"The Alternative Factor" is a first season episode of Star Trek: The Original Series. It is episode #27, production #20, and was broadcast on March 30, 1967. The episode was written by Don Ingalls, and directed by Gerd Oswald. In this episode, the crew of the Enterprise encounters a "reality jumping" madman. This is the first Star Trek episode to deal with parallel universes. On stardate 3087.6, the starship USS Enterprise, under the command...
The antimatter Lazarus tells Jim that his sacrifice will be well worth the pe...
Jim has accidentally slipped through the warp into the antimatter world. The ...
Lazarus walks into the transporter room with crystals he has just stolen and ...
Jim and Spock begin to formulate a theory that may yet explain the strange ph...
McCoy wants Jim to back of Lazarus because he is severely wounded. Jim refuses.
Lazarus is beside himself when Spock and Jim fail to lend any credibility to ...
Jim grabs Lazarus by the collar and demands a straight answer.
Spock points to the view screen and yet another strange event happening on th...
McCoy calls Jim to sick bay to report on Lazarus' condition.
Spock provides an accurate description of events as he witnessed them. Jim fa...
Charlene provides Jim with the impact the phenomenon had on the ships power s...
Jim is commenting on the strange information he is receiving from his most re...
Jim listens to McCoy's report on Lazaru's incredible recuperative power , the...
Jim wants the short version of McCoy's report on Lazarus.
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