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#24: Star Trek: The Original Series, season 1, episode 22 "Space Seed"
Written by Gene L. Coon & Carey Wilber, directed by Marc Daniels.
Stardates 3141.9 through 3143.3 (October 2267)
"Improve a mechanical device and you may double productivity. But improve man... and you gain a thousandfold. I am such a man." - Khan Noonien Singh
The Enterprise discovers a derelict Earth ship from the 1990s that doesn't match any such ship in Starfleet records. Onboard they find 72 men and women in cryogenic stasis. One of those men (Ricardo Montalban) is unintentionally awakened. When Doctor McCoy brings him aboard, not only does he survive being frozen for almost two centuries, he exhibits the physical and mental traits of someone who has been genetically engineered.
Originally released: 16 February 1967
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What did you think?
Good points!
I think Roddenberry typically did so many final script rewrites because he was most-responsible for the series 'bible,' and was legitimately concerned that things were as consistent as possible, in-universe. I'm certainly not his biggest fan, but apart from him routinely stealing others' contribution credits, I tend to think he did pretty well, there.
Btw, yesterday I discovered a ST fan convention program from 1975 next to my old AD&D books. It's pretty cool, and contains an interesting, almost psychedelic short comic strip. I'll have to see if someone scanned it already and has it online, otherwise...