That episode where Kirk and the Enterprise meet Lucifer and it turns out he's a benevolent magical being from another...

>That episode where Kirk and the Enterprise meet Lucifer and it turns out he's a benevolent magical being from another universe who only wanted to help humanity
>That episode where Kzinti warriors from Larry Niven's "Known Universe" are a central story element
>That episode where the whole crew gets shrunken by a tiny race
>That episode about a race of asparagus people who are led by a 100 foot tall genetically modified human who wants to kidnap Spock and create an army of 100 foot tall Spock clones for peacekeeping purposes.
>That episode where the Enterprise computer gets a sense of humor and starts playing practical jokes on the crew and other starships

This show is hilarious. Fucking gold.

Don't forget
>Herbert Mudd
>Fools their complex almost sentient computer system by putting his photo on an ID card.
>Makes a Spanish fly crystal and makes the crew hook up at random.
>Scotty is now a furry.

>The one where they beat Klingons with overgrown Tribbles
>That explode into more tribbles if you shoot them

>The one where all the men in the crew become slaves, and Uhura takes command.

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>>Herbert Mudd
Harcourt. Harcourt Fenton Mudd.

Is Scotty trying to hit that?

>The Tribbles were pink.

Kzinti telepaths are supposed to look fucked up. It's in the novels.

>that one episode where the Enterprise is trapped in a cosmic void and can only escape buy convincing different enemy factions to work together.
And then Voyager did the exact same plot and thought we wouldn't notice

>Fools their complex almost sentient computer system by putting his photo on an ID card.
This is a system that takes ten seconds to do the equivalent to a Google search. Don't oversell it.

>It's in the novels.
*tips fedora*

>>That episode about a race of asparagus people who are led by a 100 foot tall genetically modified human who wants to kidnap Spock and create an army of 100 foot tall Spock clones for peacekeeping purposes
He DID make one giant Spock, who I guess just hung out with that guy forever

Wonder what they did

Holy shit I forgot about the clone
Damn that must have gotten uncomfortable really fast

>>That episode where Kirk and the Enterprise meet Lucifer and it turns out he's a benevolent magical being from another universe who only wanted to help humanity
>Spock takes up witchcraft
>Kirk defends Lucifer in court then wins a wizard fight
this episode is the best fucking thing

>buy star trek TAS on dvd
>has extra episode of the original run ep with tribbles
>happen to catch an episode of deep space 9 on tv
>in it they use time travel shenanigans and end up in the tribbles episode of the original run

Now that I think about it Giant Spock probably died in pon farr

Talk about uncomfortable

Yeah it was fucking wild.

Craziest thing is that episode was written by Walter Koenig. It was his only contribution to TAS. He must have been on the good stuff at the time.

It seemed kinda weird that they cut Koenig from TAS since I thought Chekov was fairly popular by the time TOS ended? maybe they needed to keep Doohan to voice 90% of the extras in TAS

Written by a woman. Pretty fucking progressive for the time.

Kzin also have to earn names which is why none of them aside from "Chuft Captain" have real names. They even delved into the 4 Man-Kzin Wars and how Kzinti females are just fucktoy animals with no intelligence. Shit, they even referenced them in a difference episode and there was a Kzin present on that Council of Species from the episode with the space/time pocket in the "Not Bermuda Triangle". I wonder where things stand now. Clearly the entire Known Universe doesn't coincide with Star Trek's universe, but are the Kzin still an accepted part of Star Trek lore? Or did they change them into the "Xindi" at some point in order to keep a semblance of continuity?

They rename the kzin, because they
Didn't want to have to pay royalties to Niven. Same reason they got rid of ensign Ro.