Trek 2. This was the first episode of the series to be directed by Herschel Daugherty. Daugherty would later direct Season Three's "The Savage Curtain" as well. It was also the first appearance in Star Trek for child actor Craig Hundley, who played Peter Kirk. He would also portray Tommy Starnes in the third-season episode "And the Children Shall Lead". Location shooting occurred in two places. The scene where the Enterprise landing party beams down to the surface was filmed at the TRW Space and Defense Park (now Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems) in Redondo Beach, California. The entrance of Sam Kirk's laboratory is the cafeteria on the TRW campus. The exterior of Sam Kirk's laboratory, which features white pylons, is Schoenberg Hall at the University of California, Los Angeles. Filming at TRW occurred on February 15, 1967. The neural parasites were created by prop designer Wah Chang from bags of fake vomit. The episode aired on April 13, 1967, and was the final episode to air in the series' first season. One scene did not make it into the episode. This scene came at the end of the story, and featured Peter Kirk (dressed in a command division tunic) sitting in the captain's chair on the bridge while his uncle, James T. Kirk, agrees to let him return to Deneva to live with Sam Kirk's research partner and friend. Although filmed, it was edited out due to time constraints. This left actor Hundley with no lines in the finished episode; the character of Peter Kirk spends the entire show unconscious. It also left the episode with no explanation of what becomes of Peter. Reception Zack Handlen of The A.V. Club gave the episode a 'B+' rating, describing it as "a little rocky in places" but otherwise praising the alien menace and Nimoy's acting. The episode is popular for revealing new facts about Vulcan physiology. Galaxie 500, an American alternative rock band, wrote a song about the episode for their 1990 album This Is Our Music. The song was titled "Spook", but the band secretly used the title "Spock" since the lyrics referred to Spock's blindness in this episode: In 2016, TVLine ranked this as having one of the top twenty moments of Star Trek, noting the terrifying moment when the alien attacks Spock. References Bibliography Asherman, Alan. The Star Trek Compendium. New York: Pocket Books, 1981. Blish, James. Star Trek