Star Trek: The Original Series Cast & Character Guide
Star Trek: The Original Series features some of the most iconic characters in all of science fiction with the crew of the original USS Enterprise.
Star Trek: The Original Series (1966)
Star Trek: The Original Series follows the exploits of the crew of the USS Enterprise. On a five-year mission to explore uncharted space, Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner) must trust his crew - Spock (Leonard Nimoy), Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy (Forest DeKelley), Montgomery "Scotty" Scott (James Doohan), Uhura (Nichelle Nichols), Chekov (Walter Koenig) and Sulu (George Takei) - with his life. Facing previously undiscovered life forms and civilizations and representing humanity among the stars on behalf of Starfleet and the United Federation of Planets, the Enterprise regularly comes up against impossible odds and diplomatic dilemmas.
Star Trek: The Original Series
- Cast
- William Shatner , Gene Roddenberry
- Release Date
- September 8, 1966
- Seasons
- 3
- Network
- Paramount
- Streaming Sevice
- Paramount+
- Franchise(s)
- Star Trek
- Writers
- Gene Roddenberry
- Directors
- Gene Roddenberry
- Showrunner
- Gene Roddenberry
- Story By
- gene roddenberry
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