Season Two
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 Two
30.) Catspaw
Written by Robert Bloch and D. C. Fontana
Directed by Joseph Pevney
Music by Gerald Fried
Film date: early May 1967
Airdate: 10/27/67
On planet Pyris VII, Kirk, Spock, and McCoy encounter a haunted castle and crewmen Sulu and Scott, who have been transformed into "zombies". Korob and Sylvia are aliens disguised as a warlock and witch that are responsible for the "trick or treat" trappings, using supernatural devices to terrify the men of the Enterprise. Only Spock is unaffected by by their scare tactics. The aliens are on a mission of conquest, and have used a matter transmuter to assume human form.
Sylvia, affected by her new body, attempts to ensnare Kirk into becoming her partner and lover. When Korob aids Kirk and company to escape, Sylvia changes into a gigantic black cat and crushes him. Kirk destroys the "magic wand" transmuter device, causing the castle to vanish and and the aliens to resume their actual forms. In reality, they are fragile creatures and are destroyed by the planet's atmosphere. Sulu and Scotty and returned to normal and "Halloween" is over.
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
Antoinette Bower as Sylvia
Theodore Marcuse as Korob
Michael Barrier as Lt. DeSalle
John Winston as Lt. Kyle
Rhodie Coogan as First Witch
Gail Bonney as Second Witch
Maryesther Denver as Third Witch
Jimmy Jones as Crewman Jackson
Uncredited:
William Blackburn as Lt. Hadley
Eddie Paskey as Lt. Leslie
Stunts:
Jimmy Jones ( stunt double for DeForest Kelley )
Bobby Bass ( stunt double for James Doohan )
Vic Toyota ( stunt double for George Takei )
Carl Saxe ( stunt double for Theodore Marcuse )
31.) Metamorphosis
Written by Gene L. Coon
Directed by Ralph Senensky
Music by George Duning
First draft script: 4/19/67
Film date: middle of May 1967
Airdate: 11/10/67
Captain Kirk, Commander Spock, and Dr. McCoy are aboard the shuttle Galileo taking Assistant Federation Commissioner Nancy Hedford back to the U.S.S. Enterprise. The Commissioner was assigned to Epsilon Canaris Three to prevent a war, but she had to leave early when she contracted Sakuro's disease.
Before they can reach the Enterprise, the shuttle is intercepted by a plasma cloud travelling at warp and is pulled into the Gamma Canaris region. The shuttle is forced to land on a planetoid with an Earth-like environment, where the Enterprise officers meet a young man named Cochrane who has been stranded there for years. He claims to be Zefram Cochrane of Alpha Centauri, the discoverer of the space warp, who supposedly died 150 years ago. He was 87 years old when his ship was taken to this planetoid by the ion cloud -- which he calls the Companion. The Companion rejuvenated him and provides food to keep him alive, and it brought the shuttle to provide company for Cochrane.
Captain Kirk determines that the Companion is in love with Cochrane, and it will not let any of them leave, even though Commissioner Hedford will die without immediate medical treatment. The Companion merges with Hedford's dying body, curing it of the disease, but must remain on the planetoid that gives the Companion life. Cochrane decides to remain on the planetoid with Hedford, and Kirk promises not to tell anyone that he is still alive.
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
Glenn Corbett as Zefram Cochrane
Elinor Donahue as Nancy Hedford
Uncredited:
Eddie Paskey as Lt. Leslie
William Blackburn as Lt. Hadley
Elizabeth Rogers as Voice of Companion
32.) Friday's Child
Written by D. C. Fontana
Directed by Joseph Pevney
Music by Gerald Fried
Film date: late May 1967
Airdate: 12/1/67
The U.S.S. Enterprise arrives at Capella Four to negotiate a treaty with the large, warlike natives on the planet to mine the rare mineral topalime -- vital to the life support systems of planetoid colonies -- but Captain Kirk's landing party finds that a Klingon agent already is with the Capellans bargaining for mining rights.
Captain Kirk meets the Tier Akaar, leader of the ten tribes of Capella, and tells him the Federation respects the freedom of worlds while the Klingon Empire is made up of conquered worlds. But a Capellan named Maab, who supports the Klingon, leads an attack and kills Akaar, becoming the new Tier. Maab prepares to kill Eleen, the pregnant young wife of Akaar whose child would become the next Tier, but Kirk's landing party helps her escape from the village.
The U.S.S. Enterprise is called away from Capella by a distress call from the Federation freighter S.S. Dierdre, then by the U.S.S. Carolina, but Lt. Commander Scott determines that the messages were faked and returns to Capella, where the Enterprise is challenged by a Klingon warship.
In a remote cave on Capella Four, Dr. Leonard McCoy delivers Eleen's child, while Captain James Kirk and Commander Spock fight off Maab's warriors and the Klingon. The Klingon decides to attack the Federation officers on his own, and when Maab challenges him, the Klingon kills him, before being killed by one of Maab's men.
Eleen's son, named Leonard James Akaar, becomes the High Tier, and acting as the Tier's regent, Eleen signs a mining treaty with the Federation.
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
Julie Newmar as Eleen
Tige Andrews as Kras
Michael Dante as Maab
Ben Gage as Akaar
Cal Bolder as Keel
Kirk Raymone as Duur
Robert Bralver as Grant
Uncredited:
Eddie Paskey as Lt. Leslie
William Blackburn as Lt. Hadley
Walker Edmiston as Voice of S.S. Deirdre
Stunts:
Paul Baxley ( stunt double for William Shatner )
Jimmy Jones ( stunt double for Tige Andrews )
Dick Dial ( stunt double as Warrior )
Location Scenes Filmed at Vasquez Rocks, Southern California.
33.) Who Mourns For Adonais?
Written by Gilbert A. Ralston, Gene L. Coon
Story by Gilbert A. Ralston
Directed by Marc Daniels
Music by Fred Steiner
Film date: late May, early June 1967
Airdate: 9/22/67
While approaching planet Pollux Four in the Beta Geminorum system, the U.S.S. Enterprise is captured by a force field shaped like a giant human hand. After reporting the situation to Starbase Twelve, the crew is contacted by the planet's inhabitant, who claims to be the Greek god Apollo.
Apollo invites Captain Kirk and other officers down to the planet, where he demands that they worship him as the Greeks once did. Apollo -- along with his fellow Olympians including Zeus, Hermes, Athena, Aphrodite, Hera, and Artemis -- visited Earth 5,000 years ago, but the others returned to the Cosmos while Apollo alone waited for humans to reach the stars one day.
Captain Kirk and the other officers refuse to worship Apollo, and the Enterprise crew manages to penetrate the force field holding the ship and uses the ship's phasers to destroy Apollo's temple, which generates his power. Realizing that humans will no longer worship him, Apollo returns to the Cosmos to join his fellow gods.
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 Forest as Apollo
Leslie Parrish as Lt. Carolyn Palamas
John Winston as Lt. Kyle
Uncredited:
William Blackburn as Lt. Hadley
Roger Holloway as Mr. Lemli
Eddie Pasky as Lt. Leslie
Stunts:
Jay Jones ( stunt double for James Doohan )
34.) Amok Time
Written by Theodore Sturgeon
Directed by Joseph Pevney
Music by Gerald Fried
Final draft: 5/2/67
Second final draft: 6/5/67
Film date: early and middle June 1967
Airdate: 9/15/67
Under orders from Admiral Komack at Starfleet Command, Sector Nine, the U.S.S. Enterprise is headed for Altair Six for the inauguration ceremony of its new president after a long interplanetary conflict.
Commander Spock has been behaving erratically and has not eaten in three days, and Dr. McCoy is concerned about his behavior. Spock demands that Captain Kirk allow him to take a leave on his home planet, Vulcan, but Spock is reluctant to explain the urgency. When the inauguration ceremony on Altair Six is moved up by a week, there is no time for the Enterprise to divert to Vulcan, but Dr. McCoy says Spock's condition is getting worse and the pressure building in his system will kill him in eight days.
Spock reveals to Kirk that Vulcans have an ancient mating ritual, called the Pon farr, that requires that they take a mate at a specified time or they will die. The subject is seldom discussed with outsiders.
Knowing that Spock's life is at stake, Kirk disobeys orders and takes him to Vulcan for his arranged marriage to his wife, T'Pring. But when they arrive for the ceremony, T'Pring claims a ritual challenge, and chooses Kirk as her champion to fight Spock to the death for the right to marry her. Spock is in the Plaktau -- blood fever -- and cannot refuse to fight. McCoy gives Kirk a triox injection to compensate for Vulcan's hot, thin atmosphere. Spock fights Kirk until Kirk is strangled, and McCoy declares him dead.
With the challenge over, T'Pring explains that she wanted Stonn to be her consort -- since Spock has become a well-known legend among Vulcans -- and knew that if Kirk won the challenge, he would not want her as his wife, and if Spock won, he would leave Vulcan anyways, so it was logical for her to choose Kirk. With Spock's Plaktau over, he returns to the Enterprise, where he learns that Kirk is alive, only temporarily knocked out by a neuroparalyzer in Dr. McCoy's injection.
Starfleet Command approves of the Enterprise's diversion to Vulcan, based on the request from T'Pau, a respected Vulcan official. The Enterprise resumes a course for Altair Six.
Cast Credits:
William Shatner as Captain Kirk
Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock
DeForest Kelley as Dr. McCoy
George Takei as Mr. Sulu
Nichelle Nichols as Lt. Uhura
Walter Koenig as Ensign Chekov
Majel Barrett as Nurse Chapel
Arlene Martel as T'Pring
Celia Lovsky as T'Pau
Lawrence Montaigne as Stonn
Byron Morrow as Admiral Komack
Uncredited:
Walker Edmiston as Voice of Vulcan Space Control
Charles Palmer as Vulcan Littlebearer
Mark Russell as Vulcan Littlebearer
Gary Wright as Vulcan Littlebearer
Joe Paz as Vulcan Littlebearer
Frank da Vinci as Vulcan Bell & Banner Carrier
Mauri Russell as Vulcan Bell & Banner Carrier
Russ Peek as Vulcan Executioner
Mary Rice as Young T'Pring
William Blackburn as Lt. Hadley
Eddie Paskey as Lt. Leslie
Stunts:
Paul Baxley ( stunt double for William Shatner )
Dave Perna ( stunt double for Leonard Nimoy )
This episode was nominated for a Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation of 1967.
35.) The Doomsday Machine
Written by Norman Spinrad
Directed by Marc Daniels
Music by Sol Kaplan
First draft script: 5/10/67
Film date: late June 1967
Airdate: 10/20/67
The U.S.S. Enterprise answers a distress call from the U.S.S. Constellation in System L-370, but the crew finds all seven planets in the star system destroyed. In System L-374, planets are also destroyed, and the heavily damaged U.S.S. Constellation is adrift without power.
Aboard the abandoned Constellation, the Enterprise officers find Commodore Matt Decker alone, after he beamed his 400 crew members down to a planet in the system, which was subsequently destroyed by a huge alien device that destroys planets with a pure antiproton beam and consumes them for fuel. The Enterprise crew determines that the alien machine came from outside the galaxy, and is heading into the most densely populated section of the galaxy.
While Captain Kirk and Lt. Commander Scott remain aboard the Constellation to effect repairs, Dr. McCoy takes Commodore Decker back to the Enterprise. The machine attacks the Enterprise before heading for the Rigel Colony in the next star system, and Commodore Decker assumes command of the Enterprise in order to attack the machine. The Enterprise does no damage to the machine, whose hull is composed of solid neutronium. Commodore Decker is relieved of command, but he steals a shuttlecraft and attempts to destroy the alien machine from the inside.
Decker's shuttlecraft is destroyed, and its explosion causes a minor power drain inside the machine. Kirk rigs the U.S.S. Constellation's impulse engine to explode when the alien machine pulls the starship inside. Captain Kirk is beamed safely back to the Enterprise, and the atomic explosion disables the machine, rendering it inert.
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
William Windom as Commodore Matthew Decker
Elizabeth Rogers as Lt. Palmer
Richard Compton as Washburn
John Copage as Elliott
Tim Burns as Russ
John Winston as Lt. Kyle
Jerry Catron as Mr. Montgomery
Uncredited:
Eddie Paskey as Lt. Leslie
William Blackburn as Lt. Hadley
Stunts:
Vince Deadrick ( stunt double for William Windom )
This episode was nominated for a Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation of 1967.
36.) Wolf in the Fold
Written by Robert Bloch
Directed by Joseph Pevney
Music by Gerald Fried
Revised final draft: 6/21/67
Film date: late June, early July 1967
Airdate: 12/22/67
Kirk and McCoy have taken Scotty to planet Argelius Two for therapeutic shore leave after an accidental head injury caused by a female crewmember. But a series of brutal murders of young women, murders apparently committed by Mr. Scott, suggest the engineer may have been more seriously injured than thought.
Scotty can recall nothing and Chief City Administrator Hengist wants him arrested immediately. Then a psychic reveals the real murderer as a previously unknown ancient life form named Redjac, that first appeared on Earth as Jack the Ripper. The entity, in its current incarnation of Hengist, is trapped aboard the Enterprise and transported into outer space at maximum dispersion, scattering and effectively destroying the creature.
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
John Fiedler as Hengist
Charles Macaulay as Jaris
Pilar Seurat as Sybo
Joseph Bernard as Tark
Charles Dierkop as Morla
Judith McConnell as Yeoman Tankris
Virginia Aldridge as Lt. Karen Tracy
Tania Lemani as Kara
John Winston as Lt. Kyle
Judi Sherven as Nurse
Uncredited:
William Blackburn as Lt. Hadley
Suzanne Lodge as Barista
Marlys Burdette as Barista
Eddie Paskey as Lt. Leslie ( & hand double for James Doohan )
Stunts:
Paul Baxley ( stunt double for John Fiedler )
37.) The Changeling
Written by John Meredyth Lucas
Directed by Marc Daniels
Music by Fred Steiner
First draft script: 5/1/67
Film date: early and middle July 1967
Airdate: 9/29/67
The U.S.S. Enterprise arrives at the Malurian system after losing contact with Dr. Manway's Federation Science team, but finds no life readings in the system where more than four billion Malurians lived. There is no sign of a natural catastrophe or a war.
The Enterprise is attacked by powerful ultrawarp weapons from an unknown attacker, which the crew learns is the Earth space probe Nomad, launched in the early twenty-first century. The probe was damaged in a meteor impact and later encountered an alien probe.
Nomad believes Captain Kirk is its creator, Jackson Roykirk, and stops its attempts to sterilize the U.S.S. Enterprise. Once beamed aboard the ship, Nomad enters the bridge and erases Lt. Uhura's mind in order to learn her knowledge of music, and Uhura must be re-educated.
Commander Spock uses the Vulcan mind probe to access Nomad's memories, and learns that the Nomad probe, whose mission was to seek out new life, collided with a powerful alien probe called Tonru, whose mission was to sterilize soil samples from other planets. The two probes combined their programming, and the combined device now seeks to sterilize imperfect life forms, such as the entire Malurian race.
Captain Kirk points out that Nomad is imperfect, since it has mistaken Kirk for its creator, and convinces the probe to follow its programming and destroy itself.
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
Majel Barrett as Nurse Chapel
Blaisdell Makee as Mr. Singh
Arnold Lessing as Lt. Carlisle
Uncredited:
Meade Martin as Crewman
Barbara Gates as Crew Woman
Vic Perrin as Voice of Nomad
Marc Daniels as Professor Jackson Roykirk
Frank da Vinci as Lt. Brent & Lt. Vinci
William Blackburn as Lt. Hadley
Roger Holloway as Lt. Lemli
Eddie Paskey as Lt. Leslie
Stunts:
Jay Jones ( stunt double for James Doohan )
38.) The Apple
Written by Max Ehrlich, Gene L. Coon
Story by Max Ehrlich
Directed by Joseph Pevney
Second revised final draft: 7/12/67
Film date: middle and late July 1967
Beaming down to Gamma Trianguli VI, an Enterprise landing party discovers a seeming paradise, until they encounter poisonous plants, exploding rocks and extremely dangerous weather conditions. In contrast, the planet's inhabitants are a gentle, childlike people who call themselves the Feeders of Vaal. "Vaal" is a computer constructed many years before "in the dim time" by unknown entities, which survives by metabolizing the natives' offerings of food.
The device is draining the energies of the Enterprise as well. The landing party must defeat Vaal and its people ( led by High Priest Akuta ) before the alien machine can destroy the starship. After a major battle with the villagers, and Mr. Spock's encounter with a lightning bolt, the starship's phasers destroy Vaal.
Cast Credits:
William Shatner as Captain Kirk
Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock
DeForest Kelley as Dr. McCoy
James Doohan as Mr. Scott
Walter Koenig as Ensign Chekov
Celeste Yarnall as Yeoman Martha Landon
Keith Andes as High Priest Akuta
Shari Nims as Sayana
David Soul as Makora
Mel Friedman as Hendorf
Jerry Daniels as Marple
Jay Jones as Mallory
Dick Dial as Kaplan
John Winston as Lt. Kyle
Uncredited:
Paul Baxley as Native
Ron Burke as Native
Bobby Clark as Native
Vince Deadrick as Native
William Blackburn as Lt. Hadley
Eddie Paskey as Lt. Leslie
Stunts:
Julie Johnson ( stunt double for Celeste Yarnall )
39.) Mirror, Mirror
Written by Jerome Bixby
Directed by Marc Daniels
Music by Fred Steiner
Story Outline: 3/2/67
Film date: late July, early August 1967
Airdate: 10/6/67
Kirk, McCoy, Scotty and Uhura transport back to the Enterprise after initiating diplomatic relations with the peaceful Halkan Council. As a result of turbulent atmospheric conditions the transporter malfunctions, depositing them onto an Enterprise in a parallel universe, where the Federation has developed along more barbaric principles. In return, the parallel universe Kirk, McCoy, Scotty and Uhura are deposited on our Enterprise where they are locked up by Mr. Spock.
Transported into a hostile environment, the four struggle to remain alive until they can return; if they can return. Kirk discovers his counterpart's secret weapon--the Tantalus Field, a stolen alien device that instantly does away with parallel Kirk's enemies. Foiling the parallel-Sulu's Gestapo-like security people, and an aborted assassination attempt by the parallel-Chekov, Kirk finds an ally in the parallel-Spock, who assists in their return trip. Our Mr. Spock returns the parallel crewmembers simultaneously and everything is back to normal.
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
Barbara Luna as Lt. Marlena Moreau
Vic Perrin as Tharn
Pete Kellett as Farrell ( Kirk's Henchman )
Garth Pillsbury as Wilson & mirror-Spock's Bodyguard
John Winston as Lt. Kyle
Uncredited:
Eddie Paskey as Lt. Leslie
Roger Holloway as Lt. Lemli
William Blackburn as Lt. Hadley
Johnny Mandell as Sulu's Guard
Bobby Bass as Chekov's Henchman #1
Bobby Clark as Chekov's Henchman #2
Paul Prokop as Phaser Control Guard
John Winston as Voice of Computer
Stunts:
Paul Baxley ( stunt double for William Shatner )
Dave Perna ( stunt double for Leonard Nimoy )
Vince Deadrick ( stunt double for DeForest Kelley )
Nedra Rosemond ( stunt double for Nichelle Nichols )
Jay Jones ( stunt double for James Doohan )
This episode was nominated for a Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation of 1967.
40.) The Deadly Years
Written by David P. Harmon
Directed by Joseph Pevney
Music by Fred Steiner, Sol Kaplan
Film date: early August 1967
Airdate: 12/8/67
While visting Gamma Hydra IV on a routine mission, an Enterprise landing party consisting of Kirk, Spock, Dr. McCoy, Scotty, Chekov and Lieutenant Arlene Galway are exposed to a strange disease. The illness, radiation poisoning caused by exposure to a comet, causes greatly accelerated aging. Robert Johnson ( age 29 ) and his wife Elaine ( age 27 ) have been transformed almost overnight into aged individuals whom McCoy is helpless to save.
The entire landing party, with the exception of Mr. Chekov, begins to age rapidly as McCoy desperately seeks an antidote. Kirk becomes forgetful, McCoy irritable and Lieutenant Galway, possessed of an extraodinary high metabolic rate, dies. Dr. Janet Wallace, an "old friend" of Kirk's, aids the researchers. Commodore George Stocker, aboard the Enterprise en route to his new command at Starbase 10, orders Spock to convene an extraordinary competancy hearing.
The Vulcan does so reluctantly and after Kirk's weaknesses are exposed, Stocker assumes command. He heads the starship towards Starbase 10, straight into the Romulan Neutral Zone. With the Enterprise surrounded, McCoy discovers the antidote to be adrenaline and Kirk is restored to save the day with the tried-and-proven "corbomite bluff".
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
Felix Locher as Robert Johnson
Laura Wood as Elaine Johnson
Charles Drake as Commodore George Stocker
Sarah Marshall as Dr. Janice Wallace
Beverly Washburn as Lt. Arlene Galway
Carolyn Nelson as Yeoman Doris Akins
Uncredited:
Eddie Paskey as Lt. Leslie
Frank da Vinci as Lt. Brent
Roger Holloway as Lt. Lemli
41.) I, Mudd
Written by Stephen Kandel, David Gerrold
Directed by Marc Daniels
Music by Samuel Matlovsky
First draft script: 5/23/67
Film date: middle August 1967
Airdate: 11/3/67
The U.S.S. Enterprise is hijacked by a new officer named Lt. Norman, who is really an alien android. Norman takes the ship to an uncharted planet whose surface is K-type -- adaptable for humans through use of pressure domes and life-support systems.
On the planet, the Enterprise officers meet Harcourt Fenton 'Harry' Mudd, whom Kirk sent to jail after the affair on the Rigel mining planet. Mudd was arrested for fraud on Deneb Five -- where the penalty is death. After escaping the Denebians, Mudd crashed on the planet of androids, who wished to study humans and would not let him go, so Mudd brought the Enterprise to the planet so that the androids may keep the crew instead of Mudd.
Captain Kirk learns that the androids' makers were humanoids from the Andromeda Galaxy. Their home planet's sun became a nova, and only a few outposts survived, including one in this galaxy. Over time, the makers died, leaving their android servants with no purpose until they met Harry Mudd.
The androids have found humans to be flawed and self-destructive, so they plan to use the Enterprise to take over the galaxy, protecting all humanoids by controlling them.
Kirk and the Enterprise officers confuse the androids by behaving illogically, and they are able to regain control of the Enterprise. Kirk leaves Mudd behind in the androids' custody, along with a few hundred android duplicates of Mudd's nagging wife, Stella, to keep him in line.
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
Roger C. Carmel as Harry Mudd
Richard Tatro as Norman
Kay Elliot as Stella Mudd
Alyce & Rhae Andrece as "Alice" series
Tom & Ted LeGarde as "Herman" series
Colleen & Maureen Thornton as "Barbara" series
Starr & Tamara Wilson as "Maisie" series
Michael Zaslow as Ensign Jordan
Mike Howden as Lt. Rowe
Uncredited:
Bob Orrison as Engineer
Eddie Paskey as Lt. Leslie
Roger Holloway as Lt. Lemli
William Blackburn as Lt. Hadley
Stunts:
Loren Janes ( stunt double for Richard Tatro )
42.) The Trouble with Tribbles
Written by David Gerrold
Directed by Joseph Pevney
Music by Jerry Fielding
First draft script: 7/21/67
Revised final draft: 8/1/67
Film date: late August 1967
Airdate: 12/29/67
The Enterprise is diverted to Space Station K-7 to protect an important shipment of quadrotriticale, a specialized grain. There, Kirk finds his patience serverly taxed by Federation Undersecretary of Agricultural Affairs Nilz Barris and his pesky assistant, Arne Darvin. The arrival of a Klingon ship, commanded by the arrogant Captain Koloth, complicates matters still further.
Station Commander Lurry must grant the Klingons permission fo rest and recreation under the terms of the Organian Peace Treaty, while protecting the glorified wheat. Kirk's most serious problem turns out to be space trader Cyrano Jones, a dealer in rare commodities including "tribbles". The tribbles are living fluffballs that do nothing but coo, eat and multiply.
They soon threaten to overwhelm the Enterprise and the space station. The tribbles find their way into the storage compartments and discover the grain. Widespread tribble casualties reveal the grain was poisoned. The Klingon-hating tribbles expose Arne Darvin as a Klingon spy. Scotty beams the Enterprise's crop of tribbles to the Klingon ship as a parting gift.
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
William Schallert as Nilz Barirs
William Campbell as Captain Koloth
Stanley Adams as Cyrano Jones
Whit Bissell as Mr. Lurry
Michael Pataki as Korax
Charlie Brill as Arne Darvin
Paul Baxley as Ensign Freeman
David L. Ross as Galloway
Guy Raymond as Bartender
Ed Reimers as Admiral Fitzpatrick
Uncredited:
Eddie Paskey as Lt. Leslie
Frank da Vinci as Lt. Vinci
Roger Holloway as Lt. Lemli
William Blackburn as Lt. Hadley
Bobby Bass as Security Guard
Stunts:
Dick Crockett as Bald Klingon
Bob Miles as Klingon Brawler
Bob Orrison as Klingon Brawler
Richard Antoni as Klingon Brawler
Stunts:
Phil Adams ( stunt double for Michael Pataki )
Jay Jones ( stunt double for James Doohan )
Jerry Summers ( stunt double for Walter Koenig )
This episode was nominated for a Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation of 1967.
43.) Bread and Circuses
Written by Gene L. Coon, Gene Roddenberry
Story by John Kneubuhl
Directed by Ralph Senensky
Music editor: Jim Henrickson
First draft script: 5/2/67
Third revised final draft: 9/12/67
Film date: middle September 1967
Airdate: 3/15/68
Kirk, Mr. Spock, and Dr. McCoy visit planet 892 IV, after they discover the wreckage of the S.S. Beagle, a Federation vessel. On the surface they meet a band of primitively dressed people that are described as "sun-worshippers". They are captured by a group of well armed individuals after their initial meeting. Kirk and company learn that the planet is technologically on par with 20th-century Earth. The world's civilization though, closely resembles that of ancient Rome, as it would have been if the Roman empire had lasted into our time.
Kirk meets Captain Merik, the former commander of the Beagle and discovers that Merik betrayed his crew, instructing them to beam down so they could die in the arena. The Beagle's captain is now known as First Citizen Merikus, and the empire's proconsul, Claudius Marcus, is usuing him to convince Kirk to beam down the Enterprise crew.
McCoy and Spock are sentenced to die in the arena and Kirk's execution seems imminent. Sensing that something is wrong, Scotty cuts off the planet's electrical power, enabling Kirk to free McCoy and Spock. Merik saves the trio, giving Kirk a stolen communicator before the proconsul stabs him. Back on the Enterprise, Kirk realizes that the persecuted Children of the "Son", what the "sun" worshippers were actually calling themselves--were the planet's counterpart of the early Christians.
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
William Smithers as Captain Merik
Logan Ramsey as Claudius Marcus
Ian Wolfe as Septimus
William Bramley as Policeman
Rhodes Reason as Flavius Maximus
Bart La Rue as Announcer
Jack Perkins as Master of Games
Max Kleven as Maximus
Lois Jewell as Drusilla
Uncredited:
Eddie Paskey as Lt. Leslie
Frank da Vinci as Lt. Brent
Roger Holloway as Mr. Lemli
William Blackburn as Lt. Hadley
Paul Baxley as Policeman #1
Bob Orrison as Policeman #2
Paul Stader as Slave #1
Tom Steele as Slave #2
Gil Perkins as Slave #3
Location Scenes Filmed at Bronson Canyon, Southern California.
44.) Journey to Babel
Written by D. C. Fontana
Directed by Joseph Pevney
Music by Gerald Fried
First draft script: 8/22/67
Second revised final draft: 9/19/67
Film date: late September 1967
Airdate: 11/17/67
The U.S.S. Enterprise is hosting 114 Federation delegates aboard for two weeks, including 32 ambassadors from Federation member worlds, for a conference an a neutral planetoid code-named "Babel" where they will consider the petition of the Coridan system to be admitted to the Federation. The Coridan system has been claimed by some of the races represented by delegates aboard the Enterprise.
The Enterprise arrives at Vulcan to pick up the last delegates, Ambassador Sarek and his human wife, Amanda, who Captain Kirk learns are Commander Spock's parents. Spock has not seen his parents in four years, due to an 18-year dispute between him and his father. Spock chose to join Starfleet instead of the Vulcan Science Academy.
The Enterprise detects a brief signal from an unknown source nearby, then detects a small ship at the edge of sensor range, moving at Warp 10. The signal is being received by someone aboard the Enterprise.
Ambassador Sarek plans to favor admission of Coridan into the Federation, in order to protect its resources, but the Tellarites have mining interests on the underpopulated world. After an argument between Sarek and the Tellarite ambassador, the Tellarite is found dead. Later, Captain Kirk is stabbed by an Andorian, who is captured and locked in the brig.
Ambassador Sarek suffers the failure of a heart valve, and will need large amounts of blood to survive surgery, and Dr. McCoy has never performed surgery on a Vulcan before. Commander Spock must give a blood transfusion to save Sarek's life.
When Spock and Sarek recover from the surgery, Spock deduces that the Andorian assassin and the alien ship are Orions, whose smugglers have been raiding Coridan. By starting a war with Starfleet, the Orions could continue to raid Coridan and supply dilithium to both sides in the war.
Cast Credits:
William Shatner as Captain Kirk
Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock
DeForest Kelley as Dr. McCoy
Nichelle Nichols as Lt. Uhura
Walter Koenig as Ensign Chekov
Majel Barrett as Nurse Chapel
Mark Lenard as Ambassador Sarek
Miss Jane Wyatt as Amanda Grayson
William O' Connell as Thelev
Reggie Nalder as Shras
John Wheeler as Gav
James X. Mitchell as Lt. Josephs
Uncredited:
Eddie Paskey as Lt. Leslie
William Blackburn as Lt. Hadley
Frank da Vinci as Sarek's Aide
Jerry Catron as Mr. Montgomery
Billy Curtis as Copper-Colored Alien
Stunts:
Jim Shepherd ( stunt double for William O' Connell )
45.) A Private Little War
Written by Gene Roddenberry
Story by Judd Crucis
Directed by Marc Daniels
Music editor: Jim Henrickson
First draft script: 8/30/67
Film date: late September and early October 1967
Airdate: 2/2/68
The Enterprise journeys to the planet Neral, which Kirk had visited 13 years before. The Klingons are attempting to take over the planet by arming one segment of the population ( the Hill People ) while remaining in the background. Spock, wounded in an ambush, returns to the Enterprise while Kirk and McCoy search for Tyree, the tribal leader Kirk had befriended in his youth. Kirk, bitten by a deadly Mugato, is cured by Tyree's mystical witch-wife, Nona.
While Kirk tries to persuade Tyree to fight with the weapons the Federation will provide for his men, Nona indulges in intrigue of her own. She steals Kirk's phaser, but the Hill People murder her before she can demonstate its power. Her death leaves Tyree a fighting man. Kirk and McCoy leave the planet saddened that they could do nothing to end the hostilities, having instead compounded the conflict by providing a balance of power.
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
Majel Barrett as Nurse Chapel
Nancy Kovack as Nona
Michael Witney as Tyree
Ned Romero as Krell
Booker Bradshaw as Dr. M'Benga
Arthur Bernard as Apella
Janos Prohaska as The Mugato
Paul Baxley as Patrol Leader
Gary Pillar as Yutan
Uncredited:
Eddie Paskey as Lt. Leslie
Roger Holloway as Mr. Lemli
William Blackburn as Lt. Hadley
Roy Sickner as Villager #2
Stunts:
Jay Jones ( stunt double for Ned Romero )
Location Scenes Filmed at Bell Location Ranch, Southern California.
46.) The Gamesters of Triskelion
Written by Margaret Armen
Directed by Gene Nelson
Music editor: Jim Henrickson
First draft script: 8/1/67
Original title: "The Gamesters of Pentathlan"
Film date: late October 1967
Airdate: 1/5/68
As Captain Kirk, Lieutenant Uhura and Ensign Chekov are about to beam down on a routine survey mission, they are abducted by a power transporter beam. They arrive on the planet Triskelion in the trinary star system M-24 Alpha. Kirk and company learn that they are to be used as gladiators, to fight in games for the amusement of "the Providers", the rulers of the planet. While Mr. Spock attempts to locate his captain, Kirk and his companions experience various ordeals including excruciating pain inflicted by Galt, the master thrall.
When the Enterprise arrives and orbits Triskelion, the Providers capture the starship. To save all aboard, Kirk proposes a wager with the Providers, who are actually aged and bored beings reduced to disembodied brains. Kirk is pitted against three thralls including Shahna, whom he has attempted to teach about love and loyalty. He wins the contest, the Providers free the thralls, and the Enterprise proceeds on its way.
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
Joseph Ruskin as Galt
Angelique Pettyjohn as Shahna
Steve Sandor as Lars
Mickey Morton as Kloog
Jane Ross as Tamoon
Dick Crockett as Andorian Thrall
Victoria George as Ensign Jana Haines
Uncredited:
Frank da Vinci as Lt. Brent
Roger Holloway as Mr. Lemli
William Blackburn as Lt. Hadley
Bart La Rue as Voice of Provider #1
Walker Edmiston as Voice of Provider #2
Bob Johnson as Voice of Provider #3
Stunts:
Paul Baxley ( stunt double for William Shatner )
47.) Obsession
Written by Art Wallace
Directed by Ralph Senensky
Music by Sol Kaplan
Film date: early and middle October 1967
Airdate: 12/15/67
While Kirk was a young lieutenant serving on the U.S.S Farragut, half the crew, including Captain Garrovick, were killed by a cloudlike creature Kirk felt he could have destroyed it had he not hesitated before firing Eleven years later Ensign Garrovick, the son of the late Captain, is stationed on the Enterprise. On the surface of Argus X a landing party, including the ensign, encounter the same gaseous creature.
Several are killed but the cloudlike entity escapes and this time Kirk blames Garrovick, who also waited before firing. The creature leaves Argus X and Kirk chases it through space when it suddenly turns to fight. It enters the Enterprise and begins to emerge from the ventilation shaft in Garrovick's quarters. Spock is with the ensign, and the Vulcan is the first person encountered by the creature. Tasting Spock's copper-based blood, it flees back towards its native planet, Tycho IV.
Kirk and Garrovick prepare a trap, baited with a large jar of human blood attached to a matter/antimatter bomb. The creature goes after the bait too quickly and Kirk must act in its place. Just as it comes within close range of Kirk, he orders Spock to beam them up and denonate the bomb. The explosion sends shock waves through the planet's atmosphere and affects the transporter. Spock is able to recover them safely and the creature is destroyed. Kirk and young Garrovick realizing phaser fire was inadequate to harm the creature, are freed from their earlier guilt.
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
Majel Barrett as Nurse Chapel
Stephen Brooks as Ensign Garrovick
Jerry Ayres as Ensign Rizzo
Uncredited:
Eddie Paskey as Lt. Leslie
Frank da Vinci as Lt. Vinci
William Blackburn as Lt. Hadley
48.) The Immunity Syndrome
Written by Robert Sabaroff
Directed by Joseph Pevney
Music by Sol Kaplan, Fred Steiner
Story Outline: 8/14/67
Final draft script: 10/17/67
Film date: late October, early November 1967
Airdate: 1/19/68
The U.S.S. Enterprise is approaching Starbase 6 for a period of rest and recreation, when Spock senses that the starship Intrepid -- manned by 400 Vulcans -- has been destroyed, and Starfleet orders the Enterprise to investigate in Sector 3-9-J, where all contact has been lost with system Gamma Seven-A, which the Intrepid was investigating.
The Enterprise finds a black void drawing energy from the surrounding region; after the ship is drawn into the void, the crew finds a huge single-celled organism at the center. Commander Spock takes a shuttle into the organism and learns that it is preparing to reproduce.
Captain Kirk takes the Enterprise into the organism and launches an antimatter probe into its nucleus to destroy it before the organism can duplicate itself.
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
Majel Barrett as Nurse Chapel
John Winston as Lt. Kyle
Uncredited:
Eddie Paskey as Lt. Leslie
Frank da Vinci as Lt. Brent
William Blackburn as Lt. Hadley
Bob Johnson as Voice of Starfleet
Stunts:
Dick Dial ( stunts )
Jay Jones ( stunts )
49.) A Piece of the Action
Written by David P. Harmon, Gene L. Coon
Story by David P. Harmon
Directed by James Komack
Music editor: Jim Henrickson
First draft script: 9/28/67
Final draft script: 10/30/67
Original title: "Mission into Chaos"
Film date: early November 1967
Airdate: 1/12/68
The U.S.S. Enterprise approaches Sigma Iotia Two, a planet on the outer reaches of the galaxy where the Horizon visited 100 years ago. The Horizon was lost shortly after visiting Sigma Iotia Two, and the United Federation of Planets just received the Horizon's radio reports a month ago, since there was no subspace communication at that time. The Horizon made contact with the Iotians before the non-interference directive went into effect, interfering with the normal evolution of the planet, which was an early industrial society at the time, with an intelligent and immitative people.
When Captain Kirk beams down to the planet with a landing party, he finds the Iotian city a replica of twentieth-century Chicago, ruled by Bela Oxmyx, the boss of the biggest territory in the world, with about a dozen other bosses running other territories. The planet's society is modeled on the book "Chicago Mobs of the Twenties" published in 1992, and left behind by the Horizon crew, along with some textbooks on making radio sets.
Oxmyx captures the landing party, and demands that they give him advanced weapons so he can eleminate his enemies. The landing party escapes, but Kirk is captured by Jojo Krako, a competing mob boss who wants Kirk to help him take out Oxmyx.
Kirk has all the planet's major bosses transported to Oxmyx's office and demonstrates the power of the Enterprise. Kirk says the Federation is taking over, and the bosses will have to work together peacefully in the new syndicate.
After returning to the Enterprise, Dr. McCoy realizes he left behind his communicator, which contains a transtator -- the basis of all Federation technology -- which could be discovered by the imitative Iotians and further influence their society.
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
Anthony Caruso as Bela Oxmyx
Victor Tayback as Jojo Krako
Lee Delano as Kalo
Steve Marlo as Zabo
John Harmon as Tepo
Jay Jones as Mirt
Buddy Garion as Karf
Marlys Burdette as Krako's Girl
Sheldon Collins as Tough Kid
Dyanne Thorne as First Girl
Sharyn Hillyer as Second Girl
Uncredited:
Eddie Paskey as Lt. Leslie
Frank da Vinci as Lt. Brent
Roger Holloway as Lt. Lemli
William Blackburn as Lt. Hadley
James Doohan as Radio Announcer
50.) By Any Other Name
Written by D. C. Fontana, Jerome Bixby
Story by Jerome Bixby
Directed by Marc Daniels
Revised final draft: 11/7/67
Film date: middle November 1967
Airdate: 2/23/68
The U.S.S. Enterprise responds to a distress call from a planet, and a landing party finds two humanoids on the planet -- Rojan and Kelinda of Kelva -- who use their advanced technology to immobilize the landing party, while other Kelvans quickly take over the Enterprise. Rojan tells Captain Kirk that within ten millennia, high radiation levels in Rojan's home galaxy, Andromeda, will make life there impossible, so the Kelvan Empire sent ships to explore other galaxies in which to find a new home to conquer.
The Kelvans were born aboard a multi-generational ship from Andromeda. When it hit the energy barrier at the rim of the Milky Way Galaxy, their ship was destroyed. The Kelvans plan to modify the warp engines of the Enterprise and use it to return to their galaxy, then return with an invasion force to conquer the Milky Way.
Commander Spock uses a Vulcan mind touch to learn that the Kelvans are immense beings with a hundred tentacles, and complex minds with such control and capacity that they can control each limb separately. The Kelvans have taken human form to operate the Enterprise.
As the Kelvans control the Enterprise, and fly through the galactic barrier at warp 11, the Enterprise crew members take advantage of the new human senses of the Kelvan bodies, stimulating them with new emotions and sensations. The Kelvans realize that they are now more human than Kelvan, and they would be aliens in their own galaxy. Captain Kirk offers to return them to the planet they were found on, and the Federation can send a probe to Andromeda to welcome the Kelvans to settle on uninhabited planets.
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
Majel Barrett as Nurse Chapel
Warren Stevens as Rojan
Barbara Bouchet as Kelinda
Stewart Moss as Hanar
Robert Fortier as Tomar
Leslie Dalton as Drea
Carl Byrd as Lt. Shea
Julie Cobb as Yeoman
Uncredited:
Eddie Paskey as Lt. Leslie
Frank da Vinci as Lt. Brent
Roger Holloway as Lt. Lemli
William Blackburn as Lt. Hadley
Stunts:
Paul Baxley ( stunt double for William Shatner )
51.) Return to Tomorrow
Written by Gene Roddenberry
Story by John T. Dugan
Directed by Ralph Senensky
Music by George Duning
Story Outline: 5/9/67
Second revised final draft: 11/22/67
Film date: late November 1967
Airdate: 2/9/68
Hundreds of light years beyond where any Earth ship has explored before, the U.S.S. Enterprise picks up a mysterious signal from a star system ahead, where the crew finds an ancient Class-M (Earth-like) planet whose atmosphere was ripped away about a half million years ago.
An alien entity named Sargon contacts the Enterprise from the lifeless planet, and gives transporter coordinates for an underground cavern. A landing party finds that Sargon is a spherical container full of pure energy -- the essence of Sargon's mind. Sargon's people once had humanoid bodies; six thousand centuries ago their ships colonized the galaxy, before destroying themselves in a massive conflict.
Sargon takes over Captain Kirk's body with his mind, and says that he needs to borrow two other bodies for the two other remaining minds, so that they may construct android bodies for themselves after half a million years as disembodied minds. After the Enterprise officers agree, the two other entities, Henoch and Thalassa, enter the bodies of Commander Spock and astrobiologist Dr. Anne Mulhall.
As the three aliens work on building android bodies, Henoch wants to keep Spock's body for himself, and plots to kill Sargon in Kirk's body. Sargon and Thalassa realize that the temptation of their mental powers is too great, and they trick Henoch into leaving Spock's body while Spock's consciousness is placed in Nurse Chapel's mind. The aliens leave, with the officers restored to their correct bodies.
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
George Takei as Mr. Sulu
Majel Barrett as Nurse Chapel
Diana Muldaur as Dr. Anne Mulhall
Cindy Lou as Nurse
Uncredited:
Eddie Paskey as Lt. Leslie
Frank da Vinci as Lt. Brent
Roger Holloway as Lt. Lemli
James Doohan as Voice of Sargon
William Blackburn as Lt. Hadley/Android Body
52.) Patterns of Force
Written by John Meredyth Lucas
Directed by Vincent McEveety
Music by George Duning
Film date: early December 1967
Airdate: 2/16/68
Starfleet has been out of contact with John Gill, a cultural observer, for six months, and the United Space Ship Enterprise has been sent to a star system to find him. As the Enterprise passes the outer planet, Zeon, and approaches the inner planet, Ekos, a probe with a thermo-nuclear warhead attacks the Enterprise.
According to records, Ekosians were a primitive, warlike people in a state of anarchy, and the Zeons were a peaceful people with interplanetary spaceflight capability. Captain Kirk and Commander Spock beam down to Ekos and find the society emulating Nazi Germany of twentieth century Earth -- with John Gill as the Fuhrer -- unified in a war against the neighboring Zeons.
Kirk and Spock encounter an underground resistance movement, which helps them get into Nazi headquarters, and they find John Gill, drugged and kept as a figurehead leader by an Ekosian named Melakon. Spock uses a Vulcan mind probe to revive Gill, who confesses to violating the non-interference directive and using the efficient Nazi regime as a model to unify the warlike Ekosian society, but Melakon drugged him and seized power, waging a war against the more-advanced Zeons with Gill's new technology.
Melakon is exposed as a traitor and is killed after he kills John Gill. With the resistance leaders in control of Ekos, the Enterprise leaves the two planets to make peace, and possibly to join the Federation one day.
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
Richard Evans as Isak
Valora Noland as Daras
Skip Homeier as Melakon
David Brian as John Gill
Patrick Horgan as Eneg
William Wintersole as Abrom
Gilbert Green as S.S. Major
Ralph Maurer as S.S. Lieutenant
Ed McCready as S.S. Trooper
Peter Canon as Gestapo Lieutenant
Paul Baxley as First Trooper
Chuck Courtney as Davod
Bart La Rue as Newscaster
Uncredited:
Eddie Paskey as S.S. Driver
Sean Morgan as S.S. Trooper #2
Frak da Vinci as S.S. Trooper as Party
William Blackburn as S.S. Trooper #3/ Lt. Hadley
53.) The Ultimate Computer
Written by D. C. Fontana
Story by Laurence N. Wolfe
Directed by John Meredyth Lucas
Music by Fred Steiner, Sol Kaplan
Film date: middle December 1967
Airdate: 3/8/68
The U.S.S. Enterprise is called to a space station to participate in a war games exercise, overseen by Commodore Robert Wesley, with the Enterprise crew replaced with Dr. Richard Daystrom's M-5 Multitronic Unit, a new experimental computer complex that will control all functions aboard a starship.
During the test run with the M-5 computer in control of the Enterprise, the computer attacks and destroys the Woden, an old automated ore freighter with no crew. The M-5 surrounds itself with a force field and draws power directly from the warp engines; Dr. Daystrom and the Enterprise are unable to deactivate the computer, which was designed to think creatively like a man using Daystrom's own brain engrams.
When the M-5 attacks the four other starships participating in the war games, Starfleet orders them to destroy the Enterprise. Captain Kirk convinces the M-5 that it has committed murder, and the computer realizes that it must destroy itself. Dr. Richard Daystrom suffers a nervous breakdown after the failure of his computer, and he must be institutionalized.
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
William Marshall as Dr. Richard Daystrom
Barry Russo as Commodore Robert Wesley
Sean Morgan as Ensign Harper
Uncredited:
Eddie Paskey as Lt. Leslie
Frank da Vinci as Lt. Brent
Roger Holloway as Lt. Lemli
William Blackburn as Lt. Hadley
James Doohan as Voice of Commodore Enwright and M-5 Computer
54.) The Omega Glory
Written by Gene Roddenberry
Directed by Vincent McEveety
First draft script: 6/7/65
Film date: middle and late December 1967
Airdate: 3/1/68
The U.S.S. Enterprise approaches Omega Four, and finds the U.S.S. Exeter in orbit. A boarding party finds the Exeter empty, with only crew uniforms full of crystalline powder -- the remaining elements of a dehydrated human body. The last log entry from the ship's surgeon warns them that they are infected and not to return to their own ship; their only chance to survive is to transport down to the planet.
On the surface of Omega Four, Captain Kirk and the boarding party find a primitive society ruled by Asiatic Kohms, who are in conflict with the savage Yangs, who have European features. They learn that Captain Ronald Tracey of the Exeter survived on the planet's surface, which provides a natural immunity to all disease, and the inhabitants live for centuries. Tracey has used his phaser to help the Kohms fight off the Yang barbarians -- in violation of the Prime Directive -- so that he can learn the secret of the planet's healing properties and eternal youth.
But Dr. McCoy learns that there was once a biological war on Omega Four, and a deadly virus spread across the planet, but nature eventually produced natural immunizing agents that counteract the disease over time. The Exeter landing party died because it left the planet before the immunizing agents took effect. The natives of Omega Four developed long life spans and resistance to disease through natural evolution over the centuries -- there is no secret serum of eternal youth that can be given to others.
Captain Tracey and the Enterprise landing party are captured by the savage Yangs, who worship freedom and an ancient American flag. Kirk convinces the Yangs of their history by reciting the preamble of the American Constitution, which the Yangs worship as a sacred document. Cured of the planet's virus, the Enterprise crew arrests Captain Tracey for his crimes, and they return safely to the ship.
Cast Credits:
William Shatner as Captain Kirk
Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock
DeForest Kelley as Dr. McCoy
Geoge Takei as Mr. Sulu
Nichelle Nichols as Lt. Uhura
Morgan Woodward as Captain Tracey
Roy Jenson as Cloud William
Morgan Farley as Yang Scholar
Irene Kelly as Sirah
Frank Atienza as Liyang
Lloyd Kino as Wu
David L. Ross as Galloway
Ed McCready as Dr. Carter
Uncredited:
Eddie Pasky as Lt. Leslie
Frank da Vinci as Lt. Vinci
William Blackburn as Lt. Hadley
Stunts:
Paul Baxley ( stunt double for William Shatner )
55.) Assignment: Earth
Written by Gene Roddenberry, Art Wallace
Story by Gene Roddenberry
Directed by Marc Daniels
Music editor: Jim Henrickson
First draft pilot script: 11/14/66
First draft series script: 12/20/67
Film date: early January, late February 1968
Airdate: 3/29/68
The United Space Ship Enterprise has used the light speed breakaway factor to travel back to Earth in the twentieth century, on a mission of historical research in the year 1968. While monitoring Earth communications, the Enterprise intercepts a transporter beam from one thousand light years away.
A man calling himself Gary Seven materializes aboard the Enterprise with a black cat named Isis, and he claims to be a human from the twentieth century who was living on an advanced alien planet and is beaming to Earth on an important mission. Mister Seven has knowledge of the future, and is able to resist Commander Spock's Vulcan neck pinch. Captain Kirk has him locked in security confinement until Seven's identity can be verified, but Gary Seven uses advanced alien devices to escape and beam down to Earth.
At this critical time in Earth history, there will be an important assassination, a dangerous government coup in Asia, and the United States will launch an orbital nuclear warhead platform, countering a similar launch by other powers.
The man code-named Gary Seven is Supervisor 194, and uses an advanced Beta-Five computer in a secret office on Earth to search for two missing agents, who were descended from human ancestors taken from Earth six thousand years ago and products of generations of training for this mission. The agents are there to prevent Earth from destroying itself with its weapons technology before it can develop into a peaceful society.
Gary Seven learns that Agents 347 and 201 were killed in an automobile accident on Highway 949 ten miles north of McKinley Rocket Base, so he must assume their mission, with help from Roberta Lincoln, a local woman hired as a secretary by the agents.
Captain Kirk and Commander Spock track Gary Seven to McKinley Rocket Base, where the nuclear warhead platform is about to be launched. Gary Seven is not able to complete his sabotage of the rocket before the Enterprise tries to beam him aboard, but Seven convinces Captain Kirk to let him destroy the rocket manually in orbit before it causes a nuclear explosion on Earth. The malfunctioning sub-orbital warhead that explodes in space leads to an international agreement against developing other such weapons in the future.
Kirk and Spock return to the Enterprise, leaving Gary Seven and Roberta Lincoln to continue their adventures on Earth.
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
Robert Lansing as Gary Seven
Terri Garr as Roberta Lincoln
Don Keefer as Cromwell
Lincoln Demyan as Sergeant Lipton
Morgan Jones as Colonel Nesvig
Bruce Mars as First Policeman
Ted Gehring as Second Policeman
Paul Baxley as Security Chief
Uncredited:
Eddie Paskey as Lt. Leslie
Victoria Vetri as Isis ( human form )
Barbara Babcock as Voice of Beta 5 Computer
William Blackburn as Lt. Hadley/Rocket Base Technician
Star Trek: 1967-68
Second Season Production Credits
Produced by: Gene Roddenberry, John Meredyth Lucas
Executive Producer: Gene Roddenberry
Associate Producer: Robert H. Justman
Script Consultant: D. C. Fontana
Assistant to the Producer: Edward K. Milkis
Theme Music by: Alexander Courage
Music Composed & Conducted by: Various
Director of Photography: Jerry Finnerman, A.S.C.
Art Director: Walter M. Jefferies
Film Editors: Bruce Schoengarth, Donald R. Rode, Fabian Tjordmann, John W. Hanley, A.C.E.
Unit Production Manager: Gregg Peters
Asistant Directors: Elliot Schick, Rusty Meek, Phil Rawlins
Set Decorators: Joseph S. Stone, John M. Dwyer
Costumes Created by: William Ware Theiss
Sound Effects Editor: Douglas H. Grindstaff
Music Editor: Jim Henrickson
Re-Recording Mixers: Elden E. Ruberg, C.A.S., Gordon L. Day, C.K.S.
Production Mixer: Carl W. Daniels
Script Supervisor: George A. Rutter
Casting: Joseph D'Agosta
Sound: Glen Glenn Company
Makeup Artist: Fred B. Phillips, S.M.A.
Hairstyles by: Pat Westmore, C.H.S.
Gaffer: George H. Merhoff
Property Master: Irving A. Feinberg
Special Effects: Jim Rugg
Key Costumer: Ken Harvey
Photographic Effects: Howard A. Anderson Company, Westheimer Company, Cinema Research Corporation, Modern Film Effects, Vanderveer Photo Effects
A Desilu ( Paramount ) Production in association with Norway Corporation.
Herbert F. Solow; Executive in charge of production
The Cage | Where No Man Has Gone Before
Season One: 1966-67 | Season Two: 1967-68 | Season Three: 1968-69