Shore Leave (Star Trek: The Original Series)
"Shore Leave" is a first-season episode of Star Trek: The Original Series. It was first broadcast on December 29, 1966, and repeated on June 8, 1967. It is episode #15, production #17, and was written by science-fiction author Theodore Sturgeon, and directed by Robert Sparr. In the episode the crew of the Enterprise visits a bizarre planet of dangerous illusions. It is the only Star Trek episode in which the Enterprise orbits a planet clockwise (right to left on the screen), although the ISS Enterprise is also seen orbiting the Halkan homeworld clockwise in the teaser of the episode Mirror, Mirror.
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