Star Trek: The Original Series: Season 2
Paramount Pictures (1967)
TV Series  /  Adventure, Science Fiction
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IMDB   8.4
1307 mins USA / English
Blu-ray  Region 1   NR (Not Rated)
William Shatner Capt. Kirk
Leonard Nimoy Mr. Spock
DeForest Kelley Dr. McCoy
Eddie Paskey Lt. Leslie
Bill Blackburn Lt. Hadley
Nichelle Nichols Uhura
James Doohan Scott
Walter Koenig Chekov
Frank da Vinci Lt. Brent
George Takei Sulu
Roger Holloway Lt. Lemli
Jeannie Malone Yeoman
Majel Barrett Nurse Chapel
John Winston Transporter Chief
Paul Baxley Patrol Leader
Walker Edmiston Space Central
Bob Johnson Ground Control
Marlys Burdette Krako's Girl
Jay D. Jones Mirt
Joe Paz Vulcan Ceremonial Aide
Director
Vincent McEveety
Joseph Pevney
Gene Nelson
Ralph Senensky
Producer Gene Roddenberry
John Meredyth Lucas
Gene L. Coon
Edward K. Milkis
Writer Gene Roddenberry
Robert Bloch
John Meredyth Lucas
Gilbert Ralston
Cinematography Gerald Perry Finnerman
Keith C. Smith
Musician Jerry Fielding
Fred Steiner
Gerald Fried
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    9/15/1967  1.  Amok Time
Spock must go to Vulcan in order to perform the Vulcan mating ritual.
Director:  Joseph Pevney  Writer:  Theodore Sturgeon 
Guest starring:  Mark Russell, Phil Adams, Mauri Russell, Joseph Paz,  Walker EdmistonFrank da Vinci, Celia Lovsky,  Arlene MartelByron Morrow, Lawrence Montaigne,  Paul Baxley, David Perna, Charles Palmer, Gary Wright, Russ Peek
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    9/22/1967  2.  Who Mourns for Adonais?
The Enterprise encounters an alien who claims to be the greek god Apollo.
Director:  Marc Daniels  / Gilbert A. Ralston  Writer:  Gene L. Coon  / Gilbert A. Ralston 
Guest starring:  Leslie Parrish,  Michael Forest
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    9/29/1967  3.  The Changeling
The Enterprise encounters an ancient Earth probe bent on the sterilization of all life.
Director:  Marc Daniels  Writer:  John Meredyth Lucas 
Guest starring:  Barbara Gates, Blaisdell Makee, Marc Daniels,  Vic Perrin, Arnold Lessing, Meade Martin
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    10/6/1967  4.  Mirror, Mirror
Kirk and three of his officers are accidentally transported into a parallel ""mirror"" universe where violence, greed, and evil are commonplace.
Director:  Marc Daniels  Writer:  Jerome Bixby 
Guest starring:  Johnny Mandell, Nedra Rosemond, Bobby Bass, Paul Prokop,  Bobby Clark, Barbara Luna, Garth Pillsbury, Pete Kellett,  John WinstonVic Perrin, Vince Deadrick, David Perna
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    10/13/1967  5.  The Apple
Kirk attempts to assist a primitive people that are ruled over by a computer named Vaal.
Director:  Joseph Pevney  / Max Ehrlich  Writer:  Gene L. Coon  / Max Ehrlich 
Guest starring:  Vince Deadrick,  Bobby Clark, Ron Burke,  Paul Baxley, Dick Dial, Shari Nims, David Soul, Celeste Yarnell,  Keith Andes, Mal Friedman, Jerry Daniels,  Jay D. Jones, Julie Johnson
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    10/20/1967  6.  The Doomsday Machine
The Enterprise must stop an ancient doomsday weapon that is capable of destroying entire worlds...and has already totalled one Constellation-class cruiser.
Director:  Marc Daniels  Writer:  Norman Spinrad 
Guest starring:  William Windom, Jerry Catron, Tim Burns, John Copage, Richard Compton,  Elizabeth Rogers, Vince Deadrick
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    10/27/1967  7.  Catspaw
When a landing party disappears and one man is beamed up dead, Kirk and Spock investigate and meet a pair of aliens who seem capable of performing magic.
Director:  Joseph Pevney  Writer:  Robert Bloch 
Guest starring:  Gary Downey, Antoinette Bower, Theodore Marcuse, Michael Barrier, Rhodie Cogan,  Gail Bonney, Mary Esther Denver,  Jay D. Jones, Mike Howden,  Frank da Vinci, Jim Jones, Vic Toyota, Bobby Bass, Carl Saxe
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    11/3/1967  8.  I, Mudd
The Enterprise is taken over by a group of androids who are working for Kirk's old nemesis, Harry Mudd.
Director:  Marc Daniels  Writer:  David Gerrold  /  Stephen Kandel 
Guest starring:  Ted LaGarde, Bobby Bass, Maureen Thornton, Vince Deadrick, Starr Wilson, Tamara Wilson, Colleen Thornton, Loren James, Tom LaGarde, Bob Orrison,  Roger C. Carmel, Richard Tatro, Alyce Andrece, Rhae Andrece, Kay Elliot, Mike Howden, Michael Zaslow
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    11/10/1967  9.  Metamorphosis
When their shuttle is diverted to a planetoid, Kirk meets one of the pioneers of space flight, Zefram Cochrane.
Director:  Ralph Senensky  Writer:  Gene L. Coon 
Guest starring:  Elizabeth Rogers, Glenn Corbett,  Elinor Donahue
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    11/17/1967  10.  Journey to Babel
Spock meets his estranged father when the Enterprise escorts a group of ambassadors to a conference on the planet Babel.
Director:  Joseph Pevney  Writer:  D.C. Fontana 
Guest starring:  Cindy Lou,  Billy CurtisJane WyattWilliam O'Connell, John Wheeler, James X. Mitchell,  Reggie Nalder, Jim Shepherd
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    12/1/1967  11.  Friday's Child
Kirk, Spock, and McCoy land on a primitive planet to negotiate a mining treaty, but soon find themselves involved with intrigue and must flee with a pregnant woman into the surrounding mountains.
Director:  Joseph Pevney  Writer:  D.C. Fontana 
Guest starring:  Dick Dial, Julie Newmar,  Tige Andrews, Michael Dante, Cal Bolder, Ben Gage, Kirk Raymone, Bob Bralver, Jim Jones, Chuck Clow
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    12/8/1967  12.  The Deadly Years
A landing party, including the command staff, are infected with a disease that causes rapid aging and senility.
Director:  Joseph Pevney  Writer:  David P. Harmon 
Guest starring:  Charles Drake, Sarah Marshall, Felix Locher, Carolyn Nelson, Laura Wood, Beverly Washburn
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    12/15/1967  13.  Obsession
The Enterprise must deal with a creature from Kirk's past that feeds on human blood.
Director:  Ralph Senensky  Writer:  Art Wallace 
Guest starring:  Stephen Brooks, Jerry Ayres, William Blackburn
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    12/22/1967  14.  Wolf in the Fold
A serial killer stalks a planet...and Scotty is the prime suspect.
Director:  Joseph Pevney  Writer:  Robert Bloch 
Guest starring:  John Fiedler, Charles Macauley, Pilar Seurat,  Charles Dierkop, Joseph Bernard, Tania Lemani, Virginia Aldridge, Judith McConnell, Judi Sherven, Suzanne Lodge,  Marlys BurdetteJohn WinstonPaul Baxley
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    12/29/1967  15.  The Trouble With Tribbles
Kirk must defuse a Klingon scheme to destroy a grain shipment...and cope with a seemingly benign creature known as a tribble, which reproduces at amazing speed.
Director:  Joseph Pevney  Writer:  David Gerrold 
Guest starring:  Bob Orrison, Jerry Summers,  Dick Crockett, Richard Antoni, Phil Adams, Bob Myles,  William Schallert, William Campbell,  Stanley AdamsWhit BissellMichael Pataki, Edwin Reimers, Charlie Brill,  Paul BaxleyDavid L. RossGuy Raymond
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    1/5/1968  16.  The Gamesters of Triskelion
Kirk, Chekov, and Uhura are kidnapped and forced to participate in a series of gladiatorial games.
Director:  Gene Nelson  Writer:  Margaret Armen 
Guest starring:  Bart La RueWalker EdmistonJoseph Ruskin, Angelique Pettyjohn, Steve Sandor, Jane Ross, Victoria George,  Dick Crockett, Mickey Morton, Robert Johnson
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    1/12/1968  17.  A Piece of the Action
The Enterprise travels to a planet suffering from cultural contamination from an earlier expedition - the inhabitants mimic the culture of 1930's gangland Chicago.
Director:  James Komack  / David P. Harmon  Writer:  Gene L. Coon  /  David P. Harmon 
Guest starring:  William Blackburn,  Jay D. JonesMarlys Burdette, Anthony Caruso,  Vic Tayback, Lee Delano,  John HarmonSheldon Collins, Dyanne Thorne, Sharyn Hillyer, Buddy Garion, Steve Marlo
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    1/19/1968  18.  The Immunity Syndrome
The Enterprise must destroy an enormous space amoeba before it reproduces and threatens known space.
Director:  Joseph Pevney  Writer:  Robert Sabaroff 
Guest starring:  Robert Johnson,  Jay D. Jones, Dick Dial
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    2/2/1968  19.  A Private Little War
Kirk becomes involved in an arms race when the Klingons equip a native people with superior weaponry.
Director:  Marc Daniels  / Don Ingalls  Writer:  Gene Roddenberry  / Gene L. Coon 
Guest starring:  Roy Sickner, Bob Lyon, Bob Orrison, Gary Carpenter,  Paul Baxley, Janos Prohaska, Arthur Bernard, Booker Bradshaw, Ned Romero, Michael Witney,  Nancy Kovack, Regina Parton, David Perna
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    2/9/1968  20.  Return to Tomorrow
The Enterprise discovers three discorporeal intelligences who seek their help in gaining physical bodies...but one of them has plans of his own.
Director:  Ralph Senensky  / John T. Dugan  Writer:  Gene Roddenberry 
Guest starring:  Diana Muldaur, Cindy Lou,  James DoohanRoger Holloway
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    2/16/1968  21.  Patterns of Force
The Enterprise seek out a historical researcher and discover he has contaminated a culture, rendering it into a near-duplicate of Nazi Germany.
Director:  Vincent McEveety  Writer:  John Meredyth Lucas 
Guest starring:  Ralph Maurer, Gilbert Green, Chuck Courtney, William Blackburn, William Wintersole,  Patrick Horgan, David Brian, Skip Homeier, Valora Noland,  Richard EvansEd McCreadyBart La RuePaul Baxley, Peter Canon
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    2/23/1968  22.  By Any Other Name
The Enterprise's command crew must thwart an invasion by aliens from another galaxy who plan to conquer this one.
Director:  Marc Daniels  / Jerome Bixby  Writer:  D.C. Fontana  / Jerome Bixby 
Guest starring:  Warren StevensBarbara Bouchet, Stewart Moss, Robert Fortier, Lezlie Dalton,  Carl Byrd, Julie Cobb
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    3/1/1968  23.  The Omega Glory
The Enterprise investigates the disappearance of another starship and discovers a planet where the inhabitants are immortal...and engaged in a strange parallel of Earth's Cold War period.
Director:  Vincent McEveety  Writer:  Gene Roddenberry 
Guest starring:  Morgan WoodwardRoy Jenson, Irene Kelly,  Morgan Farley, Lloyd Kino,  Ed McCready, Frank Atienza
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    3/8/1968  24.  The Ultimate Computer
The Enterprise is used to test a new super-sophisticated computer, but it soon develops a mind of its own.
Director:  John Meredyth Lucas  / Laurence N. Wolfe  Writer:  D.C. Fontana 
Guest starring:  William Marshall,  Sean Morgan, Barry Russo,  James Doohan
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    3/15/1968  25.  Bread and Circuses
Stardate 4040.7: The S.S. Beagle, missing for six years, is found as debris near Planet IV of System 982. Kirk, Spock, and McCoy beam down to the planet to investigate and find a ragged group of fugitive slaves trying to stay hidden from the police. These ""sun worshippers"" distrust the landing party but soon discover that they are not a threat. Kirk informs them that he is looking for another group of strangers led by a man named Merik. Merikus is the First Citizen of the Empire, but Kirk is not sure if it is the same man. Pursuaded to help them find Merik and his crew, the leader of the fugitives sends Flavius, an ex-gladiator, to be their guide. The landing party, however, is soon captured and led into the city where they discover a civilization much like 20th century Earth, but culturally similar to ancient Rome. The landing party find Merik, now First Citizen Merikus, who six years ago abandoned his ship and beamed his crew down to the planet. Those who could adapt survived, and th
Director:  Ralph Senensky  / John Kneubuhl  Writer:  Gene Roddenberry  / Gene L. Coon 
Guest starring:  Tom Steele, Gil Perkins,  Paul Stader, Bob Orrison, William Smithers, Logan Ramsey,  Ian WolfeWilliam Bramley, Rhodes Reason,  Bart La Rue, Jack Perkins, Max Kleven, Lois Jewell,  Paul Baxley, Allen Pinson
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    3/29/1968  26.  Assignment: Earth
Stardate not given: The Enterprise is sent on a mission back to Earth in the year 1968 to discover details about how the planet survived the arms race. While in orbit, the ship intercepts a transporter beam from an unknown part of the galaxy and beams the space traveler aboard. Surprised by what has taken place, the man identifies himself as Gary Seven and claims to be a 20th Century Earthman raised on an unknown world and trained to prevent Earth from destroying itself. Kirk decides to verify Seven's story before releasing him, but Seven escapes and beams down to the planet below. Kirk and Spock follow him to New York City, and Seven meanwhile discovers that two of his fellow agents have been killed in a auto accident. Seven is forced to complete their mission himself which is to sabotage an orbital nuclear platform, just low enough in the atmosphere to scare Earth leaders into prohibiting additional nuclear space weapons. Just as Kirk and Spock arrive, Seven beams out of his office a
Director:  Gene Roddenberry  /  Marc Daniels  / Art Wallace  Writer:  Art Wallace 
Guest starring:  Barbara BabcockMajel BarrettRobert LansingTeri GarrDon Keefer, Lincoln Demyan,  Morgan Jones, Bruce Mars,  Ted GehringPaul BaxleyJames Doohan
Edition Details
Edition Blu-ray
Series Star Trek: The Original Series
Distributor Paramount Home Entertainment
Release Date 9/22/2009
Packaging Keep Case
Screen Ratio Fullscreen (4:3)
Subtitles English; French; Spanish; Portuguese; English (Closed Captioned); Brazilian
Audio Tracks Dolby Digital 5.1 [English]
Dolby Digital Stereo [English]
Dolby Digital Stereo [French]
Dolby Digital Stereo [Spanish]
Dolby Digital Mono [English]
Dolby Digital Mono [French]
Dolby Digital Mono [Spanish]
Mono [English]
Mono [French]
Mono [Spanish]
Layers Single Side, Single Layer
No. of Discs/Tapes 7
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Features
Disc 01 Star Trek: TOS on Blu-Ray Featurette * Special Tribbles Disc with New Commentary * Starfleet Access Mode on Select Episodes