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TOS Season 1

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The first season of Star Trek: The Original Series was produced and filmed from May 1966 to February 1967 by Desilu . It began airing in the fall season on NBC , running new episodes until the spring of 1967 , and continuing in repeats until the premiere of TOS Season 2 in the fall of 1967. In the United Kingdom, the season premiered on the ITV network on Sunday, September 6, 1981 , and ended on Sunday, March 21, 1982 .

• 1.1 First pilot
• 1.2 Season 1
• 3 Background information
• 4.2.1 Uncredited crew
• 6 External links

Episodes [ ]

First pilot [ ], season 1 [ ], summary [ ].

The Starfleet vessel USS Enterprise sets out on a five-year mission to explore new worlds and seek out new lifeforms in the Alpha Quadrant of the Galaxy . Under the command of Human Captain James T. Kirk and the Vulcan Spock , the Enterprise comes across many strange lifeforms in the first year of its mission – including shapeshifters , androids , and even more bizarre creatures . Elsewhere, there are run-ins with several prominent species, including the warrior race of the Klingons , the Romulan Star Empire , and the Gorn .

The rest of the crew develop close bonds on the long journey, and even as each one experiences the joys of the brave new world of space, they all experience grief and sacrifices. Amongst those who grow close as part of the senior staff are one of the ship's nurses, Christine Chapel , the ship's doctor Leonard McCoy , Kirk's yeoman Janice Rand , helmsman Hikaru Sulu and communications officer Uhura .

Background information [ ]

• Production for the initial season of Star Trek cost an average of US$190,635 per episode. (Some episodes went largely over budget, such as " The City on the Edge of Forever ", which cost $250,396, the most expensive of all episodes except the two pilots). But this figure would gradually decrease in the two seasons to come. ( Inside Star Trek: The Real Story )
• Each episode was scheduled to be filmed in six days; however, many of them went over schedule, resulting in one or two extra days of shooting. When Paramount Pictures took over Desilu in mid-season 2, schedules became much more strict, and episodes had to be completed in six days (closer to five and half days actually).
• The first season of TOS was nominated for two Emmy Awards in 1967 as "Outstanding Dramatic Series" and "Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Drama – Leonard Nimoy ".
• The episodes " The Menagerie, Part I ", " The Menagerie, Part II ", and " The City on the Edge of Forever " won Hugo Awards as "Best Dramatic Presentation". " The Corbomite Maneuver " and " The Naked Time " were also nominated.

Credits [ ]

• Jeffrey Hunter as Capt. Pike ("The Cage")
• William Shatner as Capt. Kirk ("Where No Man Has Gone Before" – "Operation -- Annihilate!")
• Leonard Nimoy as " Mr. Spock "
• DeForest Kelley as " Dr. McCoy "
• James Doohan as " Scott "
• George Takei as " Sulu "
• Nichelle Nichols as " Uhura "
• Grace Lee Whitney as " Yeoman Rand "
• Majel Barrett as " Christine Chapel "
• See : TOS Season 1 performers
• " The Cage "
• " Mudd's Women " (story)
• " Charlie X " (story)
• " The Menagerie, Part I "
• " The Menagerie, Part II "
• " The Return of the Archons " (story)
• " Where No Man Has Gone Before "
• " The Corbomite Maneuver "
• " This Side of Paradise " (story)
• " Mudd's Women " (teleplay)
• " The Enemy Within "
• " The Man Trap "
• " The Naked Time "
• " Charlie X " (teleplay)
• " Tomorrow is Yesterday "
• " This Side of Paradise " (teleplay/story)
• " Balance of Terror "
• " The Squire of Gothos "
• " What Are Little Girls Made Of? "
• " Dagger of the Mind "
• " The Galileo Seven " (teleplay)
• " The Conscience of the King "
• " The Galileo Seven " (teleplay/story)
• " Court Martial " (teleplay/story)
• " Court Martial " (teleplay)
• " Operation -- Annihilate! "
• " Shore Leave "
• " Arena " (teleplay)
• " A Taste of Armageddon " (teleplay)
• " Space Seed " (teleplay)
• " The Devil in the Dark "
• " Errand of Mercy "
• " Arena " (story)
• " The Alternative Factor "
• " The Return of the Archons " (teleplay)
• " A Taste of Armageddon " (teleplay/story)
• " Space Seed " (teleplay/story)
• " The City on the Edge of Forever "
• " Mudd's Women "
• " Court Martial "
• " Space Seed "
• " Charlie X "
• " The Galileo Seven "
• " A Taste of Armageddon "
• " This Side of Paradise "
• Gene Roddenberry
• Gene Roddenberry ("Where No Man Has Gone Before" – "Dagger of the Mind", "The Menagerie, Part II")
• Gene L. Coon ("The Conscious of the King", "The Menagerie, Part I")
• Gene Roddenberry ("The Conscious of the King", "The Menagerie, Part I")
• Robert H. Justman ("Where No Man Has Gone Before" – "Operation -- Annihilate!")
• John D.F. Black ("The Corbomite Maneuver" – "Miri")
• Byron Haskin ("The Menagerie, Part II")
• Steven W. Carabatsos ("The Conscience of the King" – "A Taste of Armageddon") (not credited for "The Menagerie, Part II")
• D.C. Fontana ("This Side of Paradise" – "Operation -- Annihilate!")
• Ernest Haller , ASC ("Where No Man Has Gone Before")
• Jerry Finnerman (all episodes, except "The Menagerie, Part II")
• William E. Snyder , ASC ("The Menagerie, Part II")
• Walter M. Jefferies ("Where No Man Has Gone Before", "Mudd's Women", "The Man Trap", "The Naked Time" and "Charlie X")
• Roland M. Brooks ("The Corbomite Maneuver")
• Walter M. Jefferies
• Franz Bachelin ("The Menagerie, Part II")
• Alexander Courage
• Alexander Courage ("Where No Man Has Gone Before", "The Man Trap", "The Naked Time", "Dagger of the Mind", "Miri", "The Galileo Seven" – "The Menagerie, Part II", "The Squire of Gothos" – "Operation -- Annihilate!")
• Fred Steiner ("The Corbomite Maneuver", "Mudd's Women", "Charlie X" – "What Are Little Girls Made Of?")
• Sol Kaplan ("The Enemy Within")
• Mullendore ("The Conscience of the King")
• Gerald Fried ("Shore Leave")
• John Foley , ACE ("Where No Man Has Gone Before")
• Robert L. Swanson ("The Corbomite Maneuver", "The Man Trap", "Balance of Terror", "The Galileo Seven", "The Menagerie, Part I")
• Bruce Schoengarth ("Mudd's Women", "The Naked Time", "Dagger of the Mind", "Court Martial", "The Squire of Gothos", "Tomorrow Is Yesterday", "A Taste of Armageddon", "Errand of Mercy")
• Fabien Tordjmann ("The Enemy Within", "Charlie X", "Miri", "Shore Leave", "Arena", "Return of the Archons", "The Devil in the Dark", "Operation -- Annihilate!")
• Frank P. Keller , A.C.E. ("What Are Little Girls Made Of?", "The Conscience of the King")
• Leo Shreve ("The Menagerie, Part II")
• James D. Ballas , ACE ("The Alternative Factor", "Space Seed", "This Side of Paradise", "City on the Edge of Forever")
• Edward K. Milkis ("The Corbomite Maneuver", "The Enemy Within", "The Conscience of the King" – "Operation -- Annihilate!")
• Robert H. Justman ("Where No Man Has Gone Before")
• Gregg Peters (odd-numbered episodes from "The Corbomite Maneuver" through "Arena", "Return of the Archons", "A Taste of Armageddon", "The Devil in the Dark", "City on the Edge of Forever")
• Michael S. Glick (even-numbered episodes from "Mudd's Women" through "The Alternative Factor", "Charlie X", "The Menagerie, Part I", "The Menagerie, Part II", "Tomorrow Is Yesterday", "Space Seed", "This Side of Paradise", "Errand of Mercy", "Operation -- Annihilate!")
• Tiger Shapiro (Second Assistant Director)
• Ross Dowd ("Where No Man Has Gone Before")
• Carl F. Biddiscombe ("The Corbomite Maneuver" – "What Are Little Girls Made Of?")
• Marvin March ("Dagger of the Mind" – "Operation -- Annihilate!") (uncredited for "The Menagerie, Part II")
• Edward M. Parker ("The Menagerie, Part II")
• William Theiss ("Where No Man Has Gone Before" – "Operation -- Annihilate!")
• Bill Heath ("Where No Man Has Gone Before" – "Operation -- Annihilate!")
• Jack Hunsaker ("Where No Man Has Gone Before")
• Robert H. Raff ("The Corbomite Maneuver" – "The Conscience of the King", "Court Martial" – "Shore Leave")
• Jim Henrikson ("The Galileo Seven", "The Squire of Gothos" – "Operation -- Annihilate!")
• Joseph G. Sorokin ("Where No Man Has Gone Before", "The Corbomite Maneuver" – "Charlie X", "What Are Little Girls Made Of?" – "The Conscience of the King", "The Menagerie, Part I", "The Menagerie, Part II")
• Douglas H. Grindstaff ("Balance of Terror", "The Galileo Seven", "Court Martial", "Shore Leave" – "Operation -- Annihilate!")
• Cam McCulloch ("Where No Man Has Gone Before")
• Jack F. Lilly ("The Corbomite Maneuver" – "The Return of the Archons", "Space Seed") (uncredited for "The Menagerie, Part II")
• Stanford G. Haughton ("The Menagerie, Part II")
• Cameron McCulloch ("A Taste of Armageddon")
• Carl W. Daniels ("This Side of Paradise" – "Operation -- Annihilate!")
• Howard Anderson Co. ("Where No Man Has Gone Before, "The Corbomite Maneuver", "The Man Trap", "The Enemy Within" – "Charlie X", "The Menagerie, Part II")
• Westheimer Company ("Mudd's Women", "What Are Little Girls Made Of?", "Dagger of the Mind", "The Conscience of the King", "Shore Leave", "Arena", "Tomorrow Is Yesterday", "Space Seed", "This Side of Paradise", "Errand of Mercy", "Operation -- Annihilate!")
• Film Effects of Hollywood ("Balance of Terror", "The Galileo Seven" – "The Menagerie, Part I", "The Squire of Gothos", "The Alternative Factor", "Return of the Archons", "A Taste of Armageddon", "The Devil in the Dark", "The City on the Edge of Forever")
• Cinema Research Corporation ("Miri")
• George A. Rutter ("The Corbomite Maneuver" – "Arena", "Return of the Archons" – "This Side of Paradise")
• Billy Vernon ("The Alternative Factor", "Tomorrow Is Yesterday")
• Wilbur Hatch ("Where No Man Has Gone Before – "Operation -- Annihilate!")
• Julian Davidson ("Where No Man Has Gone Before – "Operation -- Annihilate!")
• Bob Overbeck ("Where No Man Has Gone Before")
• Jim Rugg ("The Corbomite Maneuver" – "Operation -- Annihilate!"; except "The Menagerie, Part II")
• Joe Lombardi ("The Menagerie, Part II")
• Irving A. Feinberg (all episodes; uncredited for "The Menagerie, Part II")
• Jack Briggs ("The Menagerie, Part II")
• George H. Merhoff (all episodes; uncredited for "The Menagerie, Part II")
• Bob Campbell ("The Menagerie, Part II")
• George Rader ("The Corbomite Maneuver" – "Operation -- Annihilate!")
• James A. Paisley ("The Menagerie, Part II")
• Bernard A. Widin ("The Corbomite Maneuver" – "Operation -- Annihilate!")
• Robert Dawn ("Where No Man Has Gone Before")
• Fred B. Phillips , SMA ("The Corbomite Maneuver" – "Operation -- Annihilate!")
• Hazel Keats ("Where No Man Has Gone Before")
• Virginia Darcy , CHS ("The Corbomite Maneuver" – "Operation -- Annihilate!")
• Gertrude Reade ("The Menagerie, Part II")
• Paul McCardle ("Where No Man Has Gone Before")
• Margaret Makau ("The Corbomite Maneuver" – "Operation -- Annihilate!")
• Joseph D'Agosta ("The Enemy Within", "The Naked Time", "What Are Little Girls Made Of?", "The Conscience of the King")
• Glen Glenn Sound Co. ("Where No Man Has Gone Before" – "Operation -- Annihilate!")
• Norway Corporation
• Herbert F. Solow ("The Corbomite Manuever" – "Operation -- Annihilate!")

Uncredited crew [ ]

• Darrell Anderson – Transporter Effects ("The Cage")
• John Chambers – Special Makeup Creator (for Leonard Nimoy) ("The Cage")
• Morris Chapnick – Assistant to the Producer ("The Cage")
• Jim Danforth – Prop Maker ("The Cage")
• Richard C. Datin – Model Maker ("The Cage", "Where No Man Has Gone Before", "The Galileo Seven", et.al. )
• Kellam de Forest ( de Forest Research ) – Researcher ("The Cage")
• Roger Duchowny – Second Assistant Director ("The Cage")
• Linwood G. Dunn – Visual Effects Cinematographer
• Pato Guzman – Production Designer ("The Cage")
• Oscar Katz – Executive in Charge of Production ("The Cage")
• Richard A. Kelley – Camera Operator ("The Cage")
• Thomas Kellogg – Production Illustrator ("The Galileo Seven")
• Reuben Klamer – Prop Maker ("Where No Man Has Gone Before")
• Harvey P. Lynn – Researcher ("The Cage")
• Bill McGovern – Clapper/Loader
• Donald R. Rode – Assistant Film Editor (also responsible for editing the episode trailers)
• Penny Romans – Choreographer (Susan Oliver's dance) ("The Cage")
• Denis Russell – Scenic Artist ("The Cage")
• Leo Shreve – Film Editor ("The Cage")
• Speed & Custom Shop ("The Galileo Seven")
• Craig Thompson – Office Manager Post-Production
• Penny Unger – Gene Roddenberry's secretary
• Charles Washburn – DGA Trainee
• Gene Winfield – Model and Set Maker ("The Galileo Seven")
• Albert Whitlock – Matte Painter ("The Cage", "Where No Man Has Gone Before")

See also [ ]

• Star Trek: The Original Series (VHS)
• TOS Season 1 Blu-ray
• TOS Season 1 DVD
• TOS Season 1 HD DVD
• TOS Season 1 performers

External links [ ]

• Star Trek: The Original Series season 1 at Memory Beta , the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
• The Original Series Season 1 episode reviews  at Ex Astris Scientia
• 2 Star Trek: The Next Generation
• 3 USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-G)

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Recap / Star Trek S1 E1 "The Man Trap"

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Original air date: September 8, 1966

Kirk, McCoy and a random crewman beam down to medically examine two scientists, living alone on an archaeology planet. One of these scientists (the lady , Nancy) was apparently previously romantically involved with McCoy. She shows an ability to disguise her appearance, seeming different to each person. She and the random crewman leave and he is killed off screen. Nancy says he ate some of the local vegetation and thus poisoned himself, but any reasonable viewer would doubt that.

McCoy and Spock determine that the unfortunate fellow didn’t die of poisoning and Kirk beams back down to investigate with McCoy and two more random crewmen. Both crewmen are killed, but Nancy disguises herself as one of the dead and beams aboard the ship. Here she proceeds to creep people out as she hunts for salt . It is determined Nancy isn’t on the planet and now Spock and Kirk beam down to question her husband.

Nancy takes McCoy’s form as an alarm sounds for the man she killed on board. Her husband willingly tells them that she’s actually a shapeshifting alien that killed his wife . She’s also the last of her kind – which Kirk finds unimpressive as she is killing his people. They report back to the ship where Nancy continues to impersonate McCoy. They plan to administer a truth serum on her husband so he will reveal where she is... at which point she kills her husband and attacks Spock. She goes to McCoy’s room and tries to convince him not to let them kill her. He is eventually forced to when she tries to kill the captain.

The Man Tropes:

• 20 Minutes into the Future : The population of the American buffalo increased by a factor of fifteen between 1951 and 2000. A half-million buffalo roam North America (still a much smaller number than their pre-1800 population over 60 million), and they are no longer considered endangered or threatened.
• Affectionate Gesture to the Head : Subverted as Nancy is just rubbing the salty sweat off McCoy's face.
• Adaptation Title Change : The title was changed to "The Unreal McCoy" (which may have been a working title from a draft script), when James Blish adapted it as a short story.
• Alas, Poor Villain : Spock: Something wrong, Captain? Kirk: I was thinking about the buffalo, Mister Spock.
• Alternate Character Interpretation : Kirk offers one In-Universe deconstructing Crater's motives for protecting the creature. Kirk: You bleed too much, Crater. You're too pure and noble. Are you saving the Last of Its Kind or has this become Crater's private heaven, here on this planet? This thing becomes wife, lover, best friend, wise man, fool, idol, slave. It isn't a bad life to have everyone in the universe at your beck and call, and you win all the arguments.
• Always on Duty : Kirk is shown drinking coffee and eating on the bridge. As he's allowing Bones to get some rest at the same time, it's implied that Kirk is staying awake until he's tracked down what killed his men.
• Appearance Is in the Eye of the Beholder : The salt monster projects false images into the people around it. This is made clear by the fact that it can simultaneously project different likenesses of "Nancy" to Kirk, McCoy, and Green in the opening scene.
• Beehive Hairdo : Yeoman Rand's famous do, made by gluing two wigs together!
• Bilingual Bonus : It was Gene Roddenberry 's idea to have the creature, in its illusory form, speak Swahili to Uhura. Kellam de Forest supplied him with the translation. In English, the illusory crewman says "How are you, friend? I think of you, beautiful lady. You should never know loneliness."
• Bizarre Alien Biology : Spock, obviously. Since Vulcan's oceans do not contain the same types of salts that Earth's oceans do, the Salt Vampire found him very unappetizing.
• Bluff the Imposter : Spock was starting to get suspicious of Vampire!McCoy, and was attacked just before he was about to confront her.
• Bullying a Dragon : Spock slapping the Salt Vampire numerous times when it has proven itself strong enough potentially to take him in a fight. The only thing that saves it from being Too Dumb to Live is that Spock was trying to prove that the Salt Vampire wasn't Nancy in order to get McCoy to shoot her and hence didn't mind the risk.
• …But He Sounds Handsome : While disguised as McCoy, the Salt Vampire tries to argue that "the creature" is an intelligent being who is only trying to survive, and if they just provided it with salt it wouldn't have to kill anyone . This makes Spock suspicious enough to accompany "McCoy" when he leads off Crater to be injected with truth serum.
• The Enterprise is held up from delivering a shipment of food to the Corinth IV starbase by the Salt Vampire's antics. The starbase commander describes the cargo (prime Mexican red chili peppers) as "urgently needed", not unlike how the Salt Vampire urgently needs salt.
• Yeoman Rand delivers food to Sulu (which she can't help sampling en route) in the ship's conservatory. When she arrives, he is feeding the plants.
• When Kirk tells Bones to take some sleeping pills, he is eating a snack.
• The Salt Vampire attempts to mask Crewman Darnell's cause of death by making it appear as though he was eating Borgia plants (described as similar to the Terran "nightshade family" — which includes potatoes and tomatoes — many of which are toxic to humans).
• Character Tics : The Salt Vampire has a habit of chewing on a knuckle when it's desperate for salt.
• Spock being so open in his fear for Kirk could count as this. In fact, he has numerous emotional outbursts in this episode which is radically different to his cold, logical personality later in the series. To be fair, Uhura calls out Spock on his coldness early on in the episode, so perhaps Spock was compensating for that.
• Sulu is the Ship's Botanist, not the Helmsman. Later Sulu's penchant for botany is explained away as a fleeting hobby.
• Spock attempting to knock out the Salt Vampire by repeatedly punching it in the face is jarring when, in any other episode, he would simply use the Vulcan nerve pinch. Then again, being an alien shapeshifter, it's questionable if it has nerve bundles susceptible to the pinch, or if Spock would have any idea where they might be.
• Neither Kirk nor Spock shows any concern in destroying what is actually just a Obliviously Evil creature trying to survive, not to mention the last of its kind. While Kirk may be focused on his crewmen's deaths, the pacifistic scientist should really know better, especially considering his efforts in "The Devil in the Dark". That being said, they do still somberly reflect on the whole ordeal.
• While the vampire is attacking Kirk, Spock tries to wrest the phaser from a befuddled McCoy's hands, and when that takes too long, throws himself between the creature and Jim. Considering Vulcan strength, and how he is in later episodes shown tossing around well trained humans like ragdolls in a hand-to-hand fight, it should have taken only minimal effort to get the weapon away from the doctor.
• Doppelgänger Replacement Love Interest : Dr Crater's wife Nancy actually died a year or two ago, and the alien has taken her form and lives with him.
• There is a unique Lower-Deck Episode emphasis here not seen elsewhere in TOS , with several scenes prominently featuring crewmen and several of the lower-ranked officers (particularly Sulu and Uhura) getting significant character moments.
• A couple of Kirk's captain's log entries are given as though Kirk were discussing the story retrospectively. Nearly every other captain's log in the franchise would be narrated in the present tense.
• Instead of sickbay, the Enterprise has a "dispensary".
• Eating the Eye Candy : A couple of crewman express envy that a lucky officer (in this case, Lt. Sulu) has Yeoman Rand bringing him lunch.
• Embarrassing Nickname / Affectionate Nickname : Apparently McCoy's was "Plum" when he was with Nancy.
• Evil-Detecting Dog : In this case an alien plant; Beauregard, an animate plant in the botany lab, freaks out when the creature gets near.
• Extinct in the Future : Bison are extinct in Star Trek 's future.
• Expy : The salt vampire is similar to the alien monster in Who Goes There? , with its ability to read minds, hypnotise prey and impersonate through shapeshifting. The Coeurl from The Voyage of the Space Beagle may be another influence, involving a creature that feeds on the potassium in its victims.
• Gaussian Girl : Played straight with Nancy, as seen (as Dr. Crater puts it) through the eyes of Dr. McCoy's past attachment. But generally averted: unusually for a woman on Star Trek , when Nancy is seen at her "appropriate" age, close-ups of her are clear and not blurry. (Doing the math, Nancy is not yet 40, but is described as middle-aged and even shown to have graying hair . Jeanne Bal, who played Nancy, was 38 years old at the time of filming.)
• Get A Hold Of Yourself Man : Kirk snaps at Bones when he starts going on about Nancy when there's a dead crewman on the table and Kirk wants answers as to why. They apologise to each other later.
• Girl of the Week : And for once, the girl is McCoy’s. And she’s been killed by an alien. Typical.
• Go Through Me : Spock positions himself directly between the salt vampire and Kirk.
• Gratuitous Foreign Language : The Salt Vampire, taking on the guise of Uhura's "ideal man", speaks Swahili to her, and she replies to him in kind. The context is obvious that Swahili is her mother tongue and that she "thinks" in Swahili as opposed to English , which is confirmed in the later episode " The Changeling ". However, with 432 crew members aboard, and Uhura as a bridge officer, the presence of a crewman, especially a black man that ALSO speaks Swahili, would likely be strange ("Crewman...do I KNOW you?"). You'd think Uhura, at least with the presence of mind to get away from the guy and join Sulu and Rand in the elevator, would tell THEM of this unknown crewman, who apparently resembles some man she was reminiscing about. THAT wouldn't see off a few alarms? Starfleet's security started off being for shit and never improved!

• The broken nature of the Aesop is actually Lampshaded : Prof. Crater : It's the last one. The buffalo. There is no difference. Kirk : There's one, Professor. Your creature is killing my people!
• It is however also noted that, necessary or not, this episode does result in the final extinction of a species at the hands of Starfleet officers, and no one's precisely happy at the outcome.
• Hollywood Old : The "real" Nancy Crater, depicted as settled into her middle age and clearly over-the-hill with her looks having faded, is ( doing the math ) as old as a positively geriatric 37 . Jeanne Bal, the actress playing her, was only a year older than this. For reference, she was all of two years older than Grace Lee Whitney , and four years older than Nichelle Nichols , both of whom were consistently depicted as young women despite also being well into their thirties. Nancy appears to have been written as older than both her actress and her own logical age to make her more appropriate for the two men playing her love interests, DeForest Kelley (eight years her senior) and Alfred Ryder as Dr. Crater (twelve years her senior), both of whom looked older than they were.

• Hypocritical Humor : Rand chides "Green" (actually the Salt Vampire) for trying to take the salt shaker from a dinner tray that she's eating some celery off of. It then turns out that the dinner tray actually belongs to Sulu .
• Impersonation-Exclusive Character : Crewman Green.
• Kick the Dog : Crater is killed by the creature, despite his refusal to aid the crew in tracking it down. One factor may have been hunger, as it had just failed to feed on Spock, but this is also after Crater told the Enterprise crew that he can see through the creature's shapeshifting. Whether or not this is true, and regardless of his initial refusal to help find the creature, it turns Crater from an ally to a potential threat in the creature's eyes. The creature probably figured out that Kirk wouldn't let Crater go back down to the planet, and that eventually he'd be found out ANYWAY; at that point, the Salt Vampire is DESPERATE.
• Kill and Replace : The Salt Vampire kills Green down on the planet, then beams up to Enterprise in his form. Crater later reveals the real Nancy died a couple of years ago, and the salt vampire took her place.
• Kiss Me, I'm Virtual : McCoy is seduced by his old flame "Nancy Crater", who is actually a hideous salt monster impersonating her.
• Last of His Kind : The Salt Vampire is the remnant of a once-large number of the same variety. Dr. Crater even uses this when arguing against killing the creature, comparing it to destroying animals on Earth in the past.
• Leave Me Alone! : Crater pretends to be a cantankerous old hermit who prefers his solitude, but he's actually trying to get rid of our heroes as quickly as possible so they won't find out the truth.
• Let's Split Up, Gang! : Every victim of the salt monster was singled out after the party split up for some reason, with the exception of Crater, who was with Spock ( who was taken by surprise and overpowered first ) and Kirk (who was attacked in McCoy's quarters while trying to kill the alien).
• Make It Look Like an Accident : 'Nancy' puts a berry in the mouth of her first victim, to make it look like he died after carelessly eating a native plant that was poisonous. It doesn't work as the symptoms don't match.
• Mind Manipulation : The salt vampire is able to mentally paralyze human beings at close range. This keeps the victim from fighting back and prevents any interference with the creature's feeding.
• Morally Ambiguous Doctorate : Dr. Crater is more concerned with protecting the creature than with the creature killing people. When Kirk and Spock go to confront him over what he knows, he pulls out a laser pistol and starts shooting at them.
• Never Give the Captain a Straight Answer : McCoy calls Kirk on the bridge with news that he's found something about Darnell's death, but he doesn't want to put it on the speaker. Probably justified since complete salt depletion is pretty weird.
• Nonindicative Name : The Salt Vampire wasn't picky about gender and would've preyed on a woman as easily as a man. If by "Man" the concept of "human" was meant, the Salt Vampire went after Spock, only to find Vulcans didn't have the right kind of salt.
• No-Sell : Spock, who can effortlessly dent steel with a single punch, gives the Salt Vampire multiple double-fisted haymakers to the face and it only looks mildly annoyed before backhanding him across the room.
• Oh, My Gods! : Sulu thanks Yeoman Rand for serving him lunch with "May the Great Bird of the Galaxy favor your nest."
• Only Friend : After Spock reacts with his standard stoicism to the landing party reporting a casualty, Uhura chastises him for his lack of concern about a man dying. She points out that the casualty could have been Kirk, who she describes as the closest thing to a friend Spock has. Spock answers that getting emotional wouldn't change anything. However, Uhura's description of Kirk is vindicated later in the episode when the salt monster moves in on Kirk as its next meal and Spock suddenly decides emotion is in order.
• Our Vampires Are Different : The "salt vampire" (a Fan Nickname for what was officially called "the M-113 Creature") can look like its victim's ideal love/sex object. This allows it to find victims when straight salt isn't available.
• Out-of-Character Alert : The Salt Vampire tends to give herself away a bit because of this, especially when posing as Doctor McCoy.
• Out-of-Character Moment : Spock violently striking a monster-disguised-as-a-woman to prove that she really wasn't Nancy. The "woman" in question showing no ill effects and casually throwing Spock across the room in retaliation.
• Punched Across the Room : Spock, by the Salt Vampire.
• Red Alert : Kirk orders "General Quarters, Security Condition 3" on realizing that the creature is on board his ship. He raises this to GQ Four on discovering that the creature can take any form, putting the Enterprise in Lock Down with teams of redshirts patrolling the corridors.
• Red Shirt : Four crewmember deaths in one episode. None of whom were actually wearing red .
• Screaming Woman : "Nancy" screams and is found covering her face with her hands, alerting the others to Crewman Darnell's death. Subverted, as the creature is only pretending to be horrified, in order to cover up her preying on Darnell.
• Shapeshifter Default Form : Though we see the alien’s actual appearance — it looks something like a swamp monster with a fish face and big teeth — it takes this form only when it has been stunned or weakened (and upon its death); it seems to be most comfortable in the form of Nancy, because it is implied that it "feeds" on positive emotions, and both Crater and McCoy are very fond of her.
• Shape Shifter Guilt Trip : McCoy hesitates to shoot the alien because it has taken the form of his old flame. This tactic apparently worked on Crater given that the alien adopted the form of the wife it killed.
• Shapeshifting Seducer : When we first meet "Nancy", McCoy sees her as the young beauty he fell in love with, Kirk sees the same woman but at middle-age , and the crewman that accompanied them sees a completely different young woman whom he met on a Pleasure Planet . Uhura later sees the alien as a handsome African male who can speak her native language. However, the blond girl that Darnell saw was played ALSO by Jeanne Bal; the wig and a LOT of makeup make her look like the young lady that Darnell recalls from "Wrigley's Pleasure Planet". We can only presume that the Wrigley Corporation branched out from the Chicago Cubs baseball club and chewing gum.
• The Spock : Uhura can't get Spock to flirt with her. Then he shows no outward concern that a member of the landing party has been killed, to her irritation. Later when McCoy is overly emotional because he thinks Nancy is in danger, Kirk snaps that he could learn a lesson from Spock.
• The first establishing shot of the bridge, with Spock in the command chair, Lt. Leslie at helm, and Uhura at navigation, is recycled from " The Naked Time ".
• The next shot, a closeup of Spock in the command chair, is taken from " What Are Little Girls Made Of? ".
• A closeup of Kirk, listening to McCoy in sickbay is again lifted from " The Naked Time ".
• A shot of crewmembers buzzing around on a corridor during red alert is recycled from the original pre-broadcast version of " Where No Man Has Gone Before ". It's easily noticeable, as the people are wearing the turtleneck shirts seen in the pilots.
• Another brief shot taken from " The Naked Time ": Kirk running through a corridor during red alert.
• Telepathy : The Salt Vampire creature can read the memories of human beings well enough that it can project the form of someone the human remembers and pretend to be that person. It also seems to be able to "speak" any language instantly through a similar mechanism.
• The Worf Effect : The salt vampire smacking Spock against the wall might surprise the viewer (at least in hindsight). Granted, Spock hitting "Nancy" in the face with the patented Star Trek two-fisted punch instead of using the nerve pinch (which had been invented for "The Enemy Within", shot before "The Man Trap" though aired later) is also worth noting.
• This Was His True Form : The alien reverts to its true form after it dies.
• Tranquil Fury : Kirk does not take the situation coolly because it's a mystery (he hates them) and his crewmen are dropping dead. However, he shows that he can go one level higher than angry ham both when he orders McCoy to focus on the problem rather than his ex and when he tells Crater that he needs to help or Kirk will have his skin.
• Truth Serum : Apparently this exists in the future. It will never be brought up again in any episode, with the Enterprise computer functioning as a Lie Detector in future episodes. Alternatively, it could very well be little more than "truth serum" as it is today — a drug that makes the user highly susceptible to suggestion. Desperate times call for desperate measures.
• Vampiric Draining : The creature on planet M-113 lives by draining all of the salt from other living creatures and thus killing them.
• A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing : Once the creature takes Crewman Green's appearance to get aboard the Enterprise .

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The past months have left the crew exhausted and in desperate need of a break, but does this explain McCoy's encounter with a human-sized white rabbit or Kirk crossing paths with the prankst... Read all The past months have left the crew exhausted and in desperate need of a break, but does this explain McCoy's encounter with a human-sized white rabbit or Kirk crossing paths with the prankster who plagued his days at Starfleet Academy? The past months have left the crew exhausted and in desperate need of a break, but does this explain McCoy's encounter with a human-sized white rabbit or Kirk crossing paths with the prankster who plagued his days at Starfleet Academy?

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Mr. Spock : I picked this up from Dr. McCoy's log. We have a crew member aboard who's showing signs of stress and fatigue, reaction time down 9-12%, associational rating norm minus 3.

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Mr. Spock : He's becoming irritable and quarrelsome, yet he refuses to take rest and rehabilitation.

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Captain James T. Kirk : A crewman's right ends where the safety of the ship begins. Now, that man will go ashore on my orders. What's his name?

Mr. Spock : James Kirk. Enjoy yourself, Captain.

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