Star Trek Logo 'Shore Leave'

by Theodore Sturgeon
(a.k.a. Edward Hamilton Waldo)
Star Trek Cast

Captain Kirk sends a landing party down to the surface of an idyllic, uncharted planet, believing the picturesque, Earth-type world to be a perfect place to send his crew for some shore leave. He asks Doctor McCoy to check the planet's suitability, but when the doctor arrives on the planet he is amazed to meet a life-sized white rabbit dressed in a waistcoat, being chased by a little girl wearing a pinafore dress. When Kirk beams down to answer McCoy's bizarre request for help, he finds himself face to face with Finnigan, his old enemy from his days at Starfleet Academy. Attempting to catch his old rival, Kirk meets Ruth, one of his many old girlfriends; however, neither Finnigan nor Ruth seems to have aged a day since Kirk last saw them. Meanwhile, Lieutenant Sulu is suddenly attacked by a Samurai warrior, while other members of the landing party experience even more unlikely encounters, such as a tiger and an attack from an airplane. When McCoy is killed by a black knight on horseback, Kirk and Lieutenant Commander Spock realise that the seemingly peaceful world has become far more dangerous than they bargained for - and that their very thoughts are somehow coming to life around them...

William Shatner (Captain James Tiberius Kirk), Leonard Nimoy (First Officer Lieutenant Commander Spock), DeForest Kelley (Doctor Leonard H. ‘Bones’ McCoy), Nichelle Nichols (Lieutenant Nyota Uhura), George Takei (Lieutenant Hikaru Sulu), Oliver McGowan (The Caretaker), Bruce Mars (Cadet Finnegan), James Gruzaf (Don Juan), Shirley Bonne (Ruth), Marcia Brown (Alice), Emily Banks (Yeoman Tonia Barrows), Perry Lopez (Lieutenant Esteban Rodriquez), Barbara Baldavin (Ensign Angela Martine)

Directed by Robert Sparr

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29th December, 1966

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