The Shadow Kirk
Season 1, episode 5. The Enterprise is on a mission on the planet Alpha 177. Geological Technician Fisher is beamed aboard first with a strange yellow substance on his uniform. Next Captain Kirk is beamed up and feeling a bit strange so Scotty helps to escort him down the hall... as soon as they leave another Kirk appears on the transporter floor. Some how the transporter has split Kirk into to halves: One gentle & benign while the is other a madman & a malice. This alternate Kirk is very mean, even causing Yeoman Rand some problems so she ended up scratching him and that is the true identifying mark of the "evil Kirk". There are more problems because there are more members of the Enterprise down on the planet surface ready to beam aboard but they cannot beam up because of the transporter problems, fearing they will be split as well, and the temperatures on the planet are dropping to well below freezing into the negative numbers.
A very good and even thought provoking episode. The idea of the "Shadow Self" splitting from oneself - Jungian psychology teaches us of our inner Shadow.
8.5/10
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