Title: The Cage
Stardate: Not available
Original airdate: Did not air
Writer: Gene Roddenberry
Director: Robert Butler
Guest stars:
Susan Oliver Veena
On the first voyage of the Starship Enterprise, Kirk's predecessor, Captain Christopher Pike, tries to rescue an Earth crew that disappeared eighteen years earlier. But it's a trap! Pike is imprisoned in a zoo-like cage and studied by a mysterious higher life form.
Title: Where No Man Has Gone Before
Stardate: 1312.4
Original airdate: 9/22/1966
Writer: Samuel A. Peeples
Director: James Goldstone
Guest stars:
Gary Lockwood Gary Mitchell Sally Kellerman Elizabeth Dehner Paul Carr Kelso Paul Fix Dr. Piper Andrea Dromm Yeoman Smith Lloyd Haynes Alden
The flight recorder of the 200-year-old U.S.S. Valiant relays a tale of terror - a magnetic storm at the edge of the galaxy. As the Enterprise nears the same barrier, Kirk elects to probe beyond its depths with disastrous results. Kirk's closest friend Lt. Gary Mitchell is affected. When Mitchell's mutating ESP abilities threaten the safety of his ship, Kirk must make an agonizing decision: maroon Mitchell on a desolate planet or kill him while he still can. However, as one friendship dies, another is just beginning...
Title: The Corbomite Maneuver
Stardate: 1512.2
Original airdate: 11/10/1966
Writer: Jerry Sohl
Director: Joseph Sargent
Guest stars:
Anthony Hall Dave Bailey Clint Howard Balok
The Enterprise destroys a dangerous alien probe while exploring an uncharted region in space. Moments later, they are locked in the tractor beam of a ship identifying itself as the Fesarius, which has threatened them with destruction. All attempts at escape fail, and Kirk develops an ingenious plan to trick his opponent. What's even more ingenious is the episode's denouement, in which the true identity of the Fesarius' captain is revealed.
Title: Mudd's Women
Stardate: 1329.8
Original airdate: 10/13/1966
Writer: Stephen Kandel
Director: Harvey Hart
Guest stars:
Roger C. Carmel Harry Mudd Karen Steele Eve Susan Denberg Magda Maggie Three Ruth Gene Dynarski Ben Childress Jim Goodwin Farrell Jon Kowal Gossett Seamon Glass Benton
Kirk beams aboard the crew of a vessel destroyed by asteroids but at a price. All but one of the Enterprise's dilithium crystals have burned out. The commander of the destroyed transport is Harry Mudd, scoundrel and space pirate. His cargo: three hypnotically beautiful women who immediately disrupt the normal workings of the ship. Kirk heads for Rigel 12, a lithium mining colony. But Mudd secretly contacts the miners and Kirk discovers they will only trade lithium for Mudd's Women.
Title: The Enemy Within
Stardate: 1672.1
Original airdate: 10/6/1966
Writer: Richard Matheson
Director: Leo Penn
Guest stars:
Jim Goodwin John Farrel Edward Madden Technician Garland Thompson Technician
A transporter malfunction splits Kirk into two beings: one pure evil and the other good. What follows is a battle between the two as each battle for supremacy at the expense of the other, though it becomes obvious that they need each other. Spock and Chief Engineer Scott attempt to devise a method of combining the two Kirks into one. Meanwhile, a landing team is trapped on the surface of Alpha 177 and sub-zero temperatures. The Enterprise cannot beam them aboard for fear that what happened to Kirk would happen to them as well.
Title: The Man Trap
Stardate: 1513.1
Original airdate: 9/8/1966
Writer: George Clayton Johnson
Director: Marc Daniels
Guest stars:
Jeanny Bal Nancy Carter Francine Pyne Salt Creature Alfred Ryder Professor Carter Michael Zaslow Darnell
The Enterprise is assigned the task of proceeding to planet M-113 in order to deliver medical supplies to the planet's only two inhabitants, Doctors Robert and Nancy Crater, the latter of whom had been romantically involved with Dr. McCoy. Rather, he had been involved with Nancy Crater. This one turns out to be a shape-changing salt "vampire" who seduces its victims by appearing as someone they know and then attacking, draining their bodies of natural salt content. The creature gets aboard the Enterprise and must be destroyed, despite the fact it is the last of a species.
Title: The Naked Time
Stardate: 1704.2
Original airdate: 9/29/1966
Writer: John F. D. Black
Director: Marc Daniels
Guest stars:
Bruce Hyde Riley Stewart Moss Tormolen John Bellah Dr. Harrison
Sent to pick up a research team, the Enterprise finds the scientists dead. One of the landing party brings the disease back to the crew, forcing suppressed emotions to surface. Sulu becomes a modern day D'Artagnan. Lt. Kevin Riley shuts down the engines. Spock and Kirk are also affected. In one of the series most powerful scenes, they help each other overcome their inner fears. Kirk races against time before the ship is pulled into the disintegrating planet.
Title: Charlie X
Stardate: 1533.6
Original airdate: 9/15/1966
Writer: Dorothy Fontana
Director: Lawrence Dobkin
Guest stars:
Robert Walker Jr. Charlie Abraham Sofaer Thalasian Patricia McNulty Tina Lawton Charles J. Stewart Captain Remart Dallas Mitchell Tom Nellis
Shortly after the captain of the Federation ship Antares drops off adolescent Charlie Evans on board the Enterprise, the Antares is mysteriously destroyed. Following other unexplained incidents, the blame falls on Charlie who reveals himself to have incredible telekinetic abilities to alter matter and cause people to "go away," i.e. vanish. Charlie, whose immaturity governs his actions, becomes an even more dangerous threat when he falls in love with Yeoman Janice Rand and will stop at nothing to get her to return his feelings.
Title: Balance Of Terror
Stardate: 1709.2
Original airdate: 12/13/1966
Writer: Paul Schneider
Director: Vincent McEveety
Guest stars:
Mark Lenard Romulan Commander Paul Comi Andrew Stiles Lawrence Montaigne Decius John Warburton Centurion Stephen Mines Robert Tomlinson Barbara Baldwin Angela Martine Gary Walberg Hanson
Federation outposts destroyed by Romulans! It's a game of cat and mouse for Kirk and the Romulan commander, whose cloaking device renders his ship invisible - and very deadly! How long can Kirk protect the Enterprise from his unseen enemy?
Title: What Are Little Girls Made Of?
Stardate: 2712.4
Original airdate: 10/20/1966
Writer: Robert Bloch
Director: James Goldstone
Guest stars:
Michael Strong Dr. Korby Sherry Jackson Andrea Ted Cassidy Ruk Harry Basch Brown Vince Deadrick Matthews Budd Albright Rayburn
Nurse Christine Chapel is to be reunited with her fiancé, Dr. Roger Korby, who is on the planet Exo III. When she and Kirk beam down to the planet's surface, they learn that Korby has discovered an ancient technology to make an android of Kirk, with the intention of using the Enterprise to spread this new race throughout the galaxy.
Title: Dagger Of The Mind
Stardate: 2715.1
Original airdate: 11/3/1966
Writer: Shimon Wincelberg
Director: Vincent McEveety
Guest stars:
James Gregory Dr. Tristan Adams Morgan Woodward Dr. Van Gelder Marianna Hill Dr. Helen Noel Suzanne Wilson Lethe
While delivering supplies to penal colony Tantalus Five, Kirk happens upon the madness of Dr. Tristan Adams, who is using a revolutionary neural neutralizer to control and manipulate his patients. Fearful of exposure, he uses the device on the captain.
Title: Miri
Stardate: 2713.5
Original airdate: 10/27/1966
Writer: Adrian Spies
Director: Vincent McEveety
Guest stars:
Kim Darby Miri Michael J. Pollard Jahn Jim Goodwin Farrell
Upon Enterprise discovering an Earth-like planet, a landing team that includes Kirk, Spock, McCoy and Rand beams down and discovers a group of 300 year old children. They learn that a disease prolongs youth, but upon reaching adolescence - no matter how long it takes - it triggers madness and then death. Infected, the landing party is trapped there unless McCoy can devise a cure. In the meantime, a young woman named Miri develops a strong crush on Kirk, and is extremely jealous of the captain's affection for Rand.
Title: The Conscience Of The King
Stardate: 2817.6
Original airdate: 12/8/1966
Writer: Barry Trivers
Director: Gerd Oswald
Guest stars:
Arnold Moss Anton Karidian Barbara Anderson Lenore Bruce Hyde Kevin Riley Eddie Paskey Lt. Leslie
A traveling Shakespearean troupe led by Anton Karidian is being transported to their next performance by the Enterprise. Prior to this, Kirk has been contacted by Dr. Thomas Leighton, who tells him that Karidian is actually Kodos the Executioner, former governor of Tarsus IV who masterminded the deaths of many of his people when it seemed that they were treathened with starvation. No sooner had these deaths (which included members of both Kirk and Leighton's families) been carried out than the Federation supply ships arrived. Kodos disappeared and Karidian's career began roughly at the same time. The captain has agreed to provide transportation for the actors on the sheer chance that Karidian and Kodos are one and the same. The noose tightens around the man's neck when a series of deaths begin to occur on the Enterprise.
Title: The Galileo Seven
Stardate: 2821.5
Original airdate: 1/5/1967
Writer: Oliver Crawford & S. Bar David
Director: Robert Gist
Guest stars:
Don Marshall Boma Peter Marko Gaetano Rees Vaughn Latimer Grant Woods Kelowitz Phyllis Douglas Mears John Crawford Commissioner Ferris
While en-route to deliver medical supplies to Makus III, the Enterprise pauses to examine a quasar formation. Kirk tries to quell the objections of Galactic High Commissioner Ferris by pointing out that such examinations are as much part of the starship's mission as delivering medical supplies are, and that the delay will be a short one. Disaster strikes, however, when Spock leads a team aboard the shuttle Galileo and crashes on the surface of Taurus II. The quasar phenomenon disrupts Enterprise sensors so they are unable to locate the shuttle or the survivors. Meanwhile, on the planet's surface, Spock uses his purely logical mind to deal with their situation in a hostile environment, and comes across as a cold-blooded monster. With McCoy's encouragement he is ultimately forced to take a very human chance to ensure that they survive and are found by the Enterprise.
Title: Court Martial
Stardate: 2947.3
Original airdate: 2/2/1967
Writer: Don M. Mankiewicz & Stephen Carabatsos
Director: Marc Daniels
Guest stars:
Percy Rodriguez Commodore Stone Joan Marshall Areel Shaw Elisha Cook Jr. Samuel Cogley Richard Webb Finney Alice Rawlings Jamie Finney Hagan Begga Hanson Winston DeLugo Timothy
A computer malfunction implicates Kirk in the death of crewman Ben Finney, and he stands trial for negligence. It is up to Spock and Kirk's lawyer, Samuel Cogley, to prove his innocence as well as the truth about Finney.
Title: The Menagerie parts 1 & 2
Stardate: 3012.4 & 3013.1
Original airdate: 11/17/1966 & 11/24/1966
Writer: Gene Roddenberry
Director: Marc Daniels
Guest stars:
Jeffrey Hunter Captain Pike Susan Oliver Vina Malachi Throne Jose Mendez Julie Parrish Miss Piper Hagan Beggs Lt. Hanson Peter Duryea Tyler Meg Wylie The Keeper John Hoyt Dr. Boyce Majel Barrett Number One
Spock hijacks the Enterprise and risks death to help his former Captain, Christopher Pike who has been paralyzed and disfigured in a horrible accident. Spock sets a course for Talos IV, knowing that any contact with this forbidden planet will automatically bring a death penalty! What could motivate him to do such a thing? Kirk, forced to convict his First Officer - and best friend - wonders if Spock could have gone mad!
In his defense, Spock uses the illusionary powers of Talosians to recall Captain Pike's original visit to Talos IV, almost 13 years ago. It was a surrealistic planet of mind games and mysticism inhabited by eerie telepathic creatures. Kirk is both stunned and amazed as he learns the story of Captain Pike's kidnapping and mental torture at the hands of the Talosians, and how even a young Spock and the original Enterprise crew could not save him! In the tension-filled climax, Kirk must decide to uphold Federation law ... or do what he knows is morally just!
Title: Shore Leave
Stardate: 3025.3
Original airdate: 12/29/1966
Writer: Theodore Sturgeon
Director: Robert Sparr
Guest stars:
Emily Banks Tonia Oliver McGowan Caretaker Perry Lopez Rodriguez Bruce Mars Finnegan James Gruzaf Don Juan Shirley Bonne Ruth Sebastian Tom Samurai
Captain Kirk grants shore leave for the crew on an idyllic Earth-like planet, and it turns out to be one of the most incredible leaves anyone has ever had. Those Enterprise people who are among the first are amazed to discover that their every wish is coming true; they are meeting people from their past and living out fantasies. Things turn dangerous, however, when these apparitions turn deadly.
Title: The Squire Of Gothos
Stardate: 2124.5
Original airdate: 1/12/1967
Writer: Paul Schneider
Director: Don McDougall
Guest stars:
William Campbell Trelane Richard Carlyle Jaeger Michael Barrier DeSalle Venita Wolf Ross
The Enterprise is captured by an alien being called Trelane who is equipped with a wide variety of powers that enable him to manipulate the world around him. Having grown bored with loneliness, he has chosen Kirk and his crew to stay on his world to provide him with entertainment. Coming across as an impudent child (and turning out to be just that), Trelane grows furious when Kirk disrupts his plans, and he puts humanity on trial.
Title: Arena
Stardate: 3045.6
Original airdate: 1/19/1967
Writer: Gene L. Coon
Director: Joseph Pevney
Guest stars:
Carole Shelyne The Metron Jerry Ayers O'Herlihy Grant Woods Kelowitz Tom Troupe Lt. Harold James Farley Lang Sean Kenney DePaul
When a Federation starbase is destroyed, the Enterprise sets off in pursuit of the attackers. En-route they enter an uncharted sector of space where Kirk, and the commander of the other vessel, the lizard-like Gorn, are transported to a planet's surface where they are forced to carry out their barbarism against each other in a battle to the death, while the loser's ship and all those aboard being destroyed. What follows is a savage struggle, with Kirk's ultimate humanity sparing both him and the Enterprise.
Title: The Alternative Factor
Stardate: 3087.6
Original airdate: 3/30/1967
Writer: Don Ingalls
Director: Gerd Oswald
Guest stars:
Robert Brown Lazarus Janet MacLachlen Charlene Masters Richard Derr Barston Eddie Paskey Lt. Leslie
Easily one of Star Trek's most convoluted and least appealing episodes, "The Alternative Factor" was the 20th episode shot but was held up to air as the 26th. The Enterprise encounters two versions of a man named Lazarus, one of them seeming perfectly rational and the other a snarling madman from an antimatter universe. The latter is planning on opening a rift between the two dimensions, damning both to a form of Armageddon. It is up to Kirk and the rational Lazarus to set things straight before it's too late.
Title: Tomorrow Is Yesterday
Stardate: 3113.2
Original airdate: 1/26/1967
Writer: D.C. Fontana
Director: Michael O'Herlihy
Guest stars: Roger Perry Captain Christopher Ed Peck Colonel Fellini Hal Lynch Police Sergeant Richard Merrifield Technician Webb John Winston Transporter Chief Kyle
Enterprise hurled back in time! When a black star sends the Enterprise backward in time to the twentieth century, the starship is spotted as a UFO. Air Force captain John Christopher's jet is accidentally destroyed, and Kirk is forced to beam him aboard. How can Kirk return the pilot to Earth, yet still manage to return to the future without changing history?
Title: The Return Of The Archons
Stardate: 3156.2
Original airdate: 2/9/1967
Writer: Boris Sobelman
Director: Joseph Pevney
Guest stars:
Harry Townes Reger Torin Thatcher Marplon Charles McCauley Landru Christopher Heid Lindstrom Brioni Farrell Tula Sid Haig First Lawgiver Morgan Farley Hacom Ralph Maurer Bilar Eddie Paskey Leslie David L. Ross Guard
While checking up on the crew of the Archon, who transported down to Beta III, the Enterprise learns that the people there are being controlled by a computer named Landru who takes over their minds to make them all part of the body. Kirk takes it upon himself to destroy the mechanism and bring freedom back to that world's people.
Title: A Taste Of Armageddon
Stardate: 3192.1
Original airdate: 2/23/1967
Writer: Robert Hamner & Gene L. Coon
Director: Joseph Pevney
Guest stars:
Gene Lyons Ambassador Fox David Opatoshu Anan 879 Robert Sampson Sar 627 Barbara Babcock Mea 349 Miko Mayama Tamura
Ambassador Robert Fox is on board the Enterprise to negotiate a peace treaty with the planet Eminiar VII, despite that world's obvious lack of interest in such a treaty. Kirk himself points out "It is their planet, Mr. Ambassador," but Fox arrogantly forces the starship forward. It is a short matter of time before they find themselves immersed in an interplanetary war between Eminiar and Vendikar which is being fought by computers. Said computers pinpoint the location of theoretical bombings, and people living in those areas voluntarily march into disintegration chambers so that their respective societies will live on. Enterprise unwillingly becomes a target and Eminiar's leader, Anan 7, expects Kirk to have his crew enter the disintegration chambers to keep the peace. Kirk, naturally, has his own ideas and sets about carrying them out.
Title: Space Seed
Stardate: 3141.9
Original airdate: 2/16/1967
Writer: Gene L. Coon & Carey Wilbur
Director: Marc Daniels
Guest stars:
Ricardo Montalban Khan Madlyn Rhue Marla McGivers Blasidell Makee Spinelli Mark Tobin Joaqin
The Enterprise comes across a derelict "sleeper ship" named the Botany Bay, which contains a crew of approximately 70 men and women in suspended animation. Led by Khan Noonian Singh, these people turn out to be the result of genetic experimentation on Earth in the 1990s. Basically a race of supermen, with strength and intelligence nearly ten times that of an average person, they had attempted to take over the Earth and triggered World War III, the Eugenics War. They managed to flee in Botany Bay, and are now revived in the 23rd Century. Khan seizes the moment and, using historian Marla McGivers, nearly takes over the Enterprise. Kirk and company manage to gain the upper hand (barely) and sentence Khan and his people to the somewhat savage Ceti Alpha V. At least, it will give Khan, McGivers and the others a chance to tame a world, rather than waste their lives in a Federation penal colony.
Title: This Side Of Paradise
Stardate: 3417.3
Original airdate: 3/2/1967
Writer: D.C. Fontana
Director: Ralph Senensky
Guest stars:
Jill Ireland Leila Frank Overton Sandoval Grant Woods Kelowitz Dick Scotter Painter
Spock in love!
On Omicron Ceti III, the Enterprise discovers the colonists unaffected after three years' exposure to deadly Berthold rays. Spock is reunited with an old friend, Leila Kalomi, who exposes him to strange spores causing Spock to release his emotions and he promptly declares his love for her. The spores affect the entire Enterprise crew, which has beamed down to the planet. Kirk, under the spores' influence, prepares to abandon ship. But if he leaves, no one can beam back up!
Title: The Devil In The Dark
Stardate: 3196.1
Original airdate: 3/9/1967
Writer: Gene L. Coon
Director: Joseph Pevney
Guest stars:
Ken Lynch Vandenberg Barry Russo Giotto Brad Weston Appel Biff Elliot Schmitter Janos Prohaska Horta
When miners on Janus VI are being murdered by a creature that can move through solid rock, chief engineer Vandenberg contacts the Enterprise and asks for assistance in hunting down and putting an end to the threat. The starship arrives with Kirk and Spock leading a landing party to investigate the situation. What they discover is that this so-called creature is actually an intelligent creature known as the Horta and that it has only killed to protect its young, which are encased in silicone shells that the miners mistook for worthless rocks.
Title: Errand Of Mercy
Stardate: 3198.4
Original airdate: 3/23/1967
Writer: Gene L. Coon
Director: John Newland
Guest stars:
John Abbott Ayleborne John Colicos Kor Peter Brocco Claymare Victor Lundin Lingon David H. Huge Trefayne
Tensions between the Federation and one of their arch enemies, the Klingon Empire, are growing more intense, and Kirk is told to secure an alliance with the people of the strategically located Organia. No sooner have Kirk and Spock beamed down that the Klingons arrive, with their military commander, Kor, commandeering the world as the latest possession of the Empire. Kirk is frustrated by the absolute complacency of the Organians, and his frustration turns to anger when he learns that things have grown worse between the Federation and the Klingons. It appears that an intergalactic war is about to begin, when the Organians reveal themselves to be something far removed from human, with the power to stop both sides from warring....permanently (though this fact was later forgotten in the Star Trek feature films).
Title: City On The Edge Of Forever
Stardate: Not available
Original airdate: 4/6/1967
Writer: Harlan Ellison
Director: Joseph Pevney
Guest stars:
Joan Collins Edith Keeler John Harmon Rodent Bartell LaRue Voice of the Guardian
Kirk, Spock and McCoy trapped in the 20th century!
Accidentally overdosed with cordrazine, a delirious McCoy transports to the planet below. Kirk, Spock and a landing party discover a "time portal" through which McCoy disappears! Suddenly the Enterprise vanishes, and Kirk and Spock must enter the vortex to search for McCoy. Arriving in 1930, Kirk falls deeply in love with Edith Keeler, only to learn she must die in order for time to return to normal!
Title: Operation:Annihilate!
Stardate: 3287.2
Original airdate: 4/13/1967
Writer: Stephen W. Carabatsos
Director: Herschel Daugherty
Guest stars:
Dave Armstrong Kartan Craig Hundley Peter Kirk Joan Swift Aurelan Maurishka Taliferro Yeoman Zara Jamal
Spock possessed by deadly alien!
The Enterprise arrives at Deneva, a planet in the path of an interplanetary epidemic of mass insanity. There, Kirk finds his brother Sam dead, his sister-in-law stricken, and his nephew unconscious. Then, Spock is attacked by a flying creature! These telepathically connected parasites invade the nervous system and control their victims through pain in an effort to take over the galaxy! Can McCoy find a way to kill the aliens without harming their hosts?