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.

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