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The Pirates of Orion

  • byJoe Siegler
  • Posted on August 10, 2024October 24, 2024
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The Pirates of Orion

This Story: Season 2 Episode 1 (production code 2.3)
TAS Overall: Episode 17
Trek Overall: Story 96, Episode 97
Airdate: 7 Sep 1974
Written by Howard Weinstein
Directed by Bill Reed

Notes

  • The first episode of Season 2.
  • The first episode directed by Bill Reed, who would go on to direct the remaining Season 2 episodes as well. This is despite the closing credits saying they were directed by Hal Sutherland.
  • This episode directly references the events of “Journey to Babel” from the original series.
  • Howard Weinstein was 19 years old when he sold the script for this story, making him the youngest person to sell an episode of Star Trek that was produced as a proper episode of the then incumbent series.
  • The name of the Orions is pronounced differently here than in every other appearance across Trek incarnations.  Here it’s “ore-eon” vs the more traditional “o-ryan”.
  • Due to another coloring error, the Orions are not shown with their traditional green skin.  I’m pretty sure this is supposed to be just overlooked as a production error of the era.  :)
  • Multiple references to this episode were made in the Star Trek: Lower Decks episode “Dos Cerritos” (2024).
  • My tweets for this episode say it aired on the 9th of September.  That was an error, it’s the 7th.

Links

[ Wikipedia | Memory Alpha | Amazon US DVD | Amazon US Blu-Ray ]

#StarTrekMarathon Star Trek TAS Ep 17 - The Pirates of Orion - 9 Sep 1974 1/2

S2 of TAS starts off with a rarity - male Orions - usually we just seen the females. Kirk & Co need to find a drug to cure Spock of a disease. To get that they have chase down the titular Pirates who pic.twitter.com/Fnt4Si2oWK

— jᎾᎬ sᎥᎬᎶᏞᎬᏒ (@JoeSiegler) August 10, 2024

#StarTrekMarathon Star Trek TAS Ep 17 - The Pirates of Orion - 9 Sep 1974 2/2

have stolen the drug. A pretty simple plot actually, but it's nice to see a new race. If there was more TAS after this, I suspect we would have seen more of them. "Orion" pronounced differently here. pic.twitter.com/xLhrdOMZJm

— jᎾᎬ sᎥᎬᎶᏞᎬᏒ (@JoeSiegler) August 10, 2024

50 years ago today, September 7, 1974, "The Pirates of Orion" opened the 2nd season of #StarTrekTAS It’s not every day a 19 yr old successfully pitches a Trek script, but Howard Weinstein became their youngest writer at the time to accomplish the feat! Sorry David Gerrold! 1/4🖖 pic.twitter.com/37oxLHCoMF

— GeekFilter 🖖 🏳️‍🌈 (@GeekFilter) September 7, 2024

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