Star Trek episode "Where No Man Has Gone Before"

Season 1, episode 3

"Where No Man Has Gone Before"

Another one of those omnipotent-forces Trek episodes that Roddenberry enjoyed so much as one of the crewmen, a Lt. Cmdr. Gary Mitchell, gets possessed by some kind of energy that turns him into a god-like creature.

Interesting tidbits in this episode: the Enterprise tries to break the edge of the galaxy; early Spock where he must say, "irritating--one of your human emotions"; Spock talks about "one of [his] ancestors" marrying an Earth woman, not his mother, as Kirk defeats him at 3D chess; no opening credit dialogue, you know, the "Space--the final frontier" shpiel; there's no Doctor McCoy yet; the tombstone says "James R. Kirk" and not James T(iberius) Kirk.

Spock reports casualties of 9 dead as they hit the galaxy's edge, so that's nine more to add to Kirk's total.

The fascinating part of this episode is the fact that Kirk and Spock pretty much condemn Mitchell to exile and death by marooning him on a planet--a precursor to Kahn?

I also see that Mitchell, with his powers, could easily come back to haunt Kirk, worthy of a novel if you ask me.