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Star Trek (1966)

Rating

Run Time: 50 min

Color: Color

Aspect Ratio: 1.33 : 1

Sound: Mono

Producer: Desilu Productions

Genre

Action
Adventure
Drama
Sci-Fi

Seasons: 3

Episodes: 79

Overview

A 1960's science fiction action adventure series set in the 23rd century based around the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise, representing the United Federation of Planets (including Earth) on a five-year mission in outer space to explore new worlds, seek new life and new civilizations, and to boldly go where no one has gone before. The Enterprise is commanded by handsome and brash American Captain James Tiberius "Jim" Kirk (William Shatner). Kirk is advised by his two best friends Commander Spock (Leonard Nimoy) (last name unpronounceable to humans) the ship's half-human/half-Vulcan Science Officer and First/Executive Officer (i.e. second-in-command) from the planet Vulcan, and American Chief Medical Officer Dr. Leonard H. "Bones" McCoy (DeForest Kelley). Spock uses logic to solve problems but because he is half-Vulcan he has no emotions whilst McCoy gives Kirk advice with his human emotional feelings. Kirk takes the logic of Spock and the emotions of McCoy uses them both in his decision making. The trio are joined by a crew of approximately 430, including the Asian-American helmsman Lieutenant Hikaru Kato Sulu (George Takei), Russian navigator Ensign Pavel Andreievich Chekov (Walter Koenig), Swahili communications officer Lieutenant Nyota Uhura (Nichelle Nichols), Scotish chief engineer Lieutenant Commander Montgomery "Scotty" Scott (James Doohan), Nurse Christine Chapel (Majel Barrett) and Yeoman Janice Rand (Grace Lee Whitney). The series follows them as they confront strange alien races, friendly and hostile alike, as they explore unknown worlds. We see the Enterprise and her crew battle aliens, megalomaniac computers, time paradoxes, psychotic murderers, and even Khan Noonien Singh (Ricardo Montalban). The series is known for looking at then (1960's) hot topics such as sex, war, God, religion, politics, and racism and other things that make up the human condition (and what it means to be Human) through a lens of the future. The 79 (eighty if including The Cage (1966)) episode television series, which was produced from 1966 to 1969, has now cult characters and has fans all over the world

DeForest Kelley

Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy

Montgomery "Scotty" Scott

Season 1 Season 2 Season 3

1. Spock's Brain

First Aired September 19, 1968

The crew of the Enterprise pursues a mysterious woman who has abducted Spock's brain.

2. The Enterprise Incident

First Aired September 26, 1968

An apparently insane Capt. Kirk has the Enterprise deliberately enter the Romulan Neutral Zone where the ship is immediately captured by the enemy.

3. The Paradise Syndrome

First Aired October 03, 1968

Trapped on a planet whose inhabitants are descended from Northwestern Native Americans, Kirk loses his memory and is proclaimed a God while the crippled Enterprise races back to the planet before it is destroyed by an asteroid.

4. And the Children Shall Lead

First Aired October 10, 1968

The Enterprise reaches a Federation colony where the adults have all killed themselves but the children play without care.

5. Is There in Truth No Beauty?

First Aired October 17, 1968

Lovely telepath Miranda is aide to Ambassador Kollos, in a box to stop insanity when humans see Medusans. She rejects Larry, a designer of Enterprise, and senses murderous intent nearby.

6. Spectre of the Gun

First Aired October 24, 1968

As punishment for ignoring their warning and trespassing on their planet, the Melkot condemn Capt. Kirk and his landing party to the losing side of a surreal recreation of the 1881 historic gunfight at the OK Corral.

7. Day of the Dove

First Aired October 31, 1968

Both humans and Klingons have been lured to a planet by a formless entity that feeds on hatred and has set about to fashion them into a permanent food supply for itself.

8. For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky

First Aired November 07, 1968

The Enterprise discovers an apparent asteroid that is on a collision course with a planet is actually an ancient populated generation ship.

9. The Tholian Web

First Aired November 14, 1968

With Capt. Kirk and the derelict USS Defiant apparently lost, the Enterprise grapples with an insanity causing plague and an attack by the Tholians.

10. Plato's Stepchildren

First Aired November 21, 1968

After Dr. McCoy helps the leader of a planet populated by people with powerful psionic abilities, they decide to force him to stay by torturing his comrades until he submits.

11. Wink of an Eye

First Aired November 28, 1968

A group of aliens who exist in a state of incredible acceleration invade the Enterprise and abduct Capt. Kirk.

12. The Empath

First Aired December 05, 1968

Trapped in an alien laboratory, Kirk, Spock and McCoy meet an empath and are involved in a series of experiments.

13. Elaan of Troyius

First Aired December 19, 1968

While transporting an arrogant, demanding princess for a political marriage, Captain Kirk must cope both with her biochemical ability to force him to love her, as well as sabotage on his ship.

14. Whom Gods Destroy

First Aired January 02, 1969

Kirk and Spock are taken prisoners by a former starship captain named Garth, who now resides at, and has taken over, a high security asylum for the criminally insane.

15. Let That Be Your Last Battlefield

First Aired January 09, 1969

The Enterprise encounters two duo-chromatic and mutually belligerent aliens who put the ship in the middle of their old conflict.

16. The Mark of Gideon

First Aired January 16, 1969

Kirk beams down to the planet Gideon and appears to find himself trapped on a deserted Enterprise. Spock on the real Enterprise must use his diplomatic skills to deal with the uncooperative inhabitants of Gideon and find the Captain.

17. That Which Survives

First Aired January 23, 1969

After the Enterprise landing party beams down to investigate a geologically interesting planet, their ship is hurled across the galaxy. Kirk and company find a deserted outpost guarded by the deadly image of a beautiful woman.

18. The Lights of Zetar

First Aired January 30, 1969

A mysterious, twinkling mass of sapient energy ravages an important archive and Scotty's new girlfriend may be linked to it.

19. Requiem for Methuselah

First Aired February 13, 1969

On a planet, looking for an urgent medicinal cure, Kirk, Spock and McCoy come across a dignified recluse living privately but in splendor with his sheltered ward and a very protective robot servant.

20. The Way to Eden

First Aired February 20, 1969

A group of idealistic hippies, led by an irrational leader, come aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise.

21. The Cloud Minders

First Aired February 27, 1969

Kirk and Spock are caught up in a revolution on a planet where intellectuals and artists live on a utopian city in the sky while the rest of the population toils in mines on the barren surface below.

22. The Savage Curtain

First Aired March 06, 1969

Kirk, Spock, Abraham Lincoln and Vulcan legend Surak are pitted in battle against notorious villains from history for the purpose of helping a conscious rock creature's understanding of a concept he does not understand, "good vs. evil".

23. All Our Yesterdays

First Aired March 13, 1969

When Kirk, Spock and McCoy investigate the disappearance of a doomed planet's population, they find themselves trapped in different periods of that world's past.

24. Turnabout Intruder

First Aired June 02, 1969

Captain Kirk's insane ex-lover Dr. Janice Lester forcibly switches bodies with him in order to take command of the Enterprise.