“The Man Trap” is the first episode of season one of the American science fiction television series Star Trek. In the episode, the crew visit an outpost on planet M-113 to conduct routine medical exams on the residents, only to be attacked by a shapeshifting alien. The crew struggle to differentiate between apparition and reality until the crew struggle between the apparitions and flesh and blood until the creature kills them all.
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“The Man Trap” is the first episode of season one of the American science fiction television series Star Trek. In the episode, the crew visit an outpost on planet M-113 to conduct routine medical exams on the residents, only to be attacked by a shapeshifting alien. This was the first Star Trek episode to air on television, although the sixth to be filmed; it was chosen as the first of the series to be broadcast by the studio due to the horror plot. The episode placed first in the timeslot with a Nielsen rating of 25. 2 percent for the first half-hour and 24. 2 for the remainder. It aired two days earlier on Canadian network CTV. The crew struggle to differentiate between apparition and reality until the crew struggle between the apparitions and flesh and blood until the creature kills them all. The final episode of the first season of Star Trek aired on September 8, 1966, at 9 p.m. ET on the U.S. television network CBS. The series finale, “The Next Generation,” aired on October 1, 1966. It was the last episode to be aired on CBS before the series was canceled. The finale was followed by the series finale of “The Searchers” on October 8, 1967. The last episode of “Star Trek” season one was aired on November 2, 1967, at 10 p.M. ET. The season two finale was “The Last Star Trek” on November 8, 1987, at 11 p. M. E. T. A.C. (GMT-8). The episode was directed by Marc Daniels and was written by George Clayton Johnson and written by Gene Roddenberry for Star Trek studio Paramount Pictures.
It is based on the novel “The Mantrap” by Gene Lee. The plot involves a group of scientists who visit a planet to conduct medical exams. They find out that the only inhabitants of the planet, Professor Robert Crater and his wife Nancy, have been killed by a creature that feeds on salt. The creature takes on the form of Nancy out of affection for Crater, and he has been feeding it. In response, Kirk transports back down to the planet with McCoy and two crewmen, Green and Sturgeon. Nancy kills both Sturgeon and Green; their faces show the same mottling as Darnell. Kirk and Spock beam down to capture Crater before Crater tries to frighten them away with phaser fire. Kirk arrives in sickbay to find Crater dead and Spock injured; Spock’s Vulcan blood made him incompatible with the creature’s needs. As Enterprise leaves orbit, Kirk comments that this creature – the last member of a long-dead civilization of shape-shifters who feed on salt – a year earlier – was probably not inherently evil but simply desperate. Kirk orders the fake McCoy to administer truth serum to the real McCoy. The real McCoy takes a sedative to sleep, and the creature reverts to its natural appearance and starts to feed on Kirk.
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