Line #70 Recap/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries


1	!!! This page uses the US broadcast order, which differs from the production order broadcast in some countries.
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7	* "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E0TheCage The Cage]]": A rescue mission to the remote planet Talos IV turns sour when the natives, beings with powerful telepathic abilities, kidnap the ship's captain and two female officers for scientific study.
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10	[[folder:Season 1 (September 8, 1966 - April 13, 1967)]]
11	# "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E1TheManTrap The Man Trap]]": The crew meet up with an old flame of Dr. [=McCoy=]'s, but there's something incredibly strange about her, and when she gets on the ''Enterprise,'' mysterious deaths begin happening. '''September 8, 1966'''
12	# "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E2CharlieX Charlie X]]": Young Charlie Evans boards the ''Enterprise,'' and really tries hard to be accepted by the crew, a longing exacerbated by his godlike power. '''September 15, 1966'''
13	# "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E3WhereNoManHasGoneBefore Where No Man Has Gone Before]]" (Second pilot): When the ship crosses an energy barrier at the edge of the galaxy, something happens to Lieutenant Gary Mitchell that gives him extraordinary abilities. '''September 22, 1966'''
14	# "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E4TheNakedTime The Naked Time]]": A disease is passed around the ship that intoxicates crew members and causes them to act delirious and OutOfCharacter. '''September 29, 1966'''
15	# "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E5TheEnemyWithin The Enemy Within]]": Due to a transporter malfunction, Captain Kirk is split into two -- one Kirk being good and passive, the other evil and aggressive. '''October 6, 1966'''
16	# "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E6MuddsWomen Mudd's Women]]": The ''Enterprise'' rescues a ship and conman Harry Mudd is brought onboard with an entourage of lovely women that carry an embarrassing secret. Meanwhile, the crew burn out their lithium crystals and have to go to a mining planet for replacements. '''October 13, 1966'''
17	# "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E7WhatAreLittleGirlsMadeOf What Are Little Girls Made Of?]]": Nurse Chapel finally finds her fiancé, Roger Korby, but when she and Kirk beam down to his planet, they find he's a different man after doing experiments with robotics. '''October 20, 1966'''
18	# "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E8Miri Miri]]": On a planet that looks similar to Earth, the ''Enterprise'' crew discover all the adults are dead of a strange disease, leaving only feral children. '''October 27, 1966'''
19	# "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E9DaggerOfTheMind Dagger of the Mind]]": Dr. Simon Van Gelder sneaks on board the ship having been driven to insanity, and it warrants an investigation into the Tantalus Penal Colony below. '''November 3, 1966'''
20	# "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E10TheCorbomiteManeuver The Corbomite Maneuver]]": Kirk gets the ''Enterprise'' and crew in a battle of wits, with a ship headed by a demonic-looking being that's bent on destroying them if they don't leave his space. '''November 10, 1966'''
21	# "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E11TheMenageriePartI The Menagerie, Part I]]": The crew meet the former commander of the ''Enterprise,'' Christopher Pike, who is now immobile due to radiation burns. Spock takes control of the ship and attempts to take Pike to Talos IV. '''November 17, 1966'''
22	# "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E12TheMenageriePartII The Menagerie, Part II]]": Spock's court martial, from his actions in the previous episode, details the history of Captain Pike's original mission to Talos IV, thirteen years ago. '''November 24, 1966'''
23	# "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E13TheConscienceOfTheKing The Conscience of the King]]": A traveling group of actors perform for the ship's crew, but things get complicated when one of them is suspected to be Kodos, a dictator behind the execution of half of a planet's population. '''December 8, 1966'''
24	# "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E14BalanceOfTerror Balance of Terror]]": The ''Enterprise'' gets themselves wrapped up in a deadly chase with a Romulan bird-of-prey ship, and discover the origin of the Romulans and how it ties in with the Vulcans. '''December 16, 1966'''
25	# "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E15ShoreLeave Shore Leave]]": Scouting a planet to see if they can get some much-needed rest there, ''Enterprise'' crew members find all of their fantasies implausibly turning into reality. '''December 29, 1966'''
26	# "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E16TheGalileoSeven The Galileo Seven]]": A mission in a shuttlecraft quickly turns to disaster, as Spock, Scotty, [=McCoy=] and other crewmen crash-land on an uncharted planet. '''January 5, 1967'''
27	# "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E17TheSquireOfGothos The Squire of Gothos]]": A trickster god tries to impress the crew with his fascination with Earth history, and it quickly becomes apparent how dangerous he truly is. '''January 12, 1967'''
28	# "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E18Arena Arena]]": The ''Enterprise'' chases the Gorn through space, after the Gorn destroy an Earth colony. Suddenly, an ActualPacifist race gets involved, and puts Kirk and the Gorn captain in a deserted area to fight to the death. '''January 20, 1967'''
29	# "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E19TomorrowIsYesterday Tomorrow Is Yesterday]]": Accidentally having flung themselves back into the 1960s, the ''Enterprise'' crew beam Captain John Christopher out of a fighter plane, and in doing so, they find themselves in a serious conundrum. '''January 26, 1967'''
30	# "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E20CourtMartial Court Martial]]": Kirk is put to trial by Starfleet for the wrongful death of an officer. '''February 2, 1967'''
31	# "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E21TheReturnOfTheArchons The Return of the Archons]]": Kirk brings the ship to Beta III, where the USS Archon vanished a century before. Citizens of the planet, and crew members who come in contact with them, have all gotten into a strange blissful state, along with having a devotion to "the Body". '''February 9, 1967'''
32	# "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E22SpaceSeed Space Seed]]": ''The Enterprise'' finds a ship full of Augments, superhuman people who were the catalyst for Earth's Eugenics Wars. They're led by Khan Noonien Singh, a charismatic leader who still has a thirst for power. '''February 16, 1967'''
33	# "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E23ATasteOfArmageddon A Taste of Armageddon]]": The crew get in contact with a planet full of people who fight a war using only computers and "antimatter chambers". '''February 23, 1967'''
34	# "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E24ThisSideOfParadise This Side of Paradise]]": The crew visit a colony that should not still exist due to the radiation around the planet, and find them all in perfect health, including an OldFlame of Spock's. While there, the crew are subject to bizarre plant spores that cause them to experience a rush of euphoria. '''March 2, 1967'''
35	# "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E25TheDevilInTheDark The Devil in the Dark]]": Kirk and company go underground to a planet's mines in search of a mysterious creature that's dissolving men alive, and find that things aren't quite as they seem. '''March 9, 1967'''
36	# "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E26ErrandOfMercy Errand of Mercy]]": The planet Organia is in grave danger from the Klingons, and Kirk and Spock find themselves mystified by the Organians' complete lack of fear in the face of certain death. '''March 23, 1967'''
37	# "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E27TheAlternativeFactor The Alternative Factor]]": The ''Enterprise'' happens across a being fighting a constant battle between different universes. '''March 30, 1967'''
38	# "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E28TheCityOnTheEdgeOfForever The City on the Edge of Forever]]": Accidentally drugged, a hallucinating [=McCoy=] runs into a time portal and changes history, forcing Spock and Kirk to go back to 1930s Earth to see if they can fix things. '''April 6, 1967'''
39	# "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E29OperationAnnihilate Operation: Annihilate!]]": The population of the planet Deneva -- which includes Kirk's brother -- gets virtually wiped out by a strange race of large amoeba-shaped beings. '''April 13, 1967'''
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42	[[folder:Season 2 (September 15, 1967 - March 29, 1968)]]
43	# "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E1AmokTime Amok Time]]": Spock begins acting erratically, losing his emotional control and lashing out at crew members, while demanding to go on leave to Vulcan. Kirk and [=McCoy=] soon discover some interesting things about Vulcan, and Vulcan biology. '''September 15, 1967'''
44	# "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E2WhoMournsForAdonais Who Mourns for Adonais?]]": The crew are greeted in space by someone claiming to be the Greek god Apollo, and upon taking a landing party down, Kirk finds that Apollo wants them to stay permanently. '''September 22, 1967'''
45	# "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E3TheChangeling The Changeling]]": A probe with artificial intelligence is beamed aboard the ship, and believes Captain Kirk to be its creator. '''September 29, 1967'''
46	# "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E4MirrorMirror Mirror, Mirror]]": Kirk, Uhura, [=McCoy=] and Scotty accidentally find themselves in a MirrorUniverse, where the Federation is instead the tyrannical Terran Empire. '''October 6, 1967'''
47	# "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E5TheApple The Apple]]": A landing party beams down to a beautiful forest that quickly turns lethal. Things begin looking up when the crew happen upon a small tribe of people, but they've mysteriously not progressed nor aged in literally thousands of years, thanks to their leader, Vaal. '''October 13, 1967'''
48	# "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E6TheDoomsdayMachine The Doomsday Machine]]": A planet-destroying monster makes its way through space taking out entire solar systems. While trying to intervene, Kirk and company find the ship of Commodore Decker, riddled with guilt after his crew was all killed. '''October 20, 1967'''
49	# "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E7Catspaw Catspaw]]": Kirk and company get stuck in a dark castle with two Reality Warpers. '''October 27, 1967'''
50	# "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E8IMudd I, Mudd]]": The crew meet Harry Mudd again, and find he's now the leader on a planet of androids. '''November 3, 1967'''
51	# "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E9Metamorphosis Metamorphosis]]": The inventor of warp drive, Zephram Cochrane, is found on a desolate world by Kirk and Spock, accompanied by a strange being made entirely of energy. '''November 10, 1967'''
52	# "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E10JourneyToBabel Journey to Babel]]": Ambassadors from various species on their way to the Babel Conference get on board the ''Enterprise,'' two of whom are Spock's parents. '''November 17, 1967'''
53	# "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E11FridaysChild Friday's Child]]": Kirk's attempt to negotiate a treaty with the people of Capella IV becomes complicated by a Klingon infiltrating the culture. '''December 1, 1967'''
54	# "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E12TheDeadlyYears The Deadly Years]]": A virus which causes RapidAging begins affecting crew members, especially Kirk. '''December 8, 1967'''
55	# "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E13Obsession Obsession]]": Kirk runs afoul of a strange entity that killed the commander of his former ship eleven years ago. Still wracked with regret, he becomes hell-bent on destroying it. '''December 15, 1967'''
56	# "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E14WolfInTheFold Wolf in the Fold]]": When Scotty is accused of a series of murders, the resulting court case reveals something extraordinary. '''December 22, 1967'''
57	# "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E15TheTroubleWithTribbles The Trouble with Tribbles]]": A distress signal from Space Station K-7 leads to a mundane mission that Kirk is reluctant to take on, but things get intense when Klingons get involved, and then compounded by the spread of "tribbles" -- a species of small furry creatures that reproduce at a ridiculous rate. '''December 29, 1967'''
58	# "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E16TheGamestersOfTriskelion The Gamesters of Triskelion]]": Kirk, Chekov and Uhura are beamed across light years to Triskelion, and forced to fight for the amusement of "the Providers". '''January 5, 1968'''
59	# "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E17APieceOfTheAction A Piece of the Action]]": A planet is found that has mysteriously taken on the characteristics of early 20th century gangster culture. '''January 12, 1968'''
60	# "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E18TheImmunitySyndrome The Immunity Syndrome]]": The ''Enterprise'' finds itself in a dark, black void, inhabited only by a gigantic amoeba-like being. '''January 19, 1968'''
61	# "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E19APrivateLittleWar A Private Little War]]": Klingons have interfered in the development of a peaceful planet. '''February 2, 1968'''
62	# "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E20ReturnToTomorrow Return to Tomorrow]]": Three powerful apparitions lure the ''Enterprise'' to their dead world, and ask if they may inhabit three of the ship's human bodies. After a discussion, Kirk actually accepts. '''February 9, 1968'''
63	# "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E21PatternsOfForce Patterns of Force]]": The crew searches for a missing Federation observer, and find him on a planet that's been taken over by Nazi culture. '''February 16, 1968'''
64	# "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E22ByAnyOtherName By Any Other Name]]": The crew are fooled by a distress signal and forced into giving up their ship to the Kelvans, a powerful race that only knows conquering worlds. '''February 24, 1968'''
65	# "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E23TheOmegaGlory The Omega Glory]]": A Starfleet captain violates the Prime Directive and gets involved in a planet's war, even dragging Kirk and company into it. '''March 1, 1968'''
66	# "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E24TheUltimateComputer The Ultimate Computer]]": A new computer system, designed by Dr. Richard Daystrom, is given complete control of the ship, much to the chagrin of Kirk. '''March 8, 1968'''
67	# "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E25BreadAndCircuses Bread and Circuses]]": A landing party finds themselves on a planet resembling the Roman Empire, but with 20th century technology. '''March 15, 1968'''
68	# "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E26AssignmentEarth Assignment: Earth]]": While visiting 1968 on an observational mission, the crew meet a strange being with a human appearance named Gary Seven (Creator/RobertLansing), who has an agenda of his own. '''March 29, 1968'''
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72	# "[[Recap/StarTrekS3E1SpocksBrain Spock's Brain]]": An alien woman surgically removes Spock's brain, and the Enterprise crew has to get it back. '''September 20, 1968'''
73	# "[[Recap/StarTrekS3E2TheEnterpriseIncident The Enterprise Incident]]": Kirk violates the Neutral Zone and gets the ''Enterprise'' captured by Romulans. '''September 27, 1968'''
74	# "[[Recap/StarTrekS3E3TheParadiseSyndrome The Paradise Syndrome]]": An amnesiac Kirk is mistaken for a god by natives of a primitive planet, and soon he builds a new life for himself with an expecting wife. '''October 4, 1968'''
75	# "[[Recap/StarTrekS3E4AndTheChildrenShallLead And the Children Shall Lead]]": All adult members of an expedition are found dead by the crew, while all their children are not only alive, but apathetic to their losses. '''October 11, 1968'''
76	# "[[Recap/StarTrekS3E5IsThereInTruthNoBeauty Is There in Truth No Beauty?]]": The ''Enterprise'' picks up Kollos, an ambassador who when viewed by the naked eye causes insanity. With the ambassador is Dr. Miranda Jones, a telepath, and specialist Laurence Marvick, who carries a secret. '''October 18, 1968'''
77	# "[[Recap/StarTrekS3E6SpectreOfTheGun Spectre of the Gun]]": After trespassing in Melkotian space, members of the crew are stuck playing the roles of the Clanton gang at the OK Corral. '''October 25, 1968'''
78	# "[[Recap/StarTrekS3E7DayOfTheDove Day of the Dove]]": A non-corporeal alien pits the ''Enterprise'' crew and the Klingons against each other for its own amusement. '''November 1, 1968'''
79	# "[[Recap/StarTrekS3E8ForTheWorldIsHollowAndIHaveTouchedTheSky For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky]]": [=McCoy=] has been diagnosed with a terminal illness. While dealing with that, the crew happen across a colony of people who have no idea that they're living on an asteroid, and on a collision course with a Federation planet. '''November 8, 1968'''
80	# "[[Recap/StarTrekS3E9TheTholianWeb The Tholian Web]]": A Federation ship that's dead in space disappears into subspace, and through a twist of fate, it takes Kirk with it. Spock has to take command, and tensions with [=McCoy=] reach a boiling point. '''November 15, 1968'''
81	# "[[Recap/StarTrekS3E10PlatosStepchildren Plato's Stepchildren]]": Members of the crew become the playthings of the telekinetic Platonians. '''November 22, 1968'''
82	# "[[Recap/StarTrekS3E11WinkOfAnEye Wink of an Eye]]": Kirk encounters the Scalosians, a time-accelerated species that take over the ''Enterprise.'' '''November 29, 1968'''
83	# "[[Recap/StarTrekS3E12TheEmpath The Empath]]": [=McCoy=], Spock and Kirk land on a doomed planet to retrieve some researchers, and find a mute empath and a powerful group of aliens who submit them to dangerous experiments. '''December 6, 1968'''
84	# "[[Recap/StarTrekS3E13ElaanOfTroyius Elaan of Troyius]]": A peace treaty is to be completed by the bonding in marriage of the leaders of the two warring planets, the Dohlman of Elas and the leader of Troyius. The Dohlman, Elaan, proves to be a spoiled princess who becomes a huge headache for Kirk. '''December 20, 1968'''
85	# "[[Recap/StarTrekS3E14WhomGodsDestroy Whom Gods Destroy]]": Kirk and Spock become the hostages of Garth of Izar, a former starship captain and hero of Kirk's, and are stuck in a facility for the criminally insane. '''January 3, 1969'''
86	# "[[Recap/StarTrekS3E15LetThatBeYourLastBattlefield Let That Be Your Last Battlefield]]": Refugees of a planet at war find themselves on the ''Enterprise,'' and become a serious problem. '''January 10, 1969'''
87	# "[[Recap/StarTrekS3E16TheMarkOfGideon The Mark of Gideon]]": When the planet Gideon becomes dangerously overpopulated, they kidnap Kirk, and insist he help them. '''January 18, 1969'''
88	# "[[Recap/StarTrekS3E17ThatWhichSurvives That Which Survives]]": A landing party goes to investigate an abandoned outpost, but become haunted by a mysterious woman who can kill by touch. '''January 24, 1969'''
89	# "[[Recap/StarTrekS3E18TheLightsOfZetar The Lights of Zetar]]": En route to Memory Alpha, the Federation's library storage facility, a storm hits the ship, which has a profound effect on Lieutenant Mira Romaine. '''January 31, 1969'''
90	# "[[Recap/StarTrekS3E19RequiemForMethuselah Requiem for Methuselah]]": Kirk, Spock and [=McCoy=] are searching for a cure to a disease that's slowly killing ''Enterprise'' crew members. Their search brings them to a mysterious man named Flint, and his ward Rayna. '''February 14, 1969'''
91	# "[[Recap/StarTrekS3E20TheWayToEden The Way to Eden]]": The ''Enterprise'' beams aboard a group of iconoclasts who insist on traveling to the supposedly mythical planet of Eden. '''February 21, 1969'''
92	# "[[Recap/StarTrekS3E21TheCloudMinders The Cloud Minders]]": While picking up a shipment on the planet Ardana, Kirk and Spock get caught up in a class war. '''February 28, 1969'''
93	# "[[Recap/StarTrekS3E22TheSavageCurtain The Savage Curtain]]": Kirk, Spock, and facsimiles of Abraham Lincoln and ancient Vulcan philosopher Surak, are brought to a planet to engage in a "good vs evil" battle to the death. '''March 7, 1969'''
94	# "[[Recap/StarTrekS3E23AllOurYesterdays All Our Yesterdays]]": Kirk, Spock and [=McCoy=] beam down to make sure a planet is evacuated before its sun goes nova. They then get accidentally pulled into the planet's past. '''March 14, 1969'''
95	# "[[Recap/StarTrekS3E24TurnaboutIntruder Turnabout Intruder]]": Kirk is stuck in the body of a bitter former lover, while she takes his body and command of the ''Enterprise.'' '''June 3, 1969'''
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99	# ''Film/StarTrekTheMotionPicture'' '''December 7, 1979'''
100	# ''Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan'' '''June 4, 1982'''
101	# ''Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock'' '''June 1, 1984'''
102	# ''Film/StarTrekIVTheVoyageHome'' '''November 26, 1986'''
103	# ''Film/StarTrekVTheFinalFrontier'' '''June 9, 1989'''
104	# ''Film/StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry'' '''December 6, 1991'''
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106	* Films 7 to 10 found on [[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGeneration The Next Generation recap page]]
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108	[numlist:11]
109	# ''Film/StarTrek2009'' '''May 8, 2009'''
110	# ''Film/StarTrekIntoDarkness'' '''May 16, 2013'''
111	# ''Film/StarTrekBeyond'' '''July 22, 2016'''
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