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Space Seed: Directed by Marc Daniels. With William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Ricardo Montalban, Madlyn Rhue. While on patrol in deep space, Captain Kirk and his crew find and revive a genetically-engineered world conqueror and his compatriots from Earth's Twentieth Century.
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- Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
- Marc Daniels
- 1967-02-16
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Teaser
In 2267, the USS Enterprise encounters a spacecraft floating in deep space, sending out a signal in Morse code. Captain Kirk recognizes it as being similar to the DY-500 class, but Spock points it out as being the much older DY-100, built back in the 1990s. Spock identifies the vessel from its outer hull markings as the SS Botany Bay, but finds no registry of the ship in the computer library; however, he points out that records of the era from which the ship was launched are fragmentary, as t...
Act One
The Botany Bay takes no action as the Enterprise approaches it, the only sign of life being the faint life readings. Now certain the ship is a derelict, Kirk orders Scott and Doctor McCoy to join an engineering party to board the ship and investigate the life readings. Kirk also requests the services of the ship's historian, Lieutenant Marla McGivers. In the transporter room, Scott takes note of the life support systems coming back on, as if the ship is expecting them to transport over. "Very...
Act Two
McCoy is conducting a medical analysis on the unidentified man at sickbay on the Enterprise. McCoy is amazed at the physical and recuperative power of the man. Aboard the Botany Bay, Scott notes that twelve of the life units had failed and that their occupants have consequently died, leaving seventy-two alive from the 1990s, thirty of the survivors being women. Spock can find no record in the vessel in any of the computer libraries. Kirk suspects that since Botany Baywas the name of an Austra...
"I fail to understand why it always gives you pleasure to see me proven wrong." "An emotional Earth weakness of mine." 1. - Spock and Kirk, as the Enterprise encounters the Botany Bay "Your attempt to improve the race through selective breeding." "Oh, now wait a minute. Not 'our' attempt, Mr. Spock. A group of ambitious scientists'. I'm sure you kn...
Story and script
1. "Space Seed" writer Carey Wilber used the 18th-century British custom of shipping out the undesirables as a parallel for his concept of "seed ships", used to take unwanted criminals out to space from the overpopulated Earth (hence the name "Botany Bay"). In his original treatment, the Botany Bay left Earth in 2096, with one hundred criminals (both men and women) and a team of a few volunteer lawmen aboard. (The Star Trek Compendium, p. 57) 2. Also in Wilber's original treatment, the Khan c...
Cast
1. George Takei (Sulu) does not appear in this episode. Neither does Walter Koenig (Pavel Chekov), owing to Koenig not yet having joined the series. 2. John Arndt (Fields) was a regular extra; he also played unnamed crewmen in "Miri" and "Dagger of the Mind". When Arndt appeared in "Balance of Terror", his character was named "Fields". His part seems to have been edited out of this episode. (citation needed • edit) 3. The background actor playing the Augment who is hypoed by McGivers in sickb...
Sets
1. Although only one hallway of the Botany Bayis seen in detail, the design crew took the time and effort to build the beginnings of several other corridors with their own life support canisters, despite their only being seen for a few seconds.
Starring
1. William Shatner as Kirk 2. Leonard Nimoy as Spock
Guest stars
1. Ricardo Montalban as Khan 2. Madlyn Rhue as Marla
Featuring
1. DeForest Kelley as Dr. McCoy 2. James Doohan as Scott 3. Blaisdell Makee as Spinelli 4. Nichelle Nichols as Uhura 5. Mark Tobin as Joaquin 6. Kathy Ahart as Crew Woman 7. John Winston as Transporter Technician
It was first broadcast by NBC on February 16, 1967. "Space Seed" was written by Gene L. Coon and Carey Wilber and directed by Marc Daniels. In this episode, the Enterprise crew encounter a sleeper ship holding genetically engineered superpeople from Earth's past.
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Feb 16, 2021 · Star Trek History: Space Seed. On this day in 1967, the TOS episode premiered.
StarTrek.com. The reality is this: Star Trek might not be what it is today and might not have ever celebrated its 50th anniversary as a living, breathing franchise, were it not for "Space Seed," the Star Trek: The Original Series episode that debuted on this day in 1967.
Released. 1967. Run Time. 48 min. Rated. TV-PG. Region of Origin. United States. © 2006 CBS Corp. Languages. Original Audio. English. Audio. English (United States) (Dolby 5.1, AAC) Subtitles. English (CC)
