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Star Trek: Season 1, Episode 22Space Seed (16 Feb. 1967) 8.6
Capt. Kirk and his crew find and inadvertently revive a genetically augmented world conqueror and his compatriots from Earth's past. Director:Marc Daniels |
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| William Shatner | ... | ||
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Madlyn Rhue | ... | |
| DeForest Kelley | ... | ||
| James Doohan | ... | ||
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Makee K. Blaisdell | ... |
Spinelli
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Mark Tobin | ... | |
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Kathy Ahart | ... |
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John Winston | ... | |
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The Enterprise finds a 20th century spaceship which contains dozens of people in suspended animation. While investigating, one of the people is revived automatically. His name is Khan, a strikingly handsome Sihk who charms the Enterprise's historian, Lt. McGivers. While recovering, Khan reads up on the nearly 300 years of history he's missed, plus a lot of technical information on the Enterprise. Through research, Kirk discovers that he's a genetic superman that escaped after the Eugenics Wars of Earth's 20th century. But he's too late: Khan and McGivers have gone back to his ship, revived Khan's crew, and returned to commandeer the Enterprise. Before he's successful, the crew manages to lock out some controls of the ship. Khan attempts to coerce the bridge crew to give him the controls by torturing Kirk in a pressure chamber. They don't relent, and Kirk is believed to have died. However, McGivers had a change of heart and rescued Kirk. Together they initiate an gas attack on Khan's ... Written by Tony-B4
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16 February 1967 (USA) See more »Filming Locations:
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Ricardo Montalban (Khan) and Madlyn Rhue (Lt. Marla McGivers) had played a romantic couple together previously on an episode of "Bonanza" - Bonanza: Day of Reckoning. Montalban portrayed Matsou, a Bannock Indian, and Rhue played Hatoya, his Shoshone Indian wife. See more »Goofs
At the hearing, when the witnesses get up to leave in the wide shot, two black marks (perhaps actor's positioning marks) are seen in the center of the floor. After a few close-ups, the next wide shot (as the first closing credit is shown) has no marks on the floor at all. See more »Quotes
Khan Noonien Singh: [to Marla] But I caution you: such men dare take what they want.See more »
Space Seed is the first season episode of TOS which gave us Khan Noonien Singh, the eugenics wars back-story, and the situation that culminated in one of the better Star Trek films - The Wrath of Khan. For fans of the franchise, this is a landmark episode which established some important aspects of the history of the star trek universe. For non-fans, it is definitely one of the better TOS episodes, but perhaps not a legend or a classic.
The Enterprise encounters a 200 year old, pre-warp drive earth vessel derelict in space and boards it. Aboard, they find dozens of people in suspended animation. As the ship begins to power up, on of the stasis compartments begins to fail and Dr. McCoy saves the man within from the brink of death. The man is Khan Noonien Singh, a product of genetic engineering. This former world leader has been engineered to be smarter, stronger, and more aggressive than normal humans. What happens is somewhat predictable (except for the excellent finish), but very satisfying because of the Coon and Wilber script, the excellent performances, and solid Marc Daniels direction.
Khan is played with the pure intensity called-for in the role by Ricardo Montalban. Montalban carries every scene away, and Shatner and Nimoy - as powerful as their personalities usually are - do a great job of portraying respectful intimidation.
Highly recommended for franchise fans, recommended for others.