This Side of Paradise (Episode)
| Series | Star Trek |
| Season | 1 |
| Episode | 24 |
| Production Number | 25 |
| Release Date | 2 Mar 1967 |
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Stardate 3417.3: The crew is astonished to find a colony thought to be dead is instead alive and flourishing
The Enterprise arrives at planet Omicron Ceti III, where Kirk expects to find all the colonists dead because of the deadly Berthold rays to which they have been exposed for three years. But when a landing party beams down, colony leader Elias Sandoval informs them that everyone on the planet is quite well—including Leila Kalomi, a young botanist with whom Spock had worked six years before. Leila leads Spock to a clump of plants that spray him with their spores, liberating the Vulcan's emotions. Spock expresses his long-suppressed love for Leila. Other members of the landing party are exposed, plants are beamed up to the Enterprise, and before long everyone is affected. Then the captain discovers that strong emotional reactions are the antidote to the spores' effects, and tricks Spock into coming back aboard the Enterprise. He goads him into a fight, and barely avoids being killed by the Vulcan's superior strength. The conflict restores Spock to normal, and he assists Kirk in constructing an apparatus that frees the Enterprise crew and the colonists from the spores.
Image Gallery
Surface of Omicron Ceti III
communicator, open
Related Data
Credits
Starring
William Shatner
Also Starring
Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock
Directed by
Ralph Senensky
Teleplay by
D.C. Fontana
Story by
Nathan Butler and D.C. Fontana
Produced by
Gene L. Coon
Executive Producer
Gene Roddenberry
Created by
Gene Roddenberry
Associate Producer
Robert H. Justman
Guest Star
Jill Ireland
Special Guest Star
Frank Overton
DeForest Kelley as Dr. McCoy
| Featuring | ||
| Grant Woods | … | as Kelowitz |
| George Takei | … | as Sulu |
| Nichelle Nichols | as Uhura | |
| Michael Barrier | … | as DeSalle |
| Dick Scotter | … | as Painter |
| Eddie Paskey | … | as Crewman |
Music Composed and Conducted by
Alexander Courage
Script Consultant
D.C. Fontana
Director of Photography
Jerry Finnerman
Art Directors
Rolland M. Brooks
and
Walter M. Jefferies
Film Editor
James D. Ballas, A.C.E.
Assistant to the Producer
Edward K. Milkis
Assistant Director
Michael S. Glick
Set Decorator
Marvin March
Costumes Created by
William Theiss
Post Production Executive
Bill Heath
Music Editor
Jim Henrikson
Sound Editor
Douglas H. Grindstaff
Sound Mixer
Carl W. Daniels
Photographic Effects
Westheimer Company
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
Maragaret 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
