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The first season of Star Trek: The Original Series was produced and filmed from May 1966 to February 1967 by Desilu . It began airing in the fall season on NBC , running new episodes until the spring of 1967 , and continuing in repeats until the premiere of TOS Season 2 in the fall of 1967. In the United Kingdom, the season premiered on the ITV network on Sunday, September 6, 1981 , and ended on Sunday, March 21, 1982 .

• 1.1 First pilot
• 1.2 Season 1
• 3 Background information
• 4.2.1 Uncredited crew
• 6 External links

Episodes [ ]

First pilot [ ], season 1 [ ], summary [ ].

The Starfleet vessel USS Enterprise sets out on a five-year mission to explore new worlds and seek out new lifeforms in the Alpha Quadrant of the Galaxy . Under the command of Human Captain James T. Kirk and the Vulcan Spock , the Enterprise comes across many strange lifeforms in the first year of its mission – including shapeshifters , androids , and even more bizarre creatures . Elsewhere, there are run-ins with several prominent species, including the warrior race of the Klingons , the Romulan Star Empire , and the Gorn .

The rest of the crew develop close bonds on the long journey, and even as each one experiences the joys of the brave new world of space, they all experience grief and sacrifices. Amongst those who grow close as part of the senior staff are one of the ship's nurses, Christine Chapel , the ship's doctor Leonard McCoy , Kirk's yeoman Janice Rand , helmsman Hikaru Sulu and communications officer Uhura .

Background information [ ]

• Production for the initial season of Star Trek cost an average of US$190,635 per episode. (Some episodes went largely over budget, such as " The City on the Edge of Forever ", which cost $250,396, the most expensive of all episodes except the two pilots). But this figure would gradually decrease in the two seasons to come. ( Inside Star Trek: The Real Story )
• Each episode was scheduled to be filmed in six days; however, many of them went over schedule, resulting in one or two extra days of shooting. When Paramount Pictures took over Desilu in mid-season 2, schedules became much more strict, and episodes had to be completed in six days (closer to five and half days actually).
• The first season of TOS was nominated for two Emmy Awards in 1967 as "Outstanding Dramatic Series" and "Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Drama – Leonard Nimoy ".
• The episodes " The Menagerie, Part I ", " The Menagerie, Part II ", and " The City on the Edge of Forever " won Hugo Awards as "Best Dramatic Presentation". " The Corbomite Maneuver " and " The Naked Time " were also nominated.

Credits [ ]

• Jeffrey Hunter as Capt. Pike ("The Cage")
• William Shatner as Capt. Kirk ("Where No Man Has Gone Before" – "Operation -- Annihilate!")
• Leonard Nimoy as " Mr. Spock "
• DeForest Kelley as " Dr. McCoy "
• James Doohan as " Scott "
• George Takei as " Sulu "
• Nichelle Nichols as " Uhura "
• Grace Lee Whitney as " Yeoman Rand "
• Majel Barrett as " Christine Chapel "
• See : TOS Season 1 performers
• " The Cage "
• " Mudd's Women " (story)
• " Charlie X " (story)
• " The Menagerie, Part I "
• " The Menagerie, Part II "
• " The Return of the Archons " (story)
• " Where No Man Has Gone Before "
• " The Corbomite Maneuver "
• " This Side of Paradise " (story)
• " Mudd's Women " (teleplay)
• " The Enemy Within "
• " The Man Trap "
• " The Naked Time "
• " Charlie X " (teleplay)
• " Tomorrow is Yesterday "
• " This Side of Paradise " (teleplay/story)
• " Balance of Terror "
• " The Squire of Gothos "
• " What Are Little Girls Made Of? "
• " Dagger of the Mind "
• " The Galileo Seven " (teleplay)
• " The Conscience of the King "
• " The Galileo Seven " (teleplay/story)
• " Court Martial " (teleplay/story)
• " Court Martial " (teleplay)
• " Operation -- Annihilate! "
• " Shore Leave "
• " Arena " (teleplay)
• " A Taste of Armageddon " (teleplay)
• " Space Seed " (teleplay)
• " The Devil in the Dark "
• " Errand of Mercy "
• " Arena " (story)
• " The Alternative Factor "
• " The Return of the Archons " (teleplay)
• " A Taste of Armageddon " (teleplay/story)
• " Space Seed " (teleplay/story)
• " The City on the Edge of Forever "
• " Mudd's Women "
• " Court Martial "
• " Space Seed "
• " Charlie X "
• " The Galileo Seven "
• " A Taste of Armageddon "
• " This Side of Paradise "
• Gene Roddenberry
• Gene Roddenberry ("Where No Man Has Gone Before" – "Dagger of the Mind", "The Menagerie, Part II")
• Gene L. Coon ("The Conscious of the King", "The Menagerie, Part I")
• Gene Roddenberry ("The Conscious of the King", "The Menagerie, Part I")
• Robert H. Justman ("Where No Man Has Gone Before" – "Operation -- Annihilate!")
• John D.F. Black ("The Corbomite Maneuver" – "Miri")
• Byron Haskin ("The Menagerie, Part II")
• Steven W. Carabatsos ("The Conscience of the King" – "A Taste of Armageddon") (not credited for "The Menagerie, Part II")
• D.C. Fontana ("This Side of Paradise" – "Operation -- Annihilate!")
• Ernest Haller , ASC ("Where No Man Has Gone Before")
• Jerry Finnerman (all episodes, except "The Menagerie, Part II")
• William E. Snyder , ASC ("The Menagerie, Part II")
• Walter M. Jefferies ("Where No Man Has Gone Before", "Mudd's Women", "The Man Trap", "The Naked Time" and "Charlie X")
• Roland M. Brooks ("The Corbomite Maneuver")
• Walter M. Jefferies
• Franz Bachelin ("The Menagerie, Part II")
• Alexander Courage
• Alexander Courage ("Where No Man Has Gone Before", "The Man Trap", "The Naked Time", "Dagger of the Mind", "Miri", "The Galileo Seven" – "The Menagerie, Part II", "The Squire of Gothos" – "Operation -- Annihilate!")
• Fred Steiner ("The Corbomite Maneuver", "Mudd's Women", "Charlie X" – "What Are Little Girls Made Of?")
• Sol Kaplan ("The Enemy Within")
• Mullendore ("The Conscience of the King")
• Gerald Fried ("Shore Leave")
• John Foley , ACE ("Where No Man Has Gone Before")
• Robert L. Swanson ("The Corbomite Maneuver", "The Man Trap", "Balance of Terror", "The Galileo Seven", "The Menagerie, Part I")
• Bruce Schoengarth ("Mudd's Women", "The Naked Time", "Dagger of the Mind", "Court Martial", "The Squire of Gothos", "Tomorrow Is Yesterday", "A Taste of Armageddon", "Errand of Mercy")
• Fabien Tordjmann ("The Enemy Within", "Charlie X", "Miri", "Shore Leave", "Arena", "Return of the Archons", "The Devil in the Dark", "Operation -- Annihilate!")
• Frank P. Keller , A.C.E. ("What Are Little Girls Made Of?", "The Conscience of the King")
• Leo Shreve ("The Menagerie, Part II")
• James D. Ballas , ACE ("The Alternative Factor", "Space Seed", "This Side of Paradise", "City on the Edge of Forever")
• Edward K. Milkis ("The Corbomite Maneuver", "The Enemy Within", "The Conscience of the King" – "Operation -- Annihilate!")
• Robert H. Justman ("Where No Man Has Gone Before")
• Gregg Peters (odd-numbered episodes from "The Corbomite Maneuver" through "Arena", "Return of the Archons", "A Taste of Armageddon", "The Devil in the Dark", "City on the Edge of Forever")
• Michael S. Glick (even-numbered episodes from "Mudd's Women" through "The Alternative Factor", "Charlie X", "The Menagerie, Part I", "The Menagerie, Part II", "Tomorrow Is Yesterday", "Space Seed", "This Side of Paradise", "Errand of Mercy", "Operation -- Annihilate!")
• Tiger Shapiro (Second Assistant Director)
• Ross Dowd ("Where No Man Has Gone Before")
• Carl F. Biddiscombe ("The Corbomite Maneuver" – "What Are Little Girls Made Of?")
• Marvin March ("Dagger of the Mind" – "Operation -- Annihilate!") (uncredited for "The Menagerie, Part II")
• Edward M. Parker ("The Menagerie, Part II")
• William Theiss ("Where No Man Has Gone Before" – "Operation -- Annihilate!")
• Bill Heath ("Where No Man Has Gone Before" – "Operation -- Annihilate!")
• Jack Hunsaker ("Where No Man Has Gone Before")
• Robert H. Raff ("The Corbomite Maneuver" – "The Conscience of the King", "Court Martial" – "Shore Leave")
• Jim Henrikson ("The Galileo Seven", "The Squire of Gothos" – "Operation -- Annihilate!")
• Joseph G. Sorokin ("Where No Man Has Gone Before", "The Corbomite Maneuver" – "Charlie X", "What Are Little Girls Made Of?" – "The Conscience of the King", "The Menagerie, Part I", "The Menagerie, Part II")
• Douglas H. Grindstaff ("Balance of Terror", "The Galileo Seven", "Court Martial", "Shore Leave" – "Operation -- Annihilate!")
• Cam McCulloch ("Where No Man Has Gone Before")
• Jack F. Lilly ("The Corbomite Maneuver" – "The Return of the Archons", "Space Seed") (uncredited for "The Menagerie, Part II")
• Stanford G. Haughton ("The Menagerie, Part II")
• Cameron McCulloch ("A Taste of Armageddon")
• Carl W. Daniels ("This Side of Paradise" – "Operation -- Annihilate!")
• Howard Anderson Co. ("Where No Man Has Gone Before, "The Corbomite Maneuver", "The Man Trap", "The Enemy Within" – "Charlie X", "The Menagerie, Part II")
• Westheimer Company ("Mudd's Women", "What Are Little Girls Made Of?", "Dagger of the Mind", "The Conscience of the King", "Shore Leave", "Arena", "Tomorrow Is Yesterday", "Space Seed", "This Side of Paradise", "Errand of Mercy", "Operation -- Annihilate!")
• Film Effects of Hollywood ("Balance of Terror", "The Galileo Seven" – "The Menagerie, Part I", "The Squire of Gothos", "The Alternative Factor", "Return of the Archons", "A Taste of Armageddon", "The Devil in the Dark", "The City on the Edge of Forever")
• Cinema Research Corporation ("Miri")
• George A. Rutter ("The Corbomite Maneuver" – "Arena", "Return of the Archons" – "This Side of Paradise")
• Billy Vernon ("The Alternative Factor", "Tomorrow Is Yesterday")
• Wilbur Hatch ("Where No Man Has Gone Before – "Operation -- Annihilate!")
• Julian Davidson ("Where No Man Has Gone Before – "Operation -- Annihilate!")
• Bob Overbeck ("Where No Man Has Gone Before")
• Jim Rugg ("The Corbomite Maneuver" – "Operation -- Annihilate!"; except "The Menagerie, Part II")
• Joe Lombardi ("The Menagerie, Part II")
• Irving A. Feinberg (all episodes; uncredited for "The Menagerie, Part II")
• Jack Briggs ("The Menagerie, Part II")
• George H. Merhoff (all episodes; uncredited for "The Menagerie, Part II")
• Bob Campbell ("The Menagerie, Part II")
• George Rader ("The Corbomite Maneuver" – "Operation -- Annihilate!")
• James A. Paisley ("The Menagerie, Part II")
• Bernard A. Widin ("The Corbomite Maneuver" – "Operation -- Annihilate!")
• Robert Dawn ("Where No Man Has Gone Before")
• Fred B. Phillips , SMA ("The Corbomite Maneuver" – "Operation -- Annihilate!")
• Hazel Keats ("Where No Man Has Gone Before")
• Virginia Darcy , CHS ("The Corbomite Maneuver" – "Operation -- Annihilate!")
• Gertrude Reade ("The Menagerie, Part II")
• Paul McCardle ("Where No Man Has Gone Before")
• Margaret Makau ("The Corbomite Maneuver" – "Operation -- Annihilate!")
• Joseph D'Agosta ("The Enemy Within", "The Naked Time", "What Are Little Girls Made Of?", "The Conscience of the King")
• Glen Glenn Sound Co. ("Where No Man Has Gone Before" – "Operation -- Annihilate!")
• Norway Corporation
• Herbert F. Solow ("The Corbomite Manuever" – "Operation -- Annihilate!")

Uncredited crew [ ]

• Darrell Anderson – Transporter Effects ("The Cage")
• John Chambers – Special Makeup Creator (for Leonard Nimoy) ("The Cage")
• Morris Chapnick – Assistant to the Producer ("The Cage")
• Jim Danforth – Prop Maker ("The Cage")
• Richard C. Datin – Model Maker ("The Cage", "Where No Man Has Gone Before", "The Galileo Seven", et.al. )
• Kellam de Forest ( de Forest Research ) – Researcher ("The Cage")
• Roger Duchowny – Second Assistant Director ("The Cage")
• Linwood G. Dunn – Visual Effects Cinematographer
• Pato Guzman – Production Designer ("The Cage")
• Oscar Katz – Executive in Charge of Production ("The Cage")
• Richard A. Kelley – Camera Operator ("The Cage")
• Thomas Kellogg – Production Illustrator ("The Galileo Seven")
• Reuben Klamer – Prop Maker ("Where No Man Has Gone Before")
• Harvey P. Lynn – Researcher ("The Cage")
• Bill McGovern – Clapper/Loader
• Donald R. Rode – Assistant Film Editor (also responsible for editing the episode trailers)
• Penny Romans – Choreographer (Susan Oliver's dance) ("The Cage")
• Denis Russell – Scenic Artist ("The Cage")
• Leo Shreve – Film Editor ("The Cage")
• Speed & Custom Shop ("The Galileo Seven")
• Craig Thompson – Office Manager Post-Production
• Penny Unger – Gene Roddenberry's secretary
• Charles Washburn – DGA Trainee
• Gene Winfield – Model and Set Maker ("The Galileo Seven")
• Albert Whitlock – Matte Painter ("The Cage", "Where No Man Has Gone Before")

See also [ ]

• Star Trek: The Original Series (VHS)
• TOS Season 1 Blu-ray
• TOS Season 1 DVD
• TOS Season 1 HD DVD
• TOS Season 1 performers

External links [ ]

• Star Trek: The Original Series season 1 at Memory Beta , the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
• The Original Series Season 1 episode reviews  at Ex Astris Scientia
• 2 USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-G)
• 3 Star Trek: The Next Generation

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Star Trek: The Original Series - Episode Guide - Season 1

From small space seeds do mighty Alvera trees grow. This is it, folks, the series of episodes that would launch the world’s all-time biggest science-fiction franchise (Star Wars ain’t science-fiction: It’s pure science *fantasy*).

Looking back on these 45-minute slices of tubedom today dates the show terribly, to be sure, but if one gets past the Styrofoam sets, rubber monsters and cheesy acting, one can discern a smart script in several TOS season 1 episodes. Check out “The Menagerie,” “Tomorrow is Yesterday” and of course “City on the Edge of Forever” for some top-quality notions that would still play well today.

1. The Man Trap – An Enterprise away team beams down to M-113 (they just didn’t have much flair for naming planets in the 23rd century…) to visit the Craters, an archaeologist couple. Three Red Shirts are laid to waste by the Mrs., who is revealed to be a shape-shifting alien who lives on salt – particularly those found in humanoids. **

2. Charlie X – The first of many Insane God! plots, “Charlie X” has at center the titular near-omniscient being who is kept under control while aboard the Enterprise only by the charms of Yeoman Rand... **

3. Where No Man Has Gone Before – Aaaaaand here’s another Insane God! When the Enterprise is about to pass through the “Great Barrier” and leave the Milky Way galaxy (but why?), a pair of Enterprise crew members develop – you guessed it – godlike powers that they can barely control. **

4. The Naked Time – The entire crew contracts and/or spreads a disease whose symptoms include drunkenness. Everyone, including Spock, acts goofy, but Kirk and McCoy have survived stronger stuff than this, for certain… **

5. The Enemy Within – The episode that spawned dozens of “transporter accident” plot lines, including all the silly ones: Captain Kirk is divided into two halves, the “good” (read: wimpy) and “evil” (overly aggressive). Sigh. *

6. Mudd’s Women – What a character, that Harry Mudd. The colorful intergalactic trader and his “cargo” of three scantily-clad babes first visit the Enterprise then a mining colony wherein he attempts to pawn off the females. Unfortunately, the women only work properly if viewed through beer goggles – or rather a drug haze. ***

7.  What Are Little Girls Made Of ? – Nurse Chapel’s fiancé turns out to be a literal bad boy: He’s applied his science genius to the manufacture of duplicates, with which he hopes to swamp the Federation. ***

8. Miri – On a planet strongly resembling Earth, an apocalyptic scenario has left only children alive. One of the strong scripts of season 1, yet rarely mentioned as a highlight. ***

9. Dagger of the Mind – Alternatively, “One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest at Warp Five.” An a planet which consists entirely of mental hospitals, one lead doctor is doing some insidious experimentation indeed…***

10. The Corbomite Maneuver – The Enterprise runs afoul of a cube more colorful than those of the Borg, which eventually leads to confrontation with a seemingly powerful and highly threatening alien. Kirk et al work to over-clever the alien, who is, believe it or not, not all that it seems…***

11-12. The Menagerie, parts I and II – Spock unexpectedly hijacks the Enterprise. In a court martial setting, he reveals that he only sought to take his former captain, Christopher Pike, to a planet on which he may live out his life in full, as opposed to the paralytic state that his last mission left him in. ****

13. The Conscience of the King – Kirk suspects an old actor friend of his may in actuality be a murderer. He invites the friend and his troupe aboard the Enterprise, where some good ol’ Shakespearean-style assassination attempts of Kirk go down. ***

14. Balance of Terror – In the Enterprise’s first meeting with the Romulans, Kirk’s counterpart face-reveals, with the crew shocked to find that Romulans are the spitting image of Vulcans. Star Trek Guide realizes that the greater purpose of addressing xenophobia and racism are in play here, but was there really not a single image of a Romulan in any Starfleet Academy textbook…? ***

15. Shore Leave – An uninhabited planet triggers vivid hallucinations among the crew when Kirk has them take shore leave there. Surely this was influenced by Stanislaw Lem’s Solaris, right…? **

16. The Galileo Seven – After an away team crashes in a shuttlecraft on a planet inhabited by big ol’ ape creatures, a couple of Red Shirts die and Spock takes a lot of trash-talking from a lieutenant who, in another episode, might just become a Red Shirt himself…***

17. The Squire of Gothos – The Enterprise finds an entire planet gone gravitationally rogue, and the crew finds it’s but a plaything of Trelane, a being of a mold somewhere between an Insane God and Q -(of the Next Generation era shows). In fact, an entire wing of fandom he mentally retconned Trelane into a full-on Q. So you can imagine how this episode goes. A prototypical example of ST:TOS. ****

18. Arena – Dude! This is the one where Kirk fights the lizard guy! **

19. Tomorrow Is Yesterday – The Enterprise accidentally time-travels back to 1969. Once in the past, they rescue air force captain John Christopher from an aviation disaster – but in doing so they create quite the violation of the Prime Directive, indeed. Imagine interfering with *your own* primitive pre-warp drive culture. Star Trek Guide prefers to think of this entire episode as a prologue to Star Trek IV… ***

20. Court Martial – The court martial of James T. Kirk, to be specific. (Kirk must hold the all-time Starfleet record for court martial hearings.) Rather than take on Spock as defense attorney – Doesn’t he know that Vulcans never lose in these situations? – he has an eccentric Matlockian lawyer represent him. Spock produces some computer 3D chess results as rather tenuous “evidence” and (spoiler) Kirk wins. ***

21. The Return of the Archons – An Insane God! has controlled inhabitants of a world looking a lot like 19th-century America for a few centuries until the Enterprise crew comes along … **

22. Space Seed – Here it is, the episode that eventually launched both Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and a zillion hilarious memes. The Enterprise comes across the Botany Bay, a ship on which a handful of genetically-engineered soldiers from the Eugenics Wars of the 1990s (we know, we know) remain in stasis. And then Khan and Kirk has a doozy of a fistfight. ***

23. A Taste of Armageddon – The Enterprise encounters a pair of planets engaged in a bizarre form of warfare: Essentially each planet’s supercomputer fights the other virtually, randomly drawing names to represent those killed in computer battle. ***

24. This Side of Paradise – As Philip J. Fry of Futurama fame once summarized, “Remember that episode where [Spock] got high on spores and smacked Kirk around?” That’s this one. **

25. The Devil in the Dark – Can you say, “It’s life, but not as we know it”? When mysterious deaths are reported at a mining colony, an Enterprise away team finds a whole new form of life living within the rocks, and those interfering Federation types are clueless until Spock pulls the ultimate mindmeld with this egg laying omelette-like alien … ***

26. Errand of Mercy – More like “Errand of Klingon Butt Kicking”! The Enterprise is dispatched by the Federation to the planet Organia, which has fallen into the hands of the Klingon Empire. All pretense of peace is thrown aside once new planetary ruler Kor attempts to impart his bloody agenda. ****

27. The Alternative Factor – This one’s sort of a combination of “The Enemy Within” and an Insane God! storyline. Kirk meets a man/noncorporeal being whose evil twin has incredible powers that he’s willing to use… **

28. The City on the Edge of Forever – Universally regarded as one of the top two or three ST:TOS episodes, and it’s still not 25% as good as Harlan Ellison’s original scripts! Time-travel shenanigans lead to a hard look at 1930s America as well as an interesting twist on the preserve-history trope. *****

29. Operation: Annihilate! – Upon arrival at Deneva, the Enterprise crew finds that the planet has been overrun with “macroscopic single-celled organisms” (technically very impossible) and most of the population driven mad-unto-death. Spock is infected and the race to find a cure is on! And have mercy: William Shatner features in a double role in this one… **  

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Catwoman and batgirl were in star trek.

Because they were airing at the same time, many actors appeared in both Star Trek: The Original Series and Batman . Julie Newmar portrayed Catwoman in 13 episodes of Batman and appeared as Eleen, a pregnant woman whose leader husband has just died in TOS season 2, episode 11, "Friday's Child." Yvonne Craig, who appeared in TOS season 3, episode 14, "Whom Gods Destroy" as the Orion Marta, also played Batgirl in 26 episodes of Batman . Sherry Jackson appeared alongside Frank Gorshin's Riddler as Pauline in 2 episodes of Batman and played an android woman named Andrea in TOS season 1, episode 7, "What Are Little Girls Made Of?"

Harry Mudd himself, Roger C. Carmel, played the villain Colonel Gumm in the first story of Batman's second season. Malachi Throne appeared as Commodore José Mendez in TOS two-parter, "The Menagerie," and played False Face in a season 1 Batman story. Grace Lee Whitney, who played Yeoman Janice Rand throughout much of TOS's first season, appeared in a Batman story as King Tut's bride, Neila . Golden Age starlet Joan Collins portrayed the doomed Edith Keeler in one of Star Trek's best episodes , "The City on the Edge of Forever," and she appeared in a season 3 Batman story as the Siren. Many more actors appeared in one-off roles in both Star Trek: The Original Series and Batman , and both shows remain beloved staples of their respective genres today.

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Star Trek's 10 Best Monster Episodes

• Star Trek embraces peace but also explores monster movie elements for some thrilling episodes.
• Shows like Voyager & Next Generation weave classic monster movie themes with sci-fi twists.
• Even as monsters take center stage, empathy remains a core theme in the Star Trek universe.

Star Trek has a message of peace and tolerance and seeing beyond the surface, but it's not above doing an all-out monster movie from time to time. From its inception in 1966, Star Trek has taught audiences not to judge alien species by appearances . For example, Star Trek: Voyager villains Species 8472 were terrifying, Alien -inspired creatures, who turned out to be benevolent aliens that had been driven to violence by the actions of the Borg Collective. Earlier episodes like Star Trek: The Original Series ' "Devil in the Dark" revealed hidden emotional depths to a creature that was ostensibly a disgusting rock monster.

Despite Star Trek 's message of empathy, sometimes the writers can't resist creating scary monsters and super creeps. Star Trek has always drawn on the history of science fiction, and the big monster movies popularized by studios like RKO are no exception . Over nearly six decades, Star Trek TV shows have drawn on classic monster movies like The Thing From Another World and King Kong , giving them a Gene Roddenberry-style twist.

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Star trek: voyager, season 2, episode 15, "threshold", story by michael de luca, teleplay by brannon braga.

Star Trek: Voyager 's notorious salamander episode , "Threshold" begins as an exploration of theoretical transwarp barriers and becomes something more akin to The Phantom of the Opera or King Kong . When Lt. Tom Paris (Robert Duncan McNeill) breaks the transwarp barrier, he begins experiencing some bizarre side effects. Breaking the transwarp barrier has triggered a strange evolution in Paris' body, which turns him into a salamander, who decides they need a mate in the form of Captain Kathryn Janeway (Kate Mulgrew).

...the monster movie elements ensure that "Threshold" is never boring.

There are some obvious monster movie parallels in "Threshold", from the way that the reptilian Paris carries an unconscious Janeway like the Phantom of the Opera to the body horror of the Voyager helmsman's transformation. The climax of the notorious Star Trek: Voyager episode, in which the "monster" that is now Paris fights off the crew to take Janeway as his mate, is pure King Kong . It's a Voyager episode that is rightly panned for its lack of narrative cohesion, but the monster movie elements ensure that "Threshold" is never boring.

Star Trek: The Next Generation, Season 7, Episode 19, "Genesis"

Written by brannon braga.

Star Trek: The Next Generation season 7, episode 19, "Genesis" is essentially The Island of Dr. Moreau set aboard the USS Enterprise-D. Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) and Lt. Commander Data (Brent Spiner) return to the Enterprise to discover that the crew has devolved into various terrifying monsters. For example, Lt. Reginald Barclay (Dwight Schultz) is de-evolved into a spider-like creature, while Lt. Worf (Michael Dorn) devolves into a savage proto-Klingon that tries to kill Picard. The cause of these transformations is a mistake made by Dr. Beverly Crusher (Gates McFadden) while reactivating a cell that would have given Barclay immunity to the flu.

Gates McFadden injects what could have been a very silly story with genuine tension.

Although the science is just as dubious as Star Trek: Voyager 's "Threshold", Star Trek: The Next Generation season 7, episode 19, "Genesis" has the benefit of being much more atmospheric. Interestingly, "Genesis" was directed by Dr. Beverly Crusher actor Gates McFadden , who injects what could have been a very silly story with genuine tension. The climax, where Picard tries to fend off an attack from a prehistoric Worf, while Data tries to concoct a cure using the DNA of Nurse Ogawa's unborn baby, is well directed by McFadden, giving this daft TNG outing an exciting monster movie vibe.

"Genesis" was the only episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation to be directed by Gates McFadden.

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Star trek: the original series, season 1, episode 26, "the devil in the dark", written by gene l. coon.

"The Devil in the Dark" is a classic Star Trek monster episode , because it hinges on Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner), Lt. Commander Spock (Leonard Nimoy), and Dr. "Bones" McCoy (DeForest Kelley) learning to understand a creature beyond their understanding. Investigating a supposed monster that is attacking a mining operation on Janus IV, they soon discover that the titular " devil in the dark " is no monster, but a mother protecting their young. It's thanks to Kirk and Spock's open-mindedness that the miners manage to avert the destruction of the entire Horta race .

The scene in which Kirk has to reason with the baying mob invokes images of the villagers with torches and pitchforks in the climax of Universal's classic monster movie, Frankenstein .

From a visual effects perspective, the actual Horta in Star Trek: The Original Series may look hokey by today's standards , but it tells a story about the need for empathy. TOS' cave monster isn't able to communicate with the miners, and so has to resort to violence. Similarly, the miners want violent recriminations from the "monster" that killed their colleagues. The scene in which Kirk has to reason with the baying mob invokes images of the villagers with torches and pitchforks in the climax of Universal's classic monster movie, Frankenstein . Thanks to Kirk, however, the Horta has a happier ending than Frankenstein's monster.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Season 2, Episode 12, "The Alternate"

Teleplay by bill dial, story by jim trombetti and bill dial.

In one of Constable Odo's best Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episodes , a mysterious monster stalks the corridors of DS9 late at night. It's believed to be the mysterious sample that Odo (Rene Auberjonois) and scientist Dr. Mora Pol (James Sloyan) brought back from the Gamma Quadrant. However, in reality, it's Odo, who is under the influence of mysterious alien toxins, and the stress of seeing his "father" again. "The Alternate" is a fun Star Trek spin on Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde , that has some genuinely unnerving moments of horror.

Odo's monstrous alter-ego is less Mr. Hyde, and more like the titular Blob from the classic 1958 sci-fi monster movie.

Odo's transition into the monster toward the end of the episode is horrifying to watch as he rants and raves while struggling to remain in a solid state. Odo's monstrous alter-ego is less Mr. Hyde, and more like the titular Blob from the classic 1958 sci-fi monster movie. Interestingly, Dr. Julian Bashir (Alexander Siddig) doesn't categorically confirm it's the alien toxins that caused the transformation, suggesting another cause. As the gelatinous monster bears down on Dr. Mora Pol, it becomes clear that the real cause of the transformation is Odo's father issues.

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Star trek: voyager, season 3, episode 12, "macrocosm".

Star Trek: Voyager has many creepy episodes , but "Macrocosm" is the most overt monster episode. Like Star Trek: The Next Generation 's "Genesis", also written by Brannon Braga, "Macrocosm" has a silly concept that is realized like a survival horror movie. The monsters faced by Captain Janeway and the Doctor (Robert Picardo) are effectively giant viruses that become airborne, infecting those they come into contact with. To repel the viral infection of the USS Voyager, the Doctor created an antigen which Janeway eventually detonated inside the holodeck, killing the assembled macroviruses.

"Macrocosm" finally gave Captain Janeway her Ellen Ripley moment.

"Macrocosm" got a wryly funny sequel in Star Trek: Lower Decks ' season 4 premiere, "Twovixed", but the episode itself is a decent homage to the Alien franchise. As the Star Trek franchise's first female captain, it's great to see Janeway getting to be an action hero like Captain Kirk in Star Trek: The Original Series , or Picard in Star Trek: First Contact . While the monsters themselves weren't anywhere near as terrifying as Alien 's Xenomorph, "Macrosm" finally gave Captain Janeway her Ellen Ripley moment.

Star Trek: Discovery, Season 1, Episode 3, "Context is for Kings"

Teleplay by gretchen j. berg, aaron harberts, and craig sweeny.

The disgraced Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) is given a second chance after her mutiny aboard the USS Shenzhou in a Star Trek: Discovery monster episode. "Context is for Kings" explores what happened to the USS Glenn, the second of Discovery 's crossfield-class starships . Following a catastrophic accident while experimenting with spore drive technology, the ship's entire crew were killed, save for the tartigrade creature they had captured and wired to the spore drive. Freed from its shackles by the accident, the creature rampaged through the Glenn, killing a Klingon boarding party and turning its attention to Burnham and her away team .

The true monster in Star Trek: Discovery season 1, episode 3, "Context is for Kings" is Starfleet themselves.

The true monster in Star Trek: Discovery season 1, episode 3, "Context is for Kings" is Starfleet themselves. The cruelty that the crew of the USS Glenn had shown to the tartigrade was unbecoming of Starfleet, and showed how far they were willing to diverge from their principles to defeat the Klingon Empire . Captain Gabriel Lorca (Jason Isaacs) hammers this point home by having the tartigrade brought aboard the USS Discovery, taunting it as it tries to break free from the forcefield.

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Star trek: lower decks, season 4, episode 2, "i have no bones yet i must flee", written by aaron burdette.

Star Trek: Lower Decks introduced Moopsy into the canon in the season 4 episode, "I Have No Bones Yet I Must Flee". Visiting an alien menagerie, newly promoted Lt. junior grade Beckett Mariner (Tawny Newsome) and Commander Jack Ransom (Jerry O'Connell) had to conted with Moopsy, a soft fluffy creature that also happened to drink bones . Mariner and Ransom came up with a suitably irreverent Lower Decks solution to their problem, by punching out Ransom's teeth and using them as treats to lure the Moopsy back into its cage.

Moopsy is basically a monstrous Tribble, unable to control its base urges.

Moopsy was the sort of creation that could only feature in the irreverent world of Star Trek: Lower Decks , and yet it plays on existing creatures in the canon. Moopsy is basically a monstrous Tribble, unable to control its base urges. However, Mariner and Ransom don't kill the creature to save themselves, they find a humane - if slightly painful - solution to their situation. Not only that, but Mariner also unmasks the truly dangerous monsters - greedy humans seeking to bulk up their business portfolios , in this case by staging a hostile takeover of an alien menagerie.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Season 1, Episode 9, "All Those Who Wander"

Written by davy perez.

"All Those Who Wander" combines the classic Star Trek: The Original Series episode "Arena" with Alien to provide a terrifying episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds . The vicious Gorn babies that are encountered by the Enterprise away team are relentless, rampaging through the ship and killing everything in their path. It's through the noble sacrifice of Lt. Hemmer (Bruce Horak) that the away team is able to get back to the safety of the USS Enterprise. However, the scars of the terrifying encounter between the Enterprise and the Gorn carry over into Strange New Worlds season 2 .

The Gorn infants move like raptors, drawing comparisons with the climax of Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park

Because there's genuine dramatic stakes and a cost to life, Star Trek: Strange New World 's Gorn survival horror movie is the best version of the subgenre after the classic movie, Star Trek: First Contact . As an hour of television, it wears its genre influences on its sleeve, particularly the similarities between the icy crash site with the colony in Aliens . However, it's not just the Alien franchise that Star Trek: Strange New Worlds riffs on in "All Those Who Wander". The Gorn infants move like raptors, drawing comparisons with the climax of Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park .

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Star trek: the next generation, season 1, episode 23, "skin of evil", teleplay by joseph stefano & hannah louise shearer.

Armus (Ron Gans) in Star Trek: The Next Generation , is a truly monstrous creation, and even refers to himself as " evil " . Unlike the Horta in Star Trek: The Original Series , Armus isn't attacking the Enterprise away team to protect its children, he's doing it because he's a monster. A black, oily mass of everything impure and evil rejected by a " race of Titans ", Armus was abandoned on the planet Vagra II . There, he fantasized about torturing any visitors to the planet, but he quickly got bored after killing Lt. Tasha Yar (Denise Crosby).

Tasha Yar was no red shirt, and her death at the hands of the monster of the week makes "Skin of Evil" an impactful entry in the TNG canon.

"Skin of Evil" is one of Star Trek 's best monster episodes because, like "All Those Who Wander", it takes a toll on the characters. Star Trek: The Next Generation loses Tasha Yar to this monster, which proved that it would be a very different show to Star Trek: The Original Series . A TOS version of "Skin of Evil" would have played out in a similar fashion, but with the deaths of some disposable red shirts thrown in . Tasha Yar was no red shirt, and her death at the hands of the monster of the week makes "Skin of Evil" an impactful entry in the TNG canon.

Star Trek: The Original Series, Season 1, Episode 5, "The Man Trap"

Written by george clayton johnson.

Star Trek 's best monster episode is also its very first, setting the tone for those that would follow . Star Trek: The Original Series , season 1, episode 5, "The Man Trap", features a Salt Vampire that feeds on salt, which can also shapeshift to take the form of anyone that can help it achieve its goals. In essence, "The Man Trap" is Star Trek 's take on the 1951 movie The Thing From Another World , later remade by John Carpenter as The Thing . Both the Star Trek episode and the Thing movies center on a shapeshifting creature that feeds on the human characters.

"The Man Trap" was chosen by the network as the first episode of Star Trek: The Original Series to air due, in part, to its strong monster-of-the-week.

Both iterations of The Thing and Star Trek: TOS season 1, episode 5, "The Man Trap" also play on paranoia and being unable to trust your own eyes . In "The Man Trap", the Salt Vampire has the ability to take the form of the woman most desirable to each of the male characters. For example, Dr. McCoy believes it to be his former lover, Nancy, driving a wedge between him, Kirk and Spock. "The Man Trap" was chosen as the first episode of Star Trek: TOS to air in 1966, and its influence can be felt in Star Trek 's monster episodes nearly 60 years later.

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'Constellation' season 1 episode 7 review: Fumbling around in the dark

The penultimate episode of 'Constellation' runs in circles before finding its way towards an emotional and satisfying ending.

We're now in the final stretch of the first season of " Constellation " (we don't know if there'll be more), and while the conclusion is beginning to take shape, we're not sure whether it all justifies eight episodes. In episode 7, we're back to walking in circles for most of the runtime. However, the more personal moments, solid acting all-around, and cool visual tricks prevent this chapter from sinking.

Joseph Cedar ("Our Boys") stays around for 'Through the Looking Glass' and once again demonstrates he's got the juice when it comes to planning and executing 'show, don't tell' moments that maybe would've fallen flat in other hands. The script isn't nearly as playful, however.

We've been saying since the very beginning that "Constellation" didn't exactly have many things to say for your standard eight-episode season, and that's still true. With only one episode left, it feels like the entire show is being carried by the cast , the production values, and the visual artistry on display.

"Constellation" is just one of the many exciting new sci-fi shows and movies coming out in 2024: Halo's second season has been a fun ride that's about to wrap up; Dune: Part Two is the movie that everyone has been talking about for weeks; and the Adam Sandler-led, trippy space flick titled Spaceman is a solid watch on Netflix.

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Spoilers ahead for "Constellation" season 1 episode 7: 'Through the Looking Glass'

As theorized in last week's episode 6 review , Rosie and Davina Coleman's Alice has gradually become the key to figuring out at least the emotional conflict at the center of the series. That is, Jo's (Noomi Rapace) disconnect from her former reality and struggle to adapt to a different one. It's a compelling drama to follow on a sci-fi level and a more personal one.

We're well aware of the universe-bending stuff going on, but a simpler show that strictly focused on a mother's struggle to re-connect with her family after an outer-space accident would've worked as well as this one (if not better).

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With the thin mystery almost completely figured out – bar getting the affected characters where they should be (which may be impossible, given the grounded tone) – the focus is now put on Jo, Alice, Magnus (James D'Arcy), and Henry/Bud Caldera (Jonathan Banks) coming to terms with the post-accident state of things and looking for a way forward. Of course, this won't be easy, and that's why a second season might happen. That said, if the conspiracy surrounding everything doesn't become bigger and more menacing in the finale, we'd rather have everything wrapped up next week.

Plot-wise, there isn't nearly as much to discuss in episode 7 as in previous weeks. For the entire runtime, we're stuck in the Swedish wilderness as realities collide and each character's points of view become more important than ever before.

Neither Jo nor Alice nor Henry/Bud have the ability to fix what's gone wrong, but they can try to understand it and move on from there. In fact, the episode's strongest moments come from heartfelt interactions rather than the reality-twisting mess seemingly caused by the CAL experiment.

Symbolism also becomes more important than before, with the scenery limited to the cabins where Alice and Jo/Magnus have retreated to and the surrounding wilderness. Pay attention to the creepy paintings, the cat, and other little details. Again, it's not subtle visual storytelling, but at this point we'll take anything that makes our mind figure things out on its own.

Our theory on there being more than two realities also gains some traction in 'Through the Looking Glass' as the narration advances, although it may not be as simple as we thought.

The gist of the situation is that we're dealing with two of every major character as we swap places between the reality where Paul died (let's call it the 'main one') and the parallel universe where Jo was the International Space Station (ISS) member who perished. As explained last week, the main mechanic "Constellation" has operated with doesn't explain how both Jo and Paul were able to leave the ISS after a critical malfunction which could only be fixed from the inside. So, what is that extra layer we're missing?

It's not unreasonable to expect the pre-existing conspiracy and implied cover-ups by the space exploration institutions to half-explain the dead cosmonaut that seemingly hit the ISS and visions that don't line up with any of the parallel realities we've been following. Moreover, Alice's ability to establish contact between worlds remains unexpected and far more mysterious than anything going on with those directly involved with the CAL experiment.

With almost half an episode chasing 'ghosts' in the middle of a snowstorm and Magnus winning another 'Father of the Year' award after sleeping through two different escapes by Alice, 'Through the Looking Glass' sets its sights on the decrepit cabin that matches neither reality A nor reality B. At first, only the Alices can access it before establishing communication thanks to their tape player-recorder, but Jo eventually 'enters' it as well. At this point, the episode starts feeling like an 'Upside Down' sequence from Stranger Things .

The simple mirror tricks here are effective enough to make the key conversation of the episode stand out, and Jo's less-than-ideal call to the other reality, her reality, is heart-wrenching for everyone involved; her predicament seems hard (if not impossible) to fix. The Coleman sisters also have better material (and better direction) to work with here and come across as more believable.

James D'Arcy's Magnus (at least one of them) also gets some resolution in this chapter. He catches a glimpse of Jo alive beside their daughter, so that should heavily influence how Magnus approaches the next step in their collective journey.

Following a house fire, the Alice from the reality where Jo came back from the ISS nearly dies, and this allows her to 'tap into' the third reality again… and get a disturbing visit from the dead cosmonaut (aka 'The Valya'), who appears to be Irene Lysenko (Barbara Sukowa) somehow. Is the show about to get more fantastical or does Alice's damaged psyche affect what she can see and hear too?

On top of paying a visit to the place where they've taken the increasingly unstable Jo and likely getting some answers from the Roscosmos head, Henry and Bud Caldera appear to have fully swapped places after several episodes of their personalities and memories starting to mix together. It all appears to be shaped by new exposure to the CAL device, so perhaps its effects can be reversed once everyone is on the same page.

The thing is, after wasting at least two episodes in trips that went nowhere, we doubt the remaining one will be enough to wrap it all up with just one season. But how could executive producer Peter Harness justify a complete new set of episodes to deal with a story which, frankly, isn't that complex nor high-concept? We're definitely open to suggestions and curious about what the finale will bring.

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The Galileo Seven

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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 ... Read all 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. 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.

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• Trivia After this episode was filmed, no new shots of the shuttlecraft miniature were taken. All shuttlecraft model shots used in the series were stock footage from this episode, sometimes matted into different backgrounds.
• Goofs Spock states they need to remove all possible weight to lift off. Much is jettisoned, but the seating remains, even the empty seats.

Scott : Mr. Spock, you said a while ago that there were always alternatives.

Spock : Did I? I may have been mistaken.

Dr. McCoy : Well, at least I lived long enough to hear that.

• Crazy credits In the closing credits of the show, the title for Script Supervisor, George A. Rutter, is misspelled "SCPIPT SUPERVISOR".
• Alternate versions Special Enhanced version Digitally Remastered with new exterior shots and remade opening theme song
• Connections Edited into Star Trek: Journey to Babel (1967)
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