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THE ORIGINAL SERIES DATABANK
Season 1:
September 8, 1966 - April 13, 1967
Never Aired: The Cage -- Kirk's predecessor Captain Christopher
Pike, tries to rescue an earth crew that disappeared 18 years earlier,
and finds himself trapped in an alien "zoo". This episode was the
original pilot for the Star Trek series but was rejected by NBC
because it was "too cerebral" and NBC wanted to make some changes,
namely: the satanic-looking guy with the ears had to go (he didn't)
and a woman wasn't allowed to be second in command.
1. Where No Man Has Gone Before -- The Enterprise nears a
magnetic barrier at the edge of the galaxy, and Kirk's friend Lt. Gary
Mitchell is mutated. His emerging powerful ESP abilities threaten the
safety of the ship.
2. The Carbomite Manuever -- When the Enterprise
encounters and destroys a radioactive cube, a gigantic ship appears,
and the Enterprise crew is sentenced to death by a mysterious alien
called Balok.
3. Mudd's Women -- The Enterprise rescues a ship's crew
at the expense of all but one of their dilithium crystals. The
"captain" of the destroyed ship is space pirate Harry Mudd, the cargo:
three beautiful women who hypnotise the men around them.
4. The Enemy Within -- A malfunction of the transporter
slips Kirk into separate beings: one bestial, the other rational and
sensitive.
5. Man Trap -- Making a routine medical stop at planet
M113 proves fatal for several crew members, with every ounce of salt
mysteriously removed from their bodies.
6. Naked Time -- A research team on Psi 2000 is due to be
evacuated, but the Enterprise finds the scientists dead. The germ from
the scene is transmitted to the crew, causing a disturbing surfacing
of suppressed emotions.
7. Charlie X -- The lone survivor of a crash on the
planet Thasus 14 years ago is transferred to the Enterprise by the
Antares, whose crew seem eager to leave him. Suddenly the Antares is
destroyed, and Charlie begins to display a power he cannot control.
8. Balance of Terror -- Can Kirk outwit the Romulan
commander who has destroyed Federation outposts from an invisible
ship?
9. What are Little Girls Made Of -- The U.S.S. Enterprise
hails Expo III in search for the eminent biologist, Dr. Roger Korby.
To everyone's surprise, Korby gladly responds to the Enterprise,
inviting Kirk to beam down. Kirk finds out that Korby plans to
duplicate people as androids so that war, strife and unhappiness can
be programmed out of people and his first victim is to be Kirk.
10. Dagger of the Mind -- During a stop at a penal colony
on Tantalus Five, an inmate escapes to the Enterprise. He's found to
be the assistant to the colony's director, Dr. Adam's, and tells of a
painful "neural neutralizer" employed by Dr. Adam's. The Vulcan
mind-meld is introduced here providing nice insight into the Vulcan
culture.
11. Miri -- This tale of a world inexplicably a duplicate
of Earth, where adults tried to stop ageing only to unleash a plague
that would reduce the world's population to just children. Kirk and
crew find that this world's children ageing a month every century.
What is known to the children is that when they reach a certain age,
they will contract a horrible deadly disease that strikes the landing
party as soon as they beam down.
12. Consience of the King -- A touring Shakespeare
company comes aboard the Enterprise but one of the actors seems
familiar and it is possible that he is a former governor of Taarsus IV
who ordered the execution of countless innocents that planet 20 years
before. Two Tarsus survivors are aboard the ship and the actors
daughter Lenore wants to kill all the survivors in a pathetic and
insane attempt to shield her father from the past.
13. The Galileo Seven -- When Spock, McCoy and
Scotty crash land on Taurus II in the shuttle craft, Spock must fight
alien creatures and attempting to reach logical command decisions
results in the death of several men. McCoy is a constant thorn in the
first officer's side as the doctor challenges the wisdom and
effectiveness of the Vulcan's rational approach to an irrational
world.
14. Court-Martial -- The Enterprise takes a beating
during an ion storm and an officer enters the ion pod to take
readings. When the storm makes it imperative to jettison the pod, the
officer dies, and Kirk faces court-martial for negligence. Cook's
performance his wonderful as the outer space lawyer Samuel T. Cogley.
15. The Menagerie -- The Menagerie is one of the series
most memorable stories, it incorporates footage from the first Star
Trek pilot "The Cage". For reasons unknown Spock kidnaps Captain Pike,
his former commander and then hijacks the U.S.S Enterprise and sets
them on course for the forbidden Talos IV.
16. Shore Leave -- Captain gives the fatigued crew a
brake from duty on an earth-like planet, but encounters with a giant
white rabbit, Samurai warrior, tigers, swordsmen, and a deadly black
knight prove less than relaxing. This show features -between Kirk and
Finnegan- the longest fight sequence in the series if not in the
history of television.
17. The Squire of Gothos -- The fun begins when the
Enterprise encounters a strange planet and its even stranger
inhabitant, a being dressed like an old English lord of the manor. He
promptly kidnaps an assortment of crew members with which to populate
his historical fantasies. Kirk's attempts to reason with Trelane or
bargain for freedom make little headway against his manic romping and
awesome powers.
18. Arena -- When the U.S.S. Enterprise pursues Gorn
vessel that attacked a Federation outpost, both ships enter the
territory of the Metron race, who deposit Kirk and the alien captain
on an deserted planet to settle their conflict in single combat.
19. The Alternative Factor -- This episode explores the
duality of man, a recurring theme in Star Trek. The crew encounters an
odd man named Lazarus. It later become obvious that Lazarus is
actually two distinct beings, each from a different dimension and each
determined to destroy the other. As the Lazarus of the anti-matter
universe passes through a dimensional portal, he causes an energy
disruption that threatens the entire positive-matter universe.
20. Tomorrow is Yesterday -- The Enterprise is shot into
the 20th Century by a black star. Now Kirk has to erase evidence of
their starship's unscheduled appearance, return one fighter pilot
minus his memories of the peek at the future so his unborn son can
lead a landmark space mission.
21. The Return of the Archons -- In this care, Kirk again
outwits a computer, giving McCoy a chance to jib Spock about human
emotions making all the difference in the galaxy. Visiting Beta III to
learn the fate of the USS Archon, Kirk and crew find a populace
strangely under control of a mystical ruler called Landru.
22. A Taste of Armageddon -- On Eminiar VII, Kirk finds a
"war" has been fought for centuries with another planet through their
computers. When a hit is declared, people willingly enter death
chambers. Suddenly, Kirk is told that the Enterprise is declared
"destroyed".
23. Space Seed -- The USS Enterprise comes across the
Botany Bay, a sleeper ship that contains the tyrannical Khan Noonien
Singh, along with his followers. All of them were world conquerors,
products of the Eugenics War of the 1990s and once dethawed, set about
conquering the Enterprise.
24. This Side of Paradise -- A surprise USS Enterprise
finds survivors on Omicron Ceti III a planet bombarded by deadly
Berthold rays. Not only are the colonists alive, they are thriving..
due to protective spores. The crew is sprayed with these spores and a
personality change occurs and the entire crew seems to have found
eternal happiness, leaving Kirk on a deserted ship.
25. The Devil in the Dark -- Pergium mining comes to a
halt at a colony where miners are suddenly being killed by a creature
who secrets acid and tunnels through rock. This episode gave us our
first real glimpse of the Vulcan mind-meld used to tremendous effect
as Spock reveals the anger and anguish of a creature driven to defend
itself and its offspring against forces it doesn't understand.
26. Errand of Mercy -- Kirk and Spock beam down to
Organia and to warn of an oncoming invasion by the Klingons.
Frustrated by the passive brush-off by the Oraganians, the captain and
first officer are then stuck in the middle when the Klingons show up.
The USS Enterprise officers wage a two-man guerrilla war against the
invaders before the Organians reveal themselves to be ultra-powerful
beings who force peace between the Enterprise and the Klingons.
27. The City on the Edge of Forever -- Accidentally
injected with a drug that induces paranoid delirium, a crazed McCoy
beams down to a planet where there is time disturbance and disappears
into the past. The present is
immediately altered, the Enterprise vanishes into non-existence. Kirk
and Spock follow McCoy through time to 1930 New York, where they
encounter Edith Keeler. Kirk falls in love with her only to learn that
in order for history to be restored, she must die.
28. Operation: Annihilate! -- Kirk finds his brother dead
on the planet Denevam which is in the midst of an epidemic of mass
insanity caused by creatures who attack the nervous system, causing
unbearable pain to manipulate their victims.