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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. Amok Time

First Aired September 14, 1967

In the throes of his Pon Farr mating period, Spock must return to Vulcan to meet his intended future wife, betrothed from childhood.

2. Who Mourns for Adonais?

First Aired September 21, 1967

A powerful being claiming to be the Greek god Apollo appears and demands that the crew of the Enterprise disembark onto his planet to worship him.

3. The Changeling

First Aired September 28, 1967

A powerful artificially intelligent Earth probe, with a murderously twisted imperative, comes aboard the Enterprise and mistakes Capt. Kirk for its creator.

4. Mirror, Mirror

First Aired October 05, 1967

A transporter accident places Captain Kirk's landing party in an alternate universe, where the Enterprise is in the service of a barbarically brutal empire.

5. The Apple

First Aired October 12, 1967

Primitive inhabitants of Gamma Trianguli VI worship a god who orders them to kill visitors from the Enterprise.

6. The Doomsday Machine

First Aired October 19, 1967

The USS Enterprise encounters the wrecked USS Constellation and its distraught commodore who's determined to stop the giant planet-destroying robot ship that killed his crew.

7. Catspaw

First Aired October 26, 1967

Very alien visitors to our galaxy attempt to connect with human consciousness but miss, winding up tapping into the regions of human nightmares instead.

8. I, Mudd

First Aired November 02, 1967

Harry Mudd returns with a plot to take over the Enterprise by stranding the crew on a planet populated by androids under his command.

9. Metamorphosis

First Aired November 09, 1967

While returning to the Enterprise aboard the shuttlecraft, Kirk, Spock, McCoy and a seriously ill Federation diplomat find themselves kidnapped by an energized cloud.

10. Journey to Babel

First Aired November 16, 1967

The Enterprise hosts a number of quarrelling diplomats, including Spock's father, but someone on board has murder in mind.

11. Friday's Child

First Aired November 30, 1967

The Federation clashes with the Klingon Empire over mining rights to Capella IV. A sudden coup between its warrior-minded inhabitants forces Kirk's party to flee with the now dead leader's pregnant wife.

12. The Deadly Years

First Aired December 07, 1967

A landing party from the Enterprise is exposed to strange form of radiation which rapidly ages them.

13. Obsession

First Aired December 14, 1967

Capt. Kirk obsessively hunts for a mysterious cloud creature he encountered in his youth.

14. Wolf in the Fold

First Aired December 21, 1967

Kirk and the Enterprise computer become detectives after Scotty is accused of murdering women on a pleasure planet.

15. The Trouble with Tribbles

First Aired December 28, 1967

To protect a space station with a vital grain shipment, Kirk and the crew must deal with Federation bureaucrats, a Klingon battle cruiser and a peddler who sells furry, purring, voracious little creatures as pets.

16. The Gamesters of Triskelion

First Aired January 04, 1968

Kirk, Uhura and Chekov are trapped on a planet where abducted aliens are enslaved and trained to perform as gladiators for the amusement of bored, faceless aliens.

17. A Piece of the Action

First Aired January 11, 1968

The crew of the Enterprise struggles to cope with a planet of imitative people who have modeled their society on 1920s gangsters.

18. The Immunity Syndrome

First Aired January 18, 1968

The Enterprise encounters a gigantic energy draining space organism that threatens the galaxy.

19. A Private Little War

First Aired February 01, 1968

Peaceful, primitive peoples get caught up in the struggle between superpowers, with Kirk unhappily trying to restore the balance of power disrupted by the Klingons.

20. Return to Tomorrow

First Aired February 08, 1968

The Enterprise is guided to a distant, long-dead world where survivors of an extremely ancient race - existing only as disembodied energy - desiring the bodies of Kirk, Spock and astro-biologist Ann Mulhall so that they may live again.

21. Patterns of Force

First Aired February 15, 1968

Looking for a missing Federation cultural observer, Kirk and Spock find themselves on a planet whose culture has been completely patterned after Nazi Germany.

22. By Any Other Name

First Aired February 22, 1968

Galactic alien scouts capture the Enterprise for a return voyage and a prelude to invasion. Kirk's one advantage - they're not used to their adopted human form.

23. The Omega Glory

First Aired February 29, 1968

Responding to a distress signal, Kirk finds Captain Tracey of the U.S.S. Exeter violating the prime directive and interfering with a war between the Yangs and the Kohms to find the secret of their longevity.

24. The Ultimate Computer

First Aired March 07, 1968

Kirk and a sub-skeleton crew are ordered to test out an advanced artificially intelligent control system - the M-5 Multitronic system, which could potentially render them all redundant.

25. Bread and Circuses

First Aired March 14, 1968

The Enterprise crew investigates the disappearance of a ship's crew on a planet that is a modern version of the Roman Empire.

26. Assignment: Earth

First Aired March 28, 1968

While back in time observing Earth in 1968, the Enterprise crew encounters the mysterious Gary Seven who has his own agenda on the planet.