Raumschiff Enterprise

When German television bought Star Trek, the series was dubbed and retitled Raumschiff Enterprise (Spaceship Enterprise). It's easy to find a list of the German episode titles but there doesn't seem to a list of the titles translated back into English for us dunces who spent school German lessons defacing the textbooks and sniggering at the pronouncation of Vater.  With this in mind I contacted Jeremy Phillips who speaks German to a level far beyond my feeble, "ein bier bitte" level and he translated all 79 episode titles.

Season 1

Episode	German Title	Translation	Premier
The Man Trap	Das Letzte seiner Art	The Last Of It's Kind	28/9/87
Charlie X	Der Fall Charly	The Charly Case	9/2/74
Where No Man Has Gone Before	Die Spitze des Eisberges	The Tip Of The Iceberg	6/10/73
The Naked Time	Implosion in der Spirale	Implosion In The Helix	5/10/87
The Enemy Within	Kirk : 2 = ?	Kirk : 2 = ?	22/7/72
Mudd's Women	Die Frauen des Mr Mudd	The Women Of Mr Mudd	21/9/87
What Are Little Girls Made Of?	Der alte Traum	The Old Dream	19/10/87
Miri	Miri, ein Kleinling	Miri, A Little One	2/11/87
Dagger Of The Mind	Der Zentralnervensystemmanipulator	The Central Nervous System Manipulator	26/10/87
The Corbomite Maneuver	Pokerspiele	Gamble	7/10/72
The Menagerie Part 1	Talos IV – Tabu, Teil I	Talos IV – Taboo, Part I	16/11/87
The Menagerie Part 2	Talos IV – Tabu, Teil II	Talos IV – Taboo, Part II	23/11/87
The Conscience Of The King	Kodos der Henker	Kodos The Executioner	9/11/87
Balance Of Terror	Spock unter Verdacht	Spock Under Suspicion	12/10/87
Shore Leave	Landeurlaub	Shore Leave	30/11/87
The Galileo Seven	Notlandung auf Galileo 7	Emergency Landing On Galileo 7	14/10/72
The Squire Of Gothos	Tödliche Spiele auf Gothos	Deadly Games On Gothos	23/3/74
Arena	Ganz neue Dimensionen	All New Dimensions	14/12/87
Tomorrow Is Yesterday	Morgan ist Gestern	Tomorrow Is Yesterday	27/5/72
Court Martial	Kirk unter Anklage	Kirk On Trial	10/6/72
The Return Of The Archons	Landru und die Ewigkeit	Landru And Eternity	21/12/87
A Taste Of Armageddon	Krieg der Computer	War Of The Computer	28/12/87
Space Seed	Der schlafende Tiger	The Sleeping Tiger	21/10/72
This Side Of Paradise	Falsche Paradiese	False Eden	4/1/88
The Devil In The Dark	Horta rettet ihre Kinder	Horta Rescues It's Children	11/1/88
Errand Of Mercy	Kampf um Organia	Battle For Organia	15/12/73
The Alternative Factor	Auf Messers Schneide	On A Knife Edge	14/12/87
The City On The Edge Of Forever	Griff in die Geschichte	A Grasp Of History	18/1/88
Operation -- Annihilate!	Spock außer Kontrolle	Spock Out Of Control	25/1/88

Season 2

Episode	German Title	Translation	Premier
Amok Time	Weltraumfieber	Space Fever	12/1/74
Who Mourns for Adonais?	Der Tempel des Apoll	The Temple Of Apollo	4/11/72
The Changeling	Ich heiße Nomad	My Name Is Nomad	1/7/72
Mirror, Mirror	Ein Parallel-Universum	A Parallel Universe	22/2/88
The Apple	Die Stunde der Erkenntnis	The Hour Of Insight	15/2/88
The Doomsday Machine	Planeten-Killer	Planet Killer	24/6/72
Catspaw	Das Spukschloss im Weltall	The Haunted Castle In Space	1/12/73
I, Mudd	Der dressierte Herrscher	The Trained Master	26/8/72
Metamorphosis	Metamorphose	Metamorphosis	17/1/73
Journey To Babel	Reise nach Babel	Journey To Babel	16/9/72
Friday's Child	Im Namen des jungen Tiru	In The Name Of Young Tiru	1/2/88
The Deadly Years	Wie schnell die Zeit vergeht	How Time Flies	29/2/88
Obsession	Tödliche Wolken	Deadly Clouds	29/7/72
Wolf In The Fold	Der Wolf im Schafspelz	Wolf In Sheep's Clothing	8/2/88
The Trouble With Tribbles	Kennen Sie Tribbles?	Have You Heard Of Tribbles?	23/9/72
The Gamesters Of Triskelion	Meister der Sklaven	Masters Of Slaves	14/3/88
A Piece Of The Action	Epigonen	Epigones	8/7/72
The Immunity Syndrome	Das Loch im Weltraum	The Hole In Space	3/6/72
A Private Little War	Der erste Krieg	The First War	7/3/88
Return To Tomorrow	Geist sucht Körper	Spirit Seeks Body	29/12/73
Patterns Of Force	Schablonen der Gewalt	Patterns Of Force	25/7/99
By Any Other Name	Stein und Staub	Stone And Dust	11/11/72
The Omega Glory	Das Jahr des roten Vogels	The Year Of The Red Bird	21/3/88
The Ultimate Computer	Computer M5	Computer M5	15/7/72
Bread And Circuses	Brot und Spiele	Bread And Circuses	26/1/74
Assignment: Earth	Ein Planet genannt Erde	A Planet Called Earth	2/9/72

Season 3

Episode	German Title	Translation	Premier
Spock's Brain	Spock's Gehirn	Spock's Brain	4/4/88
The Enterprise Incident	Die unsichtbare Falle	The Invisible Trap	12/8/72
The Paradise Syndrome	Der Obelisk	The Obelisk	18/11/72
And The Children Shall Lead	Kurs auf Marcus 12	On Course For Marcus 12	23/2/74
Is There In Truth No Beauty?	Die fremde Materie	The Alien Matter	9/9/72
Spectre Of The Gun	Wild West im Weltraum	Wild West In Space	23/8/88
The Day Of The Dove	Das Gleichgewicht der Kräfte	Balance Of Power	12/1/74
For The World Is Hollow And I Have Touched The Sky	Der verirrte Planet	The Lost Planet	18/4/88
The Tholian Web	Das Spinnennetz	The Spider's Web	17/6/72
Plato's Stepchildren	Platons Stiefkinder	Plato's Stepchildren	25/4/88
Wink Of An Eye	Was summt denn da?	What's That Humming?	3/1/73
The Empath	Der Plan der Vianer	The Plan Of The Vians	11/4/88
Elaan Of Troyius	Brautschiff Enterprise	Brideship Enterprise	20/10/73
Whom Gods Destroy	Wen die Götter zerstören	Whom Gods Destroy	9/5/88
Let That Be Your Last Battlefield	Bele jagt Lokai	Bele Hunts Lokai	2/5/88
The Mark Of Gideon	Fast unsterblich	Almost Immortal	26/5/88
That Which Survives	Gefährliche Planetengirls	Dangerous Planet Girls	19/8/72
The Lights Of Zetar	Strahlen greifen an	Rays Attack	5/8/72
Requiem for Methuselah	Planet der Unsterblichen	Planet Of The Immortals	9/3/74
The Way To Eden	Die Reise nach Eden	Journey To Eden	30/5/88
The Cloud Minders	Die Wolkenstadt	The Cloud City	23/5/88
The Savage Curtain	Seit es Menschen gibt	Since There Were Humans	25/11/72
All Our Yesterdays	Portal in die Vergangenheit	Portal To The Past	6/6/88
Turnabout Intruder	Gefährlicher Tausch	Dangerous Exchange	13/6/88

Jeremy also offers some notes:

A Piece Of The Action: An “epigone” is an inferior follower of an artist and his work.

The Lights Of Zetar: “Rays Attack” is the actual title. Not a description.

That Which Survives: “Dangerous Planet Girls” – a lost Ed Wood film.

The Galileo Seven: “Emergency Landing on Galileo 7” – yes, on. This was changed to “by” for the DVD.

Space Seed: “The Sleeping Tiger” is such a brilliant title for "Space Seed”, I’m only going to call it that now. It was also an Avengers episode with Ronnie Barker.

Elaan Of Troyius: “Bride-Ship Enterprise” doesn’t translate well, since it’s a riff on the series title “Raumschiff (Spaceship) Enterprise”.

Wink Of An Eye: “What’s that Humming?” is the best title of anything ever.

Dagger Of The Mind: “The Central Nervous System Manipulator” is the clunkiest.

The Devil In The Dark: “Horta Rescues its Children” is the stupidest.

Arena: “All New Dimensions” comes from the same translator as “Rays Attack”

The City On The Edge Of Forever: The double meaning of “A Grasp of History” translates rather nicely.
Operation -- Annihilate!: “Spock Out of Control” – 23^rd century version of “Girls Gone Wild”.

The Apple: “The Hour of Insight” – no, me neither.

Mirror, Mirror: “A Parallel Universe” – “Rays Attack Some More”

The Omega Glory: “The Year of the Red Bird” – someone’s been at the schnapps.

Let That Be Your Last Battlefield: “Bele Hunts Lokai” – “Rays Continue to Attack”

Having a look at German Wikipedia, the transmission dates are a bit weird. Half the episodes, apparently selected and sequenced at random and covering all three seasons, were screened 1972-4. All but two of the remainder were then not shown until 1987-8. The Cage was shown in 1993 and Patterns of Force (the Nazi episode, in case you’d forgotten) in 1999.

Incredibly, the first episode of Star Trek shown in Germany was Tomorrow is Yesterday.

Picture from www.zdf.de

Thanks, Jeremy (Theremy). Some final thoughts
German television channel ZDF showed I, Mudd the second Harry Mudd story in 1972, 15 years later in 1988 it showed Mudd's Women, the first story.
On three occasions when stuck for inspiration the translator goes down the Doctor Who route of naming an episode Something... In Space. Catspaw (The Haunted Castle In Space), The Immunity Syndrome (The Hole In Space) and Spectre Of The Gun (Wild West In Space).
When channel SAT.1 showed The Cage on 25/10/93 it was called Der Käfig which disappointingly translates back as The Cage.
Der Zentralnervensystemmanipulator does terrible things to HTML tables in Blogger.