STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES
Season 2, Episode 16

The Gamesters Of Triskelion

Series: Original Series - (1966-1969)
Season: 2
Episode #: 16
Production #: 60346
Original Airdate: 01/05/1968

Writer(s): Margaret Armen
Director(s): Gene Nelson

Guest Stars
Joseph Ruskin as Galt
Angelique Pettyjohn as Shahna
Steve Sandor as Lars
Jane Ross as Tamoon
Victoria George as Ensign Jana Haines
Dick Crockett as the Andorian Thrall
Mickey Morton as Kloog

Uncredited Guest Stars
William Blackburn as Lt. Hadley
Frank da Vinci as Lt. Brent
Bart LaRue as the Voice of Provider #1
Walker Edmiston as the Voice Provider #2
Robert C. Johnson as the Voice Provider #3
Roger Holloway as Ensign Roger Lemli
Jeannie Malone as a Bridge Yeoman
Eddie Paskey as Lt. Leslie

Stardate: 3211.7

Synopsis

During a routine transport to a planet, Captain Kirk, Lieutenant Uhura and Ensign Chekov are intercepted and abducted by a powerful and distant transporter beam. Arriving, literally, flat on their backs on a planet called Triskelion in the M-24 Alpha star system, the are immediately attacked by beings from several different species, each of them wearing a collar around their necks.

Kirk and his crew mates have been brought to this planet to fight as gladiators in combat games in order to entertain and provide exciting gambling for the disembodied entities called the "Providers." Each assigned a "drill thrall" of their own, Kirk and his companions are collared as well, which asphyxiate those who are disobedient to the Providers.

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On board the U.S.S. Enterprise, Spock, aware that the crew members are missing, attempts to locate them, and eventually finds the origin of the beam. Upon its arrival, the crew of the starship is also taken captive by the Providers.

With the ship and his entire crew at stake, Kirk makes a final wager to the Providers which they cannot resist: himself against three drill thralls on the condition that if he wins, all the drill thralls go free and are taught how to live for themselves again. If Kirk fails, he promises himself and the entire crew as the most entertaining fighters they've ever seen.

Kirk beats the three drill thralls and wins the wager, and the Providers set all the thralls free and permit the U.S.S. Enterprise and her crew to leave also.

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