Season Three
The Cage | Where No Man Has Gone Before
Season One: 1966-67 | Season Two: 1967-68 | Season Three: 1968-69
Star Trek Episode Guide
Season Three
56.) Spectre of the Gun
Written by Lee Cronin ( pseudonym for Gene L. Coon )
Directed by Vincent McEveety
Music by Jerry Fielding
Story Outline: 4/19/68
Revised final draft script: 5/14/68
Original title: "The Last Gunfight"
Film date: late May 1968
Airdate: 10/25/68
The U.S.S. Enterprise encounters a probe warning the ship to stay away from the space of the Melkot; the telepathic warning is heard in the native language of each Enterprise crew member. The Enterprise is under orders to establish contact with the reclusive Melkotians at all costs, so Captain Kirk orders a course farther into Melkot space.
Kirk leads a landing party to the Melkotian planet, but they find themselves trapped in a foggy environment. A Melkotian says they will be punished for disregarding the warning, and they find themselves in an incomplete simulation of Tombstone, Arizona, on October 26, 1881, the day of the gun fight at the O K Corral, and according to history, the landing party -- in the roles of the Clanton gang -- is destined to be killed by the Earps.
Spock realizes that the simulation is just a mental illusion created by the Melkotians, and is sure the bullets cannot harm him; he performs Vulcan mind melds with the other members of the landing party so they all share his certainty that the illusion cannot hurt them. Once the landing party survives the shootout without killing the Earps, they find themselves back on the bridge of the Enterprise where they encountered the Melkot probe.
Since the Enterprise crew has proven itself peaceful, the Melkotians invite the crew to their planet to discuss an alliance.
Cast Credits:
William Shatner as Captain Kirk
Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock
DeForest Kelley as Dr. McCoy
James Doohan as Mr. Scott
Nichelle Nichols as Lt. Uhura
Walter Koenig as Ensign Chekov
Ron Soble as Wyatt Earp
Bonnie Beecher as Sylvia
Charles Maxwell as Virgil Earp
Rex Holman as Morgan Earp
Sam Gilman as Doc Holliday
Charles Seel as Ed
Bill Zuckert as Johnny Behan
Ed McCready as Barber
Abraham Sofaer as Melkotian Voice
Uncredited:
Richard Anthony as Rider ( scenes deleted )
Gregg Palmer as Rancher
James Doohan as Voice of Melkotian Buoy
Mike Minor ( Melkotian Mask )
Eddie Paskey as Lt. Leslie
Roger Holloway as Lt. Lemli
William Blackburn as Lt. Hadley
57.) Elaan of Troyius
Written by John Meredyth Lucas
Directed by John Meredyth Lucas
Music by Fred Steiner
First draft script: 5/16/68
Film date: late May, early June 1968
Airdate: 12/20/68
The U.S.S. Enterprise enters the disputed Tellun star system -- near the Klingon border -- on a top-secret diplomatic mission, and picks up Ambassador Petri of the outer planet, Troyius, and approaches the inner planet, Elas, to pick up Elaan, the Dohlman of Elas.
The Troyian ambassador tells Captain Kirk that the Dohlman of Elas is to be the wife of the Troyian ruler to bring peace to the two warring planets, now that they have the capability to destroy one another. Ambassador Petri must teach the disagreeable Elaan to be civilized before they reach Troyius. After the impetuous Dohlman stabs Ambassador Petri, Kirk takes it upon himself to indoctrinate her to Troyian customs and manners.
En route to Troyius, the Enterprise crew detects a Klingon war ship following them. One of the Dohlman's guards is found in Engineering transmitting a signal to the Klingon ship and sabotaging the warp drive.
Spock learns that the Dohlman's jewels are made of dilithium crystals -- common stones on her planet, but very valuable to the Klingon Empire and the Federation. The Enterprise uses the crystals to restore its engines before the Klingons attack, and is able to complete its mission to deliver Elaan and Petri to Troyius for the arranged marriage.
Cast Credits:
William Shatner as Captain Kirk
Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock
DeForest Kelley as Dr. McCoy
James Doohan as Mr. Scott
George Takei as Mr. Sulu
Nichelle Nichols as Lt. Uhura
Walter Koenig as Ensign Chekov
Majel Barrett as Nurse Chapel
France Nuyen as Elaan
Jay Robinson as Petri
Tony Young as Kryton
Victor Brandt as Watson
Lee Duncan as Evans
K. L. Smith as Klingon Captain
Charles Beck as Elasian Guard #1
Dick Durock as Elasian Guard #2
Uncredited:
Eddie Paskey as Lt. Leslie
Frank da Vinci as Lt. Vinci
Roger Holloway as Lt. Lemli
William Blackburn as Lt. Hadley
58.) The Paradise Syndrome
Written by Margaret Armen
Directed by Jud Taylor
Music by Gerald Fried
Story Outline: 3/22/68
First draft script: 5/29/68
Final draft script: 6/3/68
Original title: "The Paleface"
Film date: middle of June, 1968
Airdate: 10/4/68
Captain Kirk leads a landing party to an Earthlike planet that is on a collision course with an approaching asteroid, and finds an advanced alien obelisk near a settlement of a primitive Native American tribe. Kirk accedentally triggers a hidden door on the obelisk with his communicator and falls inside, and the Enterprise crew must leave without him in order to alter the approaching asteroid's course.
Kirk emerges from the obelisk with amnesia, and the native tribe believes he is a god. He learns that the tribe was brought to the planet by the "Wise Ones," who appointed a medicine chief to keep the secret of the temple and use it when the sky darkens, but the current medicine chief's father died before he could pass on the secrets of the temple.
After an unsuccessful attempt to divert the asteroid, the Enterprise burns out its warp engines, and it will take 59.223 days to get back to the planet at impulse speed, with the asteroid close behind.
Kirk becomes the medicine chief after reviving a drowning boy, and he is married by tradition to Miramanee, the tribal priestess.
Spock's research determines that the obelisk is a marker left by a super race called "The Preservers" who passed through the galaxy relocating endangered cultures to places where they could thrive. As the asteroid approaches, Spock beams down to the planet and helps Kirk regain his memory through a Vulcan mind meld, and they are able to activate the obelisk and deflect the asteroid. Kirk's wife is killed by stone-throwing villagers who no longer believe he is a god, and Dr. McCoy is unable to save her.
Cast Credits:
William Shatner as Captain Kirk
Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock
DeForest Kelley as Dr. McCoy
James Doohan as Mr. Scott
George Takei as Mr. Sulu
Walter Koenig as Ensign Chekov
Majel Barrett as Nurse Chapel
Sabrina Scharf as Miramanee
Rudy Solari as Salish
Richard Hale as Goro
Peter Virgo, Jr. as Lumo
Lamont Laird as Indian Boy
Naomi Pollack as Indian Woman
Uncredited:
Roger Holloway as Lt. Lemli
John Lindesmith as Engineer
William Blackburn as Lt. Hadley
Stunts:
Paul Baxley ( stunt double for William Shatner )
Richard Geary ( stunt double for Rudy Solari )
Location Scenes Filmed at Franklin Lake, Santa Monica Mountains, California.
59.) The Enterprise Incident
Written by D. C. Fontana
Directed by John Meredyth Lucas
Music by Sol Kaplan
First draft script: 6/7/68
Final draft script: 6/13/68
Film date: late June 1968
Airdate: 9/27/68
Captain Kirk is showing increasing signs of stress. He orders the Enterprise through the Neutral Zone into Romulan space, where the ship is surrounded by Romulans, now using Klingon ships. The Romulan ships are using a new cloaking device, which allows them to move without being detected by Federation technology.
Kirk and Commander Spock beam over to the Romulan flagship, and Spock tells the Romulan Commander that Kirk entered Romulan space without orders. The irrational Kirk attacks Spock, who apparently kills Kirk with the "Vulcan death grip," and his body is taken back to the Enterprise. McCoy revives Kirk from a Vulcan nerve pinch, and surgically alters his appearance to appear Romulan. The disguised Kirk beams back to the Romulan flagship and steals the new cloaking device while Spock distracts the Romulan Commander.
Lt. Commander Scott is able to connect the cloaking device to the Enterprise deflector shields, and the ship successfully escapes from the Romulans with the stolen technology.
Cast Credits:
William Shatner as Captain Kirk
Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock
DeForest Kelley as Dr. McCoy
James Doohan as Mr. Scott
George Takei as Mr. Sulu
Nichelle Nichols as Lt. Uhura
Walter Koenig as Ensign Chekov
Majel Barrett as Nurse Chapel
Joanne Linville as Romulan Commander
Jack Donner as Subcommander Tal
Gordon Coffey as Romulan Soldier
Mike Howden as Romulan Guard
Richard Compton as Romulan Technical Officer
Robert Gentile as Romulan Technician
Uncredited:
Eddie Paskey as Lt. Leslie
Roger Holloway as Lt. Lemli
60.) And the Children Shall Lead
Written by Edward J. Lasko
Directed by Marvin Chomsky
Music by George Duning
Story Outline: 3/22/68
First draft script: 6/18/68
Film date: late June and early July 1968
Airdate: 10/11/68
The U.S.S. Enterprise crew responds to a distress call from a science colony on Triacus, and finds Professor Starnes and the rest of his team dead, apparently from self-inflicted injuries, but their children are still healthy and happy.
The children are taken aboard the Enterprise, secretly following the orders of an alien called the Gorgan, who wants them to go to a Federation settlement on Marcos Twelve to recruit more children. According to legend, Triacus was the seat of a band of marauders who made constant war throughout the system of Epsilon Indi; after many centuries they were destroyed by those they preyed upon, but the legend says that the evil is awaiting a catalyst to send it maurauding across the galaxy again.
Captain Kirk uses images of the children's dead families to break them from the Gorgan's control, and the alien fades away with no followers to do his bidding.
Cast Credits:
William Shatner as Captain Kirk
Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock
DeForest Kelley as Dr. McCoy
James Doohan as Mr. Scott
Geore Takei as Mr. Sulu
Nichelle Nichols as Lt. Uhura
Walter Koenig as Ensign Chekov
Majel Barrett as Nurse Chapel
Melvin Belli as Gorgan
Craig Hundley as Tommy Starnes
James Wellman as Professor Starnes
Pamelyn Ferdin as as Mary Janowski
Brian Tochi as Ray Tsingtao
Mark Robert Brown as Don Linden
Ceasar Belli as Steve O' Connell
Uncredited:
Lou Elias as First Technician
Jay Jones as Second Technician
Paul Baxley as Freeman
Dick Dial as Security Guard #2
William Blackburn as Lt. Hadley
Roger Holloway as Lt. Lemli
Frank da Vinci as Lt. Vinci
Eddie Paskey as Lt. Leslie
61.) Spock's Brain
Written by Lee Cronin ( Gene L. Coon )
Directed by Marc Daniels
Music by Fred Steiner
Story Outline: 4/22/68
Film date: early and middle July 1968
Airdate: 9/20/68
The U.S.S. Enterprise encounters an alien ship with ion propulsion and unique technology; a humanoid woman appears on the bridge and incapacitates the entire crew of the Enterprise. When the crew awakens, they find Spock's body with his brain surgically removed. The Enterprise follows the ion trail to the Sigma Draconis star system, and Captain Kirk decides to search the sixth planet, a primitive world in an ice age, with a tribe of large men -- called Morg -- on the surface, and an advanced underground complex inhabited by women -- the Eymorg. Kirk learns that Spock's brain is being used to control the entire complex, and provide for the primitive people living on the planet.
Dr. McCoy uses the ancient alien technology to temporarily gain the knowledge he needs to restore Spock's brain to his body, leaving the primitive Eymorg to live on their own with the male Morg on the surface of the planet.
Cast Credits:
William Shatner as Captain Kirk
Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock
DeForest Kelley as Dr. McCoy
James Doohan as Mr. Scott
Geoge Takei as Mr. Sulu
Nichelle Nichols as Lt. Uhura
Walter Koenig as Ensign Chekov
Marj Dusay as Kara
Shelia Leighton as Luma
James Daris as Morg
Uncredited:
William Blackburn as Lt. Hadley
Roger Holloway as Lt. Lemli
Frank da Vinci as Lt. Brent
Eddie Paskey as Lt. Leslie
Pete Kellett as Morg Guard
Stunts:
Fred Carson ( stunts )
62.) Is There in Truth No Beauty?
Written by Jean Lisette Aroeste
Directed by Ralph Senensky
Music by George Duning
Story Outline: 5/24/68
First draft script: 7/5/68
Film date: late July 1968
Airdate: 10/18/68
The U.S.S. Enterprise is assigned to convey the Medusan ambassador to the Federation back to his home planet, whose formless inhabitants are so hideous that the sight of one can bring total madness to any human who sees one. Medusan Ambassador Kollos travels in a sealed metal container so that no humanoids will see him, and is accompanied by Dr. Miranda Jones, a human woman with telepathic abilities.
Lawrence Marvick, an engineer accompanying Ambassador Kollos and Dr. Jones, is in love with Dr. Jones and tries to kill Kollos so she will not leave with the ambassador, but when he sees Ambassador Kollos, Marvick goes insane and takes over the Enterprise engine controls, sending the starship into unknown space outside the galaxy before he dies.
In order to get back to their own galaxy, Spock must perform a mind meld with the Medusan ambassador -- whose race possesses superior navigation skills.
Cast Credits:
William Shatner as Captain Kirk
Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock
DeForest Kelley as Dr. McCoy
James Doohan as Mr. Scott
George Takei as Mr. Sulu
Nichelle Nichols as Lt. Uhura
Walter Koenig as Ensign Chekov
Diana Muldaur as Dr. Miranda Jones
David Frankham as Lawrence Marvick
Uncredited:
Lou Elias as Engineer
Vince Deadrick as Engineer
Eddie Paskey as Lt. Leslie
Frank da Vinci as Lt. Brent
Roger Holloway as Lt. Lemli
William Blackburn as Lt. Hadley
Richard Geary as Security Guard
63.) The Empath
Written by Joyce Muskat
Directed by John Erman
Music by George Duning
Revised final draft: 7/23/68
Film date: late July, early August 1968
Airdate: 12/6/68
The U.S.S. Enterprise arrives at the second planet in the Minarian star system, whose sun is entering the nova phase, to evacuate a research station studying the dying star. Captain Kirk, Commander Spock, and Dr. McCoy beam down to the reasearch station and find it empty, before they are transported to an underground facility by alien Vians who are studying a mute empathic woman.
The Vians subject the landing party to torture, but the empathic woman is able to heal their injuries with her touch. The Vians have the power to save the inhabitants on only one planet in the Minarian star system before the sun dies, so they created a test to see if the empathic woman would give her own life to save another, demonstrating that her race is worthy of saving.
Cast Credits:
William Shatner as Captain Kirk
Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock
DeForest Kelley as Dr. McCoy
James Doohan as Mr. Scott
Kathryn Hays as Gem
Alan Bergmann as Lal
Willard Sage as Thann
David Roberts as Dr. Ozaba
Jason Wingreen as Dr. Linke
Uncredited:
Roger Holloway as Lt. Lemli
William Blackburn as Lt. Hadley
Richard Geary as Security Guard
64.) The Tholian Web
Written by Judy A. Burns, Chet L. Richards
Directed by Ralph Senensky
Music by Fred Steiner
Story Outline: 5/1/68
Final draft script: 7/30/68
Original title: "In Essence Nothing"
Film date: early and middle August 1968
Airdate: 11/15/68
The U.S.S. Enterprise is searching for the U.S.S. Defiant, which disappeared three weeks ago. The crew locates the missing starship in an area of space that is phasing between dimensions. Captain Kirk leads a landing party to the Defiant, and finds the crew dead, apparently killed by each other. The Defiant phases into another universe while Captain Kirk is still aboard, and members of the Enterprise crew become increasingly agitated from the dimensional interphase effects.
As the Enterprise waits for Kirk and the Defiant to phase back into normal space, a Tholian ship arrives and Commander Loskene claims the Enterprise is in a territorial annex of the Tholian Assembly and orders the Enterprise to leave.
Dr. McCoy creates a diluted theragen derivative to reverse the dimensional phase effects on the crew. The Enterprise phases between dimensions to recover Captain Kirk, and uses the dimensional interphase to escape the tractor web that the Tholian ships have woven around the Enterprise.
Cast Credits:
William Shatner as Captain Kirk
Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock
DeForest Kelley as Dr. McCoy
James Doohan as Mr. Scott
George Takei as Mr. Sulu
Nichelle Nichols as Lt. Uhura
Walter Koenig as Ensign Chekov
Majel Barrett as Nurse Chapel
Sean Morgan as Lt. O' Neill
Uncredited:
Barbara Babcock as Voice of Loskene
Paul Baxley as Defiant Captain
Frank da Vinci as Lt. Brent
Roger Holloway as Lt. Lemli
William Blackburn as Lt. Hadley
Jay Jones as Dizzy Engineer
Stunts:
Robert Bralver ( Beserker Engineer )
Lou Elias ( Beserker at Kirk's Funeral )
Frank da Vinci ( stunt double for DeForest Kelley )
Jay Jones ( stunt double for James Doohan )
Jesse Wayne ( stunt double for Walter Koenig )
65.) For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky
Written by Rick Vollaerts
Directed by Tony Leader
Music by George Duning
Story Outline: 5/21/68
Final draft script: 8/7/68
Revised final draft: 8/8/68
Film date: middle and late August 1968
Airdate: 11/8/68
The U.S.S. Enterprise encounters a spread of primitive, chemically fueled missiles moving at sublight speed, and easily destroys the missiles with its phasers, then sets a course for the missiles' origin: an asteroid 200 miles in diameter, propelled by atomic power, that is on a collision course with Daran Five, an inhabited planet with a population of 3,724,000,000. The impact will occur in about 396 days.
Dr. McCoy learns that he has terminal xenopolycythemia and has one year to live. He joins Captain Kirk and Commander Spock in transporting inside the artificial asteroid ship, whose inhabitants believe they are on the world of Yonada. Spock recognizes the writing inside the 10,000-year-old asteroid as Fabrini, a people whose sun went nova and destroyed all its planets; the inhabitants of the asteroid are the descendants of those who escaped the Fabrini sun.
Dr. McCoy chooses to remain aboard Yonada to live out the rest of his life, and Starfleet Command orders the Enterprise to continue its mission, but McCoy finds the control center of the asteroid, and Spock is able to access the ancient computer systems to alter the asteroid's course, and also finds the stored medical knowledge of the Fabrini, which he uses to cure Dr. McCoy's terminal illness.
Cast Credits:
William Shatner as Captain Kirk
Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock
DeForest Kelley as Dr. McCoy
James Doohan as Mr. Scott
George Takei as Mr. Sulu
Nichelle Nichols as Lt. Uhura
Walter Koenig as Ensign Chekov
Majel Barrett as Nurse Chapel
Kate Woodville as Natira
Byron Morrow as Admiral Westervliet
Jon Lormer as Old Man
Uncredited:
Frank da Vinci as Lt. Vinci
James Doohan as Voice of Oracle
Stunts:
Bob Miles ( Yonada Guard )
Troy Melton ( Yonada Guard )
Robert Bralver ( stunt double for DeForest Kelley )
66.) Day of the Dove
Written by Jerome Bixby
Directed by Marvin Chomsky
Music by Fred Steiner
Story Outline: 6/3/68
First draft script: 8/9/68
Revised final draft: 8/19/68
Film date: late August 1968
Airdate: 11/1/68
Captain Kirk leads a landing party to planet Beta Twelve-A, where a Federation colony has disappeared after signalling that it was under attack. A Klingon ship arrives, also responding to a distress signal, and is disabled by internal explosions. Kirk beams the surviving Klingon crew over to the U.S.S. Enterprise, but the Klingon commander, Kang, blames Kirk for attacking his ship.
An alien life force takes control of the Enterprise, locking it on a course out of the galaxy, and bladed weapons appear throughout the ship, allowing the Klingon passengers to fight the Enterprise crew to a stalemate. Hostile feelings are enhanced, and injuries are healed by the alien life force, so that fighting can continue. Kirk and Spock realize that the alien life force feeds on violence, so Kirk convinces Kang and the other Klingons to stop fighting in order to weaken the alien. With no more hostilities to feed on, the alien life force flees the Enterprise.
Cast Credits:
William Shatner as Captain Kirk
Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock
DeForest Kelley as Dr. McCoy
James Doohan as Mr. Scott
George Takei as Mr. Sulu
Nichelle Nichols as Lt. Uhura
Walter Koenig as Ensign Chekov
Michael Ansara as Kang
Susan Howard as Mara
David L. Ross as Johnson
Mark Tobin as Klingon Crewman
Uncredited:
Roger Holloway as Lt. Lemli
David Sharpe as Security Guard
Charles Picerni as Security Guard
Pete Kellett as Klingon Crewman
Jay Jones as Klingon Crewman
Majel Barrett as Voice of Computer
67.) Plato's Stepchildren
Written by Meyer Dolinsky
Directed by David Alexander
Music by Alexander Courage
Story Outline: 6/13/68
Original title: "The Sons of Socrates"
Film date: early and middle September 1968
Airdate: 11/22/68
The U.S.S. Enterprise answers a distress call from an unknown planet that is rich in kironide deposits, a very rare and long-lasting source of great power. The residents of the planet escaped from their native star, Sahndara, millennia ago, before it went nova; they call themselves Platonians, after the ancient Earth philosopher Plato, whom they met on Earth before coming to this planet to create a Utopian society based on ancient Greek civilization.
Dr. McCoy works to treat the Platonian leader for an infection, since they have no doctors of their own. The Platonians are the result of a mass eugenics program instituted while still on Sahndara, and live for thousands of years; they have developed psychokinetic powers since arriving on this planet, and intend to use their mental powers to force McCoy to stay and take care of their medical needs. McCoy learns that the kironide in the planet's environment has given the Platonians their powers, and injects a double dosage into Kirk and Spock. They are able to overpower the Platonian leader, and leave with the doctor, warning the Platonians that they know how to reproduce the mental power if the Platonians try attacking another starship.
Cast Credits:
William Shatner as Captain Kirk
Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock
DeForest Kelley as Dr. McCoy
James Doohan as Mr. Scott
Majel Barrett as Nurse Chapel
Michael Dunn as Alexander
Liam Sullivan as Parmen
Barbara Babcock as Philiana
Ted Scott as Eraclitus
Derek Partridge as Dionyd
Uncredited:
William Blackburn as Lt. Hadley
68.) Wink of an Eye
Written by Arthur Heinemann
Story by Lee Cronin [ Gene L. Coon ]
Directed by Jud Taylor
Music by Alexander Courage
Story Outline: 3/22/68
Film date: middle and late September 1968
Airdate: 11/29/68
While exploring an outer quadrant of the galaxy, the U.S.S. Enterprise answers a distress call from a city on the planet Scalos; Captain Kirk leads a landing party to the planet, but there are no visible inhabitants in the city, and one member of the landing party vanishes from sight after drinking some water on the planet.
After beaming up to the ship, Captain Kirk's coffee is infected with Scalosian water, and he is shifted to the same level as the hyper-accelerated Scalosians, who have secretly boarded the ship, moving faster than humans can see. The accelerated Captain Kirk learns that the Scalosians' home was polluted long ago by volcanic eruptions and radiation, and they became sterile in their accelerated state, so they needed to mate with aliens they could lure to the planet and accelerate to their level.
Commander Spock and Dr. McCoy develop an antidote to the Scalosian water, and Spock accelerates himself to help Kirk drive the Scalosians off the ship; Spock repairs all the damage the Scalosians caused to the Enterprise in the wink of an eye, before using the antidote to return to normal time.
Cast Credits:
William Shatner as Captain Kirk
Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock
DeForest Kelley as Dr. McCoy
James Doohan as Mr. Scott
George Takei as Mr. Sulu
Nichelle Nichols as Lt. Uhura
Walter Koenig as Ensign Chekov
Kathie Browne as Deela
Jason Evers as Rael
Erik Holland as Ekor
Geoffrey Binney as Compton
Uncredited:
Roger Holloway as Lt. Lemli
Eddie Hice as Male Scalosian
William Blackburn as Lt. Hadley
Richard Geary as Security Guard
69.) That Which Survives
Written by John Meredyth Lucas
Story by Michael Richards [ D. C. Fontana ]
Directed by Herb Wallerstein
Music by Fred Steiner
Story Outline: 8/8/68
Final draft script: 9/16/68
Original title: "Survival"
Film date: late September, early October 1968
Airdate: 1/24/69
The U.S.S. Enterprise finds an unusual planet that has evolved an environment similar to Earth's in only a few thousand years. As Captain Kirk leads a landing party to the surface, the Enterprise is knocked 990.7 light years away, stranding the landing party alone on the planet.
A projection of an alien woman appears on the Enterprise and kills two crewmen and sabotages the warp engines, and a projection of the same woman appears on the planet, attacking members of the landing party. The landing party destroys the computer controlling the projections, and learns that the planet is a Kalandan outpost, whose people all died from a disease produced when they created the planet. The computer was automatically defending the outpost from non-Kalandan intruders, using projections of Losira, the last Kalandan survivor.
Cast Credits:
William Shatner as Captain Kirk
Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock
DeForest Kelley as Dr. McCoy
James Doohan as Mr. Scott
George Takei as Mr. Sulu
Lee Meriwether as Losira
Naomi Pollack as Lt. Rahda
Arthur Batanides as Lt. D'Amato
Brad Forrest as Ensign Wyatt
Booker Bradshaw as Dr. M'Benga
Kenneth B. Washington as John B. Watkins
Uncredited:
Frank da Vinci as Lt. Brent
Roger Holloway as Lt. Lemli
William Blackburn as Lt. Hadley
Eddie Paskey ( hand double for James Doohan )
70.) Let That Be Your Last Battlefield
Written by Oliver Crawford
Story by Lee Cronin ( Gene L. Coon )
Directed by Jud Taylor
Music by Fred Steiner
Film date: early October 1968
Airdate: 1/10/69
The planet Ariannus, a vital transfer point on space commercial lanes, has been attacked by a deadly bacterial invasion. The U.S.S. Enterprise is en route to decontaminate the planet, when it encounters a stolen Starfleet shuttle piloted by an alien who is white on his right side and black on the left. The alien, named Lokai, is from Cheron, an uncharted planet in the southern-most part of the galaxy. An alien ship with an invisibility sheath intercepts the Enterprise and Bele -- chief officer of the Commission on Political Traitors on the planet Cheron -- boards the ship, claiming that Lokai was convicted of treason and escaped.
Commissioner Bele's people on Cheron are white on the left side and black on the right, and were the master race who once oppressed Lokai's people, who have the opposite pigmentation. Bele takes control of the Enterprise in order to return Lokai to Cheron, but Captain Kirk threatens to destroy the ship, and the course to Ariannus resumes; after decontaminating the planet, Kirk plans to turn Lokai over to Starfleet at Starbase Four for stealing the shuttle, but Commissioner Bele uses his power to change course for Cheron again.
When they arrive at Cheron, they find the planet in ruins and the entire population dead; in the thousands of years that Commissioner Bele has been pursuing Lokai, their peoples have destroyed themselves. Lokai and Bele beam down to their dead world to continue their pursuit and ancient hatred of one another.
Cast Credits:
William Shatner as Captain Kirk
Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock
DeForest Kelley as Dr. McCoy
James Doohan as Mr. Scott
George Takei as Mr. Sulu
Nichelle Nichols as Lt. Uhura
Walter Koenig as Ensign Chekov
Majel Barrett as Nurse Chapel
Frank Gorshin as Bele
Lou Antonio as Lokai
Uncredited:
Frank da Vinci as Lt. Brent
Roger Holloway as Lt. Lemli
William Blackburn as Lt. Hadley
71.) Whom Gods Destroy
Written by Lee Erwin
Story by Jerry Sohl, Lee Erwin
Directed by Herb Wallerstein
Music by Fred Steiner
Story Outline: 7/26/68
First draft script: 9/5/68
Film date: middle October 1968
Airdate: 1/3/69
The U.S.S. Enterprise arrives at Elba Two, a planet with a poisonous atmosphere where the Federation maintains an asylum for the few remaining insane criminals in the galaxy. Captain Kirk and Commander Spock beam down to the colony to deliver a new medicine to treat mental illness. They learn that the newest inmate is Garth of Izar, a former starship Fleet Captain, who has used Antosian shape-shifting techniques to take over the asylum.
The peaceful people of Antos taught Garth the techniques of cellular metamorphosis to repair destroyed parts of his body when he was dying, but Garth later learned to use the techniques to assume any form. Captain Garth tried to destroy Antos Four, but his crew mutinied and Garth was sent to the asylum.
Garth has invented a powerful explosive, and plans to take over the galaxy, but Kirk and Spock are able to overpower him and regain control of the asylum; they deliver the medicine to treat Garth and the other inmates.
Cast Credits:
William Shatner as Captain Kirk
Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock
DeForest Kelley as Dr. McCoy
James Doohan as Mr. Scott
George Takei as Mr. Sulu
Nichelle Nichols as Lt. Uhura
Steve Ihnat as Garth of Izar
Yvonne Craig as Marta
Keye Luke as Donald Cory
Richard Geary as Andorian
Gary Downey as Tellarite
Uncredited:
Frank da Vinci as Lt. Brent
Roger Holloway as Lt. Lemli
William Blackburn as Lt. Hadley
Stunts:
Paul Baxley ( stunt double for William Shatner )
72.) The Mark of Gideon
Written by George F. Slavin, Stanley Adams
Directed by Jud Taylor
Music by Fred Steiner
Story Outline: 7/12/68
Film date: late October 1968
Airdate: 1/17/69
The U.S.S. Enterprise arrives at the planet Gideon, which is under negotiations for United Federation of Planets membership, but has not allowed any delegations from the Federation to visit or scan the shielded planet. Captain Kirk has been invited to be the first Federation representative to visit Gideon, but when he beams down, he finds himself alone inside an exact duplicate of the Enterprise, where he meets a woman named Odona.
Kirk learns that there is no pain or disease on the overpopulated Gideon, and Odona was placed in the simulation of the Enterprise so she could contract Vegan choriomeningitis from him, to introduce natural death to a planet where all life is valued and birth control is unacceptable. With the population growing, and life spans on Gideon increasing, introducing a deadly virus is the only natural way to decrease the population.
Cast Credits:
William Shatner as Captain Kirk
Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock
DeForest Kelley as Dr. McCoy
James Doohan as Mr. Scott
George Takei as Mr. Sulu
Nichelle Nichols as Lt. Uhura
Walter Koenig as Ensign Chekov
Sharon Acker as Odona
David Hurst as Hodin
Gene Dynarski as Krodak
Richard Derr as Admiral Fitzgerald
Uncredited:
Frank da Vinci as Lt. Brent
Stunts:
Jay Jones as Gideon Guard
73.) The Lights of Zetar
Written by Jeremy Tarcher, Shari Lewis
Directed by Herb Kenwith
Music by Alexander Courage
Story Outline: 9/12/68
Final draft script: 10/28/68
Film date: early November 1968
Airdate: 1/31/69
The U.S.S. Enterprise is en route to Memory Alpha -- a planetoid set up as a central library containing the total cultural and scientific knowledge of all Federation members -- with specialist Lt. Mira Romaine aboard to supervise the transfer of new equipment from the Enterprise to Memory Alpha. Lt. Commander Scott falls in love with Lt. Romaine.
The Enterprise encounters an energy storm moving at warp speed that enters the ship and causes Lt. Romaine to collapse. The storm then heads towards Memory Alpha. A landing party beams down to Memory Alpha and finds all personnel dead, and Lt. Romaine has a premonition that the storm is returning. The energy storm pursues the Enterprise, and Commander Spock detects ten life forms within the storm.
The crew determines that Lt. Romaine is mentally linked with the alien life forms, who are the last souls from Zetar -- where all humanoid life was destroyed long ago -- and have searched a millennium for a compatible mind and body. Lt. Romaine is placed in a Sick Bay pressure chamber to drive the alien spirits from her body, and the Enterprise returns to Memory Alpha so she can complete her work.
Cast Credits:
William Shatner as Captain Kirk
Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock
DeForest Kelley as Dr. McCoy
James Doohan as Mr. Scott
George Takei as Mr. Sulu
Nichelle Nichols as Lt. Uhura
Walter Koenig as Ensign Chekov
Majel Barrett as Nurse Chapel
Jan Shutan as Lt. Mira Romaine
John Winston as Lt. Kyle
Libby Erwin as Technician
Uncredited:
Frank da Vinci as Lt. Brent
Roger Holloway as Lt. Lemi
William Blackburn as Lt. Hadley
74.) The Cloud Minders
Written by Margaret Armen
Story by David Gerrold and Oliver Crawford
Directed by Jud Taylor
Music by Fred Steiner
Story Outline: 8/14/68
Original title: "Revolt"
Film date: middle November 1968
Airdate: 2/28/69
A botanical plague is threatening all vegetation on Merak Two, and the U.S.S. Enterprise heads to another Federation member world, Ardana, the only known source of zenite, which can halt the plague. When Captain Kirk and Commander Spock beam down to the mine entrance to pick up the needed zenite, they are attacked by a group of disgruntled miners called Troglyte Disrupters. Administrators from Stratos -- a floating city sustained by antigravity high above the surface -- drive off the miners and offer Kirk and Spock their hospitality in the floating city while the needed zenite is found.
The Stratos dwellers claim to be enlightened and logical, and view the Troglyte miners as inferior workers; but Dr. McCoy discovers that gas from zenite ore, which the Troglytes process, causes impaired reason and heightened emotions, and that filter masks would let the Troglytes reason as well as the Stratos dwellers.
Cast Credits:
William Shatner as Captain Kirk
Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock
DeForest Kelley as Dr. McCoy
James Doohan as Mr. Scott
George Takei as Mr. Sulu
Nichelle Nichols as Lt. Uhura
Jeff Corey as Plasus
Diana Ewing as Droxine
Charlene Polite as Vanna
Kirk Raymone as Cloud Guard #1
Jimmy Fields as Cloud Guard #2
Ed Long as Midro
Fred Williamson as Anka
Garth Pillsbury as Troglyte Prisoner
Harv Selsby as Guard
Uncredited:
William Blackburn as Lt. Hadley
Stunts:
Bob Miles as Troglyte
Richard Geary as Troglyte
Lou Elias as Troglyte
Jay Jones as Troglyte
Marvin Walters as Troglyte
Ralph Garrett as Troglyte
Donna Garrett ( stunt double for Charlene Polite )
Frank da Vinci ( stunt double for William Shatner and Jeff Corey )
Chuck Clow ( stunt double for William Shatner )
75.) The Way to Eden
Written by Arthur Heinemann
Story by Michael Richards [ D. C. Fontana ] and Arthur Heinemann
Directed by David Alexander
Story Outline: 8/27/68
Original title: "Joanna"
Film date: late November 1968
Airdate: 2/21/69
The U.S.S. Enterprise is in pursuit of the stolen space cruiser Aurora, which is heading towards Romulan space. The Aurora's engines overload in the pursuit, and the Enterprise beams aboard its passengers, a group of pilgrims seeking the mythical planet Eden, including the son of the Catullan ambassador; Catulla and the Federation are in crucial treaty negotiations. The group of pilgrims, which also includes an old girlfriend of Ensign Pavel Andreievich Chekov, is led by Dr. Sevrin, formerly a brilliant research engineer in the fields of acoustics, communication, and electronics on Tiburon.
Dr. McCoy discovers that Sevrin is a carrier of Synthococcus novae, a contagious disease that is dangerous to any uncivilized worlds; Sevrin is restricted to travel only to technologically advanced planets, though his group opposes technology.
Sevrin and his followers seize control of the Enterprise and take the ship into Romulan space, to a planet they believe to be Eden, but they find all the plant life on the planet is full of deadly acid. Sevrin eats a toxic fruit and dies rather than be taken back to civilization.
Cast Credits:
William Shatner as Captain Kirk
Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock
DeForest Kelley as Dr. McCoy
James Doohan as Mr. Scott
George Takei as Mr. Sulu
Nichelle Nichols as Lt. Uhura
Walter Koenig as Ensign Chekov
Majel Barrett as Nurse Chapel
Skip Homeier as Dr. Sevrin
Charles Napier as Adam
Mary-Linda Rapelye as Irina
Victor Brandt as Tongo Rad
Elizabeth Rogers as Lt. Palmer
Deborah Downey as Girl #1
Phyllis Douglas as Girl #2
Uncredited:
Frank da Vinci as Lt. Brent
Roger Holloway as Lt. Lemli
William Blackburn as Lt. Hadley
James Drake as Sick Bay Intern
76.) Requiem for Methuselah
Written by Jerome Bixby
Directed by Murray Golden
Music by Fred Steiner
Brahms paraphrase by Ivan Ditmars
Story Outline: 10/2/68
First draft script: 11/19/68
Film date: early December 1968
Airdate: 2/14/69
The U.S.S. Enterprise crew is infected with deadly Rigelian fever, and Captain Kirk leads a landing party to a small planet in the Omega system to find ryetalyn, the only known antidote to the fever.
On the planet, they meet a man calling himself Mr. Flint, who lives in a castle shielded from orbital scans, containing an extensive collection of original artwork, including several unknown da Vinci paintings, and an original waltz by Johannes Brahms. Flint lives with a young woman named Rayna Kapek, but the Enterprise can find no records of either of them.
The landing party learns that Flint was born in Mesopotamia in the year 3834 B.C., where he was called Akharin, a soldier whose heart was pierced in battle, but he continued to live. He has lived for millennia under many identities, including Johannes Brahms, Leonardo da Vinci, Soloman, Alexander, Lazarus, Methuselah, Merlin, Abramson, and a hundred others. He has been married a hundred times, and watched his loved ones age and die. He created Rayna Kapek, an android, to provide companionship, but she has fallen in love with Captain Kirk, and her conflicting emotions cause her to stop functioning.
The ryetalyn is transported to the Enterprise and the Rigelian fever is treated. McCoy discovers that the immortal Flint is ageing normally since leaving Earth's environment, and he will eventually die after a normal life span.
Cast Credits:
William Shatner as Captain Kirk
Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock
DeForest Kelley as Dr. McCoy
James Doohan as Mr. Scott
Nichelle Nichols as Lt. Uhura
James Daly as Flint
Louise Sorel as Rayna Kapec
Uncredited:
Roger Holloway as Lt. Lemli
William Blackburn as Lt. Hadley
John Buonomo as Orderly ( scenes deleted )
Stunts:
Paul Baxley ( stunt double for William Shatner )
David Sharpe ( stunt double for James Daly )
77.) The Savage Curtain
Written by Gene Roddenberry, Arthur Heinemann
Story by Gene Roddenberry
Directed by Herschel Daugherty
Music by Fred Steiner
Final draft script: 12/6/68
Film date: middle December 1968
Airdate: 3/7/69
The U.S.S. Enterprise is scanning planet Excalbia, which has a molten surface and toxic atmosphere, but there are unexplained life signs detected. As the Enterprise prepares to leave, Captain Kirk is contacted by a duplicate of Abraham Lincoln, who invites Kirk and Commander Spock to an area of Earth-like environment on the planet. There they meet Surak, the founder of Vulcan civilization.
The Excalbians are creatures of living rock, and in order to observe the concept of good and evil, they have created a game of survival that pits Kirk, Spock, Lincoln, and Surak against four infamous villains from history: Ghengis Khan of ancient Earth; Colonel Green, who led a genocidal war on Earth in the Twenty-first Century; Zora, who experimented on subject tribes on Tiburon; and Kahless the Unforgettable, the Klingon who set the pattern for his planet's tyrannies.
Once Kirk and Spock have fought off the enemies, the Excalbians allow them and the Enterprise to leave.
Cast Credits:
William Shatner as Captain Kirk
Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock
DeForest Kelley as Dr. McCoy
James Doohan as Mr. Scott
George Takei as Mr. Sulu
Nichelle Nichols as Lt. Uhura
Walter Koenig as Ensign Chekov
Lee Bergere as Lincoln
Barry Atwater as Surak
Phillip Pine as Colonel Green
Arell Blanton as Dickerson
Carol Daniels DeMent as Zora
Robert Herron as Kahless
Nathan Jung as Ghengis Khan
Uncredited:
Roger Holloway as Lt. Lemli
William Blackburn as Lt. Hadley
Janos Prohaska as Yarnek
Bart La Rue as Voice of Yarnek
Stunts:
Paul Baxley ( stunt double for William Shatner )
Frank da Vinci ( stunt double for Phillip Pine )
78.) All Our Yesterdays
Written by Jean Lisette Aroeste
Directed by Marvin Chomsky
Story Outline: 9/23/68
Final draft script: 12/12/68
Revised final draft: 12/17/68
Original title: "A Handful of Dust"
Film date: late December 1968
Airdate: 3/14/69
Three and a half hours before the star Beta Niobe is calculated to go nova, the U.S.S. Enterprise scans Sarpeidon, the only Class-M planet in the system. The crew finds the planet deserted, though the planet did not have space flight capability. Captain Kirk, Commander Spock, and Dr. McCoy beam down to a library on the planet and meet the librarian, Mr. Atoz, and his android duplicates, who sent the world's population into the past before the nova, using a machine called the Atavachron. As Kirk is viewing records of a past era, he hears a woman scream and runs into a portal to investigate; he finds himself in an ancient city, where he is accused of witchcraft.
Spock and McCoy run through the portal after the captain, but find themselves trapped in the Sarpeidon ice age; there they meet a woman named Zarabeth, a prisoner of Zor Khan the tyrant, who banished her to the ice age for the actions of her kinsmen. Spock becomes more passionate, as his ancestors were 5,000 years in the past, and he consumes animal flesh. Spock falls in love with Zarabeth and wants to stay in the past, but McCoy convinces him to go back to the time portal.
Kirk finds his way back to the library and forces Mr. Atoz to help him find the period where Spock and McCoy are trapped. Once they get back through the portal, Mr. Atoz escapes into the past before the sun explodes, and the Enterprise leaves the system before the nova destroys Sarpeidon.
Cast Credits:
William Shatner as Captain Kirk
Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock
DeForest Kelley as Dr. McCoy
James Doohan as Mr. Scott
Mariette Hartley as Zarabeth
Ian Wolfe as Mr. Atoz
Kermit Murdock as The Prosecutor
Ed Bakey as The First Fop
Anna Karen as Woman
Al Cavens as Second Fop
Stan Barrett as The Jailer
Johnny Haymer as The Constable
79.) Turnabout Intruder
Written by Arthur H. Singer
Story by Gene Roddenberry
Directed by Herb Wallerstein
Music editor: Richard Lapham
Story Outline: 5/8/68
First draft script: 12/1/68
Final draft script: 12/20/68
Revised final draft: 12/30/68
Film date: December 31, 1968 to January 9, 1969
Airdate: 6/3/69
Dr. Janice Lester, who was once romantically involved with James Kirk, hates the captain because of his rise in rank and his choice to pursue the Enterprise instead of her. She lures Kirk to Camus II, were she has discovered an alien mechanism capable of transferring two minds into each other's bodies. Using the device, Dr. Lester transfers her consciousness into Captain Kirk's body and his mind is trapped in Janice's body.
Dr. Coleman, Janice's current lover and partner, sees that Kirk's mind is kept sedated. Mr. Spock becomes suspicious, and by a Vulcan Mind Meld he determines that Captain Kirk's mind is trapped in Dr. Lester's body. Janice's mind, functioning in Kirk's body, initiates court-martial proceedings against Spock and all those who believe that the captain's mind is not where it belongs.
But she is unable to control her emotions and during the proceedings she loses her temper, arousing the suspicions of the other crew members. When "Kirk" charges McCoy and Scotty with mutiny and imposes the death penalty, the entire crew knows something is seriously wrong. Fortunately, Kirk, with the assistance of the telepathic Mr. Spock, fights the effects of the mind transfer and, through concentration, the transfer wears off.
"Turnabout Intruder" was inspired by Turnabout, a novel written in 1931 by Thorne Smith ( who is best remembered for his "Topper" books ). The book concerned a husband and wife whose intellects are transferred into each other's bodies by magical means. The tale was filmed as Turnabout ( United Artists-1940 ) and was the subject and title of a short-lived television series made by Universal TV in 1979. It starred John Schuck and Sharon Gless.
Sandra Smith gives an extremely effective and dedicated performance in this episode. This was the only time in the original series, that a performer, other than William Shatner portrayed Captain James T. Kirk. Ms. Smith rose to the task of this strenuous and unique assignment. She subsequently appeared as Dr. Lydia Thorpe on the television series, "The Interns" ( 1970-71 ).
This was the final episode made and aired for the original series. The shooting began on December 31, 1968 and was concluded on January 9, 1969. William Shatner was ill with the flu and had considerate difficulty in picking up and carrying Sandra Smith for take after take. NBC passed on the option to produce a 25th and 26th episodes, with William Shatner directing the latter of the two. As filming was wrapping, the crew was dismantling the Enterprise sets.
On January 9, 1969, William Shatner and Sandra Smith were photographed against the alien machine's sculpted panels and in front of black backdrops. Close-ups of Shatner's face express the captain's horror, whereas Sandra Smith's expressions relish the moment. The takes went smoothly and the teaser was completed on time. The scheduled airdate for this episode was March 28, 1969. It was pre-empted by news coverage of former president, Dwight D. Eisenhower. The network subsequently aired it on June 3, 1969.
Cast Credits:
William Shatner as Captain Kirk
Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock
DeForest Kelley as Dr. McCoy
James Doohan as Mr. Scott
George Takei as Mr. Sulu
Nichelle Nichols as Lt. Uhura
Walter Koenig as Ensign Chekov
Majel Barrett as Nurse Chapel
Sandra Smith as Dr. Janice Lester
Harry Landers as Dr. Arthur Coleman
Barbara Baldavin as Lt. Lisa
David L. Ross as Lt. Galloway
John Boyer as Guard
Uncredited:
Roger Holloway as Lt. Lemli
James Drake as Security Guard
Star Trek: 1968-69
Third Season Production Credits
Produced by: Fred Freiberger
Co-Produced by: Robert H. Justman
Executive Producer: Gene Roddenberry
Associate Producers: Edward K. Milkis, Gregg Peters
Story Consultant: Arthur H. Singer
Theme Music by: Alexander Courage
Music Composed & Conducted by: Various
Art Director: Walter M. Jefferies
Directors of Photography: Jerry Finnerman, Al Francis, A.S.C.
Film Editors: Bill Brame, Donald R. Rode, A.C.E.
Unit Production Manager: Gregg Peters
Assistant Directors: Gil Kissel, Claude Binyon, Jr., Gene DeRuelle
Set Decorator: John M. Dwyer
Costumes Created by: William Ware Theiss
Sound Effects Editor: Douglas H. Grindstaff
Music Editor: Richard Lapham
Re-Recording Mixer: Gordon L. Day, C.A.S.
Production Mixer: Carl W. Daniels
Script Supervisor: George A. Rutter
Sound: Glen Glenn Company
Casting: Joseph D'Agosta, William J. Kenney
Makeup Artist: Fred B. Phillips, S.M.A.
Hair Stylist: Pat Westmore, C.H.S.
Gaffer: George H. Merhoff
Head Grip: George Radar
Property Master: Irving A. Feinberg
Special Effects: Jim Rugg
Photographic Effects: Howard A. Anderson Company, Westhiemer Company, Cinema Research Corporation, Vanderveer Photo Effects
A Paramount Production in association with Norway Corporation. Douglas S. Cramer; Executive vice president in charge of production
The Cage | Where No Man Has Gone Before
Season One: 1966-67 | Season Two: 1967-68 | Season Three: 1968-69