"Star Trek" By Any Other Name (1968)

User Rating:

7.8/10   

Director:

Marc Daniels

Writers:

D.C. Fontana (teleplay) and
Jerome Bixby (teleplay) ...

TV Series:

"Star Trek" (1966)

Original Air Date:

23 February 1968 (Season 2, Episode 22)

Genre:

Adventure | Sci-Fi

Plot:

Kirk, Spock, McCoy and a couple of red shirts beam down to the surface of a planet in answer to a fake distress call...

Plot Keywords:

Beautiful Woman | Federation | Space | Starship | Computer

Cast

William Shatner	...	Captain James T. Kirk
Leonard Nimoy	...	Mr. Spock
DeForest Kelley	...	Dr. McCoy
Warren Stevens	...	Rojan
Barbara Bouchet	...	Kelinda
James Doohan	...	Scott
Nichelle Nichols	...	Uhura
Majel Barrett	...	Nurse Chapel
Stewart Moss	...	Hanar
Walter Koenig	...	Chekov
Robert Fortier	...	Tomar
Lezlie Dalton	...	Drea
Carl Byrd	...	Lt. Shea
Julie Cobb	...	Yeoman Thompson

Runtime:

60 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Argentina:Atp

Company:

Paramount Television

Trivia:

Second appearance of the Galactic Barrier at the edge of the galaxy.

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: A hairnet is visible on Kelinda (the blond Kelvan female) in some shots.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Saturday Night Live: William Shatner/Lone Justice (#12.8)" (1986)

Warren Stevens Gives Year Two A Lift

The lead male alien in this episode is played by Mr Warren Stevens who is one of my favourite 1960s/1970s TV guest stars. From The Outer Limits Y2 to Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea Y1/Y3/Y4 to The Time Tunnel to Land Of The Giants Y1/Y2 to The Return Of Captain Nemo to The New Adventures Of Wonder Woman, this guy did it all with class and his large body of his work makes this Forbidden Planet star a big part of screen sci-fic/screen comic strips.

But back to Trek, as well as Stevens we get some great William Shatner stuff in this episode. His come on attempt to an alien girl - "I'm sorry I even brought it up" - is a scream and compares with some of the great Shatner material of all time. And Kirk gets another funny bit at the end.

This is my favourite second season Trek by a mile, due mostly to Warren Stevens and partly to Shatner. The only real negative is that Scotty is too present in this episode. I found Scotty to be okay in the 1980s Trek motion pictures (which were apart of my young adult years) but I find him rather painful in the old TV series. I am guessing this closing remark will make all the IMDb "Trekkers" mark my review as not useful...again? Oh well.