TOS, How Many Episodes?

Darth Fanboy · Post by **Darth Fanboy** » 2003-02-16 01:14am

How many episodes were in TOS? Was it 72 or 73? and yes I have been watching South Park.

Utsanomiko · Post by **Utsanomiko** » 2003-02-16 01:16am

I thought it was 79.

Utsanomiko · Post by **Utsanomiko** » 2003-02-16 01:16am

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Darth Fanboy · Post by **Darth Fanboy** » 2003-02-16 02:54am

This is something I need to know, seeing as how im not smart enough to go back in time and ask Mr Roddenberry himself then you know, I appeal to the board ya?

Typhonis 1 · Post by **Typhonis 1** » 2003-02-16 03:05am

79 eppisodes were mde over three seasons for the NBC run of Star Trek and they fillmed each ep in about a week

Sabastian Tombs · Post by **Sabastian Tombs** » 2003-02-16 03:08am

Both of those guys were dumb*sses. There were 79 if you count "The Menagerie" as two episodes. Most official sources do count them as two, btw.

Sir Sirius · Post by **Sir Sirius** » 2003-02-16 04:44am

The Encyclopedia counts "The Managerie" as one episode and says that there are 79 episodes.

Captain tycho · Post by **Captain tycho** » 2003-02-16 05:28am

79.
But it seems so much more...

Sabastian Tombs · Post by **Sabastian Tombs** » 2003-02-16 04:01pm

Sir Sirius wrote:The Encyclopedia counts "The Managerie" as one episode and says that there are 79 episodes.

That is because the Encyclopedia lists "The Cage" as an episode even though it never aired on NBC (It later aired in the US on the SciFi Channel). The Star Trek Chronology lists 79 episodes aired on NBC counting "The Managerie" as 2 episodes.
Interestingly enough, I just looked at my SF Book Club editions of the Star Trek Reader (James Blish's novelizations of the episodes) collection and noticed that counting James Blish's novel "Spock Must Die" there are 72 stories. I wonder if that might be where they got the idea there were only 72 episodes.

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2003-02-16 06:30pm

Captain tycho wrote:79.
But it seems so much more...

That's because each TOS episode is worth about 10 TNG episodes.

Post by **Gandalf** » 2003-02-17 04:48am

Darth Wong wrote:
Captain tycho wrote:79.
But it seems so much more...
That's because each TOS episode is worth about 10 TNG episodes.

So in Voyager's 7 years did they even make opening credits?

Admiral Johnason · Post by **Admiral Johnason** » 2003-02-17 06:29pm

Gandalf wrote:
Darth Wong wrote:
Captain tycho wrote:79.
But it seems so much more...
That's because each TOS episode is worth about 10 TNG episodes.
So in Voyager's 7 years did they even make opening credits?

No, just half way the the opening speech.

Kurgan · Post by **Kurgan** » 2003-02-19 01:20am

TOS: 50 min episodes.

The rest of Trek: 45 min episodes (more time for commercials!).

The official site lists 79 episodes, going with the "2 part" 'The Menagerie' (as one episode... two episode 16's) and 'The Cage' (the original pilot, which has now been shown on TV in its full length version in color) as episode 1.

To sum up:

-80 full episodes.
-79 numbered episodes (episode 16, 'The Menagerie', which uses footage from 'The Cage' has two parts)
- 'The Cage' (the pilot) is episode 1

So for all intents and purposes, there's 80. ; )

Btw, glad to see the edit function is working!

Darth Servo · Post by **Darth Servo** » 2003-02-19 10:56am

Kurgan wrote:The rest of Trek: 45 min episodes (more time for commercials!).

With at least 15 of those 45 minutes being filled with technobabble. 30 in the case of Voyager.

Kurgan · Post by **Kurgan** » 2003-02-19 01:42pm

Yeah, which would you rather see.. Kirk busting a move with some hot female and a good fist fight... some officers standing around butchering science for a deus ex machina?

Uraniun235 · Post by **Uraniun235** » 2003-02-22 02:05pm

Kirk didn't get laid that often on the show.

Kurgan · Post by **Kurgan** » 2003-02-22 02:36pm

Yeah, I read that site too.. he had sex three times, used his charm eight times, and kissed a girl a bunch more times.

I guess people interpret every kiss and every wink/glance as sex, and that's how it works out. The legend of Kirk grows and grows!

SO NOW THE EDIT FUNCTION IS GONE AGAIN, WHAT GIVES?

Update: now it's back. Maybe I'm just forgetting to log in?

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