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Star Trek: Season 01
Running Time: 30 min.

As everyone on earth (to say nothing of everyone in the United Federation of Planets) must know by now, the debut episode of Star Trek's first season, "The Man Trap", was not the first episode filmed. Nor was the series' "official" pilot episode, "Where No Man Has Gone Before", the first one to go before the cameras. The real launching pad for Star Trek was "The Cage", which stars not William Shatner as James T. Kirk, but instead Jeffrey Hunter as Captain Christopher Pike of the Starship Enterprise. Though Hunter was replaced by Shatner, producer Gene Roddenberry wasn't about to let the costly "The Cage go to waste: thus, the episode was reedited as a two-part "flashback" titled "The Menagerie", with an added wraparound sequence in which the Enterprise's first officer Mr. Spock (Leonard Nimoy) explains at his court-martial why he attempted to kidnap the now-enfeebled and demented Captain Pike. With this out of the way, it can be said that Season One of Star Trek--or more specifically, year one of the Enterprise's five-year mission to "boldly go where no man has gone before"--contains several of the series' best and best-loved episodes, with the ensemble cast--Shatner, Nimoy, DeForest Kelley (Dr. "Bones" McCoy), James Doohan (Engineer Scott), Nichelle Nichols (communications officer Uhura), George Takei (helmsman Lt. Sulu) and Majel Barrett (Nurse Christine Chapel)--in peak form. In fact, the casting falls short of perfection in only one respect: Walter Koenig as ensign Chekov would not join the show until Season Two. This season represents the first series contributions of Richard Matheson ("The Enemy Within"), Jerry Sohl ("The Corbomite Maneuver"), Robert Bloch ("What Are Little Girls Made Of?"), Theodore Sturgeon ("Shore Leave") and Star Trek story editor D.C. Fontana ("Tomorrow is Yesterday"). Perhaps the most memorable--and certainly the most controversial--of the season's offerings is Harlan Ellison's Hugo-award winning "City on the Edge of Forever" (Alas, Ellison would never write again for Star Trek, the result of a well-publicized feud between the author and producer Roddenberry which has been exhaustively chronicled elsewhere). Finally, let us take note of two unforgettable guest star turns in Season One. First there's Roger C. Carmel, making his first appearance as intergalactic con artist Harry Mudd in "Mudd's Women". And last but not least, Ricardo Montalban plays the evil Khan, a genetically engineering superman who endeavors to take over the Enterprise in "Space Seed." Sixteen years later, Khan (again played by Montalban) would be up to his old tricks in the theatrical-movie spinoff Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan! Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Star Trek: Season 01 Cast and Crew:
William Shatner (James T. Kirk)
Leonard Nimoy (Mr. Spock)
DeForest Kelley (Leonard "Bones" McCoy)
James Doohan (Montgomery "Scotty" Scott)
George Takei (Hikaru Sulu)
Nichelle Nichols (Uhura)
Majel Barrett (Nurse Christine Chapel)

Production Credits:
Gene Roddenberry (Executive Producer)
Gene L. Coon (Producer)
Gene Roddenberry (Show Creator)


Star Trek: Season 01 Episodes:
Star Trek 10: What Are Little Girls Made Of?
Star Trek 11: Dagger of the Mind
Star Trek 12: Miri
Star Trek 13: The Conscience of the King
Star Trek 14: The Galileo Seven
Star Trek 15: Court Martial
Star Trek 16: The Menagerie, Part 1
Star Trek 17: Shore Leave
Star Trek 18: The Squire of Gothos
Star Trek 19: Arena
Star Trek 1: The Cage
Star Trek 20: The Alternative Factor
Star Trek 21: Tomorrow Is Yesterday
Star Trek 22: The Return of the Archons
Star Trek 23: A Taste of Armageddon
Star Trek 24: Space Seed
Star Trek 25: This Side of Paradise
Star Trek 26: The Devil in the Dark
Star Trek 27: Errand of Mercy
Star Trek 28: The City on the Edge of Forever
Star Trek 29: Operation Annihilate!
Star Trek 2: Where No Man Has Gone Before
Star Trek 3: The Corbomite Maneuver
Star Trek 4: Mudd's Women
Star Trek 5: The Enemy Within
Star Trek 6: The Man Trap
Star Trek 7: The Naked Time
Star Trek 8: Charlie X
Star Trek 9: Balance of Terror
Star Trek: The Animated Series - Beyond the Farthest Star
Star Trek: The Animated Series - Yesteryear
Star Trek: The Animated Series - One of Our Planets is Missing
Star Trek: The Animated Series - The Lorelei Signal
Star Trek: The Animated Series - More Troubles, More Tribbles
Star Trek: The Animated Series - The Survivor
Star Trek: The Animated Series - The Infinite Vulcan
Star Trek: The Animated Series - The Magicks of Megus-Tu
Star Trek: The Animated Series - Once Upon A Planet
Star Trek: The Animated Series - Mudd's Passion
Star Trek: The Animated Series - The Terratin Incident
Star Trek: The Animated Series - The Time Trap
Star Trek: The Animated Series - The Ambergris Element
Star Trek: The Animated Series - Slaver Weapon
Star Trek: The Animated Series - The Eye of the Beholder
Star Trek: The Animated Series - The Jihad
Star Trek 16: The Menagerie, Part 2



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