Star Trek: The Original Series - Season 2 Episode 25: Bread and Circuses Season 2 opens with Mr. Spock behaving aggressively while Kirk discovers his first officer must return home to … The second and penultimate season of the American science fiction television series Star Trek: The Original Series, premiered on NBC on September 15, 1967 and concluded on March 29, 1968. Already Cancelled give their reaction and recap to 2x09 of Star Trek The Original Series. While Star Trek season one generally impressed the TV critics and writers, already leaving an indelible mark on 1960s American pop culture, viewing figures weren’t great and thus CBS executives were hesitant to greenlight par two. **, 21. It later acquired the retronym of Star Trek: The Original Series (TOS) to distinguish the show within the media franchise that it began.. ***, 11. It was presented by Roddenberry as a black-and-white workprint at various science fiction conventions over the years after Star Trek's cancellation but was not released on home video until 1986 when Paramount Home Video produced a "restored" release of "The Cage" (a combination of the original black-and-white footage and color portions of the Season 1 episode "The Menagerie") along with an introduction by Gene Roddenberry. Star Trek The Original Series S01E07 What Are Little Girls Made Of. The episodes were broadcast in a different order than in the United States and were originally aired in four seasons between 1969 and 1971. ****. Keith DeCandido rewatches the original Star Trek series, with Kirk, Spock, and the gang, along with the Animated Series. This introduction to the balls o’ fur has everything you’d want in a great ST episode: humor, character notes, a random rogue figure, Klingons kicking ass … no wonder “Trouble with Tribbles” is so unforgettable. ***, 20. Star Trek: The Original Series – the seaons, the key episodes. Serialization (and thus continuity) was essentially non-existent. **, 6. The last episode of the series, "Turnabout Intruder", aired on June 3, 1969,[2] but Star Trek would eventually return to television in animated form when the animated Star Trek debuted in September 1973. Perhaps it was Gene Roddenberry’s enthusiasm for the production that ramrodded Star Trek onto television sets for 1967-68. This version remains unaired. Report. It also ran for fewer seasons than any Star Trek series since the original. The show's 26-episode second season began in September 1967[2] with "Amok Time", which introduced actor Walter Koenig as Russian navigator Pavel Chekov, and granted viewers the first glimpse of Spock's homeworld, Vulcan. ***, 17. After Roddenberry's second pilot episode, "Where No Man Has Gone Before", received a more favorable response from NBC,[21][22] Star Trek finally aired its first episode—"The Man Trap"—at 8:30PM on September 8, 1966. Some more gladiator games? The list below details the series' episodes in production order, including the original series pilot, "The Cage". )[14][15] The remastered episodes began with "Balance of Terror" (along with, in some markets, "Miri") during the weekend of September 16, 2006,[16] and ended with "The Cage", which aired during the weekend of May 2, 2009. Whitney left the series after "The Conscience of the King",[21][29][30] but would later make minor appearances in the first, third, fourth, and sixth Star Trek films as well as one episode of the companion series Star Trek: Voyager. "The Cage" was first broadcast on Sky One in July 1990. In this one, Kirk, Spock, McCoy, etc., contract the bad space virus and as they approach senility, Romulans choose to attack. Season 1 | Season 2 | Season 3 | All Seasons Season 2 … Yeah, I thought not. 0:24. The Deadly Years – The first in a long tradition of rapid-aging stories on Star Trek. A 20th-century Earth probe has gained near-sentience and seeks to “find and sterilize imperfection,” such as the 4 billion citizens of a world the Enterprise was not in time to save. (Unless he meant Apollo form, you know, the 1970s Battlestar Galactica series…?) Season 1 – In the 1960s, TV was a different beast. [13] (To date, the remastered episodes have only been broadcast in standard definition, though all three seasons are now available on the high-definition Blu-ray Disc format. [16], Star Trek's pilot episode, "The Cage", was completed between November 1964 and January 1965,[18] and starred Jeffrey Hunter as Captain Christopher Pike, Majel Barrett as Number One, and Leonard Nimoy as Spock. Star Trek's final, 24-episode season began in September 1968 with "Spock's Brain". The episodes are listed in order by original air date,[2] which match the episode order in each season's original,[3][4][5] remastered,[6][7][8] and Blu-ray DVD[9] box sets. 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. Star Trek: The Original Series. William Shatner [Captain Kirk] Leonard Nimoy [Cmdr. The first episode broadcast in color was "Arena" on November 15, 1969. These edited episodes aired until the 1990s[vague], after which the BBC was supplied with NTSC videotape transfers of the first season instead of new film prints, resulting in a substandard picture, and with edits originally made for syndication in the United States. Star Trek: The Original Series (Remastered) Season 1. STAR TREK: ENTERPRISE (2001-2005) took us back in time to the early days of Starfleet before the formation of the Federation. They soon take over the Enterprise and begin prepping it for a 300-year mission back to Andromeda. Friday’s Child – The Federation and the Klingons compete for the economic affection of the Capella, seriously hot-headed dudes on a planet rich in dilithium. **, 23. Star Trek was first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC One starting on July 12, 1969 with the episode "Where No Man Has Gone Before". [12] This popularity would eventually lead to the expansion of the Star Trek catalog, which as of 2020 includes nine more television series and thirteen Trek motion pictures. *****, 16. The BBC edited the episodes for broadcast by showing the title sequence first, then the teaser segment that aired before the titles in the United States, then the rest of the episode. Star Trek. [23], On October 4, 1988, Paramount Pictures aired a two-hour television special, hosted by Patrick Stewart, called The Star Trek Saga: From One Generation to the Next, which featured, for the first time, a full-color television presentation of "The Cage". Live long and prosper. Star Trek: The Original Series, Season 3 2009 Top Sci-Fi & Fantasy Shows See All. See reviews & details on a wide selection of Blu-ray & DVDs, both new & used. Playing next. (Apparently someone was catching early Doctor Who…). 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[17] The remastered air dates listed below are based on the weekend each episode aired in syndication. The season ended with "Assignment: Earth", an attempt to launch a spin-off television series set in the 1960s. The Gamesters of Triskelion – Insane Gods! [28] "Where No Man...", which eventually aired in a re-edited format as the series' third episode, retained only Spock as a character from "The Cage" but introduced William Shatner as Captain James T. Kirk, James Doohan as chief engineer Scotty, and George Takei as physicist (later helmsman) Sulu. Star Trek The Original Series. It also ran for fewer seasons than any Star Trek series since the original. ***, 4. The first season of the American science fiction television series Star Trek: The Original Series, originally created by Gene Roddenberry, premiered on NBC on September 8, 1966 and concluded on April 13, 1967. Mirror, Mirror – A transporter malfunction (you knew it had to be a transporter malfunction) sends Kirk, McCoy, Scotty and Uhura into a parallel universe in which Machiavelli is probably taught in first grade and the Enterprise is on no peacekeeping mission. The original, single-disc DVD releases placed the episodes by production order, with "The Cage" on the final disc.[10]. Catspaw – While orbiting a seemingly dead planet, the Enterprise is captured by two Insane Gods! Main article: Star Trek: The Original Series (season 2) The show's 26-episode second … Patterns of Force – When in doubt, turn to Nazis! **, 3. Scott] George Takei [Lt. Sulu] ... Cygnus-X1.Net: A Tribute to Star Trek is maintained by John Patuto. When the Federation discovers the Klingon Empire messing around with a low level of technological development, the Enterprise is dispatched to address the cultural contamination. The season also includes such notable episodes as "Mirror, Mirror", which introduces the evil "mirror universe"; "Journey to Babel", featuring the introduction of Spock's parents Sarek and Amanda; and the light-hearted "The Trouble with Tribbles", which would later be revisited in a 1973 episode of Star Trek: The Animated Series and a 1996 episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. *, 24. Available on. involved in a struggle which manifests itself in the form of traditional symbols of witchery. ****, 5. The old buddies come to blows (so to speak) when Spock is nearly driven insane by the ravages on the Pon Farr. [24] It was later included on the final disc in both the original and "remastered" season 3 DVD box sets (listed with the original air date of October 15, 1988).[5][8][25]. Three episodes, "Plato's Stepchildren", "The Empath", and "Whom Gods Destroy", were not broadcast on the BBC until 1994, although "The Empath" was listed in the Radio Times as scheduled to broadcast on December 16, 1970 at 7:20 pm. **, 18. Spock] DeForest Kelley [Dr. McCoy] James Doohan [Lt. Cmdr. With William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, BarBara Luna. HoloLens PC Mobile device Xbox 360 Episodes. Star Trek. While the "complete season" DVD releases (listed above) follow the original broadcast order, the original episodic DVD releases[10] are numbered by production order.[38]. Star Trek: Picard, Season 1 2020 Firefly, The Complete Series 2002 Gotham, Seasons 1-5 2019 A Discovery of Witches, Season 1 2019 Game of Thrones, Season 1 2011 Game of Thrones, Season 8 2019 By Any Other Name – Kirk and his away team are attacked by aliens from the Andromeda Galaxy. 44:06. The Mirror Universe concept was established this season with "Mirror, Mirror" and we also learned about Spock's mating habits and Pon farr in "Amok Time." ***, 13. A Private Little War – War with Klingons, that is! The Enterprise installs “a new computer system.” The so-called M-5 gets fanatical in a hurry, wreaking particular havoc during a four-ship war game. Star Trek The Original Series Season 1 Episode 9 Dagger of the Mind. STAR TREK THE ORIGINAL SERIES: SEASON 2 . [19] Jeffrey Hunter chose to withdraw from the role of Pike[20] when creator Gene Roddenberry was asked to produce a second pilot episode ("Where No Man Has Gone Before") of which a slightly (but not significantly) edited version of the same name aired in 1966 as the third episode of the new series. Amok Time – Or, if you’d like, Spock vs. Kirk, round 2. Star Trek's first season comprised 29 episodes, including the two-part episode "The Menagerie", which includes almost all of the footage from the original pilot, "The Cage". A much-celebrated episode from the original series, “Doomsday Machine” has inspired video games and Star Trek novels. After the series' cancellation, Paramount Television released Star Trek to television stations as a syndication package,[11] where the series' popularity grew to become a "major phenomenon within popular culture". Star Trek TNG - S03E11 - The Hunted. From $34.99. Star Trek: The Original Series (Remastered) Season 3. Star Trek The Original Series Season 2 Episode 24 The Ultimate Computer. Obsession – When Kirk spots a “gaseous entity” that destroyed a ship previously under his command, he becomes (you guessed it) obsessed with killing the thing. Star Trek TOS Season 1 Outro and Credits - Duration: 1:01. From its opening montage to its largely uninteresting characters to its storytelling, Enterprise was inarguably the weakest of the Star Trek series. Star Trek is an American science-fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry that follows the adventures of the starship USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) and its crew. Another fabulous 'Star Trek: The Original Series' box set is available on Blu-ray. Journey to Babel – Spock’s parents Sarek and Amanda board the Enterprise on the way to mediate peace talks between the Andorians and Tellarites. The Enterprise heads to Capella IV.The Capellans are a warrior tribe and McCoy has spent a few months with them at one time. Both the original Season 3 and "remastered" season 3 sets list the original air date for "The Cage" as October 15, 1988. Star Trek. **, 8. It consisted of twenty-six episodes. Directed by Marc Daniels. *, 14. ***, 25. [21][22], "The Cage" never aired during Star Trek's original run on NBC. And along the way, the small question of … murder! ***, 22. From $34.99. ***, 9. Kirk, Spock, McCoy and a crew member beam down and the crew member ends up dead. (Hey, Voyager and Enterprise both did…) A former Starfleet professor has “assisted” the cultures of twin planets through technological advances and the adoption of fascism as a choice of government. ***, 12. The Doomsday Machine – The Enterprise comes to the assistance of the Constellation, a Federation starship nearly destroyed by a planet-sized destruction machine (so kinda like the Death Star but uncontrolled). In terms of watchability, season two of the original series rehashes some already worn ideas, but does bring innovative stuff like the mirror universe and Tribbles, both of which would continue to manifest themselves throughout the ST series. 46:21. ***, 15. A Piece of the Action – Sorry, but once the showrunners accepted the case for “parallel evolution”, the stretching for story ideas was obvious. Pretty silly stuff, though Kirk and Spock’s explanation of Fizzbin is almost worth the price of admission. The series originally aired from September 1966 through June 1969 on NBC. Star Trek The Next Generation. Star Trek: The Original Series - Episode Guide - Season 2 May 06, 2019 01312.4 – The Original Series While Star Trek season one generally impressed the TV critics and writers, already leaving an indelible mark on 1960s American pop culture, viewing figures weren’t great and thus CBS executives were hesitant to greenlight par two. 54:36. Hammerfall541 2,964 views. **, 19. The sounds, the look, and all-new digital effects that hold close to the spirit of the original are all here in the critically acclaimed "Remastered" editions of the classic Star Trek series of the 1960s. The pilot was rejected by NBC as being "too cerebral" among other complaints. 52:22. The TOS retrospective reviews were written during the fall of 1998 during a high-profile daily re-airing of the series. [citation needed], After Star Trek's second season, NBC was prepared to cancel the show due to low ratings. As the ship approaches the Galactic Barrier (Hey, that thing can turn you into an Insane God!, you know…), Kirk engages one in a fistfight and rapidly convinces the rest to stay in the Milky Way. Have no fear, however: Majel Barrett’s voice is returned to the Enterprise for the next episode. "Where No Man Has Gone Before" in its original form (production number 02a) had been forwarded to NBC, but only a re-edited version was aired, not as a pilot but as the third episode of the series (production number 02b). List of Star Trek: The Original Series episodes " Metamorphosis " is the ninth episode of the second season of the American science fiction television series Star Trek . 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