STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES
Season 1, Episode 16

The Galileo Seven

Series: Original Series - (1966-1969)
Season: 1
Episode #: 16
Production #: 6149-14
Original Airdate: 01/05/1967

Writer(s): Oliver Crawford and S. Bar-David
Director(s): Robert Gist

Guest Stars
Don Marshall as Lt. Boma
John Crawford as Galactic High Commissioner Ferris
Peter Marko as Lt. Gaetano
Phyllis Douglas as Yeoman Mears
Reese Vaughn as Lt. Latimer
Grant Woods as Lt. Kelowitz
Buck Maffei as the Makus III Creature
David Ross as Transporter Chief Lt. Galloway

Uncredited Guest Stars
Majel Barrett as the Computer Voice
William Blackburn as Lt. Hadley
Frank da Vinci as Lt. Brent
Eddie Paskey as Lt. Leslie
Ron Veto as Lt. Harrison

Stardate: 2821.5

Synopsis

On its way to deliver medical supplies to plague-ridden Makus III, the U.S.S. Enterprise passes Murasaki 312. Since they are under Starfleet orders to inspect galactic phenomena such as this quasarlike star group, McCoy, Spock, Scott and four crewmen take a shuttlecraft, the Galileo, for a closer look.

Without warning, the shuttlecraft is pulled off course and out of sensor range of the U.S.S. Enterprise. Spock manages to crash land the shuttle on a foggy, rocky area of Taurus II which is inhabited by giant, hostile humanoids. Between attacks by the war-like residents and quarrels among themselves, the crew attempts to repair the shuttle and get off the planet.

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Because of an ionization of its instruments, the U.S.S. Enterprise is unable to find the craft. On board, Commissioner Ferris demands that Kirk abandon the search and proceed to Makus III. Two of the crewmen from the Galileo are killed by the giant humanoids and Lt. Boma demands, irrationally, that Spock stop his repairs in order to bury the dead men. Spock's logic will not permit him to comply with the lieutenant's wishes in the face of their present situation.

As the U.S.S. Enterprise prepares to leave the area without finding the missing shuttle, the Galileo manages an unsteady orbit around the planet, but is unable to pull away from its gravitational pull. Knowing it will send them crashing to the planet's surface if his plan fails, Spock ignites the remaining fuel. The U.S.S. Enterprise sees the meteor-like flare of the burning fuel and beams the crew aboard as the Galileo disintegrates in the planet's atmosphere. Later, Spock stubbornly insists that his desperate act was not a human instinct to gamble, but a logical Vulcan approach to their problem.

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