Star Trek Logo 'The Squire of Gothos'

by Paul Schneider
Star Trek Cast

While delivering supplies to the colony on Beta VI, the Enterprise crosses an empty sector of space, where the crew discovers an uncharted planet which should not be there. When Captain Kirk and Lieutenant Sulu inexplicably disappear, Lieutenant Commander Spock sends Doctor McCoy and geophysicist Lieutenant Karl Jaeger to investigate the surface of the mysterious planet. Here they encounter Trelane, a spoiled and reckless humanoid with incredible psionic powers and a passion for the military history of Eighteenth-century Earth. Trelane is responsible for kidnapping Kirk and Sulu, bringing them to Gothos and placing them in an arena he has created based on the Napoleonic era. He then invites the four Starfleet officers to a party. Spock is able to beam his colleagues back to the ship, but then Trelane promptly transports the entire bridge crew down to the planet for a banquet. In desperation, Kirk challenges Trelane to a duel - but how can be beat such a powerful - and petulant - adversary..?

William Shatner (Captain James Tiberius Kirk), Leonard Nimoy (First Officer Lieutenant Commander Spock), DeForest Kelley (Doctor Leonard H. ‘Bones’ McCoy), James Doohan (Chief Engineer Montgomery Scott / Voice of Trelane's father), Nichelle Nichols (Lieutenant Nyota Uhura), George Takei (Lieutenant Hikaru Sulu), William Campbell (Trelane), Richard Carlyle (Lieutenant Karl Jaeger), Michael Barrier (Lieutenant Vincent DeSalle), Venita Wolfe (Yeoman Teresa Ross), James Doohan (Voice of Trelane's Father), Barbara Babcock (Voice of Trelane's Mother)

Directed by Don McDougall

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12th January, 1967

Notes:
*Featuring Captain James Tiberius Kirk, First Officer Lieutenant Commander Spock, Doctor Leonard H. ‘Bones’ McCoy, Chief Engineer Montgomery Scott, Lieutenant Nyota Uhura and Lieutenant Hikaru Sulu