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The second season of Star Trek: The Original Series was produced and filmed from May 1967 to January 1968 by Desilu (and later Paramount Television ). It began airing in the fall season on NBC , running new episodes from 15 September 1967 to 29 March 1968, and continuing in repeats until the premiere of TOS Season 3 in the fall of 1968. In the United Kingdom, the season premiered on the ITV network on Sunday, 5 September 1982 , and ended on Sunday, 27 February 1983 .

3.2.1 Uncredited crew
4.1 See also
5 External links

Episodes [ ]

Summary [ ].

This season saw Ensign Pavel Chekov added to the regular bridge crew. Although his first appearance in " Catspaw " had him operating the science station, " Friday's Child " established him as the ship's primary navigator.

Following their introduction near the end of the previous season, the Klingons were established as major adversaries, appearing in three episodes, " Friday's Child ", " The Trouble with Tribbles ", and " A Private Little War ". The second of those would turn out to be one of the show's most popular and influential episodes, introducing Koloth and the Tribbles , who reappeared on Deep Space 9 , with other characters reappearing in the Star Trek: The Animated Series episode " More Tribbles, More Troubles ". The Romulans also made a brief reappearance in " The Deadly Years " while Harry Mudd returned for a second tussle with the USS Enterprise crew in the comedic episode " I, Mudd ". " Mirror, Mirror " saw Kirk and company paying a first visit to the mirror universe which also later featured prominently on Deep Space 9 and Star Trek: Discovery .

The show began to explore the rest of the Federation , with the Enterprise making its first trip to Vulcan as Spock underwent Pon farr in " Amok Time ". " Journey to Babel " saw the Enterprise transporting representatives of the Vulcans , Andorians , and Tellarites to a conference to admit the Coridanites to the Federation, among them Spock's father Sarek . " Obsession " provided an insight into Kirk's early Starfleet career, revealing some of the details of his tour of duty on the USS Farragut .

Although most episodes centered around the triumvirate of Kirk , Spock, and McCoy , the other regular crewmembers began to appear more. After first commanding the ship in " The Return of the Archons ", Scotty was firmly established as the Enterprise 's third-in-command, with episodes like " Friday's Child ", " The Apple ", and " Bread and Circuses " giving screen time to his command. He was also given a spotlight in " Wolf in the Fold ", in which he was accused of a series of murders. Chekov and Uhura were given a chance to accompany Kirk on an away mission in " The Gamesters of Triskelion " and Chekov also had a prominent role, and an opportunity for romance, in " The Apple ". Sulu , on the other hand, was absent from nine consecutive episodes in the middle of the season, the result of a film George Takei was working on over-running.

The Enterprise visited several planets based on Earth history, either by coincidence or as a result of Human visitors, such as Ancient Rome (" Bread and Circuses "), Chicago gangsters (" A Piece of the Action "), Nazi Germany (" Patterns of Force ") and the American Constitution (" The Omega Glory "). There were other surprising encounters with Zefram Cochrane , the father of warp technology (" Metamorphosis "), the Greek god Apollo (" Who Mourns for Adonais? ") and a giant space amoeba (" The Immunity Syndrome ").

The show continued Gene Roddenberry 's original idea of political fables, with two episodes identified as providing somewhat opposing commentary on the Vietnam War. " A Private Little War " saw the Federation and the Klingons supporting opposing sides in a civil war, with Kirk talking of the need to maintain the balance of power, while " The Omega Glory " saw Kirk telling a race based around the American Constitution that the values of liberty and freedom of belief also applied to their enemies.

The season closed with " Assignment: Earth ", a back door pilot for a proposed spin-off series which saw Kirk and Spock encountering Gary Seven , a man employed by mysterious aliens to watch over 20th century Earth.

Credits [ ]

William Shatner as James T. Kirk
Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock
DeForest Kelley as Dr. McCoy
Majel Barrett as Christine Chapel
James Doohan as Scott
George Takei as Sulu
Nichelle Nichols as Uhura
Walter Koenig as Chekov
See : TOS Season 2 performers
" Catspaw "
" Friday's Child "
" Amok Time "
" Wolf in the Fold "
" The Apple "
" The Deadly Years "
" The Trouble with Tribbles "
" Journey to Babel "
" The Immunity Syndrome "
" Metamorphosis "
" Bread and Circuses "
" Obsession "
" Return to Tomorrow "
" Who Mourns for Adonais? "
" The Doomsday Machine "
" The Changeling "
" Mirror, Mirror "
" I, Mudd "
" A Private Little War "
" By Any Other Name "
" Assignment: Earth "
" The Gamesters of Triskelion "
" A Piece of the Action "
" Patterns of Force "
" The Omega Glory "
" The Ultimate Computer "
" Bread and Circuses " (co-wrote)
" A Piece of the Action " (teleplay)
" By Any Other Name " (teleplay)
" By Any Other Name " (teleplay / story)
" A Piece of the Action " (teleplay / story)
" A Private Little War " (teleplay)
" Assignment: Earth " (story)
" A Private Little War " (story)
" Assignment: Earth " (teleplay / story)
Gene Roddenberry
Gene L. Coon (" Catspaw " – " Bread and Circuses ")
John Meredyth Lucas (" Journey to Babel " – " The Omega Glory ")
Gene Roddenberry (" Assignment: Earth ")
Robert H. Justman
D.C. Fontana
Edward K. Milkis
Richard Carter (" Assignment: Earth ")
Alexander Courage
Gerald Fried (" Catspaw ", " Friday's Child ", " Amok Time ", " Wolf in the Fold ", " The Apple ", " Journey to Babel ", " A Private Little War ")
George Duning (" Metamorphosis ", " Return to Tomorrow ", " Patterns of Force ")
Fred Steiner (" Who Mourns for Adonais? ", " The Changeling ", " Mirror, Mirror ", " The Deadly Years ", " The Immunity Syndrome ", " By Any Other Name ", " The Ultimate Computer ")
Sol Kaplan (" The Doomsday Machine ", " The Deadly Years ", " Obsession ", " The Immunity Syndrome ", " The Ultimate Computer ")
Samuel Matlovsky (" I, Mudd ")
Jerry Fielding (" The Trouble with Tribbles ")
Jerry Finnerman (" Catspaw " – " A Piece of the Action "; " Return to Tomorrow " – " Assignment: Earth ")
Keith Smith (" By Any Other Name ")
Rolland M. Brooks (" Catspaw " – " Amok Time ")
Walter M. Jefferies
Bruce Schoengarth (" Catspaw ", " Who Mourns for Adonais? ", " Wolf in the Fold ", " Mirror, Mirror ", " The Trouble with Tribbles ")
James D. Ballas , ACE (" Metamorphosis ", " Amok Time ", " The Apple ", " Journey to Babel ", " The Gamesters of Triskelion ", " By Any Other Name ")
Fabien Tordjmann (" Friday's Child ", " The Changeling ", " Bread and Circuses ", " Obsession ", " A Piece of the Action ", " Patterns of Force ")
Donald R. Rode (" The Doomsday Machine ", " The Deadly Years ", " A Private Little War ", " The Immunity Syndrome ", " Return to Tomorrow ", " Assignment: Earth ")
John W. Hanley (" The Ultimate Computer ")
Bill Brame (" The Omega Glory ")
Gregg Peters
Rusty Meek (" Catspaw ", " Friday's Child ", " Amok Time ", " Wolf in the Fold ", " The Apple ", " The Deadly Years ", " The Trouble with Tribbles ", " Journey to Babel ", " Obsession ", " The Immunity Syndrome ", " By Any Other Name ", " Patterns of Force ", " The Omega Glory ")
Elliot Schick (" Metamorphosis ", " Who Mourns for Adonais? ", " The Doomsday Machine ", " The Changeling ", " Mirror, Mirror ")
Phil Rawlins (" Bread and Circuses ", " A Private Little War ", " The Gamesters of Triskelion ", " A Piece of the Action ", " Return to Tomorrow ", " The Ultimate Computer ", " Assignment: Earth ")
Joseph J. Stone (" Catspaw " – " I, Mudd ")
John M. Dwyer (" The Trouble with Tribbles " – " Assignment: Earth ")
William Ware Theiss (" The Doomsday Machine " – " Assignment: Earth ")
Westheimer Company (" Catspaw ", " Metamorphosis ", " Amok Time ", " The Changeling ", " The Apple ", " The Deadly Years ", " Journey to Babel ", " Obsession ", " A Piece of the Action ", " Patterns of Force ")
Vanderveer Photo Effects (" Friday's Child ", " Wolf in the Fold ", " Mirror, Mirror ", " Bread and Circuses ", " A Private Little War ", " The Immunity Syndrome ", " Return to Tomorrow ", " Assignment: Earth ")
Effects Unlimited (" Who Mourns for Adonais? ")
Cinema Research (" The Doomsday Machine ", " The Gamesters of Triskelion ", " The Omega Glory ")
Howard A. Anderson Co. (" The Trouble with Tribbles ", " By Any Other Name ", " The Ultimate Computer ")
Douglas H. Grindstaff
Jim Henrikson
Elden E. Ruberg , CAS (" Catspaw " – " Patterns of Force "; " Assignment: Earth ")
Gordon L. Day , CAS (" The Ultimate Computer ", " The Omega Glory ")
Carl W. Daniels
George A. Rutter
Joseph D'Agosta
Glen Glenn Sound Co. (" Friday's Child " – " Assignment: Earth ")
Fred B. Phillips , SMA
Jean Austin (" Catspaw " – " Who Mourns for Adonais? ")
Pat Westmore (" Amok Time " – " Assignment: Earth ")
George H. Merhoff
George Rader
Irving A. Feinberg
Ken Harvey (" The Deadly Years ", " Bread and Circuses " – " The Omega Glory ")
Herbert F. Solow (" Catspaw " – " The Omega Glory ")

Uncredited crew [ ]

John Chambers – Special Makeup Effects Designer & Creator (" Assignment: Earth ")
Arch Dalzell – Director of Photography (" Who Mourns for Adonais? ")
Richard C. Datin – Model Maker (" The Trouble with Tribbles ")
Kellam de Forest – Researcher
Linwood G. Dunn – Visual Effects Cinematographer
Richard Edlund – The Companion effects artist (" Metamorphosis ")
Al Francis – Camera Operator
Al Jacoby – Assistant Property Master
John Jefferies – Set Designer
Joseph R. Jennings – Assistant Art Director
Barry Mason – Visual Effects (" Assignment: Earth ")
Mike May – Props
Bill McGovern – Clapper/Loader
Tiger Shapiro – Second Assistant Director
Charles Washburn – Second Assistant Director
Andrea Weaver – Women's Costumer

Background information [ ]

There were some "upgrades" to bridge equipment made at the start of this season (most notably the helm console), but these changes aren't always visible because first-season footage was used in many bridge scenes. You can recognize this footage when you see the viewing screen and the back of Sulu's head – the navigator isn't shown because Walter Koenig hadn't signed on when this footage was filmed. The black viewer or scope at Spock's library computer station was replaced with a gray one (that came with a knob on the left side). A similar scope was added to Scott's engineering station.
For the second season, the production budget per episode was around US$185,000, slightly less than Season 1.
Lawrence Montaigne , who played Stonn in " Amok Time ", and Mark Lenard were both being considered as possible replacements for Leonard Nimoy prior to the beginning of the second season if contract negotiations had fallen through. [1] [2] Nimoy's agent had asked for Nimoy's salary to be increased from US$1,250 per episode during the first season to US$9,000 for the second season. Eventually a compromise figure of US$2,500 per episode was reached and Nimoy signed on for the second season. ( Inside Star Trek: The Real Story , pp. 317-324)
Dr. McCoy's sickbay gained a lab this season. The back bulkhead of said lab appears to be one of the bulkheads of the SS Botany Bay from " Space Seed ".
A new expanded engineering set was built, including a small set called "Emergency Manual Monitor" built on stilts that looked down onto the engineering set.
A completely new auxiliary control set was also built.
In the second season more emphasis was put on the supporting characters (especially Scotty and Chekov), but the show didn't feature scenes of every-day activity around lower decks of the ship anymore as it did in the first season.
Beginning with Season 2, the episode titles and credits were in the same font as the series title. Also, DeForest Kelley 's and Gene Roddenberry 's names were added to the opening credits.
Also, during the opening credits, the Enterprise fly-by and the planet that the Enterprise orbited were different from that of Season 1.
Walter Koenig joined the main cast as the Russian navigator Pavel Chekov .
The theme music for the series was slightly re-arranged this season, with Loulie Jean Norman supplying vocal accompaniment.
Season 2 was a period of behind-the-scenes transition from Desilu to Paramount production. On 15 February 1967 , Gulf+Western's purchase of Desilu was announced. It was commemorated with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on 26 July . Gulf+Western executives were known to have signed off on production of the then-upcoming Season 2 of Star Trek , as they would have been financially obligated to continue its production after the sale. Therefore, Season 2 technically began filming as a Desilu/Gulf+Western co-production. (Sanders, Coyne Steven and Tom Gilbert. Desilu: The Story of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz . HarperCollins. 1994. 297-298) However, the December 1967 intra-company merger between Paramount Pictures and Desilu caused later episodes of the season to be labeled "a Paramount production". Episodes throughout the season thus have a variety of different ownership claims. TOS : " Journey to Babel " is a simple "Desilu production" under just the Desilu logo, while the later " A Piece of the Action " displays the Desilu logo, but a Paramount Pictures Corporation copyright.
" Mirror, Mirror " was the first to be filmed after the late July ribbon-cutting on the Gulf+Western/Desilu merger, but no episode of the season began filming prior to the February merger announcement.
Gene L. Coon remained the producer, but he was replaced mid-season by John Meredyth Lucas .
D.C. Fontana , who took the position of story editor near the end of season one, remained in this capacity during the second season.
However, after the departure of Rolland M. Brooks (the last episode he worked on was " Amok Time "), Walter M. Jefferies remained the series' sole art director.
Most of the seasons' episodes were helmed by one of three prominent directors, Joseph Pevney , Marc Daniels and Ralph Senensky . Assistant director Gregg Peters was promoted to unit production manager.
Andrea Weaver became the women's costumer for the series at the time " Catspaw " begins production. She would remain with the show throughout the remainder of the season and half of TOS Season 3 .
The first season and " Catspaw ", " Metamorphosis ", " Friday's Child ", and " Amok Time " did not use a copyright until 1978 so starting with " Who Mourns for Adonais? ", all of the episodes have the correct copyright date to them at the end of each episode.

External links [ ]

Star Trek: The Original Series season 2 at Memory Beta , the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
The Original Series Season 2 episode reviews at Ex Astris Scientia
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Star Trek: The Original Series - Episode Guide - Season 2

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. Perhaps it was Gene Roddenberry’s enthusiasm for the production that ramrodded Star Trek onto television sets for 1967-68. The blasé attitude of execs for Star Trek was enough that episode 26, i.e. the final, was set to serve as a spinoff for an entirely different series about a mysterious time traveler named Gary Seven. (Apparently someone was catching early Doctor Who…)

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.

1. Amok Time – Or, if you’d like, Spock vs. Kirk, round 2. The old buddies come to blows (so to speak) when Spock is nearly driven insane by the ravages on the Pon Farr. ***

2. Who Mourns for Adonis? – That’s right, it’s time for another Insane God! This one’s literal, as an all-powerful being claiming to be Apollo (!) captures the Enterprise crew. (Unless he meant Apollo form, you know, the 1970s Battlestar Galactica series…?) **

3. The Changeling – Something of a template for the Star Trek: The Motion Picture script. 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. ***

4. 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. ****

5. The Apple – An away team loses a few Red Shirts early on to various “natural” pitfalls on a planet inhabited by Stone Age-level people controlled by An Insane God! (So much for the ol’ Prime Directive here; Janeway would be having fits, I tell ya!) **

6. 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). Unfortunately, the Constellation’s captain is obsessed with wreaking vengeance on the planet-killer. A much-celebrated episode from the original series, “Doomsday Machine” has inspired video games and Star Trek novels. ****

7. Catspaw – While orbiting a seemingly dead planet, the Enterprise is captured by two Insane Gods! involved in a struggle which manifests itself in the form of traditional symbols of witchery. **

8. I, Mudd – That (humanoid trafficker) old rapscallion Harry Mudd is back, this time lording over a planet populated only by some 200,000 androids. After one such android poses as a Red Shirt to hijack the Enterprise (hey, it’s was the late 2260s), Mudd has some fun with the Enterprise bridge crew before Kirk confounds the androids with simplistic logical paradoxes. ***

9. Metamorphosis – Zefram Cochrane, inventor of Earth’s first warp drive, is found alive, sustained by a companion that he calls, well, his Companion. The episode that sent rabid fans to feverishly retconning at the cinematic release of Star Trek: First Contact. **

10. Journey to Babel – Spock’s parents Sarek and Amanda board the Enterprise on the way to mediate peace talks between the Andorians and Tellarites. And along the way, the small question of … murder! ***

11. 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. ***

12. The Deadly Years – The first in a long tradition of rapid-aging stories on Star Trek. In this one, Kirk, Spock, McCoy, etc., contract the bad space virus and as they approach senility, Romulans choose to attack. ***

13. 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. *

14. Wolf in the Fold – A surprisingly dark episode in which a number of grisly, savage murders are committed, apparently at Scotty’s hands – but the actual murderer is a more primal, ancient force. ***

15. The Trouble with Tribbles –Star Trek Guide is firmly of the opinion that the Tribbles are some of the most cleverly conceived aliens within the ST universe, at least until the Borg. 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. *****

16. The Gamesters of Triskelion – Insane Gods! or mere disembodied aliens? No matter, as the gamesters of the title are three ladies who force the Enterprise crew to participate in gladiator-style competition. ***

17. A Piece of the Action – Sorry, but once the showrunners accepted the case for “parallel evolution”, the stretching for story ideas was obvious. In “Action,” the Enterprise crew finds a planet sporting a humanoid culture resembling exactly that of 1920s Chicago. Pretty silly stuff, though Kirk and Spock’s explanation of Fizzbin is almost worth the price of admission. **

18. The Immunity Syndrome – An energy-eating creature destroys a Vulcan ship, followed by the Tn Enterprise crew rather inelegantly taking the metaphorical eye for an eye in response. **

19. A Private Little War – War with Klingons, that is! 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. Machinations ensue before Kirk finally chucks the ol’ Prime Directive right out the porthole. ***

20. Return to Tomorrow – Disembodied aliens take over various bodies of Enterprise crew in turn in order to build other corporeal bodies they may inhabit. **

21. Patterns of Force – When in doubt, turn to Nazis! (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. ***

22. By Any Other Name – Kirk and his away team are attacked by aliens from the Andromeda Galaxy. They soon take over the Enterprise and begin prepping it for a 300-year mission back to Andromeda. 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. **

23. The Omega Glory – Probably the stupidest of the “parallel evolution” stories, “The Omega Glory” culminates in William Shatner giving his best/worst melodramatic reading of The Constitution and convincing everyone that the American Way is Good. *

24. The Ultimate Computer – Another tried ‘n’ true Star Trek trope gets a rerun for this episode. 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. Have no fear, however: Majel Barrett’s voice is returned to the Enterprise for the next episode. ***

25. Bread and Circuses – Ready for some more “parallel evolution”? Some more gladiator games? Yeah, I thought not. *

26. Assignment : Earth – It’s incredibly unfortunate that “Assignment: Earth” was mostly produced so as to spinoff the supporting character Gary Seven into his own program, because this is one wacky, fun-filled Star Trek episode which really should have set a precedent for ST:TOS scripts. Admittedly time-traveling way too easily into the 20th century, the Enterprise crew engages in a mission involving hyper-advanced technology, Cold War paranoia, a stolen nuclear missile, a magic cat and Teri Garr. ****

Star Trek: Discovery Just Brought A Legendary Original Series Episode Back Into The Mix

Let's fly ... away from spoilers . Read no further if you haven't watched the latest episode of "Star Trek: Discovery."

Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the strangest of them all? In "Star Trek," that title goes to one of the zaniest concepts ever introduced into the canon: The Mirror Universe. The idea of our alternate selves living completely different lives somewhere out there is no longer the sole domain of perhaps the nerdiest franchise in all of sci-fi (although shows like "For All Mankind," "Foundation," and "3 Body Problem" are creating some stiff competition), the Marvel Cinematic Universe, or the best episode of "Community" ever made . Fans might be surprised to find out that many in the scientific community believe the theory is worth discussion these days . But "Trek" put its own unmistakable fingerprints on the multiverse by emphasizing one in particular that stands at odds with the usual Prime Universe -- one that poses a fundamentally moral dilemma between the paragons of Starfleet we know and love, and the absolute worst versions of themselves.

It doesn't come as a huge surprise that "Star Trek: Discovery" would use its final season to travel full circle and return to the Mirror Universe that played such a significant role back in season 1 (even if, ironically, there might be a parallel universe out there where we were able to see former showrunner Bryan Fuller's more complex and nuanced take on it ). But what's sure to shock and delight longtime fans in episode 5, aptly titled "Mirrors," is a deep-cut reference to arguably one of the most influential hours of "Trek" ever made, and the one that introduced the Mirror Universe in the first place.

Read more: Every Star Trek Show And Movie In Chronological Order

A Different Kind Of Black Mirror

There might not be any sinister goatees or chest-baring V-necks in sight throughout this episode of "Discovery," but the lasting effects of "The Original Series" episode "Mirror, Mirror" are plain to see. Upon entering the wormhole that took scavengers Moll (Eve Harlow) and L'ak (Elias Toufexis) into multidimensional space, Captain Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) and Book (David Ajala) discover the wrecked remains of their ship ... alongside the still-functioning husk of a familiar-looking Starfleet vessel, emblazoned with the name, "ISS Enterprise." For those who haven't brushed up on their 1967 "Trek" lore (and, quite frankly, shame on you if that's the case), Burnham helpfully points out that this isn't exactly the same starship captained by the fabled James T. Kirk thousands of years ago. It's one that has somehow found its way from the depths of the Mirror Universe (the exact specifics are oddly brushed aside) and remained stranded ever since.

But then "Discovery" goes a step further and hearkens back to "Mirror, Mirror" more thematically. While exploring the derelict ship, Burnham and Book stumble upon information about the previous occupants of the ISS Enterprise and specifically that of a certain Kelpian who rose from a slave to a leader in his own right. That, of course, refers to none other than the Mirror version of Saru (Doug Jones) seen in season 3, whom Emperor Georgiou (Michelle Yeoh) saved from certain death and pointed towards his proper path. Where the ending of "Mirror, Mirror" suggests that Mirror Spock is still "a man of integrity" despite the ruthlessness of the Empire he serves, "Discovery" reconfirms that even the comically rampant evil of the Mirror Universe is no match for the stubborn idealism of "Trek."

New episodes of "Star Trek: Discovery" stream on Paramount+ every Thursday.

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Discovery Season 5 Episode 5 Easter Eggs Reveal the Fate of a Classic Star Trek Ship

From the Mirror Universe and the ISS Enterprise to a big reveal about the Breen, Discovery season 5 just referenced a a huge swath of the Star Trek timeline.

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This Star Trek: Discovery article contains spoilers.

As both a prequel and sequel to various versions of the Star Trek franchise, Star Trek: Discovery often includes unexpected easter eggs and references to the entire saga. The latest episode, “Mirrors,” is no exception, as it brings back a famous Star Trek ship, as well as answers questions about a mysterious alien species, which has been around since the 1990s.

From references to the goatee version of Spock, to some deep-cuts from Deep Space Nine , and even a tribble joke, Discovery ’s easter eggs in season 5, episode 5 aren’t messing around. Here are the best references and how these shout-outs solve a few mysteries, while suggesting a possible future development for the next Star Trek show.

“Classic Work on Kellerun”

Early in the episode, Rayner and Burnham talk about which stories are considered classics on the planet Kellerun. Rayner is a member of the Kellerun species, which were established in the DS9 episode “Armageddon Game.” We actually know very little about the Kellerun species, so Discovery is inventing new canon here, rather than referencing anything from previous Trek shows.

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Wormhole and the Burn

The wormhole that Book and Burnham have to enter is unstable, which describes most wormholes featured in Star Trek . But, in this case, it’s suggested that the matter/anti-matter reactions in this wormhole were caused by the Burn.

The Burn was that galaxy-changing event in the backstory of Discovery season 3, when, in 3069, every warp core in the galaxy detonated. Warp cores use matter/antimatter reactions to do their thing.

ISS Enterprise

Inside the wormhole, Book and Burnham encounter the ISS Enterprise , and Book says right away “ISS, that’s Mirror Universe.” When he says this we hear the Mirror Universe music from Discovery season 1.

The existence of the ISS Enterprise in this episode is a massive easter egg, which contains various other smaller easter eggs. These include the following:

The ISS Enterprise was last seen, in-canon, in the TOS episode “Mirror, Mirror.” So, chronologically, in both our world, and the Trek timeline, this is its second appearance.
The bridge and sickbay of the ISS Enterprise are just the sets from the Strange New Worlds version of the Enterprise . Discovery season 5 filmed in between SNW seasons.
Several versions of the Terran Empire logo are seen throughout the ship. These match with the Terran Empire logo from Discovery season 1 and season 3, and differ from the logo from The Original Series .
Does the redesign make sense in terms of the timeline? Well, Akiva Goldsman has suggested that on some level, the visual canon of Strange New Worlds relative to The Original Series isn’t the true canon. In 2023, he said that the aesthetic choices of the more modern Strange New Worlds don’t change the story as seen on TOS , but it doesn’t mean modern Star Trek will ever reveal a rubber-suited Gorn. “You will never see the Gorn like that…This is the Gorn as we perceive them,” Goldsman said. So, analogously, Discovery didn’t need to make the TOS Mirror Enterprise like the retro 1960s version. Plus, who knows what the Terran Empire did in between “Mirror, Mirror” and the moment this crew escaped?

Mirror Spock

Burnham mentions that the science station on the Enterprise was “my brother’s station.” This, of course, refers to Spock, who, in this universe, did, briefly, work at this exact station. Burnham says, “I’m sure he was just as ruthless as the rest though,” which, as we know, is not true. Mirror Spock spared Prime Kirk in “Mirror, Mirror,” and then became the leader of the entire empire.

In fact, when Book reads the story of this version of the Enterprise , he says, “The Terran High Chancellor was killed for trying to make reforms.” In the Deep Space Nine episode “Crossover,” we learned that the leader of the Terran Empire was Spock. And that Spock trying to reform the Terran Empire led to Earth being taken over in the 24th Century by the Klingon-Cardassian Alliance.

So, the episode references Spock, twice, without actually naming him, and the second time, neither Book nor Burnham even knows that Mirror Spock was a low-key hero.

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Saru and the Mirror Universe From Discovery Season 3

Book mentions that the crew of the ISS Enterprise escaped with the help of a “Kelpien slave turned rebel leader.” This seems to reference the events of “Terra Firma Part 2,” from Discovery season 3. In that episode, Georgiou went back into the Mirror Universe and created a kind of pocket timeline in which she died at a different time, and Saru was freed to become a rebel leader. At the time, it wasn’t clear if this changed the timeline of the Mirror Universe — or the timeline of Discovery season 1 — but the mention of a Mirror Saru who is a rebel suggests that some version of that timeline might have occurred after all.

The Breen Revealed!

First mentioned in The Next Generation , the Breen eventually appeared in person in the 1995 Deep Space Nine episode “Indiscretion.” But, from that point, until now, they’ve only appeared inside their suits, and under those helmets. There’s been a ton of speculation for decades about what the Breen look like under their helmets, and now, we’ve finally seen the answer.

In “Mirrors” — during the flashbacks that explains Moll and L’ak’s relationship — we finally see that the Breen have not one face, but two . Apparently, one face exists under their helmet, while another, more stable face can emerge when they have their helmets off. This seems to suggest that the Breen hiding their faces has more to do with a cultural tradition than any environmental requirement. Moll has been running around without a helmet this entire season, and apparently, that’s what a Breen can look like, too.

Smuggling Tribbles

In one of the flashbacks, Moll jokes about making sure she “didn’t smuggle any tribbles on board.” This seems to suggest that yes, even in the 32nd Century , tribbles are still possibly hazardous, because they breed so quickly, and overrun spaceships and space stations. Famously, the tribbles first appeared in the TOS classic, “The Trouble With Tribbles.” Though, in Picard season 3, we did see a genetically engineered “attack tribble” with vicious teeth, stored away in a Section 31 black ops lab. It’s possible this “attack tribble” was created during the Dominion War, which means, it might have been designed to fight the Breen, who were Dominion allies back then.

As Book is navigating the ISS Enterprise out of the wormhole, he says, “Should we hit it?” Book has no idea that “hit it” was Pike’s catchphrase to send a ship into warp. Burnham smiles sheepishly and responds, “Feels weird. Let’s just fly.” She feels weird because she doesn’t want to steal Pike’s catchphrase, and so she uses her own catchphrase, “let’s fly,” instead.

The ISS Enterprise in the Prime Universe

The episode ends with the ISS Enterprise being fully intact in the Prime Universe. We’re told that Detmer and Owo are flying the ship back to Federation HQ on their own. Scotty was able to fly the classic Enterprise with just himself and Sulu in The Search for Spock , so we have to assume that Detmer and Owo have done something similar. We don’t know if a new, 32nd Century Enterprise exists in this era of Star Trek , but as of now, Discovery just brought a classic version of the ship into the future.

Because the upcoming Starfleet Academy series is set in the 32nd Century, it feels possible that Discovery just created a way for the students of future Starfleet to hang out on the bridge of the classic Enterprise — again!

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8 planets star trek destroyed.

The Star Trek franchise may not have a planet-destroying Death Star, but entire worlds being annihilated in Star Trek is still surprisingly common.

Destruction isn't reserved for Death Stars - Star Trek has seen its fair share of planets obliterated.
Movie scale allows for larger destruction - JJ Abrams' version famously took out Romulus and Vulcan.
Planets lost in the storyline - from Xindus to Ceti Alpha VI, key planets have been lost in battle.

Star Trek may not have a Death Star, but that doesn't mean the franchise hasn't destroyed its fair share of planets over the years. Since its beginning with Star Trek: The Original Series in 1966, Star Trek has depicted an optimistic view of the future where humanity's main goal is exploration. Despite this, the United Federation of Planets has still made enemies who have managed to get their hands on powerful, planet-destroying weapons. A few Star Trek planets have also been accidentally destroyed by weapons or anomalies created for a different purpose altogether.

Many of Star Trek's most devastating moments of destruction happen in the Star Trek movies , as the scale for those stories is often larger than the television series can accommodate. J.J. Abrams' Star Trek (2009) famously destroyed Romulus and Vulcan, altering the trajectory of the Federation's future and the lives of Captain James Kirk (Chris Pine) and Spock (Zachary Quinto) in the alternate Kelvin timeline. However, these were not the first planets Star Trek destroyed. William Shatner's Captain Kirk and Leonard Nimoy's Spock were the first to encounter a "machine" capable of annihilating entire planets in the classic Star Trek: The Original Series episode "The Doomsday Machine."

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8 all seven planets in system l-370, destroyed in 2267 in star trek: the original series season 2, episode 6 - "the doomsday machine", star trek: the original series.

When the USS Enterprise responds to a distress call from their sister ship, the USS Constellation, they find the heavily damaged ship with only one passenger still alive, Commodore Matt Decker (William Windom) . The emotionally compromised Decker explains that his starship encountered a massive 'planet-killer' machine with the ability to destroy planets. The Constellation tried to attack the machine, but they were ineffective, and the Constitution Class starship sustained significant damage.

Commodore Decker beamed the USS Constellation's entire crew down to a nearby planet to keep them safe, but the machine then destroyed the planet, killing all of the Constellation's crew. The insane Decker steals a shuttle from the Starship Enterprise for a suicide run into the mouth of the machine. Although his attack causes only minor damage, it gives Captain Kirk the idea to send the Constellation into the robot, where it explodes and disables the planet-killer.

Destroyed in 2033, prior to Star Trek: Enterprise

Star trek: enterprise.

Located in the Delphic Expanse, the Xindi homeworld, Xindus, was already geologically unstable before it was destroyed during the Xindi Civil War. Prior to its destruction, Xindus was home to six different Xindi species, who were often in conflict with one another. At the height of their Civil War, the Xindi-Reptilians and Insectoids set off a massive bomb that destroyed the planet and wiped out the Xindi-Avians.

The remaining five species then spread out across the Delphic Expanse during a time that became known as the Great Diaspora . It was later that the transdimensional beings called the Guardians contacted the Xindi and told them that humanity would attack and destroy their future homeworld. This led the Xindi to launch a devastating attack on Earth in 2153, after which Captain Jonathan Archer (Scott Bakula) and the Enterprise NX-01 were sent into the Delphic Expanse.

6 Ceti Alpha VI

Destroyed in 2267, prior to star trek ii: the wrath of khan.

In Star Trek: The Original Series season 1, episode 22, "Space Seed," Captain Kirk encountered former Earth tyrant Khan Noonien Singh (Ricardo Montalban) for the first time. After Khan tries (and fails) to destroy the Enterprise, Kirk exiles him and his people to Ceti Alpha V. Although the planet was initially habitable, if somewhat harsh, the destruction of Ceti Alpha VI altered the orbit of Ceti Alpha V, rendering the planet completely inhospitable.

Although Khan reveals that Ceti Alpha VI exploded around six months after he and his people were left on Ceti Alpha V, it remains unknown what caused the planet to explode. In Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan , Commander Pavel Chekov beamed down from the USS Reliant to Ceti Alpha V, mistakenly believing it to be Ceti Alpha VI. Khan then hijacked the Reliant and abandoned Ceti Alpha V for good.

5 Genesis Planet

Destroyed in 2285 in star trek iii: the search for spock.

In Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan , Khan stole the Genesis Device created by Dr. Carol Marcus (Bibi Besch) and her team of Federation scientists. The Genesis Device could bring dead worlds and planetoids back to live, turning them into lush Class M planets capable of sustaining humanoid life. However, the Genesis Device could also be used as a weapon as its matrix replaces existing life with its own. After a final battle with Admiral Kirk and the USS Enterprise, Khan detonated the device before his death, which resulted in the creation of the Genesis Planet.

After Spock sacrificed himself to allow the Starship Enterprise to escape, his casket landed on the Genesis Planet, which brought his body back to life.

In Star Trek III: The Search For Spock , Carol and Kirk's son, David Marcus (Merritt Butrick), was sent to investigate the Genesis Planet, which was unstable and aging rapidly because David used protomatter in the Genesis matrix. The Genesis Planet soon exploded after Admiral Kirk successfully rescued Spock and commandeered a Klingon Bird-of-Prey to escape. The Genesis Planet marks the first time Star Trek depicted a planet's destruction on-screen .

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Destroyed in 2293 in star trek vi: the undiscovered country.

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country opens with Captain Hikaru Sulu (George Takei) in command of the USS Excelsior, as the ship is hit by a shockwave from a nearby explosion. When the Excelsior investigates, they find that the Klingon moon, Praxis, has been destroyed. Sulu attempts to offer assistance, but he receives an official transmission from the Klingon High Command that the situation is under control.

Not only was Praxis the Klingon Empire's main energy production facility, but its destruction also polluted the ozone of the Klingon homeworld, Qo'noS. Because of this, the Klingon Chancellor Gorkon (David Warner) seeks to end hostilities between the Klingon Empire and the Federation , as the Empire can no longer sustain the war. Captain Kirk and the USS Enterprise crew must then thwart a plan to sabotage the peace talks so that the Federation can enter a new era of peace with the Klingons.

3 Romulus & Remus

Destroyed in 2387 in star trek (2009) & prior to star trek: picard, star trek: picard.

Before the sun in the Romulus system went supernova in 2387, Starfleet mounted a massive rescue effort to evacuate the planets affected by the imminent destruction of the Romulan star. However, after rogue synths attacked Mars and destroyed the rescue armada, Starfleet abandoned the evacuation efforts. Admiral Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) had been spearheading the evacuation, and he resigned from Starfleet in protest after the rescue efforts were abandoned.

After the destruction of Romulus and Remus, the Romulans became refugees and settled on various planets, including Vashti, which had been set up as a Romulan Relocation Hub by the Federation.

According to J.J. Abrams' Star Trek (2009), Ambassador Spock created a red matter singularity as another attempt to save Romulus. While the singularity did consume the star, it was not fast enough to stop the supernova before it reached Romulus and Remus and destroyed the planets. The Romulan Nero (Eric Bana) used the time warp created by the singularity to travel back in time, which resulted in the alternate Kelvin timeline.

Destroyed in 2258 Star Trek (2009)

While Star Trek 's Prime Universe version of Vulcan remains intact, the Vulcan of the Kelvin timeline was destroyed by Nero after he traveled back in time to the 23rd century and created the alternate Kelvin Timeline. When Nero's ship, the Narada, began drilling into the core of Vulcan, the Vulcan High Command sent out a distress call. Starfleet responded by sending an armada to intercept the Narada, but they were no match for Nero's powerful 24th century ship.

The USS Enterprise, under the command of Captain Christopher Pike (Bruce Greenwood) , arrived later than the other ships and futilely tried to stop Nero. When Vulcan's destruction became inevitable , Spock (Zachary Quinto) beamed down to save the Vulcan elders, including his parents, Sarek (Ben Cross) and Amanda (Winona Ryder). While Spock was able to save many of the elders, his mother did not make it out in time and was killed when the planet imploded.

Ambassador Spock helped establish a new colony, known as New Vulcan, for the approximately 10,000 remaining Vulcans.

10 Star Trek Worlds Discovery’s AR Wall Needs To Recreate

Destroyed in 3190 in star trek: discovery season 4, episode 1 - "kobayashi maru", star trek: discovery.

The homeworld of Cleveland Booker (David Ajala) , Kwejian was a Class M planet where the Kwejian people lived in a shielded area called the Sanctuary. When Booker went to visit his brother and nephew on Kwejian in 3190, he noticed the birds on the planet were behaving strangely. When he went to investigate, Book witnessed the destruction of Kwejian's moon by a massive gravitational distortion which later came to be known as the Dark Matter Anomaly or DMA.

Booker returned to the USS Discovery only to witness the complete destruction of Kwejian . Following Kwejian's destruction, the Federation and Discovery began investigating the DMA, eventually contacting its creators, Species 10-C, who were using the DMA to mine boronite and were unaware that it was causing harm. In a classic Star Trek storyline, the crew of the Discovery found a way to communicate with Species 10-C and convinced them to disable the DMA.

Star Trek: The Original Series, Star Trek: Enterprise, Star Trek: Discovery, Star Trek: Picard, & Star Trek (2009) are available to stream on Paramount+.

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, & Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country are available to stream on Max.

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STAR TREK THE ORIGINAL SERIES SEASON 3 (1968) (7.9/10)

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1. Star Trek (1966–1969) Episode: Spock's Brain (1968)

TV-PG | 51 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

The crew of the Enterprise pursues a mysterious woman who has abducted Spock's brain.

Director: Marc Daniels | Stars: William Shatner , Leonard Nimoy , DeForest Kelley , Marj Dusay

Votes: 3,621

2. Star Trek (1966–1969) Episode: The Enterprise Incident (1968)

An apparently insane Capt. Kirk has the Enterprise deliberately enter the Romulan Neutral Zone where the ship is immediately captured by the enemy.

Director: John Meredyth Lucas | Stars: William Shatner , Leonard Nimoy , DeForest Kelley , Joanne Linville

Votes: 3,902

3. Star Trek (1966–1969) Episode: The Paradise Syndrome (1968)

Trapped on a planet whose inhabitants are descended from Northwestern Native Americans, Kirk loses his memory and is proclaimed a God while the crippled Enterprise races back to the planet before it is destroyed by an asteroid.

Director: Jud Taylor | Stars: William Shatner , Leonard Nimoy , DeForest Kelley , Sabrina Scharf

Votes: 3,284

4. Star Trek (1966–1969) Episode: And the Children Shall Lead (1968)

The Enterprise reaches a Federation colony where the adults have all killed themselves but the children play without care.

Director: Marvin J. Chomsky | Stars: William Shatner , Leonard Nimoy , DeForest Kelley , Craig Huxley

Votes: 3,406

5. Star Trek (1966–1969) Episode: Is There in Truth No Beauty? (1968)

Lovely telepath Miranda is aide to Ambassador Kollos, in a box to stop insanity when humans see Medusans. She rejects Larry, a designer of Enterprise, and senses murderous intent nearby.

Director: Ralph Senensky | Stars: William Shatner , Leonard Nimoy , DeForest Kelley , Diana Muldaur

Votes: 3,207

6. Star Trek (1966–1969) Episode: Spectre of the Gun (1968)

As punishment for ignoring their warning and trespassing on their planet, the Melkot condemn Capt. Kirk and his landing party to the losing side of a surreal recreation of the 1881 historic gunfight at the OK Corral.

Director: Vincent McEveety | Stars: William Shatner , Leonard Nimoy , DeForest Kelley , Ron Soble

Votes: 3,376

7. Star Trek (1966–1969) Episode: Day of the Dove (1968)

Both humans and Klingons have been lured to a planet by a formless entity that feeds on hatred and has set about to fashion them into a permanent food supply for itself.

Director: Marvin J. Chomsky | Stars: William Shatner , Leonard Nimoy , DeForest Kelley , Michael Ansara

Votes: 3,367

8. Star Trek (1966–1969) Episode: For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky (1968)

The Enterprise discovers an apparent asteroid that is on a collision course with a planet is actually an ancient populated generation ship.

Director: Anton Leader | Stars: William Shatner , Leonard Nimoy , DeForest Kelley , Katherine Woodville

Votes: 3,122

9. Star Trek (1966–1969) Episode: The Tholian Web (1968)

With Capt. Kirk and the derelict USS Defiant apparently lost, the Enterprise grapples with an insanity causing plague and an attack by the Tholians.

Directors: Herb Wallerstein , Ralph Senensky | Stars: William Shatner , Leonard Nimoy , DeForest Kelley , James Doohan

Votes: 3,425

10. Star Trek (1966–1969) Episode: Plato's Stepchildren (1968)

After Dr. McCoy helps the leader of a planet populated by people with powerful psionic abilities, they decide to force him to stay by torturing his comrades until he submits.

Director: David Alexander | Stars: William Shatner , Leonard Nimoy , DeForest Kelley , Michael Dunn

Votes: 3,287

11. Star Trek (1966–1969) Episode: Wink of an Eye (1968)

A group of aliens who exist in a state of incredible acceleration invade the Enterprise and abduct Capt. Kirk.

Director: Jud Taylor | Stars: William Shatner , Leonard Nimoy , DeForest Kelley , Kathie Browne

Votes: 3,161

12. Star Trek (1966–1969) Episode: The Empath (1968)

Trapped in an alien laboratory, Kirk, Spock and McCoy meet an empath and are involved in a series of experiments.

Director: John Erman | Stars: William Shatner , Leonard Nimoy , DeForest Kelley , Kathryn Hays

Votes: 3,171

13. Star Trek (1966–1969) Episode: Elaan of Troyius (1968)

While transporting an arrogant, demanding princess for a political marriage, Captain Kirk must cope both with her biochemical ability to force him to love her, as well as sabotage on his ship.

Director: John Meredyth Lucas | Stars: William Shatner , Leonard Nimoy , DeForest Kelley , France Nuyen

Votes: 3,168

14. Star Trek (1966–1969) Episode: Whom Gods Destroy (1969)

Kirk and Spock are taken prisoners by a former starship captain named Garth, who now resides at, and has taken over, a high security asylum for the criminally insane.

Director: Herb Wallerstein | Stars: William Shatner , Leonard Nimoy , DeForest Kelley , Steve Ihnat

Votes: 3,096

15. Star Trek (1966–1969) Episode: Let That Be Your Last Battlefield (1969)

The Enterprise encounters two duo-chromatic and mutually belligerent aliens who put the ship in the middle of their old conflict.

Director: Jud Taylor | Stars: William Shatner , Leonard Nimoy , DeForest Kelley , Frank Gorshin

Votes: 3,254

16. Star Trek (1966–1969) Episode: The Mark of Gideon (1969)

Kirk beams down to the planet Gideon and appears to find himself trapped on a deserted Enterprise. Spock on the real Enterprise must use his diplomatic skills to deal with the uncooperative inhabitants of Gideon and find the Captain.

Director: Jud Taylor | Stars: William Shatner , Leonard Nimoy , DeForest Kelley , Sharon Acker

Votes: 3,014

17. Star Trek (1966–1969) Episode: That Which Survives (1969)

After the Enterprise landing party beams down to investigate a geologically interesting planet, their ship is hurled across the galaxy. Kirk and company find a deserted outpost guarded by the deadly image of a beautiful woman.

Director: Herb Wallerstein | Stars: William Shatner , Leonard Nimoy , DeForest Kelley , Lee Meriwether

Votes: 2,944

18. Star Trek (1966–1969) Episode: The Lights of Zetar (1969)

A mysterious, twinkling mass of sapient energy ravages an important archive and Scotty's new girlfriend may be linked to it.

Director: Herbert Kenwith | Stars: William Shatner , Leonard Nimoy , DeForest Kelley , Jan Shutan

Votes: 2,891

19. Star Trek (1966–1969) Episode: Requiem for Methuselah (1969)

On a planet, looking for an urgent medicinal cure, Kirk, Spock and McCoy come across a dignified recluse living privately but in splendor with his sheltered ward and a very protective robot servant.

Director: Murray Golden | Stars: William Shatner , Leonard Nimoy , DeForest Kelley , James Daly

Votes: 3,243

20. Star Trek (1966–1969) Episode: The Way to Eden (1969)

A group of idealistic hippies, led by an irrational leader, come aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise.

Director: David Alexander | Stars: William Shatner , Leonard Nimoy , DeForest Kelley , Skip Homeier

Votes: 3,413

21. Star Trek (1966–1969) Episode: The Cloud Minders (1969)

Kirk and Spock are caught up in a revolution on a planet where intellectuals and artists live on a utopian city in the sky while the rest of the population toils in mines on the barren surface below.

Director: Jud Taylor | Stars: William Shatner , Leonard Nimoy , DeForest Kelley , Jeff Corey

Votes: 3,031

22. Star Trek (1966–1969) Episode: The Savage Curtain (1969)

Kirk, Spock, Abraham Lincoln and Vulcan legend Surak are pitted in battle against notorious villains from history for the purpose of helping a conscious rock creature's understanding of a concept he does not understand, "good vs. evil".

Director: Herschel Daugherty | Stars: William Shatner , Leonard Nimoy , DeForest Kelley , Lee Bergere

Votes: 3,070

23. Star Trek (1966–1969) Episode: All Our Yesterdays (1969)

TV-PG | 50 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

When Kirk, Spock and McCoy investigate the disappearance of a doomed planet's population, they find themselves trapped in different periods of that world's past.

Director: Marvin J. Chomsky | Stars: William Shatner , Leonard Nimoy , DeForest Kelley , Mariette Hartley

Votes: 3,395

24. Star Trek (1966–1969) Episode: Turnabout Intruder (1969)

Captain Kirk's insane ex-lover Dr. Janice Lester forcibly switches bodies with him in order to take command of the Enterprise.

Director: Herb Wallerstein | Stars: William Shatner , Leonard Nimoy , DeForest Kelley , Sandra Smith

Votes: 3,001

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