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#63: Star Trek: The Animated Series, season 1, episode 2 "Yesteryear"

Written by D.C. Fontana, directed by Hal Sutherland.

Stardate 5373.4 (late 2268 to early 2269)
(Some events take place in 2237 & an alternate timeline.)

"Logic offers a serenity Humans seldom experience in full." - "Selek"

The Enterprise has returned to "The Time Planet" which contains the Guardian of Forever - a place where all points in time converge to conduct survey missions through time. After returning from ancient Orion, Captain Kirk and Commander Spock are surprised to find that no one remembers who Spock is. Least of all the First Officer of the Enterprise, an Andorian Commander named Thelin. After consulting computer records and learning that there was a Spock on Vulcan that he died at a young age, Spock requests the Guardian of Forever to allow him to travel to Vulcan in the past where he must prevent the death of his younger self without causing any additional changes to the timeline.

Originally released: 15 September 1973

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#62: Star Trek: The Animated Series, season 1, episode 1 "Beyond the Farthest Star"

Written by Samuel A. Peeples, directed by Hal Sutherland.

Stardates 5221.3 through 5221.9 (late 2268 to early 2269)

"You are protected only for this moment in this room." - unnamed alien

The Enterprise is on a starcharting mission when it gets caught in the gravity well of a dead star. Lieutenant Sulu manages to pull the ship into an orbit around the negative mass of energy. There, a fantastically large and damaged alien ship comes into view. It registers as completely dead, so Captain Kirk and a team beam aboard to survey it. They find that all of the damage to the ship seems to be self-inflicted and make their way to a control room with an automated message waiting to be played back As they are presented with a warning that some malevolent force is hiding on the ship and that the crew intentionally disabled and abandoned their ship here to precent it from escaping, an unknown forces starts to break down the door.

Originally released: 8 September 1973

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#63: Star Trek: The Animated Series, season 1, episode 12 "The Time Trap"

Written by Joyce Perry, directed by Hal Sutherland.

Stardates 5267.2 through 5267.6 (late 2268 to early 2269)

"Home, with all its faults, is where we prefer to be." - Captain Kirk

The Enterprise has been sent to survey a region of space called the Delta Triangle, which is infamous for being a place where many ships throughout history have disappeared without a trace. While surveying, the Klingon Battlecruiser Klothos appears and attacks the Enterprise. But in the midst of its attack, the Klingon ship vanishes just like so many ships before. More Klingon ships appear and blame the Enterprise for the destruction of the Klothos. Out gunned and surrounded, Captain Kirk decides to take the Enterprise to the exact spot the Klothos disappeared and she also disappears into a pocket of starless space with a vast graveyard of derelict ships... ships that match the descriptions of those lost in the Delta Triangle. When the Klothos finds the Enterprise to resume fighting and their weapons no longer work, Captain Kirk and Commander Kor are beamed off their ships and stood before the Council of Elysia - made up of the survivors of the vanished ships - and are told that here there is total peace... and no possibly of escape.

Originally released: 24 November 1973

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#61: Star Trek: The Original Series, season 3, episode 12 "The Empath"

Written by Joyce Muskat, directed by John Erman.

Stardate 5121.5 (November 2268)

"You don't understand what it is to live." - Captain Kirk

The Enterprise is sent to evacuate a research station on Minara II. However, when they arrive, the station is deserted. As they begin searching the station, a massive solar flare threatens the Enterprise and Captain Kirk orders Commander Scott to take her to a safe distance and pick them back up when it is safe. Commander Spock plays the station's security recordings and they witness the researchers vanish one by one after hearing a high-frequency noise. Just as they see this, the landing party experiences the same high-frequency noise before disappearing one by one. They awaken inside a dark room with an alien woman who cannot speak. Doctor McCoy concludes that it's natural for her species and Spock deduces she is an empath. Without warning, two older alien men appear and immediately assert dominance against everyone with advanced technological abilities. Kirk, Spock, and McCoy are lab rats in some kind of experiment but they do not know to what end. Or why a frightened, empathetic woman is involved.

Originally released: 6 December 1968

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#60: Star Trek: The Original Series, season 3, episode 4 "And the Children Shall Lead"

Written by Edward J. Lakso, directed by Marvin Chomsky.

Stardates 5029.5 through 5041.1 (October 2268)

"The universe will be mine to command, yours to play in." - Gorgan

The Enterprise responds to a distress call form Triacus. When they beam down, they find the entire research team dead, except for one who appears to be paranoid and unable to recognize people before also dropping dead. They are survived only by their children, who are found playing together as though nothing has happened. Not only can Doctor McCoy not understand the motivation for what appears to be mass suicide on the researchers' part, but he is also confused and concerned by the childrens' inability to accept the reality of the situation. Even during a funeral for their own parents, the children can't sit still for a moment before running off to play again. Once back onboard the ship, Nurse Chapel arranges for the children to be cared for until they can be transferred to a Starbase. But they don't want to do anything but play. As Captain Kirk prepares the Enterprise to leave the planet, himself and other crewmembers start to exhibit the same symptoms as the researchers down on Triacus did before they killed themselves.

Originally released: 11 October 1968

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#59: Star Trek: The Original Series, season 3, episode 2 "The Enterprise Incident"

Written by D.C. Fontana, directed by John Meredyth Lucas.

Stardates 5027.3 through 5027.4 (October 2268)

"It would be illogical to assume that all conditions remain stable." - Commander Spock

Doctor McCoy is becoming increasingly worried that Captain Kirk is being overworked and is beginning to buckle under the stress of command. As Kirk becomes increasingly short with his crew he suddenly orders the ship to enter Romulan space seemingly without orders to do so. The Enterprise is almost immediately surrounded by a small armada of Romulan ships under the control of a female Romulan Commander. Kirk and Spock are taken aboard her flagship and interrogated. But Spock unexpectedly reveals that Kirk's transgression into Romulan space was of his own accord, which causes him to break and try to attack Spock in anger. Thrown into a Romulan prison cell, Kirk is left suffering from a mental breakdown and in a catatonic state while the Commander sets her eyes on Spock to attempt to lure him over to her side in more ways than one.

Originally released: 27 September 1968

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#58: Star Trek: The Original Series, season 3, episode 3 "The Paradise Syndrome"

Written by Margaret Armen, directed by Jud Taylor.

Stardates 4842.6 through 4843.6 (September 2268)

"Surely no man has ever attained such happiness." - Kirok

The Enterprise finds a planet within the path of an asteroid that has evolved to almost exactly resemble the ancient Americas on Earth. Additionally, they find a nomadic people who resemble some of the Native American tribes. Only a strange obelisk of unknown design suggests that an advanced people had once been there. Opting to leave the natives alone and focus on the asteroid, Captain Kirk, Commander Spock, and Doctor McCoy prepare to return to the ship. Upon contacting the Enterprise, Kirk accidentally activates an entrance hatch to the obelisk and falls in. Inside, he fumbles around and touches the advanced controls causing his memory to be wiped. Outside, Spock and McCoy, unable to locate the Captain, return to the ship in order to intercept the asteroid in time. Kirk is found by one of the nomadic natives and taken in. He is believed by the elders to be the fulfillment of an ancient prophesy that tells of a god who will appear to the people during a time of great need. As Spock and the crew use all of the Enterprise's strength to keep the asteroid from striking the planet and killing everyone on it, Kirk slowly believes he is the one the prophecy spoke of and begins a new life filled with a simplicity and peace he's never known before.

Originally released: 4 October 1968

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#57: Star Trek: The Original Series, season 2, episode 21 "Patterns of Force"

Written by John Meredyth Lucas, directed by Vincent McEveety.

Stardate unknown (2268)

"A man who holds that much power, even with the best intentions, just can't resist the urge to play god." - Doctor McCoy

The Federation has lost contact with Professor John Gill (David Brian), a cultural observer who was studying the Ekosian people of Ekos in a system they shared with the Zeon. The Enterprise is sent to reestablish contact with him. Upon arrival in the system, they are met with a nuclear missile launched at the ship from Ekos. But Ekos isn't suppose to have technology that advanced. Captain Kirk and Commander Spock beam down to the planet in disguise and are immediately met with the sight of a Zeon man being chased and beaten by a group of Ekosians dressed exactly as Nazi officers from Earth's 20th century. Seeing a news reel of how the Ekosians have unified the entire planet under a mission of an ethnic cleansing of all Zeons on Ekos and on their own homeworld, and how John Gill himself has been elevated to the position of the Fuhrer of this version of the Nazi Party, Kirk desperately tries to find a way to make contact with Gill to find out why he violated the Prime Directive and chose to recreate one of the darkest pages in Earth's history.

Originally released: 16 February 1968

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#56: Star Trek: The Original Series, season 2, episode 20 "Return to Tomorrow"

Written by John Kingsbridge, directed by Ralph Senensky.

Stardates 4768.3 through 4770.3 (August 2268)

"This body please me. I intend to keep it." - Thalassa

The Enterprise chases an unusually-powerful distress signal into an unexplored star system. The source of the signal is found to be a planet that used to be similar to Earth, but is now long dead. Suddenly, in the proximity of the planet, a benevolent voice fills the ship and invites them to the surface. There, there find an orb with the consciousness of an ancient alien named Sargon (James Doohan) who's race existed long before all others, and whom very likely seeded Earth to create the first humans. Those few of them who remain wish to return to physical bodies and ask Captain Kirk, Commander Spock, and Lieutenant Mulhall (Diana Muldaur) to allow them to become temporary possessed with their life force so that they may construct new bodies and live amongst caporal beings once again.

Originally released: 3 May 1968

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#55: Star Trek: The Original Series, season 2, episode 26 "Assignment: Earth"

Written by Gene Roddenberry & Art Wallace, directed by Marc Daniels.

Stardate unknown (August 2268)

"Very groovy." - Roberta Lincoln

The Enterprise uses the slingshot maneuver to travel back to 1968 to conduct observations of Earth during the 20th century. An incredible power surge hits the ship and a 20th century-looking man and a house cat appears on the transporter pad. He introduces himself as Gary Seven and, even though he came from an impossible distance away from the ship, he claims to be human and from the year 1968. Once Gary realizes that Kirk and his ship are from a different time period, he demands to be returned for fear of altering the timeline. Unsure of what to believe, and because Gary tries to overpower them, Kirk places Gary in the Brig while he tries to verify his story. Almost immediately Gary escapes with the help of a futuristic device and continues down to Earth. Kirk has no choice but to pursue Gary Seven down to Earth to stop him from doing whatever it is he intends to do.

Originally released: 3 May 1968

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It's not every day a piece of science fiction history is discovered, but that's exactly what happened with the original 33-inch USS Enterprise model from "Star Trek: The Original Series." (July 30, 2026)

Followup to the discovery of the long-lost original reference model of the Starship Enterprise.

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#54: Star Trek: The Original Series, season 2, episode 23 "The Omega Glory"

Written by Gene Roddenberry, directed by Vincent McEveety.

Stardate unknown (August 2268)

"Liberty and Freedom have to be more than just words." - Captain Kirk

The Enterprise finds the USS Exeter unresponsive in orbit of a planet it was suppose to be surveying. When Captain Kirk and a team beam aboard, they find no signs of life... but they do find the uniforms of every single crewmember surrounded by a crystalline substance. Doctor McCoy discovers, to everyone's horror, those crystals are human remains. After replaying the final log of the Exeter's Chief Medical Officer, which informs them that a pathogen was brought back to the ship, they beam to the surface of the planet in search for answers. The moment they arrive, they encounter an execution in progress and are almost swept up in it until the Exeter's Captain Ronald Tracey (Morgan Woodward) steps in and orders the locals to leave them alone. Tracey explains that the primitive people of this planet are divided into two group; the civilized Kohms and the animalistic Yangs. In addition to violating the Prime Directive by siding with the Kohms against the Yangs, Tracey informs everyone that he knows his crew is dead. Landing on the planet exposed them all to a virus with no cure. Returning to the Enterprise would cause them and everyone aboard the ship to suffer the same fate.

Originally released: 1 March 1968

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#53: Star Trek: The Original Series, season 2, episode 24 "The Ultimate Computer"

Written by D.C. Fontana & Laurence N. Wolfe, directed by John Meredyth Lucas.

Stardates 4729.4 through 4731.3 (August 2268)

"You are great. I am great." - Doctor Richard Daystrom

The Enterprise arrives at Starbase 6 as ordered, but without knowledge as to why. When Captain Kirk starts to lose patience and demands an explanation, his old friend Commodore Robert Wesley beams aboard and tells him that almost all of his crew must disembark - leaving only 20 people aboard the ship. The reason for this is the legendary Doctor Richard Daystrom (William Marshall), who is coming aboard, has developed a new computer called the M-5. It can fully automate an entire Starship, and Wesley is going to conduct war games with an M-5-powered Enterprise pitted against four other Constitution-class starships to see how good the M-5 really is. As Daystrom installs and babies his M-5 prototype, and it assumes control of the ship with particular success, it slowly begins behaving in a way that Commander Spock refers to as interesting and illogical.

Originally released: 8 March 1968

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Renders made for background shots during season 2 of Strange New Worlds.

Shatner and his daughter Melanie speak out in a new interview about their stage 4 cancer diagnoses, received a year apart, and how they're doing now.

Uploaded to YouTube by Good Morning America.

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• Both were diagnosed with stage 4 cancer
• Both have already had surgery
• Both have made a complete recovery
• Both have been in remission for years

This occurred in 2022 & 2023. They are both still alive because of recent breakthroughs in cancer treatment. If it had happened just years prior, they would have only been given months to live. All traces of cancer have been removed from their bodies despite it being found far-spread and metastasized in both of them. Bill required immediate surgery upon discovery, his daughter went through a period of time where she thought she was going to die.

Bill & Melanie also host a podcast called No Time But Now, centered around their shared experiences and survival stories. https://notimebutnow.com/

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#52: Star Trek: The Original Series, season 2, episode 22 "By Any Other Name"

Written by D.C. Fontana & Jerome Bixby, directed by Marc Daniels.

Stardates 4657.5 through 4658.9 (August 2268)

"To use this ship, you have to use our form." - Captain Kirk

Captain Kirk beams down to a lush planet with an away team to track down the source of a distress call. Out from the trees emerge two humanoids with expressionless faces who confidently announce to Kirk that they will take over his ship. The moment Kirk begins to protest, the aliens freeze the entire landing party in place with some sort of device. The y are held captive on the planet while more of their kind materialize on the Enterprise through the shields and systematically take over the ship. They are Kelvans from the Andromeda galaxy. They crashed in the Milky Way galaxy when their scout ship passed through the galactic barrier and they need the Enterprise to return home - a 300-year journey across the void between galaxies.

Originally released: 23 February 1968

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#51: Star Trek: The Original Series, season 2, episode 17 "A Piece of the Action"

Written by David P. Harmon & Gene L. Coon, directed by James Komack.

Stardate unknown (July 2268)

"Astonishing. An entire culture based on this." - Commander Spock

The Enterprise follows a transmission from a Starfleet vessel lost over 100 years ago, the Horizon. to the Sigma Iota system. Because the message was sent using conventional radio instead of subspace, it originated from a time before the Federation's non-interference laws and the crew prepares to meet a culture that has been contaminated by Human contact. Captain Kirk receives instructions to beam down from an odd-sounding person and the away team finds themselves standing in the middle of a city designed to look like Chicago in the early 20th century, surrounded by gun-toting gangsters.

Originally released: 12 January 1968

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The original Sci-Fi Channel special from 1996.

The Making of Star Trek Deep Space Nine Trials And Tribble-ations was a documentary which was broadcast on the Sci-Fi Channel in the US on November 4th, 1996. The documentary looks at the writing and production of the episode and features footage filmed during production of the episode. Some of the interviews later appeared as special features in the DS9 Season 5 DVD.

The documentary features interviews from the actors Terry Farrell, Armin Shimerman, Rene Auberjonois, Alexander Siddig, Colm Meaney, Cirroc Lofton, Michael Dorn, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei, and Charlie Brill; the writers Ira Steven Behr, Rick Berman, Ronald D. Moore, Rene Echevarria and David Gerrold; and the production staffers Gary Hutzel, Herman Zimmerman, Michael Westmore, Michael Okuda, Joe Longo, Dennis Madalone, Mary Ellen Bosché, Kevin Bouchez, and Don Lee.

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#50: Star Trek: The Original Series, season 2, episode 15 "The Trouble with Tribbles"

Written by David Gerrold, directed by Joseph Pevney.

Stardates 4523.3 through 4525.6 (July 2268)

"Well, the nearest thing I can figure is that they're born pregnant." - Doctor McCoy

The Enterprise is approaching Deep Space Station K-7, which is right on the border of Klingon Space and within range of a planet in dispute between them and the Federation, when K-7 issues a Priority-1 distress call. Captain Kirk orders the ship to race the rest of the way to the station. Only, once they arrive, Kirk doesn't find a battle, but a bureaucrat named Nilz Baris (William Schallert) flexing his authority and demanding Kirk's men guard a shipment of special grain designed to grow on the disputed planet. Kirk grits his teeth and tries to appease Baris while giving his crew shore leave aboard K-7 when a Klingon battleship appears. But instead of fighting, they insist on using K-7 for shore leave as well. Now two rival crews must share the same station where a shady character has merchandise to sell... including a fuzzy little creature called a Tribble.

Originally released: 29 December 1967

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