A Taste of Armaggedon

    Kirk and the crew of the Enterprise are on a special mission with Ambassador Fox to make peace with the Eminians. After a few complications Kirk, Spock, 2 security guys, and Yeoman Tamara beam down to check it out. So, I guess it's official that Yeoman Rand's not coming back seeing as how we're practically done with season one and she hasn't returned. Sad, really. I quite liked her underlying romance with Kirk.
      On Eminiar 7, Kirk and the landing party learn the Eminians have been in a war for over 500 years. With a little questioning they learn that this isn't an ordinary war. It's a computer war. When the enemy releases an attack  the Eminians have to kill the people in that area through disintegration chambers.During one of the attacks it seems the computers register the Enterprise as a casualty and the whole ship must come down to die. Kirk won't allow this and is sent in containment along with the rest of his landing party until the crew of the Enterprise comes down to die. Spock uses telepathy to get them out of containment. When released they see their greeter Mea 3 walking to be disintegrated. They stop her and blow up disintegrated chamber 12. Then of course they have to take out some guys so they don't run crying back to Anan 7.
         Meanwhile on the ship, Ambassador Fox is getting agitated that Kirk and the landing party have not completed the mission. Scotty and Bones know something is up and refuse to cooperate with the Ambassador's orders.
         Kirk and the others refuse to be disintegrated or have the crew disintegrated which means the Eminians  will have to use real weapons in their war. Kirk thinks this is a brilliant plan, it will teach them a lesson about war but the Eminians refuse. After several long drawn out battles and the Ambassador stupidly coming to Eminiar 7 only to get captured and almost killed Kirk is able to save the day, destroy their computers with the help of Spock, give the Eminians an actual war, and then travel through space once again.
    This really wasn't one of my personal favorite episodes, sometimes it seemed a little repetitive and drawn out, but for the most part I liked it. It seemed to speak to this day and age, how everything is so computerized that eventually are wars will be too. Kirk makes a point of saying that wars are messy and a virtual war is not messy at all. Too much technology is not always a good thing.