Questions tagged [star-trek-the-original-series]
Star Trek is an American science fiction television series. Use this tag for questions pertaining to the original series (abbreviated TOS) from the late 1960s.
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Was the Enterprise 1701-A ever severed from its nacelles?
So I bought a second (third-,... ,seventh?)-hand ArtAsylum Enterprise 1701-A (Wrath of Khan-ish), no battle damage, and I noticed that for some reason it is possible to remove the nacelles from the ...
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Is the food of the type created by the synthesizer in By Any Other Name ever shown again?
The crew of the Enterprise is shown eating colorful food (almost like a fruit salad at first glance) from the synthesizer which they introduce one of the Kelvans to. It is my sense that the food is ...
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Was there cigarette smoking on "Star Trek (The Original Series)"?
I have seen every episode at least half a dozen times over the decades and I am pretty sure nobody smoked; not even some exotic alien hookah or something.
In the days when cigarette ads were all over ...
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Why did the original Star Trek change the Enterprise captain?
In the original pilot for Star Trek that aired in 1965, there is mostly different crew for the USS Enterprise which includes the captain being Christopher Pike. When NBC rejected the original pilot ...
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Was this miniature in "Requiem for Methuselah" ever used to portray the Enterprise in space?
In the Star Trek: TOS episode "Requiem for Methuselah", the title character shrinks the Enterprise. You can see Kirk inspecting this miniature Enterprise on a table:
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Why was Grace Lee Whitney so highly billed in Star Trek TOS?
Actress Grace Lee Whitney appeared in eight early episodes of Star Trek: The Original Series as Yeoman Janice Rand. The casts of these episodes (in the order that they are billed on-screen) are given ...
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Does Captain Tracey (Star Trek "The Omega Glory") resemble a figure from American history?
In the Star Trek episode "Whom Gods Destroy" (1969), I consider the character Garth a George Washington figure (whether consciously intended or not). He was a great military leader; also, his "...
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Why did Spock and McCoy lie about not watching Kirk's final message in "The Tholian Web?"
Something I've never been able to puzzle out an in-universe reason for....
In the course of the episode "The Tholian Web," Capt. Kirk disappears in an 'interphase' event, along with the ill-fated USS ...
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At how many different scales were starship Enterprise models produced?
My question is about models of the original series Star Trek Enterprise, both shooting models produced by the studio for the original series run, as well as licensed model kits ever available for ...
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Was the Star Trek episode Catspaw originally intended as a Halloween episode or was it just coincidence?
Was the Star Trek episode Catspaw originally intended as a Halloween episode or was it just coincidence?
Did Gene Rodenberry or network executives specifically request an episode be written with ...
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Was the smoke in this scene accidental or a practical effect serving to depict something?
In the Star Trek: The Original Series(TOS) episode "Journey to Babel",
There were several shots of an "operating room" scene, in which McCoy (DeForest Kelley) is operating on Sarek. In at least a ...
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Do Star Trek characters wearing red shirts have the highest death rate on the original show?
In many episodes of the original series of Star Trek (Star Trek TOS) a team will be selected to beam down to the planet (or wherever the action was in the episode). This will have major characters ...
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What Star Trek TOS characters have been confirmed to be appearing in Discovery?
Since the new Star Trek: Discovery series is set 10 years before the events of The Original Series, are there any characters from the original Star Trek series that have been confirmed will appear in ...
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Basis of the CGI model of SS Botany Bay in ST:TOS "Space Seed" re-release
In the original release of the Star Trek TOS episode "Space Seed", shots depicting the exterior of the Botany Bay only ever show it in profile, never revealing the true shape of the physical model. In ...
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What was the prop the sample Spock shatters with a squeeze made of?
In the Star Trek original series episode "Balance of Terror", there is a briefing room scene. In the scene, Spock holds up a sample of recovered debris. Spock's in-universe description calls it:
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Star Trek TOS reputed episode budgets
Back in the 1970s I read a book which explored numerous "behind the scenes" aspects of Star Trek. From what I recall, it contained a claim that it was the most expensive hour on TV at the time. I just ...
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What is the history behind Scotty's hidden freezer and bottle of Scotch?
In the Star Trek TOS Episode s2e21 "By Any Other Name", there are some scenes involving Montgomery Scott attempting to get an alien drunk. Part of the gag has him pulling out a bottle of Scotch Whisky ...
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Did Klingons develop Gunpowder Weapons?
Seeing the Star Trek TOS episode Season 2 Episode 19, "A Private Little War", it seems to imply that chemical propellant firearms are a common technological invention of young civilizations. The plot ...
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What was the ship under construction initially called?
In Star Trek Beyond, there was a ship under construction on the massive moon space station Yorktown. This ship is rechristened as the USS Enterprise-A (NCC-1701-A) after the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) ...
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Sulu's Daughter's Parentage?
How is Hikaru Sulu's daughter related to him, in both the old and new timelines? Adopted? Surrogate? Gene spliced or other technological means? From an older relationship?
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Why is Kirk's middle initial wrong in series 1 episode 3 of Star Trek?
In the third episode of the original series of Star Trek, "Where No Man Has Gone Before", a powerful psychic makes a grave for Kirk as part of an elaborate attempt to kill him.
The grave has a ...
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Androids in Star Trek TOS compared to Star Trek TNG
Mr. Data seemed to be a very advanced and unique Android in Star Trek TNG.
It came to my attention, however, that (seemingly more advanced? or at least more humaniform) androids existed in the ...
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Physiological changes in Klingons between Star Trek TOS and Star Trek TNG
I grew up watching Star Trek: The Next Generation, thus I always took it for granted that Klingons look like this:
Now I'm watching Star Trek: The Original Series for the first time (thank you, ...
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Who is the "Lee Kuan" mentioned in Star Trek TOS?
In at least two Star Trek episodes, a "Lee Kuan" is mentioned in the same breath as very well-known imperialists (Alexander, Caesar, Hitler, to name a few). One episode is Season 3, Episode 14 (Whom ...
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Why does Chekov say that he remembers Khan in “Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan” if Chekov wasn’t in the episode “Space Seed?”
Why does Chekov say that he remembers Khan in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) if in the Star Trek TOS Chekov doesn’t appear in the episode “Space Seed?”
Also why is Chekov in Star Trek Into ...
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Star Trek TOS Season 2 - how long does the change in musical style last?
The tone of the music of Star Trek changed dramatically from Season 1 to Season 2. Whereas Season 1 was subtler (as subtle as it could be being a science-fiction show in the 60's), and the title track ...
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Why did Kirk ignore Marcos 12?
In the Star Trek episode “And the Children Shall Lead”, an alien entity that is trying to conquer the galaxy tried to get children to take over the Enterprise to go to Marcos 12 where it had “millions ...
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Why did they *kill* Mr. Hengist in “Wolf in the Fold”?
In the season two episode of Star Trek, “Wolf in the Fold”, they discover that there is a non-corporeal entity that has been going around the galaxy committing murders for a very long time. During ...
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How did they get back in “City on the Edge of Forever”?
I’ve never understood how Kirk, Spock, and Bones got back to the present at the end of “City on the Edge of Forever”. Going back to 1930 is simple enough, they stepped through the portal at the right ...
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Why did Spock not know about Romulans in “Balance of Terror”?
I’m finally getting a chance to see the entire original Star Trek series and have gotten up to the episode “Balance of Terror” (season 1, episode 8/14).
A few minutes into the episode, Spock gives a ...
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