User:Wikip rhyre/Star Trek TOS Episode Themes

Kirk uses the power of logic to convince a computer to shutdown or self-destruct.
 * The Return of the Archons
 * I, Mudd
 * The Ultimate Computer
 * The Changeling

Kirk travels to a strange planet and encounters a weird creature.
 * The Squire of Gothos
 * Shore Leave (Star Trek)
 * The Man Trap
 * Operation Annihilate
 * Arena (Star Trek)
 * What Are Little Girls Made Of?
 * The Devil in the Dark
 * Catspaw (Star Trek)
 * Metamorphosis (Star Trek)
 * Wolf in the Fold
 * Who Mourns for Adonais?
 * The Apple (Star Trek)
 * A Private Little War
 * Requiem for Methuselah
 * Obsession (Star Trek)
 * The Savage Curtain
 * By Any Other Name
 * And the Children Shall Lead
 * The Empath


 * Return to Tomorrow

Kirk woos a nice lady from another planet:
 * Elaan of Troyius
 * The Paradise Syndrome
 * Is There in Truth No Beauty?
 * Wink of an Eye
 * Requiem for Methuselah
 * The Mark of Gideon

The Enterprise visits a planet of English-speaking people with a serious social problem.
 * A Private Little War (War)
 * The Mark of Gideon (Overpopulation)
 * The Cloud Minders (Slavery)
 * Let That Be Your Last Battlefield (Racial intolerance)
 * The Way to Eden (Charismatic but psychotic leaders, or Dirty Hippies)

Spock must figure out a piece of alien technology to save lives.
 * Spock's Brain
 * The Paradise Syndrome
 * For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky

Powerful beings mess with the crew of the Enterprise
 * Return to Tomorrow
 * Day of the Dove Ep66]]The Enterprise is invaded by an alien lifeform that transfers enemy Klingons to the starship and arms the Klingons and the Enterprise crew with swords.
 * Operation Annihilate
 * Arena (Star Trek)
 * The Devil in the Dark
 * Catspaw (Star Trek)
 * Metamorphosis (Star Trek)
 * Wolf in the Fold
 * Who Mourns for Adonais?

The Enterprise is besieged by an unfamiliar lifeform, twinkling lights that attack various areas of the human brain.
 * The Lights of Zetar Ep73

A literal battle of wills ensues when the arrogant sadistic inhabitants of Platonious orders Dr. McCoy to remain on their planet-and Kirk refuses.
 * Plato's Stepchildren Ep67

An Enterprise landing party is stranded on a planet replete with inexplicable physical and biological phenomena, and a sad faced siren whose touch means instant death.
 * That Which Survives Ep69

71 "WHOM GODS DESTROY" Kirk and Spock fall into the hands of Garth, the murderous leader of an inmates revolt at an intergalactic insane asylum.