"Star Trek" The Galileo Seven (1967)

Logical Episode - And A Yellow Shirt Dead

Season 1, episode 16. The Enterprise is on a mission to Makus III to deliver medical supplies with Commissioner Ferris. They pass by a quasar-like star formation known as Murasaki 312. Kirk has standing orders to investigate and they have 5 days, plenty of time, to get to Makus III. They decide to send a crew out to investigate in a shuttle craft with Spock in command, Scotty, McCoy and 4 others. The shuttle craft crashes into the planet and they loose contact with the Enterprise due to the ionization within the planet's sphere. On the planet, not only does Spock and members have a crashed pod and no contact with the Enterprise but they have ape-like angry creatures trying to kill crew members - they succeeded with a couple of them. Spock's logical decision making is beginning to get on the nerves of all the crew members with him - they remind Spock that some creatures use emotions to dictate their actions. On the Enterprise, Ferris (who is a higher rank than Kirk) is pressuring and threatening Kirk to leave the crew behind and head to Makus III.

Good episode. It really shows the balance and struggle between pure logic verses emotions. Also, shows two yellow shirts that die - proving it's not always the red shirts that gets it (outside of Scotty and Uhura who sometimes wears red).

8/10

"Star Trek" The Galileo Seven (1967)