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The Empath
"The Empath" is the twelfth episode of the Star Trek: The Original Series season 3, third season of the American science fiction television series ''Star Trek: The Original Series, Star Trek''. Written by Joyce Muskat and directed by John Erman, it was first broadcast on December 6, 1968. In the episode, while visiting a doomed planet, the landing party is subjected to brutal experiments by powerful aliens. This episode is one of a handful not screened in the United Kingdom by the BBC for many years, owing to its disturbing content (torture). It was not broadcast by the BBC until January 1994. Plot The starship USS Enterprise (NCC-1701), USS ''Enterprise'' arrives at Minara II to recover research personnel as its star is about to go supernova. Captain James T. Kirk, Kirk, Leonard McCoy, Dr. McCoy, and Science Officer Spock beam to the surface but find the research station deserted. Chief Engineer Montgomery Scott, Scott moves ''Enterprise'' to a safe distance to protect it fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Original Series
''Star Trek'' is an American science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry that follows the adventures of the starship and its crew. It acquired the retronym of ''Star Trek: The Original Series'' (''TOS'' to distinguish the show within the media franchise that it began. The show is set in the Milky Way galaxy, 2266–2269. The ship and crew are led by Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner), First Officer and Science Officer Spock (Leonard Nimoy) and Chief Medical Officer Leonard H. "Bones" McCoy (DeForest Kelley). Shatner's voice-over introduction during each episode's opening credits stated the starship's purpose: 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. Norway Productions and Desilu Productions produced the series from September 1966 to December 1967. Paramount Television p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James T
James may refer to: People * James (given name) * James (surname) * James (musician), aka Faruq Mahfuz Anam James, (born 1964), Bollywood musician * James, brother of Jesus * King James (other), various kings named James * Prince James (other) * Saint James (other) Places Canada * James Bay, a large body of water * James, Ontario United Kingdom * James College, a college of the University of York United States * James, Georgia, an unincorporated community * James, Iowa, an unincorporated community * James City, North Carolina * James City County, Virginia ** James City (Virginia Company) ** James City Shire * James City, Pennsylvania * St. James City, Florida Film and television * ''James'' (2005 film), a Bollywood film * ''James'' (2008 film), an Irish short film * ''James'' (2022 film), an Indian Kannada-language film * "James", a television episode of ''Adventure Time'' Music * James (band), a band from Manchester ** ''James'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fred Freiberger
Fred Freiberger (February 19, 1915March 2, 2003) was an American film and television writer and television producer, whose career spanned four decades and work on films such as ''The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms'' (1953) and TV series including '' Ben Casey'' (1963–64), ''The Wild Wild West'' (1965), ''Star Trek'' (1968–69) and '' Space: 1999'' (1976–77). Freiberger was the producer of the third and final season of science-fiction series ''Star Trek'', between 1968 and 1969. His screenwriting credits include 13 films made between 1946 and 1958. He appeared as himself in the short documentary ''Funny Old Guys'', which aired as part of the HBO series ''Still Kicking, Still Laughing'' in 2003, a few months after his death in March. Freiberger died on March 2, 2003, at his Bel-Air home, according to his son, Ben. No cause of death was given. Early life and career Freiberger was born to a Jewish family in New York City. In the late 1930s, Freiberger worked in advertising ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gene Roddenberry
Eugene Wesley Roddenberry Sr. (August 19, 1921 – October 24, 1991) was an American television screenwriter and producer who created the science fiction series and fictional universe ''Star Trek.'' Born in El Paso, Texas, Roddenberry grew up in Los Angeles, where his father was a police officer. Roddenberry flew 89 combat missions in the United States Army Air Forces, Army Air Forces during World War II and worked as a commercial pilot after the war. Later, he joined the Los Angeles Police Department and began to write for television. As a freelance writer, Roddenberry wrote scripts for ''Highway Patrol (American TV series), Highway Patrol'', ''Have Gun – Will Travel'', and other series, before creating and producing his own television series, ''The Lieutenant.'' In 1964, Roddenberry created the original ''Star Trek: The Original Series, Star Trek'' series, which premiered in 1966 and ran for three seasons. He then worked on projects including a string of failed televis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Fisher (playwright)
Robert "Bob" Fisher (September 21, 1922 – September 19, 2008) was an American playwright, and television and film screenwriter mostly of situational comedy. Biography One of the most prolific of sitcom writers, Fisher began in television the 1950s by pairing up with a veteran radio writer twenty-five years his senior nameAlan Lipscott Lipscott and Fisher wrote the first episode of the CBS-TV sitcom series '' Make Room For Daddy'' (starring Danny Thomas) in 1953, and went on to craft teleplays for ''The Donna Reed Show'', '' Bachelor Father'' (which starred John Forsythe), ''Bronco'', ''How to Marry a Millionaire'', and others. Following Lipscott's death in 1961, Fisher then began writing with Arthur Marx, and that partnership (which lasted for over twenty-five years) produced episodes of ''McHale's Navy'', ''My Three Sons'', ''The Mothers-in-Law'', the short lived ABC-TV series ''The Paul Lynde Show'', and NBC-TV's ''Life With Lucy'' in 1986. He and Marx were also story editors ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
When Worlds Collide
''When Worlds Collide'' is a 1933 science fiction novel co-written by Edwin Balmer and Philip Wylie; they also co-authored the sequel '' After Worlds Collide'' (1934). It was first published as a six-part monthly serial (September 1932 through February 1933) in ''Blue Book'' magazine, illustrated by Joseph Franké. Synopsis Sven Bronson, a Swedish astronomer working at an observatory in South Africa, discovers a pair of rogue planets, Bronson Alpha and Bronson Beta, which will soon enter the Solar System. In eight months, they will pass close enough for gravitational forces to cause catastrophic damage to the Earth. Sixteen months later, after swinging around the Sun, Bronson Alpha (a gas giant) will return to pulverize the Earth and depart. Bronson Beta (discovered to be Earth-like and potentially habitable) may remain and assume a stable orbit. Scientists led by American Cole Hendron work desperately to build an atomic rocket to transport enough people, animals and equipme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of California, Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California), is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Berkeley, California, United States. Founded in 1868 and named after the Anglo-Irish philosopher George Berkeley, it is the state's first land-grant university and is the founding campus of the University of California system. Berkeley has an enrollment of more than 45,000 students. The university is organized around fifteen schools of study on the same campus, including the UC Berkeley College of Chemistry, College of Chemistry, the UC Berkeley College of Engineering, College of Engineering, UC Berkeley College of Letters and Science, College of Letters and Science, and the Haas School of Business. It is Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity". Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory was originally founded as par ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parable Of The Pearl
The Parable of the Pearl (also called the Pearl of Great Price) is one of the parables of Jesus Christ. It appears in Matthew 13 and illustrates the great value of the Kingdom of God, Kingdom of Heaven. This is the penultimate parable in Matthew 13, coming just before the Parable of the Dragnet. It immediately follows the Parable of the Hidden Treasure, which has a similar theme. It does not appear in the other synoptic gospels, but a version of this parable does appear in the non-canonical Gospel of Thomas, Saying 76.''Gospel of Thomas''Lamb translationan The parable has been depicted by artists such as Domenico Fetti. The parable reads as follows: Interpretation This parable is generally interpreted as illustrating the great value of the Kingdom of Heaven. Theologian E. H. Plumptre, in Anglican bishop Charles Ellicott's ''Commentary'', notes that: "the caprices of luxury in the Roman Empire, Roman empire had given a prominence to Pearl, pearls, as an article of commerce, whic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
