"Star Trek" The Enterprise Incident (1968)

User Rating:

8.4/10   

Director:

John Meredyth Lucas

Writers:

D.C. Fontana (written by)
Gene Roddenberry (creator)

TV Series:

"Star Trek" (1966)

Original Air Date:

27 September 1968 (Season 3, Episode 2)

Genre:

Adventure | Sci-Fi

Plot:

The Enterprise deliberately crosses the Neutral Zone, on Kirk's orders, into Romulan space and is promptly surrounded by Romulan warships...

Plot Keywords:

Spaceship Name In Title | Federation | Space | Starship | Computer

Cast

William Shatner	...	Captain James T. Kirk
Leonard Nimoy	...	Mr. Spock
DeForest Kelley	...	Dr. McCoy
Joanne Linville	...	Romulan Commander
Jack Donner	...	Subcommander Tal
James Doohan	...	Scott
Nichelle Nichols	...	Uhura
George Takei	...	Sulu
Walter Koenig	...	Chekov
Majel Barrett	...	Nurse Chapel
Richard Compton	...	Technical Officer
Robert Gentile	...	Technician
Mike Howden	...	Romulan Guard
Gordon Coffey	...	Romulan Soldier

Runtime:

60 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Argentina:Atp

Filming Locations:

Paramount Studios - 5555 Melrose Avenue, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Paramount Television

Trivia:

In the opening segment, in regard to the enemy vessels, Spock declares "Romulans now using Klingon design!" The actual reason for this was that in unpacking the models to shoot this sequence, a production assistant stepped on and broke the Romulan Warbird model that was going to be used, so they pulled out their Klingon Battlecruiser model and wrote the line to cover it up.

Quotes:

Scott: They caught us right in the f...
Captain James T. Kirk: Well that's a brilliant observation, Mr. Scott, do you have any other helpful opinions?
Scott: Well, we've not got many choices.
Captain James T. Kirk: We have three. We can fight and be destroyed or we can destroy the Enterprise outselves and keep it from the Romulans or we can... surrender.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Star Trek: New Voyages: To Serve All My Days (#1.2)" (2006)

Exceptionally interesting and keeps you guessing

I really liked this episode. The plot was pretty exciting plus it gave Spock a big chance to stretch himself as a character--without McCoy or Shatner tagging along. Also, any episode with the Romulans is great fun, as they were in many ways a more dangerous and less stupid foe than the Klingons.

The episode begins with Kirk behaving very erratically. He even orders the ship into Romulan space and nearly starts a war. It seems that the Captain has gone mad and the Romulans take possession of the ship. At the same time, Spock becomes very chummy with the Romulan commander, a sexy lady who seems determined to climb into Spock's trousers. I'd like to say more, but it really would spoil the suspense. Just let me say that there is a lot more to the story than this and the show is both interesting and keeps you guessing.