On the 1966 "Star Trek" episode "The Enemy Within," Captain Kirk (played by one-time /Film writer William Shatner) beams up from a geological research mission covered in a rare magnetic dust.

Written by sci-fi legend Richard Matheson and directed by Leo Penn, “The Enemy Within” introduces one of Star Trek‘s most reliable plot devices, a transporter malfunction. In this case ...

Deep Space Nine was the first show to feature Section 31 and they're still the best to do it, because they understand how it relates to the franchise's moral perspective.