Stardate: 3211.7 --Kirk, Uhura, and Chekov are kidnapped away from the transporter pad as they prepare to beam down to Gamma 2, an uninhabitable plant with an automated station.The party appears on a completely different planet and are taken prisoner. Spock must find out what happened and try to find where the landing party has gone.

original airdate--January 5, 1968  Remastered date-- October 20, 2007

music:Theme song  written by Alexander Courage

Goof--When Lars is assaulting Uhura in her cell, Kirk mispronounces Uhura's name, shouting, "What's happening to Lieutenant You-hear-uh?"

Trivia--In one of the final scenes when Captain Kirk is brought down 1000 meters below the surface of Triskelion to meet the gamesters, the backdrop for the scene is a reused matte painting previously utilized in "Star Trek" (1966) {The Devil in the Dark (#1.25).

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.