Star Trek episode "Plato's Stepchildren"

"Plato's Stepchildren"

Season 3, Episode 10.

There's some weird stuff that goes on in this episode.

A distress call from an unknown planet where we find a race that can screen themselves from the Enterprise sensors.

McCoy needs to heal the leader.

We find from Kirk's log: "When their planet novaed millenia ago, they transported themselves to Earth during the time of Socrates and Plato. After the death of the Greek civilization they idolized, they came to this planet and created for themselves a utopia patterned after it."

They are thousands of years old but if they get cut and infected, it could kill them. Apparently this hasn't happened in thousands of years.

The aliens are psychokinetic. They are powerful enough to control the Enterprise up in orbit and prevent communications.

They want to keep Bones as their doctor. They torture Kirk and Spock like puppets and make their dwarf helper, Alexander, ride Kirk like a horse. I'm not kidding.

McCoy and Spock finally discover that the psychokinetic ability is in the planet's food. The substance is called Kironide and is developed in the pituitary, which is why Alexander doesn't exhibit the ability. Kirk, Spock, and Bones inject double the amount of Kironide into their system and wait for the effects to come out.

Meanwhile, the aliens make Spock sing a bad song, make Spock and Nurse Chapel and Kirk and Uhura make out, then make Kirk whip Uhura.

Kirk yells about how utopia has made them lazy, "You're half-dead...you have to torture us to make yourselves feel superior."

Alas, the Kironide finally kicks in and the one psychokinetic struggle between Kirk and the alien leader has Alexander with a knife in the middle.

Wait a minute--the episode constantly has things flying around, many at once, powerful enough to effect the Enterprise in orbit, and they are playing tug of war with Alexander and a knife at the throat of the leader? The bad guys have had these powers so very long yet Kirk masters them in seconds.

Why don't the 38 other aliens fight back? If this were a comic book or a novel, there would be a great telekinetic struggle. The medium here fails completely.

Kirk "wins" and takes Alexander away, telling the alien leader that other starships will be coming so be good, or we will use Kironide again and get you.

So, dammit, I want to know what happens next! Would this planet be treated like another Talos IV in "The Menagerie" with a completely hands-off approach? What happens to the aliens? Does Starfleet leave them alone? This race knows space travel--could they become part of the Federation? What the hell happens next?