The Pirates of Orion

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Star Trek: The Animated Series episode
"The Pirates of Orion"
The pirates of Orion
Episode no.	017
Prod. code	017
Airdate	September 7, 1974
Writer(s)	Howard Weinstein
Director	Hal Sutherland
Guest star(s)	none
Year	2270
Stardate	6334.1
Episode chronology
Previous	"The Jihad"
Next	"Bem"

The Pirates of Orion is an episode of Star Trek: The Animated Series.

1 Plot outline
2 See also
3 Notes
4 External links

[edit] Plot outline

The U.S.S. Enterprise is on its way to Deneb 5 when Mr. Spock contracts choriocytosis and has only days to live. The S.S. Huron is to rendezvous with the Enterprise and deliver the cure, when it's attacked by Orion pirates. Captain Kirk chases the Orion ship in a desperate attempt to save Spock's life.

[edit] See also

List of Star Trek: The Animated Series episodes

[edit] Notes

With the release of the Animated Series DVD release, Paramount studio appears to have changed its stance on the series, and is now calling the animated series as part of established canon, including within the pack-in booklet, and dvd extras, and Startrek.com.[1][2][3]

This episode features the first indisputable appearance of male Orions ("Thelev", a spy/assassin surgically altered to appear as an Andorian, portrayed by William O'Connell in the original-series episode Journey to Babel, was speculated to be of Orion origin by Spock, though the issue was unresolved), a race which had previously been represented in Star Trek only by the green Orion Slave Girl.

This was the first episode of the animated series' short-lived second season (only six episodes were produced in the second season, compared to 16 episodes in the first season).