What do you do when your best friend turns into a smug, silver-eyed god? Kirk finds out the hard way.

This episode of Boldly Rewatching dives into Star Trek: The Original Series’ second pilot, "Where No Man Has Gone Before"—the episode that sold the show and gave us a darker, sharper vision of the final frontier. We’re talking ESP experiments, god-complex Gary Mitchell, Spock at his coldest, and Kirk caught between duty and friendship.

I break down the themes, the legacy, and why power without empathy makes for great sci-fi—and terrible friends.