Season 1 Episode 30 ('Operation: Annihilate!')

Second-cheesiest monsters so far; they went out on a high(low) note, in this season. Not quite as ridiculous as that Godzilla-monster-suit that Shatner went toe-to-toe with earlier, these pancakes are almost as bad. Yes, they look like pancakes. When they are captured, they kind of look like plastic pancakes made of blood-bags gone bad, when they are dead, they just look like pancakes. And they flop like one would imagine pancakes would, if pancakes ever dropped off of the ceiling.

Other than that, it was a decent episode. They do a psyche-out thing with Spock's blindness that is a little cheesy but it was fun anyways. They also killed Kirk's sister-in-law and brother, but left him a living son-in-law or nephew or whatever your brother's kid is. Did latter series ever do anything with that? Would seem a shame, a bit, if they didn't. There ought to be at least one appearance of Kirk Jr. in The Next Generation, I'd think.

Basic set-up: The Enterprise is investigating a civilization-killing phenomenon that, if it continues on its course, should be showing up next on a planet that it turns out Kirk's brother is currently living on. They check it out, and it turns out that it has, in fact, turned up. D'oh! The phenomenon turns out to be plastic pancakes that take over the nervous system of their host-bodies and cause them intense pain if they don't do what the pancakes want. What the pancakes want is to kill everyone and move on to the next star-system, which is a bit short-sighted/limited as far as parasitic relationships go, but certainly not unheard of in nature.

Good times! I finished writing up the first season! Awesome!

Random stats: 30 or 29 episodes watched, depending on how you count, 8 shots of Prairie Organic Vodka I'm hoping I don't regret tomorrow, 1 good time for 2 episodes tonight, and 100-percent completion of the first season. Now that I'm done with the re-watching of the last 3 episodes, I look forward to checking out season 2.