Written by Gene L. Coon, Arthur H. Singer, and Gene RoddenberryDirected by Marc Daniels The third season of Star Trek began with NBC slashing the budget for the series (the budget for […]
Star Trek: The Original Series – Assignment Earth – How You Spin-Off a Space Series
Written by Art Wallace and Gene RoddenberryDirected by Marc Daniels This episode was conceived as an attempt to sell a new series to the networks. The series was much different from Star […]
Star Trek: The Original Series – Bread and Circuses – Rome If You Want To
Written by Gene L. Coon and Gene RoddenberryDirected by Ralph Senensky I get that budgets were an issue back in the 1960s for television programs. For that reason, and the fact that […]
Star Trek: The Original Series – The Omega Glory – What The Hell?
Written by Gene RoddenberryDirected by Vincent McEveety Being a science-fiction fan requires some suspension of disbelief. I’m okay with believing that somehow technology in the future overcomes the issue of no gravity […]
Star Trek: The Original Series – By Any Other Name – Don’t Pick Up Space Hitch-Hikers
Written by D.C. Fontana, Jerome Bixby, and Gene RoddenberryDirected by Marc Daniels Although better than the previous episode, we still are in the midst of a series of lackluster episodes of the […]
Star Trek: The Original Series – Patterns of Force – It Might Happen Here, But It Couldn’t Happen There
Written by John Meredyth Lucas and Gene RoddenberryDirected by Vincent McEveety The second season of the original Star Trek series seemed to find certain plots that worked well and then beat them […]
Star Trek: The Original Series – Return to Tomorrow – The Perils of Carrying a Grudge for 500,000 Years
Written by John T. Dugan and Gene RoddenberryDirected by Ralph Senensky Tackling subjects not commonly talked about back in the day was one of the strengths of the original series of Star […]
Star Trek: The Original Series – A Private Little War – What Is It Good For?
Written by Don Ingalls and Gene RoddenberryDirected by Marc Danielss There are quite a number of episodes that draw on the history of the crew of the Enterprise prior to the current […]
Star Trek: The Original Series – The Immunity Syndrome – The Monster of the Week
Written by Robert Sabaroff and Gene RoddenberryDirected by Joseph Pevney How much right does a life-form have to exist? That’s the question here when a new life-form is encountered that threatens the […]
Star Trek: The Original Series – A Piece of the Action – All That You Leave Behind
Written by David P. Harmon, Gene Coon, and Gene RoddenberryDirected by James Komack Imagine a primitive society that is visited by more advanced people. When the more advanced race leaves, they accidentally […]
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