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TOS Season 2

The second season of Star Trek: The Original Series was produced and filmed from May 1967 to January 1968 by Desilu (and later Paramount Television ). It began airing in the fall season on NBC , running new episodes from 15 September 1967 to 29 March 1968, and continuing in repeats until the premiere of TOS Season 3 in the fall of 1968. In the United Kingdom, the season premiered on the ITV network on Sunday, 5 September 1982 , and ended on Sunday, 27 February 1983 .

• 3.2.1 Uncredited crew
• 4.1 See also
• 5 External links

Episodes [ ]

Summary [ ].

This season saw Ensign Pavel Chekov added to the regular bridge crew. Although his first appearance in " Catspaw " had him operating the science station, " Friday's Child " established him as the ship's primary navigator.

Following their introduction near the end of the previous season, the Klingons were established as major adversaries, appearing in three episodes, " Friday's Child ", " The Trouble with Tribbles ", and " A Private Little War ". The second of those would turn out to be one of the show's most popular and influential episodes, introducing Koloth and the Tribbles , who reappeared on Deep Space 9 , with other characters reappearing in the Star Trek: The Animated Series episode " More Tribbles, More Troubles ". The Romulans also made a brief reappearance in " The Deadly Years " while Harry Mudd returned for a second tussle with the USS Enterprise crew in the comedic episode " I, Mudd ". " Mirror, Mirror " saw Kirk and company paying a first visit to the mirror universe which also later featured prominently on Deep Space 9 and Star Trek: Discovery .

The show began to explore the rest of the Federation , with the Enterprise making its first trip to Vulcan as Spock underwent Pon farr in " Amok Time ". " Journey to Babel " saw the Enterprise transporting representatives of the Vulcans , Andorians , and Tellarites to a conference to admit the Coridanites to the Federation, among them Spock's father Sarek . " Obsession " provided an insight into Kirk's early Starfleet career, revealing some of the details of his tour of duty on the USS Farragut .

Although most episodes centered around the triumvirate of Kirk , Spock, and McCoy , the other regular crewmembers began to appear more. After first commanding the ship in " The Return of the Archons ", Scotty was firmly established as the Enterprise 's third-in-command, with episodes like " Friday's Child ", " The Apple ", and " Bread and Circuses " giving screen time to his command. He was also given a spotlight in " Wolf in the Fold ", in which he was accused of a series of murders. Chekov and Uhura were given a chance to accompany Kirk on an away mission in " The Gamesters of Triskelion " and Chekov also had a prominent role, and an opportunity for romance, in " The Apple ". Sulu , on the other hand, was absent from nine consecutive episodes in the middle of the season, the result of a film George Takei was working on over-running.

The Enterprise visited several planets based on Earth history, either by coincidence or as a result of Human visitors, such as Ancient Rome (" Bread and Circuses "), Chicago gangsters (" A Piece of the Action "), Nazi Germany (" Patterns of Force ") and the American Constitution (" The Omega Glory "). There were other surprising encounters with Zefram Cochrane , the father of warp technology (" Metamorphosis "), the Greek god Apollo (" Who Mourns for Adonais? ") and a giant space amoeba (" The Immunity Syndrome ").

The show continued Gene Roddenberry 's original idea of political fables, with two episodes identified as providing somewhat opposing commentary on the Vietnam War. " A Private Little War " saw the Federation and the Klingons supporting opposing sides in a civil war, with Kirk talking of the need to maintain the balance of power, while " The Omega Glory " saw Kirk telling a race based around the American Constitution that the values of liberty and freedom of belief also applied to their enemies.

The season closed with " Assignment: Earth ", a back door pilot for a proposed spin-off series which saw Kirk and Spock encountering Gary Seven , a man employed by mysterious aliens to watch over 20th century Earth.

Credits [ ]

• William Shatner as James T. Kirk
• Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock
• DeForest Kelley as Dr. McCoy
• Majel Barrett as Christine Chapel
• James Doohan as Scott
• George Takei as Sulu
• Nichelle Nichols as Uhura
• Walter Koenig as Chekov
• See : TOS Season 2 performers
• " Catspaw "
• " Friday's Child "
• " Amok Time "
• " Wolf in the Fold "
• " The Apple "
• " The Deadly Years "
• " The Trouble with Tribbles "
• " Journey to Babel "
• " The Immunity Syndrome "
• " Metamorphosis "
• " Bread and Circuses "
• " Obsession "
• " Return to Tomorrow "
• " Who Mourns for Adonais? "
• " The Doomsday Machine "
• " The Changeling "
• " Mirror, Mirror "
• " I, Mudd "
• " A Private Little War "
• " By Any Other Name "
• " Assignment: Earth "
• " The Gamesters of Triskelion "
• " A Piece of the Action "
• " Patterns of Force "
• " The Omega Glory "
• " The Ultimate Computer "
• " Bread and Circuses " (co-wrote)
• " A Piece of the Action " (teleplay)
• " By Any Other Name " (teleplay)
• " By Any Other Name " (teleplay / story)
• " A Piece of the Action " (teleplay / story)
• " A Private Little War " (teleplay)
• " Assignment: Earth " (story)
• " A Private Little War " (story)
• " Assignment: Earth " (teleplay / story)
• Gene Roddenberry
• Gene L. Coon (" Catspaw " – " Bread and Circuses ")
• John Meredyth Lucas (" Journey to Babel " – " The Omega Glory ")
• Gene Roddenberry (" Assignment: Earth ")
• Robert H. Justman
• D.C. Fontana
• Edward K. Milkis
• Richard Carter (" Assignment: Earth ")
• Alexander Courage
• Gerald Fried (" Catspaw ", " Friday's Child ", " Amok Time ", " Wolf in the Fold ", " The Apple ", " Journey to Babel ", " A Private Little War ")
• George Duning (" Metamorphosis ", " Return to Tomorrow ", " Patterns of Force ")
• Fred Steiner (" Who Mourns for Adonais? ", " The Changeling ", " Mirror, Mirror ", " The Deadly Years ", " The Immunity Syndrome ", " By Any Other Name ", " The Ultimate Computer ")
• Sol Kaplan (" The Doomsday Machine ", " The Deadly Years ", " Obsession ", " The Immunity Syndrome ", " The Ultimate Computer ")
• Samuel Matlovsky (" I, Mudd ")
• Jerry Fielding (" The Trouble with Tribbles ")
• Jerry Finnerman (" Catspaw " – " A Piece of the Action "; " Return to Tomorrow " – " Assignment: Earth ")
• Keith Smith (" By Any Other Name ")
• Rolland M. Brooks (" Catspaw " – " Amok Time ")
• Walter M. Jefferies
• Bruce Schoengarth (" Catspaw ", " Who Mourns for Adonais? ", " Wolf in the Fold ", " Mirror, Mirror ", " The Trouble with Tribbles ")
• James D. Ballas , ACE (" Metamorphosis ", " Amok Time ", " The Apple ", " Journey to Babel ", " The Gamesters of Triskelion ", " By Any Other Name ")
• Fabien Tordjmann (" Friday's Child ", " The Changeling ", " Bread and Circuses ", " Obsession ", " A Piece of the Action ", " Patterns of Force ")
• Donald R. Rode (" The Doomsday Machine ", " The Deadly Years ", " A Private Little War ", " The Immunity Syndrome ", " Return to Tomorrow ", " Assignment: Earth ")
• John W. Hanley (" The Ultimate Computer ")
• Bill Brame (" The Omega Glory ")
• Gregg Peters
• Rusty Meek (" Catspaw ", " Friday's Child ", " Amok Time ", " Wolf in the Fold ", " The Apple ", " The Deadly Years ", " The Trouble with Tribbles ", " Journey to Babel ", " Obsession ", " The Immunity Syndrome ", " By Any Other Name ", " Patterns of Force ", " The Omega Glory ")
• Elliot Schick (" Metamorphosis ", " Who Mourns for Adonais? ", " The Doomsday Machine ", " The Changeling ", " Mirror, Mirror ")
• Phil Rawlins (" Bread and Circuses ", " A Private Little War ", " The Gamesters of Triskelion ", " A Piece of the Action ", " Return to Tomorrow ", " The Ultimate Computer ", " Assignment: Earth ")
• Joseph J. Stone (" Catspaw " – " I, Mudd ")
• John M. Dwyer (" The Trouble with Tribbles " – " Assignment: Earth ")
• William Ware Theiss (" The Doomsday Machine " – " Assignment: Earth ")
• Westheimer Company (" Catspaw ", " Metamorphosis ", " Amok Time ", " The Changeling ", " The Apple ", " The Deadly Years ", " Journey to Babel ", " Obsession ", " A Piece of the Action ", " Patterns of Force ")
• Vanderveer Photo Effects (" Friday's Child ", " Wolf in the Fold ", " Mirror, Mirror ", " Bread and Circuses ", " A Private Little War ", " The Immunity Syndrome ", " Return to Tomorrow ", " Assignment: Earth ")
• Effects Unlimited (" Who Mourns for Adonais? ")
• Cinema Research (" The Doomsday Machine ", " The Gamesters of Triskelion ", " The Omega Glory ")
• Howard A. Anderson Co. (" The Trouble with Tribbles ", " By Any Other Name ", " The Ultimate Computer ")
• Douglas H. Grindstaff
• Jim Henrikson
• Elden E. Ruberg , CAS (" Catspaw " – " Patterns of Force "; " Assignment: Earth ")
• Gordon L. Day , CAS (" The Ultimate Computer ", " The Omega Glory ")
• Carl W. Daniels
• George A. Rutter
• Joseph D'Agosta
• Glen Glenn Sound Co. (" Friday's Child " – " Assignment: Earth ")
• Fred B. Phillips , SMA
• Jean Austin (" Catspaw " – " Who Mourns for Adonais? ")
• Pat Westmore (" Amok Time " – " Assignment: Earth ")
• George H. Merhoff
• George Rader
• Irving A. Feinberg
• Ken Harvey (" The Deadly Years ", " Bread and Circuses " – " The Omega Glory ")
• Herbert F. Solow (" Catspaw " – " The Omega Glory ")

Uncredited crew [ ]

• John Chambers – Special Makeup Effects Designer & Creator (" Assignment: Earth ")
• Arch Dalzell – Director of Photography (" Who Mourns for Adonais? ")
• Richard C. Datin – Model Maker (" The Trouble with Tribbles ")
• Kellam de Forest – Researcher
• Linwood G. Dunn – Visual Effects Cinematographer
• Richard Edlund – The Companion effects artist (" Metamorphosis ")
• Al Francis – Camera Operator
• Al Jacoby – Assistant Property Master
• John Jefferies – Set Designer
• Joseph R. Jennings – Assistant Art Director
• Barry Mason – Visual Effects (" Assignment: Earth ")
• Mike May – Props
• Bill McGovern – Clapper/Loader
• Tiger Shapiro – Second Assistant Director
• Charles Washburn – Second Assistant Director
• Andrea Weaver – Women's Costumer

Background information [ ]

• There were some "upgrades" to bridge equipment made at the start of this season (most notably the helm console), but these changes aren't always visible because first-season footage was used in many bridge scenes. You can recognize this footage when you see the viewing screen and the back of Sulu's head – the navigator isn't shown because Walter Koenig hadn't signed on when this footage was filmed. The black viewer or scope at Spock's library computer station was replaced with a gray one (that came with a knob on the left side). A similar scope was added to Scott's engineering station.
• For the second season, the production budget per episode was around US$185,000, slightly less than Season 1.
• Lawrence Montaigne , who played Stonn in " Amok Time ", and Mark Lenard were both being considered as possible replacements for Leonard Nimoy prior to the beginning of the second season if contract negotiations had fallen through. [1] (X) [2] Nimoy's agent had asked for Nimoy's salary to be increased from US$1,250 per episode during the first season to US$9,000 for the second season. Eventually a compromise figure of US$2,500 per episode was reached and Nimoy signed on for the second season. ( Inside Star Trek: The Real Story , pp. 317-324)
• Dr. McCoy's sickbay gained a lab this season. The back bulkhead of said lab appears to be one of the bulkheads of the SS Botany Bay from " Space Seed ".
• A new expanded engineering set was built, including a small set called "Emergency Manual Monitor" built on stilts that looked down onto the engineering set.
• A completely new auxiliary control set was also built.
• In the second season more emphasis was put on the supporting characters (especially Scotty and Chekov), but the show didn't feature scenes of every-day activity around lower decks of the ship anymore as it did in the first season.
• Beginning with Season 2, the episode titles and credits were in the same font as the series title. Also, DeForest Kelley 's and Gene Roddenberry 's names were added to the opening credits.
• Also, during the opening credits, the Enterprise fly-by and the planet that the Enterprise orbited were different from that of Season 1.
• Walter Koenig joined the main cast as the Russian navigator Pavel Chekov .
• The theme music for the series was slightly re-arranged this season, with Loulie Jean Norman supplying vocal accompaniment.
• Season 2 was a period of behind-the-scenes transition from Desilu to Paramount production. On 15 February 1967 , Gulf+Western's purchase of Desilu was announced. It was commemorated with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on 26 July . Gulf+Western executives were known to have signed off on production of the then-upcoming Season 2 of Star Trek , as they would have been financially obligated to continue its production after the sale. Therefore, Season 2 technically began filming as a Desilu/Gulf+Western co-production. (Sanders, Coyne Steven and Tom Gilbert. Desilu: The Story of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz . HarperCollins. 1994. 297-298) However, the December 1967 intra-company merger between Paramount Pictures and Desilu caused later episodes of the season to be labeled "a Paramount production". Episodes throughout the season thus have a variety of different ownership claims. TOS : " Journey to Babel " is a simple "Desilu production" under just the Desilu logo, while the later " A Piece of the Action " displays the Desilu logo, but a Paramount Pictures Corporation copyright.
• " Mirror, Mirror " was the first to be filmed after the late July ribbon-cutting on the Gulf+Western/Desilu merger, but no episode of the season began filming prior to the February merger announcement.
• Gene L. Coon remained the producer, but he was replaced mid-season by John Meredyth Lucas .
• D.C. Fontana , who took the position of story editor near the end of season one, remained in this capacity during the second season.
• However, after the departure of Rolland M. Brooks (the last episode he worked on was " Amok Time "), Walter M. Jefferies remained the series' sole art director.
• Most of the seasons' episodes were helmed by one of three prominent directors, Joseph Pevney , Marc Daniels and Ralph Senensky . Assistant director Gregg Peters was promoted to unit production manager.
• Andrea Weaver became the women's costumer for the series at the time " Catspaw " begins production. She would remain with the show throughout the remainder of the season and half of TOS Season 3 .
• The first season and " Catspaw ", " Metamorphosis ", " Friday's Child ", and " Amok Time " did not use a copyright until 1978 so starting with " Who Mourns for Adonais? ", all of the episodes have the correct copyright date to them at the end of each episode.

See also [ ]

• TOS Season 2 performers
• TOS Season 2 UK VHS
• TOS Season 2 DVD
• TOS-R Season 2 DVD
• TOS Season 2 Blu-ray

External links [ ]

• Star Trek: The Original Series season 2 at Memory Beta , the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
• The Original Series Season 2 episode reviews  at Ex Astris Scientia
• 1 Daniels (Crewman)

Must Watch Episodes from Star Trek TOS Season 2

By megan cutler | november 9, 2020 | comments 5 comments.

When I originally sat down to write a list of recommended episodes from the original Star Trek series, I thought I’d be able to fit all 3 seasons in a singular post. It wasn’t until I started going back through the list of episodes that I remembered how great much of the original series is. If you can look past the lack of effects and its incredibly campy nature, there’s a lot to love about the series.

The first season of the original Star Trek pulled out a lot of stops in terms of creativity and heavy-hitting concepts. It entered season 2 with a level of popularity granted by the success of the first season. Season 2 contains some of the entire Star Trek Franchise’s most iconic episodes. It also introduced Chekov as a character in the series. (Hard to believe he was absent for the entire first season!)

But if you take a look at the season 2 episodes in rapid succession (as I did for this list), you may notice that many of them follow similar formulas, which makes the plots feel rather samey. There are a lot of powerful killer energy beings (and a lot of antimatter bombs employed to defeat them). There are many attempts to force the Enterprise crew to forever abandon their ship and live out their lives on alien planets. And there are a lot of lost or twisted Earth morals revealed among primitive civilizations.

So it was a little easier to narrow down the episodes to include on this list than the last one. Still, Star Trek season 2 is well worth your time, though I recommend starting with the episodes below.

1. Mirror, Mirror

Even if you’ve never watched a single episode of Star Trek you will probably know exactly which episode this is. It is the introduction of the Evil Goatee Universe. In short, Kirk, Dr. McCoy, Scotty and Uhura are inadvertently teleported to a mirror universe while attempting to return to the Enterprise from an away mission.

This new version of the Enterprise isn’t ruled by science, logic and reason, but brutality. Kirk even has a panel in his chambers from which he can torture other members of his crew. Here the Enterprise crew scheme and threaten each other to gain power and position. Somewhat ironically, may people believe the term Chekov’s gun refers to a scene which takes place in this episode.

No other concept in the Star Trek universe is as revisited as the mirror universe. Deep Space Nine created an entire series of side episodes that involved the characters popping in and out of the mirror universe to meet their personas. Pretty much every other Star Trek series also mentions the mirror universe in some way – even if it’s only in comics and literature.

Mirror, Mirror is consistently rated as one of the top Star Trek episodes of all time. (Though for me it still probably rates behind Miri and Taste of Armageddon .) So if you watch only one episode from season 2, make it this one!

2. The Trouble with Tribbles

Like Mirror, Mirror , the Trouble with Tribbles is one of the Star Trek franchise’s most iconic episodes. The truth is, it’s silly. Hilarious, in fact. But no other Star Trek episode has gone through so many iterations and revisits. This episode was so popular it was animated without plot changes for the Star Trek animated series. And several members of the Deep Space Nine crew revisit the events of this episode due to inadvertent time travel.

The plot can be summed up as get your pets spayed and neutered or you might end up in a similar situation. When Lt. Uhura purchases an innocent-looking ball of fluff on shore leave, it kicks off a series of hilariously unexpected events. The end is actually a tiny bit dark but, overall, you’ll probably laugh for most of the episode… Especially when Kirk gets a load of fuzz dumped over his head.

3. Amok Time

This is one of my personal favorite episodes of Star Trek in general. It’s the opening of season two and one of the first Vulcan worldbuilding episodes. This is also the first time the Vulcan Salute is seen on screen.

Spock is in a bind when this episode opens. He is undergoing the pon farr – a condition experienced periodically by male Vulcans that forces them to mate or die. It’s made clear in the episode that no one outside of Vulcans really understands much about the pon farr , and Vulcans don’t like to talk about it. Furthermore, Spock can’t mate with just anyone – he has been promised to an arranged marriage. He now has to show up and seal the deal or die trying.

Kirk disobeys orders to take Spock home. But when they arrive, they find that Spock’s intended has chosen another. I don’t want to say too much more because this episode is a delight to experience. And just to prove I know how to pick ’em… This is another episode that constantly ranks on top 10 lists for the Star Trek original series.

4. A Private Little War

My favorite Star Trek episodes consistently fall into two categories: character episodes (like Amok Time ) or moral quandary episodes. To me, the heart of Star Trek has always been dealing with difficult moral questions that don’t necessarily have easy or straightforward answers. This episode certainly delivers on the latter.

Kirk and his crew are visiting a primitive planet when they notice something unexpected… firearms. As they investigate further, it soon becomes clear that Klingons have recently visited the area and Kirk suspects that they have been supplying some of the planet’s villagers with weapons.

This leaves Kirk in a difficult position. The federation forbids interfering with the development of primitive species. But if Kirk obeys the prime directive, the Klingons (who do not ascribe to the same philosophy) will be able to shape the future of the species. Caught between a rock and a hard place, Kirk must decide whether to walk away or balance the playing field.

5. The Ultimate Computer

Man versus machine has been a theme in sci-fi from its inception. Will computers eventually surpass human capabilities, making us redundant? In this episode, the Enterprise crew test out a new computer known as the M-5. It has been designed to handle all ship functions without human assistance and even make command decisions.

Fans of Macross Plus or the movie Stealth might recognize pieces of this episode’s plot. When left to its own devices, the M-5 turns out to be unpredictable and difficult to control. It also turns out its programming may have been slightly supplemented by human brain patterns.

This is another one of those episodes that proves why Kirk is such a great commander while also asking questions about our computer-filled future. And considering how much we rely on technology these days, I think the subject matter is as relevant as ever.

6. Obsession

If the previous episode shows Kirk at his best, then this episode perhaps shows Kirk at his worst. When the crew encounter a powerful nebulous being that kills with ease and without remorse, Kirk recognizes it as a being that killed a crew he used to serve on.

Throughout the episode, Kirk confronts not only his nemesis, but also his past. He believes that a moment of hesitation back then may have cost more people their lives and is determined to redeem himself. But his obsession clouds his judgment, proving that he is also fallible.

I don’t want to spoil the ending, so you’ll have to watch to figure out if Kirk comes to terms with the past by dealing with the present.

Honorable Mention

I was tempted to include I,Mudd on this list entirely because I love the character. Harry Mudd is something of a hapless space pirate. He gets himself wrapped up in schemes that inevitably attract and spill over to the Enterprise crew. He’s first introduced in season 1 in the episode called Mudd’s Women , and he appears again in similar trouble in I,Mudd . There are no great revelations in the Mudd episodes, but they are pretty funny.

For something that plays on a bit of Earth folklore, check out Wolf in the Fold , which suggests that Jack the Ripper might not have been human but, in fact, an alien entity. The killer’s ultimate fate is in the hands of the Enterprise crew.

If you’re a fan of Star Trek First Contact , check out Metamorphosis to learn the final fate of Zefram Cochrane, the famous inventor of the warp drive.

And finally, for a tad more world and character building, check out Journey to Babel . This episode introduces the Andorians. It also introduces Spock’s parents and their somewhat complicated relationship.

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I agree with almost all the choices here (never was crazy about “A Private Little War,” which I suspect was their way of dealing with the subject of the Viet Nam War). I would add “The Naked Time.” A drunken crew in a dangerous situation, what could be more fun? ;-) Although Lt. Riley’s “One! More! Time!” after having sung “I’ll Take You Home Again, Kathleen” over the intercom a gazillion times, makes you glad you’re not on board.

The Trouble with Tribbles is such a classic episode. It’s on my list of stuff to rewatch when I’m having a bad day and need a pick-me-up. (I get the winter blues, so I really appreciate Tribbles and other fun scifi stuff during the winter in particular. :) )

I think it’s awesome that it’s on your pick-me-up list. :) Sometimes I like to just look at the gif of Kirk after all the tribbles fall on him because it’s one of the few things I can count on to always make me laugh!

Heh, for sure!

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Star Trek: The Original Series episode guides - All TOS episodes rated, reviewed

In those days before the Federation had continuity, there was Star Trek: The Original Series. Watch the TOS stories in any other you wish; it rarely matters, as essentially every single episode in TOS is a bottle episode. Ultimately, however, many TOS episodes are retconned into prequel stories (e.g. “The Menagerie”, “Space Seed”, “City on the Edge of Forever”), sequels (e.g. “Mirror Mirror”) or even crossovers (“The Trouble with Tribbles”) for the other series and movies.

Star Trek: The Original Series – Season 2 episode guide

Star Trek: The Original Series – the seaons, the key episodes

Season 1 – In the 1960s, TV was a different beast. Serialization (and thus continuity) was essentially non-existent. Each story plays out over a single episode only (with one exception in three years of Star Trek), thereby not allowing for much character development each season of Star Trek’s original run is really barely indistinguishable from another – but at lest that means that season 1 isn’t filled with the “growing pains” every other ST series goes through. The biggest highlights in Star Trek’s first year has got to be “The Menagerie” (episode #s 11 and 12), an eerie story of Captain Kirk’s doomed mentor Captain Pike, and “City on the Edge of Forever” (#29), a neat twist on the traditional “preserve the past” time travel tale. Also of note: “Space Seed” (#22), the introduction of Star Trek II baddie Khan.

Season 2 – Ensign Chekov joins the bridge crew for season 2, which manages to have some fun in the explicitly comic “Trouble with Tribbles” (#15) and the absolutely bananas “Assignment: Earth” (#26). And Spock fans dig on “Amok Time” (#1) and Journey to Babel (#10) for the info doled on that wacky Vulcan culture.

Season 3 – As mentioned above, a fan campaign saved Star Trek for a third series, but NBC executives were not enthused about supporting the marginally successful series and cut the show’s operating budget in half. However, Star Trek Guide must say that tripling the budget could not save scripts like those for “Spock’s Brain” (Can all Vulcans live without a brain or just Spock?), “Specter of the Gun” (Scotty’s dead because he *thinks* he’s dead?) and “The Savage Curtain” (Kirk, Spock, Vulcan hero Surak and Abe Lincoln vs. Genghis Khan, Klingon Empire founder Kahless, 21st-century Earth dictator Mr. Green – who did it in the kitchen with a revolver – and fuzzy chick Zora?) Dude.

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The Original Series Episode Guide

The Man Trap Rating: 3 – Watch Charlie X Rating: 1 – Skip Where No Man Has Gone Before Rating: 4 – Watch  The Naked Time Rating: 2 – Skippable The Enemy Within Rating: 2 – Skippable Mudd’s Women Rating: 2 – Skippable What Are Little Girls Made Of? Rating: 3 – Watch Miri Rating: 2 – Skippable Dagger of the Mind Rating: 2 – Skippable The Corbomite Maneuver Rating: 4 – Watch The Menagerie, Part 1 Rating: 3 – Watch The Menagerie, Part 2 Rating: 2 – Watch for continuity The Conscience of the King Rating: 2 – Skippable Balance of Terror Rating: 5 – Watch Shore Leave Rating: 2 – Skippable The Galileo Seven Rating: 2 – Skippable The Squire of Gothos Rating: 2 – Skippable Arena Rating: 3 – Watch Tomorrow Is Yesterday Rating: 3 – Watch Court Martial Rating: 2 – Skippable The Return of the Archons Rating: 2 – Skippable Space Seed Rating: 4 – Watch A Taste of Armageddon Rating: 3 – Watch This Side of Paradise Rating: 1 – Skip The Devil in the Dark Rating: 2 – Skippable Errand of Mercy Rating: 4 – Watch The Alternative Factor Rating: 1 – Skip The City on the Edge of Forever Rating: 5 – Watch Operation: Annihilate! Rating: 2 – Skippable

Amok Time Rating: 4 – Watch Who Mourns for Adonais Rating: 1 – Skip The Changeling Rating: 2 – Skippable Mirror, Mirror Rating: 3 – Watch The Apple Rating: 2 – Skippable The Doomsday Machine Rating: 4 – Watch Catspaw Rating: 1 – Skip I, Mudd Rating: 2 – Skippable Metamorphosis Rating: 2 – Skippable Journey to Babel Rating: 4 – Watch Friday’s Child Rating: 3 – Watch The Deadly Years Rating: 3 – Watch Obsession Rating: 2 – Skippable Wolf in the Fold Rating: 1 – Skip The Trouble With Tribbles Rating: 4 – Watch The Gamesters of Triskelion Rating: 3 – Watch A Piece of the Action Rating: 2 – Skippable The Immunity Syndrome Rating: 2 – Skippable A Private Little War Rating: 2 – Skippable Return to Tomorrow Rating: 2 – Skippable Patterns of Force Rating: 2 – Skippable By Any Other Name Rating: 3 – Watch The Omega Glory Rating: 2 – Skippable The Ultimate Computer Rating: 2 – Skippable Bread and Circuses Rating: 2 – Skippable Assignment: Earth Rating: 3 – Watch

Season Three

Spock’s Brain Rating: 1 – Watch The Enterprise Incident Rating: 4 – Watch The Paradise Syndrome Rating: 1 – Skip And The Children Shall Lead Rating: 1 – Skip Is There in Truth No Beauty? Rating: 2 – Skippable Spectre of the Gun Rating: 1 – Skip Day of the Dove Rating: 3 – Watch For the World is Hollow… Rating: 2 – Skippable The Tholian Web Rating: 3 – Watch Plato’s Stepchildren Rating: 2 – Skippable Wink of an Eye Rating: 2 – Skippable The Empath Rating: 2 – Skippable Elaan of Troyius Rating: 2 – Skippable Whom Gods Destroy Rating: 3 – Watch Let That Be Your Last Battlefield Rating: 3 – Watch The Mark of Gideon Rating: 3 – Watch That Which Survives Rating: 2 – Skippable The Light of Zetar Rating: 2 – Skippable Requiem for Methuselah Rating: 2 – Skippable The Way to Eden Rating: 1 – Skip The Cloud Minders Rating: 2 – Skippable The Savage Curtain Rating: 3 – Watch All Our Yesterdays Rating: 2 – Skippable Turnabout Intruder Rating: 2 – Skippable

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We’re still making our way through the series. Sorry if we’re a little slow. We do an Original Series episode review every Monday (TNG Tuesday, DS9 Wednesday, Voyager Thursday, Enterprise Friday)

Where’s “Turnabout Intruder”? I know it was horrible, but it should get a rating, right?

We haven’t reviewed that one yet, but it’s right around the corner. We’re going through episode by episode, and we’re just about done with the third seasons of each series. check back soon!

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Star Trek TOS Season 2: My Top 5 Fave Episodes

As my husband and I are going through our second full watch of Star Trek as a couple, I thought it would be fun to report on the highlights along the way. So I decided to copy the same format as Charlene at Bookish Whimsy, who is going through her first-ever run of Star Trek and sharing her favorite five episodes for each season. To compare, see her top 5 favorite episodes of season two of The Original Series . 

Season 2 of TOS is filled with a lot more “blah” episodes than season 1, so I had a much harder time choosing a Top 5, when I felt like there were only 3 truly stand-out episodes. I thought about doing a worst episodes list instead, or at the suggestion of my husband, listing my favorite episode three times (because really, it does deserve it), but I buckled down and looked at the few “just fine” episodes and picked two of those to round out this list.

5. Journey to Babel

4. Patterns of Force

3. Mirror, Mirror

2. A Piece of the Action

1. The Trouble With Tribbles

• Starfleet officers gone crazy
• Kirk unfit for command (I think this only happened twice, but it was two episodes in a row!)
• Parallels with Earth and/or America that felt forced and strange (ESPECIALLY in The Omega Glory, OMG)
• Evil computers
• Computers getting talked to death by Captain Kirk
• Interference with cultures (AKA breaking The Prime Directive… of course this happens all the time in all the series…)

But it’s not all bad. For instance, you learn that Spock secretly has an affinity for soft, furry creatures, including Tribbles and cats…

If you’ve seen season two of Star Trek’s original series, which episodes are your favorite? Does Kirk talking computers to death or the crazy Star Fleet officers or the Earth parallels drive anyone else crazy?

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19 Responses to Star Trek TOS Season 2: My Top 5 Fave Episodes

I seem to remember liking Who Mourns for Adonais a lot but my memory of the individual episodes from this season is pretty weak. My favorite thing about this season though is Chekov who became a favorite character.

Apollos drove me crazy in that episode, but there were some good aspects, like Chekov and Scotty, both who I enjoyed in that one.

No “Amok Time” or “The Doomsday Machine”?!? Those two are easily in my top five of all time TOS episodes, not just season two.

Yeah, Amok Time was just fine for me and The Doomsday Machine just wasn’t really my cup of tea either. I know other people like both though.

I do, however, really like the end of Amok Time when Spock gets all giddy seeing Kirk. That’s pretty priceless!

I’ll be doing this with my fiance so she can see it for the first time. Can’t wait to share it with her.

That’ll be exciting!

Season two was pretty meh overall, but I have always enjoyed The Doomsday Machine. It features a captain gone crazy… hmm… Starfleet had some really relaxed policies regarding psychological health in those days.

I know, you think that’s something they would try to be more rigorous about!

Another episode I (kind of) like is Bread and Circuses, which *also* features a crazy/rogue captain. Sheesh.

Yeah, I might have liked it better if I had not already been burned out on the crazy captains!

Your top two are the same as mine! Awesome. 🙂 I can see why the other three are in your top 5 though – they are great too! Those recurring themes you mentioned are annoying – it’s especially unrealistic for there to be so many Earth parallels. They really needed to invent the holodeck to be able to do those sort of period episodes. 🙂

OMG I saw First Contact last night and I’m in a movie hangover, that film was so good!! Probably my favorite Star Trek film ever – although I have a couple more to watch. It was so intense and epic! I am obsessed with Data’s Resistance is Futile scene too! 🙂 I just had to gush a little about it now, since I can’t post about the films anytime soon- Netflix doesn’t have Insurrection, and I’ll have to wait for my library to send it to me. Boo Netflix.

Ha ha, yes, the holodeck definitely works as a better excuse for those Earth period episodes!

I’m so glad you loved First Contact! That is actually both mine and my husband’s favorite Trek movie! It really is good, intense stuff! And boo Netflix indeed! Hope you can find a way to watch Insurrection soon!

Amok Time is one of the best TREK episodes there is. Great relationships between the big 3. Great look at the Vulcan culture. Great fight scene. High emotion. And the birth of the hand salute Live Long & Prosper!

Gamesters of Triskellion is one of my personal favorite episodes of all time. Probably for the opening where Kirk asks ‘Galt’ 3 direct, straight questions, and gets 3 perfectly honest, straight answers. He still knows nothing though:

Who are you? What is this place? What do you think you’re going to do with us? I am Galt, the Master Thrall. This place is the planet Triskelion. You are to be trained and spend the rest of your lives here.

I think I was 11 and laughed my butt off. 🙂 Plus great fights in that one and Kirk is an all around bad-a** which was a big deal to me at 11.

I don’t know why I don’t love Amok Time like so many others seem to. I don’t think it’s a bad episode at all though. I don’t dislike the Gamesters of Triskellion either; the concept is definitely interesting.

Nice list. Mine would be Amok Time, Mirror Mirror, The Doomsday Machine, Patterns of Force, and Journey to Babel.

I’m betting you didn’t enjoy “The Omega Glory.” That episode was… something. At least we got Kirk fightin’ good!

Yes, that was crazy bad! There was the fighting but yeah… so strange! I don’t remember that one at all from the first time I watched the show! I must have blocked it from my mind!

I have only seen a few of these episodes, but I love that they got the same actor for Sarek in TOS and TNG. Granted, I’m looking at them from the reverse because I saw TNG first, but it’s cool to look at that episode and think “Hey, that’s the same guy! cool”

I do think it’s great they were able to do that!

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Following its cancellation at its original home at Paramount+, Trekkies demanded that the series live long and prosper and mounted a serious online campaign to keep the show traveling at warp speed. Netflix thankfully came to the rescue and re-released the premiere season last Christmas to prep fans for the new adventures.

Here's the official Season 2 synopsis:

"In Season 2, these six young outcasts who make up the 'Prodigy' crew are assigned a new mission aboard the USS Voyager-A to rescue Captain Chakotay (voiced by Robert Beltran) and bring peace to Gwyn’s (voiced by Ella Purnell) home world. However, when their plan goes astray, it creates a time paradox that jeopardizes both their future and past."

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We recently learned the second season of  Star Trek: Prodigy was arriving on Netflix on July 1st , and now we have our first trailer. We also have new details on the season and key art.

New trailer!

This morning CBS Studios debuted the first official trailer for the second season of the animated kids’ (of all ages) series Star Trek: Prodigy, less than two weeks ahead of the Monday, July 1 debut with all 20 episodes.

Check it out…

Prodigy was developed by Emmy winners Kevin and Dan Hageman along with Alex Kurtzman to be the first Star Trek series specifically aimed at younger audiences. The animated series originally debuted in the fall of 2021 on Paramount+ with the first season of 20 episodes split into two parts, wrapping up in December 2022. After being removed by Paramount+, the show was picked up by Netflix, which re-released the first season last Christmas. After the Paramount+ removal, fans rallied behind a #SaveStarTrekProdigy campaign of the summer of 2023, including flying an airplane banner over the Hollywood offices of Netflix.

“We deeply appreciate our fans who have stood by us and our passionate crew who made this all possible. The work speaks for itself, but it’s the heart that will endure,” said co-showrunners Kevin and Dan Hageman about the Season 2 release.

New synopsis and poster!

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Here is how CBS Studios is describing the story for the new season:

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The Prodigy voice cast includes Kate Mulgrew (Hologram Kathryn Janeway), Brett Gray (Dal), Ella Purnell (Gwyn), Rylee Alazraqui (Rok-Tahk), Angus Imrie (Zero), Jason Mantzoukas (Jankom Pog), Dee Bradley Baker (Murf), John Noble (The Diviner) and Jimmi Simpson (Drednok). The season 2 recurring voice cast members include Robert Beltran (Captain Chakotay), Robert Picardo (The Doctor), Jason Alexander (Doctor Noum), Daveed Diggs (Commander Tysess), Jameela Jamil (Ensign Asencia), Ronny Cox (Admiral Jellico) and Michaela Dietz (Maj’el).

CBS also released a new key art poster for season 2…

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This show brings me so much joy!

Same! I dearly love this one.

I’ll admit I don’t always connect with the young characters as much as I’d like to, but the show is smart, inventive and full of heart. It deserves success and I’m looking forward to this season and hopefully more after that.

Same. I found myself wanting more Adm. Janeway and her crew in S1, and that the scenes which were really only the kids were my least favorite, but then again – that sort of defeats the purpose of the show, attracting a new, younger audience. So I’ll go sit down now.

I sympathize but also…

I’m Gen X/male/straight but could tap into what it felt like to be in 7th grade and really want to kiss one Clarissa Linnemeyer thanks to my new hormones. (Never happened, lol.)

Anyway, I tip my hat to the writers for bringing me back to age 13 for the Dal/Gwyndala thing.

I recall thinking that the show reminds me a lot of Beast Wars. Came on when I was about 15 or so, and it felt like it was aimed at 6 to 8 year olds, but it had a smart story, fun characters, and interesting animation that kept me hooked.

0:28 in the trailer: I love how Prodigy shows a turbolift in action, smoothly navigating through cross traffic with other lifts. This smart little detail makes turbolifts more visually exciting and also helps us understand their workings better.

Glad you like it – for me turbolifts are a tremendous waste of space on a starship. For them to function as they are shown they’d take up a third of available space. No smart artistic rendering is going to change that.

I would say that’s one of the things DISCO got right with the 32nd century – no more turbolifts just quite transporting b/w levels/locations.

Agreed but what if the transporters go offline?

Hopefully they still have Jeffries tubes!

Yeah that was pretty cool. Other than seeing the little lights inside the lift in TOS and TNG where some lights go back and forth and the others left and right, we’ve never actually seen a 3D turbo lift.

Finally, real Star Trek is back! I’m super excited!

All Star Trek is “real” Star Trek.

All Star Trek is real Star Trek. Lets not forget that, please.

That is absolutely correct! And the corollary to that is: any Trek is better than no Trek. (at least in my opinion.)

Huh, I’m actually looking forward to Season 2 now. Season 1 was good, but I’m of course like 40 years beyond the target audience. This mix of legacy characters plus the new ones and a very Trek adventure looks fun! I still don’t understand how anyone with a brain at Paramount thought it was a good idea to abandon this series just for a quick tax write-off …

“ TrekMovie is trying to confirm details on a release of season 2 in Canada.”

Thank you, hopefully CTV confirms they will air it. Might have to wait for physical media release. :)

Sign up for Netflix for a month. Get Express VPN (30 day money back on Express) Set location on Express to WASHINGTON DC. Open Netflix. Enjoy Prodigy!

But will Harry Kim still be an ensign when/if he shows up?

Based off Prodigy season 1, Lower Decks and Picard, every Voyager character we seen so far has all been promoted so he probablywill be too. I really hope we see Harry!! 😃

i hope he is a forever ensign he never did anything worth getting promoted for and he was way to eager for it like that was the only reason for him trying to suck up to everyone and impress them he wanted a promotion

Definitely have to agree to disagree then. I love Harry and he saved the ship numerous times and smart as a whip. And he was going to be a Captain in Picard season 3 so he will probably be at least a lieutenant by now in this time period. And he’s been promoted in every beta canon story around from novels to video games for decades now.

I want to see Boimler giving him orders.

Boims would be too starstruck around Harry. Remember he has his Voyager plate too. 😂

Lol true. I forgot about that.

Looks like a lot of fun. Now I’m really excited. I’m can’t wait to see the Voyager-A in all her glory. Random thought… Isn’t this technically an academy show now? Or maybe at least cadet show? Anyways, happy to have more Star Trek this year.

By ep 1.20, they’re now warrant officers in training, not Academy.

Thanks for the distinction. It makes since now.

Haven’t watched the trailer yet but judging from synopsis… Can star Trek stop being a time travel show?

The entire first session was based around time travel and Chakotay being stuck in the future. It’s a little too late for that.

It always has been a time travel show, going all the way back to TOS.

That’s true it has. However, they nearly always ignore paradox. The most extreme version of that is the series finale of Voyager.

The trailer had me at “New Worlds.”

I can’t wait. It looks terrific. I’m a huge fan of Star Trek time travel stuff.

Voyager-A looks great! I miss the 24th century starfleet. Fingers crossed for a future on Netflix for the talented creators of Prodigy.

“I can’t wait. It looks terrific. I’m a huge fan of Star Trek time travel stuff.”

I absolutely love time travel stories and especially in Star Trek! I can’t get enough of them and another reason why I love this show so much. I know we will be going to the 25th century but I’m hoping we go to a few other periods as well.

And the Voyager A looks beautiful!

Agreed about Star Trek time travel, and by extension time anomalies. While not every case is strong (I do think Picard season 2 had some good ideas/moments, but was very uneven overall), but it has a very strong batting average in that regard, so I’m glad they’re leaning into it here. Especially since these writers are good enough to pull it off (as seen by the tricky time stuff in “Time Amok”). Can’t wait to see what they do with it this season.

So they’re going to wrap up the Chakotay story, and Gwen’s? I don’t want this cancelled before they do.

The producers stated the storyline is wrapped up by the end of season 2.

Hot take: Bearded animated Chakotay is HOT.

You’re not wrong.

This looks absolutely amazing!

Can not tell you how excited I am to have this show back and is easily the one I was most excited for this year.

It looks like we are going to be getting a lot of strange new worlds, time travel, weird trippy stories and the Voyager A. I’m also happy Gwyn looks like she’s a big part of the team. I was afraid she would mostly be on her home planet.

I missed this show so much. Can not wait!! Less than 2 weeks to go!

Star Trek lives!

And you don’t need Paramount+ to watch!

Lol very true, which I’m canceling this month once my subscription expires.. .until LDS comes back. 😉

I keep Netflix all year long because it’s worth it.

This all looks so fabulous. I smiled throughout the entire trailer and was so happy to see the kids back together along with Janeway and the Doctor. Very happy to see Commander Tysess back as well.

The Voyager A looks fantastic. This looks like it will be a wonderful season. I really regret I waited so long to finally give this show a chance but I absolutely love it now.

So happy you enjoyed the trailer. And yeah looks we are getting a great season. I’ve missed both these characters and the 24th century a lot.

And I completely missed Tysess when I watched it somehow. So happy he’s back. Can never get enough of seeing more andorians.

I will be waiting to see it when it comes out on blu-ray as I do not have netflix and never will it is on my permanent boycott list along with chick-fil-a and hobby lobby

Netflix, Hobby Lobby, and Chick-fil-A aren’t losing any sleep over that.

What’s the point of belittling her principles? Sheesh.

Use your phasers! They seem unphased… Okay, maybe its time to sign back up for Netflix.

They brought back George and Gracie? I might finally have to give this show a chance.

So glad to finally have a trailer. And this season looks just as great as I was hoping it would be. The main story looks epic, and seems to be leaning into the weird time stuff that was hinted at in season 1. Love the looks at Solum, and the return of Asencia/The Vindicator.

Love seeing some of the mix of returning characters and new characters to look forward to. For the new characters, I’m particularly curious about that Maj’El we see in a few scenes. And I love the look of that Klingon as well.

It’s also nice getting a glimpse of some of the stand-alone stuff as well. I’ve been rewatching TAS recently, and the episode “More Tribbles, More Troubles” made me realize how great a Tribble episode would be on Prodigy (it really does look great from the glimpses we get in the trailer). I also love the different planets and new alien ideas we get to see here. That’s one of the strengths of season 1, and these look just as strong, if not even better.

I can’t believe it’s only about 1 1/2 weeks until our patience finally pays off. I’m sure it will be more than worth the wait. Hopefully it will do well enough for Netflix to renew it for a 3rd season.

From your lips (RE a third season). I could see them maybe pairing it down to ten, but even that would be a gift.

Yeah, my thoughts exactly. But honestly, if you look at season 1 and how it’s structured, I could see the two halves working almost like a season by themselves. So if they don’t let it affect the way they approach the seasons (keeping the more episodic elements mixed in with the bigger arcs), the change could almost be barely noticeable.

God this looks good, still dont understand why it was cancelled, but glad it’s almost back!

I think it came down to Paramount Global running low on money. Once Wall Street stopped to think about how rational it was to encourage everyone to spend with abandon to feed streaming subscriber growth, it was a reality check to everyone and Paramount was one of the worst-equipped to pivot. So that meant austerity measures which affected Trek in the cancellations of Discovery and Lower Decks and selling Prodigy. I don’t think it helped that it didn’t do gangbusters at Nickelodeon, but from what we’ve been told it did fine at P+. It’s just that everyone but Netflix and Apple is instituting some austerity measures for streaming, and Paramount has to make harder choices about what to fund to stay relevant. So that means more Taylor Sheridan, more IP tie-ins, more foreign productions, and for Trek they favor totally new Star Trek shows and movies over renewals, SNW exempted for now.

From what I been reading lately it does sound like things are more dire there than previously reported and a big reason is Paramount +. They just sunk too much money into it and it’s nowhere close to turning a profit.

And unfortunately Star Trek is paying the price because that’s probably the one where most of the money went outside the Sheridan shows.

And it’s really obvious how much the budget was cut with all the live show’s latest seasons.

Prodigy was probably an easier one to cut because it was probably making the lowest numbers and was not really a P+ show like the others were.

It does suck when you see how much quality and effort that went into making this show and it’s just casted aside to save a little bit of money.

Even though Discovery and LDS got canceled they are still part of the service. It just speaks to the severe problems that site is having.

The reality is they probably make more money licensing the shows off and where all of this will ultimately go.

I’m so jonesing for this right now. Crazy that we’ve historically had long waits for more of this show, and now all of a sudden we’re getting twenty episodes all at once (!).

Re: the key art, it looks like some graphic artist flopped Jankom Pog without realizing the effect it has.

This looks awesome.

I know you’re taking the cast list from the press release, but I assume Mulgrew is playing Admiral Janeway rather than Hologram Janeway.

Hologram Janeway died so definitely thr Admiral.

Hologram Janeway is in the trailer.

OK fine but its confirmed Admiral Janeway is a main character this season. We don’t know the context to Hologram Janeway yet, especiallysince no one has said she’scomingback. She could come back or just part of a flashback scene.

Awwww yeah, this is what we been waiting for!

This looks totally awesome. I’m so excited to see Janeway, The Doctor and the kids back and to help bring Chakotay home!

I’m super happy to see how well fans are responding to this trailer. Prodigy is Star Trek done right and clicks all the boxes.

This looks like it’s going to be a great season.

I’m hoping sites like this and TrekCore will just review one (or maybe two) episodes per week so that we can get fan engagement on each one.

Not distributed even in Japan

I love the homage to Doctor Who: “timey wimey“.

Ugh.. kids on the frontier quickly devolves into another season of Voyager complete with time travel nonsense. Sad. Maybe they can go back in time and have the writers save the show by not doing this and keeping it about kids learning their way in the universe (while both saving the Protostar and giving it a more Trek style bridge) if they’re not too busy to stop World War 3 from happening and all that. Oh well, the first part of Season One rocked.

I would suggest watching the season before you decide you don’t like it. This trailer clearly doesn’t cover all 20 episodes.

This Treks vibe is exactly what the live action shows should be. Mondinerised but at the heart what we truly love about Trek. I’ve been watching season one again, especially the second half of it and I had forgotten how fantastic it is, I don’t think there really is an episode that is in any ways boring or dragged on.

You can always tell how excited fans are for something after reading the comments section after a trailer dropped. So far the comments seem to be 95% positive which is amazing, ESPECIALLY for Trek fans lol.

Just for comparison I looked st the comments for the last trailer of season 5 of Discovery and it seem to be 60/40, ie 60% negative or skeptical and about 40% excited or at least hopeful. HOWEVER I do feel those numbers switched when grading the season itself which is good obviously and proved some of those bitter hateful naysayers wrong (including myself lol).

But it looks like Prodigy is in a great place in terms of this board at least, but it’s been pretty positive every place I read so far. It could still end up bad of course, but I feel completely competent we’re getting another great season! 😀

Yeah, it’s great to see how positive the discussion is surrounding this show. I will say I enjoy Discovery and Picard more than the average person on here, though fully admit they have their flaws (Picard in particular being more uneven than I’d like, with season 2 in particular weighing it down a fair bit), and can understand people not being as into them. But given the varied opinions on modern Trek, it’s nice to see a show that’s loved by such a large percentage of those who give it a chance. Really hoping that now that it’s on Netflix, with a trailer hyping up the new season, it will gain traction with a wider audience, because it really deserves the praise IMO.

Do you feel completely competent or completely confident? 🤔 In either case, it’s warranted IMO! 😃👍 (I love me lots of time travel just as much as you appear to do!!! 🕰)

The season has already aired on french TV a few months ago…I won’t spoil you anything but it’s a very good one, even better than the first and a very much more “trekkian” one.

Wholeheartedly agreed! I was excited about the return of those few other characters from that ’80s show (and a fun hint at a more recent addition)! 🍼 Trying to be very vague here, as to hopefully not spoil a thing! 🤞😉

I completely missed that Jellico was returning until I saw this. Wild.

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The Official Trailer and Key Art for Season 2 of Animated Series Star Trek: Prodigy Is Here

Season 2 will premiere with all 20 episodes on July 1 exclusively on Netflix in the U.S. and select countries around the world.

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CBS Studios debuted the official trailer and key art for the second season of the original animated kids' series, Star Trek: Prodigy . The hit series will premiere all 20 episodes on Monday, July 1 on Netflix in select countries around the world. Season 1 episodes of the series are currently available on Netflix.

In Season 2, these six young outcasts who make up the Prodigy crew are assigned a new mission aboard the U.S.S. Voyager -A to rescue Captain Chakotay and bring peace to Gwyn's home world. However, when their plan goes astray, it creates a time paradox that jeopardizes both their future and past.

The Star Trek: Prodigy voice cast includes Kate Mulgrew (Kathryn Janeway), Brett Gray (Dal), Ella Purnell (Gwyn), Rylee Alazraqui (Rok-Tahk), Angus Imrie (Zero), Jason Mantzoukas (Jankom Pog), Dee Bradley Baker (Murf), John Noble (The Diviner), and Jimmi Simpson (Drednok).

Season 2 recurring voice cast members include Robert Beltran (Captain Chakotay), Robert Picardo (The Doctor), Jason Alexander (Dr. Noum), Daveed Diggs (Commander Tysess), Jameela Jamil (Ensign Asencia), Ronny Cox (Admiral Jellico), and Michaela Dietz (Maj’el).

Developed by Emmy Award winners Kevin and Dan Hageman ( Trollhunters and Ninjago ), along with Alex Kurtzman and his team at Secret Hideout, the CG-animated series Star Trek: Prodigy is the first Star Trek series aimed at younger audiences and follows a motley crew of young aliens who must figure out how to work together while navigating a greater galaxy, in search of a better future.

"We deeply appreciate our fans who have stood by us and our passionate crew who made this all possible. The work speaks for itself, but it's the heart that will endure," said co-showrunners Kevin and Dan Hageman about the Season 2 release.

Star Trek: Prodigy received a 2023 TCA Award nomination for "Outstanding Achievement in Family Programming" along with a 2022 Children's and Family Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Animated Series, and production designer, Alessandro Taini, won the award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation.

Star Trek: Prodigy is from CBS' Eye Animation Productions, CBS Studios' animation arm; Nickelodeon Animation; Secret Hideout; and Roddenberry Entertainment. Alex Kurtzman, Heather Kadin, Aaron Baiers, Rod Roddenberry and Trevor Roth serve as executive producers, alongside co-showrunners Kevin and Dan Hageman. Ben Hibon directs, executive produces and serves as the creative lead of the animated series. Aaron Waltke and Patrick Krebs also currently serve as co-executive producers. Star Trek: Prodigy is distributed by Paramount Global Content Distribution.

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Kate mulgrew urges fans to watch star trek: prodigy season 2, hopes for more seasons, after 5 years, the boys' very first story is officially finished.

• Season 2 of Star Trek: Prodigy brings a "grand unifying theory" to explain Star Trek's multiverse.
• All 20 episodes will hit Netflix on July 1st, incorporating time travel as Admiral Janeway and crew rescue Captain Chakotay.
• Beyond time paradoxes, Star Trek: Prodigy looks to address how alternate timelines and realities work.

Star Trek: Prodigy co-executive producer Aaron J. Waltke says that season 2 on Netflix will present a "grand unifying theory" to explain how Star Trek ' s multiverse works. All 20 episodes of Star Trek: Prodigy season 2 will be released on Monday, July 1st, on Netflix. Time travel is integral to Star Trek: Prodigy season 2 , as Admiral Kathryn Janeway (Kate Mulgrew) and the teenage former crew of the USS Protostar embark on a mission to rescue Captain Chakotay (Robert Beltran) from an alternate timeline 52 years in the future.

Appearing on All Access Star Trek: A TrekMovie.com Podcast , Aaron J. Waltke discussed time travel in Star Trek: Prodigy season 2. In regard to past or future iterations of characters like Asencia (Jameela Jamil) and The Diviner (John Nobke) appearing, Waltke told hosts Anthony Pascale and Laurie Ulster that Star Trek: Prodigy season 2 will not only address Star Trek 's multiverse, but also explain how it works. Check out Waltke's quote below and listen to the All Access Star Trek episode in the link above.

If you think that we only talk about time paradoxes in this season, you would be very mistaken. I’m trying to figure out how to say this without sounding too grandiose, but we actually strove to do the impossible and create a grand unifying theory of how the Star Trek multiverse works. And we explore that pretty thoroughly in surprising ways in this season.

Star Trek: Prodigy season 2 joins season 1's episodes on Netflix in summer 2024 so that all 40 episodes will be available on the streamer.

Prodigy Is The Perfect Show To Explain Star Trek's Multiverse

Star trek: prodigy can boldly do anything.

Star Trek: Prodigy is the ideal show to address and explain how Star Trek' s multiverse works. As a CGI animated series, Star Trek: Prodigy isn't bound by the same production limits as live-action Star Trek in terms of depicting people and places across the Multiverse. As long as Prodigy can get permission to secure voice actors, anyone from any Star Trek TV series or movie can potentially appear. Star Trek has been a multiverse since the invention of the Mirror Universe in Star Trek: The Original Series , and J.J. Abrams' Star Trek movies as well as Star Trek: Discovery made clear that multiple alternate timelines exist in Star Trek 's expansive timeline .

Aaron J. Walke previously said Star Trek: Prodigy season 2 would touch upon every other iteration of Star Trek.

Admiral Janeway and the USS Voyager-A's mission to save Captain Chakotay from a dark alternate future looks like a springboard for Star Trek: Prodigy t o play with time travel and, perhaps, alternate realities. There are bound to be many surprises in Star Trek: Prodigy season 2 , and the young heroes led by Dal R'El (Brett Gray) and Gwyndala (Ella Purnell) could encounter familiar faces from other Star Trek universes. Aaron J. Walke previously said Star Trek: Prodigy season 2 would touch upon every other iteration of Star Trek , and fans will hopefully understand Star Trek 's multiverse better by the end of Star Trek: Prodigy season 2.

Source: All Access Star Trek - A TrekMovie.com Podcast

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Peaceful, primitive peoples get caught up in the struggle between superpowers, with Kirk unhappily trying to restore the balance of power disrupted by the Klingons. Peaceful, primitive peoples get caught up in the struggle between superpowers, with Kirk unhappily trying to restore the balance of power disrupted by the Klingons. Peaceful, primitive peoples get caught up in the struggle between superpowers, with Kirk unhappily trying to restore the balance of power disrupted by the Klingons.

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Dr. McCoy : [speaking through communicator] Spock, are you alive?

Mr. Spock : [on the bridge of the Enterprise] An illogical question, Doctor, since obviously you are hearing my voice.

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• The Prodigy crew is back as Starfleet cadets, embarking on a classified mission with the real Janeway aboard the USS Voyager-A.
• Season 2 sees the return of familiar characters like Janeway, the Doctor, and Chakotay, plus new character Maj'el.
• After a tumultuous journey behind the scenes, Star Trek: Prodigy 's second season will premiere on Netflix on July 1.

It's been a long journey for the cast of Star Trek: Prodigy . The ragtag crew of young aliens escaped the Delta Quadrant and the tyrannical Diviner, but now they've got a new mission as Starfleet cadets — and we have a first look at it in the new trailer for the animated series' second season. All twenty episodes of the new season will drop on Netflix on July 1. In the first season, the abandoned USS Protostar was found by a group of teenagers — Dal ( Brett Gray ), Gwyn ( Ella Purnell ), Rok-Tahk ( Rylee Alazraqui ), Zero ( Angus Imrie ), Jankom Pog ( Jason Mantzoukas ), and Murf ( Dee Bradley Baker ) — who used it to escape their prison planet.

They were guided on their journey to Federation space by a holographic avatar of Starfleet Admiral Kathryn Janeway ( Kate Mulgrew ), who spent seven seasons exploring the Delta Quadrant on Star Trek: Voyager . The team reached the Federation and saved Starfleet from disaster, at the cost of the Protostar and the holographic Janeway. Now, they've been accepted as Starfleet cadets, and they're on a classified mission with the real Janeway aboard the USS Voyager-A to return to the Delta Quadrant to find the Protostar 's original captain, Chakotay ( Robert Beltran ), who was Janeway's former first officer — and who we get a glimpse of in the trailer. Along the way, they encounter aliens, monsters, and a time paradox that threatens their past and their future.

What Characters Are Returning for Season 2 of 'Star Trek: Prodigy'?

The Prodigy gang is all back for Season 2, including Dal, Rok-Tahk, Zero, Jankom Pog, and Murf — as well as Gwyn, who elected to return to her people, the Vau N'Akat, rather than join Starfleet. The second season will also see the addition of a familiar Star Trek voice to the cast; Robert Picardo will return as The Doctor, the Emergency Medical Hologram who became part of Janeway's crew on the original Voyager . Several characters from the first season will return, including Janeway's crew members Doctor Noum ( Jason Alexander ) and Commander Tysess ( Daveed Diggs ), as well as Vau N'Akat infiltrator Asencia ( Jameela Jamil ) and Janeway's superior, Starfleet Admiral Edward Jellico ( Ronny Cox ).

The show will also introduce a new character; Michaela Dietz will voice Maj'el, whose name is presumably a reference to the late Majel Roddenberry , a Star Trek mainstay who played Christine Chapel on The Original Series , Lwaxana Troi on The Next Generation , and a variety of Starfleet computer voices across multiple series.

The journey to Prodigy season 2 was a long one behind the scenes, too. After streaming its first season on Paramount+, the series was canceled and pulled from the service last year , even though a second season had been commissioned and was nearly complete. After fan outcry , a new streaming home was found for the series, in the form of Netflix.

All twenty episodes of Star Trek: Prodigy 's second season will premiere on Netflix in the U.S. and select countries on July 1, 2024. Season 2 will not yet be available in Canada and Mainland China. The Nordics, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, and Central and Eastern Europe will be able to stream the new episodes on SkyShowtime, and Season 1 will be available in Canada on CTV.ca and the CTV App.

Stay tuned to Collider for future updates, and watch the new trailer above.

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A group of enslaved teenagers steal a derelict Starfleet vessel to escape and explore the galaxy.

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