Lieutenant Commander Gary Mitchell was a Starfleet officer serving aboard the USS Enterprise as helmsman (and, it is speculated, her first officer) in the fictional Star Trek universe. Portrayed by actor Gary Lockwood, the character appeared in one episode Where No Man Has Gone Before. Mitchell also appeared in some non-canonical Star Trek novels.
Where No Man Has Gone Before establishes Mitchell as one of Captain James T. Kirk's oldest and best ...
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Lieutenant Commander Gary Mitchell was a Starfleet officer serving aboard the USS Enterprise as helmsman (and, it is speculated, her first officer) in the fictional Star Trek universe. Portrayed by actor Gary Lockwood, the character appeared in one episode Where No Man Has Gone Before. Mitchell also appeared in some non-canonical Star Trek novels.
Where No Man Has Gone Before establishes Mitchell as one of Captain James T. Kirk's oldest and best friends. During the episode, he and Dr. Elizabeth Dehner (Sally Kellerman), a psychiatrist recently assigned to the Enterprise, suffer effects of an energy field encountered by the ship near the outer rim of the galaxy. While the field killed several crew members, it endowed Mitchell and Dehner -- the former immediately, the latter after a time delay -- with psi-kinetic powers that grow exponentially with the passage of time. Eventually Mitchell's powers become almost godlike.
The change also affects Mitchell's personality, and as his powers...
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