Star Trek: Season 1, Episode 22

Space Seed (16 Feb. 1967)

TV Episode  -   -  Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi
8.6
Your rating:
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 -/10 X  
Ratings: 8.6/10 from 1,037 users  
Reviews: 11 user | 11 critic

Capt. Kirk and his crew find and inadvertently revive a genetically augmented world conqueror and his compatriots from Earth's past.

Director:

Writers:

(teleplay), (teleplay), 2 more credits »
0Check in
0Share...

User Lists

Related lists from IMDb users

a list of 10 titles created 10 months ago
 
a list of 36 titles created 22 Oct 2011
 
a list of 10 titles created 4 months ago
 
a list of 10 titles created 16 Sep 2010
 
a list of 23 titles created 10 Apr 2012
 

Connect with IMDb


Share this Rating

Title: Space Seed (16 Feb 1967)

Space Seed (16 Feb 1967) on IMDb 8.6/10

Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Use the HTML below.

Take The Quiz!

Test your knowledge of Star Trek.
« Previous Episode | 23 of  80 Episodes | Next Episode »

Videos

Photos

Learn more

People who liked this also liked... 

Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8.5/10 X  

Set decades after Captain James T. Kirk's 5-year mission, a new generation of Starfleet officers in a new Enterprise set off on their own mission to go where no one has gone before.

Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton
Star Trek: Voyager (1995–2001)
Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.3/10 X  

Pulled to the far side of the Galaxy, where the Federation is 75 years away at maximum warp speed, a Starfleet ship must cooperate with Maquis rebels to find a way home.

Stars: Kate Mulgrew, Robert Beltran, Roxann Dawson
Star Trek: Enterprise (2001–2005)
Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.2/10 X  

A prequel series, set 100 years before the original Star Trek series, which focuses on the early years of Starfleet, leading up to the formation of the Federation and the Earth-Romulan Wars. The series is set aboard the Earth ship Enterprise NX-01, captained by Jonathan Archer.

Stars: Scott Bakula, John Billingsley, Jolene Blalock
Star Trek (1973–1975)
Animation | Action | Adventure
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.5/10 X  

The further adventures of Captain James T. Kirk and the crew of the USS Enterprise, as they explore the Galaxy and defend the United Federation of Planets.

Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley
Farscape (1999–2003)
Adventure | Sci-Fi
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8.1/10 X  

Thrown into a distant part of the universe, an Earth astronaut finds himself part of a fugitive alien starship crew.

Stars: Ben Browder, Claudia Black, Anthony Simcoe
Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 6.8/10 X  

A 20th century astronaut is revived out of 500 years of suspended animation to become the greatest hero of a future Earth.

Stars: Gil Gerard, Erin Gray, Felix Silla
Earth 2 (1994–1995)
Adventure | Sci-Fi
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 6.8/10 X  

Colonists, crash-landed on an alien planet, begin the long trek to their originally designated landing place, facing both alien and human threats.

Stars: Debrah Farentino, Clancy Brown, Sullivan Walker
Adventure | Sci-Fi
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.2/10 X  

The submarine Seaview is commissioned to investigate the mysteries of the seas. Usually it finds more problems than answers...

Stars: Richard Basehart, David Hedison, Robert Dowdell
Stargate SG-1 (1997–2007)
Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8.3/10 X  

A secret military team, SG-1, is formed to explore the recently discovered StarGates.

Stars: Amanda Tapping, Christopher Judge, Michael Shanks
Doctor Who (1963–1989)
Adventure | Drama | Sci-Fi
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8.2/10 X  

The adventures of an eccentric renegade time traveling alien and his companions.

Stars: Tom Baker, William Hartnell, Jon Pertwee
Doctor Who (TV Series 2005)
Adventure | Drama | Family
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8.7/10 X  

The further adventures of the time traveling alien adventurer and his companions.

Stars: David Tennant, Matt Smith, Karen Gillan
Smallville (2001–2011)
Adventure | Drama | Romance
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7.3/10 X  

A young Clark Kent struggles to find his place in the world as he learns to harness his alien powers for good and deals with the typical troubles of teenage life in Smallville.

Stars: Tom Welling, Allison Mack, Kristin Kreuk
Edit

Cast

Episode complete credited cast:
...
...
...
Madlyn Rhue ...
...
...
Makee K. Blaisdell ...
Spinelli (as Blaisdell Makee)
...
Mark Tobin ...
Kathy Ahart ...
Crew Woman
John Winston ...
Edit

Storyline

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

Plot Summary | Plot Synopsis


Edit

Details

Official Sites:

Country:

Language:

Release Date:

16 February 1967 (USA)  »

Company Credits

Show detailed on  »

Technical Specs

Runtime:

Sound Mix:

Color:

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1
See  »
Edit

Did You Know?

Trivia

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 »

Connections

Followed by Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) See more »

Frequently Asked Questions

This FAQ is empty. Add the first question.

User Reviews

 
A landmark for Trekkers and Trekkies
18 April 2007 | by (Vulcan) – See all my reviews

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.


11 of 12 people found this review helpful.  Was this review helpful to you?

Message Boards

Recent Posts
Extras DanD1963IM
Why TOS has a certain charm that TNG lacks edspace
McCoy (Bones) easily the most annoying character Gamba_TII
What were the best episodes Ibsen_Fan
They should have kept DeSalle nevaxa
Remake johnny-rose
Discuss Space Seed (1967) on the IMDb message boards »

Contribute to This Page

Create a character page for:
?