Stardate: 3013.1 --Spock and Pike's fate is in jeopardy as Kirk and Mendez learn of Pike's incarceration at the hands of the Talosians years earlier, and how it relates to Spock's theft of the Enterprise.

original airdate--November 24, 1966  Remastered Date: December 2, 2006

music: Theme song  written by Alexander Courage

Goofs--When Spock takes Captain Pike out of the briefing room, Pike appears, via the viewscreen, on Talos IV in the very next shot. There is no possible way Spock could have gotten Pike to the transporter room that fast.

Trivia--When Number One and Yeoman J.M Colt transport to the planet, Vina states that Capt. Pike would be better reproducing with a computer than Number One (Majel Barrett). Majel Barrett provided the standard Federation computer voice throughout the various Star Trek series.

Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before.