Star Trek second season

Star Trek season 2

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Amok Time / season 2 - episode 1
Director: Joseph Pevney
Writer: Theodore Sturgeon
Producer: Gene L. Coon
It's Spock's time of pon farr - the Vulcan mating cycle. McCoy informs Kirk that Spock will die unless they divert to Vulcan, his home planet, immediately! There, T'Pring (Arlene Martel), Spock's arranged bride, chooses the rite of combat, forcing Spock to fight to the death for her. But she selects Kirk as her companion to combat Spock!

Who Mourns for Adonis? / season 2 - episode 2
Director: Marc Daniels
Writer: Gilbert Ralston
Producer: Gene L. Coon
The Enterprise encounters a giant hand in space, which leads the starship to Pollux IV. Here, a humanoid identifies himself as Apollo (Michael Forest), last of the Olympian gods. He has brought the Enterprise and crew "home" to become shepherds and to worship him! Apollo hurtles thunderbolts and exhibits superior strength, locking the Enterprise in a forcefield that seems indestructible. Will Kirk and his crew be held captive here for the rest of their lives?

The Changeling / season 2 - episode 3
Director: Marc Daniels
Writer: John Meredyth Lucas
Producer: Gene L. Coon
While investigating the destruction of the Malurian System and its four billion inhabitants, Kirk discovers "Nomad", a robotic space probe gone wild. Kirk beams it aboard the Enterprise, only to have it "kill" Scotty and erase Uhura's mind. Its next target - Earth! Can Kirk find a way to stop this deadly machine?

Mirror, Mirror / season 2 - episode 4
Director: Marc Daniels
Writer: Jerome Bixby
Producer: Gene L. Coon
Kirk, McCoy, Scotty and Uhura are beaming back to the Enterprise when an ion storm causes a transporter malfunction. Instead of their own starship, they find themselves aboard a parallel Enterprise whose crew are unprincipled barbarians. The same storm has caused their malicious counterparts to beam aboard the real Enterprise! Kirk and company must find a way home before they are discovered by these alternate beings!

The Apple / season 2 - episode 5
Director: Joseph Pevney
Writer: Max Ehrlich
Producer: Gene L. Coon
On Gamma Trianguli VI, Kirk and a landing party are plagues by poisonous plants, exploding rocks and attacks by lightning. They learn from the childlike natives that the planet is ruled by "Vaal", an all-seeing "god", which interprets Kirk's presence as a threat to the stability to the culture. To preserve this simplistic society, Vaal plans to destroy Kirk and the Enterprise!

The Doomsday Machine / season 2 - episode 6
Director: Marc Daniels
Writer: Norman Spinrad
Producer: Gene L. Coon
A giant robot ship which consumes planets for fuel has destroyed the crew of the U.S.S. Constellation, leaving only a guilt-ridden Commodore Decker (William Windom) aboard the crippled ship. Kirk beams over to effect repairs while Decker beams aboard the Enterprise. After Kirk loses radio contact with the Enterprise, the obsessed Commodore immediately seizes command from Spock! Decker is determined to destroy the planet-killer, even at the cost of Kirk's ship and the entire crew!

Catspaw / season 2 - episode 7
Director: Joseph Pevney
Writer: Robert Bloch
Producer: Gene L. Coon
On Pyris VII, Sulu and Scotty are rendered "zombies" by Korob and Sylvia, two beings who use black cats, magic wands and evil spells in an attempt to terrorise Kirk and company. When Kirk refuses to submit, Sylvia holds a voodoo-like image of the Enterprise over a flame, and the starship begins superheating!

I, Mudd / season 2 - episode 8
Director: Marc Daniels
Writer: Stephen Kandel
Producer: Gene L. Coon
That intergalactic rogue, Harcourt Fenton Mudd (Roger C. Carmel), returns to plague Captain Kirk! This time he's the self-proclaimed emperor of a planet of beautiful female androids who exists only to serve mankind. Harry sends a male android, Norman, to hijack the Enterprise to his planet so that the androids will have other humans to serve. But Harry's scheme backfires when he, Kirk and the Enterprise crew become the androids' captives!

Metamorphosis / season 2 - episode 9
Director: Ralph Senensky
Writer: Gene L. Coon
Producer: Gene L. Coon
Aboard the Galileo, Kirk, Spock and McCoy are transporting ailing commisioner Nancy Hedford (Elinor Donahue) to the Enterprice when a mysterious cloud draws them to a planet inhabited only by Zefram Cochrane (Glenn Corbet) - the inventor of the warp engine who lived over a century ago! The cloud-creature rejuvenates Cochrane but, sensing his loneliness, it has brought him company - Kirk and the others. They are now prisoners.

Journey to Babel / season 2 - episode 10
Director: Joseph Pevney
Writer: D.C. Fontana
Producer: John Meredyth Lucas
It's chaos aboard an Enterprise full of interplanetary diplomats enroute to a conference on Babel. Among them are Spock's father, Sarek (Mark Lenard), to whom Spock hasn't spoken in years, and his mother, Amanda (Jane Wyatt). When a Tellerite is murdered, Sarek is the prime suspect, but before the truth can be learned, Sarek suffers a heart attack. His only hope is a transfusion from Spock, who has replaced a wounded Kirk and refuses to leave the bridge.

Friday's Child / season 2 - episode 11
Director: Joseph Pevney
Writer: D.C. Fontana
Producer: Gene L. Coon
On Capella IV, Kirk and a landing party discover that Klingons have been negotiating an alliance with the natives, and seem to be gaining their confidence. When Kirk breaks a taboo by saving the life of the Capellan leader's wife, he, Spock and McCoy become fugitives - from the natives and the Klingon agent! Meanwhile, the Enterprise crew have their hands full when a Klingon ship sets a trap, diverting them from the planet.

The Deadly Years / season 2 - episode 12
Director: Joseph Pevney
Writer: David P. Harmon
Producer: Gene L. Coon
On a routine mission to Gamma Hydra IV, Kirk and a landing party are exposed to a fatal disease which causes accelerated aging. All of the landing party but Chekov are affected! With the leadership of the Enterprise now in the hands of arthritic, cantankerous old men, passanger Commodore Stocker assumes command. But he takes the wrong course, violating the Romulan Neutral Zone and the Enterprise is under attack!

Obsession / season 2 - episode 13
Director: Ralf Senensky
Writer: Art Wallace
Producer: John Meredyth Lucas
When Kirk was a young lieutenant eleven years ago aboard the U.S.S. Farragut, a cloudlike creature killed half her crew. Kirk hesitated in firing upon the creature, and has been riddled with guilt ever since. Now the entity, which feeds upon human red blood cells, has returned to stalk the crew of the Enterprise! Kirk must find a way to stop this 'vampire' cloud before it destroys his crew - and all humanoid life in the galaxy!

Wolf in the Fold / season 2 - episode 14
Director: Joseph Pevney
Writer: Robert Bloch
Producer: Gene L. Coon
Mr. Scott is recovering from an accidential head injury caused by a female crew member, so Kirk and McCoy take him to an Argelian nightclub. Scotty takes a shine to a lady who is the brutally murdered, and he becomes the number one suspect when he is found nearby, holding a bloody knife! As the investigation proceeds, another woman's murder points to Scotty as the culprit.

The Trouble With Tribbles / season 2 - episode 15
Director: Joseph Pevney
Writer: David Gerrold
Producer: Gene L. Coon
Tribbles, funny creatures which eat incessantly and multiply at warp speed, cause headaches for Kirk and company while on assignment to protect a grain shipment on Space Station K-7. Here, they encounter the cuddly creatures who've begun munching their way through the grain while rapidly filling every nook and cranny of the starship. Adding to Kirks woes are a troublesome trader and some nasty Klingons bent on sabotaging the grain shipment.

The Gamesters of Triskelion / season 2 - episode 16
Director: Gene Nelson
Writer: Margaret Armen
Producer: John Meredyth Lucas
Kirk, Uhura and Chekov are intercepted beaming down to survey a planetoid and materialize instead on Triskellion, many parsecs from the Enterprise. They are enslaved and given "drill thralls" - instructors who train the in the art of combat so that their unseen masters, the "Providers", can make wagers on the outcome. When the Enterprise arrives, Kirk decides to make the ultimate wager...

A Piece of the Action / season 2 - episode 17
Director: James Komack
Writer: David P. Harmon, Gene L. Coon
Producer: John Meredyth Lucas
It's been hundred years since the U.S.S. Horizon visited the planet Iotia. What have the natives been up to? Kirk and the Enterprise crew quickly learn when they arrive to check on the planet's progress. The Iotians have developed a civilization based on a book the Horizon crew left: Chicago Mobs of the Twenties. Suddenly, Kirk and company are in the midst of a planetwide gang war!

The Immunity Syndrome / season 2 - episode 18
Director: Joseph Pevney
Writer: Robert Sabaroff
Producer: John Meredyth Lucas
Kirk and his crew are sent to investigate when an entire solar system is destroyed by a gigantic single-celled creature cutting a destructive swath through the universe. Kirk, Spock and McCoy are frantically trying to devise some means of stopping this entity when Spock makes a startling discovery - the giant amoeba is about to reproduce!

A Private Little War / season 2 - episode 19
Director: Marc Daniels
Writer: Gene Roddenberry
Producer: John Meredyth Lucas
Kirk and company beam down to a primitive planet visited by Kirk thirteen years ago. But some of the once peaceful natives now have sophisticated weapons, courtesy of the Klingons! When the witch-wife of tribal leader Tyree cures Kirk of a deadly bite, he succumbs to her magic.

Return to Tomorrow / season 2 - episode 20
Director: Ralph Senensky
Writer: Gene Rodenberry
Producer: John Meredyth Lucas
Kirk, Spock, and Dr. Ann Mulhall allow noncorporal beings to inhibit their bodies while these aliens prepare andrioids for themselves. Every moment the beings remain in the hosts' bodies puts terrible stress on Kirk, Spock and Mulhall. Then one of the entities decides that android life isn't for him, and he secretly plans to remain in Spock's body! And to assume Spock's identity, he must kill Kirk!

Patterns of Force / season 2 - episode 21
Director: Vincent McEveety
Writer: John Meredyth Lucas
Producer: John Meredyth Lucas
On a routine check of planet Ekos, the Enterprise is fired upon by nuclear missiles. Kirk and Spock investigate and find the planet is controlled by latter-day Nazis! The Prime Directive has been violated - a Federation advisor's experiment in efficient government has gotten out of control, and a war routed in racial hatred is being waged against a peaceful neighbouring planet.

By Any Other Name / season 2 - episode 22
Director: Marc Daniels
Writer: D.C. Fontana, Jerome Bixby
Producer: John Meredyth Lucas
Answering a distress call, the Enterprise crew find themselves lured into a trap by the Kelvans, aliens from the Andromeda Galaxy who have assumed human form. The Kelvans commandeer the starships, reduce the crew to crystalline blocks, and head for Andromeda, where they plan to organize their race to take over our own galaxy!

The Omega Glory / season 2 - episode 23
Director: Vincent McEveety
Writer: Gene Roddenberry
Producer: John Meredyth Lucas
Kirk, Spock and McCoy beam aboard the Exeter, in orbit around Omega IV. There, they discover her crew reduced to a crystallized powder caused by a deadly virus to which Kirk and the others have now been exposed. On the planet, they learn Exeter's Captain Tracey has violated the prime directive, meddling in the natives' affairs because he thinks the planet's atmosphere grants immortality. Tracey's power hungry, and not even Kirk can stand in this madman's way!

The Ultimate Computer / season 2 - episode 24
Director: John Meredyth Lucas
Writer: D.C. Fontana
Producer: John Meredyth Lucas
Starfleet is testing the M-5, a sophisticated computer, aboard the Enterprise. With a skeleton crew, M-5 is permitted to control the spaceship as Kirk stands by helplessly. All goes well until M-5 mistakes war games for the real thing, destroys the Excalibur and won't relinquish control of Enterprise!

Bread and Circuses / season 2 - episode 25
Director: Ralph Senensky
Writer: Gene Roddenberry, Gene L. Coon
Producer: Gene L. Coon
Discovering the wreckage of starship Beagle, Kirk, Spock and McCoy beam down to planet 892-IV, to learn Beagle's Captain Merik has betrayed his crew, beaming them down to the planet's Roman style arena to fight to their deaths. Then, Merik adds Kirk and his crew to the list of combatants! Spock and McCoy must fight each other, and Kirk is sentenced to die!

Assignment: Earth / season 2 - episode 26
Director: Marc Daniels
Writer: Gene Roddenberry, Art Wallace
Producer: John Meredyth Lucas
On a research voyage to 1968, the Enterprise intercepts a humanoid space traveller named Gary Seven (Robert Lansing). Seven claims he's an Earthman raised on another planet whose mission is to save Earth from destroying itself. Can Kirk trust this mysterious visitor? If not, Seven warns that World War III is about to start, and Earth's history will be changed forever!

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