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Star Trek: The Animated Series Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
16 Episodes 1973 - 1974
Episode 1
Beyond the Farthest Star
Sat, Sep 8, 197325 mins
The Enterprise finds an ancient abandoned starship with a malevolent entity aboard, eager to take over the Starfleet ship.
Episode 2
Yesteryear
Sat, Sep 15, 197325 mins
Upon his return from a journey through the Guardian of Forever Kirk realizes that history has been altered and no one remembers Spock. An Andorian is now his First Officer and it appears that Spock met an untimely death during a childhood ritual on Vulcan. Spock must use the Guardian again and return to the Vulcan of his youth and restore his time line.
Episode 3
One of Our Planets Is Missing
Sat, Sep 22, 197324 mins
A huge cosmic cloud moves into the outer fringe of the galaxy, so Starfleet Command sends the Enterprise to investigate. Sensors show it as a strange combination of matter and energy that engulfs and feeds on the energy of planets. Its deliberate course change towards the populated planet of Mantilles indicates it could be intelligent. Kirk sees it as a threat to every planet in the galaxy and, if they can't communicate with it and make it stop, he will have destroy it.
Episode 4
The Lorelei Signal
Sat, Sep 29, 197325 mins
A mysterious signal from an unexplored planet mesmerizes the male crewmen of the Enterprise into daydreaming of fantasy women. Female crewmen remain unaffected. Following the signal, Kirk beams down with an all-male landing party and is quickly subdued. Awakening, they find themselves wearing headbands that siphon off their life force, making them age quickly, bestowing long life and beauty upon the all-female residents of the planet. The weakened landing party manages to escape and hide from their captors in a hollow outdoor sculpture. Meanwhile, Uhura, seeing the men become completely useless and constant daydreamers, takes command of the Enterprise. She assembles another landing party (all-female) to rescue the first. They win a battle over the female inhabitants, who, willing to release Kirk and his party, don't know where they are. Using a locater device, they see that the men are about to drown in the sculpture, which is filling with water from a rainstorm. Uhura's party runs out to the courtyard and blasts the sculpture, freeing the men. Using the transporter in a tricky way, the men's life force is restored, returning them to their handsome, viral selves.
Episode 5
More Tribbles, More Troubles
Sat, Oct 6, 197324 mins
En route to Sherman's Planet, the Enterprise encounters Cyrano Jones, as well as the tribbles, which have been engineered grow to monstrous size. With two robot ships stuffed with quintotriticale, Kirk veers off course to protect Cyrano Jones when a Klingon ship fires upon his vessel. A skirmish follows, draining the Klingon ship as its new weapon immobilizes the Enterprise. Cyrano carries a tribble predator and a collection of genetically altered "safe" tribbles. The new tribbles don't breed. They just grow fat and large.
Episode 6
The Survivor
Sat, Oct 13, 197323 mins
Famous humanitarian Carter Winston, missing for five years, has been discovered and beamed aboard the Enterprise. As luck would have it, his fiancée, Anne Nored, currently serves aboard as well. Unfortunately, Carter is neither whom he seems to be nor what he seems to be, and the Enterprise finds itself caught in a Romulan plot utilizing a forbidden, shape-shifting alien species.
Episode 7
The Infinite Vulcan
Sat, Oct 20, 197323 mins
On the unexplored planet Phylos, Kirk's landing party discovers as entirely plant-based civilization. The Phylosians claim to be peaceful, and readily cure Sulu of an accidentally received fatal sting, yet they ruthlessly abduct Spock as part of a plan by their adopted leader, a human giant from the eugenics wars. Spock will die without intervention, with all galactic civilizations falling under threat of domination to soon follow.
Episode 8
The Magicks of Megas-Tu
Sat, Oct 27, 197323 mins
The USS Enterprise explores the center of the galaxy, looking for the heart of creation. When a matter-energy whirlwind grips the ship, a satyr calling himself Lucien appears and saves them. Lucien takes Kirk, Spock and McCoy to the magical, alternate dimension planet of Megas-Tu, but when the Megans discover the presence of humans, they put them on trial - the same way they were when they visited Earth centuries earlier in Salem, Massachusetts.
Episode 9
Once Upon a Planet
Sat, Nov 3, 197323 mins
With the crew in need of shore leave, Kirk directs the Enterprise for a return visit to the Amusement Park planet, but it shortly becomes evident that the planet is no longer welcoming when it takes Uhura hostage and sends characters to remove Dr. McCoy's head. The caretaker has died, leaving an artificially intelligent computer to take charge, a machine operating under one or two important misconceptions.
Episode 10
Mudd's Passion
Sat, Nov 10, 197323 mins
Once again, Kirk rounds up incorrigible miscreant Harcourt Fenton Mudd, this time trying to sell a love potion to miners. Once incarcerated aboard the Enterprise, Mudd induces the lovelorn Nurse Chapel into trying it out on Mr. Spock, thereby creating an avenue of escape. Later thinking she's been duped with a worthless product, Christine confronts Harcourt and winds up his hostage in a bid for freedom. The potion, however, does work and, sucked into the air ducts, affects the entire crew. On Mudd's trail, Kirk beams down with the heavily affected Mr. Spock to an apparently lifeless M class planet, where all four find themselves facing behemoths of living rock.
Episode 11
The Terratin Incident
Sat, Nov 17, 197323 mins
While on a mapping mission, the Enterprise receives an outdated transmission from the star Cephas. A flash of light from its lone, volcanic planet passes through the ship and disables all dilithium crystals. Soon thereafter, the crew begins to shrink. With no cure in sight, it becomes increasingly difficult for the Starfleet officers to handle the ship's controls.
Episode 12
The Time Trap
Sat, Nov 24, 197323 mins
Sent to explore the vast Delta Triangle (a veritable Bermuda Triangle in space where vessels have disappeared for centuries), the Enterprise encounters three Klingon ships. Hostilities commence. First a Klingon ship then the Enterprise disappears into a pocket universe, where both discover a Utopian society of cooperation comprising over a hundred races in trapped ships. Both newcomers are welcomed to join but must refrain from any form of violence whatsoever or suffer a harsh penalty. Only together can the Enterprise and the Klingon ship escape, but the Klingons have a devious additional plan in mind.
Episode 13
The Ambergris Element
Sat, Dec 1, 197323 mins
The Enterprise investigates conditions on planet Argo, currently a water world whose previous dry world history matches events about to befall a nearly identical Federation planet. Kirk and Spock encounter the native sea-dwelling Aquans, who save the pair from drowning by transforming them into water-breathers but otherwise want nothing to do with them. Kirk and Spock seek to reverse their transformations before a devastating earthquake strikes, which requires the capture of a sea monster.
Episode 14
The Slaver Weapon
Sat, Dec 15, 197323 mins
Spock, Uhura and Sulu are en route on a shuttlecraft to Starbase 25 to deliver a Slaver Stasis box - an artifact from a long-dead civilization inside of which time stands still. On their way, the box signals that another box is nearby. They determine that the second box is on an ice world. Once there, they are captured by the Kzinti, a feline race that wish to return to their former dominance. The Kzinti hope that the others' stasis box holds a means to do that. Indeed, the box contains a Slaver Weapon that transforms into various devices. Knowing that in the wrong hands the Slaver Weapon could bring havoc to the galaxy, Spock's party try to escape and take the weapon back. Activating the weapon's A.I. computer, the Kzinti Captain unwittingly activates a self-destruct bomb which destroys itself, the Kzinti and the Kzinti's ship. Once Enterprise officers resume their journey to Starbase 25, Sulu expresses regret that the Slaver Weapon couldn't have been salvaged. Spock surmises that the device may have been too dangerous for anyone to keep.
Episode 15
The Eye of the Beholder
Sat, Jan 5, 197423 mins
Kirk takes the Enterprise to Lactra VII to investigate the disappearance of a Federation science team. While on Lactra, large slug-like aliens add them to their zoo (uniting them with members of the missing science team). Communication proves difficult, even for Mr. Spock, as the telepathic alien minds process information faster than humanly possible. An escape attempt goes south, riling two parents over the sudden disappearance of their child.
Episode 16
The Jihad
Sat, Jan 12, 197423 mins
Kirk and Spock accept a secret mission to a mad planet where they'll search, as two in a six-member team of specialists, for a stolen relic. Three previous expeditions have tried, failed and become lost, but if the relic isn't recovered before its people discover its absence, a holy war will sweep the galaxy. Kirk suspects a traitor in their midst.
