Star Trek's "Whom Gods Destroy" is set in a mental health institution on a toxic planet, holding the worst criminals in the galaxy. When Kirk and Spock beam down to deliver a new form of ...

You'd think, with a name like "Whom Gods Destroy" that this episode would earn the ire of censors for gratuitous uses of violence and/or lightning bolts, but it was actually on the grounds of ...

Whom Gods Destroy is far from a shining example in the depiction of mental health issues in Star Trek. Nor is it strong enough to serve as a timely indictment of the American penal system.

James Doohan as Scotty in the ‘Star Trek’ episode ‘Whom Gods Destroy,’ aired on January 3, 1969 | CBS via Getty Images Born in 1920 to Irish immigrants, James Doohan spent his early ...

Kirk and Spock are taken prisoners by a former starship captain named Garth, who now resides at, and has taken over, a high security asylum for the criminally insane.

D'Vana Tendi gets back to her Orion roots in "Lower Decks" season 5's opening episodes — and her species has a very long history in "Star Trek ... crew in "Whom Gods Destroy" (1969).

9-66 is a reference to September 1966, the month the first aired Star Trek episode ... Glory,” and the less said about Garth in “Whom Gods Destroy,” the better.

Star Trek is not a franchise you’d normally associate with controversy. Nevertheless, between 1969 and 1994, four episodes of the original series – Empath, Whom Gods Destroy, Plato’s ...