Captain Kirk beams down to Gideon while on a diplomatic mission to allow the planet entry into the Federation, only to find himself back aboard a completely deserted version of the Enterprise, except for a beautiful woman named Odona who is wandering around the corridors. Back on the actual Enterprise, Mr. Spock is locked in a battle of wits with the leader of the Gideon council, who refuses to offer any assistance in the search for Captain Kirk. Turns out this is all a ruse for the Gideon council, which intends to use Kirk to infect the people of Gideon in an effort to reduce the planet's out of control population explosion. It was a bold and daring move for a TV series like "Star Trek" to take on the very real problem of overpopulation, but what's truly staggering is how completely dull the end result turns out to be, not to mention the totally preposterous notion that the Gideon people would be able to build an exact replica of the Enterprise that would be convincing enough to fool Captain Kirk. "The Mark of Gideon" takes a big swing, but it totally misses the "mark," and in a number of ways.

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