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The third and final season of Star Trek: The Original Series was produced and filmed from May 1968 to January 1969 by Paramount Television and premiered on NBC on Friday, September 20, 1968 and concluded on Tuesday, June 3, 1969. In the United Kingdom, the season premiered on the ITV network on Sunday, March 25, 1984 as a mid-season replacement, and ended on September 2, 1984 with the final episode " Turnabout Intruder " as part of the beginning of the Autumn season and just before the film's premiere is held on September 3, 1984. It consists of 24 episodes. Star Trek: The Original Series is an American science fiction television series produced by Fred Freiberger , and created by Gene Roddenberry , and the original series of the Star Trek franchise. It features William Shatner as Captain James T. Kirk , Leonard Nimoy as Spock and DeForest Kelley as Leonard McCoy .

• 3.2.1 Uncredited crew
• 4 Background information
• 6 External links

Episodes [ ]

Summary [ ].

With Star Trek having narrowly avoided cancellation, the basic format remained the same as Season 2. The season opened with " Spock's Brain ", a story in which Kara , the priestess-leader of the underground Eymorg city, steals Spock's brain and transfers it to a receptacle so that he can rule their society.

Other episodes continued to serve as political parables. " Day of the Dove " carried a strong anti-war message, while " Let That Be Your Last Battlefield " dealt with racial hatred, ending with the Enterprise unable to prevent the destruction of a civilization or even dissuade the two survivors from continuing their feud. " The Empath " told a tightly constructed morality play with Kirk, Spock, and McCoy teach an alien woman the value of self-sacrifice. While " Plato's Stepchildren " may not have featured television's first interracial kiss, it was still groundbreaking enough to be banned in some states.

Kirk had one of his most significant romances in " The Paradise Syndrome ", as he spent three months stranded on a planet, fell in love, and married, only for his pregnant wife to be killed in a tragic misunderstanding. He also fell in love with an android in " Requiem for Methuselah ", inadvertently bringing about her death. Spock attracted female attention in episodes like " The Enterprise Incident ", " The Cloud Minders ", and " All Our Yesterdays ", and McCoy and Scott found love in " For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky " and " The Lights of Zetar ", respectively.

Of the junior crewmembers, Chekov had significant roles in " Spectre of the Gun " and " The Way to Eden ", the latter giving a rare insight into his past. Sulu was given a chance to command the ship in " Spock's Brain ", for the first time since " Errand of Mercy ", and accompanied Kirk and McCoy on an away team in " That Which Survives ", while Uhura and Christine Chapel finally had an opportunity to get closer to the two leads in " Plato's Stepchildren ", albeit at the behest of telekinetic aliens.

The Klingons made two major appearances in " Elaan of Troyius " and " Day of the Dove ". The latter introduced the character of Kang , who was later seen in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager . The Romulans appeared in person for the first time since " Balance of Terror " when they returned in " The Enterprise Incident ", and the Tholians were introduced in " The Tholian Web ". " The Savage Curtain " saw Kirk and Spock forced to play out the battle against good and evil, with three of the other participants, Phillip Green , Kahless the Unforgettable , and Surak , reappearing in later series as their original selves. The episode also marked the last appearance of Uhura on the show.

The season closed with " Turnabout Intruder ", in which Kirk found himself trapped in the body of bitter former lover Janice Lester , who proceeded to charge his comrades with mutiny.

Credits [ ]

• William Shatner as Capt. Kirk
• Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock
• DeForest Kelley as Dr. McCoy
• James Doohan as Scott
• Nichelle Nichols as Uhura
• George Takei as Sulu
• Walter Koenig as Chekov
• Majel Barrett as Nurse Chapel
• See : TOS Season 3 performers
• " Spectre of the Gun "
• " Spock's Brain "
• " Wink of an Eye " (Story)
• " Let That Be Your Last Battlefield " (Story)
• " Elaan of Troyius "
• " That Which Survives " (Teleplay)
• " The Paradise Syndrome "
• " The Cloud Minders " (Teleplay)
• " The Enterprise Incident "
• " That Which Survives " (Story)
• " The Way to Eden " (Story)
• " And the Children Shall Lead "
• " Is There in Truth No Beauty? "
• " All Our Yesterdays "
• " The Empath "
• " The Tholian Web " (co-wrote)
• " For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky "
• " Day of the Dove "
• " Requiem for Methuselah "
• " Plato's Stepchildren "
• " Wink of an Eye " (Teleplay)
• " The Way to Eden " (Teleplay/Story)
• " The Savage Curtain " (Teleplay)
• " Let That Be Your Last Battlefield " (Teleplay)
• " The Cloud Minders " (Story)
• " Whom God's Destroy " (Teleplay/Story)
• " Whom God's Destroy " (Story)
• " The Mark of Gideon "
• " The Lights of Zetar "
• " The Savage Curtain " (Teleplay/Story)
• " Turnabout Intruder " (Story)
• " Turnabout Intruder " (Teleplay)
• " Wink of an Eye "
• " Let That Be Your Last Battlefield "
• " The Cloud Minders "
• " The Tholian Web " (uncredited)
• " The Tholian Web "
• " That Which Survives "
• " Whom Gods Destroy "
• " Turnabout Intruder "
• " The Way to Eden "
• " The Savage Curtain "
• Gene Roddenberry
• Fred Freiberger
• Robert H. Justman (" Spectre of the Gun " – " That Which Survives ")
• Edward K. Milkis
• Gregg Peters
• Arthur H. Singer
• Alexander Courage
• Fred Steiner
• Gerald Fried
• Jerry Finnerman (" Spectre of the Gun " – " The Empath ")
• Al Francis (" The Tholian Web " – " Turnabout Intruder ")
• Walter M. Jefferies
• Fabien Tordjmann
• Donald R. Rode
• Claude Binyon, Jr.
• Gene De Ruelle
• John M. Dwyer
• William Ware Theiss
• Westheimer Company
• Howard Anderson Co.
• Vanderveer Photo Effects
• Douglas H. Grindstaff
• Richard Lapham
• Gordon L. Day , CAS
• Carl W. Daniels
• George A. Rutter
• Glen Glenn Sound Co.
• Joseph D'Agosta
• William J. Kenney (" Day of the Dove ", " Wink of an Eye ", " Let That Be Your Last Battlefield ", " The Mark of Gideon ", " The Cloud Minders ", " Requiem for Methuselah ", " All Our Yesterdays ")
• Fred B. Phillips , SMA
• Pat Westmore
• George H. Merhoff
• George Rader
• Irving A. Feinberg
• Paramount Television
• Norway Corporation
• Douglas S. Cramer

Uncredited crew [ ]

• Larry Abbott – Makeup artist ("The Way to Eden")
• George Barr – Makeup artist ("The Way to Eden")
• Larry Bunker – Percussionist ("The Way to Eden")
• John Caleffie – Guitarist ("The Way to Eden")
• Julian Davidson – Orchestra Manager ("The Way to Eden") [1]
• Kellam de Forest – Research
• John Finger – Director of Photography ("Requiem for Methuselah")
• Al Francis – Camera Operator ("Spectre of the Gun" – "The Empath")
• Ernest Haller – Director of Photography ("Requiem for Methuselah")
• Arthur Heinemann – Composer ("The Way to Eden")
• Al Jacoby – Assistant Property Master
• Willard W. Jones – Orchestration ("The Way to Eden") [2]
• J. James Lidner – Copyist ("The Way to Eden") [3]
• Mike May – Props
• Bill McGovern – Clapper/Loader
• Mike Minor – Additional Designs/Effects Artist ("Spectre of the Gun" – "The Tholian Web" – "Day of the Dove")
• Charles Napier – Composer ("The Way to Eden")
• William K. Pitman – Guitarist ("The Way to Eden")
• Craig Robertson – Composer ("The Way to Eden")
• Denis Russell – VFX Artist ("The Tholian Web" – "The Cloud Minders")
• Tiger Shapiro – Second Assistant Director
• Clark E. Spangler – Organist ("The Way to Eden")
• Charles Washburn – Second Assistant Director
• Andrea Weaver – Women's Costumer

Background information [ ]

The blue logo in Season 3

• Some production staff members were disappointed with season three. In a 2006 interview, Leonard Nimoy called it " very weak in general, but it was especially not good for Spock . " [4]
• Ira Steven Behr once said that both he and his sister were disappointed with this third season. [5] (X) He also commented that his disappointment with the season was similar to the reaction of "most fans." ( AOL chat , 1997 )
• For the third season, the title and credits were in a light blue color, much like the credits of Star Trek: The Next Generation .
• Kirk no longer wore a green wrap-around shirt in any of the episodes, though officers were seen wearing the full dress uniform in " Is There in Truth No Beauty? " and " The Savage Curtain ". Also in the third season, Scott's dress uniform was accompanied by a traditional Scottish kilt . The uniforms were no longer made of velour (which shrank every time it was cleaned), but of double-knit polyester.
• Each episode of the third season now cost about US$175,000, the budget having been reduced even further, while the salaries of the main cast increased. Consequently, only two episodes out of the twenty-four this season (" The Paradise Syndrome " and " All Our Yesterdays ") featured location scenery.
• Gene Roddenberry was initially promised an early evening time slot (Mondays at 7:30 pm) by NBC. However, this would have required their top-rated series Laugh-In to be moved from its 8 pm time slot to 8:30. Laugh-In Producer George Schaltter threatened to take his show to another network unless it was guaranteed the 8 pm slot. NBC capitulated, forcing Star Trek to air its third season in the only remaining slot on the schedule – Fridays at 10 pm. Roddenberry threatened to leave Star Trek entirely if it wasn't put back to the promised time slot, but NBC rejected his threats due to the show's low ratings. He technically kept the post of executive producer for this season, but had actually left for MGM to work on other projects.
• Because of Roddenberry's withdrawal, scripts were no longer revised or re-written by him, nor by either Gene L. Coon or D.C. Fontana , who both left the series earlier. Script quality greatly suffered because of this. ( Inside Star Trek: The Real Story )
• After Roddenberry and most of the writing staff left after the second season, Fred Freiberger took over as producer, with Arthur H. Singer replacing D.C. Fontana as script consultant. According to Fontana, Singer came to the set one day, and asked, " By the way, what does that transporter thing do again? " [6]
• Robert H. Justman was promoted to co-producer, but left the series after " Let That Be Your Last Battlefield ". Gregg Peters became the new associate producer.
• A most important change was the departure of cinematographer Jerry Finnerman after " The Empath ", and his replacement with his former camera operator, Al Francis , which affected the visual style of the series.
• Several new writers were brought in. Many of them were non-professionals, who sent in story outlines, which were read and recommended by Justman. These included Jean Lisette Aroeste , Joyce Muskat , and Judy Burns .
• While a few directors from prior seasons returned, none of them (save for John Meredyth Lucas and Ralph Senensky , the latter of whom was fired midway through his second episode) worked on more than one episode. The season was therefore mostly handled by a new set of directors, with Jud Taylor and Herb Wallerstein being the two most frequent.
• According to Star Trek Lives! writer Joan Winston , NBC passed on an option for two additional episodes (a twenty-fifth and twenty-sixth) for the third season. William Shatner would have directed the twenty-fifth episode, " The Joy Machine ". Ultimately, it was another two decades before Shatner got the opportunity to direct a Star Trek production (the film Star Trek V: The Final Frontier , which was released almost twenty years to the day after TOS series finale " Turnabout Intruder ") and twenty-one years before a Star Trek episode would be directed by a member of the cast ( TNG : " The Offspring ", directed by Jonathan Frakes ).

See also [ ]

• TOS Season 3 UK VHS
• TOS Season 3 DVD
• TOS-R Season 3 DVD
• TOS Season 3 Blu-ray

External links [ ]

• Star Trek: The Original Series season 3 at Memory Beta , the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
• The Original Series Season 3 episode reviews  at Ex Astris Scientia
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Star Trek Season 3: What Went Wrong?

The third season of Star Trek: The Original Series is largely considered its worst. But how did it end up that way?

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In March 1968, the fans, cast, and creators of the NBC-TV series Star Trek were celebrating an unprecedented victory: a massive mail campaign by fans of the show, which directed more than 100,000 letters (if not more) to NBC executives, had resulted in the network deciding not to cancel the sci-fi program after two seasons but to instead extend it for a third year.

That Which Survives Cancellation

NBC’s public decision to renew the show — it even announced the news on the air at the end of the March 1 episode, “The Omega Glory,” with a brief voiceover statement — was unheard of in an era when fandom did not have social media to rant, rave, and otherwise kvetch about every little thing regarding their favorite franchises. This was a physical mobilization of Trekkers, led by superfans like Bjo and John Trimble , and tacitly encouraged (and perhaps even subsidized a little) by series creator Gene Roddenberry . And it worked.

Or at least it seemed to. For while NBC had lost the public relations battle — and half-suspected that Roddenberry himself incited the campaign to embarrass the network — the company still had several weapons at its disposal. 

Executives at the Peacock Network did not like Roddenberry and considered him a troublemaker, because of his often public squabbles with the company over budgets, time slots, and creative control. So even though he had promised that he would personally produce the third season — after handing the reins to others starting halfway through season one — there were already ways in which NBC was plotting to wound Star Trek , perhaps fatally this time.

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Thus begins the strange and tragic saga of Star Trek ’s third season, a run of 24 episodes that is generally considered the series’ weakest. Studio politics, personal vendettas, a misunderstanding of the show itself and its viewership, and poor choices by both Roddenberry and the season three producing/writing staff all pooled together to draw the U.S.S. Enterprise into a black hole of declining quality from which it could ultimately not warp its way out. 

Let That Be Gene’s Last Battlefield

At first things seemed to go smoothly: the entire regular cast agreed to new contracts, Roddenberry was actively soliciting and assigning stories, and he had even managed to secure a 7:30 p.m. Monday night slot for the show after fighting to retain viewers with the previous season’s 8:30 p.m. berth on Fridays (most of the younger set who watched Trek were out on Friday nights).

But this, of course, was Hollywood, where almost nothing is built to last, so it wasn’t long before the promising season that Roddenberry hoped for began to disintegrate like a shuttlecraft burning up in the atmosphere. A comedy sketch series called Laugh-In had become an unexpected hit for NBC on Monday nights at 8:00 p.m., and its producer refused to start the program a half hour later, even threatening to take it to another network. Since NBC wanted to stay in the Laugh-In business — for one thing, it was getting better advertising rates per minute than Star Trek — the network reneged on Roddenberry.

“Gene, baby…” According to David Gerrold’s seminal book, The World of Star Trek , those are the words Roddenberry heard when he picked up the phone during breakfast one morning. It was NBC exec Mort Werner calling to tell him that they had come up with the perfect time slot for Trek : Friday nights at 10:00 p.m., a.k.a. the “death slot.” 

“Are you mad?” Roddenberry roared down the phone, but it was no use. He knew right then and there that NBC was condemning Star Trek to death, right after giving the show a new lease on life. Despite critical acclaim, a slew of Emmy nominations, a devoted fan base and ratings that were actually decent (a longstanding myth about Trek was that the ratings were abysmal), NBC still wanted to get rid of the show in the end.

Meanwhile, the show’s budget was cut by $10,000 per episode, leaving little room for location shooting and forcing the crew to stay on the ship, even as NBC cruelly demanded that Captain Kirk and the gang beam down to more planets. Behind the scenes, the show was bleeding out as well: producer Gene L. Coon — perhaps the person most responsible for the show’s success after Roddenberry — had left late in the second season. His replacement, John Meredyth Lucas, was also out, along with legendary story editor and writer D.C. Fontana.

So Roddenberry made a fateful decision: he walked too. “It got to the point where I couldn’t bear another moment,” the producer said about his battles with NBC in author Marc Cushman’s excellent book These Are the Voyages: Season Three . “People like that wear you down to that degree. Not that they ever took the fight out of me, but the constant battles did erode away my ability to be diplomatic. After the double cross that happened at the outset of the third season, there was no hiding my feelings anymore.”

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The Freiberger Syndrome

Roddenberry didn’t leave entirely; he was still the executive producer on Star Trek , but he made a conscious choice to step back from day-to-day producing and writing. Why put all that effort, and risk his health and mental well-being, into something that was doomed? In hindsight, Roddenberry’s decision might now seem self-serving — he was essentially abandoning his creative baby and all the people who worked so hard on it for him — and getting more involved might have at least allowed the show to go out on a creative high.

But step away he did, paving the way for a second dubious choice: the hiring of veteran producer Fred Freiberger as showrunner for season three. Freiberger was a seasoned television writer and producer, with series like The Wild, Wild West , Ben Casey , and many more to his credit. He had even been considered for a producing job on Star Trek back when the show first launched in 1966. While experienced at writing and producing on time and on budget, he had a fundamentally different mindset toward Star Trek than previous creatives on the show like Coon and Fontana.

“Fred Freiberger had no idea what he was doing,” recounted James Doohan (Scotty) in These Are the Voyages: Season Three . “He was just a line producer, suddenly handed creative control over a show that was like nothing else on television.” 

Freiberger in turn brought in Arthur Singer as Story Consultant, replacing the departed Fontana. The latter was a hard act to follow: she had a deep understanding of Trek and its characters, and in addition to doing critical editing and rewriting on many Trek scripts, she had penned many of its best episodes, including “Charlie X,” “This Side of Paradise,” and “Journey to Babel.” Like Freiberger, Singer was a seasoned pro — but he had perhaps less understanding of Star Trek than even Freiberger.

The truth is that neither man was in a good position. Even if both had been deeply invested in the show from the get-go, they were up against almost insurmountable obstacles. The shrinking budgets, the exodus of writers and directors from previous seasons (including a number of big-name sci-fi authors), the conflicting mandates from both the network and Roddenberry himself — who still meddled with the scripts for a while behind the scenes before vanishing completely from the series during its last few months — all conspired to doom Star Trek .

According to These Are the Voyages: Season Three (a major resource for this article), both NBC and Paramount — the studio that owns Trek to this day — wanted the show dead. They didn’t understand it, it was too provocative for network TV and it was too expensive to produce. Even though the myth that Star Trek ’s ratings were dismal has been proven wrong over the years (while the ratings did drop over time, they were never as bad as NBC made them out to be), the show wasn’t such a blockbuster that the network had to keep it going.

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And so season 3 kicked off with the ignominious “Spock’s Brain,” an unintentional schlockfest widely regarded as perhaps the worst single entry of the entire original 79-episode run. But even that segment started out — in its earliest story pitch — as a serious look at organ transplantation, before endless rewrites and budget concerns reduced it to a story about a race of primitive women who steal Spock’s noggin and use it as a hard drive. “A hell of a concept, but how do you get drama into it?” said Freiberger in the book Captain’s Logs , “We had a lot of problems making that work.”

Many third season outings now considered low points — “And the Children Shall Lead,” “The Way to Eden” (space hippies!), and “Plato’s Stepchildren,” to cite three — all began with good intentions that got whittled down to what appeared on the screen by financial, creative and physical exhaustion.

“The show was getting sloppy,” recalled star William Shatner (Captain Kirk) in his book Star Trek Memories . “Our scripts were suffering and cancellation seemed a probability. Making matters worse, it had become clear that Gene Roddenberry had drifted away from the show, with no intention of ever getting seriously re-involved on any creative level.”

Yet the third season was not a complete failure. For one thing, the complement of women on the show both in front of the cameras and behind the scenes increased dramatically. Many of the new writers that Freiberger bought stories from were women, some of them making their first sales. A lot of the shows featured stronger roles for women as well, such as “Elaan of Troyius,” “The Enterprise Incident,” “Is There In Truth No Beauty?” and “The Empath.”

Season 3 also featured some of Star Trek ’s weirder aliens. While the show still featured a heavy contingent of humanoids , we got to meet truly exotic species like the living lava of the Excalbians (“The Savage Curtain”), the eerie Melkotians (“Spectre of the Gun”), the crystalline Tholians (“The Tholian Web”), and the Medeusans (“Is There In Truth No Beauty?”), an incredibly advanced and progressive race whose physical appearance drove humans insane.

On the other hand, risible tales like the aforementioned “Spock’s Brain” and “The Way to Eden” contributed to both the fans’ and cast’s ongoing disillusionment with the show, as did episodes like “The Savage Curtain” and “Wink of an Eye” that recycled plot tropes from previous seasons. And Freiberger was apparently a fan of love stories: Kirk, Spock, Scotty, and McCoy all got to fall in love at least once, with the endlessly horny Captain often working overtime in the romance department.

Make no mistake, however: the third year did yield some excellent episodes. Fans all have their favorites, but among the season’s most popular outings were “The Enterprise Incident,” “Day of the Dove,” “The Tholian Web,” “All Our Yesterdays,” and “Spectre of the Gun.” Star Trek also continued to examine social and political issues of the day such as racism (“Let That Be Your Last Battlefield”), war (“Day of the Dove”), and class (“The Cloud Minders”), while some of the better episodes explored both the regular and guest characters with depth and empathy.

“We did some wonderful shows and made some really strong statements,” Fred Freiberger told Shatner in Star Trek Memories . “We also did some episodes that I wasn’t too proud of.”

The Way to Immortality

In the end, though, season 3 of Star Trek could have broadcast 20 shows at the caliber of the classic “The City on the Edge of Forever” or “Arena” and it wouldn’t have mattered. There would be no fourth season of the show. Following a two-month hiatus in April and May, Star Trek resurfaced in one last time slot — 7:30 on Tuesdays, ironically enough — to air its final original episode, “Turnabout Intruder,” in which a vengeful ex-lover swaps bodies with Kirk and takes command of the Enterprise .

And that was it. Trek went into reruns for the rest of the summer before vanishing from NBC’s airwaves entirely in the first week of September 1969. It resurfaced in syndication almost immediately after that, beginning a whole new chapter in the history of Star Trek that soon turned a modestly successful if highly acclaimed TV series into an ongoing pop culture juggernaut. Even a lackluster final season — or what seemed at the time to be final — couldn’t stop its voyage after that .

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Star Trek: The Original Series - Episode Guide - Season 3

Surely you’ve heard of CBS’s reticence to renew Star Trek for a third season in 1968, slashing its production budget by half and pushing it out of prime time into a 10pm slot. But then the EEEvil executives’ hesitance must be reconsidered after viewing episode 1 of the nearly-nonexistent TOS season three, “Spock’s Brain.” If this is the level of story line that the ST creative team was pushing, well, you’d probably think twice about giving these apparent LSD junkies valuable air time, too.

Unfortunately, “Spock’s Brain” is all too representative of what is, on average, one of the worst ST seasons ever. Surely a few of these writers had grander visions and more revolutionary ideas than those presented, but these ideas clearly died early in pre-production. The result is a season that only a fanatic could love, and a study in TV-as-business, circa 1968.

1. Spock's Brain – Hoo boy. After Star Trek fandom rose en masse to get their favorite TV program back on the air, this is the debut for the demanded new season. Aliens steal Spock’s brain (dude), but the Vulcan is still able to walk around, understand and, you know, *live*, while the Enterprise crew seeks out the thieving bad guys. 0

2. The Enterprise Incident – See, if CBS had cared about the future of Star Trek, they might’ve started season 3 was this far more interesting story about the Enterprise crew’s attempts to steal cloaking technology from the Romulans, a plotline that would never go down in Picard’s day, let me tell you! ***

3. The Paradise Syndrome – Remember that time when Spock was captain of the Enterprise for a few months? In the cold open, Kirk is laid unconscious and trapped inside an alien device. The away team leaves, returning months later to find that the captain has lost his memory and has settled in with Native American-looking folks as Kirok. **

4. And the Children Shall Lead – In response to a distress call, Kirk et al find a Federation survey team completely wiped out save for five children, who are brought aboard the Enterprise. Once there, they summon a being who is essentially an evil marauder. (No really: Even Spock addresses “evil” as though in his logical terms.) **

5. Is There in Truth No Beauty? – An alien ambassador whose very face can drive people insane (How did this guy get to be an ambassador in the first place? And how did this species ever make first contact?) boards the Enterprise. Insane shenanigans ensue, including a quality Spock freakout. **

6. Spectre of the Gun – Sheer goofiness seemingly done on a budget of about $23. For trespassing on an alien world, Kirk & Co. get a sentence of … having to reenact the OK Corral shootout? Um, yeah. **

7. Day of the Dove – A glowing cloud which feeds on … aggressive energy I guess…? – stirs up conflict between the Enterprise bunch and Commander Kang’s Klingon crew. Only when Kirk can convince the Klingons that both parties are being manipulated is a truce reached. ***

8. For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky – Standard stuff for TV in the 1960s: McCoy diagnoses himself with a terminal disease. Good thing the Enterprise’s next stop is a generational ship that’ perhaps the only place in the galaxy which has a cure for “xenopolycythemia.” Plus, something about “The Oracle,” the Insane God! who runs the ship. *

9. The Tholian Web – In an area of space controlled by the Tholians, Kirk is lost “between dimensions” (the dimensions themselves are never specified) while crewmembers slowly go insane (not because of Kirk’s disappearance, necessarily, but because of conditions and all). ***

10. Plato's Stepchildren – Right, right, this is the one in which Kirk and Uhura kiss at the behest of humanoids given psychic abilities thanks to the planet’s environment itself. Amazing that everyone remembers *that* kiss, but no one recalls the inane dialogue beforehand. ***

11. Wink of an Eye – Lady aliens in a state of hyperacceleration through time due to radiation (sounds likely). And then, “Most of the women found they could not have more. All of our men had become sterile. So we had to mate outside our own people. Whenever a spaceship came by, we'd send our calls for help.” You get the idea: Mars Needs Women, in reverse. **

12. The Empath – Kirk, Spock and McCoy beam down to a research station wherein (get this) everyone has been killed. Soon the Enterprise guys are being tortured by aliens, with only a sympathetic and comely empathy helping them out. **

13. Elaan of Troyius – The Enterprise plays host to the title character, a queen who is to be married off for peace between two planets. Kirk can’t help himself, however, and engages in hanky panky with Elaan. In addition, her bodyguard/assistant is a Klingon sympathizer. ***

14. Whom Gods Destroy – Kirk attempts to visit an old friend recovering at an interplanetary psychiatric ward, but upon arrival is quickly embroiled in a plot by a shape-shifter. Lots of body swappy stuff going on here. ***

15. Let That Be Your Last Battlefield – Dude, it’s the black-and-white guys in this very pretentious and clunky diatribe about the evils of racism. *

16. The Mark of Gideon – Kirk is used as a tool to assist in a planet’s overpopulation problem and, whoa, talk about your convenient, too-pat resolutions. Gee, I guess questions of overpopulation which seemed difficult are actually really easy… **

17. That Which Survives – Let’s run through the checklist: An “abandoned” outpost, a space virus, a mysterious yet babelicious killer, a wacky computer … this one ticks every cliché box, doesn’t it? **

18. The Lights of Zetar – A sort of intelligent electrical storm – which somehow also affects human senses, bodies and emotional states – threatens the Memory Alpha library that Kirk and his away team are visiting. ***

19. Requiem for Methuselah – If ever were any doubt that the movie Forbidden Planet was the most immediate precursor to and inspiration for Star Trek, this episode blows it away. Like Forbidden Planet, “Requiem for Methuselah” is essentially Shakespeare’s Tempest set in space, but without the additional layer of Freudian pop psychology added. ***

20. The Way to Eden – Hey, man, this is a new day. Like, it’s the 2260s and it’s our time so we’re gonna hijack the Enterprise and turn the cafeteria into a hash bar… **

21. The Cloud Minders – The Enterprise is sent to the planet Ardana to retrieve a mineral that will help cure a plague on planet Merak (how that’s possible is beyond STG, but we’ll run with it). Kirk and Spock are seduced in turn, ol ‘James T. engages in some fisticuffs and the Enterprisers even solve the planet’s worker’s revolution. ***

22. The Savage Curtain – Just in case you thought things couldn’t get sillier than “Spectre of the Gun”, how about aliens playing virtual Mortal Kombat with Kirk, Spock, Abraham Lincoln and the top Vulcan intellectual of all-time on a team. The “so bad it’s good” factor is really wreaking havoc with the ratings factor here … ***

23. All Our Yesterdays – Spock, Kirk and McCoy arrive on a deserted planet to be informed by a hologram that they are “very late.” Mysterious portals then bring Kirk into the doomed planet’s past to an era looking suspiciously like Elizabethan England (must be “parallel evolution” sigh), while Spock and McCoy are sent some 5,000 years into the past. ***

24. Turnabout Intruder – Body swap! A Dr. Janice Lester, psychotically jealous of Kirk’s success, switches consciousnesses with the swaggering captain. This is really the last episode of Star Trek: The Original Series? Yeesh. *

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The model first came through the offices of Heritage Auctions, who worked to confirm its authenticity before it docked at the Roddenberry home. From today’s Associated Press report:

Heritage’s executive vice president, Joe Maddalena, said the auction house was contacted by people who said they’d discovered it a storage unit, and when it was brought into their Beverly Hills office, he and a colleague “instantly knew that it was the real thing.”   They reached out to Roddenberry, who said he appreciates that everyone involved agreed returning the model was the right thing to do. He wouldn’t go into details on the agreement reached but said “I felt it important to reward that and show appreciation for that.”   Maddalena said the model vanished in the 1970s after Gene Roddenberry loaned it to makers of “Star Trek: The Motion Picture,” which was released in 1979.   “No one knew what happened to it,” Rod Roddenberry said.   This USS Enterprise model would easily sell for more than $1 million at auction, but really “it’s priceless,” Maddalena said. “It could sell for any amount and I wouldn’t be surprised because of what it is,” he said. “It is truly a cultural icon.”

Notable  Star Trek production experts have also been up close and personal with the recovered  Enterprise , including Doug Drexler, Mike Okuda, and modelmaker Gary Kerr, all key members of the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum’s conservation efforts on the full-sized Enterprise model back in 2016.

  It’s not yet known where or when the model may make its way into public view — after nearly 60 years, it’s quite fragile and in need of some repair work (as Kerr notes above) — but when we know more, you’ll certainly learn about it here at TrekCore.

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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' Scotty Actor Addresses How He's Making The Character More Authentic For Season 3

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds will be the first time a Scottish actor will play the role of Montgomery "Scotty" Scott, and new-ish recruit Martin Quinn wants to make sure he's doing it right. The actor recently revealed that during the filming for Season 3, he'd made suggestions about how to make his character more authentic and perhaps a bit less stereotypical than past iterations of the chief engineer. Naething wrong wi' that!

Quinn recently spoke to The BBC about following in the footsteps of Trek vets such as James Doohan and Simon Pegg in portraying Scotty, and his experience thus far on the show. Quinn first appeared during Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' Season 2 ending and he'll have a larger presence in Season 3 of the upcoming Trek series . In the interview, the actor revealed some of the smaller ways he's trying to make the role feel more authentic during production, and the efforts being made by the writing staff. In his words:

They let me put in the word 'baw-heid' instead of 'turnip-heid. Maybe they think all Scottish people are farmers? But they were very gracious about it. And [the writers] are wanting to be authentic to Scotland as well, and that's really nice - not everyone's like that.

Martin Quinn and the writers have made some tweaks to make Scotty at least sound more Scottish, which is something fans from the country will likely appreciate, since even the best performative accent only goes as far as how valid the vocabulary is. I'd imagine we'll be seeing a lot more of the character in Season 3 and beyond, as showrunner Henry Alonso Myers previously said the goal was to put the original Star Trek characters on the ship before they become their actualized selves.

With the news that Star Trek: Strange New Worlds was renewed for Season 4, Scotty will definitely have more time to become the miracle worker chief engineer that fans know too well. For a little while he'll have the support of his former instructor and current Enterprise chief engineer Pelia, played by the legendary actress Carol Kane . Martin Quinn seems to be enjoying the job so far, but did mention there are some hiccups in being one of the only Scottish actors on the crew:

I'm constantly having to enunciate because I don't think they know what I'm saying. It’s trying to find the balance, because it’s not just Scottish people watching this TV show, but I want to be as authentic as possible to how I speak.

I can't fault him for that, and seeing as Outlander is a hit show primarily set in Scotland, I think audiences outside of the country are able to adapt to his voice regardless. I'm eager to see him and the cast back in new episodes, and I'm still crossing my fingers we can get at least one episode released before 2025 .

Martin Quinn's quotes about keeping Scotty authentic are interesting, and it leads me to wonder what other ways TOS characters may change as they are introduced in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds . (Will Spock be "more Vulcan" or something?) That said, this change stems more from Quinn' attempting to correct the misguided attempts to create a character previously portrayed as Scottish, so it remains to be seen if other characters will change at all when they're brought in.

As fans wait for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 3, they can stream the previous two seasons with a Paramount+ subscription . Of course, they can also catch the final season of Discovery , which is streaming new episodes on Thursdays.

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Star Trek: Discovery season 5's treasure hunt brings the USS Discovery to Trill for the next clue, but Moll and L'ak may be one step ahead of Burnham.

Warning: SPOILERS for Star Trek: Discovery Season 5, Episode 3 - "Jinaal"

• Moll and L'ak are setting a trap on the USS Discovery - Adira may be in danger.
• The Progenitors' treasure was safeguarded by six secret scientists in the 24th century.
• Commander Rayner struggles to connect with the crew - Burnham seeks answers beyond the treasure.

Star Trek: Discovery season 5, episode 3, "Jinaal", brings Captain Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) and the USS Discovery one step closer to finding the Progenitors' treasure, but little do they know Moll (Eve Harlow) and L'ak (Elias Toufexis) are making insidious moves against them. Written by Kyle Jarrow and Lauren Wilkinson and directed by Andi Armaganian, the third episode of Star Trek: Discovery season 5 splits the action between the planet Trill and Commander Rayner (Callum Keith Renne) and Ambassador Saru (Doug Jones) having difficulty adjusting to their new assignments.

Captain Burnham and Cleveland Booker (David Ajala) pass a test created by Jinaal (Wilson Cruz) with flying colors. Jinaal was the host of a Trill symbiont who was alive in the 24th century, and he was part of a coalition of scientists, which included the Romulan Doctor Vellek (Michael Copeman) who hid the Progenitors' technology to protect the galaxy. A Trill ritual allowed Jinaal to occupy the body of Dr. Hugh Culber (Wilson Cruz), and the Trill took steps to ensure Burnham and Book were "worthy" of finding the Progenitors' treasure. However, Discovery's crew may unwittingly be walking into a trap set up by Moll and L'ak.

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What did moll attach to adira at the end of star trek: discovery season 5, episode 3, moll and l'ak are making a move on the uss discovery.

After Jinaal departed Dr. Culber's body and he, Captain Burnham, and Cleveland Booker beamed back aboard the USS Discovery, Moll secretly placed a device on the arm of Ensign Adira Tal (Blu del Barrio). The Trills were warned by Burnham that Moll and L'ak would come seeking the clue hidden on Trill, but Guardian Xi (Andreas Apergis) was certain Trill would withstand any aggressive act. But what the Trill didn't anticipate was Moll, who is human, infiltrating the Trill during their ritual and planting something on Discovery's young Ensign.

32nd-century technology in Star Trek: Discovery is made of programmable matter, which explains why Moll's device disappeared.

The tiny device Moll hid on Adira's arm quickly vanished, but there are a few possibilities for what the tech could be. The device could be a tracker of some sort ; since Moll knows Burnham found the clue on Trill, she could be ensuring that she and her lover, L'ak, will be able to follow the USS Discovery wherever it jumps to next. The device could also be some kind of communicator or a weapon that could incapacitate Adira. It may also be a tiny transporter that would allow Adira to be beamed to L'ak's ship where they could be held hostage.

Moll, who likely was incognito in the Trill caves for the duration of Star Trek: Discovery, probably overheard Adira's conversations with their love interest, Gray Tal (Ian Alexander), and their decision to break up. Adira, who is young and inexperienced, is the ideal target for Moll and L'ak to plant a device on. This may be the end of Adira and Gray's Star Trek: Discovery love story . Their breakup is also an interesting juxtaposition to Moll and L'ak, who are lovers themselves but are committed to each other and are on the same journey, unlike the young Trill and Ensign.

Everything Star Trek: Discovery Season 5, Episode 3 Revealed About The Progenitors' Treasure

Great steps were taken to protect the ancient power to create life.

Jinaal provided a wealth of new information about what happened to the Progenitors' treasure after the events of Star Trek: The Next Generation 's "The Chase." According to Jinaal, in the 24th century, the President of the United Federation of Planets - possibly Jaresh-Inyo (Herschel Sparber) from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - secretly assembled a team of 6 Federation and non-Federation scientists , including Jinaal and Dr. Vellek. After years of researching the Progenitors' message, they found the ancient technology in a sector of deep space. One of the scientists died horribly when they tried to activate it.

The scientists made it their life's work to safeguard the Progenitors' technology.

The scientists decided to hide the Progenitors' treasure instead of turning it over to the Federation. At this point, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine 's Dominion War engulfed the Alpha Quadrant, and anyone could be a Changeling. Jinaal and his colleagues made a pact and lied to the Federation about the treasure while redacting themselves from every database. The scientists made it their life's work to safeguard the Progenitors' technology, eventually creating a series of clues which they determined would deem whoever could find the treasure "worthy" of having it.

Meanwhile, on the USS Discovery, Commander Paul Stamets (Anthony Rapp) decoded Dr. Vellek's Romulant tricorder and learned more about the Progenitors' treasure. Stamets was excited about the applications of the Progenitors' technology, which is billions of years old. The Progenitors could "design new lifeforms, accelerate evolution, modify ecosystems." Stamets added, "If it can create life, then, in theory, it might also be possible to re-animate dead organisms."

The Progenitors' technology sounds like the Genesis Device from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan but with even more potential to create - or destroy - life.

Saru Made A Faux Pas About Announcing His Wedding To T'Rina

Saru has a lot to learn about love and politics.

The newly-minted Ambassador Saru performed well in his first delegation meeting about the rising threat of the Breen , but he made a faux pas when it came to announcing his engagement to President T'Rina (Tara Rosling). T'Rina's political aide, Duvin (Victor Andres Trelles Turgeon), became concerned about the optics of the President of Ni'Var siding with the Kelpien Ambassador, especially when the news of their engagement becomes public. Saru listened to Duvin and got cold feet about announcing his engagement to T'Rina.

Duvin feared T'Rina's Presidential power weakening among Vulcan purists if she marries an offworlder.

Ultimately, T'Rina made Saru realize that making a public announcement is better than news of their engagement leaking out, which would make it seem like the couple were hiding something scandalous. Saru confessed his inexperience in romance and politics, but T'Rina has enough savviness for them both. Saru and T'Rina's wedding is on, and will likely take place sometime during Star Trek: Discovery season 5.

Commander Rayner Will Have Trouble Fitting In With The USS Discovery Crew

Rayner's not looking to connect and make friends on discovery.

Now demoted to Commander as the new First Officer of the USS Discovery, Rayner was ordered by Captain Burnham to meet with and forge connections with the USS Discovery's crew. But Rayner was more interested in hunting Moll and L'ak , and he only met with Discovery's crew members for brief, unfriendly intervals, to the disgust of Lieutenant Sylvia Tilly (Mary Wiseman). Rayner made no real inroads in connecting with Discovery's personnel, although he paid attention and made insightful observations about each Starfleet Officer.

Commander Rayner not immediately fitting in on Discovery is more realistic.

Tilly was right that Commander Rayner, who was on a new ship after an embarrassing demotion, compensated by acting boorishly to hide how difficult it was for him. To Star Trek: Discovery season 5's credit, Commander Rayner not immediately fitting in on Discovery is more realistic than the Kellerun Starfleet Officer being welcomed with open arms. Rayner will have a long road to earning the respect of the USS Discovery's crew, and vice versa, although Captain Burnham may not be pleased with how her new Number One alienated himself from her friends and family aboard the Disco.

Rayner explained he purposely kept a professional distance from his crew when he was Captain of the USS Antares.

Captain Burnham Is Searching For Something Bigger Than The Progenitors' Treasure

Michael has big questions she needs answered.

At the start of Star Trek: Discovery season 5, episode 2 , "Under the Twin Moons," Captain Burnham confessed that she used to find purpose in her missions, but now she is searching for something more. A greater meaning. Jinaal assessed this about Burnham on Trill, and Michael related the same to Dr. Hugh Culber. For Burnham, the Progenitors' treasure isn't just technology that can alter the destiny of the Federation, but it could mean answers Michael is seeking about the meaning of life, itself.

Captain Burnham's quest may reflect Star Trek: Discovery looking inward for something more profound.

Interestingly, Captain Burnham's spiritual journey in Star Trek: Discovery season 5 loosely echoes someone from her adoptive Vulcan family: Sybok (Lawrence Luckinbill). In Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, Spock's criminal older half-brother sought God in the mythical world of Sha Ka Ree. Sybok's quest was fueled by his own hubris, but the Vulcan truly did want to see and gain answers from the divine. Michael wants different answers than Sybok did, and Captain Burnham's quest may reflect Star Trek: Discovery looking inward for something more profound than its nature as an action-adventure Star Trek series.

Where The Next Clue To The Progenitors' Treasure Will Take Discovery

Discovery may take a pause in the treasure hunt.

Interestingly, Star Trek: Discovery season 5, episode 3's ending, doesn't directly lead to the USS Discovery's next destination after they depart Trill. Captain Burnham told Dr. Culber that the clue Jinaal gave them was being analyzed, but leads to the Tzenkethi system . However, Discovery is stymied by red tape as diplomats sort out the legalities of entering the Tzenkethi system. This could indicate a pause in Star Trek: Discovery season 5's treasure hunt in episode 4, "Face the Strange."

The Tzenkethi were a race that was never seen but was mentioned as enemies of the Federation on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine , furthering Star Trek: Discovery 's DS9 connections.

However, it's a safe bet whatever Moll planted on Adira will lead to the next crisis Captain Burnham will have to contend with . With three more pieces needed to complete the map to the Progenitors' treasure and 7 more episodes to go in Star Trek: Discovery season 5, Captain Burnham's hunt may take its first, strange detour.

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Kirk and Spock are caught up in a revolution on a planet where intellectuals and artists live on a utopian city in the sky while the rest of the population toils in mines on the barren surfa... Read all Kirk and Spock are caught up in a revolution on a planet where intellectuals and artists live on a utopian city in the sky while the rest of the population toils in mines on the barren surface below. Kirk and Spock are caught up in a revolution on a planet where intellectuals and artists live on a utopian city in the sky while the rest of the population toils in mines on the barren surface below.

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Droxine : Indeed yes, Captain.

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“ Star Trek : Strange New Worlds,” currently in production on its third season, has been renewed by Paramount+ for Season 4. Meanwhile, “ Star Trek: Lower Decks ,” the first animated “Star Trek” comedy, will conclude its run on the streamer with its fifth season, which will debut in the fall.

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“Lower Decks” charted brand new territory for “Star Trek” when it debuted in 2020, as both an animated comedy and a series that focused on the junior officers of the USS Cerritos: Beckett Mariner (Tawny Newsome), Brad Boimler (Jack Quaid), D’Vana Tendi (Noël Wells) and Sam Rutherford (Eugene Cordero). Set in the years following the feature film “Star Trek: Nemesis,” the series has included voice cameos from many beloved “Star Trek” alumni, like George Takei, Jonathan Frakes, Marina Sirtis, John de Lancie, Will Wheaton, Armin Shimerman, Nana Visitor and Robert Duncan McNeill.

Given its premise, concluding “Lower Decks” make sense considering the main four characters all received promotions in Season 4. But in a message to fans, Kurtzman and executive producer and showrunner Mike McMahan left the turbolift doors open for continuing the characters’ stories following their time at the bottom of the Starfleet pecking order. 

The “Star Trek” TV universe, overseen by Kurtzman through his Secret Hideout production company and produced by CBS Studios, has enjoyed a robust expansion since “Star Trek: Discovery” first premiered in 2017. Along with “Strange New Worlds,” the made-for-television movie “Star Trek: Section 31” recently concluded production with star Michelle Yeoh, and the new series “Star Trek: Starfleet Academy” will begin shooting later this year.

“It has been incredibly rewarding to continue to build the Star Trek universe, and we’re so grateful to Secret Hideout and our immensely talented casts and producers,” said Jeff Grossman, executive vice president of Programming at Paramount+. “‘Strange New Worlds’ has found the perfect blend of action, adventure and humor. Similarly, ‘Star Trek: Lower Decks’ has brought the laughs with an ample amount of heart to the franchise across its four seasons. We can’t wait for audiences to see what is in store for the crew of the U.S.S. Cerritos in this final season.”

“‘Lower Decks’ and ‘Strange New Worlds’ are integral to the ‘Star Trek’ franchise, expanding the boundaries of the universe and exploring new and exciting worlds,” said CBS Studios president David Stapf. “We are extraordinarily proud of both series as they honor the legacy of what Gene Roddenberry created almost 60 years ago. We are so grateful to work with Secret Hideout, Alex Kurtzman, Mike McMahan, Akiva Goldsman, Henry Alonso Myers and the cast, crews and artists who craft these important and entertaining stories for fans around the world.”

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Space. The Final Frontier. The U.S.S. Enterprise embarks on a five year mission to explore the galaxy. The Enterprise is under the command of Captain James T. Kirk. The First Officer is Mr. Spock, from the planet Vulcan. The Chief Medical Officer is Dr. Leonard 'Bones' McCoy. With a determined crew, the Enterprise encounters Klingons, Romulans, time paradoxes, tribbles and genetic supermen lead by Khan Noonian Singh. Their mission is to explore strange new worlds, to seek new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before.

The 2008 DVD set benefits from the same remastering given to the other two seasons, though only the first was released in high definition (the now-defunct HD DVD format). Still, the episodes are substantially cleaned up to the point where they look quite good, rather than jarringly fuzzy to the modern viewer. And there are some new visual effects that are well-done, and obtrusive only to the strictest fans. Compare, for example, the dramatic close-up of the green-glowing U.S.S. Defiant in "The Tholian Web" with the original effect, which had the ship floating in a green haze. New bonus features are 11 more minutes of rare footage from extra Billy Blackburn; "Collectible Trek ," a 14-minute discussion of rare Trek items, filmed in 2004 with the rest of the bonus content but not included on the previous DVD set; and the newly filmed "Captain's Log: Bob Justman," an affectionate nine-minute tribute to the series producer. Otherwise, the set retains almost all the special features from the 2004 set, including the features on Walter Koenig, George Takei, and James Doohan (who died the following year), plus the two versions of the series pilot, "The Cage," a restored color version and the original, never-aired version that alternates between color and black and white. Starring Jeffery Hunter as Captain Pike, Leonard Nimoy as a relatively emotional Spock, and Majel Barrett (the future Nurse Chapel and Mrs. Gene Roddenberry) as a frosty Number One, this pilot was rejected, but a second was commissioned, "Where No Man Has Gone Before," now considered the "official" beginning of the series. But "The Cage" is very recognizably Star Trek with its far-out concepts (telepathic aliens collecting species samples), sexy humanoid women, character development, and of course cheesy costumes and special effects. Footage was later reused in the season 1 two-parter, "The Menagerie." --David Horiuchi

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• Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 1.33:1
• Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
• MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ Unrated (Not Rated)
• Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.5 x 0.7 x 5.4 inches; 1.15 Pounds
• Item model number ‏ : ‎ 4440982098
• Media Format ‏ : ‎ Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Box set, Full Screen, AC-3, Multiple Formats, NTSC, Subtitled, Original recording remastered
• Run time ‏ : ‎ 22 hours
• Release date ‏ : ‎ November 18, 2008
• Actors ‏ : ‎ William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Nichelle Nichols, James Doohan
• Dubbed: ‏ : ‎ Spanish, French
• Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ French, Spanish, English
• Language ‏ : ‎ Unqualified
• Studio ‏ : ‎ Paramount
• ASIN ‏ : ‎ B001DHXT3Y
• Writers ‏ : ‎ Gene Roddenberry
• Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 7
• #492 in Science Fiction DVDs

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Scotty Will Return in Season 3 of 'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds'

Martin Quinn's version of the character first appeared in season 2's finale.

The Big Picture

• Martin Quinn to bring authentic Scottish flair as Montgomery Scott on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.
• Quinn adds a new perspective to the character previously played by actors from Canada and England.
• Star Trek: Strange New Worlds continues to explore the adventures of the USS Enterprise under Captain Pike.

A classic member of the Enterprise crew will return for the third season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds . After debuting in the final episode of the show's second season , Martin Quinn will stay on board as Montgomery "Scotty" Scott in the upcoming season of Paramount+'s newest Star Trek series. As reported by BBC Scotland in an interview with Quinn, the character will recur on Strange New World 's third season, which is currently filming in Toronto, Ontario.

Quinn is the first-ever Scot to play the character, who was previously played by a Canadian ( James Doohan ) and an Englishman ( Simon Pegg ), and the interview notes that he's adding authenticity to the character, making sure that the show's writers use authentic Scottish slang: "They let me put in the word 'baw-heid' instead of 'turnip-heid'. Maybe they think all Scottish people are farmers? But they were very gracious about it." Quinn is from the town of Paisley; he has previously appeared on episodes of Limmy's Show , Annika , and Derry Girls .

Who is Montgomery Scott?

Played by Doohan in Star Trek: The Original Series , Scott is the ever-capable head engineer of the USS Enterprise , famed for his ability to solve catastrophic problems in short periods of time. After the series went off the air, Doohan reprised the role in Star Trek: The Animated Series and in all six of the feature films starring the series' original cast. He also returned for a cameo in Star Trek: Generations , attending the launch of the USS Enterprise-B , and guest-starred on the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Relics", where he is discovered by the Enterprise-D 's crew a century in the future, having been preserved in a transporter buffer. Pegg took on the role for J.J. Abrams ' cinematic reboot of the franchise, and reprised it for its two sequels; a fourth film is still up in the air .

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds features the adventures of the USS Enterprise under the command of Captain Christopher Pike ( Anson Mount ) prior to The Original Series . It has so far featured two different chief engineers. Hemmer ( Bruce Horak ) was a member of the Aenar species, and sacrificed himself in the show's first-season finale to save the rest of the crew from the Gorn. His replacement was Pelia ( Carol Kane ), a long-lived Lanthanite, who joined the crew in the show's second season.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is currently filming its third season; no release date has yet been set . Stay tuned to Collider for future updates.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds follows Captain Christopher Pike (played by Anson Mount) and the crew of the starship USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) in the 23rd century as they explore new worlds throughout the galaxy in the decade before Star Trek: The Original Series.