Original Air Date: September 8, 1966
Stardate: 1513.1
Writer: George Clayton Johnson
Director: Marc Daniels
“The last of its kind. Earth history, remember? Like the passenger pigeon, or… the buffalo.”
The year is 2266. We are introduced to the USS Enterprise, a starship working under Starfleet of the United Federation of Planets. It is on a five-year mission “to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before.” The ship arrives at a planet called M-113, a red and arid place inhabited by Dr. Robert Crater, an archaeologist (played by Alfred Ryder who actually suffered a severe arm injury just prior to filming this episode hence why he appears somewhat stiff if you pay close attention). Dr. Crater resides on this remote planet with his wife Nancy. They have been conducting a nearly five-year survey of the planet’s…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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