Star Trek: The Original Series: Season 1
Paramount Pictures (1966)
TV Series  /  Adventure, Science Fiction
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IMDB   8.4
1461 mins USA / English
DVD  Region 1   NR (Not Rated)
Leonard Nimoy Mr. Spock
William Shatner Capt. Kirk
Eddie Paskey Lt. Leslie
Nichelle Nichols Lt. Uhura
DeForest Kelley Dr. Leonard McCoy
Frank da Vinci Crewman
Bill Blackburn Lt Hadley
James Doohan Scott
George Takei Sulu
Ron Veto Security Guard
Grace Lee Whitney Yeoman Janice Rand
Majel Barrett Number One
Jeannie Malone Yeoman
David L. Ross Security Guard #1
John Arndt Ingenieur Fields
Jon Lormer Dr. Theodore Haskins
Sandra Lee Gimpel Talosian
Ed Madden Enterprise Geologist
Sean Kenney Christopher Pike
Sean Morgan Brenner
Director
Vincent McEveety
Joseph Pevney
Michael O'Herlihy
Robert Butler
Producer Byron Haskin
Gene Roddenberry
Gene L. Coon
Robert H. Justman
Writer Paul Schneider
Gene Roddenberry
Harlan Ellison
Robert Hamner
Cinematography Gerald Perry Finnerman
Ernest Haller
William E. Snyder
Musician Fred Steiner
Gerald Fried
Alexander Courage
Sol Kaplan


Star Trek was an influential science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry that followed the adventures of the crew of the starship U.S.S. Enterprise. The show began with the production of the 1964 pilot "The Cage". "The Cage" featured Jeffrey Hunter as Enterprise captain Christopher Pike. The pilot was rejected by NBC executives as being too cerebral. In order to demonstrate the action-adventure potential of the series, another pilot entitled "Where No Man Has Gone Before" was produced. Replacing Jeffrey Hunter as Enterprise captain was William Shatner who starred as Captain James T. Kirk. The new pilot also starred Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock who was the only character to return from the original pilot after NBC's rejection of "The Cage". Response to the second, action-oriented, pilot was good and NBC gave the go ahead to the series.

The series premiered on NBC on Thursday, September 8, 1966 in the 8:30-9:30 PM timeslot with the episode "The Man Trap". Critical response to the series was mixed and rating were lower than expected. In its second season, reoccurring guest star DeForest Kelley was added to the series' starring cast and the show was moved to Friday at 8:30. A decline in the ratings, however, prompted NBC to attempt to cancel the series after its second season, but a letter writing campaign by die hard fans of the show saved it from cancellation. An additional season of episodes were produced, but ratings continued to decline most likely due to the quality of the third season episodes and a bad 10:00 PM Friday night time slot. Despite another letter writing campaign, the series was finally cancelled after its third season. The last new episode "Turnabout Intruder" was shown on June 3, 1969.

After its three year run Star Trek began running syndication where it was discovered by legion of new fans and became a phenomenon. The show inspired six features films, an animated series, and four additional spin-off television shows. Other spin-off's include novels, comic books, merchandise and an enormous amount of fan-fiction based on the series. Despite its short network run, Star Trek has become one of the most successful shows in television history.

Aside from its three main stars, Star Trek featured a large cast of reoccurring guest stars that includes James Doohan, Nichelle Nichols, George Takei, Walter Koenig, Majel Barrett, and Grace Lee Whitney. Other notable guest stars include Diana Muldaur, Gary Lockwood, Ricardo Montalban, Sally Kellerman, Julie Newmar, Frank Gorshin, John Colicos, Roger C. Carmel, William Campbell, Ted Cassidy, Michael Ansara and Elisha Cook, Jr. Notable writers for the series include Gene Roddenberry, Gene L. Coon, George Clayton Johnson, Jerry Sohl, Jerome Bixby, Robert Bloch, Theodore Sturgeon, Harlan Ellison, David Gerrold, and D.C. Fontana.
Episodes
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    9/8/1966  1.  The Man Trap
Kirk and his crew are at deadly risk from an alien creature that feeds on the salt in a human body and can take on any form.
Director:  Marc Daniels  Writer:  George Clayton Johnson 
Guest starring:  Sharon Gimpel, Garrison True, Larry Anthony, Bob Baker, Jeanne Bal,  Alfred Ryder, Bruce Watson, Michael Zaslow, Vince Howard, Francine Pyne, William Knight
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    9/15/1966  2.  Charlie X
Stardate 1533.6: The Enterprise makes a rendezvous with the S.S. Antares and picks up a 17 year old boy, Charlie Evans who is the only survivor of a colony expedition that crashed on the planet Thasus. Captain Ramart and his staff rave about the boy, but Kirk can't help but be puzzled when Ramart refuses luxury items and hurries back to the Antares. Charlie, without social skills of any measure, seems a bit strange and unrefined but states that he grew up alone with only the record tapes from the wreckage for company. Sometime later, Captain Ramart signals the Enterprise and tries to warn Kirk about something, but just then the Antares is destroyed. Kirk doesn't think much about Charlie's disinterested reaction to the deaths of his former friends, but Spock begins to suspect that there is more to the boy than they know. This is confirmed when Charlie makes a crewman disappear for laughing at him while in the gym. During this time, Charlie becomes infatuated with the first ^girl^ he saw after coming aboard the Enterprise, Yeoman Rand. Unable to control his desires, Charlie pesters Rand until she is forced to hurt him, first by rejecting the boy and then by slapping him while in her quarters. This, of course, causes Charlie to make her disappear as well. Now realizing the full extent of Charlie's powers and the danger he could pose to civilization, Kirk tries to alter the ship's course away from their next stop, Colony 5, but Charlie learns of his plans, seizes control of the Enterprise, and locks in a course for Colony 5. By this time the Thasians, noncorporeal beings who really raised Charlie and gave him his powers, discover that the boy is missing and intercept the Enterprise. Despite Charlie's pleas not to be taken away, the Thasians remove Charlie from the Enterprise and restore the crew back to normal.
Director:  Lawrence Dobkin  Writer:  D.C. Fontana 
Guest starring:  Robert Walker, Charles Stewart, Dallas Mitchell, Don Eitner, Patricia McNulty
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    9/22/1966  3.  Where No Man Has Gone Before
While exploring the edge of the galaxy, the Enterprise encounters an energy barrier that gives two crewmen godlike powers.
Director:  James Goldstone  Writer:  Samuel A. Peeples 
Guest starring:  Gary Lockwood,  Sally Kellerman, Lloyd Haynes,  Andrea DrommPaul CarrPaul Fix, Hal Needham,  Dick CrockettPaul Baxley
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    9/29/1966  4.  The Naked Time
A strange alien substance causes the crew to act out their deepest inhibitions, while the ship plummets out of orbit.
Director:  Marc Daniels  Writer:  John D.F. Black 
Guest starring:  Stewart Moss, Bruce Hyde, William Knight, John Bellah, Christin Ducheau, Woody Talbert,  Frank da Vinci, Bud da Vinci
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    10/6/1966  5.  The Enemy Within
A transporter malfunction causes Captain Kirk to split into his "good" and "evil" selves, and a landing party will freeze to death if they don't merge the two back together.
Director:  Leo Penn  Writer:  Richard Matheson 
Guest starring:  Edward Madden, Garland Thompson, Jim Goodwin, Don Eitner,  Eddie Paskey
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    10/13/1966  6.  Mudd's Women
The Enterprise picks up a intergalactic conman, Harry Mudd, and three incredibly beautiful women who harbor a dark secret.
Director:  Harvey Hart  / Gene Roddenberry  Writer:  Stephen Kandel 
Guest starring:  Roger C. Carmel, Karen Steele, Maggie Thrett, Susan Denberg, Jim Goodwin,  Gene Dynarski, Jon Kowal, Seamon Glass, Jerry Foxworth,  Eddie PaskeyFrank da Vinci
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    10/20/1966  7.  What Are Little Girls Made Of?
Nurse Christine Chapel is reunited with her old fiance on Exo III, but the scientist has plans for Captain Kirk and the Federation.
Director:  James Goldstone  Writer:  Robert Bloch 
Guest starring:  Michael Strong, Sherry Jackson, Ted Cassidy, Harry Basch, Vince Deadrick, Budd Albright,  Paul Baxley, Denver Mattson
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    10/27/1966  8.  Miri
Kirk and a landing party are stranded on a planet due to a disease that causes any adult to die a painful death, and must deal with the local children who have survived.
Director:  Vincent McEveety  Writer:  Adrian Spies 
Guest starring:  Kim DarbyMichael J. Pollard, Keith Taylor,  Ed McCready, Kellie Flanagan, Steven McEveety, Jim Goodwin,  John MegnaJohn Arndt, Irene Sale, Scott Whitney, Darlene Roddenberry, Lisabeth Shatner, Dawn Roddenberry,  Phil Morris, Scott Dweck, Jon Dweck, Bob Miles
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    11/3/1966  9.  Dagger of the Mind
Kirk investigates an experimental facility for holding prisoners and finds a sinister scheme.
Director:  Vincent McEveety  Writer:  Shimon Wincelberg 
Guest starring:  James GregoryMorgan WoodwardMarianna Hill, Susanne Wasson,  John Arndt, Larry Anthony,  Ed McCready, Eli Behar, Walt Davis, Lou Elias,  David L. Ross, Irene Sale
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    11/10/1966  10.  The Corbomite Maneuver
The Enterprise encounters a vast alien ship that sets out to test them.
Director:  Joseph Sargent  Writer:  Jerry Sohl 
Guest starring:  Anthony Call,  Clint HowardVic Perrin, George Bochman,  John Gabriel, Gloria Calomee,  Majel BarrettSean Morgan, Ted Cassidy, Bruce Mars, Jonathan Lippe, Mittie Lawrence, Ena Hartman
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    11/17/1966  11.  The Menagerie (1)
Spock kidnaps his former captain, the crippled Christopher Pike, and heads for a quarantined planet, putting his career and Kirk's life on the line.
Director:  Robert Butler  /  Marc Daniels  Writer:  Gene Roddenberry 
Guest starring:  Jeffrey Hunter, Susan Oliver,  Malachi ThroneMajel Barrett, Peter Duryea, Laurel Goodwin,  John Hoyt, Adam Roarke,  Sean Kenney, Hagan Beggs, Julie Parrish,  Leonard Mudie, Tom Curtis,  George SawayaJon Lormer, Georgia Schmidt, Clegg Hoyt, Brett Dunham, Edward Madden, Seren
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    11/24/1966  12.  The Menagerie (2)
Spock's court-martial continues as he attempts to justify his abduction of Pike, the theft of the Enterprise, and his heading for a planet declared forbidden by Starfleet.
Director:  Robert Butler  /  Marc Daniels  Writer:  Gene Roddenberry 
Guest starring:  Jeffrey Hunter, Susan Oliver,  Malachi ThroneMajel Barrett, Peter Duryea,  John Hoyt, Laurel Goodwin, Adam Roarke,  Sean Kenney, Hagan Beggs,  Meg Wyllie, Julie Parrish, Georgia Schmidt, Brett Dunham, Mike Dugan, Edward Madden,  George Sawaya, Clegg Hoyt,  Leonard Mudie, Antho
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    12/8/1966  13.  The Conscience of the King
Kirk is one of the last survivors who can identify a mass killer, who lurks among a Shakespearean troupe aboard the Enterprise.
Director:  Gerd Oswald  Writer:  Barry Trivers 
Guest starring:  Arnold MossBarbara Anderson, William Sargent, Natalie Norwick, David Troy, Karl Bruck, Marc Adams, Bruce Hyde, Frank Vince
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    12/15/1966  14.  Balance of Terror
Kirk pits the Enterprise against an invisible spaceship testing the Federation's defenses.
Director:  Vincent McEveety  Writer:  Paul Schneider 
Guest starring:  Mark LenardPaul Comi, Lawrence Montaigne, Stephen Mines, Barbara Baldavin, Garry Walberg, John Warburton,  Sean Morgan, Vince Deadrick,  John Arndt, Robert Chadwick, Walt Davis
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    12/29/1966  15.  Shore Leave
The Enterprise crew take shore leave on a peaceful, pastoral planet...where their dreams and fantasies come to life.
Director:  Robert Sparr  Writer:  Theodore Sturgeon 
Guest starring:  Emily Banks, Oliver McGowan,  Perry Lopez, Bruce Mars, Barbara Baldavin, Marcia Brown, Sebastian Tom, Shirley Bonne, John Carr, William Blackburn, James Gruzaf,  Paul Baxley, Vince Deadrick, Irene Sale
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    1/5/1967  16.  The Galileo Seven
Spock commands a stranded away team when their shuttlecraft is stranded on a planet with hostile natives.
Director:  Robert Gist  / Oliver Crawford  Writer:  Oliver Crawford  / Shimon Wincelberg 
Guest starring:  Don Marshall,  John Crawford, Peter Marko, Phyllis Douglas, Rees Vaughn, Grant Woods, Robert Maffei,  David L. RossFrank da Vinci, Gary Coombs
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    1/12/1967  17.  The Squire of Gothos
The Enterprise finds itself at the mercy of a seemingly omnipotent being who fancies himself a 18th century Englishman.
Director:  Don McDougall  Writer:  Paul Schneider 
Guest starring:  William Campbell, Richard Carlyle, Michael Barrier, Venita Wolf,  Barbara BabcockJames Doohan, Gary Coombs
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    1/19/1967  18.  Arena
When a mysterious alien race destroy an Earth colony, the Enterprise pursues but Kirk and the alien captain are forced to fight each other by powerful aliens.
Director:  Joseph Pevney  / Fredric Brown  Writer:  Gene L. Coon 
Guest starring:  Jerry Ayres, Grant Woods,  Tom Troupe, James Farley, Carole Shelyne,  Sean KenneyVic Perrin, Ted Cassidy,  Bobby Clark, Gary Coombs
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    1/26/1967  19.  Tomorrow is Yesterday
The Enterprise collides with a black hole and is thrown back to Earth in the 20th century, where they must find a way back and erase any trace of their presence. Matters become complicated when they rescue an Air Force pilot and cannot return him without changing history...but if he disappears that will change history as well.
Director:  Michael O'Herlihy  Writer:  D.C. Fontana 
Guest starring:  Roger Perry, Hal Lynch, Richard Merrifield,  Ed Peck, Mark Dempsey, Jim Spencer, Sherri Townsend
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    2/2/1967  20.  Court Martial
Captain Kirk's career is at stake when he is put on trial for the loss of a crewman during an ion storm.
Director:  Marc Daniels  / Don M. Mankiewicz  Writer:  Don M. Mankiewicz  / Stephen W. Carabatsos 
Guest starring:  Percy Rodriguez,  Elisha Cook Jr., Joan Marshall, Hagan Beggs, Win de Lugo, Alice Rawlings, Nancy Wong, William Meader, Bart Conrad, Reginald Lal Singh,  Richard Webb, Tom Curtis,  Majel Barrett
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    2/9/1967  21.  The Return of the Archons
The Enterprise encounters a seemingly peaceful civilization run by a ""benevolent"" being named Landru...who intends for them to join his people.
Director:  Joseph Pevney  / Gene Roddenberry  Writer:  Boris Sobelman 
Guest starring:  David L. Ross, Ralph Maurer,  Sean Morgan, Christopher Held,  Morgan FarleyJon LormerCharles MacaulaySid Haig, Brioni Farrell,  Torin Thatcher, Harry Townes,  Bobby Clark, Barbara Weber, Miko Mayama
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    2/16/1967  22.  Space Seed
The Enterprise picks up a crew of genetic supermen from the 20th century...and their leader, Khan, plans to create a new empire.
Director:  Marc Daniels  / Carey Wilbur  Writer:  Gene L. Coon  / Carey Wilbur 
Guest starring:  John Arndt, Jan Reddin, Joan Johnson, Joan Webster, Bobby Bass,  Ricardo MontalbanMadlyn Rhue, Blaisdell Makee, Mark Tobin, Kathy Ahart, Barbara Baldavin, Gary Coombs, Chuck Couch
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    2/23/1967  23.  A Taste of Armageddon
The Enterprise arrives at a planet to establish diplomatic relations and finds itself in the middle of a "peaceful" war that threatens to destroy the ship.
Director:  Joseph Pevney  / Robert Hamner  Writer:  Robert Hamner  / Gene L. Coon 
Guest starring:  David Opatoshu, Gene Lyons,  Barbara Babcock, Miko Mayama,  Sean KenneyRobert SampsonRon VetoEddie Paskey, John Burnside,  Frank da Vinci, William Blackburn
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    3/2/1967  24.  This Side of Paradise
The Enterprise crew is trapped in paradise when they come to rescue colonists who have fallen to pacifying alien spores and become infected themselves.
Director:  Ralph Senensky  / D.C. Fontana  / Jerry Sohl  Writer:  D.C. Fontana 
Guest starring:  Jill Ireland,  Frank Overton, Michael Barrier, Dick Scotter,  Eddie Paskey, Bobby Bass,  Sean Morgan, Fred Shue, Grant Woods, John Lindesmith,  Bill Catching
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    3/9/1967  25.  The Devil in the Dark
Kirk investigates a series of grisly murders on a mining planet that are the work of a seemingly hostile alien creature.
Director:  Joseph Pevney  Writer:  Gene L. Coon 
Guest starring:  Ken Lynch, Brad Weston, Biff Elliot, George E. Allen, Jon Cavett, Janos Prohaska, Dick Dial,  Davis Roberts, Barry Russo,  Eddie PaskeyFrank da Vinci
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    3/23/1967  26.  Errand of Mercy
The Federation and the Klingon Empire teeter on the brink of war as Kirk investigates a humble planet caught in the middle - Organia, inhabited by pacifists
Director:  John Newland  Writer:  Gene L. Coon 
Guest starring:  John AbbottJohn ColicosPeter Brocco, Victor Lundin, David Hillary Hughes, Walt Davis,  George Sawaya, Bobby Bass, Gary Coombs
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    3/30/1967  27.  The Alternative Factor
Kirk and Spock encounter an alien named Lazarus who claims to be from an anti-matter universe.
Director:  Gerd Oswald  Writer:  Don Ingalls 
Guest starring:  Al Wyatt,  Bill Catching, Tom Lupo,  Robert Brown, Janet MacLachlan, Richard Derr, Arch Whiting, Christian Patrick,  Eddie PaskeyRon Veto, William Blackburn, Vince Calenti, Larry Riddle, Gary Coombs,  Frank da Vinci, Carey Foster, Tom Steele
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    4/6/1967  28.  The City on the Edge of Forever
Kirk and Spock must travel into the past in order to correct a change that will alter history.
Director:  Joseph Pevney  Writer:  Harlan Ellison 
Guest starring:  Carey Loftin, Mary Statier, Bobby Bass, Michael Barrier, David Perna, Joan Collins,  John Harmon, Hal Baylor,  Bart La Rue
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    4/13/1967  29.  Operation -- Annihilate!
Kirk and the Enterprise must combat parasitic aliens.
Director:  Herschel Daugherty  Writer:  Stephen W. Carabatsos 
Guest starring:  Dave Armstrong, Joan Swift, Maurishka Taliferro, Craig Hundley, Fred Carson, Jerry Catron, Gary Coombs,  Bill CatchingWilliam Shatner
Edition Details
Edition Collector's Series
Series Star Trek: The Original Series
Distributor Paramount
Release Date 8/31/2004
Packaging Custom Case
Screen Ratio Fullscreen (4:3)
Subtitles English; English (Closed Captioned)
Audio Tracks Dolby Digital 5.1 [English]
Dolby Digital Mono [English]
Dolby Digital Surround [English]
Layers Single Side, Dual Layer
No. of Discs/Tapes 8

Features
Disc 01 The Birth of a Timeless Legacy Life Beyond Trek: William Shatner To Boldly Go... Reflections on Spock Sci-Fi Visionaries Photo Log Original Promotional Trailers