  
Title -------------------------
The Immunity Syndrome
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Writer ---------------------------------
Robert Sabaroff
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Director -------------------------------
Joseph Pevney
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Original Air Date ------------------ January 19,
1967
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Order of Filming ------------------------------------
48th
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Order of Broadcasting ----------------------------
47th
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Filmed ----------------- Late Oct.
& early Nov. 1967
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Captain James T. Kirk ------------ William Shatner
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Lieutenant Cmdr. Spock ---------- Leonard Nimoy
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Dr. Leonard "Bones"
McCoy ---- DeForest
Kelley
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Lt. Cmdr. Montomery
Scott ------- James
Doohan
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Lieutenant Uhura ------------------ Nichelle
Nichols
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Ensign Pavel Chekov --------------- Walter Koenig
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Nurse Christine Chapel -------------- Majel Barrett
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Lieutenant Kyle ----------------------- John
Winston
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Stunt Double -------------------------------
Jay Jones
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Stunt Double ---------------------------------
Dick Dial
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The U.S.S.
Enterprise is en route to Starbase 6 for shore leave when Uhura
receives a jumbled message from which all she can make out is a sector
coordinate and the name U.S.S. Intrepid, a starship manned entirely by
Vulcans. Suddenly, Spock shudders with pain and reports that the
Intrepid just "died."
Kirk
gets orders to head to Sector 39J because all contact has been lost
with solar system Gamma 7A and with the Intrepid, which was
investigating it. As the Enterprise changes course, long-range sensors
show that the solar system, and its billions of people, are dead.
Approaching
its destination, the U.S.S. Enterprise encounters a strange dark area
in space. Kirk launches a probe. Seconds later, the crew hears a
high-pitched whine throughout the ship, rendering half the people on
board ill, and causing some to faint. Spock speculates that the
phenomenon is some form of energy that is probably responsible for the
death of the system inhabitants and the Intrepid crew. Kirk decides to
move closer, and the crew hears the whine again. This time when they
recover, the stars seem to have vanished. Spock reports that the noise
was produced when the Enterprise passed through a boundary layer, and
that they are surrounded by a field that is draining their mechanical
and biological energy. McCoy confirms this when he reports from sickbay
that everyone on the ship is dying.
Attempts
by Scotty to recalibrate the engines and break free from the dark zone
fail, and in fact the ship's expenditure of energy attracts an enormous
amoeba-like creature approximately 18,000 kilometers in length. McCoy
identifies the creature as an incredibly simple, single-celled organism
which feeds on energy, but he needs more data to save the ship. He and
Spock each volunteer to take a shuttle to investigate the creature
— what would most certainly be a suicide mission —
and Kirk decides to send Spock.
Spock
takes the shuttlecraft through the creature's membrane and moves toward
its nucleus. He reports that the creature appears to be ready to
reproduce. He loses voice contact but manages to continue transmitting
data.
Kirk
and McCoy determine that if the creature begins to reproduce, it will
spread rapidly and pose a serious threat to the galaxy, so it must be
destroyed. But the Enterprise only has enough power left to survive for
an hour.
Kirk
and McCoy realize they have to use the U.S.S. Enterprise as an
"antibody." Kirk orders the ship to punch its way into the giant
creature and set a course for the nucleus. An antimatter charge is
attached to a probe with a seven-minute delay. As soon as it is lodged
in the nucleus, the Enterprise backs away at full impulse. There are
only a few seconds to spare, but then they detect Spock's shuttle. Kirk
locks two tractor beams onto the shuttle, even though doing so delays
their escape. But when the antimatter explosion ruptures the creature's
membrane, both ships are thrown to safety. |
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Total WAVs: 49
(1) Rest ---------------------
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Captain
Kirk
(2) Storms -------------------
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Mr. Spock
(3) Died ---------------------
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Mr. Spock
Here's
something to
consider:
A starship with an all-Vulcan crew - that's great!
Good for the Vulcans! However, if you have a
starship with an all-Human crew, society would
probably consider it a racist issue and demand
at least some other races be represented on board.
Just a random observation.
Lt. Uhura
Mr.
Spock - Dr. McCoy
Dr.
McCoy - Mr. Spock
Interesting
dialogue from Spock.
(7) Bloody -------------------
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Dr.
McCoy - Mr. Spock
Spock seems
to be
forgetting that Vulcan's
history was even more violent than Earth's history.
(Yes, I know it's just a TV show)
Mr. Spock
(9) Dust ---------------------
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Lt.
Uhura - Mr. Spock - Captain
Kirk - Mr. Chekov
(10) Data --------------------
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Captain
Kirk - Mr. Spock
Kirk sounds
a bit
frustrated.
(11) Reverse -----------------
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Captain
Kirk - Mr. Spock
(12) Stars -------------------
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Mr.
Chekov
Captain
Kirk - Mr. Spock
(14) Answers ----------------
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Captain
Kirk - Scotty
(15) Solving -----------------
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Captain
Kirk
(16) Funny ------------------
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Captain
Kirk - Mr. Spock
Great
dialogue!
(17) Orders ------------------
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Captain
Kirk
Imagine
being an
off-duty crewman when
this episode begins and sometime during
your off-duty hours Kirk's voice comes over the
ship-wide intercom with this message.
Time to freak out!!
(18) Dying -------------------
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Dr. McCoy
Life
monitors? Energy levels?
What's he talking about??
This is one of those silly lines of dialogue
that should have been edited out but they used
it because it sounds dramatic.
(19) Thrust ------------------
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Mr.
Spock - Captain
Kirk
(20) Forward ----------------
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Captain
Kirk - Scotty
Nudge it
into
forward? First gear or second?
Hehehe... Sorry.
(21) Zone -------------------
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Mr.
Spock - Captain Kirk
(22) Logic ------------------
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Mr.
Spock - Captain
Kirk
(23) Power ------------------
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Scotty -
Captain
Kirk
Captain
Kirk - Mr. Spock
(25) Probe -------------------
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Mr.
Chekov
(26) Living -------------------
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Mr. Spock
(27) First --------------------
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Dr.
McCoy - Mr. Spock
"The Vulcans
saw
it first!"
That's Spock's arguement?
Sounds very juvenile to me!
This is very out of character for Mr. Spock.
He should never have spoken this line.
Captain
Kirk
(29) Luck --------------------
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Mr.
Spock - Dr. McCoy
(30) Bet ---------------------
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Mr.
Spock - Dr. McCoy
(31) Nucleus -----------------
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Mr. Spock
(32) Alive --------------------
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Captain
Kirk
(33) Critical ------------------
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Scotty -
Captain
Kirk
Mr. Spock
Captain
Kirk - Dr. McCoy
If this episode was
on TNG they would never
have killed the amoeba creature.
They would have been politically correct
and made "friends" and sent it on its way.
Don't get me wrong, I like TNG, it's just
they were so "squeaky clean."
(36) Tunnel ------------------
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Captain
Kirk - Scotty
Captain
Kirk
(38) Aware ------------------
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Mr.
Chekov - Captain
Kirk
Yes, but it
gives
Mr. Chekov a chance
to say some dialogue!
(39) Pardon ------------------
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Scotty -
Dr. McCoy - Captain
Kirk
Captain
Kirk - Scotty
Dr.
McCoy - Captain
Kirk
(42) Finest -----------------
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Mr. Spock
(43) Duty --------------------
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Captain
Kirk
(44) Launch -----------------
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Captain
Kirk - Mr. Kyle
Kirk calls
him
'Cowl' in this episode
but the credits list him as 'Kyle.'
(45) Lodged -----------------
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Mr.
Chekov
(46) Time --------------------
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Captain
Kirk
(47) Risk --------------------
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Mr.
Spock - Dr. McCoy
Sarcasm from
Mr.
Spock!
(48) Botched ----------------
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Mr.
Spock - Captain
Kirk - Dr. McCoy
How would
McCoy
know this?
(49) Planet ------------------
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Captain
Kirk
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