113: The Conscience of the King:-Premise: When an actor is suspected of being a mass murderer believed dead, Kirk take ssteps to try and prove his identity, while the only surviving witnesses to those past deeds start ending up dead- and Kirk could be next.
-Quest Comments: Actually a pretty good mystery episode with an interesting idea through the plan behind the execution (no pun intended) of the murders. Acting overall, shy the female guest star, was unproblematic, the actor in particular was better than average for a guest star.
An offhand comment of the murderer having his own idea of Eugenics and that "he wasn't the only one" makes a nice hint/setup for Kahn as well, which I think, when combiend with the overall quality of the episode, elevates to "Potentially Essential".
114: Balance of Terror:-Premise: When a Romulan ship capable of cloaking begins attacking Federation outposts along the Federation/Romulan Neutral Zone, the Enterprise engages in a game of tactics against the aggressor.
-Quest Comments: Some good action, and the sub-battle feel to things was pretty interesting (and, in a way, is echoed years later in Wrath of Kahn). A little weird seeing Spock's father as a Romulan, though.
Was surprised they mentioned Remus this far back- I had assumed that was something created for Nemesis, as opposed to a throwback to TOS. The only real oddity is the calling for phasers when they are obviously firing torpedoes (this was obviously produced early on when they were still figuring out what was what, or at least didn't care so much what was what).
The obvious Romulan connections to TNG, Nemesis & Enterprise, as well as the decent action, definitely place this episode into the "Definitely Essential" category.
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