102- Charlie X:-Premise: Adolescent Charlie is dropped off aboard the Enterprise. Found to have powerful telekinetioc abilities and governed by his immaturity, he lashes out at people with his powers, making them vanish and becomes obsessed with Yeoman.
-Quest Comments: Plagued by "60's syndrome" acting and touches, pretty painful to watch. Avoid it. Trash it.
103- Where No Man Has Gone Before:-Premise: As the Enterprise encounters an energy barrier at the edge of the galaxy, a crewman and friend to Kirk begins gaining god-like powers which threaten the more insignificant around him.
-Quest Comments: An improvement over the first 2 episodes, there's some interesting things here with the crew member becoming more and more powerful. It is however hampered by it's attempted romance subplot, which has that "guy glances suggestively while girl looks back in a pout-gaze to look screwable" element that is encountered far too often in the series and just makes things laughable.
Overall, it's not terrible, but it's not that good either. Generally "Forgettable". But, it is the first time they cross the galactic border in the series and, depending on what episodes you decide to ultimate drop from your viewing order (combined with a little episode order rejiggering) it could be used as a vague introductory episode to the series to be bookended by a later "past the galactic border" episode, if one was so inclined.
Also, some lovely work with the Remastered effects.
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