Star Trek Logo 'And the Children Shall Lead'

by Edward J. Lakso
Star Trek Cast

When the U.S.S. Enterprise arrives in orbit around the planet Triacus, Captain Kirk and his crew discover that every adult member of the Starnes Expedition has inexplicably committed suicide. Beaming down to the planet surface to investigate, Kirk and his landing party are surprised to find that the children of the dead scientific team are alive and well; however, the youngsters are strangely oblivious to their parents' deaths, and are much more interested in playing their games than listening to any questions that the captain tries to ask them. While Kirk and his officers attempt to determine the reason why the expedition members killed themselves, the children are transported aboard the Enterprise for safety. But, unknown to the ship's crew, when the children play one of their special games they are able to summon up their 'friendly angel', a mysterious and charismatic man named Gorgan. This 'angel' instructs the young boys and girls to take over the Enterprise, enabling him to seek out a planet that he can dominate...

William Shatner (Captain James Tiberius Kirk), Leonard Nimoy (First Officer Lieutenant Commander Spock), DeForest Kelley (Doctor Leonard H. ‘Bones’ McCoy), James Doohan (Chief Engineer Montgomery ‘Scotty’ Scott), Nichelle Nichols (Lieutenant Nyota Uhura), George Takei (Lieutenant Hikaru Sulu), Walter Koenig (Ensign Pavel Andreivich Chekov), Melvin Belii (Gorgan), Craig Hundley (Tommy Starnes), James Wellman (Professor Starnes), Pamelyn Ferdin (Mary Janowski), Brian Tochi (Ray Tsingtao), Caesar Belli (Steve O'Connell), Mark Robert Brown (Don Linden), Eddie Paskey (Lieutenant Leslie)

Directed by Marvin Chomsky

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11th October, 1968

Notes:
*Featuring Captain James Tiberius Kirk, First Officer Lieutenant Commander Spock, Doctor Leonard H. ‘Bones’ McCoy, Chief Engineer Montgomery Scott, Lieutenant Nyota Uhura, Lieutenant Hikaru Sulu, Ensign Pavel Andreivich Chekov and Lieutenant Leslie