| Star Trek: The Original Series: Season 3 | |||||
| Paramount Pictures (1968) | |||||
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| William Shatner | Capt. Kirk | |
| Leonard Nimoy | Mr. Spock | |
| James Doohan | Scott | |
| DeForest Kelley | Dr. McCoy | |
| Nichelle Nichols | Uhura | |
| Bill Blackburn | Lt. Hadley | |
| George Takei | Sulu | |
| Roger Holloway | Lt. Lemli | |
| Walter Koenig | Chekov | |
| Jeannie Malone | Yeoman | |
| Majel Barrett | Nurse Chapel | |
| Frank da Vinci | Transporter Operator | |
| Eddie Paskey | Lt. Leslie | |
| Jay D. Jones | 2nd Technician | |
| Dick Geary | Security Guard | |
| Louie Elias | 1st Technician | |
| Barbara Babcock | Philana | |
| Paul Baxley | Security Guard | |
| Naomi Pollack | Lt. Rahda | |
| Victor Brandt | Watson |
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| Producer |
Gene Roddenberry
Fred Freiberger Edward K. Milkis Gregg Peters |
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| Writer |
Gene Roddenberry
Stanley Adams John Meredyth Lucas D.C. Fontana |
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| Cinematography |
Gerald Perry Finnerman
Al Francis |
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| Musician |
Jerry Fielding
Alexander Courage |
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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. |
| Seen it: Yes 60 mins 9/20/1968 1. Spock's Brain | |||
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Stardate 5431.4: The Enterprise is intercepted by a starship of unknown design and a woman from the ship beams directly into the bridge and uses a device to render the Enterprise's crew unconscious. She then walks over to Spock... When the crew awakens, McCoy summons Kirk to sick bay and informs him that the alien visitor apparently removed Spock's entire brain without even performing surgery. After Spock's body is fitted with a device that allows McCoy to control the Vulcan's motor functions with a remote control, Kirk starts a search for Spock's brain, hoping it can be recovered and somehow returned to Spock before his body decays.
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| Seen it: Yes 60 mins 9/27/1968 2. The Enterprise Incident | |||
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An unusually tense and irritable Kirk orders his ship into the Romulan Neutral Zone, where it is promptly surrounded. Beamed to a Romulan ship, Kirk lies about the intrusion, then attacks Spock, who responds with a Vulcan death grip. While the female Romulan commander courts Spock, a secret mission unfolds.
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| Seen it: Yes 60 mins 10/4/1968 3. The Paradise Syndrome | |||
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Stardate 4842.6: Kirk, Spock and McCoy beam down to a planet to inform any inhabitants that they must evacuate the planet due to an approaching asteroid's imminent collision. A society similar to Native American Indians has arisen on the planet, but near their villages, the landing party finds a strange obelisk whose design and construction is far beyond the capabilities of the planet's natives. Kirk finds that the monolith can be opened by the combination of sounds found in the order ""Kirk to Enterprise,"" but when he enters the obelisk, he is attacked by waves of energy that erase his mind. With no time to spare, Spock and McCoy have to return to the Enterprise without Kirk, and begin trying to use the ship's tractor beam to divert the asteroid. Meanwhile, Kirk becomes the tribal chief, takes a wife and even expects to become a father, but the Enterprise may not be able to save her former captain's future.
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| Seen it: Yes 60 mins 10/11/1968 4. And the Children Shall Lead | |||
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The Enterprise travels to a planet where a scientific team has killed themselves...except for the children, who began to act oddly.
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| Seen it: Yes 60 mins 10/18/1968 5. Is There in Truth No Beauty? | |||
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Stardate 5630.7:...or is there in beauty no truth? Miranda Jones, a telepath who studied mental disciplines on Vulcan, arrives with Ambassador Kolos, a Medusan - an alien life form whose physical form is so hideous, humanoid life forms are driven insane if they look upon him. Also beaming aboard is Larry Marvick, one of the original designers of the Enterprise - and hopelessly in love with Miranda, although she has chosen to spend her life serving as a liason between the Medusans and other humanoids. Miranda senses that someone is actively contemplating murder, and suspects Spock is envious of her once-in-a-lifetime mission - but even Miranda is unaware of the real would-be killer and their target.
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| Seen it: Yes 60 mins 10/25/1968 6. Spectre of the Gun | |||
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When coming to an exaphobic isolationist planet, Captain Kirk and his landing party are punished for trepassing. They are sentenced to death in a surreal recreation of the Gunfight at the OK Corral with the landing on the losing side.
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| Seen it: Yes 60 mins 11/1/1968 7. Day of the Dove | |||
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When the Enterprise brings aboard Klingon prisoners, an alien entity pits both sides against each other in an ever-escalating struggle.
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| Seen it: Yes 60 mins 11/8/1968 8. For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky | |||
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The Enterprise must deflect an asteroid on a collision course with an inhabited planet...but discover the asteroid is a spaceship with a population unaware of the outside world.
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| Seen it: Yes 60 mins 11/15/1968 9. The Tholian Web | |||
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Stardate 5693.2: The Enterprise arrives at the last known position of the U.S.S. Defiant (NCC-1764), an area of uncharted space, to search for the missing starship. When the Defiant appears on the viewing screen enshrouded in a strange green glow, Spock is unable to scan the vessel on his sensors. Kirk beams over to the Defiant with a boarding party to investigate and finds the entire crew dead. What's more, the Defiant seems to be trapped in an interphase between two different universes. A power loss partially disables the Enterprise transporter, but the landing party manages to beam back to the Enterprise except Kirk who suddenly disappears along with the Defiant. Spock calculates that the next time to interphase will be approximately two hours, and that the captain can be rescued at that time. As the Enterprise begins to experience the same problems that doomed the Defiant: power loss, weakness and insanity among the crew, an alien vessel appears and demands that they leave Tholian
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| Seen it: Yes 60 mins 11/22/1968 10. Plato's Stepchildren | |||
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Kirk and his crew find themselves at the mercy of powerful individuals who possess mind-over-matter powers...and plan to use the Enterprise crew for their twisted entertainment.
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| Seen it: Yes 60 mins 11/29/1968 11. Wink of an Eye | |||
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Stardate 5710.5: When a landing party investigating Scalos begins to vanish one by one, Kirk, Spock and McCoy try to find out what is happening before more of the crew disappears, until Kirk himself is abducted. Kirk finds the cause to be a group of endangered Scalosians who move faster than human sight or hearing can detect. They need to repopulate their species, and find that speeding human males up to Scalosian speed will meet their needs. Kirk must find a way to get a message to Spock and McCoy, who are working on a cure for the mystery ""ailment,"" as well as stirring up fighting among the Scalosians, before they have control of the Enterprise.
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| Seen it: Yes 60 mins 11/6/1968 12. The Empath | |||
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On a planet doomed to destruction, Kirk, Spock & McCoy become involved with two aliens who use them as laboratory animals in a bizarre series of tests on an alien empath who may be the savior of her planet.
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| Seen it: Yes 60 mins 12/20/1968 13. Elaan of Troyius | |||
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The Enterprise must escort an alien princess to her marriage to seal an interplanetary alliance...but she becomes attracted to Kirk.
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| Seen it: Yes 60 mins 1/3/1969 14. Whom Gods Destroy | |||
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Kirk and Spock investigate an insane asylum where a former Starfleet captain is being held, only to discover that he has freed the inmates and is running the place.
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| Seen it: Yes 60 mins 1/10/1969 15. Let That Be Your Last Battlefield | |||
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The Enterprise finds itself host to two alien beings from the same planet, who share an intense and self-destructive hatred of each other.
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| Seen it: Yes 60 mins 1/17/1969 16. The Mark of Gideon | |||
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Kirk beams down on a diplomatic mission...and finds himself in an Enterprise where all the crew have vanished and only a mysterious woman resides.
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| Seen it: Yes 60 mins 1/24/1969 17. That Which Survives | |||
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Kirk, McCoy, and Sulu are stranded on a barren planet where a mysterious woman attempts to kill them one at a time, while the Enterprise must travel halfway across the galaxy to rescue them.
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| Seen it: Yes 60 mins 1/31/1969 18. The Lights of Zetar | |||
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The Enterprise must deal with discorporeal cloud-like corporeal aliens who have already destroyed the inhabitants of a library planet and plan to eliminate the Enterprise crew if they cannot acquire a human host.
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| Seen it: Yes 60 mins 2/14/1969 19. Requiem for Methuselah | |||
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While seeking a cure for a fever ravaging the Enterprise, Kirk and Spock encounter Flint, a hermit-like Earthman, and his beautiful young ward.
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| Seen it: Yes 60 mins 2/21/1969 20. The Way to Eden | |||
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The Enterprise picks up a group of space ""hippies"" looking for Eden.
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| Seen it: Yes 60 mins 2/28/1969 21. The Cloud Minders | |||
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Kirk must resolve a mining dispute on a the cloud city of Stratos to acquire the resources to cure a space plague.
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| Seen it: Yes 60 mins 3/7/1969 22. The Savage Curtain | |||
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Kirk and Spock meet Abraham Lincoln and Surak of Vulcan and must do battle with some of histories most terrible villians.
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| Seen it: Yes 60 mins 3/14/1969 23. All Our Yesterdays | |||
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Kirk, Spock, and McCoy become trapped in the past of another world.
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| Seen it: Yes 60 mins 6/3/1969 24. Turnabout Intruder | |||
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The Enterprise is in danger when Janice Lester, one of Kirk's former lovers, steals his body.
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