Star Trek: Dagger of the Mind (1966)
Season 1, Episode 9
6/10
Would make Dr. Moreau proud
15 November 2014
A distress call from the prison planet Tantalus has the Enterprise investigating. When an escapee from the colony Morgan Woodward manages to board the Enterprise William Shatner together with psychiatrist Marianna Hill goes to investigate.

Of course they're given a grand tour by the head of the colony James Gregory. On board the Enterprise we see the first use of the Vulcan mind meld as Leonard Nimoy and DeForest Kelley investigate themselves with Woodward as a subject.

Gregory must have studied under Dr. Moreau because he's turned one room of his prison into the house of pain. He's got a machine up there that can cause all kinds of psychological damage if people are exposed too long. Gregory is taking a sadistic delight in his work even practicing on a colleague like Woodward

Gregory has an appropriate ending much like Bela Lugosi in The Island Of Dr. Moreau.
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