Star Trek: The Man Trap

Original Airdate: 9/8/1966
Synopsis (from the official Star Trek website):

The U.S.S. Enterprise arrives at planet M-113 to deliver supplies to Dr. Robert Crater and his wife, Nancy, whom Doctor Leonard McCoy was once romantically involved with. M-113 is home to the Craters for five years, where they conducted an archeological survey of the planet's ruins. They are the only known inhabitants of the planet.

While this episode was not nearly as bad as I thought it might be, it still was a rough transition back to TOS. The Man Trap is fairly standard science fiction, and it does a servicable job of introducing the characters of the Star Trek universe. There is nothing particularly interesting or notable about the episode save Spock's occasional human emotion, and the rather rare look into the personal life of Dr. McCoy. As I find frequently in episodes of TOS, the guest actors are almost always uniformly poor. This episode does see the first use of a Star Trek handheld phaser, which is interesting enough in its own right to see the special effects they were able to create in 1966.

Continuity:
- Spock occasionally demonstrates human emotion, likely because his character has still not been fully developed.
- First appearance of a phaser onscreen.