Do you hear all the giggling cover from that covered wagon winding its way through Oregon? That's the sound of "Les Girls", one of the episodes Gene Roddenberry wrote for Have Gun - Will Travel, with a storyline and subject matter that Star Trek reused and expanded upon.

Gene-ology continues examining Gene Roddenberry's early TV scripts, including Have Gun - Will Travel's "Episode In Laredo", encompassing topics from toxic masculinity, to parental responsibility, to the futility of bloodshed, to possible pathways to peace paved with potatoes.

Paladin responds to an urgent request for help from Roy Carter, whose own lack of urgency is strange considering that a man's life is at risk. Gene-ology examines Gene Roddenberry's final script for the second season of Have Gun - Will Travel, "The Return of Roy Carter".

Beaten up and robbed, Paladin must make a fresh start at a nearby ranch while he looks for his attackers. It turns out they work for his new boss, "Maggie O'Bannion", and they're robbing her blind too. How much does Paladin risk to reveal the truth? And...is he seriously hitting on his new boss!?

Trouble brews in Moon Ridge as Paladin tries to sort through supernatural superstitions and possibly the involvement of some meddling kids, as Gene-ology examines "The Monster of Moon Ridge", another Gene Roddenberry script from Have Gun - Will Travel.

Gene-ology explores the early TV writing of Gene Roddenberry, including "Juliet", a 1959 episode of "Have Gun - Will Travel" that has potentially interesting ideas to explore, but fixates on a relationship that would be problematic in 1959...or now.

Gene-ology's coverage of Gene Roddenberry's scripts from "Have Gun - Will Travel" continues in an episode that opens with Paladin already in a very tough spot - and then someone asks him to save her life. Unless a better offer comes along for one of them. Next exit: "The Road to Wickenburg".

As Gene-ology continues examining Gene Roddenberry's scripts from "Have Gun - Will Travel", Paladin and several others face a situation that demands an answer to the question: which is more important, justice or revenge?