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In this podcast series Tom Fox explores compliance through the lens of Star Trek - The Original Series in a 79-episode offering, movies and contemporary television shows. Each podcast reviews the episode creative team, story synopsis and three key lessons learned on compliance, leadership and governance. If you love Star Trek, this is the podcast series for you. So, listen over the next 79 episodes, revisit one of television’s great achievements and learn how you can use Star Trek to improve ...
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In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the episode Turnabout Intruder, which aired on June 3, 1969, with a Star Date of 5298.5. After receiving a distress call from a science party on Camus II exploring the ruins of a dead civilization, the Enterprise rushes to assist. All party members appear dead except the leader, Dr. Janice…
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In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the episode All Our Yesterdays, which aired on March 14, 1969, with Star Date 5943.7 In this episode, Captain Kirk, Spock, and Dr. McCoy visit the planet Sarpeidon, whose sun is about to go supernova. They discover that the planet’s inhabitants have all disappeared, except for a librarian …
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In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the episode The Savage Curtain, which aired on March 7, 1969, with a start date of 5906.4. While scanning planet Excalbia, Spock detects strange readings that indicate the presence of carbon cycle life forms. The subsequent appearance of Abraham Lincoln on the viewing screen and his transp…
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In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the episode The Cloud Minders, which aired on February 28, 1969, and occurred on Star Date 5818.4 When a botanical plague threatens to destroy all vegetation on Merak II, the Enterprise visits Ardana, the only known source of the xenite mineral needed to halt the plague; despite High Advis…
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In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the episode The Way To Eden, which aired on February 21, 1969, and occurred on Star Date 5832.3 Story Synopsis This episode explores themes of counterculture, utopian ideals, and the clash between authority and freedom. It centers around the crew of the USS Enterprise as they encounter a g…
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In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the episode Requiem for Methuselah, which aired on February 14, 1969, and occurred on Star Date 5843.7. The episode begins with the starship USS Enterprise seeking a rare mineral, ryetalyn, necessary to cure a Rigelian fever outbreak among the crew. They arrive on the planet Holberg 917G, …
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In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the episode The Lights of Zetar, which aired on January 31, 1969, and occurred on Star Date 5725.3. On its way to the Memory Alpha planetoid, the storehouse of all the Federation’s cultural history and scientific knowledge, sensors detect a strange storm. The storm travels at a speed of Wa…
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In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the episode That Which Survives, which aired on January 24, 1969, and occurred on Star Date Unknown. McCoy, Sulu, Kirk, and senior geologist D’Amato beam down to investigate a strange planet the size of the Moon but with the mass of the Earth. The planet has no magnetic field but a well-de…
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In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the episode The Mark of Gideon, which aired on January 17, 1969, and occurred on Star Date 5423.4 In an attempt to establish diplomatic relations with planet Gideon, Kirk beams down to the sensor-shielded planet using coordinates supplied by Gideon’s ambassador, Hodin. When Kirk materializ…
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In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the episode Let That Be Your Last Battlefield, which aired on January 10, 1969, and occurred on Star Date 5730.0 On its way to decontaminate the planet Arianis, the Enterprise intercepts a shuttlecraft stolen from Starbase 4 together with its pilot. The pilot is an alien with solid white o…
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In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the episode Whom Gods Destroy, which aired on January 3, 1969, and occurred on Star Date 5718.3 Kirk and Spock are on a medical mission to deliver sanity-saving drugs to an institute for the incorrigibly criminally insane. An inmate is a former commander. He is also a homicidal master stra…
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In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the episode Elaan of Troyius, which aired on December 20, 1968, and occurred on Star Date 4373.5 Kirk and crew are playing taxi to Elaan from Elas and an ambassador from Troyius. (She is one of the greatest spoiled brat characters in all of TOS.) Their mission: get everyone safely from poi…
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In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the episode The Empath, which aired on December 6, 1968, and occurred on Star Date 5121.5 Story Synopsis The episode centers around Captain Kirk, Mr. Spock, and Dr. McCoy, who are sent to investigate a research outpost on Minara II. Upon arrival, the crew discovers that the planet’s sun is…
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In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the episode Wink of an Eye, which aired on November 29, 1968, and occurred on Star Date 5710.5 While exploring an outer quadrant of the Galaxy, the Enterprise receives a distress call from the planet Scalos. However, a landing party needs help locating the transmission’s source. Kirk think…
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In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the episode Plato’s Stepchildren, which aired on November 12, 1968, and occurred on Star Date 5784.0 Story Synopsis The episode begins with the USS Enterprise responding to a distress call from a planet populated by the Platonians, a group of telepathic humanoids who model their society in…
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In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the episode The Tholian, which aired on November 15, 1968, and occurred on Star Date 3842.3. When the Enterprise attempts to ascertain the fate of the U.S.S. Defiant, which vanished 3 weeks ago, Spock reports strange sensor readings. They visually detect the Defiant, but sensors indicate i…
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In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the episode For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky, which aired on November 1, 1968, Star Date Unknown. McCoy calls Kirk to sick bay and informs him that the ship’s Chief Medical Officer (himself) has contracted an incurable fatal disease called xenopolycythemia and has only on…
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In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the episode Day of the Dove, which aired on November 1, 1968, Star Date Unknown. Story Synopsis In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the episode Day of the Dove, which aired on November 1, 1968, Star Date Unknown. Called to Earth colony Beta 12A by a distress signal …
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In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the episode Spectre of the Gun, which aired on October 25, 1968, Star Date 4385.3. Story Synopsis On a mission to establish contact with the reclusive Melcotians, Kirk ignores the message of a space probe. The landing party encounters a Melcotian who informs them they are an outside diseas…
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In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the episode Is There No Truth in Beauty, which aired on October 18, 1968, Star Date 5630.7. The Enterprise is given the mission of transporting the Medusan ambassador Kollos, a member of a species so ugly that the mere sight of it causes humans to go insane back to his home planet. The amb…
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In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the episode And The Children Shall Lead, which aired on October 11, 1968, Star Date 5027.1. Story Synopsis This episode explores themes of manipulation and the power of belief. The Enterprise crew responds to a distress signal from the Federation colony on Triacus and discovers all the adu…
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In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the episode The Paradise Syndrome, which aired on October 4, 1968, with a Star Date of 4842.6. Story Synopsis The crew of the USS Enterprise discovers an idyllic planet inhabited by a peaceful, Native American-like tribe. Captain Kirk, suffering from amnesia due to the effects of an ancien…
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In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the episode The Enterprise Incident aired on September 27, 1968, Star Date 5031.3. Story Synopsis The Enterprise Incident follows Captain James T. Kirk and his crew undertaking a daring and covert mission within the Neutral Zone, the border region between the United Federation of Planets a…
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In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the episode Spock’s Brain, which aired on September 20, 1968, and occurred on Star Date 5431.4. Story Synopsis Almost universally panned as the work Star Trek TOS episode, the story involves a race of beings who kidnap Spock’s brain to run a planet-wide computer system for insipid beings, …
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In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the compliance lessons from Assignment Earth, which aired on March 29, 1968, Star Date unknown—the final episode of Season 2. The Enterprise has used the light-speed breakaway factor to propel itself backward in time. It can monitor Earth communications while on a historical fact-finding m…
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In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the episode Bread and Circuses, which aired on March 15, 1968, and occurred on Star Date 4040.7. On a routine patrol, the Enterprise happens upon space debris from the S.S. Beagle. This survey ship disappeared 6 years ago, commanded by Captain R.M. Merrik, an academy associate of Kirk. Whe…
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In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the episode The Ultimate Computer, which aired on March 8, 1968, and occurred on Star Date 4729.4. The Enterprise is ordered to be part of a test of the new M5 Multitronic System, a computer designed to replace a starship crew. In an unscheduled drill at Alpha Carinae 2, M5 defends the Ent…
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In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the episode The Omega Glory, which aired on March 1, 1968, and occurred on Star Date unknown. The Enterprise finds the U.S.S. Exeter in orbit with no one aboard. The boarding party then plays the medical log and is warned that they are dead men who must not return to their ship. They are t…
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In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the episode By Any Other Name, which aired on February 23, 1968, and occurred on Star Date 4657.5. A landing party beams down to investigate a distress call, and two “perfect” human life forms register and put in an appearance. They are members of the Kelvin Empire from the Andromeda Galax…
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In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the episode Patterns of Force, which aired on February 16, 1968, and occurred on Star Date 2534. When the Enterprise approaches the inner planet Ekos to investigate the cessation of communication with researcher John Gill, it is attacked by a rocket carrying a nuclear weapon. Kirk and Spoc…
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In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the episode Return to Tomorrow, which aired on February 9, 1968, and occurred on Star Date 4768.3. The Enterprise receives a distress call from a planet hundreds of light years too distant to have been visited by any Earth ship. Spock determines that the planet is similar to Earth but olde…
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In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the episode A Private Little War, which aired on February 2, 1968, and occurred on Star Date 4307.1. Spock, Bones, and Kirk beam down to a planet Kirk surveyed 13 years ago and are attacked. Spock is shot while trying to escape. Kirk speculates that the Klingons have violated the treaty go…
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In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the episode The Immunity Syndrome, which aired on January 19, 1968, and occurred on Star Date 4307.1. The Enterprise is diverted to investigate the mysterious cessation of communication with the Gamma 7A star system. While on its way, Spock telepathically senses the destruction of a starsh…
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In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the episode A Piece of the Action, which aired on January 12, 1968, and occurred on Star Date 4598.1. The Enterprise crew attempts to contact the inhabitants of planet Sigma Iotia II, whose inhabitants of Sigma Iotia II have built a culture around the book Chicago Mobs of the Twenties acci…
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In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the episode The Gamesters of Triskelion, which aired on January 5, 1968, and occurred on Star Date 3211.7. Kirk, Uhura, and Chekov prepare to beam down to Gamma 2 and are whisked away from the transporter platform. They are captured and fitted with “collars of obedience” by Galt, master Th…
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In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the episode The Trouble with Tribbles, which aired on December 29, 1967, Star Date 4523.3 The Enterprise is called to Deep Space Station K7 by a priority 1 distress call. A Klingon ship arrives at the space station and requests that its crew be granted shore leave. Meanwhile, the intergala…
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In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the episode Wolf in the Fold, which aired on December 22, 1967, with a Star Date of 3614.9. Scotty, Kirk, and McCoy beam down to Orgellius II for shore leave when Mr. Scott is accused of murder. His fingerprints are the only ones on the murder weapon, and he has a concussion and amnesia. M…
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In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the episode Obsession, which aired on December 15, 1967, with a Star Date of 3619.2. Kirk notices a sweet, honey-like odor on a planet that he recognizes. He orders the security guards to scan for choronium and fire at any gaseous cloud. Before they can do so, 2 are killed and one seriousl…
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In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the episode The Deadly Years, which aired on December 8, 1967, with a Star Date of 3478.2. When Chekov, Spock, Lt. Gallway, McCoy, Kirk, and Scotty beam down to resupply the experimental colony on Gamma Hydra 4, they initially find no one home. They see the leader, Robert Johnson, and his …
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In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the episode Friday’s Child, which aired on December 1, 1967, Star Date 3497.2. Kirk attempts to secure a mining agreement for topaline on Capella 4, where Bones had once been stationed. He warns Kirk that although the Capellans are scrupulously honest, they are war-like. After beaming down…
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In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the episode Metamorphosis, which aired on November 10, 1967, and occurred on Star Date 3219.4. Commissioner Nancy Hedford, who had been on a diplomatic mission to stop a war, is ill with Sicuro’s disease and needs treatment aboard the Enterprise. The shuttlecraft is forced down on a small …
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In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the episode Journey to Babel, which aired on November 17, 1967, and occurred on Star Date 3842.3. The Enterprise transports ambassadors to a conference to discuss the admission of Corridon to the Federation. Sarek is the ambassador from Vulcan, accompanied by his wife, Amanda. To Kirk’s su…
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In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider episode I, Mudd, which aired on November 3, 1967, and occurred on Star Date 4513.3. The Enterprise finds Harry Mudd (Harcourt Fenton Mudd) on a planet and the “ruler” of 500 robot women. Mudd is being studied by the robots, who are accommodating but refuse to let him go. The androids tell …
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In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the episode Catspaw, which aired on October 27, 1967, and occurred on Star Date 3018.2. Strange things happen to a landing party consisting of Jackson, Sulu, and Scotty when they beam down to planet Pyrus 7. When Kirk, Spock, and McCoy beam down to investigate, leaving DeSalle in command a…
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In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the compliance and leadership lessons from the episode The Doomsday Machine, which aired on October 20, 1967, and occurred on Star Date 4202.9. The Enterprise responds to a distress beacon from the Starship U.S.S. Constellation and then finds the battered remains of the ship itself. Kirk s…
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In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the compliance and leadership lessons from the episode The Apple, which aired on October 13, 1967, and occurred on Star Date 3715.0. A Landing Party finds danger on a seemingly pristine planet as the Enterprise is threatened. The planet’s inhabitants are the feeders of Vaal. Kirk asks to b…
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In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the episode Mirror Mirror, which aired on October 6, 1967, Star Date unknown. During an ion storm, the Away Team is transported into a parallel universe and a mirror image of the Enterprise. There, they find members who are mirror images of themselves and belong to an evil Federation known…
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In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the compliance lessons from the episode The Changeling, which aired on September 29, 1967, and occurred on Star Date 3451.9. The Enterprise encounters a probe that identifies itself as Nomad. The probe believes that Kirk is its creator. Nomad says its mission is to destroy anything imperfe…
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In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the episode Who Mourns for Adonais?, which aired on September 22, 1967, with a Star Date of 3468.1. While approaching Pollux 4, an energy field shaped like a giant green hand stops the Enterprise dead in space, and an apparition wearing a laurel wreath appears. The apparition addresses the…
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In this episode of Trekking Through Compliance, we consider the episode Amok Time, which aired on September 15, 1967, with a Star Date of 3372.7. Spock begins to request that he be granted leave on his home planet, Vulcan, which is given. Spock must explain that he is undergoing pon farr, a condition male Vulcans experience periodically throughout …
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