Star Trek: Is There In Truth No Beauty?

Star TrekThe 60th episode of Gene Roddenberry’s science fiction series Star Trek airs on NBC. Diana Muldaur guest stars, her second guest shot on the series; she will later appear as a regular in the second season of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Read more

Star Trek: The Tholian Web

Star TrekThe 64th episode of Gene Roddenberry’s science fiction series Star Trek airs on NBC. This marks the first appearance of the Tholians and, though they will be mentioned frequently in later Star Trek spinoffs, the last appearance until the 21st century spinoff series Star Trek: Enterprise. Read more

Star Trek: Plato’s Stepchildren

Star TrekThe 65th episode of Gene Roddenberry’s science fiction series Star Trek airs on NBC. This episode features one of the earliest interracial kisses in the history of American scripted television; a handful of NBC affiliates in the southern United States pre-empt the episode as a result. Read more Hear about it on the Sci-Fi 5 podcast

Star Trek: Requiem For Methuselah

Star TrekThe 74th episode of Gene Roddenberry’s science fiction series Star Trek airs on NBC. This episode sees Spock use a version of a Vulcan mind-meld on Kirk, urging him to “forget”; the later movies will reveal that this memory manipulation technique has an opposite number: “remember”… Read more

Star Trek: All Our Yesterdays

Star TrekThe 78th episode of Gene Roddenberry’s science fiction series Star Trek airs on NBC. Ian Wolfe and Mariette Hartley guest star. The last episode of Star Trek, originally scheduled for the following week, is pre-empted and aired months later with little fanfare. Read more

Star Trek: Turnabout Intruder

Star TrekThe 79th episode of Gene Roddenberry’s science fiction series Star Trek airs on NBC. This was the final episode produced or broadcast; Gene Roddenberry, having caught the meaning of the series’ move to a Friday night “death slot,” had already moved on to greener pastures without making arrangements for another fan protest for Star Trek’s renewal. Read more Hear about it on the Sci-Fi 5 podcast

Star Trek: The Animated Series: Beyond The Farthest Star

Star TrekAfter years of denying that Star Trek had ever been a “kids show” like its prime-time rival Lost In Space, Gene Roddenberry agrees to NBC’s offer to restart the science fiction cult classic as an animated series, premiering on the seventh anniversary of the live-action show’s debut with the episode Beyond The Farthest Star. In the end, this series becomes the only iteration of the Star Trek franchise to win an Emmy Award for a non-technical (i.e. music, hairstyling, special effects) category. Read more