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Court Martial

"Court Martial" (TOS 15)

Series	Star Trek
Season	1
Episode	20
Production Number	15
Previous	The Galileo Seven (TOS 14)
Next	The Menagerie (TOS 16)
Released	2 Feb 1967
Advertising	Amazon

Prime Timeline
(The root of all realities)

Stardate 2947.3: Kirk is recalled for a potential court-martial.

During an ion storm, the Enterprise takes a severe buffeting and Records Officer Ben Finney enters the starship's ion pod to take important readings. When the storm makes it necessary to jettison the pod, Captain Kirk follows normal procedures and warns Finney to evacuate. The pod is jettisoned, with Finney apparently still inside. At Starbase 11, Commodore L.T. Stone institutes a court martial against Kirk after discovering that computer records show that the captain did not give Finney an adequate chance to escape from the pod. Lieutenant Areel Shaw, the prosecuting attorney and an old girlfriend of Kirk's, retains the brilliant but eccentric lawyer Samuel Cogley to defend the captain. Although the evidence is against Kirk, Mr. Spock refuses to believe that his captain did not go by the rules. The Vulcan decides that the Enterprise computer's evidence is wrong. He plays chess with the computer, winning several games, and thereby discovers the machine's programming has been altered. Finney is actually alive, in hiding aboard the ship: due to an old grudge, he had hoped to fake his death to discredit Kirk.

Image Gallery

Starbase 11 planet
Starbase 11 at night
Starbase 11 at night
Bailiff
Captain Chandra
Samuel T. Cogley
Corrigan
Lieutenant Commander Ben Finney
Jame Finney
Lieutenant Hansen
Captain James T. Kirk in dress uniform
Captain Krasnovsky
Space Command Representative Lindstrom
Doctor Leonard McCoy in dress uniform
Mike
Enterprise personnel officer
Lieutenant Areel Shaw
Commander Spock in dress uniform
Commodore Stone
Commodore Stone in dress uniform
Teller
Timothy
court martial
Starfleet Commodore rank insignia
bell
books
ion pod under repair
Type 2 phaser
white sound device
wrench
U.S.S. Intrepid NCC-1631
Starship status chart (Enhanced; Original version)
Administration insignia
Dress uniforms
Kirk's ribbons
McCoy's ribbons
Spock's ribbons
Stone's ribbons
Yellow Alert

Related Data

Astrometrics	Alpha III; Earth; Mars; Starbase 11
Chronology	Prime Timeline; 2262; 2267; Stardate 2945.7-2950.1
Culture	Bible; chess
Education	attorney; doctor; doctorate; physician; Starfleet Academy; surgeon
Food	alcohol; coffee; Saurian brandy
People	Bailiff; Chandra; Samuel Cogley; Corrigan; Enterprise personnel officer; Ben Finney; Jame Finney; Hammurabi; Hansen; Justinian; James T. Kirk; Krasnovsky; Lindstrom; Leonard McCoy; Mike; Moses; Areel Shaw; Spock; L.T. Stone; Teller; Timothy; Nyota Uhura
Politics	Code of Hammurabi; Code of Justinian; Constitution of the United States of America; court martial; Fundamental Declarations of the Martian Colonies; Judge Advocate General; Magna Carta; murder; perjury; Starfleet; Starfleet Command; Starfleet Ranks (Midshipman, Ensign, Lieutenant, Lieutenant Commander, Commander, Captain, Commodore); Statutes of Alpha III; Tribunal of Alpha III; United States of America
Science & Technology	atomic matter pile; audio receiver; bell; blood; books; communications; communicator; companel; computer; gravity; hammer; heart; heartbeat; ion pod; ion storm; impulse drive; Jefferies tube; microtapes; nacelle; orbit; PADD; phasers (Type 2); psychology; static electricity; time (second, minute, day, month, year); transporter; tricorder; turbolift; viewscreen; warp drive; white sound device; wrench
Ships & Vehicles	Constitution class; U.S.S. Constitution NCC-1700; U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701; U.S.S. Essex NCC-1697; U.S.S. Excalibur NCC-1664; U.S.S. Hood NCC-1703; U.S.S. Intrepid NCC-1631; U.S.S. Lexington NCC-1709; NCC-1718; NCC-1872; NCC-1886; Shuttlecraft Picasso SB11-1201/1; U.S.S. Republic NCC-1371
Xenology	Humans; hybrids; Vulcans
Miscellaneous	bridge; briefing room; commanding officer; first officer; Grankite Order of Tactics; Karagite Order of Heroism; Legion of Honor; logs; main engineering; Medal of Honor; Palm Leaf of Axanar Peace Mission; Phase I search; Prantares Ribbon of Commendation; Red Alert; science officer; Silver Palm; Starfleet Citation for Conspicuous Gallantry; Starfleet delta; Starfleet Uniforms (2266); Vulcanian Expedition; Vulcanian Scientific Legion of Honor; Yellow Alert

Credits

Starring
William Shatner

Also Starring
Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock

Directed by
Marc Daniels

Teleplay by
Don M. Mankiewicz and Steven W. Carabatsos

Story by
Don M. Mankiewicz

Produced by
Gene L. Coon

Executive Producer
Gene Roddenberry

Created by
Gene Roddenberry

Associate Producer
Robert H. Justman

Script Consultant
Steven W. Carabatsos

Co-Starring
Percy Rodriguez as Portmaster Stone
Elisha Cook as Cogley
Joan Marshall as Areel Shaw

Featuring

DeForest Kelley	…	as Dr. McCoy
Nichelle Nichols	…	as Uhura
Richard Webb	…	as Finney
Hagan Beggs	…	as Helmsman
Winston DeLugo	…	as Timothy
and
Alice Rawlings	…	as Jame Finney
with
Nancy Wong	…	as Enterprise personnel officer
Bart Conrad	…	as Krasnovsky
William Meader	…	as Board Officer
Reginald Lal Singh	…	as Board Officer

Music Composed and Conducted by
Alexander Courage

Director of Photography
Jerry Finnerman

Art Directors
Rolland M. Brooks
and
Walter M. Jefferies

Film Editor
Bruce Schoengarth

Assistant to the Producer
Edward K. Milkis

Assistant Director
Gregg Peters

Set Decorator
Marvin March

Costumes Created by
William Theiss

Post Production Executive
Bill Heath

Music Editor
Robert H. Raff

Sound Editor
Douglas H. Grindstaff

Sound Mixer
Jack F. Lilly

Photographic Effects
Film Effects of Hollywood

Script Supervisor
George A. Rutter

Music Consultant
Wilbur Hatch

Music Coordinator
Julian Davidson

Special Effects
Jim Rugg

Property Master
Irving A. Feinberg

Gaffer
George H. Merhoff

Head Grip
George Rader

Production Supervisor
Bernard A. Widin

Makeup Artist
Fred B. Phillips, S.M.A.

Hair Styles by
Virginia Darcy, C.H.S.

Wardrobe Mistress
Margaret Makau

Casting
Joseph D'Agosta

Sound
Glen Glenn Sound Co.

A Desilu Production

In Association with
Norway Corporation

Executive in Charge of Production
Herbert F. Solow

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