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Star Trek: The Original Series: Season 2

Star Trek

Star Trek: The Original Series: Season 2

Paramount Pictures (Sep 15, 1967)
TV Series | Adventure | Science Fiction
USA | English | Color | 21:47
Star Trek The Original Series Season 2
Blu-ray Disc
G (General Audience)
097360717662
| 7 discs
Region 1
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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
DeForest Kelley Dr. McCoy
Eddie Paskey Lieutenant Leslie
Bill Blackburn Lieutenant Hadley
Nichelle Nichols Uhura
James Doohan Scott
Walter Koenig Chekov
Frank da Vinci Lt. Brent
Roger Holloway Lt. Lemli
George Takei Sulu
Jeannie Malone Yeoman
Majel Barrett Nurse Chapel
John Winston Transporter Chief
Frieda Rentie Enterprise Lieutenant
Paul Baxley Patrol Leader
John Blower Crewman Swenson
Jay D. Jones Mirt
Bob Orrison Patrol Villager
Walker Edmiston Space Central
Bob Johnson Ground Control
Bobby Bass Android
Bart La Rue Announcer
Gary Wright Vulcan Litter Bearer
Marlys Burdette Krako's Girl

Episodes View details

1 Amok Time 50 min | Sep 15, 1967

In the throes of his Pon Farr mating period, Spock must return to Vulcan to meet his intended future wife, betrothed from childhood.

2 Who Mourns for Adonais? 50 min | Sep 22, 1967

A powerful being claiming to be the Greek god Apollo appears and demands that the crew of the Enterprise disembark onto his planet to worship him.

3 The Changeling 50 min | Sep 29, 1967

A powerful artificially intelligent Earth probe, with a murderously twisted imperative, comes aboard the Enterprise and mistakes Capt. Kirk for its creator.

4 Mirror, Mirror 50 min | Oct 06, 1967

A transporter accident places Captain Kirk's landing party in an alternate universe, where the Enterprise is in the service of a barbarically brutal empire.

5 The Apple 50 min | Oct 13, 1967

Primitive inhabitants of Gamma Trianguli VI worship a god who orders them to kill visitors from the Enterprise.

6 The Doomsday Machine 50 min | Oct 20, 1967

The USS Enterprise encounters the wrecked USS Constellation and its distraught commodore who's determined to stop the giant planet-destroying robot ship that killed his crew.

7 Catspaw 50 min | Oct 27, 1967

Very alien visitors to our galaxy attempt to connect with human consciousness but miss, winding up tapping into the regions of human nightmares instead.

8 I, Mudd 50 min | Nov 03, 1967

Harry Mudd returns with a plot to take over the Enterprise by stranding the crew on a planet populated by androids under his command.

9 Metamorphosis 50 min | Nov 10, 1967

While returning to the Enterprise aboard the shuttlecraft, Kirk, Spock, McCoy and a seriously ill Federation diplomat find themselves kidnapped by an energized cloud.

10 Journey to Babel 50 min | Nov 17, 1967

The Enterprise hosts a number of quarrelling diplomats, including Spock's father, but someone on board has murder in mind.

11 Friday's Child 50 min | Dec 01, 1967

The Federation clashes with the Klingon Empire over mining rights to Capella IV. A sudden coup between its warrior-minded inhabitants forces Kirk's party to flee with the now dead leader's pregnant wife.

12 The Deadly Years 50 min | Dec 08, 1967

A landing party from the Enterprise is exposed to strange form of radiation which rapidly ages them.

13 Obsession 50 min | Dec 15, 1967

Capt. Kirk obsessively hunts for a mysterious cloud creature he encountered in his youth.

14 Wolf in the Fold 50 min | Dec 22, 1967

Kirk and the Enterprise computer become detectives after Scotty is accused of murdering women on a pleasure planet.

15 The Trouble with Tribbles 50 min | Dec 29, 1967

To protect a space station with a vital grain shipment, Kirk and the crew must deal with Federation bureaucrats, a Klingon battle cruiser and a peddler who sells furry, purring, voracious little creatures as pets.

16 The Gamesters of Triskelion 50 min | Jan 05, 1968

Kirk, Uhura and Chekov are trapped on a planet where abducted aliens are enslaved and trained to perform as gladiators for the amusement of bored, faceless aliens.

17 A Piece of the Action 50 min | Jan 12, 1968

The crew of the Enterprise struggles to cope with a planet of imitative people who have modeled their society on 1920s gangsters.

18 The Immunity Syndrome 50 min | Jan 19, 1968

The Enterprise encounters a gigantic energy draining space organism that threatens the galaxy.

19 A Private Little War 50 min | Feb 02, 1968

Peaceful, primitive peoples get caught up in the struggle between superpowers, with Kirk unhappily trying to restore the balance of power disrupted by the Klingons.

20 Return to Tomorrow 50 min | Feb 09, 1968

The Enterprise is guided to a distant, long-dead world where survivors of an extremely ancient race - existing only as disembodied energy - desiring the bodies of Kirk, Spock and astro-biologist Ann Mulhall so that they may live again.

21 Patterns of Force 50 min | Feb 16, 1968

Looking for a missing Federation cultural observer, Kirk and Spock find themselves on a planet whose culture has been completely patterned after Nazi Germany.

22 By Any Other Name 50 min | Feb 23, 1968

Galactic alien scouts capture the Enterprise for a return voyage and a prelude to invasion. Kirk's one advantage - they're not used to their adopted human form.

23 The Omega Glory 50 min | Mar 01, 1968

Responding to a distress signal, Kirk finds Captain Tracey of the U.S.S. Exeter violating the prime directive and interfering with a war between the Yangs and the Kohms to find the secret of their longevity.

24 The Ultimate Computer 50 min | Mar 08, 1968

Kirk and a sub-skeleton crew are ordered to test out an advanced artificially intelligent control system - the M-5 Multitronic system, which could potentially render them all redundant.

25 Bread and Circuses 50 min | Mar 15, 1968

The Enterprise crew investigates the disappearance of a ship's crew on a planet that is a modern version of the Roman Empire.

26 Assignment: Earth 50 min | Mar 29, 1968

While back in time observing Earth in 1968, the Enterprise crew encounters the mysterious Gary Seven who has his own agenda on the planet.