Star Trek: The Original Series is an American science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry running from September 8, 1966, through June 3, 1969. It has acquired the retronym of Star Trek: The Original Series (Star Trek: TOS or TOS). The show became a cult classic in broadcast ...
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Enterprise Chain of Command
What is the chain of command on Kirk's Enterprise? We all know that Spock is second in command, but who comes after that?
I ask because last night I re-watched Shore Leave, which featured Kirk, ...
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Did Captain Kirk take advantage of Drusilla?
On the Roman planet in "Bread and Circuses", Captain Kirk is given a a slave woman for a night, who even goes so far as to say that Kirk "owns" her for the night. While he is initially hesitant ...
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How does the ability of the creature in “The Man Trap” work?
How does the ability of the creature in "The Man Trap" work?
Is it a mind trick, as it's indicated during the very first encounter with the away team (since each crew member seems to see a different ...
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Would tampering with the visual playback of the bridge log really affect the behavior of a chess game?
In the TOS episode Court Martial,
Wikipedia summary: Captain Kirk is placed on trial for negligence after a crewman is killed during a severe ion storm. Kirk maintains that his actions were ...
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Actor in one episode of Star Trek: The Original Series [closed]
The actor that I'm looking for was in one episode, played a very energetic fellow whose actual first name is Bruce and who subsequently joined the Swami Order in Los Angeles. Thanks so much!
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What are the symbols in the Enterprise's chapel?
The one on the left appears to be a sword, and the one on the right... I have no idea.
(Picture from TOS 1x08, Balance of Terror)
These do not look familiar to me - especially the triangular one. ...
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What is the original context of this Spock video clip?
This clip has surfaced on the internet, and was particularly brought to my attention alongside a caption that implied Spock was examining a rather attractive derriere. I find it generally unlikely ...
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Aside from the “Vulcan Salute”, have Nimoy & Shatner's Jewish heritage had any significant influence on Star Trek?
I have heard many times that the Vulcan "Live-long-and-prosper" hand gesture was created by Leonard Nimoy based upon the hebrew letter "shin", as used in Jewish ceremonies.
William Shatner is also ...
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How far into our galaxy did the Doomsday Machine get?
The theory was that the planet killing Doomsday Machine was built by a long-gone civilization from another galaxy for use during an unknown war. It was on on course to the heart of our galaxy when the ...
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Significance of Captain Kirk's name?
Is there any significance documented regarding his last name in light of the fact that "Kirk" means "Church"?
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How did humans and vulcans communicate in The First Contact?
In 23rd century, it was displayed that Zeframe Cochrane didn't know about universal translator. That's why he was strange to it and asked about its working principle to Kirk (Star Trek: The Original ...
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The Founders, The 'Ancient Humanoids', the Preservers - are they linked? [duplicate]
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Did The Founders evolve from the race that seeded the Alpha Quadrant?
The Star Trek canon had several references to 'ancient' originating or protective species.
Among ...
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James T. Kirk: Why “Tiberius”?
Considering the relatively exotic nature of "Tiberius", is there a story behind James T. Kirk's middle name? Do we perhaps know what the professions of his parents were?
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Did Kirk and Uhura actually kiss?
Recently I rewatched the Star Trek episode "Plato's Stepchildren" and observed the well-known Kirk-Uhura kiss, which occurred under the psychokinetic duress. I know that the kiss was scripted, but as ...
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Is there any basis for the Kirk/Uhura flirting?
Other than in the Mirror Universe, is there any basis in prior Star Trek canon for the existence - however one-sided or not - of any "love interest" between Kirk and Uhura?
I'm asking with curiosity ...
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Has Captain Kirk ever been to London?
The latest star trek film Star Trek Into the Darkness has a poster shown below, featuring, someone whom I believe to be Captain Kirk on a mound of dirt and rubble. He's looking out over the London ...
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Are Enterprise security personnel trained in combat?
I have begun rewatching a few Star Trek TOS episodes, and have been struck by the apparent ineptitude of the Enterprise's "redshirt" security personnel. Even when compared to security teams of later ...
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What is the ratio of time dilation in “Wink of an Eye”
After swatting a fly on my desk today I randomly recalled the Star Trek: The Original Series episode "Wink of an Eye", in which the Scalosians are a race of hyper-accelerated beings that eventually ...
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Are later references to Project Genesis? [duplicate]
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Was project genesis ever revisted/used after Star Trek II/III?
I just watched STII: The Wrath of Khan and STIII: The Search for Spock again after many years, in which ...
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Does Captain Kirk drink decaf?
In many episodes of Star Trek TOS, Kirk is seen either drinking coffee or being served coffee by one of his yeomen. With all that is known about Kirk in Memory Alpha and other canonical sources, it ...
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Did Roddenberry think eugenics was already going on (as evidenced by Khan's age)?
In the episode Space Seed in the original series, Khan is awakened from suspended animation, where he's been since the early 1990s. He is said/implied a product of eugenics, and his crew escapees ...
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Was Dr. Noonian Soong's name inspired by Khan Noonien Singh?
I just recently realized that "Dr. Noonian Soong" and "Khan Noonien Singh" sound familiar. Is there documented confirmation that the TNG writers were inspired by Star Trek II? Or is this purely a ...
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Star Trek TOS-TNG crossover novel
I have been searching for the title of a TOS-TNG crossover novel for some time. I believe it was published in the early 1990s, as I do not remember Voyager or DS9 being on TV. It was also before ...
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Are non-humonoids independently evolved (without seeding)
I've started watching the original Star Trek again and in the first two episodes I watched the Gorn in "Arena" and creature in "the Man Trap" are strikingly not humanoid as most aliens in Star Trek ...
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Why was command of USS Enterprise NCC-1701 given to Christopher Pike from Kirk?
According to Star Trek (2009) movie, Kirk became captain of USS Enterprise NCC-1701 when he was much younger than he was in TOS. In TOS, it was shown that Christopher Pike was captain of Enterprise 13 ...
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Does Star Trek ever allude to Sulu's sexual orientation?
George Takei has recently renewed his celebrity via social media and especially his support for gay rights. Did Hikaru Sulu (Takei's character in Star Trek) ever have a lover or love interest in the ...
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Why wasn't Chekov among the Star Trek: The Animated Series crew?
As far as I know, Star Trek: The Animated Series was supposed to be (chronologically) between ST: TOS and Star Trek: The Motion Picture.
If that's the case, why wasn't Pavel Chekov among the TAS ...
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Pen-servo in TOS Assignment: Earth & The Doctor's Sonic Screwdriver
So I just saw Assignment: Earth again and, although I'm not a fan of Doctor Who, Gary Seven's pen-like multi instrument immediately reminded me of the Doctor's Sonic Screwdriver:
Among the things ...
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What evidence exists supporting that Roddenberry thought of TOS as non-canon?
I've seen some people claiming (and some repeating it) that Gene Roddenberry intended TOS to be excluded from Star Trek canon after making the first episodes of TNG.
I failed to find any evidence ...
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Does Shatner disapprove of TNG?
I remember a discussion with at least Shatner and Stewart, I believe it was The Captain's Summit, where Shatner admitted to Stewart that he had never watched a single TNG episode. They seemed to know ...
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Does Chekov believe his claims?
So, in Star Trek: The Original Series, the character Pavel Chekov was introduced in the second season. Among his quirks is claiming that a whole bunch of things were invented in Russia. For a small ...
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Why didn't Temporal Agents stop McCoy from altering the past?
When McCoy altered past, whole federation vanished. Means, it was very-very critical event.
Temporal Agents were supposed to keep eyes on timeline. Whenever timeline was altered and Temporal Agents ...
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Why didn't search party get affected after McCoy altered past?
In ST:TOS 1x28, the USS Enterprise followed time ripples to their source from millions of miles. McCoy injected himself a drug by accident and beamed down to the planet in an out-of-control situation.
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Why did the tractor beam of the Enterprise crush the fighter jet of 20th century?
In ST:TOS, while escaping the gravitational pull of a black hole, the USS Enterprise suffered the slingshot effect. It was thrown back in space-time by cut of stretched rubber band type force. The ...
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Assignment: Earth
I was up late last night and came across ST-TOS Assignment:Earth.
I missed the first few minutes of it and online googles have fallen short on what I want to know.
How did the Enterprise get ...
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What is Spock's box on the bridge good for?
I'm having a really hard time to describe that thing, but I found a picture on google that shows it:
He often looks into it and comes up with some data or other information. What is that thing's ...
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Does the bridge crew on the Enterprise NCC-1701 have the ability to see through the ceiling into space?
The USS Enterprise NCC-1701 appears to have a clear dome over the bridge:
There is a scene in the pilot that zooms in and peers into the bridge from space:
Does the crew have the ability to see ...
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Why was paper-based technology adopted on 23rd century starship?
In the 22nd century, there wasn't any paper-based technology on board USS Enterprise NX-01. Tablets were everywhere. Even for reporting, analyses were filed digitally. They even had a Microsoft ...
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In TOS, how many shuttlecraft were aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701?
In the original series, how many shuttlecraft made up the normal complement aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701? The numbering convention I found on Memory Alpha goes up to NCC-1701/12, listing both ...
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How much time passed on Earth during the Enterprise's 5 year mission in space?
In Star trek TOS, I take the "Five year mission" to mean 5 years aboard the Starship. Do they explain in any of the novels, or anywhere else for that matter, how many years elapsed on Earth during the ...
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What year is ‘Star Trek: The Original Series’ set in?
Wikipedia notes that ‘Star Trek: The Next Generation’ was set in 2364 (and beyond), and that that’s “about 100 years after the original series timeframe”.
However, the Wikipedia article on The ...
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Why didn't they order Spock to perform the Vulcan “Mind Meld” on Captian Pike?
In the Star Trek TOS episode "The Menagerie", why didn't they have Spock perform a Mind Meld on Captain Pike instead accepting the Talosian transmissions from Talos IV as proof of what had happened?
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Star Trek movie characters' ranks
How could Kirk become a Captain at the end of the film, or Uhura be a LT, as Spock referred to her before he and Kirk left to rescue Captain Pike, when they both started the mission as Cadets?
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What is the penalty for violating the “Prime Directive” without Federation sanctioned justification?
I previously asked about the circumstances that allowed forgoing the "Prime Directive". The answer stated "All these people have violated the Prime Directive more than once: Kirk, Picard, Riker, Worf, ...
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Why was Enterprise on a five-year mission in TOS?
There is a small difference between intro texts in TOS:
Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek ...
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How Many Tribbles Were There?
In the Star Trek episode "The Trouble with Tribbles," when Kirk opens the door and all the tribbles fall on him, Spock says that there are 1,771,561 tribbles in the wheat compartment, basing that ...
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Are there easter eggs in the opening credits of the remastered original series?
Specifically, in the first shot of the star field that has the Enterprise, there is a very dense cluster of stars near the center of the screen that, when viewed at speed, seem to look like some kind ...
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Star Trek: TNG novels that continue episodes?
In the original series episode, All Our Yesterdays, Spock goes back in time 4000 years into a particular planet's history.
Two sequels to this episode were written as novels. Yesterday's Son and Time ...
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What is the official sequence for Star Trek the Original Series episodes?
What is the official sequence of the episodes in the original Star Trek series? I'm interested in the sequence of the story rather than when they were produced or when they aired.
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How and why was Miri's planet a duplicate of Earth?
Was it ever explained why and how was the planet from episode Miri an exact duplicate of Earth?
In my opinion this was the most interesting question in the episode and it was left unanswered.
