Star Trek: The Original Series

Assignment: Earth

Episode 79

Friday 1 September 2023

A man in a light-coloured suit, Gary Seven, is lying on a gantry looking at the side of a space rocket with a nozzle that seems to be pouring out steam. Sitting on his back watching the proceedings with some interest is a black cat.

Star Trek: The Original Series

Series 2, Episode 26

Stardate: Unknown (1968)

First broadcast on Friday 29 March 1968

It’s the pilot of a thrilling new spy-fi series, in which Gary Seven (Robert Lansing), his plucky secretary Miss Lincoln (Teri Garr), and his cat Isis (herself) hang out in the twentieth century’s most stylish decade, drinking cocktails after lunch and occasionally foiling America’s military–industrial complex. Is it time for us to end our trek through the stars so that we can complete an assignment here on earth?

Recorded on Tuesday 29 August 2023 · Download (72.4 MB)

Star Trek: The Original Series

Spock’s Brain

Episode 11

Friday 14 January 2022

Luma points a gun at Kirk, while Scotty looks on gormlessly.

Star Trek: The Original Series

Series 3, Episode 1

Stardate: 5431.4

First broadcast on Friday 20 September 1968

A young woman wearing fabulous boots materialises on the Enterprise, renders the crew unconscious, and then removes Spock’s brain. And soon we discover — to our horror — that everyone else involved in making this episode has had their brain removed as well.

Recorded on Monday 27 December 2021 · Download (63.9 MB)

Star Trek: The Original Series

Spectre of the Gun

Episode 20

Friday 18 March 2022

In the distance, the Enterprise Crew and Sylvia kneel over Chekov's body. They are framed by two enormous dark figures in the foreground.

Star Trek: The Original Series

Series 3, Episode 6

Stardate: 4385.3

First broadcast on Friday 25 October 1968

The crew of the Enterprise find themselves in a weird and beautifully directed simulacrum of Tombstone, Arizona with a couple of hours to kill before their certain death at the hands of Wyatt Earp’s gang of off-puttingly ugly cowboys. Meanwhile, we all learn a valuable lesson about why Star Trek is superior to real TV westerns. A classic.

Recorded on Saturday 12 March 2022 · Download (61.7 MB)

Star Trek: The Original Series

Whom Gods Destroy

Episode 90

Friday 1 December 2023

On the misty surface of a particularly unconvincing alien planet, a scantily-clad green-skinned Orion woman stretches out her hands. She looks terrified.

Star Trek: The Original Series

Series 3, Episode 14

Stardate: 5718.3

First broadcast on Friday 3 January 1969

A Very Important episode of Star Trek: The Original Series this week, in which we tackle the Serious Issue of Mental Illness, a Terrifying Social Problem which causes ordinary people to conceive an Unquenchable Desire to Take over the Entire Galaxy and to Use Capital Letters Unnecessarily. Fortunately, it can be cured by a Simple Intravenous Injection, which seems to have started working almost immediately. So, no harm done really. Except to this episode’s guest woman, who is dead.

Recorded on Tuesday 28 November 2023 · Download (72.1 MB)

Star Trek: The Original Series

The Way to Eden

Episode 139

Friday 10 January 2025

We're in the Enterprise transporter room. Sitting on the transporter pad are a group of five young people and an older man with a shaved head and massive latex ears — all dressed as hippies and all making a triangle shape with their hands. Standing upright opposite them is Spock, who is making the same shape with his hands as they are.

Star Trek: The Original Series

Series 3, Episode 20

Stardate: 5832.3

First broadcast on Friday 21 February 1969

This week, we learn a valuable lesson previously only known to the most tedious middle-aged people: that young people these days are arrogant, embarassing, and stupid — and also probably communists. Meanwhile, the crew of the Enterprise have all forgotten to remove their “Nixon’s the One!” badges, upsettingly.

Recorded on Tuesday 7 January 2025 · Download (73.0 MB)

Star Trek: The Original Series