"This Side of Paradise" | |
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Star Trek: The Original Series episode | |
Episode no. | Season 1 Episode 24 |
Directed by | Ralph Senensky |
Story by | D. C. Fontana Nathan Butler |
Teleplay by | D. C. Fontana |
Featured music | Alexander Courage |
Cinematography by | Gerald Finnerman |
Production code | 025 |
Original air date | March 2, 1967 |
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"This Side of Paradise" is the twenty-fourth episode of the first season of the American science fiction television series Star Trek. Written by D. C. Fontana and Jerry Sohl (using the pseudonym Nathan Butler) and directed by Ralph Senensky, it was first broadcast on March 2, 1967.
In the episode, the USS Enterprise visits a planet where the inhabitants are under the influence of strange plant life.
The title is taken from the poem "Tiare Tahiti" by Rupert Brooke and the 1920 novel This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald.