Star Trek: The Original Series
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| Abbreviation: | TOS |
| Created by: | Gene Roddenberry |
| Studio: | Desilu |
| Distributor: | NBC network |
| Production dates: | 1966-1969 |
| Episodes: | 79 (3 seasons), 1 unaired pilot |
| Timespan: | 2265-2269 |
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| The USS Enterprise (NCC-1701). | |
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| The crew during the five-year mission. | |
Star Trek: The Original Series (formally called Star Trek) is the first Star Trek series. The first episode of the show aired on September 8, 1966 on NBC. The show was created by Gene Roddenberry as a Wagon Train to the Stars. Star Trek was set in the 23rd century and featured the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Star Trek was later informally dubbed The Original Series, or TOS, after several spinoffs. The show lasted three seasons until cancelled in 1969.
- Main Title Theme (composed by Alexander Courage)
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Summary
Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before.
Cast
- William Shatner as James T. Kirk
- Leonard Nimoy as Spock
- DeForest Kelley as Leonard McCoy
- James Doohan as Montgomery Scott
- Nichelle Nichols as Uhura
- George Takei as Hikaru Sulu
- Walter Koenig as Pavel Chekov (1967-1969)
- Majel Barrett as Christine Chapel
Of the above, only William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy and later DeForest Kelley were listed as the main cast. James Doohan, George Takei, Walter Koenig and Nichelle Nichols were listed as co-stars throughout the series; indeed, Kelley was not listed in the main titles until Season Two.
Production crew
- Gene Roddenberry - Creator, Executive Producer
- Gene L. Coon - Writer/Producer
- Walter "Matt" Jefferies - Art Director
- Robert Justman - Producer, Associate Producer, Co-Producer
- D.C. Fontana - Writer, Script Consultant
- John D.F. Black - Associate Producer, Story Editor
- John Meredyth Lucas - Writer/Producer, Director
- Fred Freiberger - Producer
Episodes
- List of TOS episodes by airdate
First pilot
- 0x01 The Cage
Season 1
TOS Season 1, 29 episodes:
- 1x01 Where No Man Has Gone Before
- 1x02 The Corbomite Maneuver
- 1x03 Mudd's Women
- 1x04 The Enemy Within
- 1x05 The Man Trap
- 1x06 The Naked Time
- 1x07 Charlie X
- 1x08 Balance of Terror
- 1x09 What Are Little Girls Made Of?
- 1x10 Dagger of the Mind
- 1x11 Miri
- 1x12 The Conscience of the King
- 1x13 The Galileo Seven
- 1x14 Court Martial
- 1x15 The Menagerie, Part I
- 1x16 The Menagerie, Part II
- 1x17 Shore Leave
- 1x18 The Squire of Gothos
- 1x19 Arena
- 1x20 The Alternative Factor
- 1x21 Tomorrow is Yesterday
- 1x22 The Return of the Archons
- 1x23 A Taste of Armageddon
- 1x24 Space Seed
- 1x25 This Side of Paradise
- 1x26 The Devil in the Dark
- 1x27 Errand of Mercy
- 1x28 The City on the Edge of Forever
- 1x29 Operation -- Annihilate!
Season 2
TOS Season 2, 26 episodes:
- 2x01 Catspaw
- 2x02 Metamorphosis
- 2x03 Friday's Child
- 2x04 Who Mourns for Adonais?
- 2x05 Amok Time
- 2x06 The Doomsday Machine
- 2x07 Wolf in the Fold
- 2x08 The Changeling
- 2x09 The Apple
- 2x10 Mirror, Mirror
- 2x11 The Deadly Years
- 2x12 I, Mudd
- 2x13 The Trouble with Tribbles
- 2x14 Bread and Circuses
- 2x15 Journey to Babel
- 2x16 A Private Little War
- 2x17 The Gamesters of Triskelion
- 2x18 Obsession
- 2x19 The Immunity Syndrome
- 2x20 A Piece of the Action
- 2x21 By Any Other Name
- 2x22 Return to Tomorrow
- 2x23 Patterns of Force
- 2x24 The Ultimate Computer
- 2x25 The Omega Glory
- 2x26 Assignment: Earth
Season 3
TOS Season 3, 24 episodes:
- 3x01 Spectre of the Gun
- 3x02 Elaan of Troyius
- 3x03 The Paradise Syndrome
- 3x04 The Enterprise Incident
- 3x05 And the Children Shall Lead
- 3x06 Spock's Brain
- 3x07 Is There in Truth No Beauty?
- 3x08 The Empath
- 3x09 The Tholian Web
- 3x10 For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky
- 3x11 Day of the Dove
- 3x12 Plato's Stepchildren
- 3x13 Wink of an Eye
- 3x14 That Which Survives
- 3x15 Let That Be Your Last Battlefield
- 3x16 Whom Gods Destroy
- 3x17 The Mark of Gideon
- 3x18 The Lights of Zetar
- 3x19 The Cloud Minders
- 3x20 The Way to Eden
- 3x21 Requiem for Methuselah
- 3x22 The Savage Curtain
- 3x23 All Our Yesterdays
- 3x24 Turnabout Intruder
Background information
Gene Roddenberry wrote lyrics for the theme song in order to secure a writer's credit for said song. These lyrics were never recorded as part of the original theme song, and were thus never aired. However, a rock band called Tenacious D did a rendition of the Star Trek title theme, using Roddenberry's lyrics:
- Beyond the rim of the star-light.
- My love is wand'ring in star-flight
- I know he'll find in star-clustered reaches
- Love, strange love a star woman teaches.
- I know his journey ends never
- His star trek will go on forever.
- But tell him while he wanders his starry sea
- Remember, remember me.
Related topics
- TOS Season 1 performers
- TOS Season 2 performers
- TOS Season 3 performers
- TOS recurring characters
- TOS recurring character appearances
- List of main character crossover appearances
- Composers
- TOS directors
External Links
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