The Corbomite Maneuver

The Corbomite Maneuver
Attribution
Series:	The Original Series
Written by:	Jerry Sohl
Directed by:	Joseph Sargent
Novelization in:	Star Trek 12 by James Blish
Production information
Episode no.:	1x02
Production no.:	6149-03
First aired:	10 November 1966
Chronology
Date:	2266
Stardate:	1512.2

Summary

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References

Characters

David Bailey • Balok • Clifford Brent • Robert Abrams • Hadley • Harper • Harrison • James T. Kirk • Ed Leslie • Leonard McCoy • Janice Rand • Montgomery Scott • Spock • Hikaru Sulu • Nyota Uhura

Starships and vehicles

Balok's cube • USS Enterprise (Constitution-class) • Fesarius

Locations

the galaxy's Alpha Quadrant

Races and cultures

Fesarian • Human • Vulcan

States and organizations

First Federation • Starfleet • United Federation of Planets

Other

adrenaline • corbomite • poker • recorder-marker • tranya

Appendices

Related stories

First Federation space.

• ST reference: Star Charts—The First Federation's space was shown, in Alpha Quadrant
• TOS comic: "The Dream Walkers" - The scene where Balok launches the Fesarius tow vessel is replayed, as a dreamlike scenery from Janice Rand's memory, in this comic.
• The First Federation later featured in:
  • TNG - Double Helix novel: Red Sector
  • TOS novel: Preserver
• David Bailey later featured in:
  • TOS - My Brother's Keeper novel: Constitution
  • TOS - My Brother's Keeper novel: Enterprise
  • TOS comic: "Debt of Honor"
  • TOS - Strange New Worlds I short story: "Ambassador at Large"

Timeline

published order
Previous episode: Where No Man Has Gone Before	TOS episode produced	Next episode: Mudd's Women
Previous episode: Dagger of the Mind	TOS episode aired	Next episode: The Menagerie, Part I
Previous story: And the Children Shall Lead	Star Trek 12	Next story: Shore Leave
chronological order
Previous Adventure: UK comic strips, first story arc	Memory Beta Chronology	Next Adventure: Open Secrets
Previous Adventure: The Kobayashi Maru Chapter 4	Pocket	Next Adventure: The Landing Party
Previous Adventure: UK comic strips, first story arc	Voyages of the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) (2264 to 2270)	Next Adventure: The Landing Party

Images

The Fesarius

Balok

Lieutenant David Bailey

The Enterprise firing her phasers

External link

• "The Corbomite Maneuver" article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.