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Synopsis:
Kirk ignores an alien buoy that warns the U.S.S. Enterprise that it is trespassing into Melkotian space and continues forward when the Melkots transport Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Scotty, and Chekov to a recreation of Earth's wild west. Here their instruments will not function and they are forced to relive, in "a manner befitting their heritage for trespassing," the shoot-out in Tombstone, Arizona on October 26, 1881.
The U.S.S. Enterprise party is transported to the OK Corral, but as they will not fire on the "Earps," the gunfighters cannot hurt them. Chekov, in the role of Billy Claiborne, is killed and Spock realizes that these events are not really transpiring. Through a series of mind melds, Spock is able to reject the illusions of the hostiles enabling the crew to succeed without shooting at the others. The Melkots are impressed by the peaceful behavior of the U.S.S. Enterprise party and return them, including Chekov, who had been killed in an earlier altercation, to the U.S.S. Enterprise. The Melkots agree to establish contact with the Federation.
| Cast: |
| William Shatner as James T. Kirk |
| Leonard Nimoy as Spock |
| DeForest Kelley as Leonard H. McCoy |
| James Doohan as Montgomery Scott |
| Nichelle Nichols as Uhura |
| Walter Koenig as Pavel Andreievich Chekov |
| Guest Cast: |
| Bonnie Beacher as Sylvia |
| Rex Holman as Morgan Earp |
| Ron Soble as Wyatt Earp |
| Charles Maxwell as Virgil Earp |
| Sam Gilman as Doc Holliday |
| Bill Zuckert as Johnny Behan |
| Charles Seel as Ed |
| Ed McCready as Barber |
| Gregg Palmer as Rancher |
| Richard Anthony as Rider |
| James Doohan as Melkotian Buoy voice |
| Creative staff: |
| Director: Vincent McEveety |
| Written By: Lee Cronin |
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