"Dagger of the Mind" (season one, episode nine; production code: 11; 3 November 1966): Wikipedia-link.
Commentary: The Enterprise arrives at an isolated colony for the treatment of the criminally insane. The administrator has gone mad with power & is using a diabolical device to reduce to staff & inmates to emotionally numb puppets under his control; the administrator, Dr. Adams, is thwarted, though he is eventually killed by his own device. A similar colony for the criminally insane will be seen in "Whom Gods Destroy" (season three, episode fourteen), though on planet Elba II, not Tantalus V as in "Dagger of the Mind." Revisiting the colony on Tantalus V instead of inventing a new one on Elba II would have been a nice bit of continuity-building, though this was not realy a concern during The Original Series.
Beautiful woman of the week: Marianna Hill as ship's psychiatrist Dr. Helen Noel.
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