Thursday, October 16, 2014

Short Treks: Intro/Index

Welcome to a new feature here at Dog Food For Chairs.

OK, me rambling on about a geeky show isn't all that new, but the organization of it will be.

I was originally going to call these “Treklets,” but unlike Bondlets, there’s no input from my daughter.

She’d seen all the episodes well before I started this and her general reactions have been documented.

No, these are some short thoughts and hopefully (possibly…marginally?) interesting notations, as I watch Star Trek (yet again) while exercising.  The reason for this whole foolishness comes down to my loss of the ability to watch anything without taking notes.

The episodes are listed (and were watched) in order aired, not order produced.  This provides the perspective viewers would have gotten when they were first shown.  In some cases this may be contrary to the original intent.


My parents introduced me to Star Trek, and most of my other geekly pursuits.

(I returned the favor in my early teen years by introducing them to Doctor Who.)

Though she’d seen them all before I was born, in general for shows - and specifically it seems for Trek - my mother had a mental block for episode titles. Therefore each one got a “Mom Title” as the way I could reference which one I meant when talking to her as I was escalating my geekhood in my teen age years.  They tend to be combinations of actors, characters and random events. Often they work pretty well as mini summaries; sometimes they’re obscure references to a certain item that will jog her memory. Since Friends stole “The One With” nomenclature from those of us who’ve been using it for years, I’ll be avoiding it to keep a certain generation from accusing me of stealing it.

Hopefully, the “Mom Title” after each real episode name will help her, and those with similar brain barriers, navigate the list. 

This page will serve as the index. Links to each set of Short Treks  will go live as they are posted, Mom Titles will be added similarly.

They'll show up sporadically as I work my way through the box sets' discs. Hopefully they will be done in time for the Fiftieth Anniversary in 2016.

Care to boldly go with me?


Season 1

The Man Trap - Mom Title:  "Salt Vampire"
Charlie X – Mom Title:  "Teenager with Mental Powers Hits on Rand"
Where No Man Has Gone Before – Mom Title: "Silver Eyes"
The Naked Time – Mom Title: "Kathleen"
The Enemy Within – Mom Title: "Good and Bad Kirk"
Mudd's Women – Mom Title:   "Harry Mudd, and, um…his Women"
What Are Little Girls Made Of? – Mom Title:  "Robot Kirk and Lurch"
Miri – Mom Title:  "Kim Darby and Michael J. Pollard  say Bonk Bonk on the Head"
Dagger of the Mind – Mom Title: "Insane Asylum with Inspector Luger"
The Corbomite Maneuver – Mom Title: "Clint Howard and his Big Head Puppet"
The Menagerie, Parts I & II - Mom Title: "Captain Pike"
The Conscience of the King – Mom Title:  "Shakespearean Actors"
Balance of Terror- Mom Title:  "Spock’s Dad Plays a Romulan"
Shore Leave - Mom Title:  "Finnegan"
The Galileo Seven – Mom Title: "Spock Commands a Shuttle…Badly"
The Squire of Gothos - Mom Title:  "Trelane"
Arena - Mom Title: "Gorn"
Tomorrow Is Yesterday - Mom Title: "Captain Kirk Meets Officer Kirk in the Past"
Court Martial - Mom Title: "Kirk's Trial"
The Return of the Archons - Mom Title: "Landru"
Space Seed - Mom Title: "Khan"
A Taste of Armageddon- Mom Title: "Computer War" 
This Side of Paradise - Mom Title: "Spock Climbs a Tree For Jill Ireland"
The Devil in the Dark - Mom Title: "Horta"
Errand of Mercy - Mom Title: "Klingons and Organians"
The Alternative Factor - Mom Title: "Pair of  Lazarus"
The City on the Edge of Forever - Mom Title: "Joan Collins- Pacifist"
Operation: Annihilate! - Mom Title: "Flappy Jell-O Things"  

Season 2

Amok Time - Mom Title:"Spock's Wedding"
Who Mourns for Adonais? - Mom Title: "Apollo Moves on Scotty's Girl"
The Changeling - Mom Title: "Nomad"
Mirror, Mirror - Mom Title: "Spock With a Beard"
The Apple - Mom Title: "Vaal"
The Doomsday Machine - Mom Title: “William Windom Vs. The Giant Space Cannoli”
Catspaw - Mom Title: “Cat Lady with Voodoo Doll Enterprise”
 I, Mudd - Mom Title: “Norman,Coordinate”
 Metamorphosis - Mom Title: "Cloud Loves Zefram Cochrane"
Journey to Babel - Mom Title: "Spock's Parents"
Friday's Child - Mom Title: "Leonard James Akaar"
The Deadly Years - Mom Title: "Old Age"
Obsession - Mom Title: "Vampire Cloud"
Wolf in the Fold - Mom Title: “Redjac! Redjac!”
The Trouble With Tribbles - Mom Title: Really?
The Gamesters of Triskelion - Mom Title: "400Quatloos on th eNewcomers"
A Piece of the Action - Mom Title: "Right? Check."
The Immunity Syndrome - Mom Title:“Giant Space Amoeba”
A Private Little War - Mom Title: “Mugato”
Return to Tomorrow - Mom Title: “Sargon in a Light Globe”
Patterns of Force - Mom Title:"Space Nazis"
By Any Other Name - Mom Title: "Scotty Drinks a Kelvan Under the Table"
The Omega Glory - Mom Title: "Yangs and Kohms"
The Ultimate Computer - Mom Title: "Captain Dunsel"
Bread and Circuses - Mom Title: "Space Romans"
Assignment: Earth - Mom Title: "Gary Seven"

Season 3

Spock's Brain - Mom Title: “You are not Morg, you are not Eyemorg”
The Enterprise Incident - Mom Title: “Spock Seduces Romulan Commander”
The Paradise Syndrome - Mom Title: "Kirk Marries and Indian"
And the Children Shall Lead - Mom Title: "Melvin Belli the Friendly Angel"
Is There in Truth No Beauty? - Mom Title: "Intelligent Kaleidoscope in the Box"
Spectre of the Gun - Mom Title: "OK Corral"
Day of the Dove - Mom Title: "Klingons with Swords"
For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky - Mom Title: "Bones is Dying"
The Tholian Web - Mom Title:  "Vanishing Kirk"
Plato's Stepchildren - Mom Title: "Famous Kirk Uhura Kiss"
Wink of an Eye - Mom Title: "Speeded up People"
The Empath - Mom Title: "Gem"
Elaan of Troyius - Mom Title: "Love Potion Tears"
Whom Gods Destroy - Mom Title: "LORD Garth Meets Green Batgirl"
Let That Be Your Last Battlefield - Mom Title: "Black and White Frank Gorshin"
The Mark of Gideon - Mom Title: "Empty Enterprise"
That Which Survives - Mom Title: "I am for Kirk"
The Lights of Zetar - Mom Title: "Scotty’s Girl with Rainbow Eyes"
Requiem for Methuselah - Mom Title: "Flint"
The Way to Eden - Mom Title: "Charles Napier- Space Hippie"
The Cloud Minders - Mom Title:  "City in the Sky"
The Savage Curtain - Mom Title: "Abraham Lincoln"
All Our Yesterdays - Mom Title: "Spock Falls for Mariette Hartley in a Cave"
Turnabout Intruder - Mom Title: "Kirk is a Woman"


The Animated Series 


Season 1
Beyond the Farthest Star - Mom Title: "Giant Crazy Haunted Ship"
Yesteryear  - Mom Title: "Spock's Childhood"
 One of Our Planets is Missing - Mom Title: "Another Killer Cloud"
 The Lorelei Signal - Mom Title: "Women Take Command of the Enterprise"
 More Tribbles, More Troubles - Mom Title: "They're Baaaaa-aack!"
 The Survivor - Mom Title: “Shapeshifter Fiancée”
 The Infinite Vulcan - Mom Title: "Giant Spock"
The Magicks of Megas-Tu - Mom Title: "Meet the Devil"
Once Upon a Planet - Mom Title: "Return to Shore Leave"
Mudd's Passion - Mom Title: "Harry has a Real Love Potion"
The Terratin Incident - Mom Title: "Shrinking Crew"
The Time Trap - Mom Title: "Space Bermuda Triangle"
 The Ambergris Element - Mom Title: "Kirk and Spock - Fish People"
 The Slaver Weapon - Mom Title: "Kzinti Cat People"
 The Eye of the Beholder - Mom Title: "Psychic Elephant Slugs"
 The Jihad - Mom Title: "Space Heist"

The Animated Series Season 2
The Pirates of Orion - Mom Title: "Sick Spock"
Bem - Mom Title: "Jerky Modular Guy"
The Practical Joker - Mom Title: "Ship's Computer Goes Funny in the Head"
Albatross - Mom Title: "McCoy Infected a Planet?"
How Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth - Mom Title: "Museum of Destroyed Civilizations"
The Counter Clock Incident- Mom Title: - Mom Title:  "Crew Gets Younger"

 The Original Cast Movies
The Motion Picture
The Wrath of Khan
The Search for Spock
The Voyage Home
The Final Frontier
The Undiscovered Country

To Boldly Stop


HAPPY 50th ANNIVERSARY STAR TREK (next year...jumped the gun on these a little.)
Treklets!
Treklets Season 1.1
Treklets Season 1.2
Treklets Season 1.3
Treklets Season 1.4
Treklets Season 1.5
Treklets Season 1.6
Treklets Season 1.7

 Grandma Treks Season 1
Treklets Season 2.1
Treklets Season 2.2
Treklets Season 2.3
Treklets Season 2.4
Treklets Season 2.5
Treklets Season 2.6
Treklets Season 2.7
Treklets Season 2.8
Treklets Season 2.9
Treklets Season 2.10

Grandma Treks Season 2

 Treklets Season 3.1
Treklets Season 3.2
Treklets Season 3.3
Treklets Season 3.4
Treklets Season 3.5
Treklets Season 3.6
Treklets Season 3.7
Treklets Season 3.8
Treklets Season 3.9
Treklets Season 3.10
Treklets Season 3.11

 Treklets Animated

 Grandma Treks Season 3


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