| Star Trek: The Original Series: Season 1 | |||||
| Paramount Pictures (1966) | |||||
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| 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 |
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| Producer | Byron Haskin
Gene Roddenberry Gene L. Coon Robert H. Justman |
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| Writer | Paul Schneider
Gene Roddenberry Harlan Ellison Robert Hamner |
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| Cinematography |
Gerald Perry Finnerman
Ernest Haller William E. Snyder |
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| Musician | Fred Steiner
Gerald Fried Alexander Courage Sol Kaplan |
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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 9/8/1966 1. The Man Trap | |||
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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.
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| Seen it: Yes 60 mins 9/15/1966 2. Charlie X | |||
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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.
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| Seen it: Yes 60 mins 9/22/1966 3. Where No Man Has Gone Before | |||
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While exploring the edge of the galaxy, the Enterprise encounters an energy barrier that gives two crewmen godlike powers.
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| Seen it: Yes 60 mins 9/29/1966 4. The Naked Time | |||
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A strange alien substance causes the crew to act out their deepest inhibitions, while the ship plummets out of orbit.
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| Seen it: Yes 60 mins 10/6/1966 5. The Enemy Within | |||
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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.
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| Seen it: Yes 60 mins 10/13/1966 6. Mudd's Women | |||
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The Enterprise picks up a intergalactic conman, Harry Mudd, and three incredibly beautiful women who harbor a dark secret.
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| Seen it: Yes 60 mins 10/20/1966 7. What Are Little Girls Made Of? | |||
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Nurse Christine Chapel is reunited with her old fiance on Exo III, but the scientist has plans for Captain Kirk and the Federation.
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| Seen it: Yes 60 mins 10/27/1966 8. Miri | |||
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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.
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| Seen it: Yes 60 mins 11/3/1966 9. Dagger of the Mind | |||
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Kirk investigates an experimental facility for holding prisoners and finds a sinister scheme.
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| Seen it: Yes 60 mins 11/10/1966 10. The Corbomite Maneuver | |||
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The Enterprise encounters a vast alien ship that sets out to test them.
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| Seen it: Yes 60 mins 11/17/1966 11. The Menagerie (1) | |||
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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.
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| Seen it: Yes 60 mins 11/24/1966 12. The Menagerie (2) | |||
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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.
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| Seen it: Yes 60 mins 12/8/1966 13. The Conscience of the King | |||
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Kirk is one of the last survivors who can identify a mass killer, who lurks among a Shakespearean troupe aboard the Enterprise.
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| Seen it: Yes 60 mins 12/15/1966 14. Balance of Terror | |||
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Kirk pits the Enterprise against an invisible spaceship testing the Federation's defenses.
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| Seen it: Yes 60 mins 12/29/1966 15. Shore Leave | |||
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The Enterprise crew take shore leave on a peaceful, pastoral planet...where their dreams and fantasies come to life.
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| Seen it: Yes 60 mins 1/5/1967 16. The Galileo Seven | |||
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Spock commands a stranded away team when their shuttlecraft is stranded on a planet with hostile natives.
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| Seen it: Yes 60 mins 1/12/1967 17. The Squire of Gothos | |||
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The Enterprise finds itself at the mercy of a seemingly omnipotent being who fancies himself a 18th century Englishman.
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| Seen it: Yes 60 mins 1/19/1967 18. Arena | |||
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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.
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| Seen it: Yes 60 mins 1/26/1967 19. Tomorrow is Yesterday | |||
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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.
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| Seen it: Yes 60 mins 2/2/1967 20. Court Martial | |||
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Captain Kirk's career is at stake when he is put on trial for the loss of a crewman during an ion storm.
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| Seen it: Yes 60 mins 2/9/1967 21. The Return of the Archons | |||
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The Enterprise encounters a seemingly peaceful civilization run by a ""benevolent"" being named Landru...who intends for them to join his people.
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| Seen it: Yes 60 mins 2/16/1967 22. Space Seed | |||
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The Enterprise picks up a crew of genetic supermen from the 20th century...and their leader, Khan, plans to create a new empire.
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| Seen it: Yes 60 mins 2/23/1967 23. A Taste of Armageddon | |||
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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.
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| Seen it: Yes 60 mins 3/2/1967 24. This Side of Paradise | |||
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The Enterprise crew is trapped in paradise when they come to rescue colonists who have fallen to pacifying alien spores and become infected themselves.
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| Seen it: Yes 60 mins 3/9/1967 25. The Devil in the Dark | |||
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Kirk investigates a series of grisly murders on a mining planet that are the work of a seemingly hostile alien creature.
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| Seen it: Yes 60 mins 3/23/1967 26. Errand of Mercy | |||
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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
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| Seen it: Yes 60 mins 3/30/1967 27. The Alternative Factor | |||
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Kirk and Spock encounter an alien named Lazarus who claims to be from an anti-matter universe.
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| Seen it: Yes 60 mins 4/6/1967 28. The City on the Edge of Forever | |||
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Kirk and Spock must travel into the past in order to correct a change that will alter history.
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| Seen it: Yes 60 mins 4/13/1967 29. Operation -- Annihilate! | |||
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Kirk and the Enterprise must combat parasitic aliens.
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