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Star Trek: The Original Series: Season 1

Star Trek

Star Trek: The Original Series: Season 1

Paramount Pictures (Sep 08, 1966)
TV Series | Adventure | Science Fiction
USA | English | Color | 24:21
Star Trek The Original Series Season 1
Blu-ray Disc
G (General Audience)
097361424163
| 7 discs
Region 1
Custom Case

Star Trek was an influential science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry that followed the adventures of the crew of the starship U.S.S. Enterprise. The show began with the production of the 1964 pilot "The Cage". "The Cage" featured Jeffrey Hunter as Enterprise captain Christopher Pike. The pilot was rejected by NBC executives as being too cerebral. In order to demonstrate the action-adventure potential of the series, another pilot entitled "Where No Man Has Gone Before" was produced. Replacing Jeffrey Hunter as Enterprise captain was William Shatner who starred as Captain James T. Kirk. The new pilot also starred Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock who was the only character to return from the original pilot after NBC's rejection of "The Cage". Response to the second, action-oriented, pilot was good and NBC gave the go ahead to the series.

The series premiered on NBC on Thursday, September 8, 1966 in the 8:30-9:30 PM timeslot with the episode "The Man Trap". Critical response to the series was mixed and rating were lower than expected. In its second season, reoccurring guest star DeForest Kelley was added to the series' starring cast and the show was moved to Friday at 8:30. A decline in the ratings, however, prompted NBC to attempt to cancel the series after its second season, but a letter writing campaign by die hard fans of the show saved it from cancellation. An additional season of episodes were produced, but ratings continued to decline most likely due to the quality of the third season episodes and a bad 10:00 PM Friday night time slot. Despite another letter writing campaign, the series was finally cancelled after its third season. The last new episode "Turnabout Intruder" was shown on June 3, 1969.

After its three year run Star Trek began running syndication where it was discovered by legion of new fans and became a phenomenon. The show inspired six features films, an animated series, and four additional spin-off television shows. Other spin-off's include novels, comic books, merchandise and an enormous amount of fan-fiction based on the series. Despite its short network run, Star Trek has become one of the most successful shows in television history.

Aside from its three main stars, Star Trek featured a large cast of reoccurring guest stars that includes James Doohan, Nichelle Nichols, George Takei, Walter Koenig, Majel Barrett, and Grace Lee Whitney. Other notable guest stars include Diana Muldaur, Gary Lockwood, Ricardo Montalban, Sally Kellerman, Julie Newmar, Frank Gorshin, John Colicos, Roger C. Carmel, William Campbell, Ted Cassidy, Michael Ansara and Elisha Cook, Jr. Notable writers for the series include Gene Roddenberry, Gene L. Coon, George Clayton Johnson, Jerry Sohl, Jerome Bixby, Robert Bloch, Theodore Sturgeon, Harlan Ellison, David Gerrold, and D.C. Fontana.


Cast View all

Leonard Nimoy Mister Spock
William Shatner Captain James T. Kirk
Eddie Paskey Lieutenant Leslie
DeForest Kelley Dr. McCoy
Nichelle Nichols Uhura
Frank da Vinci Capt. John Daley
Bill Blackburn Lieutenant Hadley
James Doohan Scott
Ron Veto Harrison
George Takei Sulu
Majel Barrett Number One
Grace Lee Whitney Yeoman Rand
Jeannie Malone Yeoman
Sandra Lee Gimpel Talosian
Ed Madden Enterprise Geologist
John Burnside Bridge Crewmember
John Hoyt Dr. Phillip Boyce
Jeffrey Hunter Captain Christopher Pike
Meg Wyllie The Keeper
Jon Lormer Dr. Theodore Haskins
Tom Anfinsen Crewman
Bob Johnson First Talosian
Adam Roarke C.P.O. Garrison
Malachi Throne The Keeper
Susan Oliver Vina

Episodes View details

0 The Cage 63 min | Oct 04, 1988

Capt. Pike is held prisoner and tested by aliens who have the power to project incredibly lifelike illusions.

1 The Man Trap 50 min | Sep 08, 1966

Dr. McCoy discovers his old flame is not what she seems after crew members begin dying from a sudden lack of salt in their bodies.

2 Charlie X 50 min | Sep 15, 1966

Captain Kirk must learn the limits to the power of a 17-year-old boy with the psionic ability to create anything and destroy anyone.

3 Where No Man Has Gone Before 50 min | Sep 22, 1966

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.

4 The Naked Time 50 min | Sep 29, 1966

The crew is infected with a mysterious disease that removes people's emotional inhibitions to a dangerous degree.

5 The Enemy Within 50 min | Oct 06, 1966

A transporter malfunction splits Captain Kirk into two halves: one meek and indecisive, the other violent and ill tempered. The remaining crew members stranded on the planet cannot be beamed up to the ship until a problem is fixed.

6 Mudd's Women 50 min | Oct 13, 1966

The Enterprise picks up untrustworthy entrepreneur Harry Mudd accompanied by three beautiful women who immediately put a spell on all the male crew members.

7 What Are Little Girls Made Of? 50 min | Oct 20, 1966

Nurse Chapel is reunited with her fiancé; but his new obsession leads him to make an android duplicate of Captain Kirk.

8 Miri 50 min | Oct 27, 1966

The Enterprise discovers a planet exactly like Earth, but the only inhabitants are children who contract a fatal disease upon entering puberty.

9 Dagger of the Mind 50 min | Nov 03, 1966

Kirk and psychiatrist Helen Noel are trapped on a maximum security penal colony that experiments with mind control and Spock must use the Vulcan mind-meld to find a way to save them.

10 The Corbomite Maneuver 50 min | Nov 10, 1966

After the Enterprise is forced to destroy a dangerous marker buoy, a gigantic alien ship arrives to capture and condemn the crew as trespassers.

11 The Menagerie: Part I 50 min | Nov 17, 1966

Spock kidnaps the disabled Capt. Pike, hijacks the Enterprise, and then surrenders for court martial.

12 The Menagerie: Part II 50 min | Nov 24, 1966

At Spock's court martial, he explains himself with mysterious footage about when Capt. Pike was kidnapped by powerful illusion casting aliens.

13 The Conscience of the King 50 min | Dec 08, 1966

While Captain Kirk investigates whether an actor is actually a presumed dead mass murderer, a mysterious assailant is killing the people who could identify the fugitive.

14 Balance of Terror 50 min | Dec 15, 1966

The Enterprise must decide on its response when a Romulan ship makes a destructively hostile armed probe of Federation territory.

15 Shore Leave 50 min | Dec 29, 1966

The past months have left the crew exhausted and in desperate need of a break, but does this explain McCoy's encounter with a human-sized white rabbit or Kirk crossing paths with the prankster who plagued his days at Starfleet Academy?

16 The Galileo Seven 50 min | Jan 05, 1967

The Galileo, under Spock's command, crash-lands on a hostile planet. As the Enterprise races against time to find the shuttlecraft, Spock's strictly logical leadership clashes with the fear and resentment of his crew.

17 The Squire of Gothos 50 min | Jan 12, 1967

A being that controls matter and creates planets wants to play with the Enterprise crew.

18 Arena 50 min | Jan 19, 1967

For bringing hostility into their solar system, a superior alien race brings Captain Kirk into mortal combat against the reptilian captain of an alien ship he was pursuing.

19 Tomorrow Is Yesterday 50 min | Jan 26, 1967

The Enterprise is thrown back in time to 1960s Earth.

20 Court Martial 50 min | Feb 02, 1967

Kirk draws a court martial in the negligent death of a crewman.

21 The Return of the Archons 50 min | Feb 09, 1967

Seeking the answer to a century-old mystery, Kirk and crew encounter a vacantly peaceful society under a 6000-year autocratic rule that kills all those it can't absorb.

22 Space Seed 50 min | Feb 16, 1967

While on patrol in deep space, Captain Kirk and his crew find and revive a genetically-engineered world conqueror and his compatriots from Earth's Twentieth Century.

23 A Taste of Armageddon 50 min | Feb 23, 1967

Kirk and Spock must save their ship's crew when they are all declared killed in action in a bizarre computer simulated war where the actual deaths must nevertheless occur.

24 This Side of Paradise 50 min | Mar 02, 1967

The Enterprise investigates a planet whose colonists should be dead, but are not.

25 The Devil in the Dark 50 min | Mar 09, 1967

The Enterprise is sent to a mining colony that is being terrorized by a mysterious monster, only to find that the situation is not that simple.

26 Errand of Mercy 50 min | Mar 23, 1967

With a war with Klingons raging, Kirk and Spock attempt to resist an occupation of a planet with incomprehensibly placid natives.

27 The Alternative Factor 50 min | Mar 30, 1967

Existence itself comes under threat from a man's power-struggle with his alternate self, with the Enterprise's strained dilithium crystals presenting his key to a final solution.

28 The City on the Edge of Forever 50 min | Apr 06, 1967

When a temporarily insane Dr. McCoy accidentally changes history and destroys his time, Kirk and Spock follow him to prevent the disaster, but the price to do so is high.

29 Operation -- Annihilate! 50 min | Apr 13, 1967

The Enterprise crew attempts to stop a plague of amoeba-like creatures from possessing human hosts and spreading throughout the galaxy.