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Star Trek: The Original Series

Star Trek: The Original Series (referred to as Star Trek prior to any spin-offs) is the first Star Trek series. The first episode of the show aired on 6 September 1966 on CTV in Canada, followed by a 8 September 1966 airing on NBC in America. The show was created by Gene Roddenberry as a " Wagon Train to the Stars". Star Trek was set in the 23rd century and featured the voyages of the starship USS Enterprise under Captain James T. Kirk .

Star Trek was later informally dubbed The Original Series , or TOS, after several spin-offs aired. The show lasted three seasons until canceled in 1969 . When the show first aired on TV, and until lowering budget issues in its third season resulted in a noticable drop in quality episodes and placed in a 10 pm Friday night death slot by the network, Star Trek regularly performed respectably in its time slot. After it was canceled and went into syndication , however, its popularity exploded. It featured themes such as a Utopian society and racial equality, and the first African-American officer in a recurring role.

Ten years later, Star Trek: The Motion Picture reunited the cast on the big screen aboard a refurbished USS Enterprise . They appeared in five subsequent films, ending with Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country in 1991, during production of the spin-off series Star Trek: The Next Generation and shortly before Gene Roddenberry's death. Several original series characters also appeared in the seventh movie, Star Trek Generations , and in other Star Trek productions.

1 Opening credits
2.1 Starring
2.2 Also starring
2.3 Co-stars
3 Production crew
4.1 First pilot
4.2 Season 1
4.3 Season 2
4.4 Season 3
5.1 Concept
5.2 The first pilot
5.3 The second pilot
5.4 The series begins
5.5 The first season
5.6 Syndication
5.7 Reception
5.8 Remastered
6 Related topics
8 External links

Opening credits [ ]

Main Title Theme (Season 1) file info (composed by Alexander Courage )
Main Title Theme (Season 2-3) file info (composed by Alexander Courage )

Main cast [ ]

Starring [ ].

William Shatner as Captain Kirk

Jeffrey Hunter , who portrayed Captain Pike , was the only star listed in the original pilot 's opening credits.

Also starring [ ]

Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock
DeForest Kelley as Dr. McCoy

DeForest Kelley was listed as a co-star from 1966 through 1967 before appearing in the opening credits as "also starring" from 1967 through 1969 .

Co-stars [ ]

James Doohan as Scotty
Nichelle Nichols as Uhura
George Takei as Sulu
Walter Koenig as Chekov ( 1967 - 1969 )
Majel Barrett-Roddenberry as Christine Chapel
Grace Lee Whitney as Janice Rand

Production crew [ ]

Gene Roddenberry – Creator, Writer, Producer, Executive Producer
Gene L. Coon – Writer, Producer
John Meredyth Lucas – Writer, Producer, Director
Fred Freiberger – Producer (1968-69)
Robert H. Justman – Associate Producer (Season 1-2), Co-Producer (Season 3), First Assistant Director (two pilots)
D.C. Fontana – Writer, Script Consultant (1967-68)
Steven W. Carabatsos – Writer, Story Consultant (1966)
John D.F. Black – Associate Producer, Writer, Story Editor (1966)
Arthur H. Singer – Story Consultant (1968-69)
Byron Haskin – Associate Producer (first pilot)
Walter "Matt" Jefferies – Production Designer, Art Director
William E. Snyder – Director of Photography (first pilot)
Ernest Haller – Director of Photography (second pilot)
Jerry Finnerman – Director of Photography (61 episodes, 1966-1968)
Keith Smith – Director of Photography (1 episode, 1967)
Al Francis – Director of Photography (16 episodes, 1968-1969), Camera Operator (61 episodes, 1966-1968)
Jim Rugg – Supervisor of Special Effects
Rolland M. Brooks – Art Director (34 episodes, 1965-1967)
Fred B. Phillips – Make-up Artist
Robert Dawn – Make-up Artist (second pilot)
William Ware Theiss – Costume Designer
Gregg Peters – First Assistant Director (Season 1), Unit Production Manager (Season 2-3), Associate Producer (Season 3)
Claude Binyon, Jr. – Assistant Director (third season)

Episode list [ ]

List of TOS episodes by airdate
List of TOS remastered episodes by airdate

First pilot [ ]

Season 1 [ ].

TOS Season 1 , 29 episodes:

Season 2 [ ]

TOS Season 2 , 26 episodes:

Season 3 [ ]

TOS Season 3 , 24 episodes:

Behind the scenes [ ]

Concept [ ].

Star Trek was created by Gene Roddenberry, whose interest in science fiction dated back to the 1940s when he came into contact with Astounding Stories . Roddenberry's first produced science fiction story was The Secret Weapon of 117 , which aired in 1956 on the Chevron Theatre anthology show. By 1963 Roddenberry was producing his first television series, The Lieutenant , at MGM .

In 1963, MGM was of the opinion that "true-to-life" television dramas were becoming less popular and an action-adventure show would be more profitable (this prediction turned out to be right, and led to series such as The Man from U.N.C.L.E ). Roddenberry had already been working on a science fiction concept called Star Trek since 1960 , and when he told MGM about his ideas, they were willing to take a look at them. As the production of The Lieutenant came to an end, Roddenberry delivered his first Star Trek draft to MGM. The studio was, however, not enthusiastic about the concept, and a series was never produced.

Roddenberry tried to sell his " wagon train to the stars " format to several production studios afterward, but to no avail. In 1964 , it was rumored that Desilu was interested in buying a new television series. Desilu was a much smaller company than MGM, but Roddenberry took his chances, greatly aided with the help of Desilu Executive Herb Solow . This led to a three-year deal with Desilu in April 1964 .

The first attempt to sell the Star Trek format to broadcasting network CBS (Desilu had a first proposal deal with the network) failed. CBS chose another science fiction project, Irwin Allen 's more family-oriented Lost in Space instead of Roddenberry's more cerebral approach. But in May 1964 , NBC 's Vice-President of Programming Mort Werner agreed to give Roddenberry the chance to write three story outlines, one of which NBC would select to turn into a pilot.

One of the submitted story lines, dated 29 June 1964 , was an outline for " The Cage ", and this was the story picked up by NBC. Now, the daunting task that Roddenberry and his crew faced was to develop the Star Trek universe from scratch. Roddenberry recruited many people around him to help think up his version of the future. The RAND Corporation's Harvey P. Lynn acted as a scientific consultant, Pato Guzman was hired as art director, with Matt Jefferies as an assisting production designer. This phase of creativity and brainstorming lasted throughout the summer, until in the last week of September 1964 the final draft of the "The Cage" script was delivered to NBC, after which shooting of the pilot was approved.

The first pilot [ ]

In early October, preparations for shooting "The Cage" began. A few changes in the production crew were made: Roddenberry hired Morris Chapnick , who had worked with him on The Lieutenant , as his assistant. Pato Guzman left to return to Chile and was replaced by Franz Bachelin . Matt Jefferies finalized the design for the Enterprise and various props and interiors. By November 1964 , the sets were ready to be constructed on stages Culver Studios Stage 14 , 15 , and 16 . Roddenberry was not happy with the stages, since they had uneven floors and were not soundproof, as Culver Studios had been established in the silent movie era when soundproofing had not been an issue to consider. Eventually, in 1966 , the rest of the series was shot on Paramount stages 9 and 10 , which were in better shape.

Casting of the characters was not a problem, apart from the lead role of Captain Pike (still known as "Captain April " at this point, later renamed "Captain Winter" before finally choosing "Pike") who Roddenberry convinced Jeffrey Hunter to play. Leonard Nimoy ( Spock ) had worked with Roddenberry on The Lieutenant . Majel Barrett , also a familiar face from The Lieutenant , got the part of the ship's female first officer, Number One . Veteran character actor John Hoyt , who had worked on many science fiction and fantasy projects before, was chosen to play the role of Doctor Phil Boyce . Young Peter Duryea and Laurel Goodwin were hired as José Tyler and Yeoman J.M. Colt , respectively. The extras were cast from a diversity of ethnic groups, which was significant because integration was not a usual occurrence in 1960s television, and segregation was still a reality in the United States.

To produce the pilot episode, Robert H. Justman was hired as assistant director; he had worked on The Outer Limits shortly before. Makeup artist Fred Phillips was brought in as well, whose first job it was to create Spock's ears. Another veteran from The Outer Limits was producer-director Byron Haskin , who joined as associate producer. On 27 November 1964 , the first scenes of "The Cage" (or "The Menagerie," as it was briefly known), were shot. Filming was scheduled to be eleven days, however the production went highly over budget and over schedule, resulting in sixteen shooting days and US$164,248 plus expenses.

But there were still a lot of visual effects to be made. An eleven-foot filming model of the USS Enterprise , designed by Matt Jefferies, was built by Richard Datin , Mel Keys , and Vern Sion in Volmer Jensen 's model shop , and was delivered to the Howard Anderson Company on 29 December 1964 .

In February 1965 , the final version of "The Cage" was delivered at NBC and screened in New York City. NBC officials liked the first pilot. Desilu's Herb Solow says that NBC was surprised by how realistic it looked, and that it was "the most fantastic thing we've ever seen." The reason the pilot was rejected was because it was believed that it would attract only a small audience, and they wanted more action and adventure. They also had problems with the "satanic" Spock and the female first officer (Number One). However, NBC was convinced that Star Trek could be made into a television series, and that NBC itself had been at fault for choosing the "The Cage" script from the original three stories pitched. Also, after spending US$630,000 on "The Cage" (the most expensive TV pilot at the time), they didn't want to have their money wasted. NBC then made the unprecedented move to order a second pilot.

The second pilot [ ]

For the second pilot, NBC requested three story outlines again. These were " Where No Man Has Gone Before " by Samuel A. Peeples , and " Mudd's Women " and " The Omega Glory " by Roddenberry. Although it was the most expensive of the three, NBC chose " Where No Man Has Gone Before ", as it had the most action and most outer space spectacle. However, the other two premises were also made into episodes of the series later.

Filming the second pilot began in July 1965 , and took nine days to complete. The entire cast of " The Cage " was replaced except Spock. Jeffrey Hunter chose not to reprise his role as Captain Pike, mostly by the advice of his wife, who felt that "science fiction ruins her husband's career". Roddenberry wanted both Lloyd Bridges and Jack Lord for the role of the new captain, however both declined. Finally William Shatner , who had previous science fiction experience acting in episodes of The Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits , was chosen. The new captain was named James R. Kirk (later renamed James T. Kirk).

For the role of the chief medical officer, Roddenberry chose veteran actor Paul Fix . Canadian actor James Doohan got the role of chief engineer Scott , and young Japanese-American George Takei was featured as ship's physicist Sulu . The latter two reprised their roles in the upcoming series, though Sulu was a helmsman in the series. Other actors considered for being regulars were Lloyd Haynes as communications officer Alden and Andrea Dromm as Yeoman Smith , but neither of them were re-hired after the pilot.

Many of the production staff were replaced. Robert Dawn served as head make-up artist, however Fred Phillips returned to the position in the series itself. Academy Award winner cinematographer Ernest Haller came out of semi-retirement to work as the director of photography. Associate producer Byron Haskin was replaced by Robert H. Justman , who now shared double duties as producer and assistant director.

The Enterprise model was updated for the second pilot, and many new outer space effects shots were made, most of which were reused in the series itself. The sets were also updated a bit, most notably the main bridge and the transporter room. Most of the uniforms, props, and sets were reused from " The Cage ", however some new props (including the never-seen-again phaser rifle ) and a brand new matte painting (the planet Delta Vega ) were made specially for this episode.

" Where No Man Has Gone Before " was accepted by NBC and the first season of a regular series was ordered for broadcasting in the 1966-67 television season. History was made.

The series begins [ ]

Preparation for the first regular season began in early 1966 . All the Enterprise interior sets were updated, as well as the introduction of brand new uniforms. The look of the show became more colorful and more vivid. The Enterprise model was also updated once more. Also, the entire production was moved from Desilu's Culver City studios to the main Gower Street studio's Stage 9 and 10 ( Paramount Stage 31 and 32 from 1967 onward) in Hollywood.

Kirk (Shatner) and Spock (Nimoy) were kept as the series stars, with Grace Lee Whitney joining the two as Yeoman Janice Rand (replacing Andrea Dromm as Yeoman Smith). Whitney had worked with Roddenberry a year before on an unsold pilot titled Police Story . Publicity photos promoting the new series were made at this time, with the three of them, mostly using props left from the two pilots (most notably the aforementioned phaser rifle). Shatner and Nimoy wore their new uniforms on these photographs, while Whitney had to wear an old, pilot version.

Scott (Doohan) and Sulu (Takei) were also kept, the latter becoming the ship's helmsman instead of physicist. Two additions made the Enterprise main crew complete: DeForest Kelley was hired to play the new chief medical officer, Leonard McCoy , as Roddenberry had known him from previous projects, including the aforementioned Police Story . Actress Nichelle Nichols got the role of communications officer Uhura , who became a symbol of the racial and gender diversity of the show. Nichols was a last minute addition, weeks before filming began on the first regular episode.

Jerry Finnerman became the new director of photography, while Fred Phillips, Matt Jefferies, and Rolland M. Brooks returned to their former positions. Writer John D.F. Black was brought in as the second associate producer (next to Justman). While Roddenberry and Black handled the script and story issues, Justman was in charge of the physical aspects of production.

Filming of the first regular episode, " The Corbomite Maneuver " began on 24 May 1966 . Finally Star Trek debuted on NBC with a "Sneak Preview" episode at 8:30 pm (EST) on 8 September 1966 . NBC chose " The Man Trap " (the fifth episode in production order) to air first, mainly because they felt it was more of a "traditional monster story" and featured more action.

The first season [ ]

In August 1966 , several changes were made in the Star Trek production staff. Roddenberry stepped down as line producer and became the executive producer. His replacement was Gene L. Coon , who also regularly contributed to the series as a writer. While Black had also left the series, story editor Steven W. Carabatsos came in, sharing story duties with Roddenberry and Coon. To handle post-production, Edward K. Milkis was brought in by Justman. Carabatsos had left Star Trek near the end of the season, and was replaced by D.C. Fontana , formerly Roddenberry's secretary and a writer for the series.

Syndication [ ]

See : Syndication

Due to the overall length of the episodes of The Original Series , several minutes of each episode are frequently cut during the show's reruns, notably on the Sci-Fi Channel . Starting in April 2006 , the G4 network began airing the full length episodes in "Uncut Marathons" on Saturdays. G4 stopped airing these full-length versions in November 2006, and has discontinued its run of Star Trek 2.0 , which was a trivia-oriented and interactive version of the show for the viewers.

For current airings see Where to watch .

Reception [ ]

The Original Series has been nominated for and won a number of awards over the years. Some of the awards include:

The series was nominated for thirteen Emmy Awards during its run, but did not win any.
It was nominated eight times for the "Best Dramatic Presentation" Hugo Award , sweeping the nominees in 1968. It won twice, and Roddenberry won a special award in 1968.
The 2003 "Pop Culture Award" in the TV Land Awards .
The 2005 Saturn Award for "Best DVD Retro Television Release."

Aaron Harberts and James Frain cited TOS as their favorite Star Trek series. ( AT : " O Discovery, Where Art Thou? ")

Remastered [ ]

On 31 August 2006 , CBS Paramount Television announced that, in celebration of the 40th anniversary of Star Trek , the show would return to broadcast syndication for the first time in sixteen years. The series' 79 episodes were digitally remastered with all new visual effects and music. The refurbished episodes have been converted from the original film to high-definition video, making it on par with modern television formats.

External links [ ]

Star Trek: The Original Series at Wikipedia
Star Trek: The Original Series at Memory Beta , the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
Star Trek: The Original Series at StarTrek.com
Star Trek: The Original Series at the Internet Movie Database
Star Trek: The Original Series at the Movie and TV Wiki
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George Takei as Lt. Hikaru Sulu
Majel Barrett as Nurse Christine Chapel
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Star Trek: The Original Series episode guides - All TOS episodes rated, reviewed

In those days before the Federation had continuity, there was Star Trek: The Original Series. Watch the TOS stories in any other you wish; it rarely matters, as essentially every single episode in TOS is a bottle episode. Ultimately, however, many TOS episodes are retconned into prequel stories (e.g. “The Menagerie”, “Space Seed”, “City on the Edge of Forever”), sequels (e.g. “Mirror Mirror”) or even crossovers (“The Trouble with Tribbles”) for the other series and movies.

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Star Trek: The Original Series – Season 2 episode guide

Star Trek: The Original Series – the seaons, the key episodes

Season 1 – In the 1960s, TV was a different beast. Serialization (and thus continuity) was essentially non-existent. Each story plays out over a single episode only (with one exception in three years of Star Trek), thereby not allowing for much character development each season of Star Trek’s original run is really barely indistinguishable from another – but at lest that means that season 1 isn’t filled with the “growing pains” every other ST series goes through. The biggest highlights in Star Trek’s first year has got to be “The Menagerie” (episode #s 11 and 12), an eerie story of Captain Kirk’s doomed mentor Captain Pike, and “City on the Edge of Forever” (#29), a neat twist on the traditional “preserve the past” time travel tale. Also of note: “Space Seed” (#22), the introduction of Star Trek II baddie Khan.

Season 2 – Ensign Chekov joins the bridge crew for season 2, which manages to have some fun in the explicitly comic “Trouble with Tribbles” (#15) and the absolutely bananas “Assignment: Earth” (#26). And Spock fans dig on “Amok Time” (#1) and Journey to Babel (#10) for the info doled on that wacky Vulcan culture.

Season 3 – As mentioned above, a fan campaign saved Star Trek for a third series, but NBC executives were not enthused about supporting the marginally successful series and cut the show’s operating budget in half. However, Star Trek Guide must say that tripling the budget could not save scripts like those for “Spock’s Brain” (Can all Vulcans live without a brain or just Spock?), “Specter of the Gun” (Scotty’s dead because he *thinks* he’s dead?) and “The Savage Curtain” (Kirk, Spock, Vulcan hero Surak and Abe Lincoln vs. Genghis Khan, Klingon Empire founder Kahless, 21st-century Earth dictator Mr. Green – who did it in the kitchen with a revolver – and fuzzy chick Zora?) Dude.

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‘star trek’: 20 greatest episodes from the original series.

Whether you’re a long-time fan or looking for a starting point, let this top 20 episodes list from the original series of ‘Star Trek’ be your guide to the stars.

By Aaron Couch , Graeme McMillan September 20, 2016 6:00am

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'Star Trek' Original Series Episodes: The Best 20

In honor of Star Trek 's 50th anniversary this month, The Hollywood Reporter counted down the top 100 episodes of Star Trek — ranking them across all six TV series with help from the stars and writers who made them so beloved.

Now we're going to break it down even further — this time organizing the episodes by era. Every day through Friday, we'll be releasing a new list specific to each series, with the order is based on our original list of 100.

Here, we look at the best of the original series, which ran from 1966-69 saw Gene Roddenberry's vision brought to life by actors William Shatner (Spock), Leonard Nimoy (Spock), DeForest Kelley (Bones), Nichelle Nichols ( Uhura ), Walter Koenig ( Chekov ), George Takei ( Sulu ), and James Doohan (Scotty).

Below you'll find Shatner and Koenig reveal their favorite episodes, as well as hear from Star Trek Beyond director Justin Lin, two iconic Trek writers and many more.

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"the galileo seven".

Not only does this episode give us the first appearance of a shuttlecraft in Trek lore, it introduces a version of the concept that would become key to the franchise decades later — that there is a push and pull between the needs of the many and the needs of the few. The Enterprise is on a mission to deliver relief supplies to a colony. Meanwhile, seven crewmembers — including Spock and Bones — crash land on a hostile planet, and Kirk must grapple with holding out hope for them and delivering the relief supplies.

"A Taste of Armageddon"

"This was the first Original Series episode I ever saw and it still blows my mind," says Jordan Hoffman, U.S. Film Critic for The Guardian and host of ENGAGE: The Official Star Trek Podcast . "Kirk is escorting a diplomat to a system of planets that have been in conflict for centuries. However, to protect their society’s infrastructure and maintain their culture, they don’t fight with weapons. Computers determine where phantom missiles hit and if your number comes up, you are ordered into a disintegration chamber. It is up to the Enterprise to intervene (which they totally aren’t supposed to do) and stop this insanity. It’s a rich concept with thrills, action, great speeches and even some humor. (Indeed, Spock takes the time to make a solid joke before sending someone crumpled to the floor with his Vulcan nerve pinch.)"

"The Doomsday Machine"

If Star Trek had shown Starfleet at its best until now, audiences got to see the flipside in this episode, in which Commodore Matt Decker (William Windom ) turns into an outer space Ahab chasing the cosmic Moby Dick of the episode's title: a "planet killer" that had nearly destroyed his own ship and killed everyone on board except for him. For an episode with such stakes, it's a surprisingly subtle story: While we should be worried about whether the planet killer can be stopped, the real tension comes from watching Decker struggle to deal with his trauma.

"The Corbomite Maneuver"

The first episode to be filmed after the two different pilots for the series, " Corbomite " manages to sum up everything that makes the original series so special, with a tense yet optimistic take on the idea of first contact between the Enterprise and an alien race that shows how fearless, compassionate and sneaky Captain James T. Kirk can be when pressed, and a Twilight Zone -esque last-second twist. As if that wasn't enough to make this episode worthwhile, it features the first times that DeForest Kelley and Nichelle Nichols played McCoy and Uhura — although by the time the episode aired, they were well-established characters to the loyal audience.

"Journey to Babel"

"I've always loved 'Journey to Babel,' by Dorothy Fontana," says writer David Gerrold when asked about his favorite Star Trek episode. "Because it reveals so much about Spock, and his past, and his parents." That's putting it mildly; before this episode, it's unlikely that anyone would have given much thought about the parents of any of the crew, but the introduction of Spock's estranged parents — one of whom was human, the other suspected of murdering a fellow diplomat on board the Enterprise — changed the way audiences looked at the characters forever: suddenly, they were more than just their jobs, and had inner lives and struggles that everyone could relate to. And all because the most alien of all of the crew had proven himself to be just as human as the rest of us.

"All Our Yesterdays"

While the final episode of the original series — "Turnabout Intruder" — is generally considered to be a low point for the show, the second last episode throws Spock, McCoy and Kirk back in time and puts them all out of their comfort zones as a result, with McCoy having to be the practical one, Spock becoming overwhelmed by emotions and Kirk on his own against the authorities. Yes, the title sounds like a soap opera (It's actually from Shakespeare, specifically Macbeth ), but this is a particularly strong Star Trek episode through and through.

"The Enterprise Incident"

Justin Lin, who directed this summer's Star Trek Beyond , picks this tale of intrigue as his favorite.

"A good old-fashioned spy thriller set in the Neutral Zone. What’s not to love?" Lin asks. "We get to see my favorite version of Kirk: the tactician. His ruse is brilliant and daring, but it’s Spock who steals the show in his interaction with the female Romulan commander. We see him in rare form, opening up his human and—dare I say—sexual side. Of course, Kirk’s ploy succeeds and the cloaking device is stolen, but Spock derides the fleeting nature of such military victories and says to the female commander something emblematic of everything great about Star Trek : 'I hope that you and I have exchanged something more permanent.' "

The episode was loosely inspired by a real-life incident where the USS Pueblo was attacked by North Korean forces after being accused of sailing into its territory in January 1968.

"The Menagerie"

Mr. Spock commits mutiny on the Enterprise in order to get Christopher Pike, his former commander, back to the forbiden planet Talos IV. We eventually learn that years earlier, Pike and Spock visited the planet, where Pike was horribly mutated — and Spock is trying to get his former commander there to be healed.

"It is a story of Spock’s loyalty to his former commander as well as to Captain Kirk and of Spock’s bravery as he risks his own career and reputation," recalls Adam Nimoy , son of Leonard Nimoy ad director of For The Love of Spock , which hits theaters Sept. 9. "Although he refuses to admit to it, Spock sets aside logic to do the right thing, and I just loved it."

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"amok time".

For fans who'd spent the show's first year swooning over Leonard Nimoy's pointy-eared alter-ego, second season opener "Amok Time" was everything they could've hoped for and more: Not only did they get to go back to Spock's home planet, they also got to see two things they'd dreamt of but never expected: Spock in the throes of passion — apparently, Vulcans are very like dogs in heat every seven years — and Spock fighting Kirk to the death … or, at least, that's what it seemed like at the time. Written by noted sci-fi author Theodore Sturgeon, this episode showed that Trek 's second year would be, if anything, even bolder than its first.

"The Devil In The Dark"

"The Horta has a funny story," says original series story editor D.C. Fontana of the episode's alien. " Stuntman , actor, creature creator Janos Prohaska did creature work for us. [Writer] Gene Coon, Gene Roddenberry and I were in the office and Janos came in and said, 'Come outside, I want to show you guys something.' So we went outside, and here's this a lump of what looked like foamy bubbles. He said, 'Just watch,' and laid a rubber chicken out on the street, and crawls into this rubber bubble suit and crawls towards the rubber chicken and the chicken disappears and a trail of bones comes out the back. Roddenberry , Coon and I were laughing our heads off, and Gene Coon said, 'I've got to do something with that.' "

That something turned out to be the Horta , an alien threat who isn't so sinister after all.

"You think it's a monster killing the miners, and you find out it's a mother protecting its young!" says Fontana. "That was the first time we did the Vulcan mind meld, and that turned out well, but we also found that this alien isn't what you think it is. There's a human aspect that we can understand and begin to work with this thing."

"The Naked Time"

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A swashbuckling (and shirtless) Sulu is perhaps the single most enduring image from the original series, with the officer infected with a virus provoking him to act out his inner most desires. George Takei had just three weeks of "frantic fencing lessons" to prepare for his scenes, he recalled in his 1994 autobiography, To The Stars . Days before shooting, director Marc Daniels dropped another surprise: he would be performing the scenes shirtless. "Straightaway, I got down horizontally on the floor, put my feet on the couch, and began pumping out push-ups to build up a photogenic chest," Takei recalled in his book.

"Where No Man Has Gone Before"

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After the first Star Trek pilot failed to catch fire, Roddenberry enlisted Gary Lockwood, who was about to shoot 2001: A Space Odyssey and had worked with the Star Trek creator on The Lieutenant. Trek producers believed Lockwood's involvement could help seal the deal — and they also brought on a new captain (Kirk) as well as Mr. Scott and Sulu . In the story, Kirk must grapple with the value of human life after an old friend and shipmate Gary Mitchell (Lockwood) gains dangerous (and growing) power from the edge of the galaxy.

"The pilot sells, and 20 years later Roddenberry said to me that Gary Mitchell was the character that got Star Trek on television," says Lockwood.

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On the surface, it's an episode about Kirk fighting a giant lizard man, but it's about so much more. Namely: humanity, ingenuity and ultimately, mercy. After being forced to fight to the death, Kirk spares the life of the Gorn . Those impressive Gorn sounds were courtesy of Ted Cassidy, best known as Lurch on another ' 60s classic, The Addams Family . The image of Kirk fighting the Gorn is so indelible that even if you don't know the alien's species, you know his green skin.

"The Trouble With Tribbles"

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Writer David Gerrold credits his interest in ecology with the origins of this classic episode. "I'd heard about rabbits getting out of control in Australia," he remembers, " and I thought, this is a very weird, very funny effect of introducing an invasive species into an environment without an appropriate predator. So, I was thinking for Star Trek , not all the aliens we meet are going to be scary or ugly — some of them are going to be cute and friendly and we're not going to recognize what kind of danger they are until it's too late." The teleplay was Gerrold's first professional credit, and he worked hard to make it the best that he could. "I had studied the Star Trek structure very carefully and put every scene on a 3 by 5 card until each scene demanded that the next scene followed," he says. "As funny as the script turned out, I was proudest of the structure of the episode. You could take all the jokes out, and it would still work as an adventure."

"Let That Be Your Last Battlefield"

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It's understandably challenging for William Shatner to pin down a favorite episode among all the greats, but when pressed, he chooses this one. The hour sees guest star Frank Gorshin play an alien, whose face is half black and half white and who hates those of his species with the colors reversed.

"That beautiful concept, without shaking a finger, illustrated the ridiculousness of race hatred, and it was very entertaining as well. The magnificence of the idea is obvious," says Shatner . The actor says part of the brilliance of Trek is its ability to entertain without preaching.

"We use to say, 'You send a message by telegram. Make [your show] entertaining," says Shatner . "But when you can combine both, like that idea, it becomes both dramatic and obvious. And you become aware. Those were the best of the Star Trek episodes."

"Mirror, Mirror"

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oOqQ38XLv8]If Star Trek gave anything to the world, it's the idea that evil versions of characters have goatees, an idea ironically put forward by the Spock of the Mirror Universe — who isn't actually evil , per se. That's a good thing, because if he had been, it's possible that Kirk, Bones, Scotty and Uhura might have been trapped in the morally-flipped alternate timeline for good, having to deal with the stomach-bearing outfits for women, the workplace harassment nightmare that is the Agonizer and George Takei's wonderfully over-the-top Evil Sulu for the rest of their fictional lives. A fun look at the roads not taken (including a more military-focused Starfleet), this episode would go on to inspire sequels in both Deep Space Nine and Enterprise .

"Space Seed"

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No Star Trek episode has paid off quite like this one. Ricardo Montaban's single appearance on the original series as the 1990s warlord Khan Noonien Singh set the stage for the undisputed greatest Star Trek film ever, The Wrath of Khan , set 15 years after Kirk and the Enterprise stumbled upon the Botany Bay. "Space Seed" sees Kirk fight his intellectual and physical superior — and win despite the long odds. Nothing is more Kirk than that.

"Balance of Terror"

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The acclaimed episode was inspired by submarine warfare and introduces the Romulans , with whom the Enterprise engages in a claustrophobic game of cat and mouse. The episode tackles themes such as the futility of war and xenophobia, with Mr. Spock facing discrimination from his own crew when it is revealed that Romulans and Vulcans not only look similar, but also share a common heritage.

"City on the Edge of Forever"

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Never mind the behind-the-scenes controversy. Credited writer Harlan Ellison was heavily rewritten by Roddenberry , D.C. Fontana and others before the episode was shot, and decades later sued CBS for a share of profits from the episode. Just enjoy one of the true classic hours of science fiction TV as a dazed and confused McCoy travels back in time and accidentally rewrites history, forcing Kirk and Spock to follow and learn firsthand how hard it is to do the right thing for the greater good.

"I knew this episode was going to be special, not because I’m prescient, but because a couple of months earlier, I had interviewed series creator Gene Roddenberry for the Daily Sundial , the campus newspaper at San Fernando Valley State College," recalls journalist Fred Bronson, who would go on to form a friendship Roddenberry . "Aside from telling me that the purpose of television was to sell toothpaste, Roddenberry talked about an episode that had been recently filmed that he said was good enough to be a motion picture — and long enough as well, as they had to delete a lot of footage in order to make it fit the hour-long slot."

For fans of unexpected celebrity appearances, the love interest in this episode? None other than Joan Collins

"The best episodes of Star Trek (or any series) were always the ones where you absolutely believed everything that was happening was real and that you were not being manipulated by the writer," says Bronson. " 'The City on the Edge of Forever' felt authentic from the opening scene on the bridge of the Enterprise to the heartbreaking ending, when Capt . Kirk must allow the love of his life, social worker Edith Keeler , to die in a traffic accident. For years, I couldn’t watch reruns of that final scene without bursting into tears. From Spock’s declaration that trying to create a mnemonic circuit in the America of the 1930s was working with 'equipment…hardly very far ahead of stone knives and bear claws' to Kirk’s explanation to a police officer that Spock’s ears were the result of a childhood accident involving a 'mechanical rice-picker,' the dialogue of this classic episode is etched in my brain as the story that will live forever as Star Trek ’s finest hour."

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The Original Series Episode Guide

The Man Trap Rating: 3 – Watch Charlie X Rating: 1 – Skip Where No Man Has Gone Before Rating: 4 – Watch The Naked Time Rating: 2 – Skippable The Enemy Within Rating: 2 – Skippable Mudd’s Women Rating: 2 – Skippable What Are Little Girls Made Of? Rating: 3 – Watch Miri Rating: 2 – Skippable Dagger of the Mind Rating: 2 – Skippable The Corbomite Maneuver Rating: 4 – Watch The Menagerie, Part 1 Rating: 3 – Watch The Menagerie, Part 2 Rating: 2 – Watch for continuity The Conscience of the King Rating: 2 – Skippable Balance of Terror Rating: 5 – Watch Shore Leave Rating: 2 – Skippable The Galileo Seven Rating: 2 – Skippable The Squire of Gothos Rating: 2 – Skippable Arena Rating: 3 – Watch Tomorrow Is Yesterday Rating: 3 – Watch Court Martial Rating: 2 – Skippable The Return of the Archons Rating: 2 – Skippable Space Seed Rating: 4 – Watch A Taste of Armageddon Rating: 3 – Watch This Side of Paradise Rating: 1 – Skip The Devil in the Dark Rating: 2 – Skippable Errand of Mercy Rating: 4 – Watch The Alternative Factor Rating: 1 – Skip The City on the Edge of Forever Rating: 5 – Watch Operation: Annihilate! Rating: 2 – Skippable

Amok Time Rating: 4 – Watch Who Mourns for Adonais Rating: 1 – Skip The Changeling Rating: 2 – Skippable Mirror, Mirror Rating: 3 – Watch The Apple Rating: 2 – Skippable The Doomsday Machine Rating: 4 – Watch Catspaw Rating: 1 – Skip I, Mudd Rating: 2 – Skippable Metamorphosis Rating: 2 – Skippable Journey to Babel Rating: 4 – Watch Friday’s Child Rating: 3 – Watch The Deadly Years Rating: 3 – Watch Obsession Rating: 2 – Skippable Wolf in the Fold Rating: 1 – Skip The Trouble With Tribbles Rating: 4 – Watch The Gamesters of Triskelion Rating: 3 – Watch A Piece of the Action Rating: 2 – Skippable The Immunity Syndrome Rating: 2 – Skippable A Private Little War Rating: 2 – Skippable Return to Tomorrow Rating: 2 – Skippable Patterns of Force Rating: 2 – Skippable By Any Other Name Rating: 3 – Watch The Omega Glory Rating: 2 – Skippable The Ultimate Computer Rating: 2 – Skippable Bread and Circuses Rating: 2 – Skippable Assignment: Earth Rating: 3 – Watch

Season Three

Spock’s Brain Rating: 1 – Watch The Enterprise Incident Rating: 4 – Watch The Paradise Syndrome Rating: 1 – Skip And The Children Shall Lead Rating: 1 – Skip Is There in Truth No Beauty? Rating: 2 – Skippable Spectre of the Gun Rating: 1 – Skip Day of the Dove Rating: 3 – Watch For the World is Hollow… Rating: 2 – Skippable The Tholian Web Rating: 3 – Watch Plato’s Stepchildren Rating: 2 – Skippable Wink of an Eye Rating: 2 – Skippable The Empath Rating: 2 – Skippable Elaan of Troyius Rating: 2 – Skippable Whom Gods Destroy Rating: 3 – Watch Let That Be Your Last Battlefield Rating: 3 – Watch The Mark of Gideon Rating: 3 – Watch That Which Survives Rating: 2 – Skippable The Light of Zetar Rating: 2 – Skippable Requiem for Methuselah Rating: 2 – Skippable The Way to Eden Rating: 1 – Skip The Cloud Minders Rating: 2 – Skippable The Savage Curtain Rating: 3 – Watch All Our Yesterdays Rating: 2 – Skippable Turnabout Intruder Rating: 2 – Skippable

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We’re still making our way through the series. Sorry if we’re a little slow. We do an Original Series episode review every Monday (TNG Tuesday, DS9 Wednesday, Voyager Thursday, Enterprise Friday)

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List of Star Trek: The Original Series episodes

Created by Gene Roddenberry , the science fiction television series Star Trek (which eventually acquired the retronym Star Trek: The Original Series ) starred William Shatner as Captain James T. Kirk , Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock , and DeForest Kelley as Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy aboard the fictional Federation starship USS Enterprise . The series originally aired from September 1966 through June 1969 on NBC . [1]

This is the first television series in the Star Trek franchise, and comprises 79 regular episodes over the series' three seasons, along with the series' original pilot episode , " The Cage ". The episodes are listed in order by original air date, [2] which match the episode order in each season's original, [3] [4] [5] remastered, [6] [7] [8] and Blu-ray DVD [9] box sets. The original, single-disc DVD releases placed the episodes by production order, with "The Cage" on the final disc. [10]

After the series' cancellation , Paramount Television released Star Trek to television stations as a syndication package, [11] where the series' popularity grew to become a "major phenomenon within popular culture". [12] This popularity would eventually lead to the expansion of the Star Trek catalog, which as of 2020 includes nine more television series and thirteen Trek motion pictures .

In 2006, CBS Paramount Domestic Television (now CBS Television Distribution ) announced that each Original Series episode would be re-syndicated in high definition after undergoing digital remastering , including both new and enhanced visual effects . [13] (To date, the remastered episodes have only been broadcast in standard definition , though all three seasons are now available on the high-definition Blu-ray Disc format.) [14] [15] The remastered episodes began with " Balance of Terror " (along with, in some markets, " Miri ") during the weekend of September 16, 2006, [16] and ended with "The Cage", which aired during the weekend of May 2, 2009. [17] The remastered air dates listed below are based on the weekend each episode aired in syndication. [16]

1 Series overview
2.1 Pilots (1964–65)
2.2 Season 1 (1966–67)
2.3 Season 2 (1967–68)
2.4 Season 3 (1968–69)
3 Production order
4 British transmission
6 References
7 External links

Series overview

Pilots (1964–65).

Star Trek ' s pilot episode , "The Cage", was completed between November 1964 and January 1965, [18] and starred Jeffrey Hunter as Captain Christopher Pike , Majel Barrett as Number One , and Leonard Nimoy as Spock . The pilot was rejected by NBC as being "too cerebral" among other complaints. [19] Jeffrey Hunter chose to withdraw from the role of Pike [20] when creator Gene Roddenberry was asked to produce a second pilot episode " Where No Man Has Gone Before ". A slightly edited version with the same title aired in 1966 as the third episode of the new series. [21] [22]

"The Cage" never aired during Star Trek ' s original run. It was presented by Roddenberry as a black-and-white workprint at various science fiction conventions over the years after Star Trek ' s cancellation but was not released on home video until 1986 when Paramount Home Video produced a "restored" release of "The Cage" (a combination of the original black-and-white footage and color portions of the Season 1 episode " The Menagerie ") along with an introduction by Gene Roddenberry. [23]

On October 15, 1988, Paramount Pictures aired a two-hour television special, hosted by Patrick Stewart , called The Star Trek Saga: From One Generation to the Next , which featured, for the first time, a full-color television presentation of "The Cage". [23] In the United States, "The Cage" was released to DVD in December 2001. [24] It was later included on the final disc in both the original and "remastered" season 3 DVD box sets listed with its original air date of October 15, 1988. [5] [8] [25]

"Where No Man Has Gone Before" in its original form (production number 02a) had been forwarded to NBC, but only a re-edited version was aired, not as a pilot but as the third episode of the series (production number 02b). The original version was thought to be lost, but later appeared on bootleg VHS tapes at conventions, until a print of it was discovered in 2009 and subsequently released on home video under the title "Where No Fan Has Gone Before" - The Restored, Unaired Alternate Pilot Episode as part of the TOS season 3 box set on Blu-ray; [26] it has not been released on DVD. This version remains unaired.

Season 1 (1966–67)

After Roddenberry's second pilot episode, " Where No Man Has Gone Before ", received a more favorable response from NBC , [21] [22] Star Trek finally aired its first episode—" The Man Trap "—at 8:30PM on September 8, 1966. [28] "Where No Man...", which eventually aired in a re-edited format as the series' third episode, retained only Spock as a character from "The Cage" but introduced William Shatner as Captain James T. Kirk , James Doohan as chief engineer Scotty , and George Takei as physicist (later helmsman) Sulu . Also joining the cast were DeForest Kelley as ship's surgeon Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy and Nichelle Nichols as the communications officer Uhura in "The Man Trap"; the first aired episode of the series.

Although her character of Number One was not retained from "The Cage", Majel Barrett returned to the series as a new character, nurse Christine Chapel , and made her first of many recurring appearances in " The Naked Time ". Grace Lee Whitney appeared in eight episodes as yeoman Janice Rand , beginning with "The Man Trap". Whitney left the series after " The Conscience of the King ", [21] [29] [30] but would later make minor appearances in the first , third , fourth , and sixth Star Trek films as well as one episode of the companion series Star Trek: Voyager .

Star Trek ' s first season comprised 29 episodes, including the two-part episode " The Menagerie ", which includes almost all of the footage from the original pilot, "The Cage". Other notable episodes include " Balance of Terror ", which introduces the Romulans ; " Space Seed ", which introduces Khan Noonien Singh and serves as the basis for Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan ; " Errand of Mercy ", in which the Klingons make their first appearance; and the critically acclaimed, [31] Hugo-Award-winning episode [32] " The City on the Edge of Forever ", which features Kirk, Spock, and McCoy traveling into the past through the Guardian of Forever .

↑ Nathan Butler is a pseudonym for Jerry Sohl .

Season 2 (1967–68)

The show's 26-episode second season began in September 1967 [2] with " Amok Time ", which introduced actor Walter Koenig as Russian navigator Pavel Chekov , and granted viewers the first glimpse of Spock's homeworld, Vulcan . The season also includes such notable episodes as " Mirror, Mirror ", which introduces the evil " mirror universe "; " Journey to Babel ", featuring the introduction of Spock's parents Sarek and Amanda ; and the light-hearted " The Trouble with Tribbles ", which would later be revisited in a 1973 episode of Star Trek: The Animated Series and a 1996 episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine . The season ended with " Assignment: Earth ", an attempt to launch a spin-off television series set in the 1960s. [ citation needed ]

Season 3 (1968–69)

After Star Trek ' s second season, NBC was prepared to cancel the show due to low ratings. [36] [37] Led by fans Bjo and John Trimble , Trek viewers inundated NBC with letters protesting the show's demise and pleading with the network to renew the series for another year. [37] [38]

After NBC agreed to produce a third season, the network promised Gene Roddenberry that the show would air in a favorable timeslot (Mondays at 7:30 p.m.), [36] [37] but later changed the schedule so that Trek would air in the so-called " death slot "—Friday nights at 10:00 p.m. [36] [39] In addition to the "mismanaged" [37] schedule, the show's budget was "seriously slashed" [36] and Nichelle Nichols described the series' eventual cancellation as "a self-fulfilling prophecy ". [40]

Star Trek ' s final, 24-episode season began in September 1968 with " Spock's Brain ". [2] The third season also includes " The Tholian Web ", where Kirk becomes trapped between universes; this episode would later be revisited by two 2005 episodes of the prequel series Star Trek: Enterprise . The last episode of the series, " Turnabout Intruder ", aired on June 3, 1969, [2] but Star Trek would eventually return to television in animated form when the animated Star Trek debuted in September 1973.

Production order

The list below details the series' episodes in production order, including the original series pilot , " The Cage ". While the "complete season" DVD releases (listed above) follow the original broadcast order, the original episodic DVD releases [10] are numbered by production order. [41]

British transmission

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Star Trek was first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC One starting on July 12, 1969, with the episode " Where No Man Has Gone Before ". The first episode broadcast in color was " Arena " on November 15, 1969. The episodes were broadcast in a different order than in the United States and were originally aired in four seasons between 1969 and 1971. The BBC edited the episodes for broadcast by showing the title sequence first, then the teaser segment that aired before the titles in the United States, then the rest of the episode. These edited episodes aired until the 1990s [ vague ] , after which the BBC was supplied with NTSC videotape transfers of the first season instead of new film prints, resulting in a substandard picture, and with edits originally made for syndication in the United States. Viewer complaints led to the BBC obtaining film prints for the subsequent two seasons.

" The Cage " was first broadcast on Sky One in July 1990. Three episodes, " Plato's Stepchildren ", " The Empath ", and " Whom Gods Destroy ", were not broadcast on the BBC until 1994, although "The Empath" was listed in the Radio Times as scheduled to broadcast on December 16, 1970, at 7:20 pm. [42] Sky One was the first network to air these three episodes in the UK in 1990, although with the title sequence and teaser shown in the order as they were aired in the United States, whereas the rest of the episodes were broadcast as edited by the BBC.

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↑ Nichols, Beyond Uhura , p. 189

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The 10 standout episodes of Star Trek: The Original Series

Ready to explore (or revisit) strange new worlds and smart sci-fi adventure? Launch into the Final Frontier with our list of 10 essential episodes of the original Star Trek.

A five-year mission that's now headed into its seventh decade, the Star Trek franchise is still boldly going where no one has gone before. More installments of the franchise are on air then ever, with something to offer almost every Trekkie in its rapidly expanding universe. However, Star Trek: The Original Series is the big bang that started it all. Gene Roddenberry's optimistic vision of the future — produced by Lucille Ball , no less — debuted in September of 1966 and ran for three seasons on NBC before finding new life in syndication.

While the series' Prime Directive seemed to be shredding Capt. Kirk's shirt as often as possible, our mission is to represent a variety of agreed upon classics from the U.S.S. Enterprise's maiden voyage that would delight both the original and next generation of fans.

So fire up your favorite snacks in the replicator, silence your tricorder, and beam on down our list of the 10 must-watch episodes of Star Trek: The Original Series , all of which are available to stream in remastered form on Paramount + .

"Where No Man Has Gone Before" (Season 1, episode 3)

After the Enterprise goes through an energy rift at the edge of the galaxy, Captain Kirk's ( William Shatner ) friend and shipmate, Lt. Commander Gary Mitchell (Gary Lockwood), begins to develop terrifying ESP abilities that grow stronger by the minute. As he makes the transition from man to "god," he becomes increasingly more dangerous and detached from humanity. Ship psychiatrist Dr. Elizabeth Dehner ( Sally Kellerman ) believes his mutation can help mankind evolve, but Spock ( Leonard Nimoy ) is adamant he must be killed before he destroys them all. Will Kirk choose his best friend over the best interests of his crew — and the universe?

"Where No Man Has Gone Before" is most famous for being the second pilot filmed for the series, and introducing viewers to Captain James T. Kirk, Chief Engineer Scotty (James Doohan), and Lieutenant Sulu ( George Takei ). It's also just a great hour of sci-fi storytelling. This superior first episode seamlessly mixes action, high stakes emotions, and tough ethical questions, setting the blueprint for the franchise.

"The City on the Edge of Forever" (Season 1, episode 28)

When a time disruption from a nearby planet rocks the Enterprise, Dr. McCoy ( DeForest Kelley ) — aka Bones — accidentally injects himself with an overdose of a dangerous drug. Driven mad, he flees to the planet below and goes through the time warp, changing history and erasing the Federation of Planets from existence. Kirk and Spock follow him to set things right, and find themselves in 1930s Depression-era New York.

As they search for Bones, Kirk meets and falls in love with a social worker named Edith Wheeler ( Joan Collins ) whose fate, it turns out, will determine the course of humanity. Once again, Kirk must choose between someone he loves and the greater good. One of Trek 's most emotionally charged hours, "The City on the Edge of Forever" — scripted by Harlan Ellison — is considered by many to be the greatest episode of all-time.

"Space Seed" (Season 1, episode 22)

The Enterprise team stumbles upon the marooned S.S. Botany Bay in deep space and awakens the crew from suspended animation. They soon discover these lost spacefarers were exiled from Earth during the infamous Eugenics Wars of the 1990s, and our heroes have unwittingly unleashed a genetically enhanced super-tyrant named Khan Noonien Singh ( Ricardo Montalban ) in the 23rd century.

Montalban's magnetic, calculating would-be-ruler serves as a perfect foil for Shatner's compassionate, tactical Kirk, leading to a great one-on-one showdown between the two for control of the ship. This season one episode is the introduction of the series' most infamous villain, who 15 years later will headline Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan , widely regarded as the best film in the franchise.

"Amok Time" (Season 2, episode 1)

Kirk vs. Spock! Kirk's shirt ripped open (again)! Spock in heat! This episode has everything a fan of the duo that launched a thousand slash fics could want. Every seven years, a Vulcan must return home for an ancient mating ceremony called "pon farr." When Kirk and Bones accompany him, they find themselves dealing with (farr) more than they bargained for when the Captain is forced to battle Spock in a ritual fight to the death.

In addition to the showdown between the leads, "Amok Time" has several other firsts: the first use of the Vulcan Salute, the first appearance of Ensign Pavel Chekov (Walter Koenig), and the first glimpse of the planet Vulcan itself. This perennial favorite is also heavily referenced in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds ' fifth episode — titled " Spock Amok " — on Paramount +.

"Mirror, Mirror" (Season 2, episode 4)

An away team consisting of Kirk, Bones, Uhura ( Nichelle Nichols ), and Scotty are sent to an alternate dimension when they are caught in an ion storm mid-transport. This "mirror" dimension is populated by violent doppelgangers of the Enterprise crew who serve the Terran Empire instead of the Federation of Planets. The foursome must navigate the cutthroat nature of this universe and find a way back before their secret is exposed — all while surviving a mutiny to overthrow this reality's Kirk. Hip daggers, bare midriffs, and Spock's goatee are just a few of the signs that things in this universe are askew.

Although Evil Bearded Spock is certainly fun to see, George Takei gives the standout performance as a delightfully evil Sulu, complete with a badass facial scar. This episode is a highlight of the original series and forms the foundation for several stories in future Trek franchises like Deep Space Nine , Enterprise , and Discovery .

"The Trouble with Tribbles" (Season 2, episode 15)

A fan favorite episode, "The Trouble with Tribbles" is a comedic left turn that shouldn't work, but absolutely does. Starring adorable little furballs who are "born pregnant" and multiply at a rapid pace, this zany hour allows the heady sci-fi questions of morality to take a back seat in favor of punchlines and hijinks.

The actual plot of the episode revolves around Kirk protecting a supply of space grain essential to Starfleet's sovereignty over a contested planet. The fun begins, however, when Uhura picks up one of the tiny tribbles while on shore leave at Space Station K-7 and unleashes an infestation on every corner of the Enterprise — including Kirk's lunch. The Captain's exasperated responses to the growing tribble crisis are comedy gold, especially as he seems to be the only one immune to their cooing charms. "Tribbles" also features a fantastic slapstick bar fight between Scotty, Chekov, and a handful of Klingon officers for the honor of the Enterprise. This episode is a fun detour into the lighter side of the crew's five-year mission.

"Balance of Terror" (Season 1, episode 14)

Kirk and company find themselves in an action-packed showdown with the Romulans when they investigate a mysterious loss of communication with Federation outposts near the Neutral Zone. Despite a history of war with Earth, no one has ever laid eyes on an actual member of their species — until now.

As the Romulans are believed to be the violent cousins of the Vulcans, Spock becomes the subject of suspicion and xenophobia from some of the crew — particularly Lt. Stiles (guest star Paul Comi) — whose ancestors were killed in the Earth-Romulan War. The story's point-of-view shifts between the two vessels, allowing the viewer to see that the warring foes are more alike than they realize.

This season one classic features the first appearance of the Romulans — who will go on to be recurring antagonists for the heroes of the franchise. Also, keep an eye out for actor Mark Lenard as the Romulan Commander. He'll return to the series in a recurring role as Spock's father.

"The Corbomite Maneuver" (Season 1, episode 10)

While exploring an uncharted area of space, the Enterprise is pursued by a mysterious cube emitting harmful radiation. To protect themselves, they lay waste to it, and incur the wrath of Balok, commander of a technologically superior alien race. He takes control of the Enterprise's systems and declares the ship, and everyone onboard, will be destroyed in 10 minutes. A tense hour with a really wild twist ending, this installment showcases Kirk's ingenuity and characteristic refusal to lose — one of the many times the Captain will boldy bluff where no man has bluffed before.

"The Corbomite Maneuver" is also the first time DeForest Kelley (McCoy) and Nichelle Nichols (Uhura) played their iconic characters, although they appear earlier in the series due to NBC originally airing episodes out of production order.

"The Doomsday Machine" (Season 2, episode 6)

Our intrepid explorers receive a distress signal from fellow Starfleet ship the U.S.S. Constellation and rush to its aid. Upon arrival, they find Commodore Matthew Decker (William Windom) — the ship's commander and sole survivor — wracked with guilt and suffering from PTSD. Decker's entire crew was annihilated by a massive energy weapon of unknown origin that destroyed the entire star system.

Pulling rank, he takes command of his rescuer's ship, and puts the crew of the Enterprise in the crosshairs of the unstoppable world-killing device. Kirk, marooned on Decker's derelict starship, must figure out a way to rescue the Enterprise from both the machine and an out-of-control superior officer. Introducing a planet-ending energy weapon 10 years before Star Wars , this episode features a real nail-biter of an ending.

Fun fact for the continuity-conscious : Decker's son, Willard Decker ( Stephen Collins ), will play a prominent role in 1979's Star Trek: The Motion Picture .

"Arena" (Season 1, episode 18)

Captain Kirk, Spock, Bones, and an unfortunate " Redshirt " arrive at the Cestus III Outpost for a diplomatic mission and find it annihilated by an alien race called the Gorn. Seeking revenge, Kirk pushes the Enterprise to pursue the Gorn starship and destroy it. The chase leads into an unmapped sector of space ruled by a powerful force calling themselves the Metrons. Outraged by the brutality of both ships, the Metrons force the two captains to settle their dispute in a fight to the death on a desert planet. The winner will leave the sector unharmed, while the loser, and their crew, will die.

The bulk of this episode involves William Shatner being chased by an actor in a giant rubber lizard suit — and honestly, it rules. Yes, the suit looks goofy, but the showdown is fun as hell and the message of the story is classic Star Trek : sometimes there is more going on beneath the surface than we realize. Very few Star Trek villains are ever just one-dimensional bad guys, and the Gorn are no exception.

Fun fact : Ted Cassidy, who provides the voice for the Gorn captain, also provided the voice of Balok in "The Corbomite Maneuver."

Full List of Star Trek: The Original Series Episodes

When it comes to classic sci-fi television, Star Trek: The Original Series has stood the test of time. With its imaginative tales, unforgettable characters, and daring adventures through space, it's no surprise that this show has captured the hearts of generations. And now, fans old and new can experience some of the best episodes from this series - interstellar escapades that send viewers' imaginations soaring to galaxies far, far away.

These standout episodes from Star Trek: The Original Series showcase some of the most best storylines and gripping plots within this series. From plot twists to character development, these installments have all the ingredients for an unforgettable trip into outer space.

Take "Where No Man Has Gone Before," in which Captain Kirk grapples with a gut-wrenching decision when his closest friend becomes an unstoppable force. It sets up the series' exploration of friendship, loyalty, and sacrifice. Or how about "The City on the Edge of Forever?" In this tale involving a time-traveling romance gone awry, even die-hard Trekkies might need tissues handy! And let's not forget "Space Seed" - introducing us to one of sci-fi's most dastardly villains in Khan Noonien Singh (portrayed with flair by Ricardo Montalban). These standout episodes represent just a taste of what makes Star Trek: The Original Series such an enduring fan favorite.

So why not settle in for a voyage aboard Enterprise? These top-tier Star Trek: The Original Series episodes will fill viewers with awe and nostalgia. As we venture back to where it all began for Captain Kirk, Spock, and their intrepid crewmates, we're reminded just how far this pioneering series has pushed the boundaries of television - boldly going where no show had gone before.

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A Taste of Armageddon

Balance of Terror

Court Martial

Dagger of the Mind

Errand of Mercy

Mudd's Women

The Alternative Factor

The City on the Edge of Forever

The Conscience of the King

The Corbomite Maneuver

The Devil in the Dark

The Enemy Within

The Galileo Seven

The Man Trap

The Naked Time

The Return of the Archons

The Squire of Gothos

Tomorrow Is Yesterday

What Are Little Girls Made Of?

Where No Man Has Gone Before

Shore Leave

This Side of Paradise

The Menagerie

The Menagerie Part II

Operation: Annihilate!

Who Mourns for Adonais?

The Changeling

Mirror, Mirror

The Doomsday Machine

Metamorphosis

Journey to babel, friday's child.

The Deadly Years

Wolf in the fold.

The Trouble With Tribbles

The gamesters of triskelion.

A Piece of the Action

The immunity syndrome.

A Private Little War

Return to tomorrow.

Patterns of Force

By any other name.

The Omega Glory

The Ultimate Computer

Bread and circuses, assignment: earth.

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Nine Monumental TV Episodes That Changed TV Forever

These episodes of television shows were so monumental that they changed the landscape of television in unforgettable and often historic ways.

List of Star Trek: The Original Series episodes

After the series' cancellation , Paramount Television released Star Trek to television stations as a syndication package, [11] where the series' popularity grew to become a "major phenomenon within popular culture". [12] This popularity would eventually lead to the expansion of the Star Trek catalog, which as of 2017 includes six more television series and thirteen Trek motion pictures .

1 Series overview
2.1 Pilots (1964–65)
2.2 Season 1 (1966–67)
2.3 Season 2 (1967–68)
2.4 Season 3 (1968–69)
3 Production order
4 British transmission
6 References
7 External links

Series overview [ edit | edit source ]

Episodes [ edit | edit source ], pilots (1964–65) [ edit | edit source ].

Star Trek ' s pilot episode , "The Cage", was completed between November 1964 and January 1965, [18] and starred Jeffrey Hunter as Captain Christopher Pike , Majel Barrett as Number One , and Leonard Nimoy as Spock . The pilot was rejected by NBC as being "too cerebral" among other complaints. [19] Jeffrey Hunter chose to withdraw from the role of Pike [20] when creator Gene Roddenberry was asked to produce a second pilot episode (" Where No Man Has Gone Before ") of which a slightly (but not significantly) edited version of the same name aired in 1966 as the third episode of the new series. [21] [22]

"The Cage" never aired during Star Trek ' s original run on NBC. It was presented by Roddenberry as a black-and-white workprint at various science fiction conventions over the years after Star Trek ' s cancellation but was not released on home video until 1986 when Paramount Home Video produced a "restored" release of "The Cage" (a combination of the original black-and-white footage and color portions of the Season 1 episode " The Menagerie ") along with an introduction by Gene Roddenberry. [23]

On October 4, 1988, Paramount Pictures aired a two-hour television special, hosted by Patrick Stewart , called The Star Trek Saga: From One Generation to the Next , which featured, for the first time, a full-color television presentation of "The Cage". In some markets, the special did not air until October 15, 1988. [23] In the United States, "The Cage" was first released to DVD in December 2001. [24] It was later included on the final disc in both the original and "remastered" season 3 DVD box sets (listed with the original air date of October 15, 1988). [5] [8] [25]

Season 1 (1966–67) [ edit | edit source ]

^ Credited as Nathan Butler

Season 2 (1967–68) [ edit | edit source ]

^ Credited as Jud Crucis
^ Credited as John Kingsbridge

Season 3 (1968–69) [ edit | edit source ]

After Star Trek ' s second season, NBC was prepared to cancel the show due to low ratings. [34] [35] Led by fans Bjo and John Trimble , Trek viewers inundated NBC with letters protesting the show's demise and pleading with the network to renew the series for another year. [35] [36] After NBC agreed to produce a third season, the network promised Gene Roddenberry that the show would air in a favorable timeslot (Mondays at 7:30 p.m.), [34] [35] but later changed the schedule so that Trek would air in the so-called " death slot "—Friday nights at 10:00 p.m. [34] [37] In addition to the "mismanaged" [35] schedule, the show's budget was "seriously slashed" [34] and Nichelle Nichols described the series' eventual cancellation as "a self-fulfilling prophecy ". [38]

^ a b c d Credited as Lee Cronin
^ a b Credited as Michael Richards

Production order [ edit | edit source ]

British transmission [ edit | edit source ]

Star Trek was first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC One starting on July 12, 1969 with the episode " Where No Man Has Gone Before ". The first episode broadcast in color was " Arena " on November 15, 1969. The episodes were broadcast in a different order than in the United States and were originally aired in four seasons between 1969 and 1971. The BBC edited the episodes for broadcast by showing the title sequence first, then the teaser segment that aired before the titles in the United States, then the rest of the episode. These edited episodes aired until the 1990s [ vague ] , after which the BBC was supplied with NTSC videotape transfers of the first season instead of new film prints, resulting in a substandard picture, and with edits originally made for syndication in the United States. Viewer complaints led to the BBC obtaining film prints for the subsequent two seasons.

" The Cage " was first broadcast on Sky One in July 1990. Three episodes, " Plato's Stepchildren ", " The Empath ", and " Whom Gods Destroy ", were not broadcast on the BBC until 1994, although "The Empath" was listed in the Radio Times as scheduled to broadcast on December 16, 1970 at 7:20 pm. [40] Sky One was the first network to air these three episodes in the UK in 1990, although with the title sequence and teaser shown in the order as they were aired in the United States, whereas the rest of the episodes were broadcast as edited by the BBC.

References [ edit | edit source ]

^ Okuda, Michael and Denise (1999). The Star Trek Encyclopedia (3rd ed.) . New York: Pocket Books . p. 463. ISBN 0-671-53609-5 .
^ a b c d e f g h i Trimble, Bjo (1976). Star Trek Concordance . New York: Ballantine Books . pp. 12–13. ISBN 0-345-25137-7 .
^ "Star Trek: Season 1 DVD Information" . TVShowsOnDVD.com. Archived from the original on May 9, 2009 . Retrieved April 30, 2009 .
^ "Star Trek: Season 2 DVD Information" . TVShowsOnDVD.com. Archived from the original on July 14, 2009 . Retrieved April 30, 2009 .
^ a b "Star Trek: Season 3 DVD Information" . TVShowsOnDVD.com. Archived from the original on July 14, 2009 . Retrieved April 30, 2009 .
^ "Star Trek: Season 1 (Remastered) DVD Information" . TVShowsOnDVD.com. Archived from the original on March 8, 2009 . Retrieved April 30, 2009 .
^ "Star Trek: Season 2 (Remastered) DVD Information" . TVShowsOnDVD.com. Archived from the original on July 14, 2009 . Retrieved April 30, 2009 .
^ a b "Star Trek: Season 3 (Remastered) DVD Information" . TVShowsOnDVD.com. Archived from the original on July 14, 2009 . Retrieved April 30, 2009 .
^ "CBS & Paramount Announce First Star Trek Blu-ray sets - TOS S1 & All TOS movies coming April/May" . TrekMovie.com. February 16, 2009 . Retrieved April 28, 2009 .
^ a b "Star Trek on DVD, Release Info, Reviews, News at TVShowsOnDVD.com" . TVShowsOnDVD.com. Archived from the original on May 1, 2009 . Retrieved April 30, 2009 .
^ "Star Trek Syndication Advertisements, Circa 1969-1970" . TelevisionObscurities.com. December 15, 2008 . Retrieved May 2, 2009 .
^ "Star Trek (U.S. Science Fiction)" . Museum.tv (The Museum of Broadcast Communication) . Retrieved January 26, 2015 .
^ "It's Official: Classic Trek Coming to HDTV With New CGI" . TrekMovie.com. August 30, 2006 . Retrieved April 30, 2009 .
^ "TOS Remastered: Format" . TrekMovie.com. August 30, 2006 . Retrieved April 30, 2009 .
^ "Star Trek: The Original Series - Season 1 Blu-ray" . blu-ray.com. April 28, 2009 . Retrieved June 3, 2009 .
^ a b "TOS Remastered Episode Guide - Season 1" . TrekMovie.com . Retrieved April 28, 2009 .
^ "First Look: Preview for Star Trek Remastered "The Cage" Airing Next Weekend" . TrekMovie.com. April 22, 2009 . Retrieved April 28, 2009 .
^ David Alexander, Star Trek Creator: The Authorized Biography of Gene Roddenberry , p. 218.
^ Shatner, William (2008). Up Till Now: The Autobiography . New York: Thomas Dunne Books . pp. 119 . ISBN 0-312-37265-5 .
^ David Alexander, Star Trek Creator: The Authorized Biography of Gene Roddenberry , p. 244.
^ a b c Alexander, David (1994). Star Trek Creator: The Authorized Biography of Gene Roddenberry . Roc. ISBN 0-451-45440-5 .
^ a b Whitfield, Stephen E & Roddenberry, Gene (1968). The Making of Star Trek . Ballatine Books. ISBN 1-85286-363-3 .
^ a b c "A Look Back at The History of Star Trek's First Pilot "The Cage " " . TrekWeb.com. November 12, 2008. Archived from the original on July 17, 2011 . Retrieved May 1, 2009 .
^ "Volume 40: Turnabout Intruder/The Cage" . TVShowsOnDVD.com. Archived from the original on December 16, 2004 . Retrieved May 1, 2009 .
^ a b Both the original Season 3 and "remastered" season 3 sets list the original air date for "The Cage" as October 15, 1988.
^ DVD News Archived September 24, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
^ a b "Star Trek: Episodes (Season 1)" . StarTrek.com. Archived from the original on June 21, 2009 . Retrieved June 4, 2009 .
^ Leonard Nimoy (1995). I Am Spock . Hyperion. pp. 38 . ISBN 0-7868-6182-7 .
^ Herbert F. Solow and Robert H. Justman (1996). Inside Star Trek: The Real Story . Pocket Books. ISBN 0-671-00974-5 .
^ Grace Lee Whitney and Jim Denney. The Longest Trek: My Tour of the Galaxy . Quill Driver Books. ISBN 1-884956-03-3 .
^ Entertainment Weekly Special Edition January 18, 1995
^ "1968 Hugo Awards" . TheHugoAwards.org . Retrieved May 1, 2009 .
^ a b c Trimble, Bjo (1976). Star Trek Concordance . New York: Ballantine Books . pp. 37–89. ISBN 0-345-25137-7 .
^ a b c d Leonard Nimoy (1995). I Am Spock . Hyperion. pp. 112–113 . ISBN 0-7868-6182-7 .
^ a b c d Shatner, William (2008). Up Till Now: The Autobiography . New York: Thomas Dunne Books . pp. 131–132 . ISBN 0-312-37265-5 .
^ David Gerrold, quoting Bjo Trimble, in The World of Star Trek , Ballantine Books, 1973, p. 166
^ William Shatner, Star Trek Memories , Harper Torch, 1994 paperback, p. 257
^ Nichols, Beyond Uhura , p. 189
^ "StarTrek.com: DVD" . StarTrek.com. Archived from the original on January 13, 2010 . Retrieved April 28, 2009 .
^ Fulton, Roger (1997). The Encyclopedia of TV Science Fiction . London: Boxtree . pp. 429–440 . ISBN 0-7522-1150-1 .

External links [ edit | edit source ]

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Series overview [ ]

Episodes [ ], pilots (1964–65) [ ].

Season 1 (1966–67) [ ]

Season 2 (1967–68) [ ]

Season 3 (1968–69) [ ]

After Star Trek ' s second season, NBC was prepared to cancel the show due to low ratings. [33] [34] Led by fans Bjo and John Trimble , Trek viewers inundated NBC with letters protesting the show's demise and pleading with the network to renew the series for another year. [34] [35]

After NBC agreed to produce a third season, the network promised Gene Roddenberry that the show would air in a favorable timeslot (Mondays at 7:30 p.m.), [33] [34] but later changed the schedule so that Trek would air in the so-called " death slot "—Friday nights at 10:00 p.m. [33] [36] In addition to the "mismanaged" [34] schedule, the show's budget was "seriously slashed" [33] and Nichelle Nichols described the series' eventual cancellation as "a self-fulfilling prophecy ". [37]

Production order [ ]

British transmission [ ]

Star Trek was first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC One starting on July 12, 1969, with the episode " Where No Man Has Gone Before ". The first episode broadcast in color was " Arena " on November 15, 1969. The episodes were broadcast in a different order than in the United States and were originally aired in four seasons between 1969 and 1971. The BBC edited the episodes for broadcast by showing the title sequence first, then the teaser segment that aired before the titles in the United States, then the rest of the episode. These edited episodes aired until the 1990s, after which the BBC was supplied with NTSC videotape transfers of the first season instead of new film prints, resulting in a substandard picture, and with edits originally made for syndication in the United States. Viewer complaints led to the BBC obtaining film prints for the subsequent two seasons.

" The Cage " was first broadcast on Sky One in July 1990. Three episodes, " Plato's Stepchildren ", " The Empath ", and " Whom Gods Destroy ", were not broadcast on the BBC until 1994, although "The Empath" was listed in the Radio Times as scheduled to broadcast on December 16, 1970, at 7:20 pm. [39] Sky One was the first network to air these three episodes in the UK in 1990, although with the title sequence and teaser shown in the order as they were aired in the United States, whereas the rest of the episodes were broadcast as edited by the BBC.

References [ ]

↑ Okuda, Michael and Denise (1999). The Star Trek Encyclopedia (3rd ed.) . New York: Pocket Books . pp. 463. ISBN 0-671-53609-5 .
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↑ "Star Trek: Season 1 DVD Information" . TVShowsOnDVD.com . http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/releases/Star-Trek-Season-1/3771 . Retrieved April 30, 2009 .
↑ "Star Trek: Season 2 DVD Information" . TVShowsOnDVD.com . http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/releases/Star-Trek-Season-2/3820 . Retrieved April 30, 2009 .
↑ 5.0 5.1 "Star Trek: Season 3 DVD Information" . TVShowsOnDVD.com . http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/releases/Star-Trek-Season-3/3821 . Retrieved April 30, 2009 .
↑ "Star Trek: Season 1 (Remastered) DVD Information" . TVShowsOnDVD.com . http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/releases/Star-Trek-Season-1-Remastered-HD-DVD/6973 . Retrieved April 30, 2009 .
↑ "Star Trek: Season 2 (Remastered) DVD Information" . TVShowsOnDVD.com . http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/releases/Star-Trek-Season-2-Remastered/7736 . Retrieved April 30, 2009 .
↑ 8.0 8.1 "Star Trek: Season 3 (Remastered) DVD Information" . TVShowsOnDVD.com . http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/releases/Star-Trek-Season-3-Remastered/8147 . Retrieved April 30, 2009 .
↑ "CBS & Paramount Announce First Star Trek Blu-ray sets - TOS S1 & All TOS movies coming April/May" . TrekMovie.com. February 16, 2009 . http://trekmovie.com/2009/02/16/cbs-paramount-announce-first-star-trek-blu-ray-sets-tos-s1-all-tos-movies-coming-aprilmay/ . Retrieved April 28, 2009 .
↑ 10.0 10.1 "Star Trek on DVD, Release Info, Reviews, News at TVShowsOnDVD.com" . TVShowsOnDVD.com . http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/shows/Star-Trek/3971 . Retrieved April 30, 2009 .
↑ "Star Trek Syndication Advertisements, Circa 1969-1970" . TelevisionObscurities.com. December 15, 2008 . http://www.tvobscurities.com/2008/12/star-trek-syndication-advertisements-circa-1969-1970/ . Retrieved May 2, 2009 .
↑ "Star Trek (U.S. Science Fiction)" . The Museum of Broadcast Communication . http://www.museum.tv/eotv/startrek.htm . Retrieved January 26, 2015 .
↑ "It's Official: Classic Trek Coming to HDTV With New CGI" . TrekMovie.com. August 30, 2006 . http://trekmovie.com/2006/08/30/its-official-classic-trek-coming-to-hdtv-with-new-cgi-effectswe-called-it/ . Retrieved April 30, 2009 .
↑ "TOS Remastered: Format" . TrekMovie.com. August 30, 2006 . http://trekmovie.com/tos-in-hd/ . Retrieved April 30, 2009 .
↑ "Star Trek: The Original Series - Season 1 Blu-ray" . blu-ray.com. April 28, 2009 . http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?id=4189 . Retrieved June 3, 2009 .
↑ 16.0 16.1 "TOS Remastered Episode Guide - Season 1" . TrekMovie.com . http://trekmovie.com/tos-in-hd/hdtv-star-trek-tos-episode-order/ . Retrieved April 28, 2009 .
↑ "First Look: Preview for Star Trek Remastered "The Cage" Airing Next Weekend" . TrekMovie.com. April 22, 2009 . http://trekmovie.com/2009/04/22/preview-for-star-trek-remastered-the-cage-airing-next-weekend/ . Retrieved April 28, 2009 .
↑ David Alexander, Star Trek Creator: The Authorized Biography of Gene Roddenberry , p. 218.
↑ Shatner, William (2008). Up Till Now: The Autobiography . New York: Thomas Dunne Books . pp. 119 . ISBN 0-312-37265-5 . https://archive.org/details/uptillnowautobio00shat/page/119 .
↑ David Alexander, Star Trek Creator: The Authorized Biography of Gene Roddenberry , p. 244.
↑ 21.0 21.1 21.2 Alexander, David (1994). Star Trek Creator: The Authorized Biography of Gene Roddenberry . Roc. ISBN 0-451-45440-5 . https://archive.org/details/startrekcreator00davi .
↑ 22.0 22.1 Whitfield, Stephen E; Roddenberry, Gene (1968). The Making of Star Trek . Ballatine Books. ISBN 1-85286-363-3 . https://archive.org/details/makingofstartrek00whit .
↑ 23.0 23.1 23.2 "A Look Back at The History of Star Trek's First Pilot "The Cage"" . TrekWeb.com. November 12, 2008 . http://www.trekweb.com/articles/2008/11/12/A-Look-Back-at-The-History-of-Star-Trek-First-Pilot-The-Cage.shtml . Retrieved May 1, 2009 .
↑ "Volume 40: Turnabout Intruder/The Cage" . TVShowsOnDVD.com . http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/releaseinfo.cfm?ReleaseID=470 . Retrieved May 1, 2009 .
↑ 25.0 25.1 Both the original Season 3 and "remastered" season 3 sets list the original air date for "The Cage" as October 15, 1988.
↑ DVD News Archived September 24, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
↑ 27.0 27.1 "Star Trek: Episodes (Season 1)" . StarTrek.com . http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/series/TOS/episodes/index.html?season=1 . Retrieved June 4, 2009 .
↑ Leonard Nimoy (1995). I Am Spock . Hyperion. pp. 38 . ISBN 0-7868-6182-7 . https://archive.org/details/iamspock00nimo/page/38 .
↑ Herbert F. Solow and Robert H. Justman (1996). Inside Star Trek: The Real Story . Pocket Books. ISBN 0-671-00974-5 . https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780671896287 .
↑ Grace Lee Whitney and Jim Denney. The Longest Trek: My Tour of the Galaxy . Quill Driver Books. ISBN 1-884956-03-3 .
↑ Entertainment Weekly Special Edition January 18, 1995
↑ "1968 Hugo Awards" . TheHugoAwards.org . http://www.thehugoawards.org/?page_id=51 . Retrieved May 1, 2009 .
↑ 33.0 33.1 33.2 33.3 Leonard Nimoy (1995). I Am Spock . Hyperion. pp. 112–113 . ISBN 0-7868-6182-7 . https://archive.org/details/iamspock00nimo/page/112 .
↑ 34.0 34.1 34.2 34.3 Shatner, William (2008). Up Till Now: The Autobiography . New York: Thomas Dunne Books . pp. 131–132 . ISBN 0-312-37265-5 . https://archive.org/details/uptillnowautobio00shat/page/131 .
↑ David Gerrold, quoting Bjo Trimble, in The World of Star Trek , Ballantine Books, 1973, p. 166
↑ William Shatner, Star Trek Memories , Harper Torch, 1994 paperback, p. 257
↑ Nichols, Beyond Uhura , p. 189
↑ "StarTrek.com: DVD" . StarTrek.com . http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/series/TOS/dvd/index.html .
↑ Fulton, Roger (1997). The Encyclopedia of TV Science Fiction . London: Boxtree . pp. 429–440 . ISBN 0-7522-1150-1 . https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaoftv0000fult/page/429 .

External links [ ]

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Best Star Trek: The Original Series episodes

Posted: 29 October 2023 | Last updated: 7 April 2024

<p> The first thing you need to know about Star Trek: The Original Series is that it only lasted for three seasons. The second thing you need to know is that there’s a pretty good reason for that. Its catalog of episodes is wildly uneven, with stories that range from the cringeworthy to the simply dull, but the good ones are oh, so very good. </p> <p> In fact, the impact of the best Star Trek: The Original Series episodes is still being felt by the franchise to this very day. Some introduced characters that would later become legendary, others set a standard for storytelling that any show would be proud to match. Others laid a foundation for concepts, plotlines, or themes that would become part of the immutable essence of what “Star Trek” is. </p> <p> It’s also worth mentioning that even when Star Trek whiffed, it was because the writers were swinging for the fences. Airing during an unprecedented era of U.S. social history, Star Trek genuinely wanted to give audiences a new way of looking at issues like racism, politics, war, and violence. Sometimes it succeeded, sometimes it didn’t, but there was true nobility in the attempt. And hey, it also made things like “phaser” and “transporter” everyday language, which is also pretty cool. </p> <p> Even hardcore fans typically agree that revisiting the entire run of Star Trek: TOS isn’t the best use of your time, so here are the ten best Star Trek episodes to watch in order to fully soak up the vibe. </p> <p> <em>By Susan Arendt</em> </p>

The first thing you need to know about Star Trek: The Original Series is that it only lasted for three seasons. The second thing you need to know is that there’s a pretty good reason for that. Its catalog of episodes is wildly uneven, with stories that range from the cringeworthy to the simply dull, but the good ones are oh, so very good.

In fact, the impact of the best Star Trek: The Original Series episodes is still being felt by the franchise to this very day. Some introduced characters that would later become legendary, others set a standard for storytelling that any show would be proud to match. Others laid a foundation for concepts, plotlines, or themes that would become part of the immutable essence of what “Star Trek” is.

It’s also worth mentioning that even when Star Trek whiffed, it was because the writers were swinging for the fences. Airing during an unprecedented era of U.S. social history, Star Trek genuinely wanted to give audiences a new way of looking at issues like racism, politics, war, and violence. Sometimes it succeeded, sometimes it didn’t, but there was true nobility in the attempt. And hey, it also made things like “phaser” and “transporter” everyday language, which is also pretty cool.

Even hardcore fans typically agree that revisiting the entire run of Star Trek: TOS isn’t the best use of your time, so here are the ten best Star Trek episodes to watch in order to fully soak up the vibe.

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10. The Tholian Web

Season 3, Episode 9

Original airdate: November 15, 1968

The heart of TOS was always the unlikely trio of Kirk, Spock, and McCoy, whose relationship is a tumultuous mix of camaraderie, respect, affection, and frustration. Kirk disappears while the Enterprise is investigating the cause behind the loss of all hands aboard The Defiant, leaving Spock and McCoy to argue about what to do next.

The ship is in jeopardy, but Kirk might still be alive — Spock’s cool logic is naturally at odds with McCoy’s passionate response. Kirk was always the buffer between those two strong personalities, and watching them interact without his calming presence is, as Spock would say, fascinating.

9. The Doomsday Machine

Season 2, Episode 6

Original airdate: October 20, 1967

Beneath its sheen of bravado and machismo, Star Trek was ultimately about self-sacrifice for the greater good. Kirk was never hesitant to put himself at risk to protect his crew, a character trait he inherited from his father if the 2009 Kelvin timeline movie is to be believed. The Enterprise discovers The Constellation after its disastrous run-in with a planet killer: a miles-long machine that destroys planets and devours the rubble as fuel. Phasers have no effect on the behemoth, so Kirk devises a plan to fly the Constellation straight down its maw and explode it from within.

Fortunately, Spock and Scotty manage a small alteration to the plan and beam Kirk back to the Enterprise before he meets his maker. The Enterprise has a habit of going toe-to-toe with enormous threats, and the Doomsday Machine is one of the biggest.

8. The Squire of Gothos

Season 1, Episode 17

Original airdate: January 12, 1967

The Squire of Gothos walked so that Q could run. A being calling himself General Trelane (retired) starts messing with Kirk and crew for his own amusement. He snatches them from their ship, changes their clothes, even forces them to stand trial — sound familiar?

It’s impossible to watch The Squire of Gothos and not see a direct throughline to John DeLancie’s portrayal of the all-powerful imp who delights in Picard’s frustration. Interestingly, the end of the episode appears to reveal Trelane to be a child (or at least childlike), despite his appearance.

7. Space Seed

Season 1, Episode 22

Original airdate: February 16, 1967

If you read our list of Star Trek movies ranked worst to best, you already know why this episode makes the list. Space Seed introduces the one and only Khan Noonien Singh and sets up the action that will later take place in the film The Wrath of Khan.

The Enterprise comes across Khan and his followers in stasis. Upon their revival, they attempt to take over the Enterprise. Their plan is foiled and Kirk exiles them to Ceti Alpha V…and we all know what happens next. Even if it didn’t precede such a phenomenal film, Space Seed would make this list as an example of how fast and loose Kirk often plays with others’ lives.

6. Amok Time

Season 2, Episode 1

Original airdate: September 15, 1967

First appearance of Pavel Chekov and the very first glimpse of Vulcan? Even if neither of those happened, Amok Time would still make this list for being one of many examples of Kirk being willing to to defy Starfleet in order to save his crew, and Spock in particular.

Kirk requests permission to take the Enterprise to Vulcan because Spock is in the grips of pon farr, the “mate or die” condition unique to Vulcans. On Vulcan, Spock’s intended demands that he fight a champion of her choosing in order to prove he deserves her — and then she selects Kirk. Ever seen Cable Guy? Yep, this is what that’s parodying.

5. The Menagerie Pts 1 & 2

Season 1, Episodes 11 & 12

Original airdate: November 17 & 24, 1966

Star Trek’s beginning was a little messy. Its first pilot (yes, there was more than one) featured Captain Pike, not Kirk, in an episode called The Cage. The Menagerie cleverly repackages that episode as Spock recalling events that took place when he served under Captain Pike — a relationship recreated first in Star Trek Discovery and more recently in Strange New Worlds.

Majel Barrett, who would go on to not just be the voice of the Enterprise computer but also Counselor Troi’s mum, stars as Pike’s first officer, Number One. Few episodes of TOS passed on as many different kinds of legacy as The Menagerie.

Season 1, Episode 18

Original airdate: January 19, 1967

Arena features one of Star Trek’s most frequently visited recurring themes: humanity’s propensity for violence. An unknown vessel fires upon the Enterprise, which gives chase. Both ships venture into the territory of the Metrons, which decide to settle the matter by pitting Kirk and the other vessel’s captain against each other in one-on-one combat. The winner’s ship gets to go free, the loser, not so much.

The other captain is the reptilian Gorn who Kirk fells after cobbling together a bazooka out of bamboo and rocks; if you were ever wondering where the “rudimentary lathe” joke from Galaxy Quest came from, now you know. When Kirk spares the Gorn’s life, the Metrons decide maybe there’s hope for humanity after all (another constant Star Trek refrain) and allow both ships to go free.

3. The Trouble With Tribbles

Season 2, Episode 15

Original airdate: Dec 29, 1967

Star Trek: TOS tackled plenty of serious social issues across its three seasons, but it wasn’t afraid to be funny, too. The Trouble With Tribbles is pure sitcom as the crew of the Enterprise discovers, adores, and then is slowly overtaken by the furry, purring creatures of the title.

Kirk alternately sits on one that’s found its way to the Captain’s chair, then finds himself buried in them after opening an overhead compartment. It’s a low-stakes, iconic romp that would later be revisited in the Deep Space Nine episode Trials and Tribble-ations.

2. Mirror, Mirror

Season 2, Episode 4

Original airdate: October 6, 1967

A transporter malfunction swaps Kirk, McCoy, Scotty, and Uhura with their “evil” selves from the mirror universe, a totalitarian hellscape that would be revisited thematically, if not actually, in virtually every iteration of Trek to follow.

The crew of the ISS Enterprise and that of the USS Enterprise both work to discover why their crewmates aren’t quite themselves and then, upon sussing the answer, send them home. It’s a fun episode in and of itself, but a must-have on the list given the impact it would end up having.

1. The City on the Edge of Forever

Season 1, Episode 28

Original airdate: April 6, 1967

This may be the best-known episode of TOS. Harlan Ellison pitched the idea and wrote the first version of the story, but the rewrites from Gene Roddenberry (among others) made him hate the eventual script so much he asked to have his name struck from it. Ellison would continue to loudly complain about on City of the Edge of Forever for the rest of his career, but the episode is still an all-time great.

McCoy, drugged out of his mind, stumbles through a time portal and winds up changing the timeline. The Guardian of Forever allows Kirk and Spock to go through the portal after him in an attempt to clean things up. While visiting Earth’s past, Kirk falls in love with Edith Keeler, unforgettably played by Joan Collins. Too late, he discovers the event that changes the future: McCoy saving Edith’s life.

Kirk being forced to let her die in order to preserve the future is a personal tragedy that underscores that beneath the phasers, transporters, subspace anomalies, and cranial ridges, Star Trek is about exploring what it means to be human.

By Susan Arendt

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Meet the New Class of Cadets in Star Trek: Starfleet Academy

Kerrice Brooks, Bella Shepard, and George Hawkins join the all-new Original Series!

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Paramount+ today announced that Kerrice Brooks ( My Old Ass ), Bella Shepard ( Wolf Pack ) and George Hawkins ( Tell Me Everything ) have joined the cast of the original series Star Trek: Starfleet Academy . The upcoming series will follow the adventures of a new class of Starfleet cadets as they come of age in one of the most legendary places in the galaxy. Produced by CBS Studios, the new series will begin production later this summer.

Brooks, Shepard, and Hawkins will play cadets, joining previously announced cast members Holly Hunter as the captain and chancellor of Starfleet Academy and Paul Giamatti as the season's antagonist .

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Star Trek: Starfleet Academy introduces viewers to a young group of cadets who come together to pursue a common dream of hope and optimism. Under the watchful and demanding eyes of their instructors, they discover what it takes to become Starfleet officers as they navigate blossoming friendships, explosive rivalries, first loves, and a new enemy that threatens both the Academy and the Federation itself.

Alex Kurtzman and Noga Landau serve as co-showrunners and executive produce the series alongside executive producers Gaia Violo, Aaron Baiers, Olatunde Osunsanmi, Jenny Lumet, Rod Roddenberry, Trevor Roth, Frank Siracusa and John Weber. The series' premiere episode is written by Gaia Violo. Star Trek: Starfleet Academy is produced by CBS Studios in association with Secret Hideout and Roddenberry Entertainment. The series is distributed by Paramount Global Content Distribution.

Star Trek: Starfleet Academy is the latest addition to the expanding Star Trek franchise on Paramount+, which also includes the fifth and final season of Star Trek: Discovery , Star Trek: Strange New Worlds , the animated series Star Trek: Lower Decks , and Star Trek: Section 31 , an original movie event with Oscar winner Michelle Yeoh.

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So You Never Watched Star Trek’s Mini Episodes? Short Treks Are Now Must-See

I think star trek: discovery season 2 is star trek at its best, star trek: discovery’s “calypso” short trek & finale epilogue reveal explained.

Here is a chronological list of how to watch Star Trek: Discovery, including Star Trek: Short Treks episodes, and their respective storylines.
Star Trek: Short Treks chronologically weave in and out of Star Trek: Discovery's five seasons.
Star Trek: Discovery starts in the mid-23rd century but concludes in the 33rd century, with its real ending set a thousand years after.

With its premiere in 2017, Star Trek: Discovery ended a 12-year gap between Star Trek TV shows and was met with mostly rave reviews. By introducing an all-new starship, a complex crew, and a twisting, serialized plot, Star Trek: Discovery solidified its place in the Star Trek timeline as one of the franchise's boldest and most fascinating stories. Along with new additions to the Star Trek canon, Star Trek: Discovery also reached towards Star Trek: The Original Series for familiar visuals, tropes, and characters. Star Trek: Discovery 's first two seasons gave life to new characters while reintroducing familiar characters with new and younger faces.

After all, Star Trek: Discovery 's characters are a big reason for the show's success and contribute to the emotional stakes of its many twists and turns. These plot twists helped keep viewers interested, especially when Star Trek: Picard and Star Trek: Lower Decks began airing in 2020. Star Trek: Discovery went back to the roots of Star Trek to boost its appeal, but as the show continued, things got a little more complicated with the introduction of 2018-2020's Star Trek: Short Treks to bridge gaps for certain characters and set up storylines.. The Star Trek: Discovery saga spans thousands of years and several TV shows, so watching it in chronological order means going back and forth.

Star Trek: Discovery Ends As A Top 10 Streaming Show

Star Trek: Discovery lands in the Nielsen Streaming Top 10 for the final time, although Disco's finale isn't bigger than Picard or Strange New Worlds.

1 Star Trek: Short Treks: “The Girl Who Made The Stars”

This short is set during michael burnham's childhood in the 2230s.

Star Trek: Short Treks includes mini-episodes of one-off Star Trek stories set in many different places and time periods in the Star Trek canon, and they add to the complexity of other, larger stories by giving background information. In "The Girl Who Made The Stars," an animated Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) as a young girl has nightmares about being afraid. Her father, Mike Burnham (Kenric Green), tells Michael a story about a little girl who conquered her fears. Her father's words would one day closely relate to Michael's life: "Even though she was scared, she kept going."

Soniqua Martin-Green and Kenric Green are married off-screen and have both appeared in Star Trek and The Walking Dead .

2 Star Trek: Short Treks: "The Brightest Star"

In 2239, saru confronts his suspicions about the ba'ul on the kelpien homeworld of kaminar.

Commander Saru's (Doug Jones) backstory takes the spotlight in Star Trek: Short Treks , "The Brightest Star." On the Kelpien homeworld Kaminar, Saru battles with his suspicions about a biological process called the Vahar'ai, a deadly condition signaling a Kelpien's readiness to be harvested by the Ba'ul, the Kelpien's predators. Saru's suspicions are refuted by his father, who says it would be an honor to be chosen. Saru disagrees, and when he finds a broken piece of Ba'ul communication equipment, he sends a simple message into space. Lt. Philippa Georgiou (Michelle Yeoh) responds, and Saru leaves with her to join Starfleet.

Many viewers skipped Star Trek: Short Treks, but current series like Star Trek: Discovery and Star Trek: Prodigy made these mini-episodes essential.

3 Star Trek: Discovery Season 1

Discovery season 1 takes place in 2256 and 2257.

Star Trek: Discovery season 1 melds classic Star Trek with modern production and sophisticated plot lines. A diverse cast of characters interacts with familiar faces, and the Star Trek canon is pushed to its limits with an alternate universe and a new, controversial form of warp travel. Although some fans accused its technological advancements of being too advanced for the timeline's canon, Star Trek: Discovery included reasoning for all of its choices. The Klingon War is the focal point of Star Trek: Discovery season 1, with a multi-episode arc in the Mirror Universe introducing Michelle Yeoh as Emperor Philippa Georgiou.

4 Star Trek: Short Treks: "Ephraim And Dot"

This sweet, nostalgic tale takes place between 2266 and 2285.

In one of the first animated Star Trek episodes to air since the end of Star Trek: The Animated Series in 1974, Star Trek: Short Treks goes on a nostalgic journey in "Ephraim And Dot." A tardigrade named Ephraim tries to find a place to hatch her eggs, and when she sees the USS Enterprise, she finds a DOT-7 robot, "Dot," who stops her. A chase ensues, and even after Ephraim finds a place for her eggs, Dot continues to chase her. During their chase, classic moments from Star Trek: The Original Series take place, unbeknownst to Ephraim or Dot.

5 Star Trek: Short Treks: "The Escape Artist"

Harry mudd avoids justice in the 2250s.

Harcourt Fenton "Harry" Mudd , the infamous conman and swindler, was first played by Roger C. Carmel in Star Trek: The Original Series . Rainn Wilson would later play the role in Star Trek: Discovery season 1, and he returns in Star Trek: Short Treks , "The Escape Artist," which follows Mudd through several sticky situations. In his Short Treks, Mudd avoids justice several times despite having neither the reason nor the resources to do so. This slippery nature connects to Mudd's appearances in Star Trek: Discovery season 1.

Star Trek: Short Treks "The Escape Artist" was written by Mike McMahan, who went on to create and executive produce Star Trek: Lower Decks.

6 Star Trek: Short Treks: “Runaway”

In 2257, tilly meets an unexpected visitor on the uss discovery.

After a distressing call from her discouraging mother, Ensign Sylvia Tilly (Mary Wiseman) wallows with an espresso. Unbeknownst to her, an unknown stowaway has escaped from the cargo bay and soon meets Tilly in the mess hall. The food synthesizers malfunction and spew food everywhere. Tilly learns that the intruder is a teenage Xahean named Me Hani Ika Hali Ka Po, or "Po" for short. The Queen of Xahea, Po explains that her people stole her new invention in a greedy grab for warp technology despite it destroying their planet. Po and Tilly relate to each other regarding being unheard of and part ways as friends. Po's appearance in Star Trek: Short Treks sets up why Xahea is so crucial to Star Trek: Discovery season 2's ending .

7 Star Trek: Discovery Season 2

Captain pike and the uss discovery crew investigate the red angel between 2257 and 2258.

Star Trek: Discovery season 2 picks up where season 1 left off after Captain Gabriel Lorca's (Jason Isaacs) exit from the eponymous starship. Captain Christopher Pike (Anson Mount) replaced the lying captain and became a fan favorite due to his charm and kindness. Newly introduced iterations of Lt. Spock (Ethan Peck) and Number One, Una Chin-Riley (Rebecca Romijin) also gave the season a nostalgic kick from Star Trek: The Original Series pilot, "The Cage." Star Trek: Discovery season 2's ending marked a monumental shift where the USS Discovery leaves the 23rd century for good to travel to the 32nd century 930 years in the future.

Star Trek: Discovery includes some of Star Trek’s best characters and narratives, both old and new. I think season 2 is Star Trek at its best.

8 Star Trek: Discovery Season 3

The uss discovery crew ends up in 3188 and 3189 in season 3.

Star Trek: Discovery season 3 permanently brings the crew of the USS Discovery over 930 years in the future. Discovery season 3 explores a distant future in which the United Federation of Planets and Starfleet have nearly been obliterated by a mysterious event known as "The Burn," causing an explosion of the galaxy's dilithium supply. Without fuel, starships were severely damaged, and the galaxy was quickly plunged into chaos. Discovery season 3 also introduces new and diverse characters, including Cleveland "Book" Booker (David Ajala), as Commander Burnham and the USS Discovery solve the mystery of the Burn and bring warp travel back to the Federation.

Commander Michael Burnham is promoted to Captain of the USS Discovery at the end of Star Trek: Discovery season 3.

9 Star Trek: Discovery Season 4

The 32nd-century adventure continues in 3190.

Star Trek: Discovery season 4 revolves around a vast, mysterious gravitational anomaly called the Dark Matter Anomaly (DMA) . The USS Discovery's crew quickly moves to investigate the DMA because it poses a dangerous and immediate threat to the galaxy, causing catastrophic destruction on a planetary scale. The crew builds new alliances and faces individual growth through grief and love alike, eventually overcoming seemingly impossible challenges and circling back to the core values of Star Trek . By the end of Star Trek: Discovery season 4 , the USS Discovery traveled to another galaxy and made First Contact with the DMA's creators, Species 10-C.

10 Star Trek: Discovery Season 5

The uss discovery's story ends in 3191.

Star Trek: Discovery 's final season has the twist of being a sequel to Star Trek: The Next Generation 's "The Chase". Discovery season 5 follows Captain Michael Burnham's search for the Progenitors' ancient technology. This search leads to exciting adventures that connect to Star Trek lore in surprising ways. The advanced technology is eventually destroyed by Captain Burnham, who deems it too dangerous for anyone to use. Star Trek: Discovery ends with a peaceful epilogue set 30 years in the future in which Burnham and Book's son, Leto (Sawandi Wilson), is a Starfleet captain. Admiral Burnham sends the USS Discovery on its puzzling final mission: to wait in deep space.

Star Trek: Discovery's series finale epilogue puts the pieces in place for Star Trek: Short Treks "Calypso" to happen in the future.

11 Star Trek: Short Treks: “Calypso”

During or after the 42nd century, the uss discovery is found abandoned..

Star Trek: Short Treks ' "Calypso", produced in 2018, is the true end to Star Trek: Discovery . A thousand years later, a wounded human named Craft (Aldis Hodge) flees to safety aboard the abandoned USS Discovery, which is still waiting in deep space. Discovery's sentient AI interface, Zora's (Annabelle Wallis), kindness toward the war-torn soldier sparks a romantic connection between the pair. Ultimately, Craft leaves to return to his estranged wife and child. The final act of the Discovery reunites a family, linking back to the ship's roots as the home of found families from all over the universe. The end of the saga's timeline perfectly encapsulates Star Trek: Discovery 's core values, including family, love, bravery, and resilience.

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Star Trek: Discovery is an entry in the legendary Sci-Fi franchise, set ten years before the original Star Trek series events. The show centers around Commander Michael Burnham, assigned to the USS Discovery, where the crew attempts to prevent a Klingon war while traveling through the vast reaches of space.

Every Classic Star Trek The Original Series Episode Ranked (1966-1969)

Leonard Nimoy, William Shatner, James Doohan, DeForest Kelley, Nichelle Nichols, and David L. Ross in Star Trek (1966)

1. Star Trek

The city on the edge of forever.

Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner in Star Trek (1966)

2. Star Trek

Mirror, mirror.

Leonard Nimoy, William Shatner, Whit Bissell, Eddie Paskey, and William Schallert in Star Trek (1966)

3. Star Trek

The trouble with tribbles.

William Shatner, James Doohan, DeForest Kelley, Ricardo Montalban, and Madlyn Rhue in Star Trek (1966)

4. Star Trek

5. Star Trek

The doomsday machine.

Leonard Nimoy and Arlene Martel in Star Trek (1966)

6. Star Trek

7. Star Trek

Balance of terror.

8. Star Trek

The devil in the dark.

Leonard Nimoy, William Shatner, DeForest Kelley, Mark Lenard, and Jane Wyatt in Star Trek (1966)

9. Star Trek

Journey to babel.

10. Star Trek

The menagerie: part i.

Jeffrey Hunter, Laurel Goodwin, and Susan Oliver in The Cage (1966)

11. Star Trek

The menagerie: part ii.

12. Star Trek

The enterprise incident.

William Shatner and John Colicos in Star Trek (1966)

13. Star Trek

Errand of mercy.

Leonard Nimoy, William Shatner, and Barbara Babcock in Star Trek (1966)

14. Star Trek

A taste of armageddon.

15. Star Trek

The tholian web.

Leonard Nimoy, William Shatner, DeForest Kelley, and William Marshall in Star Trek (1966)

16. Star Trek

The ultimate computer.

17. Star Trek

The corbomite maneuver.

William Shatner and Gary Combs in Star Trek (1966)

18. Star Trek

19. Star Trek

All our yesterdays.

20. Star Trek

Tomorrow is yesterday.

George Takei and Nichelle Nichols in Star Trek (1966)

21. Star Trek

The naked time.

Leonard Nimoy and Jill Ireland in Star Trek (1966)

22. Star Trek

This side of paradise.

23. Star Trek

Day of the dove.

Leonard Nimoy and DeForest Kelley in Star Trek (1966)

24. Star Trek

A piece of the action.

Leonard Nimoy, James Doohan, DeForest Kelley, Phyllis Douglas, and Don Marshall in The Galileo Seven (1967)

25. Star Trek

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List of Star Trek episodes, chronological. Includes television episodes for all Star Trek series, plus all Star Trek movies, listed chronologically by date of setting. Table gives: Series (TOS=Star Trek/The Original Series; TNG=Star Trek: The Next Generation; DS9=Star Trek: Deep Space Nine; VOY=Star Trek: Voyager; ENT=Star Trek: Enterprise; ST ...
'Star Trek' Original Series Episodes: The Best 20
Ricardo Montaban's single appearance on the original series as the 1990s warlord Khan Noonien Singh set the stage for the undisputed greatest Star Trek film ever, The Wrath of Khan, set 15 years ...
List of Star Trek: The Original Series episodes
Contents 1Series overview 2Episodes 2.1Pilots (1964-65) 2.2Season 1 (1966-67) 2.3Season 2 (1967-68) 2.4Season 3 (1968-69) 3Production order 4British transmission 5See also 6References 7External links Created by Gene Roddenberry, the ...
The Original Series Episode Guide
3 thoughts on " The Original Series Episode Guide " Lets Watch Star Trek June 5, 2013 at 9:37 pm. We're still making our way through the series. Sorry if we're a little slow. We do an Original Series episode review every Monday (TNG Tuesday, DS9 Wednesday, Voyager Thursday, Enterprise Friday)
List of Star Trek: The Original Series episodes
Episodes Pilots (1964-65) Star Trek ' s pilot episode, "The Cage", was completed between November 1964 and January 1965, and starred Jeffrey Hunter as Captain Christopher Pike, Majel Barrett as Number One, and Leonard Nimoy as Spock.The pilot was rejected by NBC as being "too cerebral" among other complaints. Jeffrey Hunter chose to withdraw from the role of Pike when creator Gene ...
The 10 standout episodes of Star Trek: The Original Series
Introducing a planet-ending energy weapon 10 years before Star Wars, this episode features a real nail-biter of an ending. Fun fact for the continuity-conscious: Decker's son, Willard Decker ...
Star Trek: The Original Series season 1
The first season of the American science-fiction television series Star Trek, originally created by Gene Roddenberry, premiered on NBC on September 8, 1966, and concluded on April 13, 1967. The season debuted in Canada on CTV two days before the US premiere, on September 6, 1966. It consisted of 29 episodes, which is the highest number of episodes in a season for the original series of Star Trek.
Full List of Star Trek: The Original Series Episodes
"I, Mudd" is a second season episode of the original American science fiction television series Star Trek first broadcast November 3, 1967 on NBC, and repeated April 5, 1968. It is episode #37, production #41, and was written by Stephen Kandel, based on a story by Gene Roddenberry and directed by Marc Daniels.
Star Trek: The Original Series Archives
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List of Star Trek: The Original Series episodes
Created by Gene Roddenberry, the science fiction television series Star Trek (which eventually acquired the retronym Star Trek: The Original Series) starred William Shatner as Captain James T. Kirk, Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock, and DeForest Kelley as Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy aboard the fictional Federation starship USS Enterprise. The series originally aired from September 1966 through June ...
Star Trek: The Original Series Episodes
Star Trek: The Original Series Episodes. by jfreshh-17189 • Created 2 years ago • Modified 2 years ago. List activity. 166 views • 0 this week. Create a new list. List your movie, TV & celebrity picks. 80 titles. Sort by List order. 1. Star Trek . Episode: The Cage (1966) 1966-1969 1h 3m TV-PG. 7.6 (7.2K) ...
List of episodes of Star Trek (the original series)
The series originally aired from September 1966 through June 1969 on NBC. [1] This is the first television series in the Star Trek franchise, and comprises 79 regular episodes over the series' three seasons, along with the series' original pilot episode, " The Cage ". The episodes are listed in order by original air date, [2] which match the ...
Where To Watch Every Star Trek TV Show & Movie
Due to the complexities of licensing rights in the streaming age, it can sometimes be difficult to know where you can stream every Star Trek TV show and movie. Spanning almost six decades, eleven different TV shows, and 13 movies, the Star Trek franchise is a veritable goldmine of content for streamers.Indeed, Paramount+ launched itself on the fact that it was the only place to experience the ...
Best Star Trek: The Original Series episodes
Season 2, Episode 6. Original airdate: October 20, 1967 Beneath its sheen of bravado and machismo, Star Trek was ultimately about self-sacrifice for the greater good.
Meet the New Class of Cadets in Star Trek: Starfleet Academy
Paramount+ today announced that Kerrice Brooks (My Old Ass), Bella Shepard (Wolf Pack) and George Hawkins (Tell Me Everything) have joined the cast of the original series Star Trek: Starfleet Academy.The upcoming series will follow the adventures of a new class of Starfleet cadets as they come of age in one of the most legendary places in the galaxy.
The Best Order To Watch Star Trek: Discovery's Complete Saga
With its premiere in 2017, Star Trek: Discovery ended a 12-year gap between Star Trek TV shows and was met with mostly rave reviews. By introducing an all-new starship, a complex crew, and a twisting, serialized plot, Star Trek: Discovery solidified its place in the Star Trek timeline as one of the franchise's boldest and most fascinating stories. Along with new additions to the Star Trek ...
Every Classic Star Trek The Original Series Episode Ranked (1966 ...
This is a ranked list of every episode of the original Star Trek television series that aired from 1966-1969. The rankings take into account the overall IMDb ratings as well as IMDb's Top 1000 voters' ratings. The original pilot is NOT included on this list.
List of Star Trek lists
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Star Trek: The Original Series season 2
In 2019, CBR rated Season 2 of Star Trek (original series) as the second best season of all Star Trek seasons up to that time, and the best season of the original's three seasons. See also. List of Star Trek: The Original Series episodes - all episodes listed in chronological order, no summaries

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