Star Trek

The Canadian-born actor, star of Star Trek attended McGill University where he was particularly active in campus theatrical production. When Shatner graduated in 1952 with a B.A. Degree, he was already a wellknown voice on Canadian airwaves, having done numerous shows to augment his practical experience. Shatner soon became one of live TV's busiest actors, starring in such important dramatic shows as "Goodyear Playhouse," "Circle Theatre" and "Omnibus."

Hollywood also offered him the chance to act in Westerns and the Shakespearean-trained Shatner learned to rope, shoot and ride bareback. Returning to New York for a memorable role in "No Deadly Medicine" on "Studio One", Shatner was offered the starring role in the Broadway production of "The World of Suzie Wong," a hit which ran for two years and earned him even more critical acclaim. He followed this with "A Shot in the Dark" with Julie Harris and then moved on to the big comedy "L'Idiots," which ran for over a year.

Shatner does not limit his talents to acting; a teleplay that he wrote was sold to Four Star Productions for Tony Randall. The versatile actor-writer is also an ardent camera bug, raises Doberman pinschers and indulges in many sports.

He has been honored with two successive Emmy nominations for his
portrayal of Mr. Spock, recorded two highly successful albums, and is one of the industry's most sought after personalities for public appearances.

Nimoy has appeared in many stage productions, almost 80 television shows and seven major motion pictures prior to "Star Trek". Some of the plays in which he has appeared are "'The Three Musketeers," "Streetcar Named Desire," "Monserrat," and "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof." During the recent "Star Trek" production break he starred in the Gore Vidal comedy hit "Visit to a Small Planet."

Nimoy's leisure hours are spent with his family, or in his workshop building
cabinets and other furniture. More relaxing moments are spent in his favorite easy chair reading Salinger, Steinbeck, Wallant or Shakespeare with a soft background of either Bach, jazz or rock 'n' roll.

Prior to his role as Dr. McCoy, practically all of his numerous parts on television, stage and screen had been villainous. In this role he changed his spot. McCoy is an outspoken realist with an acid wit and highly practical in the old "general practitioner" sense.

During the war Kelley was spotted in a Navy training film by a Paramount
talent scout. The result was a screen test and a contract. He remained with the studio two and one-half years.

In 1948, he went east to New York, gaining experience in stock, stage and television. Upon returning to California he discovered that Hollywood has a short memory. Many of the people he had known in New York, now working on the west coast, and his friend Barney Girard, writing for the "You Are There" TV series, helped DeForest re-establish himself in the film capital.

Among his motion picture credits are "Tension at Table Rock," "Gunfight at The O.K. Corral," "Raintree County," "The Law and Jake Wade," "Warlock" and "Where Love Has Gone".

In 1962 George traveled to New York for what he describes as "the time
honored actor's ritual of existence in cold water flats, off Broadway plays, odd jobs, an occasional live TV appearance but, mostly, stark, unadulterated experience."

Takei has racked up credits on such television shows as "Perry Mason," "Hawaiian Eye", "The Islanders", "Alcoa Premiere", "Checkmate", "Mr. Novak", "The Wackiest Ship in the Amy", "I Spy", "The John Forsythe Show" and many more. During the 1966-67 season of "Star Trek", he managed to work in a guest appearance on the popular "Mission: Impossible" series.

His motion picture credits include "Ice Palace". "A Majority of One". "Red Line 7000", "Hell to Eternity", "An American Dream", "Walk. Don't Run", and "The Green Berets".

A native of Vancouver, British Columbia, Doohan earned the "bad boy" title when flying an artillery observation plane during World War II. About this Doohan says: "I guess they thought I was crazy because I used to fly my plane on a slalom course through rows of telephone poles."

Prior to assuming the duties of Chief Engineer aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise Doohan had appeared on such TV shows as "Hazel," "Bonanza," "The Virginian," "Peyton Place," "The Fugitive," "Iron Horse," "Ben Casey" and "Bewitched."

A brilliant dancer and a fine singer, Miss Nichols has demonstrated her ability as an actress by twice being nominated for the Sara Siddon Award as best actress of the year. Her first nomination was for her portrayal of Hazel Sharp in "Kicks and Co.," the second for her performance in the hit play "The Blacks".

Nichelle was born and raised in Chicago and studies there, in Los Angeles
and New York. During her time in New York she appeared at the famed Blue Angel and the Playboy Club. Between appearances at the clubs, she doubled as starring to the lead in the Broadway musical "No Strings".

Nichelle has appeared on "The Lieutenant" and "CBS Repertory Theatre" to her credit. Movie audiences will remember Nichelle in featured roles in the feature films "Mister Buddwing" and "Three for the Wedding".

Before becoming a regular member of the Enterprise crew, Koenig was seen on TV as a Swedish businessman, an American grape picker, an Arabian rock and roll singer and a French resistance fighter.

Walter's television credits-include appearances on "Mr. Novak," "The Great Adventure," "Gidget," "Jerrico" and "I spy." On stage he played three roles in the highly acclaimed theatre group production of "The Deputy" - a Jewish refugee, a Nazi sergeant and a Catholic monk.

The U.S.S. Enterprise arrives at planet M-113 to deliver supplies to Dr. Robert Crater and his wife, Nancy, whom Doctor Leonard McCoy was once romantically involved with. M-113 has been home to the Craters for five years, where they conducted an archeological survey of the planet's ruins. They thought they were only known inhabitants of the planet.

The Enterprise beems onboard Charlie, an adolescent with harmful mental powers. He soon starts making crewmembers vanish and takes frightening steps to control people.

When the Enterprise journeys to the edge of the galaxy, two crewmembers develop telepathic powers which threaten the ship.

The crew of the Enterprise contracts a disease which brings their desires and fears to surface, causing devastation throughout the ship.

When a space animal is beamed aboard the starship and splits into two entities; one tame and one vicious, it is discovered that the same thing has happened to Kirk. While one Kirk is good and honorable, the other is evil and runs amok on his ship, committing violent acts, including the attempted assault of Yeoman Janice Rand.

The Enterprise computers reveal that Mudd has been charged with a number of infractions of the law. In pursuit of Mudd's ship, the U.S.S. Enterprise has burned out its lithium crystals, which power the starship's engines, and Kirk orders them to proceed as quickly as possible to the nearest lithium mining planet. That planet is Rigel XII, which is inhabited by only three lithium miners.

The U.S.S. Enterprise arrives in orbit around Exo III, to search for exobiologist Dr. Roger Korby. When Kirk asks Spock if Korby could possibly still be alive, Spock glances at Christine, then quietly shuts off his monitor. Christine Chapel, McCoy's chief nurse, is Korby's fiancé. Chapel had signed on with the U.S.S. Enterprise in the hope of finding him. Korby is known as the "Pasteur of archeological medicine.

The Enterprise discovers an exact duplication of Earth, on which the only survivors are children infected with a genetically engineered disease.

When Dr. Simon van Gelder of the psychiatric staff at the Tantalus Penal Colony escapes to the U.S.S. Enterprise exhibiting signs of manic insanity, an enraged McCoy insists that Kirk investigate the colony. The Captain reminds McCoy of Tantalus' excellent reputation, but McCoy is unconvinced.

The Enterprise comes across a dangerous opponent which causes Captain Kirk to use all of his ability to survive the encounter.

Spock violates Federation standing orders and takes control of the Enterprise to take his former captain, who is horribly disfigured, to forbidden planet Talos IV.

Spock is put on trial by the Federation for helping his former captain. During Spock's court martial, Kirk learns of Christopher Pike's close encounters.

Twenty-two years before stardate 2817.6, the governor of Tarsus IV, Kodos, evoked emergency martial law and ordered half of the planet's population executed. His intent was to address a severe food shortage on Tarsus IV, and it earned him the name "Kodos the Executioner." It was believed that Kodos died on the planet, but there is some belief that he may have escaped and assumed another identity.

Captain Kirk and the Enterprise pursue a ship which destroyed an outpost but a cloaking device enables his ship to vanish from sensors.

The crew of the Enterprise take leave on an idyllic planet, but when people's fantasies begin to come true Kirk must fight his own daemons to solve the mystery.

On its way to deliver medical supplies to plague-ridden Makus III, the U.S.S.Ente four crewmen take a shuttlecraft, the Galileo, for a closer look.

The U.S.S. Enterprise must cross an empty sector of space on their way to deliver supplies to colony Beta VI. In this space, they find an uncharted planet whose presence can't be explained. After Kirk and Sulu disappear without apparent reason, Spock orders McCoy and geophysicist Lt. Karl Jaeger to the planet's surface to begin a search.

The Enterprise is in pursuit of an unknown alien ship which has destroyed a Starfleet base on Cestus III. In an uncharted area of space, both the alien ship and the Enterprise are caught by an advanced race called Metrons. The Metrons are angry at the two ships for trespassing into their space and believe that physical combat is the answer to finding justice.

When the U.S.S. Enterprise is thrown into a time warp by a black star, it ends up orbiting Earth in the 20th century. Omaha Air Base detects a peculiar UFO an pilot is beamed aboard. The problem now, of course, is to prevent Captain Christopher from returning to tell others on Earth.

When the U.S.S. Enterprise puts in at Starbase 11 for repairs caused in an ion storm, Kirk gives his report of the circumstances of Lieutenant Commander Ben Finney's death to Commodore Stone. All goes well until Spock arrives with the computer visual tape of the bridge during the crisis. Spock tries to warn Kirk about what is on the tape, but the Commodore takes it and plays it.

When the landing party exhibits strange behavior, Kirk sends another party down to investigate. They find the culture on Beta III is quiescent, with no creative tendencies. The entire culture is controlled by a group of 'lawgivers' known as "The Body" which is, in turn, controlled by the omniscient Landru. The inhabitants change from normal, peaceful people to a violent mob at the coming of the Red Hour. This 'Festival' is the society's only outlet for the tyrannical hold that Landru has over them at all other times.

A piece of one of history's great puzzles falls into place when Kirk's crew comes across the S.S. Botany Bay, an old-style, pre-warp sleeper ship from Earth that contains several bodies in stasis. Amongst these bodies is Khan Noonien Singh, a genetically engineered strongman and one of the great leaders of Earth's Eugenics War of the 1990s. Although he disappeared without a trace then, once Khan is aroused from his long sleep he soon reveals the ambition, strength and intelligence that helped him conquer a quarter of the Earth.

The U.S.S. Enterprise is ordered to pick up Ambassador Robert Fox, who is headed to planet Eminiar VII on a diplomatic mission. Upon arriving at the planet, the ship is warned away.

Expecting the colonists of Omicron Ceti III to be dead after three years of exposure to deadly Berthold rays, Kirk and Spock are surprised to find the colony alive and flourishing.

The U.S.S. Enterprise arrives to investigate reports of an unknown monster deep in the mining tunnels of Janus VI. The being is apparently destroying machinery and killing the miners, and has the ability to burrow through solid rock. Janus VI is a source for the rare mineral, pergium.

Kirk and Spock beam down to the surface of planet Organia to negotiate for the erection of a Federation base on that planet. Hostilities between the nearby Klingon Empire and Federation have reached alarming heights and it is feared that the medieval culture of the Organians will not be able to withstand a Klingon attack. However, the Organian Council, comprised of five seemingly pleasant, benign elderly men, insist that they prefer to stay with their more primitive culture.

While orbiting what should be a dead planet, the U.S.S. Enterprise experiences a moment of "nonexistence." Starfleet Command fears an enemy invasion and orders Kirk to find out what caused the stellar system disturbance.

McCoy accidentally injects himself with an overdose of cordrazine, a drug which makes him exhibit signs of paranoia and madness, while treating an ailing Sulu on the Bridge. Delirious, he beams down to a nearby planet's surface, with Kirk and a landing party on his heels.

Arriving at the planet Deneva, home of Kirk's only brother Sam and his family, the U.S.S. Enterprise picks up a transmission from a Denevan pilot who has steered his craft into the sun to destroy some unknown menace.