Category: Original Series (Animated)

Stardate 5372.3: The Enterprise crew watches helplessly as an enormous cloud engulfs an entire planet, and discover that it is headed for the heavily populated planet Mantilles. The Enterprise, pursuing the cloud, is also swallowed by it. From inside the cloud, Spock determines that it is a living organism. Kirk decides that the organism must be destroyed, but Spock finds that this can only be accomplished by unleashing an enormous amount of energy which would also destroy the Enterprise. The only hope for the people of Mantilles is an unconventional mind-meld between Spock and the planet-consuming life form.

written by Marc Daniels
directed by Hal Sutherland
music by Yvette Blais & Jeff Michael

Cast: William Shatner (Captain Kirk), Leonard Nimoy (Mr. Spock), DeForest Kelley (Dr. McCoy), James Doohan (Mr. Scott / Lt. Arrex / Governor Wesley), George Takei (Lt. Sulu), Nichelle Nichols (Lt. Uhura), Majel Barrett (Nurse Chapel / The Organism)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Stardate 5483.7: While investigating a region of space which has seen the unexplained disappearance of Federation, Romulan and Klingon ships at precise intervals, the Enterprise receives a song-like signal from the Taurean system, 20 light years away. Uhura is alarmed when Scotty, Kirk and other male officers – even Spock – are mesmerized by the musical message. Kirk leads a landing party beams to the planet of origin, but they do not return to the ship. When most of the male crew is incapacitated, Uhura and Nurse Chapel assume command of the Enterprise. On the planet, Spock makes a horrifying discovery – the female aliens hope to lure men to their world. Their male slaves will be drained of life energy, giving the women almost immortal youth. And with over half of a 430-person crew to choose from, the aliens should remain healthy for a long time…

written by Margaret Armen
directed by Hal Sutherland
music by Yvette Blais & Jeff Michael

Cast: William Shatner (Captain Kirk), Leonard Nimoy (Mr. Spock), DeForest Kelley (Dr. McCoy), James Doohan (Mr. Scott / Lt. Arrex / Ensign Carver), George Takei (Lt. Sulu), Nichelle Nichols (Lt. Uhura / Female Alien / Security Officer Davidson / Computer Voice), Majel Barrett (Nurse Chapel / Thela)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Stardate 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.

written 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)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Stardate 1254.2: While exploring a nebular phenomenon in which matter is constantly created, the Enterprise is whisked into an alternate universe. A hoofed creature named Lucien boards the ship, and then beams down to the surface of a nearby planet with Kirk, Spock and McCoy. Lucien explains that he and the other people of Megas-Tu once visited Earth, but when they practiced their natural gift of magic, the Megans were hunted down and killed for practicing witchcraft. But when the other Megans discover that Lucien has brought humans to their world, Kirk and his crew and put on a witch trial of their own in a recreation of 17th-century Salem.

written by Larry Brody
directed by Hal Sutherland
music by Yvette Blais & Jeff Michael

Cast: William Shatner (Captain Kirk), Leonard Nimoy (Mr. Spock), DeForest Kelley (Dr. McCoy), James Doohan (Mr. Scott / Lt. Arrex / Lucien / Azmodeus), George Takei (Lt. Sulu / Alien spirit voice), Nichelle Nichols (Lt. Uhura / Computer Voice), Majel Barrett (Nurse Chapel / Lt. M’ress)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Stardate 5591.2: Captain Kirk orders a layover for the Enterprise at the still unnamed world where his crew visited once before, an idyllic, Earthlike planet whose massive computer can create whatever fantasy its visitors desire. But not long after the crew’s shore leave begins, things begin to go horribly wrong – McCoy is almost killed by something that he most certainly didn’t fantasize about, and Uhura is kidnapped by some kind of robot. The transporter is able to retrieve everyone except Uhura, so Kirk launches a rescue mission. But when he tries to find the Keeper, the planet’s humanoid custodian, he discovers that the Keeper has died – and no one may be able to regain control of the planet’s computer…or rescue the Enterprise’s communications officer.

written by Lee Jenson & Chuck Menville
directed by Hal Sutherland
music by Yvette Blais & Jeff Michael

Cast: William Shatner (Captain Kirk), Leonard Nimoy (Mr. Spock), DeForest Kelley (Dr. McCoy), James Doohan (Mr. Scott / Lt. Arrex / Gabler / White Rabbit), George Takei (Lt. Sulu / Computer Voice), Nichelle Nichols (Lt. Uhura / Alice), Majel Barrett (Nurse Chapel / Lt. M’ress / Queen of Hearts)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Stardate 5577.3: The Enterprise receives a distress signal from the solitary planet in the Cepheus system, where no life has previously been known to exist. As the crew tries to respond to the distress signal, they are suddenly paralyzed by a powerful energy discharge, which also critically damages the Enterprise’s engines, stranding them in orbit. To make matters worse, the crew is now shrinking in size, presumably a side effect of the blast of energy. Kirk suspects that whoever is sending the distress signal is responsible for the gradual miniaturization of his crew.

written by Stephen Kandel
directed by Hal Sutherland
music by Yvette Blais & Jeff Michael

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

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Stardate 5499.9: In the course of studying an aquatic world whose land masses have completely submerged, Kirk, Spock, McCoy and Lt. Clayton take an aquashuttle to pay the planet a visit. Their expedition is cut short by an attacking sea creature, which traps Kirk and Spock in the sinking shuttle while McCoy and Clayton escape. Five days pass before search parties locate the Enterprise’s captain and first officer, and a shocking physical transformation has taken place in that time – Kirk and Spock can no longer breathe air, and will be confined underwater for the rest of their lives unless the cause of their sudden physical changes can be determined and reversed.

written by Margaret Armen
directed by Hal Sutherland
music by Yvette Blais & Jeff Michael

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

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Stardate 4187.3: Spock, Sulu and Uhura are en route to Starbase 25 via shuttlecraft, carrying a valuable cargo – a stasis box, an unimaginably rare artifact of a rase of slavers that ruled the galaxy a billion years prior to the rise of man. As the shuttle passes Beta Lyrae, the stasis box begins to glow – indicating another stasis box in close proximity. Spock orders Sulu to land the shuttle on an ice planet, but the landing party discovers that the sensor readings of a second stasis box are a trap, and all three are captured by the telepathic, carnivorous Kzinti, a felinoid species whose previous conflicts with mankind have proven unsuccessful. Hoping to even the score of centuries of wars, the Kzinti hope to discover a weapon to give them a deadly technological leap ahead of humanity…and the ancient contents of the stasis box may include that weapon.

written by Larry Niven
adapted from the story “The Soft Weapon” by Larry Niven
directed by Hal Sutherland
music by Yvette Blais & Jeff Michael

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

Notes: The Slaver Weapon is one of the more interesting experiments with Star Trek continuity, as it blends in Larry Niven’s Man-Kzin Wars books with Roddenberry’s universe. The episode also claims that the artificial gravity field commonly used aboard starships is derived from a flight belt recovered from a previous stasis box, which conflicts with virtually every later series’ assertion that artificial gravity was a human invention.

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Stardate 5501.2: The Enterprise investigates the disappearance of the science vessel Ariel, last reported investigating the planet Lactra VII. After Kirk’s boarding party finds the Ariel intact but abandoned, the Captain, Spock and Dr. McCoy beam down to the planet, where they are immediately detained by the native Lactrans. The Enterprise officers are held captive along with the only three surviving members of the Ariel’s crew, and though Spock discovers that the Lactrans are telepathic, they rebuff his apparently primitive attempts to communicate with them. Spock eventually manages to establish a more productive mental link with a very young Lactran, hoping to get it to bring the crew’s gear back. But when the escape attempt goes wrong, the Enterprise crew discovers that even a single Lactran can assume control of the ship.

written by David P. Harmon
directed by Hal Sutherland
music by Yvette Blais & Jeff Michael

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

LogBook entry by Earl Green