Star Trek The Original Series
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Star Trek The Original Series

8.0 / 10 · 1 votes
1966
3 seasons
80 episodes
Sci-Fi & Fantasy

To boldly go where no man has gone before.

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Seasons

  • The Man Trap

    1.The Man Trap

    08-09-196650 min

    Dr. McCoy discovers his old flame is not what she seems after crew members begin dying from a sudden lack of salt in their bodies.

  • Charlie X

    2.Charlie X

    15-09-196650 min

    Captain Kirk must learn the limits to the power of a 17-year-old boy with the psionic ability to create anything and destroy anyone.

  • Where No Man Has Gone Before

    3.Where No Man Has Gone Before

    22-09-196650 min

    The flight recorder of the 200-year-old U.S.S. Valiant relays a tale of terror--a magnetic storm at the edge of the galaxy.

  • The Naked Time

    4.The Naked Time

    29-09-196650 min

    The crew is infected with a mysterious disease that removes people's emotional inhibitions to a dangerous degree.

  • The Enemy Within

    5.The Enemy Within

    06-10-196650 min

    A transporter malfunction splits Captain Kirk into two halves: one meek and indecisive, the other violent and ill tempered. The remaining crew members stranded on the planet cannot...

  • Mudd's Women

    6.Mudd's Women

    13-10-196650 min

    The Enterprise picks up untrustworthy entrepreneur Harry Mudd accompanied by three beautiful women who immediately put a spell on all the male crew members.

  • What Are Little Girls Made Of?

    7.What Are Little Girls Made Of?

    20-10-196650 min

    Nurse Chapel is reunited with her fiancé; but his new obsession leads him to make an android duplicate of Captain Kirk.

  • Miri

    8.Miri

    27-10-196650 min

    The Enterprise discovers a planet exactly like Earth, but the only inhabitants are children who contract a fatal disease upon entering puberty.

  • Dagger of the Mind

    9.Dagger of the Mind

    03-11-196650 min

    Kirk and psychiatrist Helen Noel are trapped on a maximum security penal colony that experiments with mind control and Spock must use the Vulcan mind-meld to find a way to save the...

  • The Corbomite Maneuver

    10.The Corbomite Maneuver

    10-11-196650 min

    After the Enterprise is forced to destroy a dangerous marker buoy, a gigantic alien ship arrives to capture and condemn the crew as trespassers.

  • The Menagerie: Part I

    11.The Menagerie: Part I

    17-11-196650 min

    Spock kidnaps the disabled Capt. Pike, hijacks the Enterprise, and then surrenders for court martial.

  • The Menagerie: Part II

    12.The Menagerie: Part II

    24-11-196650 min

    At Spock's court martial, he explains himself with mysterious footage about when Capt. Pike was kidnapped by powerful illusion casting aliens.

  • The Conscience of the King

    13.The Conscience of the King

    08-12-196650 min

    While Captain Kirk investigates whether an actor is actually a presumed dead mass murderer, a mysterious assailant is killing the people who could identify the fugitive.

  • Balance of Terror

    14.Balance of Terror

    15-12-196650 min

    The Enterprise must decide on its response when a Romulan ship makes a destructively hostile armed probe of Federation territory.

  • Shore Leave

    15.Shore Leave

    29-12-196650 min

    The past months have left the crew exhausted and in desperate need of a break, but does this explain McCoy's encounter with a human-sized white rabbit or Kirk crossing paths with t...

  • The Galileo Seven

    16.The Galileo Seven

    05-01-196750 min

    The Galileo, under Spock's command, crash-lands on a hostile planet. As the Enterprise races against time to find the shuttlecraft, Spock's strictly logical leadership clashes with...

  • The Squire of Gothos

    17.The Squire of Gothos

    12-01-196750 min

    A being that controls matter and creates planets wants to play with the Enterprise crew.

  • Arena

    18.Arena

    19-01-196750 min

    For bringing hostility into their solar system, a superior alien race brings Captain Kirk into mortal combat against the reptilian captain of an alien ship he was pursuing.

  • Tomorrow Is Yesterday

    19.Tomorrow Is Yesterday

    26-01-196750 min

    The Enterprise is thrown back in time to 1960s Earth.

  • Court Martial

    20.Court Martial

    02-02-196750 min

    Kirk draws a court martial in the negligent death of a crewman.

  • The Return of the Archons

    21.The Return of the Archons

    09-02-196750 min

    Seeking the answer to a century-old mystery, Kirk and crew encounter a vacantly peaceful society under a 6000-year autocratic rule that kills all those it can't absorb.

  • Space Seed

    22.Space Seed

    16-02-196750 min

    While on patrol in deep space, Captain Kirk and his crew find and revive a genetically-engineered world conqueror and his compatriots from Earth's Twentieth Century.

  • A Taste of Armageddon

    23.A Taste of Armageddon

    23-02-196750 min

    Kirk and Spock must save their ship's crew when they are all declared killed in action in a bizarre computer simulated war where the actual deaths must nevertheless occur.

  • This Side of Paradise

    24.This Side of Paradise

    02-03-196750 min

    The Enterprise investigates a planet whose colonists should be dead, but are not.

  • The Devil in the Dark

    25.The Devil in the Dark

    09-03-196750 min

    The Enterprise is sent to a mining colony that is being terrorized by a mysterious monster, only to find that the situation is not that simple.

  • Errand of Mercy

    26.Errand of Mercy

    23-03-196750 min

    With a war with Klingons raging, Kirk and Spock attempt to resist an occupation of a planet with incomprehensibly placid natives.

  • The Alternative Factor

    27.The Alternative Factor

    30-03-196750 min

    Existence itself comes under threat from a man's power-struggle with his alternate self, with the Enterprise's strained dilithium crystals presenting his key to a final solution.

  • The City on the Edge of Forever

    28.The City on the Edge of Forever

    06-04-196750 min

    When a temporarily insane Dr. McCoy accidentally changes history and destroys his time, Kirk and Spock follow him to prevent the disaster, but the price to do so is high.

  • Operation -- Annihilate!

    29.Operation -- Annihilate!

    13-04-196750 min

    The Enterprise crew attempts to stop a plague of amoeba-like creatures from possessing human hosts and spreading throughout the galaxy.

  • The Cage

    30.The Cage

    22-01-19651h 3m

    Capt. Pike is held prisoner and tested by aliens who have the power to project incredibly lifelike illusions.

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