Star Trek Logo 'The Way to Eden'

Story by Michael Richards
and Arthur Heinemann
Teleplay by Arthur Heinemann
Star Trek Cast

Pursuing the stolen spaceship Aurora, the U.S.S. Enterprise stops the vessel from entering Romulan space by using a tractor beam. But when the thieves set their engines to full power in an attempt to escape, they are beamed aboard the Enterprise just before their ship is destroyed. The six passengers are a group of 'space-hippies': Tongo Rad, the son of the ambassador of Katulan, a world currently in negotiations with the Federation; Irini Galliulan, Chekov's former girlfriend who dropped out of Starfleet Academy; Doctor Sevrin, a famous research engineer in the fields of acoustics, communications, and electronics; a musician named Adam; and two pretty girls. They are searching for a mythical paradise-planet named Eden, and demand that Kirk take them there. But when Doctor McCoy performs a medical examination of Sevrin, he discovers that the man is a carrier of the synthecoccus novae virus, and is on the verge of insanity; Kirk orders Sevrin into isolation before he can endanger his crew, but this only causes the hippies to object to his authority even more vociferously. After Lieutenant Commander Spock eventually deduces the location of Eden, the hippies free Sevrin and seize control of the starship. However, they soon learn that paradise is not as idyllic as it is beleived to be...

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 ‘Scotty’ Scott), George Takei (Lieutenant Hikaru Sulu), Walter Koenig (Ensign Pavel Andreivich Chekov), Skip Homeier (Doctor Sevrin), Mary-Linda Rapelye (Irini Galliulin), Victor Brandt (Tongo Rad), Charles Napier (Adam), Deborah Downey (Mavig), Elizabeth Rogers (Lieutenant Palmer), Phyllis Douglas (Hippie Girl)

Directed by David Alexander

TX:
21st February, 1969

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