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Star Trek:TOS Episode Guide (3 of 5)
TOS guide Part III
SECOND SEASON
"AMOK TIME" [****]
Writer: Theodore Sturgeon
Guest Cast: Arlene Martel, Celia Lovsky, Lawrence Montaigne, Byron Morrow
First aired September 15, 1967. Spock is forced by the instinctive Vulcan
mating cycle to return to his home planet and take a wife.
"WHO MOURNS FOR ADONAIS" [**]
Writer: Gilbert Ralston and Gene L. Coon
Guest Cast: Michael Forest, Leslie Parrish, John Winston
First aired September 22, 1967. The Enterprise is seized by a being
claiming to be the god Apollo, who requires their worship to survive.
"THE CHANGELING" [***]
Writer: John Meredyth Lucas
Guest Cast: Blaisdell Makee, Vic Perrin (as voice of nomad), Arnold Lessing
First aired September 29, 1967. Nomad, an ancient Earth probe, has
combined with an alien probe to form an incredibly powerful mechanism that
is determined to destroy all "imperfect" life forms.
"MIRROR, MIRROR" [***]
Writer: Jerome Bixby
Guest Cast: Barbara Luna, Vic Perrin
First aired October 6, 1967. Kirk, McCoy, Scott, and Uhura are
accidentally exchanged with their counterparts in a parallel universe,
where instead of the Federation they find a violent, dictatorial Empire.
"THE APPLE" [**]
Writer: Max Ehrlich
Guest Cast: Keith Andes, Celeste Yarnall, Jay Jones, Shari Nims, David Soul
First aired October 13, 1967. The Enterprise finds itself under attack by
Vaal, a machine that guides the actions and even the environment of a
primitive populace.
"THE DOOMSDAY MACHINE" [**** 1/2]
Writer: Norman Spinrad
Guest Cast: William Windom, Elizabeth Rogers, John Copage, Richard Compton,
John Winston, Tim Burns
First aired October 20, 1967. The starships Enterprise and Constellation
battle an enormous machine that destroys planets and consumes them for
fuel.
"CATSPAW" [* 1/2]
Writer: Robert Bloch and Dorothy Fontana
Guest Cast: Antoinette Bowers, Theo Marcus, Michael Barrier, Jimmy Jones
First aired October 27, 1967. Amidst an atmosphere of witches and
dungeons, a pair of aliens use seemingly magical powers in an attempt to
trick further scientific information from the people of the Enterprise.
"I, MUDD" [*** 1/2]
Writer: Stephen Kandel
Guest Cast: Roger C. Carmel, Richard Tatro, Mike Howden, Michael zaslow,
Kay Elliott, Rhae Andrece, Alice Andrece, Tom LeGarde, Ted LeGarde, Maureen
Thornton, Colleen Thornton, Tamara Wilson, Starr Wilson
First aired November 3, 1967. The Enterprise is forced to a planet
populated by androids and ruled by their old nemesis, Harcourt Fenton Mudd.
"METAMORPHOSIS" [*]
Writer: Gene L. Coon
Guest Cast: Glenn Corbett, Elinor Donahue
First aired November 10, 1967. A shuttlecraft is forced down to a planet
as company for a stranded spaceman, who has been kept young by a gaseous
alien called the "Companion".
"JOURNEY TO BABEL" [***]
Writer: Dorothy Fontana
Guest Cast: Jane Wyatt, Mark Lenard, William O'Connell, Reggie Nalder,
John Wheeler, James X. Mitchell
First aired November 17, 1967. Crisis piles atop crisis when the
Enterprise is in charge of transporting a volatile cargo of Federation
diplomats, including Spock's parents.
"THE DEADLY YEARS" [****]
Writer: David P. Harmon
Guest Cast: Charles Drake, Sarah Marshall, Beverly Washburn, Felix Locker,
Carolyn Nelson, Laura Wood
First aired December 8, 1967. Kirk is relieved of command when he and
other officers contract a disease that results in senility and death by old
age within days.
"OBSESSIONS" [*** 1/2]
Writer: Art Wallace
Guest Cast: Stephen Brooks, Jerry Ayres
First aired December 15, 1967. Kirk disregards all other responsibilities
in an effort to destroy a gaseous cloud that absorbs red corpuscles from
human bodies.
"WOLF IN THE FOLD" [* 1/2]
Writer: Robert Bloch
Guest Cast: Joh Fiedler, Charles Macauley, Pilar Seurat, Joseph Bernard,
Charles Dierkop, Judy McConnell, Virginia Ladridge, Judy Sherven, Tania
Lemani
First aired December 22, 1967. Scotty appears to be the only logical
suspect in a bizarre series of murders.
"THE TROUBLE WITH TRIBBLES" [*****]
Writer: David Gerrold
Guest Cast: William Schallert, William Campbell, Stanley Adams, Whit
Bissell, Michael Pataki, Charlie Brill, Ed Reimers, Guy Raymond, Paul
Bradley, David L. Ross
First aired December 29, 1967. Kirk must put up with Federation
bureaucrats and hordes of hungry tribbles while protecting a shipment of
quadrotriticale (wheat) against Klingon sabotage.
"THE GAMESTERS OF TRISKELION" [**]
Writer: Margaret Armen
Guest Cast: John Ruskin, Angelique Pettyjohn, Steve Sandor, Jane Ross,
Victoria George, Mickey Morton
First aired January 5, 1968. Kirk, Uhura, and Chekov are captured for use
in gambling conflicts.
"A PIECE OF THE ACTION" [*****]
Writer: David P. Harmon and Gene L. Coon
Guest Cast: Anthony Caruso, Victor Tayback, Lee Delano, John Harmon, Steve
Arnold, Dyanne Thorne, Sharon Hillyer, Sheldon Collins
First aired January 12, 1968. Kirk must figure out a way to counteract the
effects of an earlier expedition, which caused a planet's civilization to
pattern itself after the Chicago mobs of the Twenties.
"THE IMMUNITY SYNDROME" [****]
Writer: Robert Sabaroff
Guest Cast: None
First aired January 19, 1968. A gigantic single-celled creature, which
feeds on the energy necessary to our form of life, invades our galaxy.
"A PRIVATE LITTLE WAR" [***]
Writer: Gene Roddenberry (from a story by Judd Crucis)
Guest Cast: Nancy Kovack, Michael Witney, Booker Marshall, Arthur Bernard,
Joe Romeo
First aired February 2, 1968. When the Klingons hasten the arms
development of one faction on a hitherto peaceful planet, Kirk must arm the
other side in order to maintain a balance of power.
End of Part III
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