Obsession (Episode)
| Series | Star Trek |
| Season | 2 |
| Episode | 13 |
| Production Number | 47
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| Previous | The Gamesters of Triskelion (TOS46) |
| Next | The Immunity Syndrome (TOS48) |
| Released | 15 Dec 1967 |
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Stardate 3619.2: Kirk is determined to hunt down a vampiric entity he failed to destroy in his past.
While Kirk was a young lieutenant serving on the U.S.S. Farragut, half the crew, including Captain Garrovick, were killed by a cloudlike creature Kirk felt he could have destroyed — had he not hesitated before firing. Eleven years later, Ensign Garrovick, the son of the late captain, is stationed on the Enterprise. On the surface of Argus X, a landing party, including the ensign, encounters the same gaseous creature. Several are killed but the cloudlike entity escapes and this time Kirk blames Garrovick, who also waited before firing. The creature leaves Argus X and Kirk chases it through space — when it suddenly turns to fight. It enters the Enterprise and begins to emerge from the ventilation duct in Garrovick's quarters. Spock is with the ensign, and the Vulcan is the first person encountered by the creature. Tasting Spock's copper-based blood, it flees back toward its native planet, Tycho IV. Kirk and Garrovick prepare a trap, baited with a large jar of Human blood attached to a matter/antimatter bomb. The creature is destroyed, and both Kirk and young Garrovick, realizing phaser fire was inadequate to hurt the creature, are freed from their earlier guilt.
Image Gallery
Theta VII
Tycho IV
Ens. Bardoli
Engineer
Ens. Garrovick
Ens. Leslie
Ens. Leslie
Navigator
Ens. Rizzo
Security guard
Security guard
Security guard
Ens. Swenson
antigrav
dikironium cloud creature
briefing room
Related Data
Credits
Created by
Gene Roddenberry
Starring
William Shatner
Also Starring
Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock
and
DeForest Kelley as Dr. McCoy
Written by
Art Wallace
Directed by
Ralph Senensky
Produced by
Gene L. Coon
Executive Producer
Gene Roddenberry
Associate Producer
Robert H. Justman
Guest Star
Stephen Brooks … Ensign Garrovick
Featuring
James Doohan … Scott
Nichelle Nichols … Uhura
Jerry Ayres … Rizzo
Majel Barrett … Nurse Christine Chapel
Walter Koenig … Chekov
Script Consultant
D.C. Fontana
Assistant to the Producer
Edward K. Milkis
Theme Music by
Alexander Courage
Additional Music by
Sol Kaplan
Director of Photography
Jerry Finnerman
Art Director
Walter M. Jefferies
Film Editor … Fabien Tordjmann
Unit Production Manager … Gregg Peters
Assistant Director … Rusty Meek
Set Decorator … John M. Dwyer
Costumes Created by … William Ware 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. Feinberg
Special Effects … Jim Rugg
Key Costumer … Ken Harvey
A Desilu Production
In Association With
Norway Corporation
Executive in Charge of Production
Herbert F. Solow
