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.
Gene Roddenberry wrote a pilot episode for the series, which was known as "The Menagerie" at the time, and it was filmed for NBC in 1964. NBC rejected the pilot but ordered a second, which would be "Where No Man Has Gone Before". When footage from the pilot was reused for the two-part story "The Menagerie", the name of the pilot was changed to "The Cage".
"The Cage" starred Jeffrey Hunter as Captain Christopher Pike, Leonard Nimoy as Mr Spock, Majel Barrett as Number One, and John Hoyt as Dr Phil Boyce.
When the second pilot was ordered, Hunter refused to reprise his role and William Shatner was hired to play Captain James T Kirk and Nimoy was retained as Spock. Barrett was given the new role of Nurse Christine Chapel who would work with Dr Leonard "Bones" McCoy, played by DeForest Kelley, who replaced Dr Boyce.
The BBC began showing episodes in 1969.
Radio Times introduced the series in the listing for "Where No Man Has Gone Before": "Today the moon - tomorrow the cosmos? The first is fact, the second is so far fiction. Nevertheless this new adventure series looks forward to a not-too-distant future when man will be exploring and colonising the worlds beyond us. The star-ship Enterprise, under Captain James Kirk, is engaged in patrolling the new-found galactic oceans"
Aliens trap Captain Christopher Pike in a glass-walled cage where illusions are taken for reality.
Guest star(s)
Susan Oliver: Vena
Meg Wylie: Keeper
UK premiere
August 19, 1992
First broadcast (1972-90)
N/A
S01E01
The Enterprise is ordered beyond the limits of explored space. It picks up the flight-recorder of a long-lost spaceship - which warns of a terrifying hazard ahead. Soon Enterprise faces disaster, while the captain faces a grim choice between friendship and duty.
Guest star(s)
Gary Lockwood: Lt-Cmdr Gary Mitchell
Sally Kellerman: Dr Elizabeth Dehner
Paul Fix: Dr Piper
Lloyd Haynes: Alden
Paul Carr: Lt Lee Kelso
UK premiere
July 12, 1969
First broadcast (1972-90)
September 24, 1973
S01E06
The mission - to pick up the scientific team from the dying planet and then to observe the final disintegration from a safe orbit. But its death throes spawn a deadly peril for the crew of the Enterprise and send them hurtling crazily towards destruction.
Guest star(s)
Bruce Hyde: Riley
Stewart Moss: Tormolen
UK premiere
July 19, 1969
First broadcast (1972-90)
February 9, 1972
S01E23
A diplomatic demarche to one of the protagonists in a 500-years' war reveals a computerised conflict causing the most cold-blooded casualties in the history of space -and the Enterprise with all her crew are marked down on the list as destroyed!
Guest star(s)
Gene Lyons: Ambassador Fox
David Opatoshu: Anan
Barbara Babcock: Mea
UK premiere
August 2, 1969
First broadcast (1972-90)
October 15, 1973
S01E21
A freak of gravity propels the USS Enterprise into the past to become a 'UFO' of the 1960s. Not the least of Captain Kirk's problems is to decide what on Earth can be done so that the captured fighter pilot can take his allotted place in history.
Guest star(s)
Roger Perry: Captain Christopher
UK premiere
August 16, 1969
First broadcast (1972-90)
October 30, 1973
S01E15
There isn't a more loyal conscientious officer in the Star fleet than Mr. Spock, yet the message he gives to Captain Kirk ordering him to Starbase 11 proves to be false. More startling still, when the USS Enterprise abandons her incredulous captain and sets illegal course for the forbidden Talos IV, there is another captain aboard and the 'loyal' Spock is in command!
Guest star(s)
Malachi Throne: Commodore Mendez
Sean Kenney/Jeffrey Hunter: Captain Pike
Susan Oliver: Vina
UK premiere
August 23, 1969
First broadcast (1972-90)
January 26, 1972
S01E16
Passing the point of no return on his flight to the forbidden planet, the errant Spock surrenders to his pursuers and elects to stand court martial on the charge of mutiny. Can the amazing revelations of the first journey of the Enterprise 13 years earlier excuse his crime, or must the terrors of Talos IV be braved?
Guest star(s)
Malachi Throne: Commodore Mendez
Sean Kenney/Jeffrey Hunter: Captain Pike
Susan Oliver: Vina
UK premiere
August 30, 1969
First broadcast (1972-90)
February 2, 1972
S01E26
Operations on the planet Janus come to a halt as one by one the panic-stricken workers are destroyed by an unknown monster. Summoned to assist, Capt Kirk finds he has little time to solve the mystery of the silicon spheres they have unearthed, and to confront the creature whose approach has meant a horrible death to so many.
Guest star(s)
Ken Lynch: Chief Eng Vanderberg
Barry Russo: Lt Cmdr Giotto
UK premiere
September 6, 1969
First broadcast (1972-90)
November 20, 1973
S01E07
The only boy in families sometimes tends to be spoilt but surely none so strangely as the youngster who becomes a passenger on the USS Enterprise. His petulance develops into a trial of wills with no less a personage than the Captain, and the safety of the ship, or more, is incredibly at stake.
Guest star(s)
Robert Walker Jr: Charlie Evans
UK premiere
September 13, 1969
First broadcast (1972-90)
February 16, 1972
S01E17
The crew of the USS Enterprise take a well-earned rest on the beautiful planet they find after a long period of stress. To see a giant rabbit, however surprising, is no cause for alarm, but a ferocious sword-wielding Samurai warrior is a very different kettle of fish, and their pleasure soon gives way to terror.
Guest star(s)
Bruce Mars: Finnigan
Emily Banks: Tonia Barrows
Shirley Bonne: Ruth
Oliver McGowan: Caretaker
UK premiere
September 20, 1969
First broadcast (1972-90)
December 4, 1973
S01E24
A derelict spaceship from another age drifts aimlessly across the path of the USS Enterprise bearing the survivors of a past civilisation. Only after boarding does Captain Kirk realise why his challenge goes unanswered.
Guest star(s)
Ricardo Montalban: Khan
Madlyn Rhue: Lt Marla McGivers
UK premiere
September 27, 1969
First broadcast (1972-90)
December 11, 1973
S01E05
A routine visit to planet M113 arouses old emotions in Dr McCoy and he finds it hard to realise that Nancy, his old flame, is literally all things to all men. No man worthy of his salt would fail to stand by one he has loved, no matter what she has become; but there are limits, fortunately for Captain Kirk.
Guest star(s)
Jeanne Bal/Francine Pyne: Nancy
Alfred Ryder: Professor Crater
UK premiere
October 4, 1969
First broadcast (1972-90)
February 23, 1972
S01E10
The smooth routine of the USS Enterprise is violently disturbed by the contents of a crate received during delivery of cargo to the penal colony Tantalus. There seems to be a satisfactory explanation for events, but a doubt in the mind of Captain Kirk causes him to probe further...
Guest star(s)
Marianna Hill: Helen Noel
Morgan Woodward: Dr Van Gelder
James Gregory: Dr Adams
UK premiere
October 11, 1969
First broadcast (1972-90)
April 2, 1973
S01E02
The alarm bells clang aboard the uss Enterprise as the sensors detect an unidentified object speeding towards the spaceship on a collision course! Anxious eyes scan the master viewing screen to see a speck rapidly materialise into a strange spinning cube which obdurately blocks their path at every turn, causing Captain Kirk to take a calculated risk and play his last card against an immensely powerful and implacable opponent for a most unexpected denouement.
Guest star(s)
Anthony Call: Navigator
Clint Howard: Balok
UK premiere
October 18, 1969
First broadcast (1972-90)
June 10, 1974
S01E08
A most unusual event aboard the USS Enterprise is rudely interrupted by the alarm for action stations. What transpires sends a grim Captain Kirk in furious pursuit of a mysterious spaceship, determined at all costs to engage a brutal and cunning enemy in a battle to the death.
Guest star(s)
Paul Comi: Andrew Stiles
Mark Lenard: Alien Commancer
John Warbuton: Centurion
UK premiere
October 25, 1969
First broadcast (1972-90)
March 1, 1972
S01E18
When an unknown planet looms into the path of the USS Enterprise it is hardly the time for the helmsman to disappear, and for his successor to follow suit is somewhat more than inconvenient, especially as he is the Captain! The urban anachronistic figure which has uncannily contrived their discomfiture leads Kirk and his crew a merry dance, until events take an uglier turn...
Guest star(s)
Venita Wolf: Teresa Ross
William Campbell: General Trelane
Michael Barrier: De Salle
UK premiere
November 1, 1969
First broadcast (1972-90)
July 10, 1974
S01E09
Sugar and spice may not have been the ingredients Dr Korby used, but the result is delectable enough to disturb his wife and more than troubles Captain Kirk. Their discovery of the long-lost scientist is the first, and by far the most pleasant, of the surprises in store.
Guest star(s)
Micheal Strong: Dr Korby
Sherry Jackson: Andrea
Ted Cassidy: An android (Ruk)
UK premiere
November 8, 1969
First broadcast (1972-90)
July 17, 1974
(s)S01E19
A treacherous attack obliterates the outpost on Planet Cestus Three and the USS Enterprise hurtles in hot pursuit of a mysterious alien vessel only to be halted by an incredible occurrence. The fantastic contest which follows is to try the strength and skill of Captain Kirk to the utmost, but it is not only these attributes which are on trial.
Guest star(s)
Carole Shelyne: A Metron
UK premiere
November 15, 1969
First broadcast (1972-90)
March 8, 1972
S01E22
Investigating the fate of a landing party on Planet Beta 3000, Captain Kirk is transported into a peculiarly placid community ruled by a dread deity. He is horrified by their terrifying transformation in ordained nightly 'festivals' which are anything but fun!
Guest star(s)
Charles MacAuley: Landru
Harry Townes: Regar
Brioni Farrell: Tula
Torin Thatcher: Marplon
UK premiere
November 22, 1969
First broadcast (1972-90)
July 19, 1976
S01E25
Given the grim task of seeking survivors on Omicron Ceti III, which has become exposed to deadly rays, Kirk is astounded to find everyone well and content. He becomes baffled and then, fortunately, enraged at the insidious effect on his crew, even Spock succumbing.
Guest star(s)
Frank Overton: Elias Sandaval
Jill Ireland: Leila
UK premiere
November 29, 1969
First broadcast (1972-90)
July 31, 1974
S01E14
In the aftermath of a violent storm, Captain Kirk is charged with causing the death of a missing officer through cowardice; but as the investigation proceeds, a more sinister motive emerges. His version of events is at variance with the record, his word against the computer-and the computer never lies!
Guest star(s)
Percy Rodriguez: Portmaster Stone
Joan Marshall: Areel Shaw
Elisha Cook: Samuel T Cogley
Richard Webb: Officer Finney
Alice Rawlings: Jame Finney
UK premiere
December 6, 1969
First broadcast (1972-90)
June 28, 1972
S01E27
An attack on the Enterprise ends negotiations with the Klingon Empire. Kirk warns the planet Organid only to find its rulers indifferent to the threat of invasion. It is a chastening experience when he discovers the reason for their apparent apathy.
Guest star(s)
John Abbott: Ayelborne
David Hillary Hughes: Trefayne
Peter Brocco: Claymore
John Colicos: Kor
UK premiere
December 13, 1969
First broadcast (1972-90)
August 14, 1974 (January 12, 1972)
S01E12
The deception which diverts the USS Enterprise off course raises the curtain on the last scene of a drama which began 20 years before with a slaughter of innocents. The Bard of Avon declared all the world a stage, but Captain Kirk takes Shakespeare a stage further - into space - and tragically finds his Ophelia.
Guest star(s)
William Sargent: Dr Leighton
Arnold Moss: Anton Karidan
Barbara Anderson: Lenore
UK premiere
December 20, 1969
First broadcast (1972-90)
March 15, 1972
S01E13
Mr Spock's first independent command looks like being his last. Lost on unexplored Taurus II and under attack from its monstrous inhabitants, his only hope is the USS Enterprise; but Captain Kirk is also engaged in conflict - with no chance of winning!
Guest star(s)
John Crawford: High Commissioner Ferris
Peter Marko: Gaetano
Rees Vaughn: Latimer
UK premiere
December 27, 1969
First broadcast (1972-90)
March 22, 1972
S01E11
Distress signals send the USS Enterprise speeding towards the source and Captain Kirk is staggered by what he sees on the screen, apparently 1,000 light years from where it should be! The surprise serves to condition him somewhat for the situation that awaits him; but nothing could prepare the landing party for the grotesque world of Peter Pans who never grow up - for long!
Guest star(s)
Kim Darby: Miri
Michael J Pollard: Jahn
UK premiere
December 2, 1970
First broadcast (1972-90)
N/A
Despite being aired in 1970, an official statement from the BBC explained that this, "The Empath", "Plato's Stepchildren" and "Whom Gods Destroy" would not be screened because they dealt "most unpleasantly" with the subjects of madness, torture, sadism and disease. It would eventually get a repeat showing on October 14, 1992.
S01E29
A spaceship hurtling to the sun, her crew preferring the holocaust to the horror which besets them, warns Captain Kirk of danger on the planet Deneva. His worst fears are realised when he descends to the city and finds its inhabitants tortured by an intolerable invasion of the unknown.
Guest star(s)
Joan Swift: Aurelan
Craig Hundley: Peter
UK premiere
December 9, 1970
First broadcast (1972-90)
April 9, 1973
S01E20
An immense magnetic phenomenon fractures space from end to end causing headquarters to flash urgent warnings to the entire star fleet and orders to the Enterprise at the focal point in particular.
Guest star(s)
John Drew Barrymore: Lazarus
UK premiere
December 8, 1971
First broadcast (1972-90)
September 10, 1973
S02E01
Dungeons and ancient instruments of torture are out of place in outer space, but, manacled to a dank wall, Captain Kirk concludes that they cannot be optical illusions! Whose fevered imagination has brought them into being, and literally puts the heat on the USS Enterprise? It's most surprising to see!
Guest star(s)
Theo Marcuse: Korob
Antoine Bower: Sylvia
UK premiere
April 20, 1970
First broadcast (1972-90)
April 5, 1972
S02E04
A huge hand reaches out from the heavens and holds the Star Ship Enterprise immovable in a mighty grip! Captain Kirk truly reaches Olympian heights in his defiance of the glorious god-like being who demands his homage.
Guest star(s)
Michael Forest: Apollo
Leslie Parrish: Carolyn
UK premiere
April 27, 1970
First broadcast (1972-90)
April 12, 1972
S02E09
To the landing party from the USS Enterprise, it seems like a blooming paradise at first, but the flowers spew death, and the natives don't know about the birds and the bees.
Guest star(s)
Celeste Yarnall: Martha Landon
Keith Andes: Akuta
UK premiere
May 4, 1970
First broadcast (1972-90)
April 19, 1972
S02E02
Love takes many forms, but surely none stranger than the pervasive passion which envelopes the shuttlecraft Galileo and maroons it beyond hope of rescue. It seems likely that pestilence and war will take their toll before Captain Kirk can reach the heart of the matter.
Guest star(s)
Glenn Corbett: Cochrane
Elinor Donahue: Commissioner
UK premiere
May 11, 1970
First broadcast (1972-90)
April 26, 1972
S02E07
Caught red-handed beside savagely slain victims, the misogynous Chief Engineer of the Enterprise seems to have taken his aversion to the fair sex too far. If he is to go Scott-free, his captain must isolate the evil spirit that has actuated such spasms of slaughter through the ages.
Guest star(s)
John Fielder: Hengis
Charles MacAuley: Jaris
Pilar Seurat: Sybo
UK premiere
May 18, 1970
First broadcast (1972-90)
May 3, 1972
S02E08
With bolts from the blue, Nomad, the amazing, man-made exterminator of millions, hammers its way aboard the USS Enterprise. On the brink of catastrophe, Captain Kirk admits to a grave error, but thanks to a flash of inspiration, he is not the last to eat humble pie in the sky.
UK premiere
May 25, 1970
First broadcast (1972-90)
May 10, 1972
S02E13
'A trifling matter, certainly not warranting a red alert' - asserts an indignant Captain Kirk, thereby incurring the enmity of the agitated Federation under-secreary on Space Station K7, who initiated it. However, there is more than a grain of truth in the truism that troubles, like tribbles, tend to multiply.
Guest star(s)
Stanley Adams: Cyrano Jones
William Schallert: Nilz Baris
William Campbell: Koloth
UK premiere
June 1, 1970
First broadcast (1972-90)
April 5, 1972
S02E14
All roads lead to Rome, it is said, but when a trail of space-ship debris brings Captain Kirk to the polluted atmosphere of a 20th-century planet he is astounded by what he sees. Seeking the missing crew, he is forced into furious combat to save his own men from being butchered to make a Roman holiday.
Guest star(s)
William Smithers: Merik
Logan Ramsey: Claudius
Ian Wolfe: Septimus
Lois Jewell: Drusilla
UK premiere
June 8, 1970
First broadcast (1972-90)
May 24, 1972
S02E15
In the resplendent dress uniform of a Star-Ship Captain, Kirk welcomes the Vulcanian Ambassador and his wife aboard and is intrigued to learn that they are none other than the parents of his First Officer, Mr Spock. Surprise at their ensuing reactions quickly gives way to alarm as crisis follows crisis, leading to a logical conclusion.
Guest star(s)
Jane Wyatt: Amanda
Mark Lenard: Sarek
UK premiere
June 22, 1970
First broadcast (1972-90)
May 31, 1972
S02E11
The inevitable toll of time, made tolerable only by the passage of years, is abruptly brought to the USS Enterprise within hours in the form of a horrible infection. Captain Kirk was not in the habit of repeating his orders, but that was before his dotage and the disgrace of losing his command.
Guest star(s)
Charles Drake: Captain Stocker
Sarah Marshall: Janet Wallace
UK premiere
June 29, 1970
First broadcast (1972-90)
June 7, 1972
S02E16
Star Fleet orders specifically forbid intervention in the evolution of other races, yet Captain Kirk takes the grave risk of running guns to a previously peaceful tribe. He runs a far greater peril without even realising it, which is perhaps just as well for his peace of mind.
Guest star(s)
Nancy Kovak: Nona
Michael Witney: Tyree
UK premiere
July 6, 1970
First broadcast (1972-90)
June 14, 1972
S02E18
A taste of honey arouses old fears and forebodings in Captain Kirk and causes him to disregard vital orders in a fanatical effort to rid Space and his conscience of a deadly creature out for blood. The dread spectre is to realise his worst fears and reveal the anguish of a fatal error in his past.
Guest star(s)
Jerry Ayres: Rizzo
UK premiere
July 13, 1970
First broadcast (1972-90)
June 21, 1972
S02E21
The end of human existence seems in sight when the Andromedan invaders effortlessly take over the USS Enterprise and calmly declare their intention. Masters of metabolism, the many limbed monsters of overwhelming power fortunately assume the frailty of human form to achieve their aims.
Guest star(s)
Warren Stevens: Rojan
Barbara Bouchet: Kelinda
UK premiere
July 20, 1970
First broadcast (1972-90)
July 5, 1972
S02E12
In great trepidation, the Captain of the USS Enterprise is forcibly transported to what some might suppose a dream world ruled, surprisingly, by the most incorrigible scoundrel of the space age.
Guest star(s)
Roger C Carmel: Mudd
Richard Tatro: Norman
Kay Elliot: Stella Mudd
UK premiere
July 27, 1970
First broadcast (1972-90)
January 15, 1973
S02E23
A highly sophisticated space-probe directed at the USS Enterprise from the backward planet of Zeon surprises and disturbs Captain Kirk during his search for a missing Federation officer.
Guest star(s)
Skip Homeier: Melakon
Richard Evans: Isak
Valora Noland: Daras
UK premiere
August 3, 1970
First broadcast (1972-90)
January 22, 1973
S02E19
The usually imperturbable Mr Spock is shaken to learn from his instruments that the USS Intrepid with 400 fellow Vulcans aboard, has "died"; but this is as nothing to the later news that the whole Solar System has perished.
UK premiere
August 10, 1970
First broadcast (1972-90)
January 29, 1973
S02E25
Orbiting aimlessly without a crew the USS Exeter presents the appearance of a Marie Celeste in space to the incredulous eyes of Captain Kirk and his boarding party, but they soon find something far more sinister than was seen in that ancient mystery of the sea.
Guest star(s)
Morgan Woodward: Tracy
Roy Jenson: Cloud William
UK premiere
August 24, 1970
First broadcast (1972-90)
February 5, 1973
S02E20
Star Fleet orders sternly prohibit the contamination of other cultures. But when the USS Horizon visited a remote planet a hundred years before Captain Kirk was unfortunate enough to arrive, someone left a book behind about an earlier prohibition and its aftermath, with strange results.
Guest star(s)
Anthony Caruso: Bela
Victor Tayback: Krako
UK premiere
September 7, 1970
First broadcast (1972-90)
February 12, 1973
S02E03
Captain Kirk and party have to mind their Ps and Qs as the position on planet Capella is pregnant with perilous possibilities - particularly for Dr McCoy, whose proffered professional palliatives meet with a painful response. Taking their cue from the Good Book and drawing a bow at a venture, they attempt to pin down their implacable pursuers.
Guest star(s)
Julie Newmar: Eleen
Tige Andrews: Kras
Michael Dante: Maab
UK premiere
October 14, 1970
First broadcast (1972-90)
February 26, 1973
S02E17
The forms of Captain Kirk and his landing party for planet Gamma Z fade on the transporter pads as the order 'energise' is given; but instead of materialising on the land mass shown on the video-screens of the USS Enterprise, they disappear completely from the ken of their amazed crew-mates.
Guest star(s)
Joseph Ruskin: Gait
Angelique Pettyjohn: Shahna
UK premiere
November 18, 1970
First broadcast (1972-90)
March 19, 1973
S02E05
The extremely illogical behaviour of Mr Spock astounds his crew-mates, causing Captain Kirk to disobey Star Fleet orders and head for the planet Vulcan at high speed. Sadly strange that his solicitude for Spock should result in a contest to the death between them, with the half-Vulcan the victor!
Guest star(s)
Alene Martel: T'Pring
Celia Lovsky: T'Pau
Lawrence Montaigne: Stonn
UK premiere
November 25, 1970
First broadcast (1972-90)
March 26, 1973
S02E06
The Star-Ship Enterprise encounters an enormous mechanical monster in space, set on a path of destruction, and so huge that whole worlds are being crushed into rubble. Only an act of supreme sacrifice can save the galaxy.
Guest stars
William Windom: Commodore Decker
John Copage: Elliot
UK premiere
January 5, 1972
First broadcast (1972-90)
August 7, 1974
S03E21
The deadly epidemic raging aboard the USS Enterprise can only be halted by an antidote from Planet Halbrecht 917G, thought to be uninhabited but hiding the secret of centuries. With just four hours left to save his crew, Captain Kirk encounters the green-eyed monster of the emotions and is smitten by an age-old malady for which there is no cure.
Guest star(s)
James Daly: Flint
Louise Sorel: Reena
UK premiere
December 30, 1970
First broadcast (1972-90)
April 27, 1973
S03E22
Browsing in a public library is an extraordinary way for Kirk to spend the last hours on a doomed planet with only the librarian left; but this is no ordinary library or, indeed, librarian.
Guest star(s)
Ian Wolfe: Atoz
Mariette Hartley: Zarabeth
UK premiere
January 6, 1971
First broadcast (1972-90)
May 4, 1973
S03E11
The intangible menace that has been the curse of mankind since Cain insidiously invades the USS Enterprise, causing chaos and bringing the Star-Ship to the brink of destruction. Under its hateful influence, crew and Klingons clash in blind fury, oblivious to the peril until Captain Kirk perceives the strangest of solutions.
Guest star(s)
Michael Ansara: Kang
Susan Howard: Mara
UK premiere
January 13, 1971
First broadcast (1972-90)
May 11, 1973
S03E20
Way off course with way out space-hippie passengers seeking the way out to their planetary paradise, a disconcerted Captain Kirk has difficulty in imposing discipline.
Guest star(s)
Skip Homeier: Dr Severin
Charles Napier: Adam
Mary Linda Rapelye: Irina
UK premiere
January 20, 1971
First broadcast (1972-90)
May 18, 1973
S03E13
Captain Kirk usually has sound reasons for his actions but never more so than when the high-pitched insect hum, which he had previously noticed on the distressed planet of Scalos, pervades the Enterprise.
Guest star(s)
Kathie Brown: Deela
Jason Evers: Rael
UK premiere
January 27, 1971
First broadcast (1972-90)
June 1, 1973
S03E19
People in elevated positions tend to look down on others less favourably placed but the situation confronting Captain Kirk in Strato City is much more serious than snobbery.
Guest star(s)
Jeff Corey: Plasus
Charlene Polite: Vanna
Diana Ewing: Droxine
UK premiere
February 10, 1971
First broadcast (1972-90)
June 18, 1973
S03E01
Captain Kirk's persistence in exploring a forbidden planet results in a sentence of death being passed on his party. Instead of phasers, they find the unfamiliar shape of six-guns in their hands and it seems that their mode of 'going west' is fated to be as the victims of a historic gunfight.
Guest star(s)
Bonnie Beecher: Sylvia
Ron Soble: Wyatt Earp
Rex Holman: Morgan Earp
Sam Gilman: Doc Holliday
UK premiere
September 15, 1971
First broadcast (1972-90)
June 21, 1972
S03E02
The Captain of the USS Enterprise has more than enough trouble on his hands in the shapely form of a female possessing curious qualities, so the last thing he needs is a clash with the Klingons too. Despite the foreboding of his friends, Kirk proves to have a powerful antidote to the peculiar potency of a woman's tears.
Guest star(s)
France Nuyen: Elaan
Jay Robinson: Peth
Tony Young: Kryton
UK premiere
September 22, 1971
First broadcast (1972-90)
June 22, 1973
S03E04
The strange behaviour of Captain Kirk causes adverse comment aboard the Enterprise which deteriorates into dissension when it seems he has led his crew into a suicidal situation. Even his faithful second-in-command Mr Spock openly doubts his sanity and is eventually forced to eliminate his commander with the Vulcan death grip!
Guest star(s)
Joanne Linville: Romulan Commander
UK premiere
September 29, 1971
First broadcast (1972-90)
June 29, 1973
S03E05
Investigating a disaster call from planet Triacus, Kirk is much puzzled to find children playing happily beside the sprawled bodies of their parents, mysteriously done to death. The enigma is as nothing to that which awaits him when he discovers the games they get up to aboard the Enterprise!
Guest star(s)
Melvin Belli: Gorgan
Craig Hundley: Tommy Starnes
UK premiere
October 6, 1971
First broadcast (1972-90)
July 5, 1973
S03E07
The passage-ways of the USS Enterprise are cleared and special visors issued to officers for the arrival of the Menduesan ambassador, representative of a race beautiful of thought but so hideous of aspect that humans are driven mad by the sight of them.
Guest star(s)
Diana Muldaur: Miranda
David Frankham: Marvick
UK premiere
October 20, 1971
First broadcast (1972-90)
October 20, 1971
S03E10
A spread of missiles speeds towards the Enterprise, the source seemingly a deserted asteroid but sensors detect a mysterious hollow centre. Captain Kirk takes a landing party and with him goes a stricken Dr McCoy, who has just learned he has only a year to live.
Guest star(s)
Kate Woodville: Natira
UK premiere
October 27, 1971
First broadcast (1972-90)
July 27, 1973
S03E14
Stranded on a hostile planet, their space-ship flung a thousand light years away, it's literally touch and go for Kirk and his comrades.
Guest star(s)
Arthur Batanides: D'Amato
Naomi Pollack: Lt Rahada
Lee Meriwether: Losira
UK premiere
November 3, 1971
First broadcast (1972-90)
August 3, 1973
S03E17
Energised on the transporter pads of his ship to beam down to the mysterious planet of Gideon, Captain Kirk materialises to find himself alone on an apparently deserted USS Enterprise. Paradoxically encroaching on his consciousness comes the shattering experience of a crushed populace crowding in on him crying out for his blood.
Guest star(s)
Sharon Acker: Odona
David Hurst: Hodin
UK premiere
November 10, 1971
First broadcast (1972-90)
August 10, 1973
S03E18
The stars that an enamoured chief engineer of the Enterprise beholds in the eyes of his beloved signal a sinister take-over bid rather than a response to his ardour. Many are to perish under the weird alien onslaught and more than one member of the crew has to endure immense pressure.
Guest star(s)
Jan Shutan: Lt Mira Romaine
UK premiere
November 17, 1971
First broadcast (1972-90)
August 17, 1973
S03E22
Although unable to believe the evidence of his eyes, an incredulous Captain Kirk turns from the video screen to order presidential honours for the arrival of his historic hero. An even more incredible encounter is in store, affecting the safety of all aboard the Enterprise.
Guest star(s)
Lee Bergere: Abraham Lincoln
Barry Atwater: Surak
Phil Pine: Col Green
Nathan Young: Genghis Khan
UK premiere
November 24, 1971
First broadcast (1972-90)
August 24, 1973
S03E09
Star Fleet orders specifically forbid intervention in the evolution of other races, yet Captain Kirk takes the grave risk of running guns to a previously peaceful tribe. He runs a far greater peril without even realising it, which is perhaps just as well for his peace of mind.
Guest stars
Nancy Kovak: Nona
Michael Witney: Tyree
First broadcast (1972-90)
June 14, 1972
S03E24
In the aftermath of a violent storm, Captain Kirk is charged with causing the death of a missing officer through cowardice; but as the investigation proceeds, a more sinister motive emerges. His version of events is at variance with the record, his word against the computer-and the computer never lies!
Guest stars
Percy Rodriguez: Portmaster Stone
Joan Marshall: Areel Shaw
Elisha Cook: Samuel T Cogley
Richard Webb: Officer Finney
Alice Rawlings: Jame Finney
First broadcast (1972-90)
June 28, 1972
S03E03
Oblivious to his duties, Kirk takes unto himself a wife and idles away time in an idyllic community, while Spock desperately tries to divert the huge asteroid hurtling on a collision course - and fails!
Guest stars
Sabrina Scharf: Miramanee
Rudy Solari: Salish
UK premiere
April 16, 1973 (listing as a repeat)
First broadcast (1972-90)
April 16, 1973
S03E12
The Enterprises officers become the slaves of a race which rules by will-power.
UK premiere
December 22, 1993
First broadcast (1972-90)
N/A
The BBC took the decision not to show this episode because it dealt with sadism. An official statement explained that this, "Miri", "The Empath" and "Whom Gods Destroy" would not be screened because they dealt "most unpleasantly" with the subjects of madness, torture, sadism and disease.
S03E08
Landing on the doomed planet, Captain Kirk searches in vain for the scientific mission to be evacuated, only to see his officers vanish before his very eyes. Helpless in the hands of alien masters of electronic magic, they endure agonising experiments.
Guest star(s)
Kathryn Hays: Gem
Alan Bergman: Lai
William Sage: Thann
UK premiere
January 5, 1994
First broadcast (1972-90)
N/A
This episode was scheduled to be aired on December 16, 1970 but, following a viewer complaint after the broadcast of "Miri", was cancelled. official statement from the BBC explained that this, "Miri", "Plato's Stepchildren" and "Whom Gods Destroy" would not be screened because they dealt "most unpleasantly" with the subjects of madness, torture, sadism and disease. It would eventually get an airing on January 5, 1994.
S03E16
Kirk and Spock are imprisoned on an asylum planet by a dangerous individual.
Guest star(s)
Steve Ihnat: Garth
Yvonne Craig: Marta
Keye Luke: Cory
UK premiere
January 19, 1994
First broadcast (1972-90)
N/A
The BBC took the decision not to show this episode due to its content. An official statement explained that this, "Miri", "The Empath" and "Plato's Stepchildren" would not be screened because they dealt "most unpleasantly" with the subjects of madness, torture, sadism and disease.