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January

Anton Karidian (TOS 12)

• Stardate 2713.5-2717.3: After discovering what appears to be a duplicate of the planet Earth, Captain Kirk and his landing party find a population ravaged by a strange disease, which only children appear to have survived.
• Stardate 2817.6: While visiting an old friend, Kirk suspects a Shakespearean actor may actually be the murderous former governor of Tarsus IV. Kirk invites the acting troupe aboard the Enterprise in order to investigate, but soon assassination attempts are made on Kirk and another crewman who were eyewitnesses to the murders.

February

• Stardate 2821.5: Spock and a scientific party are sent to study the Murasaki 312 quasar aboard the Shuttlecraft Galileo. During the survey, the Galileo is forced to make an emergency landing on the planet Taurus II, where the crew fights the planet's dangerous inhabitants. As the crew begins to make repairs, Scotty determines that the shuttle does not have enough fuel to reach orbit carrying all seven passengers, and Spock must contemplate leaving some of his fellow crew behind.
• Stardate 2947.3: Captain Kirk is placed on trial for negligence after a crewman is killed during a severe ion storm. Kirk maintains that his actions were proper and should not have led to the officer's death, but the evidence seems strong against him.

March

Christopher Pike (TOS 15)

• Stardate 3012.4: Spock hijacks the Enterprise to take his crippled former captain, Christopher Pike, to the forbidden world of Talos IV. He then demands a court martial, which he uses to tell the tale of Pike's captivity on the planet years earlier. After witnessing the Talosians' capabilities of mental illusion, Captain Kirk realizes that Spock intends to return Pike to the planet to live a life of illusion, unencumbered by his crippled condition.
• Stardate 3025.3: Captain Kirk orders shore leave for the Enterprise crew on a seemingly uninhabited planet in the Omicron Delta system. The landing parties begin to see strange sights, such as a White Rabbit a la Alice in Wonderland, Don Juan, and a sword-wielding samurai. Also, Kirk sees (and fights) an image of Finnegan, a rival from his Starfleet Academy days. Spock discovers that the planet seems to be drawing a large amount of energy from the ship's engines, placing the Enterprise in danger.

Trelane (TOS 18)

• Stardate 2124.5: The U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701 discovers a rogue planet drifting through space, inhabited by an eccentric being named Trelane who uses his apparently unlimited power over matter and form to manipulate the crew.

April

Gorn captain (TOS 19)

• Stardate 3045.6: The Enterprise comes under attack by unknown aliens while investigating the near destruction of the Cestus III colony. While chasing the aliens into unexplored space, both ships are captured by the powerful Metrons, who force Kirk and the Gorn captain to trial by combat: the winner's vessel will be set free, while the loser's ship will be destroyed.
• Stardate 3087.6 While orbiting an apparently dead planet, the Enterprise seems to experience a strange moment of "nonexistence". Captain Kirk discovers a man named Lazarus on the planet below, who claims the effect was caused by his "enemy", later revealed to be an insane version of Lazarus from an alternate reality. The sane version of Lazarus asks for Kirk's help in defeating his counterpart.

May

• Stardate 3113.2: After accidentally traveling back in time to 1969, the Enterprise rescues United States Air Force Captain John Christopher from his crippled fighter jet. The crew struggles to return to their own time, while simultaneously returning Christopher to his, removing his knowledge of the future and all record of contact with the Enterprise.
• Stardate 3156.2: The Enterprise discovers a population on planet Beta III that is controlled by a powerful being called Landru. While investigating, Captain Kirk and his landing party are taken captive and discover that the Enterprise crew will be the next to be "absorbed" into Landru's control.
• Stardate 3192.1: On Eminiar VII, the Enterprise finds a civilization at war with its planetary neighbor, Vendikar. Unable to discern any signs of battle from orbit, Captain Kirk and Ambassador Robert Fox lead a landing party to the surface where he discovers the entire war is fought by computer. Even though the war is simulated, citizens who are listed as virtual casualties still report to termination booths to be killed in reality. After the Enterprise is "destroyed" in an attack simulation, Kirk must fight to keep his crew from death.

June

Khan (TOS 24)

• Stardate 3141.9: The Enterprise discovers an ancient sleeper ship, the S.S. Botany Bay, which escaped from Earth's Eugenics Wars in the late 20th century. The genetically engineered passengers, led by Khan Noonien Singh, attempt to seize control of the Enterprise. Khan and his followers — including Lieutenant Marla McGivers, the Enterprise's historian, who colluded with Khan in his attempt to seize the ship — are left to colonize Ceti Alpha V, in lieu of court martial or formal rehabilitation.
• Stardate 3417.3 Despite exposure to fatal radiation, the Federation colony on Omicron Ceti III appears to be thriving. A landing party from the Enterprise investigates, finding the colony's population to be healthy beyond explanation. Leila Kalomi, an old friend of Mr. Spock, shows the landing party strange flowers that seem to impose a state of pure bliss on all exposed to its spores, but at the cost of ambition and self-discipline.

Horta (TOS 26)

• Stardate 3196.1 Dispatched to the mining colony on Janus VI, the Enterprise is tasked to investigate rumors of a strange, subterranean creature responsible for destruction of equipment and the deaths of fifty miners. Kirk and Spock discover a silicon-based life form, a Horta, which lives in the surrounding rock. After Kirk and his Vulcan first officer find the strange creature, Spock performs a mind meld, discovering the reason behind the Horta's attacks.

July

Kor (TOS 27)

• Stardate 3198.4: When representatives from the United Federation of Planets and the Klingon Empire fail to reach a peaceful resolution to their differences, Klingon warships invade Federation space. The Enterprise is ordered to protect Organia, a peaceful planet located near the Klingon border. Captain Kirk and Commander Spock beam to the surface to warn the Organians about the Klingons, but soon thereafter, a Klingon battle group led by Commander Kor seizes the planet, forcing the Enterprise to abandon the Kirk and Spock on the planet. The natives protect the two, even as Kor orders mass executions of the Organian people. As both Federation and Klingon fleets converge above the planet, Kirk and Spock execute a daring raid on the Klingon headquarters in an effort to destabilize their control over the planet. The Organians suddenly intervene, immobilizing all Federation and Klingon ships throughout the galaxy. They impose the Organian Peace Treaty, thus averting another war between the two powers.
• Stardate 3134.0: After accidentally overdosing on a powerful stimulant, Dr. McCoy becomes unbalanced and disappears through the Guardian of Forever, a newly discovered time portal on a remote planet. Kirk and Spock follow after learning that McCoy somehow changed history. Arriving in the 1930s, the duo meet Edith Keeler, a New York social worker who gives them a place to stay. As the days pass, and McCoy is nowhere to be seen, Kirk finds himself falling in love with Keeler… but Spock discovers that Keeler must die to restore the timeline.

August

Neural parasite (TOS 29)

• Stardate 3287.2: The Enterprise arrives at Deneva — the home of Captain Kirk's brother, Sam and his family — and discovers that the entire planet has been infested with large, amoeba-like aliens that have attacked and killed much of the Human population. One of these aliens attaches itself to Spock, who volunteers to become a subject in Dr. McCoy's medical tests. McCoy and Kirk rush to find a cure in time to save Spock and the remainder of the Denevan population.
• Stardate 3018.2: Two powerful aliens threaten the well-being of the Enterprise and her crew with their apparently magical powers.
• Stardate 3219.4: A shuttle crew from the Enterprise encounters a castaway who appears to be Zefram Cochrane, the inventor of warp drive and his mysterious alien companion.

September

• Stardate 3497.2: The crew of the Enterprise becomes entangled in a planet's tribal power struggle.
• Stardate 3468.1: The crew of the Enterprise are held captive by an alien who claims to be the Greek god Apollo.

October

U.S.S. Constellation (TOS 35)

• Stardate 3372.7: When Mr. Spock begins to behave aggressively, Kirk discovers his first officer must return to Vulcan to take a mate, or he will die.
• Stardate 4202.9: After losing his entire crew to an alien planet-eating machine, Commodore Matthew Decker pulls rank on Captain Kirk in order to play a game of cat-and-mouse with the mechanical adversary. His efforts to destroy the menace place the Enterprise in grave danger. In a tactic later known as the Kirk Defense, and following Decker's self-sacrificial example, the Enterprise crew disables the Doomsday Machine by setting the Constellation's engines for self-destruct, exploding the starship inside the Doomsday Machine.
• Stardate 3614.9: Mr. Scott is implicated in a series of bizarre murders.

November

• Stardate 3541.9: The crew of the Enterprise deals with Nomad — an indestructible, planet-destroying space probe that thinks Kirk is its creator.
• Stardate 3715.3: The crew of the Enterprise visits a mysterious and deadly paradise planet which they discover is controlled by a machine called Vaal.

December

I.S.S. Enterprise (TOS 39)

• Stardate Unknown: A transporter mishap slips Captain Kirk and his companions into a parallel universe, where the Enterprise serves a barbaric Empire instead of the Federation.

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