friendship Jack The Great Indoors- 1.16: Aaron Wolf The Great Indoors- 1.17: Cubicles The Great Indoors- 1.18: Party Paul The Great Indoors- 1.19: Ricky Leaks The Great Indoors- 1.20: The Heartbreaker The Great Indoors- 1.21: Roland’s Secret The Great Indoors- 1.22: The Company Retreat Grey’s Anatomy- 13.10: You Can look (But You’d Better not Touch) Grey’s Anatomy- 13.11: Jukebox Hero Grey’s Anatomy- 13.12: None of Your Business Grey’s Anatomy- 13.13: It Only Gets Much Worse Grey’s Anatomy- 13.14: Back Where You Belong Grey’s Anatomy- 13.15: Civil War Grey’s Anatomy- 13.16: Who is He (And What is He To you) Grey’s Anatomy- 13.17: Til I Hear it From You Grey’s Anatomy- 13.18: Be Still, My Soul Grey’s Anatomy- 13.19: What’s Inside Grey’s Anatomy- 13.20: In The Air Tonight Grey’s Anatomy- 13.21: Don’t Stop Me Now Grey’s Anatomy- 13.22: Leave it Inside Grey’s Anatomy- 13.23: True Colors Grey’s Anatomy- 13.24: Ring of Fire Haven- 5.14: New World Order Haven- 5.15: Power Haven- 5.16: The Trial of Nathan Wuornos Haven- 5.17: Enter Sandman Haven- 5.18: Wild Card Haven- 5.19: Perditus Haven- 5.20: Just Passing Through Haven- 5.21: Close to Home Haven- 5.22: A Matter of Time Haven- 5.23: Blind Spot Haven- 5.24: The Widening Gyre Haven- 5.25: Now Haven- 5.26: Forever How to Get Away With Murder- 3.10: We’re Bad People How to Get Away WIth Murder- 3.11: Not Everythign’s About Annalise How to Get Away With Murder- 3.12: Go Cry Somewhere Else How to Get Away With Murder- 3.13: Its War How to Get Away With Murder- 3.14: He Made a Terrible Mistake How to Get Away With Murder- 3.15: Wes I-Zombie- 3.01: Heaven just Got A Little Bit Smoother I-Zombie- 3.02: Zombie Knows Best I-Zombie- 3.03: Eat, Pray, Liv I-Zombie- 3.04: Wag the Tongue Slowly I-Zombie- 3.05: Spanking the Zombie I-Zombie- 3.06:Some Like it Hot Mess I-Zombie- 3.07: Dirt Nap Time I-Zombie- 3.08: Eat a Knievel I-Zombie- 3.09: Twenty-Sided, Die I-Zombie- 3.10: Return of the Dead Guy I-Zombie- 3.11: Conspiracy Weary I-Zombie- 3.12: Looking For Mr. Goodbrain (1) I-Zombie- 3.13: Looking for Mr. Goodbrain (2)

Liv and Maddie- 4.01: Sorta-Sisters-a-Rooney Liv and Maddie- 4.02: Linda and Heather-a-Rooney Liv and Maddie- 4.03: Scare-a-Rooney Liv and Maddie- 4.04: Sing It Louder-a-rooney Liv and Maddie- 4.05: Slumber Party-a-Rooney Liv and Maddie- 4.06: Cali Christmas-a-Rooney Liv and Maddie- 4.07: Stand-Up-A-Rooney Liv and Maddie- 4.08: Roll Model-A-Rooney Liv and Maddie- 4.09: Falcon-A-Rooney Liv and Maddie- 4.10: Ex-A-Rooney Liv and Maddie- 4.11: Tiny House-A-Rooney Liv and Maddie- 4.12: Big Break-A-Rooney Liv and Maddie- 4.13: Sing it live!!-A-Rooney Liv and Maddie- 4.14: Voice-A-Rooney Liv and Maddie- 4.15: End-A-Rooney Lucifer- 2.12: Stewardess Interruptus Lucifer- 2.13: Love Handles Lucifer- 2.14: A Good Day To Die Lucifer- 2.15: Candy Morningstar Lucifer- 2.16: Deceptive Little Parasite Lucifer- 2.17: God Johnson Lucifer- 2.18: Sympathy for the Goddess Lucifer- 2.19: The Good, the Bad, and the Crispy Madam Secretary- 3.11: Gift Horse Madam Secretary- 3.12: The Detour Madam Secretary- 3.13: The Beautiful Game Madam Secretary- 3.14: Labor of Love Madam Secretary- 3.15: Break in Diplomacy Madam Secretary- 3.16: Swept Away Madam Secretary- 3.17: Convergence Madam Secretary- 3.18: Good Bones Madam Secretary- 3.19: Global Relief Madam Secretary- 3.20: Extraordinary Hazard Madam Secretary- 3.21: The Seventh Floor Madam Secretary- 3.22: Revelation Madam Secretary- 3.23: Article 5 Man With a Plan- 1.09: What About Bob? Man With a Plan- 1.10: A Dinner Gone Wrong Man With a Plan- 1.11: The Talk Man With a Plan- 1.12: The Three Amigos Man With a Plan- 1.13: Valentines Day Man With a Plan- 1.14: Kate’s First Date Man With a Plan- 1.15: Assisted Living Man With a Plan- 1.16: The A Team Man With A Plan- 1.17: Doctor No Man With A Plan- 1.18: The Blame Game Man With A Plan- 1.19: Spring Fling Man With A Plan- 1.20: Dirty Money Man With A Plan- 1.21: Operation False Freedom Man With A Plan- 1.22: Buzer beater Marvel’s The Defenders- 1.01: The H Word Marvel’s The Defenders- 1.02: Mean Right Hook Marvel’s The Defenders- 1.03: Worst Behavior Marvel’s The Defenders- 1.04: Royal Dragon Marvel’s The Defenders- 1.05: Take Shelter Marvel’s The Defenders- 1.06: Ashes, Ashes Marvel’s The Defenders- 1.07: Fish in the Jailhouse Marvel’s The Defenders- 1.08: The Defenders Marvel’s Iron Fist- 1.01: Snow Gives Way Marvel’s Iron Fist- 1.02: Shadow Hawk Takes Fight Marvel’s Iron Fist- 1.03: Rolling Thunder Cannon Punch Marvel’s Iron Fist- 1.04: Eight Diagram Dragon Palm Marvel’s Iron Fist- 1.05: Under Leaf Pluck Lotus Marvel’s Iron Fist- 1.06: Immortal Emerges From Cave Marvel’s Iron Fist: 1.07: Felling Tree with Roots Marvel’s Iron Fist: 1.08: The Blessings of Man Fractures Marvel’s Iron Fist: 1.09: The Mistress of All Agonies Marvel’s Iron Fist: 1.10: Black Tiger Steals Heart Marvel’s Iron Fist- 1.11: Lead Horse Back to Stable Marvel’s Iron Fist- 1.12: Bar the Big Boss Marvel’s Iron Fist- 1.13: Dragon Plays With Fire Marvel’s Luke Cage- 1.04: Step Into the Arena Marvel’s Luke Cage- 1.05: Just to Get A Rep Marvel’s Luke Cage- 1.06: Suckas Need Bodyguards Marvel’s Luke Cage- 1.07: Manifest Marvel’s Luke Cage- 1.08: Blowin’ Up the Spot Marvel’s Luke Cage- 1.09: DWYCK Marvel’s Luke Cage- 1.10: Take It Personal Marvel’s Luke Cage- 1.11: Now You’re Mine Marvel’s Luke Cage- 1.12: Soliloquy of Chaos Marvel’s Luke Cage- 1.13: You Know My Steez Midnight, Texas- 1.01: Pilot Midnight, Texas- 1.02: Bad Moon Rising Midnight, Texas- 1.03: Lemuel, Unchained Midnight, Texas- 1.04: Sexy Beast Midnight, Texas- 1.05: Unearthed Midnight, Texas- 1.06: Blinded by the Light Modern Family- 8.10: Ringmaster Keifth Modern Family- 8.11: Sarge and Pea Modern Family- 8.12: Do You Believe in Magic Modern Family- 8.13: Do It Yourself Modern Family- 8.14: Heavy is the Head Modern Family- 8.15: Finding Fizbo Modern Family- 8.16: Basketball Modern Family- 8.17: Pig Moon Rising Modern Family- 8.18: Five Minutes Modern Family- 8.19: Frank’s Wedding Modern Family- 8.20: All Things Being Equal Modern Family- 8.21: Alone Time Modern Family- 8.22: The Graduates Nashville- 5.02: Back In Baby’s Arms Nashville- 5.03: Lets Put it Back Together Again Nashville- 5.04: Leap of Faith Nashville- 5.05: Love Hurts Nashville- 5.06: A little Bit Stronger Nashville- 5.07: Hurricane Nashville- 5.08: Stand Beside Me Nashville- 5.09: If Tomorrow Never Come Nashville- 5.10: I’ll Fly Away Nashville- 5.11: Fire and Rain Nashville- 5.12: Back in the Saddle Again Nashville- 5.13: ‘Til I can Make it on my own Nashville- 5.14: (Now and Then There’s) A Fool Such as I Nashville- 5.15: A Change Would DO You Good Nashville- 5.16: Not Ready to Make Nice Nashville- 5.17: Ghost In This House Nashville- 5.18: The Night Before (Life Goes On) Nashville- 5.19: You Can’t Lose Me Nashville- 5.20: Speed Trap Town Nashville- 5.21: Father On Once Upon A Time- 1.01: Pilot Once Upon a Time- 1.02: The Thing You Love Most Once Upon a Time- 1.03: Snow Falls Once Upon a Time- 1.04: The Price of Gold Once Upon a Time- 1.05: That Still Small Voice Once Upon a Time-1.06: The Shepherd Once Upon a Time- 1.07: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter Once Upon a Time- 1.08: Desperate Souls Once Upon a Time- 1.09: True North Once Upon a Time- 1.10: 7:15 AM Once Upon a Time- 1.11: Furit of the Poisonous Tree Once Upon a Time- 1.12: Skin Deep Once Upon a Time- 1.13: What Happened to Frederick Once Upon a Time- 1.14: Dreamy Once Upon a Time- 1.15: Red-Handed Once Upon a Time- 1.16: Heart of Darkness Once Upon a Time- 1.17: Hat Trick Once Upon a Time- 1.18: The Stable Boy Once Upon a Time- 1.19: The Return Once Upon a Time- 1.20: The Stranger Once Upon a Time- 2.01: An Apple Red as Blood Once Upon a Time- 2.02:Lady of the Lake Once Upon a Time- 2.03: The Crocodile Once Upon a Time- 2.04: The Doctor Once Upon a Time- 2.05: Tallahassee Once Upon a Time- 2.06: Child of the Moon Once Upon a Time- 2.07: Into the Deep Once Upon a Time- 2.08: Queen of Hearts Once Upon a Time- 2.09: The Cricket Game Once upon a Time- 2.10: The Outsider Once Upon a Time- 2.11: In The Name of the Brother Once Upon a Time- 2.12: Tiny Once Upon a Time- 2.13: Manhattan One Day at A Time: 1.01: This is It One Day at A Time: 1.02: Bobos and Mamaitas One Day at A Time: 1.03: No Mass One Day at A Time: 1.04: A Snowman’s Tale One Day at A Time: 1.05: Strays One Day at A Time: 1.06: The Death of Mrs. Resnick One Day at A Time: 1.07: Hold Please One Day at A Time: 1.08: ONe Lie at A Time One Day at A Time- 1.09: Viva Cuba One day at A Time- 1.10: Sex Talk One Day at A Time- 1.11: Pride and Prejudice One Day at A Time- 1.12: Hurricane Victor One Day at A Time- 1.13: Quinces Orange is the New Black- 5.01: Riot FOMO Orange is the New Black- 5.02: Fuck, Marry, Frieda Orange Is the New Black- 5.03: Pissters! Orange is the New Black- 5.04: Litchfield’s Got Talent Orange is the New Black- 5.05: Sing it, White Effie! Orange is the New Black- 5.06: Flaming Hot Cheetos Literally Orange Is the New Black- 5.07: Full Bush, Half Snickers Orange is the New Black- 5.08: Tied to the Traintracks Orange is the New blak- 5.09: The Tightening Orange is the New Black- 5.10: The Reverse Midas Touch Orange is the New Black- 5.11: Breaking the Fireboard Ceiling Orange Is the New Black- 5.12: Tattoo You Orange is the New Black- 5.13: Stormy Weather Powerless- 1.01: Wayne or Lose Powerless- 1.02: Wayne’s Dream Team Powerless- 1.03: Sinking day Powerless- 1.04: Emily Dates a henchman Powerless- 1.05: Cold season Powerless- 1.06: Ima Friend You Powerless- 1.07: Van V Emily: Dawn of Justice Powerless- 1.08: Green Furious Powerless- 1.09: Emergency Punch Up Powerless- 1.10: Win Luthor Draw Preacher- 1.01: Pilot Preacher- 1.02: See Preacher- 1.03: The Possibilities Preacher- 1.04: Monster Swamp Preacher- 1.05: South Will Rise Again Preacher- 1.06: Sundowner Preacher- 1.07: He Gone Preacher- 1.08: El Valero Preacher- 1.09: Finish the Song Preacher- 1.10: Call and Response

Pretty Little Liars- 7.11: Playtime Pretty Little Liars- 7.12: These Boots Were Made For Stalking Pretty Little Liars- 7.13: Hold Your PHone Pretty Little Liars- 7.14: Power Play Pretty Little Liars- 7.15: In the Eye Abides the heart Pretty Little Liars- 7.16: The Glove that Rocks the Cradle Pretty Little Liars- 7.17: Driving Miss Crazy Pretty Little Liars- 7.18: Choose or Loose Pretty Little Liars- 7.19: Farewell, My Lovely Pretty Little Liars- 7.20: Til DeAth do us pArt Quantico- 2.09: Cleopatra Quantico- 2.10: JMPALM Quantico- 2.11: ZTORCH Quantico- 2.12: Fallen Oracle Quantico- 2.13: Epicshelter Quantico- 2.14: LNWILT Quantico- 2.15: Mockingbird Quantico- 2.16: MKTOPAZ Quantico- 2.17: OKIDOKE Quantico- 2.18: KUMONK Quantico- 2.19: MHORdER Quantico- 2.20: Globalreah Quantico- 2.21: RAINBOW Quantico- 2.22: Resistance Reign- 4.01: With Friends Like These Reign- 4.02: A Grain of Deception Reign- 4.03: Leaps of Faith Reign- 4.04: Playing With Fire Reign- 4.05: Highland Games Reign- 4.06: Love & Death Reign- 4.07: Hanging Swords Reign- 4.08: Uncharted Waters Reign- 4.09: Pulling Strings Reign- 4.10: A Better Man Reign- 4.11: dead of Night Reign- 4.12: The Shakedown Reign- 4.13: Coup de Grace Reign- 4.14: A Bride, A Box, A Body Reign- 4.15: Blood in the Water Reign- 4.16: All it Cost Her Riverdale- 1.01: Chapter One: The Rivers Edge Riverdale- 1.02: Chapter Two: A Touch of Evil Riverdale- 1.03: Chapter Three: Body Double Riverdale- 1.04: Chapter Four: The Last Picture Show Riverdale- 1.05: Chapter Five: Heart of Darkness Riverdale- 1.06: Chapter Six: Faster Pussycats! Kill! Kill! Riverdale- 1.07: Chapter Seven: In a Lonely Place Riverdale- 1.08: Chapter Eight: The Outsiders Riverdale- 1.09: Chapter Nine: THe Grande Illusion Riverdale- 1.10: Chapter Ten: The lost Weekend Riverdale- 1.11: Chapter Eleven: To Riverdale and Back Again Riverdale- 1.12: Chapter Twelve: Anatomy of a Murder Riverdale- 1.13: Chapter Thirteen: The Sweet Hereafter Royal Pains- 8.01: Stranger Danger Royal Pains- 8.02: Palpating the Orbital Rim Royal Pains- 8.03: Fly me to Kowtown Royal Pains- 8.04: Doubt of Africa Royal Pains- 8.05: Saab Story Royal Pains- 8.06: Home Sick Royal Pains- 8.07: The Good News Is.. Royal Pains- 8.08: Uninterrupted

Sense8- 1.07: W. W. N. Double D? Sense8- 1.08: We Will All Be Judged By the Courage of Our Hearts Sense8- 1.09: Death Doesn’t Let You Say Goodbye Sense8- 1.10: What Is Human Sense8- 1.11: Just Turn the Wheel and the Future Changes Sense8- 1.12: I Can’t Leave Her Sense8- 2.01: Happy Fucking New Year Sense8- 2.02: Who am I Sense8- 2.03: Obligate Mutualisms Sense8- 2.04: Polyphony Sense8- 2.05: Fear Never Fixed Anything Sense8- 2.06: Isolated Above, Connected Below Sense8- 2.07: I have No Room In My Heart for Hate Sense8- 2.08: All I want Right Now Is One More Bullet Sense8- 2.09: What Family Actually Means Sense8- 2.10: If All the World’s a Stage Identity is Nothing But a Costume Sense8- 2.11: You Want a War? Sleepy Hollow- 4.01: Columbia Sleepy Hollow- 4.02: In Plain Sight Sleepy Hollow- 4.03: Heads of State Sleepy Hollow- 4.04: The People vs. Ichabod Crane Sleepy Hollow- 4.05: Blood From a Stone Sleepy Hollow- 4.06: Homecoming Sleepy Hollow- 4.07: Loco Parentis Sleepy Hollow- 4.08: Sick Burn Sleepy Hollow- 4.09: Child’s Play Sleepy Hollow- 4.10: Insatiable Sleepy Hollow- 4.11: The Way of the Gun Sleepy Hollow- 4.12: Tomorrow Sleepy Hollow- 4.13: Freedom So You Think You Can Dance: 14.01: Los Angeles Auditions #1 So You Think You Can Dance: 14.02: Los Angeles Auditions #2 So You Think You Can Dance: 14.03: New York Auditions #1 So You Think You Can Dance- 14.04: New York Auditions #2 So You Think You Can Dance- 14.05: Academy Week #1 So you Think You Can Dance- 14.06: Academy Week #2 So you Think You Can Dance- 14.07: Academy Week #3 So You Think You Can Dance- 14.08: Top 10 Perform, Part 1 So you Think You Can Dance- 14.09: Top 10 Perform, Part 2 So You Think You Can Dance- 14.10: Top 9 Perform So You Think You Can Dance- 14.11: Top 8 Perform Stranger Things- 1.01: Chapter One: The Vanishing of Will Byers Stranger Things- 1.02: Chapter Two: The Weirdo on Maple Street Stranger Things- 1.03: Chapter Three: Holly Jolly Stranger Things- 1.04: Chapter Four: The Body Stranger Things- 1.05: Chapter Five: The Flea and the Acroba Stranger Things- 1.06: Chapter Six: The Monster Stranger Things- 1.07: Chapter Seven: The Bathtub Stranger Things- 1.08: Chapter Eight: The upside Down Supergirl- 2.09: Supergirl Lives Supergirl- 2.10: We Can Be Heroes Supergirl- 2.11: The Martian Chronicles Supergirl- 2.12: Luthors Supergirl- 2.13: Mr. & Mrs. Mxyzptik Supergirl- 2.14: Homecoming Supergirl- 2.15: Exodus Supergirl- 2.16: Star-Crossed (1) Supergirl- 2.17: Distant Sun Supergirl- 2.18: Ace Reporter Supergirl- 2.19: Alex Supergirl- 2.20: City of Lost Children Supergirl- 2.21: Resist Supergirl- 2.22: Nevertheless, she persisted Supernatural- 11.12: Don’t You Forget about Me Supernatural- 11.13: Love Hurts Supernatural- 11.14: The Vessel Supernatural- 11.15: Beyond the Mat Supernatural- 11.16: Safe House Supernatural- 11.17: Red Meat Supernatural- 11.18: Hell’s Angels Supernatural- 11.19: The Chitters Supernatural- 11.20: Don’t Call me Shurley Supernatural- 11.21: All in the Family Supernatural- 11.22: We Happy Few Supernatural- 11.23: Alpha and Omega Supernatural- 12.01: Keep Calm and Carry On Supernatural- 12.02: Mamma Mia Supernatural- 12.03: The Foundry Supernatural- 12.04: American Nightmare Supernatural- 12.05: The One You’ve Been Waiting For Supernatural- 12.06: Celebratin the Life of Asa Fox Supernatural- 12.07: Rock Never Dies Supernatural- 12.08: LOTUS Supernatural- 12.09: First Blood Supernatural- 12.10: Lily Sunder Has Some Regrets Supernatural- 12.11: Regarding Dean Supernatural- 12.12: Stuck in the Middle (with You) Supernatural- 12.13: Family Feud Supernatural- 12.14: The Raid Supernatural- 12.15: Somewhere Between Heaven and Hell Supernatural- 12.16: Ladies Drink Free Supernatural- 12.17: The British Invasion Supernatural- 12.18: The Memory Remains Supernatural- 12.19: The Future Supernatural- 12.20: Twigs and Twine and Tasha Banes Supernatural- 12.21: There’s Something About Mary Supernatural- 12.22: Who We Are Supernatural- 12.23: All Along the Watchtower Survivor- 34.01: The Stakes have Been Raised Survivor- 34.02: Survivor Jackpot Survivor- 34.03: The Tables Have Turned Survivor- 34.04: Dirty Deed Survivor- 34.05: Vote Early Vote Often Survivor- 34.06: What Happened on Exile Stays On Exile Survivor- 34.07: There’s a New Sherrif In Town Survivor- 34.08: A Line Drawn in Concrete Survivor- 34.09: Reinventing How the Game is Played Survivor- 34.10: Its Not a High without a Low Survivor- 34.11: Parting Is Such Sweet Sorrow Survivor- 34.12: No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Survivor- 34.13: Reunion Special Switched at Birth- 5.01: The call Switched at Birth- 5.02: This Has to do With Me Switched at Birth- 5.03: Surprise Switched at Birth- 5.04: Relation of lines and Colors Switched at Birth- 5.05: Occupy Truth Switched at Birth- 5.06: Four Ages In Life Switched at Birth- 5.07: Memory (The Heart) Switched at Birth- 5.08: Left in Charge Switched at Birth- 5.09: The Wolf is Waiting Switched at Birth- 5.10: Long Live Love This Is Us- 1.11: The Right Thing To Do This is Us- 1.12: The Big Day This Is Us- 1.13: Three Sentences This Is Us- 1.14: I Call Marriage This Is us- 1.15: Jack Pearson’s Son This Is Us- 1.16: Memphis This is Us- 1.17: What Now? This is Us- 1.18: Moonshadow Time After Time- 1.01: Pilot Time After Time- 1.02: I Will Catch You Time After Time- 1.03: Out of Time Time After Time- 1.04: Secrets Stolen Time After Time- 1.05: Picture Fades Timeless- 1.11: The Worlds Columbian Exposition Timeless- 1.12: The Murder of Jesse James Timeless- 1.13: Karma Chameleon Timeless- 1.14: The lost Generation Timeless- 1.15: Public Enemy No. 1 Timeless-1.16: The Red Scare Trial and Error- 1.01: Pilot Trial and Error- 1.02: A Wrench in the Case Trial and Error- 1.03: The Other Man Trial and Error- 1.04: An Unwelcome Distraction Trial and Error- 1.05: Right Hand Man Trial and Error- 1.06: Secrets and Lies Trial and Error- 1.07: A Change in Defense Trial and Error- 1.08: Opening Statements Trial and Error- 1.09: A Hostile Jury Trial and Error- 1.10: An unusual Suspect Trial and Error- 1.11: The Defense Rests Trial and Error- 1.12: The Verdict Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt- 3.01: Kimmy Gets Divorced? Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt- 3.02: Kimmy’s Roommate Lemonades! Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt- 3.03: Kimmy Can’t Help You! Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt- 3.04: Kimmy Goes to College! Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt- 3.05: Kimmy Steps on a Crack! Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt- 3.06: Kimmy is a Feminist! Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt- 3.07: Kimmy Learns About Weather! Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt- 3.08: Kimmy does a Puzzle! Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt- 3.09: Kimmy Goes to Church! Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt- 3.10: Kimmy Pulls off a Heist! Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt- 3.11: Kimmy Googles the Internet! Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt- 3.12: Kimmy and the Trolley Problem! Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt- 3.13: Kimmy Bites an Onion! The Walking Dead- 7.09: Rock in the Road The Walking Dead- 7.10: New best Friends The Walking Dead- 7.11: Hostiles and Calamaties The Walking Dead- 7.12: Say Yes The Walking Dead- 7.13: Bury Me Here The Walking Dead- 7.14: The Other Side The Walking Dead- 7.15: Something they Need The Walking Dead- 7.16: The First Day of the Rest of Your Life World of Dance- 1.01: The Qualifiers 1 World of Dance- 1.02: The Qualifiers 2 World of Dance- 1.03: The Qualifiers 3 World of Dance- 1.04: The Duels 1 World of Dance- 1.05: The Duels 2 World of Dance- 1.06: The Duels 3 World of Dance- 1.07: THe Cut 1 World of Dance- 1.08: The Cut 2 World of Dance- 1.09: Divisional Final World of Dance- 1.10: World Final Young & Hungry- 5.01: Young & Punch Card Young & Hungry- 5.02: Young & Vlaentines Day Young & Hungry- 5.03: Young & Kiki Young & Hungry- 5.04: Young & Josh’s Dad Young & Hungry- 5.05: Young & Softball Young & Hungry- 5.06: Young & Couchy Young & Hungry- 5.07: Young & Bridesmaids Young & Hungry- 5.08: Young & Vegas Baby Young & Hungry- 5.09: Young & Hold Young & Hungry- 5.10: Young & Amnesia

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