Star Trek: The Doomsday Machine

VHS, 51 minutes, PARAMOUNT

Kirk is struck on a disabled ship while its revenge-crazed commander seizes control of the Enterprise from Spock and pursues a planet-killing robot ship. Trek Trivia Richard Compton (Washburn) returned to direct a first-season episode of "Star Trek: The Next Generation." His assistant director: Charlie Washburn, for whom his character had been named exactly twenty years earlier! Although Commodore Decker (William Windom) dies at the end of the episode, Stephen Collins later portrayed his son, Will Decker, in "Star Trek-The Motion Picture.".