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Original Series Season 01 Star Trek

Mudd’s Women

Star Trek ClassicStardate 1329.1: After stealing a freighter and pushing its engines to their limits in an effort to escape the pursuing Enterprise, Harry Mudd and his cargo – three seemingly irresistable women – are recovered. Although Mudd can’t help but be suspicious, the women follow his instructions to cripple the Enterprise without any questions from the male members of the crew. The dilithium crystals powering the ship are sabotaged, and Mudd intends to force Kirk to bargain for his crew’s life when the Enterprise arrives at a dilithium mining outpost.

Order this episode on DVDDownload this episode via Amazon's Unboxteleplay by Stephen Kandel
story by Gene Roddenberry
directed by Harvey Hart
music by Fred Steiner

Star TrekCast: William Shatner (Captain James T. Kirk), Leonard Nimoy (Mr. Spock), Roger C. Carmel (Harry Mudd), Karen Steele (Eve), DeForest Kelley (Dr. McCoy), Maggie Thrett (Ruth), Susan Denberg (Magda), James Doohan (Scott), George Takei (Sulu), Jim Goodwin (Farrell), Nichelle Nichols (Uhura), Gene Dynarski (Ben), Jon Kowal (Herm), Seamon Glass (Benton), Jerry Foxworth (Guard)

Notes: Guest star Gene Dynarski would rack up another Trek role (Krodak in The Mark Of Gideon) before the end of the original series, and later guest starred in Star Trek: The Next Generation as a Starbase commander overseeing repairs and upgrades to Picard’s Enterprise (11001001, 1988). He also had guest roles in the 1960s Batman series, Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea, Land Of Giants, and The X-Files, as well as an appearance in Close Encounters Of The Third Kind.

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Original Series Season 02 Star Trek

The Apple

Star Trek ClassicStardate 3715.0: An Enterprise landing party beams down to an edenic planet, where Kirk discovers that the people living there are still primitive, all progress held in check by an enormous ancient computer known as Vaal, which also demands sacrifices of food by the natives. Vaal detects the Enterprise in orbit and begins to drain it of its power, and Kirk realizes that he will have to destroy Vaal to save the Enterprise, but the surface dwellers’ lifestyles will be changed forever if Vaal is removed.

Order this episode on DVDDownload this episode via Amazon's Unboxwritten by Max Ehrlich
directed by Joseph Pevney
music by Gerald Fried

Cast: William Shatner (Captain James T. Kirk), Leonard Nimoy (Mr. Spock), DeForest Kelley (Dr. Leonard McCoy), James Doohan (Mr. Scott), George Takei (Lt. Sulu), Nichelle Nichols (Lt. Uhura), Keith Andes (Akuta), Celeste Yarnell (Yeoman Martha Landon), David Soul (Makora), Jay Jones (Ensign Mallory), Jerry Daniels (Marple), John Winston (Lt. Kyle), Mal Friedman (Hendorff), Shari Nims (Sayana)

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Original Series (Animated) Season 01 Star Trek

The Survivor

Star Trek ClassicStardate 5143.3: A vessel with a single occupant sends a distress signal from the Federation side of the Romulan neutral zone. When the Enterprise beams the ship’s pilot aboard, it turns out to be famed philanthropist Carter Winston – though Dr. McCoy’s instruments disagree, not even diagnosing the patient as human. Winston visits Kirk in his quarters and suddenly transforms into a tentacled creature, knocking the captain out and assuming his physical appearance. Winston, in the shape of Kirk, instructs the crew to change course to go to a planet deep within the neutral zone – almost ensuring an entanglement with the Romulans.

Order the DVDswritten by James Schmerer
directed by Hal Sutherland
music by Yvette Blais & Jeff Michael

Cast: William Shatner (Captain Kirk / Carter Winston), Leonard Nimoy (Mr. Spock), DeForest Kelley (Dr. McCoy), James Doohan (Mr. Scott / Lt. Arrex / Romulan Commander), George Takei (Lt. Sulu), Nichelle Nichols (Lt. Uhura / Lt. Anne Nored), Majel Barrett (Nurse Chapel / Lt. M’ress)

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Starlost, The

The Pisces

The StarlostAn alarm wakes Devon, Rachel and Garth, and they’re stunned to see a spaceship approaching the Ark and coming in for a landing. Out of the ship, called the Pisces, steps Colonel Garoway, who, along with his two-woman crew, insists that he left the Ark only ten years ago to scout ahead for habitable worlds. But since the Pisces’ engines accelerate the tiny ship close enough to light speed that its crew experiences a time dilation effect, and contact with the Ark was lost, Garoway is unaware that hundreds of years have passed. Worse yet, there’s a side effect for Garoway and his crew: the early onset of senility. Devon hopes he can convince Garoway and his crew to help change the Ark’s course to avert its eventual collision with a star, but the crew of the Pisces has other ideas.

Get this season on DVDwritten by Norman Klenman
directed by Leo Orenstein
music by Score Productions Ltd.

Guest Cast: Lloyd Bochner (Colonel Garoway), Carol Lazare (Teale), Diana Barrington (Janice), William Osler (Computer Voice), Ted Beatie (Old Man), Lillian Graham (Old Woman), Susan Fleming (Tech)

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Season 1 Star Blazers

The Opening Gun: Space Battleship Yamato Starts

Star BlazersD minus 364 days: The Gamilons step up their attack on Earth when the learn of the Argo’s launch. Even as the Argo makes preparations to embark on its 148,000 light year voyager, the Gamilons launch the Menace Missile toward Earth, intending to finish off the Argo and humanity in one final attack. Captain Avatar prepares his new crew for the battle ahead, including radar operator Nova, science officer Sandor, medical officer Dr. Sane, and chief engineer Orion. But Avatar must first deal with a potential discipline problem with one of his new top officers – Derek Wildstar, who lacks confidence in the captain whom he holds responsible for his brother’s death.

Order the DVDswritten by Keisuke Fujikawa & Eiichi Yamamoto
directed by Leiji Matsumoto
music by Hiroshi Miyagawa

Season 1 Voice Cast: Kenneth Meseroll (Derek Wildstar), Tom Tweedy (Mark Venture), Amy Howard (Nova), Eddie Allen (Leader Desslok), Lydia Leeds (Starsha), other actors unknown

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Star Maidens

Test For Love

Star MaidensFollowing his escape attempt, Rudi is assigned to a menial labor detail. When he protests, he gets a quick and painful reminder that men on Medusa have no rights. Aware that she’s been given the freedom to move about freely on Medusa, Liz starts hatching a plan to escape by requesting a job as a commander in Medusa’s space patrol, which would give her access to her own ship. It’s her intention to conveniently have Rudi along as her personal “servant,” but sensing the set-up, Octavia assigns another man to serve Liz instead.

Star Maidenswritten by Ian Stuart Black
directed by Freddie Francis
music by Berry Lipmann

Cast: Lisa Harrow (Liz), Christian Quadflieg (Rudi), Christiane Kruger (Octavia), Dawn Addams (Clara), Veronica Lang (Nola), John Wyman (Ercule), Belinda Mayne (Zita), Clare Russell (Clara’s Assistant), Annette Lynton (Clara’s Assistant), Diana Weston (Guard)

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Babylon 5 / Crusade Season 4

Endgame

Babylon 5A resistance strike team on Mars, working with Franklin, Lyta and Garibaldi, slip the Shadow-altered telepaths aboard a fleet of thirty Earthforce destroyers which have been ordered to head off the inevitable attack from Sheridan. The fleet is being commanded by General Lefcourt, Sheridan’s tactical instructor from the academy, and he assumes that his old pupil will emerge from hyperspace, which he does – but at that moment, Lyta signals the telepaths to awaken and interface with the computers aboard the destroyers, effectively shutting the fleet down. Sheridan’s fleet quickly jumps to Earth to liberate the planet from the reign of President Clark, who will destroy Earth if he cannot rule it himself. And before the crucial battle at Earth, Marcus slips away from Sheridan’s fleet to perform his final duty aboard Babylon 5.

Order now!Download this episodewritten by J. Michael Straczynski
directed by John Copeland
music by Christopher Franke

Cast: Bruce Boxleitner (Captain Sheridan), Claudia Christian (Commander Ivanova), Jerry Doyle (Garibaldi), Mira Furlan (Delenn), Richard Biggs (Dr. Franklin), Bill Mumy (Lennier), Jason Carter (Marcus Cole), Stephen Furst (Vir), Jeff Conaway (Zack Allan), Patricia Tallman (Lyta Alexander), Andreas Katsulas (G’Kar), Peter Jurasik (Londo), Ungela Brockman (Earthforce NCO), J. Patrick McCormack (General Lefcourt), Marjorie Monaghan (Number One), David Purdham (Captain James), Carolyn Seymour (Senator Crosby), Julian Stone (Captain Mitchell), Maggie Egan (ISN Anchor), Karen Fineman (Kelley), Rick Kramer (Earthforce Officer), Kenneth Cortland (Telepath), Gary McGurk (President Clark)

Notes: Bloopers are exceedingly rare in Babylon 5, but according to this episode’s visual effects, unless Sheridan’s battle at Earth took several hours (which doesn’t seem to be the case), it was daylight on both hemispheres! When Sheridan’s fleet arrives, it’s daylight over the Indian and African continents. But very near the end of the battle, which only takes several minutes onscreen, the sun is shining on the familiar outline of the United States. The visuals don’t seem to support artificial sunlight either. Oops!

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Deep Space Nine Season 06 Star Trek

Sons And Daughters

Star Trek: Deep Space NineStardate not given: After rescuing Sisko’s crew in the Rotarran, Martok and Worf take on a group of five replacements from the Klingon Defense Forces – one of which, to Worf’s surprise, is his son, Alexander Rozhenko, whom he had sent to live with his foster grandparents on Earth. Alexander refuses to discuss his reasons for joining the Empire’s forces, especially with his father, and unfortunately he is the butt of the other recruits’ jokes, leaving Worf in an awkward position. Meanwhile, on the station, Ziyal has returned, and Kira tries to get along with Dukat for her sake.

Order the DVDsDownload this episode via Amazonwritten by Bradley Thompson & David Weddle
directed by Jesus Salvador Trevino
music by Jay Chattaway

Guest Cast: Marc Worden (Alexander), Marc Alaimo (Gul Dukat), J.G. Hertzler (Martok), Melanie Smith (Ziyal), Casey Biggs (Damar), Sam Zeller (Ch’Targh), Gabrielle Union (N’Garen)

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Earth: Final Conflict Season 1

Truth

Earth: Final ConflictAppointed to a new position of security by the Taelon, Boone uses his newfound authority to continue tracking down his wife’s murderer, leading him to a notorious bounty hunter. Boone uses new abilities bestowed by Taelon technology and his contacts within the resistance to find the killer, but both parties are concerned for their security and Boone walks a fine line between maintaining the Taelons’ security and not giving away the secrets of the resistance. When he discovers who is really responsible for his wife’s death, Boone learns a new meaning to the concept of sacrifice for the sake of the greater good – but is it truly a greater good?

written by Richard C. Okie and Raymond Hartung
directed by Allan Eastman
music by Micky Erbe & Maribeth Solomon

Guest Cast: Miranda Kwok (Kwai-Ling), John Evans (Morovsky), Lisa Ryder (Kate Boone), Michael Filipowich (Corr), Shari-Lee Guthrie (Dee Dee), Chad McFadden (Dan Spicer)

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Season 3 Xena: Warrior Princess

The Dirty Half-Dozen

Xena: Warrior PrincessAres has taken the secret to making Hephaestus’ metal and has given it to his protege, a young warrior named Agranon. The young man is very open to the god of war’s plans for ruling the world. But Xena is on to Ares. She and Gabrielle free three of her former warriors from prison and a fourth from his impending execution. Xena offers them a chance to earn their freedom by helping her stop Ares and Agranon. While the four warriors may have once been in Xena’s army, none were there at the same time. So while they may trust the former warlord, they don’t trust each other. But Xena believes that they will soon learn how to work together as a team. Xena divides them into groups of two. Glaphrya and Darnelle are to gather supplies. Walsim and Monlik are to map out a way into the castle that Agathon and his army are using, while Xena and Gabrielle go to see King Gregor about using his army for a deversion. But after visiting the castle, Monlik decides that he has the upper hand over Xena since he has the only map. When Xena disagrees and demands the map, he tries to kill her. The two fight and soon it’s Monlik who is dead. Now the others must find their own way into the castle.

Order the DVDswritten by Steven L. Sears
directed by Rick Jacobson
music by Joseph LoDuca

Guest Cast: Kevin Smith (Ares), Jon Brazier (Walsim), Katrina Hobbs (Glaphrya), Charles Mesure (Darnelle), Jonathon Roberts (Agathon), Stephen Ure (Monlik), Peter Ford (Villager #1), Amron McCormack (Warrior #1), Campbell Rousselle (Warrior #2), Adam Schlooz (Guard #1), Roy Snow (Athenian Captain), and Argo

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Mercy Point

Opposing Views

Mercy PointMercy Point braces for a sudden influx of patients after the explosion of a passenger shuttle that has left the pilot dead. The co-pilot is in critical condition, and an accident scene investigator arrives on the station, wanting to do a “memprint” from her mind, even though the stress of doing so may kill her. Dr. Batung overrules his human colleagues during surgery on a woman with badly injured legs, insisting that amputation followed by cybernetic prosthesis is the only possible treatment. He’s stunned when, after the surgery, his patient says she should’ve been allowed to die…not realizing that she was a prize-winning gymnast.

written by Trey Callaway
directed by D.J. Caruso
music by Jon Ehrlich

Mercy PointCast: Joe Morton (Dr. Grote Maxwell), Maria Del Mar (Dr. Haylen Breslauer), Alexandra Wilson (Dr. Dru Breslauer), Jordan Lund (Dr. Batung), Julia Pennington (Ani), Gay Thomas (Dr. Rema Cook), Brian McNamara (Dr. Caleb Jurado), Joe Spano (Dr. DeMilla), Salli Richardson (Kim), Larry Cedar (Charlie Bantam), Lisa Darr (Julie Porteuse), Craig Kirkwood (Mednaut Jeffries), Christine Willes (Nurse Tobbit), Haig Sutherland (Nagnom), Kirsten Robek (Nurse Davies), Leanne Adachi (Mednaut Cowan), Rick Ravanello (Mednaut Thurston), Joe Pascual (Mednaut Westhusing), Hagan Beggs (Mr. Blumenthal), Taylor-Anne Reid (Lily Parks), Fiona M. Scott (Nancy Curtis), Mercy PointAndrew Laurenson (Peter Reese), Alison Matthews (Surgeon Tyndale), Matt Smith (Dr. Lasker), Paul Jarrett (Mr. Parks), Zoran Vukelic (Mr. Porteuse)

Notes: Matt Smith is the Doctor! Or at least Matt Smith is a doctor. And he’s probably not the Matt Smith you’re expecting – this Matt Smith is a Canadian-born actor who went on to have a long career in voicing English dubs of anime, no relation whatsoever to the actor who played the eleventh Doctor of Doctor Who fame.

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Season 06 Star Trek Voyager

Tinker, Tenor, Doctor, Spy

Star Trek: VoyagerStardate not given: The Doctor files a grievance with Janeway, claiming that the crew is excluding him and treating him rudely. The captain is mystified by the hologram’s uncharacteristic behavior, and numerous crew members notice that the Doctor is becoming inattentive, almost as if he is daydreaming. Unknown to his crewmates, the Doctor has altered his program to allow daydreaming, but something destabilizes his program and he begins to daydream at an alarming rate, even in the middle of vital duties. His imagination conjures up numerous unlikely scenarios, from the women of Voyager’s command crew battling for his attention, to the destruction of an attacking Borg vessel by the “Emergency Command Hologram.” Eventually, the Doctor’s imagination is in constant overdrive, and Janeway relieves him of duty. But when the Doctor realizes that he is being tampered with by an inquisitive alien, will he be able to convince the crew that this potential threat is no figment of his imagination?

Order the DVDsteleplay by Joe Menosky
story by Bill Vallely
directed by John Bruno
music by Dennis McCarthy

Guest Cast: Jay M. Leggett (Alien), Googy Gress (Alien Captain), Robert Greenberg (Devro), Majel Barrett (Computer voice)

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Night Stalker

Three

Night StalkerKolchak, Perri and McManus investigate the scene of a strange death – a college honor student drowned in an abandoned house with very little water nearby. Kolchak notices something that he thinks is an occult symbol on a window nearby, though Perri later cryptically identifies it as the symbol of a secret campus society. A reporter from the school’s paper, trying to ingratiate himself to Kolchak, drops a tip that the student’s ex-boyfriend, Jack Mercer, may be worth talking to. After he’s seen talking to Kolchak and Perri, Jack is confronted by one of his friends and a tenured professor, both members of the society of which he is a recent inductee. Jack’s professor threatens him, and then, mere moments later, that professor is found dead on campus of massive injuries consistent with a fall from a 50-story building – something that the campus rather conspicuously lacks. Kolchak’s leads turn up nothing as he tries to find the threads that tie the growing number of victims together, but when he looks into the history of the house where the first death occurred, he finds a terrifying secret that points to Jack Mercer as either the killer…or the next victim.

Order the DVDswritten by Adam Sussman
directed by Dan Sackheim
music by Michael Wandmacher

Guest Cast: Eugene Byrd (Alex Nyby), Gil McKinney (Jack), Lane Garrison (Craig), Yancey Arias (Carr), Travis Wester (Devan Harvey), Eamon Hunt (Charles Dunmore), Creed Castleton (Gun Dunmore), Colton Parsons (John Dunmore), Austin Highsmith (Liza)

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Night Stalker

What’s The Frequency, Kolchak?

Night StalkerKolchak tries to follow a lead related to several missing persons cases, only to find himself in a trap laid by a man named Paul Krieger, who claims he was institutionalized with Kolchak over a year earlier. Kolchak remembers being institutionalized after the death of his wife, but doesn’t remember Krieger – and doesn’t know how to respond to Krieger’s insistent ravings that Kolchak’s articles contain coded messages meant for him and him alone. Kolchak is cuffed and chained to a wheelchair, powerless to do anything but listen to Krieger tell him about “the old man” who lives at the end of the hallway in Krieger’s house – and in Krieger’s head. When Krieger’s mental health caseworker arrives, Kolchak asks him to call for help, but the caseworker is captured too – and before Krieger murders him, the caseworker warns Kolchak that Krieger was on day release from the institution when Kolchak’s wife was killed.

Order the DVDswritten by Vince Gilligan
directed by Colin Buckley
music by Michael Wandmacher

Guest Cast: Pat Healy (Paul Krieger), Reggie Lee (Stanley Kim)

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Battlestar Galactica (New Series) Season 3

Exodus – Part 1

Battlestar GalacticaTyrol puts together a team to rescue Cally and the other human captives of the Cylons who are due for an arbitrary execution – an execution intended to draw the resistance out of hiding. Nearby on New Caprica, Adama’s choice to coordinate resistance efforts on the ground arrives – Sharon. Tyrol manages to save Cally, and Tom Zarek yanks Roslin out of harm’s way, but others aren’t so lucky – including the human Cylon in charge of the execution. Evidence that the resistance was sold out also surfaces – and it leads straight to Ellen Tigh. Sharon uses her familiar face to her advantage, infiltrating the Cylon headquarters to retrieve the launch keys from the Colonial ships grounded on New Caprica, only to be confronted by a fellow Cylon, who tells her that her baby, who she thought died, is alive and well.

written by David Weddle & Bradley Thompson
directed by Felix Alcala
music by Bear McCreary

Guest Cast: Michael Hogan (Colonel Tigh), Aaron Douglas (CPO Tyrol), Tahmoh Penikett (Helo), Nicki Clyne (Cally), Alessandro Juliani (Lt. Gaeta), Kandyse McClure (Dualla), Lucy Lawless (D’anna Biers), Michael Trucco (Anders), Amanda Plummer (Oracle Selloi), Richard Hatch (Tom Zarek), octor), Callum Keith Rennie (Leoben Conoy), Kate Vernon (Ellen Tigh), Donnelly Rhodes (Doc Cottle), Matthew Bennett (Doral), Rekha Sharma (Tory Foster), Dean Stockwell (Brother Cavel), Erica Cerra (Maya), Luciana Carro (Kat), Brad Drybrough (Hoshi), Leah Cairns (Racetrack), Madeline Parker (Kacey), Dominic Zamprogna (Jammer), Eileen Pedde (Mathias), Jennifer Halley (Seelix), Ty Olsson (Captain Kelly), Ryan Robbins (Connor)

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