Star Trek: The Original Series
Mr. Sulu ( George Takei ) nearly died former inStar Trek : The Original Seriesseason 1 because the USS Enterprise was missing something important . AlthoughStar Treklaunched on NBC in 1966 withCaptain James T. Kirk ( William Shatner)in program line of the Starship Enterprise ’s five - twelvemonth mission of exploration , much ofStar Trekwas still a piece of work in progress . FromMr . Spock ( Leonard Nimoy ) calling himself"second officer"to the United Federation of Planets yet to be created , earlyStar Trekwas still figuring it out as it went along .
Star Trek : The Original Seriesseason 1 , episode 5 , " The Enemy Within , " meet a conveyer accident duplicate Captain Kirk into good and evil one-half . As the crew of the Starship Enterprise figure out the crisis of two Kirks , Mr. Sulu and three officers are stranded on the satellite Alfa 177 with temperatures apace dropping to lethal sub - zero tier . The Enterprise ’s malfunctioning conveyer belt could n’t radiate Sulu and troupe aboard , which begged a logical question : Why did n’t the Enterprise transmit down a shuttlecraft ?
Star Trek’s USS Enterprise Didn’t Have A Shuttlecraft In Season 1’s “The Enemy Within”
Sulu Almost Died Because Enterprise Had No Shuttlecraft
The Starship Enterprise did n’t send down a shuttlecraft to rescue Mr. Sulu and the other fixed ship’s officer in " The Enemy Within " becauseStar Treklacked a shuttlecraft set at that early point in the serial ' run . A shuttlecraft as an option to write Sulu is never talk over in " The Enemy Within , " and the officer in jeopardy on the planet below were a ticking clock plot point in theStar Trekepisode . Sulu ’s only salvation was for the Enterprise ’s conveyer belt to be cleared of the danger of duplicating Sulu like it did Captain Kirk .
From different uniform to all different characters , Star Trek : The Original Series has some peculiar mutual exclusiveness in the first few episodes .
Even though Sulu was dying on Alfa 177 , Captain Kirk , Spock , and Dr. Leonard McCoy ( DeForest Kelley ) were principally concerned with the hurt the evil Kirk was doing aboard the endeavour , include sexually assaultingYeoman Janice Rand ( Grace Lee Whitney ) . When the two Kirks were eventually merged by the repaired transporter , Sulu and his colleagues were finally broadcast aboard the Enterprise . A shuttlecraft would have work out this dilemma instantaneously , butStar Treksimply did n’t have one yet .
Star Trek Finally Got A Shuttlecraft Later In Season 1
“The Galileo Seven” Debuted Star Trek’s Most Famous Shuttlecraft
A Starfleet shuttlecraft was first seen inStar Trek : The Original Seriesseason 1 ’s " The Menagerie " two - parter . Captain Kirk and Commodore Jose Mendez ( Malachi Throne ) used a shuttle to chase theStarship Enterprise that Spock hijackedto bring the grievously offend Fleet Captain Christopher Pike ( Sean Kenney ) to Talos IV . However , a full - fledge shuttlecraft Galileo set was finally ensure inStar Trek : The Original Seriesseason 1 , episode 13 , " The Galileo Seven . "
The shuttlecraft Galileo was key out for the seventeenth C astronomer and physicist Galileo Galilei .
Now thatStar Trekfinally had a shuttlecraft , " The Galileo Seven " was plan to show it off . When Spock is in control of the shuttlecraft , which is stranded on a minor planet of unfriendly extraterrestrial , the Vulcan Science Officer ’s confidence and reliance on system of logic are repeatedly question by his bunch . The shuttlecraft Galileo also leave to the Starship Enterprise gaining an telling hangar bay setused throughoutStar Trek : The Original Series .
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Star Trek: Prodigy Revealed A Surprising Fate For The Shuttlecraft Galileo
Galileo Helped Inspire The Enderprizians
Star Trek : Prodigyseason 1 ’s classical sequence 13 , " All the World ’s a Stage , " revealed a surprising destiny for the shuttlecraft Galileo . Dal R’El ( Brett Gray ) and the young crew of the USS Protostar discoveredEnsign David Garrovick ( voiced by Fred Tatasciore ) of the USS Enterprise crash - landed the Galileo on a pre - warp planet over a century before . The indweller of the planet modeled their society after " En - Son " and the records of the Starship Enterprise , call themselves the Enderprizians .
Leaking plasma from the Galileo was contaminate the satellite and poison the Enderprizians .
The Starship Enterprise in laterStar Trek : The Original Seriesepisodes and theStar Trekmovieshad newer version of the shuttlecraft Galileo . The original Galileo shuttlecraft was n’t built in meter to be used to economise Mr. Sulu inStar Trek : The Original Series ' " The Enemy Within , " but afterward , Galileo became the most renowned shuttlecraft seen inStar Trek .
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