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1. Anonymous says:

   February 7, 2010 at 11:34 pm

   It’s so great trek is now on dvd.These are two of my favorite episodes.“A Piece of the Action” is histerical,but very intelligent.“By Any Other Name” is a very inter­est­ing episodes with unique trek ele­ments.
   Rat­ing: 5 / 5
2. Adam Paul Bailey says:

   February 8, 2010 at 12:50 am

   Star Trek seems to be one of the few sci­ence fic­tion tele­vi­sion shows that cover a range of dif­fer­ent gen­res such as west­erns and gang­sters and A PIECE OF THE ACTION is one exam­ple of that.
   The USS Enter­prise responds to a sig­nal that was sent over a hun­dred years ago because it was sent by radio.
   Kirk, Spock and McCoy beam down to a planet where the inhab­i­tants are dressed from the 1920s fash­ions.
   There are three crime gangs and they are con­stantly at war. In fact, no sooner do the trio beam down than they are in the mid­dle of a hit, from one of the bosses, Krako.Kirk breaks the rule of non inter­fer­ence and appoints one as the boss and Krako as his lieu­tenant and tells that he doesn’t want any trou­ble from the rest of them. He says there’ll be a ship sent every year to col­lect their cut. McCoy is unhappy because he thinks he left his com­mu­ni­ca­tor on the Iotians planet. Kirk says,“Maybe in a few years the Iotians will have a piece of our action.“
   Rat­ing: 5 / 5
3. McHenry John says:

   February 8, 2010 at 1:40 am

   “A Piece of the Action” occurs on a planet in which an alien soci­ety have based their entire lifestyle on a book left behind by a pre­vi­ous star­ship. The book is “Chicago Mobs of the 1920’s”. Great fun in this episode. Watch Kirk drive a car. Lis­ten to Spock talk like a gang­ster.
   “By Any Other Name” is prob­a­ble one of the most scari­est episodes I can remem­ber. Kirk watches help­lessly as his ship is taken over by aliens & his crew is reduced to cubi­cal shapes.
   Rat­ing: 5 / 5
4. Frederick Baptist says:

   February 8, 2010 at 2:45 am

   If you are choos­ing which vol­umes to keep, this one falls under the “nice to have but not essen­tial” cat­e­gory. In the first episode, we get a com­i­cal episode as “Koirck” and then Spock attempt to pass them­selves off as old-time Chicago-style gang­sters with extremely humourous results. The plot is admit­tedly far-fetched and full of holes and yet this is what adds to the humour of the episode which is never meant to be taken too seri­ously. Over­all a slightly above aver­age episode.

   The sec­ond episode is also humourous although it is a lit­tle less so when com­pared with the first. Aliens hell-bent on sub­du­ing the mem­bers of the Enter­prise end up hav­ing to deal with human style sen­sa­tions which ulti­mately results in their undo­ing. It is pre­cisely the way the Enter­prise crew and espe­cially Spock’s role in mak­ing the Kel­van com­man­der jeal­ous is what makes this episode really funny.

   In con­clu­sion, this vol­ume con­tains two above aver­age episodes which nev­er­the­less fall far short from the heights achieved on other Sea­son 1 episodes.
   Rat­ing: 3 / 5
5. Golden Lion says:

   February 8, 2010 at 4:36 am

   The Chicago Crime book con­t­a­m­i­nated the icon­ian soci­ety, whose propen­sity for exact­ness and imi­ta­tion built two war soci­eties on the descrip­tions from the Book. The soci­ety lived by the details of the book unquestionably.

   Spock argued illog­i­cally, the proper solu­tion for the two war fac­tions was union­i­fi­ca­tion. Spock dis­re­guard the moral think­ing which would have opposed uni­fy­ing all the orga­nized crime heads into one mas­sive band of thieves. The Fed­er­a­tion entan­gle itself into a ter­ri­ble dan­ger­ous and pre­car­i­ous situ­ta­tion, as the fig­u­ra­tive God­Fa­ther of all orga­nized crime on the planet. Kirk must have been out of his Vul­can head too go along with Spock and estab­lish such an unlaw­ful orga­ni­za­tion. I ques­tion Kirk abil­ity too be morally upright. Spock acted against all rec­om­men­da­tions that the com­puter could resolve no log­i­cal or ration solu­tion to the prob­lem. The only solu­tion was to change the ide­al­ogy of the groups into a peace­ful con­sti­tu­tion rule of law and let rev­o­lu­tion forces emerge. Instead, the Fed­er­a­tion became the police­men of the galaxy in a gov­ern­ment that enslaves and mur­ders its cit­i­zens. Out­ra­geous!
   Rat­ing: 3 / 5

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