Amok Time (Episode)
| Series | Star Trek |
| Season | 2 |
| Episode | 1 |
| Production Number | 34
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| Next | The Doomsday Machine (TOS35) |
| Released | 15 Sep 1967 |
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Stardate 3372.7: Spock undergoes the Vulcan mating ceremony.
Strange behavior from Spock prompts Captain Kirk to order Dr. McCoy to examine the science officer. Spock explains that he has begun the pon farr, the Vulcan mating cycle: if he does not return to Vulcan to take a wife, he will die. Disobeying direct orders from Starfleet, Kirk takes Spock to Vulcan, rather than proceeding to inauguration ceremonies on Altair VI. Kirk and McCoy accompany Spock to the surface, where they will bear witness to the koon-ut-kal-if-fee marriage ceremony, conducted by the esteemed political figure T'Pau.
T'Pring, Spock's betrothed since childhood, invokes her right to ritual combat, demanding that Spock fight a champion of her choosing — surprising everyone by selecting Kirk as her champion, rather than her companion, Stonn. The captain agrees, only to discover that the fight is to the death. McCoy, noting that Vulcan's thin atmosphere places Kirk at a disadvantage, injects him with a tri-ox compound. Spock, deep in the plak tow, or blood fever, apparently kills Kirk soon into the combat. His grief canceling out his mating urge, Spock returns to the Enterprise, only to find that Kirk is alive and well: McCoy injected the captain with a drug that would simulate death, rather than the tri-ox compound that he claimed he was administering.
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Credits
Created by
Gene Roddenberry
Starring
William Shatner
Also Starring
Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock
and
DeForest Kelley as Dr. McCoy
Written by
Theodore Sturgeon
Directed by
Joseph Pevney
Produced by
Gene L. Coon
Executive Producer
Gene Roddenberry
Associate Producer
Robert H. Justman
Guest Star
Celia Lovsky as T'Pau
Also Starring
Arlene Martel as T'Pring
and
Lawrence Montaigne as Stonn
| Featuring | ||
| Majel Barrett | … | as Christine Chapel |
| George Takei | … | as Sulu |
| Nichelle Nichols | … | as Uhura |
| Walter Koenig | … | as Chekov |
| Byron Morrow | … | as Admiral Komack |
Script Consultant
D.C. Fontana
Assistant to the Producer
Edwark K. Milkis
Theme Music by
Alexander Courage
Music Composed and Conducted by
Gerald Fried
Director of Photography
Jerry Finnerman
Art Directors
Rolland M. Brooks
and
Walter M. Jefferies
Film Editor
James D. Ballas, A.C.E.
Unit Manager
Gregg Peters
Assistant Director
Rusty Meek
Set Decorator
Joseph J. Stone
Costumes Created by
William Theiss
Photographic Effects
Westheimer Company
Sound Effects Editor
Douglas H. Grindstaff
Music Editor
Jim Henrikson
Re-Recording Mixer
Elden E. Ruberg, C.A.S.
Production Mixer
Carl W. Daniels
Script Supervisor
George A. Rutter
Casting
Joseph D'Agosta
Sound
Glen Glenn Sound Co.
Makeup Artist
Fred B. Phillips, S.M.A.
Hair Styles
Pat Westmore
Gaffer
George H. Merhoff
Head Grip
George Rader
Property Master
Irving A. Fenberg
Special Effects
Jim Rugg
A Desilu Production
In Association with
Norway Corporation
Executive in Charge of Production
Herbert F. Solow
