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Myriad Universes: "Dagger of the Mind"

Dagger of the Mind

"Dagger of the Mind" (TOS 11)

Series	Star Trek
Season	1
Episode	9
Production Number	11
Previous	What Are Little Girls Made Of? (TOS 10)
Next	Miri (TOS 12)
Released	3 Nov 1966
Advertising	Amazon

Prime Timeline
(The root of all realities)

Stardate 2715.1: A new treatment for the criminally insane has deadly results.

The Enterprise is delivering supplies to Tantalus V, a "progressive" penal colony directed by Dr. Tristan Adams. A Tantalus inmate escapes to the ship and demands asylum. An apparent raving madman, the patient is subdued and taken to sickbay. There, he is identified as Dr. Simon van Gelder, Dr. Adams' assistant.

Captain Kirk and ship's psychiatrist Dr. Helen Noel beam down to Tantalus to ensure that all is well. After they leave, Mr. Spock uses a mind meld on van Gelder and determines that Adams has turned Tantalus into a chamber of horrors, using a neural neutralizer—a device responsible for van Gelder's incoherent state.

Kirk and Noel experience the device firsthand when Adams uses it to convince Kirk that he is hopelessly in love with Dr. Noel. She risks her life to cut the colony's power so that Spock and a landing party can beam down through the planet's defensive forcefield. During the attack, Adams accidentally dies in his own machine, and van Gelder becomes the new director of Tantalus, where his first act is to dismantle the neural neutralizer.

Image Gallery

Related Data

Astrometrics	Earth; Stockholm; Tantalus V
Chronology	2266; 25 December 2266; Stardate 2715.1-2715.2
Culture	Christmas; dancing; party; toasting
Education	doctor; doctorate; physician; psychiatrist; surgeon
Food	alcohol; champagne
People	Adams, Tristan; Berkeley; Carl; Eli; Fields; Kirk, James T.; Lethe; McCoy, Leonard; Noel, Helen; Spock; Tantalus Security Guard; Uhura, Nyota; van Gelder, Simon
Politics	asylum; penal colony; prison; Starfleet Ranks (Ensign, Lieutenant, Lieutenant Commander, Commander, Captain); yeoman
Science & Technology	air conditioning; audio receiver; biobed; biomonitor; blood; brain; brass; breathing mask; communications; communicator; companel; computer; elevator; feet; forcefield; heart; hypnosis; hypospray; impulse drive; medication; medkit; mind meld; nacelle; neural neutralizer; orbit; PADD; phasers (Type 1, Type 2); psychiatry; psychotherapy; schizophrenia; sedative; sensors; sponge; synapses; telepathy; time (second, minute, hour, century); tranquilizer; transporter; tricorder; turbolift; viewscreen; warp drive
Ships & Vehicles	Constitution class; U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701
Xenology	Humans; hybrids; Vulcans
Miscellaneous	bridge; captain's quarters; Central Bureau of Penology; commanding officer; Devil's Island; first officer; hospital; kitchen; logs; Red Alert; science lab; sickbay; Starfleet Uniforms (2266); vault; Vulcan nerve pinch

Credits

Starring
William Shatner

Also Starring
Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock

Directed by
Vincent McEveety

Written by
S. Bar-David

Created and Produced by
Gene Roddenberry

Associate Producers
Robert H. Justman, John D.F. Black

Director of Photography
Jerry Finnerman

Art Directors
Rolland M. Brooks
and
Walter M. Jefferies

Music Composed and Conducted by
Alexander Courage

Guest Star
James Gregory

Co-Starring
DeForest Kelley, Morgan Woodward
and
Marianna Hill as Helen Noel

Featuring

Nichelle Nichols	…	as Uhura
Susanne Wasson	…	as Lethe
John Arndt	…	as First Crewman
Larry Anthony	…	as Transportation Man
Ed McCready	…	as Inmate
Eli Behar	…	as Therapist

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
Joseph G. Sorokin

Sound Mixer
Jack F. Lilly

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
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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