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#4: Star Trek: The Original Series, season 1, episode 10 "The Corbomite Maneuver"

Written by Jerry Sohl, directed by Joseph Sargent.

Stardates 1512.2 through 1514.1 (November 2266)

"There is no such thing as the unknown, only things that are temporarily hidden." - Captain James Kirk

While mapping an uncharted star system, the Enterprise is confronted by an object of unknown origin and construction. When it blocks the ship from moving forward then attempts to overtake it while retreating, Captain Kirk reluctantly orders its destruction. Free from the obstruction, Kirk decides to push forward into unknown space. Moments later, they encounter and are seized by an impossibly large and technologically superior vessel captained by a Balok of the First Federation (voiced by Ted Cassidy & Walter Edmiston, played by Clint Howard). Balok announces that the Enterprise has violated their space and behaved aggressively, therefore the ship and everyone onboard must be destroyed.

Originally released: 10 November 1966

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#3: Star Trek: The Original Series, season 1, episode 6 "Mudd's Women"

Written by Gene Roddenberry & Stephen Kandel, directed by Harvey Hart.

Stardate 1329.1 (October 2266)

"You either believe in yourself... or you don't." - Captain James Kirk

While chasing down an unknown vessel that refuses to identify itself, the Enterprise suffers critical damage and is left on emergency power protecting the ship from being destroyed by meteors. While the ship is eventually destroyed, the Enterprise is able to save the people onboard; a boisterous man named Tom Walsh (Roger C. Carmel) and three very beautiful women. Captain Kirk finds out that Walsh's real name is Harcourt Fenton Mudd - a man with an extensive criminal record and charges Mudd with endangering his ship. But the condition the Enterprise has been left in forces them to rush to a nearby planet for replacement parts as Mudd & his women devise a scheme to seize control of the ship.

Originally released: 13 October 1966

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Cat's Eye (1984), episode 28

Majutsushi Kunon wa Mieteiru (Kunon the Sorcerer Can See), episode 2

To summarize, Disney began work on a sequel to Tron: Legacy immediately. Legacy was meant to kick off a larger universe of movies and TV. As time went on, other expected hits flopped, and Disney acquired Star Wars and made it their new darling, the Tron sequel got shelved.

Jared Leto, who was going to have a minor role in Tron: Ascension, pushed to have a new movie made anyway, making his character the star. The result is that what was more of less going to be the third act of Ascension was fleshed out into a whole movie minus Sam Flynn, Quora, and Tron.

Imagine if Return of the Jedi was never made. Instead, the third act of the movie, the attack on the second Death Star, was turned into a whole movie but the continuation of the plots involving Han Solo, Darth Vader, and Luke Skywalker were completely cut out. Then Wedge Antilles was made the star of the movie and he personally confronted Chancellor Palpatine and saved the galaxy. That's pretty much what has happened to the Tron franchise. :(

Star Trek: The Next Generation, season 3, episode 8 "The Price"

(This is just the tip of the iceberg...)

Inspired by @Kolanaki@pawb.social's riff on my spelling error.

Edit 2: Nobody saw that.

Watashi o Tabetai, Hitodenashi (This Monster Wants to Eat Me), episode 7

(I know there are spelling errors, I'm not fixing it.)

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#2: Star Trek: The Original Series, season 1, episode 3 (pilot 2) "Where No Man Has Gone Before"

Written by Samuel A. Peeples, directed by James Goldstone.

Stardate 1312.4 (October 2266)

"Command and compassion is a fool's mixture." - Gary Mitchell

The USS Enterprise is exploring the galactic edge when it finds a log buoy from the SS Valiant. When Commander Spock (Leonard Nimoy) examines the contents, he learns that the ship had passed through the galactic barrier. When she returned, chaos erupted onboard and the Captain ultimately ordered the ship destroyed. Captain James Kirk (William Shatner) believes that the answer to what happened lies on the other side of the galactic barrier and orders the Enterprise through. After suffering significant damage and crew injuries, a member of the bridge crew starts to experience a transformation that threatens everyone.

Originally released: 22 September 1966

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#1: Star Trek: The Original Series pilot 1 "The Cage"

Written by Gene Roddenberry, directed by Robert Butler.

Stardate unknown (Sometime in 2254)

"It's wrong to create a whole race of humans to live as slaves." - Number One

As Captain Christopher Pike (Jeffrey Hunter) muses to the ship's doctor about how tired he is of the responsibilities of captaining a starship, the USS Enterprise receives a distress call from from the SS Columbia on a distant world known as Talos IV. The message confirms the ship crashed and that there are survivors, so the Enterprise alters course to mount a rescue. But once they arrive, and meet a curious young survivor among the crew, Pike is suddenly taken hostage and the Enterprise is held in orbit by strange beings with enormous telepathic power.

Originally released: February 1965 (originally released to the public: 14 October 1986)

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