NBC airs Star Trekâs first episodeâ”The Man Trap”âat 8:30PM on September 8, 1966. “Where No Man…”, which eventually aired in a re-edited format as the series’ third episode, retained only Spock as a character from “The Cage” but introduced William Shatner as Captain James T. Kirk, James Doohan as chief engineer Scotty, and George Takei as physicist (later helmsman) Sulu. Also joining the cast were DeForest Kelley as ship’s surgeon Dr. Leonard “Bones” McCoy and Nichelle Nichols as the communications officer Uhura in “The Man Trap”; the first aired episode of the series.
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