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#15: Star Trek: The Original Series, season 1, episode 16 “The Galileo Seven”
Written by Oliver Crawford & S. Bar-David, directed by Robert Gist.
Stardates 2821.5 through 2823.8 (August 2267)
“Mr. Spock, that was a good gamble.” - Lieutenant Montgomery Scott
In an effort to catalog a quasar while delivering critical medical supplies to New Paris, the shuttlecraft Galileo crashes on an unexplored world. Commander Spock, one of the shuttle’s occupants, takes command for the first time and attempts to balance his rational, logical understanding with the frayed emotions of the other stranded crewmembers who must now follow his orders. Meanwhile, Captain Kirk fights a ticking clock to locate and rescue the lost shuttle occupants while High Commissioner Ferris (John Crawford) breathes down his neck to reach the life or death rendezvous on time.
Originally released: 5 January 1967
“The Galileo Seven” on Memory Alpha
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What did you think?
Classic, classic ep. I don’t really have much to add, except that it was one of the finest examples of a prolonged pressure-cooker situation in TOS, and the series had several other good ones, like the one about flying in to the giant cell in space.
Guess I’ll also add that TOS sure had some beautiful women as guest actors, such as Yeoman Mears.
Per Memory-Alpha:
Mears would come back later as one of the space hippies.
And she’s only on this episode because the part was written for Grace Whitney, but Rand had just been written off the show during this point in production.
Yes, Mears (Phyllis Douglas) is really cute. But even cuter is the face Uhura was making at Spock at the end of the episode: