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                ┌────────────────────────────────────────────┐
 ┌──────────────┤       The "Star Trek" Classic LogBook      ├────────────────┐
 │              └────────────────────────────────────────────┘                │
 │               A Complete Episode Guide   from 1966 to 1991                 │
 │                           written by Earl Green                            │
 │                      (special thanks to Dave Thomer)                       │
 │           covering "The Cage" through "The Undiscovered Country"           │
 └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

   This is a complete episode guide to the three seasons and six feature films
comprising the original (or, as some fans prefer to call it, "Classic") "Star
Trek."  Star Trek was originally created by Gene Roddenberry, who served as an
executive consultant on the first five films and later went on to create "The
Next Generation."  This is a guide of information and it makes no attempt to be
subjective in dealing with the episodes' quality.
   The first season of "Star Trek" seems, in retrospect, to have been made
possible by a series of miracles.  As is generally known now, an almost
unprecedented order for a second pilot was given by NBC, a rare occurrence
which, incidentally, is shared by the British Broadcasting Corporation's equally
long-lived "Doctor Who" series.  The first pilot, "The Cage" (listed in this
guide as episode #1) featured an almost entirely different crew, but the
character of Spock and the environs of the starship Enterprise were there, which
may be the only reasons "The Cage" survived to be included in the original
series' only two-part episode, "The Menagerie."  Furthermore, the show only
lived to see a second season because its then-underground fan following rose up
in support of the show with a massive letter-writing campaign, doing the same to
ensure a third season.  After cancellation in 1969, "Star Trek" became more of a
legend in syndication, until 1979 when the first film was released.  As the
title suggested, "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" was intended to be the only
film, but made such a showing at the box office that a sequel was inevitable.
   The three films that followed - "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan," "Star Trek
III: The Search for Spock" and "Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home," formed a trilogy
of sorts, the first movie ending with the death of Spock, and second movie
seeing the destruction of the Enterprise but the rebirth of Spock, and the
fourth movie bringing a new Enterprise into the picture and restoring all the
elements that had been changed or altered over the course of the other two
movies.  "Star Trek V: The Final Frontier" was an adventure of its own with
various allusions to the previous films, and "Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered
Country" wrapped up the film series, as well as the adventures of the original
crew of the Enterprise (or so say Paramount and many, but not all, members of
the cast).
   There have been many original "Star Trek" novels, as well as a number of
stories developed for a proposed second television series in the mid 1970s
which was never produced, although its set and costume designs were seen in
"The Motion Picture," which in itself was a rewrite of the aborted series' two
hour premiere episode "In Thy Image."  Two other scripts from the unproduced
season of stories, "The Child" and "Devil's Due," were later used in "The Next
Generation."  Another set of stories did make it to the screen, however, in two
seasons of animated "Star Trek" episodes.  This guide, simply for reasons of
space as well as the enormous amount of extra time required to review all these
various adventures, does not cover the animated series, the scripts from the
second series that never got off the ground, or the books.  This is not an
attempt to make any statement regarding what is or is not "official" in "Star
Trek" continuity, but an effort to save time and a few dozen extra pages.

   The following "history lesson" on the socio-political geography of the "Star
Trek" universe includes several references to "The Next Generation" and "Deep
Space Nine" simply because, as a with a good memory for the "politics" between
Klingons, Romulans, Vulcans and everyone else from "Balance of Terror" on
through "Face of the Enemy," "Errand of Mercy" through "Birthright," and all
kinds of other time spans, I found it difficult, if not impossible, to really
seperate the 23rd and 24th centuries.  I had always intended for this file and
the "Next Generation" LogBook to be integrated at some point anyway, so not
only are you about to read details of "Star Trek"'s alien races' histories
before Kirk and company, but you'll notice many notes about their "futures" as
well, and I tried to duplicate as little of the "Next Generation" LogBook's
information as possible.

   Introduced toward the end of the show's first season, the Klingons have been
a constant in the "Star Trek" universe - savage, cruel, untrustworthy,
ruthless and ambitious, but usually well-spoken (even on the subjects of
savagery, cruelty and ambition).  The goal of most Klingon men (only one or two
Klingon women were seen until "The Next Generation") is to fight in a glorious
battle, and the culmination of a Klingon's life is expected to be a valiant
death in that glorious battle.  When a Klingon warrior dies, his comrades (if
any are left alive, and if there is a pause in the heat of battle) pry his eyes
open and scream heavenward, announcing to the residents of the hereafter that a
hero of the Klingon Empire is about to join them.  Militant and warlike, the
Klingons were only kept from the Federation's throat by a zone of declared
neutral space and an often disregarded treaty, and finally their patience wore
thin and they barged into undefended areas of space.  The Organians, beings who
looked like medieval human beings on the outside when they were first seen,
occupied the choiciest planet in the sector the Klingons entered, but when Kirk
and the Enterprise moved in to offer the Organians protection, which nearly
exploded into a threat of full-scale war with the Klingon commander Kor, the
Organians revealed their true nature as floating masses of energy capable of
rendering the combatants' weapons and starships inoperable.  The Organians
imposed a treaty on the Federation and the Klingons, prophesizing that the two
powers would one day work together in peace.
   The Klingons were seen several times in the TV series, and were established
as human-looking only with darker skin, black hair and, usually, a goatee or
beard of some sort.  However, in "Star Trek: The Motion Picture," the Klingons
seen at the beginning of the movie were drastically different, wearing more
sophisticated armor as well as having a series of bumps and ridges on their
foreheads, starting at the nose and running over the head, becoming part of the
spine itself.  This is how the Klingons have appeared ever since.  When the
Klingons were next encountered by Kirk and the Enterprise crew, they had
developed a new ship called a Bird of Prey which had a cloaking device to
render it invisible (not unlike the similar Romulan Bird of Prey seen in
"Balance of Terror").  Upon the destruction of the Enterprise - a ploy used to
dispose of a majority of the Klingon crew as they "took over" the ship - Kirk
and company hijacked the Bird of Prey and returned to Earth in it to deal with
an alien probe searching for an extinct species of whale.  A later version of
the Bird of Prey, a prototype of which was tested by Klingon General Chang,
could fire while cloaked (the earlier versions of both Klingon and Romulan
ships had to become visible for a moment before firing), but the new design was
either abandoned to preserve peace, or else it was later proven unsafe, since
no Klingon ships seen in "The Next Generation," set decades beyond the original
series and movies, can fire while cloaked.
   No precise time has really been stated as the beginning of the peace between
the Federation and Klingons.  It has been established that the beginning of
"The Next Generation" happens 79 years after the original "Star Trek," and it
has also been said that the alliance with the Klingons did not occur until 20
year before "The Next Generation"'s first episode, placing the actual beginning
of peace some 55-60 years after the original "Trek."  Trying to squeeze the
events of "Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country" into this puzzle, however,
is the mystery.  The first "Trek" movie probably occured one or two years after
the end of the Enterprise's five-year tour, which didn't wind down until two
years after "Turnabout Intruder" if we take the three years of the original
series as three years of the mission itself.  This places the first movie at
50-55 years before the alliance.  "Star Trek II" through "Star Trek IV" appear
to be placed back-to-back, with a likely gap of two to five years between "The
Motion Picture" and "The Wrath of Khan," leaving 45-50 years between the finale
of "The Voyage Home" and the explosion of Praxis in "The Undiscovered Country."
   "Star Trek V" probably occurs no more than a year later than "Trek IV" since
there seems to be a sense of immediacy in repairing the new Enterprise, and
it's obvious that the ship didn't make it very far from spacedock.  Now here's
the big mystery - how soon after "Trek V" does "Trek VI" occur?  There is at
least a three year gap, since Sulu has commanded the Excelsior for three years
by the time of "The Undiscovered Country."  Another report, however, places the
Enterprise's final mission at fifteen years later than "The Final Frontier,"
and that would seem to make a little more sense, as Kirk, McCoy and others have
aged much more than three years (or so their wrinkles and grey hair, which were
not as prominent in "Star Trek V," would suggest).  That leaves about 30-35
years between the actual alliance and the Khitomer conference, which Kirk and
company saved.
   Now, here's the other big mystery in the Klingon story.  In "Trek VI," it is
clearly stated that the Klingon Empire is in serious trouble and needs help
from the Federation right away if it is to survive.  There's a thirty year gap
in there, and if the Klingons didn't make peace until twenty years before "Next
Generation" begins, did they receive aid from the Federation in that time?
Perhaps so - as "Trek VI" contained many analogies to the end of the Cold War,
it wouldn't be too unbelievable to draw another analogy along the same lines.
Maybe the Federation provided assistance on a trial basis, as the United States
had provided the Soviet Union with grain.  But what happened then?  A clear
implication exists in "The Next Generation" that hostilities continued - and it
has been stated at least once that the Federation defeated the Klingons in some
manner of a final battle.  Was there an alliance between the Klingons and
Romulans?  It is obvious that the Federation either helped the Klingons get
back on their feet and the Empire returned the favor by resuming hostilities,
or that the Klingons had help from another party.
                                                                    updated 2-93

   The Romulans, throughout "history" in "Star Trek," tend to disappear for
long periods of time and reappear suddenly.  In season one's "Balance of
Terror," they reappeared for what was apparently the first time in several
decades, attacking outposts along the neutral zone between Federation and
Romulan space.  Their ship, the streamlined Bird of Prey, fired blasts of
superheated plasma at the Romulans' targets and then diverted all power from
its weapons and defensive shields to activate the "cloaking device," which
somehow "bends" light rays around the ship so that its presence cannot be
detected simply by the visual wavelengths of the spectrum.  That doesn't mean
the Romulan Bird of Prey is completely undetectable, however.  By chasing a
Bird of Prey through the debris tail of a nearby comet, the Enterprise was able
to follow the ship and, after a pitch battle in which both ships took turns
outmatching the other, Kirk finally had the Romulans cornered.  Whereas the
Klingons value courage and war spoils, the Romulan society is focused on an
undying devotion to duty.  Rather than be captured by Kirk, the Romulan captain
ordered his own vessel to self-destruct.  Romulans serving in the military are
referred to as "centurions" in both the 23rd and 24th centuries, and in the
original series at least once, the leader of the Romulan Star Empire was
referred to as the Praetor.
   The normal state of Romulan-Klingon relations is very hostile, though there
appears to have been some cooperation.  The Romulans, for whatever reason,
later used Klingon battlecruisers (as seen in "Elaan of Troyius" and "Star
Trek: The Motion Picture") and outfitted them with cloaking devices.  In
exchange for the Klingon starship design, the Romulans apparently shared their
secrets of cloaking technology with the Klingons, since the Klingons unveiled
their own Bird of Prey (though a much different design from the Romulan ship of
the same name) in "Star Trek III," armed with a cloaking device.  The exchange
of technological secrets apparently did not continue much further, since, by
the time of "The Next Generation," the Klingons and Romulans hated each other
once more (though factions of Klingons apparently favored an alliance with the
less-than-peaceful Romulans, and the Romulans, so long as such an alliance
would be a threat to the Federation, seem to have no problems with luring the
Klingons into a treaty).  Apparently, some time before "Star Trek V," there was
a consensus among the governments of the three major galactic powers that any
major conflict would result in mutual destruction, resulting in the Nimbus III
experiment.  One representative, a diplomat from each government, was sent to
the remote world of Nimbus III in the neutral zone, including the Klingons'
General Koord, a former master strategist; St. John Talbot, a negotiator from
Earth; and a late arrival, a young Romulan diplomat named Caithlin Dar.  After
having apparently spent a great deal of time on Nimbus, Talbot and Koord seemed
disillusioned, lethargic, and drunk a good deal of the time.  Upon Dar's
arrival, the three had barely even introduced themselves before they were taken
hostage by the mad Vulcan idealist Sybok and his followers in an attempt to
lure starships to the planet.  The Enterprise was commandeered by Sybok, and
when the mission was salvaged by Kirk and his crew, there seemed, for a
fleeting moment, to be hope for peace between the Klingons, the Romulans, and
the Federation.  But the isolated experience of the Enterprise crew and the
three diplomats was apparently not enough to convince their governments that
resuming negotiations would be productive (the Nimbus III "negotiations," in
the opening scenes of "The Final Frontier," were obviously a mere formality to
which each government sent a figurehead representative and really didn't expect
to accomplish anything).  However, in "The Undiscovered Country," Klingon and
Romulan representatives were seen in the office of the President of the
Federation, though the Klingon Ambassador, previously seen in "Star Trek IV,"
was obviously a visitor rather than a full-time diplomat (the word "diplomat,"
of course, is used for lack of a better term when dealing with Klingons), so
the status of Romulan Ambassador Nanclus is a question mark.  Were the Nimbus
talks moved to Earth for security, if they were even continued at all?  As
"Trek VI" director Nicholas Meyer revealed in an interview in the magazine of
the official Star Trek Fan Club, "I don't know why there's a Romulan ambassador
on Earth, other than to serve the purposes of telling my story."
                                                                   updated 12-92

   And what would any glance at the alien societies of "Star Trek" be without
at least a cursory examination of the Vulcans?  As soon as Leonard Nimoy first
appeared in "The Cage," it was obvious that there was something very different
- and, some would say, strangely magnetic - about those human-like beings with
the pointed ears.  On the planet Vulcan, an arid world with no satellites (see
footnote below pertaining to scenes in "The Motion Picture") and little water,
the Vulcan race started out as savages with a tremendous capacity to learn,
which allowed them to develop technology before, as Spock has said on numerous
occasions, they had the wisdom to use such advantages judiciously.  A Vulcan
named Surak, tired of bloodshed and hatred, found that he was more at peace
with a philosophy of total logic untainted by the snap judgements common to
emotions.  This doctrine obviously held a great appeal to many other Vulcans,
and is now the key belief of all inhabitants of Vulcan.  Those who either
choose to retain a predilection for emotion or simply cannot control their
emotions are usually outcast on Vulcan, such as Spock's half-brother Sybok
(born to Spock's father Sarek from a full Vulcan wife who died soon afterward;
Sarek later married Amanda Grayson of Earth and they bore another child, Spock).
On the other hand, however, a reportedly rare disease known as Bendii Syndrome
may attack the mind of a Vulcan more than 200 years old and weaken their mental
restraint, gradually ending the Vulcan's life by ignominiously forcing his or
her hidden emotions to the surface violently.  At some point, possibly when
conflicts ceased to be of interest to the people of Vulcan, a group of rogue
"savages" left Vulcan and became the Romulans.  Spock has mentioned that the two
races share common ancestors, but more recently, especially in the "Unification"
episodes of "The Next Generation," it has been hinted that the Romulans actually
splintered off from Vulcan society early on.  The possibility of a parallel but
entirely separate race like Vulcans cannot be completely discounted, however,
for a race of "proto-Vulcans" on Mintaka III (encountered by Captain Picard in
"The Next Generation" story "Who Watches the Watchers?") seemed to be evolving
toward a philosophy of logic, similar to the teachings of Surak, without any
external influences.  But the people of Vulcan, by the time of Captain Kirk and
the Enterprise, had become very important contributors to the Federation.
   Vulcan physiology and "mysticism" seem to be linked together to a great
degree.  Every seven years of his life, a Vulcan male experiences an intense
mating drive during which he may revert to a savage frenzy until he reaches his
mate.  Vulcans are also endowed with telepathy, especially among one another,
though their abilities to contact the mind are not limited solely to Vulcans.
With the correct training, Vulcans can "mind-meld" with any creature, any
species, making direct mind-to-mind contact, overriding language barriers and
cultural barriers and allowing the Vulcan to read directly the thoughts and
feelings of the subject.  (This does, however, presume that the creature with
whom the Vulcan mind-melds is not deadly to the touch or protected by a force
field - a detail Spock obviously overlooked in "The Motion Picture!")  In "Star
Trek VI," it was clearly implied that the idea of performing a mind-meld on a
person who has not given permission is as repulsive to Vulcans as the thought
of rape is to humans.  And when a Vulcan's physical body is damaged beyond the
ability to immediately sustain life, a Vulcan can transport his or her very
essence - the katra - into the mind of another being, preferably a close
associate and someone who knows what to do with the Vulcan's "soul" from there.
When the "dead" body has been repaired, the body and the carrier of the katra
must be taken to Mount Seleya on Vulcan, where the nearest local Vulcan High
Priestess can place the katra back into its original body.  There are great
risks in such a transposition, however - McCoy, when carrying Spock's katra in
"Trek III," was on the verge of schizophrenia, leaping back and forth at random
between the doctor's usual emotionalism and Spock's personality.  It was also
stated by the High Priestess that the removal of the katra from McCoy's body and
the return of that spirit to its original body was dangerous to the carrier.
   [A little incidental note regarding scenes in "Star Trek: The Motion
Picture": it was said, as early as the original series' first season, that
there was no moon of Vulcan.  Yet, when we first see Spock in the first film,
he is apparently on the Vulcan equivalent of a pilgrimage to Mecca in pursuit
of the completion of Kolinahr - a purge of all emotions, the highest awareness
that a Vulcan can reach.  Spock has arrived at the place of the Vulcan Masters,
adorned with colossal, ancient statues and the eroding remains of a palace or
temple.  And what should we see hovering low in the sky above Spock and his
mentors, but two very large objects bearing a great resemblance to planets or
moons?
   Perhaps this could be easily explained away with what we know of Vulcan
history.  Surak, as it has been said many times before, was the first Vulcan to
embrace emotionlessness.  But in our own "savage" history, it has been all too
common for seekers of peace - Gandhi, Christ, John F. Kennedy, John Lennon (to
name a few that this author could pull off the top of his head) - to be
considered out of touch with reality, and some have become reclusive.  Surak,
perhaps, hoped that his beliefs would appeal to other Vulcans tired of conflict,
and assuming that space travel had been developed by Surak's time (which is not
unreasonable since the Romulans - originally a faction of Vulcans or
proto-Vulcans staying true to their warlike urges - probably left soon after
peace settled in on Vulcan), he may have made a journey to a nearby planet in
Vulcan's solar system and set up his "practice" there, and other Vulcans
followed afterward to embrace total logic.  Maybe this other planet has two
large moons in low orbits, thus accounting for the scene in "The Motion
Picture."]
                                                                   updated 12-92


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Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner):
   Captain Kirk began his command career as one of the youngest officers in
Starfleet ever to become captain of a starship - especially of the largest
Federation ship at that time, a Constitution class vessel - and kept his
position, with only a few interruptions, until he reached the mandatory
retirement age for humans serving in Starfleet.  (Having reached the rank of
admiral and then being demoted again to captain, Kirk may also have the dubious
distinction of being Starfleet's oldest captain as well.)
   A native of Iowa, James T. Kirk fought all odds possible to attain his
destiny as captain of the Enterprise.  As a youngster on Tarsus IV, Kirk was one
of the only surviving witnesses of Governor Kodos' order to execute those
members of the population he thought weaker and useless when a food shortage
placed the planet in jeopardy of mass starvation.  He apparently persevered and
finally reached Starfleet Academy, however, where his seemingly reckless ways of
tackling many problems may have been an annoyance to more than one instructor.
When Kirk took the Kobayashi Maru test, a simulated "no-win" command scenario,
he sidestepped the problems presented by two hopeless choices and offered one of
his own by reprogramming the simulator.  His brashness and his refusal to accept
that the only solutions to a problem were the ones made obvious put him on a
fast track to command.
   Somewhere in his later years at Starfleet Academy, Kirk had a relationship
with Dr. Carol Marcus, which resulted in a son, David.  Apparently, Kirk was not
present for David's birth or his childhood, but we'll come to that later.
Kirk's first assignment as captain was the starship Enterprise, one of the new
line of well-armed exploration vessels which were slated to venture further into
uncharted space than any previous Starfleet ships.  Inheriting numerous officers
from the the departing Captain Pike, Kirk made the Enterprise his own ship,
bringing with him old Academy friend Commander Gary Mitchell to serve as first
officer.  But the penetration of an energy barrier at the outer rim of the
galaxy resulted in Mitchell's gaining superhuman powers, which the first officer
began to perceive as a means of superiority over others.  At this point, science
officer Spock advised Kirk to abandon Mitchell or otherwise dispose of him
before his powers became impossible to withstand.  Kirk was reluctantly forced
to kill Mitchell and visiting psychological observer Dr. Dehner on a remote
planet, but he obviously recognized Spock's potential and the value of the
Vulcan's advice on this occasion, and, instead of requesting a new first officer
for the Enterprise, also gave Spock the duties of first officer.  And the rest,
as they say, is history.
   Among Kirk's distinguished accomplishments on the Enterprise were numerous
displays of brinksmanship with the Klingons, one of which failed until the
mysterious Organians imposed a treaty on both governments; the first ever visual
contact between the Federation and the Romulans; discovering that the governor
of Tarsus IV who had massacred thousands before Kirk's eyes was alive and well,
posing as an actor; encountering a planet-devouring alien vehicle and destroying
it just before it moved into populated space...and numerous other adventures
which are described one by one below.  After returning from the five year
mission of the Enterprise, Kirk was promoted to admiral and become Chief of
Operations at Starfleet, but he knew - as did others, such as Dr. McCoy - that
he really didn't want to sit in a chair behind a desk, but rather a chair in the
center of the bridge of a starship.  When a destructive entity entered
Federation space on a beeline for Earth, Kirk convinced Starfleet to give him
command of the refitted Enterprise.  After successfully diverting V'ger from its
intention to destroy humanity, Kirk apparently went back to his desk job and
Spock assumed command of the Enterprise.  During his observation of a cadet
training cruise, however, Kirk leaped back into active duty to confront his old
nemesis Khan, and during the course of this battle he was reunited with Dr.
Carol Marcus, who, with her son David, had designed the Genesis terraforming
device, which Khan intended to use as a weapon against Kirk.  Once the battle
with Khan had ended (though at the cost of Spock's life), Kirk and the
Enterprise returned to Earth once more, and at the urging of Spock's father,
Kirk rounded up his closest and most trusted officers to take the Enterprise on
a mission to retrieve Spock's body - an unauthorized mission which would cost
Kirk his admiralty, though, considering the monotony of his desk duties, it
seems doubtful that Kirk would look forward to anything but being relieved of
them!
   The Enterprise was ordered to self-destruct by Kirk to eliminate a boarding
party of Klingons, and Kirk and his officers commandeered a Klingon Bird of Prey
and, having recovered Spock, left the planet on which Genesis had been
accidentally used.  On a return journey to Earth to stand trial for disobeying
Starfleet orders and stealing the Enterprise, Kirk and his crew discovered that
the planet was under attack by an unknown alien probe.  Kirk decided to take a
risky visit to the 20th century to pick up a pair of humpback whales - an
species, extinct in the 24th century, whose abrupt silence had caused aliens
with which they had long been in contact to visit Earth to find them - and
returned to 24th century Earth with the whales, heading off the certain doom
that would be inflicted by the alien probe.  In light of his and his crew's
rescue of the planet, Kirk alone was demoted to captain, and assigned once more
to command a starship: the newly constructed, advanced Enterprise, NCC-1701-A.
   To this day, Kirk's ultimate fate after retiring from Starfleet years later
is not known.  He is spoken of, in "The Next Generation," in the past tense; but
it should be remembered that, until Spock eventually appeared in the new show's
"Unification," he too was spoken of in the past tense.  Something else to
remember is Kirk's own statement in "Star Trek V" - "I've always known I'll die
alone."  Well, Spock is on important personal business on the other side of the
Romulan neutral zone, and Scotty mysteriously vanished into the future......
                                                                   updated 12-92

Lt. Commander Spock (Leonard Nimoy):
   Born to Vulcan Ambassador Sarek and his human wife Amanda Grayson, Spock grew
up with the stigma of being only half-Vulcan.  His only sibling, a full Vulcan
brother named Sybok who had been born to Sarek from his first wife, did not
attain the emotional balance most other Vulcans sought to achieve and was
virtually excommunicated from Vulcan society for the "crime" of embracing
emotionalism.  Spock, in the meantime, struggled with his own identity and later
joined Starfleet (to the chagrin of Sarek) as a science specialist.  Eventually,
Spock rose to the position of chief science officer on the Enterprise under
Captain Christopher Pike, and remained on the ship when command was handed to
the younger and often more emotional Captain Kirk.  Though Spock tended to be
confused by Kirk's humor and predilection for emotional judgment, they, along
with Dr. McCoy, became fast friends.  Spock's relationship with McCoy could fill
chapters of its own, but it can best be summarized with the simple facts that
the two men's extremes of emotion - Spock's total repression of feelings, and
McCoy's embrace of them - caused arguments, some serious, some not, and even
though Spock seemed incapable of laughter, he always knew - just as well as
McCoy did - which arguments were which, and usually added a touch of his own dry
wit when appropriate.
   After the Enterprise returned from its five year mission, Kirk received a
promotion to admiral and took the position of Starfleet Chief of Operations,
and Spock retired to take on the Vulcan discipline of Kolinahr, the purging of
emotion.  An emergency mission to intercept a vast entity which was approaching
Earth brought both Kirk and Spock back to the Enterprise again, and after this
incident, Spock apparently remained in Starfleet, and was promoted to captain of
the Enterprise until Kirk encountered Khan, a criminal who had been exiled by
Kirk after an attempt to hijack the Enterprise fifteen years earlier ("Space
Seed").  Spock sacrificed his life to allow the Enterprise to escape the lethal
detonation of the Genesis terraforming device.  His body was ceremonially
launched in a photon torpedo casing to a nearby planet which had received the
full effect of the life-inducing Genesis wave.  Spock's father Sarek, however,
informed Kirk that a Vulcan's spirit can be passed on to another if the body is
close to death, and McCoy's mind had unknowingly become a vessel for Spock's
thoughts.  Kirk took McCoy and the Genesis-rejuvenated body of Spock to Vulcan,
where Spock was returned to his own body and McCoy was freed of his mental
burden.  Spock, however, would never be the same again.  Re-educated by
computers on Vulcan rather than by his human mother, Spock almost seemed more
alien than ever, but had begun to regain his personality by the time the new
Enterprise (the original having been stolen and sacrificed by Kirk in his quest
to recover Spock's body) encountered Sybok and his followers.  Spock refused to
join Sybok when given two chances, and later watched his brother perish in a
battle with an entity that tried to pass itself off as God.
   Spock also volunteered Kirk and the Enterprise to escort Klingon Chancellor
Gorkon to a peace summit, but that mission, like many others, went awry due to a
conspiracy between Klingon, Romulan, and Federation warmongerers.  Feeling some
remorse for his part in the nearly disastrous turn in interstellar affairs,
Spock was last seen - in his 120s or older on "Next Generation"'s "Unification"
episodes - on Romulus, attempting to gain support for a reunification of the
Vulcan and Romulan races, who had shared a common ancestry centuries in the
past.  But he took this mission entirely on himself, without the permission or,
until it was nearly too late, the knowledge of the Federation.  Spock stayed on
Romulus, where his presence is known, but he remains in hiding with a loyal
underground following of Romulan pacifists.
                                                                   updated 12-92

Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy (DeForest Kelley):
        to be updated in future editions

Lt. Commander Montgomery Scott (James Doohan):
   A native of Scotland on Earth, Montgomery Scott - better known by all as
"Scotty" - may have been destined for an assignment aboard the Enterprise, for
throughout the entire history of "Star Trek" from the original Enterprise on, no
other engineer in Starfleet has ever displayed such a devotion to duty and, more
importantly, such an uncanny ability to keep up with the repair schedules that
Captain Kirk habitually inflicted upon his own vessel!
   Scotty's familiarity with the warp engines and just about every other system
aboard the Enterprise saved the rest of the crew countless times.  He often
claims that he can't change the laws of physics, and to date, this has proved to
be absolutely correct - Scotty won't settle for changing the laws of physics; he
merely breaks them repeatedly.  Among his accomplishments are restarting warp
engines cold in record time (not an easy task, with the danger of overloading
present), gleaning emergency power during situations in which emergency power
would normally be heard only in the crew's prayers, and keeping the Enteprise as
a whole in one piece in ways the original designers probably wouldn't have
dreamed.  It is, perhaps, no small wonder that, over the Enterprise's five year
mission, so many other ships of the same size and design as the Enterprise fell
prey to various disasters because they didn't have an engineer like Scotty at
their disposal (in fact, one such vessel, the Enterprise's sister ship USS
Constellation, was minimally revived by Scotty after barely surviving a colossal
attack in "The Doomsday Machine").  Scotty knew his work was good, however, and
wouldn't hear a sour word from anyone on the subject of the Enterprise or her
crew (see "The Trouble for Tribbles" for an example - words cannot do it
justice).  When the Enterprise put in after her five year tour, Scotty accepted
no shore leave and, apparently, no promotion, so he could begin personally
overseeing refits of the Enterprise.
   In "The Motion Picture," the bugs don't appear to be worked out entirely from
the outset, but this can probably be attributed to the fact that Scotty didn't
perform every single necessary refit with his own hands.  After Spock rejoined
the crew from Vulcan as the Enterprise sped to an encounter with V'Ger, however,
the problems were soon worked out, and Scotty once again was the man behind the
smoothest-running ship in Starfleet.  Scotty's nephew, Cadet Peter Preston,
signed on for a training voyage that unexpectedly became a real and dangerous
mission ("The Wrath of Khan"), and until Preston's death resulting from damage
inflicted by the hijacked USS Reliant, he showed every intention of doing the
family line justice.  When the Enterprise returned from this incident ("The
Search for Spock"), she was scheduled to be decommissioned.  Scotty was promoted
to captain and made chief engineer of the experimental, transwarp-driven USS
Excelsior, but old habits die hard, and Scotty answered Kirk's call to take the
Enterprise out of dock - without authorization - to return to the Genesis planet
(but not before sabotaging the Excelsior's "superior" drive - so, for the
record, he may not be popular with the crew of absolutely every ship he has
served aboard).  It's obvious that no one took note of how gleefully Scotty
performed this task, because the crew returned in a captured Klingon Bird of
Prey and saved Earth from a probe whose curiosity was damaging the planet, and
only Kirk was punished for his actions, his judges deciding that the other
members of Kirk's crew had only followed orders!  The Enterprise having been
destroyed over the Genesis planet, Scotty now had to take on the tremendous task
of getting another ship into shape, the more advanced NCC-1701-A.  He did,
however, hold it together fairly well throughout "The Final Frontier" and "The
Undiscovered Country," the latter of which was the final mission of the original
Enterprise crew.
   Scotty, reluctantly retiring from Starfleet and deciding to make his home at
a retirement colony, was aboard a fateful mission of the transport ship Jenolen,
which encountered a massive artificial structure at the edge of known space,
which responded to normal communications by trying to drag the Jenolen inside.
The ship instead was grounded on the surface of the structure.  With limited
supplies and no immediate help in sight, Scotty and the one other survivor of
the crash-landing took part in Scotty's most dangerous experiment to date:
locking the ship's transporters into a diagnostic loop and beaming themselves in
circles until help arrived.
   As it turned out, help did not arrive until 75 years later, in the form of
the fifth starship Enterprise, commanded by Captain Jean-Luc Picard.  Scotty was
recovered from his last-ditch effort, but the other Jenolen survivor could not
be recovered.  Scotty suddenly had to contend with the thought of not only
reaching old age, but doing so decades beyond his own time.  He finally managed
to find an opportunity to work some of his old magic - by helping Enterprise-D
engineer Geordi La Forge recover the damaged Jenolen - and proved that his skill
wasn't entirely lost on the 24th century.  In appreciation of his efforts, and
to give him a means of once again meeting life on his own terms, the crew of the
new Enterprise gave him a shuttlecraft in which he now freely roams the universe
of his own distant future.
                                                                   updated 12-92

Lt. Hikaru Sulu (George Takei):
        to be updated in future editions

Lt. Uhura (Nichelle Nichols):
        to be updated in future editions

Ensign Pavel Chekov (Walter Koenig):
        to be updated in future editions


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01      THE CAGE
        written by Gene Roddenberry
        directed by Robert Butler
        music by Alexander Courage  (Crescendo GNP cassette & CD # GNP 8006)
        theme music by Alexander Courage
  Stardate not given:  The starship Enterprise, commanded by Captain Pike, runs
    across a distress signal which Pike discounts as being outdated, but when a
    follow-up message concerning survivors of an Earth ship is picked up, Pike
    follows the signals to Talos IV.  Pike and a landing party find a group of
    almost-too-healthy survivors there.  Among them is a young woman named Vina
    who catches Pike's eye and then leads him into a trap while showing him the
    crash site.  Pike is captured by Talosians, aliens with much larger brains
    than humans, and is subjected to illusions which are designed to compel him
    to mate with Vina, who turns out to be a human in captivity.  The rest of
    the crew, meanwhile, struggles to recover Pike, aware that the Talosians'
    power of illusion is an effective weapon.
  Cast:  Jeffrey Hunter (Captain Christopher Pike), Leonard Nimoy (Mr. Spock),
    Susan Oliver (Vina), Majel Barrett (Number One), John Hoyt (Doctor Boyce),
    Peter Duryea (Lt. Tyler), Laurel Goodwin (Yeoman Colt), Meg Wylie (The
    Keeper)


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02      THE MAN TRAP                                                Sep  8, 1966
        written by George Clayton Johnson
        directed by Marc Daniels
        music by Alexander Courage
  Stardate 1531.1:  Visiting Professor Crater and his wife (who, before
    marrying Crater, had a close relationship with McCoy), an Enterprise
    landing party starts to fall prey to an unknown assailant that seems to
    drain its victims of salt.  Kirk is suspicious - and McCoy alarmed - when
    the Craters refuse, in spite of the threat, to remain on their planet.  The
    landing party returns to the Enterprise with an extra passenger - a shape
    shifter who can assume the shapes of Enterprise crewmembers and who has
    been living with Professor Crater in the guise of his late wife, whom the
    creature killed.  The creature, in search of salt, sees the Enterprise as a
    promising hunting ground.
  Season 1 Regular Cast:  William Shatner (Captain James T. Kirk), Leonard
    Nimoy (Mr. Spock), DeForest Kelley (Dr. Leonard McCoy), James Doohan (Mr.
    Scott), George Takei (Lt. Sulu), Nichelle Nichols (Lt. Uhura)
  Guest Cast:  Jeanne Bal (Nancy Crater), Alfred Ryder (Professor Robert
    Crater), Grace Lee Whitney (Yeoman Janice Rand), Bruce Watson (Crewman
    Green), Michael Zaslow (Darnell), Vince Howard (Crewman), Francine Pyne
    (Nancy #3)

03      CHARLIE X                                                   Sep 15, 1966
        teleplay by D.C. Fontana
        story by Gene Roddenberry
        directed by Lawrence Dobkin
        music by Fred Steiner
  Stardate 1533.6:  Charlie, a young boy who reportedly grew up alone with only
    computer banks for company and teachers, is picked up by the crew of a
    starship and is transferred to the Enterprise for a trip to a starbase.
    During the trip, Charlie begins to learn more about human relationships and
    becomes infatuated with Yeoman Rand.  When she tells him that he is too
    young for her, Charlie is enraged and begins to do away with members of the
    crew who he feels have been condescending to him - including Captain Kirk.
  Guest Cast:  Robert Walker Jr. (Charlie Evans), Grace Lee Whitney (Yeoman
    Rand), Charles J. Stewart (Captain Ramart), Dallas Mitchell (Nellis), Don
    Eitner (Navigator), Patricia McNulty (Tina Lawton), John Bellah (Crewman
    #1), Garland Thompson (Crewman #2), Abraham Sofaer (Thasian)

04      WHERE NO MAN HAS GONE BEFORE                                Sep 22, 1966
        written by Samuel A. Peeples
        directed by James Goldstone
        music by Alexander Courage  (Crescendo GNP cassette & CD # 8006)
  Stardate 1312.4:  The Enterprise is en route to the edge of the galaxy, where
    a barrier of energy lies that has never been penetrated.  When the
    Enterprise reaches the barrier, it is buffeted by intense energy, injuring
    many on board.  First Officer Mitchell and psychological observer Dr.
    Dehner are affected as well, and it becomes apparent that their latent ESP
    abilities have been activated by contact with the barrier.  The crew must
    then contend with the rapidly strengthening super-human beings who now
    consider the other people on board to be an inferior species.
       This is the episode that sold NBC on the idea of "Star Trek" after "The
    Cage" was rejected.
  Guest Cast:  Gary Lockwood (Lt. Commander Gary Mitchell), Sally Kellerman
    (Dr. Elizabeth Dehner), Lloyd Haynes (Alden), Andrea Dromm (Yeoman Smith),
    Paul Carr (Lt. Lee Kelso), Paul Fix (Doctor Piper)

05      THE NAKED TIME                                              Sep 29, 1966
        written by John D.F. Black
        directed by Marc Daniels
        music by Alexander Courage  (GNP Crescendo cassette & CD # GNPD 8030)
  Stardate 1704.2:  A member of a landing party investigating the ruins on a
    collapsing planet contracts an unknown infection and returns it to the
    Enterprise, where it spreads rapidly by touch.  Lt. Riley locks himself in
    engineering and shuts down the engines, which may be needed to get the ship
    away to avoid damage from the planet's impending destruction.  Kirk slowly
    begins to lose control, and even Spock is affected by the infection, while
    the planet's final phase of collapse begins with very little warning.
  Guest Cast:  Stewart Moss (Lt. Joe Tormolen), Majel Barrett (Nurse Christine
    Chapel), Bruce Hyde (Lt. Kevin Riley), Grace Lee Whitney (Yeoman Rand),
    William Knight (Amorous Crewman), John Bellah (Laughing Crewman)

06      THE ENEMY WITHIN                                            Oct  6, 1966
        written by Richard Matheson
        directed by Leo Penin
        music by Sol Kaplan
  Stardate 1672.1:  As a landing party surveys a planet, a transporter
    malfunction splits Kirk into an aggressive aspect and a timid one.  The
    aggressive Kirk threatens the security of the ship and crew, while the
    passive one tries to maintain his sanity and ability to command.  In the
    meantime, the cause of the transporter problems haven't been determined,
    stranding Sulu and the team in the planet's subfreezing night temperatures
    while the two sides of Kirk's personality fight for control of the
    Enterprise.
  Guest Cast:  Grace Lee Whitney (Yeoman Rand), Edward Madden (Fisher), Garland
    Thompson (Wilson), Jim Goodwin (Farrell)

07      MUDD'S WOMEN                                                Oct 13, 1966
        teleplay by Stephen Kandel
        story by Gene Roddenberry
        directed by Harvey Hart
        music by Fred Steiner
  Stardate 1329.1:  After stealing a freighter and pushing its engines to their
    limits in an effort to escape the pursuing Enterprise, Harry Mudd and his
    cargo - three seemingly irresistable women - are recovered.  Although Mudd
    can't help but be suspicious, the women follow his instructions to cripple
    the Enterprise without any questions from the male members of the crew.
    The dilithium crystals powering the ship are sabotaged, and Mudd intends to
    force Kirk to bargain for his crew's life when the Enterprise arrives at
    a dilithium mining outpost.
       Harry Mudd returns in the second season episode "I, Mudd."
  Guest Cast:  Roger C. Carmel (Harry Mudd), Karen Steele (Eve), Maggie Thrett
    (Ruth), Susan Denberg (Magda), Jim Goodwin (Farrell), Gene Dynarski (Ben
    Childress), Jon Kowal (Herm), Seamon Glass (Benton), Jerry Foxworth (Guard)

08      WHAT ARE LITTLE GIRLS MADE OF?                              Oct 20, 1966
        written by Robert Bloch
        directed by James Goldstone
        music by Fred Steiner
  Stardate 2712.4:  The Enterprise is en route to visit Dr. Korby, a brilliant
    scientist working in isolation who also happens to be Nurse Chapel's
    fiance.  Kirk and Chapel beam down and discover that Korby has used
    abandoned technology left behind by an extinct civilization to create
    android companions for himself - one of which, an attractive and very
    user-friendly "girl," arouses Chapel's suspicions.  Korby, however, has
    become deranged in his isolation, and wants to take over the Enterprise so
    he can populate the "inferior" organic universe with androids...
  Guest Cast:  Michael Strong (Dr. Roger Korby), Sherry Jackson (Andrea), Ted
    Cassidy (Ruk), Majel Barrett (Nurse Chapel), Harry Basch (Brown), Vince
    Deadrick (Matthews), Budd Albright (Rayburn)

09      MIRI                                                        Oct 27, 1966
        written by Adrian Spies
        directed by Vincent McEveety
        music by Alexander Courage
  Stardate 2713.5:  A remarkably Earthlike planet is the home of a human-like
    civilization whose entire adult population was wiped out by a virulent
    disease.  The children remain, although their growth has been slowed down
    to the point that Miri - a teenage girl found by Kirk and a landing party -
    could easily by 300 years old.  Miri develops a crush on Kirk, but at the
    same time reports back to a gang of unruly children who plot to kidnap the
    landing party, beginning with Yeoman Rand.  Kirk, Rand and even Miri begin
    to show signs of the disease, which gives Kirk a chance to prove that the
    disease will eventually kill all of the children - but they are unwilling
    to admit they need help or the "stuffy" advice of an adult.
  Guest Cast:  Kim Darby (Miri), Michael J. Pollard (Jahn), Grace Lee Whitney
    (Yeoman Rand), Keith Taylor (Jahn's Friend), Ed McCready (Boy Creature),
    Kellie Flanagan (Blonde Girl), Steven McEveety (Redheaded Boy), David Ross
    (Security Guard #1), Jim Goodwin (Farrell), John Megna (Little Boy)

10      DAGGER OF THE MIND                                          Nov  3, 1966
        written by S. Bar-David
        directed by Vincent McEveety
        music by Alexander Courage
  Stardate 2715.1:  Kirk and ship's psychiatrist Dr. Noel visit a Federation
    mental hospital as the Enterprise delivers supplies.  But one cargo
    container beamed aboard the ship contains an apparently insane stowaway
    from the facility on the planet who isn't a patient, but the second in
    command of the hospital's director, who has invented a device that can lock
    emotional impulses in or out of the brain permanently and is apparently
    used his invention without any discretion.  Spock and the crew discover
    that Kirk and Dr. Noel are trapped on the planet, and are probably the next
    victims of the mind-altering machine.
  Guest Cast:  James Gregory (Dr. Tristan Adams), Morgan Woodward (Dr. Simon
    Van Gelder), Marianna Hill (Helen Noel), Susanne Wasson (Lethe), John Arndt
    (First Crewman), Larry Anthony (Transportation Man), Ed McCready (Inmate),
    Eli Behar (Therapist)

11      THE CORBOMITE MANEUVER                                      Nov 10, 1966
        written by Jerry Sohl
        directed by Joseph Sargent
        music by Fred Steiner
  Stardate 1512.2:  The Enterprise encounters a glowing cube in space.  When
    Kirk discovers that the cube will follow the ship or block its path, he
    orders the cube destroyed.  At this point, an enormous vessel appears, and
    alien captain Balok declares that he will destroy the Enterprise in
    minutes.  Kirk bluffs his way out by claiming that all Federation vessels
    have "corbomite" aboard, which he will detonate if Balok threatens the
    crew.  Balok attempts to escape in an escape craft, but the Enterprise
    catches up and contacts the real Balok - a representative of an alien race
    whose members, in adulthood, look like human children.  Lt. Bailey, whose
    emotional outbursts had been disrupting the already fatalistic attitude on
    the Enterprise, agrees to stay with Balok as an "exchange student" so he
    may learn more about the diversity of life in the galaxy.
  Guest Cast:  Anthony Call (Lt. Dave Bailey), Clint Howard (Balok), Grace Lee
    Whitney (Yeoman Rand)

12      THE MENAGERIE - part one                                    Nov 17, 1966
        written by Gene Roddenberry
        footage from "The Cage" directed by Robert Butler
        new footage directed by Marc Daniels
        music by Alexander Courage
  Stardate 3012.4:  The Enterprise is summoned to Starbase 6, apparently by
    Captain Pike, who commanded the ship before Kirk.  Commodore Mendez shows
    Kirk, Spock and McCoy, however, that Pike was recently paralyzed in an
    accident and could not have signalled the Enterprise.  Spock creates false
    messages from Kirk and sends them to the ship, instructing the crew that
    Spock and Pike will beam up immediately, the Enterprise will be piloted by
    computer to its next destination, and that Kirk will be staying behind.
    Kirk and Mendez follow the Enterprise in a shuttle, which runs out of fuel
    when Spock refuses to slow the Enterprise down so the shuttle can come
    aboard.  Spock finally allows Kirk to catch up and then places himself
    under arrest.  Kirk is unable to disconnect the computer from the helm, and
    Spock's court-martial begins.  Spock offers, as evidence, visual records of
    a voyage on the Enterprise on which Spock and Pike served 13 years earlier.
    The bridge then informs Kirk and Mendez that the recording is being sent to
    the Enterprise from Talos IV - a planet that, according to Starfleet
    regulations, is absolutely off-limits to all vessels, punishable by death.
  Guest Cast:  Sean Kenney (Captain Pike), Malachi Throne (Commodore Mendez),
    Hagan Beggs (Ensign Hansen), Julie Parrish (Miss Piper)
  Appearing in footage from "The Cage":  Jeffrey Hunter (Capt. Christopher
    Pike), Susan Oliver (Vina), Majel Leigh Hudec (Number One), Peter Duryea
    (Lt. Tyler), John Hoyt (Dr. Boyce), Meg Wylie (The Keeper), Adam Roarke
    (CPO Garrison)

13      THE MENAGERIE - part two                                    Nov 24, 1966
        written by Gene Roddenberry
        footage from "The Cage" directed by Robert Butler
        new footage directed by Marc Daniels
        music by Alexander Courage
  Stardate 3013.1:  Spock reveals that the Keeper of Talos IV has control of
    the viewscreen and the evidence being presented.  The screen shows the
    events that occurred during Pike's visit to Talos IV in great detail, but
    Spock has difficulty convincing Kirk and Mendez of the validity of what
    they are seeing as well as the tremendous power of the Talosians.  When the
    evidence suddenly stops, Mendez orders Kirk and Pike, the ranking officers
    forming Spock's trial board, to make their verdict, and all find Spock
    guilty.  The final part of the record of Pike's adventure then continues,
    and then Commodore Mendez vanishes from the Enterprise.  The Keeper himself
    tells Kirk that the Mendez that accompanied him in the shuttle and the
    trial was an illusion projected from Talos IV, and that Pike is welcome to
    return to the planet and be restored, as Vina was, to his former strength
    and health.
       Both parts of "The Menagerie" used footage of the original series pilot
    "The Cage" as the visual evidence of Pike's early mission.
  Guest Cast:  Sean Kenney (Captain Pike), Malachi Throne (Commodore Mendez),
    Hagan Beggs (Ensign Hansen)
  Appearing in footage from "The Cage":  Jeffrey Hunter (Capt. Christopher
    Pike), Susan Oliver (Vina), Majel Leigh Hudec (Number One), Peter Duryea
    (Lt. Tyler), John Hoyt (Dr. Boyce), Meg Wylie (The Keeper), Adam Roarke
    (CPO Garrison)

14      THE CONSCIENCE OF THE KING                                  Dec  8, 1966
        written by Barry Trivers
        directed by Gerd Oswald
        music by Mullendore
  Stardate 2817.6:  Kirk is contacted by Leighton, a friend from Kirk's stay on
    the Tarsus IV colony years ago, who believes that Kodos the Executioner,
    the militant dictator who gave the order for scores of people to die on the
    colony during Kirk's stay, is at large once more in the guise of touring
    Shakespearean actor Karidian, who, with his touring company, has stopped
    over at Leighton's post for a performance.  Kirk isn't convinced until
    Leighton turns up dead, leaving Kirk and Lt. Riley the only remaining
    living witnesses of the Tarsus IV massacre.  To investigate further, Kirk
    invites Karidian's company to travel on the Enterprise to their next
    performance, and attempts on Kirk and Riley's lives begin immediately.
  Guest Cast:  Arnold Moss (Karidian), Barbara Anderson (Lenore), Bruce Hyde
    (Lt. Riley), Grace Lee Whitney (Yeoman Rand), William Sargent (Dr.
    Leighton), Natalie Norwick (Martha Leighton), David-Troy (Larry Matson),
    Karl Bruck (King Duncan), Marc Adams (Hamlet)

15      BALANCE OF TERROR                                           Dec 15, 1966
        written by Paul Schneider
        directed by Vincent McEveety
        music by Fred Steiner
  Stardate 1709.1:  Responding to distress calls from border outposts along the
    Neutral Zone between the Federation and the Romulan Star Empire, Kirk and
    the crew receive a final message from a Federation station reporting an
    attack from an invisible ship.  Before the station is destroyed, it sends
    the Enterprise a brief view of the attacking vessel - a streamlined fighter
    which appears for a second when it fires.  Hurrying to the scene, the
    Enterprise engages in battle with a Romulan Bird of Prey, armed with a
    cloaking device and commanded by a battle-scarred and tired commander whose
    crew is more eager to go into combat than he is.  The Romulans, to the
    Enterprise crew's amazement, bear a stunning resemblance to Vulcans, which
    arouses suspicion in some, including Lt. Styles, whose father died in a
    battle with the Romulans years ago.  But as long as the Romulan ship can
    remain invisible, the Enterprise is at a disadvantage.
       The unusual similarities between Vulcans and Romulans are finally
    addressed in 1991 in the "Next Generation" story "Unification," in which
    Spock, in his 120s or older, traveled to Romulus to investigate resuming
    relations between the Vulcans and Romulans.
  Guest Cast:  Mark Lenard (Romulan Commander), Paul Comi (Styles), Lawrence
    Montaigne (Decius), Grace Lee Whitney (Yeoman Rand), Stephen Mines (Lt.
    Tomlinson), Barbara Baldavin (Angela), Garry Walberg (Hansen), John
    Warburton (The Centurion)

16      SHORE LEAVE                                                 Dec 29, 1966
        written by Theodore Sturgeon
        directed by Robert Sparr
        music by Gerald Fried  (GNP Crescendo cassette & CD # GNPD 8030)
  Stardate 3025.3:  McCoy recommends a layover so the crew can rest from the
    constant strain of nonstop duties, and an earthlike but apparently
    uninhabited planet provides a perfect opportunity for shore leave, but when
    odd things begin happening on the surface, Kirk becomes suspicious.  McCoy,
    after telling Sulu that the planet is like a setting from "Alice in
    Wonderland," spots a large rabbit followed by Alice herself.  Kirk runs
    into his old nemesis, Academy prankster Finnegan, while Sulu discovers a
    police revolver that he doesn't have in his ancient firearms collection and
    later runs into a Samurai warrior.  Mysterious tracking devices follow the
    crew's actions and thoughts, and whatever they happen to be thinking of
    seems to become real - even if it's a deadly threat, as McCoy discovers.
  Guest Cast:  Emily Banks (Tonia Barrows), Oliver McGowan (Caretaker), Perry
    Lopez (Rodriguez), Bruce Mars (Finnegan), Barbara Baldavin (Angela), Marcia
    Brown (Alice), Sebastian Tom (Warrior), Shirley Bonne (Ruth)

17      THE GALILEO SEVEN                                           Jan  5, 1967
        teleplay by Oliver Crawford and S. Bar-David
        story by Oliver Crawford
        directed by Robert Gist
        music by Alexander Courage
  Stardate 2821.5:  A shuttle commanded by Spock crash-lands on a savage planet
    where members of the shuttle crew are in immediate danger from the local
    life forms.  The Enterprise must leave the area as soon as possible to
    deliver a much needed vaccine to a plague-stricken planet, and Commissioner
    Ferris insists that Kirk leave the Galileo crew for dead and get underway
    to the Enterprise's next destination.  Meanwhile, Spock faces a command
    situation where total logic and rationality may be of no use if the crew of
    the shuttle is to return to the Enterprise.
  Guest Cast:  Don Marshall (Boma), John Crawford (Commissioner Ferris), Peter
    Marko (Gaetano), Phyllis Douglas (Yeoman Mears), Rees Vaughn (Latimer),
    Grant Woods (Kelowitz), Buck Maffei (Creature), David Ross (Transporter
    Chief)

18      THE SQUIRE OF GOTHOS                                        Jan 12, 1967
        written by Paul Schneider
        directed by Don McDougall
        music by Alexander Courage
  Stardate 2124.5:  The Enterprise crew discovers that the ship cannot escape
    orbit of a planet that doesn't even exist on the star charts.  Kirk and a
    landing party beam down to the surface of the mysterious planet and their
    captor is revealed to be the immature but powerful Trelane, who initially
    seems to be a student of ancient Earth history (as demonstrated by his 17th
    century mansion, clothes and furnishings).  Kirk, discovering that
    Trelane's hold on the Enterprise comes from a power far beyond 23rd century
    technology, must try to beat Trelane at his own game, but Trelane rewrites
    the rules constantly to make sure he's winning.
  Guest Cast:  William Campbell (Trelane), Richard Carlyle (Jaeger), Michael
    Barrier (DeSalle), Venita Wolf (Teresa)

19      ARENA                                                       Jan 19, 1967
        teleplay by Gene L. Coon
        from a story by Frederic Brown
        directed by Joseph Pevney
        music by Alexander Courage
  Stardate 3045.6:  Arriving at a Federation planet at the request of a
    starbase director, the Enterprise finds a devastated world with only one
    survivor, who reveals that any summons Kirk received to visit the planet
    must have been a trap.  The Enterprise locates and pursues an alien vessel
    right past the borders of the apparently omnipotent Metrons, who halt the
    ensuing battle and force Kirk and the captain of the other vessel - a huge,
    reptilian Gorn - to settle their differences in hand-to-hand combat...a
    prospect which immediately leaves Kirk at a disadvantage.  Should he lose,
    the crew of the Enterprise will be destroyed.
  Guest Cast:  Jerry Ayres (O' Herlihy), Grant Woods (Kelowitz), Tom Troupe
    (Lt. Harold), James Farley (Lang), Carole Shelyne (Metron), Sean Kenney
    (DePaul)

20      TOMORROW IS YESTERDAY                                       Jan 26, 1967
        written by D.C. Fontana
        directed by Michael O' Herlihy
        music by Alexander Courage
  Stardate 3113.2:  Accidentally swinging around the sun into a time warp, the
    Enterprise's crew recover from their turbulent journey and find themselves
    in Earth's atmosphere in the 1960s over North America.  Jets are dispatched
    to bring the "UFO" down, and one is caught in the ship's tractor beam and
    begins to break apart.  The pilot, Captain John Christopher, is beamed out
    of his plane before it disintegrates and is welcomed to the Enterprise as
    the crew prepares to return to the 23rd century.  Kirk tells Christopher
    that he cannot be returned to his own time because he has seen too much of
    the future, but Spock discovers that Christopher will have a son who will
    be very important to the history of the space program and Christopher must
    be returned to 20th century Earth.
       Presumably, the sun-slingshot maneuver was used by the Enterprise to jump
    into the late 20th century for observation in second season's "Assignment:
    Earth," and was employed to return the crew to the 20th century yet again in
    the movie "Star Trek IV."
  Guest Cast:  Roger Perry (Major Chistopher), Hal Lynch (Air Police Sergeant),
    Richard Merrifield (Technician), John Winston (Transporter Chief), Ed Peck
    (Col. Fellini), Mark Dempsey (Air Force Captain), Jim Spencer (Air
    Policeman), Sherri Townsend (Crew Woman)

21      COURT-MARTIAL                                               Feb  2, 1967
        teleplay by Don M. Mankiewicz and Steven W. Carabatsos
        story by Don M. Mankiewicz
        directed by Marc Daniels
        music by Alexander Courage
  Stardate 2947.3:  Kirk is accused of murder when the Enterprise's records
    officer, Lt. Commander Finney, is apparently jettisoned during a violent
    ion storm which threatened the ship.  Kirk insists that he gave Finney even
    more time than safely allowed to get out of the jettisoned ion pod, yet the
    Enterprise computer's records show that Kirk discarded the pod, and Finney,
    while only at yellow alert when there was no sign of actual danger.  Kirk
    challenges the findings of the computer and is court-martialed, with
    accusations that earlier rivalries with Finney when both were new officers
    caused Kirk to act maliciously - and even Kirk's attorney, Cogley, may not
    be able to convince the court that the error may have been the computer's.
  Guest Cast:  Percy Rodriguez (Portmaster Stone), Elisha Cook (Samuel T.
    Cogley), Joan Marshall (Areel Shaw), Richard Webb (Lt. Commander Ben
    Finney), Hagan Beggs (Helmsman), Winston DeLugo (Timothy), Alice Rawlings
    (Jame Finney), Nancy Wong (Personnel Officer), Bart Conrad (Krasnovsky),
    William Meader (Board Officer), Reginald Lal Singh (Board Officer)

22      THE RETURN OF THE ARCHONS                                   Feb  9, 1967
        teleplay by Boris Sobelman
        story by Gene Roddenberry
        directed by Joseph Pevney
        music by Alexander Courage
  Stardate 3156.2:  Sulu and another crewman are investigating a primitive but
    ancient-Earth-like alien culture incognito, but their disguise is blown and
    they're running for their lives.  The Enterprise can't beam Sulu up in
    time, and he is hit by a weapon on the planet which leaves him under the
    control of something or someone called Landru.  Kirk and Spock beam down,
    finding the planet's people engaged in unusual rituals, and also finding
    out from some of the locals that Landru has complete control over most
    everyone on the planet, aside from a small resistance effort.  What begins
    as an effort to free the people on the planet becomes a matter of survival
    when Kirk and Spock become hunted by Landru's "puppets."
  Guest Cast:  Harry Townes (Reger), Torin Thatcher (Marplon), Brioni Farrell
    (Tula), Sid Haig (First Lawgiver), Charles Macaulay (Landru), Jon Lormer
    (Tamar), Morgan Farley (Hacom), Christopher Held (Lindstorm), Sean Morgan
    (O' Neil), Ralph Maurer (Bilar), David L. Ross (Guard)

23      SPACE SEED                                                  Feb 16, 1967
        teleplay by Gene L. Coon and Carey Wilbur
        story by Carey Wilbur
        directed by Marc Daniels
        music by Alexander Courage
  Stardate 3141.9:  The Enterprise discovers a derelict vessel which turns out
    to be an Earth ship dating back to a series of wars in the 1990s in which
    Earth's population was threatened by a group of genetically engineered
    superhuman beings.  The inhabitants of the rogue ship, though they try to
    conceal the fact at every opportunity, are the only surviving oppressors
    from that war.  Their leader, Khan, wishes to resume their reign of terror,
    beginning with a takeover of the Enterprise.
       This story is the basis of the film "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan."
  Guest Cast:  Ricardo Montalban (Khan), Madlyn Rhue (Marla), Blaisdell Makee
    (Spinelli), Mark Tobin (Joaquin), Kathy Ahart (Crew Woman), John Winston
    (Transporter Chief Kyle)

24      A TASTE OF ARMAGEDDON                                       Feb 23, 1967
        teleplay by Robert Hammer and Gene L. Coon
        story by Robert Hammer
        directed by Joseph Pevney
        music by Alexander Courage
  Stardate 3192.1:  The Enterprise visits the twin planets of Eminiar VII and
    Vendikar so Ambassador Fox may approach their governments about joining the
    Federation.  When they beam down to Eminiar 7, Kirk, Spock and the rest of
    their landing party are informed that the Enterprise has been struck by
    enemy missiles and Kirk's party, along with the rest of the crew, have been
    declared casualties.  Investigating further, Kirk discovers that the war
    between the two planets is controlled by computers, which determine the
    damage done and the fatalities caused by the attacks, and assigns citizens
    to report to disintegration machines, which they do willingly.  Kirk is
    trapped on the planet, but Ambassador Fox thinks he can remedy the
    situation and beams down unarmed against Scotty's advice.
  Guest Cast:  David Opatoshu (Anan 7), Gene Lyons (Ambassador Fox), Barbara
    Babcock (Mea 3), Miko Mayama (Tamula), David L. Ross (Galloway), Sean
    Kenney (DePaul), Robert Sampson (Sar 6)

25      THIS SIDE OF PARADISE                                       Mar  2, 1967
        teleplay by D.C. Fontana
        story by Nathan Butler and D.C. Fontana
        directed by Ralph Serensky
        music by Alexander Courage
  Stardate 3417.3:  Investigating a colony whose settlers should be, but for
    some reason are not, threatened by radiation, Kirk and a landing party beam
    down to investigate.  McCoy diagnoses the colonists as being in fine health
    and none of them wish to leave, no matter how much danger they are in.
    Spock, with Leila, an old acquaintance who has a crush on him, is infested
    by spores from a plant while examining the colony grounds.  McCoy also soon
    falls victims to the spores, which leave their victims - even Spock - in a
    stupor with no desire to leave...and Kirk is left with a ship and no crew.
  Guest Cast:  Jill Ireland (Leila), Frank Overton (Elias Sandoval), Grant
    Woods (Kelowitz), Michael Barrier (DeSalle), Dick Scotter (Painter), Eddie
    Paskey (Crewman)

26      DEVIL IN THE DARK                                           Mar  9, 1967
        written by Gene L. Coon
        directed by Joseph Pevney
        music by Alexander Courage
  Stardate 3196.1:  A mining colony reports a number of mysterious deaths just
    after they successfully dig to a lower level of a planetoid believed to be
    uninhabited.  The Enterprise arrives, and Kirk, Spock and security officers
    from the ship begin a hunt for whoever or whatever is responsible for the
    growing body count.  An amorphous creature capable of burning through the
    indigenous rock is found to be the cause of the deaths as well as a very
    well-thought out sabotage of the miners' life support systems.  Through a
    mind-meld, Spock communicates with the being - known as the Horta - and
    finds that it is the last of its kind, a mother laying eggs in the tunnels
    and caves it builds for itself.  But the humans have been discovering and
    destroying the eggs, and if the Horta cannot bring herself to negotiate
    with the miners, one party or the other faces extinction.
  Guest Cast:  Ken Lynch (Vanderberg), Brad Weston (Appel), Biff Elliot
    (Schmitter), George E. Allen (Engineer #1), Jon Cavett (Guard), Barry Russo
    (Giotto)

27      ERRAND OF MERCY                                             Mar 23, 1967
        written by Gene L. Coon
        directed by John Newland
        music by Alexander Courage
  Stardate 3198.4:  A sudden attack by the Klingons on a vulnerable neutral
    sector - a location of great strategic importance - puts the Enterprise on
    red alert, as the threat of a catastrophic war between the Klingon Empire
    and the Federation looms.  Kirk and Spock beam down to Organia, the planet
    whose security is at risk due to the Klingon threat, and find that the
    inhabitants, who appear to be humans who have reached the medieval period
    of sociological and technological development, are not at all concerned
    that their world is currently being overrun by Klingon troops.  Kirk and
    Spock try to conceal their identities, but fail, leaving Kirk and Klingon
    Captain Kor at each others' throats - until the Organians reveal their true
    nature and intervene in the impending war.
       This episode introduces the Klingons to "Star Trek."
  Guest Cast:  John Abbott (Ayelbourne), John Colicos (Kor), Peter Brocco
    (Claymare), Victor Lundiw (Lieutenant), David Hillary Hughes (Trefayne),
    Walt Davis (Klingon Soldier), George Sawaya (Second Soldier)

28      THE ALTERNATIVE FACTOR                                      Mar 30, 1967
        written by Don Ingalls
        directed by Gerd Oswald
        music by Alexander Courage
  Stardate 3087.6:  The Enterprise encounters brief but intense turbulence
    after entering orbit above an uninhabited world.  Kirk leads a landing
    party to the surface to investigate any possible connection between the
    planet and the disturbance, and they find a man named Lazarus, who, though
    he seems healthy and normal, claims to be fighting his own equivalent from
    a universe of antimatter.  Lazarus proves to be a threat to the
    Enterprise's security, and the increasing blasts of turbulence seem to
    confirm Lazarus's story that he has a powerful enemy in another dimension.
  Guest Cast:  Robert Brown (Lazarus), Janet MacLachlan (Charlene Masters),
    Richard Deer (Barstow), Arch Whiting (Asst. Engineer), Christian Patrick
    (Transporter Chief), Eddie Paskey (Lesley)

29      THE CITY ON THE EDGE OF FOREVER                             Apr  6, 1967
        written by Harlan Ellison
        directed by Joseph Pevney
        music by Alexander Courage
  Stardate 3134.0:  McCoy accidentally receives an overdose of cordrazine as
    the Enterprise encounters turbulence.  He beams down to an unexplored world
    where he enters a time-travel device known as the Guardian of Forever and
    changes history in the 1930s.  Kirk and Spock also return to the 30s, where
    Kirk falls in love with peace activist Edith Keeler.  When McCoy is finally
    located, Kirk must allow history to run its course, resulting in Edith's
    death, or he will leave history altered irrevocably, with no chance of
    returning to the future or the Enterprise.
  Guest Cast:  Joan Collins (Sister Edith Keeler), John Harmon (Rodent), Hal
    Baylor (Policeman), David L. Ross (Galloway), John Winston (Transporter
    Chief Kyle), Bartell La Rue (Guardian voice)

30      OPERATION: ANNIHILATE!                                      Apr 13, 1967
        written by Steven W. Carabatsos
        directed by Herschel Daugherty
        music by Alexander Courage
  Stardate 3287.2:  The Enterprise witnesses a smaller ship diving into the sun
    of Deneva under the control of a pilot who seems to have intentionally
    killed himself.  This confirms Kirk's worst fears, that a seemingly
    contagious outbreak of insanity on several other worlds has spread to
    Deneva, where his brother lives.  On the surface, many are found to be dead
    - including Kirk's brother - and an unknown species of alien parasite is
    found to be responsible.  In trying to gather data on them, Spock is
    attacked and taken over by one, and, like the people of Deneva and several
    other planets, starts to go mad.  Spock's condition also presents McCoy
    with the first opportunity to learn more about both the creature and its
    victim, and Spock may have to die if the crew is to learn any more about
    the creatures to prevent them from spreading further into human territory.
  Guest Cast:  Joan Swift (Aurelan), Maurishka (Yeoman Zahra), Majel Barrett
    (Christine Chapel), Craig Hundley (Peter), Fred Carson (First Devenvan),
    Jerry Catron (Second Denevan)


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31      AMOK TIME                                                   Sep 15, 1967
        written by Theodore Sturgeon
        directed by Joseph Pevney
        music by Gerald Fried  (Crescendo GNP cassette & CD # GNP 8025)
  Stardate 3372.7:  Spock begins acting strange - even violent - as, unknown to
    the rest of the crew, he enters the Vulcan mating phase that strikes adult
    male Vulcans every seven years.  Kirk must divert the Enterprise from a
    tight schedule to return Spock to Vulcan so his mating ritual may be
    carried out.  But on arriving, it is discovered that Spock must compete
    with a gladiator of his prospective mate's choice - and that turns out, on
    the spur of the moment, to be Kirk.
  Season 2 Regular Cast:  William Shatner (Captain James T. Kirk), Leonard
    Nimoy (Mr. Spock), DeForest Kelley (Dr. Leonard McCoy), James Doohan (Mr.
    Scott), George Takei (Lt. Sulu), Nichelle Nichols (Lt. Uhura), Walter
    Koenig (Ensign Chekov)
  Guest Cast:  Celia Lovsky (T'Pau), Arlene Martel (T'Pring), Lawrence
    Montaigne (Stonn), Majel Barrett (Christine Chapel), Byron Morrow (Admiral
    Komack)

32      WHO MOURNS FOR ADONAIS?                                     Sep 22, 1967
        written by Gilbert Ralston
        directed Marc Daniels
        music by Fred Steiner
  Stardate 3468.1:  The Enterprise is trapped in deep space by an enormous
    hand.  Kirk and a landing party beam down to a nearby planet and find that
    a powerful being claiming to be the Greek god Apollo is the one responsible
    for holding the Enterprise in its place - and Kirk discovers that Apollo's
    ability to immobilize a starship is just a small demonstration of the
    being's power.  When Apollo demands that the crew worship him, Kirk decides
    that the mythical figure must be defeated - but must rely on playing with
    Apollo's emotions and weaknesses since the being can tamper with the
    Enterprise's technology.
  Guest Cast:  Michael Forest (Apollo), Leslie Parrish (Carolyn), John Winston
    (Lt. Kyle)

33      THE CHANGELING                                              Sep 29, 1967
        written by John Meredyth Lucas
        directed by Marc Daniels
        music by Fred Steiner
  Stardate 3451.9:  The Enterprise is attacked and boarded by the unusual space
    probe Nomad, which Spock identifies as the combined remains of an alien
    robot and an Earth exploration probe.  Nomad's purpose - a confused mix of
    aliens' orders and instructions from Earth - is to seek out and sterilize
    all impurities, including imperfect beings like humans.  The only thing
    preventing Nomad from obliterating the Enterprise and everyone on board is
    the similarity between the name of Nomad's creator and Captain Kirk, and
    Kirk must try to play that role as best he can while figuring out how to
    get rid of Nomad.
  Guest Cast:  Majel Barrett (Christine Chapel), Blaisdell Makee (Singh),
    Barbara Gates (Crew Woman), Meade Martin (Crewman), Arnold Lessing
    (Security Guard), Vic Perrin (Nomad's voice)

34      MIRROR, MIRROR                                              Oct  6, 1967
        written by Jerome Bixby
        directed by Marc Daniels
        music by Fred Steiner
  Stardate not given:  Returning to the Enterprise from an unsuccessful mission
    to ask the leaders of a planet for a possible mineral trade, Kirk, Uhura,
    Scotty and McCoy are being beamed up just as a freak accident hurls them
    into another reality, which still contains a USS Enterprise and a Spock and
    a Federation, but the other reality's versions are cruel and inhumane - the
    crew the alternate Enterprise is readying for a strike against the planet
    Kirk just left to take their mineral resources by force.  Kirk and his
    landing party must try to cover their inexplicable identities and try to
    fit in, while stopping the savage alternate Enterprise from carrying its
    reign of terror any further.
  Guest Cast:  Barbara Luna (Marlena), Victor Perrin (Tharn), John Winston (Lt.
    Kyle), Garth Pillsbury (Wilson), Pete Kellett (Kirk's Henchman)

35      THE APPLE                                                   Oct 13, 1967
        written by Max Ehrlich
        directed by Joseph Pevney
        music by Gerald Fried
  Stardate 3715.0:  An Enterprise landing party beams down to an edenic planet,
    where Kirk discovers that the people living there are still primitive, all
    progress held in check by an enormous ancient computer known as Vaal, which
    also demands sacrifices of food by the natives.  Vaal detects the
    Enterprise in orbit and begins to drain it of its power, and Kirk realizes
    that he will have to destroy Vaal to save the Enterprise, but the surface
    dwellers' lifestyles will be changed forever if Vaal is removed.
  Guest Cast:  Keith Andes (Akuta), Celeste Yarnell (Yeoman Martha Landon),
    David Soul (Makora), Jay Jones (Ensign Mallory), Jerry Daniels (Marple),
    John Winston (Lt. Kyle), Mal Friedman (Hendorff), Shari Nims (Sayana)

36      THE DOOMSDAY MACHINE                                        Oct 20, 1967
        written by Norman Spinrad
        directed by Marc Daniels
        music by Sol Kaplan  (Crescendo GNP cassette & CD # GNP 8025)
  Stardate 4202.9:  The starship Constellation is found in deep space, almost
    completely destroyed.  The only person they find aboard is Commodore Matt
    Decker, in a state of shock and only able to give minimal details of what
    happened.  A gigantic ship/creature suddenly returns, well over ten times
    the size of the Federation vessels, capable of literally eating entire
    planets to replenish is colossal energy needs.  Kirk is trapped on the
    unarmed Constellation, while Decker takes command of the Enterprise and
    plans to exact revenge on the huge alien vessel, no matter what the risk to
    Kirk's ship and crew.
  Guest Cast:  William Windom (Commodore Decker), Elizabeth Rogers (Lt.
    Palmer), John Winston (Lt. Kyle), Richard Compton (Washburn), John Copage
    (Elliott), Tim Burns (Russ), Jerry Catron (Montgomery)

37      CATSPAW                                                     Oct 27, 1967
        written by Robert Bloch
        directed by Joseph Pevney
        music by Gerald Fried
  Stardate 3018.2:  When a crewman from a landing party investigating the
    latest planet visited by the Enterprise returns under some form of exterior
    control and then dies, Kirk decides to beam down and see for himself what
    caused the death.  What Kirk, Spock and McCoy find on the surface is a
    house of horrors right out of ancient Earth mythology, right down to three
    hideous witches delivering a prophecy of doom for the crew.  Two aliens are
    found to be at the heart of the evil activities, and they have no intention
    of letting Kirk or the Enterprise leave their world...
  Guest Cast:  Antoinette Bower (Sylvia), Theo Marcuse (Korob), Michael Barrier
    (DeSalle), John Winston (Transporter Chief Kyle), Rhodie Cogan (First
    Witch), Gail Bonney (Second Witch), MaryEsther Denver (Third Witch), Jimmy
    Jones (Crewman Jackson)

38      I, MUDD                                                     Nov  3, 1967
        written by Stephen Kandel
        directed by Marc Daniels
        music by Samuel Matlovsky
  Stardate 4513.3:  The Enterprise is taken over by Crewman Norman, who turns
    out to be an android in disguise.  He sets the ship on a course back to his
    home world, a planet populated entirely by androids - and one Harry Mudd,
    trapped there after a crash-landing.  The androids plan to move out beyond
    their own planet to populate the galaxy with more of their logical,
    efficient kind, and the Enterprise is their chosen means of transport.
    Kirk, although understandably suspicious of Harry, must now cooperate with
    the con-man if the android invasion is to be stopped.  And the greatest
    weapon at the disposal of Kirk, his crew, and Harry is total illogic.
  Guest Cast:  Roger C. Carmel (Harry Mudd), Richard Tatro (Norman), Alice
    Andrece (Alice #1 through #250), Rhae Andrece (Alice #251 through #500),
    Kay Elliot (Stella Mudd), Mike Howden (Lt. Rowe), Michael Zanslow (Jordan)

39      METAMORPHOSIS                                               Nov 10, 1967
        written by Gene L. Coon
        directed by Ralph Serensky
        music by George Duning
  Stardate 3219.4:  Taking Federation Commissioner Hedford back to the
    Enterprise's sick bay so McCoy can treat her for a potentially dangerous
    but curable ailment, the shuttlecraft containing Kirk, Spock, McCoy and
    Hedford is diverted by a strange energy field to a barren planet, inhabited
    only by Cochrane, who invented the basis for current warp engine technology
    decades ago and should be dead by now.  Cochrane reveals, however, that an
    energy creature called the Companion has halted his aging process.  The
    Companion is also concerned about Cochrane's psychological well-being, and
    Kirk and the others have been brought to keep Cochrane company - possibly
    for the rest of their lives.
  Guest Cast:  Glenn Corbett (Zefram Cochrane), Elinor Donahue (Nancy Hedford)

40      JOURNEY TO BABEL                                            Nov 17, 1967
        written by D.C. Fontana
        directed by Joseph Pevney
        music by Gerald Fried
  Stardate 3842.3:  Delegates from several worlds are welcomed aboard for a
    trip to Babel where a Federation summit will take place, among them Vulcan
    Ambassador Sarek - Spock's father, from whom he has been alienated since
    childhood.  Spock's human mother, Amanda, can't stop trying to bridge the
    gap between her husband and son, while Spock and Sarek can't seem to do
    anything but continue their rivalry.  When a hidden assassin begins to kill
    some of the delegates, Spock - out of logic, of course - points Sarek out
    as a potential suspect.  But Sarek suffers a heart attack just as an alien
    ship begins to attack the Enterprise.  Kirk is stabbed by the assassin, and
    Spock must choose between offering some of his blood to save Sarek's life
    and assuming command of the Enterprise in the emergency.
       Though Sarek doesn't appear in any more episodes of Classic "Trek," he
    appears in nearly every "Star Trek" movie after "Star Trek II" and makes a
    guest appearance in three episodes of "The Next Generation."  Amanda also
    reappears in "Star Trek IV."
  Guest Cast:  Jane Wyatt (Amanda), Mark Lenard (Sarek), William O' Connell
    (Thelev), Majel Barrett (Nurse Chapel), John Wheeler (Gav), James K.
    Mitchell (Josephs), Reggie Nadler (Shras)

41      FRIDAY'S CHILD                                              Dec  1, 1967
        written by D.C. Fontana
        directed by Joseph Pevney
        music by Gerald Fried
  Stardate 3497.2:  The Enterprise rushes to an underdeveloped planet in an
    attempt to stop Klingon intervention in the somewhat primitive society.
    The Klingon Maab is trying to convince the planet's people that an alliance
    with the Klingon Empire would be beneficial, and when Kirk breaks cultural
    taboos - not to mention the prime directive - by interfering with a
    "routine" killing and saving a pregnant woman, it becomes all too easy for
    Maab to point out that the landing party from the Enterprise have only come
    to usurp the planet's ways of life.
  Guest Cast:  Julie Newmar (Eleen), Tige Andrews (Krag), Michael Dante (Maab),
    Cal Bolder (Keel), Ben Gage (Akaar), Kirk Raymone (Duur), Robert Bralver
    (Grant)

42      THE DEADLY YEARS                                            Dec  8, 1967
        written by David P. Harmon
        directed by Joseph Pevney
        music by Fred Steiner and Sol Kaplan
  Stardate 3478.2:  Conducting a survey of a planet, a landing party from the
    Enterprise is contaminated with a form of radiation sickness that
    accelerates aging.  With the ship's entire command crew rapidly aging and
    slowly losing their ability to perform their routine duties, Commodore
    Stocker, who is aboard for a trip to his next starbase command, decides he
    must question their competency and take the captain's chair as Kirk, Spock
    and the others face an impending death of old age.
  Guest Cast:  Charles Drake (Commodore Stocker), Sarah Marshall (Janet
    Wallace), Majel Barrett (Christine Chapel), Felix Locher (Mr. Johnson),
    Carolyn Nelson (Yeoman Atkins), Laura Wood (Mrs. Johnson), Beverly Washburn
    (Arlene Galway)

43      OBSESSION                                                   Dec 15, 1967
        written by Art Wallace
        directed by Ralph Serensky
        music by Sol Kaplan
  Stardate 3619.2:  While a landing party is conducting a routine survey of a
    planet, two crewman are killed and one badly injured by a cloudlike being
    Kirk suddenly believes he has encountered before.  It turns out that the
    creature attacked a ship that Kirk had been stationed on years before and
    killed most of the crew, and Kirk feels that he should have been able to do
    more to save his former crewmates.  He transfers that guilt to the
    surviving landing party member, who not only is considered responsible by
    Kirk, but is also the son of Kirk's former captain on that previous
    assignment.  Kirk orders the Enterprise to follow the creature through
    space, determined to kill it - at any cost - before it can take more lives.
  Guest Cast:  Stephen Brooks (Ensign Garrovick), Jerry Ayres (Rizzo), Majel
    Barrett (Nurse Chapel)

44      A WOLF IN THE FOLD                                          Dec 22, 1967
        written by Robert Bloch
        directed by Joseph Pevney
        music by Gerald Fried
  Stardate 3614.9:  After suffering a head injury on the Enterprise, Scotty is
    talking into shore leave with Kirk and McCoy.  On the planet they are
    visiting, however, a series of grisly murders of local women begins, and
    all the evidence seems to point to Scotty.  Kirk must contend with the
    overwhelming evidence against Scotty as well as the overzealous local
    constable, who is ready to have Scotty punished as soon as possible.
  Guest Cast:  John Fielder (Hengist), Charles Macauley (Jaris), Pilar Stewart
    (Sybo), Charles Dierkop (Morla), Joseph Bernard (Tark), Tania Lemani
    (Kara), John Winston (Transporter Chief Kyle), Virginia Aldridge (Karen
    Tracy), Judy MocConnell (Yeoman Tankris), Judi Sherven (Nurse)

45      THE TROUBLE WITH TRIBBLES                                   Dec 29, 1967
        written by David Gerrold
        directed by Joseph Pevney
        music by Jerry Fielding
  Stardate 4523.3:  The Enterprise is summoned to space station K-7 for
    security duty when the station's security forces are considered inadequate
    to guard a shipment of valuable grain by the standards of Federation
    agriculture administrator Baris.  A shipload of Klingons stops off at the
    station as well, which has all parties concerned even more about the grain
    consignment.  Kirk orders stepped-up security, but that only results in
    some of the crew - including Scotty and Chekov - instigating a massive bar
    brawl with the Klingons.  All the while, the seemingly harmless huckster
    Cyrano Jones is trying to peddle furry tribbles off to anyone with a few
    credits, and Uhura buys one and takes it back to the Enterprise, not
    knowing that tribbles do only two things: eat and breed.
  Guest Cast:  William Schallert (Nilz Baris), William Campbell (Koloth),
    Stanley Adams (Cyrano Jones), Whit Bissell (Lurry), Michael Pataki (Korax),
    Ed Reimers (Admiral Fitzpatrick), Charlie Brill (Arne Darvin), Paul Baxley
    (Ensign Freeman), David Ross (Guard), Guy Raymond (Trader)

46      THE GAMESTERS OF TRISKELION                                 Jan  5, 1968
        written by Margaret Armen
        directed by Gene Nelson
        music not credited
  Stardate 3211.7:  A landing party beaming down to the Enterprise's latest
    stop is intercepted by a more powerful, long-range transporter beam, which
    hijacks Kirk, Uhura and Chekov to the planet Triskelion, where they are
    immediately handed over to various "trainers" to prepare them for their
    upcoming duties as gladiators to amuse the powerful rulers of the planet.
    Spock orders the Enterprise to warp to Triskelion to save the landing party
    but doesn't realize that the powers-that-be on the planet may want to lure
    the Enterprise crew there to provide them with even more entertainment.
  Guest Cast:  John Ruskin (Galt), Angelique Pettyjohn (Shahna), Steve Sandor
    (Lars), Jane Ross (Tamoon), Victoria George (Ensign Jana Haines), Dick
    Crockett (Andorian Thrall), Mickey Norton (Kloog)

47      A PIECE OF THE ACTION                                       Jan 12, 1968
        teleplay by David P. Harmon and Gene L. Coon
        story by David P. Harmon
        music not credited
  Stardate 4598.0:  The Enterprise encounters a planet recently visited by
    another starship and discovers that a book on the Chicago mobs of the 1920s
    accidentally left behind by a crew member of the previous ship has become
    the basis of the planet's society structure over 200 years of the planet's
    time (the starship having had warp drive).  The intelligent but imitative
    inhabitants show a keen interest in replacing telephones with communicators
    and replacing tommy guns with phasers when Kirk, Spock and McCoy - along
    with their standard Starfleet landing party equipment - are captured.
  Guest Cast:  Anthony Caruso (Bela), Victor Tayback (Krako), Lee Delano
    (Kalo), John Harmon (Tepo), Sheldon Collins (Tough Kid), Dyanne Thorne
    (First Girl), Sharyn Hillyer (Second Girl), Buddy Garion (Hood), Steve
    Marlo (Zabo)

48      THE IMMUNITY SYNDROME                                       Jan 19, 1968
        written by Robert Sabaroff
        directed by Joseph Pevney
        music by Sol Kaplan and Fred Steiner
  Stardate 4307.1:  Spock telepathically receives the collective death cries of
    the entire all-Vulcan crew of the USS Intrepid, which has just been
    destroyed by an unknown force.  The Enterprise intercepts a gigantic
    organism, which then surrounds the ship, beginning to cause physical and
    mental illness among the crew.  Kirk, Spock and McCoy surmise that this
    paradoxically huge single-celled organism may be a "disease," as its course
    will soon take it through inhabited star systems.  The Enterprise may turn
    out to be the only "antibody" capable of saving millions from the onslaught
    of the enormous parasite.
  Guest Cast:  John Winston (Lt. Kyle), Majel Barrett (Christine Chapel)

49      A PRIVATE LITTLE WAR                                        Feb  2, 1968
        teleplay by Gene Roddenberry
        story by Jud Crucis
        directed by Marc Daniels
        music by Gerald Fried
  Stardate 4211.4:  The Enterprise visits a primitive world where the Klingon
    Empire has armed one faction of people against another in hopes of
    eliminating the weaker population and allying the stronger warriors with
    the Klingons.  Spock is seriously injured when he, Kirk and McCoy beam
    down, and is returned to the Enterprise for treatment as Kirk and McCoy try
    to make contact with the locals.  Kirk is injured by an poisonous
    indigenous animal, but reaches, with McCoy's help, his old friend Tyree.
    Tyree's mystical wife Nona cures Kirk and then pursues him.  Kirk and
    McCoy, in the meantime, may only be able to resolve the unfair advantage
    between the planet's two factions by arming Tyree against his people's
    Klingon-backed adversaries.
  Guest Cast:  Nancy Kovack (Nona), Michael Witney (Tyree), Ned Romero (Krell),
    Majel Barrett (Nurse Chapel), Booker Bradshaw (Dr. M'Benga), Arthur Bernard
    (Apella), Janos Prohaska (The Gumato), Paul Baxley (Patrol Leader), Gary
    Pillard (Yutan)

50      RETURN TO TOMORROW                                          Feb  9, 1968
        written by John Kingsbridge
        directed Ralph Serensky
        music by George Duning
  Stardate 4768.3:  The Enterprise visits a planet long thought uninhabited,
    and finds globes that contain the consciousness of the last survivors of
    the planet, Sargon, Thalassa and Henoch.  The three remaining beings wish
    to "possess" the bodies of willing Enterprise crew members, leaving the
    crew members' minds in the globes briefly as Sargon and his companions use
    the human bodies to construct android bodies for their minds.  Kirk, Spock,
    and Dr. Mulhall agree to this procedure, but Henoch, occupying Spock's
    body, has other plans than building an android frame for himself.  In the
    meantime, Sargon and Thalassa, in the bodies of Kirk and Mulhall, fall in
    love all over again.  One way or another, though, the humans' bodies must
    be vacated since their metabolism is incapable of withstanding the levels
    of activity taken on by Sargon and the others.
  Guest Cast:  Diana Muldaur (Dr. Ann Mulhall), Majel Barrett (Christine
    Chapel), Cindy Lou (Nurse)

51      PATTERNS OF FORCE                                           Feb 16, 1968
        written by John Meredyth Lucas
        directed by Vincent McEveety
        music by George Duning
  Stardate 2534.0:  On arrival at Ekos, the Enterprise is the target of a
    nuclear missile attack, a technology which didn't exist the last time a
    Federation ship visited the planet.  Kirk and Spock beam down to
    investigate, discovering that the government on Ekos has been transformed
    into a Nazi police state which came about when Federation teacher John Gill
    tried to simply increase the efficiency of the government on Ekos.  Gill is
    now under the control of the people he has tried to educate, and anyone who
    tries to reveal the truth about Gill or rescue him - including Kirk and
    Spock - are hunted men.
  Guest Cast:  Richard Evans (Isak), Valora Noland (Daras), Skip Homeier
    (Melakon), David Brian (John Gill), Patrick Horgan (Eneg), William
    Wintersole (Abrom), Gilbert Green (S.S. Major), Ralph Maurer (S.S.
    Lieutenant), Ed McCready (S.S. Trooper), Peter Canon (Gestapo Lieutenant),
    Paul Baxley (First Trooper), Chuch Courtney (Davod), Bart LaRue
    (Newscaster)

52      BY ANY OTHER NAME                                           Feb 23, 1968
        teleplay by D.C. Fontana and Jerome Bixby
        story by Jerome Bixby
        directed by Marc Daniels
        music by Fred Steiner
  Stardate 4657.5:  The Enterprise responds to a distress call, finding only a
    trap set by a small group of aliens from the Andromeda galaxy who are
    assessing the potential of the Federation's home galaxy for colonization.
    The aliens successfully take over the ship, reducing all aboard except for
    Kirk, Spock, McCoy and Scotty to dehydrated cubes so the ship's supply of
    food and oxygen can be used by the hijackers and Kirk's command crew for
    the staggering 300-year return to Andromeda.  The aliens, having assumed
    human form, also gain attributes such as emotions, which may be just the
    weakness Kirk and the others need to attack to regain control of the
    Enterprise.
  Guest Cast:  Warren Stevens (Rojan), Barbara Bouchet (Kelinda), Majel Barrett
    (Christine Chapel), Stewart Moss (Hanar), Robert Fortier (Tomar), Lezlie
    Dalton (Drea), Carl Byrd (Lt. Shea), Julie Cobb (Yeoman)

53      THE OMEGA GLORY                                             Mar  1, 1968
        written by Gene Roddenberry
        directed by Vincent McEveety
        music not credited
  Stardate not given:  The missing starship Exeter is spotted in orbit of an
    inhabited planet.  Kirk, Spock and McCoy board the Exeter, finding only the
    remains of the crew, wiped out by a disease which likely affects the
    boarding party now.  Transporting to the planet, Kirk finds that Captain
    Tracey of the Exeter escaped his crew's fate, and the atmosphere on the
    planet is capable of eliminating the disease from the Enterprise landing
    party's bloodstreams.  But more problems arise as Tracey discards his
    loyalty to the prime directive in an attempt to gain power in the planet's
    government.
  Guest Cast:  Morgan Woodward (Captain Tracey), Roy Jenson (Cloud William),
    Irene Kelly (Sirah), Morgan Farley (Yang Scholar), David L. Ross (Lt.
    Galloway), Lloyd Kino (Wu), Ed McCready (Dr. Carter), Frank Atienza (Kohm
    Villager)

54      THE ULTIMATE COMPUTER                                       Mar  8, 1968
        teleplay by D.C. Fontana
        story by Laurence N. Wolfe
        directed by John Meredyth Lucas
        music by Sol Kaplan and Fred Steiner
  Stardate 4729.4:  Kirk is ordered to relinquish command of the Enterprise to
    Dr. Daystrom's new M-5 computer, which, according to Daystrom, can make all
    the decisions that a starship captain would encounter correctly and more
    quickly than any human.  The Enterprise, with Kirk and a few others aboard,
    is engaged in Starfleet wargames, but the M-5 begins to treat the other
    ships as a serious threat and retaliates with full salvos of phasers and
    photon torpedoes, destroying one ship.  Believing Kirk may have lost his
    mind, Starfleet gives the remaining ships permission to destroy the
    Enterprise.
  Guest Cast:  William Marshall (Dr. Daystrom), Sean Morgan (Harper), Barry
    Russo (Commodore Wesley)

55      BREAD AND CIRCUSES                                          Mar 15, 1968
        written by Gene Roddenberry & Gene L. Coon
        directed by Ralph Serensky
        music not credited
  Stardate 4040.7:  Trying to track down the crew of the downed Federation
    starship Beagle, Kirk, Spock and McCoy arrive on a planet populated by a
    society that mixes savage ancient practices with 20th century technology.
    Enemies of the Roman Empire-like state are rounded up and forced to
    participate in televised coliseum battles.  Kirk and Spock briefly
    encounter a peaceful group of people, but all are captured and prepared
    for their duels - including one event which will pit Spock against McCoy.
    Kirk must hope that he and his landing party can survive long enough for
    help to arrive from the Enterprise.
  Guest Cast:  William Smithers (Merik), Logan Ramsey (Claudius), Ian Wolfe
    (Septimus), William Bramley (Policeman), Rhodes Reason (Flavius), Bart
    LaRue (Announcer), Jack Perkins (Master of Games), Max Kleven (Maximus),
    Lois Jewell (Drusilla)

56      ASSIGNMENT: EARTH                                           Mar 29, 1968
        teleplay by Art Wallace
        story by Gene Roddenberry and Art Wallace
        directed by Marc Daniels
        music not credited
  Stardate not given:  After warping back in time to the late 20th century for
    a glimpse of Earth's past, the Enterprise intercepts a mysterious man who
    simply calls himself Gary Seven.  Although Gary and his ever-present black
    cat Isis appear like inhabitants of the 20th century, Gary knows what kind
    of ship he is on and recognizes Spock as a Vulcan, and ascertains that the
    Enterprise is from the 23rd century.  Gary Seven evades security officers
    and resumes his journey to Earth.  Kirk and Spock assume 20th century
    disguises and pursue him, finding that Gary is a time traveler from the
    future who is here to influence Earth's history - but whether or not his
    influence will be benign is another question altogether.
  Guest Cast:  Robert Lansing (Gary Seven), Teri Garr (Roberta Lincoln), Don
    Keefer (Cromwell), Lincoln Demyan (Sergeant), Morgan Jones (Col. Nesvig),
    Bruce Mars (First Policeman), Ted Gehring (Second Policeman), Paul Baxley
    (Security Chief)


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57      SPOCK'S BRAIN                                               Sep 20, 1968
        written by Lee Cronin
        directed by Marc Daniels
        music by Fred Steiner
  Stardate 5431.4:  The Enterprise is intercepted by a starship of unknown
    design and a woman from the ship beams directly into the bridge and uses a
    device to render the Enterprise's crew unconscious.  She then walks over to
    Spock...
       When the crew awakens, McCoy summons Kirk to sick bay and informs him
    that the alien visitor apparently removed Spock's entire brain without even
    performing surgery.  After Spock's body is fitted with a device that allows
    McCoy to control the Vulcan's motor functions with a remote control, Kirk
    starts a search for Spock's brain, hoping it can be recovered and somehow
    returned to Spock before his body decays.
  Season 3 Regular Cast:  William Shatner (Captain James T. Kirk), Leonard
    Nimoy (Mr. Spock), DeForest Kelley (Dr. Leonard McCoy), James Doohan (Mr.
    Scott), George Takei (Lt. Sulu), Nichelle Nichols (Lt. Uhura), Walter
    Koenig (Ensign Chekov)
  Guest Cast:  Marj Dusay (Kara), Majel Barrett (Nurse Chapel), James Daris
    (Creature), Sheila Leighton (Luma)

58      THE ENTERPRISE INCIDENT                                     Sep 27, 1968
        written by D.C. Fontana
        directed by John Meredyth Lucas
        music by Alexander Courage
  Stardate 5031.3:  Captain Kirk, acting tense and irrational, orders the
    Enterprise straight into the Neutral Zone for no reason.  Romulan warships
    (identical to Klingon ships due to sharing of technology) capture the
    Enterprise, and Kirk and Spock beam aboard the Romulan flagship.  When
    Spock admits that Kirk may be unfit to command, the Captain lunges at Spock
    - and receives a "Vulcan death grip."  Kirk, actually alive, is beamed back
    to the Enterprise and reveals to McCoy and Scott that their actual mission
    is to steal one of the Romulans' cloaking devices and escape intact.
  Guest Cast:  Joanna Linville (Romulan Commander), Jack Donner (Tal), Majel
    Barrett (Nurse Chapel), Richard Compton (Technical Officer), Robert Gentile
    (Technician), Mike Howden (Romulan Guard), Gordon Coffey (Romulan Soldier)

59      THE PARADISE SYNDROME                                       Oct  4, 1968
        written by Margaret Armen
        directed by Jud Taylor
        music by Gerald Fried
  Stardate 4842.6:  Kirk, Spock and McCoy beam down to a planet to inform any
    inhabitants that they must evacuate the planet due to an approaching
    asteroid's imminent collision.  A society similar to Native American
    Indians has arisen on the planet, but near their villages, the landing
    party finds a strange obelisk whose design and construction is far beyond
    the capabilities of the planet's natives.  Kirk finds that the monolith can
    be opened by the combination of sounds found in the order "Kirk to
    Enterprise," but when he enters the obelisk, he is attacked by waves of
    energy that erase his mind.  With no time to spare, Spock and McCoy have to
    return to the Enterprise without Kirk, and begin trying to use the ship's
    tractor beam to divert the asteroid.  Meanwhile, Kirk becomes the tribal
    chief, takes a wife and even expects to become a father, but the Enterprise
    may not be able to save her former captain's future.
  Guest Cast:  Sabrina Scharf (Miramanee), Rudy Solari (Salish), Richard Hale
    (Goro), Majel Barrett (Nurse Chapel), Naomi Pollack (Indian Woman), John
    Lindesmith (Engineer), Peter Virgo, Jr. (Warrior), Lamont Laird (Indian
    Boy)

60      AND THE CHILDREN SHALL LEAD                                 Oct 11, 1968
        written by Edward J. Lasko
        directed by Marvin Chomsky
        music by George Duning
  Stardate 5029.5:  Kirk and the crew, visiting a scientific colony manned by
    several human families, are shocked to find that all but the children have
    died violently - and the children do not seem to care about anything but
    playing.  Aboard the Enterprise, the children gradually begin to influence
    and take over the minds of the crew as part of a plan by their "friendly
    angel," a seemingly benevolent alien called Gorgon who uses children as a
    means of spreading his influence, and unless he can find some way to expose
    Gorgon's true intentions, Kirk will become a prisoner on his own ship.
  Guest Cast:  Craig Hundley (Tommy Starnes), James Wellman (Professor
    Starnes), Melvin Belli (Gorgan), Majel Barrett (Nurse Chapel), Pamelyn
    Ferdin (Mary), Caesar Belli (Steve), Mark Robert Brown (Don), Brian Tochi
    (Ray), Lou Elias (1st Technician)

61      IS THERE IN TRUTH NO BEAUTY?                                Oct 18, 1968
        written by Jean Lisette Aroeste
        directed by Ralph Serensky
        music by George Duning
  Stardate 5630.7:  Miranda Jones, a telepath who studied mental disciplines on
    Vulcan, arrives with Ambassador Kolos, a Medusan - an alien life form whose
    physical form is so hideous, humanoid life forms are driven insane if they
    look upon him.  Also beaming aboard is Larry Marvick, one of the original
    designers of the Enterprise - and hopelessly in love with Miranda, although
    she has chosen to spend her life serving as a liason between the Medusans
    and other humanoids.  Miranda senses that someone is actively contemplating
    murder, and suspects Spock is envious of her once-in-a-lifetime mission -
    but even Miranda is unaware of the real would-be killer and their target.
  Guest Cast:  Diana Muldaur (Dr. Miranda Jones), David Frankham (Larry
    Marvick)

62      SPECTRE OF THE GUN                                          Oct 25, 1968
        written by Lee Cronin
        directed by Vincent McEveety
        music by Jerry Fielding
  Stardate 4385.3:  A Melkotian warning buoy is unwittingly destroyed by Kirk
    and the Enterprise.  When Kirk beams down with a landing party, the owners
    of the buoy, fearing that a pointlessly violent race has entered their
    space, trap the Enterprise officers in a replica of Tombstone, Arizona
    (drawn from Kirk's mind) and force Kirk and company to play out the roles
    of the Clanton Gang - doomed to lose the gunfight at the O.K. Corral at
    sundown.
  Guest Cast:  Ron Soble (Wyatt Earp), Bonnie Beecher (Sylvia), Charles Maxwell
    (Virgil Earp), Rex Holman (Morgan Earp), Sam Gilman (Doc Holloway), Charles
    Seel (Ed), Bill Zuckert (Johnny Behan), Ed McCready (Barber), Abraham
    Sofaer (Melkotian Voice)

63      DAY OF THE DOVE                                             Nov  1, 1968
        written by Jerome Bixby
        directed by Marvin Chomsky
        music by Fred Steiner
  Stardate not given:  Having both received distress calls from a besieged
    planet, the Enterprise and a Klingon ship arrive simultaneously, and Kang,
    the Klingon captain, forces Kirk to beam a party of Klingons aboard the
    Enterprise.  The ship then runs into an area of turbulence, and automatic
    emergency systems close bulkheads on most of the ship, and the Klingons
    escape into the Enterprise to battle an equal number of the ship's crew.
    Both Klingons and Federation officers blame the ship's problems on each
    other, and some individuals even see the opportunity to settle scores with
    their arch-enemies, but nobody realizes the real catalyst behind the
    violence.
  Guest Cast:  Michael Ansara (Kang), Susan Howard (Mara), David Ross (Lt.
    Johnson), Mark Tobin (Klingon)

64      FOR THE WORLD IS HOLLOW AND I HAVE TOUCHED THE SKY          Nov  8, 1968
        written by Rik Vollaerts
        directed by Tony Leader
        music by George Duning
  Stardate 5476.3:  McCoy tells Kirk that the most recent routine medical exams
    of the entire crew have revealed a case of a terminal but non-contagious
    disease.  The victim is McCoy himself.  Kirk recommends that the doctor
    resign immediately, but before the discussion gets any further, Kirk leads
    Spock and McCoy on a landing party mission to the asteroid-like vessel
    called Yonada, carefully disguised inside to make it appear to the humanoid
    inhabitants that they are on the surface of a planet.  Kirk finds that the
    "world" is controlled by a computer known by the residents of Yonada as the
    Oracle, and the Oracle's instructions are being taken as a religious order.
    The high priestess catches McCoy's eye and asks him to remain with her - an
    offer which, considering the doctor's current state, McCoy finds tempting.
  Guest Cast:  Kate Woodvile (Natira), Byron Morrow (Admiral Westervliet), Jon
    Lormer (Old Man)

65      THE THOLIAN WEB                                             Nov 15, 1968
        written by Judy Burns and Chet Richards
        directed by Herb Wallerstein
        music by Fred Steiner
  Stardate 5693.2:  Searching for the missing starship Defiant, the Enterprise
    eventually finds the lost ship enshrouded in a strange glow.  A landing
    party beams aboard, finding that the entire crew of the Defiant went mad
    and murdered one another.  While Kirk and the landing party inspect the
    Defiant, they notice the ship's solid surface are becoming ghost-like,
    while the crew of the Enterprise see the Defiant fading away.  With the
    Enterprise's transporters confused by the fading, Kirk waits while the
    others beam back, but he cannot be retrieved as the Defiant disappears.
    Waiting for the next "interphase" during which the Defiant might return to
    the Enterprise's dimension, members of the crew begin to go insane, like
    the Defiant's crew.  To make matters worse, a Tholian vessel arrives, and
    its commander refuses to believe that the Enterprise is assisting a damaged
    ship since the ship in question has disappeared.  Tholians begin to weave a
    web of energy around the Enterprise, holding the ship in place as more of
    the crew lose their minds, and Spock and McCoy debate Spock's ability to
    command in Kirk's absence.
  Guest Cast:  Majel Barrett (Nurse Chapel), Sean Morgan (Lt. O' Neil)

66      PLATO'S STEPCHILDREN                                        Nov 22, 1968
        written by Meyer Dolinsky
        directed by David Alexander
        music by Alexander Courage
  Stardate 5784.0:  The Enterprise is summoned urgently to assist the seriously
    ill Parmen, head of the planet Platonius.  After McCoy manages to give
    Parmen the necessary elixirs, Parmen and his fellow Platonians use immense
    telekinetic powers to force Kirk, McCoy and Spock to stay on the planet and
    behave as puppets to Parmen's whim for their amusement.  The only Platonian
    showing disgust at the others' abuse of their power is Alexander, but he is
    also apparently the only Platonian incapable of telekinesis, and he cannot
    assist the landing party as they try to escape Parmen's control.
  Guest Cast:  Michael Dunn (Alexander), Liam Sullivan (Parmen), Barbara
    Babcock (Philana), Majel Barrett (Nurse Chapel), Ted Scott (Eraclitus),
    Derek Partridge (Dionyo)

67      WINK OF AN EYE                                              Nov 29, 1968
        teleplay by Arthur Heinemann
        story by Lee Cronin
        directed by Jud Taylor
        music by Alexander Courage
  Stardate 5710.5:  When a landing party investigating Scalos begins to vanish
    one by one, Kirk, Spock and McCoy try to find out what is happening before
    more of the crew disappears, until Kirk himself is abducted.  Kirk finds
    the cause to be a group of endangered Scalosians who move faster than human
    sight or hearing can detect.  They need to repopulate their species, and
    find that speeding human males up to Scalosian speed will meet their needs.
    Kirk must find a way to get a message to Spock and McCoy, who are working
    on a cure for the mystery "ailment," as well as stirring up fighting among
    the Scalosians, before gain have control of the Enterprise.
  Guest Cast:  Kathie Browne (Deela), Jason Evers (Rael), Majel Barrett (Nurse
    Chapel), Erik Holland (Ekor), Geoffrey Binney (Compton)

68      THE EMPATH                                                  Dec  6, 1968
        written by Joyce Muskat
        directed by John Erman
        music by George Duning
  Stardate 5121.0:  Kirk, Spock and McCoy search for two missing scientists on
    a planet whose sun is about to explode, but they only find visual logs that
    show the scientists disappearing.  Then the landing party disappears as
    well, finding themselves trapped by two aliens who snatched the scientists
    away and experimented on them until they died.  The aliens now have Kirk,
    Spock, McCoy, and a mute empath nicknamed "Gem" by the landing party in
    their custody, and the captors seem to be intent on repeating the same
    deadly experiments on their new specimens.
  Guest Cast:  Kathryn Hays (Gem), Alan Bergmann (Lal), Davis Roberts (Dr.
    Ozaba), Jason Wingreen (Dr. Linke), Willard Sage (Thann)

69      ELAAN OF TROYIUS                                            Dec 20, 1968
        written by John Meredyth Lucas
        directed by John Meredyth Lucas
        music by Fred Steiner
  Stardate 4372.5:  The Enterprise is ordered to ferry Ambassador Petri of
    Troyius to up the dohlman of Troyius's sworn enemy, the world of Elas.
    The dohlman turns out to be Elaan, one of the most striking examples of the
    women of Elas, whose tears, according to legend, leave any man susceptible
    to her charms.  Petri's duty on the slow voyage back to Troyius is to train
    the savage Elaan in the more civilized ways of the Troyians, a lesson she
    does not willingly take on.  After stabbing Petri, throwing numerous
    tantrums, and ordering her guards to refuse Kirk permission to resolve any
    disputes, Elaan sheds a tear, which infects Kirk, clouding his judgement at
    precisely the wrong time when a Klingon warship enters the sector.
  Guest Cast:  Frances Nuyen (Elaan), Jay Robinson (Petri), Tony Young
    (Kryton), Majel Barrett (Nurse Chapel), Lee Duncan (Evans), Victor Brandt
    (Wilson), Dick Durock (Guard #1), Charles Beck (Guard #2), K.L. Smith
    (Klingon)

70      WHOM GODS DESTROY                                           Jan  3, 1969
        teleplay by Lee Erwin
        story by Lee Erwin and Jerry Sohl
        directed by Herb Wallerstein
        music by Fred Steiner
  Stardate 5718.3:  The Enterprise is carrying a new drug to the mental
    hospital on Elba II, where it is hoped that the last dangerously insane
    patients in the Federation can finally be treated.  But when Kirk and Spock
    beam down, they do not realize that the facilities have been taken over by
    the inmates, led by Garth, a former Starfleet captain who has also become a
    shape-shifter.  Before anyone on the Enterprise realizes what is
    transpiring on Elba II, Garth has activated a shield to prevent the landing
    party from escaping.
  Guest Cast:  Steve Ihnat (Garth), Yvonne Craig (Marta), Richard Geary
    (Andorian), Gary Downey (Tellarite), Keye Luke (Cory)

71      LET THAT BE YOUR LAST BATTLEFIELD                           Jan 10, 1969
        teleplay by Oliver Crawford
        story by Lee Cronin
        directed by Jud Taylor
        music by Fred Steiner
  Stardate 5730.2:  Two natives of the planet Cheron are brought aboard after
    one of them helps the Enterprise chase the other down after he had stolen a
    shuttlecraft from a Federation starbase.  Bele and Lokai, however, have a
    dispute that goes far beyond a simple pursuit of a criminal.  Their hatred
    - and, indeed, the entire shuttlecraft incident - is rooted in a deep
    racial prejudice which threatens to engulf not only them, but the
    Enterprise and Kirk's crew.
  Guest Cast:  Frank Gorshin (Bele), Lou Antonia (Lokai), Majel Barrett (Nurse
    Chapel)

72      THE MARK OF GIDEON                                          Jan 17, 1969
        written by George F. Slavin and Stanley Adams
        directed by Jud Taylor
        music by Fred Steiner
  Stardate 5423.4:  Kirk is planning to beam down to the overpopulated planet
    Gideon to meet with the leaders, but apparently arrives at the wrong place
    in a transporter malfunction (or so it seems to the Enterprise crew.)  Kirk
    finds himself aboard the Enterprise, but cannot locate anyone else aboard
    except for Odona, who offers no answers to his bafflement at why no one is
    aboard the ship but him (or so he thinks).  It turns out that the leaders
    of Gideon plan on using Odona - and now Kirk - as pawns in a horrific
    scheme to reduce the planet's population...
  Guest Cast:  Sharon Acker (Odona), David Hurst (Hodin), Gene Dynarski
    (Krodak), Richard Derr (Admiral Fitzgerald)

73      THAT WHICH SURVIVES                                         Jan 24, 1969
        teleplay by John Meredyth Lucas
        story by Michael Richards
        directed by Herb Wallerstein
        music by Fred Steiner
  Stardate not given:  Kirk leads a landing party to do a geological survey of
    an unexplored planet, but before they beam down, they see a woman appear
    out of nowhere in the transporter room and kill a crewman simply by touch,
    and then she disappears.  Her appearance also affects the Enterprise,
    sending it well out of communications range, trapping Kirk and his team on
    the planet's surface.  The woman continues to appear, naming her victim on
    arrival and killing them by touch.  Sulu is nearly killed by her, and the
    woman appears on the Enterprise as well, sabotaging the engines so the ship
    will never retrieve Kirk's survey team, stranding them - as well as the crew
    of the Enterprise - with an unpredictable murderer.
  Guest Cast:  Lee Meriwether (Losira), Arthur Batanides (D'Amato), Naomi
    Pollack (Rahda), Booker Bradshaw (Dr. M'Benga), Brad Forrest (Ensign),
    Kenneth Washington (Watkins)

74      THE LIGHTS OF ZETAR                                         Jan 31, 1969
        written by Jeremy Tarcher and Shari Lewis
        directed by Herb Kenwith
        music by Alexander Courage
  Stardate 5725.3:  En route to Memory Alpha, the home of the Federation's
    largest library/computer banks, the Enterprise is transferring Lt. Romaine
    to her next assignment, overseeing refits and new installations on Memory
    Alpha.  A cloud of energy intercepts the ship and wreaks havoc with the
    Enterprise's instruments and crew, affecting various crewmembers' brains in
    different ways and causing Lt. Romaine to pass out.  The cloud strikes
    Memory Alpha next, wiping out every living thing on the planetoid along
    with most of the library banks.  Mira, who has been experiencing strange
    thoughts and visions since the cloud's first sweep of the Enterprise, is
    suddenly able to predict the cloud is returning to the vicinity before the
    Enterprise's sensors can.  Kirk orders phasers fired to defend the ship,
    but every time the cloud is hit, it injures Lt. Romaine.  McCoy determines
    that the energy beings in the cloud are now telepathically linked to her
    mind.
  Guest Cast:  Jan Shutan (Lt. Mira Romaine), Majel Barrett (Nurse Chapel),
    John Winston (Lt. Kyle), Libby Erwin (Technician)

75      REQUIEM FOR METHUSELAH                                      Feb 14, 1969
        written by Jerome Bixby
        directed by Murray Golden
        music by Fred Steiner
        Brahms paraphrase by Ivan Ditmars
  Stardate 5843.7:  On an urgent mission to procure the antidote to a serious
    plague which threatens the entire crew of the Enterprise, Kirk, Spock and
    McCoy beam down to Holberg 917-G to contact Flint in hopes of finding
    either the remedy or the raw material from which to extract it.  Flint's
    lovely female android, Rayna, begins to create a rivalry between Kirk, for
    whom she begins to feel true love, and Flint, who created Rayna to provide
    him with companionship.  Spock discovers that Flint may be an immortal
    being who has influenced Earth's history in the past, and McCoy finds that
    Flint is slowly dying.  But Kirk may not resolve his argument with Flint in
    time to help Spock and McCoy save the crew of the Enterprise.
  Guest Cast:  James Daly (Flint), Louise Sorel (Rayna)

76      THE WAY TO EDEN                                             Feb 21, 1969
        teleplay by Arthur Heinemann
        story by Michael Richard and Arthur Heinemann
        directed by David Alexander
        music by Fred Steiner
  Stardate 5832.3:  Pursuing the USS Aurora, which has been stolen, Kirk beams
    the Aurora's crew aboard the Enterprise when the sustained high-speed
    pursuit overloads the stolen vessel's engines, destroying the ship.  The
    thieves turn out to be a motley assortment of "hippies," including noted
    scientist Dr. Sevrin.  Another of the throwbacks is the son of a Federation
    ambassador, leading Starfleet Command to order Kirk to allow his new
    passengers to roam the Enterprise freely.  Sevrin and his friends take
    advantage of their newfound freedom and decide to hijack the Enterprise so
    they may resume the interrupted mission for which they stole the Aurora -
    to find the mythical planet Eden, a gardenlike world on which they hope to
    find health, purity and happiness.
       The planet Eden is also mentioned in "Star Trek V: The Final Frontier,"
    and although Sybok was obviously thinking about a different Eden when he
    and his followers took over the Enterprise for much the same purpose as Dr.
    Sevrin and company, Kirk, perhaps remembering this adventure, stated many
    times in "The Final Frontier" that Eden, as a planet, is a myth.
  Guest Cast:  Skip Homeier (Sevrin), Charles Napier (Adam), Mary-Linda Rapelye
    (Irina), Majel Barrett (Nurse Chapel), Victor Brandt (Tongo Rad), Elizabeth
    Rogers (Lt. Palmer), Deborah Downey (Girl #1), Phyllis Douglas (Girl #2)

77      THE CLOUDMINDERS                                            Feb 28, 1969
        teleplay by Margaret Armen
        story by David Gerrold and Oliver Crawford
        directed by Jud Taylor
        music by Fred Steiner
  Stardate 5818.4:  Beaming down to pick up a consignment of zenite from the
    planet Ardana, the home of Stratos, a city that floats above the surface of
    the planet, Kirk and Spock, who are there to pick up a consignment of
    zenite, are ambushed by mineworkers known as Troglytes.  The attack is cut
    short by the arrival of Plasus, a high advisor from Stratos, who says that
    a disruptive group of protesting Troglytes probably stole the zenite
    shipment, which was missing.  On Stratos, which Plasus says is safe, there
    is also evidence of Troglyte terrorism.  Kirk and Spock discover that the
    Stratos dwellers live an easy life thanks to their planet's unique mineral
    resources at the expense of the Troglytes, who get no reward for extracting
    those resources.  When McCoy finds that the raw zenite being mined by the
    Troglytes is having an adverse affect on their health, Kirk takes it upon
    himself to upset the balance in favor of equality.
  Guest Cast:  Jeff Corey (Plasus), Diana Ewing (Droxine), Charlene Polite
    (Vanna), Kirk Raymone (Cloud Guard #1), Jimmy Fields (Cloud Guard #2), Ed
    Long (Midro), Fred Williamson (Anka), Garth Pillsbury (Prisoner), Harv
    Selsby (Guard)

78      THE SAVAGE CURTAIN                                          Mar  7, 1969
        teleplay by Gene Roddenberry and Arthur Heinemann
        story by Gene Roddenberry
        directed by Herschel Daugherty
        music by Fred Steiner
  Stardate 5906.4:  Over the planet Excalbia, the Enterprise is intercepted by
    who appears to be Abraham Lincoln, floating through space.  Beaming aboard,
    Lincoln is welcomed by Kirk, who is somewhat awed by the presence of one of
    his most revered figures of history.  "Lincoln" extends an invitation to
    Kirk and Spock to visit the planet, whose normally lava-covered surface
    sprouts a zone of Earthlike safety just for the landing party.  Kirk, Spock
    and Lincoln are joined on the surface by an image of Surak, who initiated
    the doctrine of emotional restraint on Vulcan.  A rock-creature appears and
    introduces Kirk and Spock to four more illusionary figures from history,
    this time the fiercest conquerors, tyrants and villains of the past, from
    Earth's Genghis Khan to Kahless the Unforgettable, who, as Surak did for
    Vulcan, set the standard of behavior for the Klingons.  The creature pits
    the best and most noble - Kirk, Spock, Lincoln and Surak - against the most
    vile historical figures.  The rewards for Kirk and Spock, should they
    survive, are their lives, and the lives of everyone aboard the Enterprise.
  Guest Cast:  Lee Bergere (Abraham Lincoln), Barry Atwater (Surak), Phillip
    Pine (Colonel Green), Arell Blanton (Chief Security Guard), Carol Daniels
    DeMent (Zora), Robert Herron (Kahless), Nathan Jung (Ghengis Khan)

79      ALL OUR YESTERDAYS                                          Mar 14, 1969
        written by Jean Lisette Aroeste
        directed by Marvin Chomsky
        music by George Duning
  Stardate 5943.7:  Arriving at the moon Sarpiedon, whose mother planet is due
    to explode in three hours, Kirk, Spock and McCoy find just what the ship's
    sensors indicated on the surface - no life forms, though an advanced
    civilization obviously once existed.  But they then find several copies of
    Sarpiedon's librarian, Mr. Atoz.  Some of the clones are helpful, others
    belligerent, but they all tell the landing party that all the people of
    Sarpiedon have already escaped to safety, and Atoz, thinking that Kirk and
    the others are natives who arrived late, advises them to do the same.  The
    library turns out to be a file of "time periods" into which a device Atoz
    calls the atavachron can propel them, as it has already provided an escape
    for the rest of the moon's inhabitants.  Hearing a woman screaming, but not
    realizing that she is one the other side of tha atavachron's time portal,
    Kirk leaps into a time period similar to the 1800s, and Spock and McCoy
    stumble into an ice age trying to retrieve him.  All three must try to
    survive long enough in their respective environments for the time portal
    back to Sarpiedon to return - if that moon still exists in the 23rd century
    for them to return to.
  Guest Cast:  Mariette Hartley (Zarabeth), Ian Wolfe (Mr. Atoz), Kermit
    Murdock (The Prosecutor), Ed Bakey (First Fop), Anna Karen (Woman), Al
    Cavens (Second Fop), Stan Barrett (Jailer), Johnny Haymer (Constable)

80      TURNABOUT INTRUDER                                          Jun  3, 1969
        teleplay by Arthur H. Singer
        story by Gene Roddenberry
        directed by Herb Wallerstein
        music by Fred Steiner
  Stardate 5298.5:  Visiting Dr. Coleman and the ailing Dr. Lester, a colleague
    of Kirk's from Starfleet Academy who has always envied him due to her
    inability to achieve a captaincy in a male-captains-only Starfleet, Kirk is
    rendered unconscious by Lester.  It turns out to have been a trap, and
    Lester puts herself and Kirk into an unknown device that transfers their
    minds into one another's bodies.  Lester, in the form of Kirk, doesn't have
    time to kill Kirk (now in the female body).  Lester and Coleman make every
    attempt to leave Kirk on the planet, but must bring "her" aboard to save
    face.  Kirk, still suffering a severe shock from the mind transfer, is
    unable to warn McCoy about Lester's plan to command the Enterprise
    (especially when Lester keeps ordering Kirk sedated).  Lester, however, is
    unable to conceal her lack of knowledge of command procedures and, more
    specifically, Kirk's character, and when Spock learns the truth and
    attempts to help Kirk, Lester has him placed under arrest and tries to
    speed Spock's court-martial toward a conclusion which would have Kirk and
    Spock executed.
  Guest Cast:  Sandra Smith (Janice Lester), Harry Landers (Dr. Coleman), Majel
    Barrett (Nurse Chapel), Barbara Baldavin (Communications Officer), David L.
    Ross (Lt. Galoway), John Boyer (Guard)


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81      THE MOTION PICTURE (originally "IN THY IMAGE")              Dec  7, 1979
        screenplay by Harold Livingston
        story by Alan Dean Foster
        directed by Robert Wise
        music by Jerry Goldsmith  (Columbia cassette & CD # 36334)
  Stardate 7412.6:  Two and a half years after the end of the mission of Kirk
    (who has now become an admiral) and his crew, the Enterprise has been
    refitted inside and out, almost an entirely new ship, and some of the crew
    have drifted apart - McCoy has taken an extended leave, Kirk has accepted a
    desk job, and Spock has returned to Vulcan to pursue the Kolinahr
    discipline, a total purge of emotions.  In the meantime, Sulu and Uhura
    have stayed with the Enterprise during its testing phase, while Chekov has
    become ship's chief of security and Nurse Chapel has become a full doctor.
    Captain Willard Decker, son of the late Matt Decker, is slated to become
    the ship's new commanding officer.
       An "energy cloud" of unknown origin and intent has carved a path of
    destruction through the galaxy on a direct course for Earth, having
    destroyed a flotilla of Klingon ships as well as Federation communications
    relay station Epsilon 9.  Admiral Kirk convinces Starfleet to give him
    command of the Enterprise, displacing Decker to the position of first
    officer.  The refitted ship still has problems, most notably a transporter
    malfunction which kills two incoming crew members, including the ship's new
    Vulcan science officer, whose duties Kirk again hands to Decker.  Once the
    transporter is repaired, the final crew members board the Enterprise, such
    as Lt. Ilia, the ship's new navigator who once had a relationship with
    Decker on her home planet of Delta IV; and Dr. McCoy reluctantly resumes
    his position after being called back into service by Starfleet.
       Kirk's unfamiliarity with the Enterprise's new design is proven when he
    orders the ship to warp speed against the recommendations of Decker and
    Scotty, plunging the ship into a wormhole which it escapes with a last
    minute order from Decker.  While repairing the damage, the ship is boarded
    by a ship from Vulcan carrying Spock, who offers to resume his post as
    science officer.  Spock begins by helping Scotty overcome the difficulties
    with the warp engines, enabling the Enterprise to head for the cloud at top
    speed.  En route, Spock reveals that he was unable to complete his Kolinahr
    training because he detected an intelligence which he believes is part of
    the cloud.
       Penetrating the cloud, the Enterprise wards off an attack but is
    weakened in the process.  After Spock manages to devise a makeshift message
    to speak to the cloud-entity in its own language and frequency, the ship
    delves further into the cloud and is boarded by a beam of energy which
    tries to access the ship's records on Starfleet and Earth defenses.  Spock
    damages the computer so the beam cannot gather any more information, but is
    attacked by the beam, which then seems to envelop Lt. Ilia and disappears
    from the ship, leaving no trace of Ilia.  The Enterprise is trapped inside
    an enclosed, solid space within the cloud, and Ilia turns up again soon
    afterward, but this time as a puppet of the cloud-entity, identified by the
    now-dehumanized Ilia as V'ger.  Curious to find more about V'ger, Spock
    steals a spacesuit and a thruster pack and launches himself into a small
    opening through which the Enterprise cannot travel, and finds himself
    floating through the memories of V'ger's entire journey through the
    universe, eventually coming to an image of Ilia as she was before V'ger's
    invasion of the bridge.  Spock tries to mind-meld with V'ger through the
    image, but the staggering amounts of V'ger's memory and thought overloads
    Spock's mind, and he is ejected back to the Enterprise, where he is
    recovered and given medical attention.  The Ilia-probe tells Kirk that
    V'ger is on its way to Earth to find its own creator, although V'ger
    refuses to believe that its creator could be a member of the human race,
    which it intends to wipe out, if necessary, to complete its search.  The
    cloud has reached Earth and is ready to commence with its task.
       When Kirk promises the Ilia-probe that he has the information V'ger
    seeks, V'ger releases the Enterprise and draws it to the center of the
    cloud, where V'ger itself rests.  Kirk, Spock, McCoy and Decker, led by
    Ilia, find that V'ger is, in fact, a NASA Voyager space probe that was
    encountered by a race of intelligent machines and, taking the probe's
    instructions - to learn all it can and report its findings back its creator
    - literally, the machines created the cloud-vessel as a means for Voyager
    to return to Earth and deliver its wealth of information.  But the probe is
    unwilling to transmit its information on command, demanding to become one
    with its creator.  Decker manually forces Voyager to transmit its
    information, but is absorbed by a wave of energy when V'ger believes its
    creator - the only being who could operate it - has arrived.  Kirk, Spock
    and McCoy rush back to the Enterprise just in time.  The cloud dissipates,
    leaving the Enterprise in orbit over Earth.  Kirk and Spock speculate that
    Decker's emotions concerning his relationship with Ilia, the loss of his
    command of the Enterprise, and other feelings will transform V'ger into a
    new life form that the Federation may meet again in the future.
  Cast:  William Shatner (Admiral Kirk), Leonard Nimoy (Mr. Spock), DeForest
    Kelley (Dr. McCoy), James Doohan (Mr. Scott), George Takei (Sulu), Majel
    Barrett (Dr. Chapel), Walter Koenig (Chekov), Nichelle Nichols (Uhura),
    Persis Khambatta (Lt. Ilia), Stephen Collins (Commander Decker), Grace Lee
    Whitney (Chief Petty Officer Rand), Mark Lenard (Klingon Captain), Billy
    Van Zandt (Alien Boy), Roger Aaron Brown (Epsilon Technician), Gary Faga
    (Airlock Technician), David Gautreaux (Commander Branch), John D. Gowans
    (Assistant to Rand), Howard Itznowitz (Cargo Deck Ensign), Jon Rashad
    Kamal (Lt. Commander Sonak), Marcy Lafferty (Chief DiFalco), Michele Ameen
    Billy (Lieutenant), Terrence O' Connor (Chief Ross), Michael Rougas (Lt.
    Cleary), Susan J. Sullivan (Woman), Ralph Brannen, Ralph Byers, Paula
    Crist, Rik Lane, Franklyn Seales, Momo Yashima (Crew Members), Jimmie
    Booth, Joel Kramer, Bill McTosh, Dave Moordigan, Tom Morga, Tony Rocco,
    Joel Schultz, Craig Thomas (Klingon Crewmen), Edna Glover, Norman Stuart,
    Paul Weber (Vulcan Masters), Joshua Gallegos (Security Officer), Leslie C.
    Howard (Yeoman), Sayra Hummel, Junero Jennings (Technical Assistants)

82      THE WRATH OF KHAN                                           Jun  4, 1982
        screenplay by Jack B. Sowards
        story by Harve Bennett and Jack B. Sowards
        directed by Nicholas Meyer
        music by James Horner  (Crescendo GNP cassette & CD # GNPD 8022)
  Stardate 8130.4:  "Captain" Saavik, a Vulcan lieutenant in Starfleet, manages
    to lose to the Kobayashi Maru simulator's preprogrammed no-win situation,
    like every other cadet ever to take the test (with a single exception).
    Spock, now Captain of the Enterprise, returns to the ship to prepare for
    Kirk's upcoming prelaunch inspection after dismissing the students from the
    simulator exercise.  Kirk returns home and is visited by Dr. McCoy, who,
    after presenting him with a birthday present, tells Kirk that his abilities
    are wasted on a desk job and that he should resume his command of a
    starship.
       USS Reliant, on assignment searching for lifeless planets as potential
    test sites for the top secret Genesis project, arrives at Ceti Alpha V.
    Beaming down, Captain Terrell and his first officer, Commander Chekov,
    discover a series of cargo bays formerly of the SS Botany Bay, a vessel
    full of genetically engineered supermen from late 20th century Earth led by
    the cunning Khan.  Chekov urges Terrell to return to the Reliant, but they
    are captured by Khan and his followers.  Khan, after fifteen years, is
    still seeking revenge against Kirk for exiling the Botany Bay's crew.  Khan
    infests Chekov and Terrell with Ceti eels, which affect the brain and make
    their victims susceptible to suggestion, although the eels' victims will
    eventually go mad and die painfully.  Khan hijacks the Reliant and has
    Chekov contact space station Regula 1, where the Genesis project is being
    developed by Dr. Carol Marcus, an old flame of Kirk's,  along with a team
    of scientists including her son David.  Chekov says that Kirk has ordered
    the Genesis device to be transferred to the Reliant upon arrival for
    immediate testing.  David Marcus fears the worst, always suspicious of
    Starfleet's motives concerning the Genesis project.  Carol contacts Kirk
    while the Enterprise is on a cadet cruise.  Kirk takes command of the ship
    and sets it on a course to the station.
       En route, Kirk, Spock and McCoy review a presentation prepared by Carol
    which reveals that the Genesis "torpedo" is a device which will, when fired
    on a lifeless planet, restructure it into a verdant, life-supporting world
    ready for colonization.  The Enterprise arrives at Regula 1 and is fired
    upon by the Reliant, which, since the shields were not raised in the
    presence of a presumably friendly ship, causes critical damage to the
    Enterprise and kills many of the unprepared cadets.  Khan reveals himself
    and demands that Kirk surrender himself, but Kirk bluffs Khan into giving
    him time to consider.  Kirk overrides Reliant's shields by remote control
    and returns fire, forcing Khan to retreat.  Kirk, Saavik and McCoy beam down
    to the space station, finding most of the scientists slaughtered and the
    Genesis device missing.  They do find Chekov and Terrell, apparently left
    for dead by Khan although the Reliant officers are actually keeping an eye
    on Kirk for their master.  Deducing that the Genesis team must have had an
    underground test site on the dead planetoid Regula that the station orbits,
    Kirk gambles on beaming down into the surface under the station.  There,
    they find the Genesis device, but are ambushed by David and one of the other
    scientists.  Terrell kills the other scientist, and then contacts Khan, who
    orders Terrell and Chekov to kill Kirk.  Terrell goes mad and kills himself,
    while Chekov collapses and the Ceti eel vacates his body.  Khan beams the
    Genesis device up to Reliant.  McCoy begins tending to Chekov as Kirk and
    Carol discuss why David - their son - remained with Carol and became a
    scientist himself.  They all go deeper into the test area and find a lush
    cave with vegetation and a waterfall, created by a fraction of the Genesis
    device's power.  Kirk then reveals to Saavik that he became the only cadet
    in history to beat the Kobayashi Maru test by reprogramming the simulator,
    which elicits a comment from David that Kirk has never had to deal with
    death on a personal basis.  Reliant returns to the station after makeshift
    repairs, but the Enterprise is nowhere to be seen.
       The Enterprise, apparently contradicting the repair estimates of an
    earlier communication between Kirk and Spock which Kirk realized that Khan
    would be eavesdropping on, arrives and retrieves Kirk and the others while
    hiding behind the other side of Regula.  Kirk orders the ship into the
    nearby Mutara Nebula, where sensors of both ships will not function.  Khan
    is unable to resist the chance to pursue, and plunges into the nebula behind
    the Enterprise.  In the ensuing battle, the Enterprise's warp drive is
    damaged.  Sulu manages a few lucky shots of his own, crippling the Reliant
    and killing most of Khan's crew, but the dying Khan is unwilling to admit
    defeat and prepares to detonate the Genesis device at point blank range,
    which will destroy both ships.  Scotty is unable to repair the engines, and
    Spock rushes to engineering without a word to anyone (except for what seems
    to be a very quick mind-meld with Dr. McCoy), forgoing safety precautions
    and entering the radiation-saturated engine chamber to repair the warp
    engines.  When Spock finishes his task, Kirk orders the ship out of the
    nebula at top speed.  The Reliant explodes, initiating the full Genesis
    effect on Regula, as Kirk, receiving a message from McCoy, hurries to
    engineering only to see Spock die from massive radiation poisoning.
       Spock's body is loaded into a torpedo casing, which is fired at the
    Genesis planet.  David admits that he may have misjudged Kirk and says he is
    proud to be his son, while the crew reflects on Spock's sacrifice and the
    marvel of Regula's transformation into a world of its own.
  Cast:  William Shatner (Admiral Kirk), Leonard Nimoy (Captain Spock), DeForest
    Kelley (Dr. McCoy), James Doohan (Scotty), Walter Koenig (Chekov), George
    Takei (Sulu), Nichelle Nichols (Uhura), Bibi Besch (Dr. Carol Marcus),
    Merritt Butrick (David Marcus), Paul Winfield (Terrell), Kirstie Alley (Lt.
    Saavik), Ricardo Montalban (Khan), Ike Eisenmann (Cadet Peter Preston), John
    Vargas (Jedda), Judson Scott (Joachim), John Winston (Lt. Kyle), Paul Kent
    (Beech), Nicholas Guest (Cadet), Russell Takaki (Madison), Kevin Sullivan
    (March), Joel Marstan (Crew Chief), Teresa E. Victor (Bridge Voice), Dianne
    Harper (Radio Voice), David Ruprecht (Radio Voice), Marcy Vosburgh (Computer
    Voice)

83      THE SEARCH FOR SPOCK                                        Jun  1, 1984
        written by Harve Bennett
        directed by Leonard Nimoy
        music by James Horner  (Crescendo GNP cassette & CD # GNPD 8023)
  Stardate 8210.3: Heading home, the Enterprise receives no replies from
    Starfleet regarding the Genesis planet.  Most of the trainees have been
    reassigned to other ships by now, and Kirk is still mourning the death of
    Spock.  Arriving at spacedock, the crew also sees the USS Excelsior, a ship
    much larger than the Enterprise which has the faster transwarp propulsion
    system.  But before the ship can rest easy, someone breaks into Spock's
    cabin, which Kirk had declared off-limits.  Kirk goes there himself and
    hears Spock's voice asking why his body was left on the Genesis planet.
    Kirk finds that McCoy, on the edge of a nervous breakdown, is the
    trespasser.  On arrival, Admiral Morrow reveals that the Enterprise is to be
    decommissioned instead of repaired, and also tells the crew that the Genesis
    device has become a hot topic in the Federation and a topic not to be
    discussed openly.  Scotty is made Captain of engineering for the Excelsior,
    and the rest of the crew are promised extended leave.
       Klingon Captain Kruuge, having obtained an illegal copy of the Genesis
    proposal from a pirate vessel (which he then destroyed), orders his ship, a
    new Klingon Bird of Prey armed with a cloaking device, to the Genesis planet
    to investigate the device's potential as a weapon for the Klingons.  At the
    same time, the USS Grissom, with its new science officer Saavik and Genesis
    specialist David Marcus, arrives at the planet and detects life signs near
    the torpedo tube in which Spock's body had been disposed.
       Kirk and his officers, minus the hospitalized McCoy, relax at Kirk's home
    when Sarek, Spock's father, visits.  Sarek mind-melds with Kirk in search of
    Spock's katra - his spirit.  Revealing that Vulcans can pass their spirits
    on to others when their bodies are near death, Sarek admits that Kirk does
    not possess Spock's spirit.  Kirk checks ship's logs and sees that Spock
    did, in fact, pass his katra on - to McCoy.  Sarek tells him that McCoy must
    be taken to Vulcan so that Spock can be released into a body of his own.
       After arguing with Captain Esteban, Saavik and David get permission to
    beam down, where they find that the life form is a kind of giant slug,
    probably having developed from microbes on the torpedo's surface.  But they
    also find the body of Spock missing, and the planet seems very unstable,
    with extreme weather conditions isolated in random geological locations.
       Kirk tries to get permission from Admiral Morrow to return to Genesis and
    retrieve Spock's body, but is unable to convince Morrow of the validity of
    Vulcan mysticism.  McCoy, in the meantime, tries to hire a private ship from
    an alien merchant in a bar, but is removed by Starfleet agents when he
    begins to argue loudly with the alien about going to Genesis.  McCoy is put
    in detention, where Kirk visits him, and, with Sulu's help, distracts the
    guards and smuggles McCoy out of the holding area.  Uhura, having taken an
    assignment at a transporter station, beams Kirk, McCoy and Sulu to the
    Enterprise, where Chekov is waiting.  Scotty, in the meantime, has divided
    his time between sabotaging the Excelsior's warp drive and preparing the
    Enterprise for operation by a minimal crew.  Kirk and the others, minus
    Uhura, who plans to travel to Vulcan with Sarek, steal the Enterprise from
    spacedock.  Captain Stiles and the Excelsior are ordered to pursue, but
    Scotty has disabled the larger ship's supposedly superior capabilities.  The
    Enterprise continues unchecked toward Genesis.
       On the planet, Saavik and David follow more life form readings through a
    zone of arctic cold until they hear the cries of a child, who turns out to
    be a very young Vulcan male.  They contact the ship with a theory that the
    Genesis wave may have resurrected Spock.  Before allowing the landing party
    to return, Captain Esteban tries to contact Starfleet but communications are
    jammed.  Kruuge's ship uncloaks and attacks, and the Grissom, a small vessel
    meant only for scientific duties, is destroyed with a single shot, leaving
    David, Saavik and the young Spock marooned.  Kruuge and a party of his men
    beam down to find them and interrogate them about the Genesis device.  While
    trying to elude the Klingons, David reveals to Saavik that he took some
    shortcuts with the development of Genesis, resulting in the planet's
    abnormalities and a dangerous acceleration of the age of the planet as well
    as all life-forms present during the Genesis detonation - meaning the
    childlike Spock.  Spock's rapid aging means that the male Vulcan's mating
    drive that normally strikes every seven years of adulthood will occur with
    greater frequency in his accelerated development and will also bring periods
    of instability to the planet.
       The Enterprise arrives at Genesis, where it is awaited by Kruuge's Bird
    of Prey, which cannot fire while cloaked.  Sulu detects the ship despite the
    cloaking device and fires before the Klingons can attack.  Kruuge beams up
    from Genesis and takes charge of the battle. firing back at the Enterprise
    and destroying most of Scotty's automatic systems.  Kruuge - after one of
    the Klingons remaining on the surface kills David - forces a grief-stricken
    and enraged Kirk to surrender.  Kirk sets the Enterprise to self-destruct
    and, with the others, abandons ship and beams down to Genesis just as most
    of Kruuge's men board the Enterprise.  Kruuge realizes what is about to
    happen, but not in time to save his crew.  The Enterprise destroys itself
    and the Klingons aboard, and the debris plunges into the atmosphere of the
    Genesis planet as Kirk and the others do away with the Klingon guards left
    on the surface.  Kruuge has the last remaining member of his crew beam him
    to the planet, where Kirk promises to give him the secrets of Genesis in
    exchange for beaming the others to Kruuge's ship.  Kirk and Kruuge fight
    furiously as the planet begins to tear itself apart, and Kirk manages to
    kick his Klingon opponent off a cliff and beams up to the Bird of Prey.  The
    last Klingon is taken prisoner, and the ship is set on a course for Vulcan.
       Sarek and Uhura greet Kirk and the others on Vulcan, now carrying Spock's
    body which had, before leaving Genesis, grown to roughly the same age as it
    was when Spock died.  McCoy and Spock are taken to the Vulcan High
    Priestess, who performs a dangerous ritual to return Spock's mind to his
    body and free McCoy from the effects of Spock's katra.  The process is
    successful, and McCoy is restored to health.  Spock, however, will have to
    be re-educated on Vulcan, and will never be exactly the same again.  Kirk
    and the others decide to stay on Vulcan for a time and receive political
    asylum from Sarek.
       Many events in this movie resurface again.  The loss of David creates an
    even stronger prejudice against Klingons in Kirk than ever before, which
    nearly proves to be fatal in "Star Trek VI."  The Excelsior, whose transwarp
    drive proves to be a failure, makes a dramatic comeback in "Trek VI" under a
    new captain, while the fact that Spock's personality changes drastically as
    a result of being re-educated by Vulcans rather than his human mother is
    addressed in "Star Trek IV" and "Star Trek V."
       Merritt Butrick, who appeared in this movie, "Star Trek II," and one
    episode of "Star Trek: The Next Generation," died of AIDS in 1988.
  Cast:  William Shatner (Admiral Kirk), DeForest Kelley (Dr. McCoy), James
    Doohan (Scotty), Walter Koenig (Chekov), George Takei (Sulu), Nichelle
    Nichols (Uhura), Robin Curtis (Lt. Saavik), Merritt Butrick (David Marcus),
    Phil Morris (Trainee Foster), Scott McGinnis ("Mr. Adventure"), Robert Hooks
    (Admiral Morrow), Carl Steven (Spock, age 9), Vadia Potenza (Spock, age 13),
    Stephen Manley (Spock, age 17), Joe W. Davis (Spock, age 25), Leonard Nimoy
    (Spock), Paul Sorenson (Merchantship Captain), Cathie Shirriff (Valkris),
    Christopher Lloyd (Kruge), Stephen Liska (Torg), John Larroquette (Maltz),
    Dave Cadiente (Klingon Sergeant), Bob Cummings (Klingon Gunner #1),
    Branscombe Richmond (Klingon Gunner #2), Phillip Richard Allen (Captain
    Esteban), Jeanne Mori (USS Grissom Helm), Mario Marcelion (USS Grissom
    Communications), Allan Miller (Alien in bar), Sharon Thomas (Waitress),
    Conroy Gedeon (Civilian Agent), James B. Sikking (Captain Styles), Miguel
    Ferrer (USS Excelsior First Officer), Mark Lenard (Sarek), Katherine Blum
    (Vulcan Child), Dame Judith Anderson (Vulcan High Priestess), Gary Faga
    (Prison Guard #1), Douglas Alan Shanklin (Prison Guard #2), Grace Lee
    Whitney (Woman in cafeteria), Frank Welker (Spock screams), Teresa E. Victor
    (Enterprise Computer voice), Harve Bennett (Flight Recorder voice), Judi
    Durand (Space Dock Controller voice), Frank Force (Elevator voice)

84      THE VOYAGE HOME                                             Nov 26, 1986
        screenplay by Steve Meerson & Peter Krikes
                  and Harve Bennett & Nicholas Meyer
        story by Leonard Nimoy & Harve Bennett
        directed by Leonard Nimoy
        music by Leonard Rosenman  (MCA CD # MCAD-6195)
  Stardate 8390.0:  An enormous alien probe on a heading for Earth encounters
    and completely cripples the USS Saratoga, continuing unchecked toward Earth,
    where a high-ranking Klingon Ambassador is trying to convince the Federation
    Council that the Genesis device was, in fact, a weapon designed to eradicate
    the Klingon species.  The Ambassador promises that there will be no peace
    between the Klingons and Federation while Kirk lives.
       In the meantime, Kirk and the rest of his crew, excluding Saavik, who
    stays behind, leave Vulcan in their hijacked Bird of Prey, which McCoy has
    renamed the "Bounty."  While en route to Earth, they receive an emergency
    transmission informing them that Earth's defenses have been neutralized by a
    huge vessel of unknown origin, and that the alien ship is beginning to
    destroy the atmosphere and oceans, all the time transmitting indecipherable
    sounds.  Analyzing a recording of the sounds transmitted by the alien ship,
    Spock determines that the probe can not be responded to because the sounds
    are apparently analogous to songs sung by humpback whales - extinct in the
    23rd century.  Kirk decides to risk a slingshot around the sun to send the
    Bounty into a time warp to Earth of the past and bring back enough whales to
    repopulate the species and, more importantly, respond to the probe.
       The Bounty lands in San Francisco, 1986, and the crew splits into three
    teams.  Kirk and a thinly disguised Spock set out to find the whales, which
    Kirk decides to take from the Cetacean Institute, a museum devoted to
    whales.  There, Kirk meets Dr. Gillian Taylor as she leads a tour of the
    Institute, during which she shows off the Institute's two whales, George and
    Gracie.  Gillian also reveals that the whales will have to be released into
    the open sea due to the cost of keeping them in captivity.  Spock dives into
    the whale tank and mind-melds with one of the whales, finding that Gracie is
    pregnant, but Gillian throws them out of the Institute, only to find them
    walking back to Golden Gate Park and picks them up again.
       Chekov and Uhura find the Navy's USS Enterprise and sneak in to collect
    photon spillage from the ship's nuclear reactor in order to replenish the
    dilithium crystals on the Bounty for the return trip to the 23rd century,
    while Scotty, Sulu and McCoy seek out the materials necessary to build a
    tank for the whales and their water in the Bounty.  Scotty's team visits a
    plexiglas factory, where he trades the "recipe" for transparent aluminum
    (common in the 23rd century) in for the necessary materials and the loan of
    a helicopter to return the tank walls to the Bounty.  (Scotty insists no
    damage is being done to history - perhaps the director of the factory to
    whom Scotty revealed the "secret" is the inventor!)
       Uhura and Chekov gather the necessary energy to ready the Bounty for its
    next time warp, but they are detected on the carrier.  Chekov gives Uhura
    the collection device and has her beamed back to the Bounty, while he is
    captured and briefly interrogated.  Chekov escapes again, but is seriously
    wounded and taken to a hospital.
       Kirk, having befriended Gillian and learned how upset she is that "her"
    whales are about to be turned loose, gets the frequency to radio tags that
    the whales will be carrying so scientists can track them, but even Gillian
    doesn't know the exact location to which the whales will be taken.  Kirk
    receives the news of Chekov's injury and, with McCoy, mounts a rescue
    operation which will require the help of Gillian.  They enter the hospital
    disguised as surgeons, and McCoy performs a quick fix returning Chekov to
    normal after expressing alarm that 20th century medicine would have called
    for a hole to be drilled into Chekov's skull.  They "kidnap" Chekov from the
    hospital and take him back to the Bounty, where Gillian stows away by
    jumping Kirk just as he is beamed aboard.  The Bounty lifts off and reaches
    the whales' coordinates in the Pacific, only to find a whaling ship is in
    hot pursuit of George and Gracie.  Kirk orders the Bounty to decloak, which
    frightens the poachers away while the two whales are beamed aboard.  The
    Bounty makes it back to the 23rd century and crash-lands in San Francisco
    Bay after being disabled by the probe, and Kirk releases the whales into the
    ocean.  George and Gracie re-establish contact between Earth's whales and
    the aliens - a dialogue which had been in progress before man even existed -
    and Gillian begins her new life as a Federation cetacean biology specialist.
    Kirk and the others are exonerated for all charges against them concerning
    the theft and destruction of the starship Enterprise, except for Kirk, who
    is demoted to Captain and given command of a new, more advanced vessel: the
    new Enterprise, NCC-1701-A.
       Often, the version of the "past" presented in "Star Trek" in the 1960s
    dealt with events still in the future, such as the Eugenics Wars mentioned
    in "Space Seed," supposedly in the late 1990s.  Happily enough, such events
    have not taken place (though, on the other hand, one could argue that the
    late 90s still haven't arrived...), and a similar inaccuracy, though it
    didn't exist when the movie was first released, now occurs in "Star Trek
    IV."  Though in 1986, while the story was being written and filmed, there
    was still a Leningrad and still a Soviet Union, those officially ceased to
    exist in 1991 with the advent of the Commonwealth of Independent States, and
    the city of Leningrad was promptly restored to its original name - St.
    Petersburg.
  Cast:  William Shatner (Kirk), Leonard Nimoy (Spock), DeForest Kelley (Dr.
    McCoy), James Doohan (Scotty), George Takei (Sulu), Walter Koenig (Chekov),
    Nichelle Nichols (Uhura), Jane Wyatt (Amanda), Catherine Hicks (Dr. Gillian
    Taylor), Mark Lenard (Sarek), Robin Curtis (Lt. Saavik), Robert Ellenstein
    (Federation Council President), John Schuck (Klingon Ambassador), Brock
    Peters (Admiral Cartwright), Michael Snyder (Starfleet Communications
    Officer), Michael Berryman (Starfleet Display Officer), Mike Brislane (USS
    Saratoga Science Officer), Grace Lee Whitney (Commander Rand), Vijay
    Amritraj (Starship Captain), Majel Barrett (Commander Chapel), Nick Ramus
    (USS Saratoga Helmsman), Thaddeus Golas (Controller #1), Martin Pistone
    (Controller #2), Scott DeVenney (Bob Briggs), Viola Stimpson (Lady in tour),
    Phil Rubenstein (Garbageman #1), John Miranda (Garbageman #2), Joe Knowland
    (Antique Store Owner), Bob Sarlatte (Waiter), Everett Lee (Cafe Owner),
    Richard Harder (Joe), Alex Henteloff (Nichols), Tony Edwards (Pilot), Eve
    Smith (Elderly Patient), Tom Mustin (Intern #1), Greg Karas (Intern #2),
    Raymond Singer (Young Doctor), David Ellenstein (Doctor #1), Judy Levitt
    (Doctor #2), Teresa E. Victor (Usher), James Menges (Jogger), Kirk Thatcher
    (Punk on bus), Jeff Lester (FBI Agent), Joe Lando (Shore Patrolman), Newell
    Tarrant (CDO), Mike Timoney, Jeffrey Martin (Electronic Technicians), 1st
    Sgt. Joseph Naradzay USMC (Marine Sergeant), 1st Sgt. Donald W. Zautcke USMC
    (Marine Lieutenant)

85      THE FINAL FRONTIER                                          Jun  9, 1989
        screenplay by David Loughery
        story by William Shatner, Harve Bennett and David Loughery
        directed by William Shatner
        music by Jerry Goldsmith  (Epic/CBS cassette & CD # 45267)
  Stardate 8454.1:  On the planet Nimbus III, a central location where one
    ambassador each from the Federation, Klingon Empire and Romulan Empire have
    met to discuss solutions to the mutual hostility each government holds for
    the others, talks have virtually ceased despite the arrival of a new Romulan
    ambassador and Nimbus III has become an arid desert.  A renegade Vulcan -
    apparently breaking from the tradition of his race and embracing emotions
    and impulses - has generated a strong following on the planet and takes the
    three ambassadors hostage.  The Vulcan, Sybok, then sends a message to the
    delegates' governments, demanding a fair hearing of his demands in exchange
    for the hostages' lives.  A Klingon vessel, commanded by trigger-happy
    Captain Klaa, heads for Nimbus III with Klaa spoiling for a fight with the
    legendary Enterprise.  The Enterprise arrives first, and Kirk mounts a
    rescue operation involving distracting the guards, but he finds himself
    being held at gunpoint by the hostages he was meant to rescue, Kirk realizes
    that the affair has been a trap.  Sybok now intends to hijack the
    Enterprise, and succeeds in earning the loyalty of Sulu, Uhura and Chekov by
    "releasing" them from painful memories in their lives.  Sybok sets the
    Enterprise on a course to the Great Barrier at the center of the galaxy,
    where he believes he will find the mythical planet Sha Ka Ree and, according
    to Sybok's theory, that world's inhabitant - God.
       Surviving the supposedly deadly trip through the barrier, the Enterprise
    arrives at an uncharted planet, convincing many of the ship's crew that
    Sybok may be right.  In their excitement, no one notices that Klaa's ship is
    now arriving at Sha Ka Ree as well.  Kirk, Spock, McCoy and Sybok fly a
    shuttle to the surface and, although initially finding no sign of life,
    encounter the projection of an enormous face which claims to be God and
    greets Sybok.  However, when the being insists that the Enterprise be
    brought in close enough that he may meld with it for the journey beyond the
    Great Barrier, Kirk is suspicious and questions the being's authenticity.
    The creature lashes out at Kirk and Spock when they doubt his identity, and
    Sybok realizes that it is not God.  Grappling with the entity so that the
    others may escape, Sybok gives Kirk time to order a torpedo fired at the
    creature, but it is not easily killed.  When they return to the shuttle,
    Kirk, Spock and McCoy discover that it has been crippled by the creature,
    and Kirk orders Scotty to beam Spock and McCoy up.  As soon as they have
    safely returned to the Enterprise, Klaa opens fire on the Enterprise,
    damaging the transporters once more.  Spock convinces General Koord, the
    Klingon delegate from Nimbus III and one of Sybok's recent converts, to use
    his rank to commandeer Klaa's ship and rescue Kirk.  Koord agrees, and Spock
    takes over the gunner's seat on the Klingon ship to destroy the God impostor
    in time to save Kirk.  The Klingons and the Enterprise leave Sha Ka Ree
    peacefully (and after profuse apologies from Klaa), offering some hope for a
    peaceful future, in which the formerly disgruntled Nimbus III delegates
    promise to take a more active interest.
       Although the movie's end seemed to touch on a Federation peace with the
    Klingons, the situation obviously was a small instance of cooperation
    between the two, as "Star Trek VI" indicated that they were still deadly
    enemies.
  Cast:  William Shatner (Captain Kirk), Leonard Nimoy (Spock), DeForest Kelley
    (Dr. McCoy), James Doohan (Scotty), Walter Koenig (Chekov), Nichelle
    Nichols (Uhura), George Takei (Sulu), David Warner (St. John Talbot),
    Laurence Luckinbill (Sybok), Charles Cooper (Korrd), Cynthia Guow (Caithlin
    Dar), Todd Bryant (Captain Klaa), Spice Williams (Vixis), Rex Holman
    (J'onn), George Murdock ("God"), Jonathan Simpson (Young Sarek), Beverly
    Hart (Vulcan High Priestess), Steve Susskind (Pitchman), Harve Bennett
    (Starfleet Chief of Staff), Cynthia Blaise (Young Amanda), Bill Quinn
    (McCoy's Father), Melanie Shatner (Yeoman)

86      THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY                                    Dec  6, 1991
        screenplay by Nicholas Meyer and Denny Martin Flinn
        story by Leonard Nimoy and Lawrence Konner & Mark Rosenthal
        directed by Nicholas Meyer
        music by Cliff Eidelman  (MCA cassette & CD # 10512)
  Stardate 9522.6:  A colossal explosion on the Klingon moon Praxis sends
    intense shock waves through space, which are encountered by the USS
    Excelsior in its third year of duty under Captain Sulu.  The Excelsior is
    damaged by the leading edge of the energy burst, but regains her balance.
    When offered assistance, the Klingons tell Sulu to mind his own business and
    stay out of their territory.
       Later, on Earth, the command crew of the Enterprise is invited to a top
    priority, high-security briefing at Starfleet Headquarters, where it is
    revealed that one of the Kligons' main sources of power, located on Praxis,
    released radiation that will eat away the Klingon homeworld's ozone layer in
    roughly fifty years, and the Klingons, whose economy is devoted entirely to
    military development, are unable to combat the deterioration of their planet
    without aid.  Spock, acting as an ambassador, has opened the door for
    discussions with Chancellor Gorkon of the Klingon High Council, and has
    taken the liberty of volunteering Kirk and the crew of the Enterprise - both
    of which are three months away from mandatory retirement as Starfleet
    prepares to decommission the ship itself - for the duty of escorting Gorkon
    and his party to the first Federation-Klingon peace talks.
       Over dinner on the Enterprise, the Klingons and the Starfleet officers
    seem to be unable to avoid eventually insulting or offending each other, and
    General Chang seems more interested in Kirk's reputation as a warrior than
    in peace.  The Klingons return to their ship, and shortly afterward,
    torpedoes from the Enterprise's direction pummel Gorkon's ship, and two
    figures in Federation spacesuits beam aboard and kill the Chancellor and
    many of the Klingon crew.  Still unsure of what has happened - Scotty finds
    that none of the Enterprise's torpedoes have been fired - Kirk surrenders
    when Chang threatens to fire on the Enterprise point-blank.  Kirk and McCoy
    beam over, where McCoy tries to save the dying Gorkon, but with Federation
    medicine's limited knowledge of Klingon anatomy, McCoy cannot prevent
    Gorkon's death.  Kirk and McCoy are arrested and given a trial where Chang's
    unusual evidence - including entries from Kirk's personal log stating his
    distrust of Klingons since they killed his son - insinuates that Kirk was
    behind the assassination.  Kirk and McCoy are sentenced to work for the rest
    of their lives in the dilithium mines on Rura Penthe.
       At Spock's command, the Enterprise conveniently develops a malfunction
    that prevents them from receiving Starfleet's order to return home while
    the crew searches for the equipment used by the two Starfleet officers who
    assassinated Gorkon.  A few leads appear, but then are revealed to be false
    alarms - someone is deliberately trying to lead the investigation off
    track.  In the meantime, Kirk and McCoy fight for their lives on Rura Penthe
    but are helped by exotic fellow prisoner Martia, who warns Kirk that even in
    the penal colony, there is a price on his head.  Martia helps them escape,
    hoping that Kirk, who she says is the most attractive prisoner to appear in
    a long time, will repay her somehow.  During their escape, Martia is
    revealed to be a shapeshifter, and perhaps not even a true female.  Kirk
    realizes that the escape has been too easy and that Martia is the one out
    for he and McCoy.  Martia changes into a copy of Kirk, but when the prison
    guards catch up, Kirk tricks them into shooting Martia instead.  Bluffing
    their way past Klingon border guards, the Enterprise crew beams Kirk and
    McCoy up just before the two would have been executed.
       After returning to the Enterprise, Kirk and the others discover two dead
    crewmen - the assassins - and realize that there is one more conspirator.
    Kirk suggests laying a trap by announcing to the crew that the dead crewmen
    are alive and in sick bay awaiting the court reporter, which would lure the
    culprit to sick bay to kill the two crewmen before they could talk.  The
    ploy works, and the conspirator is Lt. Valeris, Spock's trusted protege'.
    Spock forces a mind-meld with Valeris to find out who the main conspirators
    are, and discovers that Klingons and a member of the Federation top brass
    are already cooperating peacefully - to ensure that peace is destroyed by
    the assassination of the President of the Federation.  Kirk contacts Captain
    Sulu, and their two ships head for Khitomer to save the President and reveal
    the conspirators, but time - and Chang's prototype Bird of Prey that can
    fire while cloaked (the real source of the attack on Gorkon's ship) - are
    against their efforts to save the negotiations.
       Although "Next Generation" was approaching its second season when "Trek
    V" was made, the film ignored the TV series.  However, in "Trek VI," many
    "Next Generation" connections were present: a Klingon defense attorney
    (Michael Dorn) is briefly identified as Colonel Worf; Khitomer is the site
    of the 24th century Romulan attack on a Klingon colony, killing Lt. Worf's
    parents in "Next Generation" lore.  Events in this movie happen at least 3
    years after "Trek V," as Sulu states that he has commanded Excelsior for 3
    years - though some reports place "Trek VI" 10 to 15 years later than "Trek
    V," which would better account for the crew's signs of age.
       The events in "Trek VI" were mentioned briefly in the "Next Generation"
    episodes "Unification," in which it is mentioned that Spock met a Romulan
    Senator Pardek at the Khitomer Conference.  Also, some time after "Trek VI,"
    Scotty, aboard a transport ship, encounters the enormous alien device which
    causes him to attempt a last-ditch maneuver to save his life, as told in the
    "Relics" episode of "Next Generation."
  Cast:  William Shatner (Captain Kirk), Leonard Nimoy (Spock), DeForest Kelley
    (Dr. McCoy), James Doohan (Scotty), George Takei (Captain Sulu), Walter
    Koenig (Chekov), Nichelle Nichols (Uhura), Kim Catrall (Valeris), Mark
    Lenard (Sarek), Grace Lee Whitney (Excelsior Communications Officer), Brock
    Peters (Admiral Cartwright), Leon Russom (Chief in Command), Kurtwood Smith
    (Federation President), Christopher Plummer (Chang), Rosanna DeSoto
    (Azetbur), David Warner (Chancellor Gorkon), John Schuck (Klingon
    Ambassador), Michael Dorn (Klingon Defense Attorney), Paul Rossilli (Kerla),
    Robert Easton (Klingon Judge), Clifford Shegog (Klingon Officer), W. Morgan
    Sheppard (Klingon Commander), Brett Porter (General Stex), Jeremy Roberts
    (Excelsior Officer), Michael Bofshever (Excelsior Engineer), Angelo Tiffe
    (Excelsior Navigator), Boris Lee Krutonog (Helsman Lojur), Christian Slater
    (Excelsior Communications Officer), Iman (Martia), Tom Morga (The Brute),
    Todd Bryant (Klingon Translator), John Bloom (Behemoth Alien), Jim Beoke
    (First Klingon General), Carlos Cestero (Munitions Man), Edward Clements
    (Young Crewman), Katie Jane Johnston (Martia as a Child), Douglas Engalla
    (Prisoner at Rura Penthe), Matthias Hues (Second Klingon General), Darryl
    Henriques (Nanclus), David Drance (Sleepy Klingon), Judy Levitt (Military
    Aide), Shakti (ADC), Michael Snyder (Crewman Dax), Rene Auberjonois (Colonel
    West - home video release only)

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    announcement has been made yet.  Keep an eye on READTHIS.TXT for rumors and
    news; rest assured, however, if and when "Trek VII" becomes official, there
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