1x03 Where No Man Has Gone Before - Star Trek: The Original Series Episode Guide

Star Trek: The Original Series

- Episode 01x03

Episode: 01x03
Title: Where No Man Has Gone Before
Type: Regular Episode
Production Code: 6149-02
First Aired: Sep. 22, 1966

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Star Trek: The Original Series - 01x03 Where No Man Has Gone Before

Summary: When the Enterprise attempts to penetrate the galactic barrier, they are thrown back and one of the crew, Kirk's friend Gary Mitchell, gains godlike powers and threatens the entire ship. Kirk must decide whether to kill him or strand him... before it becomes too late to do anything.

Who appeared in this episode?

Mr. Spock

Guest Stars:

Captain James T. Kirk	played by William Shatner
Lt. Cmdr. Gary Mitchell	played by Gary Lockwood
Dr. Elizabeth Dehner	played by Sally Kellerman
Sulu	played by George Takei
Scott	played by James Doohan
Alden	played by Lloyd Haynes
Yeoman Smith	played by Andrea Dromm
Lt. Lee Kelso	played by Paul Carr
Doctor Mark Piper	played by Paul Fix

	Season 1 / Episode 3: - Where No Man Has Gone Before Mister Spock: He's reading faster now than just a few moments ago. Is that Gary Mitchell, the one you used to know?
	Season 1 / Episode 3: - Where No Man Has Gone Before Dr. Dehner: I'm sorry. You can't know what it's like to be almost a god.

[More Quotes]

MISTAKES/GOOFS

BOOM: Just before Kirk and Spock stun Mitchell (just prior to beaming down to the planet), the shadow of the boom mic is clearly visible well within the frame, moving across the wall behind Spock as Mitchell gets out of bed.
CONT: In the second pilot, which became the episode "Where No Man Has Gone Before," Captain Kirk's headstone reads: "James R. Kirk." Whenever it is given in later episodes, his middle initial is "T" and we learn in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991) that his full name is "James Tiberius Kirk".
CREW: William Shatner's stunt double is clearly seen swinging during Kirk and Mitchell's fight in the Delta Vega valley.
CONT: Sulu is referred to as a physicist here, but in all subsequent appearances he is referred to as a helmsman.
CREW: When Kirk fires his phaser rifle at the the rock, the explosive device is partially visible.

TRIVIA

During filming, the studio was infested with wasps who had built a nest up in the rafters. Sally Kellerman and William Shatner were both stung, the latter on his eyelid which swelled up, causing delays in the filming of some of his scenes.
This was filmed over one year before it was aired on TV.
The only episode in which Captain Kirk (William Shatner) does not have the pointed sideburns that he sports throughout the series and films. In this episode, his sideburns are cut normally.
The familiar colors and positions of the crew had not yet been finalized when this second pilot was shot. The tunics for operations crew are beige instead of red. The locations of the helmsman and navigator are reversed (when Kirk is facing the viewscreen, Mitchell, whom Kirk addresses as "helmsman," is on his right, and Kelso, the navigator, is on his left). Spock is wearing a gold command shirt, not a blue sciences one. Both Mitchell and Kelso wear beige operations shirts, rather than the gold command shirts later associated with their stations. Smith, the captain's yeoman, wears a gold command shirt, and Lieutenant Alden, the communications officer, wears a blue sciences shirt, rather than the operations shirts most later yeomen and communications officers would wear.
The first time in US TV history that a second pilot had to be submitted to convince the network to air it.