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Star Trek: Season 02
Running Time: 30 min.

The Starship Enterprise's five-year mission to "seek out new life forms and new civilizations" and "boldly go where no man has gone before" shifts into warp speed as Star Trek enters its second season. The biggest news this year is a fresh addition to the ensemble cast: Now taking his place alongside such TV immortals as William Shatner (Capt. Kirk), Leonard Nimoy (Mr. Spock), DeForest Kelley (Dr. McCoy), James Doohan) (Engineer Scott), George Takei (Lt. Sulu), Nichelle Nichols (Officer Uhura) and Majel Barrett (Nurse Chapel) is Walter Koenig as young Russian-born ensign Pavel Chekov (a character added to attract more teenage viewers--and NOT to pacify the Soviet Union, as has often been claimed) The season begins with one of the series' best efforts, Theodore Sturgeon's "Amok Time", in which the half-Vulcan Mr. Spock must mate or die. Spock is also the focus in D.C. Fontana's "Journey to Babel", featuring Jane Wyatt and Mark Lenard as Spock's parents Amanda and Sarek. Other Season Two highlights include the return of intergalactic con artist Harry Mudd (Roger C. Carmel) in "I, Mudd"; Margaret Armen's superb "The Gamesters of Triskelon", in which the crew is forced to engaged in barbaric combat, and the thematically similar "Bread and Circuses", depicting an ancient Roman society decked out with 20th-century technology; "The Changeling", with Vic Perrin (best known as the "Control Voice" on The Outer Limits) supplying the voice of the lethally "perfect" computer Nomad; "The Deadly Years", in which the crew is subjected to an accelerated aging process; and Robert Bloch's "whodunnit in space", "Wolf in the Fold". And we can't forget David Gerrold's classic "The Trouble with Tribbles", all about those incredibly prolific little furballs; the supremely silly but enjoyable "A Piece of the Action", aka "Star Trek meets The Untouchables"; and the much-maligned "Mirror, Mirror", wherein the crew comes face to face with their barbaric doppelgangers. The season finale, "Assignment: Earth", was intended as the pilot for a spinoff series, starring Robert Lansing as altruistic time traveller Gary Seven. Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Star Trek: Season 02 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)
Walter Koenig (Pavel Chekov)
Majel Barrett (Nurse Christine Chapel)

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


Star Trek: Season 02 Episodes:
Star Trek 30: Catspaw
Star Trek 31: Metamorphosis
Star Trek 32: Friday's Child
Star Trek 33: Who Mourns for Adonis?
Star Trek 34: Amok Time
Star Trek 35: The Doomsday Machine
Star Trek 36: Wolf in the Fold
Star Trek 37: The Changeling
Star Trek 38: The Apple
Star Trek 39: Mirror, Mirror
Star Trek 40: The Deadly Years
Star Trek 41: I, Mudd
Star Trek 42: The Trouble with Tribbles
Star Trek 43: Bread & Circuses
Star Trek 44: Journey to Babel
Star Trek 45: A Private Little War
Star Trek 46: The Gamesters of Triskelion
Star Trek 47: Obsession
Star Trek 48: The Immunity Syndrome
Star Trek 49: A Piece of the Action
Star Trek 50: By Any Other Name
Star Trek 51: Return to Tomorrow
Star Trek 52: Patterns of Force
Star Trek 53: The Ultimate Computer
Star Trek 54: The Omega Glory
Star Trek 55: Assignment: Earth
Star Trek: The Animated Series - The Pirates of Orion
Star Trek: The Animated Series - Bem
Star Trek: The Animated Series - The Practical Joker
Star Trek: The Animated Series - Albatross
Star Trek: The Animated Series - How Sharper Than A Serpent's Tooth
Star Trek: The Animated Series - The Counter-Clock Incident



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