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Episode: #1 "The Cage"
Stardate: Unknown
Date Aired: Rejected by NBC
Writer: Gene Roddenberry
Director: Robert Butler
Synopsis: This is the very first voyage of the Starship Enterprise. Kirk's predeccesor, Captain Christopher Pike, tries to rescue an earth crew that disappeared eighteen years earlier. But it's a trap! Pike is imprisoned in a zoo-like cage and studied by a mysterious higher life form.

Episode: #2 "Where No Man Has Gone Before"
Stardate: 1312.4
Date Aired: September 22, 1966
Writer: Samuel A. Peebles
Director: James Goldstone
Synopsis: The flight recorder of the 200 year old U.S.S. Valiant relays a tale of terror, a magnetic storm at the edge of the galaxy. As the Enterprise nears the same barrier, Kirk elects to probe beyond its depths with disastrous results. Kirk's closet friend Lt. Gary Mitchell (Gary Lockwood) is affected. When Mitchell's mutating ESP abilities threaten the safety of the ship, Kirk must make an agonizing decision: maroon Mitchell on a isolated planet or kill him while he still can. However, as one friendship dies, another is just beginning...

Cast:
Gary Mitchell: Gary Lockwood.
Dr. Elizabeth Dehner: Sally Kellerman.
Dr. Mark Piper: Paul Fix.
Lieut. Lee Kelso: Paul Carr.
Yeoman Smith: Andrea Dromm.

Show Watch:
Spock's eyebrows have a sharper upward angle in this episode, one of those originally shot as a pilot. The eyebrow style was toned down for the series itself. Viewers would note that Spock's eyebrows are less striking in later shows.
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Episode: #3 "The Corbomite Maneuver"
Stardate: 1512.2
Date Aired: November 10, 1966
Writer: Jerry Sohl
Director: Joseph Sargent
Synopsis: While on a star charting mission, the Enterprise encounters a luminescent, radioactive cube. When Kirk is forced to destroy it, an enormous ship of pulsating lights appears, commanded by the ominous Balok (Clint Howard). Balok condemns the Enterprise crew to death, and seeing no escape, Kirk chances a desperate bluff.

Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy debuts in this episode and the beloved triad of Kirk's leadership, Spock's logic, and McCoy's humanity is now complete.

Cast:
Balok: Clint Howard.
Dave Bailey: Anthony Hall.

Star Watch:
Clint Howard (the brother of "Apollo 13" director Ron Howard) would return to Star Trek as a homeless man in DS9's "Past Tense, Part II"
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Episode: #4 "Mudd's Women"
Stardate: 1329.1
Date Aired: October 13, 1966
Writer: Stephen Kandel (story by Gene Roddenberry)
Director: Harvey Hart
Synopsis: Kirk beams aboard the crew of a vessel destroyed by asteroids but at a price. All but one of the Enterprise's dilithium crystals have burned out. The commander of the destroyed transport is Harry Mudd (Roger C. Carmell), scoundrel and space pirate. His cargo: three hypnotically beautiful women who immediately disrupt the normal workings of the ship. Kirk heads for Rigel 12, a dilithium mining colony. But Mudd secretly contacts the miners and Kirk discovers they will only trade the dilithium for Mudd's Women.

Cast:
Harry Mudd: Roger C. Carmel.
Eve: Karen Steele.
Magda: Susan Denberg.
Ruth: Maggie Thrett.
Lieut. John Farrell: Jim Goodwin.
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Episode: #5 "The Enemy Within"
Stardate: 1672.1
Date Aired: October 6, 1966
Writer: Richard Matheson
Director: Leo Penn
Synopsis: A transporter malfunction causes Kirk to be split into two separate beings: one compassionate, the other savage. Spock and McCoy suffer along with their friend as Kirk confronts a side of his nature no man should see. His only hope for survival is to reunite his two selves. But Kirk's passive half is losing the ability to make decisions, and a stranded landing party is slowly freezing to death on the planet below.

This episode marks the birth of the Vulcan neck pinch and is McCoy's now classic line. "He's dead, Jim".

Cast:
Lieut. John Farrell: Jim Goodwin.
Technician Fisher: Edward Madden.

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Episode: #6 "The Man Trap"
Stardate: 1531.1
Date Aired: September 8, 1966
Writer: George Clayton Johnson
Director: Marc Daniels
Synopsis: When the Enterprise's landing party arrives on planet M113 to give a routine medical examination to Robert and Nancy Crater, a nightmare unfolds when several members die, every trace of salt mysteriously removed from their bodies. Since McCoy was once deeply in love with Nancy, he's especially concerned for her safety. However, the real Nancy Crater is already dead; a being has taken her form and needs salt to survive. Because Crater's supply is gone it has only one source...the crew of the Enterprise.

Cast:
Professor Crater: Alfred Ryder.
Nancy Crater: Jeanne Bal.
Darnell: Michael Zaslow.
M-113 salt creature: Francine Pyne.

Show Watch:
Dr. McCoy would not be the last Starfleet officer to fire on the "woman" he loved: Riker would face the same tough decision in Star Trek: The Next Generation's "The Vengeance Factor". Shades of the M-113 salt "vampire" and its lethal hunger would reappear years later in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine's fourth-season episode "The Muse", in which the mysterious Onaya would draw life-sustaining energy from Jake Sisko's brain. And the notion of a shape-shifter, which resurfaced in ST: TNG's "The Dauphin" and "Aquiel", and in "Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country", would return to take a more enduring form in the character of shapeshifting Odo on DS9.
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Episode: #7 "The Naked Time"
Stardate: 1704.2
Date Aired: September 29, 1966
Writer: John D.F. Black
Director: Marc Daniels
Synopsis: Sent to pick up a research team, the Enterprise finds the scientists dead. One of the landing party brings the disease back to the crew, forcing suppressed emotions to the surface. Sulu becomes a modern day D'Artagnan. Lt. Riley shuts down the engines. Spock and Kirk are also affected. In one of the series most powerful scenes, they help each other overcome their inner fears. Kirk races against time before the ship is pulled into the disintergrating planet.

Cast:
Lieut. Riley: Bruce Hyde.
Joe Tormolen: Stewart Moss.
Laughing Crewman: John Bellah.

Best Moment:
The look on Kirk's face as Riley sings, one more time, "I'll Take You Home Again, Kathleen."

Show Watch:
Majel Barrett has her first scene-stealing moments as Nurse Chapel reveals her devotion to the emotionally distant Spock.

Also in this episode:
The first glimpse of the Jefferies tube, named after classic series art director Matt Jefferies.
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Episode: #8 "Charlie X"
Stardate: 1533.6
Date Aired: September 15, 1966
Writer: D.C. Fontana (story by Gene Roddenberry)
Director: Lawrence Dobkin
Synopsis: The cargo ship Antares transfers Charlie Evans (Robert Walker Jr.) to the Enterprise on his way to the Alpha Five Colony. Orphaned fourteen years before, Charlie learned to survive on his own. Or did he? His parents crashed on a world inhabited by legendary beings. When the Antares is destroyed and the crew members vanish, Kirk realizes Charlie is responsible but has little control over his deadly powers.

Special treats: Spock playing his Vulcan lyre, Uhura singing, and Thanksgiving aboard the Enterprise.

Cast:
Thasian: Abraham Sofaer.
Tina: Patricia McNulty.
Capt. Ramart: Charles J. Stewart.
Tom Nellis: Dallas Mitchell.

Star Watch:
As talented as his look-alike father, Robert Walker Sr. ("The Clock" and "Strangers on a Train"), Walker Jr. turns in a sympathetic portrait of an abandoned youth in need of guidance.

Show Watch:
The notion of a space orphan exposed to alien influences would return in the ST: TNG episode "Suddenly Human".
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Episode: #9 "Balance of Terror"
Stardate: 1709.1
Date Aired: December 15, 1966
Writer: Paul Schneider
Director: Vincent McEveety
Synopsis: Federation outpost destroyed by Romulans! It's a game of cat and mouse for Kirk and the Romulan Commander (Mark Lenard), whose cloaking device renders his ship invisible and very deadly. How long can Kirk protect the Enterprise from his unseen enemy? This is our first look at the Romulans, and we'll learn why they mysteriously resemble the Vulcans.
Mark Lenard is the only performer to have portrayed a Romulan, Vulcan ("Journey To Babel"), and a Klingon ("Star Trek-The Motion Picture").

Cast:
Romulan Commander: Mark Lenard.
Lieut. Andrew Stiles: Paul Comi.
Angela Martine: Barbara Baldavin.
Robert Tomlinson: Stephen Mines.
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Episode: #10 "What Are Little Girls Made Of"
Stardate: 2712.4
Date Aired: October 20, 1966
Writer: Robert Bloch
Director: James Goldstone
Synopsis: The Enterprise is assigned to discover what has become of Dr. Roger Korby (Michael Strong), the "Pastuer of Archaeological Medicine". There's been no word from him for five years. When Korby is found living in the tunnels of a frozen planet, his fiancee Christine Chapel and Kirk beam down. They're horrified to learn that Korby has developed the ultimate android in hopes of populating the universe with them. To prove his theory sane, Korby manufacture an android Kirk, but not before the real Kirk programs it, warning Spock.

Cast:
Nurse Chapel: Majel Barrett.
Dr. Korby: Michael Strong.
Andrea: Sherry Jackson.
Ruk: Ted Cassidy.

Star Watch:
Ted Cassidy (Lurch in the television series The Addams Family) appears as the android Ruk, along with Sherry Jackson (Make Room for Daddy) as Andrea.

Also in this Episode:
A rare glimpse into the private past of Nurse Chapel, who was once engaged to Dr. Roger Korby.

First mention of Kirk's brother, George Samuel Kirk, whose dead body (played by Shatner) we will see in the first season episode "Operation - Annihilate!"
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Episode: #11 "Dagger Of The Mind"
Stardate: 2715.1
Date Aired: November 3, 1966
Writer: S. Bar-David (Shimon Wincelberg)
Director: Vincent McEveety
Synopsis: While delivering supplies to a penal colony, an inmate escapes to the Enterprise and demands sanctuary. He is Dr. Simon Van Gelder (Morgan Woodward), assistant to the director of the colony, Dr. Adams (James Gregory). Answering questions causes great pain, but Van Gelder begs not to be returned and hints at horrors committed against patients by Dr. Adams. Kirk beams down to investigate while Spock tries to break through Van Gelder's wall of agony. As a result, he is the first participant in a Vulcan mind meld.

Cast:
Dr. Adams: James Gregory.
Dr. Van Gelder: Morgan Woodward.
Dr. Helen Noel: Marianna Hill.
Lethe: Susanne Wasson.

Star Watch:
James Gregory later played Insp. Frank Luger on Barney Miller.
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Episode: #12 "Miri"
Stardate: 2713.5
Date Aired: October 27, 1966
Writer: Adrian Spies
Director: Vincent McEveety
Synopsis: Investigating an old style distress signal, Kirk, Spock, McCoy, and a landing party beam down to a planet that's identical to Earth. They find a decaying 20th Century city inhabited only by "ancient children", diseased by a life prolongation project that killed off the adults 300 years before. Aging imperceptibly, the children contract the disease when they reach puberty. Among the rubble, Kirk discovers Miri (Kim Darby), their only hope for survival, when they are stricken with the still contagious plague.

Cast:
Miri: Kim Darby.
Jahn: Michael J. Pollard.
Lieut. John Farrell: Jim Goodwin.

Star Watch:
Kim Darby ("True Grit") and Michael J. Pollard ("Bonnie and Clyde").

Show Watch:
The young girl Kirk carries to safety is actually Shatner's daughter.
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Episode: #13 "The Conscience Of The King"
Stardate: 2817.6
Date Aired: December 8, 1966
Writer: Barry Trivers
Director: Gerd Oswald
Synopsis: Mass murderer aboard the Enterprise! Kirk beams up Anton Karidian (Arnold Moss) and unknown to him, danger lurks in the corridors of the starship. Could Karidian be Kodos the Executioner, thought to have died 20 years ago? When Karidian's Shakespearian acting troupe performs, beware...the play's the real thing!

Watch closely for this is your only chance to see the Observation Deck. It's not seen in any other episode. And bid farewell to Lt. Kevin Riley in his last appearance in Star Trek.

Cast:
Anton Karidian: Arnold Moss.
Lenore: Barbara Anderson.
Lieut. Kevin Riley: Bruce Hyde.
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Episode: #14 "The Galileo Seven"
Stardate: 2821.5
Date Aired: January 5, 1967
Writer: Oliver Crawford, S. Bar-David (Shimon Wincelberg)
Director: Robert Gist
Synopsis: Shuttlecraft crew stranded! Spock learns the trials of command when Kirk sends him, along with Scotty, McCoy and shuttlecraft crew, to investigate a quasar-like phenomenon. But the shuttlecraft is pulled off course and crash lands on an unknown planet. Enterprise's sensors aren't working, and the High Commissioner orders Kirk to abandon the search and continue his mission to deliver urgently needed medical supplies. Can Spock save his crew before the planet's giant Neanderthal-like creatures kill them all?

Cast:
Lieut. Boma: Don Marshall.
Lieut. Gaetano: Peter Marko.
Latimer: Reese Vaughn.
Lt. Cmdr. Kelowitz: Grant Woods.
Mears: Phyllis Douglas.
High Commissioner Ferris: John Crawford.

Show Watch:
In the 24th century, Picard would sojourn on the fantasy planet Risa in "Captain's Holiday", while he and his crew would accidentally encounter a region in space where thought becomes reality in "Where No One Has Gone Before." In the later Star Trek series, the holodeck would provide settings for fantasies of all kinds.

Also in this episode:
Spock abandons his Vulcan logic and makes an emotional decision that saves the lives of his shipmates, changing the crew's perception of him from that of a cold-blooded scientist to a capable leader.

Excellent confrontation scenes between Spock and McCoy.

First use of the Enterprise shuttlecraft.
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Episode: #15 "Court Martial"
Stardate: 2947.3
Date Aired: February 2, 1966
Writer: Don M Mankiewicz, Stephen W. Carabotsos
Director: Marc Daniels
Synopsis: Captain Kirk on trial! Kirk's reputation and career are at stake when he faces a court-martial for negligence. Officer Ben Finney (Richard Webb) had been taking readings in the starships's ion pod when Kirk ordered it jettisoned during an ion storm. Ship's records show Kirk failed to warn Officer Finney, who has died as a result. Can Kirk prove he did warn Finney? Computers don't lie....or do they?

Note Lieutenant Shaw's uniform, it's the first female dress uniform we see in the series.

Cast:
Benjamin Finney: Richard Webb.
Samuel T. Cogley: Elisha Cook Jr.
Lieut. Areel Shaw: Joan Marshall.
Commodore Stone: Percy Rodriguez.
Jamie Finney: Alice Rawlings.

Best Dialogue:
McCoy to Spock: "Mr. Spock, you're the most cold-blooded man I've ever known." Spock replies: "Why, thank you, doctor."

Star Watch:
Elisha Cook Jr., who appears as Kirk's defense attorney, is best remembered for his role in the 1941 classic film "The Maltese Falcon.".

Show Watch:
Both Kirk and McCoy would subsequently be tried (wrongfully) for murder, namely in the death of Klingon Chancellor Gorkon, in the movie "Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country."
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Episode: #16 "The Menagerie" (parts:1 & 2)
Stardate: 3012.4
Date Aired: November 17, 1966
Date Aired: November 24, 1966
Writer: Gene Roddenberry
Director: Marc Daniels
Synopsis: Spock hijacks the Enterprise and risks death to help his former Captain, Christopher Pike (Jeffrey Hunter) who has been paralyzed and disfigured in a horrible accident. Spock sets a course for Talos IV, knowing that any contact with this forbidden plant will automatically bring a death penalty! What could motivate him to do such a thing? Kirk, forced to convict his First Officer, and best friend, wonders if Spock has gone mad!

The only two-part episode, "The Menagerie" won science fiction's coveted Hugo Award.

Cast:
Capt. Pike: Jeffrey Hunter.
The injured Capt. Pike: Sean Kenney.
Jose Mendes: Malachi Throne.
Vina: Susan Oliver.
Miss Piper: Julie Parrish.
Lieut. Hansen: Hagan Beggs.
Dr. Phillip Boyce: John Hoyt.

Best Scene:
Kirk defends Spock's character, which is questioned by Dr. McCoy, and is stunned when he realizes his own life and career have been jeopardized by the Vulcan's inexplicable behavior.

Show Watch:
The scarred and injured Pike is played by Sean Kenney, who also appeared in "The Arena" and "A Taste of Armageddon" Malachi Throne would return as Romulan Senator Pardek in ST: TNG's two-part "Unification".
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Episode: #17 "Shore Leave"
Stardate: 3025.3
Date Aired: December 29, 1966
Writer: Theodore Sturgeon
Director: Robert Sparr
Synopsis: The White Rabbit and Alice in Wonderland? A knight on horseback? Don Juan, a Samurai warrior, a World War II fighter plane? These strange sights await Kirk and the crew of the Enterprise when they beam down for shore leave on a mysterious planet. It is all an illusion or some sort of trick? So it would seem until the knight charges Dr. McCoy, and kills him!

The script is by Theodore Sturgeon, award winning science fiction writer, who also wrote the episode "Amok Time".

Cast:
Tonia: Emily Banks.
Finnegan: Bruce Mars.
Caretaker: Oliver McGowan.
Lieut. Rodriguez: Perry Lopez.

Show Watch:
In the 24th century, Picard would sojourn on the fantasy planet Risa in "Captain's Holiday", while he and his crew would accidentally encounter a region in space where thought becomes reality in "Where No One Has Gone Before." In the later Star Trek series, the holodeck would provide settings for fantasies of all kinds.

Also in this episode:
McCoy is mortally wounded by a lance-wielding knight on horseback and becomes the first regular crew member to be resurrected from the dead.
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Episode: #18 "The Squire Of Gothos"
Stardate: 2124.5
Date Aired: January 12, 1967
Writer: Paul Schneider
Director: Don McDougall
Synopsis: Enroute to Colony Beta Six, the Enterprise is trapped in orbit around an uncharted planet, a planet that shouldn't be there! Kirk discovers it's sole inhabitant is an illogical and extremely powerful alien named Trelane (William Cambell), who challenges Kirk to a fox hunt, with Kirk playing the fox, in return for the Enterprise's freedom.

Listen closely to the voice of Trelane's father, it's none other than James Doohan (Scotty). William Cambell played a Klingon, Captain Koloth, in the episode "The Trouble With Tribbles".

Cast:
Trelane: William Campbell.
Lieut. Karl Jaeger: Richard Carlyle.
Lieut. De Salle: Michael Barrier.
Yeoman Ross: Venita Wolf.

Show Watch:
William Campbell would reappear in "The Trouble with Tribbles" as the Klingon captain Koloth, a role he would re-create 26 years later in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine's "Blood Oath"

Also in this episode:
Revisiting the notion of a powerful, childlike alien, first encountered in "The Corbomite Maneuver." Trelane, who briefly puts Kirk on trial for treason, would become an entertaining 23rd-century precursor to Q, chief mischief-maker of the 24th century.
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Episode: #19 "Arena"
Stardate: 3045.6
Date Aired: January 19, 1967
Writer: Gene L. Coon (story by Frederic L. Brown)
Director: Joseph Pevney
Synopsis: Kirk fights for his life, and the lives of his entire crew! While pursuing a ship which destroyed a Starfleet Base, Kirk intrudes into the territory of the highly advanced Metrons, who decide to settle the conflict . Suddenly Kirk is on a deserted asteroid, unarmed facing his opponent, an over powering reptilian giant. If Kirk loses, the Enterprise crew will die! Can Kirk outwit this menacing foe?

Take a good look at Sean Kenney as DePaul, the Helmsman. He's the same actor who played the deformed Captain Pike in "The Menagerie".

Cast:
Metron: Carole Shelyne.
O'Herlihy: Jerry Ayers.
Lt. Cmdr. Kelowitz: Grant Woods.
Lieut. Harold: Tom Troupe.
Lieut. Lang: James Farley.
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Episode: #20 "The Alternative Factor"
Stardate: 3087.6
Date Aired: March 30, 1967
Writer: Don Ingalls
Director: Gerd Oswald
Synopsis: In orbit around an unknown planet, the Enterprise experiences a moment of "non-existence", all natural laws are suspended. On the planets surface, Kirk encounters Lazarus (Robert Brown), who blames the disturbance on his evil enemy. Aboard the starship, Lazarus steals vital dilithium crystals, and we learn that Lazarus's look-a-like foe is from an anti-matter universe. If Kirk can't prevent them from meeting, both universes will be annihilated!

This episode features a rare angle of the Enterprise firing phasers from orbit.

Cast:
Lieut. Charlene Masters: Janet MacLachlan.
Commodore Barstow: Richard Derr.
Lieut. Leslie: Eddie Paskey.

Show Watch:
The alternative-universe theme is also encountered in the season two episode "Mirror, Mirror".
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Episode: #21 "Tomorrow Is Yesterday"
Stardate: 3113.2
Date Aired: January 26, 1967
Writer: D.C. Fontana
Director: Michael O'Herlihy
Synopsis: Enterprise hurled back in time! When a black star sends the Enterprise backward in time to the twentieth century, the Starship is spotted as a UFO, Air Force captain John Christopher's jet is accidentally destroyed and Kirk is forced to beam him aboard. How can Kirk return the pilot to Earth, yet still manage to return to the future without changing history?

This episode marks the first appearance of the British-accented Lt. Kyle (John Winston), who reprised his role in "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan".

Cast:
Capt. Christopher: Roger Perry.
Colonel Fellini: Ed Peck.
Air Police Sergeant: Hal Lynch.
Technician Webb: Richard Merrifield.

Show Watch:
The classic crew would have numerous encounters with 20th-century Earth. Notably in "The City on the Edge of Forever", "Assignment: Earth", and the feature film "Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home", while DS9's Quark, Rom and Nog would be arrested as extraterrestials in "Little Green Men".

Additional Note:
The episode is the first to place the Star Trek characters in a modern-day Earth setting and with comedic results, particularly the scene in which an Air Force security man, beamed aboard the Enterprise, is astounded by the bowl of chicken soup created by the replicator
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Episode: #22 "The Return Of The Archons"
Stardate: 3156.2
Date Aired: February 9, 1967
Writer: Boris Sobelman (story by Gene Roddenberry)
Director: Joseph Pevney
Synopsis: Group mind control threatens Enterprise crew! When the Enterprise visits Beta III to learn what happened to the U.S.S. Archon a century ago, Kirk and company find a planet of blissful people controlled by "Landru", the omniscient ruler. Landru absorbed the Archons into "the Body", a fate that awaits Kirk's crew unless he can find a way to destroy Landru. And he'd better hurry, the Enterprise is being pulled from orbit!

Gene Roddenberry took the name"Archons" from a social club he belonged to while he was in high school.

Cast:
Landru: Charles Macaulay.

Show Watch:
Western motifs will crop up occasionally in Star Trek, as in The Next Generation's "A Fistful of Datas."
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Episode: #23 "A Taste Of Armageddon"
Stardate: 3192.1
Date Aired: February 23, 1967
Writer: Robert Hamner, Gene L. Coon
Director: Joseph Pevney
Synopsis: Enterprise declared a war casualty! Kirk is warned not to approach Eminiar VII, but Ambassador Robert Fox (Gene Lyons) insists they continue on course to establish diplomatic contact. There they learn that war has raged between Eminiar VII and nearby Vendikar for 500 years, a war fought by computers! Whenever a "hit" is proclaimed, citizens dutifully march into disintegration machines. When the computer declares the Enterprise "destroyed", Kirk and company are taken hostage, and ordered to face death!

Cast:
Ambassador Robert Fox: Gene Lyons.
Anan 7: David Opatoshu.
Sar 6: Robert Sampson.
Mea 3: Barbara Babcock.

Show Watch:
Barbara Babcock (Hill Street Blues), who provided the voice of Trelane's mother on "The Squire of Gothos", returns in person as one of the citizens slated for elimination, and would return in the third season's "Plato's Stepchildren".
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Episode: #24 "Space Seed"
Stardate: 3141.9
Date Aired: February 16, 1967
Writer: Gene L. Coon, Carey Wilbur
Director: Marc Daniels
Synopsis: Meet the original Khan! The Enterprise encounters the S.S. Botany Bay, a 20th century Earth "sleeper ship" adrift in space. The leader of the surviving crew, Khan Noonian Singh (Ricardo Montalban) is revived and immediately plots to take over the Enterprise! A product of the 1990's race of genetically engineered "supermen", Khan has extraordinary powers, both mental and physical. Will they prove too much for Kirk?

This episode led to the sequel movie "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan".

Blooper:
Look closely when Khan is pulled out of his sleeper unit. Kirk breaks the glass to open the sleeper and his phaser falls to floor, after Khan's slab slides out, you can see Dr. McCoy looking down at the floor several times, wondering if this was going to be a take, then finally as he kneels down to examine Khan, you can see his arm move to slide the phaser out of the way and repeatedly keeps looking to the floor.

Cast:
Khan: Ricardo Montalban.
Marla McGivers: Madlyn Rhue.
Helmsman Spinelli: Blasidell Makee.
Joaquin: Mark Tobin.

Show Watch:
Montalban powerfully reprised his mythic role 15 years later in "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan", with Khan seeking to avenge the death of his wife (the Marla McGivers character). The topic of cryogenics would arise in later episodes of ST: TNG ("The Neutral Zone" and "The Emissary") and Star Trek: Voyager ("The 37s" and "The Thaw").

The S.S. Botany Bay model was altered to later appear as a freighter in "The Ultimate Computer."
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Episode: #25 "This Side Of Paradise"
Stardate: 3417.3
Date Aired: March 2, 1967
Writer: D.C. Fontana
Director: Ralph Senensky
Synopsis: Spock in love! On Omicron Ceti III, the Enterprise discovers the colonists unaffected to deadly Berthold rays. Spock is reunited with an old friend, Leila Kalomi (Jill Ireland), who exposes him to strange spores causing Spock to release his emotions, and promptly declaring his love for her. The spores effect the entire Enterprise crew, which has beamed down to the planet. Kirk, under the spores influence, prepares to abandon ship. But if he leaves, no one can beam back up!

Cast:
Leila: Jill Ireland.
Elias Sandoval7: Frank Overton.

Show Watch:
Leila is tenderly played by the late Jill Ireland, who, before marrying Charles Bronson, was the wife of British actor David McCallum.

Additional Note:
This is Spock's show, as the Vulcan gives in to human pleasure for the first time. The love scenes between Spock and Leila are very touching. Nimoy's performance attracts scores of new admirers.
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Episode: #26 "The Devil In The Dark"
Stardate: 3139.1
Date Aired: March 9, 1967
Writer: Gene L. Coon
Director: Joseph Pevney
Synopsis: The Enterprise is summoned to investigate a "deadly" monster which is menacing the miners on Janus IV. Kirk discovers that a strange rock-life being called a "Horta" has been killing the men, then escaping through solid rock! The Horta steals the air circulation pump, threatening all with death. Kirk wounds the creature, but suddenly it corners him! Will Kirk become it's next victim? And how can Spock survive a Vulcan mind meld with this alien lifeform?

Cast:
Chief Engineer Vanderberg: Ken Lynch.
Lt. Cmdr. Giotto: Barry Russo.
Ed Appel: Brad Weston.
Schmitter: Biff Elliot.
Horta: Janos Prohaska.

Best Line:
Pressed into service to assist the injured rock creature, McCoy barks: "I'm a doctor, not a bricklayer!"

Additional Note:
This thought-provoking episode emphasizes Kirk's overwhelming compassion and respect for life. In the tunnel, when Spock begs him to kill the Horta, Kirk's humanity prohibits him from destroying what he cannot yet understand. Spock has his own moment of truth when he learns (through a Vulcan mindmeld) of the Horta's pain and suffering.
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Episode: #27 "Errand Of Mercy"
Stardate: 3198.4
Date Aired: March 23, 1967
Writer: Gene L. Coon
Director: John Newland
Synopsis: This is the first time we meet the Klingons, who threaten the Federation. Kirk and Spock attempt to persuade the council of neutral Organia to join the Federation. While they negotiate, the nefarious Klingons invade and enslave the planet's sheep-like citizens. The Organians help Kirk and Spock disguise themselves as civilians, only to hand them over to the Klingons! The Enterprise and the Klingon ship poise to engage in an all-out battle!

Cast:
Kor: John Colicos.
Ayelborne: Jon Abbott.
Clayniare: Peter Brocco.
Klingon: Victor Lundin.
Trefayne: David Hillary Hughes.

Best Dialogue:
Kirk to his Klingon adversary: "The Organtans aren't going to let us fight." Kor: "For shame, captain, It would have been glorious."

Star Watch:
Stage and TV veteran John Colicos made a marvelous Cmdr. Kor, the first Klingon. He would re-create the role of Kor 27 years later on DS9's "Blood Oath"
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Episode: #28 "The City On The Edge Of Forever"
Stardate: 3134.0
Date Aired: April 6, 1967
Writer: Harlin Ellison
Director: Joseph Pevney
Synopsis: Kirk, Spock, and McCoy trapped in the 20th century! Accidentally overdosed with cordrazine, a delirious McCoy transports to the planet below, Kirk, Spock, and a landing party discover a "time portal" through which McCoy disappears! Suddenly the Enterprise vanishes, and Kirk and Spock must enter the vortex to search for McCoy. Arriving in 1930, Kirk falls deeply in love with Edith Keeler (Joan Collins), only to learn she must die in order for time to return to normal!

Cast:
Edith Keeler: Joan Collins.
Rodent: John Harmon.
Voice of the Guardian: Bartell LaRue.

Most Heart-Wrenching Scene:
Kirk, having fallen in love with Keeler, a social worker, must stop McCoy from saving Keeler's life after he discovers that her survival would alter the course of Earth's history, allowing Hitler to win the Second World War.

Show Watch:
Joan Collins' role as the visionary Edith Keeler, a sharp contrast to her stint as Alexis Carrington Colby on Dynasty would become a cornerstone of Star Trek history.

Additional Note:
One of the best episodes of the classic series, this show won a Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, with a stunning ending that makes the most of the oft-repeated theme of time-travel and incorporates footage of the Brooklyn Bridge and New York in the 1930s.
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Episode: #29 "Operation Annihilate"
Stardate: 3287.2
Date Aired: April 13, 1967
Writer: Stephen W. Carbatsos
Director: Herschel Daugherty
Synopsis: Spock possessed by a deadly alien! The Enterprise arrives at Deneva, a planet in the path of an interplanetary epidemic of mass insanity. There Kirk finds his brother Sam dead, his sister-in-law stricken, and his nephew unconscious. Then, Spock is attacked by a flying creature! These telepathically connected parasites invade the nervous system and control the victims through pain in an effort to take over the galaxy! Can McCoy find a way to kill the alien without harming their hosts?

Cast:
Kartan: Dave Armstrong.
Peter Kirk: Craig Hundley.
Aurelan: Joan Swift.
Yeoman Zara Jamal: Maurishka Taliferro.

Show Watch:
We encounter members, both living and dead, of Capt. Kirk's family. His nephew, Peter (the son of his late brother, Sam) is played by Craig Hundley. Shatner himself (with make-up) assumes the role of his brother's corpse.

Additional Note:
The final episode of the first season is a race against time as McCoy endeavors, to find a cure to a critical disease, while Kirk faces the knowledge that he must destroy a planet if a cure can't be found.

In this episode we first hear of the Vulcan "inner" eye lid that ultimately saves Spock from being permanently blinded.
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Episode: #30 "Catspaw"
Stardate: 3018.2
Date Aired: October 27, 1967
Writer: Robert Bloch
Director: Joseph Pevney
Synopsis: Trick or Treat! On Pyris VII, Sulu and Scotty are rendered "zombies" by Korob and Sylvia, two beings who use black cats, magic wands, and evil spells in an attempt to terrorize Kirk and company. When Kirk refuses to submit, Sylvia holds a voodoo-like image of the Enterprise over a flame, and the starship begins superheating! Will Sylvia's seductive charms spell disaster for Kirk and the crew of the Enterprise?

This episode originally aired during Halloween week.

Cast:
Sylvia: Antoinette Bower.
Korob: Theo Marcuse.
Lieut. DeSalle: Michael Barrier.
Jackson: Jimmy Jones.

Additional Note:
Intended as a Halloween treat, the off-beat tale is packed with witches, giant cats and things that go bump in the night.
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Episode: #31 "Metamorphosis"
Stardate: 3219.4
Date Aired: November 10, 1967
Writer: Gene L. Coon
Director: Ralph Senensky
Synopsis: Aboard the Galileo, Kirk, Spock, and McCoy are transporting ailing Commissioner Nancy Hedford (Elinor Donahue) to the Enterprise when a mysterious cloud draws them to a planet inhabited only by Zefram Cochrane (Glenn Corbett), a space pioneer who lived over a century ago! The cloud-creature rejuvenates Cochrane but, sensing his loneliness, it has brough him company, Kirk and the others. They are now prisoners.

Recognize the voice of the "Companion"? It's Majel Barret, Nurse Chapel.

Cast:
Zefram Cochrane: Glenn Corbett.
Commissioner Nancy Hedford: Elinor Donahue.

Show Watch:
Zefram Cochrane is mentioned in ST: TNG's "New Ground".

Federation Factoid:
We learn that Zephram Cochrane discovered space-warp drive more than 100 years earlier. Units of measurement (cochranes and millicochranes) would occasionally be worked into the dialogue of later Star Trek series' episodes as a tribute to this character.
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Episode: #32 "Friday's Child"
Stardate: 3497.2
Date Aired: December 1, 1967
Writer: D.C. Fontana
Director: Joseph Pevney
Synopsis: Klingon subterfuge! On Capella IV, Kirk and a landing party discover that Klingons have been negotiating an alliance with the natives, and seem to be gaining their confidence. When Kirk breaks a taboo by saving the life of the Capellan leaders wife, he, Spock, and McCoy become fugitives from the natives and the Klingon agent! Meanwhile, the Enterprise crew have their hands full when a Klingon ship sets a trap, diverting them from the planet.

Cast:
Kras: Tige Andrews.
Maab: Michael Dante.
Eleen: Julie Newmar.
Keel: Cal Bolder.
Duur: Kirk Raymone.
Akaar: Ben Gage.

Best Line:
Says an impatient McCoy as he helps the pregnant Eleen up a steep hill: "I'm a doctor, not an escalator."

Show Watch:
Worf would show similar impatience while helping Keiko deliver her baby (later named Molly) in ST: TNG's "Disaster".

Additional Note:
This episode is the only one in which Dr. McCoy uses his skills to deliver a baby.
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Episode: #33 "Who Mourns For Adonias"
Stardate: 3468.1
Date Aired: September 22, 1967
Writer: Gilbert A. Ralston, Gene L. Coon
Director: Marc Daniels
Synopsis: The Enterprise encounter a giant hand in space, which leads the starship to Pollux IV. Here a humanoid identifies himself as Apollo (Michael Forrest), last of the Olympian gods. He has brough the Enterprise and crew "home" to become shepards and worship him! Apollo hurtles thunder bolts and exhibits superior strength, locking the Enterprise in a forcefield that seems indestructible. Will Kirk and crew be held captive here for the rest of their lives?

Cast:
Apollo: Michael Forest.
Lieut. Carolyn Palamas: Leslie Parrish.
Lieut. Kyle: John Winston.

Additional Note:
The first of several classic episodes rooted in Greek mythology.

The first of Scotty's "unlucky-in-love" infatuations puts him in competition with the god Apollo as they rival for the affections of Lieut. Palamas."
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Episode: #34 "Amok Time"
Stardate: 3372.7
Date Aired: September 15, 1967
Writer: Theodore Sturgeon
Director: Joseph Pevney
Synopsis: It's Spock's time of "pon-farr", the Vulcan mating cycle. McCoy informs the Kirk that Spock will die unless they divert to Vulcan, his home planet immediately! There, T'Pring (Arlene Martel), Spock's arranged bride, chooses the rite of combat, forcing Spock to fight to the death for her. But she selects Kirk as her champion!

Cast:
T'Pring: Arlene Martel.
T'Pau: Celia Lovsky.
Storm: Lawrence Montaigne.
Admiral Komack: Byron Morrow.

Best Scene:
Spock's look of overwhelming joy when he realizes that Kirk lives thanks to a knockout drug McCoy injected into the captain during his pitched battle with Spock.

Additional Note:
Kirk and McCoy become the first "out-worlders" to witness the Vulcan marriage ceremony.

Kirk becomes the second Starfleet regular to be "killed," this time at the hands of his crew mate.

Show Watch:
In the 24th century, Capt. Picard would run afoul of Lwaxana Troi's Betazold mating cycle in ST: TNG's "Manhunt", while Deanna would initially greet her own prearranged betrothal with reluctance in "Haven".
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Episode: #35 "The Doomsday Machine"
Stardate: 4202.9
Date Aired: October 20, 1967
Writer: Norman Spinrad
Director: Marc Daniels
Synopsis: Planet eating berserker threatens Enterprise! A giant robot ship which consume planets for fuel has destroyed the U.S.S. Constellation, leaving only the guilt-ridden Commodore Decker (William Windom) aboard the crippled ship. Kirk beams over to effect repairs while Decker beams aboard the Enterprise. After Kirk loses radio contact with the Enterprise, the obsessed Commodore immediately seizes command from Spock! Decker is determined to destroy the planet killer, even at the cost of Kirk's ship and the entire crew!

Cast:
Commodore Decker: William Windom.
Lieut. Palmer: Elizabeth Rogers.
Elliot: John Copage.
Washburn: Richard Compton.

Show Watch:
The doomed commodore's son, Capt. Will Decker, would serve under Admiral Kirk and make a fateful sacrifice of his own in "Star Trek: The Motion Picture."

Additional Note:
This show was one of the first Star Trek episodes to draw heavily on special effects and opticals, in this case resulting in the ominous-looking planet killer, making the episode one of the season's strongest.

This is the first time we see two Constitution Class Starships at once, the U.S.S. Enterprise and the U.S.S. Constellation.
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Episode: #36 "Wolf In The Fold"
Stardate: 3614.9
Date Aired: December 22, 1967
Writer: Robert Bloch
Director: Joseph Pevney
Synopsis: Mr. Scott is recovering from an accidental head injury caused by a female crew member, so Kirk and McCoy take him to an Argelian nightclub. Scotty takes a shine to a lady who is then brutally murdered, and becomes the number one suspect when he's found nearby, holding a bloody knife! As the investigation proceeds, another woman's murder points to Scotty as the culprit. Has his head injury turned Scotty into a cold blooded lady killer?

Cast:
Hengist: John Fiedler.
Jaris: Charles Macaulay.
Sybo: Pilar Seurat.
Tark: Joseph Bernard.
Morla: Charles Dierkop.

Show Watch:
Scotty's 24th-century counterpart, Geordi La Forge, would find his own encounters with the opposite sex equally unrewarding, when the woman to whom he is drawn in ST: TNG's sixth season "Aquiel" is suspected of murder.

Also in this episode:
Scotty becomes the first Starfleet officer accused of murder.

The second of Scotty's "unlucky-in-love" mishaps, with none other than Jack the Ripper as his foil.
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Episode: #37 "The Changeling"
Stardate: 3451.9
Date Aired: September 29, 1967
Writer: John Meredyth Lucas
Director: Marc Daniels
Synopsis: Killer computer on the rampage! While investigating the destruction of the Malurian System and it's four billuion inhabitants, Kirk discovers "Nomad", a robotic space probe gone wild. Kirk beams it aboard the Enterprise, only to have it "kill" Scotty and erase Uhura's mind. It's next target, Earth! Can Kirk find a way to stop this deadly machine?

The voice of "Nomad" is Vic Perrin, head of the Halkan Council in the episode "Mirror, Mirror".

Cast:
Lieut. Singh: Blaisdell Makee.
Lieut. Carlisle: Arnold Lessing.
Voice of Nomad: Vic Perrin.

Best Dialogue:
After Kirk uses pure logic to defeat the alien space probe, he says to Spock, "You didn't think I had it in me, did you Spock?" The ever-truthful Vulcan replies, "No, sir."

Show Watch:
Twelve years later, this story line would provide part of the inspiration for the Vger space probe threat of "Star Trek: The Motion Picture".
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Episode: #38 "The Apple"
Stardate: 3715.0
Date Aired: October 13, 1967
Writer: Max Ehrlich, Gene L. Coon
Director: Joseph Pevney
Synopsis: On Gamma Triaguli VI, Kirk and a landing party are plagued by poisonous plants, exploding rocks, and attacks by lightning. They learn from the childlike natives that the planet is ruled by "Vaal", an all seeing "god" which interprets Kirk's presence as a threat to the stability of the culture. To preserve this simplistic society, Vaal plans to destroy Kirk and the Enterprise!

If you look closely at "Makora", you may recognize actor David Soul of "Starsky and Hutch".

Cast:
Akuta: Keith Andes.
Martha Landon: Celeste Yarnall.
Sayana: Shari Nims.
Ensign Mallory: Jay Jones.
Makora: David Soul.
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Episode: #39 "Mirror, Mirror"
Stardate: Unknown
Date Aired: October 6, 1967
Writer: Jerome Bixby
Director: Marc Daniels
Synopsis: Kirk, McCoy, Scotty, and Uhura are beaming back to the Enterprise when an ion storm causes a transporter malfunction. Instead of their own starship, they find themselves aboard a parallel Enterprise whose crew are unprincipled barbarians. The same storm has caused their malicious counterparts to beam aboard the real Enterprise! Kirk and company must find a way home before they are discovered by these alternate beings!

This episode is packed with subtle changes aboard the Enterprise, can you spot them?

Cast:
Marlena: Barbara Luna.
Tharn: Vic Perrin.

Show Watch:
In DS9's "Crossover", the crew would traverse darkly into the universe first viewed in this episode, while Sisko would have the opportunity to save his mirror wife from death in the parallel world in "Through the Looking Glass".

Additional Note:
This finely tailored script is the first to introduce the oft-repeated notion of a parallel universe, and in this case we're presented with an inverted Federation, one that's totally malevolent. Kirk faces his other self for the second time (it happened also in "The Enemy Within"). Tremendous attention to detail brings to life the mirror universe in which Kirk imperils his stranded fellow crew members by his show of mercy toward the alternate Halkans.
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Episode: #40 "The Deadly Years"
Stardate: 3478.2
Date Aired: December 8, 1967
Writer: David P. Harmon
Director: Joseph Pevney
Synopsis: On a routine mission to Gamma Hydr IV, Kirk and landing party are exposed to a deadly disease which cause accelerated aging. All of the landing party but Chekov are affected! With the leadership of the Enterprise now in the hands of the arthritic, cantankerous old men, passenger Commodore Stocker assumes command. But he takes the wrong course, violating the Romulan Neutral Zone and the Enterprise is under attack! Can McCoy find a remedy before the Romulans destroy them?

Cast:
Commodore Stocker: Charles Drake.
Dr. Janet Wallace: Sarah Marshall.
Lieut. Arlene Galway: Beverly Washburn.
Johnson: Felix Locher.

Best Line:
McCoy, cantankerous and stymied as the disease continues to progress: "I'm a doctor, not a magician."

Show Watch:
Premature aging would afflict later Starfleet personnel, including Dr. Pulaski in ST: TNG's "Unnatural Selection", and counselor Deanna Troi in "Man of the People".
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Episode: #41 "I Mudd"
Stardate: 4513.3
Date Aired: November 3, 1967
Writer: Stephen Kandel, David Gerrold
Director: Marc Daniels
Synopsis: Harry Mudd's at it again! That intergalactic rogue, Harcourt Fenton Mudd (Roger C. Carmel), returns to plague Captain Kirk! This time he's the self proclaimed emperor of a planet of beautiful female androids who exist solely to serve mankind. Harry sends a male android, Norman, to hijack the Enterprise to his planet so that the androids will have other humans to serve. But Harry's scheme backfires when Kirk and the Enterprise crew become the androids captives!

Cast:
Mudd: Roger C. Carmel.
Norman: Richard Tatro.
Lieut. Rowe: Mike Howden.
Ensign Jordan: Michael Zaslow.
Stella: Kay Elliot.
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Episode: #42 "The Trouble With Tribbles"
Stardate: 4523.3
Date Aired: December 29, 1967
Writer: David Gerrold
Director: Joseph Pevney
Synopsis: Tribbles, furry creatures that eat incessantly and multiply at warp speed, cause headaches for Kirk and company while on assignment to protect a grain shipment on Space Station K-7. Here, they encounter the cuddly creatures who've begun munching their way through the grain while rapidly filling every nook and cranny of the starship. Adding to Kirk's woes are a troublesome trader and some nasty Klingons bent on sabotaging the grain shipment!

Cast:
Nilz Baris: William Schallert.
Capt. Koloth: William Campbell.
Cyrano Jones: Stanley Adams.
Mr. Lurry: Whit Bissell.
Korax: Michael Pataki.

Best Scene:
Scotty admits to the bewildered Kirk that he started a fight with the Klingons not because they insulted the captain, but because they called the Enterprise a "garbage scow."

Best Line:
When Kirk asks what happened to all the Tribbles, who've disappeared from the ship, Scotty replies: "I transported the whole kit and caboodle into [the Klingon's] engine room, where they'll be no tribble at all."

Show Watch:
William Campbell, the Klingon commander Koloth, first appeared as Trelane in "The Squire of Gothos", and actor Stanley Adams, seen here as Cyrano Jones, would later co-write the third season's "The Mark of Gideon". Also, a prime example of Star Trek science rooted in reality: triticale, the parent strain of the genetically engineered quadrotriticale grain which is devoured by the hungry Tribbles, was actually developed as a cereal crop by scientists in 1954.
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Episode: #43 "Bread And Circuses"
Stardate: 4040.7
Date Aired: March 15, 1968
Writer: Gene L. Coon, Gene Roddenberry
Director: Ralph Senensky
Synopsis: Discovering the wreckage of the starship Beagle, Kirk, Spock, and McCoy beam down to planet 892-IV, to learn Beagle's Captain Merik betrayed his crew, beaming them down to the planet's Roman style arena to fight to their deaths. Then, Merik adds Kirk and his crew to the list of combatants! Spock and McCoy must fight each other, and Kirk is sentenced to die!

Watch for one of the finest McCoy/Spock dialogues ever, usually cut in syndication!

Cast:
Merik: William Smithers.
Claudius Marcus: Logan Ramsey.
Septimus: Ian Wolfe.
Flavius: Rhodes Reason.
Drusilla: Lois Jewell.
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Episode: #44 "Journey To Babel"
Stardate: 3842.3
Date Aired: November 17, 1967
Writer: D.C. Fontana
Director: Joseph Pevney
Synopsis: Spock's father suspected of murder! It's chaos aboard the Enterprise full of interplanetary diplomats enroute to a conference on Babel. Among them are Spock's father, Sarek (Mark Lenard), to whom Spock hasn't spoken to in years, and his mother, Amanda (Jane Wyatt). When a Tellerite is murdered, Sarek is the prime suspect but before the truth can be learned, Sarek suffers a heart attack. His only hope is a transfusion from Spock, who has replaced a wounded Kirk and refuses to leave the bridge.

Cast:
Sarek: Mark Lenard.
Amanda: Jane Wyatt.
Thelev: William O'Connell.
Shras: Reggie Nalder.
Gav: John Wheeler.

Best Dialogue:
Spock to Sarek, referring to his earthly mother: "Emotional, isn't she." Sarek: "She has always been that way." Spock: "Indeed? Why did you marry her?" Sarek: "At the time, it seemed the logical thing to do."

Show Watch:
The episode marks the second appearance of Mark Lenard, who made his earlier mark as a Romulan commander in "Balance of Terror", and would go on to play a Klingon in "Star Trek: The Motion Picture". Lenard would return as Sarek, his best-known role, in "Star Trek III: The Search for Spock", "Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home" and "Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country". He'd then return to the small screen as Sarek in Star Trek: The Next Generation's "Sarek" and "Unification, Part I".
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Episode: #45 "A Private Little War"
Stardate: 4211.4
Date Aired: February 2, 1968
Writer: Gene Roddenberry
Director: Marc Daniels
Synopsis: Kirk and company beam down to a primitive planet visited by Kirk thirteen years ago. But some of the once peaceful natives now have sophisticated weapons, courtesy of the Klingons! When the witch wife of tribal leader Tyree cures Kirk of a deadly bite, she succumbs to her magic. Can Kirk shake her spell and find a way to maintain the balance of power before the Klingons bring about total planetary warfare?

Cast:
Nona: Nancy Kovack.
Tyree: Michael Witney.
Apella: Lee Delano.
Krell: Arthur Bernard.
Yutan: Gary Pillar.

Additional Note:
Intended as a comment on the Vietnam War, which was being waged at the time.
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Episode: #46 "The Gamesters Of Triskelion"
Stardate: 3211.7
Date Aired: January 5, 1968
Writer: Margaret Armen
Director: Gene Nelson
Synopsis: Enterprise crew enslaved! Kirk, Uhura, and Chekov are intercepted beaming down to survey a planetoid and materialize instead on Triskeion, many parsecs from the Enterprise. They are enslaved and given "drill thralls", instructors who train them in the art of combat so that their unseen masters, the "Providers", can make wagers on the outcome. When the Enterprise arrives, Kirk decides to make the ultimate wager...

Cast:
Galt: Joseph Ruskin.
Shahna: Angelique Pettyjohn.
Lars: Steve Sandor.
Tamoon: Jane Ross.
Jana Haines: Victoria George.

Additional Note:
When Kirk, Uhura and Chekov are abducted, Kirk, as usual, gets the best end of the deal: While Chekov is trapped in his cell with an ugly thrall and Uhura is being mauled unseen by a brute, Kirk is teaching the gorgeous Shahna how to kiss and hug. Who says there aren't perks to being a Starfleet captain?
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Episode: #47 "Obsession"
Stardate: 3619.2
Date Aired: December 15, 1967
Writer: Art Wallace
Director: Ralph Senensky
Synopsis: Vampire cloud threatens Enterprise! When Kirk was a young lieutenant eleven years ago aboard the U.S.S. Farragut, a cloudlike creature killed half her crew. Kirk hesitated in firing upon the creature, and has been riddled with guilt ever since. Now the entity, which feeds upon human red blood cells, has returned to stalk the crew of the Enterprise! Kirk must find a way to stop this "vampire" cloud before it destroys his crew, and all humanoid life in the galaxy!

Cast:
Ensign Garrovick: Stephen Brooks.
Ensign Rizzo: Jerry Ayres.

Also in the episode:
The episode also reveals more about the biochemistry of Spock, whose blood is found to be distasteful to the creature.
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Episode: #48 "The Immunity Syndrome"
Stardate: 4307.1
Date Aired: January 19, 1968
Writer: Robert Saberoff
Director: Joseph Pevney
Synopsis: Kirk and his crew are sent to investigate when an entire solar system is destroyed by a gigantic single celled creature cutting a destructive swath through the universe. Kirk, Spock, and McCoy are frantically trying to devise some means to stop this entity when Spock makes a startling discovery, the giant amoeba is about to reproduce! Can they destroy it before it's too late?

This episode has some of the best special effects of the entire series.

Show Watch:
The roles would be reversed in the 24th century as Star Trek: Voyager's crew exposes an unknown life form to harm in "The Cloud".
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Episode: #49 "A Piece Of The Action"
Stardate: 4598.0
Date Aired: January 12, 1968
Writer: David P. Harmon, Gene L. Coon
Director: James Komack
Synopsis: It's been 100 years since the U.S.S. Horizon has visited the planet Iotia. What have the natives been up to? Kirk and the Enterprise crew quickly learn when they arrive to check on the planet's progress. The Iotians have developed a civilization based on a book the Horizon crew left: "Chicago Mobs of the Twenties". Suddenly Kirk and company are in the midst of a planetwide gang war!

Kirk's awkward attempt at driving is one of the most amusing moments of any episode!

Cast:
Oxmyx: Anthony Caruso.
Krako: Victor Tayback.
Kalo: Lee Delano.
Tepo: John Harmon.
Zabo: Steve Marlo.

Show Watch:
Aliens would be influenced by another book in ST: TNG's second season episode "The Royale".
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Episode: #50 "By Any Other Name"
Stardate: 4657.5
Date Aired: February 23, 1968
Writer: D.C. Fontana, Jerome Bixby
Director: Marc Daniels
Synopsis: Answering a distress call the Enterprise crew finds themselves lured into a trap by the Kelvans, aliens from the Andromeda Galaxy who have assumed human form. The Kelvans commandeer the starship, reduce the crew to crystalline blocks, and head for the Andromeda, where they plan to organize their race to take over our own galaxy! Can Kirk and Spock save not only the Enterprise, but the entire Milky Way Galaxy as well?

Cast:
Rojan: Warren Stevens.
Kelinda: Barbara Bouchet.
Hanar: Stewart Moss.
Tomar: Robert Fortier.
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Episode: #51 "Return To Tomorrow"
Stardate: 4768.3
Date Aired: February 9, 1968
Writer: Gene Roddenberry
Director: Ralph Senensky
Synopsis: Spock's body is hijacked! Kirk, Spock, and Dr. Ann Mulhall allow noncorporeal beings to inhabit their bodies while these aliens prepare androids for themselves. Every moment the beings remain in the host's bodies puts terrible stress on Kirk, Spock, and Mulhall. Then one of the entities decides that android life isn't for him, and secretly plans to remain in Spock's body! And to assume Spock's body he must kill Kirk!

Recognize Sargons voice? It's James "Scotty" Doohan!

Cast:
Dr. Ann Mulhall: Diana Muldaur.
Sargon (voice): James Doohan.
Sargon (body): William Shatner.
Nurse: Cindy Lou.

Show Watch:
Diana Muldaur would return as Dr. Miranda Jones in the third season's "Is There In Truth No Beauty?" and twenty years later as Dr. Kate Pulaski in ST: TNG's second season.
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Episode: #52 "Patterns Of Force"
Stardate: 2534.0
Date Aired: February 16, 1968
Writer: John Meredyth Lucas
Director: Vincent McEveety
Synopsis: Enterprise threatened by 23rd century Nazis! On a routine check on planet Ekos, the Enterprise is fired upon by nuclear missiles. Kirk and Spock investigate and find the planet is controlled by latter day Nazis! The Prime Directive has been violated, a Federation advisor's experiment in efficient government has gotten out of control, and a warrouted in racial hatred is being waged against a peaceful neighboring planet. Can Kirk and Spock end this bloody conflict and re-establish peace?

Cast:
John Gill: David Brian.
Melakon: Skip Homeier.
Isak: Richard Evans.
Daras: Valora Noland.
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Episode: #53 "The Ultimate Computer"
Stardate: 4729.4
Date Aired: March 8, 1968
Writer: D.C. Fontana
Director: John Meredyth Lucas
Synopsis: Starfleet is testing the M-5, a sophisticated computer, aboard the Enterprise. With a skeleton crew, M-5 is permitted to control the starship as Kirk stands by helplessly. All goes well until M-5 mistakes war games for the real thing, destroys the Excalibur and won't relinquish control of the Enterprise!

Another classic episode of Kirk vs. computer

Cast:
Dr. Richard Daystrom: William Marshall.
Wesley: Barry Russo.
Harper: Sean Morgan.

Additional Note:
The recurring Star Trek notion of man being replaced by machine began with this episode. In the early stages, Kirk actually appears to be jealous of the M- 5, which seems to do a better job of running the Enterprise than he does.
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Episode: #54 "The Omega Glory"
Stardate: Unknown
Date Aired: March 1, 1968
Writer: Gene Roddenberry
Director: Vincent McEveety
Synopsis: Planet of immortality? Kirk, Spock, and McCoy beam aboard the Exeter, in orbit around Omega IV. There, they discover her crew reduced to crystalized powder caused by a deadly virus to which Kirk and the others have now been exposed. On the planet, they learn Exeter's Captain Tracey has violated the Prime Directive, meddling in the natives affairs because he thinks the planet's atmosphere grants immortality. Tracey's power-hungry, and not even Kirk can stand in this madman's way!

Cast:
Capt. Tracey: Morgan Woodward.
Cloud William: Roy Jenson.
Sirah: Irene Kelly.
Lieut. Galloway: David L. Ross.
Lieut. Leslie: Eddie Paskey.
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Episode: #55 "Assignment: Earth"
Stardate: Unknown
Date Aired: March 29, 1968
Writer: Art Wallace (story by Gene Roddenberry)
Director: Marc Daniels
Synopsis: Enterprise returns to 20th century Earth! On a research voyage to 1968, the Enterprise intercepts a humanoid space traveller named Gary Seven (Robert Lansing). Seven claims he's an Earthman raised on another planet whose mission is to save Earth from destroying itself. Can Kirk trust this mysterious visitor? If not, Seven warns that World War III is about to start, and Earth's history will be changed forever!

This episode was actually a "pilot" for the proposed new series by Gene Roddenberry.

Cast:
Gary Seven: Robert Lansing.
Roberta Lincoln: Teri Garr.
Mr. Cromwell: Jim Keefer.
Col. Nesvig: Morgan Jones.

Star Watch:
This was one of the first TV appearances by Teri Garr, who would go on to star in big-league films like "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" and the hilarious "Tootsie".

Show Watch:
The second appearance of a shape-shifter: Gary Seven's cat, Isis. The shape-shifter concept would be more fully developed on DS9 in the form of Odo.
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Episode: #56 "Specter Of The Gun"
Stardate: 4385.3
Date Aired: October 25, 1968
Writer: Lee Cronin, Gene L. Coon
Director: Vincent McEveety
Synopsis: Shootout in the old west! When Kirk ignores a warning buoy guarding Melkotian space, the Melkots demand punishment for Kirk and company on their bizarre planet. In a 19th century Earth "Wild West" town, Kirk and others are forced to play the roles of the notorious Clanton gang. They're ordered to face the Earp's in the "gun fight at the ok corral"! And historically, the Clantons died in that shootout!

Recognize the voice of the warning buoy? It's James "Scotty" Doohan!

Cast:
Wyatt Earp: Ron Soble.
Morgan Earp: Rex Holman.
Sylvia: Bonnie Beecher.
Virgil Earp: Charles Maxwell.
Doc Holliday: Sam Gilman.

Additional Note:
Chekov is killed prior to the shootout, becoming the third regular crew member to return from the dead.
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Episode: #57 "Elaan Of Troyius"
Stardate: 4372.5
Date Aired: December 20, 1968
Writer: John Meredyth Lucas
Director: John Meredyth Lucas
Synopsis: Kirk must tame alien shrew! To promote peace between two warring planets, Elaan, the beautiful Dohlman of Elas, is to wed the leader of the rival planet Troyius. Kirk and the Enterprise are assigned to deliver the reluctant bride, whose unruly behavior threatens to cost Kirk his ship! With Klingons about to attack, Kirk has fallen hopelessly in love with Elaan, whose tears no man can resist. Will the captain break free of her spell in time to save the Enterprise?

Cast:
Elaan: France Nuyen
Lord Petri: Jay Robinson.
Kryton: Tony Young.
Technician Watson: Victor Brandt
Evans: Lee Duncan

Show Watch:
In the 24th century, Picard would fall in love with the beautiful Kamala, destined for an arranged marriage in ST: TNG's "The Perfect Mate".
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Episode: #58 "The Paradise Syndrome"
Stardate: 4842.6
Date Aired: October 4, 1968
Writer: Margaret Armin
Director: Jud Taylor
Synopsis: The Enterprise's mission: to deflect an asteroid from colliding with a planet. But shortly after Kirk, Spock, and McCoy beam down to survey the planet, Kirk vanishes. Spock and McCoy reluctantly beam up so the Enterprise can attempt destruction of the asteroid. Meanwhile, on the planet, Kirk is assimilated into the native culture....

Cast:
Miramanee: Sabrina Scharf.
Salish: Rudy Solari.
Goro: Richard Hale.

Show Watch:
In the 24th century, Picard would also be mistaken for a god in Star Trek: The Next Generation's "Who Watches the Watchers?" In the fifth-season episode "The Inner Light", Jean-Luc, the victim of probe-induced amnesia, would also experience domestic tranquility.
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Episode: #59 "The Enterprise Incident"
Stardate: 5031.3
Date Aired: September 27, 1968
Writer: D.C Fontana
Director: John Meredyth Lucas
Synopsis: Is Mr. Spock a traitor? Kirk appears to be suffering from a nervous breakdown and orders the Enterprise into forbidden Romulan territory. Suddenly the Enterprise is surrounded by three Romulan ships demanding Kirks surrender! Aboard the enemy vessel, Spock denounces Kirks and appears to show interest in the Romulan female commander. Kirk then attacks Mr. Spock, who uses the Vulcan Death Grip on his captain! Has Spock killed Captain Kirk? And how can the Enterprise escape from the treacherous Romulans?

Cast:
Romulan commander: Joanne Linville.
Tal: Jack Donner.

Show Watch:
In the 24th century, an unwilling Counselor Troi would be surgically altered to resemble a Romulan when conscripted into a spy mission (The Next Generation's "Face of the Enemy").

Also in this episode:
For the second time, Spock appears to kill Capt. Kirk, using the non-existent Vulcan death grip.

This is the first time we see a Federation Starship have the ability to cloak.
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Episode: #60 "And The Children Shall Lead"
Stardate: 5027.3
Date Aired: October 11, 1968
Writer: Edward J. Lakso
Director: Marvin Chomsky
Synopsis: On Triacus, Kirk and his crew learn that all the adults of an expedition there have committed suicide, yet their children are completely unmoved by their parent's deaths. Kirk senses "something evil" but cannot identify the source. The children beam aboard the starship and, unknown to Kirk, so does the evil entity! Chaos ensues as this "Friendly Angel" is summoned by the children at will...

Cast:
Gorgan: Melvin Belli.
Professor Starnes: James Wellman.
Tommy: Craig Hundley.
Mary: Pamelyn Ferdin.
Don: Mark Robert Brown.
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Episode: #61 "Spock's Brain"
Stardate: 5431.4
Date Aired: September 20, 1968
Writer: Lee Cronin, Gene L. Coon
Director: Marc Daniels
Synopsis: A mysterious woman materializes aboard the Enterprise and renders the entire crew unconcious. Upon awakening, they discover the woman has disappeared, along with Spock's brain! McCoy is able to keep Spock's body alive while Kirk and crew follow the woman's trail to her home planet. There, they find Spock's brain serving as a control center for the planets power system. Will they be able to recapture Spock's brain and re-unite it with his body? If not Spock will surely die!

Cast:
Kara: Marj Dusay.
Luma: Sheila Leighton.
Morg creature: James Daris.

Additional Note:
DeForest Kelly has some of his best moments as the unflappable Dr. McCoy begins to lose his nerve, and alien induced expertise, while attempting to reconnect Spock's brain in his cranium.
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Episode: #62 "Is There No Truth In Beauty"
Stardate: 5630.7
Date Aired: October 18, 1968
Writer: Jean Lisette Aroeste
Director: Ralph Senensky
Synopsis: The Enterprise beams aboard three passengers on a peaceful mission, telepath Dr. Mirand Jones (Diana Muldaur), scientist Lawrence Marvick, and Medusan ambassador Kollos, a non corporeal being concealed in a container because his appearance can drive humans insane. Marvick is jealous of Jones telepathic relationship with the Medusan, and plots Kolluos' murder. But he accidentally see Kollos, goes mad, and hijacks the Enterprise!

Cast:
Dr. Miranda Jones: Diana Muldaur.
Marvick: David Frankham .

Show Watch:
This episode marks Diana Muldaur's return to the series after the second season's "Return to Tomorrow".
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Episode: #63 "The Empath"
Stardate: 5121.0
Date Aired: December 6, 1968
Writer: Joyce Muskat
Director: John Erman
Synopsis: McCoy tortured by aliens! While searching for missing Federation researchers, Kirk, Spock, and McCoy are captured by Vians, aliens who plan to use them for research! Materializing in an unknown location, our trio meets "Gem, a mute woman and "empath" who cures injuries by absorbing the pain of others. After a demonstration of her abilities on Kirk and McCoy, the Vians give her a test. Her planet will be saved if she gives her life to save Dr. McCoy!

Cast:
Gem: Kathryn Hays.
Lal: Alan Bergmann.
Thann: William Sage.
Dr. Linke: Jason Wingreen.

Show Watch:
Crew members would also undergo horrible experiments in ST: TNG's "Schisms".
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Episode: #64 "The Tholian Web"
Stardate: 5693.4
Date Aired: November 15, 1968
Writer: Judy Burns, Chet Richards
Director: Ralph Senensky
Synopsis: Kirk, Spock, and McCoy beam aboard the U.S.S. Defiant, adrift in space, and find that her crew is dead. The Defiant is caught in an interphase between alternate universes, and although Spock and McCoy beam back safely, Kirk becomes trapped between dimensions! Then aliens called Tholians accuse the Enterprise of trespassing into their space and begin weaving an incredible energy web around the starship. Will Spock be able to save the Enterprise and rescue Kirk from this deadly web?

Show Watch:
Note the use of spacesuits, rarely seen in the Star Trek series or movies. Spock would don a similar suit near the end of "Star Trek: The Motion Picture".

Just as the crew in this episode mourned Kirk, who they believed to be dead, the 24th-century crew would hold memorial services for Geordi and Ro, when they were thought to have been killed in ST: TNG's "The Next Phase".

The U.S.S. Defiant would be the name given to the ship introduced in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine's third season.
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Episode: #65 "For The World Is Hollow And I Have Touched The Sky"
Stardate: 5476.3
Date Aired: November 8, 1968
Writer: Rick Vollaerts
Director: Tony Leader
Synopsis: The Enterprise discovers the planet Yonoda is on a collision course with an asteroid, and Kirk, Spock, and McCoy beam down to warn the Yonodans. But unknown to these people, their "planet" is actually a spaceship sent by their ancestors to colonize a new planet. The ship is controlled by the Oracle, an unrelenting computer, and all will die if Kirk and others are unable to free the planet-ship from the Oracles control!

One of the best McCoy stories ever!

Cast:
Natira: Kate Woodville.
Admiral Westervliet: Byron Morrow.

Additional Note:
The asteroid ship's computer is called "The Oracle", which is adapted from the Greek myths about an entity who has the ability to foresee the future.

Spock learns that the Fabrini had supplied the Asteroid-Ship's computer database with a vast amount of medical records. McCoy finds a treatment for his fatal ailment, which eventually prolongs his life to appear on ST:TNG episode "Encounter at Farpoint".
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Episode: #66 "Day Of The Dove"
Stardate: Unknown
Date Aired: November 1, 1968
Writer: Jerome Bixby
Director: Marvin Chomsky
Synopsis: Enterprise and Klingons forced to fight! Kirk receives a distress signal from a Federation colony but instead of finding survivors he finds a disabled Klingon ship. Kang, the Klingon commander, is convinced the Enterprise attacked his vessel, while Kirk blames the the Klingons for destroying the colony. Aboard the Enterprise, Klingons take on Kirk's crew. Both sides are kept evenly matched and even fatal wounds heal instantly! Who, or what is controlling them, and why?

Cast:
Kang: Michael Ansara.
Mara: Susan Howard.

Best Scene:
Watch the finale in which Kirk can barely resist the urge to thump his Klingon counterpart, all the while pretending to befriend his mortal enemy to drive the alien entity off his ship.

Star Watch:
Actor Michael Ansara would reprise the Klingon character Kang in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Blood Oath".

Show Watch:
The first and only classic episode to feature a female Klingon: Mara, played by Susan Howard.
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Episode: #67 "Plato's Stepchildren"
Stardate: 5784.0
Date Aired: November 22, 1968
Writer: Meyer Dolinsky
Director: David Alexander
Synopsis: The Enterprise answers a distress call from Platonius and Kirk, Spock, and McCoy beam down to help Parmen, the planet's ailing leader. Parmen and his friends have developed incredible telekinetic abilities, and they use their powerful minds to force Kirk and company to remain there. The Enterprise crew are then subjected to humiliating experiences! How can Kirk escape the influence of Parmen's mind and regain control of the Enterprise?

This episode featured the first inter-racial kiss on network television!

Cast:
Alexander: Michael Dunn.
Parmen: Liam Sullivan.
Philana: Barbara Babcock.
Eraclitus: Ted Scott.

Star Watch:
Barbara Babcock (Hill Street Blues) made an earlier appearance in "A Taste of Armageddon" and supplied the voice of Trelane's mother in "The Squire of Gothos".
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Episode: #68 "Wink OF An Eye"
Stardate: 5710.5
Date Aired: November 29, 1968
Writer: Arthur Heinemann, Gene L. Coon
Director: Jud Taylor
Synopsis: Responding to a call from Scalos, Kirk and company beam down to find the city deserted, except for the insect like buzzing sounds. Then a member of the landing party sips some water and vanishes! Back aboard the Enterprise, Kirk drinks coffee and also disappears! He finds himself in accelerated time, the love-slave of the Scalosian queen, who sabotages the Enterprise and plans to use Kirk to help repopulate her planet! Can Kirk escape her charms and rescue the crew of the Enterprise?

Cast:
Deela: Kathie Browne.
Rael: Jason Evers.
Ekor: Eric Holland.
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Episode: #69 "That Which Survives"
Stardate: Unknown
Date Aired: November 1, 1968
Writer: John Meredyth Lucas, Gene L. Coon
Director: Herb Wallerstein
Synopsis: Kirk, McCoy, Sulu, and geologist D'Amato beam down to investigate a geologically unstable planet. They are greeted by Losira, a beautiful woman whose touch means instant death! Meanwhile, a power surge has hurled the Enterprise 1000 light years from Kirk and company, stranding them on this hostile planet. Losira has sabotaged the starship, and if Scotty can't make repairs quickly, it will explode!

Cast:
Losira: Lee Meriwether.
Lieut. D'Amato: Arthur Batanides.
Lieut. Rahda: Naomi Pollack.

Star Watch:
Former Miss America Lee Meriwether went on to co-star with Buddy Ebsen (The Beverly Hillbillies) in the '70s television series Barnaby Jones."
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Episode: #70 "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield"
Stardate: 5730.2
Date Aired: January 10, 1969
Writer: Oliver Crawford, Gene L. Coon
Director: Jud Taylor
Synopsis: The Enterprise encounters a damaged stolen shuttle craft and Kirk beams aboard a being named Lokai, a half black, half white fugitive. Soon his pursuer, Bele (Frank Gorshin), an alien of similar coloring, beams aboard, determined to take Lokai prisoner. When Kirk tries to intervene, Bele gains control of the Enterprise and threatens to destroy it!

Listen to the self destruct sequence in this episode. It was used word for word in "Star Trek III: The Search For Spock".

Cast:
Bele: Frank Gorshin.
Lokai: Lou Antonio.

Star Watch:
Another veteran of the original Batman TV series comes on set: Frank Gorshin, the maniacal Riddler.
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Episode: #71 "Whom Gods Destroy"
Stardate: 5718.3
Date Aired: January 3, 1969
Writer: Lee Erwin
Director: Herb Wallerstein
Synopsis: Inmates take over the asylum! Kirk and company are delivering wonder drugs to a group of criminally insane beings on Elba II. Upon beaming down, they greet the colony's governor, only to learn that he is really Garth, one of the inmates, with the power to assume any form! He captures Kirk and activates the forcefield around Elba. Garth's goal, to take over the Enterprise and become master of the Universe! Can Kirk break free of this madman's power?

Cast:
Garth: Steve Ihnat.
Marta: Yvonne Craig.
Cory: Keye Luke.

Star Watch:
Yvonne Craig went on to play television's Batgirl for two seasons on Batman.
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Episode: 72 "The Mark Of Giddeon"
Stardate: 5423.4
Date Aired: January 17, 1969
Writer: George F. Slavin, Stanley Adams
Director: Jud Taylor
Synopsis: On a mission to recruit Gideon into the Federation, Kirk beams down, only to find himself aboard a totally deserted Enterprise! The only being he encounters is a mysterious and beautiful woman named Odona, who claims to know nothing. Meanwhile, Spock learns that Kirk has not reached the planet's surface, and when the Gideon council refuses to help, he suspects that the Captain may have been kidnapped! What does Odona want from Kirk, and why are the Gideons being so uncooperative?

Cast:
Odona: Sharon Acker.
Hodin: David Hurst.
Krodak: Gene Dynarski.

Show Watch:
In the 24th century, Dr. Crusher would similarly experience the loss of the entire crew in ST: TNG's fourth season "Remember Me", while Riker would experience the involuntary use of his DNA by the Mariposans in the second season's "Up the Long Ladder".
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Episode: #73 "The Lights Of Zetar"
Stardate: 5725.3
Date Aired: January 31, 1969
Writer: Jeremy Tarcher, Shari Lewis
Director: Herb Kenwith
Synopsis: Lt. Mira Romaine is being transported to Memory Alpha, a planetoid housing the Federations central library, where she'll supervise the transfer of new equipment. But an energy "storm" destroys all life on Memory Alpha and then penetrates the Enterprise, where the "storm, strange colored light entities from the planet Zetar, takes possession of Mira. If Kirk can't find a way to exorsize the Zetarians, they'll kill Mira and the crew, much to the dismay of Scotty, who's fallen in love with her!

Cast:
Lieut. Mira Romaine: Jan Shutan.
Lieut. Kyle: John Winston.
Rindonian: Libby Erwin.

Additional Note:
Scotty is unlucky in love for the third time, he becomes infatuated with Mira. Still, Scotty remains devoted and accepts Mira's first devotion to science as she departs.
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Episode: #74 "The Cloud Minders"
Stardate: 5818.4
Date Aired: February 28, 1969
Writer: Margaret Armin
Director: Jud Taylor
Synopsis: When an epidemic strikes a Federation planet, Kirk and the Enterprise head for Ardana, the only planet where the antidote, zienite is mined. But Kirk discovers the miners, called Troglytes, suspicious of Kirk's motives, refuse to give up the zienite. Without it, billions will die!

Cast:
Plasus: Jeff Corey.
Droxine: Diana Ewing.
Vanna: Charlene Polite.
Anka: Fred Williamson.

Star Watch:
Fred Williamson, the Troglyte Anka, was a former all-star NFL running back. Jeff Corey was one of Leonard Nimoy's early acting coaches.
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Episode: #75 "The Way To Eden"
Stardate: 5832.3
Date Aired: February 21, 1969
Writer: Arthur Heinemann, D.C. Fontana
Director: David Alexander
Synopsis: Kirk pursues the stolen ship Aurora and just before it explodes he beams aboard the survivors, rebellious idealists in search of the fabled planet Eden. Their leader, Dr. Servin, suffers from a deadly disease which has rendered him insane. After gaining Kirk's trust Servin and his followers take control of the Enterprise. Their goal: Eden. Their means, any, including, the death of Kirk and his crew, if necessary!

Watch for the rare "jam" session with Spock playing his Vulcan Lyre.

Cast:
Dr. Sevrin: Skip Homeier.
Adam: Charles Napier.
Tongo Rad: Victor Brandt.
Mavig: Deborah Downey.

Star Watch:
Charles Napier, who plays Adam, would become a character actor with key roles in award-winning films like "The Silence of the Lambs" and "Philadelphia".
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Episode: #76 "Requiem For Methuselah"
Stardate: 5843.7
Date Aired: February 14, 1969
Writer: Jerome Bixby
Director: Murray Golden
Synopsis: Epidemic strikes the Enterprise crew! When deadly Rigellian fever strikes the starship's crew, Kirk takes the Enterprise to a nearby planet to collect and refine ryetalyn, the only know antidote. There Kirk, Spock, and McCoy encounter Flint, a strange, apparently immortal genius. Flint become jealous when Kirk falls in love with Rayna, his beautiful ward and uses his powers to immobilize the Enterprise! Can Kirk convince Flint to release his ship, or are they doomed victims of this fatal disease?

Cast:
Flint: James Daly.
Rayna: Louise Sorel.

Best Scene:
Spock uses a Vulcan mindmeld to erase Kirk's pain of losing Rayna.

Star Watch:
The late actor James Daly, who plays Flint, starred in the '70s series Medical Center, and is the father of Cagney & Lacey's Tyne Daly and Wings' Tim Daly. Louise Sorel plays on Days of Our Lives.
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Episode: #77 "The Savage Curtain"
Stardate: 5906.4
Date Aired: March 7, 1969
Writer: Gene Roddenberry, Arthur Heinemann
Director: Herschel Daugherty
Synopsis: Ultimate battle of good and evil? While surveying a planet composed of lava, the crew of the Enterprise is startled when Abraham Lincoln requests permission to aboard! Intruiged, Kirk affords him due honors, then he and Spock follow Lincoln to the planet where they meet Yarnek, a rock creature. Yarnek pits the "good" men against the "evil", so his race can learn which is stronger. The stakes are high, if Kirk loses, Yarnek will destroy the Enterprise!

Cast:
Lincoln: Lee Bergere.
Col. Green: Phillip Pine.
Zora: Carol Daniels Demerit.
Surak: Barry Atwater.
Genghis Khan: Nathan Jung.
Kahless: Robert Herron.

Show Watch:
First glimpse of Kahless, the legendary Klingon warrior, whom Worf would meet face to face in Star Trek: The Next Generation's "Rightful Heir" and who would return in Deep Space Nine's "The Sword of Kahless".
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Episode: #78 "All Of Our Yesterdays"
Stardate: 5943.7
Date Aired: March 14, 1969
Writer: Jean Lisette Aroeste
Director: Marvin Chomsky
Synopsis: Kirk, Spock, and McCoy beam down to Sarpeidon to rescue inhabitants before its sun explodes. But they arrive to find only Mr. Atoz, the planet's librarian, who has helped all the others to safety via a time machine. When Kirk accidentally enters the past, Spock and McCoy attempt a rescue, emerging in a bitter ice age! Spock, now a throwback to earlier Vulcan times, falls in love with a beautiful woman and has no intention of returning to Kirk or the Enterprise!

Note the Librarians name "Atoz", A-to-Z, fitting name for his position.

Cast:
Zarabeth: Marlette Hartley.
Atoz: Ian Wolfe.
Prosecutor: Kermit Murdock.

Show Watch:
The U.S.S. Enterprise's 24th-century personnel would regress to an earlier stage of evolution in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Genesis".
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Episode: #79 "Turnabout Intruder"
Stardate: 5298.5
Date Aired: June 3, 1969
Writer: Arthur H. Singer, Gene Roddenberry
Director: Herb Wallerstein
Synopsis: The Enterprise receives a distress call from Camus II, where they find all but two inhabitants dead from radiation. One survivor, Janice Lester, is an old friend of Kirk's. But she despises him and uses an alien technique to exchange bodies with him. When Kirk/Janice tries to explain things, Spock, Scotty, and McCoy are accused of mutiny and Janice/Kirk calls for the death penalty!

This is the only time Kirk was played by another actor, Sandra Smith as Kirk/Janice.

Cast:
Dr. Janice Lester: Sandra Smith.
Dr. Coleman: Harry Landers.

Additional Note:
In what would be the last episode of the classic series, William Shatner has some of his best acting moments as the personality of Janice Lester merges with Capt. Kirk's body. Spock is again court-martialed (this also happened in the first season episode "The Menagerie").
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