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"Star Trek" Where No Man Has Gone Before (1966)


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"Star Trek" (1966): Season 1: Episode 3 -- Kirk's friend, Gary Mitchell, is transformed into a god-like entity.
"Star Trek" (1966): Season 1: Episode 3 -- Kirk's friend, Gary Mitchell, is transformed into a god-like entity

Overview

User Rating:
7.8/10   1,237 votes
Director:
James Goldstone
Writers:
Samuel A. Peeples (written by)
Gene Roddenberry (creator)
Contact:
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TV Series:
"Star Trek" (1966)
Original Air Date:
22 September 1966 (Season 1, Episode 3)
Genre:
Adventure | Sci-Fi more
Plot:
The flight recorder of the 200-year-old U.S.S. Valiant relays a tale of terror--a magnetic storm at the edge of the galaxy! full summary | full synopsis
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Kirk and Crew About to be Squashed Like Insects more

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Additional Details

Runtime:
50 min | Argentina:60 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.33 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
Argentina:Atp | Canada:PG (video rating)

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Trivia:
This is the second pilot of the cult series "Star Trek" (1966). It was made because "Star Trek: The Cage (#1.0)" (1966) had been rejected by the NBC executives. more
Goofs:
Continuity: In the second pilot, which became the episode "Where No Man Has Gone Before," Captain Kirk's headstone reads: "James R. Kirk." Whenever it is given in later episodes, his middle initial is "T" and we learn in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991) that his full name is "James Tiberius Kirk". more
Quotes:
Lt. Mitchell: Hey, man, I remember you back at the Academy; a stack of books with legs! The only thing I ever heard from an upperclassman was, "Watch out for Lt. Kirk! In his class, you either think, or sink!"
Capt. Kirk: I wasn't THAT bad, was I?
Lt. Mitchell: If I hadn't aimed that little blond technician at you...
Capt. Kirk: You what? You... you PLANNED that?
Lt. Mitchell: Well, you wanted me to think, didn't you? I outlined her whole campaign for her!
Capt. Kirk: I almost MARRIED her!
Lt. Mitchell: You better be good to me. I'm getting even better ideas here.
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Featured in Cosmic Thoughts (2003) (V) more

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Kirk and Crew About to be Squashed Like Insects, 17 June 2006
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Author: Bogmeister from United States

This was actually the 2nd Trek pilot filmed, after "The Cage," and so is the first appearance of Capt. Kirk, not to mention Scotty and Sulu, here a physicist. There's no Dr. McCoy yet, instead a Dr. Piper. I would venture that in the scheme of things Trek, this episode takes place about a year before the earliest episodes of the series - note the slightly different uniforms. So this is Spock's second show; his character is still forming after the rough outline in "The Cage," still raising his voice a bit too much for a Vulcan and almost smiling in one shot (during 3-level chess, also introduced). But then, the concept of Vulcan and even the Federation had not been created yet here - we're viewing the adventures of some Earth-based space fleet here, no more. The episode, like "The Cage," has a bit of an epic feel for a TV show; it was designed to impress the NBC executives, who green-lit an actual series based on this, a miniature science fiction movie when all's said and done.

Exploration is the highlighted theme, as it would be for the remainder of the series. Probing the unknown, Kirk directs the good ship Enterprise towards a mysterious galactic barrier, despite that what they know of this energy barrier makes it seem quite dangerous. Sure enough, the ship is damaged, 9 crew members are killed and 2 others, including old friend Gary, are mutated into superior beings. But, risk, as Kirk would say in a much later episode, is their business - that's what it's all about. Now begin the questions and search of another kind - how dangerous is such an ascendant man? Can he live with so-called normal human beings? The short answers, rather quick in coming, are 'very' and 'no' - Spock's the first one to voice this opinion. Only it doesn't transpire to be just an opinion. Rather than struggling with how to cope with his new powers, Gary shows that the old adage of absolute power corrupting absolutely is essentially a basic truth - it suggests all men have the need to dominate, to rule, buried somewhere inside, no matter how decent they seem. All it takes is a little power to bring it all to the surface.

Heavy and deep concepts for a TV show, eh? It's rather impressive that all these ideas came forth in the middle of an action-oriented show. Roddenberry and his crew wanted to show the NBC execs that such an expensive-looking (for TV) sf show can be filmed in a timely manner, but they also stressed a lot of action scenes, especially in the climactic battle between Kirk and his former friend. Actor Fix played Piper the doctor as a standard crusty older member of the crew; Kelley showed what could be done with the doctor's role in the next filmed episode, "The Corbomite Maneuver." The two actors/doctors were later in the same film, "Night of the Lepus"(72). The two main guest stars went on to stellar careers: Lockwood, who played Gary, soon appeared in "2001:A Space Odyssey"(68) while Kellerman, as the other mutate, is famous for her role in "M*A*S*H"(70).

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