The Galileo Seven
- FIRST SHOWN (US)
- 5 January 1967
- ON
- NBC
- STARDATE
- 2821.5
- DIRECTED BY
- Robert Gist
- PRODUCTION NO.
- 14
WRITTEN BYTeleplay by Oliver Crawford and S. Bar-David; story by Oliver Crawford
S. Bar-David is a pseudonym of Shimon Wincelberg, who also wrote “Dagger of the Mind” under that name.
When a shuttlecraft crash-lands on a hostile, fog-bound planet, Spock takes command of the stranded crew and finds that logic alone may not keep them alive.
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Carrying urgent medical supplies to Makus III, with the impatient Commissioner Ferris aboard, Kirk sends the shuttlecraft Galileo to study the quasar-like Murasaki 312. The shuttle is thrown off course and crash-lands on Taurus II, a planet of fog and giant hostile creatures. Spock commands the castaways, who include McCoy, Scotty, Lt Boma, Latimer, Gaetano and Yeoman Mears. The damaged shuttle cannot lift off with everyone aboard, and Spock's cool logic clashes with the frightened crew as Latimer and then Gaetano are killed. Spock's plan to scare the creatures off without killing them backfires. Scotty refuels the shuttle with power drained from the phasers, and they take off, but Kirk's search time has run out and the Enterprise is leaving. In a desperate gamble, Spock dumps and ignites the remaining fuel as a flare. Kirk spots it, and the survivors are beamed aboard just before the Galileo burns up.
- 01Oliver Crawford pitched it as a science fiction take on the 1939 film Five Came Back, which co-starred a young Lucille Ball, co-owner of Desilu.
- 02The first appearance of the Enterprise's shuttlecraft, and the first time a planet is described as Class M.
- 03Yeoman Mears was originally written as Janice Rand, but became a new character after Grace Lee Whitney was let go.