Where No Man Has Gone Before

       This episode deals with the fun problem of ESP. Yes, you read that right. Extra sensory perception. After gathering and having Spock review records from a destroyed ship, they realized the destroyed ship had a couple of its members gain ESP related powers after crossing through a certain galaxy...and then the captain had to destroy the ship. Odd...

    As Kirk leads his crew through the same galaxy two his crew get shocked and fall down...might I add HYSTERICALLY. One was the psychologist Dr. Elizabeth Dehner and the other was Lt. Cmdr. Gary Mitchell. After passing through the field Elizabeth stands up and walks around like every things hunky-dory. When they go to check on Mitchell his eyes are glazed over with a grey film.

   Of course worried by this Mitchell is sent to see the doctor who for the first time in two episodes is not McCoy. This is because the episodes were not aired in the same order they were shot in. There are a few other clues to help prove this: Uhura is no longer there, the 3-D chess set Charlie destroyed last episode is perfectly fine this episode, and all my beautiful red shirts are no longer here any more! But the thing that I find the weirdest is Spock's shirt. It isn't his normal blue, but actually yellow. Since I know shirt says rank and occupation it amazes me that Spock and Sulu had this change...in just one episode! 

   As the episode goes on Mitchell's powers grow at an alarming rate. He gains the ability to read extraordinarily fast and understand it all, and telepathically move objects nonchalantly across the room. Everyone seems alarmed by this, everyone except Dr. Dehner who seems oddly fascinated by this. 

Eventually Mitchell gains the ability to shoot mind powered beams of energy at people claiming he feels like a god. That of course makes everyone nervous so Spock devises a plan to kill Mitchell. Because nothing says bad like beams of energy coming from your brain and a wack-a-doodle controlling them saying he feels like a god! 

    The episode  basically ends with Dehner realizing she has powers, Mitchell's powers getting to "I can create food out of thin air" abilities, and a huge battle between Kirk and Mitchell. The funny part about this battle is at the beginning it looks like Mitchell is getting the worse of it but when they pull apart for a split second Kirk is the one with the really crappy painted blood effect on his face. There's this really cool moment of Dehner and Mitchell shooting each other with their mind lasers and somehow Dehner wins giving Kirk a chance to beat up Mitchell without his powers. Mitchell eventually gains his powers back, Kirk leads him into the grave Mitchell made for Kirk, and shoots down the giant boulder closing Mitchell inside Kirk's grave(irony!),Dehner then dies a sad little death and Kirk mourns the death of a Doctor and an old (crazy) friend he kinda murdered. Poor Kirk.