The Cage
0x01While investigating a distress call from Talos IV, Captain Christopher Pike of the starship Enterprise is captured and tested by beings who can project powerfully realistic illusions. (Original pilot)
WikiWhile investigating a distress call from Talos IV, Captain Christopher Pike of the starship Enterprise is captured and tested by beings who can project powerfully realistic illusions. (Original pilot)
WikiAn encounter at the limits of our galaxy begins to change Lieutenant Commander Gary Mitchell and threatens the future of the Enterprise and the Human race itself. (Second pilot)
WikiExploring a distant region of space, the Enterprise is threatened by Balok, commander of a starship from the First Federation.
WikiThe Enterprise rescues a con man named Harry Mudd who is trafficking in mail-order brides.
WikiA transporter malfunction splits Captain Kirk into two people – one good and one evil, and neither capable of functioning well separately.
WikiA mysterious creature stalks the Enterprise, murdering crew members. (Series Premiere/Franchise Debut)
WikiThe Enterprise crew is intoxicated by an inhibition-stripping contagion that causes mayhem throughout the ship.
WikiThe Enterprise takes seventeen-year-old Charles Evans aboard for transport after he spent fourteen years alone on a deserted planet, but his inability to reintegrate with his fellow Humans is compounded by his very un-Human powers.
WikiThe Enterprise battles a Romulan ship suspected of destroying outposts near the Neutral Zone.
WikiThe Enterprise finds archaeologist Dr. Roger Korby, who has been missing for five years, living underground on a deserted ice planet with a group of sophisticated androids.
WikiA routine visit to the Tantalus Penal Colony proves dangerous for Kirk and an Enterprise psychiatrist.
WikiThe Enterprise discovers an Earth-like planet that was devastated by a horrific degenerative disease and is now populated entirely by impossibly old children.
WikiAn actor traveling aboard the Enterprise may be a former governor who ordered a mass murder twenty years earlier.
WikiSpock faces difficult command decisions when his shuttle crashes on a hostile world populated by barbarous giants.
WikiKirk is accused of criminal negligence causing the death of one of his subordinates, Lt. Commander Benjamin Finney, and is put on trial for his murder.
WikiSpock fakes a message from the Enterprise's former commander, Christopher Pike, steals the vessel, and sets it on a locked course for the forbidden planet Talos IV.
WikiWhile Spock faces court martial for kidnapping Captain Pike and hijacking the Enterprise, he further explains his actions with mysterious footage about Pike's captivity by the Talosians.
WikiThe Enterprise crew take shore leave on a planet where their imaginations become reality.
WikiThe Enterprise is captured by Trelane, the childish ruler of Gothos.
WikiKirk battles an alien captain who destroyed a Federation outpost.
WikiInvestigating the cause of a massive, galaxy-wide disruption in space, the Enterprise finds a mad scientist who claims he is being pursued by a hideous being.
WikiThe Enterprise is hurled back in time to the year 1969, where the US Air Force sights it as a UFO. The crew must find a way to erase evidence of their visit before trying to get back to their future home.
WikiThe Enterprise discovers a planet where the population act like zombies and obey the will of their unseen ruler, Landru.
WikiOn a diplomatic mission, the crew visit a planet that is waging a destructive war fought solely by computer simulation, but the casualties, including the crew of the USS Enterprise, are supposed to be real.
WikiThe Enterprise discovers an ancient spaceship carrying genetically enhanced supermen from late 20th century Earth and their enigmatic warlord leader: Khan Noonien Singh.
WikiThe Enterprise crew finds happiness at a colony where alien spores provide total contentment.
WikiThe Enterprise arrives at Janus VI, where an unknown monster is destroying machinery and killing the miners, threatening the entire mining operation.
WikiKirk and Spock try to protect the planet Organia from the Klingons, but the natives don't want the Federation's help.
WikiSuffering from an accidental overdose of cordrazine, Doctor Leonard McCoy goes back to 1930s Earth and saves a woman's life, unwittingly changing the course of time and erasing the Enterprise and the Federation from history.
WikiThe Deneva colony is attacked by flying parasites that cause mass insanity while the crew of Enterprise search for a way to stop them. (Season finale)
WikiThe Enterprise crew finds witches, black cats, and haunted castles on a distant planet.
WikiOn an isolated asteroid, Kirk finds Zefram Cochrane, inventor of the warp drive, who has been missing for 150 years.
WikiThe Enterprise becomes involved in a local power struggle on planet Capella IV, where the Klingons want mining rights.
WikiThe Enterprise is captured by an alien claiming to be Apollo, the Greek god of the sun.
WikiSuffering through his first infliction of pon farr, the Vulcan biological mating urge, Spock must return to Vulcan to marry his betrothed or he will die. However, when the Enterprise arrives at Vulcan, complications at the ceremony may endanger Captain Kirk as well. (Season Premiere)
WikiThe Enterprise discovers a weapon capable of destroying entire planets, and a Starfleet flag officer whose crew was killed by the machine jeopardizes the crew on a crazed mission of revenge.
WikiScott is suspected of killing several women while on shore leave on Argelius II. However, a more sinister force may provide a connection between this murder and many previous around the galaxy, including a rampage on ancient Earth.
WikiThe Enterprise finds an ancient interstellar probe from Earth, missing for 265 years, which has somehow mutated into a powerful and intelligent machine bent on sterilizing entire populations that do not meet its standards of perfection.
WikiThe Enterprise crew discovers an Eden-like paradise on Gamma Trianguli VI, controlled by a machine that is revered by the local humanoid primitives as a god.
WikiA transporter malfunction sends Kirk, McCoy, Scotty, and Uhura into a parallel universe where the Federation is replaced by an evil Empire, Kirk is a despot, and Spock is a cunning henchman.
WikiThe Enterprise discovers a colony full of rapidly-aging scientists. Whatever caused the rapid aging afflicts the ship´s landing party as well. Kirk, Spock, McCoy, and Scott are shocked to discover they are aging decades each day and will soon die unless a cure can be found. The unaffected Chekov may be their only hope for survival.
WikiHarry Mudd, now ruler of a planet of androids, captures the Enterprise and attempts to imprison Kirk for revenge.
WikiA dispute over control of a planet brings the Enterprise to a space station, where they must deal with Klingons, edgy Federation officials, and a previously-unknown species of small, unbearably cute, voraciously hungry, and rapidly-multiplying furry creatures.
WikiKirk, Spock, and McCoy are captured on a planet that resembles a Roman Empire with 20th century technology. They are set to die at the hands of gladiators for the sake of public spectacle.
WikiAs the Enterprise comes under attack on the way to a diplomatic conference on Babel, one of the alien dignitaries is murdered, and Spock's estranged father Sarek is the prime suspect – but he is also deathly ill, and only Spock can save him.
WikiOn a planet with a primitive civilization, the Enterprise discovers that the Klingons are providing a Stone Age society with increasingly-advanced weaponry.
WikiKirk, Uhura, and Chekov are kidnapped by aliens and forced to fight other aliens so that a mentally superior race can gamble on the winner.
WikiA survey of Argus X brings the Enterprise crew in confrontation with a vampiric cloud that killed a crew Kirk was on years ago, captained by the father of an ensign currently assigned to the ship.
WikiAfter Spock senses the destruction of the Vulcan-manned starship Intrepid, the Enterprise encounters an enormous single-celled organism that feeds on energy which threatens the galaxy as it prepares to reproduce.
WikiReturning to a planet last visited by an Earth ship 100 years earlier, the Enterprise finds a planet that has based its culture on the Chicago gangsters of the 1920s.
WikiExtragalactic aliens hijack the Enterprise and turn the crew into inert solids, leaving the four senior officers on their own to exploit their captors' weaknesses.
WikiThree survivors from a race that died half a million years ago "borrow" the bodies of Enterprise crew members so they can build android bodies for themselves.
WikiThe Enterprise, searching for a missing Federation historian, discovers that the historian has apparently contaminated the cultural development of the planet where he was assigned as a cultural observer to have it follow the societal path of Nazi Germany in the 1930s and '40s.
WikiThe Enterprise tests a computer that, if successful, could replace Kirk as the captain.
WikiThe Enterprise discovers the derelict starship Exeter drifting in space, its entire crew killed by an unknown plague and her captain missing.
WikiThe Enterprise travels back in time to 1968, where the crew encounters the mysterious Gary Seven who claims to be sent by advanced beings trying to help Earth. (Season finale)
WikiCaptain Kirk, Mr. Spock, Dr. McCoy, Scotty, and Chekov are forced to re-enact the gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone as the team that lost the gunfight.
WikiThe Enterprise transports Elaan, Dohlman of Elas, to an arranged marriage on Troyius.
WikiKirk loses his memory and joins the descendants of a tribe of Native Americans.
WikiActing apparently restless and irrational, Captain Kirk inexplicably orders the Enterprise into Romulan space where the ship is quickly captured by the enemy and Kirk held captive aboard their flagship.
WikiA group of children on the Federation outpost Triacus, under the influence of an evil spirit, commandeer the Enterprise.
WikiAn alien raids the Enterprise and steals Spock's brain, leading Kirk and McCoy into a desperate race to retrieve it. (Season Premiere)
WikiA beautiful woman escorts an alien ambassador so hideously ugly that the sight of him can drive a Human insane.
WikiOn a doomed planet Kirk, Spock and McCoy become the subjects of an alien experiment whose mysterious intention involves a beautiful, empathic woman.
WikiWhile trying to rescue the Starfleet ship USS Defiant, Captain Kirk disappears when the dead ship is pulled into interspace. The Enterprise is then attacked by a mysterious local race, the Tholians.
WikiThe Enterprise finds an asteroid that contains a generational ship on a collision course with an inhabited planet.
WikiAn extremely powerful non-corporeal being brings the Enterprise and a Klingon ship in direct conflict with one another.
WikiThe Enterprise finds a planet inhabited by aliens who were once followers of the Greek philosopher Plato.
WikiThe Enterprise is hijacked by hyperaccelerated, sterile aliens who want the crew for breeding stock.
WikiEnterprise crew members are stranded on a ghost planet and terrorized by the image of a beautiful woman.
WikiThe crew of the Enterprise find themselves caught in the middle of an intractable conflict with a bizarre fugitive alien and his equally belligerent pursuer.
WikiKirk and Spock are held captive in an insane asylum by a former Starfleet hero.
WikiKirk is held captive on an empty duplicate of the USS Enterprise.
WikiAt planetoid Memory Alpha, an Enterprise crew member's body is taken over by mysterious energy lifeforms.
WikiKirk's efforts to obtain a vital mineral are complicated by terrorists striking at the beautiful cloud city Stratos and its virulent apartheid policies.
WikiThe Enterprise picks up a group of renegades who have rejected modern technological life to search for the mythical planet Eden.
WikiWhile the Enterprise searches for the rare cure to a deadly disease, the landing party is confronted by a reclusive man who is willing to kill to preserve his privacy.
WikiKirk and Spock are forced to fight alongside such historical figures as Abraham Lincoln of Earth and Surak of Vulcan by rock-like aliens who want to understand the concepts of "good" and "evil."
WikiKirk, Spock, and McCoy are trapped in a planet's distant pasts, where Spock finds love with an exiled woman.
WikiA mad scientist tries to take control of the Enterprise by switching bodies with Captain Kirk. (Series finale)
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