One Star Trek Explosion Plagued William Shatner With A Lifelong Hearing Issue

www.slashfilm.com: Even non-Trekkies likely know the "Star Trek" episode "Arena" (first aired January 19, 1967). That's the episode wherein Captain Kirk (William Shatner) is chosen by a godlike alien species to go to Vasquez Rocks in California — I mean a distant alien world called Cestus III — to fight a lizard-like alien called a Gorn.