The Practical Joker

PROD # TAS21
EP # 19
TZ Release: 10/01/2013
US Airdate: 21/09/1974
Stardate 3183.3

After passing through a strange cloud in space, the ship’s computer gains an artificial intelligence that’s relentlessly bent on performing practical jokes on the crew…

The Trekzone Review

What a great opening, probably one of the best of the series… didn’t give you a chance to think about what’s happening, and I suppose we had to give the ship computer some character development!

By the way, those landscapes in the holodeck, err… recreation room, were amazing. A lost art in these days of CGI.

Starring:
William Shatner as James T. Kirk
Leonard Nimoy as Spock
DeForest Kelley as Leonard McCoy
James Doohan as Montgomery Scott
George Takei as Hikaru Sulu
Nichelle Nichols as Nyota Uhura
Majel Barrett as Christine Chapel

Written By:
Chuck Menville

Directed By:
Bill Reed
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