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Space Seed (episode)

The Enterprise discovers an ancient spaceship carrying genetically enhanced supermen from late 20th century Earth and their enigmatic warlord leader: Khan Noonien Singh. Summary Teaser In 2267, the encounters a spacecraft floating in deep space, sending out a signal in Morse code. Captain Kirk recognizes it as being similar to the DY-500 class, but Spock points it out as being the much older DY-100, built back in the 1990s. Spock identifies the vessel from its outer hull markings as the , but finds no registry of the ship in the computer library; however, he points out that records of the era from which the ship was launched are fragmentary, as the 1990s was the era of the Eugenics Wars, a "strange and violent period in your history" as Spock puts it. Faint life signs are detected on board, and Kirk has the ship go to red alert as it closes in on the mysterious vessel to investigate. Act One The Botany Bay takes no action as the Enterprise approaches it, the only sign of life being the faint life readings. Now certain the ship is a derelict, Kirk orders Scott and Doctor McCoy to join an engineering party to board the ship and investigate the life readings. Kirk also requests the services of the ship's historian, Lieutenant Marla McGivers. In the transporter room, Scott takes note of the life support systems coming back on, as if the ship is expecting them to transport over. "Very interesting," Kirk notes. The landing party materializes on board the Botany Bay, and Scott confirms that the vessel is Terran in origin, using old style atomic power and computers with transistor units. He tells Kirk that he would "love to tear this baby apart." McGivers speculates that the ship is a sleeper ship, designed for long periods of interplanetary travel due to the limits of space travel technology in that era until the year 2018. One of the life units is then activated, and Kirk asks McGivers if this could be the leader; the lieutenant does not reply immediately, seemingly smitten with the appearance of the man, but eventually answers that it's likely, as the leader would be awakened first to determine if circumstances warranted the reviving of the others. She also speculates that the man could be Sikh, from the northern region of India, noting that they were the most fantastic warriors. Scott then reports that there are 84 people held in suspended animation, all of varied ethnic origins. The life support unit malfunctions, likely due to the accumulation of dust, and its occupant's life readings begin dropping. As McGivers begs Kirk to save him, he breaks the glass on the stasis unit to release him. Taking shaky breaths as he regains consciousness, the man asks in a hoarse whisper how long he had been asleep; Kirk estimates the time at two centuries. Kirk flips his communicator open to request that McCoy and the man be beamed aboard the Enterprise immediately for further medical attention. "Magnificent," McGivers states. Act Two McCoy is conducting a medical analysis on the unidentified man at sickbay on the Enterprise. McCoy is amazed at the physical and recuperative power of the man. Aboard the Botany Bay, Scott notes that twelve of the life units had failed and that their occupants have consequently died, leaving 72 alive from the 1990s, thirty of the survivors being women. Spock can find no record in the vessel in any of the computer libraries. Kirk suspects that since Botany Bay was the name of an Australian penal colony, this might have been a way to deport criminals. Spock refutes this, as it would be a seeming waste of Earth's then-most advanced spacecraft, but has no other explanation of his own, lacking sufficient facts. Spock also notes the extremely low probability that a vessel of this type could have survived for so long, and managed to leave Earth's solar system. Kirk orders Lieutenant Spinelli to have the Botany Bay put under tow, and to set course to Starbase 12. In sickbay, Kirk arrives to speak to the man. McCoy notes his superior bodily strength and efficiency of his lungs, hinting at his Augment origin. McCoy estimates that the man could lift both he and Kirk with one arm. He tells Kirk that it would be interesting to see if the man's brain matches his body. McGivers arrives, while Kirk chides her on her performance on the landing party. She admits to finding the man fascinating, in a purely professional way, as her position aboard the Enterprise is historian. Kirk thanks her for admitting this, noting "If I can have honesty, it's easier to overlook mistakes," then dismisses her. Later, the man awakes from his slumber and goes through some exercises of Hatha yoga; then, hearing Dr. McCoy at work, the man notes a scalpel among a collection of antique medical instruments on the wall. He takes it, and moves back to his bed, feigning sleep. McCoy arrives to check his vital signs, and the man reaches towards McCoy's throat, threatening him with the scalpel. McCoy sarcastically, and in an admirable display of calm, tells him to make up his mind to choke him or cut his throat, adding that it would be best if he would cut the carotid artery, just under the left ear. The man says he admires such bravery, and lets McCoy take back the scalpel. McCoy simply and calmly tells him that he was just trying to avoid an argument. The man demands to speak to the captain of the vessel, and McCoy calls Kirk, saying he is a man with "many questions." Kirk arrives, identifies himself as the captain, and asks the man his name. The man avoids the question, and asks what the ship's heading is. Kirk answers that it is Starbase 12, a planet in the Gamma 400 star system, the Enterprises command base in that sector. The man identifies himself simply as "Khan". Kirk attempts to question Khan further, but he declines to elaborate on his history, claiming he is fatigued. He says that he was once an engineer of sorts, and would very much like to study the ship's technical manuals. Kirk and McCoy then show him how to use the computers to access such information. He is later visited by McGivers, asking her to "sit and entertain" him, rearranging her hairstyle to something more "attractive". In the officer's mess, the crew prepares a full-dress banquet, and McCoy wonders if the Enterprise is hosting a fleet admiral; Kirk replies it was McGivers' idea to welcome Khan to their century. Dressed for the occasion, Khan meets with McGivers in her quarters, decorated with portraits of great conquerors of the past, including Richard the Lionheart, Leif Ericson, Alexander the Great, and Napoleon Bonaparte, as well as an unfinished portrait of Khan in the 20th century. Khan tells her he is honored, but cautions her "such men dare take what they want", before passionately kissing her, which she apparently doesn't mind. At the banquet, Khan explains the nature of his journey from Earth, going in search of "adventure", believing there was nothing left on Earth. Spock comments on the Eugenics Wars as a conflict to end tyranny, while Khan replies that it was an effort to unite Humanity, calling his era "a time of great dreams, great aspirations"; while there were dozens of petty dictatorships, Khan declares one would have ruled eventually, like Rome under Caesar, "think of its accomplishments!", he intones. Kirk bluntly asks why Khan fled, asking if he was afraid, goading Khan to declare, "We offered the world order!" to which Kirk responds by asking "we?", noting Khan's reference to a master race. Khan congratulates Kirk on his discovery of Khan's intent, then says he says he is "fatigued" again, and returns to his quarters. McGivers appears at Khan's quarters, and apologizes for how he was treated at the dinner; Khan comments their reaction is understandable, given that he is something of a "mystery" to them. McGivers confesses that she knows exactly who he is, and wonders if he is going to like living in her century, to which Khan replies that he will have to remold it to his liking. Showing the darker side of his nature, Khan tells McGivers he intends to take control of the Enterprise and demands her help, bullying her into submitting to his desire; unwilling to lose him, she promises to do anything he asks. Act Three In the briefing room, Kirk, Spock, McCoy, and Scott consult the historical records and determine that their guest is Khan Noonien Singh, one of the genetically-engineered tyrants of the Eugenics Wars, and the last to be overthrown. From 1992 to 1996, he was absolute ruler of one quarter of the Earth, from Asia to the Middle East. Scott admits he's always held a "sneaking admiration for this one", with Kirk and McCoy adding that his rule lacked the usual massacres and internal wars endemic to tyrants; Spock counters that he also severely curtailed freedoms, and is alarmed at the romantic tone of the Humans towards a ruthless dictator. Kirk replies that they can be against him and admire him all at the same time. "Illogical," Spock says. "Totally," Kirk responds. The captain then orders security to place a 24-hour guard on Khan's quarters, effective immediately. Later, Kirk visits Khan in his quarters, who is wearing a and "lost in thought", commenting on his door being locked from outside with a guard posted. Kirk admits it was "unusual treatment" for who he is, and wishes to know the truth about his departure from Earth. Khan replies that he and his followers sought a new life and a chance to build a new world, plus "other things" he did not believe Kirk, who he considered mentally and physically inferior, would understand; he comments on how little mankind has changed despite its technical advancements, and that he and his people would do well in this century. After Kirk leaves, Khan breaks out of his quarters and brutally knocks out the guard outside, taking his phaser, while McGivers holds transporter chief Kyle at phaser point, beaming Khan over to the Botany Bay to revive his people. Security alerts Kirk that Khan has escaped; shortly afterwards, communications become jammed, the turbolifts disabled, and life support on the bridge cut off. Kirk calls engineering to find out why, and is answered by Khan, who controls engineering with his followers and has cut off life support, demanding that Kirk surrender the ship to him, or die of suffocation. Act Four The bridge crew suffocates to the point of passing out. Kirk and Spock are the last to fall unconscious; before passing out, Kirk, making a log entry, states he takes full responsibility for Khan taking over his ship. When the crew awakens, they are being held at phaser point by Khan's men in the briefing room while Khan holds Kirk captive in McCoy's decompression chamber, and the rest of the bridge crew in the briefing room. Khan threatens to kill the captain unless the bridge crew cooperates with the augments. None of the captive crew agree to join him and Khan becomes infuriated by their resistance, threatening them all with suffocation. McGivers then excuses herself, unable to watch the torture of Kirk and the brutal way that Joaquin, one of Khan's henchmen, treats Uhura. As Khan continues to rage, the channel to the decompression chamber is unexpectedly cut. Joaquin demands of Uhura how to regain the picture, but she refuses to respond and he prepares to slap her across the face. Khan stops him with a gesture, telling the crew that Kirk is dead and Spock be taken in to die next. Meanwhile, McGivers comes to Kirk's aid by using a hypospray to knock out the guard who was watching him in the decompression chamber. She frees Kirk from the chamber, and urges him not to hurt Khan. Spock and an augment arrive just then. Kirk surprises and confronts Khan's man who is subsequently incapacitated by Spock using a Vulcan nerve pinch. In the briefing room, Khan realizes something is wrong when he cannot contact his men, specifically, Rodriguez, Ling, and McPherson. Kirk and Spock then succeed in flooding the ship with knockout gas, but Khan is able to avoid the gas by escaping to engineering and cutting it off, rigging the ship to blow up with an overload. Kirk rushes to stop Khan with a phaser, but Khan ambushes the captain and crushes the phaser with his bare hands. The two men come to blows in engineering, with Kirk eventually defeating the genetically engineered man by knocking him out with a makeshift club, and saving the Enterprise from destruction. Later, at a formal hearing, Kirk drops all charges against Khan and his people, considering it a "waste" to put Khan in a penal colony, and gives him the offer of taming the uninhabited world of Ceti Alpha V an offer which Khan accepts referencing a quote from Milton's Paradise Lost that "it is better to rule in Hell than to serve in Heaven." Marla McGivers is given the option of court martial or accompanying Khan and his people. Khan warns her it will be difficult at first to survive, to find food, and Marla chooses to join Khan and his people. As soon as Khan and his people leave, Kirk and Spock express an interest in returning to Ceti Alpha V in a hundred years to learn "what crop will sprout from the seed they planted". Log entries Captain's log, USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) Memorable quotes "I fail to understand why it always gives you pleasure to see me proven wrong." "An emotional Earth weakness of mine." - Spock and Kirk, as the Enterprise encounters the Botany Bay "Your attempt to improve the race through selective breeding." "Oh, now wait a minute. Not 'our' attempt, Mr. Spock. A group of ambitious scientists'. I'm sure you know the type. Devoted to logic, completely unemotional…" - Spock and McCoy, on the Eugenics Wars "Care to join the landing party, Doctor?" "Well, if you're actually giving me a choice…" "I'm not." - Kirk and McCoy "I signed aboard this ship to practice medicine, not to have my atoms scattered back and forth across space by this gadget." - McCoy, before beaming over to the Botany Bay "Insufficient facts always invites danger, Captain." - Spock, on the mystery surrounding the Botany Bay crew "Well, either choke me or cut my throat! Make up your mind!" - McCoy, as Khan chokes him with a scalpel in hand "Where am I?" "You're in …" (Khan squeezes McCoy's neck) "You're in bed, holding a knife at your doctor's throat." "Answer my question." "It would be most effective if you would cut the carotid artery just under the left ear." - Khan and McCoy, in sickbay "Khan is my name." "Khan, nothing more?" "Khan." - Khan and Kirk "Superior ability breeds superior ambition." - Spock "Would you reveal to war-weary populations that some eighty Napoleons might still be alive?" - Spock, on the potential threat of the passengers of the Botany Bay "Such men dare take what they want." - Khan, before kissing McGivers "Tyranny, sir? Or an attempt to unify Humanity?" "Unify, sir? Like a team of animals under one whip?" - Khan and Spock, on the reign of the dictators during the Eugenics Wars "You are an excellent tactician, Captain. You let your second-in-command attack while you sit…and watch for weakness." "You have a tendency to express ideas in military terms, Mister Khan. This is a social occasion." "It has been said that social occasions are only warfare concealed." - Khan and Kirk, after Spock asks a series of pointed questions "You fled. Why? Were you afraid?" "I've never been afraid." "But you left at the very time mankind needed courage." "We offered the world order!" - Kirk and Khan "Go or stay, but do it because it is what you wish to do." - Khan, to McGivers "He was the best of the tyrants and the most dangerous." - Kirk on Khan, during the Eugenics War "There were no massacres under his rule…" "And as little freedom!" "No wars until he was attacked…" "…Gentlemen?!" - Scott, teasing Spock, with McCoy joining in "We can be against him and admire him all at the same time." "Illogical." "Totally." - Kirk and Spock, on Khan "It appears we will do well in your century, Captain." - Khan "The trip is over. The battle begins again. Only this time it's not a world we win. It's a universe." - Khan, greeting his revived followers "Your air should be getting quite thin by now. Do you surrender the bridge?" "Negative." "Academic, Captain. Refuse and every person on the bridge will suffocate." - Khan and Kirk "Nothing ever changes, except man. Your technical accomplishments? Improve a mechanical device and you may double productivity but improve man and you gain a thousandfold. I am such a man." - Khan, to his hostages "My vessel was useless. I need you and yours to select a colony planet, one with a population willing to be led by us." "To be conquered by you… a starship would make that most simple, wouldn't it?" - Khan, on his intentions for the Enterprise and McCoy retorting "Each of you in turn will go in there! Die while the others watch!" - Khan, to his hostages "It does not matter, the captain is dead. Take Mr. Spock next." - Khan "If I understood your manuals, that's an overload in progress. Your ship flares up like an exploding sun within MINUTES!" - Khan, setting the Enterprises engines to overload "I have five times your strength. You're no match for me!" - Khan, shortly before being incapacitated by Kirk "Those men went on to tame a continent, Mister Khan. Can you tame a world?" - Kirk, before exiling Khan to Ceti Alpha V "I will take her. And I've gotten something else I wanted. A world to win, an empire to build." - Khans last words at the hearing "It is better to rule in hell than serve in heaven." - Kirk to Scott, quoting John Milton's Paradise Lost "It would be interesting, Captain, to return to that world in a hundred years and to learn what crop has sprung from the seed you planted today." - Spock, unaware that he and Kirk will encounter Khan again Background information Story and script "Space Seed" writer Carey Wilber used the 18th-century British custom of shipping out the undesirables as a parallel for his concept of "seed ships", used to take unwanted criminals out to space from the overpopulated Earth (hence the name "Botany Bay"). In his original treatment, the Botany Bay left Earth in 2096, with one hundred criminals (both men and women) and a team of a few volunteer lawmen aboard. (The Star Trek Compendium, p. 57) Also in Wilber's original treatment, the Khan character was a Nordic superman named "Harold Erricsen". This evolved in the first draft, where the character first introduced himself as "John Ericssen" but was later revealed to be Ragnar Thorwald, who had been involved in "the First World Tyranny". Thorwald was more brutal in this version of the story, where he dispatched the guard outside his quarters with a phaser. (, The Star Trek Compendium, pp. 57-58) Gene Roddenberry questioned Wilber's notion of wasting a high-tech spaceship and expensive resources on criminals – just as Kirk and Spock pose the same question in the episode itself – and came up with the concept of "a bunch of Napoleons" sent to space in exile. (These Are the Voyages: TOS Season One) James Blish, forced to work from non-final script drafts at the time, still used the name "Sibahl Khan Noonien" in his novella adaptation of the episode for the 1968 Bantam Books' anthology Star Trek 2, which indicated that the name change was a late decision. According to an archived version of , earlier versions of the script had the SS Botany Bay as a CZ-100 class ship, located by the USS Enterprise in the , and the class designation nearly persisted into the final script. The script Blish had to work with still contained the "CZ-100" designation, which made it into his novelization of the episode, though the reference to the Coalsack Nebula had been removed. A line to be said by Kirk at the end of the episode was scripted but cut from the filmed episode, saying he hoped Khan and his followers would not come looking after them. James Blish included this as the last line of his write-up of the episode in Star Trek 2. Cast George Takei (Sulu) does not appear in this episode. Neither does Walter Koenig (Pavel Chekov), owing to Koenig not having joined the series yet. John Arndt (Fields) was a regular extra; he also played unnamed crewmen in and . When Arndt appeared in , his character was named "Fields". His part seems to have been edited out of this episode. The background actor playing the Augment who is hypoed by McGivers in sickbay previously appeared as a member of the Alfa 177 science team in ; he went on to later appear as a Klingon in the final planet scene in Kor's office in and as another Klingon in . The identity of this extra is not known. Sets Although only one hallway of the Botany Bay is seen in detail, the design crew took the time and effort to build the beginnings of several other corridors with their own life support canisters, despite their only being seen for a few seconds. Effects The Botany Bay model was actually designed by Matt Jefferies before he came up with the Enterprise. He described it as an "antique space freighter" and put it aside for a chance to use it in the series. (These Are the Voyages: TOS Season One) The effects scenes featuring the Enterprise and the Botany Bay were filmed at Film Effects of Hollywood. Music The creation of this episode evidently reused a lot of music from earlier episodes. For instance, most of the music used in this installment was taken from , composed by Fred Steiner. Some of Alexander Courage's cues from were reused too, most notably the "Talosian illusion" theme. One piece of music from was reused in the climactic fight scene in Engineering between Kirk and Khan. Deleted scene A scene featuring a female character named "Baker", who was a friend of Marla McGivers, was scripted and filmed, with Baker played by Barbara Baldavin (who previously appeared as Angela Martine in and ), but it ended up as a deleted scene. Several sources still claim Baldavin as appearing in this episode as "Baker". Portions of this deleted scene are available to watch in Star Trek: The Original Series - The Roddenberry Vault. Reception Jeff Russo cited this as one of his favorite episodes and scores from TOS. ("Standing in the Shadow of Giants: Creating the Sound of Discovery", DIS Season 1 DVD & Blu-ray special features) Actually, this episode did not feature an original score, rather stock music from previous episodes, most notably by Fred Steiner. The book Star Trek 101 (p. 17), by Terry J. Erdmann and Paula M. Block, lists this episode as one of "Ten Essential Episodes" from the original Star Trek series. Continuity and trivia The preview trailer for this episode has the stardate as 3142.3. is a sequel to this episode, while portrays a different set of events leading to Khan's introduction to the 23rd century. In this episode, Spock is shown using the Vulcan nerve pinch in sickbay on one of Khan's Augments. When tries using the same technique on Khan in , however, it doesn't work. One explanation is that Khan found a way to make himself immune to it. The Eugenics Wars, and the notion of genetically augmented Humans, also served as background for as well as several fourth season episodes of : , , and . In "The Augments", Khan and his followers are referenced by Malik. When he accepts the choice of living on the planet, Khan alludes to the rebellious angels' exile to Hell in John Milton's Paradise Lost. Kirk clarifies by quoting part of Satan's speech: "Here we may reign secure; and in my choice / To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell: / Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven" (Book 1, 261-63). This episode contains several references to future Earth history that created issues when real life caught up with the mid-1990s timeframe of the so-called "third world war" mentioned by Spock. Specifically, and (the latter of which was coincidentally released in , the supposed year of the Botany Bays launch) established that the third world war actually occurred in the first half of the 21st century, and the Eugenics Wars of the 1990s were a different conflict. Although the character of Chekov had not yet been created by the time of this episode's making and therefore does not appear in this installment, Khan remembered him years later, in The Wrath of Khan. This is the only appearance of Transporter Chief Kyle in which he has no dialogue. At the banquet, Kirk, Spock, McCoy, and Scott are the only officers wearing dress uniforms. This is the only episode in which Scott wears his dress uniform without his ceremonial tartan kilt. Lieutenant McGivers wears no braid on the sleeves of her uniform. Khan goes through a record five changes of costume for a male cast member of the original series. Firstly, he is draped in gold mesh when he is brought back to consciousness; he is then in a short-sleeved sickbay tunic while recuperating; during his scene with McGivers in her quarters and while at dinner, he is seen in a jacket with oval patterns; while consulting with Kirk in his quarters, he is in an Enterprise engineering tunic; and finally, when he returns to the Botany Bay, he wears the red jumpsuit of his fellow exiles. In this episode, , and , one can see the other end of the briefing room set – a wall with a viewing screen was added in. Usually, the room is only seen from the end nearest to the door. The rotating viewer, usually seen on the top of the table, is missing here. One of the instruments on the back wall of the Botany Bay eventually found its way to the transporter room, as a scanner (with an added viewer that was similar to the one on Spock's science station) in the second season. The unique engineering "clubs," one of which Kirk used to subdue Khan during their fight, were never used or even seen in another episode, nor is the collection of ancient medical instruments that adorns the wall of sickbay. The mirror that figures during McGivers' hairdo scene is seen again in . The cryogenic chambers from the Botany Bay were recycled and built into the sickbay set from season 2. Also, one of them served as the decompression chamber in . Footage of the Botany Bay was later recycled as the ore freighter Woden in . Kirk's phaser is accidentally knocked off his belt when he smashes the glass to free the reviving Khan aboard the Botany Bay. The phaser can be seen falling to the floor (when viewed in slow motion) as Kirk uses the flashlight (that Scotty had been carrying in his right hand) on the window. Scotty can be seen grabbing the flashlight off the transporter console just before they beam over. There is a fairly egregious continuity error in this episode. In the transporter room, Scott (wearing a red shirt) and Kyle (wearing blue) are manning the controls at the beginning of the scene. Scott leaves to join Kirk, McCoy, and McGivers on the transporter pad, presumably leaving Kyle to operate the controls. Yet, the red-sleeved arm of Scott is seen activating the transporter (via recycled footage from ). When William Shatner accidentally knocks his phaser prop off his belt as he breaks the glass to Khan's cryogenic chamber, DeForest Kelley can be seen glancing down toward it and then up again several times. Presumably, he was not sure if the take had been ruined or was expected to continue. Given the time that would have been involved in replacing the glass, he appears to have erred on the side of caution. One questionable take from this episode occurs when the camera pans over the mostly unconscious bridge crew as Kirk records his captain's log with commendations for the fallen crew. There are seven visible people on the bridge, but there seem to be eight in total (with the navigator, later seen in Khan's prisoner's row but not in the bridge sequence). From the beginning of the pan, it shows Spock, Uhura, Brent (played by Frank da Vinci), Leslie (played by Eddie Paskey), a red-shirted extra (played by Ron Veto), Spinelli, and then Kirk. Kirk reads off the names of only five crew members: Uhura, Thule, Harrison, Spinelli, and Spock. It seems that one reference is intended to be to the Eddie Paskey character, but that is unlikely since Kirk mentioned both with the rank "technician first class" and the Leslie uniform has lieutenant stripes. While it is odd that Leslie (and the unnamed-in-this-episode navigator who is sometimes referred to as "Hadley") was skipped in the mentions, it leads to the conclusion that the red-shirted man was Harrison (or possibly Thule, who remains unseen, unless it was meant to refer to blue-shirted Brent). The conversation between Khan and Kirk in sickbay is reprised in the episode (incidentally giving the Enterprise sickbay a previously unseen window). Apocrypha Although Kirk inquires as to the exact date of the launch of the Botany Bay, he never receives an answer. The novel The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh, Volume Two revealed that it was launched from Earth on January 5, 1996 and began its journey through space six days later, though decades later, the episodes "Farewell" and "Strange New Worlds" would imply this dating to be implausible. There are several non-canon explanations for the fact that, even though Chekov doesn't appear in this episode, Khan remembers him, in The Wrath of Khan, from the timeframe of this episode. All of these explanations point to some off-screen contact between the two characters. In To Reign in Hell: The Exile of Khan Noonien Singh, for example, it is revealed that Chekov led a failed attempt to retake Engineering from Khan. A cat version of "Space Seed" was featured in Jenny Parks' 2017 book Star Trek Cats. Production timeline Story outline "Botany Bay" by Carey Wilber: Revised story outline "Space Seed": First draft teleplay by Wilber: Second draft teleplay: early- Revised teleplay by Gene L. Coon: Final draft teleplay by Coon: Revised final draft teleplay: Second revised final draft teleplay by Gene Roddenberry: Filmed: – Day 1 – , Thursday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Bridge Day 2 – , Friday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Bridge, McCoy's office, Sickbay Day 3 – , Monday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. McGivers' quarters, Wardroom (redress of Briefing room), Briefing room Day 4 – , Tuesday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Briefing room, Khan's quarters, Corridors Day 5 – , Wednesday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Corridors, Transporter room, Engineering Day 6 – , Thursday – Desilu Stage 10: Int. Botany Bay; Desilu Stage 9: Int. Decompression chamber Original airdate: Rerun airdate: First UK airdate: Remastered information "Space Seed" was the eleventh episode of the remastered version of The Original Series to air. It premiered in syndication the weekend of . For the revamped episode, a highly detailed model of the Botany Bay was created, aged and weathered appropriately. The next remastered episode to air was . Video and DVD releases "" is released on Super 8 film, 1970s RCA CED Videodisc released Space Seed & The Changeling 1981 UK VHS release (CIC-Arena Video): catalog number VHL 2057, This release included and was originally unrated, as it was released prior to the . After , it was given a rating of PG. 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This Side of Paradise (episode)

The Enterprise crew finds happiness at a colony where alien spores provide total contentment. Summary Teaser The arrives at the planet Omicron Ceti III, the site of a colony established in 2264. Unfortunately, the Enterprises mission is only to catalog its destruction under the bombardment of deadly berthold rays, which were discovered after the colonists left Earth. Captain Kirk, Commander Spock, Doctor McCoy, Lieutenants Sulu, DeSalle, and Kelowitz beam down to the planet's surface and discover to their surprise that Elias Sandoval and the other colonists are not dead after all. Act One "Captain's log, stardate 3417.3. We thought our mission to Omicron Ceti III would be an unhappy one. We had expected to find no survivors of the agricultural colony there. Apparently, our information was incorrect." Sandoval and two other colonists are excited to see others than themselves; they haven't seen other Human beings since they left Earth. Sandoval explains that the colony's subspace radio had malfunctioned and they did not have anyone with the expertise capable of repairing it. Kirk grimly notes that they did not come here because the radio was broken but Sandoval says they are glad the Enterprise crew are here nevertheless. He offers to show the colony to them. "On pure speculation, just an educated guess — I'd say that man is alive", McCoy tells Kirk. Spock notes that the berthold rays are deadly to all life on this planet — the colonists should be dead. The crew of the Enterprise would be safe on Omicron Ceti III for a week but not for four years, as the colonists have. As McCoy and Spock debate how the colony's inhabitants could possibly still be alive, Kirk tells the landing party that they had better find some answers first. In a house, Spock encounters Leila Kalomi, a botanist he had met on Earth six years prior. She had loved him, but he had been unable to return her love despite being half-Human. Sandoval tells Kirk, McCoy, and Spock that the colony's philosophy is that man should return to a life less complicated by machinery. Thus, the colony has no mechanical devices or vehicles and weapons. "We have harmony here — complete peace", Sandoval proudly says. Elsewhere, anomalies in the colony are discovered by Sulu and Kelowitz, such as the total lack of any animal life on the colony, like cows, pigs, horses, and dogs. Alone together, Leila promises Sandoval to tell Spock their secret. Sandoval asks Leila if he would like Spock to stay with them and live as they do. "There is no choice, Elias. He will stay." Later, during his examination of the colonists, McCoy is astounded to discover that every inhabitant is in perfect physical health, even to the point where childhood injuries have repaired themselves. He points to the example of Sandoval's multiple health problems prior to journeying to the planet, such as scar tissue found on his lungs that cannot be detected now or his removed appendix, which is somehow back in his body. Sometime later, Kirk tells Sandoval that Starfleet Command has just ordered him to remove the colonists from the planet but Sandoval tells Captain Kirk that they will not leave. Kirk says this is not an arbitrary decision on his part but Sandoval still says they are not leaving, "it's entirely unnecessary", he says. McCoy reminds Sandoval of the deadly berthold rays currently bombarding the planet and their effect but Sandoval tells the doctor of their healthy lifestyle that is a plant based diet and that no colonist has of yet died. Kirk asks him how their animals have died and the colonists have not. Sandoval dodges the question and still refuses the captain's order to leave. Outside, Leila leads Spock towards a flowering plant, she says she was one of the first to find them. Spock is then blasted with spores. The spores cause Spock's emotional barriers to break down, making him drop his tricorder and react in physical pain, which quickly passes. He gets back up in a euphoric state and confesses his love for Leila, who says the Vulcan is now one of them. They kiss passionately. Act Two "Captain's log, supplemental. We have been ordered by Starfleet Command to evacuate the colony on Omicron III. However, the colony leader, Elias Sandoval, has refused all cooperation and will not listen to any arguments." When Kirk hails Spock with his communicator, his first officer responds casually and lacking any respect or formality for his commanding officer. McCoy notes that this behavior didn't seem like Spock at all. Kirk attempts to question Spock further, but Spock drops the communicator and again directs his attention to Leila. Concerned, Kirk follows the open com link, and finds Spock laughing and clowning around — actually hanging from a tree. When Kirk orders Spock to be placed under arrest, the Vulcan leads Kirk and his officers a short distance, stopping in front of one of the spore plants. Immediately, the spores blast Sulu and Kelowitz, who both exhibit the same euphoric behavior of the people on the planet. Meanwhile, DeSalle, already under their influence as well, infects Dr. McCoy, who begins beaming the plants aboard the Enterprise. Kirk decides to go back to the Enterprise. However, because Dr. McCoy had ordered about a hundred plants beamed aboard, the spores are carried throughout the Enterprise by the ship's ventilation system. He orders Lieutenant Uhura to contact Admiral James Komack at Starfleet. Lieutenant Uhura, under the spores' influence herself, leaves the bridge to beam down, but not before completely sabotaging the communications station. Only short-range sensors, to be able to contact the crew on the planet, remain. In a fit of rage, Kirk throws one of the pod plants on the bridge over the helm console and storms out. Outside the transporter room, the captain discovers that his entire crew is beaming down to the surface and orders them to go back to their stations. Leslie, speaking for the deserting crew, refuses and openly admits his actions are mutiny against the captain. Act Three "Captain's log, stardate 3417.5. The pod plants have spread spores throughout the ship, carried by the ventilation system. Under their influence, my crew is deserting to join the Omicron colony and I can't stop them. I don't know why I have not been infected nor can I get Dr. McCoy to explain the physical-psychological aspects of the infection." Kirk returns to the planet to find McCoy, to the house where he finds Spock and Sandoval. Spock responds by saying McCoy went to "make something called a mint julep." He goes on to explain the spores not only induce a feeling of total peace and euphoria, but they are also the reason that the colonists have been protected from the deadly berthold rays. Spock, able to act as a scientist notwithstanding still being under the influence of the spores, explains that the plants traveled through space until they landed on the planet, actually thriving on the berthold rays. The plants act as a repository for thousands of microscopic spores until they find a Human body to inhabit. In return, they give their host complete health and peace of mind: in short, paradise; "It's a true Eden, Jim." When Kirk hears that, he disagrees, stating that Humans weren't meant for that. He insists that man stagnates if he has no challenge to drive him and motivate him. But Spock says that Kirk simply doesn't understand now, but that he will come around eventually and really comprehend what they mean and join them. "Captain's log, stardate 3417.7. Except for myself, all crew personnel have transported to the surface of the planet. Mutinied. Lieutenant Uhura has effectively sabotaged the communications station. I can only contact the surface of the planet. The ship can be maintained in orbit for several months, but even with automatic controls, I cannot pilot her alone. In effect, I am marooned here. I'm beginning to realize just how big this ship really is, how quiet. I don't know how to get my crew back, how to counteract the effects of the spores. I don't know what I can offer against paradise." The bridge is deserted, save for the quiet beeping of the various stations running on automatic. Kirk enters and surveys his situation. He tries to call Scott in engineering, but receives no answer. Other sections of the ship are similarly deserted. Recording his log, he notes that while the Enterprise can remain in orbit for several months without a crew, he cannot pilot the ship alone, even with automatic controls. He realizes that he's ultimately been marooned aboard the Enterprise. Moving over to the helm station, Kirk laments on how big and quiet the Enterprise is without anyone aboard and wonders how he can possibly get his crew back; what he can possibly offer, he rhetorically asks himself, against the paradise that the spores bring. Lost in thought, he forgets that he is sitting near the pod plant he threw earlier when it blasts him with a dose of the spores. He becomes just as mindlessly happy as the others, and hails Spock to let him know that he finally understands and wants to join them after all — even though no-one will be able to beam back up to the Enterprise if he does so. Kirk goes to his quarters to pack, where he opens his safe and finds one of his Starfleet medals. A look of frustration comes over his face and he refuses to take the medal with him. He angrily closes the box and immediately leaves his quarters for the transporter room. There, Kirk places his suitcase on the transporter pads and is about to beam down to the planet when he suddenly gets hold of himself and becomes angry — yelling that he cannot leave the Enterprise and, after slamming his fist down on the transporter console, he becomes himself again, free of the spores. He realizes that violent emotions and anger are what counteract the spores' euphoria-inducing effects. Noting this cure for the spores in his log, Kirk also realizes that his plan to free his crew and the colonists from the spores' effects and escape Omicron Ceti III comes with one potential danger: Spock. Knowing his first officer to be considerably stronger than a normal Human being and could kill him with his bare hands, Kirk decides to risk it. "Captain's log, supplemental. I think I've discovered the answer, but to carry out my plan entails considerable risk. Mr. Spock is much stronger than the ordinary Human being. Aroused, his great physical strength could kill. But it's a risk I'll have to take." Kirk, pretending to still be under the influence of the spores, hails Spock and tells him that he would like some help in moving some of the ship's equipment that could be useful down on the planet. Spock offers to send a team, but Kirk says he thinks the two of them can handle it. Spock agrees and, telling Leila he will return soon, leaves to be beamed back aboard the Enterprise. However, upon returning to the ship, Spock is greeted with Kirk threateningly brandishing a metal pipe and calling him a "mutinous, disloyal, computerized, half-breed." Spock thinks Kirk is joking, but the captain persists and begins insulting Spock's parents and the entire Vulcan race. Spock pleads with Kirk to stop, but, he continues, now turning his attention to Leila and how Spock couldn't possibly love her, and that he is a freak who belongs in a circus, "right next to the dog-faced boy." At this, Spock finally snaps and attacks Kirk, throwing him around the transporter room. Act Four As he prepares to smash a small metal table over Kirk's head, Spock regains control of himself and is broken from the spores' influence. He and Kirk set out to create a subsonic transmitter that will induce anger and intense emotions in everyone on the planet's surface via the crew's communicators, thus eradicating the spores. When Leila beams up to the ship to find out what happened to Spock, she tells him that she cannot lose him again. But Spock tells her that he has a responsibility to the ship, and to his friend the captain. He goes on to tell her that he is who he is, and that if there are self-made purgatories then we all have to live in them, that his can be no worse than that of someone else. Leila cries and then realizes that she lost not only Spock but the feeling the spores induced as well. However, she says that her feelings for Spock still have not changed and that she still loves him. The transmitter is activated, and fights break out across the colony, destroying the spores' effects. Sandoval expresses regret, noting that they have not really accomplished anything in three years, as any progress they made was purely the result of the spores. He hopes that he and the other colonists can try again on another planet. As the Enterprise leaves Omicron Ceti III for Starbase 27, McCoy cynically states that this is the second time Humans have been thrown out of paradise and Kirk responds jokingly that actually this time they just walked out on their own; maybe they weren't meant for paradise, says Kirk, maybe they were meant to fight their way through, struggle and scratch for every inch of the way. Spock, on the other hand, realizes that his time with Leila on the surface was the first time he had ever been happy. Log entries Captain's log, USS Enterprise (NCC-1701), 2267 Memorable quotes "It's like a jigsaw puzzle all one color. No key to where the pieces fit in." - Kirk, on Omicron Ceti III "I have never understood the female capacity to avoid a direct answer to any question." - Spock, to Leila "Emotions are alien to me. I'm a scientist." - Spock, to Leila "It didn't hurt us." "I am not like you." - Leila and Spock, after he gets sprayed with spores "I love you. I can love you." - Spock, before kissing Leila "We're evacuating all colonists to starbase 27." "Oh, I don't think so." "You don't think so, what?" "I don't think so, sir." - Kirk and Spock, as Spock kisses Leila "Spock… are you out of your mind? You were told to report to me at once." "I didn't want to, Jim!" "Yes, I can see that." - Kirk and Spock, as Spock hangs from a tree, grinning "I thought you said you might like him if he mellowed a little." - Kirk to McCoy, on Spock's spore-induced behavior "Ah yeah, Jimmy boy. Hey, I've taken care of everything. All you gotta do is just relax – doctor's order." - McCoy (spore-influenced), to Kirk "This is mutiny, mister!" "Yes, sir. It is." - Kirk and Leslie, as Leslie refuses to go back to his station "Who wants to counteract paradise, Jim boy?" - McCoy, to Kirk "Man stagnates if he has no ambition, no desire to be more than he is." - Kirk, to Spock and Sandoval "I'm beginning to realize just how big this ship really is." - Kirk, after the crew has deserted the Enterprise "No… NO! I… can't… LEAVE!" - Kirk, fighting off the effects of the spores "All right, you mutinous, disloyal, computerized half-breed! We'll see about you deserting my ship!" - Kirk, provoking Spock into a fight "What makes you think you're a man? You're an overgrown jackrabbit; an elf with a hyperactive thyroid!" - Kirk, provoking Spock into a fight "What can you expect from a simpering, devil-eared freak, whose father was a computer and his mother an encyclopedia?" - Kirk, provoking Spock into a fight "Your father was a computer, like his son! An ambassador from a planet of traitors! The Vulcan never lived who had an ounce of integrity!" - Kirk, provoking Spock into a fight "You're a traitor from a race of traitors! Disloyal to the core! Rotten…like the rest of your subhuman race! And you've got the gall to make love to that girl!" - Kirk, provoking Spock into a fight "Does she know what she's getting, Spock? A carcass full of memory banks who should be squatting on a mushroom instead of passing himself off as a man! You belong in a circus, Spock, not a starship! Right next to the dog-faced boy!" - Kirk, before Spock strikes him "It isn't every first officer who gets to belt his captain… several times." - Kirk, after Spock is cured "I am what I am, Leila. And if there are self-made purgatories, and we all have to live in them, mine can be no worse than someone else's." - Spock to Leila, in the transporter room "You never told me if you had another name, Mister Spock." "You couldn't pronounce it." - Leila and Spock, as he wipes away her tears "We don't need you. Not as a doctor." "Oh, no? Would you like to see how fast I can put you in a hospital?" - Sandoval and McCoy, before McCoy punches him "You better make me a mechanic, then I can treat little tin gods like you!" - McCoy, getting angry at Sandoval "I have little to say about it, captain. Except that for the first time in my life, I was happy." - Spock, about Omicron Ceti III "Well, that's the second time man's been thrown out of Paradise." "No, no, Bones, this time we walked out on our own. Maybe we weren't meant for paradise. Maybe we were meant to fight our way through, struggle, claw our way up, scratch for every inch of the way. Maybe we can't stroll to the music of the lute. We must march to the sound of drums." - McCoy and Kirk Background information Production timeline Treatment "Sandoval's Planet" by Jerry Sohl: Revised story outline "Power Play": Second revised story outline: First draft teleplay "The Way of the Spores" by Sohl: Second draft teleplay: Revised second draft teleplay: Story outline "This Side of Paradise" by D.C. Fontana: First draft teleplay by Fontana: Second draft teleplay: Final draft teleplay by Gene L. Coon: Revised final draft teleplay: Additional revisions: , Filmed: – Day 1 – , Thursday – Golden Oak Ranch: Ext. Omicron colony Day 2 – , Friday – Golden Oak Ranch: Ext. Omicron colony Day 3 – , Monday – Golden Oak Ranch: Ext. Omicron colony; Desilu Stage 9: Int. Kirk's quarters Day 4 – , Tuesday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Bridge, Corridors Day 5 – , Wednesday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Transporter room Day 6 – , Thursday – Desilu Stage 10: Int. Omicron colony farmhouse Day 7 – , Friday – Bronson Canyon: Ext. Omicron colony Original airdate: Rerun airdate: First UK airdate: Story and script In Jerry Sohl's original draft (first titled "Power Play," then "The Way of The Spores"), it was Lieutenant Sulu who was infected by the spores and was able to fall in love with the Eurasian beauty Leila. McCoy discovered an internal condition that would have necessitated Sulu's resignation from Starfleet service, had the spores not cured his condition. His illness gave Sulu a will to develop a relationship with Leila just as similar circumstances would later affect McCoy's judgment in . (The Star Trek Compendium, p. 59) The spores, in the early drafts, were a communal intelligence; when someone was possessed by them, that individual was granted telepathic abilities to link up with other possessed minds. The abilities of the spores to restore health were complete enough to enable them to return the dead to life. The antidotes for the spores were either the possession of a certain blood type or the introduction of alcohol into the affected person. Originally, Kirk leaped onto Spock and forced liquor down his throat to restore him to normal. In a surprise ending, the spores were revealed to be benevolent, conscious entities who never intended to act against anyone's will. (The Star Trek Compendium, p. 59) According to Dorothy Fontana, the episode had to be seriously rewritten because Sohl had not quite gotten it right. Gene Roddenberry told her, "If you can rewrite this script, you can be my story editor." She thought about it and eventually realized that the story wasn't really about Sulu, but about Mr. Spock. Nimoy, who was initially taken aback when he was told that they were working on a love story for Spock, later felt that the episode turned out to be a lovely story. (TOS Season 1 DVD feature Kiss 'n' Tell: Romance in the 23rd Century) One of the basic aspects that Fontana immediately changed was Sohl's original conception of the spore plants residing in a cave. Thus, to avoid the danger of the plants, the crew merely had to avoid the cave. Fontana put the plants everywhere around the planet, and later the Enterprise to make them a real menace. (Star Trek: The Original Series 365, p. 131) Jerry Sohl was unhappy with Fontana's rewrites of his script and credited himself under his pseudonym "Nathan Butler". The script featured characters named Lieutenant Timothy Fletcher and Crewman Dimont as members of the landing party. When Michael Barrier and Grant Woods were cast in these roles, the names were changed to DeSalle and Kelowitz respectively, to appear constant with the two actors' previous appearances on the series. In writing up the episode for Star Trek 5, James Blish added a response from Spock after Leila tells him, "It's been a long time": "The years have seemed twice as long." Blish also depicts Spock awkwardly taking her hand. Production Originally was scheduled to be filmed before this episode with Ralph Senensky directing it, and Joseph Pevney directing "This Side of Paradise", but during pre-production the two episodes were switched, and changed directors. It was due to producer Gene Coon's assumption that "Devil" would be a tough assignment for a first-time Trek director. In a blooper, Leonard Nimoy flubs his line about the plants acting as a repository for thousands of spores. Instead, he says the plants act as a "suppository." The crew cracks up, as does Nimoy, who caps the fun by putting a Tootsie Pop in his mouth. The empty shot of the bridge, before the turbolift opens to admit Kirk, was the best available piece of film for to reuse as the holosimulation of the NCC-1701 bridge. The short snippet of film was "looped" several times and bluescreened in behind James Doohan and Patrick Stewart's scenes. Using the stock footage in this way eliminated the need to completely rebuild the bridge – they only built a short section of the computer stations, the door alcove, and the command stations for the TNG-era actors to sit at. (Star Trek: The Original Series 365, pp. 133-134) In Leila's first close-up Jerry Finnerman lighted Jill Ireland with a baby spot light from behind, adding an "aura of light" around her face. Senensky originally wanted to film the Kirk versus Spock fight scene from a wider angle, so the stunt doubles wouldn't be so obvious, but the transporter room set was too small to achieve this. Gerald Fried's score from is heavily featured in this episode, most notably the "Ruth theme", successfully accompanying the lost love between Spock and Leila. Locations The large open meadow seen in several sequences is in Malibu State Park in southern California. It is the same spot where the hunt in the corn field took place in Planet of the Apes, and also extensively used in the series Gunsmoke. The barn Kelowitz and Sulu investigate can be seen in several episodes of Kung Fu. The buildings seen in the teaser, the first scene after and the scene in which DeSalle shows McCoy the spores are at a different location than the buildings seen in the rest of the episode. The green farm structures were located at the Disney Ranch. The concept of Sandoval's people refusing modern technology was intended to justify the late-19th century American style of the ranch. According to director Ralph Senensky, the original schedule was that the first three of the six shooting days were to be spent on location, shooting at the Golden Oak Ranch (also known as the Disney Ranch), then the remaining three days indoors, filming the Enterprise scenes. However, after two days of shooting outdoors, Jill Ireland fell ill and couldn't appear on the set. It was in question if she had measles or not. Senensky decided to film all the farm scenes which didn't contain Leila's character and then return to the studio for Enterprise interiors in the remaining of the day, and hope for the actress' return. Ireland appeared the following day, as it turned out that she did not have measles. However, the crew couldn't return to Disney Ranch as it was already booked for another production. They decided to film the remaining scenes at Bronson Canyon. In the script, Kirk first spots Spock and Leila kissing passionately by the stream; there is no scene of Spock hanging off the tree limb. Director Ralph Senensky came up with the idea of Spock hanging from the tree on location, when he found the tree and the spot closely to Bronson Canyon. Originally the scene was to be shot on a clearing. Evidence taken from a deleted scene, of Spock and Leila's presence near the stream, appears in the episode's preview trailer. Sets and props The food processors in the transporter room, placed there so Kyle could provide chicken soup for the air sergeant in , disappeared from the room by the end of the first season. In this episode, an enraged Spock destroys one of them. Omicron Ceti III is M-113 from , Alfa 177 from dyed a green color. This is the first time that Spock wears the green jumpsuit. He wears it again in while being remotely controlled. Cast James Doohan (Scott) does not appear in this episode, although he is referenced and asked for by Kirk. Stuntman Bobby Bass, whose character tried to break up the fight between the two officers, had his only lines of dialogue in the series here. Frank Overton died only a few months after completing this episode, which was filmed in early . Continuity Admiral Komack is mentioned in this episode; he is seen in . According to Denise and Michael Okuda, the character was named for , director of . In , Chekov asks Spock if there has ever been a mutiny on a starship before. Spock replies that there has never been, despite the fact the events of this episode were specifically called a mutiny. (Obviously, with the crew having been under the influence of the spores, it is not a true mutiny, which usually implies willful disobedience rather than manipulation, making Spock's statement true). This statement about a mutiny never occurring would seem to be refuted by the events in . There is also Spock's mutiny in and . As established in The Making of Star Trek, there are only seventeen starbases. However, Kirk announces that he has been ordered to take the colonists to Starbase 27. At one point during his log recording, Kirk refers incorrectly to the planet as "Omicron III." Although Kirk hurls the pod plant across the bridge before storming out after Uhura abandons her post and it is that same plant that subsequently infects Kirk when he's sitting at the helm console, when the empty bridge is seen when Kirk records his log entry, the pod plant is nowhere to be found. The alternate reality version of also successfully provokes to anger in . Instead of merely insulting him with name-calling, however, he pokes the raw wound of his 's recent death at the hands of Nero. Reception Dorothy Fontana very much liked the finished episode. She recalled, "It worked out very well because the actors were brilliant for me, and had a very good director, and you know, I really like it." Ralph Senensky recalled that directing the episode "really proved to be very, very, very well worthwhile doing. Leonard [Nimoy] and Jill [Ireland] were wonderful, as was the whole cast." The book Star Trek 101 (p. 17), by Terry J. Erdmann and Paula M. Block, lists this episode as one of the "Ten Essential Episodes" from Star Trek: The Original Series. Video and DVD releases Original US Betamax release: UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 14, catalog number VHR 2307, release date unknown US VHS release: UK re-release (three-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 1.9, Original US DVD release (single-disc): Volume 13, As part of the TOS Season 1 DVD collection As part of the TOS Season 1 HD DVD collection As part of the TOS Season 1 Blu-ray collection Links and references Starring William Shatner as Kirk Leonard Nimoy as Spock Guest star Jill Ireland as Leila Kalomi Special guest star Frank Overton as Elias Sandoval Co-star DeForest Kelley as McCoy Featuring Grant Woods as Kelowitz George Takei as Sulu Nichelle Nichols as Uhura Michael Barrier as DeSalle Dick Scotter as Eddie Paskey as Crewman Uncredited co-stars Bobby Bass as Enterprise operations officer William Blackburn as Hadley Frank da Vinci as Brent Vinci Walker Edmiston as Enterprise transporter chief (voice) Carey Foster as Enterprise sciences crew woman Jeannie Malone as Enterprise yeoman Fred Shue as Enterprise crewman Ron Veto as Harrison Unknown actors as Omicron colonist 1 Omicron colonist 2 Omicron colonist 3 Omicron colonist 4 Enterprise command crewman Enterprise crew women 1 and 2 Enterprise engineering technician Enterprise helmsman lieutenant Enterprise sciences crew woman 2 Enterprise sciences lieutenant Enterprise operations lieutenant Stunt doubles Bill Catching as the stunt double for Leonard Nimoy Chuck O'Brien as the stunt double for William Shatner Stand-ins William Blackburn as the stand-in for DeForest Kelley Frank da Vinci as the stand-in for Leonard Nimoy Jeannie Malone as the stand-in for Jill Ireland Eddie Paskey as the stand-in for William Shatner References 2208; 2244; 2261; 2263; 2264; acreage; admiral; agricultural colony; agriculture; ambassador; ambition; anger; animal; answer; antidote; appendectomy; appendix; argument; arm; arrest; automatic controls; barn; bean; beauty; belonging; Berengaria VII; berthold rays; biochemistry lab; biology report; biologist; blood sample; "Bones"; botanist; brain; brig; breeding; butterfly net; carcass; chance; choice; circuit; circus; climate; cloud; co-conspirator; communications station; communicator; computer; contact; contact signal; court martial offense; cow; crop; cure; danger; dead air; death; desertion; dog; dog-faced boy; dorsal spine; dragon; dream; drum; Earth; Eden; effect; elf; emotion; encyclopedia; et cetera; ; expedition; face; farm; fate; feeling; ; first officer; flesh; flora; food; ; frequency; garden; Georgia; god; grain; ; half-breed; handshake; happiness pill; health; heart; hide; homing device; horse; hospital; Human being; Human body; "in a vacuum"; inch; infection; information; inoculation; insect; instrument malfunction; integrity; itching powder; jackrabbit; jigsaw puzzle; ; landing party; leader; livestock; lobar pneumonia; logic; love; lung; lute; machine; "make love"; marooning; mechanic; medical examination; medical record; medical test; memory bank; mind; mint julep; minute; miracle; mission; motor coordination; mushroom; music; mutiny; name; nature; needs; nerve; Omicron Ceti III (Omicron III); Omicron colonists; Omicron colony; operation; paradise; peace; philosophy; physical strength; pig; pill; place; pod plant; poetry; potato; progress; pronunciation; purgatory; quarters; radiation exposure; rain; rainbow; reflex; result; rib; risk; safe; Sarek; scar tissue; scientist; sensation; serum; shingle; shipmate; ship's complement; skin; sky; soil; space; speaker; speculation; spore; standard orbit; standard procedure; star; Starbase 27; Starfleet Command; Starfleet Medal of Honor; subhuman race; subspace radio; subsonic transmitter; suitcase; surface; survivor; tail; teacher; textbook; thing; thousand; thyroid; tin; "tin god"; tissue; tonsil; traitor; transmission pattern; traitor; tricorder; vacuum; vegetarian; vehicle; ventilation system; vernacular; Vulcanian; ; weakling; weapon; week; word External links de:Falsche Paradiese es:This Side of Paradise fr:This Side of Paradise (épisode) ja:死の楽園（エピソード） nl:This Side of Paradise pl:This Side of Paradise TOS episodes

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Errand of Mercy (episode)

Kirk and Spock try to protect the planet Organia from the Klingons, but the natives don't want the Federation's help. Summary Teaser Coded orders from Starfleet Command to the disclose that negotiations with the Klingon Empire are on the verge of collapse and that Starfleet expects a surprise attack. The Enterprise is ordered to Organia, a peaceful, Class M planet in the disputed area, to prevent the Klingons from using it as a base of operations. En route, a Klingon vessel suddenly attacks the Enterprise with magnetic pulses. Kirk orders the phaser banks to lock on and return fire. After a brief weapons exchange, the Enterprise destroys the Klingon ship with a proximity blast set at a 100% dispersal pattern. Lieutenant Uhura receives a Code One alert from Starfleet: War with the Klingons has begun and Captain Kirk resolves to reach Organia "before the hammer falls", as the trigger has now been pulled. Act One Assuming orbit, Kirk and Spock beam down to the planet, leaving Lieutenant Sulu in charge, with specific duties "to the Enterprise, not to us" and, if outnumbered, to avoid combat and immediately warn Starfleet. Upon beaming down to the surface of Organia, Kirk and Spock find a primitive, agrarian society whose people seem curiously unconcerned about visitors materializing within their midst — which makes Kirk wonder whether the Organians "get people beaming down every day". Ayelborne welcomes them, but tells Kirk "we don't have anyone in authority." But, as Chairman of the Council of Elders, he invites them to the Council chambers. However, the councilors tell Kirk they have no need of protection nor defenses; they do not believe the Klingon invasion poses any threat to their people or their culture or way of life. While they recess to discuss Kirk's offer, Spock discloses that the culture has not advanced for as far back as his tricorder can measure; Organia is "an arrested culture." The Council's discussions result in no change, and they can see no benefit to affiliation with the Federation. Then the Klingon fleet of battle cruisers arrives – a fact Councilor Trefayne somehow seems aware of before even Spock can confirm it with his tricorder, surprising him and Kirk. The Enterprise is forced to leave, stranding Kirk and Spock amid a Klingon occupation army, led by Kor. Act Two The Organians provide Kirk and Spock with native clothing, but take their weapons. Kirk is now Baroner, a leading Organian citizen, while Spock is a Vulcan merchant dealing in kevas and trillium. But Kor considers Spock a spy, since Vulcans are members of the Federation, and takes him in for questioning. When Kirk protests, Kor decides that Kirk is "a man I can deal with" as his liaison to the civil population. The examination, performed with the mind scanner, does not pierce Spock's pretense, and he is released. Kirk has been instructed in his duties as liaison, and both men are released to go about their business. Formulating a plan to fight against the Klingons, Kirk and Spock destroy a Klingon ammo dump – and find that the Organians are appalled by the mere thought of violence. Kirk tells Ayelborne that the Organians can resist a military dictatorship, but Ayelborne replies that Kirk simply doesn't understand them. Unfortunately, Kor has the Council chamber under surveillance and hears everything. Act Three Ayelborne, learning Kor's plan to interrogate Kirk with the mind sifter, reveals Kirk's identity. Betrayed, Kirk and Spock are taken prisoner and threatened. But Ayelborne remains placid, assuring Kirk that no harm will come of it. Kirk and Kor discuss their differing ideologies; Kor is pleased that the universe is full of people who don't like the Klingons. Kirk is given twelve hours to answer questions about Starfleet's starship deployments; otherwise, he will be subjected to the mind sifter, becoming a vegetable, and Spock will be dissected to determine how he can resist it. Kirk tells Kor he will need a lot more than twelve hours to get the necessary information out of him. Kor tells Kirk that he will get the necessary information from him at the designated time as war is a game that the Klingons intend to win. With just over six hours left, the cell door opens, but it is Ayelborne, offering them safe passage back to the Council chambers, where he assures them the Klingons will not come. Kirk cannot understand how their betrayer is now their rescuer. He does not initially trust Ayelborne, but as the Organian informs him he has very little choice. When asked where the two Klingon guards are, Ayelborne simply states nothing happened to them. When informed of the escape by his lieutenant, Kor is furious. The Klingon officer reports that the two Klingon guards were simply not there with no other exit. Kor gives a Special Occupation Order 4. Kirk, Spock and the Organians hear disruptor fire and, on the loudspeakers, that hostages will be killed: two hundred immediately, and two hundred more at two hour intervals until the "Federation spies" are returned. Act Four Kirk plans a suicide assault on Kor's stronghold that evening to save Organian lives. The council returns the officers' phasers, then confer privately that, "Of course, we cannot allow it." Darkness falls, and Kirk and Spock begin their assault, resolving to stun and not kill, as "we're after the top dog." They disable Kor's lieutenant and gain entry to Kor's office. Kirk doesn't plan to kill Kor; Kor wants to discuss the prospects for war, on the surface and in space. For example, even Kor's office is under surveillance. But, as Klingon troops stream in, everyone's weapons become too hot to handle — and the same is true on every ship in both warring fleets. Ayelborne and Claymare enter Kor's office, apologize for being forced to intervene, but announce that they have put a stop to the violence. Ayelborne states that, as he stands before Kirk and Kor, he also stands on their respective homeworlds, Earth and Qo'noS. Both sides must agree to cease hostilities, or their armed forces will be immobilized. While insisting that nobody wants war, Kirk seems equally annoyed at its interruption as is Kor. He states they have legitimate grievances and that they have a right to handle it as they see fit. Ayelborne tells them that in the future, their races will eventually become fast friends and will work together, which Kor finds unbelievable. Claymare says the visitors' discordant emotions require that they must leave. Ayelborne discloses that none of the two hundred Organian hostages have been killed, and what Kirk and Kor see is merely for appearance. The Organians have over millions of years evolved beyond the need for physical bodies, and have become advanced and powerful energy beings. Kirk and Spock work out themselves that Organia's outward appearance was solely to provide points of reference for visitors. Ayelborne and Claymare disappear before Kirk, Spock and Kor's eyes, changing from human form into very bright pure energy. Kirk turns to Kor and tells him it looks like they will not be going to war after all. "A shame, Captain. It would have been glorious", the Klingon commander states. Back on board the Enterprise, Kirk admits to Spock at being embarrassed that he was furious with the Organians from preventing a war with the Klingons – a war he did not want. Kirk tells Spock that they often think of themselves as the most powerful force in the universe, it's unsettling to find out they ultimately are not. Spock tells Kirk that he and himself have no reason to be embarrassed; it took millions of years for the Organians to evolve into what they are now. Spock points out that even the gods did not come into being overnight. Spock also says that at least they beat the odds in not dying on the planet. Kirk tells Spock he is wrong, as they didn't have a chance at beating the odds. "The Organians raided the game." Log entries Captain's log, USS Enterprise (NCC-1701), 2267 Memorable quotes "War. We didn't want it, but we've got it." "Curious how often you Humans manage to obtain that which you do not want." - Kirk and Spock, as the starts "I'm a soldier, not a diplomat. I can only tell you the truth." - Kirk, to the Organian Council of Elders "This is the ruling council?" "I am Ayelborne, temporary head of the council. I bid you welcome." "No doubt you do. I am Kor, military governor of Organia." - Kor and Ayelborne "Have we a ram among the sheep?" - Kor, to "Baroner" "I don't trust men who smile too much." - Kor, on the Organians "You don't have to be sheep. You can be wolves." - Kirk, to Ayelborne "Always it is the brave ones who die. The soldiers." - Kor, taking Kirk and Spock as his prisoners "What would you say the odds on our getting out of here?" "Difficult to be precise, Captain. I should say approximately 7,824.7 to one." "Difficult to be precise?" - Kirk and Spock, before attacking two Klingon guards "Attention. Attention, all Organians. Attention. This is Commander Kor. The two Federation prisoners have escaped, obviously with outside aid. They will be returned immediately. So that you will know we mean what we say… listen." "Those are Klingon phasers. Take the door. Get down, gentlemen." "In the courtyard of my headquarters, two hundred Organians have just been killed." "Two hundred of them…" "In two hours, two hundred more will die, and two hundred more after that until the two Federation spies are turned over to us. This is the order of Kor, son of Rynar." - Kor and James T. Kirk "Today we conquer! Oh, if someday we are defeated… well… war has its fortunes. Good and bad." - Kor "We have the right –" "To wage war, Captain? To kill millions of innocent people? To destroy life on a planetary scale? Is that what you're defending?" - Kirk and Ayelborne "It is true that in the future, you and the Klingons will become fast friends. You will work together." - Ayelborne, to Kirk "I should say the Organians are as far above us on the evolutionary scale as we are above the amoeba." - Spock, after the Organians reveal their true forms "Well, Commander, I guess that takes care of the war. Obviously the Organians aren't going to let us fight." "A shame, Captain. It would have been glorious." - Kirk and Kor "Even the gods did not spring into being overnight." - Spock, to Kirk "You and I have nothing to be embarrassed of. We did, after all, beat the odds." "Oh no, Mr. Spock, we didn't beat the odds, we didn't have a chance. The Organians raided the game." - Spock and Kirk Background information Story and script This episode marks the first appearance of the Klingons. Story editor Dorothy Fontana thought the Klingons were made the regular adversaries of the series because they didn't need any special (and expensive) make-up like the Romulans, whom she thought to be much more interesting. Ayelborne mentions that in the future, the Federation and the Klingons would be friends and work together, both of which become true. The episode title comes from by : "It is an errand of mercy which brings me here. Pray, let me discharge it." In the script, the Klingons were described simply as "Oriental, hard-faced." According to the script, the Organian village was to be modeled on old English villages, with thatched huts and muddy back alleys. This is the first episode in which Sulu is shown sitting in the command chair, although he had previously commanded the bridge from the helm position in . Scott, who doesn't appear in this episode, had commanded the Enterprise in the absence of Kirk and Spock in , in which Sulu didn't appear. The second season would establish Scott as senior to Sulu in the command structure. Cast DeForest Kelley (McCoy) and James Doohan (Scott) do not appear in this episode. Along with and , this is one of only three episodes after the two pilots in which Kelley does not appear. This was also McCoy's last non-appearance in TOS. It was not until season two that the two encountered Klingons. This was the first appearance of John Colicos as Kor. The character was also set to appear in and , but Colicos was unavailable and other Klingon characters were written in. A script was written for Kor for the fourth season, but the show was canceled after the third season, and he never got his chance to appear again (Kor did appear in , but was voiced by James Doohan). Colicos was also the person who gave the Klingons their dark-skinned, mustached look. He said he was going for the "Genghis Khan" look. Makeup artist Fred Phillips agreed on it, and conceived the Klingons in this fashion. He did eventually reprise his role in , , and . Colicos was director John Newland's first and immediate choice for the role of Kor. He got the script only two hours before flying to Los Angeles from Toronto, and read it on the plane. Victor Lundin played the tall Klingon lieutenant who returns Spock to Kor's office following the level 4 mind scan. Lundin's character can also be seen in Kor's office reporting the escape of prisoners Kirk and Spock. Victor also appears in a scene as the Klingon which Kirk chokes into submission with a belt cord; followed by Spock's administration of an incapacitating neck pinch. One of Lundin's most notable roles just prior to this timeframe was the part of Friday on the film, Robinson Crusoe on Mars. The unknown actor usually portraying Bobby appears as one of the Klingon Guards outside Kor's office at the end of the episode. Costumes The baldric that Kor wore was reused for Worf during TNG's first season. () When it was exhibited at the as part of a Star Trek retrospective in the 1990s, the material could clearly be seen to be burlap sacking, painted gold. The same exhibit showed that the buckles of the Klingon belts were pieces of bubble pack, with the bubbles painted silver to resemble metal studs. Sets and props This is one of only two episodes that show an actual Klingon flip-top communicator (shown when Kor contacts his fleet), which is similar to, but smaller than, the Starfleet version. The other episode is . The communicator was recycled from the Eminian version from . It appears that Kor uses "texting" and wireless telemetry – possibly one of the first uses of the now common wireless technology in film/TV media. Also recycled and reworked from "A Taste of Armageddon" are the sonic disruptor pistols, first used here by the Klingons and later by the Romulans. The boxes in the Klingon munitions dump were spray-painted corrugated cardboard containers. The main gate to the Organian village, where Ayelborne greets Kirk and Spock was previously the gate to the Rigel VII castle in . The stairs on which Spock and Kirk phaser the Klingon guards are the same set where Christopher Pike battled the Kalar in the original pilot. Location filming for both episodes were done at the "Arab Village" portion of the famous 40 Acres back lot. The entrance of the Klingon headquarters is the same building as the main gate to the Organian village, filmed from a longer distance and different angles. The scene where Kirk and Spock stun the guards and break into the Klingon headquarters was filmed in sunlight using a "" filter. The view of the citadel at the beginning of Act One is a stock footage shot of the in . The script specified for a matte painting to be used, but the stock footage shot proved to be much more cost-effective. (These Are the Voyages: TOS Season One) Since only the bridge set was used in this and the previous episode (), most other Enterprise sets were temporarily demolished to make room for additional swing sets depicting Organia interiors on Desilu Stage 9 in addition to the usually used Stage 10. (These Are the Voyages: TOS Season One) Effects The shot of Enterprise hit by magnetic pulses was a stock shot of energy bolts hitting the ship, the corresponding live-action sequences used a buzzing electric effects theme – that would be reused for the Klingon Bird-of-Prey firing effect in . The shot of Enterprise firing was also a reuse, this time the white bolts shot out of the ship are said to be phasers, even though in other appearances the same effect represents photon torpedoes. The script, written by producer Gene Coon, specified that the battle shall be depicted using stock footage from and . (These Are the Voyages: TOS Season One) Continuity 's first season, which debuted in 2017, retroactively provides further explanation for the aggressiveness expressed by Kirk in this episode by showing the first war fought between the Federation and the Klingon Empire just a decade before. Kirk's "legitimate" complaints against the Klingons include the brutal invasion of Federation territory, the killing of its citizens and the aggressive occupation of entire planets, all occurrences that happened during that first conflict. The emblem of the Klingon Empire shown in this episode is replaced by the time occurs. Other information This is the last episode in which the term "Vulcanian" is used to refer to Vulcans. Both "Vulcanian" and "Vulcan" are used at different points in the episode: Kor uses "Vulcanian" and the Klingon lieutenant uses "Vulcan", both in reference to Spock. A published by IDW Comics in , "Against Their Nature", told this story from the Klingon point of view. The Bantam paperback Star Trek: The New Voyages included a story called "Mind Sifter" which described the horrific aftereffects of the Klingon torture instrument on Kirk. A reference to the events of this episode would appear in the episode , when Jadzia Dax introduces Worf to Kor, Worf tells Kor he had heard stories about Kor since he was a child including Kor's confrontation with Kirk on Organia. Kevas and trillium are later mentioned in as a tribute to this episode. Also, a 1970s Star Trek fanzine was named "Kevas and Trillium". (The World of Star Trek) The Organians are seen once again in the episode . In that story, two Organian observers visit the to witness how Humans deal with a silicon-based virus (a long-standing test for many galactic races). In the course of the story, one Organian influences the outcome (in this case, saving three lives), a violation of their rules about non-interference, rules that by this story have been relaxed. The lead researcher also comments that preparations for first contact with Humanity will begin, a process that should take approximately "five thousand years" – the arrival of the Enterprise and the Klingon vessel in "Errand of Mercy" negates that prediction. The American synth-pop group famously used a quote from this episode of Spock saying "pure energy" in their 1988 song "". These two words were taken from Spock's line towards the end of the episode: "Fascinating. Pure energy. Pure thought. Totally incorporeal. Not life as we know it at all." The video game uses this episode's title as a chapter title. Apocrypha In the Star Fleet Universe it is explained that the Organians' powers only work within their own star system and thus they were unable to truly prevent large scale wars. Their actions in the episode to stop the Federation-Klingon war were largely a bluff. Eventually they would enlist the Interstellar Concordium to impose order on all of the local races. However, TOS comics set between and contradict this. The comics claim that the Organians prevented the two powers from going to war at all. Eventually a war does break out, courtesy of manipulation by Yarnek and the Excalbians. Kirk eventually convinces the Excalbians and the Organians to fight each other, and as the Organians disappear, they lose control over the Federation and the Klingons. In the 1970 novel Spock Must Die!, the Klingons envelop Organia with an energy shield in order to neutralize the Organians' abilities to prevent war between the Klingons and the Federation. Eventually the plot is discovered and the shield is disabled, and in retribution, the Organians deny spaceflight capability to the Klingons for a thousand years. According to the novel The Sorrows of Empire, the Treaty of Organia was signed between the Terran Empire and the Klingon Empire in the mirror universe during the 2260s, suggesting that a version of the events of this episode also occurred in that universe. Production timeline Story outline by Gene L. Coon: mid- First draft teleplay by Coon: late- Second draft teleplay: Final draft teleplay: Revised final draft teleplay: Additional revisions: Filmed: – Day 1 – , Thursday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Bridge, Dungeon Day 2 – , Friday – 40 Acres ("Arab Village" backlot): Ext. Organian village, Klingon headquarters entrance Day 3 – , Monday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Dungeon, Council chambers Day 4 – , Tuesday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Council chambers Day 5 – , Wednesday – Desilu Stage 10: Int. Kor's office Day 6 – , Thursday – Desilu Stage 10: Int. Kor's office, Klingon headquarters corridors Original airdate: First UK airdate: Remastered information The remastered version of "Errand of Mercy" aired in many North American markets during the weekend of . The episode was heavy in new effects, with unique CG shots of Organia from orbit, replacing the stock footage used to represent other planets including Alfa 177, M-113, and Gothos. The Klingon battle was significantly expanded, with shots of a fleet of battle cruisers bombarding the Enterprise with blue-colored weapons fire. The Organians themselves were also modified, with more refined computer graphics inserted into the episode that remained true to their original appearance. Video and DVD releases Original US Betamax release: UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 15, catalog number VHR 2311, release date unknown US VHS release: UK re-release (three-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 1.10, Original US DVD release (single-disc): Volume 14, As part of the TOS Season 1 DVD collection As part of the Star Trek: Fan Collective - Klingon collection As part of the TOS Season 1 HD DVD collection As part of the TOS Season 1 Blu-ray collection As part of the Star Trek: The Original Series - Origins Blu-ray collection Links and references Starring William Shatner as Capt. Kirk Also starring Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock Guest stars John Abbott as Ayelborne John Colicos as Kor Featuring George Takei as Sulu Nichelle Nichols as Uhura Peter Brocco as Claymare Victor Lundin as Lieutenant David Hillary Hughes as Trefayne Walt Davis as Klingon Soldier George Sawaya as Second Soldier Uncredited co-stars Bobby Bass as Klingon soldier William Blackburn as Organian villager John Blower as Organian villager Gary Combs as Klingon soldier Frank da Vinci as Brent Organian villager Eddie Paskey as Leslie Basil Poledouris as Klingon soldier Paul Power as Organian elder Tom Steele as Klingon soldier Ron Veto as Harrison Organian villager Unknown actors as Klingon soldiers 3, 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11 An Organian elder Five Organian male villagers Crewman Engineer Helmsman Lieutenant Sciences navigator Unknown actresses as Five Organian female villagers Crew woman 1 Operations crew woman References ability; admiration; all hands; all-points relay; altruism; amoeba; amount; antimatter pods; area; armed forces; Armenia; army; arrested culture; authority; backbone; Baroner; ; base of operations; battle; battle stations; bearing; being; Belgium; ; boasting; body; buckling; building; business; ; captor; castle; casualty; chairman; chance; checkmate; chemical explosive; choice; citadel; citizen; ; class M; "climb a tree"; Code One alert; coded directive tape; commander; communications device; confiscation; contact; council; council chambers; Council of Elders; courage; course; courtyard; crate; crime; culture; (ship, fleet); damage control; damage report; danger; day; dealer; death; death penalty; debris; deflector screen (aka automatic deflector screen); ; delayed-action fuse; democratic body; destiny; diplomat; disease; dissection; dog; door; Earth; efficiency; emotion; enemy; enemy alien; engineering control; environment; environmental control; evidence; evolution; evolutionary scale; examination room; "excuse me"; experience; eye; ; ; first officer; fleet (aka star fleet); feet; fortress; freedom; friend; fuse; game; general alert; gods; grievance; guard; hall; ; harm; hate; head; headquarters; ; here and now; history; hostage; hour; Human; humanoid; ; hunger; ; idea; identification; ideology; incorporeal; information; intuition; invasion; job; kevas; killer; Klingon; Klingon Empire; knowledge; laboratory specimen; labor camp; leader; liaison; liar; lieutenant; location; logic; machine; magnetic pulse; material transmission unit (aka transporter); mechanization; mental vegetable; merchant (aka trader); mercy; military dictatorship; military forces; military governor; Milky Way Galaxy; million; millions of years ago; mind; mind scanner (aka mind ripper, mind sifter, truth finder); minute; mission; money; munitions dump; negotiation; neighborhood; occupation; occupation army; odds; "of course"; opinion; Organia; Organia's sun; Organian; Organian goat; Organian Peace Treaty; Organian village; pack; peace; penal planet; persuasion; phaser; phaser bank; phaser crew; place; point of reference; population; ; predator; primitive society; prison cell; prisoner; proclamation; progress; public assembly; public facility; publication; Qo'noS; quadrant; quarterly physical; question; ram; range; rebellion; reception committee; representative; reputation; result; reward; Richter's scale of cultures; ruins; rule; saboteur; savage; science; school; screens; sentimentality; sheep; slave labor; smile; society; soldier; sonic grenade; space vehicle; Special Occupation Order 4; specialist; species; spy; standard orbit; "stand by"; space; Starfleet; Starfleet Command; storekeeper; ; surface; surveillance; technician; temperature; tens of thousands of years ago; terror; "the top dog"; thing; thought; thousand; tiger; toast; tongue; tool; trade; training; tree; trick; tricorder; trigger; trillium; truth; ultimatum; understatement; Unit XY-75847; Unit XY-75847's sector; United Federation of Planets; universe; victory; violence; Vulcan (Vulcanian); Vulcan (planet); Vulcan neck pinch; wall; war; way of life; wolves; year External links de:Kampf um Organia es:Errand of Mercy fr:Errand of Mercy (épisode) it:Missione di pace (episodio) ja:クリンゴン帝国の侵略（エピソード） nl:Errand of Mercy pl:Errand of Mercy TOS episodes

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Operation -- Annihilate! (episode)

The Deneva colony is attacked by flying parasites that cause mass insanity while the crew of Enterprise search for a way to stop them. (Season finale) Summary Teaser The approaches Deneva. Captain Kirk is concerned; Uhura has been unable to contact any transmitter on the planet, including a private transmitter code, GSK 783, that Kirk suggests. Spock's research has revealed that a pattern of mass insanity has been spreading in a straight line through this part of the galaxy, starting with Levinius V, then Theta Cygni XII, Ingraham B, and now Deneva is next, a planet on which Kirk's brother Sam is stationed with his family. Lieutenant Sulu picks up a ship on sensors. The small craft of Denevan configuration is on course directly for the Denevan sun, and does not appear to be out of control. Kirk orders Sulu engage the Enterprise at warp 8 interception course. The Denevan vessel is out of range of the tractor beam; the Enterprise pursues. Finally, they make contact: seconds before the ship burns up, the pilot cries out, "I did it! It's finally gone! I'm free!" After the vessel's destruction, Doctor McCoy walks up to Kirk and softly asks, "Jim, your brother Sam and his family – aren't they stationed on this planet?" Act One Spock and Montgomery Scott inform Kirk about Deneva's history and the fact that there has not been contact in a year. Uhura reports activity on the private transmitter channel, a woman speaking but does not respond to Kirk. Contact is abruptly cut; Kirk demands that Uhura get the channel open again, but she reports that it was shut off on the other end: the only thing she can do is keep hailing and hope they choose to answer back. Kirk identifies the woman as likely being his brother's wife Aurelan Kirk, to McCoy. Once the Enterprise arrives at Deneva, Kirk forms a landing party consisting of him, Spock, McCoy, Scott, Yeoman Zahra, and Bobby. Spock says there are the expected number of Human life signs, but "strangely quiet." They beam directly into the capital city on Deneva. Once on the planet, they are struck by the curious lack of people; in a city of 100,000, no one is visible – until, a few minutes later, they are about to be attacked by four men who, even as they charge, scream "Go away! We don't want to hurt you!" But, with their s, they start to try anyway, forcing the landing party to stun them with their phasers, an attitude inconsistent with their actions. Then McCoy discovers with his medical tricorder that the nervous systems of the unconscious men are violently active – as if they are somehow still being stimulated. A loud scream draws them next to Kirk's brother's lab. Kirk's brother, Sam, lies dead on the floor. Aurelan is hysterical, and their young son Peter is unconscious nearby. Kirk holds Aurelan close while McCoy sedates her. McCoy and Spock both give their condolences to Kirk. Evidence suggests something has been trying to force its way in through a ventilation shaft, despite the fact that the sensors showed nothing on Deneva that didn't belong there. McCoy recommends that Kirk returns to the ship with his relatives and the doctor so he can be present when Aurelan wakes. Spock is left in charge of the landing party. In sickbay aboard the Enterprise, McCoy is waiting on lab results to identify the cause. In the meantime, the Kirks have been heavily sedated for the extreme pain they're experiencing, but Aurelan is surprisingly resistant to the tranquilizer and is still awake. Holding her hand, Kirk informs her that Sam is dead, but Peter is still alive. In terrible pain, she tells Kirk that "things" came, eight months prior, on a ship from Ingraham B as its crew had been forced to travel to Deneva. As she tries to answer Kirk's questions, she experiences more and more pain, until McCoy is forced to sedate her, which only blunts the pain. The creatures use the Denevans as their arms and legs, and are forcing them to build ships. They control their hosts with pain. Aurelan's last act is to implore Kirk not to let the things go any further; this effort costs her everything she has left, and with a pained scream she dies. Kirk rejoins the landing party; he knows there is some sort of creature present, but the landing party has not yet discovered anything beyond a curious buzzing. Kirk orders their phasers to be set to force 3, on the kill setting as the creatures responsible have already shown a willingness to kill. Entering a building where they heard this sound, the landing party discovers strange creatures clinging to walls and the underside of an opening. Looking like little more than loathsome blobs of jelly, they emit an unwholesome buzzing, and employ a crude, wingless flight. Each armed party member fires at the creatures, but force 3 – sufficient to destroy most organisms – barely affects them, even after several seconds of exposure; one simply falls to the ground. And the creatures do not even register on Spock's tricorder. Thinking it may be a trap, Kirk orders the landing party out of the infested area; as they leave, the creature on the ground flies up and strikes Spock in the back, leaving a strange puncture wound. Kirk rips it off of Spock's back and asks the Vulcan if he is all right. Spock looks upward in pain. Act Two In sickbay, McCoy removes a small strand of tissue from Spock's back, and then, over Nurse Chapel's objections, he closes the wound. The creatures attack by stinging; they leave behind a piece of this tissue that rapidly infiltrates the victim's entire nervous system, far too completely for conventional surgery to remove. McCoy explains this to Kirk on the bridge while showing him the piece of tissue and an identical piece removed from Aurelan's body in a container. He admits that he, the lab and the science department are all stumped on what to do next. Spock recovers consciousness, rages past Chapel out of sickbay and storms the bridge. His goal: to take the ship out of orbit, throwing aside Sulu from the helm. Forewarned by Chapel, Sulu, Kirk, and two other officers grapple with Spock but his Vulcan strength proves troublesome and he nearly takes out Kirk with the Vulcan nerve pinch. With difficulty he is ultimately wrestled to the deck; Chapel arrives on the bridge with tranquilizer and McCoy sedates Spock as he's being held down. Kirk orders that he be returned to sickbay and security restraints employed, where McCoy makes another grim discovery. The K3 indicator, a measure of pain, is very, very high. The reason for the madness is confirmed: victims are in such agony that their minds eventually break under the stress. Spock, recovering consciousness, apologizes for his loss of control and now claims the ability to control the pain, noting that for Vulcans, "pain is a thing of the mind: the mind can be controlled". Referring to the creatures as the creature, only of thousands of parts, wants control of the ship which Spock is resisting. But after his visit to the bridge, and McCoy unsure if he could maintain control as time wears on, Kirk isn't sure and for the time being, has him continued to be confined to sickbay under observation. Kirk is intent on a cure for his nephew, but McCoy reminds him that the rest of the colonists deserve just as much consideration. After they both leave, Spock, conquering the pain, breaks out of sickbay and getting back in uniform, plans to visit the planet's surface with a specimen case. Scotty, acting on Kirk's orders, refuses to transport him. A scuffle breaks out, including Spock nerve pinching Leslie. Scott holds Spock by threatening to stun him with a phaser and calls for Kirk to come down. Later, when Kirk appears, Spock explains that his plan is to retrieve a creature for study. He believes that since his nervous system is already infiltrated, there is little more the creatures can do to him. Kirk is convinced, and over McCoy's objections, Spock beams down to collect a creature for study, armed with Scotty's phaser. Act Three Spock is attacked by a colonist on Deneva almost immediately after being beamed down. The man knocks Spock's phaser out of his hand with his club. Spock is able to incapacitate the crazed man with a nerve pinch and, upon regaining his phaser, begins to struggle against fresh pain from the parasite, having failed to stop Spock through the colonist. Spock knocks down a creature with his phaser fire, returns to the ship and begins to study it. Immediately, in one of the Enterprises science labs, he realizes that the creature resembles, more than anything, an enormous brain cell. Kirk catches on immediately: these creatures are not separate animals, they are all parts of a single entity, connected together in some mysterious fashion. This is how it resists phaser fire: each part draws strength from the whole. Remembering how the colonist that flew into the sun cried out that he was 'free', Kirk feels that this is an angle they can work with. He orders an analysis of everything from the medical and life science departments in an hour. McCoy's multiple efforts to find some method to kill the creatures fail. Not heat, not radiation – nothing can kill it. Kirk knows that if they cannot find a way to kill these creatures, he will be forced to destroy Deneva to prevent their spread. A million people will die if nothing can be done. Kirk cannot let the creatures spread and has absolutely no wish to kill the Denevans, including his nephew. He demands a third alternative. Act Four Spock and McCoy report to Kirk's quarters, having not gotten any breakthroughs. Knowing the kind of pain Peter will experience if he wakes up, and admitting he's not sure how much longer he can hold out against the pain, Spock requests beaming down to Deneva and taking Peter with him before the planet is destroyed, but Kirk flatly denies permission. Kirk posits that the key must lie in exploring the properties of the sun. The Denevan the Enterprise contacted earlier was free of the creature moments before he died; something in the sun killed it. As Spock lists off the physical properties of a sun, Kirk considers that if not radiation, nor heat – could it be light? After turning a computer, with its flashing light, in his quarters on and off, Kirk thinks that it may be the answer. McCoy protests that light isn't lethal, but Kirk points outs it's just not to Humans; the creatures hide indoors and in shadows on Deneva. What if it's because they're sensitive to light, and strong amounts of light are lethal to them? Spock agrees it's a possibility. McCoy points out that they can't bring the planet to the sun, but Spock agrees with Kirk that they can bring the equivalent to Deneva, through a string of satellites around the planet, burning tri-magnesite and trevium. McCoy rigs a test cubicle in the biolab, and Chapel puts the sample creature inside. Spock has calculated that at the distance that the Denevan declared himself free, the sun's brightness would be measured at 1,000,000 candles per square inch, and with the satellite network set to that intensity, anything within a closed, darkened area will be affected. With everyone putting on safety goggles, they expose the creature for several seconds and confirm the theory: high-intensity light is fatal to the creatures. As it's necessary to see what will happen to tissue that has infiltrated a victim, Spock volunteers to enter the cubicle – McCoy, who would prefer his guinea pig be someone other than the man he regards as Starfleet's best first officer, attempts to dissuade him, but Spock insists. He also refuses goggles, as none of the colonists will have any (and it would likely be time prohibitive to outfit a million people anyway), despite knowing that the intensity will damage his optic nerves. This test does, in fact, succeed: the blinding light completely frees Spock of the creature and the pain – but at the cost of his eyesight. Spock, exiting the cubicle, assures McCoy that it was an equitable trade – the closest he comes to revealing how much pain he has been experiencing. Only then is the true tragedy revealed: the lab test results on the dead creature delivered by Chapel indicate that the creatures are vulnerable only to a specific subset of the light spectrum: ultraviolet radiation. McCoy is chagrined to realize that Spock need not have been blinded at all, but Spock reminds him that it was also his choice; what's done is done. Nevertheless, the answer is at hand. Kirk orders satellite control to deploy a formation of 210 ultraviolet satellites at 72 miles altitude, in a permanent orbit. The satellites are turned on; the creatures begin to fail, to fall, to smoke and to die. Ground stations on Deneva quickly make contact; the creatures are dying everywhere. Kirk passes the good news down to sickbay and for McCoy to pass it on to Spock; he reminds McCoy that Spock's blindness wasn't his fault, but McCoy doesn't respond. A little while later as Kirk has Zahra begin recording a mission update for Starfleet Command, she notices Spock returning to the bridge – he can once again see. An inner eyelid, a hereditary trait of Vulcans developed as a protection against the brightness of 's sun, closed to shield his eyes on instinct. Spock explain it is normally ignored, much as a Human would ignore their own appendix. Kirk ponders that regaining one's sight would be an emotional experience for most, and assumes that Spock, as usual, had none, but Spock corrects him: he had a very strong reaction as the first thing he saw was McCoy's face as the doctor was bending over him. McCoy replies that it's a pity that Spock's brief blindness didn't increase his appreciation for beauty. Interrupting the two, Kirk has Spock lay in a course for Starbase 10. Relieved beyond words, McCoy asks Kirk not to mention his previous "best first officer" statement – at which point Spock turns around from his science station and thanks the doctor for his compliment, and Kirk jokes that all the concern over Spock's eyes had led McCoy to forget about his Vulcan ears. Kirk has Sulu take the Enterprise to warp factor 1 and the ship leaves Deneva. Log entries Captain's log, USS Enterprise (NCC-1701), 2267 Memorable quotes "Pain is a thing of the mind. The mind can be controlled." - Spock to McCoy, on his infection by a flying parasite "Freeze right there, Mister Spock. Or I'll put you to sleep for sure." - Scott, pointing a phaser at Spock in the transporter room "Jim, that man is sick! And don't give me any damnable logic about him being the only man for the job." "I don't have to, Bones. We both know he is." - McCoy and Kirk, on Spock going back to Deneva to capture a flying parasite as a specimen "I cannot let it spread beyond this colony even if it means destroying a million people down there." - Kirk, to McCoy on eliminating the flying parasites inhabiting the colonists on Deneva "I am free of it and the pain. And I'm also quite blind. An equitable trade, doctor. Thank you." - Spock, after undergoing the bright light experiment "My first sight was the face of Doctor McCoy bending over me." "Tis a pity your brief blindness did not increase your appreciation for beauty, Mister Spock." - Spock and McCoy, on the bridge "You've been so concerned about his Vulcan eyes, doctor, you forgot about his Vulcan ears." - Kirk, after Spock overhears McCoy's compliment Background information Production timeline Story outline "Operation: Destroy!" by Steven W. Carabatsos: First draft teleplay by Carabatsos: early- Second draft teleplay "Operation -- Annihilate!": Final draft teleplay by D.C. Fontana: Revised final draft teleplay by Gene L. Coon: Second revised final draft teleplay by Gene Roddenberry: Additional revisions by Coon: , , Filmed: – Day 1 – , Tuesday (Half Day) – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Transporter room, Briefing room Day 2 – , Wednesday – TRW Space and Defense Park: Ext. Deneva colony Day 3 – , Thursday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Briefing room, Kirk's quarters, Bridge Day 4 – , Friday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Bridge Day 5 – , Monday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. McCoy's office, Sickbay Day 6 – , Tuesday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Sickbay Day 7 – , Wednesday (half day) – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Science laboratory Original airdate: First UK airdate Story and script This is the only episode title of the Original Series that includes an exclamation point and, along with , is one of only two episodes in the entire Star Trek franchise to incorporate that particular punctuation mark. It is also the only episode of the Original Series to incorporate a dash in the title. In addition, it is one of only three Original Series episodes in which the word "damn" is used, with McCoy cursing the "damnable logic" behind the experiments designed to destroy the creatures. The only other uses of the word "damn" occur in , wherein Kirk admits he can't "damn" Spock for his loyalty by taking command of the Enterprise at the cost of Sarek's life, and in where Kirk makes a log entry stating that the evidence against him is "damning." A filmed scene cut from this episode featured dialogue between Kirk and his nephew Peter. The dialogue concerned Peter's returning to Deneva to live with Sam Kirk's partner. Steven W. Carabatsos had an obligation in his contract, that he must deliver at least one script of his own while serving as story editor. Carabatsos left the series in late-, but still had to fulfill this task before departing. Having no idea of his own, Gene Roddenberry suggested him one, entitled Operation: Destroy!, which was the basis for this episode. (These Are the Voyages: TOS Season One) The script, as originally conceived, did not envision the parasites being killed with light. Instead, the Enterprise leaves Deneva and destroys their home planet. By effectively annihilating the central "brain" that controls their operations, the ship renders the creatures harmless. Working from an early draft of the script, James Blish writes up this version in his adaptation of the episode in his volume Star Trek 2. The first draft script, entitled "Operation: Destroy", did not feature Kirk's brother and his family. In that version, a Denevan woman named Aurelan was in love with a young man named Kartan, who flew his ship into the Sun to destroy the creatures. Aurelan and her father were not infected, and helped the Enterprise crew in their research. (The Star Trek Compendium, p. 65) Effects Deneva, as seen from space, was created by the Westheimer Effects Company, only appearing in this color scheme for this episode. This planet was frequently reused in the second and third seasons, as Capella IV in , Pollux IV in , 892-IV in , Neural in , Triskelion in , an unnamed planet in , Ekos in , an unnamed planet in , Elas in , Amerind in , Triacus in , two unnamed planets in , an unnamed planet in , the Kalandan outpost in , Ariannus in , Elba II in , Eden in , Sarpeidon in and Camus II in . Also, two color-enhanced versions of this planet appear in the series: a reddish one (also in the second/third season opening credits and as planet ) and a purple one (Halkan planet, Omega IV, etc.). The fly-by of the Enterprise that opens this episode was only seen one other time. It was re-used in as the ship is thrown clear of the Tholian force field. Sets, locations, and props The Deneva outdoor scenes were shot at the headquarters of TRW Space and Defense Park in Redondo Beach, California (currently the Northrop Grumman Space Technology headquarters). See for the location in Google Earth. The establishing shot of Kirk's brother's lab was a building on the campus of UCLA, and the entrance of the building was the cafeteria at TRW. () The scenes at TRW were filmed . This is the first time McCoy's lab is seen. Inside the lab, the prop used previously as Balok's lamp device in can be seen sitting on a shelf. Different components of sickbay were added over the first season, such as the decompression chamber seen in . McCoy's lab contains one of the life support canisters used on the Botany Bay. The chairs that were seen in Chief Vanderberg's office in "The Devil in the Dark" were recycled for Sam Kirk's office, albeit painted pink. The oversized plexiglas tongs that Spock uses to pick up the Denevan parasite would again be used to recover the phasered sample of tritanium in the teaser of . The starmap showing the progression of the space madness also shows up on station viewscreens in future episodes. Wah Chang designed and constructed the parasite creatures. In the Star Fleet Medical Reference Manual, it was called a "blastoneuron." The s used by the Denevans during their attack on the landing party appear to be thick Lucite rods. Curiously, the gray, grooved clubs used by Spock during his fight with Kirk in and some of the miners on Janus VI in were not recycled for this use. The white trombone mutes usually seen in the glass case of Enterprises Sickbay are seen in the back room of Sam Kirk's lab. They are later seen in McCoy's lab. Costumes Unique to this episode, Uhura wears a black belt on the bridge, having worn one while on the landing party in the previous episode produced, . In , she dons it when she joins the landing party and wears a communicator and phaser. Although the ubiquitous jumpsuit-type outfits worn by the four Denevans who attack the landing party crop up in a variety of colors, this is one of the few in which a green one appears. There is also a red variety, apparently the only one ever seen in The Original Series. Performers The body of Sam Kirk was played by William Shatner, wearing a false mustache and a different hairstyle. Stock footage of Leslie's hands from is used to represent the personnel in the satellite control room. This shot was removed from the remastered version of the episode. William Blackburn, an extra on the show from through the end of season three, can be seen in the background in at least three different uniforms in this episode. This was the final regular appearance of the unknown actor who played Bobby, or in the case of this episode's script notes, "Abrams". He made one further appearance, via recycled footage, in the following season's finale . There is a blooper from this episode in the first season blooper reel. The parasite creature that was supposed to hit Leonard Nimoy's back is seen hitting his backside instead, making Nimoy break up with laughter. Also appearing is a sequence showing the landing party with their phasers being used in tandem as electric shavers. Continuity McCoy speaks about "getting the plates back" on Kirk's nephew to help with his medical treatment. This line references X-ray plates which were common in the 1960s but, in the 2260s, would have been extremely archaic and impractical compared to other medical advances of the time (such as DNA examination). The Vulcan inner eyelid is mentioned again in . In the Star Trek novel Spock's World, the inner eyelid was developed in one tribe of Vulcans who eventually took control over most of the planet. Video and DVD releases Original US Betamax release: UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 16, catalog number VHR 2328, release date unknown US VHS release: UK re-release (three-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 1.10, Original US DVD release (single-disc): Volume 15, As part of the TOS Season 1 DVD collection As part of the TOS Season 1 HD DVD collection As part of the TOS Season 1 Blu-ray collection Links and references Starring William Shatner as James T. Kirk / Sam Kirk Also starring Leonard Nimoy as "Mr. Spock" Co-star DeForest Kelley as "Dr. McCoy" Featuring James Doohan as "Scott" Joan Swift as "Aurelan" Maurishka as "Yeoman Zahra" And Majel Barrett as "Christine Chapel" With George Takei as "Sulu" Nichelle Nichols as "Uhura" Craig Hundley as "Peter" Fred Carson as "First Denevan" Jerry Catron as "Second Denevan" Uncredited co-stars Dave Armstrong as Kartan William Blackburn as Hadley Robert Bralver as Denevan colonist Frank da Vinci as Brent Vinci Carey Foster as a Enterprise sciences crew woman Jeannie Malone as a Enterprise yeoman Eddie Paskey as Leslie Ron Veto as Harrison Unknown performers as Bobby (scripted as "Abrams") Third Denevan Denevan pilot (voice) Enterprise command lieutenant Enterprise lieutenant Enterprise operations crew woman 1 Enterprise operations crew woman 2 Stunt doubles and stand-in Bill Catching as Leonard Nimoy's stunt double Gary Combs as William Shatner's stunt double Eddie Paskey as William Shatner's photo double References 2067; 22nd century; 2265; 2266; 40 Eridani A; advisor; affection; alternative; altitude; amount; answer; appendix; archaeologist; area; arm; asteroid belt; attitude; audio; autonomic system; beauty; bee; Beta Portolan; Beta Portolan system; bio-bed; biolab; billion; blindness; Blood Q⁵; Blood T²; body; "Bones"; brain cell; building; call sign; candlepower; cargo; capital city; ; chance; choice; civilization; ; computer; consciousness; contact; contact signal; coordinates; course; creature; curiosity; deck; ; delirium; Deneva; Deneva system; Deneva capital city; Deneva colony; Deneva system's asteroid belt; Denevan; Denevan ship; Denevan sun; dog; dozen; ear; electromagnetic spectrum; energy; engineering advisor; engineering control; environmental control; eye; eyesight; face; fact; family; Federation; flying parasite; force 3; freighting-line base; goggles; gravimetric pull; gravity; ground station; GSK 783; ; hereditary trait; hour; host; hull; hull temperature; Human; idea; inch; information; Ingraham B; Ingraham B vessel; inhabitant; inner eyelid; interception course; K3 indicator; laboratory; landing party; Large Magellanic Cloud; leg; Levinius V; life sciences department; light; living matter (aka living tissue, tissue); logic; mask; ; mass insanity; matter; medical department; mile; Milky Way Galaxy; million; mind; miner; month; nervous system; nurse; "on the hot seat"; opportunity; optical nerve (aka optic nerve); pain; patient; pattern; permission; phaser; phaser power; phaser weapon; physical law; physical property; place; plate; planet development; ; population; ; private transmitter; progress; puncture; quality; question; radiation; research biologist; result; risk; satellite control; science department; science lab; ; security alert; security restraint; sedative; seeding orbit; sensor; shadow; ship's surgeon; single-celled organism; sleep; sound; specimen; speculation; spinal cord; "stand by"; Starbase 10; Starfleet Academy; straight line; ; street; subspace frequency three; subspace transmitter; sub-warp speed; surface; surgery; survivor; temperature; tentacle; test cubicle; theory; Theta Cygni XII; thing; thousand; tolerance level; tractor beam; tranquilizer; ; transmitting station; trap; trevium; tricorder; tri-magnesite; ultraviolet light; ultraviolet satellite (); ventilator; victim; Vulcan; Vulcan (planet); Vulcan nerve pinch; wasp; white External links and de:Spock außer Kontrolle es:Operation: Annihilate! fr:Operation -- Annihilate! 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Catspaw (episode)

The Enterprise crew finds witches, black cats, and haunted castles on a distant planet. Summary Teaser A landing party of Sulu, Scott, and Crewman on Pyris VII is overdue for a routine check-in, when Jackson finally answers the 's urgent hails. His disconcerting message: one to beam up. And, when Jackson is beamed aboard by Kyle, he materializes on the transporter pad and he immediately falls down to the floor, . But from his dead lips a sonorous voice tells Captain Kirk that his ship is cursed; he must leave or all will die. Act One "Captain's log, stardate 3018.2. Crewman Jackson is dead… and there are no apparent physical causes. Mr. Scott and Mr. Sulu are still out of touch on the planet below. Leaving Assistant Chief Engineer DeSalle in command of the Enterprise, I'm beaming down to the planet's surface to find my two missing crewmen… and discover what killed Jackson." With two crewmen missing and a mysterious death, Kirk doesn't plan to leave just yet. He organizes a second landing party: himself, Spock, and Doctor McCoy. They beam to the point from which Jackson was beamed up. There, Kirk intends to discover what happened to his missing men, and what killed Jackson. The planet is fogbound, something extremely unlikely given the environmental conditions, as there are no cloud formations or bodies of water on the planet. Proceeding towards a reading of nearby lifeforms, the landing party encounters three witches; the spectral hags again warn Kirk to leave. Winds and fog try to thwart the landing party, but they eventually discover a large castle – the source of the lifeform readings. Entering the castle, they find a black cat and identify all the iconography of old Earth tales. On the bridge of the Enterprise, Ensign Chekov reports to assistant chief engineer DeSalle that the landing party's lifeform readings are the only ones on the planet. As the landing party entered the castle, he then says they have simply stopped registering. DeSalle asks Chekov to check the scanning equipment for malfunctions but Chekov already has – the equipment is functioning perfectly. DeSalle then orders Chekov to recalibrate the scanners. The landing party explores the castle further and falls through the floor, plunging them down to a dungeon chamber, and unconsciousness. Act Two Awakening, the landing party discovers they are chained. Scott and Sulu appear, and Kirk is at first relieved to see his missing men. Then he realizes they're marching to someone else's drum: alive, but unresponsive and no longer allies. The two enthralled men free Kirk, Spock, and McCoy, and herd them towards the door at phaser point; a brief scuffle is halted when all the men are suddenly – elsewhere, in the presence of a strange robed man. This is Korob, decked out in wizard's finery, with robe, wand, and black cat. Spock's comment that mapping expeditions have not discovered lifeforms on Pyris VII wrings a small truth from Korob – that he is not native to this world. Korob first plies the crew with food and drink, then with fortunes in gemstones. All to get them to leave, without asking more questions. But Kirk tells Korob he could manufacture such stones by the ton on his ship; they're valueless, a fact that conflicts with whatever research Korob has done. Korob then reveals that the events were staged to test the landing party. He has learned they are loyal, brave, and incorruptible. enters. She tells Kirk that she can read and control the minds of men. Spock states that it must be Telepathy and Sylvia says "not entirely," and explains that telepathy is only a part of what she does. Kirk briefly overpowers Scott, seizing his phaser, and when he refuses to return it, Sylvia reveals another skill: she can perform sympathetic magic. She admits that she thought of Jackson in her mind, and when she killed the image and knew it was dead, so was the real Jackson. A small model of the Enterprise, held in the flame of a candle – and the real ship, orbiting above, begins to grow hot. Chekov reports to DeSalle that the temperature has jumped sixty degrees in just thirty seconds. "We're burning up, sir," he states. Act Three Seizing Sylvia's arm, Kirk removes the model from the flame, and the Enterprise from danger. Kirk tries to surmise how they are able to do all of this and says "You seem to do with your mind, what we do with tools. You alter matter and move it about by telekinesis." Korob begins to answer saying "Yes we can change…" when Sylvia cuts him off, stating that he talks too much. When Kirk suggests that landing parties will soon appear, Korob seals the model in a block – and above, the ship is suddenly surrounded by a force field unlike anything ever encountered, which doesn't come from anywhere. On the Enterprise, Chekov cannot analyze the force field, but as it is nonetheless real DeSalle orders him to attempt to "put a dent in it". Kirk and Spock are returned to the dungeon, while McCoy remains with Sylvia, who intends to question him. Kirk and Spock spend some time speculating about Sylvia and Korob, and Kirk decides they must be stopped. Their questions and interest seems to him a little too sinister. McCoy eventually returns, though he has been taken control of by Sylvia. He, Sulu, and Scott take Kirk to Sylvia. Meanwhile, Sylvia and Korob argue. Sylvia likes her new sensations, and it's obvious that the interest goes further than their original plan. Wherever these aliens call home, they have nothing like them – and she intends to remain here. Korob reminds her they have a duty to the , a fact she considers unimportant in light of her new infatuation. Kirk is returned to Sylvia's presence, where he learns she is infatuated with him, as well. She reveals her plan: to dispose of Korob and join with Kirk. But Kirk is using her, gaining answers through manipulation. Among other things, he learns that the transmuter is the key to her power, a mechanism that facilitates the actualization of thought. But she discovers the deception, and has McCoy, Scott, and Sulu haul Kirk back to his cell. On the Enterprise, Chekov reports that they had an effect on the force field, identifying a small electrical field as a start. Korob finds Kirk and Spock; he reveals he has released the Enterprise, and he releases them. He also reveals that he can no longer control Sylvia or her pawns, and that he considers her dangerously irrational. He is regretful, offering his opinion that their visit could have been a peaceful one. Time presses, and he cannot explain in detail; instead, he urges the men out of their cell, where they again encounter the black cat – now grown to enormous size. Act Four The men are forced to retreat back into their cell, where they attempt to escape through the ceiling. The cat forces the door of the cell, however, crushing Korob. Kirk now has an opportunity to retrieve the wand. Escaping through the ceiling, Kirk and Spock are confronted by their own enthralled crew, and a brief scuffle ends with Sylvia's pawns out of action, and the reappearance of the cat, as well as Sylvia. The wand Kirk has retrieved is the transmuter, and Sylvia wants it very badly. She transports Kirk away from Spock into the main hall and tells him to give her the transmuter. She informs him that she has a less powerful, and simpler mechanism; that it's Korob's wand which holds the key to their power. Sylvia is reluctant to simply seize the device from Kirk, despite her contention that he does not know how to use it. Finally, she threatens Kirk with a phaser, demanding the wand. Kirk responds by shattering the wand, an act that undoes everything… almost everything. At the landing party's feet, two small aliens wither and fall. Deprived of their transmuter, Sylvia and Korob have resumed their real forms, and are as Sylvia described them: feathers in the wind, a life form that is totally alien to their universe. They quickly perish, and both landing parties return to the Enterprise. Log entries Captain's log, USS Enterprise (NCC-1701), 2267 Memorable quotes "Captain Kirk! Can you hear me? There is a curse on your ship. Leave this place, or you will all… die!" - Jacksons mouth speaking in Korobs voice warning Kirk "Captain Kirk! … Captain Kirk! … Captain Kirk!" "Go back! … Go back! … Go back!" "Remember the curse!" "Wind shall rise!" "And fog descend!" "So leave here, all, or meet your end!" - Three illusory witches, warning away Kirk, Spock and McCoy "Spock. Comment?" "Very bad poetry, Captain." "A more useful comment, Mister Spock." - Kirk and Spock, on the curse "If we weren't missing two officers and a third one dead I'd say someone was playing an elaborate trick or treat on us." "Trick or treat, captain?" "Yes, Mister Spock. You'd be a natural." - Kirk and Spock, on the Halloween references "Mister Chekov, recalibrate your sensors. If you need help –" "I can do it, sir. I'm not that green." - DeSalle, patronizing Chekov after he loses readings of the landing party "Bones? Doc?" - Kirk, after seeing a skeleton in chains next to McCoy "Where did your race get this ridiculous predilection for resistance, hmm? You examine any object. You… you question everything! Is it not enough to accept what is?" - Korob "You can't think a man to death." - Kirk, on sympathetic magic "Maybe we can't break it, but I'll bet you credits to navy beans we can put a dent in it!" - DeSalle, determined to free the Enterprise from Korob's force field "You are using me! You hold me in your arms and there is no fire in your mind! You're trying to deceive me! It's here like words on a page! You are using me!" "And why not?!! You've been using me and my crew!!" "You will be swept away. You! Your men! Your ship!! Your worlds!!!" - Sylvia and Kirk "Captain, a little more alacrity, if you please." - Spock, as he and Kirk escape the dungeon "Everything's vanished." - Scott, after awakening from the mind control "All of this, just an illusion." "No illusion. Jackson is dead." - McCoy and Kirk, after seeing Sylvia and Korob die Background information Production timeline "Broomstick Ride" is published in Super-Science Fiction: Story outline by Robert Bloch: Revised story outline: First draft teleplay: 2nd draft teleplay: Final draft teleplay by D.C. Fontana: Revised final draft by Gene Roddenberry: Additional page revisions by Gene Coon: , , Filmed: – Day 1 – , Tuesday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Bridge, Transporter room Day 2 – , Wednesday – Desilu Stage 10: Ext. Pyris VII surface Day 3 – , Thursday – Desilu Stage 10: Int. Castle corridors Day 4 – , Friday – Desilu Stage 8: Int. Dungeon Day 5 – , Monday – Desilu Stage 8: Int. Dungeon, Great hall Day 6 – , Tuesday – Desilu Stage 8: Int. Great hall Day 7 – , Wednesday – Desilu Stage 8: Int. Great hall, Castle corridors miniature shots Day 8 – (Half Day), Thursday – Desilu Stage 8: Int. Castle corridors miniature shots Score recording, Premiere airdate, 1st rerun, First UK airdate: Remastered airdate, Story and production The title of this episode, "Catspaw", is a term that describes a person used by another as a dupe; as McCoy points out, Scott and Sulu are used as catspaws to lure more crewmen down. Robert Bloch based this episode very loosely on his own short story "Broomstick Ride." Bloch also wrote In both episodes, the "Old Ones" figure into the guest characters' backstories. Although this was the first episode of TOS Season 2 in production (filmed in early ), it did not premiere until the week of Halloween, 1967. It was, in fact, written in a Halloween-type theme for just that reason. This episode also remains to date the only Star Trek production produced as a "holiday special" type episode. This episode marks several changes to the episode credits. From this point on, the episode titles and end credits are in the same font as the main title of the series. Directors and writers are credited at the beginning of Act One instead of the end of the last act. DeForest Kelley's name is added to the opening credits. Also, Gene Roddenberry is credited as series creator in the opening credits. Several bloopers from this episode can be found in the second season blooper reel. This episode introduces two plot elements that were revisited in stories later in season 2. First, the theme of extragalactic aliens taking Human form and then becoming inundated with Human sensations was revisited in . Second, the subject of an eccentric man with uncommon powers and accompanied by an apparently intelligent black cat, who later turns into a black haired woman, is revisited in . The three witches' appearance and manner of speech are reminiscent of (though not necessarily directly referential to) characters in Shakespeare's Macbeth. Cast Walter Koenig joined the cast as Pavel Chekov in this episode, despite his character having already met Khan Noonien Singh in the previous season's as noted in ; also note the rather large wig worn by Walter Koenig in this episode which was later dispensed with when his own hair was long enough. This was the third and final appearance of Michael Barrier as DeSalle. The character has been promoted to assistant chief engineer because the producers thought they need someone in charge of main engineering while Scotty is in command of the bridge. However, as no such situation arose in any episodes, DeSalle has never made another appearance. (These Are the Voyages: TOS Season Two, p. 46) James Doohan's only dialogue in this episode is the statement "Everything's vanished". George Takei doesn't speak at all; he simply nods "yes" and "no" when his character is queried by Kirk, and later cries "aha!" before engaging Kirk in hand-to-hand combat. This is Takei's only non-speaking appearance in the entire series. Theo Marcuse died in a car accident one month after this episode aired. The role of Crewman was played by regular Trek stuntman Jay Jones. In a 1996 retrospective interview, Jay claimed that the role of Jackson was his first assignment on Star Trek. (Science Fiction Television Series, Mark Phillips and Frank Garcia, McFarland and Co.) This is the first episode to feature all seven of the "classic" cast members who were brought back for future big screen adventures: Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Scott, Uhura, Sulu, and Chekov, although they do not all appear in the same scene together. Props and effects A detailed metal prop miniature of the Enterprise was created for this episode, then laminated in as one of Korob's tricks. The miniature was donated to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum by Gene Roddenberry. (The Star Trek Compendium, p. 70) The Ornithoid life forms were marionettes composed of blue fluff, pipe cleaners, crab pincers, and other materials. The marionettes were operated with thick, black threads that were clearly visible; most of this was corrected in the remastered version of the episode. (The Star Trek Compendium, p. 70) The three witches seen towards the start of the episode were intended to be shown as floating severed heads, hence the reaction from the landing party at their appearance. The characters wore black turtlenecks against a black backdrop, with light shining directly up into the face. Unfortunately, the effect did not work and the turtlenecks worn by the actors can clearly be seen. Even in the remastered version of the episode, this oversight is still present. (The Star Trek Compendium, p. 70) This is the first episode in which a scope can be seen at the engineering station on the bridge. The science station scope was slightly altered for this episode; it is of a lighter color than the science scope used in episodes of the first season and has a circular control added to its left side. This dial control, as first seen in this episode, would remain throughout Seasons 2 and 3. The blue planet used in this episode as Pyris VII (albeit a darker blue to illustrate the spookiness of the planet) was reused in subsequent episodes, representing Argelius II in , Sigma Iotia II in , Troyius in , and Scalos in , which were all lighter blue color. The wizard's robe worn by Korob is the same costume that was previously worn by in the episode "Lovey's Secret Admirer", which aired on January 23, 1967. Continuity In this episode, DeSalle wears a red engineering tunic, unlike the gold command tunic he wore in and . The character started out as a navigator in "Squire", then served as a science officer in "Paradise", ending up as an engineer here. The short scene of crewmen in turtleneck uniforms walking in a corridor during red alert is stock footage from . This marks the last time that these uniforms are worn by Enterprise crewmembers. The events of this episode take place on Stardate 3018.2 which means it took place right after the events of , whose events took place on Stardate 3013.1-3013.2, and before the episode whose events take place from Stardate 3025.3-3025.8. Remastered information "Catspaw" was the eighth episode of the remastered version of The Original Series to air, premiering in syndication on the weekend of . Aside from the standard remastering of the effects used for the , the most notable revised features include new effects shots of Pyris VII, as well as the castle on the surface, with the original shot of the castle entry completely retained as part of the full building. The transmuter effect was also touched up and most of the visible wires controlling the Ornithoid life forms were removed. The next remastered episode to air was . Video and DVD releases Original US Betamax release: US LaserDisc release: UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 16, catalog number VHR 2328, release date unknown Japan LaserDisc release: US VHS release: UK re-release (three-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 2.1, Original US DVD release (single-disc): Volume 15, As part of the TOS Season 2 DVD collection As part of the TOS-R Season 2 DVD collection Links and references Starring William Shatner as Captain Kirk Leonard Nimoy as Spock DeForest Kelley as Dr. McCoy Guest star Antoinette Bower as Co-starring Theo Marcuse as Korob Featuring James Doohan as Scott George Takei as Sulu Nichelle Nichols as Uhura Walter Koenig as Chekov Michael Barrier as DeSalle With John Winston as Transporter Chief Rhodie Cogan as First Witch Gail Bonney as Second Witch Maryesther Denver as Third Witch Jimmy Jones as Crewman Uncredited co-stars William Blackburn as Hadley John Blower as (deleted scene) Frank da Vinci as Brent Jeannie Malone as a yeoman Eddie Paskey as Leslie Frieda Rentie as a Lieutenant Unknown actress as Crew woman Stunt doubles Bob Bass as stunt double for James Doohan Frank da Vinci as stunt double for Leonard Nimoy Gary Downey as stunt double for William Shatner Jimmy Jones as stunt double for DeForest Kelley Carl Saxe as stunt double for Theo Marcuse Vic Toyota as stunt double for George Takei References "all right"; ability; ambition; amplifier; analysis; animal; answer; arm; assistant chief engineer; attitude; azimuth; bear; beef; "bet you credits to navy beans"; billion; boar; body of water; "Bones"; black; blinking; bravery; bribery; bypass power; castle; cat; catspaw; cell; chance; choice; cloud formation; cobweb; colleague; color; compassion; comrade; consciousness; contact; coordinates; creature; credit; crystal; curse; damage; danger; ; day; death; degree (angle); degree (temperature); demon; ; desire; diamond; ; door; dream; drug; dungeon; dust; Earth; effect; electrical field; emerald; environment; experience; eye; failure; familiar; feather; fire; fog; fool; force field; "for the moment"; friend; ghost; ghost story; ; Halloween; ; heat-dissipation unit; ; hull; Human (aka Earthman); hypnosis; idea; illusion; image; impulse engine; "in error"; information; "in order"; inquiry; iron maiden; key; knowledge; landing party; landing party procedure; legend; lifeform; location; logic; love; loyalty; luxury; mace; magic; magic wand; magnetic field; malfunction; mapping expedition; ; martial arts; matter; meter; Milky Way Galaxy; mind; mind probing; minute; mistake; model; molecular structure; mumbo jumbo; myth; mythology; name; navy bean; nightmare; object; ogre; ; onion; "on the double"; orbit; page; pain; parallel development; pattern; peace; peacock; phaser; place; poetry; ; power system; puppet; Pyris VII; Pyris VII system; prisoner; race; racial subconscious (aka racial memories); range; reactor; ; reality; ruby; saber-toothed tiger; sapphire; Satan; science; scientific method; search party; second; sensation; sensor; sensor scan; "Singing a different tune"; skeleton; specimen; "stand by"; standby alert; static interference; stranger; subconscious; superstition; surface; surface temperature; symbol; sympathetic magic; telekinesis; telepathy; temperature; thing; thought; threat; tool; traitor; transmuter (aka power pack); trick; trick or treat; tricorder; twilight world; Vulcan neck pinch; water; wavelength analysis; weapon; white; ; wind; wine; witch; wizard; word Unused references solar day; Starbase 9 External links de:Das Spukschloss im Weltall es:Catspaw fr:Catspaw (épisode) ja:惑星パイラスセブンの怪（エピソード） nl:Catspaw pl:Catspaw TOS episodes

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Metamorphosis (episode)

On an isolated asteroid, Kirk finds Zefram Cochrane, inventor of the warp drive, who has been missing for 150 years. Summary Teaser Kirk, Spock, and McCoy are ferrying Federation Commissioner Nancy Hedford back to the . The commissioner, who has been called upon by the Federation to prevent a war on Epsilon Canaris III, has developed Sakuro's Disease, an extremely rare life-threatening illness, and must be removed to a medical facility for treatment. The commissioner is bitter at what she regards as incompetence in the Federation Medical Department, which she believes should have properly prepared her. En route (shortly past point 3, on course 201 Mark 15), the shuttlecraft encounters a phenomenon that Spock describes as "vaguely like a cloud of ionized hydrogen, but with strong erratic electrical impulses". Moving at warp speed, it quickly envelops the shuttlecraft and disables its systems. The craft is pulled to course 98 Mark 12, towards the Gamma Canaris region. Act One There, it is soft-landed on an iron-nickel planetoid with a standard oxygen-nitrogen atmosphere and standard gravity – a place entirely suited for Human life. Examining the shuttlecraft, Spock discovers something that should be impossible: nothing is damaged and yet nothing works. McCoy notes that the gaseous cloud they encountered in space seems to be here, on the surface. Then a loud "hallooooooo" breaks the stillness. Someone else is here – a young man who quickly joins the stranded group. He introduces himself simply as Cochrane. He tells the officers that a damping field prevents some technology here from working. But he denies knowledge of the force that brought the shuttlecraft here. Kirk and McCoy find this man familiar, somehow, but cannot quite place him. Cochrane shows his visitors to his home, decorated with instruments Kirk regards as antiques. Ominously, Commissioner Hedford has developed a fever, the first symptom of her illness. Finally, Kirk presses Cochrane, and learns about the Companion. This is what he calls the strange creature that brought the Galileo here. Kirk asks him his first name, and then realizes why Cochrane seems so familiar: he is Zefram Cochrane of Alpha Centauri, inventor of space warp drive. Cochrane was old, and knew he wanted to die in space. So he took a spacecraft and left his home on Alpha Centauri for parts unknown. The Companion found him, reversed his aging process, and has maintained him here ever since. Cochrane is responsible for the abduction of Kirk and his party via communicating his loneliness to the Companion; he had thought that the Companion would simply release him. During the discussion Hedford suddenly starts crying and yelling incoherently, forcing McCoy to sedate her with a hypospray and place her in Cochrane's bed. Act Two Kirk asks Spock to attempt to repair the Galileo. While doing so, with a trident scanner, the Companion appears there, directly behind him. Curious, he touches it, and receives an electrical shock that destroys the scanner and knocks him out cold. The circuitry of the Galileo bursts into flame; the Companion is taking no chances. Cochrane agrees to summon the Companion, to see if it can help Commissioner Hedford. Kirk asks him how he will summon the Companion and Cochrane replies "I just sort of clear my mind, and it comes." While observing the Companion with Cochrane, McCoy and Kirk notice the apparent, almost Telepathic communion, and find it cannot be minimized to anything less than love. Unfortunately, Cochrane learns that the Companion cannot do anything to help Commissioner Hedford. McCoy discovers Spock; the encounter has left Spock with a new insight: the Companion is largely made of electricity. McCoy asks Spock if he is correct in surmising that something made up of electricity can be shorted out. Spock confirms this and later constructs a mechanism to scramble electrical impulses; with this, Kirk intends to disable or destroy the creature, so that the Humans may depart. Cochrane now has reservations; he doesn't want the creature killed, saying "we've been very close in a way that's hard to explain". Kirk overwhelms him with the force of his personality, though Cochrane understands their perspective. Unhappy at being forced into the role of a Judas goat, Cochrane nevertheless agrees to summon the creature. Spock throws the switch, and discovers that his mechanism is sufficient only to irritate the creature. It attacks Kirk and Spock, choking them. McCoy yells at it to stop before it kills his friends. Act Three Despite McCoy's pleas, the Companion continues to attack Kirk and Spock. Cochrane eventually comes to and calls off the Companion. McCoy suggests to Kirk he is thinking too much like a soldier, not a diplomat. Trying the carrot instead of the stick approach, Kirk decides that they will communicate with the creature instead using the universal translator. Nearby, the Enterprise searches for the now long overdue shuttlecraft. Finally, at 210 Mark 40, the sensors detect a strong antimatter particle concentration. Lacking evidence that the shuttlecraft has been destroyed, Scott elects to follow this tenuous course. On Gamma Canaris, Spock has completed modifying the universal translator from the Galileo so Kirk can communicate with the Companion. Kirk begins by saying "We wish to talk to you" and the Companion replies with "How can we communicate? My thoughts… you are hearing them. This is interesting" in a feminine voice. From the voice, Kirk surmises that the Companion is female, casting her relationship with Cochrane in an entirely new light. Kirk implores the Companion to permit their departure, but she is adamant; to her, the safety and health of Cochrane is the only important goal. And to ensure that, she intends to keep the shuttlecraft crew here, forever. Cochrane is dismayed to discover the truth behind the dynamic that exists between himself and the Companion. He finds it repulsive, disgusting even, and feels used. Kirk, Spock and McCoy do not understand his parochial attitude. For her part, the Commissioner – who is now barely conscious and close to death, but has regained some level of lucidity – is baffled by someone who, offered love, rejects it. The great regret of her life, as it draws near its end, is that she has never been loved. The Enterprise continues its search. Sulu has discovered an asteroid field containing 7,000 bodies in sizes ranging from A to M. Thirty percent of them have atmospheres in types ranging from H to M. The search will be a long one, but Scott remains convinced by the lack of evidence that the shuttlecraft landed safely somewhere, and he is prepared to search every asteroid if necessary. Kirk tries new tactics. First, he tries to convince the Companion that without obstacles to overcome, the Humans will weaken and die. When that fails, he tries to convince the Companion that there can never be real love, because it and Cochrane are too different. The Companion considers this, and then disappears. Kirk's hope is that the Companion will release Cochrane and his party – love expressing itself as sacrifice – but this is not her choice. Instead, moments later, an apparently healthy Nancy Hedford appears in the door of Cochrane's small home, her voice now gently echoing. Act Four The Companion has joined with Hedford, sacrificing her powers and immortality to become Human, and experience life with Zefram Cochrane as a Human woman would. Cochrane is reluctant, but becomes enthusiastic, promising to show her the galaxy now that he can. Sadly, she tells him that she cannot leave; her life emanates from this small planetoid. Just as he must eat, so she must remain here or perish in a short march of days. Cochrane cannot bring himself to leave her, and elects to remain behind. He asks Kirk to keep his existence a secret, a request Kirk grants. Spock observes that Cochrane and Hedford will now live out a normal life span without immortality – a condition that both of them accept as inevitable and uniquely Human. McCoy fears that they have failed to stop the war on Epsilon Canaris III, but Kirk gives him relief that the Federation can surely find “another woman, somewhere, who will stop that war.” Log entries Ship's log, USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) Memorable quotes "You're food to a starving man." - Cochrane to Hedford, as they are formally introduced "I could even offer you a hot bath." "How perceptive of you to notice that I needed one." - Cochrane and Hedford, as she ridicules his hospitality "You wear your age very well." - Spock, complimenting Cochrane after realizing he is Zefram Cochrane "Immortality consists largely of boredom." - Cochrane, after Kirk asks him if he wants to leave the planet "What was it they used to call it? The Judas goat?" - Cochrane, before he baits the Companion "Maybe you're a soldier so often that you forget you're also trained to be a diplomat. Why not try a carrot instead of a stick?" - McCoy to Kirk, on how to handle the Companion "It's a big galaxy, Mister Scott." - Uhura, as the Enterprise searches for the missing shuttlecraft "The idea of male and female are universal constants." - Kirk, explaining to Cochrane that the Companion is female "You're not a pet. You're not a specimen kept in a cage. You're a lover." - McCoy, explaining to Cochrane his relationship with the Companion "But I've never been loved. Never. What kind of life is that? Not to be loved, never to have shown love? And he runs away from love." - Hedford, on Cochrane's resentment toward the Companion "This is loneliness. Oh, what a bitter thing." - The Companion as Hedford, after Cochrane recoils from her advance "I can't leave her. I love her. Is that surprising?" "Not coming from a Human being. You are, after all, essentially irrational." - Cochrane and Spock, on Cochrane's decision to stay with the Companion Background information Story and script Bantam Books published a series of novelizations called "foto-novels," which took photographic stills from actual episodes and arranged word balloons and text over them, to create a formatted story. The fifth installment was an adaptation of this episode and featured an interview with Elinor Donahue. This is the only episode in the first two seasons in which Captain Kirk is not on the Enterprise at any time during the plot. Likewise, the Enterprise does not appear until twenty-seven minutes into the episode. In four third season shows, Kirk also spends the entire episode off-ship: , , , and . In the first draft script, Scott is also on board the shuttlecraft (here called the Edison) with Kirk, Spock, McCoy, and Hedford. It was originally he who was to encounter the Companion while attempting to repair the shuttlecraft. In the first draft, the Enterprise is temporarily commanded by Sulu, and the helmsman is an officer with an African background named Lieutenant Ackrumba. The character later appeared in the novel Mission to Horatius. The first draft script ends with a joke: as the landing party leaves the planetoid, Spock wonders if Cochrane is a bigamist, by having two entities in the same body for his partner. Kirk assures him that this is nonsense. A Gold Key Comics comic book was released as a sequel to this episode, #49: "A Warp in Space". This is the first story to feature Zefram Cochrane, inventor of warp drive and an important figure to Federation history. He later re-appeared in and , played by James Cromwell. Production The Companion was designed by future Oscar-winner Richard Edlund at Westheimer photographic effects company. () The sparkling effects of the Companion was reused in "The Apple" when the Enterprise fires phasers at Vaal, and again in "Obsession" inside of the deadly vampire cloud. The episode's preview includes a take not used in the final episode, during which Hedford tells McCoy that she doesn't want to die. She does say this in the episode, before explaining that she has not had love in her life, but the scene is filmed as a close-up instead. The shuttlecraft mock-up is not the same as the set used for the interiors of the Galileo. Kirk and company are all crouching as they emerge from the ship, yet the shuttlecraft interior set had a lot more headroom. The scenes of Cochrane communicating with the Companion were all shot at one time. The set was then completely redone with his house added for all of the sequences with Kirk and company. The inconsistencies between the two versions of the same set can be seen in alien trees that are near Cochrane in one view and absent in the next. Symbolically, the colored patterns in the scarf worn by the Commissioner are identical to the patterns in the energy field of the Companion. This is shown clearly as she looks at Cochrane through the scarf near the end of the episode. This wasn't scripted or even intended by the production staff. Director Ralph Senensky came up with the idea on the set, calling it "one of those wonderful freak accidents that happen". The inspiration was a scene in "The Escape", a 1966 episode of , also directed by Senensky. A few scenes featuring Elinor Donahue had to be re-shot, because the original film negatives were damaged and couldn't be used. Portions of the planet set had to be rebuilt, since other episodes were shot there by that time, using different sets. Meanwhile, Donahue got pneumonia and lost ten pounds. To hide this, they put Hedford's scarf around her neck and upper body. However, her weight loss is still visible on her face. The re-shots were not directed by Ralph Senensky. To give an illusion of open space to a confined stage set, wide angle lenses were used. Although Glenn Corbett appears to be hundreds of yards away when he first runs toward the shuttle, he is much closer. Strategically placed rocks also allowed the camera to be very far away without seeing the edges of the set. A drawback to the use of a wide angle lens is evident in the scene where actor Corbett first approaches the shuttlecraft. Accent lights on top of the set's background are clearly visible along the top of the "sky" as the camera pans to the right when following Corbett's path. At the end of the shot the black edge of the set is clearly visible behind the shuttlecraft. In a rare effect, slowly moving "clouds" were blown in from hidden vents, adding a touch of reality to the usually static planet set. This was also used in . A view of the starship from dead center in front of the saucer section is used only in this episode. All the footage of the shuttlecraft in outer space was reused from , some with the Companion animation added in post-production. The planet used as Gamma Canaris N (a purple color-corrected version of the planet created for , portraying Deneva) is reused in subsequent episodes, representing the Halkan homeworld in , Omega IV in , and Holberg 917G in . This was George Duning's first Star Trek score, the strength of which got him rehired for many more assignments, including , , , , and . Portions of the score were heard again throughout the season, but the love themes were reused only once more, in . Cast Walter Koenig (Pavel Chekov) does not appear in this episode. Elizabeth Rogers, uncredited for some reason for her voice work as the Companion, returned to the series two times as communications officer Lt. . The original voice of the Companion was too emotionless and robotic, and all of her dialogues had to be re-recorded by another actress (apparently Rogers). Reception Elinor Donahue recalled about this episode, "I remember watching it at home. And I am quite often nervous about watching something I'm in because there is nothing you can do about it once it's out there. But I was very pleased with it; very happy." (These Are the Voyages: TOS Season Two, p. 72) Ralph Senensky named this episode as his favorite among those he directed. Senensky recalled, praising the work of Gene Coon, "I just thought the script was absolutely wonderful. As I remember Gene [Coon], he was the least author-y type of person. He just didn't seem like an author. He didn’t present that kind of sensitivity that his writing had expressed. It was just a deep, deep script and scene after scene had so many angles to come at it from. It was a complex script." Remastered information The remastered version of this episode premiered in syndication the weekend of . It featured new shots of the Galileo and the Companion in space, replaced a foreground rock with a shot of the sky in Cochrane's initial appearance, and included the shuttle returning to the Enterprise in the closing shot. Curiously, the remastered version of the planetoid matches the purple sky of the sound stage less than the original. The original planetoid was all purple while the remastered version is brown with only a slight purple atmosphere. Production timeline Story outline by Gene L. Coon: First draft teleplay: Second draft teleplay: Final draft teleplay: Revised final draft: Additional page revisions: , , , Filmed: – Day 1 – , Thursday (Half Day) – Desilu Stage 10: Ext. Gamma Canaris surface Day 2 – , Friday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Shuttlecraft, Bridge Day 3 – , Monday – Desilu Stage 10: Int. Cochrane's home Day 4 – , Tuesday – Desilu Stage 10: Int. Cochrane's home Day 5 – , Wednesday – Desilu Stage 10: Int. Cochrane's home, Ext. Outside Cochrane's home Day 6 – , Thursday – Desilu Stage 10: Ext. Gamma Canaris surface Day 7 – , Friday (Half Day) – Desilu Stage 10: Ext. Gamma Canaris surface Score recording, Original airdate, Rerun airdate, First UK airdate Video and DVD releases Original US Betamax release: UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 17, catalog number VHR 2329, release date unknown US VHS release: UK re-release (three-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 2.1, Original US DVD release (single-disc): Volume 16, As part of the TOS Season 2 DVD collection Links and references Starring William Shatner as Capt. Kirk Also starring Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock DeForest Kelley as Dr. McCoy Guest stars Glenn Corbett as Zefram Cochrane Elinor Donahue as Nancy Hedford Featuring James Doohan as Scott George Takei as Sulu Nichelle Nichols as Uhura Uncredited co-stars William Blackburn as Hadley (stock footage) Jeannie Malone as a operations division yeoman Eddie Paskey as Leslie Elizabeth Rogers as the Companion (voice) Ron Veto as Harrison (stock footage) Unknown actor as a command division lieutenant References 2030; 2119; affection; "all right"; "all the best"; Alpha Centauri; animal; antimatter; antique; argon; "as a matter of fact"; Assistant Federation Commissioner; asteroid; asteroid belt; atmosphere; "at the moment"; attitude; automatic scanner; bath; bearing; blindness; blood pressure; body; body temperature; "Bones"; boredom; brain wave pattern; cage; cane; cannibalize; captivity; carrot; chance; chief surgeon; choking; chronological age; cities named after Cochrane; Class M; classroom; climate; cloud; Cochrane's home; Cochrane's ship; commissioner; computer central; congruent lifeform; contact; coordinates; course; crash landing; creature; dampening field; day; death; debris; decency; ; density; device; diplomat; distance; Earth; earth; electric shock; electrical impulse; electricity; electronic scrambler; element; emotion; emotional reaction; English language; entity; Epsilon Canaris III; estimate; estimated time of arrival (ETA); "excuse me"; existence; "eye-opener"; "face up to it"; Fahrenheit; Federation; feeling; feet; female; fever; ; fig tree; first officer; first name; fodder; frequency; full alert; ; Gamma Canaris asteroid belt; Gamma Canaris N; Gamma Canaris N sun; Gamma Canaris region; garden; gas; gender; grammar; gratitude; gravity; hammer; hand; handshake; ; hello; heart; hijack; hiking; home; hospital; hour; Human (aka Earth people); hydrogen; immortality; "in fact"; inoculation; intelligent life; "in view of"; ion; iron; job; joy; Judas goat; kiss; knowledge; krypton; life; light; logic; loneliness; love; lover; Maker of All Things; male; marooning; matter; medical branch; medical facility; Milky Way Galaxy; million; mind; minute; monster; morality; name; nature; nickel; nitrogen; neon; non-verbal communication; "not a chance"; "not a word"; "of course"; "off the beaten path"; opportunity; "out of circulation"; "out of style"; overload; owner; oxygen; parochial; pattern; percent; pet; phaser; physical age; physicist; place; planet; planetoid; planets named after Cochrane; pod; "point of view"; power relay; power system; prisoner; probability; propulsion; question; range; rejuvenation; relationship; rendezvous; respiration; ridge; "right down your alley"; risk; Sakuro's Disease; scarf; scientist; search; sensor; shelter; shuttlecraft; shuttlecraft bay; size; soldier; space; space warp; species (aka race); specimen; spherical sweep; spirit; standard orbit; "stand by"; Starfleet; Starfleet Medical; starship; stick; story; sun; surface; switch; symbiosis; "take it easy"; "take my word"; Telepathy; temperature; theory; thing; thought; thousand; tolerance level; tool; toy; tractor beam; trick; tricorder; trident scanner; university; universal translator; vegetable; voice; voltage; Vulcan; war; water; weapon; ; year; zookeeper External links de:Metamorphose (Episode) es:Metamorphosis fr:Metamorphosis (épisode) ja:華麗なる変身（エピソード） nl:Metamorphosis pl:Metamorphosis TOS episodes

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Friday's Child (episode)

The Enterprise becomes involved in a local power struggle on planet Capella IV, where the Klingons want mining rights. Summary Teaser The approaches Capella IV, the home of the Capellans and a rich source of the rare mineral topaline. Topaline is vital to the life support systems of certain planetoid colonies. Captain Kirk's assignment from Starfleet is to obtain mining rights. Doctor McCoy, who had previously visited Capella, briefs the senior officers in the briefing room; among other things, he reveals that Capellans have a complex structure of taboos, and that they can be angered easily. Kirk leaves Scotty in command of the Enterprise while he, Spock, McCoy and security officer Lieutenant beam down and are immediately accosted by a party of Capellans led by Maab. Also in the party is Kras, a Klingon. Grant reacts too quickly, drawing his phaser, which prompts immediate retaliation: one of the warriors with Maab throws his kleegat, which hits Grant, killing him instantly. Act One "Captain's log, stardate 3497.2. Planet Capella lV. The rare mineral, topaline, vital to the life support systems of planetoid colonies, has been discovered in abundance here. Our mission: obtain a mining agreement, but we've discovered a Klingon agent has preceded us to the planet. A discovery which has cost the life of one of my crewmen." Maab demands the landing party surrender their weapons and instruments as a show of good faith. Kirk, Spock, and McCoy throw their phasers and communicators on the ground. The landing party must wait for a period of time. Kirk expresses frustration at losing a crewman and Spock warns about getting emotional. A female Capellan enters offering a gesture of fruit, though McCoy warns not to touch it in fear of a taboo. In the meantime, on the Enterprise, Chekov thinks he detects another ship, likely the Klingons, though Scotty does not see the need to contact Kirk. The landing party is then taken to see Akaar, who is High Teer, or leader, of the Ten Tribes of Capella. In this meeting, Kras attempts to gain the diplomatic upper hand, but McCoy's knowledge of Capellan culture trumps his efforts. Kras sneers at the Federation's offer, claiming that Capellans believe only the strong should live, just as Klingons do. Kirk retorts that the highest of Federation laws states that Capella belongs to the Capellans, and it will never be taken from them, and that Klingon space is full of worlds that learned not to trust the Klingon Empire the hard way. Maab is enthusiastic, believing that competition for the mineral can only help Capella. Akaar notes thoughtfully that in all their dealings, Earthmen have never lied to Capellans. Maab warns him that there are those who will not bargain with Earthmen, which Akaar interprets as challenge. On the Enterprise, Uhura detects a transmission that could be a distress call, but she can't be sure. A fight breaks out between Capellans – an armed coup. Both Maab and Akaar are involved. During the fracas, Kirk, Spock, and McCoy race to the main tent to retrieve their gear, only to discover Kras engaged in the same search. Overpowering him, Kirk learns he was sent in a small scout ship to negotiate the mineral rights for the Klingon Empire. His people need the topaline, too. Before Kirk can learn more, the fight outside is ended, and Capellans burst into the tent, demanding Kirk free Kras. Then Maab enters, declaring himself the new Teer – Akaar died in the fighting. When Kras demands he kill Kirk, Kirk suggests he fight with Kras. Now that Maab has seen fear in Kras, he is not sure about him. In orbit, Uhura confirms the distress call is from the , a small freighter. She claims she's under attack by a Klingon vessel. Kirk doesn't respond to communicators. On the planet, Eleen, Akaar's pregnant widow, enters the tent. Maab trips her with his sword and she burns her arm in the fire. Because she carries an heir, Maab must kill her to solidify his rule, but when he is about to do so, Kirk interferes, sparking another melee that ends with Eleen and the landing party imprisoned together. When Kirk snatched Eleen away from Maab's descending blade, he violated a taboo: no man may touch the wife of a Teer. She demands to see Kirk die before she herself is killed. Uhura cannot reach any of the landing party, but Scotty decides to take the Enterprise out of orbit to investigate, thus stranding the landing party on Capella. Act Two "Captain's log, stardate 3498.9. Lieutenant Commander Scott in temporary command. We were forced to leave Capella to come to the aid of a Federation vessel under attack by a Klingon vessel. We were unable to contact our landing party before we were forced to answer the distress signal. Our inability to reach the landing party is strange. And… I am concerned." Eleen and the landing party have been imprisoned together to await Maab's decision. Eleen is in a great deal of pain, and McCoy intends to help her. Kirk understands this is a distraction, as no one is allowed to touch her. Kirk and Spock overcome their guards and escape to the hills with Eleen. They are able to recover their communicators but not their phasers. In space, the Enterprise has been unable to locate the Deirdre, which is strange, since its top speed is limited to warp 2. Ensign Chekov can detect no debris from the science station, as well. "Captain's log, stardate 3499.1. Before leaving the Capellan encampment, we managed to retrieve our communicators. Our phasers were not to be found. We've fled into the hills, yet we know the Capellans will eventually find us. By scent alone, if necessary. And we've learned one thing more. The girl, Eleen, hates the unborn child she is carrying." The landing party, with the reluctant Eleen, has taken refuge in a narrow canyon with a wide but defensible entrance and a narrow chute-like exit. McCoy demands to inspect Eleen, and slaps her to convince her of his determination, while Kirk and Spock see to their position. He determines the child could be born soon. Kirk proposes to block the entrance with a sonic disruption; two communicators linked together can produce a sympathetic vibration. This will cause a rock slide, sealing the entrance and buying time, as the Capellan search party will be forced to go around the hills to the other side. Several large rocks tumble down from the disruption, injuring many Capellans. Act Three During the confusion, Kras manages to retrieve a phaser from one of the fallen warriors and quickly kills the Capellan with his own blade. The landing party continues on – Kirk discovers a cave in which the landing party seeks refuge. On the Enterprise, unable to discover the source of the distress call, Scotty has Chekov pull the microtape and realizes how he has been duped: the Deirdre specifically called for the Enterprise by name – and there's no way a freighter would have known the Enterprise was ordered into this sector. Clearly, the intent was to lure the Enterprise from Capella IV. To be sure, Scotty has Sulu complete the search pattern. In the cave, Kirk uses one of McCoy's magnasite-nitron tablets to start a fire, lighting the inside of the cave. Kirk and Spock leave McCoy there to supervise the birth, while they search for weapons. Eleen expresses frustration that the child will belong to the husband, and she does not want it to be born. McCoy attempts to convince her she wants the child and that it belongs to her. By the time Kirk and Spock have weapons fabricated, Eleen has given birth. The Enterprise has finished its search pattern and heads back to Capella IV. Lieutenant Uhura receives another distress call, this time from the . Scotty ignores it, even though the Carolina is registered in the sector. When Kirk and Spock leave to reconnoiter, Eleen hits McCoy with a rock and escapes without the child. Kirk and Spock have fabricated bows and find out what happened to McCoy. He stays with the child as they prepare to meet the Capellans. En route to Capella IV, the Enterprise Then, a Klingon warship intercepts them – sitting in space, establishing a line and daring the Enterprise to cross it. Act Four The Capellans have found their way to the chasm's other entrance, and the landing party have placed themselves in the rocks overlooking the cut. Before they can attack, Eleen appears. She lies to Maab, telling him all the Earthmen, and her infant son, are dead. Maab accepts her at her word, believing her to follow the Capellan code of honor, but Kras is immediately suspicious. He questions Eleen's word, angering both Maab and Eleen. When Maab refuses to verify her claim, Kras draws a stolen Starfleet phaser and offers to demonstrate to them what killing really means. During the ensuing battle, the Capellans are introduced to the bow and arrow, a weapon they never developed. Kras manages a standoff; to break it, Eleen proposes to flee as a sacrifice and a distraction. Maab elects to return her life to her, which forfeits his own. He advances upon the Klingon and sacrifices himself to draw Kras' fire: his lieutenant Keel is ready and kills the Klingon in the chest with a kleegat. As the confrontation is about to conclude badly, Scotty and a rescue party appear, pointing their phasers at them and demand the Capellans' surrender. McCoy appears from the hills with the new Teer, Leonard James Akaar. Eleen signs the mining agreement as regent for the new Teer, and the Starfleet team beams back to the Enterprise. On the bridge of the Enterprise, Kirk and McCoy remark with pride on how the new Teer of Capella IV is named after them both. Spock remarks that they will both be insufferably pleased with themselves for at least a month. The Enterprise then departs Capella IV. Log entries Captain's log, USS Enterprise (NCC-1701), 2267 Memorable quotes "What the Klingon has said is unimportant, and we do not hear his words." - McCoy, calling Kras a liar to Akaar "Yes, you're quite right, Mr. Spock. Inefficient – and illogical." - Kirk, when Spock tells him of the inefficiency of emotion "Perhaps to be a Teer is to see in new ways. I begin to like you, Earthman… and I saw fear in the Klingon's eye." - Maab, upon becoming the new ruler of the Ten Tribes "Look, I'm a doctor, not an escalator!" - McCoy to Spock, as Eleen struggles to climb a steep incline "How did you arrange to touch her, Bones? Give her a happy pill?" "No, a right cross." - Kirk and McCoy, as McCoy examines Eleen "Say to yourself, the child is mine. The child is mine. It is mine!" "Yes, it's yours.'" - McCoy and Eleen, as she misunderstands what he said "Fortunately, this bark has suitable tensile cohesion." "You mean it makes a good bowstring." "I believe I said that." - Spock and Kirk, as they test their bows "McCoy. Bring our child." "Our child?" "I'll explain later." - Eleen, Kirk, and McCoy, after the baby is born "There's an old, old saying on Earth, Mister Sulu. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me." "I know this saying. It was inwented in Russia." - Scott and Chekov, after Scott decides to ignore the second distress call "The cavalry doesn't come over the hill in the nick of time anymore." - Kirk, as Spock hails the Enterprise "Oochy-woochy coochy-coo, captain?" "An obscure Earth dialect, Mister Spock. Oochy-coochy coochy-coo. If you're curious, consult linguistics." - Spock and Kirk, when McCoy coos to the baby Spock repeats it puzzled and Kirk repeats it incorrectly "The child was named Leonard James Akaar?" "Has a kind of a ring to it, don't you think, James?" "Yes. I think it's a name destined to go down in galactic history, Leonard. What do you think, Spock?" "I think you're both going to be insufferably pleased with yourselves for at least a month… sir." - Spock, McCoy, and Kirk, as Kirk and McCoy brag about their connection to the child Background information Exterior planet scenes were filmed at the familiar Vasquez Rocks Natural Area Park, located North of Los Angeles. () The episode was filmed in late May amid temperatures at Vasquez Rocks of up to 110 degrees, making it highly uncomfortable for actors, especially those in Capellan costumes. However, Tige Andrews enjoyed his Klingon costume very much, this being his first chance to wear a non-ordinary costume for a film role. His exotic demeanor helped him get into the character of Kras. In Dorothy Fontana's original script, Eleen sacrificed her child for her own life. Gene Roddenberry objected to this, and changed the ending to what appears in the finished episode. Fontana also envisioned Eleen as a strong woman, who rebels against a society which considers women only as mothers and homemakers. The set panel to the left of the science station was removed for this episode. Chekov can be seen with his hand draped over the left edge of the station; an edge that shouldn't exist. In the next episode, , wider shots show that the workstation counter top continues unbroken when the set piece is in place. For the "Friday's Child" remastered edition, a close up of the science station replaces the old, incomplete, version. In the briefing room footage of Dr. McCoy's previous visit to Capella IV, he is wearing his present-day Starfleet uniform, rather than a uniform specific to Starfleet circa 2265 (). This assumes McCoy was stationed on the planet prior to his assignment as the Enterprises chief medical officer. However, because McCoy does not appear in the TOS Season 1 episodes and , and because the duration of his assignment was "only a few months," it's possible he was temporarily transferred to Capella IV during one (or both) of those time periods, meaning his uniform is correct. Leonard James Akaar has appeared as an influential Starfleet admiral in several of the novels that take place after the end of the events depicted on screen, suggesting Kirk's half-joking prediction of the name going down in history did in fact come true, to some extent. This is the first episode which Chekov makes the dubious claim of something being invented in Russia. In this case he claims that the old Earth saying: "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me," was invented in Russia. He does so with a smirk, suggesting he may only be teasing. The footage seen on the briefing room screen in the teaser is recycled from scenes of the warriors hunting down Kirk and company later on in the episode. Actors playing Capellan warriors were given elevated shoes to make them appear as "giants" compared to Humans and Klingons. Maab's high-top headwear served the same purpose. A sequence in the blooper reel shows William Shatner entering the tent too quickly when Tige Andrews is looking for his weapon and exclaiming, "Oh, shit!" Lots of dialogue looping was used in this episode because of the outdoor setting. Some of the dubbing was crammed together, nearly on top of other lines. By preventing Maab from killing Eleen, thereby allowing her unborn son to become Teer of the tribes, Kirk and company would appear to be in flagrant violation of the Prime Directive. This is discussed in the TOS comic The Trial of James T. Kirk, where Akaar is called to testify. He states that he believes in the wisdom of the man who saved his life, namely Kirk. He then kneels before Kirk to demonstrate the depth of his gratitude. In the TOS comic The Peacekeeper Part Two: The Conclusion, the events of this episode are mentioned by Dr. McCoy in order to motivate Captain Kirk to make an exception in the Prime Directive, suggesting that it was violated in this episode. For his first four appearances in the series, including this episode, Walter Koenig wore a Monkees-style wig, which he absolutely detested. In one interview, he made joking and uncomplimentary references to that wig. By , he seems to have discarded it. This was Robert Bralver's first appearance of many in the series, often as a stunt performer or uncredited extra. This episode marks the debut of Sulu's personal scanner at his helm position. In its first appearance, the device is seen slowly unfolding as it emerges from inside the helm console. In his written adaptations of the episodes, James Blish refers to the device as a "gooseneck viewer." Stephen Whitfield's The Making of Star Trek and David Gerrold's The World of Star Trek incorrectly lists this episode's first airdate as . Stephen Whitfield's The Making of Star Trek also features some excellent behind-the-scenes photos from this episode, filmed in late . The name of this episode derives from the 1887 Harper's Weekly version of the old children's rhyme, , which includes the line "Friday's child is full of woe." "Capellans" was also the name given to the aliens in Jerry Sohl's 1953 novel The Transcendent Man, though the connection seems unintentional: the aliens in that book were closer in style to the Organians. Capella itself is the brightest star in the constellation of Auriga, the charioteer. There is an interesting sequence in the latter part of the episode. As Maab and his cohorts close in on Kirk's hideout, Tige Andrews takes a face-forward flop onto the ground. In the next close-up, he is seen in the background getting up, and after a cutaway, comes to the foreground and dusts off his pants. This would seem to indicate that for the close-up coverage, there was a second camera filming simultaneously to the wide shot, and that the camera was hidden behind the large rock seen near Michael Dante. This is the first episode where Spock is knocked out in a fight (the second and final being , though in that case it is the who is incapacitated) where a Capellan hits the Vulcan with a sword while he and Kirk prevent Eleen's death. This is the first episode where all seven "classic" crew members (Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Scotty, Uhura, Sulu, and Chekov) appear in the same scene, in the teaser, discussing the background for the Capellans, although Sulu is seen only on a view screen reporting from the bridge. The other six are all in the same briefing room together. The six also appear in the same scene together at the very end on the bridge, and George Takei is still absent, although the right arm of a helmsman that should be Sulu is seen at the right edge of the screen. Production timeline Story outline by D.C. Fontana: First draft teleplay: Second draft teleplay: Revised second draft: Final draft teleplay by Gene L. Coon: early- Revised final draft by Gene Roddenberry: Additional page revisions by Coon: Filmed: – Day 1 – , Friday (Half Day) – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Briefing room, Bridge Day 2 – , Monday – Desilu Stage 9: Ext. Outside cave, Int. Bridge Day 3 – , Tuesday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Bridge Day 4 – , Wednesday – Vasquez Rocks Natural Area Park: Ext. Capella IV surface (canyon) Day 5 – , Thursday – Vasquez Rocks Natural Area Park: Ext. Capella IV surface (canyon) Day 6 – , Friday – Desilu Stage 10: Ext. Capellan camp, Ext. Tent, Int. Kirk's tent Day 7 – , Monday – Desilu Stage 10: Int. Akaar's tent Score recording: Premiere airdate: First UK airdate: Remastered airdate: Remastered information The remastered version of this episode premiered in syndication the weekend of . Among new shots of the Enterprise herself, several new, more realistic views of Capella IV from space were inserted into the episode. Other changes include cleaned up mattes of the viewscreen during the briefing room scene, a more realistic sensor readout on the bridge, a corrected insert shot while Chekov is working the controls at the science station, updated phaser effects, and the establishment of the Klingon ship on screen as a . Video and DVD releases Original US Betamax release: UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 17, catalog number VHR 2329, release date unknown US VHS release: UK re-release (three-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 2.1, Original US DVD release (single-disc): Volume 16, As part of the TOS Season 2 DVD collection As part of the TOS-R Season 2 DVD collection: (Region 1), (Region 2) Links and references Starring William Shatner as Capt. Kirk Also starring Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock And DeForest Kelley as Dr. McCoy Guest star Julie Newmar as Eleen Also starring Tige Andrews as Kras And Michael Dante as Maab Featuring James Doohan as Scott George Takei as Sulu Nichelle Nichols as Uhura Cal Bolder as Keel Ben Gage as Akaar Walter Koenig as Chekov Kirk Raymone as Duur Robert Bralver as Uncredited co-stars William Blackburn as Hadley Vic Christy as Capellan tribesman Walker Edmiston as Officer (voice) Steve Hershon as operations officer Eddie Paskey as Leslie Unknown actors as Leonard James Akaar Deem Akaar's tribesmen 2 and 3 Maab's tribesmen 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 Capellan women 1 and 2 Sciences crew woman Operations crew woman Security guard 2 Security lieutenant Stunt doubles Chuck Clow as the stunt double for William Shatner Dick Dial as Warrior's stunt double Jay Jones as the stunt double for Tige Andrews References amusement; analysis; area; arm; back; bargain; ; battle stations; belly; belt; "Bones"; booster; bow and arrow; bowstring; Capella IV; Capella IV sector; Capella IV village; Capellans; Capellan language; Capellan law; ; cavalry; cave; chance; check-in signal; "chewed you out"; childbirth; children; choice; combat; commander; communication channel; communicator; conclusion; contact; convoy ship; course; custom; death; debris; device; dialect; ; disappointment; distance; distress signal (aka distress call); ; document; "drawing a line"; Earth; Earth Federation; emergency; emotion; encampment; enemy; entrance; escalator; estimating; exit; fear; Federation law; feet; flight path; "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me."; freighter; frequency; friend; friendship; galactic history; gesture; goods; guest; gunpowder; "ham-handed"; hand; happy pill; hate; head; heart; high chief; High Teer (Teer); hill; hospital; hour; Human (aka Earthman or Earth people); humanoid; idea; "I'm a doctor, not a..."; instinct; intention; interception course; "in the nick of time"; ""kind of a ring"; kleegat; Klingon; Klingon agent (agent); Klingon Empire; Klingon scout ship/warship; knife; landing party; laughter; leader; liar; life support system; line of flight; linguistics; liquid; location; logic; love; magnasite-nitron tablet; maximum speed; medical aid; medical book; medical kit; medical oath; microtape; mineral; mining; mining right; mining treaty (aka mining agreement); minute; mission; mistake; month; name; namesake; negotiation; "not move a muscle"; "on our toes"; "Oochy-woochy coochy-coo"; pain; patient; phaser; phaser bank; place; planetoid colony; "playing cat and mouse"; policy; powder; psychiatry; reconnaissance party; regent; relative term; report; revenge; right cross; rock; rockslide; Russia; saying; scent; Scots language; scout ship; search pattern; sensor; sensor range; sensor report; shale; shame; shelter; sight; ship's captain; sky; sonic disruption; sound beam; standard orbit; starship; state of war; stomach; story; sublight; surgery; sword; sympathetic vibration; taboo; tensile cohesion; tent; Ten Tribes; thing; throat; topaline; tradition; trail; trap; tribe; truth; vegetation; viewscreen; village; virtue; wall; warrior; water; weapons; "wee"; widow; word; yard; youth External links de:Im Namen des jungen Tiru es:Friday's Child fr:Friday's Child (épisode) ja:宿敵クリンゴンの出現（エピソード） nl:Friday's Child pl:Friday's Child TOS episodes

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Who Mourns for Adonais? (episode)

The Enterprise is captured by an alien claiming to be Apollo, the Greek god of the sun. Summary Teaser Montgomery Scott is flirting with Lieutenant Carolyn Palamas on the bridge while Kirk and McCoy lightly tease him. As the nears the planet Pollux IV, a huge green hand made of energy materializes in space, catching and holding the ship. "Am I… seeing things?", Ensign Pavel Chekov exclaims. Captain Kirk orders that the Enterprise reverse all engines but the "hand" manages to hold the ship anyway. "Helm doesn't answer. We can't move!", Lieutenant Sulu states. Kirk orders Uhura to send word to Starbase 12. Act One After a couple of failed attempts to break free of the "hand" holding the Enterprise in space, scanner five-seven displays the ghostly, laurel-wreathed head of a man. Claiming the eons have passed, he welcomes the Enterprise crew, congratulating his "beloved children" for leaving their plains and valleys and making a "bold venture" into deep space. Among other things, this being claims familiarity with Earth of five thousand years ago, dropping the names of individuals alive then. Captain Kirk's repeated demands for freedom finally irritate him, and he threatens to "close his hand" and crush the ship – a threat sufficiently credible that Kirk agrees to visit the planet with his officers, expressly omitting Spock, with the being saying that the Vulcan reminds him of , whom he had always found boring. The landing party consists of Kirk, McCoy, Scott, Chekov, and Palamas, who is trained in archaeology, anthropology, and ancient civilizations, all fields likely to be of some use. Materializing on the surface, the five crew members meet the being responsible for their capture, a being familiar with ancient Earth, who introduces himself as Apollo. Despite his claims, McCoy's tricorder scans show him to be a "simple humanoid". Changing to an enormous height, Apollo looks down at Kirk and the crew, and in a loud, booming voice, he intones, "Welcome to Olympus, Captain Kirk!" Act Two Apollo claims he and others – Zeus, Athena, Aphrodite, Hera, Hermes, and Artemis – were a "gallant band of travelers" who visited Earth some five thousand years ago. He demands to be worshiped by the Enterprise landing party, and in return offers a simple yet pleasurable life. He reveals himself as petulant and arrogant – qualities that correspond to his depictions as a god. But he controls a dangerous power, as the crew discover in a number of ways: their phasers are all fused, the transporter device and communicators are inoperative, and Scott is injured by lightning strikes for other willful acts he commits against Apollo. Moreover, he has developed a romantic interest in Palamas, angering Scott. Aboard the ship, Spock is proceeding under the same assumption, and the crew may be making headway: Lieutenant Uhura rigs a subspace bypass circuit to restore communications, and Sulu discovers a strange radiated power on the planet with no clear source. Spock asks the helmsman to scan the entire planet for the source of the power readings by looking where it is not – a simple process of elimination. Sulu, along with Leslie's assistance, begins the scan. Apollo, meanwhile, has taken Palamas away from the rest of the Enterprise crew. He tells her the gods left Earth when mankind turned away from them, and that they need admiration just like Humans need food. They returned to their home, an empty place without worshipers. But they lacked the strength to leave, and so they waited. And over the course of time, all but Apollo discorporated. Apollo claims the gods are immortal, and cannot die – not, at least, in the way Humans understand death. But even they eventually reach a point of no return; they "spread themselves upon the wind… thinner, and thinner, until only the wind remained…" He then mentions that he "knew [Carolyn] would come to the stars" and be forever by his side as his queen. Palamas doesn't understand, but Apollo seduces her by saying that fifty centuries ago, gods took mortals with them to love and care for, as his parents did. As on the Enterprise, the landing party has discovered the energy flow but is equally unable to isolate it. Chekov's theory is that Apollo can channel this flow of energy through his body without harm to himself, much like the electric eel on Earth or the giant dry worm of Antos IV. Finding the source of this energy is top priority. McCoy notes that, although Apollo is generally a standard humanoid, he has a mysterious extra organ in his chest. Apollo returns to the landing party and tells them Palamas is no concern to them anymore. Scott is enraged and charges at Apollo with a vase, but the god strikes him down with a bolt of lightning, throwing him off his feet. Chekov observes that, as Apollo vanishes, he appears tired or pained. It seems that Apollo has a limited reservoir, and when he expends too much energy, he must retreat and recharge his energy cells. They therefore plan to force him to expend his power, and weaken him so that he might be overpowered. Aboard ship, Spock asks Kyle to take his equations to the nuclear electronics lab so that they can generate M-rays on selected wavelengths to punch a few holes in Apollo's force field to fire their phaser banks through. On Apollo's return, the landing party attempts to goad him into attacking someone, however, Palamas, who was not part of the plan, ruins it in her well-meaning attempt to save Kirk from Apollo's wrath. Kirk begins to devise another plan – but notes that it depends on Palamas' loyalty. If his plan does not work, Kirk notes, the Enterprise crew had better get used to herding goats. Act Three Palamas has fallen in love with Apollo, who has told her she will be his consort, the mother of a new race of gods, and will inspire men throughout the universe. Palamas is returned to the landing party, weakened but content. Palamas tells Kirk of Apollo's plans for the crew to live on the surface of the planet, but Kirk tells her she has work to do after noticing her weakened state. "All our lives, here and on the ship, depend on you." She must spurn Apollo; to do otherwise condemns the crew to "nothing less than slavery." Kirk reminds her of her loyalty to Humanity, since that is where her duty (and his) lie. Palamas reveals her sympathy for Apollo's plan, but Kirk speaks to her of duty, orders, and the Humanity she shares is tied together beyond any untying with Kirk and others that she cannot share with Apollo. Kirk seems to be getting through to Palamas – when Apollo summons her back. She says "He's calling me," but no voice is heard. It's uncertain whether Apollo uses some form of telepathy to summon her. Kirk reminds her of her duty once more before she disappears. Act Four Uhura is successful in contacting the landing party. Spock determines that the god's powers come from his temple. The Enterprise has used Spock's technique with M-rays to pierce the force field around the ship. The ship could fire phasers, but Kirk needs to know exactly where Apollo and Palamas are first before they are fired. Apollo and Palamas are kissing passionately, but then Palamas tells Apollo she has merely been studying him; she could no more love him than love "a new species of bacteria." Of course, she is lying through her teeth when she says this, and is broken-hearted, but she must put responsibility before romantic desire, no matter how reluctant she is to do so. She walks away, and there is wind and thunder, noticed by the rest of the landing party. Palamas screams, and the sounds appear to indicate that she and Apollo are near the temple, and a gigantic Apollo looms nearby. Kirk angles to lure Apollo closer to the temple – his power source – and orders phaser fire to destroy the temple, despite the close proximity of the landing party. The Enterprise shudders from lightning bolts fired at it by Apollo, but continues firing phasers until the temple is completely destroyed. Apollo, rejected by a mortal woman and bereft of his powers, asks for the Humans' forgiveness and spreads himself upon the winds to join his fellow gods. After he is gone, McCoy and Kirk regret what they had to do. Now believing that Apollo was the god of the ancient Greeks, Kirk talks about all that Apollo's people gave to Earth – their culture and philosophy – and wonders whether another outcome was possible. He muses to McCoy if it really would have hurt them to have gathered just a few laurel leaves. The Enterprise departs Pollux IV for open space. Log entries Captain's log, USS Enterprise (NCC-1701), 2267 Memorable quotes "Bones, could you get that excited over a cup of coffee?" "Even from here, I can tell his pulse rate's up." "Gentlemen!" - Kirk and McCoy, observing Scott flirting with Palamas "I like to think of it not so much as losing an officer as gaining… Actually, I'm losing an officer." - Kirk to McCoy, about Scott and the consequences of his love for Carolyn "Captain Kirk, I invite you and your officers to join me. But do not bring that one. The one with the pointed ears. He is much like Pan. And Pan always bored me." - Apollo, inviting the whole Enterprise crew to Pollux IV except Spock "If you want to play god and call yourself Apollo, that's your business, but you're no god to us, mister!" - Kirk, to Apollo "Insults are effective only where emotion is present." - Spock, on his rejection by Apollo "I am Apollo!" "And I am the !" - Apollo and Chekov, as Apollo identifies himself "I have four hundred and thirty people on that ship up there!" "Not anymore, Captain! They are mine now. To save, to cherish, or to destroy at my will." - Kirk and Apollo "To coin a phrase, fascinating." - McCoy, after the giant Apollo suddenly looks tired and vanishes "A god cannot survive as a memory." - Apollo to Palamas, explaining why the other gods withered away "Spock's contaminating this boy, Jim." - McCoy, as Chekov provides Kirk detailed information "Where's Apollo?" "He disappeared again like the cat in that Russian story." "Don't you mean the English story? The Cheshire Cat?" "Cheshire? No… Minsk, perhaps…" - Kirk and Chekov, after Apollo attacks Scott again and vanishes "Approach me. I said approach me!" "We're busy!" (to Scott) "Look after the girl." "You will gather laurel leaves! Light the ancient fires! Kill a deer! Make your sacrifices to me! Apollo has spoken!!" - Apollo and Kirk "I offer you more than your wildest dreams have ever imagined. You'll become the mother of a new race of gods. You'll inspire the universe. All men will revere you, almost as a god yourself. And I shall love you, time without end, worlds without end. You shall complete me, and I you." - Apollo to Palamas "Mankind has no need for gods. We find the one quite adequate." - Kirk to Apollo, on how Humanity has changed since Apollo left Earth "A father doesn't destroy his children." - Palamas, pleading with Apollo to spare Kirk's life "We share the same history, the same heritage, the same lives. We're tied together beyond any untying. Man or woman, it makes no difference. We're Human." - Kirk, convincing Palamas to reject Apollo "The time has passed. There is no room for gods." - Apollo, before he fades away for the last time "I wish we hadn't had to do this." "So do I. They gave us so much… In a way, they began the Golden Age. Would it have hurt us, I wonder, just to have gathered a few laurel leaves?" - McCoy and Kirk, lamenting on the death of the Greek gods Background information Production timeline Story idea "Olympus Revisited" by Gene Roddenberry: Story outline by Gilbert Ralston: First draft teleplay: Second draft teleplay: Revised second draft by Gene L. Coon: Final draft teleplay by Coon: Revised final draft by D.C. Fontana: Second revised final draft by Roddenberry: Additional page revisions by Coon: , Filmed: – Day 1 – , Wednesday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Bridge Day 2 – , Thursday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Bridge Day 3 – , Friday – Desilu Stage 10: Ext. Apollo's temple Day 4 – , Monday – Desilu Stage 10: Ext. Apollo's temple Day 5 – , Tuesday – Desilu Stage 10: Ext. Apollo's temple Day 6 – , Wednesday – Desilu Stage 10: Ext. Apollo's temple Day 7 – , Thursday – Desilu Stage 10: Ext. Apollo's temple, Garden area, Bluescreen vfx shots of Michael Forest Score recording: Original airdate: Rerun airdate: First UK airdate: Story and production The title is taken from by . Line 415 reads "Who mourns for Adonais?". Shelley's Adonais is derived from , a male figure of Greek mythology associated with fertility. "Adonais" is also a pun on "Adonai", one of the Hebrew spoken names for God in the Holy Bible. According to Allan Asherman's The Star Trek Compendium, an abandoned ending to this episode would have revealed that Palamas was pregnant by Apollo (see Apocrypha). Shortly after the production of the episode concluded, costume designer William Ware Theiss, who designed the gown of Palamas, said that he preferred this ending, "Because I'm hung up on Greek mythology, I always preferred the script in the version the studio killed, wherein the ending is bittersweet rather than tragic. Dr. McCoy discovers the young female officer is due to bear the child of Apollo." (, issue 7, p. 5) In fact, James Blish uses this ending in his adaptation of the episode in Star Trek 7: KIRK: "Yes, Bones? Somebody ill?" McCOY: "Carolyn Palamas rejected her breakfast this mornin." KIRK: "Some bug going around?" McCOY: "She's pregnant, Jim. I've just examined her." KIRK: "What?" McCOY: "You heard me." KIRK: "Apollo?" McCOY: "Yes" KIRK: "Bones, it's impossible!" McCOY: "Spock, may I put a question to this gadget of yours? I'd like to ask it if I'm to turn my Sickbay into a delivery room for a Human child–or a god. My medical courses did not include obstetrics for infant gods." In the original script, the gods and other mythological figures were mentioned by their Latin/Roman names, but in the revised final draft (and the finished episode) they are called by their original Greek equivalents (possibly at the suggestion of series researcher Kellam de Forest). (archived May 12, 2013) The one exception to this is Hercules, whose name would be Herakles in Greek. Arch Dalzell acted as the director of photography for two days of the shoot, as regular cinematographer Jerry Finnerman had fallen ill. Finnerman resumed work after two days, finishing the episode. (These Are the Voyages: TOS Season Two) Gilbert Ralston's original story was heavily revised by Gene L. Coon for it to become the episode as ultimately featured. Coon remained otherwise uncredited for it. Partially in error in his belief that the episode was Coon's, his friend and protégé Russell Bates intended his Emmy Award-winning episode, , as a subtle homage to the episode. The plot of "The God Thing", Gene Roddenberry's rejected script for the first motion picture, resembled this episode. also covered much the same ground, and various other Star Trek outings have revisited the "ancient astronaut" trope. Several major "non-fiction" works dealing with alien gods appeared in the mid-sixties before Who Mourns for Adonais?– Robert Charroux's One Hundred Thousand Years of Man's Unknown History (1963), Peter Kolosimo's best-selling Timeless Earth and W. Raymond Drake's Gods or Spacemen? (both in 1964). However, H.P. Lovecraft's horror fiction predates all of the above by decades. Cast and characters According to Michael Forest, the producers originally wanted for the role of Apollo. However, he was hired for another project. The producers were looking for someone with an English dialect and Shakespearean theatrics to pull off the Apollo role. First, they wanted to find someone in England, but rather decided to look for an actor at the San Diego Shakespeare festival. The head of the theatre recommended Michael Forest, who was already in Hollywood, making films at the time. Forest was called in for an audition, where he first had to take off his shirt, to let them see if he had the muscled physique needed for the part. Next, they asked him to read some lines in an English accent. Forest refused, claiming he couldn't do it, but is able to speak in a Mid-Atlantic accent, probably more suitable for the character. He did it, and they gave him the role. Forest previously co-starred with Leonard Nimoy in 's theatrical play, Deathwatch and the subsequent movie adaptation, which also featured Robert Ellenstein and a score by Gerald Fried. Props and special effects In the trailer, the phasers fired by the Enterprise at the temple are blue. In the episode itself, they are red. They would once again be blue in the remastered version of this episode (see below). A was used to allow a giant Apollo to appear with the landing party in the foreground at the end of act one. (The Star Trek Compendium, p. 73) Apollo's temple was constructed on an indoor studio set. Swaying trees (courtesy of hidden stagehands) and dubbed-in bird sounds were combined with stock footage of an outdoor lake and adequately conveyed the illusion of being outdoors. (The Star Trek Compendium, p. 73) Leslie Parrish wore the famous Bill Theiss dress again in another Desilu/Paramount show: a 1968 episode of Mannix entitled "The Girl in the Frame." The scene in which Apollo flips Scott to the side was actually executed by stunt double, Jay Jones, who was wearing a special harness with which he was pulled backward on cue. (The Star Trek Compendium, p. 73). Jones nearly slammed into a step prop which could have caused serious injury. The second season blooper reel shows Michael Forest parading very effeminately in his Apollo costume. Forest was supposedly displeased with his costume, and this was his way of showing it. The blooper briefly cuts to William Shatner rolling his eyes and Forest blowing a kiss. In the original version, the hand holding the Enterprise disappears when the starship fires the phasers at Apollo's temple. In the remastered version, the Enterprise phasers fire through the hand, which then starts to dissolve then finally disappears. In , Kirk can be seen operating in his cabin the small computer on which Sulu attempts to calculate weak points in the force field, just before McCoy enters with the Finagle's Folly. Music Fred Steiner's score for this episode is among the strongest in the entire series, and sections of it are present in many later Star Trek segments, including . (The Star Trek Compendium, p. 73) Continuity This is the only time in TOS that a star is both referred to as its and ancient name, specifically β Geminorum / Pollux. This is the first of two times in TOS Season 2 that Kirk tells an Enterprise crewmember he has earned his pay for the week. In this episode, after Chekov suggests how Apollo might be generating and controlling his energy, Kirk says, "Mr. Chekov, I think you've earned your pay for the week." The next instance will be in . Although Kirk says to Apollo "Mankind has no need for gods. We find the one quite adequate," the god in question is not identified. Apollo's "giant green hand" is referred to in as one of the possible causes of the disappearance of the , and appears in the end credits of that film. The Enterprises encounter with Apollo's hand is also glimpsed in . Reception Marc Daniels cited this episode as his favorite among those he directed, claiming "it all came together so well". (These Are the Voyages: TOS Season Two, p. 114) Leslie Parrish stated, "Whenever I watch it, I go right back to the whole thing again and cry my way through it. I relive it. My impression of it is that it's one piece of work that I'm very proud of. Of all the work I did, this is outstanding, because it is rooted in something which I believe so deeply." (These Are the Voyages: TOS Season Two, p. 115) Michael Forest recalled working with his co-stars, "Leslie [Parrish] was a delightful person to work with; no problems; never any difficulties; we would just discuss what we were going to do and we would do it. She was excellent and very personable. William [Shatner] was a bit of a problem, however. You never saw me standing with him; we were always in different shots. We would be talking to one another, but we wouldn't be on camera at the same time. I'm sure that's what he stipulated – because I was so much taller." (These Are the Voyages: TOS Season Two, p. 111) Jason Alexander cites this episode as his favorite of the original series, describing it as "thought-provoking, beautiful, and very sad." (TV Guide: Vol. 44, No. 34, Issue #2265, p. 33) In The Nitpicker's Guide for Classic Trekkers, author Phil Farrand expresses the opinion that this episode's creators missed an opportunity to explain James Doohan's missing finger, believing that Apollo's destruction of Scott’s phaser could also have severely damaged his finger. Remastered information The remastered version of this episode premiered in syndication the weekend of . It featured new shots of the giant hand in space and an enhanced version of the phaser attack on Apollo's temple. The next remastered episode to air was . Apocrypha In Peter David's Star Trek: New Frontier, character Mark McHenry is a descendant of the child of Apollo and Carolyn Palamas (revealed to have been impregnated during the events of this episode), and has at least some of Apollo's powers. The John Byrne Star Trek: New Visions comic "Of Woman Born" also has Palamas becoming pregnant with Apollo's child. Video and DVD releases Original US Betamax release: UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 18, catalog number VHR 2343, release date unknown US VHS release: UK re-release (three-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 2.2, Original US DVD release (single-disc): Volume 17, As part of the TOS Season 2 DVD collection As part of the TOS-R Season 2 DVD collection Links and references Starring William Shatner as Capt. Kirk Also starring Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock And DeForest Kelley as Dr. McCoy Guest stars Michael Forest as Apollo Leslie Parrish as Carolyn Featuring James Doohan as Scott George Takei as Sulu Nichelle Nichols as Uhura Walter Koenig as Chekov John Winston as Lt. Kyle Uncredited co-stars William Blackburn as Hadley Roger Holloway as Roger Lemli Eddie Paskey as Leslie Unknown actors as Command crew woman Sciences crew woman 1 Sciences crew woman 2 Sciences lieutenant Stunt double Jay Jones as the stunt double for James Doohan Stand-ins William Blackburn as stand-in for DeForest Kelley Frank da Vinci as stand-in for Leonard Nimoy Roger Holloway as stand-in for James Doohan Jeannie Malone as stand-in for Leslie Parrish Eddie Paskey as stand-in for William Shatner References 4 billion years ago; 5,000 years ago; 2245; 14b by 26 index; A&A officer; admiration; Agamemnon; Alice's Adventures in Wonderland; all night; "all right"; analysis; ancestor; ancient civilizations; answer; anthropology; Antos IV; Aphrodite; Apollo's temple; appendage; archaeology; area; argument; arm; arrogance; Artemis; artisan; Athena; atmosphere; atmospheric disturbance; audio; "bag of tricks"; bacteria; beauty; behavior; benevolent; Beta Geminorum system; billion; blood; blue; body; "Bones"; bow; bow arm; "break his heart"; ; capricious; cartographic section (aka cartographic detail); cartographic scanner; ; chance; Cheshire; Cheshire Cat; ; children; class M type; coffee; communications system; compassion; contact; cosmos; courage; creature; culture; cup; czar; damage report; Daphne; death; deer; discipline; discussion; distance; dream; duty; ear; Earth; efficiency; eggshell; electric eel; emotion; encyclopedia; enemy; English; energy; energy cell; equation; estimation; eternity; evolution; evolutionary pattern; existence; face; fact; father; fear; fire; fireworks; flattery; flesh; flock; fluffy creature; force field; frequency; friend; giant dry-worm; goat; god (goddess); Golden Age; Greece; Greek gods; Greek mythology; green; GSC; hailing channel 3; hand; happiness; harm; head; heart; Hector; Hera; Hercules; herd; Hermes; history; home; hull; Human (aka Humanity); humanoid; idea; immortality; impulse power; information; injury; insult; intelligent life; "in that case"; "in the name of"; invitation; knee; landing party; laurel; ; legend; lesson; ; lifeform; logic; love; loyalty; lyre; M-rays; Mediterranean; memory; Minsk; morning; mother; Mount Olympus (Olympus); myth; mythology; name; nature; neural damage; nitrogen; nuclear electronics lab; Odysseus; officer; Olympian; organ; oxygen; pain; ; paradise; passion; patience; peace; percentages; phaser; phaser bank; philosophy; phrase; ; place; plain; "point of no return"; polarity reversal; Pollux IV; Pollux V; power source; pressure; pride; process of elimination; progress; progress report; projection; pulse rate; purity; question; relic; report; response frequency; result; risk; Russia; Russian; sacramental wine; sacrifice; sail; Saracen; scanner five seven; scientist; Scots language; ; Sector 1; Sector 25; sensor; sensor report; sensor scan; sharing; sheep; shepherd (shepherdess); shock; signal; singing; skin; sky; slavery; social development; space normal; space traveler; species; specimen; spring; standard orbit; standard procedure; "stand by"; star; Starbase 12; station nineteen; station seven; station three; story; subspace bypass circuit; surface; Telepathy; ; theory; thing; thistle; thousand; thunderbolt; tissue; "to coin a phrase"; tool; toy; tractor beam; transmission circuit; transportation device; traveler; tribesman; tribute; trick; tricorder; tsar; twin; universe; valley; wavelength; "wee"; week; "what the devil"; wind; wing; worship; worshiper; wrath (aka angry); year; Zeus Unreferenced materials baby; breakfast; ill; pregnant; External links de:Der Tempel des Apoll es:Who Mourns for Adonais? fr:Who Mourns for Adonais? 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Amok Time (episode)

Suffering through his first infliction of pon farr, the Vulcan biological mating urge, Spock must return to Vulcan to marry his betrothed or he will die. However, when the Enterprise arrives at Vulcan, complications at the ceremony may endanger Captain Kirk as well. (Season Premiere) Summary Teaser Dr. McCoy notices that Spock is growing restless and has stopped eating, and decides to discuss this with Captain Kirk in the corridor outside Spock's quarters. As the two men discuss this, they come upon Spock's quarters, in time to see the first officer throwing Nurse Christine Chapel out of his quarters and physically flinging the Vulcan plomeek soup she has specially prepared for him after her, furiously shouting that if he'd wanted anything from her he'd have asked for it. After this outburst, he demands that Captain Kirk grant him a leave of absence on his home planet . Act One Captain Kirk is baffled by Spock's behavior, but orders the Enterprise to Vulcan. However, a priority message forces him to change course to Altair VI in order to be on time for the planetary President's inauguration ceremony, which is to take place a week earlier than planned. When Kirk later asks Ensign Chekov how late they would be if they diverted to Vulcan, the puzzled navigator reveals that they are already on course for Vulcan, as ordered by Commander Spock. When questioned by Kirk in a turbolift, Spock is visibly confused and says he does not remember doing this, though he admits that if Chekov says he did, he must have. Kirk orders Spock to sickbay, where McCoy examines him and finds that he is suffering from extreme stresses resembling those produced by high levels of adrenaline in Humans. McCoy informs Kirk that Spock will die from this condition within eight days at most if he is not taken to Vulcan. Act Two Upon hearing this news, Kirk confronts Spock in his quarters. As Kirk walks in, Spock is looking at a picture of a Vulcan girl and turns the screen off immediately. Spock says he cannot tell the captain the cause of his problem because it is a deeply personal affair, and that no "outworlder" may know except those that have been involved. Kirk eventually persuades Spock to reveal that his problem is "Vulcan biology," which Kirk correctly infers to mean Vulcan reproduction. Spock explains to Kirk that, like the giant eel-birds of Regulus V or the salmon of Earth, Vulcans must also periodically return home to mate. Vulcans do not typically discuss this mating cycle even among themselves, instead cloaking it in archaic ritual, as it is shameful for such a logical race to be overcome by urges so powerful as to strip them of their intellect and veneer of civilization. Spock has reached his time, the pon farr, and if he doesn't return to Vulcan immediately to mate, he will die. Kirk jeopardizes his career by disobeying a direct order to the contrary from Admiral Komack of Starfleet, and proceeds with all possible speed to Vulcan. Nurse Chapel visits Spock in his quarters to tell him they are going to Vulcan. Spock notices she has cried and asks for plomeek soup. Upon the arrival of Enterprise at Vulcan, Vulcan Space Central establishes contact. A beautiful Vulcan woman appears on the viewscreen, and she exchanges formal greetings with Spock. When asked by Lieutenant Uhura who she is, Spock states that she is "T'Pring, my wife," much to the shock of Kirk, McCoy, and especially Chapel. Act Three Kirk, Spock, and McCoy beam down to the surface of Vulcan, to the ancestral lands of Spock's family. This is their first time on Vulcan, and McCoy states he now understands the phrase "hot as Vulcan." Spock explains to his companions that Vulcan children enter into arranged marriages during a ritual ceremony. Spock further clarifies that while he earlier called T'Pring his "wife," this childhood bond does not have an exact correspondence with Human pairing, as it is "less than a marriage, but more than a betrothal." He explains that a bonding ceremony was held when they were seven years old, where they touched and "felt each other's thoughts," so when the time came they both would be drawn to Koon-ut-kal-if-fee due to the psychic bond. It is unclear if this bonding ceremony in childhood is a mind melding ceremony or if some other form of Telepathy is used. (See: Telepathic mating bond) As Spock's friends, Kirk and McCoy are invited to witness the marriage ritual – the koon-ut-kal-if-fee. The mistress of ceremonies is T'Pau, whom Kirk recognizes as the only person ever to turn down a seat in the Federation Council – one of the most famous and respected Vulcans alive. Trouble starts when T'Pring announces she would rather not marry Spock. T'Pring invokes the kal-if-fee – her right to have Spock fight for her. Spock retreats to the side of the platform, hunched over and speechless. Kirk tries to speak with him; T'Pau warns him off, explaining that he is deep in plak tow. T'Pring chooses Kirk as her champion, over the strenuous objections of Stonn, another member of the wedding party, who will not be silenced about his traditional rights until T'Pau commands "Kroykah!" (meaning "Stop!"). Stonn promptly apologizes, asks for forgiveness, and remains silent. Spock tries to protest to T'Pau, but in vain. Both Kirk and McCoy correctly guess that Stonn is T'Pring's actual choice and would be chosen next should Kirk decline. Fearing Spock, in his current condition, is now too weak to fight Stonn, Kirk agrees to the challenge. It is only then Kirk is informed that this is to be a fight to the death and is given a Lirpa. Act Four The fight begins and Spock quickly demonstrates physical superiority. However, Kirk survives the first round. McCoy objects to T'Pau that Kirk isn't used to the Vulcan atmosphere and climate. He asks permission to inject the captain with a tri-ox compound to compensate. T'Pau agrees and Kirk is given the injection. During the fight, Spock apparently strangles Kirk to death, and McCoy accompanies the captain's body back to the Enterprise. Spock, his mating urges apparently subsiding, demands to know why T'Pring took Kirk as her champion. T'Pring reveals that she did not want to be the "consort of a legend," as Spock had become to his people, and instead desired Stonn. She chose Kirk as her champion since every outcome she calculated was advantageous to her: if the human won, Kirk would not wish keep her as his bride, while if Spock won he would probably release her because she had challenged the marriage, and even if he kept her he would quickly return to space. In all cases, T'Pring would be free to have Stonn. Complimenting her logic, Spock relinquishes T'Pring to Stonn, but advises him that "having is not so pleasing a thing as wanting. It is not logical, but it is often true." Spock then returns to the Enterprise, expecting to face court-martial at the nearest starbase for the murder of his commanding officer. Back on the ship, McCoy repeatedly attempts to explain something, but Spock cuts him off, continuing to speak of his guilt and its consequences. When he tells McCoy that Scott must take command of the Enterprise, Kirk comes in behind him and playfully asks, "Don't you think you'd better check with me first?" Seeing Kirk alive, Spock betrays his joy by calling the Captain "Jim!" with a big smile, which he quickly suppresses when he realizes that Chapel and McCoy have seen it. Kirk then reveals that McCoy did not give him a tri-ox injection, but a neuro-paralyzer to simulate death. When asked about the final outcome of the marriage, Spock explains that when he thought he had killed Kirk, he no longer had any interest in T'Pring. Kirk then receives a message from Starfleet retroactively granting him permission to divert to Vulcan, apparently per T'Pau's request. Log entries Captain's log, USS Enterprise (NCC-1701), 2267 Memorable quotes "Jim, when I requested to Spock that it was time for his routine check-up, your logical, unemotional first officer turned to me and said: 'You will cease to pry into my personal matters, Doctor, or I will certainly break your neck!'." "Spock said that?" - McCoy and Kirk, about Spock "It is undignified for a woman to play servant to a man who is not hers." - Spock to Kirk and McCoy, after throwing Chapel's soup bowl "How do you figure it, Chekov? First we're going to Vulcan, then we're going to Altair, then we're headed to Vulcan again, and now we're headed back to Altair." "I think I'm going to get space sick." - Sulu and Chekov, on the changing flight plans between Vulcan and Altair VI "How do Vulcans choose their mates? Haven't you wondered?" "I guess the rest of us assume that it's done… quite logically." "No. It is not." - Spock and Kirk "But you're not a fish, Mister Spock. You're –" "No. Nor am I a man. I'm a Vulcan." - Kirk and Spock, on comparing salmon spawning with pon farr "It has to do with biology." "What?" "Biology." "What kind of biology?" "Vulcan biology." "You mean the biology of Vulcans? Biology as in reproduction? Well, there's no need to be embarrassed about it, Mr. Spock. It happens to the birds and the bees." "The birds and the bees are not Vulcans, Captain."' - Spock and Kirk, on the subject of Vulcan biology "It would be illogical for us to protest against our natures – don't you think?" - Spock, to Chapel "Hot as Vulcan. Now I understand what that phrase means." - McCoy, on his first visit to Vulcan "He never told us his family was this important." - Kirk on T'Pau's attendance at Spock's wedding "What thee are about to see comes down from the time of the beginning, without change. This is the Vulcan heart. This is the Vulcan soul. This is our way." - T'Pau, as the Vulcan ceremony begins "It is said thy Vulcan blood is thin. Are thee Vulcan? Or are thee Human?" - T'Pau, before Spock accepts T'Pring's challenge "All of Vulcan in one package." - Kirk to McCoy, describing T'Pau "I can forgive such a display only once!" - T'Pau "Kill Spock? That's not what we came to Vulcan for, is it?" - Kirk to McCoy, during a break in the fight "Now be careful." "Sound medical advice." - McCoy and Kirk, after McCoy uses a hypospray on him "After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing after all as wanting. It is not logical, but it is often true." - Spock to Stonn, on winning T'Pring "Live long and prosper, Spock." "I shall do neither. I have killed my captain and my friend." - T'Pau and Spock, before he returns to the Enterprise "Captain…! Jim!!" - Spock, pleased and widely grinning after seeing Kirk alive "There's just one thing, Mr. Spock. You can't tell me that when you first saw Jim alive that you weren't on the verge of giving us an emotional scene that would have brought the house down!" "Merely my quite logical relief that Starfleet had not lost a highly proficient Captain." "Yes, Mr. Spock. I understand." "Thank you, Captain." "Of course, Mr. Spock, your reaction was quite logical…" "Thank you, Doctor." "…in a pig's eye!" - McCoy, Spock, and Kirk, regarding Spock's outburst Background information Story and script As the first ever Star Trek episode to feature any Vulcan characters other than Spock, this episode introduced several important elements of Vulcan culture. Besides establishing the concept of pon farr, it also marked the first use of the Vulcan salute (by T'Pau) and of the words, "Live long and prosper" (by Spock). It also established the trend among almost all female Vulcans to have a name beginning with a "T" and apostrophe (in this case T'Pau and T'Pring). Kirk at one point says to Spock, "You have been called the best first officer in the fleet." It was McCoy who said this, in In Theodore Sturgeon's original script, Kirk did not have to depend on T'Pau's influence to justify the departure to Vulcan. He knew the officials on the other planet, and asked them to delay the ceremonies until he got Spock back from Vulcan. This planet (Altair VI in the episode itself) was named Fontana IV in the original script, as a tribute to writer and then-story editor D.C. Fontana. During the combat, when the ahn-woon was announced, Kirk was surprised for not receiving a new weapon, as ahn-woon meant "unarmed combat." (The Star Trek Compendium, pp 74-75) In the original script, there were a few more Vulcan words. Spock described Kirk and McCoy as his lak noy, the equivalent of best man. When T'Pring makes her challenge, the wedding party begins to discuss what's going on, all in Vulcan, until T'Pau shuts them up. This episode was originally pitched for the first season, and NBC was quite adamant about putting it into production as soon as possible. Spock was by far the most popular character among audiences, and viewers were eager to get to know more about his cultural background. However, as Sturgeon was known for his extremely slow and cumbersome writing process (see: ), the production staff shelved "Amok Time" for the early second season. (These Are the Voyages: TOS Season Two) In Sturgeon's original script, Stonn was named "Spor," which Robert Justman felt to be too much of a "Freudian slip" and the character was renamed. (These Are the Voyages: TOS Season Two) Cast and characters James Doohan (Scott) does not appear in this episode, although Spock mentions him. Arlene Martel was among the actresses considered for the role of Doctor Elizabeth Dehner in the second pilot, . However, she turned the offer down because she felt wearing silver contact lenses would damage her sensitive eyes. Later she auditioned for the role of in , but she was not cast because the production staff had seen her as the ideal candidate for the role of T'Pring. Lawrence Montaigne (Stonn) previously appeared as the Romulan Decius in . Montaigne, along with his "Balance of Terror" co-star Mark Lenard, was considered to replace Leonard Nimoy in the role of Spock, if Nimoy would choose not to return for the second season (during a legal battle concerning the actor's salary). Eventually, Nimoy's agent relented, and Montaigne ended up being offered this guest spot. However, his contract specified an option for returning in case Nimoy would change his mind. (Inside Star Trek: The Real Story) According to Nimoy, Celia Lovsky couldn't actually do the Vulcan salute naturally, so she had to use her other hand to put her fingers in the right pattern below camera, then hold it up at the right moment. (Leonard Nimoy's Star Trek Memories) Mary Rice was photographed as a young T'Pring on during the filming of the episode. She only wore one pointed ear since only one side of her face would be visible in the photo. Also, the ear was clearly made for an adult, as it does not fit the young girl. Although this episode was originally aired as the second season premiere, this was the last episode filmed in which Walter Koenig wore a wig. He had worn a wig in three previously shot episodes while his hair grew out. Spock has definitely been promoted from lieutenant commander as of this episode. The nameplate outside his quarters reads "Commander Spock," and Vulcan Space Central later asks for him as "Commander Spock." Sets When McCoy emerges from the doorway in the first scene, there is no elevator set inside. The elevator is accessed from a side doorway for this episode. This was probably done in advance of the next episode filmed, , to show the wrecked condition of Matt Decker's starship. When the landing party beams onto the Constellation, the door is open at the end of this same corridor and no turbolift is inside. In , a turbolift is located right outside sickbay and the one at the corridor terminus is not utilized. Set drawings indicate the doorway at the end of that corridor did not regularly contain an elevator, however. A change in this season is thick painted stripes across the corridor floors. This is the first episode of the second season to offer a look at the further-expanded sickbay that now includes McCoy's new office. In more beds in the infirmary section of the sickbay are added. This is the first time Spock's quarters are seen fully. A very brief shot of his quarters is seen in , with a tricorder and red glass statue seen behind him to make the room look different from the Kirk's quarters set. Here, a large statue with blinking lights, red curtains and objects resembling molecular models are seen, among other "Spockian" decor. The statue in Spock's quarters appears to be the same statue seen outside the door of the ruins in . It later appeared in his quarters in , , and . Production Romulan helmets are reused from , this time worn by Vulcans during the pon farr ritual. The fight music for this episode was re-used in a number of second-season episodes, among them , , , and . It became one of the most memorable themes of the show, and also appeared in numerous other television series and feature films, usually as a spoof or homage to this episode. (See Star Trek parodies and pop culture references.) Composer Gerald Fried became aware of the popularity of this theme, when he began getting royalty checks for its usage from . Michael Giacchino incorporated the first few notes into the climax of . The Spock theme, played by bassist Barney Kessel, was also recycled for numerous episodes, usually in connection with Vulcan mysticism (such as mind melds), among others, in and . Hoping to emphasize Spock's alien nature, as well as the lost romantic side of his character, Gerald Fried sought to compose a romantic-type theme to be played on an instrument incapable of playing romantic music (in this case, the bass guitar). As the first episode aired in Season 2, this segment debuted the new second season opening credits. DeForest Kelley's name was added to the "starring" cast and the theme music was extended and had a female soprano voice (Loulie Jean Norman) and percussion added to it. The planet is a reddish color-corrected version of the planet created for , portraying Deneva. It appears in subsequent episodes, representing Gamma Trianguli VI in , again in , Tycho IV in , the Melkotian planet in , and Memory Alpha in . It is also featured in the second/third season opening credits. Other information Since the Vulcans' mating cycle seemed to be too adult a topic for West German TV at the time, ZDF aired a version that radically changed the dialogue, rearranging some scenes, while cutting others. As a result, Spock, instead of going through pon farr, suffers from some lethal disease (the German episode title "Weltraumfieber" translates as "space fever"). To save his life, McCoy administers an experimental drug that leaves Spock delusional. Large parts of the episode – such as the Enterprise visiting Vulcan, Spock fighting and eventually killing Kirk – are explained away as hallucinations. In 1996, using the title "Pon Farr," the episode was re-dubbed, restoring the original story. This episode was nominated for a Hugo Award in as "Best Dramatic Presentation." The book Star Trek 101 (p. 17), by Terry J. Erdmann and Paula M. Block, lists this episode as one of "Ten Essential Episodes" from the original Star Trek series. Bantam Books published a series of novelizations called "foto-novels," which took photographic stills from actual episodes and arranged word balloons and text over them, to create a formatted story. The twelfth and final installment was an adaptation of this episode. James Blish adapted this episode in his compilation Star Trek 3. His description of the aftermath of the fight, wherein a paralyzed Kirk overhears the conversation between Spock and the others, is reproduced verbatim in Planet of Judgment by Joe Haldeman. Mike Johnson adapted the episode for the alternate reality in the three-part "After Darkness" story for IDW Publishing's Star Trek: Ongoing comic book series. A cat version of "Amok Time" was featured in Jenny Parks' 2017 book Star Trek Cats. Reception Leonard Nimoy remarked, "I remember ['Amok Time'] very well. Excellent script. Very poetic, very dramatic, intense and important I felt immediately – for Spock and Vulcans." He concluded, "It was a very, very exciting episode to shoot and perform – it was so beautifully written and [had] great casting of the other people – it was very good." ("To Boldly Go…": Season 2, TOS Season 2 DVD special features) Arlene Martel recalled, "The set was just staggering. That was my first impressive set, other than on The Outer Limits, which was really massive too. The sky was wonderful, that angry, passionate color. (…) The whole ritual was so compelling and exciting. And the story had such substance. I was just caught up in the fervor of it; what it was about – being true to your nature; being true to your impulses; and I was very in tune with that concept. (…) And the script was kind of honoring T'Pring as a woman, I think. She wasn't taught our cultural thing of, you know, you do as you're told. She was very respectful of who she was. I thought that she was very logical, and intellectually centered rather than emotionally controlled." (These Are the Voyages: TOS Season Two, pp. 130-131) Director Joseph Pevney also considered "Amok Time" among the highest achievements of the series. (These Are the Voyages: TOS Season Two, p. 131) An element of the installment he approved of was the fight scene on Vulcan. "What made the fight in 'Amok Time' dramatically interesting," he stated, "is that it took place between Kirk and Spock." (Smithsonian magazine, issue, p. 59) "Amok Time" was first shown on the 1967 in New York City, ca. two weeks before the season premiere, and received an overall positive reaction. One of the most pleasant and significant surprises for fans was the addition of Ensign Chekov to the Enterprise crew (rumors about a young crewman signing on for the purpose of attracting younger female viewers were in circulation for about a month by then). The audience welcomed his presence in the cast and anticipated that he would provide many good moments in the future. (The Star Trek Compendium, p. 69) The writers thought about using a particular scene from "Amok Time" to be reedited for and used to show Sisko meeting Kirk. Ronald D. Moore commented "In 'Amok Time' there's a scene with Kirk and Spock in a turbolift. Spock is freaking out, doing the whole pon farr thing, and Kirk is watching him with this weird look on his face. Finally, Kirk says 'report to sickbay, have Doctor McCoy give you a full physical'. It would have been funny to have Sisko stumbling all over himself saying to Kirk 'I just came to tell you what an honor this is to meet you', and Kirk is looking at him like he's crazy and then tells him to go to to sickbay for a full physical. The "Amok Time" scene was not used for fear of making Sisko "look silly, not sweet." (The Magic of Tribbles: The Making of Trials and Tribble-ations) Gene Roddenberry picked this as one of his ten favorite episodes for the franchise's 25th anniversary. (TV Guide August 31, 1991 issue) Five years later, TV Guide ranked this as the second best Star Trek episode for their celebration of the franchise's 30th anniversary. (TV Guide August 24, 1996 issue) Anthony Rapp described this as one of his two favorite Star Trek episodes, the other being , and clarified that what he appreciated about both episodes was how they depicted Spock. Rapp elaborated, "I love […] what those two episodes tell us about him and about what he's going through as a half-Human half-Vulcan person [...] Also, the incredible storytelling of 'Amok Time', the twists involved. Being able to watch Leonard Nimoy do anything, but especially the work that he did in those two episodes, was really extraordinary." Michael Chabon saw part of this episode on its first airing in 1967, at the age of 4. His father considered it "the second-best episode" of Star Trek" (after ). The younger Chabon disagreed slightly: ""Amok Time" might not be the best, but I think it’s the most important, I said. ... By addressing the question of Spock’s sexuality, and the nature of desire in a culture that eschews emotion, it makes the classic fan-fiction gesture: to find a hole in the quilt of canon, and patch it. Look at the earliest "Trek" fanzines, like Spockanalia, the first issue of which came out right around when "Amok Time" aired: they’re obsessed with Spock’s Vulcan heritage, his childhood, and, above all, his sexuality. "Amok Time" tried to patch those holes. It rewarded the fanfic impulse, rewarded fandom itself. That probably explains why "Trek" is still around after all these years." Production timeline Story idea by Gene Roddenberry: Story outline by Theodore Sturgeon: First draft teleplay: Second draft teleplay: Revised second draft by D.C. Fontana: mid- Final draft teleplay by Gene L. Coon: Revised final draft by Roddenberry: Second revised final draft by Coon: Additional page revisions: , Filmed: – Day 1 – , Friday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Corridors, Spock's quarters Day 2 – , Monday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Turbolift, Sickbay, McCoy's office, Admiral Komack's office (redress of a wall in Sickbay) Day 3 – , Tuesday – Desilu Stage 9: Kirk's quarters, Bridge Day 4 – , Wednesday – Desilu Stage 10: Ext. Vulcan ceremonial grounds Day 5 – , Thursday – Desilu Stage 10: Ext. Vulcan ceremonial grounds Day 6 – , Friday – Desilu Stage 10: Ext. Vulcan ceremonial grounds Day 7 – , Monday – Desilu Stage 10: Ext. Vulcan ceremonial grounds Score recording: Original airdate: Rerun airdate: First UK airdate: Video and DVD releases Original US Betamax and VHS release: UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 18, catalog number VHR 2343, release date unknown US VHS release: UK re-release (three-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 2.2, Original US DVD release (single-disc): Volume 17, As part of the TOS Season 2 DVD collection As part of The Best of Star Trek: The Original Series DVD collection Remastered information The remastered version of "Amok Time" first aired during the weekend of . In addition to new space sequences showing the Enterprise arriving at the planet Vulcan, a sequence was inserted showing digital representations of Kirk, Spock and McCoy walking over a large natural outcropping to Spock's family ceremony site. This is the first instance in the remastered edition episodes in which original sequences have been replaced with all-new computer-generated shots. Shots of the Vulcan landscape also featured a glimpse of the city of ShiKahr from . The background in the image of a young T'Pring was updated to resemble the entrance set seen in T'Pol's mother's house in . Links and references Starring William Shatner as Capt. Kirk Also starring Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock And DeForest Kelley as Dr. McCoy Guest star Celia Lovsky as T'Pau Also starring Arlene Martel as T'Pring And Lawrence Montaigne as Stonn Featuring Majel Barrett as Christine Chapel George Takei as Sulu Nichelle Nichols as Uhura Walter Koenig as Chekov Byron Morrow as Admiral Komack Uncredited co-stars William Blackburn as Hadley Frank da Vinci as Vulcan bell and banner carrier Walker Edmiston as Vulcan Space Central contact Steve Hershon as operations crewman Jeannie Malone as operations yeoman Charles Palmer as Vulcan Eddie Paskey as Leslie Joseph Paz as Vulcan litter bearer Russ Peek as Vulcan Executioner Mary Rice as young T'Pring Mark Russell as Vulcan litter bearer Mauri Russell as Vulcan Gary Wright as Vulcan Unknown performers as Command yeoman Medical technician Operations crew woman 1 Operations crew woman 2 Sciences crew woman 1 Sciences crew woman 2 Stunt doubles Phil Adams as stunt double for William Shatner Dave Perna as stunt double for Leonard Nimoy Stand-ins William Blackburn as stand-in for DeForest Kelley Frank da Vinci as stand-in for Leonard Nimoy Jeannie Malone as stand-in for Celia Lovsky Eddie Paskey as stand-in for William Shatner References 3rd century; 2230; 2237; adrenaline; advice; ahn-woon; Aldebaran shellmouth; Altair VI; Altair VI president; Altair system; answer; atmosphere (aka air); audio; authority; bee; behavior; betrothal; biocomp; biology; bird; "the birds and the bees"; blood; body; body function; "brought the house down"; bloodstream; "Bones"; bowl; career; "carry on"; cavern; confidential; central viewer; champion; choice; civilization; climate; commanding officer; commission; compliments; consort; Constitution-class decks; course; cowardice; creature; crime; custom; day; death; ; divorce; ; dozen; dream; Earth; eel-birds; emotion; emotional pressure; eye; face; faking death; fasting; Federation Council; Federation starship attendees; "fighting chance"; Finagle's Law; first name; fish; flight plan; fracture; friend; friendship; ; hailing frequency; hand; harm; heart; ; honor; Human; hypospray; "in a pig's eye"; inauguration; insanity; insight; kah-if-farr; kal-if-fee; klee-fah; Klingon Empire; koon-ut-kal-if-fee; kroykah; land; landing party; law; leave of absence; legend; light day; lirpa; logic; madness; marriage; marriage party; maximum warp; mind; Mind meld; "mind the store"; minute; mission; name; nature; neck; nesting ground; neural paralyzer; office; Outworlder; permission; person; phrase; place; plak tow; plomeek soup; ; pon farr; present condition; president; property; quarterly physical; Regulus V; reproduction; ritual; sailor; salmon; Sarek; schedule; ; Sector 9; sedan; servant; ship surgeon; ShirKahr; shore facility; shore leave; solar day; soul; space sick; spawn; spawning ground; speed; standard orbit; starbase; Starfleet channel; Starfleet Command; strangulation; stream; ; surface; tear; Telepathy; Telepathic mating bond; temperature; thing; thought; tradition; tray; tri-ox compound; ; Vulcans; Vulcan ceremonial ground city; Vulcan language; Vulcan lute; Vulcan salute; Vulcan Space Central; wedding; week; "what the devil"; wife; word; year Unreferenced materials ; ; Westervliet External links de:Weltraumfieber es:Amok Time fr:Amok Time (épisode) it:Il duello (episodio) ja:バルカン星人の秘密（エピソード） nl:Amok Time pl:Amok Time TOS episodes

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The Doomsday Machine (episode)

The Enterprise discovers a weapon capable of destroying entire planets, and a Starfleet flag officer whose crew was killed by the machine jeopardizes the crew on a crazed mission of revenge. Summary Teaser On the , Lieutenant receives a faint and garbled distress signal. It is apparently a starship's disaster beacon, but Palmer is unable to make out any words aside from "Constellation". At the same time, the Enterprise also encounters heavy subspace interference, which prevents the crew from reporting their discoveries to Starfleet Command. The Enterprise enters system L-370 and finds that all seven planets in the system have been destroyed, smashed to rubble. Proceeding to system L-374, they find the same thing: debris where there were once healthy planets the previous year. All of the systems in the sector have been destroyed except for the two inner planets in L-374. In L-374, the Enterprise also finds her sister ship, the , commanded by Commodore Matt Decker, now a powerless wreck, drifting and apparently abandoned. As there is no apparent natural cause for the planetary destruction and the condition of the Constellation, Captain Kirk assumes that they were attacked and orders the Enterprise to go to red alert. Act One Sensor scans show the Constellation to be running with minimal life support, using its reserve energy banks. All of its power plants are dead, and the bridge is uninhabitable. Subspace interference is preventing further sensor readings, as well as any communications beyond the distress signal. There are no other ships detected in the area, however, and Kirk orders the ship's status dropped to yellow alert. Kirk then orders Dr. McCoy, Montgomery Scott, and a damage control party to the transporter room. He intends to board the Constellation, and leaves Spock in command of the Enterprise. The landing party beams aboard a corridor on the Constellation and begins investigating. Scott and his team examine the engine room and find the warp engines totally destroyed, the impulse engines heavily damaged, and the phaser banks completely exhausted. The Constellation has clearly fought a pitched battle and lost. Kirk and McCoy, examining the rest of the ship, find no signs of the crew and no bodies. Wondering if the crew might have beamed down to one of the remaining planets, Spock (on the Enterprise) informs Kirk that the planets could not possibly sustain Human life: the inner planet having a surface temperature close to the melting point of lead and the second's atmosphere is simply too toxic to support Human life. When Scott, after giving his report on the condition of the engines to Kirk, suggests that they might play back the tapes of the captain's log, they proceed to the auxiliary control room. There, Kirk finds Commodore Decker, the sole survivor aboard, in a fugue state. McCoy gives him an injection with his hypospray and he starts to come around, eventually recognizing Kirk. As he begins to recover, Scott plays back Decker's log: "Captain's log, stardate 4202.1. Exceptionally heavy subspace interference still prevents our contacting Starfleet to inform them of the destroyed solar systems we have encountered. We are now entering system L-374. Science Officer Masada reports the fourth planet seems to be breaking up. We are going to investigate." Decker, still in shock and barely lucid, begins to remember what happened as he hears his log played back. Kirk orders the Constellation sensor tapes beamed back to the Enterprise for analysis by Spock. Decker describes how his ship was attacked and disabled and, unable to contact Starfleet due to heavy subspace interference, he beamed his crew down to the third planet. As the captain, he was the last man aboard when the ship was attacked again. The transporters were disabled, and he was stranded. Prompted by Kirk for a description of the attacker, Decker becomes increasingly distraught as he describes something "right out of hell" that destroyed the third planet, along with all four hundred of the Constellations crew. Telling of how his crew begged for rescue as he sat helpless on the ship, he collapses in grief. Washburn reports that the ship's antimatter stores have somehow been deactivated, and Kirk asks Scott if a "general energy dampening field" could be responsible for that, as well as the subspace interference. Scott agrees that it's possible, but doesn't know of anything that could generate such a field. Decker, recovering somewhat, begins describing the planet killer in more detail. "Miles long, with a maw that could swallow a dozen starships," Decker explains that the planet killer uses a pure antiproton beam to carve planets up into rubble. He couldn't tell if it was a ship or a living organism. Spock reports in from the Enterprise. From the sensor tapes, he has determined that the planet killer is an automated weapon designed to smash planets and digest the debris for fuel. As long as there are planets to consume, the device is self-sustaining. Spock and Sulu have used the locations of the ravaged star systems they encountered to calculate that the planet killer came from outside the galaxy, and that its projected path will take it through the most densely populated section of our galaxy. Speaking with McCoy, Kirk postulates that the planet killer is a "doomsday weapon," a bluff created by an unknown maker and intended as a deterrent only. This one is roaming the galaxies, consuming everything in its path for fuel, including whole planets. Its alien makers are presumably long since dead. This becomes the operational theory, though the Enterprise never finds any evidence that confirms or denies it. McCoy is still concerned about Decker's mental condition, and wants to get him to the Enterprise sickbay. Decker, slipping back and forth between his authoritarian captain's persona and that of a grief-stricken trauma victim, at first refuses to leave his ship, but is convinced when Kirk offers to take the Constellation in tow. Decker ruefully notes to Kirk that he has never lost a command before. McCoy and Decker beam back to the Enterprise while Kirk and Scott remain on board the Constellation to rig her for towing. However, when McCoy and Decker materialize in the Enterprise transporter room, the red alert klaxons are sounding, and they both rush to the bridge. The planet killer has returned, and they find Spock in the command chair, reporting to Kirk on the Constellation as the planet killer turns to pursue the Enterprise. Act Two Facing them with its gaping maw, the planet killer turns to pursue the Enterprise as Spock analyzes his sensor readings and concludes that they have little chance of deactivating the device without drawing an attack upon themselves. Kirk orders the landing party beamed back to the Enterprise, but the planet killer attacks the Enterprise before Kyle in the transporter room can do so. The transporters are damaged, as are communications, causing the Enterprise to lose contact with Kirk, now stranded aboard the Constellation with no viewscreen and no maneuvering ability. Kirk orders Scott to try to repair the impulse drive, while he and Washburn work on restoring the viewscreen. After the initial attack by the planet killer, the Enterprise evades and outruns it. Dr. McCoy reports no casualties, and Decker, already assuming an attitude of command, orders a status report from Kirk's chair. Warp and impulse engines are undamaged, but transporters and communications are under repair. Now some distance away, the planet killer stops pursuing the Enterprise, veers off, and resumes its course for the densely-inhabited Rigel system. Spock states his intention to keep his distance from the planet killer, circle around to pick up the landing party, and then evade the device's subspace interference so that they can warn Starfleet Command of the danger. Decker objects, stating that their primary duty is to protect Federation citizens, and that they must attack the planet killer immediately. He orders a 180 degree turn. Spock dispassionately ignores Decker's arguments and instructs Sulu to carry out his order. Decker, at this point, asserts his rank as a Starfleet commodore and assumes command of the Enterprise (under General Order 104, Section B, Paragraph 1a), despite the precise and logical objections of Spock, as well as the more hysterical ones of Dr. McCoy. Spock points out that Decker's previous attempt to attack the planet killer resulted in the loss of his ship and the death of his crew. Momentarily losing his attitude of command authority, Decker admits his previous mistake and asserts that this time he will get much closer to the planet killer and attack it with full phasers. Spock protests that the device's hull is made of solid neutronium, and is therefore impervious to attack from a single ship. Decker ends the argument by ordering Spock to surrender command or be relieved of duty. Confronted with an official order from a superior officer, Spock has no choice but to let Decker assume command. McCoy, looking for a loophole in the regulations, offers to declare Decker medically unfit (under what Spock describes as Section C of General Order 104), but having had no time to perform a complete examination, his declaration would carry little to no weight. Decker's mask of authority again slips momentarily when he thinks McCoy might have a case for relieving him, but Spock's adherence to the spirit of the regulations makes his argument for him. Decker orders McCoy off the bridge and gives orders to set course for the planet killer and prepare for battle. The bridge crew looks on worriedly, but Sulu has no choice but to carry out his orders. As the Enterprise reverses course and approaches the planet killer again, Commodore Decker sits comfortably in the captain's chair, in full command mode. However, he still looks a wreck: unshaven, bedraggled, and wild-eyed. Spock, instead of returning to his science station, stands at attention by the captain's chair. Aboard the Constellation, Kirk and Scott are proceeding with repairs, oblivious to what's going on outside. Scott will have to use the warp control circuits to control the impulse engines, which will make the ship difficult for one man to handle. The Enterprise closes in on the planet killer, pushing its deflector shields to the limit. The planet killer fires, weakening the shields further. Spock recommends retreating, but Decker, asserting his command status, takes the ship still closer. On the Constellation, Kirk and Washburn have repaired the viewscreen, and the first image that appears is the Enterprise, approaching dangerously close to the planet killer. The Enterprise fires its phasers and scores direct hits on the planet killer, to no apparent effect. Spock urgently recommends withdrawal, but Decker "notes" his recommendation and ignores it, ordering Sulu to lay down more phaser fire. Kirk desperately tries to contact the Enterprise, and when he cannot, orders Scott to get the impulse drive up and running as quickly as possible. The planet killer fires on the Enterprise again, disabling its shields and its power energizers. Lieutenant Palmer, the communications officer, also reports severe casualties on decks 3 and 4 and reports of an inner hull breach. The planet killer stops firing and begins pulling the Enterprise inside itself using a tractor beam, presumably to "digest" it as fuel. Spock says that they must veer off, and when Decker tries to continue the attack, he informs him that with warp power out, they must break away from the tractor beam within sixty seconds, or they never will. Decker, his irrational obsession now blatantly apparent to the crew, insists on trying to destroy the planet killer, but Spock warns him that if he does not order a withdrawal, he will relieve Decker of command using evidence of attempted suicide as proof of Decker's instability. Decker gives in, looking far less confident than he was just a few minutes prior, and orders Sulu to veer off, but it is too late; the planet killer has the Enterprise in its tractor beam, and continues pulling her inside. Act Three On the Constellation, Scott has managed to partially repair the impulse engines, providing basic maneuverability. Running from console to console, Kirk starts the ship limping towards the Enterprise and the planet killer. On the Enterprise, Decker orders full power astern, but they still cannot break free from the tractor beam. Captain Kirk's plan is to attract the planet killer's attention by moving towards it, while the Enterprise remains stationary. He wishes aloud for phasers, and Scott tells him that he has one bank recharged. Kirk, delighted with his engineer, fires at the planet killer, causing it to immediately release the Enterprise from its tractor beam and come about to pursue the Constellation. With the planet killer rapidly approaching the Constellation, however, Kirk's plan suddenly does not seem like such a great idea. He orders Scott to retreat, and Decker, now excited at the prospect of having two ships to attack the monster, fires phasers again and orders the Enterprise to clear the area. The planet killer does not pursue them, and Spock opines that the device has a set defensive sphere; it attacks any energy source encroaching the sphere. The Enterprises warp drive and deflector shields will be out for one solar day, while repairs are proceeding on the transporters and communications. The planet killer starts moving towards the Enterprise again, and Decker orders Sulu to maintain their speed and distance. The planet killer pauses to ingest rubble from the destroyed planets, and Spock notes that by refueling itself this way, the device can maintain its pursuit indefinitely, while the Enterprise, at its current speed, will exhaust its fuel in seven hours. Decker takes this to mean that they should attack now, but Spock once again points out the illogic of Decker's actions. He repeats his initial plan, insisting that they must pick up Kirk and the landing party and then get clear of the subspace interference so they can warn Starfleet about the planet killer. Before Decker can object, Palmer reports that ship-to-ship communications have been restored. Kirk hails the Enterprise through his communicator and Decker, back in command mode, insists on speaking for the ship. Kirk, expecting Spock, is surprised to hear Decker's voice. When he finds out that Decker has assumed command because Spock refused to attack the planet killer, Kirk, angry and insubordinate, calls Decker a "lunatic" and demands that he get the Enterprise out of the area. Decker, his mask again slipping a bit, allows Spock to give Kirk a status report. Kirk orders Sulu to take evasive action, and when Decker again tries to assert his command authority, Kirk orders Spock to relieve him, on his "personal authority as captain of the Enterprise." Spock tells Decker that he is relieved, and even though Decker does not recognize his authority to do so, he sees that Spock will have him arrested if necessary, and that the crew will support the First Officer against him without question. In a final act of defiance, Decker claims to Spock, "You're bluffing." only for Spock to simply respond, "Vulcans never bluff." Seeing his authority is lost against an officer with so strong a will and crew support, Decker surrenders command. Spock takes the captain's chair and resumes command, to the evident relief of Sulu. Spock then orders Montgomery, a security officer, to escort Decker to sickbay for a medical examination, and Decker leaves the bridge. Spock orders an evasive course back to the Constellation. However, on the way to sickbay, Decker overpowers Montgomery, knocks him unconscious, and sneaks down to the hanger deck. On the Constellation, Scott reports to Captain Kirk that they now have ship's communications, one-third impulse power, and minimal deflector shields. Kirk plots a course and plans his rendezvous with the Enterprise. On the Enterprise, an unauthorized Class F launches before Sulu can stop the launch bay doors from opening. It is, of course, Commodore Decker, who replies to Palmer's repeated hails with the exhausted calm of finality. He describes his plan to pilot the shuttlecraft directly at the planet killer, sending it and himself "right down its throat." More a suicide than a serious attack, Decker speaks of his responsibility for his crew and how he has been ready to die himself ever since their deaths. All of Matt Decker's masks are gone now, and as Kirk tries to talk him down and Spock preaches logic, he stares at the gaping maw of the planet killer. Closing the comm channel, Decker watches with increasing horror and panic as he approaches death, and it consumes him. With a sorrowful expression, Kirk closes his communicator and Spock, looking as emotional as he ever gets, says "He's gone." Act Four Spock hails Captain Kirk on the Constellation and offers his condolences on Commodore Decker's death. Kirk's biggest regret is that Decker died for nothing. However, Sulu reports that the ship's sensors have detected a slight drop in the planet killer's power emanations, and wonders if it could be a result of the shuttlecraft explosion. Palmer reports that the transporter is now operational, and Spock asks Kirk if he should beam them aboard. Kirk orders Spock to beam the damage control party back to the Enterprise, but he and Scott will remain behind. Kirk has the idea that Decker's method was viable; he just didn't have enough power in the shuttlecraft to be effective against the planet killer. Kirk asks Spock if the 97 megaton fusion explosion that would result from an overload of the impulse engines on the Constellation would be enough the destroy the planet killer. Spock reminds Kirk of the device's neutronium hull, which no known force can penetrate. Kirk's plan, however, is not to penetrate the hull, but to trigger the explosion while the Constellation is inside the planet killer. He orders Scott to rig a thirty-second delay detonation device for the impulse engine overload, which Kirk can set off from auxiliary control. Spock reports that he can't tell if the explosion would be sufficient to destroy the planet killer, and warns Kirk that he is getting dangerously close to the device. Echoing Decker, Kirk says that he plans to take the Constellation even closer and "ram her right down that thing's throat," only beaming back to the Enterprise at the last minute. Both Spock and Scott warn Kirk that the transporter is not operating at 100% efficiency, and that thirty seconds is cutting the margin of safety rather close. Kirk is determined to proceed, however. Scott demonstrates the operation of the delay detonation device to Kirk, and warns him that once initiated the overload cannot be stopped, before beaming back to the Enterprise. He makes it back safely, but the transporter malfunctions and needs repair before they can transport Kirk. The power levels on the Constellation are dropping, however, and the ship is rapidly approaching the planet killer, so time is of the essence. Scott climbs into a Jefferies tube to effect repairs. The transporter is soon operational again, but only just barely. Scott doesn't expect his jury rigging to last for long. When the Constellation is less than five hundred miles from the planet killer, Kirk activates the time delay trigger and requests beam-out. Unfortunately, the transporter shorts out again, and Kirk is trapped on the Constellation with no way to stop the impulse engine overload that is imminent. Scott returns to the Jefferies tube and, with Spock's repeated urging to hurry, completes repairs just in time for Kyle to beam Kirk out before the explosion. Kirk hurries to the bridge, arriving there to find everyone demonstrably relieved, for the planet killer is quite dead. Kirk orders a power-conserving course and the continuation of repairs and communications with Starfleet are restored. Kirk and Spock lament the death of Matt Decker, with Kirk assuring Spock that his log will say that Decker died in the line of duty. Kirk points out the irony that they ended up using a form of H-bomb, the doomsday machine of the 20th century, to destroy this alien 23rd century doomsday machine. Spock wonders if there might not be other devices like it wandering around the universe. Kirk sincerely hopes not, as he found the one they encountered to be "quite sufficient." Log entries Captain's log, USS Constellation Memorable quotes "They say there's no devil, Jim, but there is. Right out of hell, I saw it!" - Decker, describing the doomsday machine "Matt, where's your crew?" "On the third planet." "There is no third planet." "Don't you think I know that? There was, but not any more!" - Kirk and Decker, on the disappearance of the Constellation crew "Bones, did you ever hear of the doomsday machine?" "No. I'm a doctor, not a mechanic." - Kirk and McCoy, in the Constellations auxiliary control room "A robot weapon that purposely destroys entire solar systems. Why? "Unknown, captain. However, Mister Sulu has computed the path of the machine, using the destroyed solar systems as a base course. Projecting back on our star charts, we find that it came from outside, from another galaxy. "What is the projected course of this thing? "If it follows its present path, it will go through the most densely populated section of our galaxy. - Kirk and Spock, discussing the threat to the densely populated sector of their galaxy by the doomsday machine. "Random chance seems to have operated in our favor." "In plain, non-Vulcan English, we've been lucky." "I believe I said that, doctor." - Spock and McCoy, after the doomsday machine's attack on the Enterprise "Spock? Do something!" "Mr. Spock knows his duty under regulations, doctor. Do you?" - McCoy and Decker, after Spock refuses to relieve Decker of command "Aye, we can cross-connect the controls, but it'd make the ship almost impossible for one man to handle." "You worry about your miracles, Scotty. I'll worry about mine." - Scott and Kirk, on fixing the Constellation "If I only had some phasers." "Phasers? You've got 'em. I have one bank recharged." "Scotty, you've just earned your pay for the week." - Kirk and Scott, as the Enterprise is pulled closer to the doomsday machine "Commodore Decker, you're relieved of your command." "I don't recognize your authority to relieve me!" "You may file a formal protest with Starfleet Command, assuming we survive to reach a Starbase, but you are relieved. Commodore, I do not wish to place you under arrest." "You wouldn't dare." (Spock signals the guards forward) "You're bluffing." "Vulcans never bluff." - Spock and Decker, as Spock relieves Decker of command "Commodore, I must insist that you return to the ship!" "You said yourself, Spock. There is no way to blast through the hull of that machine, so… I'm going to take this thing right down its throat." - Spock, trying to recall Decker out of ramming the Enterprises shuttle craft that he commandeered into the maw of the planet killer "The commander is responsible for the lives of his crew, and for their deaths. Well, I should have died with mine." - Deckers final words "Sir, may I offer my condolences on the death of your friend. It is most regrettable." "It's regrettable that he died for nothing." - Spock and Kirk, on Decker's death "Am I correct in assuming that a fusion explosion of 97 megatons will result if a starship impulse engine is overloaded?" "No, sir. 97.835 megatons." - Kirk and Spock "Captain, you're getting dangerously close to the planet killer." "I intend to get a lot closer. I'm going to ram her right down that thing's throat!" - Spock and Kirk, on using the Constellation to destroy the doomsday machine "A cranky transporter's a mighty finicky piece of machinery to be gambling your life on, sir." - Scott, after Spock tells Kirk about the problems with the transporter "Gentlemen, I suggest you beam me aboard." - Kirk, as the overload countdown ticks away Background information Cast Norman Spinrad has expressed disappointment that the actor whom he envisioned playing Decker, Robert Ryan, was not cast. Ryan was unavailable due to other commitments. William Windom, who was eventually cast as Decker, did not realize the Moby Dick allegories in "The Doomsday Machine" until years later. He thought the episode "seemed kind of silly, with the planet eater and the spaceships", and acted as though he was playing in a cartoon. "I was playing 'Captain Ahab in Outer Space' but I didn't think about it that way until years after I did it, when I read it in an article!" The three crewmen who beam over to the Constellation with Kirk, McCoy, and Scott were named after three of the series' assistant directors. Washburn's namesake was Charles Washburn; Russ' was Rusty Meek, and Elliott's was Elliot Schick. Nichelle Nichols (Uhura) does not appear in this episode. Uhura's duties were assumed by Lt. , played by Elizabeth Rogers. Walter Koenig (Chekov) is also absent. This episode has six alumni from The Twilight Zone: Shatner, Nimoy, Doohan, Takei, Windom, and Jerry Catron. Sets and props This episode marks the debut of the re-designed engineering set. The dilithium crystal storage units now occupy the center of the floor (complete with recycled Horta eggs); a ladder and upper level have been added into what was just a high bank of lighted panels in the first season. The set also is entered through a short spur hallway now, rather than as a side door off a main corridor. The console across from the forced-perspective end of the set has been replaced by a doorway and moved to the main wall to the left of the red grid. The huge structures among which Kirk's evil self and Benjamin Finney once hid are not seen in detail again, but the emergency manual monitor set was built on stilts on that spot, making its debut in . The engine components appear and disappear as scenes dictated: they show up in and but are absent completely in . The trident scanner Scott pulls out of the new storage area near the doorway to engineering is the same prop Spock uses in as he works on the shuttlecraft, and which Ensign Harper uses to plug in the M-5 multitronic unit in . It is identified in The Making of Star Trek as a "Ray Generator and Energy Neutralizer (Spock-Built)." The modified Nuclear-Chicago Model 2586 Radiation Survey Meter is again used by a member of the landing party as a sensor device. The auxiliary control room is first seen in this episode aboard the Constellation. Its large viewing screen was previously used in the briefing room in , , and , and on the bridge set used in . There are usually two full stations between Spock's library computer station, and the half station adjacent to the viewing screen. Yet, as Kirk and Spock walk by that area, only one station can be seen. The picture of the star field on the bulkhead of the transporter room makes its last appearance in this episode. When the damage-control team beams aboard the Constellation, Kirk does not wear a phaser and McCoy is not equipped with a tricorder. Story and production Norman Spinrad's original story outline, entitled "The Planet Eater" took Moby Dick as one of its inspirations. Star Trek ventured back to Moby Dick later in the second season, with , then again with the films in and . Director Marc Daniels finished this episode in five days instead of the usual schedule of six. (Inside Star Trek: The Real Story, p. 253) According to Jerry Finnerman, Daniels made a bet that he could finish the episode in five days. When he succeeded, he got a US$500 bonus. Previously, Joseph Pevney received a similar bonus for wrapping , expected to be filmed in seven days, in the normal six-day schedule. (These Are the Voyages: TOS Season One) William Windom has said at conventions that he had his character compulsively fiddle with cassette cartridges as an homage to , whose Captain Queeg did the same thing with ball-bearings in . This is the first time the Enterprise has encountered another starship with the entire crew dead. This later occurs in and . Also, the entire crew of the USS Excalibur is annihilated during the battle in , and the USS Intrepid is destroyed with all hands in . A blooper from this episode features Leonard Nimoy saying, "If you do not veer off, I shall… blow my brains out!" Footage of Scott being tossed around engineering is stock footage from . A console that appears only in that episode can be seen. Scott wears a tricorder throughout this episode. But when the old footage of him being thrown against the grating in is spliced in, the tricorder vanishes. Kirk's second season green wraparound tunic debuts in this episode and will appear intermittently throughout the season. In contrast with the first season version, the collar is now edged with gold piping, although it lacks the black trim that it will gain for later second-season episodes such as and . The other key difference is the location of the rank braids: these were seen on the shoulders in the first season, whereas this version of the tunic sports the standard braids on the sleeves. Kirk never wore the green tunic in the third season. In most of the earlier drafts of the screenplay, Decker did not sacrifice himself, but instead survived to admit his mistakes and voluntarily retire. The core of this scene was later recycled into the ending of , where Commodore Stocker admits to Kirk that his taking command of the Enterprise was in the wrong. This is the second of two times in TOS Season 2 that Kirk tells an Enterprise crewmember he has earned his pay for the week. In this episode, Scott surprises Kirk by recharging one of the Constellations phaser banks, to which Kirk says, "Scotty, you just earned your pay for the week." The previous instance was in . Effects The year this episode was filmed, AMT produced the first Enterprise model kits. One such kit was used to make the model used for the destroyed Constellation. The decals for the ship's registration numbers are just a rearranged version of "1701." The model does not have the details of the regular Enterprise miniatures. Norman Spinrad was displeased with the model used for the planet killer. As he told Allan Asherman in The Star Trek Interview Book, he envisioned a doomsday machine bristling with all sorts of evil-looking weapons. It has been anecdotally reported that the Doomsday Machine miniature was made by dipping a windsock in cement , but there is no first hand account of this, and Daren Dochterman has suggested the model was more likely made of the type of foil used by gaffers on set, wrapped in blue lighting gels. In many of its profile shots, the planet killer is semi-transparent and stars show through it. This was an overlay of film footage of the doomsday machine model over an existing star field. This money-saving technique also was used in when Trelane's planet blocks the Enterprises path. Music While this episode features an original score by Sol Kaplan, 36 seconds of Alexander Courage's "Captains's Wig" (aka "Kirk's Theme") is heard after Kirk tells Spock "I'm gonna ram her right down that thing's throat." Sol Kaplan's suspenseful "countdown" music, written for this episode, was re-used in many second-season episodes. Significance and legacy This episode was nominated for a Hugo Award in as "Best Dramatic Presentation". James Doohan in a mid-1980s appearance at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas responded to the question from an audience member "what was your favorite episode of Star Trek", his response was "The Doomsday Machine." Doohan also named this episode as his favorite in the "Star Trek Insights" on Sci-Fi Channel. Doohan explained, "For one thing, it had William Windom in it. Very good actor. And it was a very strong role – a very self-tortured character. Very driven. And a strong statement about nuclear weapons. And the effects were extremely good; that was an epic story for television in that time. It wasn't a standout role for Scotty, but it was okay, and I was pleased. I saw it not long ago and I still find it to be very exciting television." (These Are the Voyages: TOS Season Two, p. 158) Doohan was also noted that his appeal for this episode was for it having "a very good scientific background. [...] It was concerned mostly with pure science. You would have to watch it again to understand what I'm saying. The language used in it was very good, topical scientific language." ( #94, , p. 28) TV Guide ranked this as the fourth best Star Trek episode for their celebration of the franchise's 30th anniversary. (TV Guide August 24, 1996 issue) Although considered to be a classic episode by fans and critics alike, story editor Dorothy Fontana named this as her least favorite episode. The Enterprises encounter with the planet killer is glimpsed in . Apocrypha In Gene Roddenberry's ization of , Willard Decker is identified as Matt Decker's son: "It hasn't been easy for him to live down the old man's legacy. Apparently, losing a Federation starship is still frowned on, whether it is the captain's fault or not." Susan Sackett's book, The Making of Star Trek: The Motion Picture, contains character background information (originally written for the aborted TV series Star Trek: Phase II) in which Will Decker is identified as Matt Decker's son. In James Blish's adaptation, Decker's first name is "Brand" and he doesn't pilot the shuttlecraft into the planet-killer. In addition, after being ordered off the bridge by Decker with "Mr. Spock knows his duties under regulations, doctor… do you?" Blish gives McCoy one final retort: "Yes, sir – go to sickbay and wait for the casualties you're about to send me." This line, by the Enterprise CMO to someone in temporary command, would later appear on-screen in , when Dr. Crusher said it to Edward Jellico as he prepared to mine the nebula where he believed, correctly, that a Cardassian invasion fleet was hiding – though this would never come to pass, as the operation was a complete success, allowing the Enterprise to neutralize the fleet without firing a shot. According to the game , there is a school of thought that speculates that the galactic barrier around the perimeter of the galaxy was created to keep these planet killers out. Peter David's TNG novel Vendetta connects the planet killers with the Preservers, an ancient race first mentioned in , who have fought the Borg as well as created the galactic barrier. This method of attack used against the Borg would be consistent with that seen used by Species 8472 in . Also, David's description of the new planet killer's look matches Norman Spinrad's original conception. The doomsday machine appears in Amarillo Design Bureau Inc.'s Star Fleet Battles first monster-based scenario (SM1.0) as "The Planet Crusher" (or "The Creature that ate Sheboygan III"). It was a basic monster scenario enabling a beginning player to learn how to fly and fight with his starship. The monster moved by automatic rules, allowing for one person to play the scenario. The monster also appears in Star Trek: Starfleet Command, based on Star Fleet Battles. In that game, the player must scan a graveyard of the monsters and later stop a fleet of them from attacking Earth in the Federation campaign. It also appeared in a mission in the Klingon campaign. Keith R.A. DeCandido showed an earlier meeting between Kirk and Decker in The Brave and the Bold, Book One, which included the rest of the crew of the Constellation, including Masada (given the first name Guillermo), the only crew member named in the episode besides Decker. That same crew was used by David Mack in Vanguard Book 1: , and mirror universe versions were seen in Mack's "". Remastered information "The Doomsday Machine" was the twentieth episode of The Original Series to be remastered, premiering in syndication the weekend of . It was one of the most heavily enhanced episodes of the remastered series produced. There were 105 effects shots in the remastered version, in contrast to the twenty or thirty in an average episode. The Constellation received far more detailed damage than was previously possible, with gnarled warp coils and exposed decks visible in certain shots. The planet killer received a major update, as did its antiproton beam. The shots of the shuttlecraft leaving the bay with Commodore Decker aboard were completely re-done. Decker lifts the shuttlecraft off the deck before the bay doors are fully open, and there is a new shot of the craft (renumbered "6") from the exterior of the Enterprise. The discrepancy in relative sizes between the planet killer, the two starships, and the shuttlecraft from the original version has been adjusted. The staff of CBS Digital (creators of the remastered effects) played a prank on Senior FX Supervisor Niel Wray by creating a fake version of the remastered episode trailer (with a shot of the Constellation relabeled as "Consolation") and a fake version of TrekMovie.com populated by fake comments (attributed to real users of the site) on the "mistake." The results of the prank can be seen .The next remastered episode to air was .Production timeline Story treament "The Planet Eater" by Norman Spinrad: Story outline: Revised story outline: First draft teleplay: Second draft teleplay "The Doomsday Machine": Revised draft by Gene L. Coon: Final draft teleplay: late- Revised final draft: early- 2nd revised final draft: Additional page revisions: , Filmed: – Day 1 – , Tuesday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Bridge Day 2 – , Wednesday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Bridge Day 3 – , Thursday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Bridge, Corridors, Transporter room; Desilu Stage 10: Int. Shuttlecraft Day 4 – , Friday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Auxiliary control center Day 5 – , Monday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Auxiliary control center, Corridors, Engineering Score recording: Original airdate: Rerun airdate: First UK airdate: Remastered episode airdate: Video and DVD releases Original US Betamax release: UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 19, catalog number VHR 2352, release date unknown US VHS release: UK re-release (three-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 2.2, As part of the UK VHS collection Star Trek - Greatest Battles: Original US DVD release (single-disc): Volume 18, As part of the TOS Season 2 DVD collection Links and references Starring William Shatner as Capt. 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Wolf in the Fold (episode)

Scott is suspected of killing several women while on shore leave on Argelius II. However, a more sinister force may provide a connection between this murder and many previous around the galaxy, including a rampage on ancient Earth. Summary Teaser Montgomery Scott is on medical leave on Argelius II, accompanied by Captain Kirk and Doctor McCoy, following a serious head injury caused by a female crewmember's error. McCoy believes that the sexually permissive Argelian culture will cure Scott's "total resentment towards women." On the planet, they are gathered together in a cafe, watching the seductive dance of an , resembling belly dance or Middle Eastern dances of Earth. McCoy states that this is a completely hedonistic society. Scott especially is intrigued by the dancer. After she is done with her performance, she sits down with them at their table. Scott suggests they go for a walk in the fog and she joyfully agrees. Kirk and McCoy are glad they were able to help Scott recuperate in this manner. Having set Scott up properly, Kirk suggests they go to another place across town where the women are apparently equally permissive. McCoy enthusiastically agrees. When Kirk and McCoy enter the densely fogged alley, they hear a woman's scream and soon find out that it is the female dancer who left with Scott. She has been stabbed a dozen times and is dead. Nearby, they find Scott leaning against the wall, moaning in agony, with a knife covered in blood in his hand. Act One "Captain's log, stardate 3614.9. Planet Argelius II. While on therapeutic shore leave, Mr. Scott has fallen under suspicion of having brutally murdered an Argelian woman. The chief city administrator, a Mr. Hengist, has taken charge of the investigation, but has learned little of value." Hengist, who is not a native Argelian, but from Rigel IV, confesses himself "speechless" about the incident, because Argelius is the last place in the galaxy that one would associate with violent crime. Hengist begins interrogating Scott, who doesn't seem to recall at all what has happened to him or the woman. All he remembers is that they were walking in the fog, that he was up ahead, trying to lead the way and then suddenly heard her scream and recalls nothing after that. Kirk presses the issue, insisting that Scott remember what happened, but McCoy holds him back, asking him to be a little more considerate, especially because of the recent trauma Scott suffered. Kirk, however, states that he is facing a dilemma as a diplomat. This crime happened under Argelian jurisdiction and if the Argelians want to arrest Scott, try him, and even convict and sentence him, Kirk must go along with it. Hengist points out that Scott's fingerprints are all over the murder weapon. Kirk replies that there were other people in the cafe and that several of them left just before Scott and the girl did. Hengist says that they are actually looking for those people and trying to question them. Kirk asks what the law in this case is, and the Prefect Jaris, who just entered the room with his wife Sybo, states that the law of Argelius is love. Jaris says that they are capable of learning the truth in such matters through the Argelian empathic contact, a sort of psychic seance. He invites Kirk and his men to his home where, with the aid of his wife who can initiate such an empathic bond, they can learn the truth. Despite the objections of Hengist, they decide to proceed as proposed by the Prefect. In the meantime, the beams down Lieutenant Karen Tracy, who is asked to perform a 24-hour memory check of Scott with a psycho-tricorder. McCoy and Kirk discuss the situation. McCoy says that under normal circumstances Scott wouldn't have done such a thing and suspects that maybe it was some form of hysterical amnesia; repressed memory of an event too terrible to recall. The Prefect's wife, after having prepared herself for the ceremony, returns. She asks for the murder weapon, as she can get psychic impressions from inanimate objects. At this point, they discover the knife is missing, and they hear a loud scream from the other room. Kirk and McCoy find Lieutenant Tracy lying dead, having been stabbed over and over again, while, once again, Scott lies unconscious with the bloody knife in his hands. Act Two When Scott regains consciousness, he is disoriented and doesn't remember what happened. Kirk explains that Lieutenant Tracy is dead. Scott says that all he remembers is her taking the readings and then nothing else after that. He cries that he really cannot remember anything. Hengist returns with two men who were at the cafe at the night of the first murder. Tark, a musician who played for Kara's dance at the cafe, was her father; they'd put on shows together since Kara was a child. The second, Morla, was her fiancé. The father accuses Morla of behaving disgracefully and says he was extremely jealous. Morla reluctantly admits it. When he saw her going to the spacemen's table he couldn't stand to watch it, so he angrily left and went home. Kirk points out that jealousy has often been a motive for murder. The Prefect agrees, stating that this is why the emotion is so strongly disapproved of on Argelius. Morla protests that he did not kill anyone. Kirk is agitated and impatient, pressing the issue more and more, trying to prove Scott's innocence, but Hengist reminds him that in both cases, it was Scott who was found over the bodies with the murder weapon. When Sybo signals that she is ready, they begin the ceremony. Kirk wants Jaris to have the room sealed so that no one can leave or enter. Scott is not happy about this, asking if his neck is going to have to depend on "some spooky mumbo jumbo". Kirk receives a message from Spock through his communicator who informs him that while interesting, the technique of the Argelian empathic contact is truly not sound enough to risk a man's life. He suggests beaming Scott back to the ship and use computers to find out the truth. Kirk says that these people have their own customs and laws and that while they are there, they are subject to them. He emphasizes that importance of resolving this matter according to Argelian law. They gather around the ceremonial altar of truth with a flame burning at its center. Sybo closes her eyes, saying that there is something terrible there, filled with anger, hatred, and fear. She moans that there is monstrous, terrible evil there, hater of all that lives, hater of women, a hunger that is strong and never dies. It has been called Beratis, Kesla, Redjac. While she keeps chanting and repeating these words, the lights suddenly go off and another terrible scream is heard. When the lights come back again, Scott is standing behind Sybo, who falls over, revealing a knife stabbed in her back. Scott's hands are bloody and he looks petrified. He cannot answer questions; his mind is completely blank. McCoy doesn't care what the circumstances indicate, he knows that Scott is not the killer. Kirk reminds him that Scott recently had a head injury (caused by a woman) just before their arrival to Argelius, and wonders if that could be a factor. Scott insists he did not kill the women; Hengist points out that by his own admission, Scott doesn't remember what he did. Kirk says that on the Enterprise they have a reliable method for recording Scott's conscious and subconscious mind. Jaris agrees to go to the ship, stating that whoever is guilty will face the ancient penalty for murder, which was death by slow torture. Act Three "Captain's log, stardate 3615.4. With Mr. Scott in a technical state of arrest, we have beamed aboard the Enterprise to continue the investigation." On the Enterprise, Kirk explains the procedure and they begin. Scott is asked a series of test and identifying questions. The computer confirms the accuracy of Scott's testimony about not remembering what happened. Scott points out that he didn't black out when Sybo was killed: they were holding hands and when the lights went off, the circle was broken and he heard the lady scream. He went towards her but remembers that something was in his way – something cold emitting a "stinking draft", according to Scott. The computer again confirms the veracity of Scott's testimony. Hengist keeps pointing out to the fact that Scott was standing behind Sybo, with bloody hands. Kirk asks Scott to lie about his age to which Scott does. The computer quickly states that Scott's answer is Inaccurate. Kirk proceeds to ask Scott about having killed Kara and Tracy, and in both cases Scott says that he doesn't remember. Again, the computer confirms the veracity in Scott's testimony. Hengist is still not convinced, so Kirk suggests that after they are done taking the testimony here, they will run a psychotricorder analysis of Scott's memory to have a complete record. Hengist is still not satisfied with this answer, but Jaris decides to give this a fair chance. After the computer also verifies Morla's innocence and the accuracy of his statements, Kirk wonders to Spock if they are going about this the wrong way. Sybo, after all, did sense something evil down there. They go through her words again, trying to remember what exactly she said. They run the names and words Sybo mentioned through the computer which identifies Redjac as Red Jack – "Jack the Ripper" – mass murderer of women on Earth. Everyone is taken aback because Jack the Ripper lived hundreds of years ago and couldn't possibly have survived all these centuries. They conclude that if it is impossible for it to be Human, it has to be something else. Bones points out that this entity, whatever it is, not only feeds on death, but also fear. Spock notes that deriving sustenance from emotion is not unknown in the galaxy, such as the Drella of Alpha Carinae V – and fear is one of the strongest and most potent of the emotions. Perhaps, he says, there are more women victims than men because "women are more easily and more deeply terrified, generating more sheer horror than the male of the species." Hengist loses patience, stating that all this has gone far enough, unwilling to let the prime suspect get away so they can chase ghosts. Spock asks the computer if an entity with such discussed limits could exist within this Galaxy. The computer says that such an entity could in fact exist in both corporeal and incorporeal form. Spock points out that "Jack the Ripper" was never identified on Earth. He suggests the possibility of a hypnotic screen which blinds all but the victim to the presence of the killer. After much debate, investigation and speculation, they conclude the true murderer to be a malicious incorporeal entity that feeds on fear. It once took the form of "Jack the Ripper" on 19th century Earth and then traveled from planet to planet, assuming humanoid bodies to murder women and to feed on their fear. None of those murders were ever solved. The other two names Sybo mentioned before she died are identified as Kesla, a mass murderer on Deneb II who was never caught, and Beratis of Rigel IV – the murders on Rigel IV having occurred just a solar year ago. Finally, the reason for Hengist's opposition to this line of inquiry is revealed – he is the current host of the murdering entity. According to Spock, an entity which feeds on fear and terror would find a perfect hunting ground on Argelius – a planet without violence, where the inhabitants are as peaceful as sheep and the entity a hungry wolf in that fold. The entity is forced out of Hengist's body, but it moves into the Enterprises computer systems and threatens to slowly murder the crew and disable vital systems. Act Four Knowing that the entity feeds on fear and terror, Kirk asks the crew through the ship's intercom to remain calm. Dr. McCoy gives everyone (except Kirk and Spock, who "will take their chances") a tranquilizer to deprive the entity of the fear on which it feeds. Spock forces the entity out of the computer by ordering it to compute, at top priority, to the last digit – a task it can never complete. They succeed in getting the being out of the computer, but it then briefly possesses Jaris before managing to reanimate Hengist's body and threatening to kill Yeoman Tankris. The attempt fails, as the tranquilized yeoman finds the situation more amusing than terrifying, and Kirk manages to save her from Hengist before Spock gives him a dose of tranquilizer. Kirk orders Hengist, and with him the entity, beamed into space "at maximum dispersion", spreading it into billions of harmless atoms floating forever in open space. Relieved they have vanquished the creature, Kirk then amusingly looks at the rest of his crew, who are still happy from the tranquilizer; and comments to Spock how, for five to six hours, they'll have the "happiest crew" in space. Log entries Captain's log, USS Enterprise (NCC-1701), 2267 Memorable quotes "Now, no one has to tell an old Aberdeen pub crawler how to applaud, captain!" - Scott, after Kirk tells him that the Argelians use the table lights to applaud "Captain, you mean my neck's gonna have to depend on some spooky mumbo-jumbo?" - Scott, before Sybo's ceremony "In the strict scientific sense, doctor, we all feed on death. Even vegetarians." - Spock, as McCoy mentions that Redjac feeds on death "She's dead, Jim – just like the ." "Stabbed over and over again." - McCoy and Kirk, finding Lieutenant Karen Tracy's body near Scott "The entity would be as a hungry wolf in that fold." - Spock, comparing the peaceful Argelians to a flock of sheep and Hengist to a wolf "I've got some stuff that would tranquilize an active volcano." - McCoy, describing to Kirk what sedatives he has "This is the first time I've heard a malfunction threaten us." - Sulu, as Redjac takes over the Enterprise computer systems "Whoever he is, he sure talks gloomy!" - Sulu, after receiving the sedative "Above all: don't be afraid." "With an armful of this stuff… I wouldn't be afraid of a supernova!" - Kirk and a sedated Sulu "Computer, this is a class A compulsory directive. Compute to the last digit, the value of ." - Spock, as he outsmarts Redjac "You didn't have to shove me, Mr. Spock. I'd have gotten round to it." - Transporter Chief Kyle, after Spock transported Redjac into space "You seem very…happy about the whole thing…" "Well, why not? For a while there, I didn't know whether I was innocent or guilty!" - Kirk and Scott - still high off the tranquilizer - after Redjac is defeated "Well Mister Spock, for the next five or six hours, we're going to have the happiest crew in space. Of course, we won't get much work done." - Kirk, commenting on the impact of the sedative Background information Story and production Robert Bloch, the writer of this teleplay, originally envisioned the Enterprise crew sipping drinks which had several differently colored layers, much like a pousse-café. The imbiber's mood would change as he drank each layer. This was dropped as being too complicated and costly to realize just for a throwaway moment of humor. According to David Gerrold in his book about the making of , network censors were concerned that it would appear that the crew was engaged in drug use. Producer Gene Coon told the censors that they were "full of horseshit" but the drinks were excised anyway. The seance scene which ends in darkness and a murder is very similar to a scene in writer Robert Bloch's classic short story Yours Truly, Jack The Ripper. Before serving as a basis for this Trek episode, Bloch's short story was adapted into an episode of Thriller in 1961, also called Yours Truly, Jack The Ripper. (Star Trek: The Original Series 365, p.182) The 1999 episode of The Outer Limits titled "Ripper" (co-starring David Warner and France Nuyen) featured a similar story, with the difference that the alien energy creature inhabited the body of the victims instead of the killer. A 2010 episode of Sanctuary called "Haunted" also used the same plot as the Trek episode, only the murderous energy being which had formerly inhabited the body of Jack the Ripper later took possession of a building rather than a ship. A 1972 episode of The Sixth Sense called "With Affection, Jack the Ripper" (with Robert Foxworth and Percy Rodrigues) used a similar plot. According to Tania Lemani, the makeup for was initially much more elaborate. Lemani recalled, "They sent me to the makeup department because they wanted to do something extravagant with my look. The first day, they put feathers of different colors all over my face – on my eyelashes, my eyelids, my nose. Then they took me to the director, Joe Pevney, and he said, 'No. No. Less!' The makeup people kept trying to match his vision for four days, with less and less feathers and fewer colors each time, but Joe kept saying, 'No.' Finally, on the fifth day, I came in with no makeup and he said, 'That's it. That's what I want to see – her face." Lemani did her own choreography for the scene, but due to censorship concerns, had to cover her navel with a jeweled flower. (Star Trek: The Original Series 365, p.183) A large number of costumes are reused from previous episodes in the Argelius bar scene. Some of the extras in the bar are wearing turtleneck uniforms from "The Cage" and . Two extras in the bar (one of them is later seen on the foggy street), are wearing the silver cadet uniforms made for Bruce Mars () and his stunt double (Vince Deadrick) in . Also, one bar patron is wearing Commissioner ' costume from , and another is wearing a colonist jumpsuit recycled from . Soundtrack This is the first episode of the second season to completely utilize stock music, largely from Gerald Fried's scores for and . Fried's Finnegan jig from can also be heard. Fried composed a new track for this episode to accompany 's dance (he recorded it during the scoring sessions for ); however, it went unused as the producers decided to reuse Vina's dance music from instead of Fried's composition. (Star Trek: The Original Series Soundtrack Collection) This is one of the very few episodes of the second season to feature music composed by Alexander Courage (mainly because of the feud between Courage and Roddenberry, and his resulting withdrawal from the series). The Rigel VII fortress music by Courage for is used in the seance sequence. However, the original was not utilized. A new recording was made for use in the second and third seasons. The rerecording was used again in and . Nancy Crater's scream from is reused as Kara's scream when she is killed. Performers This is one of two episodes that prominently feature Scott. The other episode is Season 3's . Nichelle Nichols (Uhura) and Walter Koenig (Pavel Chekov) do not appear in this episode. The incorrectly listed John Winston as appearing in the Argelius bar scene, besides his regular role of Lieutenant Kyle. Trivia Clocking in at approximately 15 minutes and 30 seconds, the courtroom hearing that constitutes virtually the third act of the episode appears to be the longest uninterrupted scene, confined to a single setting, in the original series. In the late 1980s, the pop band Information Society sampled Scott's line, "Let's go see," in their song "Walking Away." On the 1993 album "Zoo Rave, Vol 2," the house/techno/rave artist John Greczula (aka Texas Audio) sampled Kirk's lines, "You were a musician at the cafe. You played for the murdered girl," and Tark's response, "Since she was a little girl she danced for me," and "The man who did it must be found," in his rave song, "Mystery Cafe." Scott later referred to the events of this episode in . On that occasion, he described his being implicated in the brutal murders of three women on Argelius II as "a wee bit of trouble." During the scene on the Enterprise when before Scotty sits down to be questioned he inserts a microtape into the computer which can be seen during the wide shots but is missing in close up shots of the computer. Apocrypha James Blish's adaptation of this episode in Star Trek 8 features a paragraph-length description of the grotesque images that are seen only fleetingly as swirling blobs of color on the viewscreen monitor in the briefing room after the entity takes over the Enterprise computer. Blish wrote, "The viewer was a riot of changing colors. Figures began to emerge from them. Serpents writhed through pentagons. Naked women, hair streaming behind them, rode astride the shaggy backs of goats. Horned beasts pranced with toads. Rivers boiled, steaming. Above them, embraced bodies drifted down fiery winds. Human shoulders, pinioned under rocks, lifted pleading arms. Then the red glow, shedding its bloody mist over the screen, gave way to the deathly whiteness of a cold, unending snow. Up from the glacial landscape rose a towering three-headed shape, its mouth agape with gusts of silent laughter. A cross, upturned, appeared beside it. The shape crawled up it, suspending itself upon it in an unspeakable travesty of the crucifixion. Its vast, leathery wings unfolded…" When Yeoman Tankris fearfully asks, "What could it be?" Kirk replies, "A vision of hell." Sequels, of sorts, to this story were presented in #22/23 of DC Comics' "Wolf on the Prowl" and "Wolf at the Door" (January and February, 1986) and the WildStorm TNG , "Embrace the Wolf". According to the novel The Sorrows of Empire, the mirror universe was likewise accused of brutally murdering three women on Argelius II. However, Captain ensured that the charges were dropped without an investigation taking place. Production timeline Story outline by Robert Bloch: Revised story outline by Gene L. Coon: First draft teleplay by Bloch: Second draft teleplay: Staff rewrite: early- Final draft teleplay by Coon: mid- Revised final draft by Gene Roddenberry: Additional page revisions by Coon: , , , Filmed – Day 1 – , Tuesday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Briefing room Day 2 – , Wednesday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Briefing room Day 3 – , Thursday – Desilu Stage 10: Int. Jaris' house Day 4 – , Friday – Desilu Stage 10: Int. Jaris' house, Underground chamber Day 5 – , Monday – Desilu Stage 10: Int. Argelian café, Ext. Argelian street Day 6 – , Wednesday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Bridge, Corridors, Turbolift, Transporter room Original airdate, First UK airdate Remastered information The remastered version of "Wolf in the Fold" aired in many North American markets during the weekend of . Few adjustments were made to the episode except for all-new shots of the Enterprise in orbit of Argelius II, itself now bearing visible city lights of the surface. The visual of Redjac on the triscreen was left intact. Video and DVD releases Original US Betamax release: UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 19, catalog number VHR 2352, release date unknown US VHS release: UK re-release (three-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 2.3, Original US DVD release (single-disc): Volume 18, As part of the TOS Season 2 DVD collection Links and references Starring William Shatner as Capt. Kirk Also starring Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock And DeForest Kelley as Dr. McCoy Guest star John Fiedler as Hengist Also starring Charles Macauley as Jaris Pilar Seurat as Sybo Featuring James Doohan as Scott George Takei as Sulu Charles Dierkop as Morla And Joseph Bernard as Tark With Tania Lemani as John Winston as Transporter Chief Virginia Aldridge as Karen Tracy Judy McConnell as Yeoman Tankris Judi Sherven as Nurse Uncredited co-stars Majel Barrett as Computer Voice William Blackburn as Hadley Marlys Burdette as Serving Girl #1 John Fiedler as Redjac (voice) Steve Hershon as operations officer Suzanne Lodge as Serving Girl #3 Eddie Paskey as Leslie Gary Wright as Starfleet cadet Unknown performers as Bar patron Serving Girl #2 Argelian companions 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 Argelian musicians 1 and 2 Command lieutenant Engineering technician Human civilian bar patron Human Starfleet cadet bar patron 1 Human Starfleet officer bar patron Sciences crew woman Stunt double Paul Baxley as John Fiedler's stunt double References 19th century; 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The Changeling (episode)

The Enterprise finds an ancient interstellar probe from Earth, missing for 265 years, which has somehow mutated into a powerful and intelligent machine sterilizing entire populations that do not meet its standards of perfection. Summary Teaser The is en route to the Malurian star system, investigating a distress call. Lieutenant Uhura has received no response to hails on any frequency, even after Captain Kirk reminds her of a Federation science team transmitter from Doctor Manway. However, Spock's sensor data contains tragic news: although there should be over four billion Malurians there are absolutely no readings of life anywhere in the system. As Kirk and Spock speculate about what could have caused the eradication of life in such a short time, a large bolt of energy comes out of nowhere. Kirk orders red alert, and the object violently impacts upon the Enterprises shields. Act One The entire crew is hurled around, and when things stabilize, Kirk orders Uhura to inform Starfleet of the apparent disappearance and the attack. Spock reports that the shields will stand only three more such impacts, as they have been reduced by 20%. The Enterprises shields continue to be battered by repeated attacks. Finally, after the shields are completely gone and a photon torpedo in response has been completely absorbed, Kirk orders Uhura to hail the very small object Spock has identified as the source of attack. The object stops its assault and tries to respond to the hail with an old-style binary code. The crew has some difficulty translating, but eventually succeeds. The object identifies itself as Nomad, and its mission as "non-hostile." As it is only a fraction over one meter in length Kirk has it beamed aboard, if only to prevent it from firing on the ship again. It introduces itself and Kirk remembers the launch of a probe named Nomad in the early 2000s, and Spock says it was reported destroyed with no more in the series. Later it is revealed that the object had stopped its assault when it heard Kirk's name, somehow believing that Kirk is its creator. Act Two Nomad wastes no time investigating the ship, with only Kirk's orders preventing it from having free rein. Knowing how powerful it is, and that it stated it was programmed to destroy "biological infestation," Kirk orders two security guards to watch it at all times, but Nomad is able to evade them. Furthermore, it seems highly logically-minded and gets confused whenever it encounters something illogical; when it hears Uhura singing "Beyond Antares" on the bridge from the auxiliary control room, it leaves Lieutenant , who was watching it, and goes to investigate. Meanwhile, Kirk and Spock check the computer on Nomads creation and launch. Originally, Nomad was built by Jackson Roykirk for a deep-space extraterrestrial contact mission early in the 21st century, in the year 2002, but was lost in a meteor shower, where it was presumed destroyed. Somehow, it got a directive to kill, and must have killed the Malurians. Nomad arrives on the bridge to question Uhura about the song. She attempts to explain it, but Nomad does not understand what music is. Nomad tries "probing" Uhura's mind to find the information, and wipes her memory in the process. Scott sees this and attempts to save Uhura from the probe, but Nomad retaliates violently. A blast of energy throws Scott aside, and he crashes to the floor near the viewscreen. Upon Dr. McCoy's examination of Scott, he declares him dead, to Kirk's shock. Act Three Just after Scott's death, Nomad announces to Kirk if he wishes to have the Enterprises chief engineer "repaired". Kirk immediately replies in the affirmative, although McCoy tells him that Scott must be revived soon. Spock has detailed files on Human physiology brought up at his station, which Nomad scans. McCoy then leads Nomad to sickbay, where the probe instantly revives Scott, who is baffled as to why everyone is looking down at him on a bio-bed. Kirk also orders Nomad to help Uhura, but Nomad says it is not possible. McCoy and Nurse Chapel proceed to re-educate her using the computer. This event proves disconcerting to Kirk, who then orders Nomad to be guarded and analyzed by Spock. After the analysis and a background check on Nomad in the ship's data banks, Spock gets enough details through a mind meld with the probe to fill in the blanks. After the meteor collision, Nomad was disoriented and wandered through space until coming into contact with Tan Ru, an alien probe whose mission was to collect and sterilize soil samples, presumably as a prelude to colonization. The two melded into this new Nomad, combining their technology and missions into one extremely powerful probe bent on sterilizing any imperfect lifeforms it encountered, using its own perceptions of perfection (i.e. itself) as a measuring stick. As such, it destroyed all life in the Malurian star system but because its original programming was damaged and corrupted in the merger, it erroneously equates Kirk with its creator, not realizing that the two are different people and its creator has been, in fact, dead for centuries. While Kirk and Spock are gone, Nomad leaves the confined area, killing two security officers in the process, and decides to improve the efficiency of engineering, taking the Enterprise eventually to warp 10 in the process. Kirk arrives and forces it to stop. Unfortunately, the mind meld and an unintentional admission from Kirk confirm to Nomad that its creator is an imperfect biological entity, and with that knowledge, it leaves on Kirk's order to contemplate the new data with two security officers. They deduce it will not obey for long and will eventually sterilize Earth. Act Four En route, Nomad escapes, killing the two guards, and goes to sickbay to scan Kirk's personnel file. McCoy finds Nurse Chapel has been attacked and signals Kirk and Spock to come to sickbay. They realize Nomad is gathering the information they feared. Furthermore, Scott informs them from the bridge that Nomad has turned off all life support on the ship. With little time left, Kirk comes to recognize Nomads refabricated mission and takes a gamble to confront it again before it returns to Earth to "sterilize" the planet's population. Through questioning Nomad on its prime directive in engineering, Kirk confirms his suspicion that it must execute it with no exceptions, and then reveals that he indeed is not Nomads creator. He explains that Nomad had mistaken him for Roykirk who is long dead, the two men's names being similar, and as such Nomad has committed an error; furthermore, it has compounded that error with two more, specifically failing to realize its mistake and failing to immediately execute its prime directive as a result. This causes Nomad to lock up in an irreversible logic loop, its stubborn belief that it is perfect conflicting with the realization that it is in error. Capitalizing on the weakened Nomad, Spock and Kirk manage to get it to the transporter room with anti-gravs and have Scott beam it out into space just as it executes its prime function on itself. The explosion is detected near the Enterprise and Nomad is no more. Later, on the bridge, Spock commends Kirk on his dazzling display of logic that allowed them to defeat Nomad. McCoy enters through the turbolift and reports that Uhura is now reading at a college level and should be able to return to duty within the week. Spock laments the loss of Nomad, noting that it was a "remarkable instrument." Kirk jokingly wonders what Spock is so upset about, given that the machine considered Kirk to be its "mother". "You saw what it did for Scott. What a doctor it would have made. My son, the doctor. Kind of gets you right here, doesn't it?" Kirk says while pointing to his heart. Log entries Captain's log, USS Enterprise (NCC-1701), 2267 Memorable quotes "This is one of your units, creator?" "Yes, he is." "It functions irrationally." - Nomad and Kirk, on the "unit" McCoy "My function is to probe for biological infestations, to destroy that which is not perfect. I am Nomad." - Nomad, explaining its directive "It would seem that Nomad is now seeking out perfect life-forms, perfection being measured by its own relentless logic." "If what you say is true, then we have taken aboard our vessel a device which sooner or later must destroy us." - Spock and Kirk, realizing the danger Nomad poses to them "That unit is a woman." "A mass of conflicting impulses." - Spock and Nomad, on the "unit" Uhura "Does the creator wish me to repair the unit?" - Nomad, asking Kirk if he should "repair" Scott "A man is not just a biological unit that you can patch together." - McCoy, after Nomad heals Scott "This unit is different. It is well-ordered." - Nomad, on the "unit" Spock "The creation of perfection is no error." - Nomad, refuting Kirk's claim that its creation was an error "You are the Creator." "You're wrong! Jackson Roykirk, your creator, is dead! You have mistaken me for him, you are in error! You did not discover your mistake, you have made two errors. You are flawed and imperfect. And you have not corrected by sterilization, you have made three errors!" - Nomad, sent into a logic feedback loop by Kirk "My congratulations, captain. A dazzling display of logic." "You didn't think I had it in me, did you, Spock?" "No, sir." - Spock and Kirk, on Nomads induced self-destruction by Kirk "It's not easy to lose a bright and promising son… my son – the doctor." - Kirk, whose "son – the doctor" brought Scott back to life, about Nomad Background information Production timeline Story outline by John Meredyth Lucas: Revised story outline: First draft teleplay: Second draft teleplay: late- Staff rewrite: Final draft teleplay by D.C. Fontana: Revised final draft by Gene L. Coon: Additional page revisions: , , Filmed: – Day 1 – , Thursday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Bridge Day 2 – , Friday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Bridge Day 3 – , Monday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Transporter room, Auxiliary control center Day 4 – , Tuesday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Engineering, Corridors Day 5 – , Wednesday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Sickbay Day 6 – , Thursday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Brig, Briefing room Day 7 – , Friday (Half Day) – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Briefing room Additional filming (Pickup shots) – , Friday – Desilu Stage 9 Original airdate: Rerun airdate: First UK airdate: Although never credited, this episode – which depicted an Earth-launched space probe that acquires almost unimaginable powers in the course of the search for its "Creator" – became the inspiration behind the first Star Trek film. (It also inspired "The Questor Tapes", a 1974 series pilot written by Gene Roddenberry and Gene L. Coon which also featured a robot with a damaged memory who searched for its creator.) For this reason, some fans have appended to the pun subtitle "Where Nomad Has Gone Before." (Star Trek: The Original Series 365, p. 188) Cast and Characters Director Marc Daniels portrays Jackson Roykirk in the photograph, wearing Scott's dress uniform. Eddie Paskey is seen in a gold shirt in this episode so he would match the standard stock footage screen shot with George Takei and an extra's left shoulder. In he is seen wearing gold in the corridor during Kirk-to-crew announcements (the same shot was recycled in many episodes, including and ). Paskey also appears in a red technician's jumpsuit in the main engineering scenes. Lemli's first name, Roger, is given in this episode. His last name wasn't revealed until the following season, in . In conventions, Nichelle Nichols frequently tells a story of getting into a dispute with director Marc Daniels over the filming of this episode. As it had already been established that Uhura's first language was Swahili, Nichols believed that, after her mind was erased, Uhura would revert to her first language. However, as Nichols herself did not speak Swahili, Daniels wanted Uhura to just speak English. Nichols refused to, telling Daniels, "Nichelle Nichols doesn't speak Swahili, but Uhura does!" Gene Roddenberry was eventually brought in to settle the dispute, and he sided with Nichols. A linguist specializing in Swahili was then brought in to write the few lines of Swahili that are spoken in the episode. By the time of her next appearance () Uhura has apparently regained all of her faculties. It is possible that Nomad did not fully erase her memories, merely "locked" them away, and it was possible with time for her to retrieve them. After Nomad explodes, William Shatner quickly raises his hand to the camera as the scene fades away. An outtake of this scene is incorporated into the blooper reel of the show's second season: At one point, Shatner turns to the camera and declares, "Listen, about that bacon – no, really!" and then appears to swallow something, presumably medication for an upset stomach. His comment follows an earlier outtake that shows him sitting in the captain's chair on the bridge and confiding, "No, listen, that bacon is really bad… it just stays with you all day." Also in the blooper reel: When Shatner tells Nomad that the Enterprise is prepared to beam it aboard, James Doohan says, "But captain – you forgot all about the environment and all that stuff. Do you want to really do that?" A grinning Doohan steps out of camera frame, leaving a slightly perplexed Shatner behind, bemusedly shaking his head. Doohan did not deliberately ruin the take, however. It was already ruined since Shatner actually did forget to say the dialogue concerning the environment. Continuity William Blackburn appears in three different uniform colors in this episode: his usual gold (as Hadley), a blue uniform in a corridor scene, and in a red technician's jumpsuit in main engineering. Footage of Nomad exiting the turbolift is recycled to show him leaving sickbay. When the two security guards shoot Nomad for not obeying them, the visual effects artists apparently used the door frame behind the guards as a guideline for the boundary of Nomads shields. This has the unfortunate effect of making it seem as if the guards' phaser beams are striking the door frame. Spock mentions that Nomads first attack on the Enterprise was the equivalent of ninety photon torpedoes. Surprisingly, this attack only reduced the shields by 20%. This seems even stranger a few moments later, when Nomad absorbs the energy of a single photon torpedo and Kirk wonders how anything could "absorb so much energy – and survive". Surprisingly, too, Uhura is re-educated within a matter of days, presumably with all her memories intact as well. Possibly her memories were not really erased, but overwritten, just as a computer file may have its FAT entry overwritten but can easily be recovered. Exabytes of data would take a while to restore but would not take nearly as long as learning from a zero start-point. This episode marks one of four times Kirk is able to "talk a computer to death". This technique is also used in , , and , and was similarly done to a robot in Even though this episode is stated to take place on stardate 3541.9, the episode list from the official website says it takes place on stardate 3451.9. Video and DVD releases RCA CED Videodisc with Space Seed 1981 UK VHS release (CIC-Arena Video): catalog number VHL 2057, This release included and was originally unrated, as it was released prior to the . After , it received a rating of PG. Original US Betamax release: UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 20, catalog number VHR 2353, release date unknown US VHS release: UK re-release (three-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 2.3, Original US DVD release (single-disc): Volume 19, As part of the TOS Season 2 DVD collection Apocrypha Tokyopop's Star Trek: The Manga: Kakan ni Shinkou had a story titled "Communications Breakdown", set after the episode. The story starts with a captain's log mentioning that it's been twelve days since the encounter with Nomad. Links and references Starring William Shatner as Capt. Kirk Also starring Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock DeForest Kelley as Dr. McCoy Featuring James Doohan as Scott Nichelle Nichols as Uhura George Takei as Sulu Majel Barrett as Christine Chapel With Blaisdel Makee as Barbara Gates as Crewwoman Meade Martin as Crewman Arnold Lessing as Security Guard And Vic Perrin as Nomads voice Uncredited co-stars William Blackburn as Hadley Frank da Vinci as Brent Vinci Marc Daniels as Jackson Roykirk (photo) Roger Holloway as Roger Lemli Jeannie Malone as a Yeoman Eddie Paskey as Leslie Frieda Rentie as a Lieutenant Unknown actors as Security Guard 1 Security Guard 2 and 3 Transporter assistant Stunt double Jay Jones as stunt double for James Doohan Stand-ins William Blackburn as stand-in for DeForest Kelley Frank da Vinci as stand-in for Leonard Nimoy Roger Holloway as stand-in for James Doohan Eddie Paskey as stand-in for William Shatner References 2000s; 2002; accident; alien; analysis; analysis sector; anatomy; anger; answer; ; antigrav; antimatter input valve; aptitude; area; attack; atmosphere (aka air); audio; auxiliary control room; baby; background radiation; ball; bearing; "Beyond Antares"; billion; binary; biological function; biological unit (aka "unit"); blue; body; "Bones"; brain; brain damage; brig (aka security cell); census; central nervous system; chance; ; channel 1; Chart 14A; chief engineer; child; choice; circuit; college; collision; colonization; communication channel; computer; condition red; contact; cooperation; coordinates; Creator; creature; cylindrical; damage; damper; danger; ; deep space; ; disease organism; distress call; ; dog; dream; Earth; educational tape; effect; efficiency; emotion; emptiness; energy; energy release control; English language; environment; ; evasive maneuvers; fact; fairy; Federation; Federation science team; feeling; first grade; flash feed; flaw; force field; force field door; formula; frequency; guard; hailing frequency; harm; heart; ; history computer; Human; hyperencephalogram; hypothesis; impulse power; information; instruction; intelligence; interfactor; interplanetary code; interplanetary war; interstellar probe; kilogram (aka kilo); kilometer; knowledge; knowledge bank; language equivalence; Latin language; launch point; lecture; legend; length; library; lifeform; life support system; location; log; logic; long range sensor sweep; love; Luna; machine; main computer; maintenance crew C5; ; Malurians; Malurian population; Malurian system; manual control; manual override; Manway; mathematics; matter-antimatter propulsion system; mechanism; medical history; memory bank; meter; meteor; Milky Way Galaxy; Mind meld; minute; miracle; mission; mistake; mother; music; name; natural satellite; neurology; Nomad; non sequitur; opinion; overload; parasitical beings; path; percent; perfection; personnel file; phaser bank; photon torpedo; physical; physiology; point of origin; point of reference; polymass; population; private transmitter; probe; problem; programming; programming tape; protective screen; prototype; question; radioactive residue; range; reader; reading; rebirth; red alert; repair crew (aka maintenance crew); risk; routine report; Scots language; science team; scientist; screens; search; security team; sensor; sensor range; series; shape; shielding power; ship's translator; shock; signal; singing; soil; soil sample; Sol; Sol system; son; space; spacecraft; space happy; speech; speed; "stand by"; star; star chart; Starfleet Academy; Starfleet code; Starfleet Command; stress (physics); ; sterilization procedure; structural integrity; stubbornness; Swahili language; Symbalene blood burn; symbol; Tan Ru; tape; telepathy; thing; thinking machine; thousand; translator computer; transmission speed; Vulcan mind probe; warp engine power; warp factor; warp maneuvering power; warp power; warp power indicator; week; weight; woman; working order Library computer references Nomad schematic: acquisition sensor; coupler prediction scanner; data assimilation digital encoder; International Designator; magnetohydodynamic vernier-pulse; regenerative mode emulsifier; selective amplifier screen; sperographic analysis computer; tracking screen; transmission Chart 14A locations: Jupiter; Mars; ; Neptune; Pluto; Saturn; Uranus; Venus External links de:Ich heiße Nomad es:The Changeling fr:The Changeling (épisode) it:La sfida (episodio) ja:超小型宇宙船ノーマッドの謎（エピソード） nl:The Changeling pl:The Changeling TOS episodes

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The Apple (episode)

The Enterprise crew discovers an Eden-like paradise on Gamma Trianguli VI, controlled by a machine that is revered by the local humanoid primitives as a god. Summary Teaser On stardate 3715.3, the starship orbits the planet Gamma Trianguli VI. A landing party comprised of Captain Kirk, Commander Spock, Ensign Chekov, Yeoman Martha Landon, and two security officers, and Marple, beam down to the planet to scout the area, followed shortly after by Dr. McCoy and two more security officers, Hendorff and Mallory. Spock notes that the soil on the planet is rich and fertile and that there is very little variation in temperature, even at the poles, with a planet-wide average of 76 s. Chekov says that it makes him homesick, because it is "just like Russia". When McCoy corrects him that it is more like the Garden of Eden, Chekov claims that the Garden of Eden was "just outside Moscow". However, almost immediately, one of the crewmen, Hendorff, is shot and killed by a pod plant. "What did somebody say? That paradise must have looked like this?", Kirk says. Act One Kirk contacts Montgomery Scott on the bridge of the Enterprise, who reports that they are encountering a minor problem with the antimatter pods and that the readings on the planet's electromagnetic field are "a wee bit abnormal". At this point, it does not appear to be a major problem, but Kirk asks him to keep an eye on the situation. Spock reports that his tricorder has detected strong subsurface vibrations, coming from miles in all directions, that are "quite strong, fairly regular, [and] artificially produced". Kirk orders two of the remaining security officers to make a full reconnaissance of the area, but to avoid contact with humanoids, be wary of other dangers, and stay in constant communication. Spock detects a humanoid lurking in the bushes nearby. Kirk goes off to investigate, and reports that "whatever it is, it moves like a cat". He advises the other members of the landing party that they are being watched, and they start heading through jungle for a nearby village in formation L. Spock discovers a rock that has a low specific gravity, and is very brittle. After breaking it in two with his bare hands, he casually tosses aside one of the pieces, and it violently explodes. Kirk asks him to be careful when tossing his rocks from now on. Back aboard the Enterprise, Scott contacts Kirk to report that the antimatter pods are completely inert because of something on the planet's surface that is acting "like a pail of water on a fire". Spock surmises that it may have something to do with the vibrations his tricorder picked up earlier. McCoy shows Kirk some of the plant darts and notes that they have an extremely strong poison on the tip. While he and Kirk are talking, Spock notices one of the pod plants turning slowly and preparing to shoot, just in time to step in front of it and take a chestful of darts himself instead of Kirk. He falls to the ground and the captain fears the worst, but Spock is still alive and McCoy quickly begins treating him. Realizing there is too much danger, Kirk orders a retreat. However, Scott reports that the ship's power systems are being drained. An attempt to beam up the landing party fails; the Enterprises transporters don't have enough power to even transport a fly, Scott reports. Act Two After Kirk realizes he and his party are trapped on the planet, Spock regains consciousness, reporting that the injection McCoy had used to revive him turns his stomach, but that he is otherwise "quite well" (possibly spared by his Vulcan physiology). Kirk chastises him for stepping in front of the plant and tells him to "just yell" next time. Suddenly, an electrical storm starts and Lieutenant Kaplan is struck by lightning and vaporized. The rest of the party runs for cover. Meanwhile, security officer Mallory (who was not with the landing party when it was discovered that there were exploding rocks on the surface) has reached the village and contacts Kirk to tell him the coordinates, but his and Kirk's communicator stops working shortly afterward. Concerned for his safety, Kirk and the others rush to find him, just in time to see him step right onto an exploding rock. He is killed instantly. Kirk remarks that he knew Kaplan's family, and that helped him get into the Academy. Kirk has become increasingly distraught over the now multiple deaths of his crewmen. Spock and McCoy try to console him by telling him that he couldn't have foreseen any of the accidents that have happened while they were on the planet and that he was given orders to explore the planet, but Kirk is convinced that he could and should have done more to prevent the deaths. While they are talking, Spock notices that the humanoid who was spying on them before has returned. Kirk orders Spock, Chekov, and Marple to create a diversion while he ambushes the humanoid. Kirk successfully comes up behind the humanoid and punches him in the face, but is surprised when the planet native starts to cry. Kirk assures the humanoid that he won't hurt him again, and asks him why he has been following them. He says, "I am the eyes of Vaal. He must see," and introduces himself as "Akuta, the leader of the feeders of Vaal." Spock notices e on the back of his head, and Akuta responds they are Vaal's ears, given to him in the "dim time." Kirk asks to speak to Vaal, but Akuta says that he is Vaal's representative and that only he speaks to Vaal. Akuta offers to take Kirk and the others to the village. Meanwhile, Scott hails Kirk to inform him that the Enterprise is being held in orbit around the planet by an unknown source, and is unable to break free. Kirk asks again to be taken to Vaal and this time, Akuta agrees, but says that Vaal will speak only to him. Akuta takes the landing party to Vaal, which is a large cave with a mouth that resembles the head of a serpent. Act Three Spock's tricorder reads that Vaal's opening leads beneath the planet's surface and Kirk believes it may be the source of the field that is affecting the Enterprise. When he tries to approach Vaal to get a closer look, he is repelled by a powerful force field. Kirk asks Akuta how he talks to Vaal, and he says that Vaal calls him when he has something to say and that Vaal might be willing to talk when he is hungry. Akuta leads the landing party to the village for food, drink, and rest and introduces them to the "people of Vaal" who are smiling and friendly to the landing party. A female native introduces herself as Sayana, and she and the others seem much amused upon learning Spock's name. Kirk points out that the tribe doesn't seem to have any children and asks Akuta why. Akuta at first doesn't know what a child is, but finally realizes Kirk is talking about "replacements", and replies that Vaal has forbidden love and marriage. McCoy scans the people and sounds surprised when he discovers they are in perfect health and that they don't seem to be aging at all. Suddenly, the villagers all begin to congregate around Vaal. Kirk and Spock follow, and spy on them from behind a bush. After observing that the villagers are able to approach Vaal, Kirk decides to try his luck. When Kirk and Spock start to get up from behind the bush, Vaal immediately notices, as apparent from suddenly glowing eyes, so they decide against it and resume their attitude of observing only. Kirk wonders whether Vaal gets weaker around feeding time and asks Spock to get an estimate from the Enterprises astrophysics lab of the total amount of energy Vaal is expending against the ship on an hourly basis. McCoy joins them and complains to Spock that Vaal is depriving the planet's inhabitants of their right to "a free and unchained environment" and an opportunity for growth. Spock argues that McCoy is unfairly applying Human standards to non-Human cultures, and that humanoids also have the right to choose a system that works for them. Scott contacts Kirk to report that Vaal's power output has been slowly decreasing, and that they are working on increasing power to the ship's impulse engines, but the work will take eight hours to complete. Kirk notes that they don't have much longer than that to break orbit before they get pulled into the planet's atmosphere. Back in the village, Kirk wonders what would happen if one of the villagers died. Yeoman Landon agrees that they would need a replacement, but she wonders where this replacement would come from, since they don't have any concept of love. Spock postulates that in that case, Vaal would provide the "necessary instructions." McCoy remarks that he would like to see that. Out in the jungle, two of the villagers, Sayana and Makora, see Landon and Chekov embracing and kissing, become curious and decide to try it themselves. Vaal reacts by shaking the ground as Akuta catches them in the act. Vaal communicates to Akuta through his antennae, apparently telling Akuta that Kirk and the others are dangerous to the planet's inhabitants. He calls a village meeting at the clear place of the male "children of Vaal" to take place while the landing party is asleep. Akuta tells the male villagers that Vaal has ordered them to kill the strangers. The villagers don't understand what the word "kill" means, so Akuta explains that "it is a thing to do, like feeding Vaal," and demonstrates by smashing a piece of fruit (representing a stranger's head) with a stick. Act Four In the hut, while the others sleep, Kirk and Spock discuss the situation. Kirk has decided that he agrees with McCoy: the villagers' society is completely stagnant and exists only to serve Vaal. Spock warns that interfering with Vaal would violate the Prime Directive, but Kirk sees no other choice. "These are people, not robots." Spock does not believe Starfleet Command would agree with Kirk's interpretation, but the captain decides to take his chances. Kirk contacts Scott and asks for a progress report. Scott still needs half an hour to complete the modifications to the engines, but he only has 47 minutes until the Enterprise is pulled into the planet's atmosphere. Spock announces that the people of Vaal seem to have disappeared. Kirk and Spock go to Vaal and Spock determines that the force field is down. Kirk tries to talk to Vaal, but Vaal starts another lightning storm. Spock is stunned by a bolt of lightning, and Kirk carries him back to the village, where McCoy diagnoses him second-degree burns – painful, but not serious. Suddenly, the villagers return and successfully ambush and kill Marple but the others are able to fight off the rest of the villagers. Kirk orders Chekov, Landon, and McCoy to imprison the villagers in one of the huts. With twelve minutes left before the ship enters the atmosphere, Scott has transferred all available power to the impulse engines and is ready to try to break orbit. He orders Kyle to apply full reverse and the ship begins to pull away enough to gain another hour but most of the ship's systems have been heavily damaged and Scott will not be able to try it again. Kirk becomes distraught at the idea of the Enterprises entire crew of over four hundred dying because he didn't realize the danger early enough and orders McCoy and Chekov to prevent any of the villagers from feeding Vaal and Scott to concentrate all of the Enterprises phaser power on Vaal's coordinates. The ship begins firing phasers at Vaal. Trying to defend itself against Enterprises phasers forces Vaal to exhaust all of its energy reserves. Spock determines that Vaal is no longer generating any power and pronounces it dead. Scott reports that potency is starting to return to the ship's antimatter pods and that engineering will be able to start repairs immediately. Kirk orders him to send an engineering detail down to the surface as soon as the transporters are fixed and then tells Chekov and McCoy to release the villagers. Later, in front of a lifeless Vaal, Akuta is at a loss as to how he and his people will survive without Vaal. Kirk tells Akuta and the rest of the natives that they will now have the freedom to live their lives as they see fit and to love. Back aboard the Enterprise, Spock expresses his concern in one of the ship's corridors that the people of Vaal have been "driven out of paradise", as in the Biblical story of "". Kirk asks if Spock is casting him in the role of Satan, which Spock denies and then rhetorically asks Spock whether he knows of anyone on the ship who looks like Satan, while he and McCoy circle him. Spock replies, "I am not aware of anyone who fits that description, captain." Kirk says, "No, Mr. Spock, I didn't think you would." Log entries Captain's log, USS Enterprise (NCC-1701), 2267 Memorable quotes "What did somebody say? That paradise must have looked like this?" - Kirk, upon the death of Hendorff on Gamma Trianguli VI's surface "The Garden of Eden was just outside Moscow. A very nice place. It must have made Adam and Eve very sad to leave." - Chekov, as McCoy describes the planet as the Garden of Eden "Garden of Eden, with land mines." - Kirk, after Spock tosses a rock which explodes "Doctor McCoy's potion is acting like all his potions – turning my stomach. Other than that, I am quite well." "If your blood were red instead of green, you wouldn't have an upset stomach." - Spock and McCoy, as McCoy treats Spock from the poisonous thorns "Trying to get yourself killed… Do you know how much Starfleet has invested in you?" "One hundred twenty-two thousand, two-hundred…" "Never mind!" - Kirk and Spock, as Spock recovers from taking an attack meant for Kirk "Mister Chekov, your tricorder readings are totally inefficient!" "Uh, mind your own business, sir! For your information, I have a very high efficiency rating!" "Ensign, I will not have you address me in that tone of voice!" "What do you want, violins?" - Spock and Chekov, creating a diversion for Akuta "It, ah, does something for you." "Yes, indeed it does, Captain. It makes me uncomfortable." - Kirk and Spock, referring to the garlands given to Spock "Little ones like yourselves. They grow." - Kirk, describing children to Akuta "Well, there goes paradise." - McCoy, after learning that love is forbidden by Vaal "There are certain absolutes, Mr. Spock, and one of them is the right of humanoids to a free and unchained environment; the right to have conditions that permit growth." - McCoy to Spock, on the stagnant condition of the humanoids serving Vaal "I mean, how is it … done?" "Mister Spock, you're the science officer. Why don't you explain it to the young lady?" "Well, I believe it's safe…" (Spock coughs) "… safe to assume that they would… receive the necessary… instructions." "From a machine? That I'd like to see." - Landon, Kirk, Spock, and McCoy, discussing Vaalian reproduction "It is a… thing to do, like… like feeding Vaal." - Akuta, explaining to the followers of Vaal how they must kill Kirk and the others "Second-degree burns. Not serious, but I bet they smart." "Doctor, you have an unsurpassed talent for understatement." - McCoy and Spock, after Spock is hit in the back by a lightning strike "The good doctor was concerned that the Vaalians achieve true Human stature. I submit there is no cause for worry. They've taken the first step. They've learned to kill." - Spock, after Marple presumably dies "Little ones, look like you… just go on the way you're going, you'll find out." - Kirk, explaining children to the natives "Is there anyone on this ship… who even remotely… looks like Satan?" - Kirk, as he and McCoy circle Spock Background information Spock's lightning-burned shirt was auctioned off at a science-fiction convention in 1967. This is the episode in which the redshirt phenomenon comes to the fore. Every red-shirted male in the landing party dies horribly. Hendorff is killed by the plant's poisoned darts, Kaplan by the lightning, Mallory is blown up by an exploding rock, and Marple is killed by a blow to the head. Of his many appearances in Star Treks second and third seasons, this was the most dialogue Jay Jones ever delivered. In fact, his only other speaking roles are three words in and a couple of brief voiceover lines in . Jay Jones, a frequent stunt performer, was seriously injured while filming the "exploding rock" scene. Footage of the Enterprise firing phasers down to the surface of a planet is reused from . Walter Koenig seems to have discarded the wig he used in his earlier episodes. Since his own hair was now long enough, it was not necessary for him to wear it anymore. The sparkling effects as Vaal is attacked by the phaser barrage were lifted from the opticals used for the Companion in . They will appear again in the opticals for the creature in . Celeste Yarnall wore Grace Lee Whitney's costume, left over from season one. It was recut and fitted to suit her. Worrying if Whitney might return and need the costume, Bill Theiss assured her that she will never return. (These Are the Voyages: TOS Season Two, pp. 209-210) George Takei (Sulu) and Nichelle Nichols (Uhura) do not appear in this episode. After reading the script giving Akuta an antennae implanted in his head, Bob Justman jokingly suggested they should cast Ray Walston (famous for his portrayal of "Uncle Martin" in My Favorite Martian) for the part. (These Are the Voyages: TOS Season Two, p. 204) Two and half decades later Walston was indeed cast in Star Trek, in the role of Boothby in . Spock states he has an assessable value in this episode, which he begins to enumerate as "One hundred twenty-two thousand, two hundred ...", after Kirk asks if he knows how much Starfleet has invested in him. McCoy describes the poison in the thorns that killed Hendorff and injured Spock to be "like saponin, only 1,000 times stronger." Given the potency of sapotoxin, this would give it an approximate LD50 of 1 mg/kg earning it a rating of a class 1 toxin (extremely toxic) on the Hodge and Sterner Scale. It is established in this episode that the warp nacelles can be discarded from the ship and that it is a dangerous process. This episode's original script called for an emergency saucer separation. However, due to budgeting, the effect was only mentioned but not seen. It was seen for the first time in TNG's pilot episode, . In a special feature on the (2009) DVD, Anton Yelchin, who plays his in the film, specifically mentions Chekov's behavior in this episode – seemingly more concerned with "macking" on Landon than completing the mission at hand – as a prime example of the eccentricities which, in Yelchin's opinion, were the best thing about the character. The episode was adapted into issue thirteen of IDW Publishing's alternate reality Star Trek: Ongoing comic series, "". In this version, the redshirts survive their ordeal, although ("Cupcake" from the 2009 film) wonders if in another universe everyone died. The video game uses this episode's title as a chapter title. Remastered information Minimal changes were made to the special effects in the remastered version of this episode. Most notable was the new appearance of Gamma Trianguli VI and the phaser color and its effect while hitting Vaal. The sky color surrounding the storm clouds (taken from stock footage) was tinted red and orange in the DVD version, to match the red colored sound stage backdrop. In the remastered version, it's reverted to the original blue-gray and black. Production timeline Story outline by Max Ehrlich: Revised story outline: , First draft teleplay: Revised first draft: Revised first draft by Gene L. Coon: Final draft teleplay: early- Revised final draft: early- Second revised final draft: Additional page revisions: , Filmed: – Day 1 – , Friday (Half Day) – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Corridor, Bridge Day 2 – , Monday – Desilu Stage 10: Ext. Jungle Day 3 – , Tuesday – Desilu Stage 10: Ext. Jungle Day 4 – , Wednesday – Desilu Stage 10: Ext. Jungle, Clearing, Guest hut Day 5 – , Thursday – Desilu Stage 10: Ext. Village Day 6 – , Friday – Desilu Stage 10: Ext. Village Day 7 – , Monday – Desilu Stage 10: Ext. Outside Vaal Original airdate: Rerun airdate: First Uk airdate: Video and DVD releases Original US Betamax release: UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 20, catalog number VHR 2353, release date unknown US VHS release: UK re-release (three-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 2.3, Original US DVD release (single-disc): Volume 19, As part of the TOS Season 2 DVD collection Links and references Starring William Shatner as Capt. Kirk Also starring Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock And DeForest Kelley as Dr. McCoy Guest star Keith Andes as Akuta Co-starring Celeste Yarnall as Yeoman Martha Landon Featuring James Doohan as Scott David Soul as Makora Walter Koenig as Chekov Jay Jones as Ensign Mallory Jerry Daniels as Marple John Winston as Lt. 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Mirror, Mirror (episode)

A transporter malfunction sends Kirk, McCoy, Scotty, and Uhura into a parallel universe where the Federation is replaced by an evil Empire, Kirk is a despot, and Spock is a cunning henchman. Summary Teaser A landing party from the comprised of Captain Kirk, Scott, Dr. McCoy, and Uhura are on the Halkan homeworld, attempting to gain rights on behalf of the Federation to mine dilithium on their planet. The Halkan leader, a man named Tharn, tells Kirk that while they find him to be believable, it does not change their overall position and that the Halkan Council cannot permit the Federation to mine dilithium on their planet. Kirk says that they have shown them historical proof that the Federation's missions are peaceful. Tharn tells him they believe that the Federation is currently peaceful, but there's no guarantee that that will always be so. Tharn knows that the dilithium crystals represent incredible power, and even one life lost as a result of the power of their dilithium crystals would violate the Halkan's history of total peace, and the Halkans are all willing to die to prevent that. The Halkans are complete pacifists. Kirk says that while he admires the Halkan's ethics, he hopes to be able to prove theirs. While these discussions are going on, an ion storm is passing through the Halkan system, causing strong thunder and lightning bolts. Kirk calls the Enterprise through his communicator and asks Spock for a report. Spock tells Kirk that it is a standard ion storm but rather violent and unpredictable. Kirk tells Spock to prepare to beam up the landing party and also to increase Enterprises orbit to clear the disturbance of the storm. Kirk then asks Tharn when they may resume negotiations. Tharn tells Kirk the Council will meditate on the Federation's offer more, but that he shouldn't be very optimistic of any change. Just before the landing party can depart Tharn points out that with the weapons on board Enterprise, Kirk would have the might to force the crystals from the Halkans. Kirk tells him to consider that, while they do have such power, there is absolutely no chance that they would use it. He then calls for beam up and the landing party dematerializes. Unfortunately, interference from the ion storm gives the transporter operator, Kyle, trouble as Spock enters the transporter room. Spock helps Kyle try to beam the landing party aboard, but they eventually disappear out of the transporter platform. Finally, the landing party does materialize and they start to step off the transporter pads, when Kirk looks up and sees Spock with a beard, the crew wearing much more flamboyant uniforms and offering Kirk a Roman-like salute, fist striking chest and then arm extending outward toward Kirk. Kirk and company are briefly shocked at the change, but manage to cover their shock. The changed Spock steps up to Kirk asking him for a status report on the mission. Not sure what to make of the situation, Kirk simply tells Spock that there was no change in negotiations. Spock asks Kirk if standard procedure should be initiated to which Kirk simply nods "yes," not knowing exactly what that means, but playing along. Spock steps over to the transporter console and contacts the bridge, telling to program a phaser barrage on the Halkan cities. Spock then asks if the Halkans have any military capabilities and Kirk tells him they don't. Spock says that it is regrettable that the Halkans have chosen suicide. Spock then turns to and lectures him that he was supposed to compensate during the ion storm and that carelessness with the equipment cannot be tolerated. Spock then demands for Kyle's agonizer. Kyle begs Spock not to make him use it, saying he really tried to do what he was supposed to. One of the security guards reaches over and takes Kyle's agonizer and gives it to Spock, who places it on Kyle's shoulder causing him extreme pain for a few moments. Spock finally stops and lets Kyle slump down to the floor. Kirk and the others do their best to contain their shock and horror at what is happening. Act One "Captain's log stardate… unknown. During an ion storm the landing party has beamed back to the Enterprise and found it and the personnel aboard changed. The ship is subtly altered physically. Behavior and discipline has become brutal, savage." Having finished with Kyle, Spock drops the agonizer and steps over to tell Scott that the storm caused some minor damage and there were some injuries requiring McCoy's attention. He then shows a bit of impatience when neither man moves to leave the transporter room. By this point, Kyle has recovered enough to tell Spock that the power beam jumped just as the landing party was about to materialize. Spock asks if it was due to Kyle's error, but Kyle tells him it was before his error. Spock then asks Kirk if they've suffered any ill effects, to which Kirk says that he does and tells McCoy to give them an examination. As the landing party stop to leave the transporter room, Kirk turns back to Spock and tells him to have the transporter circuits examined. Once having exited into the corridor, Scotty and Uhura begin to loudly ask Kirk what's happened, but Kirk silences them and tells them to wait until they are able to speak privately. They walk through the hallway, which seems to have security officers at every intersection. Every crew member that Kirk encounters gives him the same Roman/Nazi-esque salute, which Kirk mimics. Every door on the ship seems to have a picture of the Earth bisected by a sword on it. Once they enter sickbay, McCoy goes over to a table and tells Kirk that everything is out of place, all messed up, and changed around, except for a spot where he spilled acid a year previous. Kirk asks everyone if any of them felt dizzy in the transporter beam; they all say that they did. Kirk says it happened twice. First they were in their own transporter chamber, then they faded, and upon finally materializing, they had appeared wherever they were. Scott says that the transporter lock could have been affected by the ion storm and they just materialized somewhere else. Kirk then realizes what has happened. They've somehow entered a parallel universe, where everything's duplicated… or, almost duplicated. Everyone contemplates the thought that they all likely have counterparts in the universe that they exchanged places with during transport, that there were similar storms on both universes disrupted both sets of transporter circuits. Kirk and crew are on this strange ship and their counterparts are on their Enterprise. Kirk realizes they have to use the computer to try to figure out how to get home. McCoy tells Kirk they can't let the Halkans be destroyed. Kirk tells Scott to go down to engineering and short out the main phaser controls, but to make it look like the storm blew out the standby circuits. Then he wants Scott to study the ship's technology as they're going to have to use it to get back home. Kirk also tells everyone to scramble the frequency on their communicators and to use them for private messages as the intercoms are most likely monitored. Kirk then tells Uhura to go to her post and find out his exact orders from and if he has any options. Uhura stops and starts to tell Kirk she's scared, but Kirk reassures her that she's the only one who can do it and that he'll be right there. Reassured, Uhura leaves for the bridge. Meanwhile, Kirk and McCoy take a quick look at the ship's library. Meanwhile, on the bridge, and Sulu are preparing coordinates for planetary targets when Uhura enters the bridge and assumes her station. Sulu leers over at her and steps up to her post, taking her face in his hand and telling her he could change her lack of interest in him. When Uhura tells Sulu he's away from his post, Sulu asks if either Kirk or Spock are there, and prepares to move in on her when she slaps his hand from her face hard. Just before he can move against her, Kirk enters the bridge from the turbolift. The entire bridge crew stands at attention and salutes Kirk, who returns the salute. Sulu quickly resumes his post, and Kirk steps over to Uhura, who tells him there was no storm damage and all stations are normal. She then quietly tells Kirk he is under orders to destroy the Halkans unless they comply and he has no alternatives. Kirk steps down and sits in the captain's chair, which is the same as his except for a raised back to it making the chair almost throne-like. When Sulu asks permission to fire, Kirk tells him to stand by. Meanwhile, in the phaser control, Scott is stopped by a security guard who asks Scott if he has authorization for this area; Scotty tells him he has the captain's orders, but the guard says he'll have to check with Security Chief Sulu. Scott says he'll do it, then after the door closes, he calls Kirk on the intercom and tells Kirk there's no damage to the phasers. Spock enters the bridge and sees that the planet rotation is carrying the primary target out of phaser range. When Kirk won't let Sulu alter Enterprises orbit, Spock tells him to lock onto the secondary city. Kirk tells Uhura to contact the Halkan Council so he can speak to them again. He then looks at Spock and tells him they have other things of value besides the dilithium crystals. Spock points out though that they have clearly demonstrated they will not cooperate by refusing the Empire. Spock tells him that standard procedure demonstrates that they make an example of them. When Sulu reports the secondary target rotating out of phaser lock, Kirk orders Sulu to put phasers on standby, which Spock notes is a serious breach of orders. Kirk tells Spock he'll make the reasons clear to him in his own good time. At that point, Uhura tells Kirk she has the Halkan Council on channel. Kirk tells it is useless to resist them, but the Halkans insist they are not resisting. Kirk gives them twelve hours to reconsider. However, Tharn tells Kirk that, be it 12 years or 12,000, they are ethically compelled to deny the Empire's demand for their dilithium crystals, for the Empire would use their power to destroy. Kirk tells them destruction is the Enterprise leveling their planet and taking what they want, and that the Halkans will die as a race. Tharn says they will willingly do so to preserve their culture. Kirk closes the channel and tells Sulu to turn phasers off. Spock says a twelve-hour reprieve is unprecedented. Kirk leaves for his quarters, telling Uhura to have McCoy and Scotty meet him there. On his navigation panel, Chekov presses two buttons and leaves with Kirk. Spock tells Kirk before he enters the turbolift that he must report Kirk's conduct to . Kirk tells Spock he is at liberty to do so. In the turbolift, Chekov asks Kirk if he wants to go to Deck 5; Kirk nods that he does. Just as the doors open and Kirk prepares to walk out, he is hit forcefully in the mouth by a , and held against the wall by two others. Chekov pulls out a phaser and tells Kirk that with his death, the entire crew will advance in rank and that no one would dare question the assassination of a captain who disobeys the prime orders of the Empire. Act Two "Captain's log, supplemental. I command an Enterprise where officers apparently employ private henchmen among the crew, where assassination of superiors is a common means of advancing in rank." Just as Chekov is about to shoot Kirk, Wilson knocks the phaser out of Chekov's hand, and throws him into the corner, knocking him out. He then gets one of the crewmen off of Kirk and shoots him dead, vaporizing him with his own phaser. Kirk wiggles away from the other guard and knocks him across the deck and Wilson shoots him dead with his phaser. Just at that moment, appears out of the turbolift; Wilson tells one of them that he helped Kirk, which Kirk confirms. He then turns his attention to Wilson, who tells Kirk that Chekov was going to make him a chief and asks if Kirk might make him an officer. Kirk says that Wilson is, from then on, working for him. Wilson asks if he's commissioned, and Kirk smiles at him and tells him that he's now in line, he might even make captain. Wilson smiles; after an enthusiastic "Yessir," Kirk knocks Wilson out and says he won't be captain on Kirk's ship. Farrell asks Kirk if Chekov should go to "the booth"; Kirk assents. Arriving at Kirk's quarters, he tells McCoy and Scott to watch their backs, as the officers move up by assassination. Scott tells Kirk that Sulu is security chief and compares him to the ancient Gestapo. McCoy compares sickbay to a chamber of horrors where two of his assistants were betting on how long it would take an injured man to pass out from the pain. Scott then tells Kirk the technology is virtually identical, with only variations in instrumentation. When Kirk asks about star readings, Scott tells him everything is exactly as it should be, except for them. Kirk then decides to try the library computer. At first Kirk is surprised to hear the computer have a male voice. He then begins a program of classified security research, accessible to only him and Scotty. Using all the data from the ion storm, Kirk has the computer work on the idea to see if a sufficiently strong enough ion storm could cause a power surge in transporter circuits which create a momentary interdimensional contact with a parallel universe. The computer answers "affirmative." Kirk then asks if people, in the act of beaming through such a storm, could they transpose accidentally with their counterparts in the other universe, to which the computer answers "affirmative." Kirk then asks if such conditions could be artificially-created using the ship's power, to which the computer, again, answers "affirmative." Kirk records the research onto a record tape and gives it to Scott. Scott tells Kirk that he'll need help, but Kirk would be too conspicuous. At that point, he drafts McCoy to help him. "I'm a doctor, not an engineer," McCoy states. "Now, you're an engineer," Scott replies. As Scott steps off to another terminal in Kirk's quarters to do some research of his own, McCoy asks Kirk what kind of people they are in this universe. So Kirk asks the computer for a readout of the current commander. The computer tells him that Captain succeeded to command the through assassination of Captain . Kirk's first two actions were suppressing a rebellion by destroying the rebels' home planet and executing 5,000 colonists on Vega IX. Kirk quickly cuts off the record, having heard more than enough. Scott tells Kirk that their plan can work by using the automatic transporter setting. Unfortunately however, their interruption of the engine circuits will appear on Sulu's security board. Kirk says he'll get Uhura to create a diversion to distract Sulu's attention as soon as he's ready. Kirk tells everyone to get back to their posts and keep him appraised. After Scott leaves, McCoy and Kirk ponder what their counterparts are doing back in their universe and on their Enterprise. At that moment, on the prime universe Enterprise, the counterpart is being forcefully dragged to the brig by two security officers. Kirk demands that the security release him, but they ignore him. Spock Prime is waiting for them at the brig. Kirk tries to get Spock to let him go. The security officers throw Kirk into the brig with the other counterparts who angrily ask what's going on and they also clearly yell at Spock. Kirk threatens to have Spock and the security guards executed. Spock tells him that's not likely as his authority is extremely limited in that regard. Spock tells Kirk that the four of them will remain in the brig and in custody until he can figure out how to get them back to wherever it is they belong. Kirk says the whole galaxy's gone crazy, wonders about his uniform, about Spock's beard, and what has happened to his personal guards. Spock says he cannot answer those questions at this time. Kirk then tries to bribe Spock with either credits or perhaps his own command. Spock theorizes that some kind of interesting transference has taken place. Kirk asks Spock what might buy him, perhaps power? Spock can only reply with "fascinating." Kirk yells at Spock as he's walking away, telling Spock that he can get power for him. Meanwhile, back on the mirror Enterprise, Kirk Prime is walking through a corridor when he's met by , who has a guard of his own – another Vulcan. Spock tells Kirk that he's pleased Kirk foiled Chekov's plan, stating that he does not want to be captain, he prefers his scientific duties, and that he is, quite frankly, content to be a lesser target. Kirk tells him that he is logical as always. At that moment, a switch is thrown and we hear Chekov screaming. Kirk turns and sees Chekov in some kind of booth, surrounded by the guards that took him away. Spock tells Kirk the agony booth is a most effective means of discipline, and then asks Kirk if he's ordered full duration. Kirk says he hasn't decided – a decision which surprises Spock, as Chekov's act warrants death. Kirk angrily repeats that he hasn't decided. Spock submits that that is Kirk's business, then asks if he intends to continue in this unusual course of action regarding the Halkans, as they are in conflict with standard Imperial procedure and that Kirk cannot ignore the consequences. Kirk asks Spock if that is a threat; Spock tells Kirk that he is merely stating facts. Spock says that he has found Kirk to be an excellent officer, and that their missions together have been both successful and profitable. However, Spock will not permit Kirk's aberrations to jeopardize his position. Kirk asks Spock if he thinks they should destroy the Halkans; Spock tells him that "terror must be maintained, or the Empire is doomed. It is the logic of history." Kirk wonders if they've perhaps gone too far with their conquest, stating that that part is easy, but controlling the masses are not. Spock says he does not want to have to find himself opposing Kirk, but if Kirk persists in his confusing, inexplicable behavior, he will have no choice. Kirk tells Spock that it is his concern and not Spock's. Kirk tells Spock that he would find Kirk to be a formidable enemy; Spock says he knows that, and asks if Kirk is aware of the reverse. After Spock leaves, Kirk tells Farrell to release Chekov from the booth and confine him to quarters. Meanwhile, outside engineering, Scott distracts a guard, McCoy is able to hypo him unconscious. They drag him inside the door and climb up the ladder to the emergency manual monitor and begin to do some of their work. Kirk goes to his quarters and finds a asleep on his bed. She tells him they had a difficult time in the chemistry lab cleaning up the mess after the storm, but nothing compared to what he's gone through, referring to his earlier incident with Chekov. Kirk says that Chekov gambled and Kirk won. Marlena says that Kirk got lucky, and states she's surprised as to how easily he was caught off-guard. Kirk tells her he was preoccupied. She asks if he's still in trouble with Starfleet Command. She can't figure out what kind of scheme he's got in mind. She figures that either the Halkans have something he wants, or he's trying to scheme a way to advance to the Admiralty or perhaps the Cabinet. Kirk says if he's successful, he may go further than that. Moreau asks if she can know what his plan is, thinking it only fair if she's to be the woman of a Cæsar. After a brief kiss, the intercom chimes and Kirk steps over to it. Spock is calling him, telling him that he's received a private message from Starfleet Command and that by telling Kirk about it, he is violating regulations. Spock tells Kirk that he must wait until planet dawn over principal target to permit Kirk to carry out their mission; if Kirk does not discharge his duties, then Spock is ordered to kill him and proceed against the Halkans… as the new captain of the Enterprise. Act Three "Captain's log, stardate unknown. We are trapped in a savage parallel universe from which we must escape within four hours or I will face a death sentence at Mr. Spock's hands." Moreau and Kirk drink a toast to Spock as the only man aboard with the decency to warn Kirk, and he'll die for it. Kirk says he does not intend to kill him. Moreau asks if he's going to act against the Halkans before the deadline and Kirk says he won't, but he'll also avoid killing Spock. Moreau asks if Kirk is just going to get Spock and his men out of the way; Kirk says he'll get out of Spock's way. Moreau asks if she should activate the Tantalus field so Kirk can monitor him; not knowing what she means, Kirk tells her to go ahead, and watches as she touches a couple of areas on what appears to be a decoration on the wall, revealing a monitor screen and some buttons. Moreau tells Kirk she hates the device. Playing for time while she unwittingly shows him what the device is and how it works, Kirk says "it's not so bad". Moreau replies that of course he'd think that, as it is what made him captain of the Enterprise. She then wonders how many people Kirk has simply wiped out of existence by the touch of a button (thoughtfully pointing to the button as she speaks) and then contemplates the humor in how "the great, powerful Captain Kirk, who owes everything to some unknown alien scientist and a plundered laboratory." Kirk and Moreau mutually agree then that if one does not take advantage of one's opportunities, one does not rise to command a starship or even higher. Observing Spock, Moreau offers to go ahead and kill him, but Kirk stops her and deactivates the device. Moreau says that if Spock fails to kill Kirk, then he'll still be executed. Kirk says that he'll make certain the circumstance of Spock's failure will clear him. Moreau is amazed that Kirk isn't even afraid of Starfleet Command. She wonders just how much power is Kirk expecting to accumulate and then wonders how she'll fit into the circumstances. Kirk asks Moreau how she wants to fit in, to which she smiles and then walks through a door, ostensibly to her end of the cabin, leaving Kirk alone. Alone, Kirk calls Scott on his communicator and tells him they have to get out of there inside of three hours as Spock has orders to kill him unless he completes their military mission. Scott tells him that the two-way transmission affected local field densities within the two universes and they've got to escape within a half-hour or they'll be stuck in the mirror universe for the rest of their lives. Scott needs Kirk to get to the transporter room in about ten minutes and free up the board so Scott can lock in. Kirk says after he leaves the transporter room he'll meet Scott and McCoy in sickbay afterward. In his quarters, Spock has been curious about the computer activity and inquires the computer about it. The computer tells him that the captain and Scott are conducting a classified security research under Kirk's voice index log. Spock turns to contemplate that when he notices a beep on his computer and after he activates it, asks Sulu why he is monitoring Spock's communications. Sulu tells Spock that his security board had detected extensive use of computers and he was going to inform Spock. Sulu says that he can figure out what Starfleet told Spock and tells him that he suspects that Kirk is working on escape or defense. When Spock tells Sulu it's his business, Sulu tells Spock he hopes Spock succeeds, because the order would fall on Sulu next, and Sulu is concerned about how Kirk's enemies have the unfortunate habit of disappearing. Spock tells Sulu that if he succeeds, Sulu will find himself a step closer to the captaincy. Spock says he does not want to command the Enterprise, but if it should happen, Spock reminds Sulu that his operatives would avenge his death, and some of them are Vulcans. That statement seems to frighten Sulu a bit, and he closes the channel. Back in Kirk's quarters, Moreau reappears, wearing a much more seductive outfit. She admits to being a bit out of practice and laments that it's difficult for her to appear perfectly as a woman constantly. Kirk says that he's never seen any woman come closer to perfection. She says she remembers how he used to talk that way. Kirk says he still does. When she asks for proof, Kirk says he has to go. Moreau is angry about being put off for one task or another. She then realizes that their relationship must be over. Moreau tells Kirk that Commander Kenner will take her for a time. When she prepares to call a yeoman for assistance to move out, Kirk tells her that's unnecessary. Moreau wonders if Kirk is feeling sorry for her. Then she demands a transfer, saying on the Enterprise she's humiliated but on another ship she can hunt for another man. She then says she's got her rank, that she's been a captain's woman and she likes it, and if it requires she go through every officer in the fleet, she'll be one again. Kirk says she could, and when Moreau turns to strike him, Kirk stops her and tells her he simply meant that Moreau could be anything she wanted to be. He then kisses her very passionately. Moreau says it's been a long time since he kissed her like that and based on Kirk's mercy toward Spock and toward her, calls him a stranger. She then asks if she's his woman. Kirk tells her she's the captain's woman until he says she's not. He then leaves their quarters. Moreau turns on the Tantalus field and watches Kirk go into the turbolift. In the turbolift, Kirk calls Uhura and tells her that Scott should be calling her soon. He asks if she's prepared; she says she is, and that she will do her best to keep Sulu distracted. Kirk wishes her good luck and then closes the channel. At this point, Scott and McCoy have climbed up into a Jefferies tube and, just before Scott begins to make the alterations, he signals Uhura. Uhura walks down to Sulu and chides him for not being very persistent, reminding him that he's ignoring the rules of the game. She's supposed to protest and then he's supposed to come back. Sulu puts his arms around her and tells her she's making sense now. Uhura says she was getting bored, but of course this isn't the time. Sulu, meanwhile, is kissing Uhura's neck and tells her any time's a good time. While he is kissing her, the beep on his console from Scott's work is detected, but goes unnoticed. When the beep stops, she smiles, backs away and then backhands Sulu back into his seat, telling him she's changed her mind again. An angry Sulu tells her she takes a lot of chances, but Uhura draws her knife and tells Sulu he does, too. She keep Sulu at bay with her knife and has one of the relief officers take over for her and she leaves the bridge. While in the turbolift, she contacts Scott and tells him that it's all clear and she's headed for sickbay. In the transporter room, Kirk is working on unlocking the controls on the transporter console when Spock steps in and detains him. After confiscating Kirk's weapon, Spock asks Kirk what he's doing, but Kirk will give no information and tells Spock to go ahead and shoot him. Spock says that Kirk is too inflexible and disciplined once he's made up his mind. Conversely, Dr. McCoy is sentimental and soft, so he'll be able to get the information he needs from him. Kirk threatens Spock, but Spock reminds Kirk that he's the one with the phaser and he does not intend to simply disappear as so many of Kirk's opponents have previously. Spock then leads Kirk to sickbay, where he finds the rest of the landing party waiting on Kirk. Kirk turns and attacks Spock and the others join in. Spock is able to handle all four rather easily, although Kirk does put up more of a fight than the others. Finally, Uhura hands Kirk a ceramic which he smashes over Spock's head, rendering him unconscious. Scott tells Kirk they have maybe 15 minutes to go and McCoy demands they help him get Spock on the examination table as Spock will die without immediate treatment. After complying, Kirk asks Scott if everything's ready for them to go; Scott says it is and tries to get McCoy to hurry, as they are risking not going home. McCoy says they have time and tells Scott to shut up. McCoy asks Kirk if he should stop, but that his work will only take a minute. Kirk mentions that this Spock is very much like their own Spock, and that McCoy can continue. Just then, Sulu walks in with three security guards. When Kirk asks what he is doing, Sulu says that Spock is going to succeed in his order to kill Kirk… apparently. Kirk will also appear to have killed Spock after a fierce battle. Sulu calls it regrettable, but it will leave him as captain. Act Four As Kirk and company prepare to defend themselves against Sulu, one of Sulu's henchmen suddenly disappears. Back in Kirk's quarters, Marlena has been monitoring Kirk ever since he left their quarters and she has learned who he really is. She vaporizes the other guards, leaving Sulu alone to fight Kirk, and Kirk knocks out Sulu fairly easily. Scott tells Kirk they only have ten minutes. Kirk tells McCoy that his time is up, but McCoy can't let Spock die and asks for only five minutes; he guarantees he'll be there. After Kirk and the others leave, McCoy gives Spock a hypo which wakes him up. Spock then grabs McCoy's arm and asks why Kirk has let him live. McCoy won't answer him, so Spock backs McCoy up against a wall and then mind melds with him. In the transporter room, Marlena is waiting on the landing party. Kirk sends Scott to activate the transporter and expresses gratitude to Marlena for saving them. Marlena asks Kirk to take her with him. Kirk says he can't, that their power is balanced for only four and if they try it with five, they could all die. Marlena points out there are only three of them. Kirk says one is coming and that he wishes he could help her. Marlena points a phaser at Kirk then, and Kirk tells her if she kills them, she'll still stay. Uhura approaches her from behind and quickly disarms Marlena. Kirk asks for the time and Scott tells them they have five minutes when suddenly the power cuts. Kirk asks if auxiliary power will work and Scott says getting the power is no problem but the automatic setting is linked to the transporter main and if they bypass, someone will have to stay behind to operate the controls manually. Scott volunteers to stay, but Kirk tells him and Uhura to get to the transporter chamber. Scott begins to protest, even calling Kirk "Jim," but Kirk makes it an order and Scott reluctantly complies. Kirk goes around to the transporter controls, and then Spock enters with McCoy. Spock has also learned the landing party's true identities through his mind meld and it was him that had the transporter power cut so they couldn't beam out before he arrived. Spock gives McCoy to Scott, and then orders engineering to reactivate the main transporter circuits. Kirk calls Spock "a man of integrity in both universes." Spock says that they must get back to their universe and Spock must have his captain back and that he will operate the transporter. In the two minutes and thirteen seconds that remain, Kirk asks how long before the Halkan's prediction of galactic revolt is realized. Spock, as ruthlessly logical as his counterpart, has calculated that it will occur in approximately 240 years, and the inevitable outcome will be the overthrow of the Empire. Kirk then challenges the "illogic" of Spock continuing to serve an Empire that he knows is certain to collapse. Kirk then asks if change is inevitable, and for the good, wouldn't logic insist that he be part of it? Spock tells Kirk one man cannot summon the future, but Kirk tells him one man can change the present. "Be the captain of this Enterprise, Mr. Spock! Find a logical reason for sparing the Halkans and make it stick, push till it gives! You can defend yourself better than any man in the fleet." Spock tells Kirk that a man must also have the power to effect change. With a glance toward Moreau, Kirk reveals the existence of the Tantalus field, with which Spock will be "invincible." Spock appears intrigued. Kirk asks him to make the choice: the past or the future, tyranny or freedom. Kirk then steps into the transporter chamber and then tells Spock "in every revolution, there's one man with a vision." Spock says only, "Captain Kirk, I shall consider it," and then energizes the transporter. Reappearing in the their own universe, the landing party steps off the transporter pad and are happy to see a clean shaven Spock, who welcomes them home. On the bridge, as the Enterprise leaves orbit of the Halkan homeworld, Kirk asks how Spock detected their counterparts so quickly. Spock tells Kirk that as civilized men, they were able to impersonate barbarians much easier than it was for barbarians to imitate civilized men. Spock speculates that the counterparts returned to their Enterprise at the same time the landing party arrived home. Kirk speculates that his counterpart might be in for a few changes, though. McCoy says he thinks he liked Spock with a beard better, as it gave him character. Kirk mentions how easily the counterpart Spock fit into the other universe, and speculated that Spock might be a bit of a pirate at heart. Spock comments on how he observed their counterparts also, calling them "…brutal, savage, unprincipled, uncivilized, treacherous; in every way splendid examples of Homo sapiens, the very flower of Humanity." Spock also adds that he found them quite refreshing. Kirk says he's not sure, but he thinks they've been insulted. McCoy, however, is sure. At that moment, Lt. Marlena Moreau walks on the bridge with a report on a PADD for Kirk. McCoy, Scott, and Uhura are shocked to see her, and when she arrives at Kirk's chair, he asks Moreau her name and she tells him she was just assigned to the Enterprise last week. After she walks away, Spock asks Kirk if he knows her, citing his reaction as one of recognition. Kirk tells Spock that he hadn't met her before… exactly. He hopes that he and Moreau can become friends. Log entries Captain's log, USS Enterprise (NCC-1701), 2267 Memorable quotes "So you die, Captain, and we all move up in rank. No one will question the assassination of a captain who has disobeyed prime orders of the Empire." - Mirror Chekov to Kirk, as he holds a phaser on him "What's this?" (McCoy wipes Kirk's chin) "It's called blood." - McCoy and Kirk, after Mirror Chekov's ambush on Kirk "I'm a doctor, not an engineer." "Now you're an engineer." - McCoy and Scott, on teaming up "I order you!! Let me go!!" - Mirror Kirk, as he is dragged to the brig "Has the whole galaxy gone crazy?! What kind of a uniform is this?! Where's your beard?! What's going on?! Where's my personal guard?!" - Mirror Kirk to Spock, as he is locked up in the brig "Spock! What is it you want? Power?" "Fascinating." "Power, Spock?! I can get that for you!!" - Mirror Kirk and Spock "I do not threaten, captain. I merely state facts." - Mirror Spock, on the consequences of ignoring the Empire's orders "You would find me a formidable enemy." "I'm aware of that, captain. I trust that you are aware of the reverse." - Kirk and Mirror Spock "Terror must be maintained or the Empire is doomed. It is the logic of history." "Conquest is easy. Control is not." - Mirror Spock and Kirk, on the Halkan mission "There are those who would avenge my death… and some of them are Vulcans." - Mirror Spock, warning Mirror Sulu against killing him "You're the captain's woman until he says you're not." - Kirk, after his last kiss with Mirror Moreau "Jim!" - Scott, imploring Kirk to stand on the transporter. "You're a man of integrity in both universes, Mister Spock." - Kirk, after Mirror Spock reactivates the transporter "I submit to you that your Empire is illogical because it cannot endure. I submit that you are illogical to be a willing part of it." - Kirk to Mirror Spock, on the Empire's demise "One man cannot summon the future." "But one man can change the present." - Mirror Spock and Kirk, on sparing the Halkans "In every revolution, there's one man with a vision." - Kirks departing words to Mirror Spock "Jim, I think I liked him with a beard better. It gave him character. Of course, almost any change would be a distinct improvement." - McCoy, on Spock "I'm not sure, but I think we've been insulted." "I'm sure." - Kirk and McCoy, after Spock compares them with their mirror counterparts Background information Production timeline "One Way Street" by Jerome Bixby: published in December 1953/January 1954 issue of Amazing Stories Series proposal, "Star Trek is..." by Gene Roddenberry: – Mentions similar story idea "The Mirror" Story outline by Jerome Bixby: Revised story outline: Revised story outline by Roddenberry: First draft teleplay by Bixby: Second draft teleplay: Revised draft by D.C. Fontana: Final draft teleplay by Gene L. Coon: Additional page revisions: , , , Filmed: – Day 1 – , Tuesday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Bridge, Brig, Corridor, Transporter room Day 2 – , Wednesday – Desilu Stage 10: Ext. Halkan homeworld surface Day 3 – , Thursday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Sickbay, Transporter room (ISS Enterprise) Day 4 – , Friday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Transporter room, Kirk's quarters (ISS Enterprise) Day 5 – , Monday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Engineering, Bridge (ISS Enterprise) Day 6 – , Tuesday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Bridge, Corridors, Jefferies tube (ISS Enterprise) Day 7 – , Wednesday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Turbolift, Corridors, Spock's quarters (ISS Enterprise) Additional filming – , Friday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Kirk's quarters (ISS Enterprise) Score recording: Original airdate: Rerun airdate: First UK airdate: Translated titles This episode was released with foreign-language titles, using alternate translations of the episode's name: "Mirror" (France) "A Parallel Universe" (Germany) "Terror of the Ion Turbulence" (Japan) "The Mirror" (Portugal) "Mirror, Little Mirror" (Spain) Story and production Jerome Bixby based this episode very loosely on his own short story "One Way Street". In the original draft script, Kirk traveled to the parallel universe alone and the parallel universe Federation was battling a race called the Tharn. This name was later given to the leader of the Halkan Council, although it is not spoken on screen. Composer Fred Steiner adapted Romulan music he had composed for to represent the Empire in this segment, as well as using some cues from his soundtrack. During the filming of this episode, Barbara Luna had strep throat and a 103-degree fever, so her kissing scenes with Shatner were postponed for two weeks. The scenes were shot on Friday , during the production of . Since Luna has lost a couple of pounds due to her illness, costume designer William Ware Theiss had to come up with a new costume for her which hid the weight loss. As a clever improvisation, Theiss put her in a bikini and covered it with a piece of colorful drape. (TV Guide: Vol. 44, No. 34, Issue #2265, p. 28, These Are the Voyages: TOS Season Two, p. 236) This episode introduces the mirror universe, which returned in episodes of , , and as well as in various novels, comics and games. It is shown in that the events in this episode led directly to the fall of the Terran Empire to the Klingon-Cardassian Alliance in the late 23rd century: became leader and, inspired by Kirk, attempted to reform the Empire, leaving it vulnerable to a combined Klingon-Cardassian attack. The scene at the end where Kirk meets Marlena on the prime universe's Enterprise was used to create the scene where Benjamin Sisko speaks with Kirk in the episode . This episode, when released, served as the sequel to the two-parter and , which themselves served as the sequel to , and are set entirely in the mirror universe, with no crossovers. On the ENT Season 4 DVD, Manny Coto explicitly states was done in order to preserve this episode as inter-universal first contact. The episode changed the inter-universal first contact to be 's replacement of his "prime" universe counterpart at some point before the introduction of the character in . This episode marks the first time in Star Trek history that Scott addresses Kirk as "Jim." In , he does tell William T. Riker and Geordi La Forge, after discovering that his rescuers served aboard the Enterprise, that "Jim Kirk himself" must have come looking for him. In the alternate reality, routinely calls "Jim." This is also the only episode in which Uhura is seen in a moving turbolift. This is the first episode since to make any mention of Christopher Pike. When Kirk and McCoy listen to the ship's computer in the mirror Kirk's quarters to get a better understanding as to what kind of people they are in this savage universe, Kirk learns that his mirror counterpart assumed command of the by assassinating a mirror version of Pike. This episode marks the final time Pike's name would be mentioned in the original series. This is one of two episodes where Spock is knocked unconscious in a fight (the other being where a Capellan knocks him out with a sword after Kirk prevents Eleen's death) contradicting the book Star Trek Lives, in which Leonard Nimoy states that Spock was never knocked out in a fight (although it must be noted, that it's Spock's mirror universe counterpart who is knocked unconscious in this episode). The idea of the Mirror Spock having a Vulcan bodyguard (played by Russ Peek) was not scripted, but came from director Marc Daniels. (These Are the Voyages: TOS Season Two) In Act Four, Kirk asks Mirror Spock how long it will be before the Halkan prediction of galactic revolt is realized. Within the context of the aired episode, this is an unlikely question for Kirk to pose because there is no prior mention or discussion of such a prediction. However, James Blish, the author who adapted most of the TOS scripts into stories in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and who often worked from early drafts of final shooting scripts, provides a clue to this "missing discussion" in his "Mirror, Mirror" adaptation in Star Trek 3. After Tharn tells Kirk "To preserve what we are," he continues, "Yes. Perhaps someday your slave planets will all defy you, as we have done. When that comes, how will your starships be able to control a whole galaxy?" A cat version of "Mirror, Mirror" was featured in Jenny Parks' 2017 book Star Trek Cats. Uhura and both showed their navels in various scenes. This was controversial at the time. The crew reportedly distracted the observer from Standards & Practices with a long lunch while those scenes were being filmed, thus being able to slip the navels past the censors. Sets and props This is the second and final appearance of the eleven-foot model , which orbits from right-to-left in the teaser. When the transposition to the parallel universe occurs, the ISS version is orbiting in the opposite direction. Although the episode was produced in , the footage of the ship was filmed for in , indicated by the heightened bridge dome, the oversized deflector dish, and the unlit Bussard collectors (complete with spires). However, in , there were no rounded "nodes" at the rear of the nacelles, which appear in this episode. The first time the ship orbited in this direction, in , scenes of the revamped production model were simply reversed as can be seen by the backward registration. In this episode, though, the model was shot with reversed nomenclature as the port side was unfinished. It is unknown why so little of this footage was used during the series. Despite the effort expended to highlight the opposite nature of the mirror universe, the Enterprise is seen orbiting from left-to-right in all of the scenes after the main title. The captain's chair created for this episode was later reused as Bob Wesley's command chair aboard the in . The metal head sculpture in the mirror Spock's quarters (also in the room in ) previously appeared in the possession of Dr. Adams in and Marla McGivers in . The covering for the Tantalus field device shows up again in McCoy's office in . The emergency manual monitor set makes its debut in this episode. A modified brig makes its debut here. Its location on the set was in the short hallway leading to the Engineering set. The brig seen in was in the main hallway, but featured many of the same set pieces. However, the force field projectors did not move when someone attempted to get out of the new version. To further denote the inverted nature of the parallel universe, phasers are worn upside-down on the left hip. After McCoy tranquilizes the man guarding the door to engineering, the arm of the stage hand operating the door can be seen as the door opens and Scott and McCoy pull the man into engineering. Reception and pop culture This episode was nominated for a Hugo Award in as "Best Dramatic Presentation". Ronald D. Moore once cited this episode as one of his favorite installments of the original Star Trek series. () TV Guide ranked this as the third best Star Trek episode for their celebration of the franchise's 30th anniversary. (TV Guide August 24, 1996 issue) Jeff Russo cited this as one of his favorite episodes and scores from TOS. ("Standing in the Shadow of Giants: Creating the Sound of Discovery", DIS Season 1 DVD & Blu-ray special features) The book Star Trek 101 (p. 17), by Terry J. Erdmann and Paula M. Block, lists this episode as one of "Ten Essential Episodes" from the original Star Trek series. This episode is often spoofed or parodied in various other television programs. The aspect of evil counterparts from a parallel universe and the presence of goatees on such characters are particularly popular. See Star Trek parodies and pop culture references for such pop culture references. Remastered information "Mirror, Mirror" was the tenth of the remastered episodes of The Original Series to air. It premiered in syndication on the weekend of . Among the changes made to the episode, the agonizer effect was enhanced both during Chekov's torture, and when Spock used it on Kyle (the agonizer sparking and leaving Kyle's shoulder with a slight glow). The Halkan planet was touched up, as was the ISS Enterprise, reflecting the Enterprise model from , but now appropriately marked "I.S.S." and given a dark, gunmetal gray coloration, and now always shown orbiting from right-to-left, the reverse of its counterpart's movement in all other episodes. Coincidentally, the episode that aired before this was . Both were used in Star Trek: Deep Space Nines .The next remastered episode to air was . Video and DVD releases US RCA CED Videodisc release (1981) Original US Betamax release: UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 21, catalog number VHR 2356, release date unknown US VHS release: UK re-release (three-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 2.4, Original US DVD release (single-disc): Volume 20, As part of the TOS Season 2 DVD collection: (Region 2), (Region 1) As part of the TOS-R Season 2 DVD collection: (Region 1) As part of the Star Trek: Fan Collective - Alternate Realities collection: (Region 1), (Region 2) Links and references Starring William Shatner as Capt. Kirk/ Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock/ DeForest Kelley as Dr. McCoy/Dr. Guest star Barbara Luna as /Marlena Moreau Featuring James Doohan as Scott/ George Takei as Sulu/ Nichelle Nichols as Uhura/ Vic Perrin as Tharn/ Walter Koenig as Chekov/ John Winston as Lt. Kyle/ Garth Pillsbury as Pete Kellett as Uncredited co-stars Bobby Bass as Chekov's guard #1 William Blackburn as Hadley/ Bobby Clark as Chekov's guard #2 Roger Holloway as Johnny Mandell as Sulu's guard Eddie Paskey as Leslie Russ Peek as Spock's guard Paul Prokop as a ISS Enterprise phaser control guard John Winston as Computer Voice Unknown actors as: Halkan councilor 1 and 2 ISS Enterprise bridge crewman 1, 2, and 3 ISS Enterprise bridge guard 1 ISS Enterprise bridge guard 2/USS Enterprise security guard 2 ISS Enterprise corridor guard 1, 2, and 3 ISS Enterprise engineering guard 1 ISS Enterprise transporter room guard 1 and 2 Kirk's guard 1 and 2 Sulu's guard 1 and 2 Stunts Paul Baxley as stunt double for William Shatner Vince Deadrick as stunt double for DeForest Kelley Jay Jones as stunt double for James Doohan Dave Perna as stunt double for Leonard Nimoy Nedra Rosemond as stunt double for Nichelle Nichols Stand-ins William Blackburn as stand-in for DeForest Kelley Frank da Vinci as stand-in for Leonard Nimoy Roger Holloway as stand-in for James Doohan Jeannie Malone as stand-in for Barbara Luna Eddie Paskey as stand-in for William Shatner References 2266; 2507; acid; Admiralty; agony booth; agonizer; "all right"; alternative; answer; ; assassination; assistant; "at liberty"; authority; automatic transporter setting; auxiliary power; barbarian; beaming; beard; behavior; bet; "bitten off more than we can chew"; blood; "Bones"; ; Caesar; captain; captain's woman; captaincy; carelessness; "carry on"; cat; century; Chamber of Horrors; chance; Channel B; chem lab; chief; classified; colonist; commission; communicator; computation; computer; Constitution-class decks; coordinates; credits; crew deck; ; dawn; deadline; death; death penalty; dilithium; dimensional plane; discipline; discussion; dizziness; ear; emergency manual monitor; enemy; engine circuit; engineer; ; ; ethics; event; eye; execution; existence; extended orbit; fact; failure; Federation; field density; freedom; friend; Gestapo; Gorlans; Gorlan rebel home planet; Halkan; Halkan primary city; Halkan secondary city; Halkan Council; Halkan homeworld; heart; henchman; Homo sapiens'' (aka Human; aka Humanity); hour; hunting; hypothesis; idea; injury; "in line"; "in progress": "in question"; integrity; intercom; interdimensional contact; ion; ion storm; job; Kenner; kiss; laboratory; landing party; leader; library; logic; magnetic storm; Master of Poisons; mercy; Milky Way Galaxy; mind; mind meld; minute; mirror universe; mirror universe history; mission; nature; "of course"; officer; official record; operative; operator; opportunity; optimum range; orbit; "out of place"; pain; parallel universe; pass out; peace; perfection; person; personal guard; phaser; phaser coupling; phaser lock; phaser report; pig; ; pirate; ; ; power surge; prediction; proof; rank; rebel; ; result; revolt; revolution; risk; rotation; rule; savage; second; security board; security chief; security research; signal; slap; society; standard procedure; "stand by"; stand-by circuit; star; Starfleet Command; (mirror); stranger; subfrequency; suicide; Survived a Mortal Wound; table; Tantalus field; Tantalus field inventor; ; Terran cabinet; Terran Empire; Terran salute; terror; "the top dog"; thing; thousand; threat; time lag; toast; tolerance; traitor; transporter; transporter beam (aka power beam); transporter chamber; transporter chief; transporter circuit; transporter lock; transporter main; transporter power; transporter room; trap; treason; treatment; tyranny; uniform; universe; Vega IX; Vega IX victims; voice-index lock; voiceprint; Vulcan; week; "when the cat'a away, the mice will play"; year; yeoman Unused references ; External links de:Ein Parallel-Universum es:Mirror, Mirror fr:Mirror, Mirror (épisode) ja:イオン嵐の恐怖（エピソード） nl:Mirror, Mirror pl:Mirror, Mirror TOS episodes

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The Deadly Years (episode)

The Enterprise discovers a colony full of rapidly-aging scientists. Whatever has caused the rapid aging of the scientists soon afflicts five of the six members of the ship's landing party as well. Kirk, Spock, McCoy, and Scott are all shocked to discover that they are all aging decades each day, and that they will all die soon--as a sixth member of that landing party, younger than all the others but quickest to age--soon does, unless a cure for their condition can be found in time. Whatever had prevented Chekov from being affected by the process may end up being their only hope for survival. Summary Teaser The is on a routine mission to resupply the experimental colony at Gamma Hydra IV. Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Scott, Lt. Galway, and Ensign Chekov beam down. While the landing party is spread out looking for the missing colonists, Chekov wanders into a darkened building where he had been bidden search. As the lights come on, they reveal the dead body of a very old man – and Chekov runs out, terror-stricken. Star Fleet discipline notwithstanding, Chekov is panicking and is in the full throes of terror. The rest of the landing party goes in to investigate. McCoy reveals the cause of death to be natural causes, extreme old age. Spock finds this impossible, since he had checked the records prior to the group beaming down and found that none of the colony members were over thirty. Then two elderly people wander in – these are Robert Johnson, who claims to be only twenty-nine; and his wife, Elaine who claims to be twenty-seven. Act One "Captain's log, stardate 3478.2. On a routine mission to resupply the experimental colony at Gamma Hydra IV, we discovered a most unusual phenomenon. Of the six members of the colony, none of whom were over thirty, we found four had died and two were dying… of old age!" In the Enterprise in sickbay, Kirk tries to question Robert Johnson, but being of advanced age, he fails to understand fully what the Commanding Officer is asking him. He fills in his passengers, Commodore Stocker, Yeoman Atkins, and Dr. Janet Wallace, Wallace also being an old flame of Kirk's past. Kirk promises to keep them all informed and that they will remain in orbit until the mystery is solved. Commodore Stocker expresses his pressing concern to reach Starbase 10, and Kirk says he will do everything he can to get Stocker there. Everyone leaves the briefing room and Dr. Wallace and Kirk reminisce about the past for a moment and how their careers got in the way of their relationship over six years ago. Kirk goes to the bridge and gives Sulu the order to maintain orbit, and Spock informs him that a rogue comet passed near the planet some time ago, but is unsure whether it had any effects on the planet. Commodore Stocker tries to again push the Enterprise to leave immediately for Starbase 10, claiming the instruments there would be more effective. Kirk politely refuses the Commodore's request and leaves the bridge giving the command again to maintain orbit, much to Sulu's and Spock's puzzlement. Meanwhile, a perplexed Lieutenant Galway visits McCoy complaining about suffering a sudden loss of ; McCoy expresses hope that hypersonic treatment may clear it up, which it, unfortunately, does not. Kirk, in his quarters, calls Spock on the bridge and informs him to look into a comet that had recently passed the planet. Spock, of course, replies he is already doing so as per Kirk's orders, leaving Kirk a little confused. He then goes to sickbay complaining of shoulder pain, and jokes about McCoy's hair getting a little grayer. McCoy's initial exam reveals advanced arthritis in Kirk's shoulder, which Kirk refuses to believe at first. But then Scott walks in, complete with gray hair and wrinkles. Act Two "Captain's log, stardate 3479.4. The Enterprise personnel who beamed down to the planet's surface – Dr. McCoy, Engineer Scott, Mr. Spock, Lieutenant Galway, and myself – are all showing definite signs of aging. Only Ensign Chekov appears to be normal." Everyone that had been in the landing party is showing definite signs of accelerated aging, with the sole exception of Chekov. Most of the party members are aging at approximately thirty years a day (Galway, despite being the youngest of those afflicted, appears to be aging at a vastly faster rate than anyone else), and McCoy is at a loss for the cause. He has run a complete physical on Chekov and found nothing to explain it. Spock estimates that they all have less than a week to live and that in lesser time, they will be little more than mental vegetables. Though Spock is showing no obvious physical signs, he admits to suffering from lethargy, memory and vision loss, and the ship's temperature is feeling increasingly colder to him. Kirk sends Scott and Galway back to their duties and leaves McCoy to do yet another physical on Chekov. Scott is already so deteriorated and weakened that Spock needs to help him walk. As Kirk heads back to the bridge, he exchanges a mildly flirtatious conversation with the concerned Dr. Wallace. The tone changes however, when Kirk realizes that her deceased husband, Theodore Wallace, was 26 years her senior. Kirk rejects her advances, and inquires if Dr. Wallace's affections to him are because of his current appearance, and also concerned that it may be out of pity for his sad condition. Sitting at his navigation console on the bridge, Chekov gripes to Sulu about McCoy's constant examinations of him and him giving all sorts of samples. "If--IF!--I live long enough, I'm going to run out of samples." Sulu reassures him, "You'll live." But Chekov continues to gripe, "Oh, yes. I'll live. But I won't enjoy it." An elderly Kirk arrives at the bridge while a concerned Commodore Stocker looks on, and the bridge crew can see that Kirk's advanced age is clearly taking its toll. Kirk gives orders, then forgets giving them. He even falls asleep in his command chair. A gray-haired Spock wakes him and informs him that the comet is indeed the source of the problem. By now, even Spock appears to be tired. The orbit of Gamma Hydra IV had recently caused the planet to pass through the comet's tail. Though no regular levels of radiation were detected, there were extremely low levels of radiation, which is the probable cause. Kirk then orders Lieutenant Uhura to send a coded message to Starfleet and to use code 2 since they are close to the Romulan Neutral Zone. Uhura reminds Kirk that the Romulans have already broken code 2. A befuddled Kirk orders her to use code 3 and to relay the information about the comet. He then tells Sulu to move the ship to a higher orbit, and when Sulu indicates that he had already given that command, he yells, "I fail to understand why each one of my commands is being questioned!" McCoy confirms the radiation-poisoning theory, and Kirk returns to the bridge. Spock then informs McCoy that the ship has become increasingly cold and he has had to increase the temperature in his own quarters to 125 degrees (in °F; the Celsius equivalent being 51.6667°), to which McCoy informs him that he will not be making house calls to Spock. Dr. Wallace then tells McCoy that none of the conventional means for radiation therapy will work in this case. In a corridor, Commodore Stocker meets with Spock, informing him of his concern for Kirk's ability to command. He asks Spock to take over as captain, since Vulcans have a much longer life span than Humans. Spock reminds the commodore that he is also feeling the effects of the aging and that he also is half Human. Stocker asks Spock to conduct an extraordinary competency hearing, which according to regulations is Spock's duty as first officer. Spock, wanting to spare Kirk of any more suffering than he is already going through and the humiliation of an almost guaranteed judgment against him, tells the commodore that he has duties to attend to. Stocker holds firm and insists to Spock that a competency hearing is mandatory by regulations. Spock reluctantly agrees and announces that he will convene the hearing at 14:00 hours. As McCoy continues to examine Chekov, an even more aged Lt. Galway arrives at sickbay and falls dead in Kirk's arms. McCoy speculates that Galway's metabolism caused the disease to affect her far more severely, resulting in her early death, and that they themselves have little more time. They may have no longer than days remaining to them, perhaps even hours. Act Three Spock conducts the competency hearing. Scott is by now much older, looking tired and depressed. Kirk and McCoy are also in terrible condition. A reluctant Atkins, Uhura, and Sulu all testify about Kirk's failing abilities. McCoy also reluctantly confirms the computer analysis of his medical examination. Testifying, Kirk tries to maintain his control, but it is quite obvious that his mind and deteriorated body are failing, and he digs himself a deeper hole by going on a long, rambling speech in which he erroneously refers to the planet that they are orbiting as "Gamma Hydra II". He is removed from command and to his dismay, the inexperienced Commodore Stocker assumes command. Kirk, despite his senility, does nonetheless retain enough common sense to predict correctly that Stocker, with no command experience, and in Kirk's words, a "chair-bound paper pusher" or, essentially, an official in uniform, would be a poor choice to command the Enterprise, and tries to order Spock to take command. When Spock rebuffs Kirk and reminds him that he no longer has power on the Enterprise, it deeply hurts him and temporarily causes a rift between the two. Kirk then fruitlessly tries to justify his command ability to Janet, telling her that his brain is still as sharp as it ever was, despite evidence to the contrary. Kirk asks Wallace if she sees him getting older, for which she cannot provide an answer. Later, a very old and gray Kirk and an equally-gray Spock and McCoy review again their beaming down to the planet. Spock then reminds them that the only time Chekov was not with them was when he went into the building and discovered the body, whereupon, terror-stricken, he fled from the building in a state of near panic. McCoy postulates that the increased adrenaline levels somehow may have protected Chekov from being afflicted. Stocker, who has no field experience, plots a shortcut to Starbase 10 through the Romulan Neutral Zone and, of course, the Romulans immediately attack. The Enterprise is quickly surrounded by several Bird-of-Prey ships, as a shocked and frozen commodore tries to decide what to do. Kirk wishes to go to the bridge. A terminal McCoy tries to dissuade him and tells him that they are both finished. Act Four The Romulans continue to attack the Enterprise while Stocker tries to establish communication. Spock, with Wallace's assistance and even through his own suffering from handicapping cold sensitivity, races against time and synthesizes a crude adrenaline serum, but it could either cure or kill. Kirk, unable to endure any longer and determined to get back to the bridge, demands the first shot stating he is already about to die anyway (either from the serum, destruction of the ship or the aging process) – and upon receiving it, he starts to scream and writhe while held down with restraints on his bio-bed. Stocker feels that the only way to get the Romulans to stop is by surrendering. But Chekov reminds him that Romulans do not take prisoners. Suddenly, a fully-recovered Kirk arrives on the bridge and retakes command. On purpose, he instructs Uhura to post a message to Starfleet, using code 2, that he plans to self-destruct the ship and take all the Romulan ships with him by using the "recently installed" corbomite device. Spock looks exhausted, but relieved. As Kirk had expected, the Romulans tap into the message and start to move out of the way. Kirk uses this opportunity to warp the Enterprise out of the Neutral Zone and back to safety. McCoy boards the main bridge, being shown to have recovered, and informs Kirk that Scott is fine, though he pulled a muscle when his body reacted to the serum. The antidote is a success, even if the procedure is very painful to Humans, and even more so for Vulcans. Kirk points out to Stocker that there is very little a star base can do that a starship cannot, but Stocker points out that he is now fully aware of what a starship can do "with the right man at the helm." McCoy informs Spock that an especially potent dosage of the antidote has already been prepared for him, that all breakable objects have been removed from the infirmary, and that they can administer the radiation-poisoning antidote whenever Spock is ready. Spock is in visibly bad shape, and he asks to receive it now. Kirk remarks that the events of the past day will be an experience they will remember, even in old age – which hopefully will still be far off. Kirk orders Sulu to take command of the Enterprise, steady as she goes, which the helmsman repeats. Kirk replies that he thought he already said that. Log entries Captain's log, USS Enterprise (NCC-1701), 2267 Memorable quotes "Why, Bones, I believe you're getting gray!" "Well, you take over MY job and see what happens to YOU!" - Kirk and McCoy, as Kirk notices McCoy's advanced aging "I don't know what's causing it. A virus, a bacteria, or evil spirits, but I'm trying to find out." - McCoy to Kirk, on the aging effects "What a stupid place to hang a mirror!" - Galway, as she sees her aged reflection in sickbay "The heart is not a logical organ." - Wallace to Kirk, on her feelings for him "Blood sample, Chekov! Marrow sample, Chekov! Skin sample, Chekov! If – if I live long enough, I'm going to run out of samples!" "You'll live." "Oh, yes. I'll live. But I won't enjoy it." - Chekov and Sulu, as Chekov complains about his medical tests "I'm not a magician, Spock, just an old country doctor." - McCoy, as Spock complains about his sensitivity to colder temperatures "Now this isn't going to hurt a bit." "That's what you said the last time." "Did it hurt?" "YES!" - McCoy and Chekov, as McCoy prepares another medical test on Chekov "The man's a chair-bound PAPER-pusher!" - Kirk to Spock, describing Stocker "And you don't run a starship with your arms; you run it with your head! And my brain's as sharp as it ever was." - Kirk, as he tells Wallace why he is still fit to command the Enterprise "You traitorous… disloyal… you stabbed me in the back the first chance you get! Spock…! Get out… I never want to have to look at you again." - Kirk, blaming Spock for losing command "I admit, I'm getting a little gray but radiation will do that to you." - Kirk "Lieutenant Uhura, let me know if we contact any Romulan…" (The ship is shaken by an impact.) "I think we just made contact, sir." - Commodore Stocker and Uhura, as the Enterprise is being attacked by Romulans Background information Production timeline Story outline "Hold Back Tomorrow" by David P. Harmon: Revised story outline "The Deadly Years": First draft teleplay: Second draft teleplay: Revised draft by Gene L. Coon: mid- Final draft teleplay by Coon: Additional page revisions: , , This episode was produced in early . Filmed: – Day 1 – , Thursday – Desilu Stage 10: Ext. Gamma Hydra IV surface, Int. Colony building; Desilu Stage 9: Int. Sickbay Day 2 – , Friday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Bridge Day 3 – , Monday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Corridors, Sickbay Day 4 – , Tuesday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Sickbay, Bridge, Briefing room Day 5 – , Wednesday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Kirk's quarters, Briefing room Day 6 – , Thursday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Briefing room, Corridor, Sickbay Day 7 – , Friday (Half Day) – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Sickbay Original airdate: Rerun airdate: First UK airdate: Production notes The brownish planet seen in this episode (a slightly color corrected version of the one used in ), reappeared in later episodes, as Gamma II in , Arret in , in , Minara II in , Platonius in , Cheron in , and Gideon in . According to Walter Koenig, director Joseph Pevney wanted to shoot a close-up of Chekov's eyes as he sees the aged dead body in surprise. However, Koenig blinked each time it was tried, and it took fifteen takes to do it right. However, it is not in the finished episode. Koenig also felt that Chekov seemed younger in this episode than in any other, claiming that his reaction upon discovering the corpse in the teaser was more like the reaction of a 15-year-old than that of a Starfleet officer who had sat on the bridge of the Enterprise. In The World of Star Trek (3rd ed., p. 73), William Shatner relates that he endured an excruciating make-up session for this episode – all for nothing, because the shooting day was just about to end. The producers caught his exasperation in an infamous blooper, wherein he declares, "Bob Justman, I'm going home now… after spending three hours putting this [expletive deleted] make-up back on – and it's your fault!" One memorable outtake features Beverly Washburn getting stuck on a line, before blurting out, "I FEEL LIKE HELL!" No special effects shots were filmed for this episode. The entire Romulan attack is created by using stock footage from and . In addition, no actual Romulans appeared in this episode, in this season's only Romulan appearance. They would return one final time in the third season episode . The script called for the aged Kirk to run from sickbay to the bridge, and gradually grow younger until he arrived. (The Star Trek Compendium, p. 84) But as director Joseph Pevney told Allan Asherman in The Star Trek Interview Book, the slow speech patterns and actions of the aging Enterprise personnel were making the episode run long. So Kirk's reverse aging scenes were cut. The last shot of the episode is lifted from , which was evident from the wig Walter Koenig wore in that episode, which he didn't have on for the entire episode. The end credits of this episode include a make-up test shot of William Blackburn as a Tellarite. He discusses his experience in an interview on the remastered second season DVD collection of the series issued by Paramount and CBS Home Video. This is the first time Kelley is aged using makeup in order to look much older than he is. The second time is in . Continuity Areel Shaw's line from about how long it has been since she's seen Kirk is recycled by Janet Wallace in this segment, with Wallace's time having been "six years, four months, and an odd number of days," while Shaw's was "four years, seven months, and an odd number of days." Kirk's age – 34 years old – is established in this episode. This episode also establishes that Sulu has served with Captain Kirk for two years. (c.f. ) The proximity of the Gamma Hydra sector to the Romulan Neutral Zone in this episode is repeated in the opening scene of , when the Enterprise supposedly violates the zone while patrolling near the sector. However, in the movie, it is the Klingons who attack. Kirk makes a reference to the fictional "corbomite" device, which he first described in . Although Chekov was not on the bridge on that occasion, he and Sulu exchange knowing looks when Kirk mentions the word. It is speculated in The Star Trek Compendium (p. 86) that Chekov's familiarity with the bluff further reinforced his presence aboard the Enterprise during TOS Season 1, much like would place him aboard during . The Compendiums theory, however, would be refuted during the next episode, , when Chekov was oblivious of Mudd's visit in – the episode after "The Corbomite Maneuver". Be that as it may, the Compendiums other theory, "that Sulu had filled him [Chekov] in on what happened during that ["The Corbomite Maneuver"] adventure," seems more likely to be true, in spite of its own admission to the contrary. As he aged, McCoy's Southern dialect grew noticeably thicker as well as his "old country doctor" mannerisms. (The Star Trek Compendium, p. 83) Merchandising Literature releases Bantam Books published a series of novelizations called "foto-novels," which took photographic stills from actual episodes and arranged word balloons and text over them, to create a formatted story. The eleventh installment was an adaptation of this episode. Video and DVD releases Original US Betamax release: UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 21, catalog number VHR 2356, release date unknown. US VHS release: . UK re-release (three-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 2.4, . Original (single-disc): Volume 20, . As part of the TOS Season 2 DVD collection. Links and references Starring William Shatner as Captain Kirk Also starring Leonard Nimoy as Spock And DeForest Kelley as Dr. McCoy Guest star Charles Drake as Commodore Stocker Also starring Sarah Marshall as Janet Wallace Featuring James Doohan as Scott George Takei as Sulu Nichelle Nichols as Uhura Majel Barrett as Christine Chapel Walter Koenig as Chekov Felix Locher as Mr. Johnson Carolyn Nelson as Yeoman Atkins Laura Wood as Mrs. Johnson Beverly Washburn as Arlene Galway Uncredited co-stars Majel Barrett as Computer Voice Frank da Vinci as Brent Steve Hershon as security guard Roger Holloway as Roger Lemli Eddie Paskey as Leslie Frieda Rentie as a Lieutenant Unknown actors as Alvin Command crew woman Command lieutenant Crew woman 1 Crew woman 2 Medical technician Operations crew woman Sciences lieutenant Security guard References 2233; 2238; 2240; 2243; 2261; 2265; administrative area; admiration; adrenal gland; adrenaline; aging; Aldebaran III; "all hands"; alternative; amount; analysis; ancient history; annual check; answer; area; arm; arthritis; "a slip of the tongue"; assumption; astrophysics lab; astronomical section; atmosphere; Atomic Age; bacteria; biochemistry lab; blood; blood sample; blood type; board; "Bones"; brain; briefing; bruise; building; bulletin; carbohydrate compound; case; chance; chief engineer; chief medical officer; chief surgeon; choice; chronological age; class M; code 2; code 3; cold sweat; commanding officer; command order; commodore; comparative base; competency hearing; computation; conclusion; contact; conversation; corbomite device; cosmic ray; country doctor; course; danger; day; dead body; dead zone; deaf; death; "death by natural causes"; decency; ; ; ; diameter; direct examination; emergency power; endocrinology; environment; estimate; evaluation; evil spirit; experience; experimental colony; expert; explosion; eyesight; facility; faculty; Fahrenheit; Federation; field command; first officer (aka second-in-command); flag officer (flag rank); fool; friend; fuel consumption report; Gamma Hydra; Gamma Hydra II; Gamma Hydra IV; gene; gland; going-away present; greenhorn; guinea pig; hailing frequency; head; heading; ; heart; hour; house call; Human; hyperaccelerated aging disease; hypersonic treatment; hyronalin; initials; instruction; investigation; job; junior officer; kilometer; leader; life span; logic; love; lucidity; magician; mark (navigation); marriage; marrow sample; ; matter; medical bank; medical scanner; memory; mental capacity; mental condition; mental vegetable; mentally unfit; metabolism; mile; minute; mirror; mission; month; morality; morning; muscle; muscular strain; needle; nitrogen; odd number; officer; old age; opinion; orbit; order; organ; outpost; oxygen; "pay their respects"; perfection; perigee; personnel check; phenomenon; physical analysis; physical age; physical condition; physical examination; physical reflex; physiological profile; place; plant; ; presiding officer; problem; progress; progress report; promise; proof; prosecuting attorney; pulled muscle; Quadrant 448; question; radiation; radiation level; radiation poisoning; radiation sickness; radiation therapy; range; rank; ranking officer; red alert; refining; remedy; reprimand; research; research facility; rogue comet; Romulan; Romulan Bird-of-Prey (unnamed); Romulan Empire; Romulan Neutral Zone; RNZ sector; room; sample; scientific expedition; scientific technician; Scots language; senility; senior officer; sensitivity; sensor; serum; shield; shirt; shoulder; signature; skin sample; slip of the tongue; solar year; solution; special channel; speed; "stab me in the back"; standard orbit; "stand by"; statement; Starbase 10; Starfleet; Starfleet Command; Starfleet Regulations; stargram; subspace contact; surface; surrender; temperature; thing; thought; thousand; virus; vitamin; voting; Vulcan; ; weapon; "wee"; week; witness; year; yeoman;youth External links de:Wie schnell die Zeit vergeht es:The Deadly Years fr:The Deadly Years (épisode) it:Gli anni della morte (episodio) ja:死の宇宙病（エピソード） nl:The Deadly Years pl:The Deadly Years TOS episodes

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I, Mudd (episode)

Harry Mudd, now ruler of a planet of androids, captures the Enterprise and attempts to imprison Kirk for revenge. Summary Teaser Spock and Dr. McCoy are walking through the corridors of the , where they encounter Crewman Norman, who joined the Enterprise crew only 72 hours before. McCoy mentions that Norman is odd and unemotional; for some reason, Spock hasn't noticed. Norman makes his way into auxiliary control, where he knocks out Jordan, the crewman on duty and activates the override. On the bridge, Lieutenant Sulu reports a course change whereupon Captain Kirk sends security to auxiliary control, but to no avail. Sulu tries to override the course change, but fails. Norman then breaks into the emergency manual monitor and engineering section, knocks out much of the engineering crew, and jams the controls. A dazed Scott hails the bridge and informs Kirk that the intruder is in engineering. Later, Norman emerges from the turbolift onto the bridge and announces he is in control – any attempt to alter course will destroy the ship. He then says "we" don't intend harm to humanoid life, but rather require the ship, and opens up a panel in his abdominal region, revealing himself to be an android. Act One Norman announces that he's locked the controls and that they will arrive at their destination in four solar days. He then promptly shuts down in front of the bridge's turbolift. "Captain's log, stardate 4513.3. After having been taken over by an android, the Enterprise has been underway at warp 7 for four days. Now, we are entering orbit around a planet which has never been charted." Four days later, the Enterprise enters orbit around an uncharted planet. Norman wakes up and announces that Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Uhura, and Chekov must beam down, or he will destroy the engines, stranding the Enterprise in orbit forever. The planet is Class K, which means that it can be adapted for life with the help of a large amount of machinery. They are ushered into the presence of Harry Mudd, sitting on a throne and drinking from a goblet, who declares that he rules the planet as "Mudd the First." He declares that Kirk and crew must stay for the rest of their lives on the planet, now also named Mudd. Act Two Harry Mudd is surrounded by androids, who for the most part are a slew of beauties – 500 in the Alice class alone. He implies that these androids can provide for him anything he wants. Mudd goes on to explain his presence on the planet. He had been sent to prison by Kirk and company after his last encounter with the Enterprise crew and the affair on the Rigel mining planet. After his escape, he had been employing himself by illegally reselling patents. He was caught selling a Vulcan fuel synthesizer to the Denebians and, upon being informed of Mudd's deception, sentenced to death on Deneb V; fortunately for him he was able to steal a ship and get away despite being shot at. After drifting aimlessly for a while, he found himself on his planet. The problem is, of course, that he has gotten bored, but the androids won't let him go unless they can provide more humans for them to study. Kirk and his crewmates are there because he told the androids to go and get a starship, so the crew could stay and he could leave. Mudd then demonstrates to Kirk and McCoy an of his shrewish wife Stella; he amuses himself by telling her to shut up whenever he likes, thereby finally getting the last word with his wife. The androids bring them to a recreation area, where they reveal that they were made by the Makers, a humanoid race from the Andromeda Galaxy. Their home planet's sun went nova and only a few exploratory outposts survived. After the androids leave the room, Spock surmises that the number of androids and their interactions are such that they cannot operate independently. He concludes that there should be a central control system which guides the entire android population. Spock finds what appears to be a central control room. Norman is there, but will not tell Spock much about the controls; he is "not programmed to respond in this area". Kirk and Uhura are being shown the Barbara series of robots by Mudd and Alice. Uhura asks how long they last; the answer comes back – 500,000 yrs. Plus, they can put a Human brain in the android – effective immortality. Uhura seems to respond well to this idea. Back in the recreation room, Scott is forcefully brought down to Mudd by the androids. He is the last of the Enterprises personnel to be brought down; androids are now completely running the ship. Act Three Because the androids can provide whatever the crew wants, Kirk is worried his crew will be tempted. Chekov, for example, is being serviced by two Alice androids, and seems to be enjoying it a great deal, noting that "this place is even better than Leningrad." Scott, on the other hand, is quite interested in their engineering facilities. Kirk and his crewmates are planning to escape – Uhura and Chekov seem to be enjoying it there, but Kirk snaps them out of it. An Alice comes in and promises anything to make them happy, and Kirk says he can't be happy without their ship. Alice doesn't respond to this very well; she asks Norman (who is not present) to coordinate, and promptly leaves. Mudd is saying goodbye to the androids when Kirk comes in to have a chat with him. To no one's surprise but Mudd's, the androids won't let him leave. The androids then reveal their plan: to "serve" Humans until they become completely dependent upon the androids. "Their aggressive and acquisitive instincts will be under our control. We shall… take care of them." Act Four Spock figures out that Norman coordinates the androids, for two reasons: first, there is only one Norman, but many of the others, and second, when Alice was confused earlier, she asked Norman to coordinate. They decide to target Norman with insane logic in an attempt to overload the central control. They decide to provide an escape attempt, because the androids will be expecting one. They knock Mudd out – over his vehement protests – and then tell the androids he will die without a trip to the Enterprise for treatment. Uhura then pretends to betray the crew for immortality. At this point, the crew puts their real plan into action. They engage in a surreal pantomime for two of the Alice androids in order to confuse them. The androids cannot rationalize the conflicting and illogical inputs and suspend operation. Elsewhere, Spock tries to nerve pinch another Alice, but it has no effect. He then causes two other Alice androids to freeze up by telling one he loves her, but the other he hates her. The androids can't deal with this, as they are identical in every way – it is illogical to love one and not the other. When this seems to work, they decide to take down Norman. After a series of over the top speeches, android imitations, pantomimed deaths and explosions and other silly antics, a recitation of the Liar's Paradox ("Everything I say is a lie. I am lying." Am I a liar or not?) finally overloads Norman and causes the remaining androids to shut down. The androids are reprogramed to their orginal function of making the planet productive. Mudd is left on the planet for an indeterminate amount of time under a type of "parole" as an example to the androids of a Human failure. He is quite happy with his sentence – the androids can provide him with whatever he wants. However, his enthusiasm fades when he is accosted by another android copy of Stella; like the previous one, it is programmed to harangue and annoy him as much as possible; unlike the previous one, he has no control over it, and his repeated commands to "shut up!" are ignored. To his horror, he is quickly surrounded by two more copies, and is now being harangued by three wives at once. Then he sees the number tag on one of the copies – 500 – meaning there are that many copies of Stella sharing the planet with him, and possibly more – and cries out to Kirk, begging to leave the planet with them. Kirk and the crew of the Enterprise bid Mudd a cheery farewell and continue on their mission. Log entries Captain's log, USS Enterprise (NCC-1701), 2268 Memorable quotes "He's probably terrified of your beads and rattles." - Spock to McCoy, on why Norman has avoided his medical appointments "Spock, you're going to love it here. They all talk just the way you do." - Mudd, describing the planet's androids "Harry Mudd, you're a liar and an outlaw and in deep trouble!" - Kirk, upon meeting Mudd again "Do you know what the penalty for fraud is on Deneb Five?" "The guilty party has his choice. Death by electrocution, death by gas, death by phaser, death by hanging–" "The key word in your entire peroration, Mr. Spock, was– 'death'. Barbarians!" - Harry Mudd and Spock "She urged me on into outer space. Not that she meant to, but with her continual, eternal, confounded nagging– Well, I think of her constantly. And every time I do, I go further out into space." - Mudd, on his wife Stella "Harcourt Fenton Mudd, where have you been? What have you been up to? Have you been drinking again, you miserable sot! You good-for-nothing–!" "SHUT UP!!" - Stella Mudd and Harry Mudd "This place is even better than Leningrad!" - Chekov, after learning that Mudd programmed the Alice androids to function as Human females "It's a beautiful lady, and we love her." - Kirk, describing the Enterprise to Alice 471 "You may be a wonderful science officer, but believe me, you couldn't sell fake patents to your mother! " "I fail to understand why I should care to induce my mother to purchase falsified patents." - Mudd to Spock, as Kirk and Spock devise an escape plan "Next, we take the Alices on a trip through Wonderland." - Kirk, on the next phase of the escape plan "Logic is a little tweeting bird, chirping in a meadow. Logic is wreath of pretty flowers that smell bad. Are you sure your circuits are registering correctly? Your ears are green!" - Spock, as he confuses Norman "I love you. However, I hate you." "But I am identical in every way with Alice 27!" "Yes, of course. That is exactly why I hate you. Because you are identical." [The Alice androids overload and freeze up] "Fascinating." - Spock, as he confuses Alice 210 "You offer us only well-being." "Food and drink and happiness mean nothing to us. We must be about our job." "Suffering, in torment and pain. Laboring without end." "Dying and crying and lamenting over our burdens." (with McCoy) "Only this way can we be happy." - McCoy and Scotty "What is a man but that lofty spirit, that sense of enterprise, that devotion to something that cannot be sensed, cannot be realized but only dreamed! The highest reality." - Kirk, after Scott plays dead "I am not programmed to respond in that area." - Kirks final words to Norman as the android shuts down "'Kirk, YOU CAN'T DO THIS! IT'S INHUMAN!" - Mudd to Kirk upon finding out his parole is subject to the supervision of 500 copies of the Stella Mudd android "Now you'll find yourself back among us illogical Humans again." "Which I find eminently satisfactory, Doctor, for nowhere am I so desperately needed as among a shipload of illogical Humans." - McCoy and Spock, before leaving the planet Background information Story and production The first draft of the script devoted more attention to Norman's act of diverting the Enterprise to Mudd, with the crew only arriving at the end of the second act. After an examination revealed Norman as an android, Scotty expressed an urge to take Norman apart – quickly adding that it was "nothing personal." Norman understood. (The Star Trek Compendium, p. 85) David Gerrold did an uncredited rewrite on this episode. One of the significant changes he made, at Gene Coon's request, was to get the crew on to the planet by the end of the first act. Other notable contributions were the gag of the five hundred identical female robots, and more material relating to Stella. Coon offered to submit the script for arbitration so that Gerrold would receive credit and residuals. However, Gerrold declined as he felt it would be stealing from Stephen Kandel, who had created Harry Mudd. Clocking in at approximately five minutes and 35 seconds, this episode's teaser is the longest in the original series. Filming Using identical twins for each android "series" aided the photographic-effects budget for the episode. With imaginative use of twins and split screens, as many as six of one model were shown at once, while two of the same model required nothing but an additional costume. This ultimately gave the illusion of a planet of thousands of androids. (The Star Trek Compendium, p. 85) While searching for identical twins to play androids, casting director Joseph D'Agosta found two young girls (apparently prostitutes) walking on Hollywood Boulevard with their pet wild cat. He brought the two girls to meet producer Gene L. Coon and associate producer Robert H. Justman. While they inspected the girls, Coon had to hold the wild cat (named Marlon), which consequently scratched him with its claws and tore his entire shirt. The girls were deemed unsuitable for the role. (Inside Star Trek: The Real Story, pp 332-333) One of the blooper reels offered a behind-the-scenes look at the filming of the sequence where the crew dances to the imaginary music. The blooper reel clip featured actual music, specifically the theme to the Desilu/Paramount series Mannix. The TOS Season 2 blooper reel contains a blown scene from this episode in which Harry Mudd declares his androids have taken control of the Enterprise. In the aired scene, William Shatner grabs Roger C. Carmel by his tunic, as if ready to throttle him. In the blooper, Shatner reaches up and grabs Carmel's mustache and as Carmel laughs, apparently surrendering with arms raised, Shatner turns and grins at the camera, his eyebrows waggling. Music This episode, which used string-and-brass melodies to capture both the humor of the situations and Kirk's serious intent, was composer Samuel Matlovsky's only Star Trek assignment. (The Star Trek Compendium, p. 85) Besides Matlovsky's cues, the episode also used recycled music from various episodes by Fred Steiner, Gerald Fried (most notably ) and Sol Kaplan (excerpt from score during the scene where Uhura "spoils" the "plot" to get back on board). A short segment from George Duning's score for can also be heard when Chekov laments on Mudd's planet being "better than Leningrad". Props and costumes The piece of equipment found in Norman's lab and workshop would be recycled for future episode, appearing in the corridors of the Enterprise. Parts of the device that contained the nanopulse laser were later seen in Dr. McCoy's lab. A large number of costumes are reused from previous installments. The Annabelle series android, played by Marlys Burdette, is wearing the same costume she originally wore in ; while the Trudy series is wearing a costume worn by another Argelian woman in the same episode. The Maisie series and the Barbara series androids are wearing costumes left over from , worn by Karen Steele and Maggie Thrett respectively. Stella Mudd is wearing a dress (with slight modifications), which was seen on Natalie Norwick in . The body suits worn by the male androids were later reused on Bele and Lokai in . Cast This episode marks George Takei's last appearance in the series until . During his nine episode absence, Takei was on the East Coast filming . With the exception of those actors who played members of the Enterprise crew, Roger C. Carmel was the only actor to play the same character in more than one episode of the series. Michael Zaslow, who plays Jordan in this episode, previously played Darnell in the first season episode, . Continuity This episode further establishes the time frame of Chekov's assignment to the Enterprise. In , we learn that Chekov was aboard when the events from took place. In this episode, his question to Kirk, "You know this man, captain?" tells us he was definitely not aboard when Harry Mudd made his first appearance in . This episode marks one of four times Kirk is able to "talk a computer to death". This skill is also used in , , and (with an honorable mention going to , in which Kirk's arguments get Ruk the android so riled up he suicidally attacks Korby). Reception According to Walter Koenig, NBC considered making a spin-off series detailing the comical adventures of Harry Mudd after the success of this episode. They assigned Gene Roddenberry to develop the idea, but being busy with Star Trek and other projects, he didn't have time for it, and the series was never conceived. However, Mudd appears in the cartoon version of Star Trek up to his usual tricks, and is also the main character in the episode, . Remastered information "I, Mudd" was the sixth episode of the remastered version of The Original Series to air, premiering in syndication on the weekend of . Aside from the standard CGI replacement footage of the Enterprise, this episode most notably featured new effects shots of the planet Mudd (now a planet with a ring system), as well as a revision to the footage of Norman revealing his android circuitry. The next remastered episode to air was . Production timeline Star Trek is... series proposal by Gene Roddenberry: – mentions story idea "Reason" Story concept "I, Mudd" by Roddenberry and Gene L. Coon: Story outline by Stephen Kandel: Revised story outline: First draft teleplay: Second draft teleplay: Revised draft by Roddenberry: Final draft teleplay by David Gerrold: late- Revised final draft by D.C. Fontana: Additional page revisions by Coon: , Filmed: – Day 1 – , Friday (Quarter Day) – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Emergency manual control, Engineering, Corridors, Turbolift Day 2 – , Monday – Desilu Stage 10: Int. Entrance room, Throne room Day 3 – , Tuesday – Desilu Stage 10: Int. Throne room Day 4 – , Wednesday – Desilu Stage 10: Int. Throne room, Lounge Day 5 – , Thursday – Desilu Stage 10: Int. Lounge; Desilu Stage 9: Int. Control center Day 6 – , Friday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Control center, Workshop Day 7 – , Monday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Bridge, Auxiliary control center Score recording: Original airdate: Rerun airdate: First UK airdate: Video and DVD releases Original US Betamax release: UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 22, catalog number VHR 2357, US VHS release: UK re-release (three-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 2.4, Original US DVD release (single-disc): Volume 21, As part of the TOS Season 2 DVD collection As part of the TOS-R Season 2 DVD collection Links and references Starring William Shatner as Captain Kirk Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock DeForest Kelley as Dr. McCoy Guest star Roger C. Carmel as Harry Mudd Co-starring Richard Tatro as Norman Alyce Andrece as Alice #1 through 250 Rhae Andrece as Alice #251 through 500 Featuring James Doohan as Scott Nichelle Nichols as Uhura George Takei as Sulu Walter Koenig as Chekov Kay Elliot as Mike Howden as Lt. 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The Trouble with Tribbles (episode)

A dispute over control of a planet brings the Enterprise to a space station, where they must deal with Klingons, edgy Federation officials, and a previously-unknown species of small, unbearably cute, voraciously hungry, and rapidly-multiplying furry creatures. Summary Teaser The is en route to Deep Space Station K-7 for assistance with an important assignment regarding a disputed planet. One parsec from the nearest Klingon outpost ("Close enough to smell them," as Chekov puts it), the post is near Sherman's Planet, which is claimed by both sides. In the Enterprises briefing room, Captain James T. Kirk, Commander Spock, and Ensign Pavel Chekov review the area's history: twenty-three years after the inconclusive Battle of Donatu V, the Organian Peace Treaty is set to grant control of Sherman's Planet to the party that can demonstrate it can develop the planet's resources most efficiently. Lieutenant Uhura reports from the bridge that K-7 has issued a Code One alert, which signals that it is under attack. Kirk orders a speed increase to warp factor 6, while Uhura initiates a red alert. Act One The Enterprise arrives at maximum warp, ready for a fight, only to find no battle. Beaming over with Spock, Kirk demands an explanation from station manager Lurry, but is told he was ordered to do so by Nilz Baris, a Federation undersecretary in charge of the Sherman's Planet development project. Baris and his aide, Arne Darvin, fear that the Klingons might try to sabotage the Federation's best hope to win control of the planet – a high-yield grain known as quadrotriticale, the only Earth grain that will grow on the planet. Tons of the grain are stored at the station, and Baris demands from Kirk security and protection. Kirk still believes they have misused the Priority One designation, but assigns only two guards to the station, and allows shore leave for the Enterprise crew. On leave, Uhura and Chekov meet a dealer named Cyrano Jones, who is trying to wholesale to the skeptical bartender various rare galactic items, among them, spican flame gems and furry little creatures that Jones calls tribbles. While they bicker over the price, Chekov notices a tribble has eaten a quadrotriticale sample left on the bar and Uhura is enchanted by it. Jones gives the tribble to Uhura, a move the bartender claims will ruin the market but Jones claims will help spur more sales. Back on the Enterprise, Kirk receives an order from Starfleet Admiral to render any and or all aid that Baris may require. The admiral informs Kirk that the safety of the grain – as well as the project – is the captain's responsibility. Kirk is exasperated, and just then learns from Uhura that a Klingon battle cruiser has arrived within a hundred kilometers of K-7. Kirk orders the ship to go to red alert and for Lurry to be notified. Lurry, however, discounts a possible attack, as the Klingon ship's captain, Koloth, and first officer, Korax, are sitting in his office. Kirk orders the red alert canceled. Act Two Kirk beams over with Spock and the Klingons assert their rights to shore leave under the terms of the Organian treaty. Kirk reluctantly accedes, but sets limits of twelve at a time, with one guard from the Enterprise for each Klingon soldier. In the recreation room aboard the Enterprise, Uhura's tribble gives birth to a litter. The sounds the tribbles make seem to have a soothing effect on Humans. Dr. McCoy takes one of the offspring to study it. Meanwhile, Kirk argues with Baris about the adequacy of the security Kirk is providing, until Kirk claims he is getting a headache. Going to sickbay for treatment, Kirk sees that McCoy's tribble has also produced a litter. McCoy reports that almost 50% of their metabolism is geared towards reproduction. Kirk tells crewmembers beaming over to shore leave on K-7 to avoid trouble with the Klingons. Montgomery Scott declines shore leave, but Kirk, concerned for him getting too wrapped up in his technical journals, orders him over to keep an eye on the others and to enjoy himself. At the bar aboard K-7, Jones tries to sell more tribbles. The Enterprise crew aren't interested, and the tribbles and the Klingons react to one another with loud hostility. The bartender is uninterested in more tribbles either – the one he acquired earlier is already multiplying. Korax starts insulting the Enterprise crew, first by comparing the Humans to Regulan bloodworms. He then tries to provoke Chekov by repeatedly insulting Kirk, but Scott restrains Chekov. Korax then turns his attention to Scott by insulting the Enterprise itself, first calling it a garbage scow, then just garbage, provoking Scott to punch Korax in the face and start a brawl between the two groups. The barman retreats and Jones dispenses himself some drinks in his absence. Security officers from the Enterprise arrest the brawlers and restore order, and shore leave for both ships is canceled. Act Three Kirk interrogates the crew involved in the brawl, but none are forthcoming about who started it. Kirk orders that they are all confined to quarters until he determines who started the brawl. After Kirk dismisses his officers, Scott confesses to Kirk in private that he started the fight after Korax insulted them, recalling some of the more colorful examples. Kirk presses further and is perplexed to find that Scott didn't start fighting until Korax insulted the Enterprise but realizes it was due to an engineer's sensitivities. Kirk restricts Scott to quarters, to which Scott happily complies, anticipating time off to catch up on his journals. In sickbay, Spock and McCoy have a characteristic debate on the aesthetics and utility of tribbles, Spock in particular, notes to McCoy their one redeeming characteristic – they do not talk too much. The question soon attracts Kirk's attention. There are tribbles all over the bridge, including one in his chair. McCoy reports this is because they are "born pregnant" and are swamping the ship with their rampant reproduction. Kirk orders Uhura to call for Jones to be detained on K-7 – and to "get these tribbles off the bridge." On K-7, Spock berates Jones for removing tribbles from their natural predators and letting them over-breed. Jones counters with excuses and insists that, at six credits each, they're making him money. Then Baris confronts Kirk on the insufficient security detail for the quadrotriticale. Baris claims Jones is "quite probably a Klingon agent," but Kirk is unconvinced by the evidence and finds that Jones has done no worse than disrupt activities on K-7, which is not unprecedented. "Sometimes, all they need is a title, Mr. Baris", Kirk pointedly concludes, and he and Spock return to the Enterprise. Back on board, the tribble problem has worsened. Kirk can't even get a meal, as tribbles have gotten into the food synthesizers. Scott reports that the tribbles are circulating through the Enterprises ventilation ducts, ending up in machinery all throughout the ship. Spock points out that there are comparable ducts aboard K-7 that lead to the grain storage tanks. Realizing the implication, Kirk orders all the tribbles removed from the Enterprise and rushes to K-7, gaining access to one of the storage compartments, but when he opens the overhead door, an avalanche of tribbles buries him. Act Four Kirk finally climbs out from the pile of tribbles – a population Spock estimates at 1,771,561 – and Spock discovers that they are gorged on the grain. Baris claims Kirk's orders have turned the project into a disaster and that he will call for a Starfleet board of inquiry against Kirk. But Spock and McCoy notice that many of the tribbles in the pile are dead or dying. Kirk orders McCoy to find out why they died, though McCoy protests that he doesn't yet know what keeps them alive. Kirk assembles all the principals in Lurry's office. Koloth demands that Kirk issue an official apology to the Klingon High Command, though Baris says that would give the Klingons the wedge they need to claim Sherman's Planet. Koloth also asks that the tribbles be removed from the room. The guards do so, but they pass Darvin, at which point the tribbles shriek just as they did around the Klingons. With his medical tricorder, McCoy reveals Darvin to be a Klingon. He poisoned the grain with a virus that prevents its victim from absorbing nutrients, which is how the tribbles died. "They starved to death. In a storage compartment full of grain, they starved to death!" Kirk summarizes. Darvin is arrested, the Klingons are ordered out of Federation territory within the next six hours, and Kirk says he could learn to like tribbles. In K-7's bar, Kirk and Spock then give Jones a choice: twenty years in a rehabilitation colony for transporting a harmful species, or pick up every tribble on the station (which Spock calculates would take 17.9 years). Jones accepts the latter. Back aboard the Enterprise, Kirk is happy to find the ship has been swept clean of tribbles, and asks Spock, McCoy, and Scott how they did it. They all deflect Kirk's questions until Scott reluctantly replies that before the Klingons went into warp, he beamed all of them into their engine room, "where they'll be no tribble at all." The crew share a good, long laugh at this. Log entries Captain's log, USS Enterprise (NCC-1701), 2268 Memorable quotes "One parsec, sir. Close enough to smell them." "That is illogical, Ensign. Odors cannot travel through the vacuum of space." "I was making a little joke, sir." "Extremely little, ensign." - Chekov and Spock, as the Enterprise heads for Deep Space Station K-7 "Wheat. So what?" - Kirk, upon first seeing the quadrotriticale "I have never questioned the orders or the intelligence of any representative of the Federation. Until now." - Kirk, to Baris, on the matter of the protection of the grain. "Is that an offer or a joke?" "That's my offer." "That's a joke." - Cyrano Jones and the K-7 bartender, as the bartender offers him four credits per tribble "Once this lovely little lady starts to show this precious little darling around, you won't be able to keep up with them." - Cyrano Jones to K-7 bartender regarding a tribble Cyrano has just given to Uhura "Its trilling seems to have a tranquilizing effect on the Human nervous system. Fortunately, of course … I am immune … to its effect." - Spock, as he strokes a tribble (before becoming the subject of amused looks from Uhura and Freeman) "Kirk, this station is swarming with Klingons!" "I was not aware, Mister Baris, that twelve Klingons constitutes a swarm." - Baris and Kirk, as Baris lodges a complaint "Do you know what you get if you feed a tribble too much?" "A fat tribble." "No. You get a bunch of hungry little tribbles." - McCoy and Kirk, on a tribble's metabolism "When are you going to get off that milk diet, lad?" "This is vodka." "Where I come from, that's soda pop. Now this is a drink for a man." "Scotch?" "Aye." "It was invented by a little old lady from Leningrad." - Scott and Chekov, at the K-7 bar "Oh…I just remembered: There is one Earth man who doesn't remind me of a Regulan bloodworm. That's Kirk. A Regulan bloodworm is soft and shapeless. But Kirk isn't soft. Kirk may be a swaggering, overbearing, tin-plated dictator with delusions of godhood, but he's not soft." - Korax, looking for trouble "Of course, I'd say that Captain Kirk deserves his ship. We like the Enterprise. We, we really do. That sagging old rustbucket is designed like a garbage scow. Half the quadrant knows it. That's why they're learning to speak Klingonese." "Mr. Scott!" "Laddie… don't you think you should… rephrase that?" (Mocking Scott's accent) "You're right. I should." (Normal voice) "I didn't mean to say that the Enterprise should be hauling garbage. I meant to say that it should be hauled away as garbage." - Korax, Chekov, and Scott, just before the fight begins "What's the matter, Spock?" "There's something disquieting about these creatures." "Oh? Don't tell me you've got a feeling." "Don't be insulting, Doctor." - McCoy and Spock "I see no practical use for them." "Does everything have to have a practical use for you? They're nice, they're soft, they're furry, and they make a pleasant sound." "So would an ermine violin, Doctor, yet I see no advantage to having one." - Spock and McCoy "They do indeed have one redeeming characteristic." "What's that?" "They do not talk too much." - Spock and McCoy, as Spock compares him to tribbles "Too much of anything, Lieutenant, even love, isn't necessarily a good thing." - Kirk to Uhura, on the love of a tribble "In my opinion, you have taken this important project far too lightly." "On the contrary, sir. I think of this project as very important. It is you I take lightly." - Baris and Kirk, on the security measures for the grain "My chicken sandwich and coffee. This is my chicken sandwich and coffee." "Fascinating." - Kirk and Spock, after Kirk is served tribbles by the food processor "I want these things off my ship! I don't care if it takes every man we've got – I want them off the ship!" - Kirk, determined to rid the ship of the tribbles after discovering them in his food "Well, until that board of inquiry, I'm still the captain. And as captain, I want two things done. First, find Cyrano Jones. And second …" (A tribble lands on Kirk's head) "… close that door." - Kirk, after an avalanche of tribbles falls on him "They don't like Klingons. But they do like Vulcans. Well, Mr. Spock, I didn't know you had it in you." "Obviously tribbles are very perceptive creatures, Captain." "Obviously." (Carrying tribbles, Kirk walks over to Baris) "Mister Baris, they like you. Well, there's no accounting for taste." - Kirk and Spock, using tribbles to uncover a Klingon spy "I gave them to the Klingons, sir." "You gave them to the Klingons?" "Aye, sir. Before they went into warp I transported the whole kit and kaboodle into their engine room, where they'll be no tribble at all." - Kirk and Scott, discussing what happened to all the tribbles that were aboard the Enterprise, after which, everyone burst into hysterics. Background information Story and script This script, one of Star Treks most popular, was David Gerrold's first professional sale ever. His working title for the episode was "A Fuzzy Thing Happened to Me…". Writer/producer Gene L. Coon did heavy rewrites on the final version of the script. (Inside Star Trek: The Real Story, p 333) The tribbles were originally to have been called 'fuzzies', but the name was felt to be too close to a book called Little Fuzzy. Other names considered by David Gerrold were 'shaggies', 'goonies' and 'pufflies' as well a dozen other unknown names. (Star Trek - A Celebration, page 215) While the episode was in production, Gene Roddenberry noticed that the story was similar to Robert Heinlein's novel, , which featured the "Martian Flat Cats". Too late, he called Heinlein to apologize and avoid a possible lawsuit. Heinlein was very understanding, and was satisfied with a simple "mea culpa" by Roddenberry. (Inside Star Trek: The Real Story, pp 333–334) According to Bjo Trimble, the story for this episode is based upon the short story, . ("To Boldly Go…": Season 2, TOS Season 2 DVD special features) There is a popular story about a line Spock delivers in this episode - "he heard you, he simply could not believe his ears" - being placed in the episode as a tribute to Mad Magazine's then-recent Star Trek parody. The December 1967 issue of (released around October 1967) featured the magazine's first spoof of Star Trek (titled Star Blecch). It featured a similar line as a joke about Spock's ears (Spock: "…I don't believe my ears!" Kirk: "I don't believe your ears either, Mr. Spook"). However, since this episode was filmed in August 1967, it was likely just a coincidence since the magazine had not been published yet at the time of filming. The cast did see and appreciate the Mad Magazine spoof when it came out, but a startrek.com article says they likely saw it during the filming of "A Private Little War," in October. There is no record of the cast or writers seeing the spoof before the magazine was released. Chekov quips that Scotch whisky "was invented by a little old lady from Leningrad." That Russian city, originally St. Petersburg, had its name changed to honor Vladimir Lenin, leader of the Communist revolution in 1917. The name St. Petersburg was restored in 1991, after the breakup of the USSR. Some versions that summarize this episode claim Chekov drinks whisky; in fact after Chekov drinks his Vodka, Scott then gives Chekov the full glass of their companion Freeman while Scott drinks his whiskey. Cast and characters George Takei (Hikaru Sulu) does not appear in this episode. For much of the second season, he was filming . Many scenes written for Takei were switched over to Walter Koenig. ("To Boldly Go…": Season 2, TOS Season 2 DVD special features) William Shatner recalled the great enjoyment all the cast had filming this episode. He noted, "The trouble we had with 'Tribbles' was [to] keep your straight face. It was just a lot of fun." ("To Boldly Go…": Season 2, TOS Season 2 DVD special features) Guy Raymond (the bartender) also played a bartender in beer commercials during the '60s, in which he commented on the strange occurrences in his bar. Michael Pataki is another actor who guested in two series of Star Trek, appearing as Karnas in . Some of the extras in the bar are wearing turtleneck uniforms from and , another couple of extras are wearing colonist jumpsuits from . The gentleman who seems to be enjoying watching the fight and another man are wearing 's and his stunt double's uniforms from , another one is wearing a uniform of the Antares worn by Ramart or Tom Nellis in . A woman is wearing Aurelan Kirk's costume from . Ed Reimers, who plays Admiral , was the TV spokesman for Insurance in the 1960s. In a funny sequence from the blooper reel, he catches a tribble thrown at him from offstage and, proffering it to the camera, says, "Oh, and Captain: you're in good hands with tribbles" (a play on the Allstate motto, "You're in good hands with Allstate.") William Schallert later guest starred as Varani in . James Doohan insisted on doing his own stunts in the barroom brawl. Jay Jones only doubled for him in a few brief fight sequences. This is one of the few episodes in which Doohan's missing right middle finger (lost due to injuries sustained during the in World War Two) is apparent. It can also be noticed as he carries a large bundle of tribbles to Captain Kirk, complaining that they've infested Engineering. This is one of the few times in the series that Scott and Chekov have a conversation with one another. (However, in , when Scott remarks, "Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me," Chekov quips that the saying was invented in Russia.) Along with Kirk, they would be featured together in . Paul Baxley is credited as "Ensign Freeman," but is wearing lieutenant's stripes, as pointed out in when Miles O'Brien mistakes Freeman for Captain Kirk and Julian Bashir questions his rank insignia. William Campbell (Koloth) and Charlie Brill (Arne Darvin) both reprised their roles in more than 25 years later: Campbell in and Brill in . Production Wah Chang designed the original tribbles. Hundreds were sewn together during production, using pieces of extra-long rolls of carpet. Some of them had mechanical toys placed in them so they could walk around. ("To Boldly Go…": Season 2, TOS Season 2 DVD special features) The original tribbles became sought-after collector's items, and quickly disappeared from the prop department. According to Gerrold, 500 tribbles were constructed for the episode and the tribble-maker, Jacqueline Cumere, was paid US$350. In a interview, Christopher Doohan recalls being on set during the production of this episode: "My father would often bring my brother and I along with him to the set when the show was shooting," Chris recalled. […] "He would park us in the shuttle craft and tell us to stay put.""Of course "staying put" is a difficult assignment for seven year-old twin boys… and one day they couldn't resist leaving the confines of the shuttle… and going where no child had gone before. As it happened, the day they chose coincided with the shooting of "The Trouble With Tribbles", one of the series' stranger – and enduringly popular – episodes… Chris and his brother, Montgomery, crept around the set, keeping away from the active shooting, until they came to three tall cabinets with doors just out of reach.""We were curious to know what was INSIDE," Chris recalls. "So my brother got on my shoulders and slid the cabinet open. Instantly, more than 200 tribbles came tumbling out, nearly burying us. Not only did it scare us, but we knew we would be in big trouble if Dad – or anyone else – found out. So we rushed back to the shuttle. Five minutes later Dad appeared… and praised us for being so well-behaved!"Thirty years later Chris mustered up the courage to tell his dad the real story. "And he got mad at me," Chris said with a bemused shake of the head. "It was like it had just happened yesterday!" During production of the "buried in tribbles" scene, it took up to eight takes (a considerable number) to get the avalanche of tribbles to fall just right. Gerrold wrote in , "If Captain Kirk looks just a little harried in that shot, it's not accidental. Having… tribbles dropped on you, eight times in one day, is NOT a happy experience." later established that the continuously falling tribbles hitting Kirk were in fact thrown by Benjamin Sisko and Jadzia Dax, frantically searching for the bomb placed by the future Darvin. In reality, the tribbles kept falling out of the hatch because members of the production crew had no direct line of sight with William Shatner during the filming of the scene and could not tell when there were "enough" tribbles; a barrier in the set separated them from the storage compartment, which was filled with prop tribbles. In order to set up the avalanche scene, crew members kept throwing tribbles over the wall to ensure that the bin remained as "full" as possible; when the compartment was empty, these tribbles then fell onto Shatner's head as the crew tossed them one by one. Near the end of the scene, a perplexed Shatner – already chest-deep in tribbles – can clearly be seen turning his head toward the wall behind him, wondering when the prop men will stop. (; "To Boldly Go…": Season 2, TOS Season 2 DVD special features) Spock's estimate of how many tribbles there are in three days, dead or alive, starting with one tribble producing a litter of ten every twelve hours is exactly correct, assuming that every tribble always has a litter of ten. Tribble reproduction is exponential, starting when one tribble makes ten. In twelve hours the total number is eleven. twelve hours later, each of the eleven tribbles produce ten, making the count 110 babies. Include the original eleven tribbles, and the total is 121. The formula for tribble reproduction is x=11n/12, where x is the total, and n is the number of hours. Given three days (72 hours), the final result becomes 116, which equals exactly 1,771,561. According to David Gerrold's The World of Star Trek, tribble props were misplaced about the set and were being found for several months after the production of the episode. William Campbell (Koloth) took some of the 500 tribbles home, throwing about 40 of them into a plastic bag and giving them away to neighborhood kids. (Star Trek - A Celebration, page 215) Effects Sound effects editor Douglas Grindstaff combined altered dove coos, screech owl cries, and emptying balloons to create the tribble sounds. The Enterprise miniature seen out of Lurry's window doesn't move, but if it was orbiting at the same speed the station was rotating, this would make sense. The miniature is actually one of the plastic model kits that AMT was selling at the time. In the 1970s, AMT produced a model of the K-7 space station itself, complete with a tiny Enterprise. SCTV blew up a Klingon ship with phaser blasts from some of these K-7 model kits in a low-budget effects spoof of The Empire Strikes Back in 1981. Footage of K-7 was recycled in . According to Michael and Denise Okuda's text commentary on this episode for the second season DVD set, the last fresh footage of the Enterprise was done for this episode. In every episode to follow, the shots of the ship were all stock footage. It is possible that the last of the footage of the Enterprise was filmed during this production of this episode as it is true that they did not film any shots of the Enterprise after season two. But there will be five more episodes going by production order that have previously unseen shots of the Enterprise. , , , , and all have new shots of the Enterprise. Sets The bar set, including the bartender's costume, is recycled from , with slight modifications, mostly in decoration. Continuity Star Trek returned to the events of this episode in the episode to celebrate the franchise's 30th anniversary. is the TAS sequel to this episode. Tribbles were seen in the bar scene (wherein McCoy is apprehended by "Federation security") being petted by a couple patronizing the establishment, on an adjacent table in . Mr. Scott is glad to be confined to quarters-it would give him time to catch up on enginerring technical manuals; later in Scott admits that he can't catch up with current technology. Bantam Books published a series of novelizations called "foto-novels," in which took photographic stills from actual episodes and arranged word balloons and text over them, to create a formatted story. The third installment was an adaptation of this episode. The Organian Peace Treaty mentioned by Chekov in the teaser is a reference back to the first season episode . Despite McCoy and the Enterprise crew being ignorant of tribbles, later productions indicated that they were already known to Starfleet by this time, having been used as a food source for lab animals, as pets, and even at one point being considered as a possible food source for an entire colony (, , and Capt. Gabriel Lorca kept a tribble in his ready room aboard USS Discovery). Apocrypha Although Kirk comments in the episode on the irony of tribbles in a grain storage bin dying of starvation, in James Blish's novelization of the episode, Spock also remarks on the elegant symmetry of the respective misdeeds: the poisoning of the grain eliminated the tribble infestation before it exhausted the cargo, whereas the tribbles disclosed the poisoning with no loss of Human life. In the Star Trek: Myriad Universes story The Chimes at Midnight, which explores the timeline from , the Enterprises first officer Thelin discovered Darvin's role in poisoning the quadrotriticale. Darvin remained a Federation prisoner for several months until a prisoner exchange was arranged with the Klingons. In the Star Trek: Myriad Universes story "Honor in the Night", Cyrano Jones and his tribbles were all killed by an explosion on board his vessel while it was docked at K-7 in 2267. The explosion was caused by an accidental overload in the ship's impulse drive. Consequently, Arne Darvin's sabotage of the quadrotriticale was never discovered (since there were no tribbles left alive to expose him), and the poisoned grain was shipped to Sherman's Planet, where it cost the lives of thousands of colonists. Baris assumed leadership of the remnants of the Human colonies there. He used his considerable expertise in dealing with Klingons (including Darvin, who revealed his true identity to Baris, whom Darvin had grown to respect) to deal with the situation, and eventually became President of the United Federation of Planets. While he had a long and distinguished presidential career and was fondly remembered by the citizens of the Federation (including Leonard McCoy, a lifelong friend), Baris never got over his long-standing feud with Darvin. A cat version of "The Trouble with Tribbles" was featured in Jenny Parks' 2017 book Star Trek Cats. Reception This episode was nominated for a Hugo Award in as "Best Dramatic Presentation", but lost to the version of that was actually shown on-air. In a 1985 interview, director Joseph Pevney named "The Trouble with Tribbles" as the best episode he directed. He added that they couldn't do an episode like that anymore, because the franchise has become "deadly serious" (interestingly enough, one year after the interview took place, the light-hearted, comedic premiered in theaters, and in the tribbles would be featured in the comedic mini-episode ). Pevney also commented that he "Fell in love with that show. I really enjoyed doing it, and I enjoyed working with Leonard and Shatner to make them think in terms of typically farce comedy. The show was successful and I was happy about that. I was proven right that you can do a comedy if you don't kid the script, and if you don't kid Star Trek. If you stay in character, you can have wonderful fun with Star Trek, and the kinds of things you can do with it are endless – if you don't lose the whole flavor of Enterprise discipline." (These Are the Voyages: TOS Season Two) Despite the broad popularity of this episode among fans, series Co-Producer Bob Justman wrote in his book Inside Star Trek: The Real Story that he never liked this episode, as he felt the characters parodied themselves, and that the episode's over-the-top humor lacked believability. Third season producer Fred Freiberger also disliked the show. David Gerrold recalled that when he pitched a sequel for the episode, Freiberger replied that he didn't like the original because "Star Trek is not a comedy." Gerrold's pitch later evolved into the Animated Series episode . (Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages, p. 97) Writer Samuel A. Peeples was another individual who worked on the original series but found this episode to be problematic. "I thought that the one with the fuzzy little creatures wasn't my idea of what the show should be," he remarked. "It was awfully cute and awfully nice, but it covered an area that I felt was unnecessary for that particular type of series." (The Star Trek Interview Book, p. 120) Gene Roddenberry also disliked "Tribbles" and the overall tendency for more comedy-oriented episodes, which became prominent under Gene Coon's tenure as producer, feeling that it deviated from his image of the show, opting for the much more serious approach which dominated Star Trek during his time as line producer in the first half of season 1. As Pevney put it, "This was the first out-and-out comedy we had done on the series, and Roddenberry was not in favor of it too much. He didn't cotton the idea of making fun on this show." Eventually these disagreements between Roddenberry and Coon became one of the major reasons why the latter left the series mid-season 2. (These Are the Voyages: TOS Season Two) Roddenberry's opinion of the episode seemed to have changed over the years as he later picked it as one of his ten favorite episodes for the franchise's 25th anniversary. (TV Guide August 31, 1991) William Campbell (Koloth) recalled that, after this episode was aired, his neighbor's son consequently addressed his wife as "Mrs. Klingon". (The World of Star Trek) This was voted the best episode of Star Trek by viewers of Sci-Fi Channel's Star Trek 40th Anniversary Celebrations. It was also voted the best episode by Empire magazine when they ranked the series #43 on their list of "The 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time." The book Star Trek 101 (p. 18), by Terry J. Erdmann and Paula M. Block, lists this episode as one of "Ten Essential Episodes" from the original Star Trek series. Having been a big fan of the original Star Trek series during her youth, Diane Warren – the songwriter who wrote s theme tune, "Where My Heart Will Take Me" – cited this installment as her favorite episode of TOS, upon being interviewed shortly after the start of Enterprise. She went on to say, "That's one of the episodes that, even after all these years has stayed in my mind." (, p. 57) Doug Jones, who avidly watched as a child along with his family, also selected this as one of his favorite Star Trek episodes. "As a youngster, that was a fun episode […] I like happy endings, I like low-stakes stories myself, and so that was kinda like, 'Oh, there's the fun episode." Remastered information "The Trouble with Tribbles" was the ninth episode of the remastered version of The Original Series to air. It premiered in syndication on the weekend of and featured significantly enhanced shots of the K-7 space station, now including the orbiting . The Enterprise can now be seen more often from Lurry's office, moving toward the left side of the window as it orbits K-7. The remastered episode is marked by the introduction of a revised digital model of the Enterprise, allowing for more detailed and accurate shots of the ship to be created. None of the special shots from the DS9 tribute episode was included in the remastered version. Furthermore, the Gr'oths design is different from the Greg Jein model seen in the Deep Space Nine episode. That ship is greener, with an avian pattern on it, where this version of the Klingon ship is grey and does not bear that pattern, bringing it more in line with TOS counterparts. Coincidentally, the episode that aired after this was . Scenes from both episodes were used in Star Trek: Deep Space Nines . The next remastered episode to air was . Production timeline Treatment "The Fuzzies" by David Gerrold: Story outline "A Fuzzy Thing Happened to Me": Revised story outline: Second revised story outline: First draft teleplay "The Trouble with Tribbles": Second draft teleplay: Revised draft by Gene L. Coon: Final draft teleplay by Coon: Revised final draft: Additional page revisions: , , , Filmed: - Day 1 – , Tuesday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Bridge, Sickbay Day 2 – , Wednesday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Briefing room, Transporter room, Admiral Fitzpatrick's office (redress of a wall in Transporter room) Day 3 – , Thursday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Recreation room (redress of Briefing room); Desilu Stage 10: Lurry's office Day 4 – , Friday – Desilu Stage 10: Int. Lurry's office, Storage corridor Day 5 – , Monday – Desilu Stage 10: Int. Storage corridor, K-7 Bar Day 6 – , Tuesday – Desilu Stage 10: Int. K-7 Bar Score recorded: Original airdate: Rerun airdate: First UK airdate: Star Trek Fotonovel #3: - : The Birth, Sale and Final Production of One Episode paperback: The Trouble with Tribbles: The Birth, Sale and Final Production of One Episode paperback: The Trouble with Tribbles: The Birth, Sale and Final Production of One Episode paperback reissue: - , incorporating "Trouble" footage: Remastered airdate: Video and DVD releases US RCA CED Videodisc release: Original US Betamax release: US LaserDisc release: UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 22, catalog number VHR 2357, Japan LaserDisc release: US VHS release: As part of the UK VHS Star Trek: The Original Series - Tricorder Pack collection: catalog number VHR 4373, UK re-release (three-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 2.5, UK LaserDisc release: As part of the US VHS Star Trek - Tribbles Gift Set: Original US DVD release (single-disc): Volume 21, As part of the TOS Season 2 DVD collection As part of the Star Trek: Fan Collective - Klingon DVD collection As part of the TOS-R Season 2 DVD collection As part of The Best of Star Trek: The Original Series DVD collection As part of the Star Trek: The Original Series - Origins Blu-ray collection Links and references Starring William Shatner as James T. Kirk Also starring Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock And DeForest Kelley as Dr. McCoy Co-starring William Schallert as Nilz Baris William Campbell as Koloth Stanley Adams as Cyrano Jones Whit Bissell as Lurry Featuring James Doohan as Scott Nichelle Nichols as Uhura Michael Pataki as Korax Ed Reimers as Admiral Walter Koenig as Chekov Charlie Brill as Arne Darvin Paul Baxley as Freeman David L. Ross as Guard And Guy Raymond as K-7 Bartender Uncredited co-stars William Blackburn as Hadley Dick Crockett as Klingon brawler 1 Frank da Vinci as Vinci Steve Hershon as security officer Roger Holloway as Roger Lemli William Knight as Moody Jeannie Malone as yeoman Starfleet officer 1 Bob Miles as Klingon brawler 2 Bob Orrison as Klingon brawler 3 Eddie Paskey as Leslie Gary Wright as DSK-7 officer Unknown actors as Human civilian Human colonist Human waitresses 1 and 2 Human workers 1 and 2 Starfleet cadets 1 and 2 Human DSK-7 officer 3 and 4 Command lieutenant 1 Command lieutenant 2 Command crew woman Crewman Crew woman 1 Crew woman 2 Crew woman 3 Lieutenant Operations crewman Sciences crew woman Sciences lieutenant Sciences lieutenant 1 Sciences lieutenant 2 Security guard 1 Security guard 3 Stunt doubles Phil Adams as stunt double for Michael Pataki Richard Antoni as Klingon (stunts; unconfirmed) Jay Jones as stunt double for James Doohan Jerry Summers as stunt double for Walter Koenig References 20th century; 2067; 2245; 2261; 2285; agent; agriculture; air vent; all hands; amount; analysis; ancestry; animal; Antarean glow water; apology; area; assistant; assumption; asteroid; asteroid locator; astronomer; attraction; authority; average; baby; background check; bar; bargain; battle; battle stations; Bible; bisexual; bloodstream; board of inquiry; body; body temperature; "Bones"; bottle; breeding; bucket; ; ; Canada; chance; Channel E; : chicken sandwich; code 1 emergency; coffee; commander; communication channel; computation; computer analysis; confined to quarters; contact; cork; Cossack; course; creature; credit; criminal; D7 class (aka Klingon battle cruiser, Klingon warship); day; deal (aka transaction); death; declaration of hostilities; Deep Space Station K-7; defense alert; delusion; Denebian slime devil; development project; dictator; diet; diplomatic incident; disaster; disaster call; dissection; Donatu V; door; ear; Earth; effect; emergency; ; environment; ermine violin; evidence; experience; Federation; Federation law; Federation territory; feeling; ; figure; French language; friend; food processor; garbage; garbage scow; genie; general quarters; generation; government; grain; ; habitat; hair; harassment; headache; heartbeat; hip; history; home; honesty; hour; Human (aka Earther, Earthman); Human characteristic; hybrid; inert material; instruction manual; insult; intelligence; intention; invention; irons; job security; joke; Jones' spaceship; kilometer; Klingon; Klingon Empire; Klingonese; Klingon High Command; Klingon agent; Klingon outpost; knowledge; lab; Leningrad; lily; litter; "little old lady from Leningrad"; ; logic; love; machinery; maintenance crew; maintenance manual; market; markup; maternity ward; metabolism; milk; Milky Way Galaxy; million; minute; money; month; morning; mutual admiration society; mutual understanding; national; nature; nervous system; nourishment; nursery; observation; odor; offense; offer; "off the record"; Old Britain; opinion; order; Organian Peace Treaty; organism; parasite; parsec; penalty; Peter the Great; percent; perennial; persecution; plan; planet; poison; polishing; pouch; practicality; predator; pregnancy; price; pride; priority 1 distress call; priority A-1 channel; profit; proof; prospector; pun; ; purr; quadrant; quadrotriticale; question; rate of reproduction; recreation; red alert; Regulan blood worm; rehabilitation colony; relationship; representative; reproduction; result; robber; Royal Academy; Russian; rustbucket; rye; sabotage; sample; Scotch whisky; Scots language; ; search; security guard; sensor; Sherman's Planet; Sherman's Planet freighter; shipment; shopping; shore leave; sitting; soda pop; solar year; soldier; space; Spacematic; space station; sphere of influence; Spican flame gem; spy; Starfleet Command; starship; starvation; station manager (manager); station manager's office; ; ; storage compartment; subspace distress call; subspace silence; surveillance; technical journal; teeth; thief; thing; thousand; tin; title; ton; tone of voice; transporter room; treatment; tribble; tribble homeworld; triticale; Undersecretary in Charge of Agricultural Affairs; vacuum; virus; vodka; ; Vulcan; week; wheat; "whole kit and caboodle, the"; year External links de:Kennen Sie Tribbles? es:The Trouble With Tribbles fr:The Trouble with Tribbles (épisode) ja:新種クアドトリティケール（エピソード） nl:The Trouble with Tribbles pl:The Trouble with Tribbles Trouble with Tribbles, The

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Bread and Circuses (episode)

Kirk, Spock, and McCoy are captured on a planet that resembles the Roman Empire but with 20th Century technology. They are set to die at the hands of gladiators, for the sake of public spectacle on a tv gameshow. Summary Teaser Near the planet 892-IV, the discovers the wreckage of the , a merchant ship missing for the last six years, and whose commanding officer is R.M. Merik, an old friend of Captain Kirk from the Academy. When the Enterprise enters orbit to look for survivors, it intercepts a 20th century-style television news broadcast, shown on the viewscreen in black-and-white, in which a Roman gladiator defeats and kills a "barbarian." The casualty is named William B. Harrison, whom Spock identifies as the Beagles flight officer. Kirk assembles a landing party to the surface of the planet to investigate. Act One Kirk, Spock, and McCoy beam down, outside the city where the broadcast originated, mindful of their duty under the Prime Directive not to interfere with the society's natural development. Almost immediately after their materialization they are captured by the "Children of the Sun" – runaway slaves who are hiding in caves to avoid recapture. Flavius Maximus, a former gladiator, regards the officers as Romans who should be killed to avoid disclosing the hiding places, but the rebels' leader, Septimus, abhors violence, and Kirk's use of his communicator convinces him they are not with the authorities but are from an "offshore ship." Septimus says the Children of the Sun teach peace and brotherhood but are persecuted for their beliefs. In a cave, the crew looks at magazines that show astonishing parallels with Earth's ancient Rome, though with 20th Century technology. However, when Kirk mentions the loss of Captain Merik six years earlier, they conclude that he is now Merikus, the First Citizen. Kirk explains to the Children of the Sun that such interference would violate an "important law," for which he needs to be removed for punishment. Septimus orders Flavius to lead them into the city. However, the group is quickly spotted and captured by the police. Act Two The captives are taken into the city. Kirk uses their captors' fear of reprisal to angle for a meeting with "Merikus." He is indeed Merik, and he takes them to Proconsul , who knows all about their off-world origins. Merik explains that, after the shipwreck of the Beagle, he was forced to beam down all 47 of his crew. They were given two options: "adapt" to their new world or fight in televised gladiatorial competitions for the entertainment of its inhabitants. Kirk sees that Merik has violated his oath and has ordered his own crew to their deaths. Claudius hands Kirk his communicator and tells him to do the same. Kirk initially plans for Spock, McCoy, and himself to be beamed up, but Claudius' guards enter with machine guns pointed at Kirk. Abandoning the attempt, Kirk gives Montgomery Scott the code condition green, a signal that the landing party is in trouble, but forbidding a rescue attempt. Claudius elicits from Merik that Kirk has a starship commission that Merik sought but could not qualify for. The livid Claudius dispatches Spock and McCoy to "the games" to die. Act Three On the Enterprise, Scott notes in his log that Kirk ordered him to carry out condition green, which prohibits him from taking any action to save the troubled landing party. Scott orders Ensign Chekov to locate power sources down on the planet and to determine how much their beams will take to overload them. Scott announces that, although he is forced to not take any action on the planet below, there is nothing stopping him from frightening the planet's inhabitants about what a starship's power capabilities truly are. On the planet, Kirk is forced to watch as Spock and McCoy are condemned to fight Flavius and another gladiator named in the arena, which is being broadcast ("in color", according to the event's announcer) by the television network Empire TV. Spock holds his own against his opponent, but McCoy is severely outmatched, only surviving because Flavius is reluctant to kill him. Claudius again tries to pressure Kirk into ordering his crew down, but Kirk calmly refuses. Flavius is threatened and whipped to encourage him to attack, whereupon he gives McCoy some tips to make it "look real." Spock overpowers both opponents and incapacitates one with a Vulcan nerve pinch. This violates the rules, and the lives of Spock and McCoy are put in the hands of Merik and Claudius. They spare the two to maximize their influence on Kirk. Act Four Kirk enters Claudius' quarters, and a blonde woman emerges, pouring wine. She tells Kirk that her name is Drusilla and she is the proconsul's slave. Tonight, though, she is Kirk's slave. Kirk yells out to Claudius that this will not work on him and he still refuses to cooperate. Drusilla assures Kirk that they are indeed alone together. McCoy and Spock seek a way out of their cell – and McCoy seeks a way past Spock's determination to control his emotions, remarking that the Vulcan isn't afraid of dying – he is more afraid of living, for fear in that one day, his Human half might "peek out", as McCoy puts it. For a moment, Spock appears to admit it but then turns to McCoy and simply says "Really, Doctor?". McCoy then tells him "I know, I'm worried about Jim too." Kirk is eating the food given to him by Drusilla. He finds the food good, and Drusilla informs Kirk that she is here to please him. Kirk tells her that he has been to many worlds with strange customs; perhaps what he is experiencing is torture on her planet. Drusilla does not understand, as she does not wish to see Kirk tortured and gives him a kiss. She asks Kirk to tell her when he feels the first sign of pain, and they continue to kiss. Much later, Kirk wakes up alone and Merik tells him that the crew of the Enterprise will eventually come down to the planet's surface, but Kirk still refuses to cooperate. The Enterprise intercepts broadcasts announcing Kirk's execution in the arena. Scott, though forbidden to mount a rescue because of the Prime Directive, devises a way to disrupt the execution and warn the city through the power demonstrated by the Enterprise. Claudius tells Kirk that his night with Drusilla was a favor to a condemned man rather than an attempt at interrogation, in the process dealing an insult to Merik. Kirk is taken to the arena for his execution, one that Marcus promises will be swift. On the way, Merik has a change of heart; he is too late to save Kirk, but tells him he will try to save the other two. The execution, however, is interrupted by Flavius, and by a power blackout induced by beams activated by Chekov from the Enterprise. Flavius is killed by the guards' machine guns during Kirk's execution, but the captain escapes and runs to free Spock and McCoy from their cell. The Romans intercept Kirk's rescue attempt from both sides, and thus draw swords rather than firearms to avoid crossfire. During the fighting, Merik signals to the Enterprise with a stolen communicator but is stabbed by Marcus. The dying Merik still manages to toss the communicator to the feet of Kirk, Spock, and McCoy. Locking onto the signal, Scott beams them back aboard, just as the Roman guards open fire. On the bridge, Spock muses about the remarkable parallels between Earth during the time of the Roman Empire and the planet 892-IV – except that Rome had no sun worshipers. But Lieutenant Uhura, who has been monitoring the planet's broadcasts, reveals that they are not worshiping the sun but the "Son of God." The planet 892-IV had both a Caesar and a Christ, and its evolution will proceed, implying that Rome will fall, in due time. Log entries Captain's log, USS Enterprise (NCC-1701), 2268 Ship's log, USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) Memorable quotes "Once, just once, I'd like to be able to land someplace and say, 'Behold, I am the Archangel Gabriel!" "I fail to see the humor in that situation, Doctor." "Naturally. You could hardly claim to be an angel with those pointed ears, Mr. Spock. But say you landed someplace with a pitchfork…" - McCoy and Spock, after arriving on the planet 892-IV "What do you call those?" "I call them ears." "Are you trying to be funny?" "Never." - Flavius and Spock, as Flavius captures the landing party "May the blessings of the Son be upon you." - Septimus, to the landing party "Medical men are trained in logic, Mr. Spock." "Really, Doctor? I had no idea they were trained. Watching you, I assumed it was trial and error." - McCoy and Spock, discussing slavery on 892-IV "Are they enemies, Captain?" "I'm not sure they're sure." - Flavius and Kirk, on Spock and McCoy "I know you, Flavius. You're as peaceful as a bull." - Lead policeman, as two guards take Flavius away "My world, Proconsul, is my vessel, my oath, my crew." - Kirk to Claudius, as Spock and McCoy compare Earth history with that of 892-IV "You bring this network's ratings down, Flavius, and we'll do a special on you!" - Master of the Games, as Flavius is whipped "We believe men should fight their own battles. Only the weak will die." - Claudius, explaining the rules of the game to Kirk "The games have always strengthened us. Death becomes a familiar pattern. We don't fear it as you do." - Claudius, on the Roman fighting spirit "Fight, you pointed-ear freak!" "You tell him, buster! Of all the completely… ridiculous… illogical questions… I ever heard in my life!" - Achilles and McCoy, after Spock asks McCoy if he needs any help in the arena "I'm trying to thank you! You pointed-eared hobgoblin!" - McCoy, offended by Spock's lack of empathy "Do you know why you're not afraid to die, Spock? You're more afraid of living. Each day you stay alive is just one more day you might slip and let your Human half peek out." - McCoy, commenting on Spock's personal insecurity "You're a Roman, Kirk, or you should have been." - Claudius, expressing admiration for Kirk "You may not understand because you're centuries beyond anything as crude as television." - Claudius, as Kirk is taken to the arena "They threw me a few curves." - Kirk to Spock, commenting on his night with Drusilla "I pity you, Captain Merik. But at least watch and see how men die." - Claudius, as the guards corner Kirk, Spock, and McCoy "Caesar and Christ. They had them both. And the word is spreading only now." - Kirk, after realizing that Flavius worshiped the Son of God Background information Production timeline Treatment by John Kneubuhl, based on an idea by Gene Roddenberry and Gene L. Coon: Revised treatment: First draft teleplay "The Last Martyr": Second draft teleplay: late- Revised draft "Bread and Circuses": First draft teleplay by Coon: Final draft teleplay: Revised final draft: Additional page revisions: , Second revised final draft by Roddenberry: Third revised final draft: Additional page revisions: , , Filmed: – Original airdate: First UK airdate: Story and script Gene Roddenberry and Gene L. Coon wrote this episode's teleplay from a story by playwright and television writer John Kneubuhl. However, Roddenberry and Coon received sole writing credit for the episode. Roddenberry revised the shooting script as the episode was being filmed. Director Ralph Senensky remembers picking up the day's script pages when arriving to the set in the morning. The title, "", "" in Latin, comes from a line by the Roman satirist , and refers to the practice in ancient Rome of providing a regular free bread (or grain) dole to the lower classes and free entertainment in the city's arenas and circuses, both of which had the effect of preventing civil unrest in the populace. Juvenal also provided the title of . The episode parodies the television industry in several ways. Fake applause and catcalls are used to simulate a studio audience, and the race for high television ratings is lampooned several times. The TV station manager (Master of the Games) threatens the now-pacifist runaway slave that he had better fight convincingly: "You bring this network's ratings down, Flavius, and we'll do a special on you!" Later, the proconsul sneers at Kirk about the captain's impending death, to be televised from the arena, by telling Kirk that "You're centuries beyond anything as crude as… television." Kirk replies, "I've heard it was… similar," an oblique reference to the series' own ratings difficulties. Comic relief is in the scene where McCoy and Spock heckle each other on the TV stage during the gladiatorial duels. Production The caves where the Children of the Son hide out are one of the most-used locations in television and movies. In addition to being the entrance to the , they are also seen in , , and various police and western shows. They are located right below the famous Hollywood sign. During the location shooting for this episode, the new producer John Meredyth Lucas visited the set, accompanied by Gene Roddenberry. Lucas was struck by the tension and bad atmosphere among the cast. "Shatner came around the corner, and when he saw Gene, he turned around and went the other way. And the cast was fighting too. All the actors complained to me about all the other actors." (Inside Star Trek: The Real Story, p. 354) The newsreel scene of the arrest was filmed in front of an office building at Paramount Studios. Paramount production buildings were also utilized for location filming in and . One of the shots of the planetary capital (in the opening of Act II), the last one, is of the Great Dome at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, whose words can be read (somewhat) above the pillars. The first shot shows the Legion of Honor on the Left Bank in Paris; its motto honneur et patrie is not Latin but French. The middle shot shows a drive-by view of the Joseph Stalin Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw, Poland. This is one of only two TOS episodes featuring dialogue in act one before the title of the episode appears on-screen. The other episode is . Several sequences from this episode made the blooper reel: Jack Perkins had a line which was supposed to read, "If they refuse to move out on cue, skewer them" but instead said, "Screw them!". After viewing that take in the dailies, Gene Roddenberry wrote a memo to director Ralph Senensky, suggesting that all dialogue should be "carefully enunciated in the future". (Inside Star Trek: The Real Story, p. 370) Ted Cassidy appeared out of nowhere dressed as Injun Joe from his work on The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and carried Shatner off just before he was going to shoot the lock off of Spock and McCoy's cell. While he was being carried, Shatner yelled out "Hey, I don't know about you, but this is not the way it should work! I want you to know!" This was the first scene to be filmed that day, and when Cassidy visited the set, the cast and crew came up with this small prank to start the day's work in a happy mood. Everyone on the set knew about it, except Shatner. As the police closed in on the landing party after they escape their cell, one of the extras slipped and fell; this is the reason there is a quick cut before the policemen reach the main corridor. Syndication cuts Although this episode officially received no syndication cuts, many local television stations were known to cut the "You're more afraid of living" speech which McCoy gives to Spock when the two are alone together in the Roman jail. The reason for this was that the dialogue was not considered essential to the plot, and local stations often used the extra time to insert extra commercials to boost advertisements. This practice was so widespread that the VHS box for the episode stated "Contains one of the finest McCoy/Spock dialogues ever, usually cut in syndication!". (The Star Trek Compendium) Cast George Takei (Sulu) does not appear in this episode. He was shooting at the time. Voice-over artist Bart LaRue makes one of two on-camera appearances in the series in this episode. The other is in . Sets and props Proconsul Marcus' insignia is not a Roman symbol (a legionary eagle or a fasces), but rather the coat of arms of the English playwright William Shakespeare. The automatic weapons that the Roman guards wield are Danish sub-machine guns. A number of costumes and props were recycled from Paramount's storage vaults, including the Roman guards' outfits. Many of these items were originally made for 's epics such as The Sign of the Cross, Cleopatra, and The Crusades. (Star Trek: The Original Series 365) Continuity This is the only TOS episode in which it is explicitly stated that the planetary natives are speaking in English. (This was perhaps done to make the characters' misinterpretation of "Son Worshipers" as "Sun Worshipers" more plausible, as "Son" and "Sun" would likely not be homophones in another language; they are not in either Latin or Greek, the two main languages spoken in the Roman Empire.) Hodgkin's Law of Parallel Planetary Development was used to explain the close similarities to Earth but the writers were very inconstant with it; the most blatant is , which at episode number 52 was after this, which was number 43, and so makes even less sense if the episodes are watched in production order. The names of the Roman gods mentioned in the episode all mirror Earth counterparts which were based on earlier Greek counterparts. Kirk and crew had actually encountered the god Apollo prior to this point, although Captain Kirk shows little reaction to the Roman gods when he learns of them. () McCoy remarks that "Rome had no sun worshipers," but this is inaccurate; the cult of Sol Invictus ("the Unconquerable Sun") was prevalent in ancient Rome around the same time as the emergence of Christianity. Two different characters have the same name in this one episode: the primary is the proconsul, while is mentioned as the gladiator who slew William B. Harrison, the last of the barbarians. This episode marks the final appearance of Kirk's second season light green wrap-around tunic. Beginning with , the next episode that followed in airdate order and when the series returned for its third and final season, Kirk resumes wearing his standard gold and black V-neck tunic full time. Spock states that six million died in Earth's first world war, eleven million died in the second, and thirty seven million died in the third. The actual real-world numbers are much higher for World War I and World War II: fifteen to nineteen million and fifty to more than eighty million, respectively. Reception Most reviewers cite the satire of network television and the race for ratings (the main adversary of Star Trek during its original three-year run) as the high point of this episode. Allan Asherman notes in The Star Trek Compendium: "In the hands of Star Treks dominant Genes [Roddenberry and Coon] this episode also becomes a marvelous satire of the television industry." (p. 87) Director Ralph Senensky claims that the tight schedule resulted in the episode turning out to be of lower quality than it could have been under better circumstances, especially regarding the arena scenes. "The scenes in the arena are the part of "Bread and Circuses" most harmed by the time restrictions imposed by the new management. The sequences were literally shot on the run. The satiric look at live television was there, but the spectacle of the Roman arena was far less than it should have been. (…) There was so much more that could have been done that would have been exciting and entertaining, but it required the time to stage and rehearse, with necessary care taken to avoid injury to the actors involved. That set piece should have been the highlight of the production; but those bloodhounds in black suits were nipping at our heels." Apocrypha The advertisement for the Jupiter 8 automobile depicted in the magazine The Gallian states that it comes equipped with, among other things, "super-grip white sidewall tires". The photograph, however, clearly shows black tires. McCoy's claim that "Rome had no sun worshipers" is incorrect. Rome, in fact, had several cults that revered sun gods including Helios Apollo and Sol from the Greeks, Mithras from the Persians, and Elagabalus from the Syrians. In addition, from the 3rd century on there was Sol Invictus ("Unconquered Sun"), which may have been a new sect or a revival of an old one. Therefore at least two of these gods would have been called "Sun" in English. According to The Autobiography of James T. Kirk, the slave woman Drusilla gave birth to James Kirk's natural son Eugino. The Roman planet, known as Magna Roma to its inhabitants according to some published Star Trek reference material, is revisited in the novel The Captains' Honor set a hundred years after the encounter by the original Enterprise crew. The novel details how the alternate Rome conquered their world and explains that one hundred years after the events of "Bread and Circuses" the Romans are now Federation members and are participating in galactic affairs utilizing at least one starship, the former , renamed the , and run according to their own methods and principles rather than those of Starfleet. Video and DVD releases Original US Betamax release: UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 23, catalog number VHR 2358, US VHS release: UK re-release (three-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 2.5, Original US DVD release (single-disc): Volume 22, As part of the TOS Season 2 DVD collection As part of the TOS-R Season 2 DVD collection Links and references Starring William Shatner as Capt. 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Journey to Babel (episode)

As the Enterprise comes under attack on the way to a diplomatic conference on Babel, one of the alien dignitaries is murdered, and Spock's estranged father Sarek is the prime suspect – but he is also deathly ill, and only Spock can save him. Summary Teaser The arrives in orbit around the planet , picking up the last delegation of Vulcans to add to an assortment of 114 ambassadors and dignitaries aboard (including Andorians and Tellarites). The delegates will be attending a conference on the neutral planetoid named Babel to decide the admission of the planet Coridan to the Federation, which is rich in dilithium but is poorly defended. As the Vulcan delegation arrive on the shuttle Galileo, Kirk, Spock, and McCoy greet the Vulcan ambassador to Earth, Sarek, and his Human wife Amanda. Welcoming the ambassador aboard, Kirk offers to have Spock take him and his wife on a tour of the ship, but Sarek coldly asks that someone else give it. Sensing unpleasantness between the two Vulcans, Kirk suggests to Spock that, with two hours before the ship leaves orbit, he should beam down to the planet and visit his parents. But Spock says that would be unnecessary, because Ambassador Sarek and his wife are his parents. Act One "Captain's log, stardate 3842.3. We have departed Vulcan for the neutral planetoid code-named Babel. Since it is in our sector, the Enterprise has been assigned to transport ambassadors of Federation planets to this vitally important council. The issues of the council are politically complex, the passengers… explosive." As Kirk conducts a tour of the ship for the ambassador and his wife, he seeks out the roots of estrangement between Spock and his parents once they pass by Spock in Engineering. The rift seemingly sprang from Spock's election to attend Starfleet Academy over his fathers' choice of the Vulcan Science Academy as Sarek followed his father's teachings. Kirk voices support of Spock's choices and notes that he has a personal friendship with Spock to his mother Amanda, who appreciates the sentiment but also warns that the estrangement between father and son may be permanent, since it has been 18 years. "Captain's log, stardate 3842.4. The interplanetary conference will consider the petition of the Coridan planets to be admitted to the Federation. The Coridan system has been claimed by some of the races now aboard our ship as delegates, races who have strong personal reasons for keeping Coridan out of the Federation. The most pressing problem aboard the Enterprise is to make sure that open warfare does not break out among the delegates, before the conference begins." The delegates meet at a reception on the Enterprise. The Tellarite ambassador, Gav, confronts Sarek asking about his vote on Coridan's admission, to which he replies that it would be known at the conference. Kirk and Sarek move on to other guests while McCoy discovers a hint of Spock's childhood from Amanda, that he had a pet sehlat, "a fat teddy bear," as Amanda says, delighting the doctor. Spock corrects his mother's sentiment, saying that on Vulcan, the "teddy bears" are alive and have six-inch long fangs. Kirk also learns the Enterprise is being tailed by a mysterious unidentified vessel. On the bridge, they determine that the vessel is an unknown configuration, unauthorized, and not responding to hails. Kirk orders an intercept to take a closer look. Meanwhile, Amanda speaks with her husband against their son's estrangement in their quarters, but Sarek resists, saying that Spock is due respect for his own achievements, not for feelings of pride. Amanda believes Sarek feels pride in Spock despite his disapproval of Starfleet but won't show it. The unidentified vessel makes a pass at the Enterprise at warp 10 without firing. Later, Sarek is again confronted by Gav at the reception area, and Sarek reveals that he would vote in favor of admission, citing that Coridan needs the Federation's protection against illegal dilithium mining, which alludes to illegal Tellarite mining operations on Coridan. A brief struggle between the two ambassadors ensues, broken up by Kirk who just arrived. A few hours later, Gav's lifeless body is found stuffed up a Jefferies tube on deck eleven by security officer Josephs. Act Two Kirk, Spock, and McCoy investigate Gav's murder. McCoy explains his neck was broken in a very precise manner, leading Spock to conclude it can only be a Vulcan execution technique called tal-shaya. Kirk then deduces that Sarek is logically the prime suspect, but when he is confronted by Kirk, Spock, and McCoy, it is revealed that Sarek is becoming increasingly ill with a cardiac defect, and claims he could not have committed the murder, as he was in solitude at the time of Gav's death on the Enterprises observation deck. McCoy takes him to sickbay. Kirk and Spock go to the bridge and rule out the Romulans and Klingons. Uhura additionally finds that the communication signal is being received inside the ship, but not pinpointed. It falls on McCoy to attempt to heal the ambassador with heart surgery, but the doctor has reservations, what with his own limited surgical experience on Vulcan physiology and the requirement of large amounts of a rare Vulcan blood type, T-negative. Spock elects to take the role of blood donor, risking his own life by taking a dangerous stimulant only tested on Rigelians to induce blood cell production despite Amanda's objections. They debate this for a while. However, Kirk is suddenly stabbed by the Andorian delegate Thelev. He subdues Thelev in a corridor on deck five just outside his quarters and alerts Spock on the bridge through an intercom panel just before passing out in the corridor. Act Three "Captain's log, stardate 3843.4. First officer Spock in temporary command. The captain has been critically wounded by one of the delegates to the Babel conference. The ship is on alert status. We are still being followed by the intruder vessel." Thelev is placed into custody in the Enterprises brig. Kirk has survived the assassination attempt, but now Spock refuses to participate in the procedure while his commanding officer is lying in sickbay, stating his first duty is to the ship, and cannot relinquish command due to "personal privilege." He goes to the brig and questions Thelev. However, even under a verifier scan and truth drug, he does not answer. The lead Andorian doesn't know him that well, and can't help other than to say the Andorians have no quarrel with Kirk. Amanda comes to Spock to convince him to help Sarek, but Spock's decision is unchanged. However, in a bold move, despite objections from McCoy, Kirk assumes command before he is fully healed, and sends Spock to surgery, with the intent of handing command over to Scotty while Spock is undergoing the blood transfusion and recover in his quarters. When he does, however, the alien vessel comes closer and Uhura picks up a signal and determines that it's being received in the brig. Kirk orders red alert and security to search Thelev. As McCoy takes blood from Spock and begins to operate on Sarek, Thelev attempts to escape from his cell while being searched, and the security officers use their phasers to stun him. As Thelev falls to the floor unconscious, his antenna breaks — revealing a transmitter used to communicate with the intruder vessel. The intruder ship begins to open fire on the Enterprise. The smaller vessel makes unbelievably quick passes and phaser strikes against the larger starship, too fast for Enterprise to return fire effectively, missing with a phaser attack. Despite being faster than the Enterprise, their weapons only consist of standard phasers according to Ensign Chekov, indicating to Kirk they have little chance of success. The Enterprise continues to fight a battle against the smaller and faster ship, shuddering with each successive hit and suffering power losses. McCoy fears he may lose both his patients if the ship continues to take a pounding. Act Four As Enterprise struggles against the unknown vessel, missing with a full spread of photon torpedoes, Thelev is brought to the bridge, where Kirk confronts him as to his true identity as a spy. Thelev is uncooperative, preferring to taunt Kirk and enjoy the view of his fellow ship succeeding over the larger Enterprise. As the power goes out in sickbay, Sarek goes into cardiac arrest. McCoy and Nurse Christine Chapel try to make do with portable resuscitation equipment in an attempt to restart his heart again. Meanwhile, Kirk, fed up with Thelev's taunts and the other ship's apparently superior tactical ability, does the unthinkable. He drops the shields, then systematically fakes losing all power to lure the other ship in. The Enterprise appears dead in space. The enemy ship appears to hesitate, then slowly closes in for the kill. As soon as it is in range, Kirk delivers phaser fire that cripples the vessel, to the observing Thelev's disappointment. The mystery ship then self-destructs to avoid capture, and Thelev dies of an apparent suicide via slow poison. In sickbay, Kirk discovers that Sarek's surgery was a success, and not only are he and Spock recovering well, but they are also talking again as father and son. They even tease Amanda together, Sarek explaining that despite her rampant emotions a marriage to Amanda seemed at the time the only logical thing to do. When Kirk orders McCoy to perform an autopsy on Thelev to determine his true identity, Spock surmises Thelev and the attackers in the enemy ship were Orions, who had much to gain from disrupting the Babel conference so they could continue to loot Coridan of its dilithium. Kirk then slumps, finally too exhausted and in too much pain to continue, but he continues to protest as he is led to another empty bed in the ward by McCoy and Nurse Chapel. McCoy, exercising his rightful medical authority over his patients, is eventually successful in telling Kirk and Spock to lie still and be quiet, finally and gleefully getting "the last word". Log entries Captain's log, USS Enterprise (NCC-1701), 2268 Memorable quotes "I feel like my neck's in a sling." - McCoy to Kirk, on wearing the dress uniforms as they prepare for Sarek's arrival "That hurts worse than the uniform." - McCoy, after attempting a Vulcan salute "Vulcans believe that peace should not depend on force." - Amanda, to Kirk regarding Spock and Sarek "Isn't it unusual for a Vulcan to retire at your age? After all, You're only 102." "102.437 precisely, doctor. Measured in your years. I… had… other concerns." - McCoy and Sarek, discussing the latter's early retirement "Tellarites do not argue for reasons. They simply argue." - Sarek, rebuking Gav on his need to know Sarek's vote at the conference "On Vulcan, the teddy bears are alive. And they have six-inch fangs." - Spock, describing a sehlat to McCoy "You're showing almost Human pride in your son." - Amanda, to Sarek on Spock's Starfleet career "It does not require pride to ask that Spock be given the respect which is his due…not as my son, but as Spock." - Sarek, to his wife, Amanda, after being accused of having pride in his son, Spock "Threats are illogical. And payment is usually expensive." - Sarek, after Gav threatens to make him pay for his accusations "Vulcans do not approve of violence." - Spock, after McCoy states that Sarek is the prime suspect in Gav's murder "Perhaps you should forget logic and devote yourself to motivations of passion or gain. Those are reasons for murder." - Shras to Spock, on explaining Thelev's actions "You're Human, too. Let that part of you come through." - Amanda, pleading with Spock to save Sarek's life "My patients don't walk out in the middle of an operation." - McCoy, as Spock tries to get up during Sarek's surgery "It's… important…" "So is your father's life." - Spock and McCoy, on the latter's attempt to leave in the middle of the operation to attend to matters on the bridge. "Logic! Logic! I'm sick to death of logic!" - Amanda, during a rare emotional outburst "Emotional, isn't she?" "She has always been that way." "Indeed. Why did you marry her?" "At the time, it seemed the logical thing to do." - Spock and Sarek, teasing Amanda about her outburst "Well, what do you know? I finally got the last word." - McCoy, after successfully silencing everyone in sickbay Background information Story and script D.C. Fontana's writing of this episode was inspired by several references to Spock's parents that had been littered throughout the previous installments of TOS. Fontana later admitted, "Journey to Babel' grew out of previous writing […] There were all these little things that were running around in my brain." One of the past references, dialogue said in (which Fontana had previously worked on as a writer), was especially influential to the story. Explained Fontana, "The idea really came out of the line toward the end of 'This Side of Paradise', where Spock says, 'My mother was a school teacher, my father was an ambassador." () Fontana presented Gene Roddenberry with the idea of featuring Spock's parents in an episode. She reflected, "I was kicking around stories and I finally went in to Gene […] and said, 'I want to do something about Spock's mother and father […] Let's explore that relationship." "I said to Gene, 'We've talked about them, let's show them," Fontana continued. "He told me to do it, and I came up with 'Journey to Babel'." ( issue #118, p. 18) Another influence on the episode was an extreme interest in exploring Spock's parentage. "We needed to see the family background that Spock was raised in, what's going on with him truly personally," Fontana related. () Furthermore, she was interested in not only who Spock's parents were but also how they had shaped his identity. After D.C. Fontana chose to feature Spock's family in the episode, she began to formulate some of their backstory. Said Fontana, "I made some notes about what was going on with them." () She elaborated, "I sat down and created two characters, emphasizing the triangular relationship – the rift between Sarek and Spock, with Amanda positioned in the middle." ( issue #118, p. 18) It was Fontana who named Spock's mother "Amanda"; she chose that name because it means "worthy of being loved." (Star Trek: The Original Series 365, p. 217) D.C. Fontana was interested in making the aforementioned rift multi-dimensional. She remembered, "One of the points I […] wanted to make believable in 'Babel' was that both Spock and Sarek were right – as their own convictions applied to themselves – and wrong – as their convictions applied to each other." (Babel #5; Enterprise Incidents, number 11, p. 27) This interpersonal friction, despite being between a full-blooded Vulcan and his half-Vulcan son, enabled Fontana to somewhat humanize the story. She observed, "It was really about the generation gap which […] can be either a wall or, you know, something warm and lovely. And in this case, it was a wall, as far as between the father and son." Fontana also reckoned that the family dynamic of having the hybrid Spock biologically between the extremities of the two others was "bound to create a lot of character problems." (Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages, p. 57) Gene Roddenberry approved of taking the opportunity to center the episode on the conflict between Sarek and Spock. The multi-faceted character dynamics within the family propelled Fontana to write the story and script. "This was the first mention [in 'Journey to Babel'] that [Spock] and his father had been estranged. Well, why?" she wondered. "What's with his mother, what feelings does she have in this particular triangle between husband and son? And what kind of a woman was she to marry a Vulcan, go to Vulcan, live like a Vulcan, raise a half-Vulcan son? What was that all about?" () The storyline concerning intrigue between the various ambassadors on board the Enterprise was subsequently added to the plot. With an indirect reference to the narrative about Spock's parents, D.C. Fontana stated, "I wrapped it up in a mystery, and in an adventure." The multiple minor differences between this episode's first draft and its ultimate embodiment include a brief discussion between Amanda and Spock in which she tried to persuade him to talk to his father. () In the first draft script, Sarek and Amanda had been married for thirty-eight years, Sarek had been an astrophysicist before embarking on a career in politics, and his father (Spock's grandfather) was Shariel, a famous Vulcan ambassador. (The Star Trek Compendium, p. 89) In an early draft, D.C. Fontana planned for a Vulcan city to be shown in the episode's teaser, when Spock meets up with his parents. She explained, "The cost of doing a 'matte,' or painting of the city, was prohibitive." (Babel #5; Enterprise Incidents, number 11, p. 26) Hence, the shot was removed. Fontana was not concerned, while writing this episode, about how costly producing the story's variety of aliens would be, since she was aware that – because the installment is set entirely aboard the Enterprise with no extra planetary or ship sets needed – the finances could be spent wholly on the costumes and makeup. (Cinefantastique, Vol. 27, No. 11/12, p. 46) In the original script, Sarek and his company were beamed aboard the Enterprise, but after going over budget with the expensive Vulcan, Andorian, and Tellarite make-up as well as the outer space footage of the Orion ship, there was no money left for the transporter effect. The Vulcans' transportation to the ship by shuttlecraft was decided upon because it could be done completely via the use of stock footage from . (The Star Trek Compendium, p. 89) In D.C. Fontana's opinion, not much was altered between how she envisioned this episode and the way in which it turned out. "It was shot pretty much as I wrote it – only a couple of things were changed," related Fontana. "One scene was added in which Amanda talks to Kirk about Sarek's relationship with his son. It seemed to me that that would have been inappropriate, and that she would not have blurted out all this information to Kirk. I did not have anything to do with that scene, and I think Gene Roddenberry rewrote it." () Makeup and costumes Actor John Wheeler, in character as Gav, had so much trouble seeing through the prosthetics over his eyes that he was forced to raise his head to see his castmates. This added to the early mythos that all Tellarites were arrogant as well as belligerent and aggressive. (Star Trek: The Original Series 365, p. 220) William Blackburn, in an unused make-up scheme for the Tellarites from a make-up test, can be seen in the end credits of and . Andorian make-up was very expensive. Three different sets had to be created, for William O'Connell, for Reggie Nalder, and for Jim Shepherd, the stuntman doubling for O'Connell. Many of the costumes worn by extras in the hallway and reception room scenes were recycled from several first season episodes, including the outfits worn by Galactic High Commissioner in and by Lazarus in . A female extra (Jeannie Malone) can be seen wearing a faux fur dress worn by Lenore Karidian in , complete with other recycled costume pieces. Another female alien is wearing Areel Shaw's civilian dress from , and a third one is wearing a costume left over from . Scotty's dress uniform was also reused on an extra playing a Starfleet delegate. Effects The completed episode was very well-liked by NBC. The network urged the production staff to finish post-production of "Journey to Babel" quickly, so that it could be scheduled for the earliest possible airdate. As a result, the visual effect shots of the Orion scoutship were not ready when the trailer for the episode was assembled, hence the trailer features a different (much more primitive) effect depicting the vessel. For the same reason, the Enterprise fires purple phasers in the trailer, while phasers are blue in color in the episode itself. (These Are the Voyages: TOS Season Two) The matte shot of Uhura appearing on the screen in engineering is one of the smallest mattes ever used in the series, until the view discs in . For some unknown reason, during the fight between Thelev and Kirk, just after Kirk's failed wall kick, the comical sound effect of a coconut conk can be heard. This may have been meant to indicate Thelev's head hitting the floor. In the remastered edition of this episode, this effect has been removed from the fight. The noise of the coded message sent by Thelev is also used in . The Orion ship was recycled as the missile in . Sets The Tantalus field controls used in can be seen behind McCoy while Amanda is inquiring about Sarek's condition. The couch from Kirk's Starbase 11 quarters in can also be seen in McCoy's office. (The Star Trek Compendium, p. 89) The Tellarite ambassador is found dead in "Deck 11, section A3" which, according to Matt Jefferies' original internal schematics, is at the bottom of the main interconnecting dorsal. The "slanting wall tube" that the Tellarite is found sprawled in is also identified as "Engineering Circuit Bay" by the wall plaque in another episode. Cast Leonard Nimoy regarded this episode's depiction of Spock's relationship with his parents as a very worthy allegory for the difficulty many teenagers encounter with their own parents. When Mark Lenard was cast as Sarek for this episode, he was forty-three, only seven years older than Leonard Nimoy. (Star Trek: The Original Series 365, p. 218) Before he was cast as Sarek, Lenard played the first major Romulan character seen on Star Trek, the Romulan Commander in the episode . When she was offered the part of Amanda, Jane Wyatt had never heard of Star Trek before, and thought of it as a comedy. She expected to have a week of laughing on the set, but upon arriving for her first day of working on the episode, she was very surprised by how seriously everyone was taking the show. As a tribute to her long and distinguished career, Wyatt is called "Miss Jane Wyatt" in the episode's closing credits. D.C. Fontana was uninvolved in the casting of Mark Lenard as Sarek and Jane Wyatt as Amanda but ultimately approved of the selections of those two guest stars. "[They] were brilliant together […] The two of them together looked superb," Fontana enthused. "They were just wonderful and they carried it off so well, even the Vulcanisms that we had to put in." Leonard Nimoy once recalled that Mark Lenard and Jane Wyatt came to him for advice on Vulcan culture. Nimoy replied that he had come to believe Vulcans placed great importance on their hands and hand gestures, and suggested Lenard and Wyatt find a way to demonstrate that, when on screen. The actors then created the finger-touching gesture seen in the episode. ("To Boldly Go…": Season 2, TOS Season 2 DVD special features) James Doohan (Scott) and George Takei (Sulu) do not appear in this episode, although Scott is mentioned. Frank da Vinci plays one of Sarek's aides. Russ Peek, who plays the other aide, also appeared as 's Vulcan bodyguard in . Continuity and trivia Sarek appears on screen for the first and only time on TOS. He was not seen again until , seventeen years later. This episode introduces the Andorians and the Tellarites. Later episodes established that, along with Humans and Vulcans, they are two of the four founding members of the United Federation of Planets. The gathering of aliens in this episode is of notable continuity. D.C. Fontana stated about the installment, "It was the first show we had done with a number of different aliens all together in one place with some goal in mind." () This episode marks the first mention of Starfleet Intelligence in Star Trek production history. This episode is also the first mention of a pet sehlat that Spock owned in his youth. This animal appears in D.C. Fontana's first season episode , which also establishes the creature's name as I-Chaya. Shras' suggestion that Spock forget logic and consider motivations of passion when investigating Gav's murder and Kirk's stabbing foreshadow the Vulcan-Andorian conflicts seen a century earlier, throughout . The conclusion of this episode involves a rare breaking of the fourth wall. (Star Trek: The Original Series 365, p. 219) McCoy was looking slightly to the right of the screen and appeared to be speaking to Amanda and Nurse Chapel when he expresses delight at finally having the last word. However, a more direct breaking of the fourth wall occurred in "The Changeling" as Uhura, attempting to read the word "blue" on her viewscreen, turns directly to the camera and the viewers as she mispronounces the word as "blu-ee." Spock's decision to join Starfleet rather than attend the Vulcan Science Academy is seen in the film , wherein he makes the choice after being told by the head of the VSA admissions board that his academic accomplishments were all the more impressive given the "disadvantage" of having a Human parent. While this occurs after Nero's incursion changes the timeline, screenwriter Roberto Orci stated that this took place in the prime timeline as well. Tellarites were seen in two Season 3 episodes, with greatly modified masks: and . Manny Coto originally pushed to have the short, gold-skinned species from this episode attend the Coalition of Planets conference in , but it proved too expensive. He named the species Ithenite, a name that is mentioned in by time traveler . Spock reports that he gets readings of "trititanium" in the Orion ship's hull. It is not clear if the entire hull is made of it or parts of it. Trititanium is the material that the Enterprises hull is made of, as Gene Roddenberry says in the . It is not clear whether it is the same material as "tritanium" which is reported to be "twenty times as hard as diamond" in . In , which is set in 2257, eleven years prior to this episode, Sarek and Spock share a scene together on . Although this might seem to contradict Amanda's statement to Kirk in this episode that Spock and Sarek have not spoken "as father and son for eighteen years", her wording is still technically correct, since Spock was not in a proper state of mind in that episode, and Sarek does not directly address his son. Reception D.C. Fontana has repeatedly named this episode her favorite out of all the Star Trek episodes she wrote. ("To Boldly Go…": Season 2, TOS Season 2 DVD special features; ; et al) She noted, "It went into the Vulcan relationships between families. I think that's a story that's universal and timeless – that communication between parents and children. And that to me was the big story. The rest of it was an adventure, it was a spy story, it was a mystery, it was an action story – but all in all it was really about the parents and the child… There had still been a vast lack of communication between them and they needed to find each other as parent and child." ("To Boldly Go…": Season 2, TOS Season 2 DVD special features) Generally, Fontana enjoyed the writing of this episode. "Journey to Babel' was a very happy experience," she noted. () She also remarked, "Bringing in the whole murder and the whole political background was a lot of fun. That was the main story, but personally I was more involved, in terms of interest as a writer, with the personal story of Spock and Sarek and Amanda." Fontana also commented that, despite the fact that the family-centered storyline "takes up very little room," it turned out to be the memorable aspect of the episode. "That's the part of the story that everyone remembers," Fontana concluded. () Leonard Nimoy enthused, "Mark had a real sense of the dignity and the authority that the character needed. Jane was very Human – which is exactly what that character needed. They were terrific together." ("To Boldly Go…": Season 2, TOS Season 2 DVD special features) Director Joseph Pevney was selective with his opinion of how successful this episode was, though he was especially impressed by makeup supervisor Fred Phillips' work on the outing. "That was a good show in certain ways," remarked Pevney. "I thought the greatest contributor to it was the makeup artist. He did a fabulous job of bringing alien humanoids on board." (Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages, p. 57) While Spock (Leonard Nimoy) was often deluged with fan mail on a regular basis, this trend was outdone following the broadcast of "Journey to Babel". Indeed, the fan mail poured into the studio at an incredible rate, only this time addressed to Mark Lenard, who for two weeks, topped those coming in for Nimoy. (The World of Star Trek) The reference book Star Trek 101 (p. 18), by Terry J. Erdmann and Paula M. Block, counts this episode as one of the "Ten Essential Episodes" from . In the unofficial reference book Trek Navigator: The Ultimate Guide to the Entire Trek Saga (p. 123), both Mark A. Altman and Edward Gross (the book's co-writers) individually rate this episode 4 out of 5 stars (defined as "Classic!"). The unauthorized reference book Beyond the Final Frontier (p. 32) comments on this outing, stating, "[An] episode that is rich with color and texture. The relationship between Spock and Sarek is done extremely well, with Amanda's concern and disappointment adding an absent emotional context that makes the father-son relationship seem more tragic." In the souvenir magazine Star Trek 30 Years, (pp. 89 & 90) the magazine's makers included this installment as one of their all-time favorite episodes from the original Star Trek series and described it as "an enjoyable romp with a heartfelt ending." They went on to say, "Mark Lenard is appropriately stiff as Spock's Vulcan father, Sarek, and Jane Wyatt is endearing as his Earth-born mother, Amanda." TV Guide ranked this as the fifth best Star Trek episode for their celebration of the franchise's 30th anniversary. (TV Guide August 24, 1996 issue) In the magazine Cinefantastique, writer Sue Uram rated this episode 4 out of 4 stars and commented, "Journey to Babel' marks a high point in D.C. Fontana's remarkable association with Star Trek […] Clearly, 'Journey to Babel' is important from the Federation historical perspective of attempting to form a United Nations sort of body […] However, it is the inner conflict of Mr. Spock with his father and the remarkable insights we are given into his unhappy childhood which make this show unique […] Jane Wyatt and Mark Lenard put in sterling performances as Spock's parents. It almost breaks my heart when Amanda, loving her husband and her son, must use the ultimate emotion to force Spock to face his duty – that of guilt." The same issue of Cinefantastique also included the installment among "Treks Top Ten." (Cinefantastique, Vol. 27, No. 11/12, pp. 75, 76 & 103) Apocrypha This episode was used wholesale in the Star Trek Online expansion Agents of Yesterday. In the mission "Return to Babel", the player character is sent back to the event to prevent the Na'kuhl from disrupting it. Gav's death and Kirk's stabbing were perpetrated by the Na'kuhl and the mystery ship was a collaboration between the Orions and the Na'kuhl, its destruction not a self-destruct, but the player character planting a bomb that was meant for the Enterprise in the ship itself. A cat version of "Journey to Babel" was featured in Jenny Parks' 2017 book Star Trek Cats. Remastered information The remastered version of this episode premiered in syndication the weekend of and featured several notably altered effects. The Enterprise shuttlebay and landing sequence was completely redone digitally, featuring a number of background actors visible within the viewing galleries. Also revamped were shots of Vulcan (now more closely resembling its appearance in ) and the battle between the Enterprise and the Orion ship, now more featuring an identifiable design. The next remastered episode that aired was . Production timeline Story outline by D.C. Fontana: First draft teleplay: Second draft teleplay: Final draft teleplay by Gene L. Coon: late- Revised final draft: Revised final draft script – Second revised final draft by Gene Roddenberry: Additional revisions: , , , Filmed: – Day 1 – , Thursday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Kirk's quarters, Bridge Day 2 – , Friday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Bridge, Corridors, Brig Day 3 – , Monday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Corridors, Recreation room (redress of Briefing room) Day 4 – , Tuesday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Hangar deck, Engineering, Sarek's quarters Day 5 – , Wednesday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Sickbay (Lab, Doctor's Office, Exam Room) Day 6 – , Thursday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Sickbay, Spock's quarters Original airdate: Rerun airdate: First UK airdate: Remastered episode airdate: Video and DVD releases US RCA CED Videodisc release (1982) Original US Betamax release: UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 23, catalog number VHR 2358, US VHS release: UK re-release (three-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 2.5, Original US DVD release (single-disc): Volume 22, As part of the TOS Season 2 DVD collection As part of the TOS-R Season 2 DVD and TOS Season 2 Blu-ray collections Links and references Starring William Shatner as Capt. Kirk Also starring Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock And DeForest Kelley as Dr. McCoy Guest stars Miss Jane Wyatt as Amanda Mark Lenard as Sarek Featuring Nichelle Nichols as Uhura William O'Connell as Thelev Majel Barrett as Nurse Chapel Walter Koenig as Chekov John Wheeler as Gav James X. Mitchell as Josephs And Reggie Nalder as Shras Uncredited co-stars William Blackburn as Hadley Tellarite aide John Blower as Babel conference officer Jerry Catron as Montgomery Billy Curtis as Copper-skinned alien 1 Frank da Vinci as Sarek's aide 2 Steve Hershon as security guard Jeannie Malone as Purple-skinned alien Jerry Maren as Copper-skinned alien 2 Eddie Paskey as Leslie Russ Peek as Sarek's aide 1 Kai J. 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A Private Little War (episode)

On a planet with a primitive civilization, the Enterprise discovers that the Klingons are providing a Stone Age society with increasingly-advanced weaponry. Summary Teaser On a scientific mission to Neural, a primitive, pre-first contact planet protected by the Prime Directive, Spock, Kirk, and McCoy are doing some minor research on indigenous plant life and chemical compounds. Spock finds large footprints of the Mugato, a white ape-like creature. Kirk remembers his first planetary survey as a lieutenant thirteen years prior on this very planet. Spock comments on the qualities of the planet, how Earth-like it is. Kirk notes that the inhabitants have stayed at the same technological level for centuries, and that bows and arrows are still the tools of hunting. He also explains that the people are peaceful and never fight amongst themselves. Kirk and Spock hear yells from some of the inhabitants and run over to see what is going on. It is obvious the men are not holding bows and arrows, but flintlock firearms. Kirk explains that it would be impossible for them to have invented these types of weapons in the duration since his previous visit. Coming toward them is a band of men, one of whom is , the man Kirk lived with while on his original mission. They are walking directly into a trap set by the armed men. Warned by Spock that the use of his phaser is expressly forbidden, Kirk throws a stone and distracts one of the men, causing him to fire his weapon and give away his position. The other men scatter for cover, as do Kirk and Spock. The armed men make chase and McCoy quickly prepares the through his communicator for the landing party's return. Spock is shot in the back by one of the flintlock guns and goes tumbling to the ground. Kirk helps him back to his feet and they run to McCoy. The three of them beam up, leaving the armed men wondering where they could have gone. Act One They arrive on the ship, with Dr. Joseph M'Benga and Nurse Chapel waiting in the transporter room ready to treat Spock. "Lucky his heart is where his liver should be or he'd be dead now", McCoy says. As they hover over Spock, a red alert is called by Lieutenant Uhura; a Klingon vessel is approaching. Before leaving for the bridge with Scotty, Kirk asks McCoy about Spock's condition, and he can only reply, "I don't know yet, Jim." Kirk arrives on the bridge. Ensign Chekov explains that the Klingon ship does not know of their presence, since the Enterprise is holding the planet between them. Uhura offers to contact Starfleet, but Kirk warns that it could give away their position and alert the Klingons. Kirk begins to contemplate the likelihood that the inhabitants of the planet could have developed firearms in the few years since they started forging iron. Scotty, Chekov, and Uhura on the bridge offer explanations as to how it could have happened progressively but Kirk abruptly cuts them off. He later apologizes, stating to them that he's worried about Spock. Spock's condition is poor because there are no replacement organs available to treat him. They are forced to wait and see what happens. However, Spock is also in excellent hands with McCoy's immediate subordinate, Dr. M'Benga, who has considerable experience in treating Vulcans, having interned in a Vulcan ward. Kirk explains to McCoy that they must go down to the planet, together, overruling McCoy's preference to treat Spock personally by reminding him of his own recommendation of M'Benga, and must discover what has happened with the disparity in weapons. While asking Scotty to have the ship's stores prepare period clothing, Kirk is warned that Enterprise may have to leave orbit to avoid being discovered. They set a time for a rendezvous. "Captain's log, stardate 4211.4. Keeping our presence here secret is an enormous tactical advantage. Therefore, I cannot risk contact with Starfleet Command. I must take action on my own judgment. I've elected to violate orders... and make contact with planet inhabitants here." McCoy and Kirk beam down to the planet. McCoy reminds him of their orders. Kirk recalls it was his own recommendation not to permit contact with the inhabitants. As the men walk, Kirk is attacked by a Mugato. He is bitten and suffers from the effects of its poison fangs. McCoy pulls out his phaser and vaporizes the Mugato. Rushing to Kirk's side, McCoy's small collection of medical supplies will not be sufficient to save his life. He attempts to contact the ship but to no avail – it has left orbit. Kirk tells him to get Tyree's men, the , who have already found them. McCoy explains to them that they must take Kirk to Tyree or he will die. Act Two Tyree's men bring Kirk and McCoy into their camp. "Medical log, stardate 4211.8. Kirk is right about the people here. Despite their fear and our strangeness, they're compassionate and gentle. I've learned the hunter Tyree is now their leader. He is expected to return shortly with his wife, who they say knows how to cure this poison. My problem – the captain is in deep shock. I must keep him warm and alive until then." Tyree and his wife, Nona follow some men with guns. She explains to him that they must obtain the same "fire sticks", making them strong and able to take the enemy's houses and supplies. Tyree is sure that the enemies will someday return to peace again. She does not agree. She brags that she is a kahn-ut-tu, valued by men because they aid in achieving power. Tyree claims he accepted her because she cast a spell on him. She explains about many spells that she uses to keep him. She pulls out a sprig of leaves and rubs them on his face and arm, driving the plant's contents into his skin. He is obviously affected by its presence. He grabs her and kisses her intensely. They are interrupted by a scout, Yutan, from the camp requesting their presence. Tyree is dazed by the plant but Nona heads back. She asks Yutan to bring Tyree when his head has cleared. McCoy notes Kirk's struggles. Hoping to keep him warm, he uses his phaser to heat rocks in the cave where Kirk lays. As he is heating the last of three stones, Nona returns and sees him firing the weapon. She is surprised and awed. She steps out of the cave, avoiding being seen by McCoy. As Tyree returns to camp, Nona asks him to explain who these men are before she will help them. Tyree tells her that he promised Kirk silence. She says she is his wife, and that she too will remain silent or Kirk will die without her help. Back on the Enterprise, Nurse Chapel takes Spock's hand as she watches the medical panel. Dr. M'Benga walks in and Nurse Chapel quickly puts Spock's hand down. M'Benga comforts her and assures her that Spock is concentrating on his healing and that is why his readings are so low. It is self-induced hypnosis. He says that Spock is aware of them and what they are saying but that he cannot show it. He also says that Spock probably knows she was holding his hand. Nurse Chapel looks at him in surprise, then in embarrassment. Tyree and Nona enter the cave. She pulls out a Mahko root and holds it above Kirk's chest. It moves in her hand. McCoy asks what it is. Nona replies that few know how to use it. She offers Tyree her knife, and he cuts the palm of her hand. She puts the root on Kirk's bite, then places her hand over the root. Her blood and Kirk's blood mix through the Mahko root. Nona flails about as if she is seeing what is going through Kirk's mind and his knowledge. Tyree softly pounds on a drum. The poison is extracted and Kirk regains his consciousness, then promptly falls asleep. McCoy removes the root showing that the injuries have been completely healed. Nona claims that Kirk belongs to her now. Tyree explains to McCoy that legend says that no man can refuse a woman who is joined with a man in this way. Act Three McCoy wakes up to find Kirk missing, but discovers that Kirk is sitting in the next room. As he rouses Jim, Tyree stands. Kirk and Tyree are reunited. Kirk remembers nothing since the animal attack, but knew that Tyree would find a kahn-ut-tu to heal him. Kirk asks Tyree to tell him about the weapons the enemy has acquired. Tyree assures him that he will hear everything. Back on the Enterprise, Spock's readings fluctuate, but have improved. Dr. M'Benga tells Spock that someone will constantly be at his bedside. M'Benga tells nurse Chapel that if Spock awakes, she is to do whatever he asks. Tyree tells Kirk that the "fire sticks" arrived about a year ago, and that the villagers are producing them. McCoy asks if any strangers have been seen with them. Tyree answers in the negative. Kirk then asks if they can spy on the enemy during the night. Tyree warns about the Mugato, which travel at night. Since McCoy killed one earlier, its mate will not be far. Nona walks to the table, alluding to the fact that Kirk and McCoy have enough tools and strength to make Tyree a very powerful man on Neural. Kirk explains to her that they are simply visitors from another village. She interrupts him and claims that they come from the sky and that they have powers far above "fire sticks". Tyree warns her to not speak about any of this with anyone. Nona claims that the act of kindness she did brings her the right to be rewarded. Kirk admits he is grateful, but explains that his people's weapons grew faster than their wisdom. This leads to his vague explanation of the Prime Directive. Nona assumes that this implies that Kirk will not help them. She is disgusted. Tyree understands the issue and yet refuses to kill anyone. McCoy mentions to Jim that it could be the Klingons who have dabbled in this conflict, and that there may be a way to balance things out. But that possibility disturbs Kirk. Tyree, McCoy and Kirk make their way to the other village. Kirk knocks out a guard and Tyree takes the man's gun. An enemy villager named Apella walks into a room with a Klingon, , inside. The Klingon tells him to bring in the man who did the most killings because he is to be rewarded as an example to the others. He offers the man another improvement to the flintlock weapon. He mentions other improvements that will make the weapon more effective and more accurate. McCoy and Kirk continue their spying. They find coal for forging, and sulfur which is used in making gunpowder. They enter the building and find the forge, some drill points, and barrels of extremely high quality, none of which could have been manufactured by the planet's inhabitants. It is further proof that the Klingons have been providing these weapons. Voices can be heard outside, forcing Kirk and McCoy to hide. The Klingon man and Apella enter, discussing the rewards for bravery and conquest. Krell assures that rewards will be granted, including power over the planet, and making Apella a governor in the Klingon Empire someday. As the men are talking, McCoy's tricorder is somehow activated, its high-pitched whirring sound announcing their presence. Kirk leaps from behind the forge and attacks Krell, causing him to discharge the flintlock rifle he carries. It fires harmlessly into the floor. A fight ensues, and though they defeat Apella and the Klingon, they are caught at the door by two more men with rifles. Act Four They escape by clubbing the men with fists and gun barrels. As they run, voices cry out that intruders are in the village. The men are chased through the streets of the village, with the villagers firing their flintlocks at the fleeing Kirk, McCoy, and Tyree. In sickbay, Spock partially arises from his hypnosis. He calls to Nurse Chapel and asks her to strike him. At first she refuses, but does so to appease his request. Spock barely feels her first few strikes; he asks her to hit him harder. He explains that the pain will help him return to consciousness. She then hits him repeatedly, much harder. Just then, Scotty enters the room and, assuming Spock is under attack, restrains Nurse Chapel. Dr. M'Benga runs into the room and pulls Spock into a sitting position. He slaps Spock in the face with great swings. After several strikes, Spock catches his hand and explains that he is sufficiently revived. Witnessing this bizarre ritual, Scotty questions the practice. Spock and M'Benga tell him that it is a natural Vulcan response to self-healing. On the planet, Kirk explains to Tyree and his men how to use a flintlock weapon and how to work the trigger and hammer. Tyree brings the weapon to his shoulder and fires it, shattering a clay cup on his first shot. McCoy requests to speak to Kirk about this new development. He is intensely upset that Kirk has now introduced these weapons to both sides in the battle. Kirk defends the decision. McCoy reminds him about the power that Nona supposedly has over him. Kirk explains that they must equalize the fighting forces, even though McCoy is worried about a never-ending war. They discuss the 20th century Brush Wars on Earth, and how it led to the balance of power. They struggle with their decisions, but know there is no better way. Since Tyree refuses to fight, they hope to convince Nona to sway him. Spock returns to the bridge as Enterprise returns to orbit. They are approaching the rendezvous time. They also detect that a Klingon is beaming back to his ship. Kirk follows Nona to a waterfall but she believes that she willed Kirk to be there. She pulls out the same leaves she used on Tyree and begins tempting him. Kirk simply wants to talk. He is obviously affected in the same way as Tyree, who happens upon the two of them. His jealousy is aroused, but Kirk walks away from Nona only to return to her. Tyree raises his gun and cocks the hammer. Kirk and Nona kiss, but Tyree can't bring himself to fire. He throws the weapon to the ground and runs into the trees. As Tyree flees, a Mugato appears and makes its way to attack Kirk and Nona. Kirk is dazed by the effects of the leaves and cannot help her. The animal pushes her around repeatedly but Kirk finally pulls out his phaser to vaporize the creature. As he is still recovering, Nona hits him on the head with a stone and takes the weapon. Tyree returns to the camp. McCoy notices he no longer has his gun. After asking him about it, McCoy asks him to take him back to where he left it. When they arrive, they find Kirk rubbing his head and still fighting off the effects of the plant. Nona runs to the enemy villagers. She asks them to take her to Apella, because he will know how to use the new weapon. She brandishes the phaser and shows it off to them. The men know she is a kahn-ut-tu, and they only want her for themselves. They surround her and she begins to fight them. McCoy offers to give Kirk an injection from his hypospray. He refuses and discovers that his phaser is missing. They realize that Nona has taken it. Nona tells the villagers that the weapon she holds is more powerful than their "fire sticks". They continue to fight her. As the fighting continues, Tyree, McCoy and Kirk catch up to them. Tyree calls out to Nona. The villagers think it is a trap set for them. They stab Nona and throw her to the ground. A gunfight ensues, and McCoy is struck in the arm but it is only a simple nick. Tyree and Kirk fight the men. A distraught Tyree catches his wife's assailant and bludgeons the man to death with a rock, only stopping when Kirk physically restrains him. McCoy informs them that Nona is dead. Tyree is angered and asks Kirk for more weapons. He no longer has a desire for peace. McCoy returns the phaser to Kirk. They are upset about the outcome, but there was no other option. Kirk calls to the ship, and Spock responds. McCoy is almost surprised to hear that Spock is alive, but then tells him that a computer could never die. Kirk asks Scotty to construct 100 flintlock rifles for the people. Scotty is confused about the request, but Kirk changes his request to, "Serpents, serpents for the Garden of Eden." He adds, "We're very tired, Mr. Scott. Beam us up home." Log entries Captain's log, USS Enterprise (NCC-1701), 2268 Memorable quotes "And you have ways as far above firesticks as the sky above our world." - Nona, telling Kirk that she knows about phasers "Blast it, do something! He's dying!" - McCoy, to the Hill People after Kirk is attacked by a Mugato "We once were as you are – spears, arrows. There came a time when our weapons grew faster than our wisdom, and we almost destroyed ourselves. We learned from this to make a rule during all our travels – never to cause the same to happen to other worlds." - Kirk, explaining to Nona why he won't supply phasers to Tyree "I'll make a Klingon of you yet." - Krell, handing a flintlock to Apella "What are you doing, woman?!" - Scotty, after seeing Nurse Chapel striking Spock in sickbay "I thought my people would grow tired of killing. But you were right. They see that it is easier than trading and it has pleasures." - Apella, as he and Krell enter the storage room "Jim, that means you're condemning this whole planet to a war that may never end! It could go on for year after year! Massacre after massacre!" - McCoy, shocked at Kirk's plan to arm the Hill People "A balance of power. The trickiest, most difficult, dirtiest game of them all, but the only one that preserves both sides." - Kirk, justifying his plan to McCoy "Well, war isn't a good life, but it's life." - Kirk, telling McCoy the bitter realities of war "Touch me again and this small box will kill you." - Nona, threatening a group of villagers with a phaser "Well, I don't know why I was worried. You can't kill a computer." - McCoy, after hearing Spock's voice "A hundred what?" "A hundred ... serpents. Serpents for the Garden of Eden." - Scott and Kirk, as Kirk requests 100 flintlocks Background information Script The first draft script was completed on . The episode was filmed late September. Although the script specifies that the planet is named "Neural," that name is never mentioned in the episode itself. Similarly, 's name is never mentioned, either. In Don Ingalls' original story outline, the Klingon antagonist was Kor from the episode . In a May 26, 1967 memo, Bob Justman criticized this point, writing, "Here we are in the outer reaches of our galaxy and who should Captain Kirk run into, but good old Kor – an adversary that he has encountered before and with whom he has been unable to get very far. Just think of it – billions of stars and millions of Class M-type planets and who should he run into, but a fella he has had trouble with before. No wonder Kor doesn’t recognize him at first. The coincidence is so astounding, that he must feel certain that it couldn’t possibly have happened." In Don Ingalls' second draft story outline, the character's name was changed to . This episode was intended as a comment on the ongoing Vietnam War. (Star Trek 30 Years) The original writer of this episode, Don Ingalls, put the pseudonym Jud Crucis on it after Gene Roddenberry rewrote it. Ingalls' original contained many more overt Vietnam analogies than what finally appeared. According to Allan Asherman's The Star Trek Compendium this script referred to Apella as a "Ho Chi Mihn-type" and the tribesmen wearing Mongolian clothes. Though friends with Roddenberry since their days as LAPD officers, Ingalls did not like the changes, and the pseudonym was his wordplay on "Jesus Crucified." The original script called the creature a "gumato", but DeForest Kelley kept saying it wrong, so it was changed. The credits still retain the original name. Stock footage of the White Rabbit's footprints from were used for the mugato prints. Filming Despite directing ten episodes of the series previously, this is the first time Marc Daniels got to film on location with Star Trek. The majority of the episode's location scenes were filmed at the Bell Ranch, separating the San Fernando Valley (in Los Angeles County) from Simi Valley (in Ventura County), with additional filming at Paramount Pictures' B Tank, where the village set stood, previously built for another production. (These Are the Voyages: TOS Season Two, pp. 378-382) Continuity This is the only episode in Season 2 to not have a happy ending music. This is the only episode in which Spock and Kirk are both incapacitated in two separate incidents with different causes for an overlapping time period. Cast George Takei (Sulu) does not appear in this episode. This episode marks the first of two appearances of Booker Bradshaw as Doctor Joseph M'Benga. The next one occurs in . Apocrypha In the "The Order of Things" in the Blood Will Tell miniseries, the story is told from the Klingon point of view. The novel Serpents in the Garden, which takes place just prior to , has Kirk returning to Neural to investigate the increasing Klingon presence there. The background book Worlds of the Federation reports that, in the aftermath of the Enterprise's departure, the Hill People and village people splintered into five separate factions, all fighting each other. A cat version of "A Private Little War" was featured in Jenny Parks' 2017 book Star Trek Cats. Production timeline Story outline "Ty-Ree's Woman" by Don Ingalls: Story outline "A Private Little War": Revised story outline: Second revised story outline: First draft teleplay: Second draft teleplay: Final draft teleplay by Gene L. Coon: early- Revised final draft by Gene Roddenberry: Second revised final draft: Additional page revisions: , , Filmed: – Day 1 – , Friday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Bridge, Transporter room, Sickbay Day 2 – , Monday – Bell Ranch : Ext. Forest, Clearing, Ambush trail Day 3 – , Tuesday – Bell Ranch : Ext. Mugato attack site, Waterfall Day 4 – , Wednesday – Bell Ranch : Ext. Tyree's camp, Clearing Day 5 – , Thursday – Desilu Stage 10: Int. Cave Day 6 – , Friday – B Tank: Ext. Village, Int. Workshop Original airdate: Rerun airdate: First UK airdate: During the syndication run of Star Trek, no syndication cuts were made to this episode. Video and DVD releases Original US Betamax release: UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 24, catalog number VHR 2359, US VHS release: UK re-release (three-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 2.6, Original US DVD release (single-disc): Volume 23, As part of the TOS Season 2 DVD collection Links and references Starring William Shatner as Captain Kirk Also starring Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock And DeForest Kelley as Dr. McCoy Guest stars Nancy Kovack as Nona Michael Witney as James Doohan as Scott Nichelle Nichols as Uhura Ned Romero as Majel Barrett as Nurse Chapel Featuring Walter Koenig as Chekov Booker Bradshaw as Dr. M'Benga Arthur Bernard as Apella Janos Prohaska as the mugato Paul Baxley as Patrol Leader And Gary Pillar as Yutan Uncredited co-stars William Blackburn as Hadley Roger Holloway as Roger Lemli Jeannie Malone as villager Bob Orrison as villager Eddie Paskey as Leslie Roy Sickner as villager Unknown actors as Neural Hill People patrol 1 and 2 Neural Hill People woman 2 and 3 Neural village guard 1 and 2 Neural village patrol 1 USS Enterprise medical technician Stunt doubles Jay Jones as stunt double for Ned Romero Regina Parton as stunt double for Nancy Kovack Unknown stunt performers as Stunt double for DeForest Kelley Stunt double for Leonard Nimoy Stunt double for William Shatner References 20th century; 2255; 2267; advice; agony; ambush; ammunition; answer; antibody; antitoxin; anvil; ape-like; arrow; Asian continent; balance of power; ; battle stations; beast (evil beast); blood; "Bones"; bow and arrow; box; bravery; breechloader; brother; Brush Wars; carbon; carnivore; cave; century; chance; choice; chrome steel; class M; coal; coincidence; cold rolling; communicator range; compassion; compliment; computer; consciousness; contact; coranalin; costume; culture; cure; custom; ; day; debate; distant orbit; dizziness; dream; drill point; drum; Earth; Earth-like; emergency; ; fang; fear; firearm (gun); fire stick; flintlock; forge; fragrance; free will; friend; friendship; furnace; Garden of Eden; gentle; giant power; goods; governor; groove; gun barrel rod; gunpowder; gunshot wound; ; hand; hand laser; head; heart; herb; ; Hill People woman, captured; home; home base; homemade; hour; house; Human (aka Mankind); ; hunting; hybrid; idea; internship; interstellar war; inhabitant; intruder; iron; job; ; Kahn-ut-tu; kiss; Klingon; Klingon Empire; Klingon vessel; Klingon way; knowledge; land; landing party; Latin language; lead projectile; leader; leaf; legend; light; liver; logic; machine gun; madness; massacre; Mahko root; medic; mile; mind; minute; name; Neural; Neural village; night; night of madness; nurse; orbit; order; organ; organic compound; pain; palm; pan (component); panel; patient; people's exhibit; phaser; physiology; pig iron; place; plan; planet; planet survey; plant; poison; powder horn; pressure packet; Prime Directive; priming pan; priming powder; print; problem; profit; promise of silence; question; recorder tape; red alert; remedy; rendezvous schedule; rendezvous time; report; research; rifled barrel; risk; root; rule; scanner tape; scientific mission; self-healing; self-induced hypnosis; ship's store; shock; sister; ; skin; sky; sleep; ; social development; solution; soil culture; soul; space; spear; spell; starbase near Neural; Starfleet; Starfleet Command; status quo; sterilite; stranger; strength; striker; subspace message; sulfur; superstition; status quo; thing; trading; trap; treasure house; Treaty of Organia; tricked; trigger; Tyree's camp; venom; victory; village; village furnace; villager; Vitalizer B; voice; (planet); Vulcan (species); Vulcan ward; Vulcans; walking; war; water; weapon; wisdom; witch; year; yellow alert External links de:Der erste Krieg es:A Private Little War fr:A Private Little War (épisode) ja:カヌーソ・ノナの魔力（エピソード） nl:A Private Little War pl:A Private Little War Private Little War, A

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The Gamesters of Triskelion (episode)

Kirk, Uhura, and Chekov are kidnapped by aliens and forced to fight other aliens so that a mentally superior race can gamble on the winner. Summary Teaser "Captain's log, stardate 3211.7. We are entering standard orbit about Gamma II, an uninhabited planetoid with an automatic communications and astrogation station. Ensign Chekov, Lieutenant Uhura, and I will beam down and make a routine check of its facilities." The three Starfleet officers leave the bridge with Captain Kirk leaving Commander Spock in command. They enter the transporter room and wait to be beamed down but just as Chief Engineer Montgomery Scott begins the sequence, the three instantaneously disappear from the starship. They find themselves lying on their backs on a strangely decorated floor. Kirk surmises it could be a transporter malfunction, and then realizes by looking up at the planet's sky that there are three suns and they are on an entirely different planet, judging from the color of the sky. Meanwhile, Scott reports to Spock the unusual disappearance of the landing party, but they can find no reason. The three trapped officers try to use their communicators to contact the Enterprise only to discover that none of them works. At this point, they are surrounded by four alien warriors, all carrying a weapon of some kind, and approaching menacingly. Kirk, Uhura, and Chekov draw their phasers and wait for the right moment to fire. Kirk gives the command, but their phasers do not work either. The captain quickly orders hand-to-hand combat, but they are eventually outnumbered and overpowered. Kirk is knocked onto his back and finds a sharp blade aimed at his throat by an alien woman. Act One "Captain's log, stardate 3211.8. While beaming down from the Enterprise to inspect facilities on Gamma II, the normal transporter sequence has been interrupted, and we find ourselves on a strange and hostile planet, surrounded by creatures belonging to races scattered all through the galaxy." A mysterious bald figure appears, clothed in black. He commends the Starfleet officers for their fighting spirit and introduces himself as Galt, the master thrall of the planet Triskelion. They are taken to a dungeon and cuffed to the walls where they are fitted with metallic collars. Galt reveals that his masters, the Providers, were "expecting them and arranged their transportation". The three are to be trained as thralls and to fight in the games for the Providers for the remainder of their lives. Meanwhile, back on the ship, Scott has checked the transporter from one end to the other and found absolutely no malfunction. Spock has scanned the planetoid twice and found no life. Doctor McCoy is becoming frustrated with Spock's inability to find any leads on their friends' whereabouts. Back on Triskelion, the captain, Chekov, and Uhura are taken to "quarters" that have been prepared for them. They are prison cells complete with barred doors with their names on them. The three attack the thralls guarding them and begin to make a run for it. Galt closes his eyes and they start to shine like two stars. The small, white devices on the collars they are wearing light up. They stop dead in their tracks, grabbing at their collars, and drop to the ground in total agony. When Galt opens his eyes, the collars shut off and they slowly get back to their feet. Galt tells them that escape is impossible while they wear their Collars of Obedience. The three voluntarily return to their cells. On the Enterprise, Spock has determined that their missing crewmates are not within the confines of the solar system they are in. Doctor McCoy's frustration is mounting while Spock is at a loss as to where else to look for them. Back in their cells, the prisoners discuss the possibility of rescue by the Enterprise. Uhura is visited by Lars, her Drill Thrall, with a tray of food. He backs her into her cell and tells her, "There is little time. I have been selected for you." The sounds of a struggle follow and Uhura cries out while Captain Kirk shouts, helplessly, from his cell. One of the female thralls approaches Kirk's cell. He reaches for her through the bars shouting, "What's happening to Lieutenant Uhura?" Act Two Kirk still looks on from the bars of his cell as Lars leaves Uhura's cell, telling her that it is not allowed to refuse "selection". Kirk's Drill Thrall enters with food telling him it is the "nourishment interval" and sits to watch him eat it. "Captain's log, stardate 3212.2. First Officer Spock in command. The Captain, Lieutenant Uhura, and Ensign Chekov have been missing for nearly two hours. Computer probability projections are useless due to insufficient data." Ensign Jana Haines at the science station on the bridge reports a fluctuating energy reading on a hydrogen cloud. Spock takes over at the science station and identifies it as an ionization trail. The ship's computers can offer nothing that would account for it. Spock orders a course change to follow the ionization trail. Dr. McCoy accuses Spock on taking them on a wild goose chase. Spock informs him that it is the only lead they have. They leave the system on 310 mark 241 at warp 2. Chekov gets a visit from his big, female drill thrall and is worried that she has been "selected" for him. She has not. She introduces herself as Tamoon and promises to train him well. If her provider chooses him, they may yet be selected for each other. Chekov looks away, grimacing. In Kirk's cell, Shahna tells him that the color on the collars are the sign of the provider that owns them. "The Provider that offers the most quatloos puts his color on us." While eating his "nourishment", Kirk begins telling her of the concepts of slavery. He starts asking about who operates the collars and how, but Shahna tell him that it is not permitted to speak of that. Kirk then starts flirting with her, telling her she is very beautiful, but she has never before heard the word. He shows Shahna her reflection on a food cover as a definition. When he asks about where she was born and who her parents were, she tells him her mother was killed in a "freestyle match." A light and gong signals the beginning of the "exercise interval." Shahna gives Kirk a training harness to wear. On the Enterprise, McCoy and Scott express doubt as to their course of action. Spock has them heading for the nearest solar system along the path of the ionization trail, M24 Alpha, 11.630 light years ahead. Back in the arena area where they first landed, Kirk, Chekov, and Uhura are practicing with weapons with their drill thralls. Galt brings out a thrall – an older black man who Galt says was slow in obeying a command – for them to use as practice target. Uhura hotly refuses the training exercise, as do Kirk and Chekov, which earns them a taste of their collars of obedience. Galt orders Uhura bound, but Kirk claims responsibility for the actions of his crew and takes her place as practice target. Galt regrets losing Kirk in this way, but says that it is worth it as an example to the others. Kirk is bound and placed in the center of the arena. Act Three "Captain's log, supplemental. Stardate… unknown. Our strange captivity continues. This planet is called Triskelion. We do not know its location. We do not know who controls it. Its dangers… are abundantly clear." Kirk is already bleeding from a wound to his back from the whip of Kloog, the towering alien thrall that has been selected to administer his punishment. During a rest interval, Shahna gives Kirk an energy drink and advises him that Kloog's left eye is weak and to attack him from that side. When the combat resumes, Kirk works at his bonds and manages to partially untie them. Getting his hands in front of him, he eventually gets Kloog in a strangle hold and is about to defeat him when a voice from above says "Hold!" It is the voice of Provider 1. He, Provider 2, and Provider 3 begin bidding for the newcomers. They eventually are sold to Provider 1 for the price of 2,000 quatloos. Kirk asserts that they are free people and belong to no one. Providers 2 and 3 then place a series of wagers: fifteen quatloos that Captain Kirk is untrainable, twenty quatloos that all three are untrainable, five thousand quatloos that they will all have to be destroyed, all of which Provider 1 accepts. Galt's eyes light up and the color of the three Starfleet officer's collars changes to red. Galt tells them that they now bear the mark of a fine herd and that any disobedience is now punishable by death making escape unlikely. On the Enterprise, Scott is arguing that it does not make sense that their missing friends could have been transported this far and that they should continue to search the area where they were lost. Spock reminds him that they did and found no sign of them. McCoy is beginning to fear that they might not still be alive after all the time that has passed. Somewhere outside the thralls' compound, Shahna and a shirtless and whip-scarred Kirk take a break near some old ruins after a two-mile run. Kirk asks why the Providers like watching people suffer and if they are computers, but Shahna does not seem to know. She gets nervous when he starts asking if this was a city for the Providers, and he starts talking about how the area they are in reminds him of his home planet, Earth. She is unfamiliar with the concept of planets and suns which Kirk says make up the lights in the night sky. He comes closer to Shahna and starts speaking about the concepts of freedom and love, and how, on Earth, no one selects a mate for you, you get to choose your own. Shahna does not think his words are permitted and starts to walk away. Kirk goes back to asking about the Providers. She begins to tell him that she has never seen them but that they are said to be "not like us". Before she can tell him any more, her collar lights up and she drops to the ground in agony. Kirk looks to the sky shouting that it was his fault, that he made her talk and begging them not to kill her. Act Four Kirk continues to plead for Shahna's life, asking that they punish him instead. The voice of Provider 1 asks if that is what Humans call compassion. It is interesting but of no use here; he must learn obedience, if he is to be an excellent thrall. Shahna's collar shuts off and she asks him why he would risk his own punishment on her behalf. He tells her that it is the custom of his people to help each other when they are in trouble and kisses her on the lips. She asks if this, too, is "helping," and he says you could call it that. Looking into his eyes she asks, "Please… help me once again." After some more kissing she begins to understand that a man and a woman can be together of their own choice. Galt appears out of nowhere but because they have amused the Providers, there is no punishment. Kirk protectively puts his arm around Shahna and they walk off together. On the bridge of the Enterprise, Spock asks Scott if they can sustain a speed greater than warp 6. Scott and Dr. McCoy think they have gone too far already on a hopeless errand. Both of them want to go back to Gamma II for another search. Spock takes them aside and reminds them that he is in command and that they will remain on course unless they are planning to announce a mutiny. They ask that if they do not find them in the trinary system they are approaching, can they then go back for another search of Gamma II. Spock agrees and asks if Scott can give him warp 7. Scott happily says yes, "and maybe a wee bit more." Spock orders warp 7. Shahna brings Kirk his dinner and tells him that he makes her feel "strangely". He begins kissing her again and as she looks at him with bedroom eyes, he knocks her out. Taking her key, he frees Chekov and Uhura, who have also disabled their drill thralls. They plan to find their phasers and try to short out their collars. As they move across the arena, Galt appears and activates their collars but does not kill them. The voice of Provider 1 tell them that this was just a warning. The Enterprise assumes standard orbit around Triskelion. Sensors show only one concentration of lifeforms on the planet, in the lower hemisphere, and humanoid. Not wanting to endanger the captain and the others if they are alive by beaming down a large force, Spock plans to beam down with Dr. McCoy hoping to rescue the captain and the others. Before they can even leave the bridge, the ship's systems are frozen by the Providers. Kirk and Provider 1 explain the situation on Triskelion. Kirk accuses the Providers of being too afraid to show themselves. Since they feel he presents no danger while he wears the collar, Provider 1 transports Kirk to a chamber 1,000 meters below the planet's surface, where three disembodied brains sit in a dome-shaped glass case. An enormous power plant looms in the background. The Providers explain that their race once had humanoid form, but they evolved beyond that form. The games have become their only purpose. They had hoped that the Humans would bring new blood to the thralls, but regret that they will now have to be destroyed. Kirk threatens that to do so would mean their own destruction at the hands of the Federation and Starfleet, but the Providers plan to make it look like they were destroyed by a magnetic storm so that no one will ever know they were responsible. Enraged, Kirk accuses them of being murderers without the spirit to really wager for the lives they take. As soon as he says it, he realizes that gambling is the key to these creatures. He tells the Providers that his people are the most successful gamblers in the galaxy and it is in their nature to win. He wagers that his crew can defeat an equal number of thralls set against them. The providers immediately start placing bets on the outcome in quatloos, but Kirk tells them that quatloos are trivial and that the stakes must be higher. If they win, the Enterprise goes free and the thralls are freed and started on a course to self governance. If they lose, the entire crew of the Enterprise will become thralls and give them generations of the most exciting wagering they've ever had. The Providers agree but on the condition that Kirk fight three other thralls on his own. Kirk protests that the odds are not fair, but he is told by the Providers that they are extremely fair since the alternative is death. Because he is fighting for the lives of his crew, the Providers allow them to watch the combat on the ship's viewscreen. Kirk must stay on the yellow sections of the arena; his three opponents, Kloog, Lars, and an Andorian man, must remain on the blue sections. Touching another's color deprives a competitor of a weapon. An opponent must be killed to be removed from the game. If only wounded, he is replaced by a fresh thrall. The combat begins. Kirk takes out Kloog and then Lars, but only wounds the Andorian. Shahna is brought in to replace the wounded. Kirk does not want to fight her, but she accuses him of having tricked her with lies and attacks. Kirk gets her on the ground with his knife to her throat and she surrenders. The Providers keep their word and tell everyone to remove their collars. Kirk tells Shahna that he did not lie and she asks if she can go with him back to the lights in the sky he had told her about earlier. He tells her that she has much to learn on Triskelion first before reaching for the stars. He kisses her goodbye and gently strokes her cheek. Kirk, Uhura, and Chekov beam back to the Enterprise as Shahna, a tear running down her cheek, Tamoon, and Galt look to the sky to which Kirk has returned. Through her tears, Shahna says, "Goodbye, Jim Kirk. I will learn and watch the lights in the sky… and remember." The Enterprise then leaves for Gamma II. Log entries Captain's log, USS Enterprise (NCC-1701), 2268 Memorable quotes "Hope? I always thought that was a Human failing, Mister Spock." "True, doctor. Constant exposure does result in a certain degree of contamination." - McCoy and Spock, as the Enterprise searches for Kirk, Uhura, and Chekov "I would welcome a suggestion, doctor, even an emotional one, as to where to look." "First time you've ever asked me for anything, and it has to be an occasion like this." - Spock and McCoy, after nearly one hour into the search "It is not allowed to refuse selection." - Lars, to Uhura "Doctor, I am chasing Captain Kirk, Lieutenant Uhura, and Ensign Chekov, not some wild aquatic fowl." - Spock, as McCoy describes the search focus on Triskelion as a wild goose chase "How can one live on a flicker of light?" - Shahna, after Kirk tells her that he comes from one of the stars in the sky "Tie her!" - Galt "Please, help me once again." - Shahna, as she and Kirk kiss again "This is going to kill our romance." - Chekov to Kirk, after tying up Tamoon "What in the name of heaven is this?" "Heaven's got very little to do with this." - McCoy and Scott, commenting on the Triskelion game "All your people must learn before you can reach for the stars." - Kirks parting words to Shahna "Goodbye, Jim Kirk. I will learn. And watch the lights in the sky. And remember." - Shahna, looking up at the sky after Kirk, Uhura, and Chekov depart Background information Script and production The original title was "The Gamesters of Pentathlon" on the first-draft script from . The original version of the script featured Kirk, Sulu, and Uhura being taken captive while traveling in a shuttlecraft. However, the production staff thought it was too similar to the teaser of , and changed it to feature them being detained while transporting down instead. (These Are the Voyages: TOS Season Two, p. 433) Eventually, Sulu's part was replaced with Chekov, to accommodate George Takei's schedule. (see below) Uhura's drill thrall was originally written as a large muscular black man, but Robert Justman complained that it would reinforce the "different but equal" policies presented in some network programs, and opted to cast a white actor in the role instead. (These Are the Voyages: TOS Season Two, p. 434) Margaret Armen's original script featured a "slithering vine", named a "Delka Vine" grabbing Shahna and tossing her into a pond, and Kirk having to rescue her by wrestling the tentacle vine. Robert Justman found this idea much beyond the scope of the series budget, and the scene was scrapped. (These Are the Voyages: TOS Season Two, p. 437) Gene Nelson was the first new director to be hired for the second season (all previous episodes of the season were directed by either Joseph Pevney, Marc Daniels or Ralph Senensky). Despite finishing on schedule and leaving a good impression on the producers, he was never asked to direct more episodes. (These Are the Voyages: TOS Season Two, p. 448) Performers Dick Crockett, who appeared in the episode as an Andorian, was stunt coordinator for this episode. (The Star Trek Compendium) Robert C. Johnson, voice of one of the Providers, was one of America's most famous voices for a few years: he was the tape recorded voice that gave the Impossible Missions Force its assignments at the beginning of most episodes of . Mission was filmed next door to the Star Trek set, and actors from the series would often wander over to see what was happening on the Enterprise. Johnson previously did voice work on the first Star Trek pilot, . When asked why his character was never developed more, George Takei stated that "one episode of Star Trek would have helped to develop Sulu very much and that was "The Gamesters of Triskelion"." The first draft of this episode did feature Sulu, however, Takei was away on location in Georgia for the filming of and despite his intentions to appear in the episode, he was unable to return to Los Angeles to make the appearance due to complications on the film set. Much to Takei's disappointment, he did not appear in this episode, yet despite this, Takei said "things turned out well anyway, I got to do The Green Berets and they rewrote all of Sulu's lines for Chekov, so Walter (Koenig) got a good break." ( issue #3, p. 31; The Star Trek Compendium) Sets The ruins that Kirk and Shahna encounter while jogging were recycled from the surface of M-113 in . Some rock formations and branches are recycled from the previous episode filmed, . Costumes An ultimately unused take of Paul Baxley stunt doubling for Kirk during the fight scene resulted in the stuntman splitting his pants. (Star Trek: Lost Scenes) Props and special effects The Janus VI mining station backdrop painting from is reused in the scene under the surface of Triskelion. The top of Lazarus' ship from was recycled as the glass bubble that encases the Providers. (The Star Trek Compendium) The daggers used by the Terran Empire crew in were used by the drill thralls. The "collars of obedience" are very similar to the control device placed around Dr. Zachary Smith's neck in the Lost in Space episode "Invaders From the Fifth Dimension", aired 3 November 1965. The spear used on Lars was made up of two pieces, front and back, to give the illusion of impalement. An unused take of this scene was not used due to the two pieces of the spear not lining up. (Star Trek: Lost Scenes) Continuity McCoy's exchange with Spock regarding survival in a transporter beam ("It's been nearly an hour. Can people live that long as disassembled atoms in a transporter beam?" "I have never heard of a study being done, but it would be a fascinating project.") is ultimately realized by fellow Enterprise crewmember Montgomery Scott in . Scott successfully survives after being suspended in transport for 75 years (2294 to 2369), following the 's crashing into a Dyson sphere, however his partner, Franklin, does not. Remastered information "The Gamesters of Triskelion" was the forty-sixth episode of the remastered version of The Original Series to air, premiering in syndication on the weekend of . Aside from the standard CGI replacement footage of the Enterprise, this episode most notably featured new effects shots of the planets Gamma II and Triskelion. One piece of new footage was added to this episode, the establishing shot of the planet Triskelion, shown during the opening credits, now included the system's trinary suns. A short part of the end credit roll was also visually altered; at the start of the original end credit roll, the Enterprise was seen from the aft when departing Triskelion. For the remastered version, the new CGI Enterprise was seen approaching headlong when departing. The next remastered episode to air was . Apocrypha A cat version of "The Gamesters of Triskelion" was featured in Jenny Parks' 2017 book Star Trek Cats. Production timeline Story outline "The Gamesters of Pentathlon" by Margaret Armen: Revised story outline: Second revised story outline: Revised story outline by Gene L. Coon: First draft teleplay by Armen: Second draft telepay: Revised second draft teleplay: Final draft teleplay: Revised final draft by John Meredyth Lucas: Second revised final draft: early- Third revised final draft "The Gamesters of Triskelion": early- Filmed: – Day 1 – , Tuesday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Bridge, Transporter room Day 2 – , Wednesday – Paramount Test Stage: Int. Providers' chamber, Cell corridors Day 3 – , Thursday – Paramount Test Stage: Int. Kirk's cell, Uhura's cell, Chekov's cell Day 4 – , Friday – Desilu Stage 10: Ext. Combat arena Day 5 – , Monday – Desilu Stage 10: Ext. Combat arena Day 6 – , Tuesday – Desilu Stage 10: Ext. Combat arena, Providers' ancient city Original airdate: Rerun airdate: First UK airdate: Video and DVD releases Original US Betamax release: UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 24, catalog number VHR 2359, US VHS release: UK re-release (three-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 2.6, Original US DVD release (single-disc): Volume 23, As part of the TOS Season 2 DVD collection Links and references Starring William Shatner as James T. Kirk Also starring Leonard Nimoy as "Mr. Spock" And DeForest Kelley as "Dr. McCoy" Guest star Joseph Ruskin as Galt Co-starring Angelique Pettyjohn as Shahna Featuring Nichelle Nichols as Uhura James Doohan as Scott Steve Sandor as Lars Walter Koenig as Chekov Jane Ross as Tamoon Victoria George as Ensign Jana Haines Dick Crockett as Andorian Thrall And Mickey Morton as Kloog Uncredited co-stars William Blackburn as Hadley Frank da Vinci as Brent Walker Edmiston as Provider 2 (voice) Roger Holloway as Roger Lemli Robert C. Johnson as Provider 3 (voice) Bart LaRue as Provider 1 (voice) Jeannie Malone as Enterprise yeoman Eddie Paskey as Leslie Frieda Rentie as Enterprise lieutenant Unknown actor as Humanoid Thrall Stunt double Paul Baxley as stunt double for James T. 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Obsession (episode)

A survey of Argus X brings the Enterprise crew in confrontation with a vampiric cloud that killed a crew Kirk was on years ago, captained by the father of an ensign currently assigned to the ship. Summary Teaser Captain James Kirk, Spock, Ensign Rizzo, Leslie, and a security guard are carrying out a survey of Argus X, a planet rich in tritanium, a material twenty times (21.4 according to Spock) harder than diamond. While appraising the material, Captain Kirk notices a sweet odor, and orders Rizzo and the security guards to perform a sweep with their tricorders of the perimeter of the landing site, with special instructions to scan for dikironium, and to fire on any gaseous clouds they might encounter. He notifies chief engineer Scott, standing by on the ship, that he is conducting an investigation of the area, in spite of the fact that the expects the Enterprise to rendezvous with them in eight hours time. Rizzo and the two other security officers report in when they encounter an odd cloud, and are ordered to fire on it immediately. Contact is then lost with the team. When Kirk and Spock run over to them to investigate, they find Rizzo badly injured and the other two officers dead. Their skin is oddly pale and Kirk says that every red corpuscle has been drained from their bodies. Act One "Captain's log, stardate 3619.2. With the mysterious death of two crewmen, all personnel on the planet have been evacuated back to the ship." Rizzo is quickly returned to the ship for treatment. Chief Medical Officer McCoy reports that Rizzo remained unconscious for some time, following massive blood transfusions. His autopsy of the deceased crewmen confirms that all red blood cells have been drained from their bodies, without any marks, cuts, or incisions of any kind. Captain Kirk suggested that McCoy examine the record tapes of the , which listed casualties eleven years earlier from identical causes. At this point Kirk decides to investigate the officers' deaths further, in spite of the fact that the is scheduled to pick up highly perishable medical supplies from the Yorktown, supplies that are badly needed on the planet Theta VII. He further requests that McCoy revive Ensign Rizzo for questioning, which he does with cordrazine. Although half-conscious, and unreliable in McCoy's medical opinion, Rizzo reports that he remembered a sickly sweet odor and that he felt an intelligence when attacked. Kirk then leaves sickbay, requesting McCoy's medical report as soon as possible. Kirk meets with Spock on the bridge, where Lieutenant Uhura reports an urgent message from Starfleet which is promptly ignored by the captain. Because sensor scans for dikironium were negative, Spock hypothesizes that the creature might be able to change its molecular structure and thus avoid detection from the Enterprises sensor scans. Kirk then receives word from Uhura that Ensign Rizzo had died. Ensign Garrovick, the new security officer, arrives on the bridge. Kirk asks if Garrovick's father is who he thinks. The ensign confirms this and says he expects no special treatment; Kirk says he will get none. Kirk then asks if Garrovick is interested in pursuing the creature that killed Rizzo. Garrovick is: he was close to the late ensign, having graduated from the Academy together with him. Kirk, Garrovick, and a party of four armed security officers beam down to the planet to investigate the phenomenon that killed Rizzo, with their phasers set on disruptor effect. They split into two parties of three, one led by Kirk (with and Bardoli), the other by Garrovick. Kirk gives orders that the cloud was to be shot on sight. Garrovick's party almost immediately encounters the cloud. While approaching them, it appears to hover briefly; Garrovick hesitates for an instant before firing. By the time he shoots, the cloud is moving fast. It attacks the two crewmen accompanying him, killing one of them. Act Two "Captain's log, stardate 3619.6. One of the men in critical condition, the other is dead. And I… I am now even more convinced that this is not only an intelligent creature, but the same which decimated the crew of the USS Farragut eleven years ago in another part of the galaxy. Both Spock and McCoy are doubtful of this, and I sense they also doubt my decision to stay and fight the thing. Why am I keeping the ship here?" When the landing party returns to the ship, Kirk is now convinced that not only was the creature intelligent, but it was also the same creature which attacked and decimated the crew of the Farragut eleven years previously. Kirk, Spock, and McCoy meet with Garrovick in the ship's briefing room to hear his report. He details his experiences, including his hesitation before firing. As punishment, Captain Kirk has him relieved of all duties and confined to quarters, an action McCoy finds to be too harsh on the young man. Kirk dismisses McCoy's words and then directs Spock and the doctor to make any observations in official reports. He hastily leaves. At this point, Chief Engineer Scott reports that the Enterprise will be ready to leave orbit in half an hour. Kirk replies that they would not be leaving orbit, whereupon Scott reminds Kirk of the urgent nature of their mission to Theta VII. Kirk dresses Scott down, complaining that he is "tired of my senior officers conspiring against me." When pressed, he admits that he should not have used the word "conspire". He also severely admonishes acting science officer Ensign Chekov, who reports that they have conducted full scanner probes twice on the planet. Kirk yells at him to continue running scans twenty times if necessary until the gaseous creature was found. At this point, Spock approaches Doctor McCoy to consult on what he has observed to be a persistent, single-minded fixation on the creature on the part of Captain Kirk. Spock informs McCoy that eleven years earlier, then-Lieutenant Kirk, under the command of Captain Garrovick on the Farragut, had encountered a similar situation. Captain Garrovick was the father of the ensign of the same name. Act Three "Personal log, stardate 3620.7. Have I the right to jeopardize my crew, my ship for a feeling I can't even put into words? No man achieves Starfleet command without relying on intuition, but have I made a rational decision? Am I letting the horrors of the past distort my judgment of the present?" Shortly thereafter, Doctor McCoy meets with Captain Kirk in his quarters to discuss his recent actions. He speaks of the terrible stress of a young officer in his first real danger, but when Kirk snaps that punishing Ensign Garrovick was his command decision, McCoy reveals that the "young officer" he referred to had actually served aboard the USS Farragut – Lieutenant James T. Kirk, assigned to phaser control. McCoy reminded him that, as a young man, he had hesitated before firing on the creature, causing him to miss it. Shortly thereafter, it had killed two hundred crewmen, including Captain Garrovick. McCoy suggests that Kirk's guilt was causing him to become obsessed, and that he was preparing a medical log entry on Kirk's emotional condition. Such a log requires a witness of command grade, so McCoy produces such a witness: First Officer Spock. As per regulations, Spock and McCoy inquire about his recent command decisions. Kirk defends his position by stating that he had sensed that the creature was intelligent, and that he felt it was the same one that attacked them on Argus X. Since this indicated the creature was dangerous and capable of space travel, Kirk had decided to pursue it. At this point, McCoy decides to withhold his judgment on Kirk's emotional state. Chekov reports that scanners detected the cloud was heading into space, so Kirk orders the Enterprise to follow it and has the ship set on red alert. The cloud's speed surpassed warp eight; if the ship traveled at that speed for a prolonged period, it would damage the engines. After a brief hesitation, Kirk decides to abandon pursuit and the Enterprise slows to warp six. As he could not leave his cabin, Nurse Chapel brings Garrovick his dinner. She finds him lying on his bed consumed with guilt over his inability to fire his phaser at the creature in time. When he insists he's not hungry, she claims that McCoy had her bring a microtape containing a simple order: to eat. She threatens to feed him intravenously in sickbay if he does not; unknown to him, this was a ruse, as Chapel's tape contained "A Survey on Cygnian Respiratory Diseases". After she leaves, Garrovick angrily throws the cover to his plate across the room, causing his ventilation control to jam. A red alert is then declared over the ship's intercom by Kirk, with an order for all crew to get to battle stations. Garrovick leaves his room and reports to the bridge in violation of orders. The red alert was called due to the fact that the creature had decided to turn toward the ship. With Garrovick watching, the captain orders phasers to fire on it; however, the phaser attack is completely ineffectual, as is a barrage of photon torpedoes. The creature then enters the ship through an impulse engine vent that had been left open for repair. It enters the ship's ventilation system, killing one crewman and severely injuring another in the process, and leaving the crew of the Enterprise with only two hours of remaining air supply. Act Four Ship's senior officers Kirk, Spock, Scott, and McCoy meet in the briefing room to discuss the situation. McCoy feels, more than ever, that the situation was a result of Kirk's obsession, but Spock counters that the question of obsession is now an academic one, as the creature had attacked. McCoy is taken aback by the scientifically-inclined Vulcan's use of the word "creature," the same description as the "obsessed" Human, so Spock responds that this attack – it had significantly changed its course to face the ship – indicated to him that it was, in fact, intelligent. The consensus of the meeting is that radioactive waste should be flushed into the ventilation system to drive out the creature. After the doctor and engineer leave to return to their posts, Spock also reminds Kirk that, as phasers were ineffective, there was no basis for his self-recrimination due to his actions on the Farragut – though the captain responds that he was not the crew member who needed to hear that message. Later, Spock visits Ensign Garrovick in his stateroom. He informs him that his hesitation was natural, which Garrovick doesn't want to hear, but they are soon interrupted by the sickly smell of the cloud creature, coming through the vent. Spock ejects Garrovick from his cabin, seals the door, and attempts to reverse the vent, which is jammed. From outside Garrovick's cabin, Kirk orders that the pressure inside be reversed. Garrovick lets the captain know that Spock had saved his life, but when he claims that he was the one who should be dead, Spock emerges from Garrovick's quarters and informs Kirk that neither of them died, the reverse pressure was effective and the vent was closed. When a stunned Kirk asks Spock how he could have survived the encounter, McCoy jokes that his green blood must have left a bad taste in the creature's mouth, to which Spock informs the doctor that the sarcastic nature of his comments did not make them any less accurate. Due to his copper-based blood, he was not affected by the creature. Kirk enters the cabin and is about to report a strange sensation to Spock, when he is interrupted by Scott, who reports that the creature is moving out of the ship the way it came. Soon after, Kirk meets with Garrovick, recalling that he had been on the bridge during the attack. The ensign apologizes for violating orders, but, after commending his dedication, Kirk instead reminds him that, having been at the captain's side, he would have seen first-hand that phasers were ineffectual against the creature – since his hesitation made, even in Kirk's words, "no difference," he could report for duty. Sensors indicate the cloud is moving off at high warp speed. Kirk, however, believes the creature had in Garrovick's cabin communicated its intent to go home. Course is therefore set for the planet Tycho IV, where the Farragut had encountered the creature eleven years earlier. McCoy logs his objections to the trip, as the medical supplies being brought by the Yorktown are urgent – and perishable. However, Kirk overrules him, particularly in light of Spock's conclusion that the evidence indicates the creature is going home to reproduce by fission – and by the thousands. It must be stopped as soon as possible. The officers agree to use antimatter to destroy the creature, in spite of the fact that a matter/antimatter blast would rip away half the planet's atmosphere and that transporters might not function in such an environment. They further agree to use hemoplasm to attract the creature. Spock volunteers to go down to the planet's surface since he was resistant to the creature' corpuscle-draining attacks. However, Kirk overrules him and instead transports down with Ensign Garrovick. Kirk and Garrovick beam down to the surface of the planet with the hemoplasm and one ounce of antimatter, which has the explosive force of more than ten thousand cobalt bombs. Unfortunately, while the antimatter is being primed, the creature takes the hemoplasm. As a result, Captain Kirk decides that to use himself as bait. He orders Garrovick to return to the ship. Wrongly thinking Kirk expects to kill himself in the explosion, Garrovick attempts to overpower him and force him to return to the ship. At this point the creature approaches both men. Kirk calls the Enterprise and tells them the exact moment to remotely detonate the bomb and transport them away. On the Enterprise, Spock has some difficulty transporting them aboard. First, the crew tries to reset the transporter, then they cross-circuit to "A". They then decide to cross-circuit to "B", which enables them to beam the landing party aboard. Once safely aboard, Garrovick joins Kirk to hear some tall tales of his father's adventures. Log entries Captain's log, USS Enterprise (NCC-1701), 2268 Memorable quotes "I need your advice." "Then I need a drink." - Spock and McCoy, as McCoy is surprised to learn that Spock needs his advice on something "Monsters come in many forms. You know the greatest monster of them all, Jim? Guilt." - McCoy, on Kirk's obsession with the cloud creature "Intuition, however illogical, Mister Spock, is recognized as a command prerogative." - Kirk, on explaining his reasons for hunting the cloud creature "You know, self-pity's a terrible first course. Why don't you try the soup instead?" - Chapel, convincing Garrovick to eat his dinner "A survey on Cygnian respiratory diseases? I thought you took Garrovick some food. What were you doing with this?" "Applying psychology." - McCoy and Chapel, after she tricked Garrovick into thinking she had McCoy's medical orders "He saved my life, captain; I should be lying dead in there, not him." "Fortunately, neither of us is dead, ensign." - Garrovick and Spock "Mister Spock, please don't take this the wrong way, but … why aren't you dead?!" "It's that green blood of his." "My hemoglobin is based on copper, not iron." "I'll bet he left a bad taste in the creature's mouth, too" "Colloquially expressed. But essentially correct." - Kirk, McCoy, and Spock, after Spock is unharmed by the cloud creature "The way that thing can move, captain. I wouldn't believe it." - Chekov, to Kirk on the cloud creature's warp velocity "Crazy way to travel! Spreading a man's molecules all over the universe!" - McCoy, as Spock and Scott have difficulty in beaming up Kirk and Garrovick "Captain, thank heaven!" "Mister Scott, there was no deity involved. It was my cross-circuiting to B that recovered them." "Well, then, thank pitchforks and pointed ears!" - Scott, Spock, and McCoy, after Kirk and Garrovick beam aboard safely Background information Production timeline Story idea "Space Moby Dick" by Gene Roddenberry: Story outline "Obsession" by Art Wallace: Revised story outline: First draft teleplay: Revised first draft: Second draft teleplay: Final draft teleplay by Gene L. Coon: Script reviewed by de Forest Research: Revised final draft by Roddenberry: Additional page revisions by John Meredyth Lucas: , , , Filmed: – Day 1 – , Monday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Bridge Day 2 – , Tuesday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Bridge, Transporter room Day 3 – , Wednesday – Desilu Stage 10: Ext. Tycho IV surface; Desilu Stage 9: Int. Kirk's quarters Day 4 – , Thursday – Desilu Stage 10: Ext. Argus X surface Day 5 – , Friday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Briefing room, Sickbay, McCoy's office Day 6 – , Monday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. McCoy's office, Corridors, Garrovick's quarters Original airdate: First UK airdate: Story and production Like , the script for this episode borrowed a page from Herman Melville's classic Moby Dick. (Star Trek 30 Years) Director Ralph Senensky noted, "I realized from day one that it was a transferring of the Captain Ahab-Moby Dick battle from the ocean to outer space. But the script was more than the novel's struggle between a man and a big whale; it was a mystery story, if not a "whodunit", a "whatisit". And it was more beyond that; it was a deep penetration into Kirk's psyche, his inner struggle to overcome guilt for his actions in a past incident." Vincent McEveety was originally hired to direct this episode, however, since the series' mid-season renewal by NBC came so late, McEveety couldn't be secured for "Obsession", and accepted another assignment. Ralph Senensky was hired as a replacement after he completed his work on . (Inside Star Trek: The Real Story, ) On Friday , Senensky left the set at sundown, to observe the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur. Producer John Meredyth Lucas took his place for those few hours, making this his first directorial contribution to the series. Lucas later went on to direct three episodes, , , and . This episode reveals that phaser-twos have a disruptor setting, also referred to as setting "disruptor-B". This episode also reveals more about the biochemistry of Spock, which is based on copper, not iron, and found to be distasteful to the creature. This episode also reveals that an explosion of less than one ounce of antimatter has the force of 10,000 cobalt bombs, which is capable of ripping away half of a planet's atmosphere, and may interfere with a transporter beam. Cast The episode featured the death of Eddie Paskey's character, Leslie, who was killed by the cloud creature, but reappears in several subsequent scenes throughout the rest of the series very much alive. According to Paskey, a scene in the script in which Leslie is revived by a miracle potion was never filmed. However, no such scene exists in the revised final draft script. Director Ralph Senensky also confirmed that he did not shoot the scene. Jerry Ayres, whose character Rizzo was killed by the cloud creature, also played Ensign in , another doomed red shirt character. He had his hair dyed lighter in this appearance, to lessen the resemblance. George Takei (Sulu) does not appear in this episode. McCoy's short-sleeved medical tunic bears an engineering insignia instead of the usual sciences division insignia for the entire episode. Effects The dikironium cloud creature was created using a smoke-making machine, hidden behind the rocks on the planet sound stage set. (Star Trek: The Original Series 365) In an effect unique to the series, the phaser beam that Garrovick fires at the creature is outlined with a dark border. When both Garrovick and Kirk retreat to their quarters to brood, the walls are bathed in deep purple light, reflecting their somber moods. Apocrypha According to the short story "The Greater Good" contained in the anthology Shards and Shadows, the mirror universe , who was then a lieutenant, served aboard the ISS Farragut in 2264. Captain Garrovick took great pleasure in humiliating him in front of the entire crew. In revenge, Kirk arranged for Garrovick and two hundred of his crew to be killed by a dikironium cloud creature. He later claimed that he slept sounder the night after Garrovick's death than he had in years. In the videogame "Star Trek: Judgment Rites", Lieutenant Commander Walter Ellis of the USS Zimbabwe blames Kirk for the death of one of the redshirts in this episode, a good friend of his from Starfleet Academy, and accuses Kirk of being callous with the lives of those under his command. He gives the man's name as Lieutenant Ralph Garvin, supposedly one of the redshirts killed in the attack that left Ensign Garrovick mortally wounded (though not named in the episode itself). Remastered information "Obsession" was the sixty-fifth episode of the remastered version of The Original Series to air, premiering in syndication on the weekend of . Aside from the standard CGI replacement footage of the Enterprise, this episode most notably featured new effects shots of the planets Argus X and Tycho IV, as well as revised footage of the dikironium cloud creature and the Enterprises phaser fire into it while in space. One piece of new footage was added to this episode, a shot of the crater left from the antimatter blast on Tycho IV, shown at the end of the episode. This replaced stock footage of the Enterprise traveling through space. For reasons unknown, this episode is the only one out of the entire series on Netflix that does not use the remastered version, only showing the original version. The next remastered episode to air was . Video and DVD releases Original US Betamax release: UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 25, catalog number VHR 2360, US VHS release: UK re-release (three-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 2.6, Original US DVD release (single-disc): Volume 24, As part of the TOS Season 2 DVD collection As part of the TOS-R Season 2 DVD collection Links and references Starring William Shatner as Capt. Kirk Also starring Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock And DeForest Kelley as Dr. McCoy Guest star Stephen Brooks as Ensign Garrovick Co-stars James Doohan as Scott Nichelle Nichols as Uhura Jerry Ayres as Rizzo Majel Barrett as Nurse Chapel Walter Koenig as Chekov Uncredited co-stars William Blackburn as Hadley John Blower as Frank da Vinci as Vinci Steve Hershon as operations officer Jeannie Malone as Yeoman Eddie Paskey as Leslie Basil Poledouris as Bardoli Unknown actors as Crew woman Navigator Nurse Security guard 1 Security guard 3 Security guard 4 Security lieutenant References 2257; ability; advice; AID cleanup; alert station; analyst; angle; answer; antigrav; antimatter unit (aka antimatter container); antimatter; Argus X; assumption; atmosphere (aka air); autopsy report; bait; battle; battle stations; bearing; behavior; blood; blood count; blood transfusion; body; "Bones"; bowl; bravery; briefing room; camouflage; career; casualty; cc; chance; chemical element (aka element); cleaning; cloud; cobalt bomb; colloquially expressed; color; command grade; commanding officer; composition; confined to quarters; consciousness; conspiring; contact; copper; cordrazine; course; crater; creature; critical condition; cubic meter; cut; danger; ; day; death; deck; deep space assignment; deflectors; : deity; detonator; diamond; dikironium; dikironium cloud creature; dinner; distance; dreaming; drill; drug (aka medicine); duty officer; ear; effect; elevation; emotion; emotional condition; energy; estimation; event; evidence; evil; expression; failure; ; Farragut causalities; Farraguts executive officer; Federation survey vessel; feeling; ; ; frequency; friend; friendship; "gang up on you"; Garrovick; gold; graduation; gravitational field; green; green light; growing season; guilt; hatch; heaven; hemisphere; hemoglobin; hemoplasm; hereditary trait; high warp speed; home; honey; hour; Human; idea; imagination; impression; impulse engine; incision; information; injury; intelligence; intravenous; intuition; irrationality; iron; ivory; ; kilometer; kindness; laboratory experiment; lead; lifeform; light; light year; location; log entry; logic; magnification; magnetic vacuum field; manual; matter; matter-antimatter blast; maximum orbit; maximum warp; medical alert; medical analysis; medical emergency; medical log; medical record library; medical stores; Milky Way Galaxy; mind; molecule (molecular structure); molecular shift; monster; monster hunt; mouth; name; negative pressure; obsession (aka fixation); odor (smell, scent); on report; opinion; orbit; ounce; percent; perimeter; permission; phaser; ; phaser station; phaser-two; photon torpedo; physical condition; pitchfork; plan; planet; planetary survey; plastic; pollen aroma; prerogative; prescription; present condition; pressure; price tag; problem; propulsion; propulsive force; psychology; pulse; question; radioactive disposal vent; radioactive flushing; radioactive waste; range; reasoning; recitation; record tape/tape record; red; red alert; red corpuscle (aka red blood cell); rendezvous; rendezvous point; reply; report; reproduction; respiration rate; result; risk; round trip; scanner; scanner probe; scanner range; scanner survey; scanning report; search; second; security officer; self-pity; self-recrimination; senior officer; sensor; sensor scan; ship surgeon; shock wave; size; ; soup; space; space travel; spawn; species; specimen; speed; spread pattern; "stand by"; Starfleet; Starfleet Academy; ; subconscious; subject; subspace message; surface; ""; survey vessel; survivor; survivor guilt; sweet; tactical situation; tall story; taste; Theta VII; Theta VII colony; "(a) thing"; thousand; threat; time factor; time sync; trap; treatment; tricorder; tritanium; trophy; Tycho IV; Tycho system; unconsciousness; universe; vaccine; ; vent; vent control; ventilating system (aka ventilation system); wall; weapon; witness; wood; word; yard; year; ; Yorktowns ship surgeon External links Director Ralph Senensky blogs about shooting this episode at Ralph's Trek de:Tödliche Wolken es:Obsession fr:Obsession (épisode) ja:復讐！ガス怪獣（エピソード） nl:Obsession pl:Obsession TOS episodes

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The Immunity Syndrome (episode)

After Spock senses the destruction of the Vulcan-manned starship Intrepid, the Enterprise encounters an enormous single-celled organism that feeds on energy which threatens the galaxy as it prepares to reproduce. Summary Teaser "Captain's log, stardate 4307.1. Approaching Starbase 6 for a much needed period of rest and recreation. The crew has performed excellently, but is exhausted. And I, too, am looking forward to a nice period of rest on some lovely … planet." Headed for much-needed shore leave, the gets a call from Starbase 6. Through massive subspace static, Lieutenant Uhura can only hear "Intrepid" and a sector coordinate. As she tries to reconnect, Spock suddenly appears stricken and informs Kirk and McCoy that the Intrepid – an all-Vulcan starship – has just "died" with all hands aboard. As Spock leaves for the sickbay with McCoy, Uhura gets through to Starbase 6. The Intrepid was investigating the Gamma 7A system in sector 39J when communication with the system and the ship both ceased. The Enterprise is commanded to divert to the area. As they change course, Ensign Pavel Chekov conducts a full long-range scan and reports that the Gamma 7A system is dead. Kirk notes that the system has billions of inhabitants, but Chekov states again that it is simply dead. Act One Diverted to investigate, the Enterprise encounters a "zone of darkness," an area of space so black not even starlight penetrates through. Spock says its location lies directly in the Intrepids, as well as the Gamma 7A system's, projected path. The zone also appears to have a strong attractive force about it. Passive means of gathering information, such as sensors and probes, are ineffective as no data comes back from the zone, just a very loud noise, like feedback from a sound system. The sound nearly knocks everyone on the bridge out, such as Kyle, Uhura, and Chekov. Dr. McCoy reports to Kirk that half the crew members on the Enterprise fainted, but he and Nurse Chapel are treating them with stimulants. Kirk asks Spock for an analysis on the dark area ahead. Spock can provide none due to insufficient information, which irritates the captain. Spock comments that it is not liquid, gaseous, or solid, nor is it a nebula, and since the Enterprises deflectors were activated by it, it must be some form of energy. Finally, Kirk decides to penetrate the zone. Once inside, the attractive force appears to grow stronger, pulling the Enterprise towards the center. In addition, energy is being drained from both the ship and the crew; McCoy orders stimulants to keep everybody going. Later, McCoy reports to Kirk that according to the medical monitors in sickbay, people are dying – they are all dying. Act Two "Captain's log, stardate 4308.8. It is now ten minutes since we entered the zone of darkness. We have stopped engines while we seek a defense against the energy drain which seems to pervade the zone." Kirk enters engineering where Scotty informs him that the Enterprises power levels are down by twelve percent and steadily decreasing. On the bridge, Spock notes that the ship is being pulled toward the center of the zone of darkness by an unknown force. Scott and Spock find that normal laws of physics seem to be reversed within the zone. Reverse thrust, for example, creates forward motion. Forward thrust is ordered by Kirk, which slows (but does not stop) the forward motion. Later, McCoy announces at a meeting in the briefing room that as the Enterprise moves further into the zone of darkness, the weaker the crew's life signs become and he cannot determine why that is. Kirk has Scotty channel all impulse and warp power into one giant thrust forward, so the Enterprise has a chance to escape the zone, and Scotty plans to reserve power for the shields in case they do not. Spock disagrees, noting that if the ship does not escape the zone of darkness, the shields would be extraneous, and would do nothing but delay an inevitable death inside. Kirk agrees with that assessment and orders Scott use all power in the escape attempt. Kirk dismisses his crew, but Spock remains behind to discuss with Kirk that the crew of the Intrepid may have done all of these things they are planning on doing to escape their current predicament and yet they all died. Kirk disagrees, noting that Spock himself has commented on how illogical the whole situation is, thus the Intrepids crew may not have undertaken the same course of action. Spock concedes to this point, but says the crew of the Intrepid did not know what was killing them, sensing earlier that he felt a "touch of death" from the crew. He also says the crew felt astonishment just prior to their deaths. Scott transfers the necessary power for the large scale thrust in the emergency manual monitor area of engineering. Kirk announces the plan to the whole crew via the intercom and to brace themselves. The attempt fails, however, and the best they can do is to maintain thrust against the pull. The Enterprise then penetrates deeper into the zone and the mystery is finally revealed at its center – an 11,000 mile long single-celled creature, which apparently radiates the zone as a protective covering. Spock announces that it is living. Act Three A quick analysis reveals that the creature feeds on energy, explaining the drain on machines and lifeforms, and it can reproduce, breathe, and eat like any other organism would. The entity must be destroyed in order to save the ship and crew, but more information is needed. A shuttlecraft is fitted with special instruments to take detailed readings from inside the creature itself. Both Spock and McCoy eagerly volunteer for the mission, despite the fact that it means almost certain death for the one selected. The confrontation between both men, each an expert in his own way, leaves Kirk with an agonizing choice. "Captain's personal log, stardate 4309.2. We have established that the thing which destroyed the USS Intrepid and the Gamma 7A system is an incredibly huge but simple cellular being whose energies are totally destructive to all known life. Both Mr. Spock and Dr. McCoy have volunteered to go in a specially equipped shuttlecraft to penetrate the cell, find a way to destroy it, and free the ship. Dr. McCoy has the medical, biological knowledge. Mr. Spock… is better-suited physically and emotionally to stand the stress. Both are right, both are capable… and which of my friends do I condemn to death?" Finally, he decides: "I'm sorry Mr. Spock; you're best qualified to go." Once inside, Spock sends back telemetry, but his power systems rapidly fade, and what power the shields have will nevertheless only last 47 minutes. His last transmission informs the crew that the 40 chromosomes of the creature are lining up in an apparent first step toward dividing – the creature is preparing to reproduce and soon it will destroy the entire universe if not stopped. Spock radios back how to destroy the creature, but his transmissions are increasingly garbled and unintelligible. Act Four "Captain's log, stardate 4309.4. We have determined we can destroy the creature, provided we can do it from inside the organism. Spock clearly knew how to destroy it, but was unable to transmit that information." Fearing Spock to be dead, Kirk and McCoy reflect over what he was trying to say. Kirk makes the observation that when the creature divides, the Enterprise will be like an invading virus; McCoy is fascinated by the idea of being antibodies of their own galaxy. The analogy gives Kirk an idea – use a charge of antimatter in the chromosome body to destroy the entity. The ship goes into the creature itself, and a probe with the antimatter charge is implanted at point-blank range to prevent currents in the protoplasm from carrying it away from its target. "Personal log, Commander Spock, USS Enterprise. I have noted the passage of the Enterprise… on its way to whatever awaits it. If this record should survive me, I wish it known that I bequeath my highest commendation and testimonial to the captain, officers, and crew of the Enterprise… the finest starship in the fleet." (Log entry made by Captain James T. Kirk of the USS Enterprise) "We have arrived at the chromosome body… in the nucleus of the organism. If we should fail in our attempt to destroy it, or be unable to free ourselves, I wish to record my recommendations for the following personnel, that they receive special citation – Lieutenant Commander Leonard McCoy, Lieutenant Commander Montgomery Scott, officers Chekov, Kyle, Uhura, and my highest commendation for Commander Spock, science officer, who gave his life in the performance of his duty." Power levels are quickly dropping, however, and the ship backs out of the creature. As it does so, however, sensors pick up the shuttlecraft with Spock still alive. Despite the power drain (and Spock's protests), tractor beams are activated. Power levels read dead as the charge explodes, just before the Enterprise exits the creature. The explosion ruptures the creature's outer membrane and both the ship and shuttlecraft are thrown clear, with power levels restored. As Spock and McCoy argue over which tests were performed satisfactorily, the shuttlecraft is brought back aboard to the Enterprises shuttlebay, and the ship resumes its course for the crew's well-earned shore leave. Log entries Captain's log, USS Enterprise (NCC-1701), 2268 Captain's personal log, USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) Personal log, Spock Memorable quotes "You find it easier to understand the death of one than the death of a million. You speak about the objective hardness of the Vulcan heart, yet how little room there seems to be in yours." - Spock to McCoy, on the deaths of the Intrepid crew ""Insufficient data" is not sufficient, Mr. Spock. You're the science officer. You're supposed to have sufficient data all the time!" "I'm well aware of that, captain." - Kirk and Spock ""Suffer the death of thy neighbor," eh, Spock? You wouldn't wish that on us, would you?" "It might have rendered your history a bit less bloody." - McCoy and Spock on feeling empathy for the dead Intrepid crew "Are you trying to be funny, Mister Spock?" "It would never occur to me, Captain." - Kirk and Spock, after the Enterprise passes into another layer of the space amoeba "Vulcan dignity? How can I grant you what I don't understand?" "Then employ one of your own superstitions. Wish me luck." - McCoy and Spock, outside the hangar deck door "Good luck, Spock." - McCoy, to himself, after Spock boards the shuttlecraft "According to Spock's telemetry information, there are over forty chromosomes in the nucleus that are ready to come together, ready to reproduce. "If the energy of that organism only doubles, we're dead, and everything within a light year will be defenseless. "Well, all I know is, that soon there'll be two, four, eight, and more. The entire anti-life matter that that thing puts out could someday encompass the entire galaxy." - McCoy and Kirk, worrying for the galaxy and the space amoeba's reproduction "Here we are. Antibodies of our own galaxy, attacking an invading germ. It would be ironic indeed if that were our sole destiny, wouldn't it?" - McCoy to Kirk, on destroying the space amoeba "Shut up, Spock! We're rescuing you!" "Why, thank you… Captain McCoy." - McCoy and Spock, as the Enterprise locks tractor beams onto the shuttlecraft "The power levels are dead, sir." "You may have just written our epitaph, Mister Scott…" - Scott and Kirk, before the warhead explodes "Spock, you're alive!" "Obviously, captain. And I have some fascinating data on the organism." "Don't be so smart, Spock! You botched the acetylcholine test!" - Kirk, Spock, and McCoy, before the shuttlecraft returns to the Enterprise Background information Robert Sabaroff's outline on described the creature as a giant virus living in a "cell" that consists of our universe, and the illness affecting everyone was attributed to a reversal of the Enterprises polarity, which did happen in . Although the name was cut from the final draft, the captain of the USS Intrepid was named Satak. The space amoeba optical effects were created by Frank Van der Veer of Van der Veer Photo Effects. The amoeba itself was a mixture of liquids pressed between two thin sheets of glass. As the sheets were moved, the liquid would flow, as if the amoeba were pulsating. (Star Trek: The Original Series 365) This is the last time we see the interior of a shuttlecraft in the series. It is completely redesigned since its previous appearances, which can be explained by Kirk's line about sending in "a specially equipped shuttlecraft". The equipment included computer banks that were previously seen in the Starbase operations room and the Eminian war room in . John Winston wears a gold uniform for the only time in the series. This was done so that he would match the stock footage from the captain's chair viewpoint, showing Walter Koenig and William Blackburn's right shoulder. This was apparently arranged partway through filming, however, since in the teaser, John Winston can briefly be seen at the helm wearing his typical red uniform. William Shatner consistently mispronounces Kyle's name as "Cowell". When recording his citations for the crew, Kirk refers to Dr. McCoy by his rank of lieutenant commander. This is the only time in the series McCoy's rank is referenced, although he wears the appropriate rank insignia (until TAS, in which he wears commander's stripes). This episode was the last time in which Kirk's green wrap-around tunic was used. The last time viewers would see the shirt would be in , since "The Immunity Syndrome" aired first. This is the sole episode in which McCoy wears only his medical tunic and not his regular uniform top. This is the last episode directed by Joseph Pevney who – along with Marc Daniels – holds the record for helming the most number of episodes for the series. The young crew woman whom Kirk admires as he records his log at the end of this show appears to be the same extra who portrayed the other female Klingon seen in . The script ended simply with Kirk ordering the Enterprise to proceed to the Starbase 6. The 'tag bit' of Kirk looking at the aforementioned young woman and repeating his line from the teaser about hoping to "get some rest on a lovely planet" was improvised by Shatner and Pevney on the set. (These Are the Voyages: TOS Season Two) This is the first episode ending with a "Paramount Television" logo instead of the "Desilu" logo, after Desilu was sold to Paramount Pictures. The end credits of this episode include a make-up test shot of William Blackburn as the android from wearing a brown velour zippered top. He discusses his experience in an interview on the remastered second season DVD collection of the series issued by Paramount and CBS Home Video. Spock explains in this episode that was never conquered. However, in McCoy says "Now I know why they were conquered" in response to Spock's refusal to drink alcohol. This might be explained by Vulcan never having been conquered but one or more of their colonies having been annexed by another power at some point. The plot in which a starship and its crew are almost devoured by a space creature is repeated in the episodes and . Production timeline Story outline by Robert Sabaroff: Revised story outline: First draft teleplay: Second draft teleplay: Final draft teleplay by John Meredyth Lucas: Additional page revisions: , , Filmed: – Day 1 – , Wednesday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Bridge Day 2 – , Thursday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Bridge Day 3 – , Friday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Bridge Day 4 – , Monday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Kirk's quarters, Briefing room, Engineering Day 5 – , Tuesday – Desilu Stage 10: Int. Shuttlecraft; Desilu Stage 9: Int. Sickbay Day 6 – , Wednesday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Sickbay Original airdate: Rerun airdate: First UK airdate: Remastered information The remastered version of "The Immunity Syndrome" aired in many North American markets during the weekend of . Some of the effects shots were virtual recreations of the original footage (corrected to factor in the absence of light), while others were more dynamic and showed angles of the Enterprise never before seen. The space amoeba retained its original shape and colorful design, but featured a more realistic and three-dimensional nucleus. Shuttlecraft shots were new, with interior windows rotoscoped to feature brand new shots of the amoeba. For much of the episode, the CG-Enterprise was depicted with impulse drive illuminated red, portraying the ship's struggle to remain in place. However, it must be pointed out that there is also a remastered mistake when Uhura asks Mr Spock – 'Exactly what are we looking for Mr Spock?', to which Spock replies with a console tap – 'I would assume, that.' In the original episode the dark nebulous mass on the view screen doesn't appear until Spock draws attention to it. But in the remastered version, the dark mass appears before Spock's statement. Video and DVD releases Original US Betamax release: UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 25, catalog number VHR 2360, US VHS release: UK re-release (three-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 2.7, Original US DVD release (single-disc): Volume 24, As part of the TOS Season 2 DVD collection Apocrypha A cat version of "The Immunity Syndrome" was featured in Jenny Parks' 2017 book Star Trek Cats. Links and references Starring William Shatner as Captain Kirk Also starring Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock And DeForest Kelley as Dr. McCoy Co-starring James Doohan as Scott Nichelle Nichols as Uhura Walter Koenig as Chekov John Winston as Lt. Kyle And Majel Barrett as Christine Chapel Uncredited co-stars William Blackburn as Hadley John Blower as sciences lieutenant commander Frank da Vinci as Brent Steve Hershon as security guard Robert C. Johnson as Starbase 6 commander (voice) Jay Jones as sciences crewman Jeannie Malone as yeoman Eddie Paskey as Leslie Frieda Rentie as a Lieutenant Unknown performers as Command crew woman 1 and 2 Command lieutenant Nurse 1 and Nurse 2 Operations crew woman 1 and 2 Sciences crew woman 1 and 2 Security guard Yeoman 2 Stunts Dick Dial References acceleration; acetylcholine test; "all hands"; "all right"; "all the time"; amoeba; analysis; animal; answer; antibody; anti-life matter; antimatter; area of penetration; asexual reproduction; astonishment; audio; balloon; billion; biology; body; "Bones"; boundary layer; breathing; calculation; "carry on"; ; central mass; chance; chemical process; chromosome (chromosome body); chromosome structure; Class F shuttlecraft; Coalsack Nebula; collective memory; collision; command pilot; commendation; communication channel; competition; computer; computer feed (data feed); conqueror; contact; corridor; course; creeping paralysis; current; damage control party; ; dark zone (area of darkness, dark area, zone of darkness, zone of energy); day; death; debris; deck; deflector shields; destiny; dignity; distance; dizziness; DNA code analyzer; ; eating; emergency; energy; energy drain (power drain); energy level; energy reserve (power reserve); enzyme recorder; epitaph; estimate; experience; explosion; fact; fainting; feet; fleet; friend; fuse; galactic nebula; ; Gamma 7A sun; Gamma 7A system; Gamma 7A system inhabitants; gas; gelatinous layer; germ; gravimetric force; hangar deck; hangar door; heart; hole; hour; Human; Human body; Human history; hybrid; impulse power; "in fact"; impact; impulse power; "in case"; information; inhabitant; intercom; interstellar dust cloud; "in that case"; ; Intrepid crew; irony; ; job; kilometer; knowledge; laboratory; length; library computer; life (lifeform); life function indicator; life indicator; life monitor; life support system; light wavelength; light year; liquid; "live it down"; logic; long range scan; low-energy channel; magnetic bottle; magnetic storm; magnification; magnitude; malfunction; martyr; martyr complex; ; mile; Milky Way Galaxy; million; mind; minute; mission; negative energy; neighbor; nervous energy; noise; nucleus; odds; "on your mind"; order; organism; outer layer; puter protective membrane; pain; "pass up"; percent; permission; person; phaser; phaser bank; phenomenon; physical contact; point blank range; ; power level; probe; problem; programming; progress; protection; protective shield; protoplasm; R&R (rest and recreation); range; rate of decline; red alert; reflex; report; reproduce; rescue; rescue priority; research; reverse logic; reverse power; risk; rule; scanner; science officer; science specialist; Scots language; second; secondary power; secondary system; Sector 39J; sector coordinate; sensor; sharing; shield power; shuttlecraft; simple cellular being; solid; sound; space amoeba; speculation; "stand by"; star; Starbase 6; Starbase 6 planet; Starbase 6 sector; Starfleet; starship; static test; stimulant; straight line; ; subspace message; suicide mission; sun; subject; superstition; telemetry; telemetry analysis; telemetry probe; telepathy; term; thing; thought; thousand; timing detonator; tractor beam; turbulence; unconditional priority; understanding; viewscreen (main viewing screen); virus; voice channel; voice contact; (planet); Vulcan (species); warhead; warp power; waste; wavelength; "what the devil"; width; wind tunnel Unreferenced materials ice; joy; lake; External links de:Das Loch im Weltraum es:The Immunity Syndrome fr:The Immunity Syndrome (épisode) ja:単細胞物体との衝突（エピソード） nl:The Immunity Syndrome pl:The Immunity Syndrome Immunity Syndrome, The

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A Piece of the Action (episode)

Returning to a planet last visited by an Earth ship 100 years earlier, the Enterprise finds a planet that has based its culture on the Chicago gangsters of the 1920s. Summary Teaser The arrives at Sigma Iotia II. This remote planet had been visited by the in 2168, before the establishment of the non-interference directive. The Horizon was lost shortly after leaving Sigma Iotia II and Starfleet only managed to receive her radio reports nearly a century later, as the Horizon was only equipped with conventional radio. After planetfall, Uhura informs Captain Kirk that she is in contact with an Iotian named Bela Okmyx who describes himself as "Boss". Okmyx invites Kirk to come down to the planet's surface saying that a "reception committee" will be waiting for him upon arrival. Since the Horizons visit was before the Federation's Prime Directive against non-interference, Kirk, Spock and McCoy are concerned about what effects the Horizons crew may have had on the Iotian culture which was just beginning industrialization at the time and have a knack for imitation. The three beam down to find a culture resembling that of Chicago in the 1920s. They are immediately greeted by two men dressed as gangsters who threaten them with Tommy guns. Act One The landing party surrenders its standard phasers and communicators and are asking questions of the gunmen when a drive-by shooting occurs. One of the gunmen is killed; the other refers to the "hit" being committed by someone named Krako. Kirk, Spock, and McCoy are taken to Okmyx's office, where they learn that Okmyx is one of a dozen or so "Bosses" and that he has the largest territory on Iotia. The office contains a book (referred to as "The Book") published in the year 1992 titled Chicago Mobs of the Twenties. Okmyx informs Kirk, Spock, and McCoy that "The Book" was left by the crew of the Horizon, and the landing party correctly deduces that the entire Iotian culture has been formed by "This Book". Okmyx refers to the landing party as "Feds" and tells them he wants the Enterprise to furnish him with "heaters" so he can wipe out all of the other bosses and take total control of the planet. Kirk refuses and Okmyx gives him just eight hours to provide the weapons or die. Act Two Okmyx has the landing party taken to a warehouse under guard. He then takes one of the confiscated communicators and contacts the Enterprise. He threatens to kill the landing party unless the ship provides him with one hundred phasers (which he calls "heaters") and troops to show him how to use them. In the warehouse the gunmen are playing cards on a makeshift table while the landing party speculates while sitting in the background about the future of the Iotian society. Spock reasons that, although Okmyx's methods may seem deplorable, his ultimate goal is what the Enterprise crew must also work for: Iotia's society must become united or it will break down completely into anarchy. Kirk feels that since a Federation vessel contaminated the culture, it's the Enterprises responsibility to set things right from this mess the planet's inhabitants are currently in. He distracts one of the gunmen named Kalo with a nonsensical and nonexistent card game supposedly from Beta Antares IV called "Fizzbin" which he makes up on the spot, enabling the landing party to overpower the gunmen and escape. Kirk grabs one of the mobster's Tommy gun and instructs Spock and McCoy to find the local radio station, contact the ship, and have themselves beamed aboard. Kirk goes off by himself planning on abducting Okmyx and bringing him back to the Enterprise. He is promptly greeted by a new gunman, named Zabo, and is forced to take a ride. Kirk is taken to the office of Jojo Krako, another boss who wants to be in control of the planet. Kirk again refuses to "come across with the heaters" for Krako and is confined to a small room. Spock and McCoy find the radio station. Spock incapacitated the station's operator with a Vulcan nerve pinch and they manage to contact Lieutenant Uhura and return to the ship. Shortly after, Okmyx contacts the ship through the communicator he stole and informs Spock that Krako has kidnapped Kirk. He offers to assist in getting Kirk back if Spock and McCoy will return to his office. Spock finds it difficult to trust Okmyx but decides to rather than use blatant force. Using wire from a radio, Kirk rigs a trip line across the doorway and then yells out for help. He knocks out two gunmen and escapes with a machine gun. In the transporter room, Spock instructs Scott to set one of the ship's phaser banks to a strong stun setting. He and McCoy then beam down to Okmyx's office where they are again met by armed hoods. Act Three "Ship's log, Mr. Spock reporting. Incredible as it seems, Dr. McCoy and I are once again prisoners of the chief criminal boss of a society patterned after old Earth gangsters." Okmyx again takes them prisoner, but Kirk arrives and turns the tables. Kirk and Spock dress in the clothes of Kalo and one of Okmyx's henchmen, commandeer a car and set out to "put the bag" on Krako. They are assisted by a small boy who demands "a piece of the action" in exchange for creating a diversion. The boy poses as Kirk's son and pretends to be injured, so Kirk and Spock can incapacitate the guards. They break into Krako's headquarters and appear to be in control until Krako's men gain the upper hand. Act Four Kirk tells Krako that the Federation is taking over and arranges, via an indirect order to Scotty, to have Krako beamed up to the Enterprise to show him what he's up against. They overpower Krako's men in the process and then head back to Okmyx's office where Kirk has Scott locate and transport the other Bosses including Krako. Tepo is successfully transported, though, before more are located, an argument arises and Tepo casts doubt and supposes there aren't more people than just the three "Feds" he sees. Soon, on the street below, Krako's men try a hit on Okmyx's territory in an attempt to rescue Krako and a gunfight ensues in the street below. The landing party loses their guns once again, and Kirk has the ship fire its phasers on wide stun in the surrounding area to demonstrate their power. The mobsters are now convinced and agree to Federation control with Okmyx as the top boss and Krako as his lieutenant. They call the new structure a syndicate. Back aboard ship, Spock has concerns about Kirk's solution of having the Federation take a 40% cut of the planet's annual "action". Kirk explains that the money will go back into the planetary treasury to help the Federation guide the Iotians into a more ethical society. Spock has his doubts as to the logic behind Kirk's plan. McCoy is concerned because he seems to have left his communicator behind somewhere in Okmyx's office. Kirk and Spock speculate that with that kind of technology, such as the communicator's transtator in the hands of the Iotians and with their gift for imitation, the Iotians may one day want a piece of the Federation's action. Log entries Ship's log, USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) Memorable quotes "Okay, you three, let's see you petrified." "Sir, would you mind explaining that statement, please?" "I want to see you turn to stone. Put your hands over your head, or you ain't going to have no head to put your hands over." - Kalo and Spock, as Kirk, Spock and McCoy arrive on Sigma Iotia II "I got the biggest in the world. You know, there's one thing wrong with having the biggest. There's always some punk trying to cut you out." - Okmyx, explaining to Kirk that he runs the biggest territory on Sigma Iotia II "I’m gonna give you just eight hours to get me the things I want. If I don’t have those tools by then, I’m gonna call up your ship and have them pick you up… in a box!" - Okmyx, threatening Kirk. "No, I don't think you're stupid, Mister Krako. I just think your behavior is arrested." "I haven't been arrested in my whole life!" - Kirk and Krako, as Kirk convinces him to join Okmyx "Nobody helps nobody but himself.""Sir, you are employing a double negative." - Okmyx and Spock, as Okmyx takes Spock and McCoy as his prisoners again "The most co-operative man in this world is a dead man. And if you don't keep your mouth shut, you're going to be co-operating." - Okmyx, threatening Spock "Logic and practical information do not seem to apply here." "You admit that?" "To deny the facts would be illogical, Doctor." - Spock and McCoy, after Kirk asks if the computer provided any solutions on uniting the Iotians "Captain, you’re an excellent starship commander. But as a taxi driver, you leave much to be desired." "It was that bad?" - Spock, after riding in a car with Kirk driving "You mind your place, mister, or you'll be wearing concrete galoshes." "You mean cement overshoes?" "Uh… Aye." - Scott and Krako, after Krako is beamed aboard the Enterprise "Are you afraid of cars?" "Not at all, Captain. It's your driving that alarms me." - Kirk and Spock, as they run to the car "Mother!" - Tepo, after being beamed into Okmyx' office "I would advise yas to keep dialin', Okmyx." - Spock, talking like a gangster and pointing a gun at Okmyx "Do you really think it’s that serious?!" "Serious?! Serious, Bones? It upsets the whole percentage." "How do you mean?" "Well, in a few years, the Iotians may demand…a piece of OUR action!" - McCoy and Kirk, after McCoy admits that he left his communicator behind in Okmyx’ office. Background information Production timeline Series proposal "Star Trek is...": – Mentions story idea "President Capone" Story outline "Chicago II" by George Clayton Johnson: Story outline "The Expatriates" by David P. Harmon: First draft teleplay: Second draft teleplay: First draft teleplay "Mission into Chaos" by Gene L. Coon: Revised first draft "A Piece of the Action": early-, Final draft teleplay by John Meredyth Lucas: Additional revisions: , , Filmed: – Day 1 – , Thursday – Desilu Stage 10: Int. Bela's office Day 2 – , Friday – Desilu Stage 10: Int. Bela's office, Warehouse Day 3 – , Monday – Paramount McFadden Street backlot: Ext. Bela's headquarters, City square Day 4 – , Tuesday – Paramount Boston Street backlot: Ext. Krako's headquarters; Desilu Stage 11: Int. Radio broadcasting room Day 5 – , Wednesday – Desilu Stage 11: Int. Krako's headquarters, Krako's office Day 6 – , Thursday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Bridge, Turbolift, Transporter room Original airdate: Rerun airdate: First UK airdate: Story and production Gene Roddenberry jotted down the idea for this episode – a one-sentence synopsis titled "President Capone" – on the very first page of his very first Star Trek series proposal in 1964. Early in the first season, George Clayton Johnson wrote an outline based on this premise, called "The Syndicate". Roddenberry liked it, and hired Johnson to develop it further. Johnson wrote a treatment entitled "Chicago II". However, as he got occupied with developing and writing , this concept was forgotten. During the second season, then-producer Gene L. Coon discovered the treatment, and decided to use it, as he felt that, after the success of , the series needed more comedy-themed episodes. David P. Harmon and Coon's first draft script, entitled "Mission into Chaos" featured the Romulans trying to exploit the borderline planet Dana Iotia II, which the Federation wants to industrialize. Much to the crew's surprise, the planet is ruled by gangster bosses, based on the book Chicago Mobs of the Twenties. Kirk has to negotiate with Bela Okmyx and the other crime bosses, outsmarting the two Romulan agents, Rorek and Ramo, who try to lure Bela with sending him weapons and troops. At the end, the Iotians agreed to make a treaty, and send an ambassador to the Federation. But since every boss had a vote, they all "naturally" voted for themselves, and hence, they are all beamed aboard the Enterprise to be escorted to the diplomatic talks. No stardate is actually logged in the episode. A stardate of 4598.0 appeared in Bjo Trimble's Star Trek Concordance, apparently using an earlier script version, and the fotonovel provides a closing stardate 4598.7. The scene when Kirk puts his feet up on Krako's table and declares that now the Federation is "taking over the whole ball of wax" is reminiscent of a similar scene in 's classic gangster film, Little Caesar. This is the only episode of TOS to end in a freeze-frame. Continuity The refers to the as the , which was later seen as a model in . This episode marks the only time in the entire Star Trek franchise that Kirk calls McCoy by his full nickname: "Sawbones." This is also the only episode in which the ship's phasers are set to stun. In , Kirk has them set at 1/100th power. In a homage to this episode, a hard-bound copy of a book beginning with the title Chicago Gangs can be briefly glimpsed on a bookshelf in Travis Mayweather's quarters on board the in the episode . This is the first episode in which a site-to-site transport is performed – although due to the events of , it is not the first time from a historical perspective. According to the production report for the episode , that episode explored a premise hinted at in this episode when Dr. McCoy confessed to leaving behind his communicator on Sigma Iotia II. "The Communicator" picked up on this idea, with a far more serious tone, after Lt. Reed loses his communicator on a pre-warp planet, but he and Archer go back to retrieve it, but things do not go well. Before it was decided they would focus on the events of , the Deep Space Nine writing staff toyed with the idea of the DS9 crew visiting Sigma Iotia II and finding they had all imitated the Enterprise crew and wore TOS-style uniforms. The idea even was used in The Worlds of the Federation where the Iotians were shown to have recreated much of TOS era Federation technology of using only their understanding of the transtator. The story was to be both a comedy and a social commentary on the Trekkie phenomenon; however, it was agreed that revisiting the famous "The Trouble with Tribbles" would be more memorable. The original idea was followed up in the final issue of the series, "A Piece of Reaction", instead. Apparently Kirk and Spock failed to learn the dangers of stepping into the path of motor cars from their experience in as they have a couple of near misses on the roads in this episode. Indeed, although the Iotian city does not look too different from 1930s New York, Kirk, McCoy and Spock act as though they've never encountered such a place outside of history books; while McCoy's time outside in New York while sane was limited, Kirk and Spock had spent a number of days in 1930s New York. Performers George Takei (Sulu) does not appear in this episode. This episode contains Walter Koenig's smallest speaking part in TOS, with only one line of dialogue, "Approaching Sigma Iotia II, Captain." William Blackburn's character, Hadley, is given his name in this episode. It is also the only episode in which Hadley is referred to by name. Props and settings The landing party wears their number-one type phasers on their right hips, hanging vertically from their belts, emitter tubes downward. This placement is unique to this episode. The street seen throughout this episode is on the Paramount lot and can be seen in many television series. The steps leading up to Okmyx' headquarters were used in the series . The car that Kirk drove to "put the bag on Krako" had a V-12 engine, as a V-12 emblem is seen on the radiator. It was a Cadillac, probably a 1931 model. Note the winged radiator cap, which Cadillacs of that vintage had. It is a nod to Chicago crime boss, Al "Scarface" Capone, who had a 1928 V-12 Cadillac. Incidentally, this represents the only time that a member of the crew ever operated any kind of land vehicle during the course of the original series. In the Star Trek: The Original Series Sketchbook (p. 133), a book on the costumes and art direction of the original series, Herb Solow shows a yellow costume for "Marlys" that he says no one can identify. It is, in fact, the costume Marlys Burdette wore in this episode. All of Okmyx's henchmen wear felt fedora hats (although Okmyx wears no hat). Krako and all of his henchmen wear straw boater hats, and all the minor bosses that Kirk has beamed to Bela's office wear bowler hats. Syndication cuts Although this episode officially received no syndication cuts, many local television stations were known to cut small segments at the end of scenes bordering a commercial break. The most common of these was the scene in which Kirk is captured by Krako's men who tell him, "This can either be a taxi or a hearse" before driving Kirk away. Television stations would often omit the last minute of this scene, showing Kirk sitting in the car driving away, and end the scene with Kirk simply saying "I'm beginning to get the idea". (The Star Trek Compendium) Remastered information The remastered version of "A Piece of the Action" aired in many North American markets during the weekend of . While the episode required very few new effects, the planet Sigma Iotia II was given a CGI-makeover, now a more Earth-like planet. Aside from orbital establishing shots, new phaser effects were created depicting the block-wide stun implemented from the Enterprise, replacing the more "cartoonish" aspects of the original. The next remastered episode to air was . Video and DVD releases Original US Betamax release: UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 26, catalog number VHR 2361, US VHS release: UK re-release (three-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 2.7, Original US DVD release (single-disc): Volume 25, As part of the TOS Season 2 DVD collection As part of the TOS-R Season 2 DVD collection Apocrypha Bantam Books published a series of novelizations called Star Trek Fotonovels which took photographic stills from actual episodes and arranged word balloons and text over them, to create a comic book formatted story. The eighth installment was an adaptation of this episode which contained a foreword written by Anthony Caruso in the character of Bela Okmyx. He mentions that he was elected president of the planet in a landslide and that he made Jojo Krako his vice president. The arrangement worked out well, he said, as he hadn't heard from Krako since. The plot for the Nintendo game has the Enterprise thrown outside of known space entering the Sigma Iotia system. When they finally get back, they find that McCoy leaving his communicator behind was responsible for the incident and they go back in time to retrieve it from the gangsters. In Shane Johnson's reference book The Worlds of the Federation, in the entry on Iotia, the planet is referred to as being known indigenously as "Okmyx." Johnson also explains that the Iotians's discovery of McCoy's communicator led them to abandon their mobster culture and seize on the opportunity it presented; he adds that the next ship to orbit the planet (which he does not identify) found what, at first, appeared to be a Federation starbase, complete with uniformed personnel and communications on Star Fleet channels. He concludes, drawing this detail from the "Star System Data" booklet that accompanied the first Star Trek Maps, that Sigma Iotia II was subsequently declared a Federation Protectorate, with a cultural rating of E+ on the "Richter Scale of Cultures," and that though no quarantine was imposed, an orbital customs facility was eventually constructed, through which visiting personnel had to be cleared before they were permitted to beam to the surface. The events of the episode are recapped in the comic "... Let's Kill All the Lawyers! when Bela Okmyx was one of the witnesses at James T. Kirk's trial. Okmyx revealed at Kirk's trial that the captain's cut of Iotia's "action" was still being skimmed for him. Okmyx also returned Leonard McCoy's communicator (which the doctor had left behind on Iotia), saying that the Iotians didn't do anything with the device and just put it away for safekeeping. In DC's second Star Trek series Bela Okmyx is called to testify in the Trial of James Kirk in the issue "... Let's Kill All the Lawyers!". The Star Trek: Picard novel Rogue Elements depicts the Iotians as maintaining their cultural fixation with the culture of Chicago gangs even into the late 24th century. In that novel, Cristóbal Rios deals with an Iotian gang, and even purchases La Sirena from them. Reception The book Star Trek 101 (p. 19), by Terry J. Erdmann and Paula M. Block, lists this episode as one of "Ten Essential Episodes" from the original Star Trek series. Links and references Starring William Shatner as Capt. Kirk Also starring Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock And DeForest Kelley as Dr. McCoy Guest star Anthony Caruso as Bela Co-starring Vic Tayback as Krako Lee Delano as Kalo James Doohan as Scott Nichelle Nichols as Uhura Walter Koenig as Chekov Featuring John Harmon as Tepo Sheldon Collins as Tough Kid Dyanne Thorne as First Girl Sharyn Hillyer as Second Girl Buddy Garion as Hood And Steven Marlo as Zabo Uncredited co-stars Benjie Bancroft as Iotian passerby William Blackburn as Hadley John Blower as Nick Borgani as Iotian gang leader Marlys Burdette as Krako's gun moll Christie as Hood Conde as Hood Tony Dante as Krako's hood Frank da Vinci as Brent James Doohan as the Announcer (voice) Roger Holloway as Roger Lemli Jay Jones as Mirt Jeannie Malone as Yeoman Jim Michael as Bela's hood McIntosh as Hood Eddie Paskey as Leslie Hood Clark Ross as Iotian passerby Unknown performers as Bela's gun moll Bela's hood 5 and 6, plus three more Bosses 1, 2, and 4 Krako's hoods 2, 3, and 4 Northside pedestrians Southside pedestrians Radio engineer Woman with baby References 1992; 2168; .45 automatic; advisor; "all right"; "all the time"; alternative; amplitude modulation; anarchy; Angelo's Delicatessen; arrest; "at heart"; audio; authority; baby blue; baby carriage; bag; Bang Bang; beans; beef; behavior; Bela's office; Bela's place; Beta Antares IV; Beta Antares IV natives; Bible; billiards; blade; block; blotter; blower; blue; blueprint; boater; ; book; boss; bowler hat; box; broad; broadcast; brooding; bugged; Buick Master Six; building; business; "business is business"; businessman; buster; ; Cadillac; Cadillac Series 353; Cadillac V-12; Cadillac V-16; car; card game; cart; cement; Chamey's Auto Repair; Chicago; Chicago Mobs of the Twenties; chicken; choice; ; Cirl the Knife; citizen; cloche hat; clutch; cold-blooded; communicator; computer; concrete; confusion; contact; ; contract; conventional radio; coordinates; criminal organization (aka gang or s); cue; culture; darts; dartboard; date; deal; dealer; device; dialing; dilemma; distill; dope; double-barreled shotgun; double negative; dozen; driving; ear; Earth; E.B. Green Portraits; Economy Bus Lines; emotional state; ethical system; evidence; evolution; eye; face; fact; Federation law; Federation of Planets ("Fed"); fedora; feet; firearm (aka gun or hardware); fireplug; fizzbin; flivver; flop; foot; frequency; friend; gear; galoshes (aka overshoes); gangster; garage; gears; "get the idea"; "give the word"; goods; government; guest; gun moll; hand; head; hearse; heater; hello; "hit"; home; ; hostage; hostility; hour; ice; ice cream; ice cream sandwich; idea; ignition; industrialization; information; intelligence; intersection; "in the first place"; Iotian; Iotian language; ; job; key; kidnapping; ; kronk; language banks; laundry; letter; lieutenant; logic; machine gun; material; microphone; Milky Way Galaxy; minute; money; month; moral inversion; mouth; name; neighbor; neutronium; night; No parking sign; Northside Territory; "no sweat"; non-interference directive; odds; "of course"; office; "on the level"; order; "out of the question"; pattycake; peanut; pedal; percentage; penny-ante operator; percentages; petrified; phaser; phaser bank; phone; phone call; picture; "piece of the action"; piecework factory; place; planetary treasury; "play a hunch"; "play ball"; player; playing cards; postage due; prisoner; problem; profit; punk; ; question; radio report; radio set; radio station (aka official station); ; reception committee; Request Time; result; right; right of petition; roof; Sawbones; scrag; Sigma Iotia; Sigma Iotia II; site-to-site transport; society; sociological computer; sound; Southside Territory; sralk; standard orbit; Starfleet Command; starship; starter; ; story; street; street light; Studebaker Standard Six; solution; subspace communication; surface; sweat; switch; syndicate; taxi; taxi driver; telephone; Tepo's mother; territory; textbook; thing; Thompson submachine gun; title; tool; toy; transporter; transporter room; transtator; trick; troops; truce; truck; Tuesday; Vulcan neck pinch; US Mail; "wait a minute"; walking; warehouse; weapon; week; wheel; "whole ball of wax"; window; year; yellow External links de:Epigonen es:A Piece of the Action fr:A Piece of the Action (épisode) ja:宇宙犯罪シンジケート（エピソード） nl:A Piece of the Action pl:A Piece of the Action Piece of the Action, A

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By Any Other Name (episode)

Extragalactic aliens hijack the Enterprise and turn the crew into inert solids, leaving the four senior officers on their own to exploit their captors' weaknesses. Summary Teaser Responding to a ship's distress call, Captain Kirk's landing party (including Spock, McCoy, Lieutenant Shea, and Yeoman Thompson) beams down to a planet in search of survivors. A male and female humanoid placidly approach, demanding the unconditional surrender of the . Activating paralysis fields from small devices on their belts, the aliens leave the landing party frozen but conscious in their places. The male humanoid, Rojan, calmly explains to Kirk he is now their commander and will take them with his people out of the galaxy. Furthermore, all of Humankind will not exist as they do now. Act One The female, Kelinda, disarms them while paralyzed and then they are released. Rojan explains they are scouts from the Kelvan Empire of the neighboring Andromeda Galaxy, which seeks a new home by force as their galaxy will soon reach unsustainable radiation levels. The Kelvan ship that was used in crossing over into the Federation's galaxy was destroyed at the galactic barrier, but they still traveled in life pods. Rojan intends to take the Enterprise to get back to Andromeda. Meanwhile, on the Enterprise, Kelvans Hanar, Drea, and Tomar subdue the crew by freezing them the same way Rojan and Kelinda did the landing party and take over the starship. At first Kirk says there's little point in taking it as even at maximum warp, it would take Enterprise thousands of years to reach Andromeda. Rojan explains that Enterprise will be modified with Kelvan technology which will shorten the journey to only three hundred years, a concept which fascinates Spock, as an intergalactic journey requiring only three centuries is a leap far beyond anything they have accomplished. The Kelvans explain that their ship was a multi-generation starship and explains to Yeoman Thompson that they were born in the intergalactic void and they shall die there. Rojan says the mission will be completed by a commander who is his descendant. These descendants could report on the suitability of the Milky Way Galaxy for Kelvan conquest and occupation. Kirk then says that there's no reason to do all of this by force and he proposes to take the Kelvan problem to the Federation. He tells Rojan that expeditions have cataloged hundreds of uninhabited planets that are suitable for colonization. Rojan replies that the Kelvans do not colonize, but conquer and rule. The landing party is imprisoned in a nearby cave, guarded by Kelinda, while they wonder why they registered as Human, and also wonder if the paralysis field is centrally controlled. Using his mind meld ability to fool the guard as he did on Eminiar VII, Spock's attempt is thwarted before establishing an effective link, but Kelinda is distracted enough to get knocked unconscious by Kirk. The party's freedom lasts only for a brief moment before Rojan and Hanar recapture them by freezing Kirk. In a display of power, Rojan orders Shea, by Hanar, and Thompson, by Kelinda, be taken aside, declaring a punishment for what Kirk has done. The captain will now watch two of his crew die. Hanar uses his belt device for a new purpose, instantly reducing Shea and Thompson into dehydrated porous cuboctahedron solids, the size of a Human fist, composed of their base minerals which represents the "distilled" essences of their being. Hanar picks up both solids and Rojan orders him to bring them to him where he is standing next to Kirk. Rojan points out that the solids represent "the flesh and brain, … and even what … Humans … call personality" of Shea and Thompson. Rojan crushes and crumbles one solid, declaring "this person" dead. Rojan says the other one though can be restored and throws the other one over to where Hanar had earlier picked up both. Hanar touches his belt device, again, revealing that Lieutenant Shea is the one that is reconstituted. Thompson, on the other hand, is not so fortunate and a dispirited Kirk bends down to scoop up and shift through his hands the white powdery substance that is all that remains of her. Act Two Returned to confinement, Spock reports on what little he learned from his interrupted mind meld. He describes the Kelvans' native appearance as something quite far from the local humanoid norm, confirming the aliens expressed unease in their new humanoid "shells". The five Kelvans oversee the entire crew and Enterprise upgrades. Once underway, Kirk is still permitted to take the captain's chair with Rojan nearby and Kelvan female Drea taking the helm. With the ship accelerating to warp 11, the galactic barrier is now only a mere hour away. Spock and Montgomery Scott learn in the emergency manual monitor room that an attempt to disable the Kelvan belt devices at their source is hopeless. They prepare another option for Kirk, a self-destruct trigger to use at the Barrier. They present this plan to Kirk while heading up to the bridge in a turbolift, but Kirk wonders if they have gone mad. Upon entering the bridge, the Barrier looms and tension flares on the Enterprises command center. Act Three Spock and Scott are anxious for Kirk to order the destruct trigger, but the captain hesitates, finally ordering them to disable it. At Barrier contact, the Enterprise shudders and the engines strain, but she breaks forward into a starless void lit only by a distant Andromeda. With too many to guard and too many to feed, Rojan declares the majority of the Enterprise personnel non-essential. The Kelvans neutralize and reduce Uhura, Chekov, Leslie, Hadley, and all but four of the Enterprise personnel into inert solids. As necessary specialists, Kirk and his three senior officers Spock, McCoy, and Scotty are allowed to remain animate with free run of the ship. Rojan also reminds Kirk in an empty corridor, with eight inert solids, that Tomar saw through the attempt to detonate the ship and this is perhaps a better fate for the personnel the Kelvans considered non-essential. Kirk and his officers are discussing their predicament over a meal in the mess when the Kelvan Tomar criticizes the Humans' consumption of "bulk" material for sustenance in favor of his more efficient Kelvan nutritional pills. Dr. McCoy tells Tomar "don't knock it 'til you try it" and piques Tomar's interest in the bulky foods humanoids prefer. The officers notice the inordinate pleasure the Kelvan takes in a typical meal from the food synthesizer, and begin to speculate on their species' inexperience with their radically different new humanoid bodies and sensory perceptions. Inspired, the four officers split up, each targeting a Kelvan and introducing them to a different form of sensory overload. Scott weighs in first, luring Tomar into a drinking tour of the Federation. In sickbay, McCoy suggests that Hanar may be malnourished, and starts pumping him with stimulants, telling him that these are vitamin supplements. Before the others can reach their marks, Scott and Tomar manage to polish off a bottle of Saurian brandy in his quarters. Kirk decides to focus his energies on Kelinda, the Kelvan who has taken the form of an exotically attractive, young, blonde female. Kirk apologizes for having struck her in their escape attempt on the planet and kisses on her neck where he had struck her, then he moves to her lips. Kelinda admonishes Kirk at first, knowing this must be a seduction but she admits she's not opposed to the action. Kirk plays hard to get and Kelinda rewards him by pulling him in for more. Rojan interrupts, puzzled, and Kirk hurries away. Kelinda explains the Human "apology" ritual, demonstrating it on a nonplussed Rojan. Scott and Tomar finish their second bottle, both becoming more and more inebriated. Scotty confounds the universal translator and starts pouring something green, mangling its origin (the Ganymede moon of Jupiter). Over a game of three-dimensional chess with Spock, Rojan expresses his confusion about the "apology." Spock blithely suggests Kirk and Kelinda's motivations might have been otherwise, or perhaps Rojan was just experiencing jealousy. Rojan denies the emotion, but Spock is able to needle him into visible aggravation, making him lose the game. Rojan confronts Kelinda, forbidding her to see Kirk again. Kelinda insists she'll do as she pleases, and a brief argument in which both of them clearly display anger follows. The argument ends with Rojan roughly grabbing her arms, only to realize that he is experiencing emotions. Act Four In sickbay, pushing another hypospray, McCoy tells an irritated Hanar that he'll definitely need more of his new drug therapy. He later goes to the bridge to complain to Rojan about his assignment of duties. Indomitably vertical, Tomar asks for more alcohol, forcing Scott to break into his secret stash. The officers meet for a progress report, noting the absence of Scott. Kelinda interrupts, her eyes only for the captain, asking for another "apology." Spock goes to the bridge, glibly reporting on the forbidden meeting, bluntly suggesting that Rojan has lost control. Victorious on the battlefield, Scott watches the drunken Tomar collapse under the table and fondly kisses his expended weapon of last resort. Stealing Tomar's belt device, he staggers away to report to Captain Kirk, but before he can, he collapses into a drunken stupor in the doorway of his cabin. Rojan, incensed, storms in on Kelinda and Kirk, deep in the midst of the "apology." Rojan repeats his orders, but Kirk holds her and claims Kelinda as his own. Enraged, Rojan pulls the two apart. Not yet satisfied with Rojan's anger, Kirk slaps the Kelvan twice, inciting Rojan to lunge in fury. As they fight, Kirk taunts Rojan, saying he's not acting Kelvan anymore, but more Human. Head-locked by Kirk, Rojan is forced to consider how much he has changed in a short time and how unrecognizable his descendants would be when they eventually arrive "home" in three centuries. Rojan relents when Kirk reminds him that the core of his mission was to find a new home for his people. Kirk says they can still take the problem to the Federation and that they can help them find a new world for them to live on. When Rojan asks if the Federation would really welcome invaders, Kirk says that indeed they wouldn't, but they would accept friends. Spock says that this is a chance for Rojan to make a destiny of their own and that he is only a link in a chain, following an order given three hundred years previous. Rojan finally agrees that perhaps it can be done. Spock says that a robot ship could be sent to Kelva with the Federation proposal. In the meantime, Rojan's crew could experience life as humanoids on a vibrant world. Rojan considers a life with these new physical sensations, and asks Kelinda if she'll stay with him, receiving her enthusiastic apology. Rojan calls the bridge and reaches Drea. He announces to her that he is restoring Kirk's command of the Enterprise to him and that she will follow his orders. Kirk then orders Enterprise turned around and states that they are all going home. Log entries Captain's log, USS Enterprise (NCC-1701), 2268 Memorable quotes "I am Rojan of Kelva. I am your commander from this moment on. Any effort to resist us or escape will be severely punished. Soon we, and you, will leave this galaxy forever. You Humans must face the end of your existence as you have known it." - Rojan "We do not colonize. We conquer. We rule. There's no other way for us." - Rojan, explaining the Kelvan way of life to Kirk "The Federation has handled foreign invasions before…" "Captain, we can control the Federation as easily as we can control you. The fate of the inferior – in any galaxy." - Kirk and Rojan "As a leader you realize the importance of discipline. I need you and these other specialists…" (motions toward where Spock and McCoy are standing) (referencing Shea and Thompson) "… but these two are unnecessary." - Rojan, explaining to Kirk why he is punishing him after the attempt to escape "I think we're somewhat alike, captain. Each of us cares less about our own safety than for the lives of our command. We feel pain when others suffer for our mistakes. Your punishment shall be to watch them die. Hanar, proceed!" - Rojan, explaining further to Kirk why he is about to do to Shea and Thompson "This is the essence of what they were. The flesh and the brain and what you call the personality, distilled down into these compact shapes. And once crushed, this person is dead. However, that one can be restored." - Rojan, to Kirk "Do you not agree that this is a better thing for them than exploding the ship as your engineer had thought to do? We detected it, of course. Tomar has devised a mechanism to prevent any further tampering. Please accept your situation, captain. It will make things much less painful." - Rojan, to Kirk, after Kirk has just discovered in a corridor eight inert solids "Jim, I saw them reduce four of my doctors and nurses into those little…!" "They've reduced the whole CREW!" - McCoy and Kirk, arguing about the crew that is reduced to inert solids "This business of love. You have devoted much literature to it. Why do you build such a mystique around a simple biological function?" - Kelinda, as Kirk tries to seduce her "What is it?" "Well, it's … uh …" (Scotty looks at the liquor bottle and sniffs it) "It's green." - Tomar and Scott, as they drink in Scott's quarters "I have a bottle of some very very old whiskey… We did it, you and me… put him right under the table." - Scott "I was wondering, would you please apologize to me again?" - Kelinda, wanting Kirk to kiss her "And how's the research going?" "I need some more experiments." - Kelinda and Kirk, between kisses "You would extend welcome to invaders?" "No. But we would welcome friends." - Rojan and Kirk, as they end their brawl Background information Production timeline Story outline by Jerome Bixby: Revised story outline: Second revised story outline: First draft teleplay: Second draft teleplay: Revised second draft: Final draft teleplay by D.C. Fontana: Revised final draft: Additional page revisions by John Meredyth Lucas: , , , Filmed: – Day 1 – , Friday – Desilu Stage 10: Ext. Planet surface Day 2 – , Monday – Desilu Stage 10: Ext. Planet surface, Int. Jail cell Day 3 – , Tuesday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Bridge, Life support control Day 4 – , Wednesday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Sickbay, Kelinda's quarters Day 5 – , Thursday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Engineering, Corridors, Turbolift, Recreation room (redress of Briefing room) Day 6 – , Friday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Recreation room (redress of Briefing room), Scotty's quarters Score recorded: Original airdate: Rerun airdate: First UK airdate: Story and production The title is part of a quotation from Romeo and Juliet, Act II, Scene 2. "What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet." Kirk recites it to Kelinda. It is often used to convey the idea that although you can change the name of something, its nature will remain the same. In this case, the Kelvans become Human. In doing so, they start behaving as Humans do. The basis of this episode can be found in Gene Roddenberry's first ever produced science fiction script, "The Secret Weapon of 117" for Chevron Hall of Stars in 1956. The episode featured a pair of aliens (the male played by Ricardo Montalban) who disguise themselves as Humans to study Earth people but become overwhelmed by the sensations and experiences of their new host bodies, and decide to remain Human. (These Are the Voyages: TOS Season One) In The Star Trek Interview Book, writer Jerome Bixby told Allan Asherman that he originally wrote the episode in a rather more serious vein, but that in depicting the potential end of the Human race at the hands of the Kelvans, he failed to heed producer Gene Roddenberry's warning to avoid getting wrapped up in "the immensity of it all." As a result, D.C. Fontana rewrote the script as a more "lightweight" episode. Bixby's original script was much darker than the filmed episode. The Kelvans (then called the Dvenyens) executed ten Enterprise crewmembers by opening the shuttlebay doors and letting them get sucked out into space. Kirk was put through "hellish torture". Also, crewmembers were chosen to mate with each other (Kirk was paired with Yeoman Leslie Thompson) to eventually breed slaves to the Kelvans. NBC objected against all these, which led producer Gene Coon to order a heavy rewrite on the material. The production staff also deemed the mating aspect too similar to . (These Are the Voyages: TOS Season Two) According to David Gerrold, the writers could not figure out how the Kelvans could eliminate the crew. While in Roddenberry's office, someone spotted a Mexican onyx dodecahedron on his desk and suggested that they be transformed into objects of that shape. Dorothy Fontana describes the scene related by Gerrold on the Special Features on Season 2 DVD. She indicates that she had given the dodecahedron to Roddenberry, and that he played with it while they described their problem and then Roddenberry made the suggestion that they be transformed into objects of that shape. This was the only episode lensed by cinematographer Keith Smith, replacing Jerry Finnerman, who was apparently unavailable for an unknown reason. Smith was the director of photography on Mission: Impossible, filmed next door to Star Trek at Desilu Studios at the time. Cast George Takei (Sulu) does not appear in this episode. This is the tenth consecutive episode in which he is absent. But he returns to the series in the next episode to be produced, . Uhura, Chekov, and Nurse Chapel are not seen being restored to Human form at the episode's end. Continuity The drinking scene between Scott and Tomar is echoed in . Not knowing what the drink is, Data sniffs the bottle and repeats Scott's line that it is "green." Picard later informs Scott that it was Aldebaran whiskey. Scott's slurred description of the bottle he shows to Tomar suggests he might have known the drink's name, only to forget it later as the possible result of binge drinking. A similar, if not identical, green drink was also seen in , aboard the . After emptying the bottle of "green," Scott tosses it toward the door of his quarters and the sound of glass shattering is heard. Later, however, when Scott passes out in front of his door, the fully intact bottle is in the foreground. In the drinking contest after they both finish off three bottles, Scott shows Tomar his most prized possession: a rare, 200-year-old Scotch whisky. Finishing off this last bottle is what finally knocks Tomar and Scott out cold. Kirk mentions that an intergalactic voyage by a 23rd century starship would take "thousands of years" to reach the Andromeda Galaxy. For the Kelvans, intergalactic travel is a three-century journey. In the 24th century, as seen in , Federation technology has apparently matched that of the Kelvans, when it is discussed that a return trip to the Milky Way from the Triangulum Galaxy would take three hundred years at maximum warp. Direct references to two previous episodes were made. After Rojan mentions the galactic barrier, Kirk says, "We've been there." () Even Spock repeats his analysis of the barrier word for word: "Density negative. Radiation negative. Energy negative." When the landing party is detained in a cave, Kirk recalls their imprisonment on Eminiar VII and Spock's use of a mind-meld to fool the guards. () In , Kirk tells Charles Evans, "There's no right way to hit a woman." However, in this episode and in , Kirk strikes a woman. On Kelinda, he uses a karate chop to the neck. When Pavel Chekov is neutralized at the navigation console, we should see the main viewscreen in the background, since that station faces the viewer. Instead, we see a different angle of the bridge: a red rail, broken at the left, in front of two standard console chairs. Sets and props Scotty's quarters are seen only in this episode. Decorations include a red and black tartan kilt, Sporran, bagpipes, a Scottish targe, medieval armor, a claymore and a wall plaque. Although the plaque apparently depicts stylized drafting tools, they also resemble part of a three-dimensional chess set and the primary hull of a Klingon battle cruiser. The rotating biobed normally situated in sickbay was removed to allow McCoy and Tomar to roll the gurney carrying Spock to the biofunction monitor. Other information Yeoman Thompson's death and Julie Cobb's portrayal of that character is referenced in the cooking show hosted by . The cooking show makes occasional references to Star Trek, especially The Original Series. The 1985 Saturday Night Live Star Trek Convention sketch has the convention host (played by Phil Hartman) erroneously introducing Julie Cobb (played in that skit by Victoria Jackson) by saying that she was in the episode . One continuity error is that it shows Thompson (in cube form) being killed in Rojan's right hand, when in fact the cube on the left (which ended up in Rojan's right hand) came from Lt. Shea. The close-up of Lt. Shea after he is restored is recycled from a previous shot of him just before he was reduced to cubic form. The nature of the "stokaline" with which McCoy injects Spock upon their return to the Enterprise is not made clear. However, in his novelization of the episode in Star Trek 6, James Blish has McCoy explain that it is "a multiple vitamin compound." McCoy adds, "It'll put a little green in your cheeks." The Star Fleet Medical Reference Manual corroborates Blish and describes formazine, the stimulant with which McCoy actually injects Tomar, as also being an irritant. Remastered information The remastered version of this episode premiered in syndication on the weekend of 8 March 2008. It featured new effects shots of the Kelvan outpost from space, an expanded matte painting of the planet's terrain as the landing party beams down, a swirling Andromeda Galaxy, and the galactic barrier's new look. Video and DVD releases Original US Betamax release: UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 26, catalog number VHR 2361, US VHS release: UK re-release (three-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 2.7, Original US DVD release (single-disc): Volume 25, As part of the TOS Season 2 DVD collection Links and references Starring William Shatner as Captain Kirk Also starring Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock And DeForest Kelley as Dr. McCoy Guest star Warren Stevens as Rojan Co-starring Barbara Bouchet as Kelinda Featuring James Doohan as Scott Nichelle Nichols as Uhura Majel Barrett as Christine And Stewart Moss as Hanar With Walter Koenig as Chekov Robert Fortier as Tomar Lezlie Dalton as Drea Carl Byrd as Lt. Shea Julie Cobb as Yeoman Uncredited co-stars William Blackburn as Hadley Frank da Vinci as Brent Roger Holloway as Roger Lemli Eddie Paskey as Leslie Unknown actors as Operations crew woman Sciences lieutenant Security guard Stunt doubles Paul Baxley as stunt double for William Shatner Unknown stunt performer as stunt double for Warren Stevens References 1960s; 2258; 26th century; 123rd century; ability; affection (aka warmth); alcohol; alien; alternative; Andromeda Galaxy; anemia; antimatter; apology; "a rose by any other name"; automatic sensors; battle stations; bearing; beauty; belt; biological function; boarding party; body; "Bones"; bottle; brain; bridge personnel; casing; casualty; cc; central projector (aka paralysis projector); century; chance; checkmate; choice; "climbing the walls"; code of honor; colonization; color; commander; compact shape; confined to quarters; conquer; consciousness; contact; control valve; course; creature; crystal; danger; day; debris; ; density; descendant; destiny; device; diburnium; diet; discipline; distillation; distress call; door; dust; emergency backup; Eminiar VII; emotion; enemy; energy; energy barrier; engineer; engineering; environment; existence; experiment; faking illness; fate; Federation; flesh; flight procedure; flower; food; food pill; food synthesizer; force field; formazine; fraternization; friend; galactic barrier; galaxy; Ganymede; generational ship; glass; green; guard; hand; health; heartbeat; holding area; home; honor; hostage; hour; hull; hull temperature; Human; Human form; Human reaction; : idea; image; importance; injection; intellectual capacity; intergalactic void; invasion; jealousy; Kelva; Kelvan; Kelvan Colony; Kelvan Empire; Kelvan life craft; Kelvan ship; kiss; lab computer; landing party; leader; lifeform (aka life); life support control; life support system; limb; "link in a chain"; lip; literature; logic; love; machine (aka mechanism); material; mathematical equation; matter; matter-antimatter nacelle; matter-antimatter reactor; maximum warp; medical examination; medication; memory tape; metal; Milky Way Galaxy; mind; mission; mistake; molecular structure; name; negative energy; nerve impulse; neural circuit; neuro-analyzer; neutralizing operation; nonessential personnel; object; odds; opportunity; order; outer space (aka space); pain; paralysis field (aka neural field); person; personality; phaser; planet; problem; psychology; phaser; picture; place; plural; poet; positive energy; ; power source; pulse; punishment; question; quote; radiation; radiation level; recording device; recreation room; red alert; remedy; research; research expedition; Rigelian Kassaba fever; rim; robot ship; rose; sahsheer; sanity; Saurian brandy; science; Scotch whisky; Scots language; search; seduction; selector; sense of humor; sensor; ; shape; shield; shuttlecraft; smell; spaceship; specialist; stimulation; stokaline; subject; suicide plan; surrender; survivor; sustenance; symptom; tampering; taste; temperature; tentacle; textbook; thing; thousand; threat; tool; touch; trance; trick; turbolift; "under the table"; vacation; velocity; vitamin; voluntary muscles; Vulcans; Vulcan mind probe; wall; weapon; year External links de:Stein und Staub es:By Any Other Name fr:By Any Other Name (épisode) ja:宇宙300年の旅（エピソード） nl:By Any Other Name pl:By Any Other Name TOS episodes

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Return to Tomorrow (episode)

Three survivors from a race that died half a million years ago "borrow" the bodies of Enterprise crew members so they can build android bodies for themselves. Summary Teaser The is traveling through a region of space hundreds of light years farther than any Earth starship has ever explored. A great, ineffable intelligence has activated her distress signal relays, giving her strong readings yet remaining invisible to her sensors. The crew arrive at a destroyed class M planet – much older than Earth, Spock determines, and long dead, its atmosphere ripped away by some cataclysmic event about half a million years ago. A male voice suddenly speaks, referring to the ship's crew as his "children" and asking them to come into orbit. He admits the unpromising state of his planet, and says strangely that he too is dead – and death will be the fate of mankind too, should they choose not to visit. Act One In his captain's log (Stardate 4768.3 – see below), Captain Kirk states his intention to risk contact; Lieutenant Uhura tells him that the entry will not reach Starfleet for three weeks due to the Enterprises distance from known space. Spock's science station probes touch the mysterious planetary speaker, named Sargon, who feeds him the transporter coordinates to a chamber more than a hundred miles beneath the surface. In that deep vastness, Spock detects a serviceable atmosphere and presumes that a landing party should fare well enough. Kirk plans to leave him in command, saying that with this many unknowns "we can't risk both of us being off of the ship." But Sargon makes his preferences plain by cutting the ship's power completely until Spock is added to the landing party. Kirk now asks Spock to accompany him and leaves Lieutenant Sulu in command of the Enterprise. In the transporter room, Dr. McCoy, security officers Lemli and Leslie, and Lt. Commander Ann Mulhall have reported for beam-down. Mulhall, an astro-biologist seconded to the operations division, is unknown to Kirk; it turns out that her orders to join the landing party came from Sargon himself. McCoy is apoplectic when he hears Spock's revised approximation of the thickness of solid rock through which the party is to be transported: 112.37 miles. The landing party enters the transporter chamber and take their places on the pads as Sargon announces that he himself will operate the transporter controls, rather than Scott. Once activated, only Kirk, Spock, McCoy, and Muhall dematerialize as the two security officers' pads fail to energize – another one of Sargon's surprises. Deep underground, the Enterprise landing party materializes in a sort of holding area. When Kirk realizes the security officers have not beamed down with him, Spock, McCoy and Mulhall, he immediately contacts the Enterprise. Scott explains that the men are still with him in the transporter room, and can't understand why they never left the ship. Meanwhile, Spock finds that the walls date from the time of the cataclysm and are made from the strongest, hardest material he has ever come across. Mulhall discovers the atmosphere is only slightly different from that aboard ship. A chamber opens and the unguarded party enter to discover Sargon – energy without substance, matter without form – housed in a glowing spheroid shell. He gives his guests a little history lesson: 6,000 centuries ago, the humanoids of this planet were spacefarers. They colonized throughout the galaxy. Sargon speculates that a Human creation myth were perhaps two beings of Sargon's race. Mulhall objects to this idea, but Spock picks up on it, saying it might explain away some elements of Vulcan pre-history. But 1,000 centuries after the colonial heyday came the ultimate conflict. Possessed of minds "infinitely greater" than the landing party's, having goals beyond their comprehension, Sargon's race fought a superwar, unleashing powers to which even nuclear war pales in comparison. And so the masters of the galaxy all but exterminated themselves, and their homeworld for half a million years has lain dead. Calling Kirk his "son", Sargon exchanges places with him, taking the captain's body from him and storing his mute mind within the sphere. Sargon is thrilled to have a corporeal form again, and states his intention of using Kirk's, Spock's and Mulhall's bodies. Act Two Leading the landing party to an inner chamber, Sargon/Kirk shows them ten other spheres ranged in two rows. His wife Thalassa's is the only one still aglow on the lower tier. On the upper, one glows as well – Henoch, of the ultimate conflict's "other side." These essences, too, will require hosts, namely Mulhall and Spock. McCoy complains that Sargon is "burning up" Kirk's body – his heart is beating 262 times per minute. Sargon/Kirk says he and his fellows wish to hold the Human and Vulcan bodies only long enough to build "humanoid robots" with methods and skills "far beyond your abilities." Sargon/Kirk staggers back to the main chamber and, again calling Kirk "son," vacates his body. Kirk's metabolism promptly returns to normal. He says his mind's stay in the receptacle was a "floating in time and space." But the intimate proximity to Sargon during the exchange has affected him deeply: "For an instant we were one… I know him now. I know what he is and what he wants – and I don't fear him." In a briefing room back aboard the Enterprise, the landing party is joined by Scott, whose assistance will be necessary in the construction of "android robots." Kirk will not order their participation. With such mechanical bodies, Spock says, Sargon and company will be able to leave this planet and share their technology. The resulting advances for "mankind" would be a great leap of ten millennia. Scott is won over by the prospect of starship engines being "the size of walnuts"; Mulhall says that in the interest of science she must cooperate. McCoy finds it a suspicious coincidence that the bodies of both the captain and first officer are required for the task ahead and worries that to such "giants" the Human crew must be "insects." Kirk compares the undertaking at hand with the first Earth missions to the Moon, to Mars, to Alpha Centauri, and reminds McCoy that six generations ago surgery was done with scalpels and catgut. "Risk…" he concludes, "risk is our business. That's what this starship is all about. That's why we're aboard her." Spock, McCoy, Scott, and Mulhall's doubts about the transference are erased after Kirk's passionate speech. In the medical lab, McCoy and Nurse Chapel oversee the transference. Thalassa, seeing through Mulhall's eyes, at first looks for her husband in Spock, but Sargon draws her attention "here" – in Kirk's body. She approves of his choice of host, finding it similar to the body he lost in the cataclysm. Henoch is pleased with his own host: the Human-Vulcan hybrid has "strength, hearing and eyesight, all far above your Human norms." Spock's body deals better with the transference too, being "accustomed to the higher metabolism"; Henoch stays in it when the others collapse and for the second time Sargon relinquishes Kirk's body. In the pharmacology laboratory, Henoch/Spock and Chapel make up a metabolic reduction formula which, administered from a hypospray at 10 cc/hr, should allow the three cataclysm survivors to function in their host bodies. Chapel notices that Sargon's formula has been doctored and fears for her captain. Henoch/Spock confirms that he intends that Kirk die – so as to finish off Sargon. Henoch/Spock then telepathically establishes mind control over Chapel, touching his middle finger to her forehead, making her forget about what he just said. Act Three McCoy makes an entry in his medical log (4769.1 – see below): Sargon is now in his third possession of Kirk's body, Thalassa is back in Mulhall's, and Henoch continues to possess Spock's. In a science laboratory, Sargon/Kirk and Thalassa/Mulhall are beginning the assembly of their new android bodies. They reminisce, but the lost scenes of their beloved homeworld turn to a cruel reminder of the insensate future that awaits them. Henoch/Spock enters and enjoys the plight of his sorely tempted but morally rigorous opponents. He for one has no intention of relinquishing his host body. Sargon feels the damage he is wreaking on Kirk's inadequately suppressed metabolism, but does not want to worry his wife and soldiers on. In the medical lab, Chapel conveys Henoch's bogus metabolic readings to McCoy. Mistaking her evident stress for fatigue, he offers to administer the last few doses of formula to the visitors. Alarmed, Chapel insists she will be up to the task. In the shop, Scott cannot see how the technology of the ancient colonizers is going to work in the android bodies, which must "need micro-gears and some sort of pulley that does what a muscle does." A happy Henoch/Spock appears in the doorway and corrects him: comprehend its workings though Scott may not, the android form will surpass his Human strength and agility by 100%. To Thalassa/Mulhall, though, Henoch's upbeat manner rings hollow: the android form will house her for a thousand years – is that not what a prison does? She feels a tremor of revolt against the impending surrender of her humanoid existence. Might a Human body not after all be her due, given all the good she proposes to bring to mankind? In the deck six briefing room, Sargon realizes he can no longer ignore the danger to Kirk's body and calls McCoy. Thalassa/Mulhall arrives first and runs the idea of sacrificing Mulhall past her husband. Seeing that the wrongness of the proposition has escaped her, Sargon/Kirk points out the practical difficulties – it will take months, if not years, for the host bodies to grow accustomed to the presence of their essences. She knows that he, too, longs to resume their physical intimacy – the "intertwining" of senses – and kisses him, asking "can robot lips do this?" Fighting temptation as well as Henoch's vapid medicine, he collapses. McCoy and Chapel arrive to find Sargon/Kirk "dead." Act Four McCoy makes an entry in the medical log (4770.3 – see below). He is sure that Sargon has died, forced to flee the captain's collapsed body, and too far from the receptacle to bring about the exchange of essences. Despite its inhospitality, the vacant body has been brought around in sickbay, its "vital organs now working," as the nurse says. In the shop, Henoch/Spock works on a male-shaped android body. Thalassa/Mulhall wonders why he bothers, since he clearly doesn't plan to return his present body to Spock. He stokes her revulsion, saying the android form is for her – she can occupy it before it has its female features installed. She cannot bring herself to put her consciousness into the android body. In the medical lab, Thalassa/Mulhall proposes a back room deal with McCoy: she is able to move Kirk's mind back into the functioning body, but she requires that the doctor connive at her keeping that of Mulhall, "whom you hardly know – almost a stranger to you!" Even for such a return, McCoy cannot leave Mulhall to die. Thalassa/Mulhall threatens him, "we can take what we wish… I could destroy you with a single thought!" She projects fire onto McCoy, but soon her godlike posturing disgusts her, and she realizes that physical existence is seductive and corrupting for her kind. Relieved to witness her integrity, Sargon now speaks: he has been sheltering unsuspected in the very fabric of the vessel. Chapel arrives, having been summoned. Thalassa/Mulhall asks McCoy to leave them, stating "Sargon has a plan." In his study, McCoy is alarmed by a series of explosions from the lab. Unable to enter because the door is sealed, he is calling for aid when Chapel exits – with something plainly on her mind. Back in the lab, Kirk and Mulhall have regained their bodies. The three receptacles are now charred and burnt out – completely destroyed (it was these McCoy heard exploding). And Spock's mind? Kirk says the loss was "necessary." The urgent task is to terminate Spock's physical form and so put an end to Henoch. Kirk orders McCoy to prepare a hypo fatal to Vulcans. On the bridge, Henoch/Spock terrorizes Uhura, who screams. He then sits in Kirk's chair and warns helmsman Sulu not to fight him. Chapel stands beside Henoch/Spock. McCoy arrives with Kirk and Mulhall, whom Henoch/Spock stops short by forcing pain upon them near the turbolift. Henoch/Spock then orders Chapel to take McCoy's hypo, the contents of which are known to him from reading McCoy's mind. Chapel is ordered by Henoch/Spock to inject McCoy, which she prepare to do – but suddenly, she injects Henoch/Spock instead. At first he belittles their attempt, but when he senses the undead and powerful Sargon his instinct is to beg. Spock's body collapses, and Henoch flees — but with no host, android nor receptacle at hand, he is destroyed. Chapel swoons, and Spock stands; he is himself again. When Chapel recovers, she explains that she had been carrying (and sharing) Spock's essence (or katra) which, behind Henoch's back, Sargon had "placed in me." Sargon explains that the hypo, potent enough to "kill ten Vulcans", was a necessary illusion. Sargon then requests that he and Thalassa borrow Kirk and Mulhall's bodies one last time so he may hold his wife as a living woman before the couple consign themselves to oblivion "forever". The request is duly granted, and Sargon/Kirk and Thalassa/Mulhall share a final kiss. Thalassa/Mulhall tells Sargon/Kirk that oblivion together does not frighten her, and asks him to promise her they will be together — which Sargon/Kirk does. After Sargon and Thalassa have departed, and Kirk and Mulhall are themselves again; Chapel says, with a teary fond look at Spock, that the couple's final kiss was "beautiful". The Enterprise leaves Arret and continues its exploration of space. Log entries Captain's log, USS Enterprise (NCC-1701), 2268 Medical log, USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) Memorable quotes "One day our minds became so powerful, we dared think of ourselves as gods." - Sargon, explaining to Kirk how his people nearly became extinct "We must have Captain Kirk and you – so that we may live again." - Sargon, in Kirk's body, to the landing party "They used to say if man could fly, he'd have wings … but he did fly. He discovered he had to. Do you wish that the first Apollo mission hadn't reached the moon, or that we hadn't gone on to Mars or the nearest star? That's like saying you wish that you still operated with scalpels and sewed your patients up with catgut like your great-great-great-great-grandfather used to. I'm in command. I could order this. But I'm not … because … Dr. McCoy is right in pointing out the enormous danger potential in any contact with life and intelligence as fantastically advanced as this. But I must point out that the possibilities, the potential for knowledge and advancement is equally great. Risk … risk is our business! That's what this starship is all about … that's why we're aboard her!" - Kirk, convincing Spock, McCoy, Scott, and Mulhall to accept Sargon's offer "Oh, you are a lovely female. A pleasant sight to wake up to after half a million years." "Thank you." - Henoch, inside Spock's body, and Chapel, after the transference "I'm surprised the Vulcans never conquered your race." "Vulcans worship peace above all, Henoch." - Henoch/Spock and McCoy, after Henoch comments on the strengths of Spock's body "I will not peddle flesh. I'm a physician." " A physician? In contrast to what we are, you are a prancing, savage medicine man." - McCoy and Thalassa/Mulhall, as she bargains to keep Mulhall's body "Spock's consciousness is gone. We must kill his body – the thing in it." - Kirk, planning to kill Henoch "Oblivion together does not frighten me, beloved. Promise we'll be together." "I promise, beloved." - Thalassa and Sargon, inside Mulhall's and Kirk's bodies for the final time Background information Production timeline Story outline by John Dugan: early- Revised story outline by Gene L. Coon: First draft teleplay by Dugan: Second draft teleplay: Final draft teleplay by Gene Roddenberry: early- Additional page revisions by Roddenberry and John Meredyth Lucas: , , , , Filmed: – Score recorded: Original airdate: Rerun airdate: First UK airdate: During the syndication run of Star Trek, no syndication cuts were made to this episode. Story and production Writer John T. Dugan wrote the original script of this episode after he had read an article about highly sophisticated robots. In his original draft, Sargon and Thalassa continue their existence as spirits without bodies, floating around the universe. However, Gene Roddenberry, who did an uncredited re-write on the script, changed the ending to the aliens fading out into oblivion. This led to Dugan using his pen name John Kingsbridge in the episode's credits. (The Star Trek Compendium) Dugan (a devout Catholic) stated: "That line totally went against my philosophy and cosmology, I didn't want to be associated with it. The oblivion idea is Roddenberry's philosophy, not mine. (…) That might be a small thing, but I have a reputation and a philosophy and everybody who knows me knows what I stand for; I certainly don't stand for oblivion in the afterlife. (…) When you write a script, you don't expect to have your "world view" changed by a producer. The rest of Roddenberry's changes were all trivial (…); the big thing was the change in the episode's philosophy." (These Are the Voyages: TOS Season Two, p. 529) Dugan's original outline was approved by NBC program manager Stan Robertson on , with the conditions that "the highly cerebral portions of the story would be eliminated and the complex nature of the plot would be materially simplified". (Inside Star Trek: The Real Story, pp. 331) Robertson also found Sargon's speculation about "your own legends of an Adam and an Eve were two of our travellers" to be sacrilegious and offending to Christian viewers, hence the line by Ann Mulhall stating that "our beliefs and our studies indicate that life on our planet, Earth, evolved independently" had to be inserted into the script. (These Are the Voyages: TOS Season Two) (Interesting to note that The Twilight Zone episode "Probe 7, Over and Out" in which Adam and Eve are actually revealed to be space travelers, aired on CBS four years prior.) The names of the Arret survivors have some cultural connections to Earth. In Greek mythology, Thalassa was a sea goddess. Some Assyrian and Mesopotamian kings were named Sargon. In the Bible, the name Henoch appears several times (sometimes spelled "Enoch" or "Hanoch"), including as the father of Methuselah. The name of the planet itself, Arret ("Terra", Earth in Latin, inverted), is never mentioned onscreen, much as Neural, the site of , is also unspoken. Joseph Pevney was originally slated to direct this episode; however, he quit the series after , citing the lack of discipline from the actors after producer Gene L. Coon left the show. (These Are the Voyages: TOS Season Two) The preview of this episode features a different take of the scene just before Thalassa zaps McCoy. In the preview, Muldaur says, "I could destroy you with one thought!" In the completed episode, she says, "I could destroy you with a single thought!" This episode is the latest in any season to feature a new score, albeit a partial one, by George Duning. Parts of the new score would be heard for the rest of the season, including the menacing Henoch cues in and . However, most of this score, notably the love themes, would never be reused in another episode. This sets it apart from other scores, such as those from and , whose themes would be reused extensively. Still photos of a smiling Spock leaning against a doorway and a non-canonical image of William Blackburn, dressed as the android were used in the end credits of . That episode was produced before this one, but did not go to air until . Blackburn told about his experiences filming this episode. Because of his latex android make-up, he could not eat or drink properly during the 12-hour shooting day and had to consume nourishment through a straw. The white, blank eyes of the android were achieved with him simply moving and holding his eyeballs upwards. (TOS-R Season 2 DVD Special Features) In clips from the second season blooper reel, Blackburn peels off his latex coating with glee and is helped by assistant director Tiger Shapiro, who says, "Well, son, you wanted show business. Goddammit, you got it!" In another segment, William Shatner grabs one of the globes and proclaims, "Have no fear. Sargon is here." And in another clip, Shatner jumps a line with DeForest Kelley in sickbay by saying, "I'm fine, Bones." Kelley responds, "Are you all right?" They both crack up laughing. In the next take, they can't even begin to speak before they dissolve into helpless giggles. A still image taken from the blooper above, of Blackburn removing the latex android make-up from his head appears in the end credits of . That episode was produced the week before this one and aired two weeks later, on . Cast and characters This episode marks George Takei's return to the series after an absence of some months while filming The Green Berets. His last appearance was , which was ten episodes earlier in production order. Dr. Ann Mulhall was portrayed by Diana Muldaur, who later played the roles of Miranda Jones in and Katherine Pulaski in . James Doohan was the voice of Sargon. William Blackburn plays the android that is meant for Sargon's wife. As a lieutenant commander, Ann Mulhall has the distinction of being the highest-ranking named female Starfleet character shown in TOS. However, her operations division uniform will be reused for unnamed female background characters in future episodes (). Walter Koenig does not appear in this episode. Continuity It is unclear how Arretan might have inspired the Adam and Eve story on Earth, especially since they ended their galactic colonization before their civil war. Their colonizing period, which occurred 600,000 years ago, is the earliest estimate for the appearance of Homo heidelbergensis, an early ancestor Humans share with the Neanderthals. This is the second time a reference is made in Star Trek about the Apollo moon program, after . Filmed more than a year-and-a-half before the first lunar landing, Kirk rhetorically asks McCoy in this episode, "Do you wish that the first Apollo mission hadn't reached the Moon?" The first manned Apollo mission, Apollo 1 (intended to be a test-flight of the Command and Service Module in Earth orbit only), never flew, since a tragic fire claimed the lives of three astronauts. This happened on 27 January 1967, months before the script was submitted to the production team and a full year before this episode aired. The first Apollo mission in which astronauts orbited – and technically "reached" – the moon was Apollo 8 in December 1968, ten months after this episode aired. However, the Apollo 11 astronauts were the first to "reach" the moon by landing on it in 20 July 1969, after Star Trek was canceled. Kirk's next comments about going "on to Mars and then to the nearest star" seem to suggest that he is referring to the Apollo 11 lunar mission. Sets and props One of the fiberglass globes was re-used later as part of the Romulan cloaking device in , and for M-4 in . The stand for one of the globes was later turned upside-down and used as a piece of technology on Atoz's desk in . This episode features colorful back lights on the Enterprise sets, mostly green and purple, which were not used since the early episodes of the first season. Awards and recognition This episode and its writer, John T. Dugan, earned a Writers Guild of America Award nomination in the category Best Written Dramatic Episode in . (Star Trek Inside No. 9) Director Ralph Senensky nicknamed this episode "The Huge Ping Pong Balls". Senensky also described this episode as "about which the less said the better". Remastered information The remastered version of this episode aired in many North American markets during the weekend of . It featured new effects shots of the Enterprise and a new, more realistic version of Sargon's homeworld. It also included shots of the planet matted into interior viewscreen shots. Video and DVD releases Original US Betamax release: UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 27, catalog number VHR 2379, US VHS release: UK re-release (three-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 2.8, Original US DVD release (single-disc): Volume 26, As part of the TOS Season 2 DVD collection Links and references Starring William Shatner as James T. Kirk Also starring Leonard Nimoy as "Mr. Spock" And DeForest Kelley as "Dr. McCoy" Guest stars Diana Muldaur as Ann Mulhall James Doohan as Scott Nichelle Nichols as Uhura George Takei as Sulu Cindy Lou as Nurse And Majel Barrett as Christine Chapel Uncredited co-stars William Blackburn as Hadley Android body Frank da Vinci as Brent James Doohan as Sargon (voice) Roger Holloway as Roger Lemli Jeannie Malone as Nurse John Hugh McKnight as command lieutenant Diana Muldaur as Thalassa Leonard Nimoy as Henoch Eddie Paskey as Leslie William Shatner as Sargon (body) Unknown actors as Command crew woman Security guard References 6,000 centuries ago; 500,000 years ago; ability; Adam and Eve; agility; alien intelligence; alloy; Alpha Centauri; answer; Apollo 11; Arret; Arret native; Arret system; artery; astrobiology; atmosphere (aka air); atmosphere report; attitude; bed; best friend; blood; body; body function (aka bodily function); body temperature; "Bones"; bottle; briefing; briefing room; catgut; cc; century; children; choice; class M; coincidence; communication channel; composition; consciousness; conn; Constitution-class decks; contact; coordinates; crisis; danger; day; death; ; ; descendant; diagram; distance; distress signal relay; drawing; Earth; energy; engineer; ; ; euphoria; evolution; experimentation; exploration; eye; eyesight; Fahrenheit; fatigue; fear; feeling; finger; flesh; flower; formula; great-great-great-great-grandfather; God; hailing frequency; hand; ; heart; heartbeat; heart rate; hello; home; host body; hour; Human (aka mankind); humanoid robot (aka mechanical body or android robot); hypo; injection; insect; intelligence; "in time"; jelly; "just a moment"; kiss; knee; knowledge; lake; landing party; landing party duty; legend; liar; life (aka lifeform); life support; light year; lip; location; Luna; lungs; machine; Mars; matter; McCoy's great-great-great-great-grandfather; medicine man; metabolic rate; metabolic reduction injection; metabolism; microgear; mile; Milky Way Galaxy; million; mind; minute; miracle; mission; mistake; month; muscle; name; negaton hydrocoil; nitrogen; nuclear age (aka nuclear era); opportunity; order; oxygen; pain; patient; peace; pharmacology; pharmacology laboratory; physician; place; plan; planet; poison; ; prejudice; prison; pulley; question; race; receptacle; rescue; risk; rock; room; Sargon; Arretan; Arretan vessel; savage; science officer; Scots language; search; security guard; sharing; seed; sensor probe; scalpel; science officer; scientist; second-in-command; security guard; sensor; ; size; standard orbit; "stand by"; star system; Starfleet; stranger; strength; subspace radio; subterranean chamber; surface; technician; temperature; thing; thought; thousand; transporter; transporter beam; transporter coordinates; transporter device; transporter room; traveler; tricorder; truth; unconsciousness; ; vital organ; voice; vote; Vulcan; Vulcan prehistory; wall; walnut; war; week; "what in the devil"; wing; wisdom; word; worship; year Unreferenced materials alien; illogic; jungle External links de:Geist sucht Körper es:Return to Tomorrow fr:Return to Tomorrow (épisode) ja:地底160キロのエネルギー（エピソード） nl:Return to Tomorrow pl:Return to Tomorrow TOS episodes

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Patterns of Force (episode)

The Enterprise, searching for a missing Federation historian, discovers that the historian has apparently contaminated the cultural development of the planet where he was assigned as a cultural observer to have it follow the societal path of Nazi Germany in the 1930s and '40s. Summary Teaser The heads for the planet Ekos to locate a missing cultural observer, Professor Dr. John Gill, Ph.D., a noted historian and brilliant history teacher who had been one of Kirk's instructors at the Presidio Campus of the Academy. Spock and McCoy reminisce about his style of approaching history as a matter of causes and motivations, rather than simply dates and events. While approaching the planet, the Enterprise is attacked by an old-style chemical rocket with a thermonuclear warhead – technology of whose development the planet is not yet supposed to be capable. Kirk has Chekov destroy the rocket with the ship's phasers. McCoy notes that the missile is generations ahead from where they should be technically. Kirk surmises that they may have had help – and Spock glances at Gill's photo. Act One Fearing that Gill's mission has been compromised in violation of the Prime Directive of non-interference with developing planets, Kirk and Spock beam down to Ekos. Before they do, they have McCoy insert subcutaneous emergency transponders, dependent on crystalline rubindium, into their forearms, to locate them for retrieval in the event they cannot use their communicators. Kirk orders that Scotty beam them up at the appointed time if they fail to contact the ship, no matter what their condition may be. Upon beaming down, Kirk and Spock find a culture almost identical to that of Germany during its Nazi period of the 1930s and 40s, right down to the uniforms, the salutes, and the persecution of another ethnic culture – in this case, the inhabitants of the neighboring planet , and the concept of the Führer – John Gill himself. Stealing some SS uniforms, Kirk and Spock attempt to infiltrate the Führer's headquarters but are quickly captured when Spock is forced to remove his helmet, revealing his pointed Vulcan ears. Act Two Kirk and Spock are stripped to the waist and interrogated by an SS-Major, who lashes them cruelly with a whip; this, however, is interrupted by Chairman Eneg, who chides the SS guard for not realizing that punishment is effective for only just so long. Left with their wounds still open, they find themselves imprisoned next to Isak, a Zeon underground member who explains how the Nazi movement began on Ekos, coinciding precisely with the time of Gill's arrival. Improvising a crude cutting-torch laser from the rubindium crystals from the transponders Kirk had had McCoy insert, at a subcutaneous level, into the skins of their forearms before beaming down, the trio then make their way to the SS laboratory, where Kirk pickpockets the keys from a guard; they manage to escape and retrieve two disassembled communicators from a SS laboratory. Kirk and Spock are able to steal SS uniforms again and leave, hauling out Isak in a stretcher. Later, the three return to the underground's base. There, Isak is greeted by his brother, Abrom, and told of the death of his fiancée, Uletta. In the midst of this, a squad of Ekosian stormtroopers (led by a woman) arrives, intent on arresting the entire lot. She apparently shoots Abrom dead and plans to "finish the job" by killing Kirk. Act Three When Kirk and Spock intervene to help the underground workers, it is revealed that the woman, Daras (who they recognized from a propaganda broadcast they viewed earlier), is an Ekosian member of the underground and the storming was a test to see if the two strangers could be trusted – once Kirk and Spock had responded to her apparent murder of Abrom by holding her at gunpoint, those gathered had realized that the two strangers were definitely on their side and put an end to the ruse. Kirk and Spock then reveal who they really are and why they are there. The next opportunity to get to the Führer, they decide, is an upcoming in the chancellery in which Isak suspects war will be declared on Zeon — the "Final Solution." To infiltrate the chancellery, Kirk and Spock accompany Daras and Isak (in Nazi disguise) to Führer headquarters posing as a Nazi documentary crew to try and reach Gill. Kirk, Spock, Isak, and Daras walk down a corridor pretending to film a record of the Führer's Final Solution speech. During this, Spock catches a glimpse of John Gill in a guarded room, seemingly drugged. Kirk tells Spock that they need Dr. McCoy. Kirk hides inside a cloakroom with Spock and asks Lieutenant Uhura to have McCoy beamed down from the Enterprise; however, they learn from Daras that the transmission was traced, prompting a search party. The doctor joins them dressed in a Nazi colonel's uniform who complains (mistakenly, as Spock explains) the ship's computer had gotten the measurements on his right boot wrong, and that it is too tight. Spock perceives that McCoy is actually not pulling the boot on correctly, and explains how to do so. Once McCoy has complied, he wonders what is going on there. But before Kirk can answer him, two guards led by Chairman Eneg, barge into the cloakroom. Act Four With seconds to think, Kirk quickly says that the colonel is drunk and his presence in a drunken state would embarrass the Führer. Eneg accepts their explanation and explains that they are conducting a search and leaves, leaving Spock puzzled why Eneg failed to recognize the two of them. With McCoy now joined with them, the group listens to a speech by Gill, followed by another from his deputy, Melakon, pledging the destruction of Zeon which is already taking place as he speaks. Meanwhile, the three are able to sneak into the broadcast booth and find Gill, heavily drugged. McCoy is able to partially revive Gill with stimulants, but Spock must use his mind probe talents to attempt to make Gill able to communicate. Meanwhile, they overhear Melakon announce the commencement of the Final Decision, the genocidal invasion of Zeon. Daras pleads with Kirk to have the Enterprise intercept and destroy the invasion fleet as a last resort. Kirk is unwilling considering that would mean the deaths of thousands of Ekosians, as well as numerous underground Zeons who have infiltrated the Ekosian forces to attempt to interfere with their operations. Daras rationalizes that would be the lesser evil than to permit the murder of millions on Zeon, but Kirk is determined to help both populations who are equally victims of Gill's interference. Eventually, Spock is able to establish contact with Gill and they learn the truth; Gill had taken matters into his own hands on Ekos, which he had found to be in a condition of anarchy. He tried to help by encouraging the Ekosians to adopt Nazi Germany as a model, believing they could embrace its efficiency while eschewing its sadistic or xenophobic aspects. Kirk is appalled by Gill's naivete, but Spock points out that the Nazis's phenomenal recovery from Germany's economic and political collapse following World War I might have made it a compelling example even for a gentle man such as Gill. Unfortunately, Melakon saw an opportunity to take over and drugged Gill, installing him as a figurehead leader while keeping the real power in his own hands, and orchestrating the Ekosians's slide into violent militarism and racial hatred. The search party, led by Eneg, steps into the room, and Kirk quickly pretends they foiled an assassination attempt by Spock. They convince Eneg to present him to Melakon, which also convinces Isak that he is a member of the underground resistance. While they distract Melakon, Kirk struggles to revive Gill to a sufficiently coherent state. Gill is finally able to broadcast a message halting the invasion and declaring Melakon a traitor. Melakon takes an MP40 machine gun from a guard and shoots Gill through the broadcast booth curtain to silence him. Isak, in turn, shoots Melakon twice with a Luger, killing him instantly. As Gill dies in Kirk's arms, he tells the captain that the Prime Directive was the right way all along. Meanwhile, Eneg takes control of the government, declaring, "There has been enough killing. Now we'll start to live the way the Führer meant us to live." He plans to go on the airwaves with Daras to offer a new way of life for both Ekosians and Zeons. Back on board the Enterprise, Spock expresses confusion as to how a man as logical as Gill could make such a mistake as emulating the Nazis. Kirk says the problem was not simply the Nazis themselves but giving any one individual so much . McCoy remarks how power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely; Spock dryly points out several examples from Earth history of just that mentality and Kirk cuts off their argument by saying, "Gentlemen, we've just been through one civil war; let's not start another." Kirk then orders Ensign Chekov to plot a course and break out of orbit around Ekos as quickly as possible. Memorable quotes "Our missiles utterly destroyed the enemy." "You look quite well for a man who's been utterly destroyed, Mister Spock." - Ekosian Newscaster and Kirk, on the missile attack on the Enterprise "You should make a very convincing Nazi." - Spock, commenting on Kirk's Gestapo uniform "Lieutenant? Better see a doctor. You don't look well. Your color." "Yes. I shall tend to it, Major." "Lieutenant! Your helmet. Remove it!" - SS-Major uncovering a disguised Spock "I…don't care if you hit the broad side of a barn. Just hurry, please." "Captain, why should I aim at such a structure?" "Never mind, Spock. Just…get on with the job." - Kirk and Spock, before breaking out of their jail cell "If we adopt the ways of the Nazis, we're as bad as the Nazis." - Isak, after learning of Uletta's death "Captain, I'm beginning to understand why you earth men enjoy gambling. No matter how carefully one computes the odds of success, there is still a certain… exhilaration in the risk." "Very good, Spock. We may make a Human of you yet." "I hope not." - Spock and Kirk, on the Human thrill of risk-taking "Doctor McCoy is having difficulty with that uniform, sir." "Send him down naked if you have to! Kirk out." - Uhura and Kirk, before McCoy beams into the cloakroom "Planet… fragmented… divided. Took lesson from… Earth history." "But why Nazi Germany? You studied history; you knew what the Nazis were!" "Most efficient state… Earth ever knew…" - John Gill and Kirk, on why Gill violated the Prime Directive "Note the sinister eyes and the malformed ears. Definitely an inferior race." - Melakon to Daras, on Spock "Even historians fail to learn from history…they repeat the same mistakes. Let the killing end, Kirk. Let--" - John Gills final words "For so long I've prayed for this. Now I'm sorry." "So was he." - Isak and Kirk, after Gill's death "It is time to stop the bloodshed…to bury our dead." - Eneg, as the war between Ekos and Zeon (apparently) ends "Gentlemen, we've just been through one civil war; let's not start another." - Kirk, as Spock and McCoy debate Gill's mistake Background information Production history Production number: #60352 Story outline "Tomorrow the Universe" by Paul Schneider: First draft teleplay: Second draft teleplay: Revised second draft: Story outline "Patterns of Force" by John Meredyth Lucas: Revised story outline: Second revised story outline: First draft teleplay: late- Second draft teleplay: Additional page revisions: , , , Filmed: – Day 1 – , Wednesday – Paramount European Street backlot: Ext. City street, Street corner, Alley; Paramount office buildings: Ext. Nazi party headquarters, Ext. Chancellery Day 2 – , Thursday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Transporter room, Underground room, Newscaster room Day 3 – , Friday – Desilu Stage 11: Int. Ekosian jail, Jail cell Day 4 – , Monday – Desilu Stage 10: Int. Nazi headquarters: Lower corridor, SS Labs, Broadcast room Day 5 – , Tuesday – Desilu Stage 10: Int. Nazi headquarters: Interior corridor, Main room, Decoration area Day 6 – , Wednesday – Desilu Stage 10: Int. Cloakroom, Desilu Stage 9: Int. Bridge Original airdate: First UK airdate: Story During the first season, Paul Schneider wrote a story outline entitled "Tomorrow the Universe" about the Enterprise encountering an alien planet adopting Nazi ideology and forming its own "Third Reich." Schneider began to develop the story further; however, when Lucas came up with his very similar idea of "Patterns of Force," it was deemed much better than Schneider's story, which was scrapped. (These Are the Voyages: TOS Season Two) John Meredyth Lucas wrote this episode out of his fascination with the functioning of totalitarian regimes (especially Nazi Germany) and their ability to stay in power. William Shatner quoted him to Chris Kreski, in Star Trek Memories, as saying that "it was fun to write a well-meaning Nazi, a guy who for the right cause completely fucked everything up. Y'know, we started with the question, 'How the hell did Nazism get past the shits and the street gangs and take root among the basically decent people? How did sane, reasonable adults come to buy into this bullshit?' The answer seemed to be because it was efficient and because, in a society beset by all kinds of problems, it may have seemed like a feasible necessity. So it becomes feasible, and the people take that leap." An early draft of this episode had the source of cultural contamination arriving aboard a small "Ambassador-class" vessel called the Magellan. The name was later applied in TNG to the of ships in the mid-24th century. No stardate is logged in the episode. Bjo Trimble gave it a stardate of 2534.0 in her Star Trek Concordance, apparently using an earlier script version. Based on the details of the episode's shooting schedule, at least two scenes were trimmed for unknown reasons; both scenes were filmed on : Act II, Sc. 39-41. When Kirk and Spock exit the Chancellery they rounded a street corner and entered an alley. With the removal of this scene, two storm troopers and two trooper guards and apparently a Jeep did not appear in the episode as filmed. Act III, Sc. 46. When the cars pulled up at night and unloaded at the Chancellery, it was indicated that more officials were seen being dropped off before Kirk's group drive up in Sc. 47. Namely missing from the scene were two storm troopers, along with an SS officer general and his wife, whereas only the SS Gestapo general and his wife were seen entering as was noted. In addition to these scenes, the shooting schedule indicates that there were, among the reception party crowd, two waiters that appeared throughout, however no such individuals appeared in the episode. Eneg's name is an inside joke – it is "Gene" backwards. () The name "Zeon" is a take on "Zion," while "Abrom" corresponds to "Abraham", "Davod" to "David", and "Isak" to "Isaac"; "Daras", reversed, is almost "Sara". Star Trek 12 contains a novelization of this story by James Blish and J.A. Lawrence. Sets and costumes The headquarters of the Nazi Party in this episode are the redecorated offices of Paramount Pictures during the 60s, including the building where Lucille Ball ran Desilu. Paramount office buildings were also used as locations in , and a short newsreel scene in . The underground area is the same set as was used for . All the Nazi uniforms used in this episode are taken from Paramount's costume storage, and were previously featured in many of the studio's World War II-era films. Many of them featured mismatched epaulets, collar tabs, and other rank-identifying insignia. However, McCoy's collar tabs, bearing a single silver oak leaf, correctly identify him as a colonel, as Kirk had ordered. Several uniforms, such as Kirk and McCoy's, show cuffbands reading "Adolf Hitler". They represent members of the Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler, special bodyguards of the Führer. On the archive file photograph shown by Spock in the teaser, John Gill is wearing Commissioner ' jacket from . The front of the Ekosian Chancellery has all of its windows and shutters closed, for the real world reason that the actual building was an active office of Paramount Pictures with daily business going on inside while the film crew and actors were shooting the exterior on . (To Boldly Go: Rare Photos from the TOS Soundstage - Season Two, p. 191) Even so, two individuals who appear to be curious Paramount Pictures employees can be seen looking down on the courtyard from an upper window. Continuity This is the second mention of Nazi Germany in Star Trek, the first being in . However, in , Scott did compare 's security system to "the ancient Gestapo". This episode discounts the previously established theory of Hodgkin's Law of Parallel Planetary Development, which was established to explain the similarities seen in . In this case, Kirk observes that "The chances of another planet developing a culture like Nazi Germany, using the forms, the symbols, the uniforms of twentieth century Earth are so fantastically slim," which Spock described as "virtually impossible." But John Gill had contaminated the development of Ekos's culture by introducing a modified version of Nazism to the planet, thereby breaching the Prime Directive, and hence Hodgkin's Law might not have been applicable here. Cast and characters George Takei does not appear in this episode. James Doohan only had one line in this episode, "Aye, sir. Whatever your condition." This episode marks the only time, in any Star Trek series or film, that actor Leonard Nimoy is seen on camera not wearing a shirt. (Star Trek: The Original Series 365) Unlike William Shatner, Nimoy refused Gene Roddenberry's request to have his chest shaven. (These Are the Voyages: TOS Season Two) Several of the cast, who dress up as Nazis in this episode, notably William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy, had Jewish backgrounds. On , newspaper and magazine photographers were invited to the set for publicity. Nimoy refused to have any pictures taken of him in Nazi uniform, as he was due to attend the Wilshire Blvd. Temple children's Hanukkah services later the same month, and did not want any possible controversies to arise. (These Are the Voyages: TOS Season Two) Special visual effects The attacking Ekosian missile on the viewscreen of Enterprise was reused footage of the Orion scout ship from earlier in the season. In a change from the stock explosions used throughout the second season, an animated nuclear blast was created for this episode. V-2 rocket footage from World War II Germany is used in the newscast showing Ekosian missile. In one of the sequences of news footage, all of which consisted of stock shots and stock footage, a car with Adolf Hitler accompanied by soldiers is used to represent John Gill as the Führer on the planet Ekos. The sequence is a use of stock footage from Triumph of the Will, the infamous Nazi propaganda film for whose production was responsible. Controversies Because the subject matter of the nation's Nazi past was deemed too serious and too sensitive a topic for light TV entertainment, this episode was withheld from broadcast in its two original runs by the German stations that aired TOS – the public ZDF network in the mid-1970s and the private Sat.1 network in the late 1980s/early 1990s – and resulted that "Patterns of Force" became the only Original Series episode not to be aired in Germany. Only in 1996 was the (dubbed) episode finally shown as "Schablonen der Gewalt" on German pay TV, shortly after the first time German-language release on VHS the year previously, and included on all subsequent DVD/Blu-ray Disc season sets. On 4 November 2011 it was finally shown on the public network channel ZDFneo as well. (; TOS Season 2 DVD-special feature, "Red Shirt Logs: Bjo Trimble on censorship") During the first two German runs of TOS in the 1970s and 1980s, many former Nazis were still alive; during the third run in the 1990s, the former experienced a wave of neo-Nazi violence after the fall of the Berlin Wall. The episode's thesis, which Professor Dr. Gill espoused and which Spock corroborated, was that Nazi Germany was the "most efficient" state that was ever known in Earth history. But this notion, widely accepted after World War II and even at the time of the episode's original broadcast on American television, has now been largely discredited. The historian William L. Shirer, in particular, has noted that the Nazi hierarchy was actually a tangled web of hostile competition, with many of its high officials being bitterly opposed to each other. Consequently, their respective jurisdictions often overlapped and/or collided. Hence, this conflict actually reduced or even, in some cases, completely negated governmental efficiency in Nazi Germany. Remastered information The remastered version of "Patterns of Force" aired in many North American markets during the weekend of . While the episode required very few new effects, an entirely new shot of the Enterprise phasering the Ekosian warhead was substituted. In addition, Ekos was given a CGI-makeover as a more Earth-like planet, with new orbital shots of the Enterprise, and the rubindium crystal beam was refined. Video and DVD releases Original US Betamax release: UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 27, catalog number VHR 2379, US VHS release: UK re-release (three-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 2.8, Original US DVD release (single-disc): Volume 26, As part of the TOS Season 2 DVD collection Links and references Starring William Shatner as Kirk Leonard Nimoy as Spock And DeForest Kelley as McCoy Guest stars Richard Evans as Isak And Valora Noland as Daras Special appearance by Skip Homeier as Melakon And David Brian as John Gill Co-stars James Doohan as Scott Nichelle Nichols as Uhura Patrick Horgan as Eneg William Wintersole as Abrom And Gilbert Green as an SS Major Walter Koenig as Chekov Ralph Maurer as SS Lieutenant Ed McCready as SS Trooper Peter Canon as Gestapo Lieutenant Paul Baxley as First Trooper Chuck Courtney as Davod Bart La Rue as Newscaster Uncredited co-stars Benjie Bancroft as Ekosian brigadeführer William Blackburn as Hadley John Blower as Ekosian lieutenant colonel Ekosian SS trooper Frank da Vinci as a Ekosian Reichsführer-SS Len Felber as Ekosian SA party official as Adolf Hitler (archive footage) Roger Holloway as Ekosian Reichsführer-SS Jeannie Malone as Ekosian SS General's wife Eddie Paskey as Zeon resistance member 2 Basil Poledouris as SS trooper Robert Strong as SA member Robert Whitney as Ekosian SA official Unknown performers as Ekosian SA stormtrooper 2 and 3 Ekosian SS General's wife 2 Ekosian SS Gestapo official 4 and 5 Ekosian SS Officer official 2 Ekosian SS troopers 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, and 18 Ekosian Wehrmacht generalmajor Ekosians at window Ekosians in newsreel SA official Zeon resistance member 3 References 20th century; 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The Ultimate Computer (episode)

The Enterprise tests a computer that, if successful, could replace Kirk as the captain. Summary Teaser The is summoned to a space station by Commodore Enwright without explanation. Commodore Bob Wesley, commanding the , explains in the Enterprises transporter room that the Enterprise will be a test vessel for a revolutionary tactical computer called the M-5 multitronic unit, designed by the brilliant Dr. Richard Daystrom. The M-5 will handle all ship functions, including responding to a simulated attack led by Wesley, during the test with a crew of only twenty, much to Captain Kirk's chagrin. Act One "Captain's log, stardate 4729.4. The M-5 computer has been installed on board ship, and we have left the space station for test maneuvers." Dr. Richard Daystrom, who designed the duotronic computers used on the Enterprise, arrives on board to install his new M-5 multitronic unit, which is capable of running a starship with only minimal personnel. Kirk, Spock, and Dr. McCoy meet him in engineering, where he is finishing up the installation. Daystrom explains the first four units weren't entirely successful, but this one has the capability to control the ship. Responding to Kirk's skepticism, he challenges Kirk on enjoying the prestige of the captaincy. Spock stays with Daystrom, while Kirk and McCoy leave. Kirk wrestles with his own unease about the advance in technology and his own possible obsolescence. The Enterprise, under M-5 control, approaches the planet Alpha Carinae II, achieves standard orbit, and makes its recommendations for the landing party. As the first example of the difference between the M-5's decisions and those of a Human, Kirk's recommendation is at odds with the M-5's call, which includes the same astrobiologist, Phillips, a different geologist (Chief Rawlins instead of Ensign ), and doesn't include Kirk or McCoy in the landing party, calling them "non-essential personnel." While this is going on, Montgomery Scott is observing that power on decks 4 and 5 has been cut, along with environmental controls for each deck. He traces the source of the power shutdowns to be the M-5 itself. Act Two In engineering, Dr. Daystrom examines the situation, but explains that the M-5 simply turned off the power to those decks since they were unoccupied crew quarters and there was no one there that needed it. Spock also observes that the M-5 is drawing more power than before, to which Daystrom simply responds that M-5 requires more power. Kirk again challenges Daystrom that the M-5 can only process information given to it; it cannot make value judgements. Daystrom dismisses this and describes the M-5 as "a whole new approach" to logic systems. The arrival of an unidentified vessel cuts off the conversation and brings Kirk and Spock to the bridge. Dr. McCoy is already there, since sickbay was also shut down by the M-5. The Enterprise is approached by two ships, the Lexington and . They engage in an unscheduled wargames drill, and the M-5 responds swiftly to simulated attacks, hitting back the "enemy" ships and maneuvering more quickly than it would have were a Human in command. Kirk tries to be gracious towards the computer's ability, telling Spock that such applications might be practical, but Spock tells Kirk that although true, such a thing as a computer running a starship would be undesirable. He goes on to explain that a key attribute of Human command is loyalty, loyalty to one man, and that this should never change. Captain Kirk, whose ego has been somewhat beaten up by all that has been going on recently, appreciates the comment. Meanwhile, the M-5 is seen to be drawing increasing amounts of power. Wesley communicates back, awarding the test to the M-5 and jokingly calling Kirk a "Dunsel." Dismayed by this, Kirk goes to his quarters to contemplate the increasingly successful M-5. McCoy arrives with a Finagle's Folly. McCoy tells Kirk that Daystrom may be attempting to recapture the “past glory” of winning the Nobel Prize and Zee-Magnees Prize at an early age. Kirk states that Albert Einstein, Kazanga, and Sitar did not produce “assembly line” genius innovations and that Daystrom is seeking to contribute another technological advancement to society. McCoy responds that Daystrom’s obession with Multitronics can be seen with his rejection of the M-1 through M-4 multitronic units. The M-5 represents Daystrom’s need to prove his superiority to himself. Their conversation is cut off, as the Enterprises sensors detect a slow-moving ship. It is the automated ore freighter Woden, and not a drill this time. M-5 abruptly changes the Enterprises course to intercept the ship, speeding up to warp 3. It then engages the ship with photon torpedoes, destroying it, even though it presented absolutely no threat to the Enterprise, and then resumes its prior course. Captain Kirk tries to disengage the M-5 in the process, but neither he, Sulu, nor Scott are able to regain manual control of the ship. Dr. Daystrom still tries to make excuses and explanations for this, but there is clearly something very wrong. Kirk, Spock, and Scott go to engineering and Kirk tries to approach the M-5 to shut it off, only to be knocked back by a force field, learning that the M-5 unit will protect itself as well. Act Three "Captain's log, stardate 4731.3. The M-5 multitronic unit has taken over total control of the Enterprise." Kirk is infuriated now. He demands Daystrom shut off the unit, but Daystrom insists that he be allowed to first correct. Kirk has Scott attempt again to cut its power, but when Ensign , working with a trident scanner, moves in to cut the power, the M-5 makes a direct connection to the warp engines using a power beam of its own devising. Harper, in the beam's path, is vaporized. Shocked and enraged, Kirk berates Daystrom for being unable and unwilling to deactivate the M-5. Daystrom continues to excuse the M-5's behavior, insisting that Harper "…simply got in the way", and that his death was not a deliberate act. Kirk snaps back at Daystrom: "How long will it be before all of us simply 'get in the way'?". In the briefing room, the senior staff collaborate on a plan to gain back control by focusing on a certain relay unit between the M-5 and the bridge. McCoy goes to Daystrom to convince him to shut off the M-5. Daystrom, on the other hand, defends the M-5, saying it's learning, and further, that the advance the M-5 represents would liberate man from hazardous duties, saving life. McCoy notes later to Kirk that Daystrom reacts toward the computer as a father would to his child. Even if the child went anti-social and killed a person, a father would protect the child. Kirk and Daystrom observe Spock and Scott attempt to gain control, but Sulu and Chekov report it is unsuccessful. They realize that M-5 had rerouted the controls while leaving the relay they were working on live as a decoy. Spock notes the illogical behavior of the M-5 unit. Daystrom explains that he impressed Human "engrams" onto the circuits. "The relays are not unlike the synapses in the brain," Daystrom explains to Captain Kirk. "M-5 thinks, captain." Uhura reports the four Federation ships as part of the scheduled war exercise, but now Kirk fears the M-5 will not treat it as a drill. Act Four As the war games exercise begins, M-5 has prevented all communication. The Lexington, Excalibur, and are approaching. Daystrom assures that the M-5 will treat it as a drill, but then the M-5 attacks the Lexington and Excalibur with all weapons at full power, crippling the Excalibur and killing its entire crew in the process. Despite knowing that M-5 would have full tactical and functional control of the Enterprise, Commodore Wesley blames Kirk for the attack. When Wesley cannot raise the Enterprise by radio, he requests approval from Starfleet Command to destroy her. Now that the M-5 has committed murder, Kirk confronts Daystrom, convincing him that the M-5 is doing more than originally designed. He demands that Daystrom attempt to reason with M-5, as Daystrom admits it was his own engrams that he imprinted on the machine. However, he goes mad in the effort, realizing his reputation is at stake. In his delirium, he lashes out at Kirk, but is subdued by a Vulcan nerve pinch from Spock. McCoy hauls him off to sickbay, and Spock notes the self-preservation that the M-5 is displaying is probably a consequence of Daystrom's engram imprinting. Hearing that Starfleet has agreed that Wesley can destroy the Enterprise, Kirk himself speaks to the computer, trying to make it recognize its responsibility in the deaths of hundreds of people as there are no more life readings on the Excalibur, and reminding it of the penalty for murder. Feeling Daystrom's regret over the deaths, M-5 shuts down, dropping the deflector shields and leaving itself open to attack to atone for its crime. Spock and Scott then disconnect the computer from ship's control. With communications not quite restored, Kirk orders that the shields be kept down, gambling that Wesley will be both compassionate and cautious and break off the battle. Sure enough, Wesley does so, much to the crew's relief. Dr. Daystrom, meanwhile, is cared for in sickbay under sedation and heavy restraint to await transfer to a total rehabilitation facility, under McCoy's recommendation. Kirk orders that Sulu plot a return course to Starbase 6. Log entries Captain's log, USS Enterprise (NCC-1701), 2268 Memorable quotes "There are certain things men must do to remain men." - Kirk to Daystrom, after the M-5 is installed on the Enterprise "Did you see the love light in Spock's eyes? The right computer finally came along." - McCoy to Kirk, after they walk away from Spock and Daystrom "Only a fool would stand in the way of progress." - Kirk, on being replaced by the M-5 "We're all sorry for the other guy when he loses his job to a machine. When it comes to your job, that's different. And it always will be different." - McCoy, on technological progress "Computers make excellent and efficient servants, but I have no wish to serve under them. Captain, the starship also runs on loyalty to one man. And nothing can replace it, or him." - Spock to Kirk, after the war games exercise "Our compliments to the M-5 unit, and regards to Captain Dunsel. Wesley out." - Wesley, comparing Kirk's role to a part which serves no useful purpose "To Captain Dunsel." "To James T. Kirk, captain of the Enterprise." - Kirk and McCoy, toasting in Kirk's quarters "All I ask is a tall ship, and a star to steer her by." - Kirk, quoting the poem "Sea-Fever" by John Masefield "Fantastic machine, the M-5. No off switch." - McCoy, as the Enterprise chases the Woden "Come along, Dr. Daystrom. M-5 is out of a job." - Kirk, to Dr. Daystrom "I would say, captain, that M-5 is not only capable of taking care of this ship, it is also capable of taking care of itself." "You mean it's not going to let any of us turn it off?" - Spock and Kirk, expressing logic and horror respectively on M-5's self defense "Please, Spock, do me a favor and don't say it's fascinating." "No. But it is … interesting." - McCoy and Spock, on the M-5's increasing control of the Enterprise "You don't shut a child off when it makes a mistake. M-5 is growing, learning." "Learning to kill." "To defend itself. It's quite a different thing." - Daystrom and McCoy, on the growing threat of the M-5 "Men no longer need die in space or on some alien world! Men can live and go on to achieve greater things than fact-finding and dying for galactic space, which is neither ours to give or to take!" - Daystrom, defending the need for the M-5 "Genius doesn't work on an assembly line basis." - Kirk to McCoy, on Daystrom "You can't simply say, today I will be brilliant." - Kirk, on Daystrom's ingenuity "It appears, captain, we've been doing what used to be called pursuing a wild goose." - Spock, after M-5 outsmarts an attempted manual override "Commodore Wesley is a dedicated commander. I should regret serving aboard the instrument of his death." - Spock, after Wesley receives orders from Starfleet to destroy the Enterprise "Murder is contrary to the laws of man and God." - M-5, on why it cannot commit murder "Compassion. That's the one thing no machine ever had. Maybe it's the one thing that keeps men ahead of them." - McCoy, on why Wesley did not attack the Enterprise "I simply maintain that computers are more efficient than Human beings, not better." "But which do you prefer to have around, Mr. Spock?" "…I believe I have already answered that question, doctor." - Spock and McCoy, reflecting on the M-5 computer's erratic behavior "It would be most interesting to impress your memory engrams on a computer, doctor. The resulting torrential flood of illogic would be most entertaining." - Spocks last jab at McCoy, on comparing Humans and machines Background information Production timeline "Spec" teleplay by Laurence N. Wolfe: Revised first draft teleplay: First draft teleplay by D.C. Fontana: , , , Revised first draft: Second revised first draft: Additional page revisions by John Meredyth Lucas: , Filmed: – Day 1 – , Thursday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Bridge Day 2 – , Friday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Bridge Day 3 – , Monday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Bridge Day 4 – , Tuesday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Bridge, Transporter room, Briefing room Day 5 – , Wednesday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Sickbay, Corridors, Turbolift, Jefferies tube Day 6 – , Thursday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Engineering Original airdate: Rerun airdate: First UK airdate: Story and production Mathematician Laurence N. Wolfe wrote the original story for this episode, which was based on his fascination with computers. However, it emphasized the M-5 unit and its creator, Dr. Daystrom, and barely featured the Enterprise crew. It was heavily rewritten by D.C. Fontana, who focused the storyline around Kirk's fear of being replaced by a machine. This episode was a social commentary on the American job losses caused by increased mechanization during the 1960s. (Star Trek Compendium, p. 99) Producer John Meredyth Lucas bought Wolfe's unsolicited teleplay because it could be made fast and cheap, using only the existing Enterprise sets, and decided to direct the episode himself. (These Are the Voyages: TOS Season Two) The evocative music by George Duning, composed for , was re-used when Kirk romanticizes about sailing on a tall ship. Cast and characters Barry Russo, who played Commodore Wesley in this episode, had previously portrayed Commander Giotto in . Sean Morgan, who portrayed the redshirt in this episode, also played Brenner in and O'Neil in and . James Doohan provided the voices of the M-5 computer and the unseen Commodore Enwright. Fifteen of the twenty crew members who stay aboard the Enterprise during the M-5 exercise include Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Scott, Sulu, Chekov, Uhura, Harper, Phillips, Rawlins, , Brent, Hadley, and Leslie (the two security guards who escort Daystrom from the bridge), and an unnamed nurse who appeared by Daystrom's bedside in sickbay. Sets and props Commodore Wesley's high-backed command chair is the same one used as the 's command chair in . The scanning device which Daystrom used to analyze the M-5 previously appeared in , , and , and will later be used by Spock to track down Gary Seven in . It is one of three similar scanner props used throughout the series, the other two being McCoy's medical scanner along with one first used by Joe Tormolen on the surface of Psi 2000 in . A close-up of the three scanning heads on the trident scanner in this episode reveal them to be re-used tips from the disruptor weapons from . This is the only episode in which Spock's library computer spits out a tape—in this case, M-5's readout of Alpha Carinae II and landing party recommendations. Continuity This is the second time Kirk tells McCoy he would like to be on a long sea voyage. The first time happened in . Kirk recites the poem "Sea-Fever". He recites it again in . Quark paraphrases it in and it appears on the 's dedication plaque. Spock mentions that there is nothing in 23rd century computer technology to replace a starship's medical officer. By the 24th century, Federation starships are equipped with Emergency Medical Hologram (EMH) technology, though that is designed as a supplement, not a full replacement. Nevertheless, The Doctor is able to function in place of a medical staff on . Spock describes M-5's diversionary tactics as "pursuing a wild goose". In , after McCoy calls Spock's search for Kirk, Uhura, and Chekov a "wild goose chase", Spock retorts that he was not chasing "some wild aquatic fowl". In The Next Generation, Data uses a similar phrase, "chasing an untamed ornithoid without cause". () In and , General Order 7 was the only exception of Starfleet General Orders to include the death penalty. M-5 states that the penalty for murder is also death. However, its remark that murder was "contrary to the laws of man and God" suggests that it might be referring to its – and perhaps Daystrom's – interpretation of what the punishment for murder should be, rather than Federation law. This is the fourth time Kirk "talks a computer to death". He used this skill in , , and . Alpha Carinae, whose second planet was scheduled for exploration by the scientific survey party, is better known as Canopus. Remastered information The remastered version replaced the stock footage used in this episode. The space station, now named Starbase 6, used images of Deep Space Station K-7 from in the original broadcast. In the remastered version, it was remodeled to look like Starbase 47, as seen in the Star Trek: Vanguard series of novels. The Woden, which used footage of the from , was redesigned as an vessel. The crippled , which reused footage of the from , and the space battle were redesigned with new computer-generated images. 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The Omega Glory (episode)

The Enterprise discovers the derelict starship Exeter drifting in space, its entire crew killed by an unknown plague and her captain missing. Summary Teaser The discovers the starship in orbit upon arriving at the planet Omega IV. When Captain Kirk, Spock, McCoy, and Lieutenant Galloway beam over to the empty ship's engineering section to investigate, they discover the ship to be seemingly abandoned… only s; and some crystals remain. Act One Kirk uses the ship's intercom to raise anyone on board the ship. Spock hails Kirk and reports the same thing as in engineering, while Galloway reports all four of the Exeters shuttlecraft are on board, proving the crew didn't leave that way. McCoy and Kirk then head to the Exeters bridge and then order both men to meet them there. "Captain's log. Aboard the USS Exeter, commanded by Ron Tracey, one of the most experienced captains in Starfleet. What could have happened to him, and the over 400 men and women who were on this ship?" Arriving at the Exeters bridge, McCoy's analysis finds the crystals to be what was left of the crew with all the water removed. A tape left by the Exeters ship's surgeon, , reveals the crew was killed by a virus which was brought up to the ship by the landing party; only Captain Ronald Tracey remained alive by staying on the planet's surface. (Log entry made by medical officer of the USS Exeter) "If you've come aboard this ship… you're dead men! Don't go back to your own ship. You have one chance. Get down there. Get down there fast. Captain Tracey is…" Kirk orders the landing party to beam down to the planet at once, and gazes down at the floor at the remains of the ship's surgeon. Once on the planet, they interrupt some natives about to behead another, and Captain Tracey, apparently in charge, calms them down and welcomes them. Captain Tracey has been living among the Kohms, an iron-age people engaged in a war with the Yangs, a seemingly primitive, savage and fierce tribal culture – one of whose leaders has just been taken captive. He informs them there is a natural immunity offered by the planet's environment – they will stay alive only as long as they remain on Omega IV. The landing party sets up in a building to contact the Enterprise, for McCoy to confirm the disease and Kirk to record a log entry. Kirk is disappointed that Tracey has apparently used Federation technology to assist the Kohms in their fight. Because of this, he has become something of a leader of the group, which is a clear violation of Starfleet's Prime Directive of non-interference with developing civilizations. "Captain's log, supplemental. The Enterprise has left the Exeter and has moved into close planet orbit. Although it appears the infection may strand us here the rest of our lives, I face an even more difficult problem – a growing belief that Captain Tracey has been interfering with the evolution of life on this planet. It seems impossible. A starship captain's most solemn oath is that he will give his life, even his entire crew, rather than violate the Prime Directive." McCoy notes the similarity of the infection to some inflicted during biological warfare experiments on Earth in the 1990s. Suddenly, Spock and Galloway return, with Galloway critically injured from a Yang ambush. Spock confirms the viciousness of the Yangs, and that they are preparing to attack, however, Spock also finds an empty phaser pack, confirming he is using his technology to help the Kohms. Before Kirk can contact the Enterprise, Tracey enters and prevents him. When Galloway attempts to reach for his phaser, Tracey kills him. Act Two The landing party is disarmed and Tracey makes Sulu think the landing party is indisposed. Tracey explains to Kirk alone that the Kohm people have no record of any kind of disease but possess extremely long lifespans, for example, his guard Wu is over 400 Earth years old, his father over 1,000 years. He wishes to use the resources of the Enterprise to isolate the cause for this "super-immunity", cure themselves and share it for a profit. To do this, he must keep the Yangs at bay, and asks for Kirk's help. Kirk instead tries to escape unsuccessfully, and is thrown into a cell with the savage and his woman from before, while Tracey plans to attack the Yangs. After a fierce fight, however, Kirk comes to realize that the Yangs worship concepts such as freedom and bear remarkable similarities to the native peoples of North America – the "North American Natives" – and helps the Yang prisoners escape. However, the male prisoner knocks Kirk unconscious with an iron bar while he and his female partner escape. Act Three Seven hours and eight minutes later, Kirk awakens and together he and Spock (who is in the next cell) get the keys to escape their cells. Spock and Kirk subdue the guard. Kirk tells Spock to repair the transmitter, while he confers with McCoy, who has been conducting medical research under guard. McCoy informs them that both the super-immunity enjoyed by the Omega IV inhabitants, and the plague which killed the Exeters crew are the results of biological warfare similar to experiments researched by Earth in the late twentieth century, in the 1990s. The plague still exists, but after this war, the planet's ecosystem developed powerful immunizing agents, essentially due to natural evolution. McCoy discovers that the longer a person stays on the planet, the more well-established the immunity; tragically, if the Exeter landing party had stayed on the planet just a few hours longer, no one would have died. But contrary to Tracey's belief, these immunizing agents do not act as a "Fountain of youth"; the inhabitants' lifespans are a by-product of evolution, and the most the agents might do for the rest of the Federation would be to "cure the common cold." Spock informs Kirk that the transmitter is now partially fixed. Since they are now cured of the plague, Kirk tells Spock to signal the Enterprise to beam them up. Just as Spock is about to do so, the console is destroyed by a phaser blast, injuring him. Tracey stumbles into the room, trembling, and recounts how his Kohm force was routed by the Yangs, despite the thousands of Yangs that Tracey and his allies killed with their phasers. Tracey assumes that Kirk freed the Yang prisoner to warn the others of the attack. Kirk demands that Spock be beamed up to the Enterprise for medical attention. When Tracey objects that they are still infected, McCoy tells him that they are now immune from the virus and can leave the planet at any time. Excitedly, Tracey interprets this to mean McCoy has isolated the "serum" he is seeking, but Kirk and McCoy furiously inform him that there is no serum, that the natives' longevity is the natural result of evolution, and there is nothing that Tracey can "extract" that will excuse the atrocities he has committed. On being told that he has thrown away his crew, his career, and his honor for nothing, Tracey seems to lose what remains of his sanity. Focusing on the impending Yang attack, Tracey marches Kirk outside and tells him to call the Enterprise with his communicator and have it beam down more phasers. Kirk obligingly relays the request to Lieutenant Sulu, who says that he cannot do that without verification. Staring down the muzzle of Tracey's phaser, Kirk carefully says that the landing party is in danger. Sulu says that, if that is the case, then teams of armed volunteers are ready to beam down – which is the last thing Tracey wants. Kirk says the danger to the landing party is not imminent, and tells Sulu not to beam anyone else down, before flipping his communicator shut. Just as Tracey begins to understand that he is stymied, Kirk tries to overpower him, and the two men fight, only for them both to be taken prisoner by the Yangs. Kirk and Spock eventually realize that Omega IV's culture was an extremely close parallel of Earth's ("Yangs" is a mispronunciation of "Yankees", while "Kohms" originally were "Communists") except the Omegans fought the war Earth managed to avoid, and the Kohms took over the planet. The Yangs have been fighting to regain their land ever since; this is confirmed when the victorious Yangs bring in their battle standard – an ancient, tattered "stars and stripes" United States flag. Act Four The Yang prisoner is Cloud William, their , and the "holy words" (which only a chief may speak) are a badly slurred version of the Pledge of Allegiance. Kirk interprets the Pledge and speaks the words himself, and begins to explain where he is from, but Tracey picks up on the theme and tries to turn the Yangs against Kirk by declaring he was "cast out of heaven" – pointing to Spock's appearance as similar to the appearance of the servant of "the evil one". To test Kirk, Cloud William reads from the "greatest of holies" and challenges Kirk to translate or else Spock is killed. Unable to initially translate, Kirk counters that their sacred legends promise that good is stronger than evil, and fights Tracey man-to-man to prove it. While the fight takes place, Spock uses his telepathic abilities to get Cloud William's mate, , to use one of the communicators, after which a landing party of volunteers from the Enterprise, led by Lieutenant Sulu, beams down armed with phasers to take control of the situation. Fortunately, Kirk wins the fight with Tracey anyway. Seeing these events, Cloud William believes Kirk to be God's servant. Kirk informs the Yangs that the "holy words" were not merely written for chiefs, but for everyone, even the Kohms. He reads the "greatest of holies" – the preamble to the Constitution of the United States of America, and tells Cloud William the words must apply to everyone or they are meaningless. Cloud William does not understand the meaning behind Kirk's words, but promises that he will obey the "holy words." When Spock asks Kirk if his actions do not also violate the Prime Directive, Kirk explains he was simply explaining the meaning of what they were fighting for… as all the Yangs read the Constitution. Before leaving Omega IV, Kirk glances at the torn and tattered US flag. Log entries Captain's log, USS Enterprise (NCC-1701), 2268 Surgeon's log, USS Exeter Memorable quotes "If you've come aboard this ship, you're dead men." - Carter, chief medical officer of the Exeter in a recorded message "A star captain's most solemn oath is that he will give his life, even his entire crew, rather than violate the Prime Directive." - Excerpt from Kirks log entry, on Tracey's actions "Keep trying, Captain. Their behavior is highly illogical." "No point in repeating that it's illogical, Spock. I'm – quite aware of it." - Spock and Kirk "Pity you can't teach me that." "I have tried, Captain." - Kirk and Spock, on the Vulcan nerve pinch "No native to this planet has ever had any trace of any kind of disease. How long would a man live if all disease were erased, Jim? Wu!" (Wu enters) "Tell Captain Kirk your age." "Age? Well, I have seen 42 years of the red bird. My eldest brother is…" "Their year of the red bird comes once every 11 years, which he's seen 42 times. Multiply it. Wu is 462 years old. His father is well over a thousand. Interested, Jim?" - Ronald Tracey and Wu "Freedom? Freedom? That is a worship word. Yang worship. You will not speak it." - Cloud William, after he hears Kirk say "freedom" "Who knows? It might one day cure the common cold, but lengthen lives? Poppycock! I can do more for you if you just eat right and exercise regularly." - McCoy, on why the Kohms' "super-immunity" has nothing to do with their longevity "They sacrificed hundreds just to draw us out in the open. And then they came, and they came. We drained four of our phasers, and they still came. We killed thousands and they still came!" - Tracey, on slaughtering the Yangs "There's no serum! There are no miracles! There's no immortality here! All this is for nothing!" - Kirk to Tracey, on the search for Human longevity "Ay plegli ianectu flaggen, tupep like for stahn –" "And to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all." - Cloud William and Kirk, both reciting the Pledge of Allegiance "Spock, I've found that evil usually triumphs unless good is very, very careful." - McCoy, as Kirk and Tracey prepare to duel "What are you doing?" "I'm making a suggestion." - McCoy and Spock, as Spock uses his mental powers on Sirah "They must apply to everyone or they mean nothing!" - Kirk to Cloud William, on the Holy Words "Liberty and freedom have to be more than just words." - Kirk, before departing Omega IV Background information Story and script This was one of three draft stories considered for the second pilot of the series, first draft . The other unchosen draft was . was the script eventually selected. (The Star Trek Compendium, p. 17) "The Omega Glory" was filmed in middle and late December 1967. The original 1965 script draft named the missing starship as the USS Argentina. The Enterprise landing party consisted of Kirk, Spock, a young navigator named Lieutenant Commander Piper, a helmsman called Lieutenant Phil Raintree, and the ship's doctor named Milton Perry. The latter two were killed during the actions on the surface. At the climax, Kirk fought Tracey in a western-style gunfight, during which Tracey shot Spock twice. However, he survived, because of the different anatomy of Vulcans (his heart not being in his chest). The first draft also featured a comic relief of the Enterprise computer having a female personality, an aspect which was eventually used in . (The Star Trek Compendium, p. 100) In his novelization of the episode in Star Trek 10, James Blish uses the Raintree character in place of Galloway. Spock attempting to telepathically "suggest" to pick up the communicator, was reminiscent of the early concepts that Spock had special powers over women. (The Star Trek Compendium, p. 100) Roddenberry originally wanted to produce this episode early in the first season, along with "Mudd's Women", but NBC thought the script was weak and ordered the staff to 'shelve' it for an indefinite time to be possibly reworked and produced later on. Despite NBC still objecting against it, Roddenberry finally had his way to make "The Omega Glory" late in the second season. (Inside Star Trek: The Real Story, These Are the Voyages: TOS Season Two) Husband and wife writing team Les and Tina Pine were assigned by Roddenberry to write a teleplay based on his previous outlines and scripts; however, their finished product was not up to the producers' standards, and Roddenberry decided to develop the project further himself. (These Are the Voyages: TOS Season Two) A letter reprinted in Inside Star Trek: The Real Story reveals that Roddenberry personally submitted his teleplay for consideration for an Emmy Award. Robert Justman wrote a long memo to Roddenberry, in which he pointed out the flaws of the episode's script, but he thought it was too devastating, and tore it up, and made a few suggestions orally instead. "[Roddenberry] took the advice, but as anyone who has seen the episode knows, it didn't do much good". (Inside Star Trek: The Real Story, p. 137) Another McCoy-Spock debate was filmed for this episode, but edited. Just before the landing party left the Yangs' flag room, Kirk cut short an argument which seems to be about nothing. The reason McCoy and Spock were arguing was cut from the episode. The dialogue excised from the final print was as follows (taken from the final draft shooting script for the episode): McCoy: Jim, the parallel's too close. They seem so completely Human. Is it possible that… ? Kirk: The result of Earth's early space race? Spock: Quite possible, Captain. They are aggressive enough to be Human. McCoy: Now listen, Spock, you… A fairly lengthy scene from the final shooting script was edited from the final print of this episode. Soon after the landing party arrived on Omega IV, Kirk directly confronted Tracey about the possibility of his having violated the Prime Directive and Tracey attempted to defend his actions. Tracey also displayed open hostility towards Spock during this scene, revealing his dislike of Vulcans. James Blish does write up the scene in his adaptation of the episode in Star Trek 10. While analyzing the crystals into which the Exeters crew have dissolved, McCoy says that we are all about 96% water. The actual figure is closer to 70%. Reception According to author Daniel Leonard Bernardi, "Like the Federation, the Comms have full command of the English language (although they speak with a homogenized 'Asian' accent). The beginning of the episode thus shows that those with white skin can be uncivilized savages and those with yellow skin can be civilized and rational […] This would be counter to the hegemonic representation of Asians in the United States media; that diverse collective of peoples are consistently constructed in film and television as a menacing 'yellow horde'." Bernardi goes on to say: "The Omega Glory' is not, however, a counter-hegemonic episode. In fact, the episode not only reveals an unwillingness to be critical of the hegemony of racist representations, but also systematically participates in the stereotyping of Asians. As the story progresses, the Yangs are constructed as noble savages; their cause to annihilate the Comms is established as justified. The Comms, on the other hand, are constructed as brutal and oppressive; their drive to suppress the Yangs is established as totalitarian. This more hegemonic articulation of race is made evident when Kirk and Spock realize the extent to which the Yangs and Comms parallel Earth's civilizations. In this light, the Yangs are no longer savages, but noble warriors fighting for a just and honorable cause. They want to regain the land they lost in a war with the Asiatics." (Star Trek and History: Race-ing Toward a White Future, pp. 57-58) In 2017, this episode was rated by ScreenRant as the 8th worst episode of the Star Trek franchise up to that time. In 2018, Comic Book Resources (CBR) included this episode on a ranking of episodes they stated were "So Bad They Must Be Seen". In 2017, "Den of Geek" ranked this episode as the 5th worst Star Trek episode of the original series. Continuity In this episode, the visits another world possessing a parallel-Earth culture. Other such examples include and . There are also Earth cultures in , , , and , but these were derived from actual Earth cultures (either deliberately or accidentally) and did not originate independently. This is the second time the Enterprise encounters an Earth-like planet with humans that are centuries old. The first time was in . This is the second of three times the Enterprise encounters another starship with the entire crew dead. The other two were in and . It is learned that the Exeter had a standard complement of four shuttlecraft. During the search for survivors, Galloway informed Kirk that "all four of the craft" were still on the hangar deck. Whether all Constitution-class vessels were equipped with that number of shuttles is not made clear. This is the first time the chief medical officer of another Federation starship, Dr. , is seen. Although he is sitting in the command chair on the bridge, it is unclear if he is in command of the Exeter or is merely recording his warning. Not until Dr. Crusher was placed in command of the in would a doctor clearly be in command of a starship. (Dr. Crusher was technically in command in when she was the only crewmember left; however, since it wasn't the real Enterprise, it cannot be counted.) This episode marks the first and only time in the original series that reference is made to phaser "power packs." This is the second time in the same season that people are reduced to their component minerals; the first was when the Kelvans distilled the crew of the Enterprise down in . Production Roy Jenson's voice was electronically altered for this episode. The preview for the episode contains unaltered dialogue for Cloud William which doesn't have the "slowed down" effect. Fred Steiner arranged the "Star-Spangled Banner" motifs for this episode. (The Star Trek Compendium) Identical female screams are heard in this episode and in , , and . The shot of Sulu manning the helm station with an empty captain's chair in the background in mid-Act One is recycled from . One of the places on the Exeter seen empty during Kirk's intercom hail is engineering. Curiously, that's the location of the landing party. This was the first of five Star Trek projects to be adapted into View-Master reels. In a duplicate of one of the shots from the episode taking place at the communications station on the bridge, Nichelle Nichols is taking advantage of the time for the View-Master shots to study her script: you can see it open on her lap as George Takei stands next to her. NBC announced that Star Trek would be renewed for a third season during the closing credits of this episode, on . In the announcement, they also wrote "Please do not send any more letters", responding to the vast amount of mail received during the protests organized by Roddenberry and Bjo Trimble. (Inside Star Trek: The Real Story, p. 386) Syndication cuts The episode contains one of the more significant syndication cuts which effectively alters the plot, depending upon which version of the episode is viewed. In the syndicated version, Tracey returns in a dazed hysteria from the Kohm battle, learns from Kirk that there is no serum, and then orders, "Outside, or I'll burn down both your friends." In this context, Tracey appears to be a man at his wit's end, crazed from the Kohm battle, and he is taking Kirk outside to murder him in cold blood. In the original unsyndicated version, a much more complicated motive arises from Tracey removing Kirk. Once outside, Tracey appears to calm down. He explains that he must have more phasers and asks Kirk to help him. Kirk then says everyone can simply beam up, but Tracey will not go, fully aware he would face criminal charges. He then pleads with Kirk, offering to join forces with him, and asks, "If I put a weapon in your hand, you'll fight, won't you?" He then gives Kirk his communicator and lets Kirk contact his ship to ask for phasers. When Sulu refuses to beam down weapons, Tracey comments that Kirk has a well trained crew. Kirk then attacks Tracey, seemingly as a last ditch attempt to take him into custody and beam off the planet, rather than in fear of his life which is the implication of the syndicated version. (The Star Trek Compendium) The following additional scenes were also typically cut from the syndicated broadcast: Extended walk of Spock to the Exeter science station, in order to replay the ship's log. More drama and extended reactions just prior to the introduction of the American flag. Preparation for the fight between Kirk and Tracey, with Cloud William sticking the knife into the floor, then explaining the rules of the fight. Cast and characters James Doohan (Montgomery Scott) and Walter Koenig (Pavel Chekov) do not appear in this episode. Morgan Woodward ( Captain Ronald Tracey) had previously played another wild-eyed madman, Simon Van Gelder in . Despite Galloway's demise in this episode, David L. Ross returned as Lieutenant in and as Galloway once more in . No explanation was given for the resurrection. According to Ross in the unauthorized biography of William Shatner, Gene Roddenberry wanted him to appear regularly in the series, but Ross was not interested in that much acting. Ed McCready makes his fourth out of five appearances on Star Trek as the ill-fated Doctor . McCready appeared in all three seasons of the show in short bit roles, each time in an episode directed by Vincent McEveety. Dr. Carter was originally going to be shown dissolving on camera. (The Star Trek Compendium) The Kohm guarding Dr. McCoy can be seen in green coveralls in , both in the corridor and in the turbolift, and as one of the miners in . He can also be seen extensively as a background character in many episodes of Kung Fu and Hawaii Five-O. Despite having been killed in the earlier episode , Eddie Paskey's Leslie appears here, beaming down with Sulu and arresting Captain Tracey at the end of the episode. According to Paskey, a scene in the "Obsession" script in which Leslie is revived by a miracle potion was never filmed. That episode's director, Ralph Senensky, also confirmed that he did not shoot the scene. Production timeline Story outline by Gene Roddenberry: Revised story outline: Second revised story outline: First draft teleplay: Revised first draft: Second draft teleplay: First draft teleplay by Les Pine and Tina Pine: First draft teleplay by Roddenberry: Second draft teleplay by Roddenberry: late- Final draft teleplay: Revised final draft: Additional page revisions by John Meredyth Lucas: , , Filmed: – Day 1 – , Friday – Desilu Stage 11: Int. Village lab Day 2 – , Monday – Desilu Stage 11: Int. Village lab, Jail cell block Day 3 – , Tuesday – B Tank: Ext. Kohm village Day 4 – , Wednesday – Desilu Stage 11: Int. Jail cell block, Yangs' headquarters Day 5 – , Thursday – Desilu Stage 11: Int. Yangs' headquarters Day 6 – , Friday – Desilu Stage 11: Int. Yangs' headquarters Day 7 – , Tuesday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Bridge, Transporter room, Engineering Score recorded: Original airdate: Rerun airdate: First UK airdate: Remastered information The remastered version of "The Omega Glory" aired in many North American markets during the weekend of . The episode included dramatic new effects shots of the Enterprise and the Exeter in orbit of a more Earth-like, computer-generated Omega IV. Among the fine details inserted into the show, a small glimpse of the Exeter appears on the Enterprise viewscreen as it approaches the planet at the start of the episode. Apocrypha In the novel Forged in Fire, Sulu's presence in the landing party which rescued Kirk, Spock and McCoy would turn out to be fortuitous – having assisted Kang, Kor, and Koloth in their hunt for The Albino, disobeying orders from Starfleet Command in doing so, Sulu is also infected with the blood oath-spawning genetic virus (actually a retrovirus, which is why it was the children of the Klingons who were killed), but because bacteriological elements from Omega IV, to which Sulu had become immune, were a key component of the virus, it did not affect him as intended. Another novel, Forgotten History, stated an investigation revealed that the Enterprise logs and scans indicated the American artifacts "were far too intact to be thousands of years old; given the primitive conditions in which the Yang tribe had kept them, they couldn’t have dated back much more than a century.” Moreover, it was discovered that the Yangs had never stated that the "holy" artifacts were ancient and this was a conclusion Kirk had jumped to. It was eventually concluded that in the 2140s, a Earth Cargo Service freighter, the ECS Philadelphia had discovered the planet and noting the similarities between Yang beliefs and American ideals and left behind American paraphernalia to inspire the Yangs in their fight for freedom. Video and DVD releases Original US Betamax release: UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 28, catalog number VHR 2380, US VHS release: UK re-release (three-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 2.9, Original US DVD release (single-disc): Volume 27, As part of the TOS Season 2 DVD collection Links and references Starring William Shatner as James T. Kirk Also starring Leonard Nimoy as "Mr. Spock" And DeForest Kelley as "Dr. McCoy" Guest star Morgan Woodward as "Captain Tracey" Also starring Roy Jenson as Cloud William George Takei as Sulu Nichelle Nichols as Uhura Irene Kelly as Morgan Farley as Yang Scholar David L. Ross as Lt. Galloway Lloyd Kino as Wu Ed McCready as Dr. Frank Atienza as Kohn [sic] Villager Uncredited co-stars William Blackburn as Hadley Frank da Vinci as Vinci Ed Fury as Yang drummer Eddie Paskey as Leslie Frieda Rentie as Enterprise lieutenant Walter Soo Hoo as Kohm guard 1 Adele Yoshioka as Kohm servant Unknown performers as Security guard Kohm guard 2, and 3 Kohm soldiers 1, 2, and 3 Several Kohm villagers Yang flag bearer Nine Yang villagers References 13th century; 1806; 1990s; American; American Indian; analysis; ancestor; animal; answer; antibody; area; arrest; Asiatic; auto-navigation; ax; bacteriological holocaust; Bacteriological warfare experiment condition; bargain; bacteriology; behavior; biological war; blood; blood-analyzer unit; boarding party; body; "Bones"; bow; bridge crew; calcium; carbon; case; cell; century; chance; ; chemical; ; chronological age; city; civilization; close planet orbit; Cloud William's father; common cold; communicator; communicator signal; Communist; compliments; confiscation; consciousness; ; ; contact; crew; crime; crystal; danger; death; delirium; descendant; desert; disease (aka infection); ; ear; Earth; et cetera; evil; Evil One; exercise; ; Exeter bridge officers; Exeter engineers; evolution; eye; face; facility; fever; fire; fire box; fool; foothills; fountain of youth; freedom; generation; good; governor; guard; "guardian of holies"; ; hangar deck; heart; heaven; hill; history; hour; Human body; Humanity; immortality; immunity; immunization; immunizing agent; importance; intercom; internal organ; justice; key; king; Kohm; lab; ; land; landing party; leader of warriors; liberty; life; light; logic; log entry; log tape; long range sensor scan; magnification; mannerism; meaning; medical men; medical staff; medicine; medi-scanner; message; meter; minute; miracle; month; ; multiplication; name; nation; nature; night; nuclear devastation; oath; Omega IV; Omega IV native; Omega IV village; Omega IV virus; opinion; organ; parley; patrol; percent; phaser; phosphorus; place; planet survey; Pledge of Allegiance; pollen; "poppycock"; potassium; pound; power pack; pride; Prime Directive; prisoner; problem; proposition; proof; Regulation 7; ; research; risk; savage; screen; senior officer; sensor; serum; servant; shuttlecraft; soil; skin; slave; "speaker of the holy words"; spore; "stand by"; star; star captain; Starfleet; Starfleet Command; Starfleet uniform; stoicism; subject; surface; Surgeon's log, USS Exeter; survival of the fittest; "thank heavens"; theory; thing; thousand; tissue; tongue; tranquility; transporter room; tribe; trick; truce; unconsciousness; union; United States Constitution; United States flag; United States of America; verification; village; village elder; villager; voice communication; volunteer; volunteering; Vulcan; Vulcan nerve pinch; war; warrior; water; weapon; week; white; white people; white skin; window; wisdom; workplace; worship; worship word (aka high-worship word or sacred word or holy word); Wu's brother; Wu's father; Yang; Yang legend; Yankee; year; Year of the Red Bird; yellow Other references Bible (Omega IV) references: cattle; corn; Darius; dew; drought; earth; Evil One; fruit; God; governor; Haggai; hand; high priest; Jerusalem; Josedech; Joshua; Judah; king; messenger; mountain; oil; prophet; Shealtiel; voice; wine; word; Zerubbabel; Zion United States Constitution references: citizen; Connecticut; ; election; general welfare; Georgia; Massachusetts; Maryland; New Hampshire; New Jersey; New York; North Carolina; Pennsylvania; physical age; representative; Rhode Island; senator; South Carolina; state; tax; United States Congress; Virginia External links de:Das Jahr des roten Vogels es:The Omega Glory fr:The Omega Glory (épisode) ja:細菌戦争の果て（エピソード） nl:The Omega Glory pl:The Omega Glory Omega Glory, The

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Spectre of the Gun (episode)

Captain Kirk, Mr. Spock, Dr. McCoy, Scotty, and Chekov are forced to re-enact the gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone as the team that lost the gunfight. Summary Teaser On a mission on behalf of the Federation to establish contact with the reclusive and xenophobic Melkotians, Captain Kirk decides to ignore the message of a space buoy warning the to immediately withdraw from Melkotian space and go back the way it came. Kirk hears the warning in English, but Spock, Chekov and Uhura hear it in Vulcan, Russian, and Swahili; their native languages, respectively. This leads the crew to deduce the message was transmitted telepathically. Kirk orders Uhura to further contact the Melkotians, but there is no response to his hails. When Spock, Kirk, Scott, Doctor McCoy, and Ensign Chekov beam down to the Melkotian planet, they materialize in a fog bank not recorded by sensors. Their tricorders and communicators do not function. The landing party encounters a Melkotian. The Melkotian emerges from the fog and tells the Enterprise officers that their warning was plain, they have disregarded it, and will now be punished. Act One The Melkotian informs them that they are "outside" – a disease that must be destroyed. They learn that their trespassing is to be punished by death and how they will die will be taken from Kirk's mind, since it was he who ordered that the Melkotians' warning be disregarded. The Malkotian tells Kirk that "yours shall be the pattern of your death." The landing party suddenly finds itself teleported to a facade of a 19th century American frontier town. All of their equipment is gone, and instead each now has a gunbelt and a revolver. They observe the curious "incompleteness" of the town. Buildings with only a front wall, open to the air on the sides and back, signs and clocks hanging in mid-air. Kirk reads from a copy of the Tombstone Epitaph, a newspaper with the date of October 26th, 1881. Kirk wonders "Why here? And why now?". Spock notes that the time and place is based on the patterns of Kirk's memories. A man with a sheriff's badge greets them, acting as though he knew them well. He refers to Kirk as Ike, Spock as Frank, Scott as Billy, and McCoy as Tom. Recognizing the sheriff's name, Johnny Behan, Kirk quickly puts the names together. Ike Clanton, Frank McLowery, Tom McLowery, William Claiborne and Billy Clanton. He further recalls that the Clantons were one of the factions who fought for control of the town of Tombstone; the other being the Earps: Wyatt, Morgan, and Virgil, who were the town marshals, as well as "Doc" Holliday. Spock notes that the famous gunfight of O.K. Corral took place on October 26, 1881 and that the Clantons lost. Kirk warns that the antique guns they all are carrying can be as deadly as phasers at close range. They witness the shooting of a bar patron by Morgan Earp, and conclude that death is one thing that is real in this surreal scenario. Inside the bar, Chekov is accosted by a woman named who claims to know him as Billy. Kirk recognizes Morgan as the man who kills on sight, and rises to confront him. Spock cautions him to back down, without moving a muscle, as he would be quickly gunned down in a "fast draw." Kirk says he does not want any trouble from Earp, but Earp says he will get them to draw soon enough, and then leaves. Kirk and Spock discuss what is expected to happen based on history, that they are supposed to be killed at the OK Corral at 5 pm. Kirk says that they will not be there. Kirk tries to convince Ed the bartender vehemently that he is not Ike Clanton, that he and his group are from the future, Kirk is the captain of a starship, but to no avail. The bartender tells him it makes no difference who he thinks he his, but rather whom the Earps think he is, while walking away still laughing. Kirk then attempts to make peace with the Earps, saying there is a mistake. Virgil Earp says that he always felt the Clantons were "yellow" and then hits Kirk. Kirk strikes him back, Wyatt Earp then draws on Kirk, but Virgil stops him. Wyatt Earp warns Kirk that if he is in town at 5:01pm, the Earps will kill them. Act Two Kirk returns to the bar, and discusses what options they have with Spock, McCoy and Scotty. Kirk and the landing party try to leave town, but they are stopped by a force field. Spock notes that the Melkotians will not allow them to leave. Recognizing that they must fight, Kirk asks if they can find some way to stop the Earps using materials at hand in this recreation of Tombstone. McCoy and Spock cooperate to build a tranquilizer gas grenade which will incapacitate the Earps. McCoy encounters the town dentist, "Doc" Holliday, while acquiring the chemicals needed for the tranquilizer, asking to borrow a small quantity for a serious emergency. Holliday tells McCoy that his "emergency sure is real," and lets him take the chemical, but warns him to be finished by 5:00pm, because at "one minute past five, you'll find a hole in your head." Meanwhile, Chekov has fallen in love with Sylvia, telling her that he is looking forward eagerly to the dance next week. Sylvia asks if they can turn the dance into a wedding ball, but Chekov says that would not be possible, because he is not someone she could marry. The two share a passionate kiss, but then Morgan Earp appears and knocks Chekov down, and starts to walk Sylvia away. When Chekov gets up and tells Morgan to get his hands off of her, Chekov draws for his gun, then he is shot and killed by Morgan. Kirk, Spock, McCoy, and Scotty appear as do the Earps. McCoy examines Chekov and tells Kirk that there is nothing he can do. Wyatt tells Kirk to "do it now," and Scotty says that they must do something. Kirk however says that it's not yet time and they are not prepared. Act Three Back in the bar, McCoy and Spock work on the gas grenade. McCoy and Scotty give Spock a hard time for not showing any feelings over Chekov's death, as Scotty points out, he and Chekov worked closely together on the Enterprise. Kirk asks the two of them to stop but Spock notes that they forget he is half-Human. Spock observes that Chekov as Billy Claiborne died, but in the actual gunfight at the OK Corral, Billy survived. Kirk takes it to mean that the outcome of the conflict does not necessarily correspond with the historical outcome. Kirk finds the sheriff and asks him to stop the fight, but Behan says that no one wants to stop the fight, and that it is a little late for Kirk to decide he "does not have the belly" for it. The sheriff tells Kirk that the people in the town are counting on Kirk to get rid of the Earps for them, and that no one would deny them their revenge for killing Billy. Kirk angrily says they just can't just kill them, but the sheriff says that there will be no questions asked as Kirk puts his hands around his neck. Upon seeing he will get no help from the sheriff, Kirk walks away. With time running out, Scotty volunteers to test McCoy and Spock's gas grenade. Despite McCoy and Spock's careful preparation, it does not work, even when Scotty deeply inhales it. Spock finally realizes that nothing around them is real and that the entire scenario has been taking place in their minds. Kirk vows not to leave the bar until "well after 5 o'clock", but suddenly finds himself and the others teleported to the O.K. Corral where they cannot leave either, as it is surrounded by force fields. Act Four The corral is encircled by a force field so that escape is impossible. Spock, realizing this situation is only as real as their minds accept it to be, tries to convince the others that if they recognize that the situation is not real, they will not die and Kirk observes that the "smallest doubt" would be enough to kill them, just as it had killed Chekov. McCoy argues that they don't have that "clockwork ticker" in their heads like Spock, that they can't just turn it off and on at will. Kirk says that they must. Using a mind meld, Spock is able to convince everyone else that the bullets are not real, they are merely "shadows" and "illusions," "spectres without body… to be ignored." The Earps arrive and demand that the ersatz Clantons draw, but the landing party refuses. The Earps begin shooting when Kirk reaches for his gun, but the bullets harmlessly pass right through the landing party, hitting the fence behind them. When the Earps deplete their ammunition, Kirk attacks Wyatt Earp and knocks him to the ground. Kirk draws his gun, and is about to shoot him, but upon seeing the abject terror in Wyatt's eyes, he releases him. Suddenly, the landing party finds themselves back on the bridge of the Enterprise. Chekov is alive and well, sitting at his station, and wonders "where have I been?" Kirk suggests they have been on the bridge the whole time, and that Chekov survived because the only thing that was real to him was the girl. The Melkotian buoy, once again directly in front of them, begins to emit M-rays beyond measurable levels, and then explodes. A Melkotian appears on the main viewer screen, noting that Kirk did not kill. Kirk explains that they fight only when there is no choice, and prefer peaceful contact. The Melkotians extend an invitation to establish relations with the Federation, and asks Kirk to send a delegation to the planet. Spock then asks Kirk a "personal" question: did he actually want to kill the Earps? Kirk agrees that is exactly how it was that afternoon, and how it was in 1881. Spock wonders how Humanity managed to survive. Kirk says that Humans overcame their instinct for violence, receiving a doubting look from Spock as he moves back to his console. The Enterprise then begins its orbit of Melkot. Log entries Captain's log, USS Enterprise (NCC-1701), 2268 Memorable quotes "History cannot be changed." - Spock to Kirk, on the OK Corral "Is this a dead man, doctor?" "Very dead, Mr. Spock." - Spock and McCoy after checking on a man Morgan Earp kills outside of the saloon "I always said you was yellow, Clanton." "I'll make one more attempt to get through to you, Mr. Earp. My name is not Clanton; it's Kirk." "Oh, yeah. We heard the talk about your jokes." "I'm not joking." "Sure. Well, I'm glad to meet you, Mr. Kirk!" - Virgil Earp and James T. Kirk "We don't want any trouble. We'll be glad to co-operate." "Five o'clock, Clanton. Is that clear? If you're in town at 5:01, we'll kill every one of you whether you draw or not. Is that clear?" - Kirk and Wyatt Earp "The emergency is real. I need these things." "Your emergency sure is real. Go on, take the stuff. Have some more fun. Take my bag. Only best you be finished before five o'clock." "That is my intention, Doctor." "Because at one minute past five, you'll find a hole in your head. Right from this gun." - McCoy and Doc Holliday "Captain, it's quite all right. They forget I am half Human." - Spock, after McCoy and Scott criticize his lack of grief over Chekov's shooting "It's to kill the pain." "But this is painless." "Well, you should've warned me sooner, Mister Spock. Fire away." - Scott and Spock, as Scott gulps down some bourbon before testing the tranquilizer "Physical reality is consistent with universal laws. Where the laws do not operate, there is no reality." - Spock to McCoy, at the OK Corral "Ten minutes, and it's all going to end at the OK Corral. Well, we're going to wait right here until well after five o'clock. We're not going to move from this spot!" - Kirk "We don't have that clockwork ticker in our head like you do. We can't turn it on and off." - McCoy, to Spock "Draw!" - Wyatt Earp, before the fight "I wonder how Humanity managed to survive." "We overcame our instinct for violence." - Spock and Kirk, on killing Background information Story and script The story outline titled "The Last Gunfight" was dated and submitted . The outline was retyped and dated to and submitted to NBC for approval on by Fred Freiberger. The revised final draft was dated , and filmed in late May. James Blish's adaptation in Star Trek 3 has the title as "The Last Gunfight". Among the differences in the adaptation, the tranquilizer is delivered via darts; in the episode, it is in the form of a nerve gas. The writing of this episode was influenced by a series of memos which were sent between Gene Roddenberry and the executives at NBC, by the end of the second season, and which proposed that Chekov be featured in the third season more than he had been, up to that point. (Cinefantastique, Vol. 22, No. 5, p. 40) The episode originally aired only one day before the 87th anniversary of the original gunfight at the O.K. Corral. Production Clocking in at approximately five minutes and 25 seconds, this episode's teaser is the second longest in the original series, lasting 10 seconds shorter than the teaser for . This was the first episode produced for season three. As such, it was the first episode produced to feature blue text (rather than the yellow of the first two seasons) in the opening credits sequence. A very subtle change in the third season was the use of new sound effects for the pushing of buttons on the bridge. Another difference this episode brings is the "singing plant" background noise from , used for nearly every planet in seasons one and two, is replaced here by a warbly sound used before on the planet Triskelion. This will again be used intermittently throughout season three –for example, in and . Jerry Fielding's unique score adds atmosphere to this episode. When the villains are first seen in the saloon, Fielding has the piano play stereotypical "menace" notes and a bizarre rendition of "Buffalo Gals". Fielding's other Star Trek contribution was his score for . A short clip in the third season blooper reel shows the Melkotian head wearing a fake mustache and horn-rimmed glasses. (Star Trek: Lost Scenes) Writing in an issue of the fan magazine Enterprise Incidents, James Van Hise said that the glasses belonged to co-producer Robert H. Justman. Sets and props The original script specified filming the episode on location in an outdoor Western town. However, due to budget restrictions, filming was confined to the regular studio stages. To avoid having to build a complete Western town set, the concept of an incomplete town, put together from "bits and pieces" out of Kirk's mind, was developed, thus allowing the episode to be filmed within budget. (The Star Trek Compendium; Inside Star Trek: The Real Story, p. 403) This is TOS' only foray into surrealism, with unique set designs by Matt Jefferies. The sign that says "sheriff" has an identical font to the main titles of the show. Mike Minor was the designer of the Melkotian's mask. Cast and characters George Takei (Sulu) does not appear in this episode. According to an interview in The World of Star Trek, James Doohan intensely disliked the back combed hairstyle he debuted in this episode, which was not his own choice. By the filming of , this hair-do is gone for good, though viewers would see it again in and , which weren't aired until December of that year. Several of the actors in this episode, including DeForest Kelley and Charles Seel, acted extensively in Westerns throughout their careers. Kelley previously played Ike Clanton in a 1955 episode of and Morgan Earp in the 1957 film . Rex Holman (Morgan) later played the settler J'onn in . Continuity This is one of three episodes that confirm Uhura's native language of Swahili (the other two being and ). This is the second time that McCoy believes he cannot be harmed by a weapon (this time due to Spock's convincing in a meld); the first time, when he stands his ground as the Black Knight charges him in , this strategy was unsuccessful, as the weapon (a lance) was physically real, not merely an illusion. This is the only episode to end with the Enterprise heading toward a planet. Star Trek characters revisited the Old West in . That episode used outdoor sets, something the Original Series episode was unable to achieve due to budget constraints. Prior to the release of the new Star Trek movie franchise by J.J. Abrams, this episode was the only time in any Star Trek series or film in which James T. Kirk is referred to as "Mister Kirk" rather than his usual title of Captain (and later Admiral) Kirk. Production timeline Story pitch by Lee Cronin, titled "Execution, 1872", Story outline by Cronin, titled "The Last Gunfight", Story outline re-dated to Submitted to NBC for approval on by Fred Freiberger First draft teleplay, Second draft teleplay, Revised first draft teleplay, Final draft teleplay by Arthur Singer, Additional page revisions by Fred Freiberger, , , , , , , , Filmed: – Score recording, Original airdate, Rerun airdate, First UK airdate Video and DVD releases Original US Betamax release: UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 29, catalog number VHR 2381, US VHS release: UK re-release (three-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 3.1, Original US DVD release (single-disc): Volume 28, As part of the TOS Season 3 DVD collection As part of the TOS-R Season 3 DVD collection Links and references Starring William Shatner as Kirk/Ike Clanton Also starring Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock/Frank McLowery DeForest Kelley as Dr. McCoy/Tom McLowery James Doohan as Scott/Billy Clanton Walter Koenig as Chekov/William Claiborne Nichelle Nichols as Uhura Bonnie Beecher as Ron Soble as Wyatt Earp Charles Maxwell as Virgil Earp Rex Holman as Morgan Earp With Sam Gilman as Doc Holliday Charles Seel as Ed Bill Zuckert as Johnny Behan Ed McCready as Barber Abraham Sofaer as Melkotian (voice) Uncredited co-stars William Blackburn as Hadley Charles Cirillo as illusory bar patron James Doohan as Melkotian buoy (voice) Roger Holloway as Roger Lemli Jeannie Malone as yeoman Bob Orrison as Cowboy Eddie Paskey as Leslie Unknown actors as Two bar patrons Morgan Earp's victim Deleted scenes The following actors were cast but their scenes were cut from the finished episode. Richard Anthony as Rider Gregg Palmer as Rancher References 19th century; 1880; 1881; afternoon; alien; alliance; alloy; American frontier; American West; amount (aka quantity); analysis; annals; answer; apothecary; area; Arizona; baking soda; "barrel of laughs"; bartender; "bits and pieces"; body; "Bones"; bourbon; bullet; Buntline Special; bushwhack; cactus; cattle rustler; chance; choice; circa; ; Clanton gang; ; ; clock; clockwork; close range; clothing (aka clothes); Colt; communicator; concept; contact; contradiction; corn whiskey; Cossack; cotton wadding; creature; damage report; dance; ; deflector; deflector shield; dentist; device; discussion; disease; disobedience; dizziness; double-barreled shotgun; doubt; dream; drug; Earp gang; Earth; Earth history; emergency; energy output; English; era; evaluation; event; execution; existence; expert; face; fact; falsehood; fast draw; feeling; fire; "fire away"; first contact; fog; force field; fun; gallon; gas; gas grenade; ghost; gown; grief; guest; gun; hailing frequency; handgun; head; health; Hell; "hell for leather"; hello; here and now; hole; holster; horse; hour; Human (aka Humanity); humanoid; illusion; individual; ingenuity; ingredient; instinct; intention; intercept; joke; justice; kilometer; Kirk's ancestors; knowledge; label; Latin language; law; lead; leather; lie; lifeform; M-ray; marriage; material; Mazeppa; ; ; medical bag; medicine; Melkotian; Melkotian buoy; Melkotian planet; memorial; metal; mile; mind; mind meld; minute; mission; mistake; morning; mortar and pestle; murder; muscle; name; negotiation; October; OK Corral; ; opinion; opportunity; order; pain; palpitation; peace; phaser crew; phaser gun (aka phaser); physical examination; physical law; physician; pioneer; place; plant; plea; poison; power source; problem; punishment; question; ; rancher; range; reality; red alert; reflex; revenge; revolver; right; risk; room; ; rule; Russian; science officer; scotch; scum; scurvy; second; sector; senses; sense of humor; sensor; sentence; shadow; shave; Sheriff; shirt; shopping; shopping bag; "shoot off their mouth"; snake; solution; space; specimen; speed; standard orbit; stealing; stomach; subject; Swahili; sweating; Taos lightning; telepath; telepathy; thief; thing; thought; thought pattern; time; Tombstone; Tombstone Epitaph; town; town marshal; tranquilizer; tranquilizer grenade; transporter mechanism; transporter room; tricorder; United Federation of Planets; United States of America; universal laws; ; venom; violence; volunteer; Vulcan language; warning buoy; weapon; wedding; wedding ball; wedding gown; week; word; yard; yellow; xenophobia Tombstone Epitaph references 1930s; bicycle; chief counsel; Commerce Department; depression; dollar; economy; election; Europe; furnishing; gent; gold; month; quarter; Skipworth and Co; year External links de:Wild West im Weltraum es:Spectre of the Gun fr:Spectre of the Gun (épisode) ja:危機一髪！OK牧場の決闘（エピソード） nl:Spectre of the Gun pl:Spectre of the Gun TOS episodes

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Elaan of Troyius (episode)

The Enterprise transports Elaan, Dohlman of Elas, to an arranged marriage on Troyius. Summary Teaser "Captain's log, stardate 4372.5. On a top secret diplomatic mission, the has entered the Tellun star system. Maintaining communications blackout, we have taken aboard Petri, Ambassador from Troyius, the outer planet, and are now approaching the inner planet, Elas." Disgruntled by the cloak-and-dagger orders cut by a desk-bound Starfleet bureaucrat, Kirk, Spock, Dr. McCoy, and Scott prepare to welcome the Elasian members of the mission. Kirk still doesn't know the details of the task he is about to perform. The secrecy is apparently called for because the Tellun system is in the vicinity of the Federation-Klingon border. Scientists who first reported on Elas called the men "vicious and arrogant," the women "very special, with a subtle, mystical power that drives men wild." Petri, the somewhat fussy Troyian ambassador, says the next step is to pick up the "Dohlman", the person most feared and hated by Troyians. The Dohlman is a small woman, Elaan, the ruler of Elas, who commands absolute obedience. She is accompanied by a group of huge, powerful men, who wear body armor and carry nuclear hand weapons. Act One Petri now explains to Kirk that the Dohlman is to be given away in an arranged marriage to the ruler of Troyius. The two worlds now possess the capability of mutual destruction and it is hoped that the marriage will symbolically unite the worlds and bring peace. His own job is to teach her more refined, "civilized" manners – so the Enterprise must proceed back to Troyius at the slowest speed possible. Almost immediately, Kirk is summoned to Elaan's quarters (actually Uhura's) by the news that she is dissatisfied with them. Kirk arrives to find Elaan throwing a fit. Petri is there, trying to placate her with wedding gifts: a pair of embroidered slippers, a shimmering blue gown and an antique folk-art necklace he calls "the most prized of royal jewels – for your lovely neck!" His reluctance is very obvious despite his veneer. She wants nothing of Troyius or what she considers its soft, servile customs, but Kirk tells her she'll have to put up with them if she is to fulfill her obligations. Asking Kirk if he is responding to her many complaints about Uhura's quarters, the captain suggests that she will have to get comfortable here. When told this, Elaan prepares to throw a pillow around and Kirk responds, "There are no more available, but if that's the only way you can get gratification, I'll arrange to have the whole room filled from floor to ceiling with breakable objects." In a corridor outside Elaan's quarters, Petri insists to Kirk that he hates the Elasians and cannot complete his task, for Elaan is impossibly arrogant and violent. Troyian males had been described in these terms earlier, and we also hear Elaan denounce "female trappings" as offensive, saying she is not a "soft fawn to need pillows to sit on." Petri still insists that there cannot be peace between Elasians and Troyians, since when he is around them, he wants to kill them. In response to Petri insisting that Elaan will not listen to him, Kirk suggests that he stop being so diplomatic and instead deal with her in a strong, straightforward manner. Spock reports what looks like a sensor "ghost," but can't be, since all his equipment at his station is working perfectly, so it must instead be a spaceship. Kirk suggests that it may be a hydrogen cloud reflection, but Spock notes that the Enterprise is not near any in the area. Again, Kirk is summoned away from the bridge, this time to engineering where Elaan and her personal guard are looking around and fiddling with the controls. She expresses disdain for the crew trying to give her a tour and explanation of engineering, wanting only to know how the ship is used in combat. Scott is quick to point out that the engines are considered crucial in combat. Kirk tells her she should be more courteous but she says courtesy is not for inferiors. No sooner have Kirk, Spock, and Sulu determined that the "ghost" is in fact a Klingon warship, than Kirk is summoned again to Elaan's room. He finds Petri lying in a pool of blood with a dagger embedded in his back. Act Two Petri will recover, but he renounces his mission and wants absolutely nothing further to do with Kirk. On top of everything else, the Federation High Commissioner is on his way to Troyius for the wedding. Asked by Nurse Chapel why any man would want an Elasian bride if they act like this, Petri explains that it is biochemical: any man whose skin is touched by the tears of an Elasian woman immediately falls in love with her – forever. Kirk explains the mission to Elaan in terms of military discipline, while she sits there eating like a barbarian and drinking right from the bottle of Saurian brandy, with no table manners whatsoever. She reiterates that she despises Troyians and will not go through with the wedding. Kirk states that he'll teach her basic etiquette himself. Meanwhile, Kryton sneaks into engineering and performs acts of sabotage on the dilithium crystals. Watson, an engineer, catches him in the act and Kryton kills him by snapping his neck. Act Three When Kirk tries to visit Elaan again, he is kept out by her guards, but has had the forethought to bring Spock, who phaser-stuns the guards long enough to let Kirk in. Again, Elaan throws a fit, but Kirk yells right back at her and demands that she accept the orders she's been given as laid out by the Elasian and Troyian councils, letting some of his own irritation with "councils, rulers, and bureaucrats" creep into his lecture. Elaan decides there's one thing she can trust Kirk with; she worries that nobody likes her. As she talks about this, she cries, and Kirk wipes her tears away, not having heard Petri's earlier warning in sickbay. It is not clear whether Elaan has done this on purpose or whether she's genuinely unhappy; perhaps both. In any case, the two soon embrace and make love. Sometime later, Kirk is paged by Uhura, who's found a tight-beam radio transmission to the Klingon vessel coming from within engineering. Kirk orders intruder alert and that security report to engineering on the double. It is discovered to have come from Kryton, the chief of Elaan's guard, using a Klingon communicator, just before he is caught by the engineering officer he promptly murdered. Kirk questions him about his sabotage and his involvement with the Klingons but Kryton will not talk and he states he is conditioned against responding to any physical torture to make him talk. Kirk calls Spock to engineering to perform a Vulcan mind probe on him. Kryton kills himself by self-vaporization. Scott checks various relays for sabotage. Kirk returns to Elaan, who tells him that Kryton loved her and had acted out of jealousy. Kirk wonders why the Klingons would care about disrupting the wedding, but Elaan is unconcerned and welcomes the interference. She suggests that he use the ship's power to completely obliterate Troyius, and be rewarded by the Elasians but his will and ethics are still too strong for that. This is something she can admire and understand. Judging by Elaan's much gentler behavior, it seems that the bond affects the woman as well as the man; she seems to now genuinely care for and respect Kirk as an equal. After being reluctantly called out of Elaan's quarters by McCoy and Spock, Kirk finds out about Elasian tears and demands that McCoy find an antidote. The Klingon ship prepares to attack. Scott discovers a bomb has been rigged to the engines and set to go off if the ship goes to warp. Act Four Kirk manages to bluff their way out of the attack, observed by Elaan who has followed him to the bridge, standing near the turbolift. He asks her to go to sickbay as it is the safest part of the ship, reminding her that he must still take her to Troyius. While in sickbay, she encounters Petri, who again offers the wedding necklace and speaks, sincerely and without frills, of the hope for peace between their worlds. Scott manages to dismantle the bomb, but finds the dilithium crystal converter assembly has been fused, meaning the ship couldn't go to warp anyhow – or power up the phaser banks. They must have replacement crystals. If they contact Starfleet, they would alert the Klingons of their vulnerability. The Klingon captain calls for their unconditional surrender. Kirk manages some slow but impressive tactical maneuvers as the Klingon ship approaches and fires. Again, Elaan appears on the bridge in her wedding outfit, thinking they are about to die. Spock picks up unusual energy readings and finds they're coming from her necklace, which is strung with uncut dilithium crystals. She explains that the white beads are common stones called radans, and that the necklace is of little value other than its traditional meaning of good fortune. Klingon and Federation interest in this system is now clear, and Elaan gladly donates the necklace for Scott to reactivate the engines. Her words, "If I can be of any help, of course", proof that she was aware of common courtesy all along. The Klingon captain offers one last chance to surrender as he points out the Enterprise is draining its reserves and shields are buckling. Stalling for time, Kirk requests protection of Elaan as a condition for surrender. The Klingon captain refuses, and reiterates its unconditional surrender demand. Spock and Scott finish the installation of the crystals, while Kirk orders that Ensign Chekov have the photon torpedoes armed and ready. Explaining his strategy to the bridge crew, he prepares a full spread of torpedoes at the Klingons. The crude shape of the crystals cause power fluctuations but the Enterprise manages to power up and restore its shields. Kirk orders warp maneuvers and pivots at warp two. The Klingons fire on the Enterprise, but exposes their aft to her. Seizing the attack of opportunity, Kirk orders photon torpedoes fired, scoring a direct hit to the Klingon's midship. Spock reports significant damage to the Klingon's shields while Chekov says the ship is badly damaged, and is withdrawing at reduced speed. Kirk orders that Sulu resume course to Troyius while Elaan doesn't understand why he won't pursue and finish off the crippled Klingons. Later in the transporter room, as Elaan prepares to beam down for the wedding, she invites Kirk, but he won't come. She presents him with her dagger, saying that on Troyius they don't carry personal weapons. Openly weeping, she mounts the transporter platform and dematerializes. On the bridge, McCoy tells Spock that he has finally found a possible antidote, but Kirk is already apparently back to normal, and Spock says the Enterprise had captured his heart long before the Dohlman did. Log entries Captain's log, USS Enterprise (NCC-1701), 2268 Memorable quotes "We cannot make peace with people we detest." "Stop trying to kill each other. Then worry about being friendly." - Petri and Kirk, on the mission "Stop being so diplomatic. She respects strength. Go in strong." - Kirks advice to Petri on handling Elaan "Engines are for mechanics and menials." - Elaan, ridiculing Scott "Courtesy is not for inferiors." - Elaan, to Kirk "Well, I've heard of reluctant brides, but this is ridiculous." - McCoy, on Petri's stabbing "Mister Spock, the women on your planet are logical. That's the only planet in this galaxy that can make that claim." - Kirk, before returning to Elaan's quarters "If I touch you again, Your Glory, it'll be to administer an ancient Earth custom called a spanking, a form of punishment administered to spoiled brats." - Kirk, to Elaan "Your presence here is interfering with my efficiency. My ability to protect you." - Kirk, when Elaan arrives on the bridge of the Enterprise "That's all you men of other worlds can speak of. Duty and responsibility." - Elaan, after accepting a necklace from Petri "The Enterprise infected the captain long before the Dohlman did." - Spock, to McCoy "The Dohlman has promised that I will be whipped to death if I let Captain Kirk pass through that door." - Elasian guard outside Elaan's quarters, to Kirk Background information Story and production This is the only episode in the franchise to have been both fully written and directed by the same person. The episode's title is a take on Helen of Troy (in fact, Lucas' story outline was entitled "Helen of Troyius"), another woman whose marriage can lead to war. The story is a science-fiction version of Shakespeare's plays The Taming of the Shrew and Antony and Cleopatra. (The Star Trek Compendium) The first draft script was delivered , the final revised draft script submitted 27 May, and the episode was filmed late May, early June. McCoy again asked Spock "Are you out of your Vulcan mind?" before his act of self-sacrifice in . This line even transcends timelines, as (Karl Urban) also says it to (Zachary Quinto) in the 2009 film . A scene with Spock playing his Vulcan harp in the arboretum set was filmed but then edited out. In that scene he indicated that he had lost an all-Vulcan musical competition to his father. The music was supposed to be fed into the Dohlman's quarters to calm her down. Removal of this scene meant that the new arboretum would only be seen on-screen twice: in , and, in re-dressed form, in . The script portion of the edited scene, as well as stills from it, can be viewed here. This scene is in the James Blish novelization. The Pocket Books novel Firestorm was written as a sequel to the episode and deals with what became of Elaan after her marriage on Troyius. Scotty later referred to the events of this episode, specifically mentioning the Dohlman of Elas, in . Presidential candidate was assassinated during the filming of this episode. France Nuyen, a big supporter of Kennedy, had been deeply shocked by the news while shooting her parts as Elaan. Costumes The armor of Elaan's guards were constructed out of red and orange plastic place mats. The incomplete body armor worn by Tony Young (Kryton) was sold in Christie's 40 Years of Star Trek: The Collection auction for US$800 ($960 with premium). The security officers on the ship have new belts in the third season – they are wide, black, and worn around the uniform top at the midriff rather than under the tunic at the hip. In , the belts seen are white for Lincoln's honor guard. Vinci's uniform bears the stripes of a Lieutenant Commander in this episode. The Dohlman of Elas undergoes more costume changes than any other TOS character with the exception of Barbara Anderson (Lenore Karidian) in and Ricardo Montalban (Khan Noonien Singh) in . Guest star France Nuyen's costumes are far more revealing than Barbara Anderson's, however: the purple and silver halter top and attached shorts, the silver flowered breast and groin shields on black mesh, the orange dress, and the blue wedding gown with (typical of William Theiss' designs) no sides. Props and effects The episode preview's visual effects differ from that of the finished episode. In the preview, the Klingon ship's photon torpedoes are white. In the episode, they are bright green. This was one of only two episodes (with ) that showed a Klingon flip top communicator similar to the ones used by Starfleet. This communicator was originally seen as an Eminian one in the episode . The Saurian brandy container makes an appearance in this episode. The bottle is actually a George Dickel commemorative edition "powder horn" whiskey bottle. This episode marks the first appearance of the Matt Jefferies-designed Klingon ship, previously seen as a completely unfamiliar animated blob in . The new emblem of the Klingon Empire is seen on the model and in the background of the Klingon bridge, but aligned differently to the norm. Similarly to , this episode was filmed early in the season, but aired much later because of the many, newly created special effect shots which took lot of time to be filmed and added in post-production. , which was filmed later but aired earlier, re-used shots of the Klingon battle cruiser from this episode. The blue planet used for Troyius is the same one used for Pyris VII in , Argelius II in , Sigma Iotia II in , and Scalos in . It is a color-modified version of the planet originally seen in . Scotty is shown applying Elaan's "radans" – in fact raw dilithium crystals, for power-conversion use in a different converter assembly – a pop-up articulation frame mounted within the top part of the warp-core casing itself – than the one depicted in . Sets In this episode, the camera is set way back from the center of the engineering set – the "wild" engine components are wheeled out and a vast amount of floor space is left open. This is one of two episodes ( was the other) in which we see Uhura's quarters. Some African motifs are displayed. The sign on Uhura's door simply reads "Lt. Uhura". In the scene where Kirk tries to teach Elaan 'courtesy,' Elaan retreats behind a door in Uhura's quarters that could be a bathroom – a room never seen on TOS. This room can be seen briefly in , when Marlena enters it to change her clothes, in , when the room is redressed as Karidian's quarters, and in when Rojan enters Kelinda's quarters to find Kirk "apologizing" to her. The steps leading up to the transporter chamber were painted black for the third season. Reception John Meredyth Lucas was pleased with the episode, commenting, "I enjoyed the love story aspect of the show and thought it was an interesting change of pace. You didn't get to do too many of those." (Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages, p. 73) Producer Fred Freiberger noted that the episode was intended to appeal to women who were skeptical of science fiction. He remarked, "We tried to reach a segment of the audience we couldn't otherwise reach, and didn't succeed." (Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages, p. 73) In Star Trek: The Original Series 365, authors Paula M. Block and Terry J. Erdmann are scathing of this episode, commenting that it was "indicative of many, though not all, of the episodes produced for Star Treks third season. Costumes, makeup, and script were all overblown, perhaps more suitable to sci-fi pulp than to the show's earlier attempts at straightforward storytelling in a unique setting." (p. 270) According to author Daniel Leonard Bernardi, "Elaan of Troyius' brings into play stereotypes of the Asian female – the manipulative dragon lady and the submissive female slave. Elaan is both irrational and primitive. She throws temper tantrums, eats with her hands, and drinks from the bottle. Kirk tells her, 'Nobody's told you that you're an uncivilized savage, a vicious child in a woman's body, an arrogant monster." Bernardi argues, "Captain Kirk, the 'white knight' of Star Trek, articulates his and the Federation's moral superiority and authority over the Asian-alien and her people through sexual conquest […] Indeed, it is only after the captain physically and sexually dominates her that she respects and eventually falls in love with him […] After giving in to Kirk's power, Elaan, like the cunning and manipulative dragon lady of classical Hollywood cinema, returns the favor by capturing his heart. The Asian-alien's tears contain a bio-chemical agent that, when touched by a man (even aliens like Kirk), forces him to fall deeply in love with her. After she manipulates Kirk into desiring her, Elaan becomes submissive, gentle, loyal, even willing to die with him, by his side, as the Klingons ruthlessly attack the Enterprise. It is at this point in the narrative that the other stereotype of the Asian female comes into play – that of the submissive Asian slave. In the end, Elaan does anything Captain Kirk requests, politely and adoringly obeying his demands and orders. Her dragon lady tactics were only used so that she could assume a position she truly desired: the submissive mistress of a white knight." (Star Trek and History: Race-ing Toward a White Future, pp 64-65) Remastered information "Elaan of Troyius" was the sixty-third episode of the remastered version of The Original Series to air, premiering in syndication on the weekend of . Aside from the standard CGI replacement footage of the Enterprise, this episode most notably featured new effects shots of the planets Troyius and Elas. In addition, revised footage depicting the scenes of the confrontation between Enterprise and the Klingon battle cruiser were created. The next remastered episode to air was . Production timeline Story outline "Journey to Reolite" by Alfred Brenner, Story idea "Helen of Troyius" by Gene Roddenberry, Story outline by John Meredyth Lucas, Revised story outline, Second revised story outline, First draft teleplay, Revised story outline by Fred Freiberger, titled "Elaan of Troyius", First draft teleplay by Lucas, Second draft teleplay, Final draft teleplay by Arthur Singer, Additional page revisions by Singer, Revised final draft teleplay, Additional page revisions by Freiberger, Filmed: – Day 1 – , Friday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Bridge Day 2 – , Monday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Bridge Day 3 – , Tuesday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Bridge, Corridors, Transporter room Day 4 – , Wednesday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Transporter room, Corridors, Elaan's quarters Day 5 – , Thursday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Elaan's quarters, Sickbay, McCoy's office Day 6 – , Friday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Engineering, Turbolift Day 7 – , Monday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Corridors; Desilu Stage 10: Int. Arboretum (deleted scene) Score recording, Original airdate, First UK airdate Video and DVD releases Original US Betamax release: UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 30, catalog number VHR 2382, US VHS release: UK re-release (three-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 3.1, Original US DVD release (single-disc): Volume 29, As part of the TOS Season 3 DVD collection As part of the TOS-R Season 3 DVD collection Links and references Starring William Shatner as James T. Kirk Also starring Leonard Nimoy as "Mr. Spock" And DeForest Kelley as "Dr. McCoy" Guest star France Nuyen as Elaan Co-starring Jay Robinson as Petri Tony Young as Kryton James Doohan as Scott Nichelle Nichols as Uhura George Takei as Sulu Walter Koenig as Chekov Majel Barrett as Nurse Chapel Lee Duncan as Victor Brandt as Watson Dick Durock as Guard #1 Charles Beck as Guard #2 K.L. 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The Paradise Syndrome (episode)

Kirk loses his memory and joins the descendants of a tribe of Native Americans. Summary Teaser Kirk, Spock, and McCoy beam down into an idyllic location next to a lake on the planet Amerind, reminiscent of the American Pacific Coast. Kirk remarks on the "duplication" of the planet's evolution as compared to Earth, while McCoy notes the beauty of the flora. They come upon an ancient obelisk covered with unknown alien symbols. Spock notes that the obelisk is "an alien metal of some kind, an alloy resistant to probe." Even the age is beyond the tricorder's ability to date. Spock examines the symbols but can offer no insight into their meaning. He speculates that to build such a monument would require a civilization equal to or beyond the Federation's ability. McCoy brands the planet "an enigma." The trio only has thirty minutes to explore the surface before leaving the planet. They return to the lake and look across at a village which houses an indigenous, Native American-like tribe that is "a mixture of Navajo, Mohican, and Delaware" characteristics, according to Spock. Kirk feels it is similar to discovering a mythic lost society like Atlantis or Shangri-La. McCoy suggests contacting the natives to warn them, but is discouraged by Spock. An asteroid is on a direct course towards the planet. The thirty minute restriction on exploration was to allow them to return to the ship in time to make the journey to a deflection point. As the time on the planet draws to a close, they return to the obelisk. On the way, Kirk remarks on the simplicity of life for the natives. McCoy diagnoses him with Tahiti Syndrome. Before the landing party returns to the , Kirk climbs up onto the platform at the base of the obelisk and flips open his communicator. A trap door slides open and drops Kirk into a chamber. He falls down some stairs and begins to pull himself up, accidentally leaning onto a control panel. As he regains his footing, energy tendrils strike out from the panel, immobilizing him and finally leaving him slumped across the controls. Act One Spock and McCoy attempt to scan the interior of the obelisk but have no success. They are unable to discover how to open the trap door. McCoy berates Spock for suggesting abandoning the search for the time being. Spock explains the danger of delay in reaching the deflection point. If they fail to get to the deflection point in time, it would become impossible to divert the asteroid, and everyone on the planet including Kirk would be killed. The two return to the Enterprise. Kirk regains consciousness and attempts to remember where he is or how he got into the chamber. He staggers about, looking over his phaser and communicator, disoriented, admonishing himself to "try to remember". He ascends the stairs and the trap door opens to let him out. As he looks around, two of the natives arrive at the obelisk carrying baskets of fruit and bread. Presumably they are delivering them as sacrifices to the obelisk or to what they believe lives within. At the sight of Kirk emerging from the obelisk, both kneel and cover their faces with their hands. One, the priestess, rises and climbs up on the platform with Kirk, saying "we are your people, we've been waiting for you to come to us." Back on the Enterprise, Montgomery Scott warns from engineering that the ship is being pushed too hard. Spock urges Scotty to keep the engines at warp nine in order to reach the deflection point in time. Scott warns that "[they are] moving further into the danger range all the time." On the planet, Kirk is brought before the tribal elder, Goro and medicine chief Salish. Kirk still remembers nothing of the asteroid danger or of his own history. The medicine chief, Salish, insists that he prove himself. The elder explains to Kirk that their legends prophesy that one will come "who can rouse the temple spirit and make the sky grow quiet". Kirk does not know whether this describes him or not. As they are speaking, a young boy who had been caught in fish nets and had drowned was brought in. Salish examines him and states that "there is no sound in the boy, there is no life in the eyes, he will move no more." As he moves off, defeated, Kirk moves in and tries CPR on the boy. Within a few moments, the boy is breathing again. While Kirk insists that it's simply a very old technique that "goes way back…" although he can't remember more about it, the elders acclaim Kirk, saying that only a god can give breath to the dead. Salish's medicine badge is taken from his forehead by the priestess, Miramanee, and placed on Kirk. All bow to Kirk, covering their faces. As Salish rises, his face twists in shame and anger. The Enterprise has reached the deflection point, and Sulu prepares to target the asteroid. Spock asks Scotty for full power to the deflectors. Scotty provides it, worrying that the circuits will blow under the strain after such a stressful journey to the deflection point. Spock orders Scotty to bypass the relays. As they activate the deflectors, the power flickers. Scotty reports that the dilithium crystal circuits are failing and must be replaced but Spock has him hold off on doing so for the moment. The deflectors start to move the asteroid, but the power drops and the asteroid has only moved 0.0013 degrees. Spock moves the ship into the path of the asteroid. They will retreat in front of it until the power is strong enough to destroy the asteroid. McCoy worries that the power might not be enough and that they will be crippled in the way of their own destruction. Spock reminds him that they will still have impulse engines and will be able to get out of the way. McCoy counters with "Jim won't be able to get out of the way." For Spock, this is a calculated risk that must be taken. Act Two Miramanee and Salish meet by the lake. Salish reminds Miramanee that she should be working on their ritual cloak. Miramanee tells him there will no longer be a ritual as the priestess and medicine chief always marry and he is no longer the medicine chief. Miramanee attempts to reassure Salish that any other woman in the village would be honored to have him, but Salish bitterly tells her that he will have no other. They part tearfully. Kirk works in one of the shelters and Miramanee brings him clothing to replace his Starfleet uniform. He asks her about the gods of the obelisk, known to them as the temple. She is surprised as she believes he knows everything. He convinces her to tell what she knows. Miramanee tells him that the gods brought them there long ago and appointed a medicine chief to keep the secret of the temple and to use it "when the sky darkens". The secret is passed from one medicine chief to another. Salish's father, who was medicine chief before him, died before he could pass on the secret. The elder joins them and asks Kirk his name so they may honor him. Kirk manages to remember "Ki… Ku…". With that, Goro, the elder guesses his name to be "Kirok." The elder knows that Kirk is displeased about something. Kirk assures him that he is happy and has never felt so peaceful before. He only doubts his ability to help them. Miramanee touches him tenderly and tells him that "here there is much time". Under Spock's instruction, Ensign Chekov scans for the asteroid's weakest point from the science station. After determining it is almost dead center, Spock instructs Sulu to lock all phasers there to split the asteroid. The engine room scrambles to keep up with the phaser bombardment. However, this effects no damage to the asteroid. Miramanee wakes Kirk and tells him their ritual cloak is finished. Kirk doesn't understand until she explains the traditional joining between the priestess and medicine chief. She takes his confusion as a sign that there is another. Kirk reassures her that "there is no one else in my mind or in my heart." He tells her to name the joining day. Miramanee chooses the very next day. Scotty reports to Spock that the Enterprises warp drive is non-functional and can only be repaired at a starbase. McCoy orders Spock to rest. Spock ignores him and signals Chekov to place them on course back to the planet. They will continue under impulse drive the 59.223 days back to the planet, trailed by the asteroid with only a four-hour gap. McCoy is disturbed by Spock's lack of attention to his rant. He notices that Spock is intently studying the tricorder images of the obelisk. Spock tells him that it is "another calculated Vulcan risk." Miramanee dresses for the joining in her lodging while the elder paints Kirk's face on the platform of the obelisk. He tells Kirk that he will return to the village first to tell the priestess that Kirk will follow. Kirk walks back to the village feeling content and lucky. Salish jumps out and threatens Kirk. He pulls a knife and cuts Kirk's palm in their struggle. Salish is shocked and elated that Kirk cannot be a god as one would not bleed. Act Three They fight and Kirk disables Salish. Salish tells him to kill him, saying, "I will not rest until I prove to my people that you are no god." Kirk leaves him and continues back to the village. Kirk dons the ritual cloak and Miramanee joins him under it to complete the ceremony. Spock continues to try to decipher the symbols. He has gone without much rest or food for 58 days. McCoy diagnoses him with exhaustion. He reminds Spock that he made a command decision and it isn't his fault that the asteroid wasn't deflected. He also tells him Kirk probably would have undertaken the same course of action. Spock goes and lies down but returns to his work as soon as McCoy leaves. A shirtless Kirk and Miramanee frolic together in the woods near the lake, kissing and laughing together. Kirk tells her that he is "so happy". Unfortunately, he is plagued by bad dreams. He dreams vaguely of the Enterprise and her crew. Miramanee tries to take his mind off "the strange lodge which moves through the sky" by showing him a gift. She brings out a swaddling board and tells him that she bears his child. Kirk is delighted. Back in camp, Kirk shows Miramanee how he plans to set up an irrigation system to double the food production. She praises him for his invention of the lamp and his knowledge of food preservation, that will protect the people in time of famine. As they talk, a storm brews outside. Miramanee is frightened but is comforted by Kirk's presence. She looks outside and tells him that he must go to the temple "and make the blue flame come out". Kirk is confronted by the fact that he does not know how to get into the temple or how to stop the storm. Salish and the elder arrive and urge him to go to the temple. Kirk suggests going to the caves, but Salish berates him. The elder demands that he "rouse the temple spirit". Kirk begrudgingly goes off to the obelisk and asks them to take care of Miramanee. Kirk stands in front of the obelisk and pushes and beats at the exterior to no avail. He begins calling out to the obelisk but the only apparent response is stronger winds and Salish smiling at Kirk's failure. Act Four McCoy returns to Spock's quarters and sees that he is still working at his computer, trying to decode the language of the temple. Spock tells McCoy that the symbols are not words, but music. Spock has been working them out on his Vulcan harp. He has discovered that the people who made the obelisks are called The Preservers. They moved humanoid species in danger of extinction, placing them around throughout the galaxy in hospitable areas in order to save them. For McCoy, this answers the question of why there are so many similar humanoid species scattered throughout the galaxy. They speculate that the obelisk is an asteroid deflector that has been inoperative for quite some time. Kirk's inability to make the obelisk work was noted by Salish who has brought the villagers to the temple to kill Kirk by stoning him. Miramanee tries to stop them, but Salish stops her. They struggle and he tells her to "go, go die with your false god." Kirk and Miramanee are both stoned by the villagers, and Miramanee receives a hard blow to her abdomen. As this happens, Spock and McCoy beam down and this frightens off the villagers. Both Kirk and Miramanee have been knocked unconscious by the stones. They revive Kirk, but he does not remember Spock or McCoy. He calls out for his wife but, unlike him, she has not recovered as quickly. Spock speaks with her and figures out some of the missing pieces. Nurse Chapel joins the team with an emergency surgical kit and she and McCoy tend to Kirk. Sulu calls to report the time to impact. Discovering they are dangerously short on time, Spock performs a Vulcan mind fusion on Kirk to restore his memory. Spock breaks the meld, and McCoy asks what is wrong. Spock replies "His mind… he is… an extremely dynamic individual." Kirk rises and says, "It worked." Once again himself, Kirk looks to his wife. Spock interrupts and asks him about the interior of the obelisk. Kirk says that it is filled with equipment, and Spock explains that it is a deflector device. Kirk and Spock work to try to re-enter the interior. Kirk re-opens his communicator and the trap door opens. Kirk kisses Miramanee and asks McCoy to help her. Spock and Kirk go down into the monument and try to discover how to work the controls. Spock manipulates what he believes to be the correct controls and a blue beams emits from the obelisk and successfully pushes off the asteroid away from Amerind. Kirk goes to the shelter where McCoy has laid Miramanee. He asks about her condition and McCoy tells him that her internal injuries are fatal. After McCoy leaves the two of them alone together, Kirk tells Miramanee that the planet has been saved. Miramanee does not realize she is dying or Kirk's real identity and speaks hopefully to Kirk about how she will give him a happy life with many children, when she is recovered. Kirk holds her and confirms his love for her, kissing her just before she dies. Log entries Captain's log, USS Enterprise (NCC-1701), 2268 Memorable quotes "Kirk to Enterprise…" - Kirk, hailing the ship; also the same musical tone that opens the entrance to the obelisk temple as he would soon discover "That Vulcan won't be satisfied 'til these panels are a puddle of lead!" - Scott, as the Enterprise fires its phasers on the asteroid "My bairns. My poor bairns." - Scott, after the engines burn out "The sooner our happiness together begins, the longer it will last." - Miramanee to Kirk, on marking their wedding day "Well, Spock, you took your calculated risk in your calculated Vulcan way, and you lost! You lost for us, you lost for that planet, and you lost for Jim." - McCoy, on Spock's failure to destroy the asteroid "Behold! a god who bleeds!" - Salish, after he slashes Kirk's hand "And as for the pressure, that green ice water you call blood–" "My physical condition is not important, Doctor. That obelisk is." - McCoy and Spock, on Spock's fixation with the obelisk's markings "Well, what do you wait for, god? Your robes?" - Salish to Kirk, as the weather starts to worsen "I bear your child." - Miramanee, to Kirk "I am Kirok!!" - Kirk, shouting against the wind "His mind. He is an extremely dynamic individual." - Spock, after breaking his mind meld with Kirk "Each kiss is as the first." - Miramanees dying words "All I can tell you is that I'm happy and peaceful here. I'm not sure, but I think I've never felt that way before." -Kirk, to Goro "And I'll love you, Miramanee. Always." -Kirk, to Miramanee Background information Story and script The original title for this episode was "The Paleface". (Star Trek: The Original Series 365, p. 275) Although not mentioned on screen, the planet in this episode, according to the script, was called Amerind. Several months pass over the time of this episode, making it by far the longest time period in a single episode of the original series. This is the second time in three episodes that Spock performs a mind-meld on Kirk. The original script had Miramanee surviving with Kirk's child. Production The obelisk was built especially for this episode. The lake featured in this episode is the Franklin Reservoir above Los Angeles. It has been featured in hundreds of westerns and police shows, but is most famous as the fishing hole in the opening credits for . (Star Trek: The Original Series 365, p. 275) Other than the street sword fight in , this was the only episode with outdoor shooting in the entire third season. Budget constraints caused severe cuts in location money, hiring of extras to populate the ship's corridors and Matt Jefferies' set designs. (Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages) Although only seen in the distance in a couple of shots, the little village on the far shore of the lake included some realistic details – the people can be seen working on canoes. As a subtle hint of the time Kirk has spent on the planet, small sideburn appliances are added to Shatner's head to give them a squared-off shape instead of his regular points. The robe made of colorful feathers Kirk wears during the wedding ceremony can also be seen in the 1966 episodes "The Spell of Tut" / "Tut's Case is Shut", worn by King Tut (). Several unique visual effects are used in this episode in the forced perspective engine set, as Scotty's "bairns" are put under a great deal of stress. Recycled footage from this scene can be seen in . Only in this episode do we see the ship firing its gold deflector beam. The asteroid was recycled later as the Yonada in . Gerald Fried contributed the score for this episode which included more Spock bass music and peaceful guitars for the scenes on Amerind. Uhura is not on the bridge in this episode, but stock footage from places her there for a moment. During the first attempt to deflect the asteroid a rare top shot of the Enterprise is shown, first used in the . John Lindesmith had previously appeared as the helmsman in . The outfits worn by the Native include headbands and decorations woven with glass seed beads. These really are used by Native Americans, but were originally a trade item, brought by Europeans. Before that time, Native Americans used porcupine quills, and beads made of other natural materials. Reception According to author Daniel Leonard Bernardi, "'The Paradise Syndrome" stereotypes Native-Americans as noble savages and whites as 'normal' and even divine […] Miramanee cannot figure out how to pull Kirk's shirt off, as she cannot find any lacing. She is portrayed as simpleminded, not that bright – according to Bernardi. This is not the case with Kirk. Moments before, he has fashioned a lamp from an old piece of pottery and saved a boy by using mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. Despite his amnesia, he is shown as "naturally superior" […] When the Native realize that Kirk is not a god, they stone both him and Miramanee (it's the local citizens who are violent in this version of the noble savage stereotype). Spock and McCoy eventually intervene, but only Kirk survives. In this take on a standard white/red miscegenation narrative, the native girl dies so that Kirk, the white male hero, isn't shown unheroically and immorally leaving her and their unborn baby behind." (Star Trek and History: Race-ing Toward a White Future, pp 44, 49) Production timeline Story pitch by Margaret Armen, Story outline by Armen, titled "The Paleface", Revised story outline, First draft teleplay, Second draft teleplay, Revised First draft teleplay, Final draft teleplay by Arthur Singer, Additional page revisions by Fred Freiberger, , , Filmed, – Day 1 – , Tuesday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Bridge, Spock's quarters Day 2 – , Wednesday – Franklin Reservoir: Ext. Trail, Ext. Obelisk Day 3 – , Thursday – Franklin Reservoir: Ext. Obelisk Day 4 – , Friday – Franklin Reservoir: Ext. Obelisk, Field, Trail Day 5 – , Monday – Desilu Stage 10: Int. Lodge Day 6 – , Tuesday – Desilu Stage 10: Int. Lodge, Obelisk; Desilu Stage 9: Int. Spock's quarters, Engineering Score recording, Original airdate, First UK airdate, Video and DVD releases Original US Betamax release: UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 30, catalog number VHR 2382, US VHS release: UK re-release (three-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 3.1, Original US DVD release (single-disc): Volume 29, As part of the TOS Season 3 DVD collection As part of the TOS-R Season 3 DVD collection Remastered information The remastered version of "The Paradise Syndrome" aired in many North American markets during the weekend of . The episodes featured several new computer-generated shots of the planet from space, and the Enterprise. The obelisk deflector beam was digitally recreated, now red to differentiate it from the phaser fire of the Enterprise. However this creates an error not present in the original version: Miramanee speaks about the "blue flame" coming out of the obelisk according to the legend (this error was corrected for the DVD release, where the beam is once again blue). The asteroid was also redone, now a design vastly different from that seen in . Then, for the first time ever in a TOS episode, the ships' navigational deflector was actually shown to activate and emit an energy beam as future deflectors in later Trek series would be shown to do on multiple occasions. Furthermore, a modified Enterprise door sound effect was added to accompany the memory beam that hits Kirk. Links and references Starring William Shatner as Capt. Kirk / Kirok Also starring Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock And DeForest Kelley as Dr. McCoy Guest star Sabrina Scharf as Miramanee Also starring Rudy Solari as Salish James Doohan as Scott George Takei as Sulu Walter Koenig as Chekov Richard Hale as Goro With Majel Barrett as Nurse Chapel Naomi Pollack as Native American John Lindesmith as Engineer Peter Virgo, Jr. as Warrior Lamont Laird as an Native American boy Uncredited co-stars William Blackburn as Hadley Roger Holloway as Roger Lemli Foster Hood as an Amerind villager Jeannie Malone as a yeoman Nichelle Nichols as Uhura (recycled footage; no lines) Vince St. Cyr as Father of Drowning Boy Unknown performers as Amerind handmaidens 1 and 2 Amerind wedding attendees Amerind villagers Stunt doubles Paul Baxley as stunt double for William Shatner Richard Geary as stunt double for Rudy Solari References 20th century; alloy; alphabet; Americans; Amerind; Amerind fly; analysis; angle; area; arm; asteroid; asteroid deflector; Atlantis; atom; bearing; blood; blood pressure; blue; body; "Bones"; brain; ; "calculated risk"; canal; cardiopulmonary resuscitation; "carry on"; cave; century; ; child; choice; cipher; circuit; civilization; collision course; communicator; composition; concept; consonant; contact; cooking; coordinates; council; CPR; crater; cripple; culture; custom; danger; danger range; danger zone; darkness; daughter; day; deflection point; deflector; deflector beam; deflector mechanism; deflector panel; deflector system; Delaware; diagnosis; diamond; dilithium crystal circuit; dream; Earth; Earth lodge; emergency surgical kit; estimation; environment; exhaustion; extinction; eye; face; famine; false god; father; ; fishnet; fissure; food supply; French language; gift; green; god; guilt; hallucination; harvest; handmaiden; happiness; heading; health; heart; holy path; honeysuckle; hour; Human reaction; humanoid; husband; ice water; impostor; impulse power; "in blazes"; internal injury; irrigation; job; joining; joining day; joy; Kirok; kiss; lacing; lake; lamp; land; landing party; lead; leader; leader type; legend; lifeform; light; lodge; love; Luna; magnification; maiden; manual control; main relay; ; maximum speed; maximum warp speed; meadow; medicine badge; medicine chief; memory; memory beam; metabolism; metal; meteor; Milky Way Galaxy; mind; minute; Mohican; month; mouth-to-mouth resuscitation; musical instrument; musical note; name; Navajo; natural setting; night; obelisk; objection; odds; orange blossom; orbit; overload; overwork; pain; panel; paradise; permission; phaser; phaser beam; peace; physical condition; pine tree; place; prescription; Preservers (aka "Wise Ones"); Preservers' obelisk; primitive culture; problem; puddle; relay; repair base; repair time; rescue; research; ritual; ritual cloak; river; robe; safety margin; Salish's father; Scots language; scientific equipment; search; search party; second; secret; security guard; sensor probe; Shangri-La; sharing; size; sky; sleep; solution; son; song; sound; space; spaceflight; speed; star drive; starship; stone metal; stoning; (physics); (physiology); super-race; surface (aka ground); symbol; Tahiti Syndrome; teepee; ; temple spirit; theory; thing; thunder; time; tonal control; tonal quality; tone; tracking report; tradition; tribal elder; tribal law; tribal priestess; tribe; tricorder; vowel; Vulcans; Vulcan language; Vulcan mind fusion; Vulcan Offshoots; wall; warp engine; week; wife; wigwam: wind; word; working order; writing External links de:Der Obelisk es:The Paradise Syndrome fr:The Paradise Syndrome (épisode) ja:小惑星衝突コース接近中（エピソード） nl:The Paradise Syndrome pl:The Paradise Syndrome Paradise Syndrome, The

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The Enterprise Incident (episode)

Acting apparently restless and irrational, Captain Kirk inexplicably orders the Enterprise into Romulan space where the ship is quickly captured by the enemy and Kirk held captive aboard their flagship. Summary Teaser "Enterprise medical log, stardate 5027.3. Dr. Leonard McCoy recording; I'm concerned about Captain Kirk. He shows indications of increasing tension and emotional stress. I can find no reason for the captain's behavior, except possibly that we've been on patrol too long without relief and diversion. He has resisted all of my attempts to run a psychological profile on him." Captain Kirk has been behaving irrationally of late, as noted in McCoy's medical log. Kirk then inexplicably orders helmsman Sulu to take the across the Romulan Neutral Zone and into Romulan space, where it is quickly surrounded by the Romulans – who are now using Klingon-style vessels. Act One Kirk instructs Lieutenant Uhura to contact Starfleet Command and transmit all log entries. Sub-Commander demands the immediate surrender of the Enterprise. Kirk says he will blow up the Enterprise if any Romulans attempt to take it. Tal tells Kirk that no one should have to choose quickly to die, and gives Kirk one hour to surrender the ship. If he does not, he and his crew's deaths are certain. In an exchange of hostages, Kirk and Spock transport aboard the Romulan vessel, where they meet Tal's superior, a female commander. Kirk is accused of invading Romulan space in an attempt to steal a newly developed cloaking device for study by the Federation. The commander points out that there are no methods to coerce a Vulcan to speak, but threatens to torture Kirk until he confesses his crime – or dies. Spock, however, testifies that Kirk was not under Starfleet orders; he is mentally unstable and has ordered the Enterprise across the Romulan Neutral Zone for his own glorification. An enraged Kirk is taken to a holding cell. Act Two The Romulan commander broadcasts a message to the Enterprise informing them of what has transpired. She orders the crew to have the Enterprise follow her to Romulus, where the crew will be processed and then released back to the Federation. Chief engineer Montgomery Scott retorts that he takes no orders except those of Captain James T. Kirk, causing the slightest of smiles to flicker across Kirk's face. Thereafter the Romulan commander attempts to persuade Spock to side with his Romulan "cousins," take command of the Enterprise and accompany the commander back to Romulus. She wonders why an officer of his abilities was never given the opportunity to command, despite his 18 years of service to Starfleet. She says that Spock must have his own ship but he points out that it is she that needs a ship: the Enterprise. She admits that bringing the Enterprise to Romulus would be considered a great accomplishment. In the process, she attempts to woo him, which he finds moving to his Human – and emotional – side. Spock attempts to walk down the forbidden corridor, but respects the commander's wish that only loyal Romulans walk down it. Meanwhile, Kirk injures himself when he is transferred to a holding cell aboard the Romulan ship. McCoy beams aboard to examine him. McCoy reports to the commander that he is mentally incapacitated, which seems to corroborate Spock's testimony. She proclaims Spock to be the commander of the Enterprise. This leads to an altercation between Spock and Kirk, in which Spock uses the Vulcan death grip on him. McCoy pronounces Kirk dead. Act Three Kirk is brought back aboard the Enterprise and is revived by McCoy; the "death grip" is revealed to be a simple nerve block. Another truth is learned: Kirk and Spock are working under Federation orders to steal the cloaking device. Kirk asks McCoy to surgically alter him to appear Romulan. Nurse Chapel and Scotty are brought into the conspiracy. Meanwhile, the Romulan commander brings Spock to dinner. He notes that the food is much better on board than it is on the Enterprise, being a powerful inducement. They drink a blue beverage, followed by an orange colored beverage. She continues her promise that a place can be found for Spock in the Romulan Star Empire. She promises him that Romulan women, unlike Vulcan women, are not dedicated to pure logic and the sterility of non-emotion. She demands a token of his love: he must lead some Romulans on board the Enterprise and bring the ship to Romulus. He agrees, but suggests that they spend an hour in her chamber before proceeding. She accepts, and whispers her first name in his ear. Spock remarks that the name is beautiful, but incongruous when said by a soldier. The Romulan commander tells Spock that she will now "transform into a woman," and goes off to change out of her uniform. Wearing the uniform from one of the Romulan prisoners, Kirk transports aboard the Romulan battle cruiser. While the Romulan commander is changing, Spock contacts Kirk with his communicator and speaks low. Spock reveals the location of the cloaking device. Their transmission is detected on the Romulan bridge and Sub-Commander Tal is alerted. While Spock and the commander proceed with their intimate time together, Kirk makes his way to the forbidden corridor. Sub-Commander Tal interrupts the commander and Spock, saying through the door that the matter is urgent. The commander reluctantly allows him to enter, where he informs her of the source of the alien transmission: right there, in the commander's chamber. Spock is discovered. All proceed urgently to the cloaking device. Kirk removes the cloaking device from its control panel and has Scotty beam him with it back to the Enterprise. Upon returning, Scott takes the device and installs it into the deflector shield from engineering. Back on board the Romulan ship, the commander confronts Spock; she wonders who he is that he has done this. Spock replies, "First officer of the Enterprise." She slaps him across the face upon learning of his betrayal of her. Spock asks what the Romulans' present form of execution is. Act Four "Captain's log, stardate 5027.4. Commander Scott has less than fifteen minutes to install the Romulans' cloaking device, and get it working. I hope Mr. Spock can buy us the time we need." Kirk returns to the bridge with Romulan physiology; however he appears, the crew is happy to see him. He quips that the reports of his death were premature. He orders Sulu to plot a course back home and for Chekov to man the sensors to locate Spock. The commander learns of Spock's complicity in the scheme and prepares to have him executed. He asks for twenty minutes to exercise the Romulan Right of Statement. He begins that he is guilty of the charge of sabotage – but he had carried out his duty due to the fact that the Romulan cloaking device poses a threat to the Federation. Chekov locates Spock by using the sensors to isolate the Vulcan life signs and establishes a transporter lock as Scotty finishes connecting the cloaking device. While making his final statement, Spock is beamed back aboard the Enterprise – with the commander holding onto him. Brought to the bridge, the commander orders Tal to destroy the Enterprise, leaving Kirk to prepare to fight in case Scott is unable to activate the cloaking device. Scott succeeds, however, and Enterprise escapes with the Romulan commander. While escorting her to her quarters on Deck 2, Spock tells the commander that he regrets that she was unwittingly brought aboard the Enterprise. He confesses that his only interest was the cloaking device when he came on board her ship, but now he tells her that his interest wasn't all pretend. She tells him the Romulans will soon develop a way to penetrate the cloaking field technology Starfleet now possesses. "Military secrets are the most fleeting of all," he says. "I hope you and I have exchanged something more permanent." The commander and Spock agree that what has passed between them will be their secret. Returning to the bridge, Spock takes command from Kirk, who leaves for sickbay to get his Human appearance restored by Dr. McCoy. Log entries Medical log, USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) Captain's log, USS Enterprise (NCC-1701), 2268 Memorable quotes "Your language has always been most difficult for me, captain. Perhaps you have another word for it." - Romulan commander, as she accuses Kirk of espionage "There's a well-known saying – or is it a myth – that Vulcans are incapable of lying." "It is no myth." - Romulan commander and Spock, as she interrogates him "It is unworthy of a Vulcan to resort to subterfuge." "You're being clever, commander. That is unworthy of a Romulan." - Romulan commander and Spock "It is not a lie to keep the truth to oneself." - Spock, during the interrogation "I'm betraying no secrets. The commander's suspicion that Starfleet ordered the Enterprise into the Neutral Zone is unacceptable. Our rapid capture demonstrates its foolhardiness." "You filthy liar!!" "I am speaking the truth, for the benefit of the Enterprise and the Federation. I say now, and for the record, that Captain Kirk ordered the Enterprise across the Neutral Zone on his own initiative and his craving for glory." "I'll kill you, you filthy traitor! I'll kill you! I'll…kill you!!" - Spock and Kirk "This is Lieutenant Commander Scott. The Enterprise takes no orders except those of Captain Kirk and we will stay right here until he returns and if you make any attempt to board or commandeer the Enterprise, it will be blown to bits along with as many of you as we can take with us." "You Humans make a brave noise. There are ways to convince you of your errors." (to Spock) "Did you hear that, you coward?! You've betrayed everything of value you ever knew! Did you hear the sound of Human integrity?!" - Scotty, Romulan commander and Kirk "I don't make house calls." - McCoy to Uhura, after she tells him of a medical emergency aboard the Romulan flagship "It would be illogical to assume that all conditions remain stable." - Spock to the Romulan commander, after he walks into a restricted area "My neck feels like it's been twisted off." - Kirk, on the Vulcan death grip "Well, you look like the devil himself. But as long as you're alive, what's it all about?" - Scott, after seeing Kirk as a Romulan "Just don't put me inside a bulkhead." - Kirk, before beaming over to the Romulan flagship "Romulan women are not like Vulcan females. We are not dedicated to pure logic and the sterility of non-emotion." - Romulan commander, as she seduces Spock "How rare, and how beautiful. But so incongruous when spoken by a soldier." - Spock, after the Romulan commander whispers her first name into his ear "Why would you do this to me? What are you that you could do this?" "First officer of the Enterprise." - Romulan commander and Spock, as she realizes that he has betrayed her "It's the biggest guess I've ever made!" - Scott to Kirk, after installing the cloaking device on the Enterprise "Commander, you'll forgive me if I put up a fight." "Of course. It's expected." - Romulan commander and Kirk, as the Enterprise flees from the Romulan vessels "Captain, please go. Somehow, they do not look aesthetically agreeable on Humans." "Well, are you coming, Jim? Or do you want to go through life looking like your first officer?" - Spock and McCoy, urging Kirk to have his pointed ears removed Background information Production timeline Story pitch by D.C. Fontana, Story outline by Fontana, titled "Ears", Revised story outline, Second revised story outline, First draft teleplay, Second draft teleplay, early- First draft teleplay by Arthur Singer, Final draft teleplay by Fred Freiberger, Additional page revisions by Freiberger, , , , Filmed: – Day 1 – , Wednesday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Bridge Day 2 – , Thursday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Transporter room, Briefing room Day 3 – , Friday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Engineering, Sickbay, Romulan bridge Day 4 – , Monday – Paramount Stage 3: Int. Romulan corridors, Shielding control, Romulan Commander's office Day 5 – , Tuesday – Paramount Stage 3: Int. Romulan Commander's quarters Day 6 – , Wednesday – Paramount Stage 3: Int. Romulan corridors, Security room Score recording, Original airdate, First UK airdate Story and script D.C. Fontana's initial inspiration for this story and its title was the which involved the capture of an American patrol boat, the USS Pueblo (AGER-2), by North Korean forces during the Vietnam War. The incident occurred on January 23, 1968, just two months before Fontana completed her first draft story outline. Fontana noted, "It was really based on the Pueblo Incident, in the sense that here's this ship caught spying and they have to find a justification for their being there. Kirk's sanity is put on the line in terms of why they're there. Then, of course, they have to get out safely, preferably with the information they came for. Now that's not what happened with the Pueblo, but the Pueblo Incident kicked off this line of thinking in my mind." (Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages) In Fontana's first draft script, dated , it is explicitly stated that the Romulans have an "improved" undetectable version of the cloaking device, which was a prismatic type of mechanism. It was stored in a laboratory waiting to be installed on the Romulan ship, rather than an already operational mechanism. (The Star Trek Compendium) Also in Fontana's original draft, both Kirk and McCoy are disguised as Romulans and steal the cloaking device. (The Star Trek Compendium) The first draft of the episode stressed the attraction between Spock and the Romulan commander based upon their common heritage. (The Star Trek Compendium) Originally, Spock was supposed to kiss the commander (the first draft script describes Spock as "raining kisses on every square inch above the shoulder"), but both Nimoy and Linville agreed they needed something different from normal "Human" love expressions, and suggested the hand contact instead. Nimoy, in fact, wrote a long letter of complaint to Gene Roddenberry about this issue. In Star Trek Lives!, Dorothy Fontana tells how she attempted to warn Roddenberry about fan reactions if Spock were to behave out of character. She insisted that Nimoy was right, that the pair's interactions should suggest "an alien sexuality, but not Human passion". Even with Nimoy and Linville's restrained gestural contact, Fontana was flooded with letters from fans. Aware of the pon farr and believing it meant Vulcans had sex only once in seven years (Theodore Sturgeon's original idea), they complained that the scene was out of character. Years later, Fontana wrote sex scenes into Vulcan's Glory, establishing that the pon farr is only a fertility cycle and that Vulcans can have sex anytime. Props and sets Although long thought otherwise, from the very first draft, the script had the Romulans using Klingon ships. The series had a lot of money invested in the Klingon model and needed to get its money's worth. This episode was originally aired before so when the audience first saw the Klingon ships, they were being used by Romulans. The Howard Anderson Company, responsible for the visual effects photography involving the D7 class starships, offered the producers a choice if they should prioritize this episode or "Elaan of Troyius". "The Enterprise Incident" was chosen because its ties to the "Pueblo incident" made the episode more timely. "Elaan of Troyius" could wait until December to be broadcast. (These Are the Voyages: TOS Season Three, pp. 143-144) Photographic effects using special mattes were produced of the D7 class studio model that, when combined, gave the appearance that three warships had surrounded the Enterprise. The Matt Jefferies-designed Romulan symbol, composed of a yellow hexagon in the center with three colored spokes coming out of it, can be seen outside the commander's quarters, above her door. This symbol never appears again in any Star Trek series or movie. The Romulans use Klingon disruptor pistols. The Klingon bridge set is reused from "Elaan of Troyius." Romulans refer to their bridge as "Control Central." The Romulan cloaking device prop consists of part of Nomads head and a globe from . The Romulan console that holds the cloaking device had been used before in and and was used again in . The computer device in the Romulan Commander's quarters, used to record Spock's testimony, reappeared later in , in the decompression chamber room. The top of the device is a round computer monitor (without its lower, goose-neck part), recycled from the pilot episodes. Costumes Both the Romulan commander's uniform and casual attire were designed by William Ware Theiss. The commander's uniform was patterned after the male Romulan costume, but like those of her Federation counterparts, it revealed more of her form. In a rare instance, Theiss' sketch of the commander's uniform, which appears in the Star Trek: The Original Series Sketchbook (p. 154), and resultant costume were identical in appearance. A photo of both the commander's uniform and "something more comfortable" also appear together in the Sketchbook. Unlike in , the Romulans depicted here don't wear black gloves. Production Alexander Courage returned to compose the music for this episode. Later in the season, he also composed music for , his last score for Star Trek. In the second season, Courage composed about a half-hour of musical cues and conducted some music for the series. Continuity This episode is the first to feature a female starship commander. This is the second and final appearance of Romulan characters in . The Romulans have improved their cloaking system since "Balance of Terror" and . In the former, Spock refers to it as an "invisibility screen" that can mask a Bird-of-Prey's appearance, but not its motion. In "The Enterprise Incident," the cloaking device now renders a ship undetectable while moving, and not even the Romulans themselves can track a vessel so equipped. According to Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages (p. 270), Naren Shankar suggested that Linville reprise her role as the Romulan commander for the sixth season episode , but the actress was unavailable. Kirk's comment that the report of his death was premature is an allusion to Mark Twain responding to an early obituary. Jean-Luc Picard makes a similar comment in and in , as does Kasidy Yates in . This episode depicts transportation of intruders or prisoners between opposing ships as a simple matter done at will. Later incarnations of Star Trek establish that shields prevent the use of a transporter, and both opposing parties must lower them if any transports are to be made. This is the first mention of any relationship between the Klingons and Romulan Empires. The idea that the Klingons and Romulans have formed an alliance of some sort has been developed extensively in the expanded universe. However, in the episode, Spock only confirms intelligence reports about Romulan use of Klingon ships and falls short of explicitly mentioning any reason. Reception Fontana remarked, "Overall it was not a bad episode, but I did have a lot of complaints about it and things that weren't approached or handled right… Let's face it, the romantic scene between the Romulan commander and Spock was totally out of context. Any Romulan worth her salt would have instantly suspected Spock because they are related races. That was wrong. Kirk's attitudes were wrong. A simple thing – the cloaking device was supposed to be a very small thing, about the size of a watch, for instance, and it could be easily hidden. Here's Kirk running around with this thing that looks like a lamp. You know, highly visible. This is stupidity as well as illogical thinking. Visually it was stupid, conceptually it was very bad. There were a lot of things, little things, that were changed, but my biggest objection is the scene between Spock and the woman, because I really did not believe it. And I did not believe that the Romulan did not suspect Spock of something underhanded. She does know enough about Vulcan and Vulcans to know that something's afoot." (Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages) Remastered information "The Enterprise Incident" was the sixty-fourth episode of the remastered version of The Original Series to air. It premiered in syndication on the weekend of and aside from the standard CGI replacement footage of the Enterprise, this episode most notably featured several new effects shots of the Romulan battle cruiser. While the remastered scenes remain true to the original, two significant changes in the visual effects: the Romulan Bird-of-Prey as the third surrounding vessel, and the addition Romulan "bird-of-prey" markings painted on the underside of the ship's hull. The next remastered episode to air was . Video and DVD releases Original US Betamax release: UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 31, catalog number VHR 2383, US VHS release: UK re-release (three-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 3.2, Original US DVD release (single-disc): Volume 30, As part of the TOS Season 3 DVD collection As part of the Star Trek: Fan Collective - Captain's Log DVD collection, disc 1 As part of the TOS-R Season 3 DVD collection, disc 1 Links and references Starring William Shatner as James T. Kirk Also starring Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock And DeForest Kelley as Dr. McCoy Guest star Joanne Linville as Romulan Commander Co-starring Jack Donner as James Doohan as Scott Nichelle Nichols as Uhura George Takei as Sulu Walter Koenig as Chekov Majel Barrett as Chapel Richard Compton as Technical Officer Robert Gentile as Technician Mike Howden as Romulan Guard Gordon Coffey as Romulan Soldier Uncredited co-stars Roger Holloway as Roger Lemli Eddie Paskey as Leslie Robert Strong as Romulan Guard Unknown actors as Command senior staffer Security guard Operations senior staffer Romulan exchange hostage 1 Romulan exchange hostage 2 Romulan escort 1 Romulan security room guard Romulan helmsman Romulan weapons officer References 2250; accident; achievement; alertness; alien; all hands; alternative; area; attire; autopsy; back-up systems; battle cruiser; battle stations; behavior; ; bobbing; body; "Bones"; brig (aka security room); bulkhead; centurion; chance; channel; ; choice; circuit; class 2 signal; clearance; cloaking device; commandeering; commander; commander's quarters; control central; corridor; cosmetic surgery; course; courtesy; coward; crime; (Romulan flagship, Romulan sister ship); death; deflector shield control; ; devil; dinner; discussion (aka conversation); dismissed; disorientation; distance; ; ear; electronic clipboard; emotion; English language; ; espionage; execution; explanation; fact; faking death; Federation; Federation Command; Federation Council; Federation outpost; Federation territory; feeling; first name; flagship; flank speed; flattery; forebear; full alert; glory; ; ; hand; home base; honor; hostage; hour; house call; Human; information; injury; insanity; instinct; instrument failure; intercom; integrity; intruder; "I see"; ; kilometer; Klingon; Klingon design; Klingon Empire; location; log entry; logic; loyalty; liar; lying; main battery; main viewing screen; malfunction; mental incapacity; mental depression; mental state; military secret; Milky Way Galaxy; mind; minute; motive; myth; navigational error; neck; nerve pinch; noise; normality; oath; obedience; observation; "of course"; officer; "off the hook"; "on the double"; opinion; opportunity; optimum range; order; outpost; overhaul; overload; painting; parsec; passenger; patrol; permission; persecution; person; phasers; physician; physiostimulator; place; planet; prisoner; problem; psychological profile; question; red alert; rebellion; region; relief and diversion; report; right; Romulans; Romulan ale; Romulan Bird-of-Prey (Romulan Bird-of-Prey); Romulan doctor; Romulan Fleet; Romulan-Klingon Alliance; Romulan Neutral Zone; Romulan port; Romulan Right of Statement; Romulan society; Romulan space; Romulan Star Empire; Romulan tradition; Romulan uniform; Romulus; room; sabotage; safe haven; savage; saying; search; second; secret; security; self-destruct; sensor; sensor scan; sentence; shipmate; soldier; sound; speed; spy; spy mission; "stand by"; starbase; Starfleet; Starfleet Command; Starfleet Intelligence; Starfleet uniform; starship; state criminal; ; sub-commander; subspace message; subterfuge; surgery; surprise; surrender; suspicion; switch; tension; Terran; testimony; theoretical evaluation; theory; thing; thought; threat; toast; tracking sensors; tradition; traitor; transmission; transporter coordinates; transporter room; treason; treaty; trespassing; truth; two-way visual contact; Vulcans; Vulcan death grip; Vulcan dish; Vulcan-Romulan history; warrior; weapon; weapons officer; week; "what the devil"; word External links de:Die unsichtbare Falle es:The Enterprise Incident fr:The Enterprise Incident (épisode) it:Incidente all'Enterprise (episodio) ja:透明宇宙船（エピソード） nl:The Enterprise Incident pl:The Enterprise Incident Enterprise Incident, The

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And the Children Shall Lead (episode)

A group of children on the Federation outpost Triacus, under the influence of an evil spirit, commandeer the Enterprise. Summary Teaser The responds to a distress call from the Starnes Exploration Party at the Federation outpost on the planet Triacus. But a landing party consisting of Captain Kirk, Spock and McCoy find a scattering of dead bodies. They encounter Professor Starnes, the leader, who seems to be suffering from extreme anxiety. However, Starnes collapses and dies before he can reveal what happened to himself and the other exploration party members. Just then, a group of five children — four boys and a girl — emerge from a cave and begin playing. The girl, Mary, asks Kirk to play with them, whereupon she and the boys join hands, forming a circle around him. The children circle their new 'playmate' and sing "Ring Around the Rosie", laughing happily as they "all fall down" — all while their parents' lifeless bodies lie nearby. Act One A log replayed from a tricorder supports McCoy's opinion that the event is a mass suicide. The log mentions an "enemy from within." The scientists' children, however, are unharmed – and oblivious to the deaths, unmoved even as the landing party buries their parents. They continue to play as though nothing happened. McCoy theorizes that this could be a psychological defense against trauma and warns Kirk against questioning them further. Captain Kirk and Spock believe the colony has been attacked, with the children deliberately excluded from the attack for an unknown reason. A strange tricorder reading leads Kirk and Spock into a nearby cave, where Kirk is struck by sudden anxiety, which subsides when he leaves the cave. Kirk has the children beamed aboard the Enterprise, where Nurse Chapel serves them ice cream from the food synthesizer in the ship's arboretum. But McCoy can find no physical anomaly in the children, and Kirk cannot get them to discuss what happened to their parents. When the children are left alone, they chant to summon a "friendly angel" (later referred to as Gorgan) and he appears, congratulating them for getting rid of the adults on Triacus and telling them that they must take control of the Enterprise and travel to Marcos XII. Act Two The children, with Gorgan's help, can exercise psychological control over adults. Scott sees in the auxiliary control room that his engineers have taken the Enterprise out of orbit, but they subdue him. By pumping their fists, the children exert mind control over Sulu, Chekov, Uhura and other crewmen to do their bidding. For example, at first Sulu, Chekov, and Uhura believe that they can see Triacus on the viewscreen even though the Enterprise is no longer orbiting the planet. Kirk and Spock do not realize the starship is en route to Marcos XII until Kirk orders two additional security guards down to Triacus, who are instead beamed out into space to their deaths. Kirk and Spock enter the bridge as the children summon Gorgan, revealing him to Kirk for the first time. Act Three Gorgan does not address Kirk, but merely warns the children that their "operation" has been discovered. Kirk makes the crew realize that they have left Triacus and the children plant new fears in them: Sulu sees rings of swords on the viewscreen that will destroy the Enterprise if he even slightly changes course and Uhura sees not her console but herself as a disfigured, diseased, dying old woman. The children briefly take over Spock's mind and unleash Kirk's greatest fear, losing command of his ship, as every command he issues to Leslie is either disobeyed or heard as gibberish. Spock frees himself of the children's mind control and gets Kirk off the bridge to help him overcome his fear in a turbolift. They try to take control of the ship through the auxiliary control center but Scott and the control center crew are now under the children's influence, as one of the children, Don, is secretly present in the room (behind a lattice wall); Scott and his engineers force Kirk and Spock out. Outside auxiliary control in a corridor, Spock tells Kirk that so long as the children are present on the Enterprise, there is danger. Kirk doubts this, given that they are only children, but Spock also says that they are followers and without followers, evil cannot exist. He also says that if the evil inside the children is growing and if they cannot find a way to stop it, they will have to kill them, Kirk finishes for him. Just then, Chekov, Freeman, and another security officer corner Kirk and Spock, telling them that Starfleet has ordered their arrest. When Kirk resists, Chekov threatens to shoot him with his phaser. Act Four Kirk again tries to reason with Chekov but under the influence of Tommy, Chekov tells his captain Starfleet Command supersedes his orders. Kirk and Spock defeat the delusional security team by fighting and with Vulcan nerve pinches. Kirk has Spock escort Chekov, Freeman, and the security guard to the detention area and goes to the bridge. Upon arriving, Kirk finds Tommy sitting in his chair and forces him out of it to stand next to Mary. Kirk, together with Spock, summon Gorgan to the bridge by replaying a recording of the children's chant on a microtape and then challenge him. They show the children video footage of themselves on Triacus, playing with their parents, followed by images of the parents lying dead, then by the headstones marking their graves. The children suddenly realize what they have done under the so-called Friendly Angel's influence and begin to cry. Dr. McCoy is pleased that the children are finally showing authentic grief. Without the children's support, Gorgan morphs into a grotesque being with a face of drooping flesh as he disappears, shouting "Death to you all!" As the ship nears Marcos XII, McCoy leaves the bridge and takes the children with him; while Kirk orders Sulu make a course change to Starbase 4. Log entries Captain's log, USS Enterprise (NCC-1701), 2268 Starnes Exploration Party log Memorable quotes "Humans do have an amazing capacity for believing what they choose and excluding that which is painful." - Spock to Kirk, on the children's lack of grief "Parents like stupid things." - Don, believing his parents liked living on Triacus "It'll spoil your dinner." "See what I told you? They all say it." - Kirk and Tommy, as Tommy asks for more ice cream ", hail, fire and snow. Call the angel we will go. Far away, for to see. Friendly Angel, come to me." - Tommy, Mary, Don, Steve and Ray, summoning Gorgan – "Captain, so long as the children are present, there is danger." - Spock, to Kirk "You have done very well, my friends. You have done what must be done. You have come aboard the Enterprise. Now, our destination is a Federation settlement. Captain Kirk will undoubtedly choose a closer station. Do not let that deter you. Marcos XII has millions of people on it. Nearly a million will join us as our friends. The rest will be our enemies. Together, with our other friends who will join us, we will defeat our enemies as we defeated them on Triacus. A million friends on Marcos will make us invincible. No one will tell us where to go, when to sleep, where to eat. The universe will be mine to command, yours to play in. To accomplish this great mission, we must first control the Enterprise. To control the ship, we first must control the crew. You know how to do that. That is your next task. And as you believe, so shall you do, so shall you do. As you believe, so shall you do, so shall you do. As you believe, so shall you do, so shall you do." - Gorgan, to the children – "Friends, we have reached a moment of crisis. The enemy have discovered our operation, but they are too late. They no longer control the ship. We do. We shall prevail. They will take us any place we desire. So…back to your stations. Maintain your controls. If resistance mounts, call upon their beast. Their beast will serve us well. The fear in each one of them is the beast which will consume him. Remember how it was on Triacus? If they resist, so shall it be on the Enterprise. If you need me, call and I will appear. Our new goal is Marcos XII. It is our new beginning. We must not falter." - Gorgan, to the children – "Evil does seek to maintain by suppressing the truth." "Or by misleading the innocent." - Spock and McCoy, on what killed the Starnes Exploration Party "But most legends have their basis in fact, Spock." - Kirk, on the legend of Triacus "Without followers, evil cannot spread." - Spock to Kirk, on the dangers that the children pose "Death to you all!" - Gorgans last words Background information Production timeline Story outline by Edward J. Lakso, early- Revised story outline, Second revised story outline, Third revised story outline, First draft teleplay, Revised first draft teleplay, Second revised first draft teleplay, Second draft teleplay, Final draft teleplay by Arthur Singer, Additional page revisions by Fred Freiberger, , , , , Filmed: – Day 1 – , Thursday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Auxiliary control center, Recreation room Day 2 – , Friday – Desilu Stage 10: Ext. Planet surface Day 3 – , Monday – Desilu Stage 10: Ext. Cave, Int. Cave; Desilu Stage 9: Int. Corridors, Recreation room, Children's quarters Day 4 – , Tuesday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Bridge Day 5 – , Wednesday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Bridge Day 6 – , Friday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Bridge, Kirk's quarters, Corridors, Turbolift Score recording, Original airdate, First UK airdate Story and production This episode borrows elements and concepts from several sources, including Greek mythology (), the old testament (the ), and puritanical/colonial witchery (the s). It also has a similar plot to the first-season episode "Charlie X". It is never explained how Kirk knew to refer to the Friendly Angel as "Gorgan." Based on early drafts of the script, and in a bit of sloppy editing, episode writer Edward J. Lakso alternated between the various names, explaining why it appeared and stuck so late in the episode. A deleted scene had revealed that Tommy did tell Kirk the name, however, this scene took place in the script after Kirk had used the name. Performers The idea to cast noted attorney Melvin Belli as Gorgan came when his son, Caesar Belli was cast as Steve. Producer Fred Freiberger hoped that the presence of Belli would boost ratings. This plan failed and Freiberger realized it would have been more appropriate to cast an actor in the role. Watching a first rough cut of the episode (without visual effects and music), Gene Roddenberry was appalled by Belli's stilted performance and lack of acting talent, and ordered the producers to distort Gorgan's voice and appearance (by covering him in green glow) as much as possible. (These Are the Voyages: TOS Season Three) Brian Tochi is one of a very few actors, along with Phil and Iona Morris in and Clint Howard in , who appeared in TOS as a child and was later cast in one of the new series or movies. He appeared as Ensign Lin in . Tochi and Pamelyn Ferdin were later reunited on , a live-action Saturday morning television series produced by Filmation which aired on CBS from 1977 to 1979. All eight major regular performers of the second and third seasons – Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Scotty, Sulu, Uhura, Chapel, and Chekov – appear in this episode. Sets and props This episode is the first appearance of the set piece depicting the entrance to the Gorgan's cave. It would be seen again in many third season episodes, including , , , and . The arboretum set was originally built for , but became a deleted scene due to time constraints. It was later modified for the arboretum that appeared in . The mirror in which Uhura sees her aged reflection at the communications station is never used in any other episode. Of course, like Uhura's reflection, the mirror itself may have been an illusion created by the children. During one scene on the bridge, Kirk tries to give orders to Leslie, but his words are garbled. If the audio for this scene is played in reverse, Kirk can be heard to say, "Remove Lieutenant Uhura and Mr. Spock from the bridge. Confine them to quarters. Did you hear me? Take Mr. Sulu to his quarters. He's relieved of duty. Remove Lieutenant Uhura and Mr. Spock from the bridge. Confine them to quarters. Take Mr. Sulu to his quarters, I said. (garbled) Mr. Spock from the bridge. Confine him to quarters. Mr. Leslie, take Mr. Sulu to his quarters. He's relieved of duty." The attire worn by the children in this episode was designed by William Ware Theiss. Original sketches of the "playsuits" worn by Tommy, Don, and Steve appeared in the Star Trek: The Original Series Sketchbook (p. 155) The dress worn by the one of the female members of the Starnes Exploration Party was also created by Theiss, and was previously worn by Janet Wallace in . (Star Trek: The Original Series Sketchbook, p. 135) In fact, both costumes worn by Wallace can be seen in this episode, one worn by Don Linden's mother and the other worn by an unnamed woman (who commits suicide in the teaser). Professor Starnes and the other male colonists wore jumpsuits left over from , which were reused many times during the series. Another female Exploration Party member wore Martha Leighton's costume from . Continuity This is the only episode of the original series in which we see the fully fledged United Federation of Planets flag. Previous appearances, such as , simply used the pre-existing flag. Reception The Agony Booth website included this episode on their list of "The Worst of Trek". They even named "And the Children Shall Lead" as the worst episode of The Original Series. They write that the episode "has a script that offers virtually nothing: No suspense, no character development, no intriguing sci-fi premises, and not one memorable line of dialogue. The director of this episode, Marvin J. Chomsky, is generally regarded as a skilled TV director (he also helmed Billionaire Boys Club and several installments of Roots), but there's really nothing he could have done with this script. Considering the guy who wrote it, Edward J. Lakso, also went on to write some pretty lousy episodes of Charlie's Angels, The Fall Guy, and Airwolf, need I say any more?" The reviewer is also harsh on William Shatner's acting, which he sarcastically describes as being "renowned and imitated the world over." Describing Kirk's breakdown in the turbolift, he concludes, "There's no denying it: This is 100% grade-A pure Shatner here. We have now reached ShatNervana. The Shat goes through his entire range of grotesque, buffoonish facial expressions until Spock finally moves towards him, prompting Kirk to wildly grab him by the throat." Remastered information "And the Children Shall Lead" was the twenty-sixth remastered episode of the The Original Series to air. It premiered in syndication the weekend of and aside from the standard CGI replacement footage of the Enterprise, this episode most notably featured new effects shots of the planet Triacus. The next remastered episode to air was . Apocrypha In James Blish's novelization of this episode, Sulu is terrified by the sight of missiles on the viewscreen, not swords as in the televised version. More interestingly, the children sing spells to cause havoc among the crew rather than making the fist-pumping gesture as shown on-screen. Gorgan also played a feature role in Greg Cox's Q Continuum trilogy of Next Generation novels published in . He is part of a powerful gang of interstellar evil-doers which includes the God-imposter from and the entity from . Not much is really added to Gorgan's origin and motivations, as Cox is content to emphasize Gorgan's modus operandi of using children to cause chaos, though Gorgan's placement on Triacus is explained. Video and DVD releases Original US Betamax release: UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 31, catalog number VHR 2383, US VHS release: UK re-release (three-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 3.2, Original US DVD release (single-disc): Volume 30, As part of the TOS Season 3 DVD collection As part of the TOS-R Season 3 DVD collection Links and references Starring William Shatner as Capt. Kirk Also starring Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock And DeForest Kelley as Dr. McCoy Co-starring Craig Hundley as Tommy Starnes And James Wellman as Professor Starnes And Melvin Belli as Gorgan James Doohan as Scott Majel Barrett as Nurse Chapel Nichelle Nichols as Uhura George Takei as Sulu Walter Koenig as Chekov Pamelyn Ferdin as Mary Caesar Belli as Steve Mark Robert Brown as Don Brian Tochi as Ray Lou Elias as 1st Technician Uncredited co-stars Paul Baxley as Freeman William Blackburn as Hadley Frank da Vinci as Transporter Ass't Brent (stock footage) Dick Dial as Security Guard #2 Roger Holloway as Roger Lemli Jay Jones as 2nd Technician Jeannie Malone as a Crewwoman Eddie Paskey as Leslie Vic Toyota as Mr. Unknown actors as Janowski Mr. Security Guard #1 Security Guard #2 Unknown actressas Mrs. O'Connel Mrs. Old Uhura References ability; adult; ; "all the time"; alien; angel; answer; anxiety; army; arrest; assailant; associate; assumption; astrogator; auxiliary control; bacteria; banana; beast; bee; behavior; Biochemical substance; blindness; bridge control monitor; bridge monitor screen; bridge navigation system; card; carrier; cave; century; chant; cherry; child (children); child specialist; chocolate; chocolate wobble; civilization; coconut; computer; contact; coordinates; course; crisis; cyalodin; danger; day; death; detention section; destination; diagnosis; dinner; disease; distress call; Epsilon Indi system; enemy; evaluation laboratory; evidence; evil; excavation; expedition; experience; explanation; fact; family; favorite; fear; fear of punishment; Federation; Federation records; Federation settlement; feeling; fire; flavor; freeze tag; friend; Friendly Angel; food synthesizer; foreign substance; fun; general; gentleness; God; grieving; hail (meteorology); home video; hospital; hour; Human; humanoid; hypothesis; ice cream; idea; identification; information; "in the light of"; "just a moment"; lacunar amnesia; Latin language; leader; legend; lie; lifeform; Marcos XII; marauder; mass suicide; medical officer; mental depression; Milky Way Galaxy; mind; mission; "of course"; opinion; order; pain; parent; patrol area; peach; picnic; picture; pistachio; place; population; ; professor; promise; punishment; quarters; question; questioning; reality; relief duty; rest; "Ring Around the Rosie"; scientific colony; scientist; screen; security team (aka security detachment); sensor; snow; spaceship; speed; standard orbit; Starbase 4; Starfleet; Starfleet Command; Starnes Exploration Party; Starnes' relatives; sting; stowaway; suicidal anxiety; swarm; sympathetic vibration; tape; tension; term; thing; tour of duty; transport; transporter room; traumatic shock; Triacus; Triacus marauders; tricorder; truth; "under arrest"; United Federation of Planets (UFP); universe; unscientific; vanilla ice cream; Vulcan; "wait a minute"; "what the devil"; white; Wilkins External links de:Kurs auf Marcus 12 es:And the Children Shall Lead fr:And the Children Shall Lead (épisode) it:Sul pianeta Triacon (episodio) ja:悪魔の弟子達（エピソード） nl:And the Children Shall Lead pl:And the Children Shall Lead TOS episodes

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Spock's Brain (episode)

An alien lady invades the Enterprise and steals Spock's brain. Kirk, McCoy and a landing party beam down to a planet in a desperate race to retrieve it. (Season Premiere) Summary Teaser The crew of the follows an ion drive vessel. Scotty finds the ion engine particularly interesting. A lady from that ship transports herself onto the bridge and presses her bracelet to render everyone on the Enterprise unconscious. She slips deliberately among the crew until she finds Spock. Mysteriously, she presses her hand against the first officer's head. Act One When the crew awakens, they find that Spock is missing from the bridge. Dr. McCoy urgently calls Captain Kirk down to sickbay, where he finds Spock on a biobed. McCoy struggles to explain that, somehow, Spock's brain has been surgically removed, leaving the body alive but on full life support. Kirk proposes to find Spock's brain, but McCoy warns that the unique properties of Vulcan physiology give them only 24 hours to reintegrate it into the science officer's body. The Enterprise uses the bulk of those hours following an ion trail to the Sigma Draconis system. Ensign Chekov places a schematic of the system on the viewscreen, pointing out that there are three class M planets. With only eight hours remaining to save Spock, Kirk has time to visit only one of the planets before Spock's body expires, so he holds an informal staff meeting on the bridge with Chekov, Sulu, and Uhura to arrive at a decision. None of them seems capable of supporting interstellar flight, but Uhura finds large, regular energy pulsations on the otherwise glaciated and pre-industrial Sigma Draconis VI. The unlikely world thus becomes Kirk's best hunch. If he is wrong, Spock will die. Act Two Kirk, Chekov, Scotty, and two security officers beam down to the frigid surface. There, they detect five large, primitive male humanoids. Kirk's landing party prepares as the natives approach. The natives threw rocks and simple clubs at Kirk's men until Kirk phasers one who falls, stunned. The others retreat. The stunned Morg, is confused because Kirk and Scott do not seem like "the Others", whom he describes as being the givers of "pain and delight." Kirk is puzzled because the Morg does not understand what it means to have a mate nor does he seem to understand exactly what a female is. Chekov finds evidence of an underground city with his tricorder. Scott finds food and weapons stored in a cave, but Kirk discovers a sensor and surmises that the cave is a trap the Eymorg use to capture the male natives. McCoy beams down with Spock, whom he has fitted with a remote-controlled device to substitute for his brain. They allow themselves to be captured. Chekov and the Enterprise security officers remain above ground; Chekov uses his phaser to heat a rock to help them stay warm, since Kirk and company may be a while. In the underground city, they encounter Luma, one of "the Others" – a race of beautiful females, the Eymorg, who live in comfort below the surface of the planet, but have the minds of children. Captain Kirk finds that he is able to establish contact with Spock's brain by using his communicator. Spock reports that he is well but that he does not know where he is. They find the woman they saw on board the Enterprise immediately before Spock's brain was removed, who renders them unconscious by pressing a button on a device located on her wrist. They are taken prisoner. Act Three When the landing party comes to, they find that they have been outfitted with silver belts that have large, round green devices at the abdomen. Kirk demands to know what has happened to Spock's brain, but the Eymorg do not understand what a brain is or what is the Enterprise. Finally they understand that the "Controller" the Eymorg speak of is Spock. It seems that these women have somehow connected Spock's brain into their computer and that his brain is responsible for running their expansive underground dwelling because they, as a race, have long forgotten how to take care of themselves. Having been left alone, McCoy, Scott, and Kirk incapacitate the guards. Kirk speaks to Spock using the communicator. They inform him that his brain has been removed and it is being used as some sort of controller. Spock reports that he has a body that stretches into infinity and his medulla oblongata seems to be breathing, pumping blood, and maintaining temperature. Spock suggests that the intent to restore his brain might be impractical; he would trust McCoy to remove a splinter or lance a boil, but the knowledge to replace his brain does not exist in the universe. Kirk, however, insists that if the knowledge exists to remove his brain, there must be knowledge to put it back. He instructs Spock to send out a signal so that they may find where he is being kept. Spock complies. As they make their way to the chamber, Kirk asks about the belts. Spock accesses the information: one must press a red button on a bracelet in order to release the belt. They enter the chamber where Spock's brain is kept, but an Eymorg is in the chamber and activates the pain belt. Kirk uses the remote control device to use Spock's body to grab 's bracelet and press the red button, releasing the belts. With the crew freed, Kara pleads that Spock's brain must remain connected or their civilization will die. Kirk tells Spock that he is in a black box connected by light rays to a control panel. He wonders if the sensations he is feeling means that Spock is recirculating air, running heating plants, and purifying water. Kirk asks Kara how she was able to remove Spock's brain by placing on her head a device known as the "teacher". They place it over her head, and she suddenly speaks with erudition. She admits that she does have the knowledge, but she also now knows to use a phaser, which she points at Kirk. It is set to kill. Act Four Kara and Kirk debate over the proper disposition of Spock's brain. Scott pretends to faint and distracts Kara; they obtain the phaser from her. She says that the teacher will provide knowledge for three hours, which McCoy says would be just long enough to effect the transplant, but she refuses to perform the operation. McCoy points out that he has medical knowledge and should be able to use what he already knows and retain the knowledge. McCoy places the teacher on his head and receives the knowledge; when he recovers, he says "Of course; of course. A child could do it. A child could do it." McCoy begins quickly restoring Spock's brain, using the same knowledge originally used to remove it. However, after a time, McCoy begins losing the knowledge he has gained. He exclaims in despair, "I am trying to thread a needle with a sledgehammer!" Drawing on his own skills with only a few minutes left, he connects Spock's speech center, allowing Spock to speak. Spock then assists McCoy in completing the reconnection of his brain. "I'll never live this down," McCoy says, "this Vulcan is telling me how to operate." Upon his restoration, Spock makes a speech that explains the history of this retrograde civilization and the split of the sexes. McCoy then laments, "I should have never reconnected his mouth." "Well, we took the risk, doctor," Kirk jokes. Log entries Captain's log, USS Enterprise (NCC-1701), 2268 Ship's log, USS Enterprise Memorable quotes "His brain is gone!" - McCoy to Kirk, as Spock lies unconscious in sickbay "What if you guess wrong, captain?" "If I guess wrong, Mr. Spock is dead. Spock will die." - Chekov, when Kirk selects Sigma Draconis VI as the possible location of Spock's brain "Call Chekov and tell him to send my stomach down." - McCoy, after rapidly descending in the Sigma Draconis VI elevator "Brain and brain! What is brain?!" - Kara, frustrated by the constant inquiries about Spock's brain "Pain and delight, he said up above." "I'm sure you noticed the delight aspect." "Yes, I certainly did notice those delightful aspects." - Kirk and McCoy, on the females of Sigma Draconis VI "This fellow is keeping us from our property." "Well, isn't there a way to correct that situation?" - Kirk and Scott, before overpowering the guards "While I might trust the doctor to remove a splinter or lance a boil, I do not believe he has the knowledge to restore a brain." - Spock, on McCoy's difficulty in restoring his brain "The Controller is young and powerful. Perfect!" "How very flattering." - Kara and Spock, after the pain bands fly off from Kirk, McCoy, and Scott "No one may kill a man. Not for any purpose. It cannot be condoned." - Kirk to Kara, as she points a phaser at him "A child could do it." - McCoy, after receiving the medical knowledge from the Great Teacher "I should have never reconnected his mouth." "Well, we took the risk, doctor." - McCoy and Kirk, after Spock starts describing the culture of Sigma Draconis VI Background information Production timeline Story pitch by Lee Cronin, Story outline by Cronin, First draft teleplay, Revised story outline by Fred Freiberger, Second draft teleplay by Cronin, Revised second draft teleplay, late- Final draft teleplay by Arthur Singer, Revised final draft teleplay by Freiberger, Additional page revisions by Freiberger, , , , Filmed: – Day 1 – , Monday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Bridge, Corridors, Sickbay Day 2 – , Tuesday – Desilu Stage 10: Ext. Planet surface Day 3 – , Wednesday – Paramount Stage 3: Int. Council chambers Day 4 – , Thursday – Paramount Stage 3: Int. Underground corridors, Central control room Day 5 – , Friday – Paramount Stage 3: Int. Central control room Day 6 – , Monday – Desilu Stage 10: Ext. Planet surface, Int. Cave; Desilu Stage 9: Int. Bridge Score recording, Original airdate, Rerun airdate, First UK airdate Story and script This was the third season's premiere, written by "Lee Cronin", the pseudonym of former writer and producer Gene L. Coon. Based on his April 1968 story outline, this episode underwent significant revisions before the final draft. Among the early concepts: Spock's brain was taken while he, Kirk, and McCoy were exploring the surface of an asteroid. The antagonists were from the planet "Nefel," and were known as the "Nefelese." Their leader is a male named "Ehr Von." Also, there is no mention of the "Teacher." When Kirk contacts Spock's brain, he instructs the brain to go into the slon porra, the Vulcan state of complete mental control. McCoy received no transfusion of any special surgical knowledge except for a study of the planet's advanced surgical techniques. Only when combined with his existing surgical knowledge is he then able to perform the surgery. After McCoy completes the brain implant surgery, Spock experiences several side effects from McCoy having reversed the connections of several nerve endings, causing Spock to, among other things, laugh when he wants to sneeze. He is, however, able to restore the errors with his own mental disciplines. Co-Producer Robert Justman, who described the episode as being "late lamented," contributed to this story by suggesting that Spock's brain direct Doctor McCoy in the operative procedures of replacing it into Spock's body. (TOS-R Season 3 DVD special features) In , his 2008 autobiography, William Shatner jokes that the plot of this episode is a "tribute" to NBC executives who had slashed the show's budget and placed the show in an undesirable time-slot. This is the only episode title of the original series that includes an Enterprise crew member's name. Characters that received a title mention in later series include Q with eight titles, Data with three, Julian Bashir with two, one for each of Deanna Troi, Aquiel Uhnari, Quark, and Morn. Production This was the last episode to be directed by regular Trek director Marc Daniels. Daniels was unhappy with the budget cuts the series suffered for the third season and the direction it was taking overall, and declined to come back to helm more episodes. (These Are the Voyages: TOS Season Three) However, Daniels later wrote the episode for and directed the pilot Planet Earth for Gene Roddenberry. The score for this episode (by Fred Steiner and recorded on ) was re-used in later episodes during the playback of Kirk's final message in and Kirk's return in the transporter room in the same episode, for example. The battle music from this episode later scored Kirk and Kang's sword fight in . This is the first and only episode besides the first pilot where characters walk in front of the main viewscreen showing a moving starfield. This was achieved by using rear projection instead of the usual post-production matte used in viewscreen shots. A gag scene was filmed during the production of this episode, showing Leonard Nimoy in handcuffs, with a prop gun pointed at him, holding a newspaper with the headline, "Spock gets two-year prison term". Psychologist Benjamin Spock was sentenced to prison after encouraging draft evaders and claiming the Vietnam War to be anti-constitutional on , during the filming of this episode. During one of the takes where Kara reaches for Spock's head, Leonard Nimoy reaches up and grabs "Kara"'s wrist, ostensibly to prevent her from stealing his brain. (Star Trek: Lost Scenes) Legacy The authors of the guidebook Star Trek 101 applied this episode's title to the "Spock's Brain" Award, given to the worst episode of each series as voted on by fans. The recipients were , , , , and . Ronald D. Moore once implied that he considered this episode tolerable but the second weakest installment of TOS after , commenting that it had "campy fun" to "get you through it." () Sets and props Westheimer Effects created the unique glaciated planet seen from orbit in this episode. Matt Jefferies designed the "control device" used to pilot the brainless Spock, later identified as a neural stimulator. Sketches depicting several design variations of this prop, including an optional variant with antennae and a chest band variant (reminiscent in design to the pain bands), appeared in the Star Trek: The Original Series Sketchbook (p. 53). Footage of the Eymorg's computer displays in operation is recycled footage from and . Costumes The jumpsuit that Leonard Nimoy wears on the planet's surface appears to have been the same one he wore in , complete with black shirt. Continuity This is the only instance of Sulu recording a log entry while in command during TOS. In his log entry, he refers to Sigma Draconis VI as Sigma Draconis VII, a mistake Kirk made in an earlier log entry as well. The lexicon in the Star Trek Concordance also makes note of this oversight in dialogue. Kirk also lists the wrong "stardate" at the beginning of Act Two as 4351.5, when it is supposed to be 5431.5. This marks the third of five times that Sulu is seen in the captain's chair while temporarily in command. The first time happened in , the second in . The last two occur in and . Apocrypha The novelization of this episode explained that McCoy was the only person who could use the Great Teacher since he had pre-existing medical knowledge, showing why the other members of the crew could not use the Great Teacher to assist in healing Spock. Remastered information The remastered version of "Spock's Brain" aired in many North American markets during the weekend of . The episode marked several script-appropriate departures from the original broadcast version. Given the generic design of the original ion starship, it would seem unlikely that Scotty could have recognized its propulsion system just by the hull design. The remastered version thus gives the hull a unique, easily identifiable shape. The CBS description of the model stated: "In the episode "Spock's Brain" the ion propulsion spacecraft spotted by the Enterprise in 2268 certainly impressed Scotty with its design and technology. The comparison between the original and the remastered version provides two totally different looks, with styles defined more by the contemporary technology. The original is a standard rocket-shaped configuration. At the time, "spaceships" tended to fall into one of two classic looks, the other being the flying saucer.The new, remastered version of the ion propulsion craft is smaller and more utilitarian, reflecting its single-person occupancy, and it ditches the unnecessary missile/rocket configuration. The design also reflects more modern-day ion propulsion prototypes." The planet Sigma Draconis VI received a fresh, computer-generated appearance both from orbit and from the surface. In the original orbit shot, the planet appears to have a wide band of ocean peeking out from a less-than-uniform ice cap. In the remastered version, the ice coverage is solid, with only small strips of land present, as the script demands, "at the tropics". Also, the color of the planet from orbit closely matches the color of the land on the surface. On the surface, the landscape has been modified as well. In the original, there was only a slight indication that the action was taking place on a planet that was mostly ice. By contrast, the remastered version makes this more apparent through the use of a new matte painting. Video and DVD releases Original US Betamax release: UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 32, catalog number VHR 2384, US VHS release: UK re-release (three-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 3.2, Original US DVD release (single-disc): Volume 31, As part of the TOS Season 3 DVD collection As part of the TOS-R Season 3 DVD collection Links and references Starring William Shatner as Capt. Kirk Also starring Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock And DeForest Kelley as Dr. McCoy Guest star Marj Dusay as With James Doohan as Scott Walter Koenig as Chekov George Takei as Sulu Nichelle Nichols as Uhura Majel Barrett as Nurse Chapel James Daris as Creature Sheila Leighton as Luma Uncredited co-stars William Blackburn as Hadley Fred Carson as creature 2 Frank da Vinci as Brent Roger Holloway as Roger Lemli Pete Kellett as creature 3 Jeannie Malone as Yeoman Eddie Paskey as Leslie Frieda Rentie as Sciences crew woman 2 Unknown actors as Eymorgs 1 and 2 Morgs 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, and 9 Crewman Engineering technician Operations crew woman (archive footage) Sciences crew woman 1 (archive footage) Sciences crew woman 3 Security guard 1 Security guard 2 Stunt doubles Paul Baxley as William Shatner's stunt double Ron Burke as DeForest Kelley's stunt double Jay Jones as James Doohan's stunt double References 8,000 BC; 1485; 2030; ability; alien; "all right"; ancients; answer; apish; area; assignment; atmosphere (aka air); atrophy; autonomic function; ; black; blood; body; boil; "Bones"; box; brain; bread; breathing; builder; building; ; cave; chance; child; "child's play"; civilization; class M; communicator; condition report; contact; control bracelet; Controller, the; control panel; creature; cultural development; deaction shift; deck; delight; device; disassociation; disembodied; ; Earth; elbow; enemy; energy; ; entrance; evolution; experience; explanation; Eymorg; Eymorg complex; Eymorg starship; Fahrenheit; feeding circuit; feeling; fire; flattery; fluid balance; food; forefinger; forging; foundation; frequency; friend; Gamma 9; genius; glacier; glacial age; Great Teacher; ganglia; hail; harm; head; ; heating plant; history; home; ; hour; house; Human; humanoid; ice; idea; individual; industrial development; industrial scale; infinity; interstellar flight; interstellar symbol; "in a minute"; "in that case"; ion power; ion propulsion; ion trail; knowledge; ; landing party; language; leader; ; liaison; lifeform; ; life support cycle; life support system; light; light ray; long range scan; machine; magnetic lock; magnification; manager; maximum speed; meaning; medical officer; medulla oblongata; mental faculty; metal; meter; mile; Milky Way Galaxy; million; mind; minute; miracle; mission; mistake; ; Morg; mouth; needle; nerve; nerve ending; neural stimulator; nitrogen; nuclear pile; "of course"; "one by one"; "on the whole"; object; orbit; organism; organizer; oxygen; pain; pain band; pain-giving device; phaser; phaser bank; physical reaction; physiologic temperature; physiology; place; population; priestess leader; prisoner; problem; property; question; readout; red; red alert; remote control; report; retrograde civilization; risk; rock; Romans; sapient life; schematic; schism; science; screen; search; secret; security guard; security team; sensation; Sigma Draconis primary; Sigma Draconis system; Sigma Draconis I; Sigma Draconis II; Sigma Draconis III; Sigma Draconis III natives; Sigma Draconis IV; Sigma Draconis IV natives; Sigma Draconis V; Sigma Draconis VI; Sigma Draconis VI city; Sigma Draconis VI natives; Sigma Draconis VII; Sigma Draconis VIII; Sigma Draconis IX; skill; skin; sledgehammer; sonic separator; space; spaceship; spectral type; speech center; splinter; standard interstellar symbols; "stand by"; ; steam; stomach; storehouse; stranger; surface; surgeon; surgery (aka operation); surgical techniques; table; tape; tape storehouse; teaching device; technology; technological rating; temperature; tempering; terror; "thank God"; thief; thing; time; training device; transferal beam; transporter room; trap; tri-laser connector; tropical zone; underground complex; velocity; vocal cords; voice; volcanic activity; volition; Vulcan; warning device; water purifier; weapon; word; wrist; year External links de:Spock’s Gehirn es:Spock's Brain fr:Spock's Brain (épisode) ja:盗まれたスポックの頭脳（エピソード） nl:Spock's Brain pl:Spock's Brain TOS episodes

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Is There in Truth No Beauty? (episode)

A beautiful woman escorts an alien ambassador so hideously ugly that the sight of him can drive a Human insane. Summary Teaser The is assigned to transport the Medusan ambassador Kollos back to his homeworld. Brilliant navigators with unique mental abilities, the Medusans are so different physically that any Humans go insane at just the mere sight of them. Vulcans, however, can safely view them by wearing a protective visor. The ambassador (in a protective box) beams aboard along with Dr. Miranda Jones and Larry Marvick, one of the designers of the Enterprises engines. Act One Kirk clears the way on the Enterprise for Spock and Jones to escort the ambassador to his quarters. Jones says she is a telepath tasked with performing a Vulcan mind meld with the ambassador, which has never been done before. Spock was initially asked for the assignment, but he turned it down. Jones becomes suspicious of this. At dinner in full dress, Dr. Jones tells Captain Kirk, Scott (in a kilt), McCoy and Marvick that she studied on Vulcan for four years to learn (among other things) how to temper her telepathic abilities, shutting out the thoughts of others, and not go mad. Her goal for the mind link is a preliminary step toward Medusans becoming navigators on starships. Marvick's part will be to adapt the instrumentation to meet the needs of those navigators. At the dinner, Dr. Jones points out that Spock is wearing an IDIC, but he reassures her that he wears it to honor her and not to suggest that he could more easily use the Vulcan mind meld to communicate with the Medusans. McCoy wonders aloud why someone would risk going mad by attempting this research. Spock chides McCoy for subscribing to the "outmoded notion promulgated by your ancient Greeks that what is good must also be beautiful." Kirk concedes that one of the last prejudices faced by Humans is to be attracted to what is beautiful, and makes a toast to Jones, "the most beautiful woman to grace a starship." Jones retorts by wondering why McCoy would look on disease and suffering for the rest of his life, and he then gives a toast "to whatever she wants the most." Before they take another drink, Jones receives the disturbing sensation that someone nearby is thinking of murder. The feeling passes but she quickly excuses herself. It turns out that Marvick loves Jones. He comes to her quarters and pleads with her not to go with Kollos, but she rejects him. She then realizes that it's Marvick who wants to commit murder, and she urges him to seek help, but he leaves. Marvick tries to kill Kollos with a hand phaser, but looks upon him during the attempt. He goes mad and runs out of Kollos' room down a corridor in a frenzy. Act Two An insane Marvick heads to engineering, knocking out Hadley on the way. Kirk, Spock, and McCoy, accompanied by Lemli and Leslie, go to the ambassador's quarters where they find Dr. Jones. She informs them that no harm has come to Kollos, although Larry Marvick tried to kill him. Jones confirms that Marvick did see Kollos, at which Spock notes that dangerous insanity will soon result in him. In engineering, Scotty, thinking Marvick has taken him up on his previous bet that he wouldn't be able to handle the controls he helped design, hands over the console to Marvick. As he does, Kirk makes a shipwide announcement that Marvick has just attempted to murder Kollos, that he is insane and extremely dangerous. Scotty tries to wrestle Marvick away from the controls, but Marvick attacks him and his staff, rendering them all unconscious, and speeds the Enterprise past warp factor 9.5 which propels them through the Galactic barrier and into an uncharted void outside the Milky Way Galaxy. Spock and Chekov try to disengage the engines from the bridge's engineering station, but have no luck. Upon hearing Marvick's ranting in engineering, Kirk, McCoy, and a security team, along with Dr. Jones, rush to the engine room to stop Marvick. Still ranting and raving, Marvick tries to grab Jones by the throat and screams at everyone to not love her, as she will kill them if anyone loves her. He then utters that he loves her, and suddenly dies of sheer terror. Act Three The Enterprise is now stranded in an uncharted void with no known points of reference by which to return to normal space. Spock says that in going beyond warp 9.5, the Enterprise entered a space-time continuum and left the galaxy. Kirk wonders whether Kollos with his superior navigational abilities inherent to Medusans can get the ship home; however, in order for the attempt to take place Spock must mind meld with Kollos so that he can provide the navigational skill while Spock physically pilots the ship. Spock notes Jones will certainly not allow it, and cannot be confined to quarters due to her abilities. Kirk decides to occupy her in an arboretum by asking her about her future. She eventually understands what is happening, and rushes to Kollos' quarters. Spock, already there, says he must be the one since he can pilot a starship. Furthermore, Dr. McCoy has surmised her secret and reveals that she is blind. Jones admits that she hides her blindness because she hates the pity of others, and has been using a sensor web worn over her clothes to feign sight. Jones argues that her sensor web gives her more detailed information than Human vision. Nonetheless, Kirk insists that she communicate with Kollos to understand that it is necessary for Spock to meld with Kollos. Kollos is brought to the bridge, and Spock initiates the mind meld near his station with a protective shield covering Kollos. Kollos speaks through Spock, recognizing Kirk as an old friend, McCoy, and Uhura. Kollos/Spock succeeds in returning the Enterprise to normal space by taking the helm from Sulu. Before returning, Kollos notes "how compact these bodies are" and how "remarkable" language is, but that Humans are "so alone, you live out your lives in this shell of flesh…terribly lonely." However, when the time comes to break the link, Kollos/Spock forgets the visor and looks upon Kollos in its native form. Act Four Spock arises from behind the shield stunned and begins attacking crewmembers. Kirk has to stun him with a phaser, from which Spock may die as a result. Spock is taken to sickbay, where Jones, with her Vulcan training, may be able to repair Spock's damaged mind. Against McCoy's advice, Kirk enters sickbay to convince her to help. She argues that she cannot help Spock, because his "mind has gone down too much". Kirk confronts her with her jealousy of Spock's ability and accuses her of not wanting Spock to recover, telling her that the true "ugliness is within you." Jones refuses to acknowledge the truth of her jealousy, telling Kirk to go away. Kirk leaves and tells McCoy that he may have made a mistake in going in to confront her and if Jones lets Spock die, that it was because she could not stand to hear the truth. Jones ultimately decides to help Spock, and successfully melds with and heals him. As a result, Jones gains her desired ability to link with Kollos to the same level that Spock can. In the transporter room, Jones meets Kirk and tells him that his words enabled her to see; Kirk gives her a rose. Jones tells Spock that she understands the great joy Spock felt upon linking with Kollos, and Spock is pleased that she understands. They wish each other peace and long life before Jones beams over to the Medusan ship. Log entries Captain's log, USS Enterprise (NCC-1701), 2268 Memorable quotes "Ambassador Kollos often finds the process of transport somewhat unsettling." "I understand. Our ship's surgeon often makes the same complaint." - Miranda and Spock, in the ambassador's quarters "Vulcan is not my idea of fun." - McCoy, upon learning that Miranda studied on Vulcan for four years "I think most of us are attracted by beauty and repelled by ugliness. One of the last of our prejudices. At the risk of sounding prejudiced, gentlemen, here's to beauty." - Kirk, toasting Miranda "How can one so beautiful condemn herself to look upon ugliness the rest of her life? Will we allow it, gentlemen?" "How can one so full of joy and the love of life as you, Doctor, condemn yourself to look upon disease and suffering for the rest of your life? Can we allow that, gentlemen?" - McCoy and Miranda, toasting each other "There's somebody nearby thinking of murder." - Miranda, sensing Marvick's intentions "The controls are all yours, and the bottle of scotch will be in your room this evening -if you can handle them." - Scott, to Marvick unaware he has gone insane "Don't love her! Don't love her! She'll kill you if you love her! I love you, Miranda." - Marvicks last words "You mean he just simply died." "I mean he evidently could not live with what he saw." "Or what he felt." -Kirk and McCoy, over Marvick's death "A madman got us into this and it's beginning to look as if only a madman can get us out." - Chekov, on the galactic void "In some ways, she is still most Human captain, particularly in the depth of her jealously." - Spock, to Kirk on Miranda Jones "You said that Pity is the worst [emotion] of all." "Pity, … Which I Hate." - Kirk and Miranda, on why she kept it a secret. "My compliments to you. And to your dressmaker." - Spock to Miranda, upon realizing that she is blind "And Uhura, whose name means freedom. She walks in beauty, like the night." "That's not Spock." "Are you surprised to find that I've read Byron, Doctor?" "That's Spock!" - Spock and McCoy, after Spock mind-links with Kollos "How compact your bodies are. And what a variety of senses you have. This thing you call… language though – most remarkable. You depend on it, for so very much. But is any one of you really its master? But most of all, the aloneness. You are so alone. You live out your lives in this… shell of flesh. Self-contained. Separate. How lonely you are. How terribly lonely." - Spock, speaking as Kollos after the Enterprise escapes from the void "With my words, I'll make you hear such ugliness as Spock saw when he looked at Kollos with his naked eyes! The ugliness is within you!" - Kirk to Miranda, as she refuses to heal Spock "Now, Spock, this is to the death. Or to life for both of us." - Miranda, before healing Spock "I suppose it has thorns." "I never met a rose that didn't." - Miranda and Kirk, as he gives her a flower in the transporter room "The glory of creation is in its infinite diversity." "And the ways our differences combine to create meaning and beauty." - Miranda and Spock, before she departs Background information The Vulcan IDIC was inserted into the script and into the episode at the behest of Gene Roddenberry, who wanted to sell the prop as an item at his Lincoln Enterprises. Nimoy, Shatner, and others were outraged at this, and Roddenberry was called to the set to negotiate with the actors. Finally, he agreed to rewrite the dinner scene. The IDIC symbol was used, but in a much less prominent way. When Jessica Walter, the original actress proposed for the role of Miranda Jones became unavailable and a search for a replacement was fruitless, director Ralph Senensky recommended Diana Muldaur for the role, since they'd worked together the previous season in and also in an episode of I, Spy. According to Senensky there was a policy against the reuse of guest stars in different roles (a claim refuted by the large number of actors who did, in fact, return to the series in multiple roles). This problem was solved by having Muldaur wear a black wig, creating a different appearance for the actress. After viewing the rushes, co-producer Robert H. Justman walked out of the screening room saying, "I wonder how she looks in a red wig", jokingly referring to another possible appearance by Muldaur in a potential fourth season. According to the Star Trek 30th anniversary book, Mike Minor painted the pictures of exotic planets seen in the dining room. They reappeared in Kirk's quarters in other third-season episodes. The arboretum (which was located on the swing set of Desilu Stage 10) was originally built for , but its appearance ended up as a deleted scene. Apart from this episode, it was only seen in . Actually, it is generally "assumed" that this is the arboretum. On entering, Kirk says, "I may be sentimental, but this is my favorite place: Earth" – possibly indicating that this is Roddenberry's half-hearted attempt at introducing a "holography area," which he had planned for the next season (and which he promised to NBC executives in a pre-season letter). However, since Kirk gives Dr. Jones a non-holographic red rose at the end of the episode, indications are strong that the room was not a projection. (Inside Star Trek: The Real Story), This is one of only two instances in which Scotty wears a dress uniform complete with ancestral tartan. But whereas he wears white socks in this episode, in he wears red ones. Matt Jefferies designed the container that held Ambassador Kollos. Shots of the Enterprise in the galactic void are recycled from . It is never made clear exactly where the Enterprise had been thrown; speculation includes a return trip to the galactic barrier, an earlier trip to the Great Barrier seen in , or to some other distant location in space, perhaps even outside the normal space-time continuum. A very rare stock shot of the Enterprise is used when the ship warps towards the barrier under Marvick's control: it is taken from the opening of (just before the "Guest Star Susan Oliver" credit) and shows the Enterprise at high speed blasting towards the camera. The same shot is reused later in . This was Eddie Paskey's last appearance in the series. Paskey suffered a back injury while filming the scene of Spock attacking his crewmates (due to the injury, he was excluded from the scene). This, along with the bright lights on the set causing him constant headaches, made him decide to leave the series after this episode. (These Are the Voyages: TOS Season Three) This is the third and last episode of the original series to include a question mark in the title (the other episodes being and ). When David Frankham guest-starred on the The Outer Limits episode "Do Not Open Till Doomsday", his character was also the victim of an alien hidden in a box which injured those who glimpsed it. The vibrant animated effects used to represent the form of the Medusan, and the momentary insert shots of the receptacle (during the dinner scene for example) were added in post-production, without director Ralph Senensky's knowledge or approval. This is the last appearance of antigravs in the series. Despite Dr. McCoy's insistence that Dr. Jones cannot pilot the Enterprise due to her blindness, by the time of , Geordi La Forge; a blind man, was the helmsman of the during the first season. This may have more to do with the limitations of her sensor web as compared to the VISOR. There are several references to Shakespeare in this episode. Miranda was the name of Prospero's virginal daughter in The Tempest. Spock/Kollos and Miranda also reference the play when Kollos sees Miranda for the first time through humanoid eyes: "O brave new world, That has such creatures in't." To which Miranda answers, "Tis new to thee." (Spock/Kollos says "…such creatures…", a common misquotation; the play's line is actually "…such people…") The episode title is from a poem by the 17th century English poet and clergyman George Herbert, from his poem "Jordan (I)", line 2: "Who says that fictions only and false hair/ Become a verse? Is there in truth no beauty?" This was an unsolicited script which Robert Justman read and recommended. In the third season blooper reel, Diana Muldaur blows one of her last lines by saying "We've come to the end of an eventful… trip." To which Shatner ad-libs, "I don't know what you've been taking…" The remastered version of this episode replaced the Medusan homeworld effect with that of a newly designed Medusan vessel. It strongly resembles one of the early sketches that art director Matt Jefferies drew of the , as reproduced in The Making of Star Trek. This episode included a rare glimpse of the seldom seen left side of the bridge opposite the turbolift. Production timeline Unsolicited treatment by Jean Lisette Aroeste, titled "Miranda", Story outline by Aroeste, Revised story outline, titled "Is There in Truth No Beauty?", First draft teleplay, Revised first draft teleplay, First draft script, Final draft teleplay by Arthur Singer, Page revisions by Gene Roddenberry, , , , Filmed – Day 1 – , Tuesday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Miranda's quarters, Corridors Day 2 – , Wednesday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Arboretum, Corridors Day 3 – , Thursday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Recreation room (redress of Briefing room) Day 4 – , Friday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Recreation room (redress of Briefing room), Transporter room, Bridge Day 5 – , Monday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Bridge Day 6 – , Tuesday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Bridge, McCoy's office, Sickbay, Corridor Day 7 – , Wednesday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Engineering, Corridors, Miranda's quarters Score recording, Original airdate, Rerun airdate, First UK airdate During the syndication run of Star Trek, no syndication cuts were made to this episode. Video and DVD releases Original US Betamax release: UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 32, catalog number VHR 2384, US VHS release: UK re-release (three-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 3.3, Original US DVD release (single-disc): Volume 31, As part of the TOS Season 3 DVD collection As part of the TOS-R Season 3 DVD collection Links and references Starring William Shatner as Kirk Also starring Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock DeForest Kelley as Dr. McCoy Guest star Diana Muldaur as Dr. Miranda Jones Co-starring David Frankham as Larry Marvick James Doohan as Scott George Takei as Sulu Nichelle Nichols as Uhura Walter Koenig as Chekov Uncredited co-stars William Blackburn as Hadley Robert Bralver as Engineer #1 Frank da Vinci as Brent Vince Deadrick as Engineer #2 Alan Gibbs as Security officer #3 Roger Holloway as Roger Lemli Jeannie Malone as Yeoman Eddie Paskey as Leslie Frieda Rentie as a Female sciences crewman (Corridor Group A) Unknown performers as Bridge engineer Steward Corridor Group A Female command crewman Female command lieutenant Male sciences crewman Corridor Group B Male command crewman Male command lieutenant Female operations crewman Male sciences crewman 1 Male sciences crewman 1 Stunt double Ralph Garrett as stunt double for David Frankham References ability; acceleration; achievement; aloneness; ambassador; annoyance; Antarean brandy; antigrav; autopsy report; beauty; blindness; body; "Bones"; bottle; brain activity; "brave new world"; bull's eye; centimeter; chance; choice; clearance plan; colleague; channel; companionship; compliments; confined to quarters; contact; course (aka heading); creature; damage report; ; death; deceiver; designer; desire; devil; dinner; disease; distance; door; double entity; dream; dressmaker; Earth; emergency; emotion; envy; evening; evolution; experience; explanation; eyes; fear; Federation; fine art; flesh; flower; freedom; fun; galactic barrier; galaxy; good; Greeks; greetings; harm; hatred; health; heart; heartbeat; idea; IDIC; impression; information; insanity; insult; intercom; jealousy; joy; kiss; knee; knowledge; Kollos; laboratory; language; liar; lie; Lord Byron; love; luck; machine; madman; madness; male; meaning; Medusans; Medusan homeworld; Medusan vessel; mental discipline; meter; Milky Way Galaxy; mind; mind link; minute; mission; mistake; moonlight; murder; murderer; name; navigator; night; opportunity; passageway; patient; peace; person; permission; physical appearance; pilot; pity; place; planet (unnamed); population; position report; ; prejudice; privacy; protective shield; psychologist; quarters; race (aka species); rapport; reality; red alert; reference point; restaurant; respiration; result; return course; risk; rival; room; rose; sadism; sanity; scotch; Scots language; sense; sensor; sensory system; sensor web; shell; ship's surgeon; smell (aka scent, stench); solution; space; space-time continuum; starship; strangulation; suffering; suffocation; Sublight factor; suicide; telepath; telepathy; ; tennis; thing; thorn; thought; toast; transporter; transporter control center; truth; ugliness; universe; unnamed planet; violence; visor; ; Vulcans; Vulcan salute; Vulcan symbol; wager; warp drive; warp factor; warp speed; "wee"; word; year External links de:Die fremde Materie es:Is There In Truth No Beauty? fr:Is There in Truth No Beauty? 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The Empath (episode)

On a doomed planet Kirk, Spock, and McCoy become the subjects of an alien experiment whose mysterious intention involves a beautiful, empathic woman. Summary Teaser The is ordered to evacuate a research station on the planet Minara II whose sun, Minara, is about to go nova. Captain Kirk, Commander Spock, and Doctor McCoy beam down to the planet. They find the six-month old research station abandoned, with dust covering the floor and desks, indicating that the station has been uninhabited for some time. Informed by Scott of an imminent solar flare with high levels of cosmic rays, Kirk immediately orders Scott to take the Enterprise out of orbit, reasoning that the landing party will be protected by the planet's atmosphere during the 74.1 solar hours it will take for the flare to subside. Upon consulting a visual tape recording, the landing party discovers that the two researchers, Drs. Ozaba and Linke, had mysteriously disappeared three months earlier amid a flurry of seismic activity and deafening noise. Soon after this discovery the landing party similarly vanishes, while hearing the same noise. Act One Kirk, Spock, and McCoy appear 121.32 meters (around 400 feet deep) below the planet's surface. They were transported by a matter-energy scrambler similar to their transporter technology. After wandering through a cavern, they encounter a humanoid woman reclining on a dimly lit, cross-shaped couch. McCoy wants to go forward because she looks harmless, but Spock reminds him that the sand bats of Manark IV look like inanimate rock crystals until they attack. The woman awakens but does not respond to any of Kirk's questions. McCoy determines that she does not have any vocal cords, not even vestigial, indicating that she comes from a species of s. Kirk observes that she is very much like the naturally mute people of the civilization on Gamma Vertis IV. McCoy names her Gem. Two different-looking humanoid aliens suddenly appear to the landing party. Identifying themselves as Vians, Thann and , they make it clear that they know the identities of the landing party. They demand that Kirk not interfere, and when he approaches they stun him with a hand-held control device with a red button on the face. Kirk points out that if the Vians know who they are, they also must know that they come in peace and that their Prime Directive prohibits interference. The Vians momentarily trap the landing party in a force field while they tend to Gem. McCoy tells Kirk not to fight the force field since it interferes with the body's metabolism. The Vians correct McCoy's hypothesis, saying that the field draws its strength from their bodies' energy and the more they resist the stronger the field becomes. They depart and the field vanishes. Kirk has suffered a cut on his forehead and when he touches Gem to see if she is all right, she recoils in pain. Gem composes herself and then touches Kirk's wound. With a flash, the wound is transferred to Gem's forehead. A doubting Kirk touches her wound and notes the blood on his finger. Suddenly, the wound on Gem's forehead quickly heals as well. McCoy, observing, is clearly impressed by her ability to heal and surmises that Gem is an empath. Her emotional system is so sensitive that it feels the pain of another and that pain becomes part of her, before she dissipates it. Spock finds that his tricorder now gives readings of electronically sophisticated devices elsewhere. Heading to the source of the readings, they find a laboratory with the deceased Drs. Linke and Ozaba trapped in clear tubes marked with their names, their bodies twisted in agony. Act Two There are also tubes designated for McCoy, Kirk, and Spock. One of the Vians appears and says there is need for more testing. He blames Ozaba's and Linke's "imperfections" for their deaths. While Kirk talks, Spock sneaks up behind and gives the Vian a Vulcan nerve pinch. As the landing party walks off toward a passage to the surface Spock has located, the Vian arises. Apparently the nerve pinch was less effective than normal. He joins his companion, and they share a look that indicates they are impressed with the crew. At the surface, Kirk tries to contact the Enterprise with his communicator, but the ship is out of range. He leads the landing party through a storm back to the abandoned research station, where it appears to them that Scotty, Lemli, and a security officer are waiting for them. Spock and McCoy go ahead with Gem, but Kirk spots the Vians watching them and stops. He moves toward them, but one uses his control unit to make Kirk move in slow motion. He remarks, "Their will to survive is great. They love life greatly to struggle so. The prime ingredient." When Spock, McCoy, and Gem reach the research station, the images of Scotty and the security officers suddenly vanish. Gem brings Spock and McCoy back to where Kirk is confronting the Vians. They announce that they only need one specimen, so Kirk sends the others back to the ship. The Vians transport them away, and then recapture Kirk. The Vians bring Kirk back to the laboratory. Here, where the bodies of Ozaba and Linke are displayed like specimens, the Vians chain a shirtless Kirk by his arms to the ceiling. They tell him they want to witness his courage and will to survive. Kirk asks, "Why? What is it you hope to prove? If my death is to have any meaning, at least tell me what I'm dying for!" Thann says that if Kirk lives, he will have his answer. Using their control units, they torture Kirk, as Gem watches helplessly. Spock and McCoy have been transported to the chamber where they originally met Gem. When Kirk and Gem are also transported there, Spock and McCoy are trapped in a force field. With McCoy's encouragement, Gem heals Kirk's wrist wounds. When she finishes, she collapses. The process is physically draining and, apparently, has its limits. The Vians return and indicate that, for their next experimental subject, Kirk must choose either Spock or McCoy. To make the decision all the more difficult, the Vians indicate that there is a 93% chance that Spock will suffer brain damage and permanent insanity, and an 87% chance that McCoy will die. Act Three Spock analyzes the confiscated Vian hand device. McCoy, uncomfortable with the wait, comments that it's not natural for a Human to live underground. Spock points out that some Humans spend the majority of their lives "beneath the surface." McCoy responds, "I'm a doctor, not a coal miner." Spock tells McCoy that he is recording his notes of the hand device in the tricorder in the event that he is taken by the Vians so that McCoy and Kirk can continue his work and escape. McCoy further protests, adding that he's not a mechanic and doubts he would be able to make it functional; Spock assures him that the two of them together will be able to figure it out. Plagued with symptoms resembling the bends, Kirk is caught off-guard by McCoy, who renders Kirk unconscious from behind with a hypospray. Now finding himself in command, Spock declares that he will go with the Vians at the appointed time, but McCoy sneaks behind Spock, who has been momentarily distracted by Gem, and renders him unconscious as well, intending to sacrifice himself for his two friends. All of these noble efforts at self-sacrifice are observed by Gem. Taken to the Vians' laboratory, McCoy undergoes extensive torture. Meanwhile, now awake, Spock has come to understand the Vian hand-held devices. They are control units, not control mechanisms – they are not a mechanical device at all. They are tuned to the pattern of electrical energy of the person who uses it and are activated simply by mental commands. Being most familiar with his own brain pattern, Spock re-tunes the device to his own pattern. Kirk points out that it is strange that the Vians let them keep the device if they would be able to understand it. They must want Spock and Kirk to escape and to leave McCoy behind. Spock completes the modifications and says he may only be able to effect one transport. He suggests there is enough energy to go back to the Enterprise, but Kirk would prefer to go to McCoy, stating "the best defense is a strong offense – and I intend to start offending right now." Spock transports Kirk, Gem and himself to the laboratory, where they find McCoy severely injured and on the verge of death. The Vians are nowhere to be found. Act Four Spock and Kirk release McCoy from his chains. He is in bad shape; with barely a pulse. Spock scans McCoy and finds that he has severe heart damage, congestion in both lungs, and his circulatory system is in danger of collapse. He is bleeding into the chest, his spleen and liver are hemorrhaging and his kidneys have 70% failure. Spock informs Jim that McCoy is dying and the best he can do is make him comfortable. McCoy compliments Spock on his bedside manner. Kirk suggests that Gem could heal McCoy, but he is not sure if the attempt will kill her. At least, he hopes, she can improve his condition so that McCoy can be healed on the Enterprise. Suddenly the Vians appear and trap Spock and Kirk in a force field; they demand that the Human and Vulcan not interfere and allow Gem to make her own choice without urging or forcing. It is their wish to see if Gem will attempt to help McCoy on her own at the cost of her own life – the completion of their test. At this time they explain to Kirk, Spock, and the dying McCoy that they have been part of an experiment. They have the power to save only one species from the impending nova, and so they wished to test whether Gem's species is worthy of being saved. Apparently the Vians want to be certain that she has learned the principles of: the will to survive, the passion to know and the love of life, and self-sacrifice from her contact with the landing party. These qualities, they say, make a civilization worthy to survive. As they speak, Gem has approached McCoy. The Vians are pleased that compassion has entered her "life-system." She moves her hands on McCoy's face, transferring his injuries to her. McCoy awakes, but Gem collapses, sobbing. She tries to help him more, but moves away in fear. Inside the force field, Spock points out that Gem is not the only one who can save McCoy: of course, the Vians must have the power to help. The Vians respond that McCoy's life is not important, but what is important is their experiment. McCoy starts coughing and Gem returns to his side. McCoy asks that Gem not touch him. If she touches him, she will die, and he cannot take life – even to save his own. Spock realizes that if he and Kirk were to suppress their emotion, they would be able to escape from the force field. Spock escapes first and takes the other control device from the Vians. Kirk demands that the Vians save McCoy but they refuse, demanding that the experiment continue. Offering to give her life, they say, is not sufficient. She must sacrifice her life. Kirk gives the Vians their control devices and reprimands them. They have forgotten what it means to feel the emotions they want Gem to experience. He scorns their lack of love and compassion, saying that they are nothing but intellect. The Vians heal McCoy and, taking Gem with them, teleport from the laboratory, presumably to save Gem's species. The landing party returns safely to the Enterprise, which has returned to orbit after the solar flare has subsided. Back on board, Kirk says he is awed by the element of chance that brought them into contact with Gem. Scotty observes that she must have been like the 'pearl of great price' (Matthew 13:45-46 of the Humans' Christian Bible). McCoy is pleased that, in the end, it was the strength of Human emotion that overcame their captivity by the dispassionate, intellectual Vians. Scotty suggests that the Vulcans be made aware of this and Kirk asks Spock to deliver the message. Spock sarcastically promises to give the thought all the due consideration it deserves. Kirk then orders Sulu to take the Enterprise to warp factor two. Log entries Captain's log, USS Enterprise (NCC-1701), 2268 Memorable quotes "Well, I don't know about you, but I'm going to call her Gem." "Gem, doctor?" "Well, that's better than Hey, you." - McCoy and Spock, after meeting Gem "Their own imperfections killed them." - Lal, on the deaths of Linke and Ozaba "If my death is to have any meaning, at least tell me what I'm dying for." "If you live, you will have your answer." - Kirk and Thann, during his torture "Some men spend the majority of their lives in mines beneath the surface." "I'm a doctor, not a coal miner." - Spock and McCoy, as Spock works on the Vian control device "Why did you let him do it?" "I was convinced in the same way you were, Captain. By the good doctor's hypo." - Kirk and Spock, on McCoy's surprise injections "The best defense is a strong offense, and I intend to start offending right now." - Kirk, on rescuing McCoy "He's dying, Jim." - Spock, about McCoy "You've got a good bedside manner, Spock." - McCoy, after his torture "This Arena of Death that you've devised for your pleasure… will it prevent this catastrophe?" - Kirk, to the Vians regarding the destruction of Minara "What could she learn from us?" "Your will to survive. Your love of life. Your passion to know. They are recorded in her being." - Kirk and Lal, on Gem "Jim, I can't destroy life, even if it's to save my own. I can't." - McCoy, as he pushes Gem away "Love and compassion are dead in you! You're nothing but intellect!" - Kirk, to the Vians "But from little what you've told me, I would say she was a pearl of great price." - Scott, on Gem Background information Production timeline Unsolicited script by Joyce Muskat, titled "The Answerer", early- Story outline by Muskat, Revised story outline by Arthur Singer, titled "The Empath", First draft teleplay by Muskat, late- Second draft teleplay, Final draft teleplay by Singer, Revised final draft teleplay by Fred Freiberger, , , Additional page revisions by Freiberger, , Filmed, – Day 1 – , Thursday – Desilu Stage 10: Ext. Planet surface Int. Science outpost Day 2 – , Friday – Paramount Stage 1: Int. Gem's area, Operation platform Day 3 – , Monday – Paramount Stage 1: Int. Gem's area, Underground corridors Day 4 – , Tuesday – Paramount Stage 1: Int. Gem's area Day 5 – , Wednesday – Paramount Stage 1: Int. Vians' lab Day 6 – , Thursday – Paramount Stage 1: Int. Vians' lab Day 7 – , Friday – Paramount Stage 1: Int. Vians' lab; Desilu Stage 9: Int. Science outpost, Bridge Score recording, Original airdate, First UK airdate Story and script This episode was written by Joyce Muskat, one of only four fans who were able to sell scripts to the original series, the others being David Gerrold, Judy Burns, and Jean Lisette Aroeste. Co-producer Robert Justman read her unsolicited script and recommended it be bought. (Inside Star Trek: The Real Story, p. 404) It was Muskat's only script sale. This was one of the few episodes to quote the Bible, specifically Psalm 95, verse 4: "In His hands are the deep places of the Earth. The heights of the mountains are His also." At the end of the episode, Scotty also references the Gospel of Matthew 13:45-46: "Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a merchant man, seeking goodly pearls: who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it." "The Empath" has similarities to a 1963 Outer Limits segment called "Nightmare". In that episode, Humans are brutally interrogated by aliens in a minimalistic set. John Erman also directed "Nightmare", Willard Sage (Thann) was one of those behind the interrogations, and Robert Justman was, at that time, an assistant director on the series. (The Star Trek Compendium) In the United Kingdom, the BBC skipped this episode in all runs of the series through to the early 1990s. An official BBC statement by Sheila Cundy of the Programme Correspondence Section reads: "After very careful consideration a top level decision was made not to screen the episodes entitled "Empath" [sic], "Whom The Gods Destroy" [sic], "" and "" [actually transmitted in 1970, but not re-aired until the '90s], because they all dealt most unpleasantly with the already unpleasant subjects of madness, torture, sadism and disease" (BBC form letter, undated, Reference 28/SPC). "The Empath" was finally shown for the first time on . It had previously been shown on Sky One, a subscription satellite TV channel. Production This is the only episode whose first-act credits open on a completely black background. The preview of the episode shows Gem's healing of wounds done by jump-cuts, rather than as fades. Regarding the sequence of Gem absorbing the boils, Kathryn Hays had to be strapped to a board in order to be kept absolutely still while make-up was applied and stop-motion photography filmed the progression. The few moments that appeared in the scene took eight hours to film. ( issue #3, p. 28) John Meredyth Lucas was originally hired to direct this episode (and ), but Paramount executive in charge of production Douglas S. Cramer vetoed his involvement, as he went over schedule and budget with earlier in the season. Then, Robert Justman came up with the idea of hiring John Erman, because of his involvement with the aforementioned "Nightmare". Erman wasn't entirely satisfied with the working conditions on the show (especially [as he called it] William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy's ill-behavior towards the guest director), and decided not to return to direct further episodes. (These Are the Voyages: TOS Season Three, pp. 240-241; 252) This was the final episode shot by director of photography Jerry Finnerman, who had shot every episode since (except and parts of ). Camera Operator Al Francis took over primary camera duty on the next episode filmed, . After Dr. McCoy is tortured by the Vians, the distressed tunic that DeForest Kelley is wearing is the velour tunic used in the first two seasons, not the new double-knit version created for the third. The difference in hue between Spock's tunic and McCoy's can be noticed in certain shots. During the syndication run of Star Trek, no syndication cuts were made to this episode. Effects Sound effects of the Vians' laboratory were previously used in the android Norman's lab in . The footage of the sun Minara is re-used from . The planet Minara II appears red in some orbital shots, but gold in others. Sets and props The helical staircase in the station was later reused in . The couch itself is a gigantic version of the agonizers seen in and . It was first seen as the Eymorg's table in . The tripodal device in the center of the Vian laboratory also appeared first in the episode "Spock's Brain" as the framework connected to the black box (by "light rays") that housed Spock's brain. It is inverted here from its position in that episode. The orange-red flickers that accompany the Vian transporter effect are frames of the same effect created to represent the Medusan ambassador Kollos. Cast Nichelle Nichols (Uhura) and Walter Koenig (Pavel Chekov) do not appear in this episode. This was DeForest Kelley's personal favorite episode. (The Star Trek Calendar (1986)) Continuity Though identified as Thann and Lal in the closing credits, the two Vians are never called by their proper names on-screen. In , Kirk (in Janice Lester's body) mentions the events of this episode to try to convince Spock of the mind switch. Video and DVD releases UK VHS release (CIC-Arena Video): catalog number VHL 2075, Original US Betamax release: UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 33, catalog number VHR 2385, '' US VHS release: UK re-release (three-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 3.3, Original US DVD release (single-disc): Volume 32, As part of the TOS Season 3 DVD collection As part of the TOS-R Season 3 DVD collection Links and references Starring William Shatner as Capt. Kirk Also starring Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock And DeForest Kelley as Dr. McCoy Guest star Kathryn Hays as Gem Co-starring Alan Bergmann as James Doohan as Scott George Takei as Sulu Davis Roberts as Dr. Ozaba Jason Wingreen as Dr. Linke And Willard Sage as Thann Uncredited co-stars William Blackburn as Hadley Roger Holloway as Roger Lemli Dick Geary as Security guard Unknown actors as Command crewman Sciences crewman Engineer Operations crew woman Illusory security guard Stunt doubles Paul Baxley as William Shatner's stunt double Unknown stunt performer as DeForest Kelley's stunt double References abdomen; "all right"; analysis; answer; arena; assumption; atmosphere; "at that rate"; bearing; bedside manner; bends; blood; body; body metabolism; "Bones"; brain damage; brain pattern; chance; ; chief medical officer; choice; circulatory collapse; circulatory system; civilization; coal; collection; compassion; computer; congestion of the lungs; contact; cosmic rays; courage; cut; danger; ; death; decompression chamber; device; distance; ; dust; emotion; emotional reaction; empath; energy; energy transfer device; environmental factor; estimate; evidence; evolution; exit; experiment; failure; fear; fear of death; force field; "for whatever it's worth"; frequency; friend; Gamma Vertis IV; Gem's planet; Gem's species; hand; hemorrhaging; head; heart; home; Homo sapiens; hour; humanoid; hypo; idea; identification; "if and when"; "in any case"; "in fact"; information; inhabitant; insanity; instinct; intellect; intention; internal bleeding; interrogation; kidney; kilometer; knowledge; laboratory; landing party; lifeform (aka life); light; liver; logic; lungs; Manark IV; matter-energy scrambler; meaning; mechanic; merchant; meter; Minara; Minara II; Minarian star system; Minara Station; mind; mine; miner; mirage; month; ; name; nervous system; nitrogen; object; observation; "on schedule"; "on the contrary"; orbit; order; pain; passage (aka passageway); passion; pathology; peace; pearl; "Pearl of Great Price"; percent; permission; person; phaser; physical reaction; physiology; place; pleasure; power source; price; Prime Directive; prime ingredient; prisoner; probability; proof; Psalm 95; pulse; quality; rate of decrease; record tape; research station; result; right; Ritter scale; rock crystal; sand bats; scientist; scientific knowledge; search party; self-preservation; self-sacrifice; sensor; sickbay; solar flare; solar hour; sound; space travel; specific gravity; specimen; spleen; storm; story; ; strength of will; subject; surface; ; symptom; "take it easy"; teacher; telepath; terror; "the best defense is a strong offense"; thing; thought; torture chamber; transporter mechanism; tricorder; value; vestigial; Vians; vocal cords; Vulcan; Vulcan neck pinch; week; : wound; wrist External links de:Der Plan der Vianer es:The Empath fr:The Empath (épisode) ja:恒星ミナラの生体実験（エピソード） nl:The Empath pl:The Empath TOS episodes

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The Tholian Web (episode)

While aboard the Starfleet ship USS Defiant, Captain Kirk disappears when the dead ship gets pulled into interspace. The Enterprise is under attack by a mysterious local race, the Tholians. Summary Teaser The searches for the , which vanished without a trace, in unsurveyed space three weeks earlier. They see a green glowing object, shaped like the Starship but sensors indicate that it is not there. As the ship moves closer, Captain Kirk identifies it as the Defiant and prepares to board the ship. Kirk, Spock, McCoy, and Chekov beam over to the vessel's forward secton of its bridge in environmental suits. Once aboard, they find the ship at red alert and discover the entire bridge crew dead and the Defiants commanding officer lying near his chair with another officer's hands on his neck, both dead. Act One When the party sees the ship's captain having been strangled by a crewman and the dead bridge crew, Chekov asks if there is any record of a mutiny on a Federation starship, and Spock says, "Absolutely no record of such an occurrence, ensign." When they discover there are no life signs on the vessel, the party splits up to investigate. McCoy checks out sickbay and finds many dead crew members, some restrained to the biobeds, while Chekov finds that the life support section and engineering are littered with dead bodies. After giving his report to Kirk, Chekov suddenly becomes dizzy and loses his balance. McCoy reports that the crew of the Defiant seems to have killed each other, but he cannot determine why. According to the ship's log, the surgeon on board didn't know what was going on either. He encounters a translucent dead body and can pass his hand through both it and a table in sickbay. He determines that the Defiant is dissolving. Kirk orders McCoy to return to the Defiants bridge immediately. As the Defiant starts to "blink" on and off, repairs are under way on the Enterprises transporter, which Montgomery Scott reports has become "jammed up." When Kirk and and the rest of the party are ready for beam-out, only three of the landing party can go at once. Spock requests permission to remain behind, but Kirk orders him back to the Enterprise and remains behind himself. During transport, Scott and Lieutenant O'Neil have trouble getting the three officers to materialize. The Defiant continues to blink on and off, and Scott eventually gets Chekov, Spock, and McCoy back onto the Enterprise. Kirk waits on the Defiants bridge while the Enterprise tries to beam him aboard. The Defiant disappears and Kirk is lost with it. Act Two Back on the bridge, Spock explains that space in this area is fractured and Kirk has slipped into another universe. He has determined that an interphase occurs for short periods during which one may travel between universes occupying the same point. In two hours, the computer calculates, another interphase will occur. However, the Enterprise must not expend any energy or the dimensional rift will be damaged and Kirk will be lost forever. During this explanation, Chekov becomes enraged and attacks Spock, who has to subdue him with a Vulcan nerve pinch. Clearly the Enterprise crew is subject to the same plague of madness that destroyed the crew of the Defiant. Spock must stay close to the space the Defiant was in in order to rescue Kirk at the right moment, or he will die, as his environment suit can provide air for only 3.62 hours. The conversation is interrupted by the approach of a geometric, rainbow-colored ship. A Tholian commander named Loskene informs the crew that they are trespassing on territory of the Tholian Assembly and they must leave immediately. Spock says that the Enterprise is engaged in a rescue mission but Loskene points out that there is no other ship present. In the interests of "interstellar amity", Loskene agrees to wait until exactly one hour and fifty-three minutes, the time Spock has calculated until the Defiant reappears from the interspatial rift. But when the time comes, everything goes wrong. In sickbay, an orderly attacks Dr. McCoy, who was trying to find a cause of the mental derangement. Nurse Christine Chapel administers a hypospray to subdue the orderly. The Defiant does not reappear, as the Tholian ship's use of engines in the fractured space has disrupted the timing of the interphase. McCoy reports that the sickness is not due to an infectious agent; instead, the fractures in space are damaging the Human nervous system. This conversation is interrupted when the Tholians fire upon the Enterprise. Spock mutters, "The renowned Tholian punctuality." Spock does not wish to attack but locks phasers on target and hails the Tholians. They do not respond, and he orders Sulu to fire phasers. The Tholians stand down, but the Enterprises power converters have been fused and the ship is adrift. Another Tholian ship appears, and the two touch aft ends briefly before separating, weaving a web between them. Spock analyzes the web and concludes that it is made of energy and "there is no analog to this structure in Federation technology." He announces that if the structure is completed before their repairs are done, the Enterprise will not see home again. Act Three Approximately two dozen crew members assemble for Kirk's memorial service. So far, McCoy's attempts to make an antidote for the space the spaceship is in have failed, while theragen was promisingly tested so far. Spock speaks, noting Kirk's concern for his crewmembers that led him to stay aboard the Defiant. Spock repeats the sequence of events that led to Kirk's disappearance and says that the crew must accept the fact that their captain is no longer alive. One of the crew members becomes unstable at this point, screaming and yelling, and must be removed and taken to sickbay under restraint. Spock concludes that "I shall not attempt to voice the quality of the respect and admiration Captain Kirk commanded. Each of you must evaluate the loss in the privacy of your own thoughts." Scott calls the crew to order, and they observe a moment of silence. After the crew is dismissed, McCoy forcefully reminds Spock that Kirk has left a video message in his quarters that was to be played in the event that he was declared dead, and persuades him to view the message at once. He berates the Vulcan for attacking the Tholians and reducing the Enterprises chances of escape, accusing him of attempting to usurp Kirk's command. After their argument, they play the message, and in it Kirk asks Spock to temper logic with intuition, and if he needs help with the latter he should consult with McCoy. He also tells McCoy to remember that Spock is now the captain and that his command decisions must be followed. McCoy apologizes to Spock for his outburst and they leave to attend to their duties. Meanwhile, Uhura is off-duty in her quarters dressed in her civilian wear. She feels a sudden pain, and when she recovers she sees an image of Kirk in his EV suit in her mirror. She runs out into a corridor and incoherently tells McCoy what she saw, but he takes her to sickbay as if she had been hallucinating. She wants to tell Spock, but she faints. In the engine room, another crewman goes berserk and attacks Scott. McCoy is attempting to synthesize an antidote that will counteract the debilitating effects of interspace. When McCoy returns to the bridge, Scott reports that he has also seen an apparition of Kirk. Scott returns to the bridge. Spock and McCoy are talking there when suddenly McCoy appears to be fainting. Spock catches him and then turns to see the image of the EV-suited captain, who appears to be trying to shout something. The captain's image then disappears. Act Four When Uhura is released from sickbay, the crew's fortunes begin to change. Spock and Scott have calculated the next time that Kirk will appear. McCoy has found an antidote for the mental degradation with a diluted theragen derivative. Theragen, a Klingon nerve gas, while toxic in its pure form, merely acts as a powerful nerve blocker when dissolved in alcohol. Spock is understandably reluctant to take this antidote, but McCoy orders him to and tells him that it's the "Human" thing to do. Scott, on the other hand, likes it well enough to take the rest of the flask with him to see how it will taste mixed with Scotch. At the next interphase, Kirk appears in space near the Enterprise. The ship attempts to rescue Kirk as the Tholians apply a tractor field. The energy discharge in the fractured space throws the ship clear of the web, and because Kirk is locked into the transporter beam, he is also dragged along. McCoy and Nurse Chapel stand by in the transporter room with a hypo of tri-ox compound, as Kirk's environmental suit is beginning to run out of air and he is about to suffocate. After one unsuccessful attempt, Kirk is finally beamed back aboard the Enterprise by O'Neil and revived. Kirk is back in uniform and sitting in the captain's chair on the bridge, and tells Spock and McCoy that after the Defiant was thrown out of the interphase, he had a whole universe to himself, but he prefers a crowded one instead. He asks them how they got along, and Spock and McCoy say that things went all right, for the most part. Kirk says he hopes his last taped orders were helpful, but Spock and McCoy lie and say that they were so busy with the crisis that they never got a chance to listen to them. Kirk gives them both a doubtful look and orders Sulu to take the Enterprise to warp factor two. Log entries Captain's log, USS Enterprise (NCC-1701), 2268 Memorable quotes "The renowned Tholian punctuality." - Spock, as the Tholian ship fires on the Enterprise precisely when the allotted time is up "I shall not attempt to voice the quality of respect and admiration which Captain Kirk commanded. Each of you must evaluate the loss in the privacy of your own thoughts." - Spock, declaring Kirk dead "He was a hero in every sense of the word, yet his life was sacrificed for nothing." - McCoy, on Kirk's death "Doctor, I am in command of the Enterprise." "I would like to remedy that situation." - Spock and McCoy, before viewing Kirk's last orders "You might find that he is capable of Human insight and Human error." - Kirks last orders to McCoy, on Spock "He's alive! He's alive, Doctor!" - Uhura, dashing to McCoy after seeing Kirk "In critical moments, men sometimes see exactly what they wish to see." "Do you suppose they're seeing Jim because they've lost confidence in you?" - Spock and McCoy, on the sightings "I'm sure the captain would simply have said: 'Forget it, Bones'." - Spock, accepting McCoy's apology "One good slug of this, and you can hit a man with phaser stun, and he'd never feel it or even know it." "Does it make a good mix with Scotch?" "It should." "I'll let you know." (Scott walks out with the flask) - McCoy and Scott, on the antidote "I see him!" "There he is!" "It's the captain!" - Uhura, Chekov, and Sulu see Kirk through the Enterprises viewscreen "I must say I prefer a crowded universe much better." - Kirk, commenting on his interspace experience "Orders, Captain?" "What orders are you referring to, Jim?" - Spock and McCoy, denying that they viewed Kirk's last orders Background information Production timeline Unsolicited script by Judy Burns and Chet Richards, titled "In Essence -- Nothing", Story outline by Burns and Richards, First draft teleplay, Revised first draft teleplay, Second revised first draft teleplay, Second draft teleplay, Revised teleplay by Arthur Singer, titled "The Tholian Web", Final draft teleplay, Additional page revisions by Fred Freiberger, , , , , Filmed: – Day 1 – , Monday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Kirk's quarters, Transporter room Day 2 – , Tuesday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Engineering, Sickbay, Medical lab Day 3 – , Wednesday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Bridge (Defiant), "Limbo" (last day of Ralph Senensky) Day 4 – , Thursday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Bridge (first day of Herb Wallerstein) Day 5 – , Friday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Bridge Day 6 – , Monday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Bridge, Uhura's quarters, Spock's quarters, Corridors, Chapel (redress of Briefing room), Tholian mask VFX shot Original airdate, Rerun airdate, First UK airdate Remastered episode airdate, During the syndication run of Star Trek, no syndication cuts were made to this episode. Story and production Ralph Senensky began the direction of this episode, but was fired for falling a half-a-day behind schedule. ( #72, p. 39) Up to that point, Senensky had used the camera effect to show the viewpoint of a person affected by interspace. This technique had previously been used by Senensky in . (The Trek 25th Anniversary Celebration) This is the first episode with Al Francis as the director of photography, replacing Jerry Finnerman. Previously Francis worked on the series as Finnerman's camera operator. Judy Burns, a freelance writer, penned this episode, co-written by her husband Chet Richards, to earn money for a study trip to Africa. Burns came up with the idea of spirits floating in space and around the Enterprise. However, Gene Roddenberry specified in the Writer's Guide for the series that the stories of Star Trek must be based on science and cannot feature unexplained supernatural events. Hence, Burns came up with the idea of the interdimensional rift. Several changes were made from Burns and Richards' early draft ("In Essence – Nothing") to the final draft ("The Tholian Web") including: The was originally the "USS Scimitar." The Tholian Loskene was originally named "LoCene." The crew wore "life support shields" (personal force fields, akin to the life support belt) rather than their environmental units. International adaptations of this episode's title include: Japan – "Crisis of Captain Kirk, Who Was Thrown into Different-Dimensional Space" Germany – "The Spider Web" Portugal – "The Web" France and Quebec – "The Tholian Trap" Nichelle Nichols described and "The Tholian Web" as two of her favorite shows. In "The Tholian Web", "we think Kirk is dead and I see him floating through the walls of my quarters. That was fun to do – of course, I enjoyed anything that I was able to get out of uniform." (The World of Star Trek, p. 113) This is one of the few episodes in which all of the regular second and third-season characters – Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Scott, Sulu, Uhura, Chekov, and Chapel – appear. The close-up of McCoy's hand as it goes through a dead body in the Defiants sickbay, was filmed in post-production, on an insert stage. The special effects in this episode, as originally aired, were a collaboration by Mike Minor and Van der Veer Photo Effects. Minor said of his work on this installment, "Finally, 'The Tholian Web' came up. That was the one [episode] I worked longest on; it involved three or four months out at Frank Van der Veer's Optical Company. I storyboarded the 17 cuts of effects that the script called for, shot the raw footage and executed all of the animation plates […] I'm told there was a $90,000 optical bill on that one show." (, issue 25, pp. 36 & 61) Barbara Babcock (Voice of Commander Loskene) was uncredited on-screen, despite having dialogue. Sets and props This episode introduced a more spaceworthy environmental unit, replacing the suits first seen in . These suits were created by Costume Designer William Ware Theiss and consisted of silver with a fabric helmet with screen mesh visor. This allowed the actors to breathe more easily while wearing the suit. (The Trek 25th Anniversary Celebration) Mike Minor, together with Theiss, constructed the helmets. (, issue 25, pp. 35, 61) The spacesuits were made from a very slick material resembling silver lamé and featured no zippers in order to achieve a completely smooth, unseamed look. As a result, when any of the actors had to visit the men's room, they had to completely remove the costume, then put it back upon returning to the set. This ate up precious shooting time. The spacesuits were later reused in . One of the helmets was worn by Conrad Janis in the "Mork and Mindy" first season episode "Mork Goes Public". Dr. McCoy's spacesuit from "The Tholian Web"' was sold on 7 October 2006 as in the 40 Years of Star Trek: The Collection auction. The auction estimate for the suit was US$6,000- $8,000; the sale price was US$120,000 ($144,000 with premium). Spock's suit was previously sold as in the Profiles in History auction, The Ultimate Sci-Fi Auction of 26 April 2003, also having had an estimate of US$6,000-$8,000. The ship's chapel, which had previously appeared in , was a redress of the briefing room. (The Making of Star Trek incorrectly states it was a redress of the transporter room.) Denis Russell was involved with the 's special effects. This is the first appearance of a Tholian in Star Trek — in this case, Commander Loskene. For this appearance, Loskene appeared only on the Enterprises viewscreen and was portrayed simply by a puppet created by Mike Minor, for which Barbara Babcock provided the voice. () The antique Napoleon III ebonized cabinet pedestal found in Spock's quarters had previously appeared in the films and . The piece, which was originally part of the RKO Property Department, later came into the possession of Paramount Pictures, and was sold in late as part of the "Profiles in History" auction, where it was sold for US$6,000. The lab apparatus and tubing that McCoy uses in attempting to synthesize the theragen derivative appears to have been recycled from , where it was used as part of Scott's makeshift replacement for the main circulating pump of the PXK pergium reactor. The operations division uniform with lieutenant commander's braid, originally made for Dr. Ann Mulhall in , is worn by an unnamed female background character during the chapel scene. She is sitting on a bench directly behind McCoy. Continuity The ultimate fate of the Defiant was revealed nearly 37 years later when the vessel is discovered in the Mirror universe in the 21st century in the episodes and , where the vessel is first salvaged by the Tholians before being stolen by Commander of the Terran Empire. This episode is the only time that Spock refers to McCoy as his nickname, Bones, and even then, it is to tell McCoy what Kirk would say. This is the third time that the Enterprise has encountered another starship with the entire crew dead. The others were in and . By the end of a fourth Constitution-class, the Excalibur, is also lifeless. Additionally, Spock had sensed the demise of an entire crew on yet another Constitution-class vessel in . The Defiant is not among the names of the fourteen Constitution-class starships that were established in The Making of Star Trek. The approximately two dozen crew members who attend Kirk's memorial service appear to constitute the largest assemblage of Enterprise personnel in the original series. The Exo III graphic from reappears in the sickbay of the Defiant. According to Mike Sussman, and were written to be 'a prequel to and a sequel to "The Tholian Web",' two of his favorite episodes. In regards to the creating a sequel, "For me, it was an irresistible idea that the USS Defiant from "The Tholian Web" was still floating out there somewhere in interphase, and we never knew what happened to it," Sussman said. "To me that was a tantalizing story idea I wanted to explore." No insignia was created for the Defiant crew's tunics; however, in creating "In a Mirror, Darkly", the wardrobe department came up with something new: "a variation on the standard Starfleet arrowhead, tilting it and adding an extra angle to its shape." In the original TOS episode, some Defiant crew members may be seen wearing the Enterprise assignment badge. In , Kirk (in Janice Lester's body) mentions the events of this episode to try to convince Spock of the mind switch. In this episode, Spock says there is "absolutely no record" of a mutiny on a Federation starship. This contradicts the instance that the crew of the Enterprise mutinied in , and was again contradicted only seven episodes later in , in which it is revealed that his crew had mutinied against Captain Garth in the past. Spock himself confessed to committing mutiny in having stolen the Enterprise without orders. Also, in the later series , Commander Michael Burnham is court-martialed and convicted of mutiny during the Battle of the Binary Stars some 12 years before the events of "The Tholian Web". In the latter case, however, Burnham was later pardoned and her record expunged, which may explain the seeming inconsistency. The episode features a blooper when stock footage of Chekov in front of the viewscreen is used moments after his character is escorted to sickbay after displaying signs of the space madness. Scotty's hair returns to its more familiar style from the first and second season in this episode after James Doohan objected to the combed back style producers had experimented with at the start of the third season. The Enterprises escape from the Tholian web is glimpsed in . In that story, the "Ephraim" is pursuing the Enterprise, in which she has laid her eggs, and is nearly caught in the Tholian web herself. Miscellaneous Information The "Ephraim and Dot" episode featured the redesigned version of the Enterprise. The closing credits of this episode include two consecutive shots of Enterprise crew members suffering from extreme old age: Nyota Uhura from (her vision of herself in) and Leonard McCoy from . Awards Star Trek was nominated for an Emmy Award for the special effects in this episode. Mike Minor, who once mistakenly reported that this outing actually won the Emmy Award for its effects, was somewhat relieved by such recognition. Influenced by the award nomination, he later stated about his work herein, "I guess it was worth it." (, issue 25, p. 61) Remastered information The remastered version of "The Tholian Web" aired in many North American markets during the weekend of . Some of the effects shots were virtual recreations of the original footage, whereas others were more dynamic and showed angles of both starships never before seen. The Tholian starship retained the essential design elements of the original model, but more detail and internal lights were added. The scene involving Commander Loskene was left intact and no new images of the Tholians were shown. The next remastered episode to air was . Video and DVD releases RCA CED Videodisc release (1981) Original US Betamax release: UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 33, catalog number VHR 2385, US VHS release: UK re-release (three-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 3.3, Original US DVD release (single-disc): Volume 32, As part of the TOS Season 3 DVD collection, (region 2) and (region 1) As part of the TOS-R Season 3 DVD collection, (region 1) Links and references Starring William Shatner as Captain Kirk Also starring Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock And DeForest Kelley as Dr. McCoy Co-starring James Doohan as Scott George Takei as Sulu Walter Koenig as Chekov Nichelle Nichols as Uhura Majel Barrett as Nurse Chapel Sean Morgan as Lt. O'Neil Uncredited co-stars Barbara Babcock as Loskene (voice) Majel Barrett as Computer Voice Paul Baxley as Defiant captain William Blackburn as Hadley Robert Bralver as Enterprise berserker engineer Dave Cadiente as Enterprise operations crewman Frank da Vinci as Brent Defiant crewman Lou Elias as Enterprise berserker at funeral service Jimmy Fields as Enterprise security crewman Roger Holloway as Roger Lemli Jay Jones as Enterprise dizzy engineer Jeannie Malone as Enterprise yeoman Gary Wright as Enterprise sciences crewman Unknown actors as Defiant command crewman 1 Defiant medical technician 1 Defiant medical technician 2 Defiant operations ensign Defiant operations crewmen in sickbay (×4) Defiant operations crewmen in engineering (×7) Defiant sciences crew woman Defiant sciences crew women in sickbay (×3) Defiant sciences crewmen in sickbay (×3) Enterprise command crewman 1, 2, and 3 Enterprise command lieutenant 1 and 2 Enterprise command senior officer Enterprise crewman 1 Enterprise crew woman 1 and 2 Enterprise lieutenant Enterprise operations crewman 3 Enterprise operations senior staffer Enterprise operations lieutenant commander Enterprise orderly Enterprise sciences crewman 2 Enterprise sciences crew woman 1 and 2 Enterprise sciences lieutenant Stunt doubles Frank da Vinci as stunt double for DeForest Kelley Jay Jones as stunt double for James Doohan Jesse Wayne as stunt double for Walter Koenig References admiration; advice; air; alcohol; analogy; analysis; annexation; answer; "around the clock"; area; assault; attention; battle; behavior; biochemistry; boarding party; "Bones"; brain; brain tissue; brand (economics); captaincy; career; case; chance; central nervous system; communicable; channel; ; comparison; compliments; computer; confidence; ; contact; coordinates; "course of action"; crisis; damage control report; ; death; deception; deck; derivative; diagnosis; ; "dismissed"; "display of force"; distance; distress signal; doorway; drifting; emergency maintenance power; emergency manual monitor; energy field; environmental unit; ; estimation; evaluation; event; evidence; Exo III; experiment; fabric of space; fact; failure; Federation; Federation technology; filtering agent; free space; frequency; fury; hailing frequency; hand; health; hero; hole; home; horror story; hour; hypo; impulse engine; information; insight; instruction; intercept vector; interphase; interphase area; interspace; intravenous; intuition; jamming signal; : kilometer; Klingon; knowledge; laboratory; library computer console; life; life support; life support system; location; logic; Loskene's ship; Loskene's sister ship; loyalty; main viewer; margin for error; margin of variation; mass analysis; meaning; medal; medical lab; medical order; medical report; medical staff; medical surgeon; Medical Surgeon, USS Defiant; medical test; memorial service; mental disease; mental state; message tape; minute; mirror universe ("Defiant's universe"); molecular structure; mutineer; mutiny; neck; nerve gas; nurse; "on the double"; opportunity; oral; order; orderly; oxygen; pain; parsec; permission; phaser; phaser power; ; phaser tracking control; phenomenon; ; power supply converter; privacy; problem; programming; property; punctuality; quality; radiation; range; readout; red alert; region; remedy; rescue operation; respect; result; risk; sample; scanner; Scotch; search; second; Section A4; Section C13; security guard; security squad; sensors; sensor failure; sensor range; shield; shock; ship's log, USS Defiant (NCC-1764); space; space madness; spasm; speed of light ("c"); squad; "stand by"; starship; status report; strap; structural damage; symptom; table; tactical situation; theragen; thing; Tholian; Tholian Assembly; Tholian sector; ; Tholian web; thought; time; tractor field; transporter accident; transporter beam; transporter frequency; transporter range (aka beaming range); transporter room; trespassing; tri-ox compound; universe; velocity; Vulcan; Vulcan neck pinch; warp engine; week; word External links de:Das Spinnennetz es:The Tholian Web fr:The Tholian Web (épisode) ja:異次元空間に入ったカーク船長の危機（エピソード） nl:The Tholian Web pl:The Tholian Web Tholian Web, The

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For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky (episode)

The Enterprise discovers a generational asteroid ship on a collision course with an inhabited planet. Summary Teaser At red alert, the detects an approaching spread of primitive, chemical fueled, sublight nuclear missiles, which are quickly destroyed by its phasers. The crew traces the origin of the missile's path. Captain Kirk orders Ensign Chekov to plot a course, for the Enterprise to proceed, at warp factor 3 to the launchers. Meanwhile, during Dr. McCoy's routine health check, a rare terminal illness, xenopolycythemia, is discovered. They do not know its cure. It will kill him within a year. McCoy insists that he can remain in his post on the Enterprise, but Kirk immediately informs Starfleet and requests a replacement. Act One Enterprise arrives at the location of the missile launch, where they see an asteroid, two hundred miles in diameter. Oddly, it is not in any orbit but follows an independent course through the local star system. Its course, 241-mark-17, leads it in 396 days, to the planet Daran V, where it will collide and kill its population of 3.724 billion. Before destroying the asteroid, to prevent the collision, they scan it and learn it is an atomic-powered spaceship. They do not detect living beings. Spock guesses that the passengers are dead. The Enterprise charts a course parallel to it. Kirk and Spock enter the transporter room, and prepare to beam onto the asteroid/spaceship. McCoy insists on joining them so the arrive inside the asteroid. They find a surface that appears geologically active, with a reddish sky, and are puzzled that the builders apparently wanted the inside of the ship to look just like the surface of a planet. The surface has large orange cylinders, from which primitive, sword-bearing men emerge. Their leader is a beautiful woman. After a brief melee, Kirk, McCoy and Spock get captured. McCoy shares a meaningful look with the leader, before he is knocked unconscious. The beautiful woman introduces herself as Natira, the high priestess and leader of her people. Natira "welcomes" the officers to their world Yonada. The three are taken below the surface, where they encounter a large population of young and apparently healthy people. Natira leads the three into an Oracle Room, where she consults an unseen authoritative entity manifested by a decorative altar and a booming voice. Kirk and McCoy estimate that after ten thousand years in this multi-generational ship, the people no longer realize they are inside a spaceship. The Oracle "punishes" Kirk, Spock, and McCoy by shocking them with an energy beam, rendering them unconscious. Act Two The three regain consciousness, although McCoy remains out longer due to his illness, in some sort of guest area. Kirk then informs Spock about McCoy's condition. An old man enters the room and gives them an herb derivative to counteract the effects of the Oracle's attack, noting that many people on the ship have been punished in this way. When they tell him they are not from Yonada, he recalls how he once climbed the mountains, "even though it is forbidden," and found that the world of Yonada is not a planet at all. "For the world is hollow and I have touched the sky…", he says before collapsing to the ground. He dies immediately, apparently from a subcutaneous control device in his temple. Natira comes in, has the old man's body gently taken away, and seems to take a special interest in McCoy. Kirk recommends that McCoy use this to their advantage so that they may learn more about the civilization. The captain is faced with a triple dilemma: either risk violating the Prime Directive by informing the people of Yonada of their situation, destroy the asteroid with them in it, or allow it to destroy Daran V. Natira admits she is in love with McCoy and wants him to stay on Yonada as her mate. She speaks of a final destination that is rich and green and notes that the Oracle has promised they shall reach it "soon." When McCoy tells her he has only a year to live, she tells him even a day, a month, or a year with him will make her happy. Spock and Kirk make their way to the Oracle Room, and Spock recognizes the writing as that of the Fabrini, a civilization wiped out ten thousand years prior, when their star went nova. He also sees a symbolic map of the Fabrina solar system. Prior to dying out, the Fabrini had lived underground to protect themselves. They had also built this spaceship Yonada and programmed the Oracle of the People, which is actually a powerful computer, to take their surviving civilization to another habitable planet. The people of Yonada are their descendants. Spock manages to open the door, and the two conceal themselves in the temple behind a monolith as Natira enters. She asks the Oracle for permission to marry McCoy. The Oracle grants it, so long as McCoy agrees to join the Fabrini and submit to the instrument of obedience to become one of their people. As she's leaving, however, the Oracle discovers Kirk and Spock and zaps them. They are arrested and sentenced to death. Act Three McCoy agrees to stay on Yonada but begs that Kirk and Spock be released. McCoy tells her he could never be happy on Yonada knowing that his two friends had died for his happiness. Natira agrees. As Kirk and Spock prepare to return, McCoy insists on staying. Kirk and McCoy briefly argue about his decision but Kirk agrees to leave him behind. He and Spock return to the Enterprise. In a ritual with the Oracle, McCoy has the instrument of obedience implanted in his head and he and Natira are married. At the Oracle's command, she reveals to him an ancient book that is to be opened and read when the ship reaches the "New World of the Promise." Meanwhile, Kirk consults with Admiral Westervliet on a monitor in his quarters, who relieves him of all responsibility for the Yonada, saying that Starfleet Command will handle the situation. McCoy calls the ship with his communicator and tries to explain that by consulting the book Spock can change the Yonadas course. His instrument of obedience immediately sends him a shock of pain. He passes out as Natira enters. Act Four Kirk and Spock beam back to the Yonada and Spock removes McCoy's instrument of obedience, shocking Natira. She tries to call for the guards, but Kirk subdues her and persuades her to give them a chance. He explains the history of the Fabrini and Yonada. She is very skeptical of the story and the Oracle begins to torment her through her instrument. She flees, but does not turn Kirk and Spock over to the guards. Kirk and Spock have found that a faulty part of the Oracle computer has caused a change in course. Natira consults the Oracle, which knocks her out. When Kirk, Spock, and McCoy arrive, she says she believes them and McCoy removes her instrument. Kirk and Spock move to take the book out of the temple, but the Oracle fights them, kicking up a storm and increasing the temperature in the room to 120 degrees, planning to burn them to death or until they die of heat stroke. McCoy shows them how to open the pylon containing the book and Spock uses the book to disable the heating element, as well as the Oracle, and reprogram the spaceship's course. McCoy and Natira share a tearful farewell: She must stay to lead her people to the promised land and McCoy is determined to keep traveling the universe in search of a cure for his disease as well as for others afflicted. After correcting the Yonadas course, Spock shows Kirk the cylinders containing the vast database of the Fabrini, which contains medical knowledge, including the cure for xenopolycythemia. McCoy undergoes the very painful treatment for his illness, with Nurse Chapel at his side in the Enterprises sickbay. When McCoy emerges cured, Kirk promises him the Enterprise will soon return to the area in 390 days when the Yonada eventually reaches its correct destination. McCoy is pleased by Kirk's promise and the Enterprise leaves Yonada. Log entries Captain's log, USS Enterprise (NCC-1701), 2268 Memorable quotes "A lot can happen in a year. Please, give yourself every minute." - Chapel to McCoy, on his illness "Welcome to the world of Yonada." "I can't say I think much of your welcome." - Natira and Kirk, after the ambush on the landing party "We've come in friendship." "Then learn what it means to be our enemy before you learn what it means to be our friend." - Kirk and the Oracle, as it punishes the landing party "But things are not as they teach us. For the world is hollow, and I have touched the sky." - Fabrini mans last words "Forgive him for he was an old man, and old men are sometimes foolish." - Natira, as she prays by the Fabrini man's body "But we're strangers to each other." "But is not that the nature of men and women? That the pleasure is in the learning of each other?" - McCoy and Natira, as she asks him to be her mate "Until I saw you, there was nothing in my heart. It sustained my life, but nothing more. Now it sings. I could be happy to have that feeling for a day, a week, a month, a year." - Natira, before kissing McCoy "Kirk and Spock have committed sacrilege. You know what must be done." - Oracle, to Natira when it discovers Kirk and Spock have broken into its room "Is truth not truth for all?" - Natira, challenging the Oracle "Captain, informing these people they are on a ship may be a violation of the prime directive of Starfleet Command." "Well the people of Yonada may be changed by the knowledge, but it's better than exterminating them." "Logical, captain." -Spock and Kirk, on whether or not to inform the Fabrini of their situation Background information The idea of a multi-generational spaceship or "interstellar ark" is an old one that was first proposed in an unpublished paper by in 1918. Goddard's fellow rocket pioneers and also considered the idea in the 1920s. and wrote stories about the idea in the 1940s, and Robert Heinlein originated the notion that inhabitants might forget they were on a ship in his book Orphans of the Sky, a concept later reused by Harlan Ellison in his story Phoenix Without Ashes, which was adapted into the 1973 television series The Starlost starring Keir Dullea and guest-starred Walter Koenig in a recurring role. The prop used as Book of the People is the same one used as Chicago Mobs of the Twenties in . The metal helical staircase is recycled from . The scenes of Yonada are reused footage of the asteroid from , and the helical staircase in the control room at the end of this episode seems to be the same one used inside the Obelisk in that same episode. This is the only series episode to feature three actors who appeared in the original pilot : Leonard Nimoy (Spock), Majel Barrett (Christine Chapel) and Jon Lormer (old man) (not including and , which features much footage from ). Barrett and Lormer played Number One and Theodore Haskins, respectively, in the pilot. Whether by chance or design, the music that accompanies the appearance of the old man played by Jon Lormer is the same music by Alexander Courage that played during some of his lines as Dr. Theodore Haskins in . To give more depth to the planet set, the entrances to the underground civilization were built in two sizes: those in the distance were constructed much smaller, thus creating an illusion of distance. The bridge scene that runs under Kirk's voiceover at the start of Act One – where Kirk enters the bridge from the turboshaft – is the same footage from the very beginning of the episode. The field reader tube, normally used to take a medical patient's vital signs, is used in this episode by Spock to extract McCoy's instrument of obedience and by McCoy to extract Natira's. These mark the only apparent close-up uses of this prop in the series. In the trailer, the scene where the Oracle turns on the heat plays without the red overlay or the heat-wave distortion effect. According to a call sheet, Dick Geary appeared as a security guard in this episode, but it seems his appearance ended up as a deleted scene. This episode has the longest title of any episode in any Star Trek series. In an early story outline (), it was Scott who was ill. Apocrypha According to the novel The Sorrows of Empire, McCoy's mirror universe died of xenopolycythemia in 2269, as the either never encountered or destroyed the Fabrini ship. He was succeeded as chief medical officer by the mirror universe counterpart of Dr. Joseph M'Benga, who continued to serve in that position until at least 2287. According to the listing of , a sequel to this episode entitled "Torment of Destiny" is unfinished. Remastered Information The remastered version of this episode premiered in syndication the weekend of and featured shots of a digital version of Yonada, more closely resembling real asteroids. The battle between the Enterprise and the missiles was also revamped digitally. The next remastered episode to air was . Production timeline Story outline by Rik Vollaerts, Revised story outline, Second revised story outline, First draft teleplay, early- Second draft teleplay, Revised second draft teleplay, Second revised second draft teleplay, Final draft script – Final draft teleplay by Arthur Singer, , , Additional page revisions by Fred Freiberger, , , Filmed, – Day 1 – , Tuesday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. McCoy's office, Bridge, Transporter room Day 2 – , Wednesday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Kirk's quarters, Sickbay; Desilu Stage 10: "Ext". Yonada surface Day 3 – , Thursday – Desilu Culver Stage 8: Int. Fabrini corridors, Oracle room, Fabrini corridors, Natira's quarters Day 4 – , Friday – Desilu Culver Stage 8: Int. Natira's quarters, Oracle room Day 5 – , Monday – Desilu Culver Stage 8: Int. Oracle room, Guest quarters Day 6 – , Tuesday – Desilu Culver Stage 8: Int.Guest quarters Day 7 – , Wednesday – Desilu Culver Stage 8: Int.Natira's quarters, Oracle room Day 8 – , Thursday (Half Day) – Desilu Stage 10: "Ext". Yonada surface Original airdate, First UK airdate Remastered airdate, During the syndication run of Star Trek, no syndication cuts were made to this episode. Video and DVD releases Original US Betamax release: UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 34, catalog number VHR 2430, US VHS release: UK re-release (three-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 3.4, Original US DVD release (single-disc): Volume 33, As part of the TOS Season 3 DVD collection As part of the TOS-R Season 3 DVD collection Links and references Starring William Shatner as Capt. Kirk Also starring Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock And DeForest Kelley as Dr. McCoy Guest stars Katherine Woodville as Natira James Doohan as Scott George Takei as Sulu Walter Koenig as Chekov Nichelle Nichols as Uhura Majel Barrett as Nurse Chapel Byron Morrow as Admiral Westervliet Jon Lormer as Old Man Uncredited co-stars Tony Dante as Fabrini Oracle guard Frank da Vinci as Vinci Dick Dial as Fabrini guard James Doohan as the Oracle (voice) Richard Geary as Security Guard (scenes deleted) Jeannie Malone as Fabrini servant 1 Unknown performers as Fabrini Oracle guard 2 Fabrini citizens Five Fabrini guards Fabrini servant 2 Stunt double Robert Bralver as stunt double for DeForest Kelley References 8,000 BC; 2269; "all right"; altar; amusement; ancestor; answer; area; asteroid; asteroid ship; atmosphere; atomic power; automatic controls; ball; band; billion; blasphemy; body; "Bones"; Book of the People; ; ; chance; chief medical officer; children; collision course; communication device; contact; control room; coordinates; course (aka heading); Creators; cruelty; cure; Daran V; Daran V natives; darkness; day; death penalty; debris; ; derivative; descendant; desecration; destination; diameter; disobedience; doubt; electrical shock; emergency; enemy; engine; estimated time; event; eye; Fabrina; Fabrini homeworld; Fabrina solar system; Fabrini; failure; faith; fear; feeling; first officer; flesh; friend; friendship; fuel; generation; god; goodness; gravitional stress; green; guard; guidance control; guest; happiness; hard radiation; heart; ; heating element; hemoglobin; hemoglobin count; herb; high priestess; honesty; husband; idea; ignorance; illness; impact; information; inner core; instrument of obedience; intelligence file; "in the fullness of time"; "in the manner of the people"; intruder; joy; kneeling; knowledge; land; law; learning; lifeform; location; logic; loneliness; love; magic spell; magnification; medical knowledge; memory; mile; million; mind; missile; mission; monolith; month;; mountain; non-believer; nova; nurse; "of a sort"; "of course"; offense; "on the job"; Oracle of the People; Oracle room; orbiting; order; oxygen; pain; parallel course; passenger; phaser; phaser bank; physical examination; planet (aka world); plaque; platform; pleasure; point of origin; population; pressure; Prime Directive; problem; promise; promised planet; question; race; red; red alert; repent; sacrilege; scream; screen; search; secret; sensor probe; sharing; shell; sin; skin; sky; space; spaceship; speed; star system; Starfleet; Starfleet Command; stranger; sublight speed; star (aka sun); surface; tear; temperature; ; thing; thought; time; "to boot"; transgression; truth; universe; vacuum tube; vow of obedience; weapon; week; white corpuscle; writing; worship; xenopolycythemia; year; Yonada; Yonada system External links de:Der verirrte Planet es:For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky fr:For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky (épisode) it:Ho toccato il cielo (episodio) ja:宇宙に漂う惑星型宇宙船（エピソード） nl:For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky pl:For the World is Hollow and I Touched the Sky TOS episodes

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Day of the Dove (episode)

An extremely powerful non-corporeal being brings the Enterprise and a Klingon ship in direct conflict with one another. Summary Teaser Responding to a distress call from Beta XII-A, a landing party from the beams down to the planet. The team consists of Captain Kirk, Doctor McCoy, Ensign Chekov, and Lieutenant , a security officer. They find no trace that there ever was a human colony on the planet, nor any indication of any attack. Dr. McCoy reminds Kirk that whoever sent the distress call claimed they were under attack by an unidentified starship. From the bridge of the orbiting Enterprise, Spock hails the captain and reports that a Klingon battle cruiser is approaching. Although Kirk authorizes the Vulcan to defend the Starfleet ship, Lieutenant Sulu determines that the Klingon vessel is totally disabled, but the Enterprise never fired upon it. A team of Klingons beams to the planet and approaches the Starfleet officers. Commander Kang, the leader of the team, believes that Kirk is responsible for the damage to his ship and for killing four hundred members of his crew. He smacks Kirk in the face with his disruptor, knocking Kirk to the ground. As a result, the Klingon claims the Enterprise as his own and takes the Enterprise crew as prisoners of the Klingons. Both men are unaware of a strange ball of light nearby, which is in fact a non-corporeal lifeform. Act One Kang tells Kirk that the Klingons have honored a peace treaty "to the letter" with the Federation for the past three years, and that Kirk appears to have tested a new weapon against his ship, killing his crew. Kirk rebuts that the Federation colony on the planet was destroyed. But Kang scoffs at this, saying there is no evidence of bodies or ruins. Kirk says this is because it was a new Klingon weapon that leaves no traces, and that the Federation does not conduct sneak attacks. Kang threatens to torture one of the Starfleet prisoners, but has difficulty deciding which officer will suffer – until Chekov angrily cries out that the Klingons killed his brother, Piotr Chekov, on a Federation research outpost on Archanis IV. One of the Klingons uses an agonizer to inflict pain on Chekov. After much debating with Kang, Kirk authorizes Spock to beam the Klingon and Starfleet officers aboard the Enterprise; however, while giving the order Kirk also presses a distress key on his communicator, causing an amber light to blink on the command chair. Seeing the signal, Spock orders that the landing party be beamed into the ship's transporter room, but he also has the Klingons suspended in the pattern buffer and they are arrested by Enterprise security when they are rematerialized. As the Klingon battle cruiser is emitting an excessive amount of harmful radiation, Kirk intends to destroy the alien craft. Klingon survivors are beamed aboard, including Mara – Kang's wife and science officer. Mara fears that she will be tortured for their scientific and military information, but Kirk assures her and her husband that the Klingons will not be harmed. The captain orders Lieutenant Johnson to secure the Klingon prisoners in the crew lounge and to program the food synthesizer for Klingon cuisine. Spock explains that when the Enterprise received the distress call, the Klingons were too far away to have been the attackers. McCoy argues that they know the Klingons did attack, and that the log tapes will prove the innocence of the Enterprise. The Enterprise is unable to contact Starfleet Command, as all subspace frequencies are being blocked. The Enterprise destroys the Klingon craft with its forward phasers in orbit of the planet, but communication with Starfleet is still unobtainable. In the crew lounge, Kang plans Kirk's death, vowing to hang Kirk's head on a wall in his quarters. Mara fears that the Starfleet crew will overpower the Klingons, while another Klingon officer eagerly advises Kang that they should strike quickly. Kang tells the officer to be patient and opines that the Starfleet crew will make a mistake soon and they will seize upon it. Meanwhile, the crew loses control of the Enterprise and several malfunctions result in the ship pursuing a new course out of the the galaxy. Scott explains that controls have gone crazy, and engines have gone to warp 9 by themselves. Nearly four hundred crewmen are trapped by emergency bulkheads on the vessel's lower decks. Assuming that the Klingons are responsible, Kirk questions Kang in the crew lounge. Kang denies any responsibility. Kirk tells Kang that before he puts him in the brig, there is something he "owes him" and punches Kang for having struck him earlier on Beta XII-A. Suddenly, several inanimate objects in the room, including a three-dimensional chess set, transform into swords. Kirk orders his men to draw phasers, which also mysteriously transform into swords. Act Two The Starfleet officers and the Klingons fight, using these primitive weapons of their ancestors. Two more security officers join the battle against the Klingons and Johnson is injured in the fight. The crew members luckily escape in a turbolift that takes Johnson and the other security personnel to sickbay. With the Klingons free to roam the ship, Kirk stays in the turbolift and heads to the bridge. There, he informs the senior staff of the situation. The captain contacts Scott in engineering and tells him that he must free the trapped crewmen at all costs so they may help to fight the Klingons. The engineer reports that he has been unable to regain control of the ship's velocity and is amazed that the vessel has not yet torn itself apart. Spock deduces that the Klingons could not have caused the swords to appear, as the instantaneous transmutation of matter that caused their creation is beyond the capabilities of Klingon technology. Furthermore, Spock reasons, if the Klingons had this power, they would have created more effective weapons than just swords – and only for themselves. When Kirk orders Sulu to take control of engineering and the auxiliary control center, Chekov insists that he join the helmsman. He and Kirk raise swords against each other. Despite Kirk's direct order to return to his post, Chekov explains that he must avenge the murder of his brother and dives into the turbolift aft of the bridge. With a puzzled expression, Sulu tells Kirk that Chekov is an only child and never had any such brother. In sickbay, McCoy grows furious with the Klingons, calling them "filthy butchers" as he treats an injured crew member with a numanol capsule. A group of Klingons enters the auxiliary control center and accesses the Enterprises specifications. When Mara notifies Kang that there are as many Starfleet officers as there are Klingons aboard the ship, Kang decides to make an attempt at commandeering the vessel and plans to take control of engineering first. In the armory, Scott uses a communicator to contact the bridge and reports to Kirk that the phaser torches have proven useless against the metal bulkheads that have trapped the crewmen, as something has happened to the metal. The armory itself now contains only antique weaponry. Scott marvels at the beauty of a claymore sword, and refuses Kirk's orders to return to engineering. Scott and the Starfleet personnel in engineering are attacked by Klingon soldiers, who drive them out, and seize control of the engine room. On the bridge, Spock detects a single alien life force – the ball of light from Beta XII-A. Spock consults the ship's computer, which reveals that the entity is composed of pure energy, has intelligence and is acting toward an unknown purpose. When Spock points out that if Chekov's memory was manipulated to create an imaginary brother then so could theirs have been, Kirk realizes that the alien force is also responsible for the distress call from a colony that also never existed, as well as the creation of the antique weapons aboard the ship. He proposes to form a truce with Kang, but Spock reminds the captain that the Klingons are infamous for refusing to agree to a truce once blood is drawn. When McCoy enters the bridge, he is overly outraged by the fact that the senior officers are considering a truce with the fiendish Klingons, who would force them into "slave labor, death planets, experiments" Spock informs the doctor of the alien's presence and Kirk adds that the alien is their real enemy, but McCoy believes that they must obliterate the Klingons in what he calls a "fight to the death." After the doctor angrily exits the room, Kang hails the bridge. The Klingon notifies Kirk that his soldiers have captured the engineering section of the ship. Kang is now in control of the Enterprises power and life support systems. The Klingon warns Kirk that he will "die of suffocation in the icy cold of space." The bridge lights darken. Act Three As the Enterprise rushes through space at warp factor nine, Kirk uses a tricorder to record a log entry. "The Enterprise is heading out of our galaxy, controlled by a mysterious alien somewhere aboard the ship. Engineering has been taken over by Klingons who have cut off life support systems." With Kirk's authorization, Sulu leaves to protect the life support circuits and auxiliary power in emergency manual control. Scott enters, irrationally desperate to fight the Klingons. Influenced by the alien entity, the engineer trades insults with Spock. Kirk stops Spock moments before the Vulcan can assault Scott with his fist, but begins to insult the science officer himself. The captain gradually realizes that he and his two officers are being manipulated by the entity. He wonders why the alien seems to be staging a war between his crew and the Klingons. Spock notes the importance of finding the entity, determining its motives, and stopping it from causing any further hostilities. From a Jefferies tube, Sulu reports that systems should be functioning but are not responding. Suddenly, power and life support are restored but the helmsman claims he was not responsible for the restoration. Aware of the sudden change, Mara notifies Kang that sensors show life support holding steady. She reports that she is neither able to cause it to falter nor deviate the ship from its course toward the Klingon Empire. Kang angrily ponders the nature of the power that supports his men in battle but stops them from achieving victory. Under Kang's orders, Mara leaves engineering with another Klingon officer and heads to the ship's main life support couplings on deck 6. As the alien continues to creep through the Enterprise, Spock detects the entity using the ship's newly reactivated sensors. He and Kirk exit the bridge and take a turbolift toward the engineering section, where the anomaly is hiding. Meanwhile, Chekov unknowingly follows the alien through a corridor. When he hears a door open and close behind him, Chekov hides in an alcove. He attacks Mara and the Klingon officer accompanying her as they pass by. After the officer falls to the deck unconscious, Chekov decides to rape Mara, but is stopped by Kirk when he arrives with Spock. Kirk slaps Chekov several times, but Spock reminds him that Chekov was not in control of himself. Chekov's body slumps to the ground. Although Kirk tries to explain the situation to Mara and pleads for a temporary truce, she does not respond. Spock takes her away securely while Kirk follows close behind, carrying Chekov in his arms. In sickbay, McCoy scans Chekov's brainwaves and determines that he was suffering from paranoid mania. The doctor also tells Kirk that several officers, including Johnson, have suffered serious injuries that are healing at a miraculously accelerated rate. Spock deduces that the alien wants the officers to stay alive. As he and the doctor discuss the entity, Johnson regains consciousness unobserved. The lieutenant watches as Kirk, Spock and Mara leave in search of the alien. Soon, Kirk and his two companions discover the anomaly. Lieutenant Johnson suddenly appears behind Kirk and reports that he is ready for duty. The captain instructs Johnson to return to sickbay, but the lieutenant insanely shouts that he has orders to kill the Klingons. He attacks Kirk with a sword, though he loses consciousness again when Spock employs the Vulcan nerve pinch from behind him. Kirk and Spock observe that the alien's life energy momentarily increased during Johnson's emotional outburst. This leads the officers to suspect that the entity thrives on the hateful emotions of others. To combat the alien, Kirk and Spock agree that they must join forces with the Klingons and eliminate all hateful emotions from the ship. The captain uses an intercom to contact Kang, but Mara rushes forward and warns the Klingon commander that Kirk has set a trap. As Kang's mind is being affected by the entity, he refuses to answer any further hails. Scott contacts Kirk from the bridge, informing the captain that the ship's dilithium crystals are deteriorating and will be completely depleted in twelve minutes. With the crew's losing their minds to the alien seemingly inevitable, and with the ship about to be drifting powerless in space, Kirk asks Mara if she now believes that the entity exists. Act Four "Captain's log, stardate… Armageddon. We must find a way to defeat the alien force of hate that has taken over the Enterprise, stop the war now, or spend eternity in futile, bloody violence." Holding Mara's arm, Kirk accompanies Spock out of a turbolift and onto the bridge. The ship's dilithium crystals are still being drained and, according to Spock, will be totally depleted in less than ten minutes. Scott and the science officer recommend using Mara to force Kang into agreeing to a truce. Kirk contacts Kang and carries out the suggestion, threatening the Klingon commander that Mara will be killed in five seconds if he does not reply. But Kang simply accepts that his wife is a victim of war. After closing the communications channel to Kang, Kirk assures Mara that the Federation does not kill its prisoners – she has been listening to propaganda and fables. Mara realizes that the alien entity actually exists. Scott tells her that the Klingons are also under alien power and that a truce would save both the Klingons and Humans aboard the Enterprise. However, Mara insists that her people must continue to hunt and fight in order to survive. When Kirk tells her that mutual trust and assistance can also help a civilization endure, Mara agrees to help the captain and take him to Kang. With less than nine minutes before the ship loses power, Kirk decides to use intraship beaming to transport through the Klingon defenses and reach Kang. The process is extremely dangerous but the captain chooses to take the risk. Kirk and Mara dematerialize from the ship's transporter room into engineering. Against Mara's objections, Kirk and Kang fight each other. Outside engineering, a team of Starfleet security officers led by Spock and McCoy battle several Klingons. The senior officers leave the confrontation and enter engineering. They watch as Kirk surrenders and finally manages to persuade Kang that they are all being controlled by an alien. Eventually, the Klingon commander purposefully drops his sword. He and Kirk use the ship-wide intercom to direct their respective troops to cease hostilities. When the officers comply, the entity is weakened by the abrupt termination of violence. Spock suggests that "good spirits" would further weaken the alien. Calling it a "dead duck", Kirk urges it to leave the ship. Kang tells the entity that Klingons need no urging to hate Humans and also yells at it to leave the Enterprise, as they have no wish to fight "in a burning house". Kirk shares a hearty laugh with McCoy and Kang, and the alien finally departs from the Enterprise into open space. Log entries Captain's log, USS Enterprise (NCC-1701), 2268 Memorable quotes "I don't propose to spend the rest of my life on this ball of dust arguing your fantasies! The Enterprise is mine!! Instruct your transporter room to beam us aboard." "Go to the devil." "We have no devil, Kirk. But we understand the habits of yours. I shall torture you to death, one by one, until your noble Captain cries, 'Enough'. Who will be first?" Kang and James T. Kirk, after Kang claims Kirk's crew as his prisoners – "Cossacks! Filthy Klingon murderers!! You killed my brother, Piotr! The Archanis IV research outpost! A hundred peaceful people massacred!! Just like you did here! My brother! You killed my brother!" "And you volunteer to join him. That is loyalty." - Chekov and Kang, before Kang tortures him – "Four thousand throats may be cut in one night by a running man." - Kang's Officer, quoting a Klingon proverb to Mara "Most interesting. The bulk of your crew trapped? Your ship racing from this galaxy at wild speeds? Delightful." - Kang, to Kirk "There are rules, even in war. You don't keep hacking at a man after he's down!" - McCoy, after treating Johnson "Keep your Vulcan hands off me! Just keep away! Your feelings might be hurt, you green-blooded half-breed!" "May I say that I have not thoroughly enjoyed serving with Humans. I find their illogic and foolish emotions a constant irritant." "Then transfer out, freak!" - Scott and Spock, before they grapple with one another – "Has a war been staged for us? Complete with weapons and ideology and patriotic drum beating?" - Kirk to Spock, on their Klingon battle "You're not Human, but you're very beautiful. Very beautiful." - Chekov, before he tries to rape Mara "I, too, felt a brief surge of racial bigotry. Most distasteful." - Spock, to McCoy "The Federation doesn't kill or mistreat its prisoners. You've been listening to propaganda … fables." - Kirk to Mara, after Kang calls his bluff "We have always fought. We must. We are hunters, captain, tracking and taking what we need." - Mara, on the Klingon way of life "Those who hate and fight must stop themselves, doctor. Otherwise, it is not stopped." - Spock, during Kirk and Kang's swordfight "Klingons kill for their own purposes." - Kang, tossing away his sword "Get off my ship! You're a dead duck here. You're powerless. We know about you, and we don't want to play. Maybe… maybe there are others like you around. Maybe you've caused a lot of suffering, a lot of history, but that's all over. We'll be on guard now. We'll be ready for you, so ship out! Come on, haul it!" "Yeah, out already!" "Out! We need no urging to hate Humans. But for the present, only a fool fights in a burning house. Out!!" - James T. Kirk, Leonard McCoy and Kang to the entity, with the latter quoting a Klingon proverb – Background information Title, story, and production This episode had the working title "For They Shall Inherit". John Colicos was originally going to return as Commander Kor for this episode. A feature film commitment (most probably Anne of a Thousand Days, starring Geneviève Bujold) made this impossible. Had the episode featured Kor, it would've been essentially a reversal of their conflict in . In that episode, the two sides fought of their own accord and were stopped (rather than pushed to fight further) by non-corporeal beings. Jerome Bixby's original story featured the Enterprise receiving a false distress call from a Federation colony, while en route to celebrate "Peace Day" (anniversary of the day the nations of Earth finally made peace with each other). Arriving to the planet, the crew, along with the crew of a Klingon vessel, also lured there with a fake distress signal, are captured by an alien race and forced to compete against each other in bloody duels. The aliens, appearing to be humanoid, turn out to be, in reality, energy beings consisting of "a blob of light", feeding off the aggression of the two enemy crews. Finally, Kirk and the Klingon commander realize they need to work together and make peace with each other, so the aliens won't get violence to feed on. Eventually, the Klingons and the Enterprise crew sing songs and have a peace march together. (These Are the Voyages: TOS Season Three) The production staff convinced Bixby that such exaggeration as the "peace march" was not necessary to understand the message of the episode. This story bore a resemblance to several earlier produced episodes: the Enterprise crew captured by powerful aliens on the surface of a planet (, , ), humanoid aliens turning out to be "blobs of light" (), crewmembers forced to take part in deadly gladiatorial combat (, , ), and even featured Kirk trying to seduce a member of the alien race (appearing to be a beautiful woman) as an escape tactic (similarly to ). Another (possible) reference to a previous episode might be , which also had an antagonistic, non-corproreal, alien which fed on strong emotion (in that case, fear) Marvin Chomsky filmed this episode in five and a half days, making him the only director besides Marc Daniels (who shot "The Menagerie" in five and a half days, and in five days) to finish an episode in less time than the usually alloted six production days. (Joseph Pevney also finished , which was expected to stretch to seven days, in only six.) Continuity Michael Ansara reprised his role as Kang in the episode and the episode . This episode marks the only appearance in the original series of female Klingons. Although intraship beaming is routine in later incarnations of 'Star Trek' (often in the form of "site-to-site transport"), this is the first and only time it is done in the original series. The Klingon who says, "Stand and fight, you cowards!" is Pete Kellett, who previously appeared in as , Kirk's henchman but was uncredited for this role despite speaking. This is the only time Sulu is seen in engineering or working in a Jefferies tube. This episode affords a third and final glimpse of the "working" communicator's central spinning moiré disc, which was controlled by an inner stopwatch mechanism. Its first appearance was in , and its second appearance was in . The Klingon agonizer used on Chekov is the same one seen in . When the entity exits the Enterprise at the end of the episode, it is seen leaving through the front center of the secondary hull, thus canonizing the location of main engineering in a Constitution-class starship for the first time. Footage of the Klingon ship is reused from which originally aired after this episode. The footage of engineering, with the hovering entity, was recycled from , which featured a floating Kirk in place of the entity. It is established that Kang's cruiser carried a crew of 400+ when he says "four hundred of my crew dead". The actual complement may be closer to 440 because Mara says there were "forty [Klingon survivors] against four hundred of them [Enterprise crew]". The officers' quarters are apparently in the saucer section, possibly Deck 6, as seen when the entity moves through circular corridors and passes a sign that says "Officers Quarters 6F-38". Kang and his shipmates also seem to be detained on this deck because Kirk orders them to be held not in the brig but in the officer's lounge. Also, if the turbolift "deck indicator" can be believed, there were about 6 decks between the bridge and this floor, with sickbay being in-between at around deck 5 or 4. All of the action in the episode seems to happen at no lower than deck 7, which is squarely in the primary saucer hull, and this includes engineering, auxiliary control, and the armory. Spock says the Klingons control deck 6 and starboard deck 7, while they control everything above. At the time, the Enterprises crew controlled engineering, which means engineering must be on either port deck 7 or anywhere from deck 5 and up. However, in the next scene, Scott comes up a ladder shaft and walks through the nearby doors into the "Engineering Section" which is clearly marked by a sign on the wall. This means engineering cannot be on "port deck 7" but anywhere from deck 5 and up, again placing engineering squarely in the saucer. There is also a room or area called "emergency manual control" which seems to be the famous "Jefferies tube", because Kirk orders Sulu to go down there and we next see Sulu standing in it fiddling with switches. The "main life support couplings" are on deck 6, as Mara says, and this is where she goes when she is confronted by Chekov. Spock says "reactor number three" is near engineering, and both are next to a curved corridor, again indicating saucer location for engineering. The entity moves from this curved corridor into engineering, and in the next scene emerges again into the curved corridor, which seems to be deck 6 because Mara has come to fiddle with the "main life support couplings". Mara and her escort seem to have slipped out of the red door to their left, which seems to be the door to engineering, which they just left Kang in. All of this points to a deck 6 location for engineering. It should be noted that the room itself is so tall it occupies two decks, so the upper part could be in the "hump" of the upper part of the saucer, which is deck 5. Kang states that the Federation and the Klingon Empire had been at peace for three years prior to this episode, evidently referring to the Treaty of Organia from . However, based on the widely accepted chronology for the original series, this treaty would have just been signed the previous year. He could have meant the amount of time in Klingon years. Kirk and Kang already seem to know one another. Kang uses the captain's name in the teaser; Kirk uses the Klingon commander's name at the beginning of Act One. This may have been due to Kor's having originally been written as the Klingon commander for this episode. This is the first time it is mentioned that Klingons still use bladed weapons, as why Kirk believes that they are behind the appearance of the swords; in all other series, this becomes a universal fact about them. Uhura is seen talking to Kirk while holding a "Sgian-dubh" (Scottish knife) The swords are designed to the ethnic background of the users: Kirk 18th century Navy cutlass. Chekov a Cossack broadsword Scott a Scottish claymore Sulu a Japanese katana Klingons and Enterprise Crewmen use Roman gladius with a least one mace, a medieval broadsword, and a scimitar. This is the only time in the original version of the original series that a Klingon warship is destroyed on screen. In the remastered version, it is also seen in the beginning of . The Enterprise's turbolifts are given an unusual treatment in the scene in which Chekov flees the bridge. We see him run into the turbolift at speed and bear left; the effect is of him exiting down a corridor (otherwise he'd instantly run into the wall of the turbolift car). A few moments later, after pointing out that Chekov has no brother, Sulu enters the same turbolift chamber, but bears right, again giving the impression of exiting via a corridor rather than a turbolift car. In the next scene we see Chekov's turbolift arrive at its destination, indicating that a second car had arrived to ferry Sulu. Reception Tor.com gave this episode a "warp 4" rating out 6. Reviewer Dayton Ward of tor.com called the Chekov attempt-at-rape scene "arguably one of the more disturbing scenes from all of the original series." Reviewer William B from "Jammer's Review" had a much more positive outlook on the episode. He argued that the episode is a metaphor for man's aggression as the default. He wrote that this episode "represents the human aggressive impulse as a rule. When people get enraged, and when they get trained to fight, eventually fighting and the hatred of one's enemy becomes habitual. Its reason for existing is pretty clear – as animals, competing for resources, fighting was a matter of survival, and emotional/instinctual charge to fight and continue fighting would help survive. But taken out of its proper context, this can "take over" otherwise rational people entirely, as happens here with the human and Klingon crews, unless they can correctly identify and fight against this impulse. People are responsible for their actions – but the things carried out by fighters in the frenzy of war are so often so far from what those same people do in peacetime, that it is clear that it is sometimes difficult to keep perspective when in the emotional thrall of combat mentality. The way the creature ramps up aggressive and vengeful impulses, to the point of having Chekov nearly rape the Klingon science officer (!!!), represents this well." Apocrypha Bantam Books published a series of novelizations called "foto-novels," which took photographic stills from actual episodes and arranged word balloons and text over them, to create a formatted story. The tenth installment was an adaptation of this episode. It includes a brief interview with Michael Ansara. "Blood Reign O'er Me", the fourth installment of the IDW Comics series Star Trek: Klingons - Blood Will Tell, tells the story of this episode from the Klingon perspective, and shows it to have indirectly played a very significant role in the Klingon/Federation peace process – the main character, Kahnrah, who holds the tie-breaking vote on the High council, makes the decision to support Gorkon's proposal after being told by one of Kang's men of the honor with which the Enterprise crew fought. In the series of novels by Greg Cox, the Beta XII-A entity is revealed to be part of a group that Q fell in with centuries ago. This group also included the found on , Gorgan, and the group's leader 0. Production timeline Story outline by Jerome Bixby, titled "For They Shall Inherit", Revised story outline, titled "Day of the Dove", Second revised story outline, Third revised story outline, Fourth revised story outline by Fred Freiberger, First draft teleplay by Bixby, Second draft teleplay, Final draft teleplay by Arthur Singer, Revised final draft teleplay by Freiberger, Additional page revisions by Freiberger, , , Filmed, – Day 1 – , Thursday (Half Day) – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Bridge Day 2 – , Friday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Bridge Day 3 – , Monday – Desilu Stage 10: Ext. Planet surface; Desilu Stage 9: Int. Transporter room Day 4 – , Tuesday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Corridors, Sickbay Day 5 – , Wednesday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Sickbay,Corridors, Turbolift, Engineering, Bridge Day 6 – , Thursday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Sickbay,Engineering, Bridge, Corridors, Armory, Jefferies tube, Recreation room (redress of Briefing room) Original airdate, Rerun airdate, First UK airdate, During the syndication run of Star Trek, no syndication cuts were made to this episode. Video and DVD releases Original US Betamax release: UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 34, catalog number VHR 2430, US VHS release: UK re-release (three-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 3.4, Original US DVD release (single-disc): Volume 33, As part of the TOS Season 3 DVD collection As part of the TOS-R Season 3 DVD collection Links and references Starring William Shatner as Kirk Also starring Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock And DeForest Kelley as Dr. McCoy Guest star Michael Ansara as Kang Co-starring Susan Howard as Mara James Doohan as Scott Walter Koenig as Chekov George Takei as Sulu Nichelle Nichols as Uhura David L. Ross as Lt. Mark Tobin as a Klingon Uncredited co-stars Phil Adams as a Klingon crewman Majel Barrett as Computer Voice Richard Geary as a Enterprise security guard Eddie Hice as a Enterprise security guard Roger Holloway as Roger Lemli Jay Jones as a Klingon crewman Pete Kellett as a Klingon crewman Hubie Kerns, Sr. as a Klingon crewman Jeannie Malone as Enterprise yeoman Victor Paul as a Klingon crewman Charles Picerni as a Enterprise security lieutenant George Sawaya as a Klingon crewman David Sharpe as a Enterprise security guard Unknown actors as Enterprise orderly Enterprise security guard Enterprise security guard Enterprise security guard Klingon crewmen 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, and 9 Unknown actress as Klingon crew woman Stunts Al Cavens References 2265; acceleration; act of war; alien; alternative; ambush (aka sneak attack); analysis; animal; answer; antique; Archanis IV Research Outpost (Archanis IV); area; armory; atmosphere; attacker; automatic transporter setting; auxiliary control center; auxiliary navigation; auxiliary power; bad guy; balance of power; ball; battle cruiser, Klingon; beast; beauty; beings that feed on emotion; Beta XII-A; Beta XII-A entity; Beta XII-A sector; Beta XII-A ship; Beta XII-A sun; Beta Leonis Minoris; bigotry; blood; bluff; body; brain waves; brig; "bury the hatchet"; butcher; cabin; candidate; ; casualty; choice; channel; ; claymore; coliseum; colony; Commander; computation; condition red; Constitution-class decks; contact; Cossack; course; coward; crew lounge; crowd; cutlass; danger; ; "dead duck" (duck); death; death camp; death planet; deck; deflectors; devil; dilithium crystal; diplomacy; distress call; drifting; door; drum; dueling tradition; emergency bulkhead; emergency manual control; emotion; emotional outburst; enemy; energy; engineering (engineering section); engine control; engine power; entity; eternity; event; "even the score"; evidence; explosion; fable; fantasy; Federation; feeling; five-minute report; food-synthesizer; fool; freak; game; general quarters; gladius; goon; "go to the devil"; grave; green; guest; habit; half-breed; hatchet; hatred; hazard; head; healing; heart; history; hostage; hostility; house; Human; ; ice; ideology; imaginary; innocence; intelligence; intention; intercom; intraship beaming; job; ; katana; Klingons; Klingon Empire; Klingon food; knowledge; landing party; liar; library computer; lie; life; life energy level; life-energy unit; life force; life support circuits; life support couplings; life support systems; location; logic; log tape; long sword; loyalty; lust; magnification; massacre; matter; memory; metal; military men; Milky Way Galaxy; mind; minute; mistake; monster; motive; murder; murderer; "nailed down"; night; non-existence; Numanol capsule; object; only child; order; orderly; ordnance; organ; Organian Peace Treaty; "out of your mind"; outpost; paranoid mania; patience; patriotism; pattern buffer; pawn; peace; person; persuasion; phantom; phaser; phaser torch; plan; planet; ; power system; prisoner; projectile; proof; propaganda; psychology; radiation; radiation level; raid; range; Reactor #3; red alert; remotes; report; research outpost; ; result; revenge; ruins; rules of war; sabotage; savage; scan; science officer; scream; search; second; sector; Security; sensor; sensor scan; sensor sweep; "ship out"; shock; slave labor; solid object; space; speed; starboard; Starfleet; Starfleet Command; star system; ; stuffed; subspace frequency; suffering; suffocation; surrender; surveillance; survivor; suspended in transit; sword; target area; term; terrain; thing; threat; throat; "tiger by the tail" (tiger, tail); threat; time factor; torture; "to the letter"; tracking; transmutation; transfer; transporter; transportee; transporter pad; transporter room; trap; trauma; treachery; trick; truce; truth; torture; toy; unconscious; ; victim; victory; vigilance; violence; vital organs; voice; volunteering; Vulcan; Vulcan neck pinch; wall; war; warp 9; warrior; weapon; "what the blazes"; wide field; wife; wound External links de:Das Gleichgewicht der Kräfte es:Day of the Dove fr:Day of the Dove (épisode) ja:宇宙の怪！怒りを喰う！？（エピソード） nl:Day of the Dove pl:Day of the Dove TOS episodes

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Plato's Stepchildren (episode)

The Enterprise finds a planet inhabited by aliens who were once followers of the Greek philosopher Plato. Summary Teaser Summoned by an urgent distress call for medical help, the landing party consisting of Kirk, Spock, and McCoy find a group of aliens who supposedly model their society on the teachings of Plato. Their leader is suffering from a massive infection in his leg and is close to death. Alexander, a servant to the Platonians, quietly suggests to Philana that they should not kill the Enterprise landing party, given that they are trying to save their leader, Parmen. Before he can finish his sentence, Philana telekinetically makes him bite his hand. Act One Kirk, Spock, and McCoy discover the Platonians' powerful psychokinetic abilities, as the man's delirium has violent effects on his surroundings. Another Platonian trait is extreme longevity, as well as frail physical immunity seemingly caused by their emphasis on mental prowess. This is what caused their powerful ruler to be so vulnerable to what should have been a minor treatable injury. The result of an mass eugenics project on their home planet, "Plato's stepchildren" had escaped to Earth in the time of the ancient Greek philosopher Plato when their star, Sahndara, went supernova. After Plato's death they established a republic based on his philosophy, where 38 inhabitants live a life of quiet contemplation and self-reliance. A simple cut in the leg had developed an unknown infection which caused Parmen to have a fever and lose control of his powers. Furniture is thrown around and the Enterprise is shaken in orbit, while Kirk, Spock, McCoy, and Alexander duck and hide from the flying objects. "Fascinating. I believe we are experiencing the psychokinetic manifestations of Parmen's delirium", Spock notes. Philana, Parmen's wife, is able to distract Parmen long enough for McCoy to sedate him with a hypospray, ending the chaos. Later, Dr. McCoy's treatment of Parmen is effective and the landing party prepares to leave the planet. However, the Enterprise is frozen; Scott reports that there are no functional transporters, navigation or even subspace communication with Starfleet. Captain Kirk barges into Parmen's chamber, and Parmen strips Kirk of his phaser and tells him that guests must recognize his supremacy. In an allusion to the Greek ideal of guest-friend, Kirk retorts: "Guest? You don't know the meaning of the word. Guests are not treated like common prisoners." Parmen uses his psychokinetic powers to force Kirk to slap himself in the face repeatedly. Act Two After the ordeal with Kirk smacking himself around, he, Spock, and McCoy are back in their guest chamber, trying to contact the Enterprise with his communicator to no avail. The Platonians summon them and seem grateful for McCoy's help. They provide the landing party with variety of gifts: the shield of Pericles for Kirk, a kithara for Spock, and a collection of Greek cures written by Hippocrates himself for McCoy. Parmen appeals for Kirk's forgiveness. He says he will release the ship, but he wants McCoy to remain on the planet. McCoy refuses and Parmen says he will not be refused. Kirk says that he cannot consider himself a descendant of Plato. Spock points out, "Plato wanted truth and beauty and above all, justice." Parmen says that theirs is the most democratic society that ever was – unlike the Federation, which uses weapons and fleets of starships to enforce justice, the Platonians use the power of the mind. He says he wants to persuade Kirk and Spock to leave peacefully so as not to upset McCoy. Parmen uses his mental powers to intimidate and humiliate Kirk and Spock into compliance. First, he makes them sing a song and dance a jig. Kirk tells McCoy that he is not going to let him stay behind and Parmen makes Kirk recite some lines from William Shakespeare's Sonnet LVII: "Being your slave what should I do but tend | Upon the hours, and times of your desire? | I have no precious time at all to spend; | Nor service[s] to do, 'til you …". Parmen makes Spock dance some more and then forces him to laugh and cry, torturing his Vulcan psychology by forcing severe emotion, such as hearty laughter and a good cry out of him. Kirk is forced to get down on his hands and knees and neigh and trot like a horse and Alexander is forced to ride on Kirk's back Act Three McCoy decides to volunteer to stay but Kirk still refuses, pointing out that once they are gone they and the Enterprise will be destroyed. Alexander speaks up, saying that Kirk is right. He gives a speech about how he used to think it was his own fault that he did not have the same powers as the Platonians and that he was lucky that they had kept him around. But now, after the Enterprise crew stood up to the Platonians and showed them for what they are, he realizes how they've been putting him down. Spock questions Alexander about the powers and determines that the power had manifested itself shortly after the Platonians had used up their food stores and started eating local food. McCoy scans Alexander's blood with his medical tricorder and finds that Parmen has more kironide, which is broken down by the pituitary gland. Alexander remembers that the kironide gave each Platonian different mental powers, but when they tried to combine these powers they failed. McCoy synthesizes some kironide and injects Kirk, and Spock – to double that of Parmen's level. Kirk suggests that Alexander get a dose, take Parmen's place and rule the planet, but Alexander refuses: "You think that's what I want? Become one of them? Become my own enemy? Just lie around like a big blob of nothing and have things done for me? I want to run around for myself. If I am going to laugh or cry, I want to do it for myself. You can keep your precious power. All I ask is one thing: if you do make it out of here, take me with you." The conversation is interrupted when the Platonians force Lieutenant Uhura and Nurse Christine Chapel to beam down as Kirk, Spock, and McCoy look on in bewilderment. The women, unable to speak, walk away and are forced against their will to prepare for the evening's festivities. Kirk angrily surmises that the Platonians have now found some new entertainment for their amusement. Act Four Later that night, Uhura and Chapel step out into the main hall, both dressed in fabulous Greek dresses as Kirk and Spock join them, both clad in short Greek tunics and laurel leaf crowns. Kirk asks Spock to try to lift some plates of food, but the powers have not kicked in yet. Kirk, Spock, Uhura, and Chapel are led to a stage. Parmen would like to welcome McCoy, but he has to convince McCoy to change his mind first. He makes Spock sing what he calls "a serenade from the laughing spaceman" to Uhura and Chapel. Then, the four are split into two pairs: Uhura and Kirk, and Chapel and Spock. Chapel and Spock are forced to kiss despite their protests; Chapel confesses that she has wanted to be close to Spock for so long but now she wants to "crawl away and die". Uhura likewise confesses to Kirk that she was so often calmed by Kirk's presence when she was frightened on the bridge of the Enterprise. The two couples struggle in vain to avoid being forced to kiss. After the kisses, Parmen compels Kirk to crack a bullwhip at Uhura and Spock to brandish a hot poker rod at Chapel. While Parmen is distracted controlling the four officers, Alexander attempts to sneak up on him with a knife. Parmen shifts his focus to trying to make Alexander turn the knife on himself. Meanwhile, Kirk begins to feel his telekinetic power building and laughs once he prevents Alexander from hurting himself. Parmen cannot believe that Kirk has telekinetic abilities and tries to test them. He sends Alexander to threaten Kirk with the knife, but again the captain turns the tables on the Platonian. For a brief time, the two minds fight for control of Alexander. Kirk's power is proven the greater but ultimately they both release him. Alexander begins to use his free will to attack Parmen but Kirk stops him, asking simply, "Do you want to be like him?" Alexander struggles with his conscience, but finally drops the knife, heaping contempt onto his former leader instead. Parmen sees that Kirk has spared his life, and appears repentant. He promises that he will be more benevolent towards future visits by other starships. Spock and Kirk are very dubious of the reform and so stresses that any new visitors can easily be dosed with kironide as well. Parmen appears to acquiesce to this truth and Kirk seems satisfied that the "Platonian problem" has been solved. Kirk calls Scotty for transport, saying that he has "a little surprise" for the chief engineer. Kirk intends to make good on his earlier promise to rescue Alexander from Platonius and the Enterprise departs soon after. Log entries Captain's log, USS Enterprise (NCC-1701), 2268 Memorable quotes "Alexander, where I come from, size, shape, or color makes no difference." - Kirk, on life outside Platonius "Doctor McCoy, you may yet cure the common cold." - Spock, after Parmen's recovery "Philosopher kings have no need of titles." - Parmen, correcting Kirk "I'm Tweedledee, he's Tweedledum." "We're spacemen marching to and from." "We slythe among the mimsey toves." "And tire among the borogoves." - Kirk and Spock, performing for Parmen – "Being your slave, what should I do but tend." "Upon the hours, and times of your desire?" "I have no precious time at all to spend." "Nor service to do, 'til you..." - James T. Kirk, reciting from William Shakespeare's Sonnet LVII while under Parmen's spell – "However, I have noted that the healthy release of emotion is frequently very unhealthy for those closest to you." - Spock to McCoy, on their humiliations "You think that's what I want? Become one of them? Become my own enemy?" - Alexander to Kirk, on receiving psychokinesis "For so long I've wanted to be close to you. Now all I want to do is crawl away and die!" - Chapel, before kissing Spock "Careful, Mr. Spock. Too much love is dangerous." "Remember, Cupid's arrow kills Vulcans." - Dionyd and Eraclitus, on Spock's kiss – "And now they are making me tremble. But I'm not afraid. I am not afraid." - Uhura, before her kiss with Kirk "Don't stop me! Let me finish him off!" "Do you want to be like him?" - Alexander and Kirk, as Alexander points a knife at Parmen "Despite your brains, you're the most contemptible things that ever lived in this universe. " - Alexander, scolding Parmen "To us, killing is murder. Even for revenge." - Kirk to Parmen, on why he was spared "Uncontrolled, power will turn even saints into savages. And we can all be counted upon to live down to our lowest impulses." - Parmen to Kirk, before the landing party departs "Kirk to Enterprise. Mr. Scott, prepare to beam us up. I have a little surprise for you. I'm bringing a visitor aboard." - Kirk, not forgetting his promise to take Alexander with him (last lines) Background information Production timeline Story outline by Meyer Dolinsky, titled "The Sons of Socrates", Revised story outline, First draft teleplay, Second draft teleplay, Third draft teleplay, Final draft teleplay by Arthur Singer, , Additional page revisions by Fred Freiberger, , , , , , Filmed, – Day 1 – , Monday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Bridge; Desilu Stage 10: Int. Atrium Day 2 – , Tuesday – Desilu Stage 10: Int. Atrium Day 3 – , Wednesday – Desilu Stage 10: Int. Atrium Day 4 – , Thursday – Desilu Stage 10: Int. Atrium, South wing Day 5 – , Friday – Desilu Stage 10: Int. South wing Day 6 – , Monday – Desilu Stage 10: Int. South wing Day 7 – , Tuesday – Desilu Stage 10: Int. South wing ("Theater") Score recorded, Original airdate, First UK airdate Cast George Takei (Sulu) and Walter Koenig (Chekov) do not appear in this episode. Music This is Alexander Courage's last score for Star Trek. This episode was also the last episode to have an original score, although new songs for and a Brahms paraphrase for were composed. Leonard Nimoy composed "Maiden Wine", the song that he performs in this episode. Costumes The togas worn by Shatner and Nimoy in this episode were designed by William Ware Theiss, and were later put up for auction in December 2018. Reception This episode has been long touted for featuring "the first interracial kiss on [American] network television." (The Star Trek Compendium, p. 120) See: . There is some dispute about whether the kiss actually occurred. According to the on-screen footage, it appears that the actors' lips touched. However, both William Shatner and Nichelle Nichols claimed in Star Trek Memories that NBC exerted pressure to forbid lip contact, and to use a clever camera technique to conceal the "separation". Also according to Nichols, NBC was afraid of the kiss because some stations in the South could decide not to air the episode because of it. Finally, an agreement was made: to film two versions of the scene – one where Kirk and Uhura kissed, and one where they did not. They filmed the first version (with the kiss) successfully, then she and Shatner deliberately flubbed every take of the latter, making it unusable, and leaving the kiss intact. Nichols writes, "The next day they screened the dailies, and although I rarely attended them, I couldn't miss this one. Everyone watched as Kirk and Uhura kissed and kissed and kissed. And I'd like to set the record straight: Although Kirk and Uhura fought it, they did kiss in every single scene. When the non-kissing scene came on, everyone in the room cracked up. The last shot, which looked okay on the set, actually had Bill wildly crossing his eyes. It was so corny and just plain bad it was unusable. The only alternative was to cut out the scene altogether, but that was impossible to do without ruining the entire episode. Finally, the guys in charge relented: 'To hell with it. Let's go with the kiss.' I guess they figured we were going to be canceled in a few months anyway. And so the kiss stayed." (Beyond Uhura) According to Nichols, in the early script, it was supposed to be Spock that kissed Uhura, but William Shatner had it changed, saying, "If anyone's gonna get to kiss Nichelle, it's going to be me, I mean, Captain Kirk!" Trekkies Bjo and John Trimble were happy to receive news of this installment. John Trimble remarked, "Our immediate reaction was, 'Alright, by God, about time!" Added Bjo Trimble, "And my second immediate reaction was, 'Boy, are they gonna hear from the Bible Belt on this one!" Bjo Trimble stated, "We got our share of some really nasty letters. But here was the thing – you get one nasty letter, and you get a hundred really great letters. It was a step forward, I think." (Star Trek: The Real Story) Screenwriter D.C. Fontana recalled, "There were Southern stations that told NBC: 'Well, we're not going to run this show, because you have a black woman on the bridge,'," she then added “And Gene Roddenberry told NBC to tell them to go to hell." According to Nichols who said the scene struck a chord for her personally because her own "Grandpa was white, and Grandma was black. But professionally speaking? It was just a kissing scene." This episode was not shown until in the United Kingdom, with the BBC skipping it due to "sadistic" elements in the plot. An official BBC statement by Sheila Cundy of the Programme Correspondence Section declared, "After very careful consideration a top level decision was made not to screen the episodes entitled '' [sic], '' [sic], 'Plato's Stepchildren' and '' [actually transmitted in 1970, but not re-aired until the '90s], because they all dealt most unpleasantly with the already unpleasant subjects of madness, torture, sadism and disease." (BBC form letter, undated, Reference 28/SPC) Remastered information The remastered version of "Plato's Stepchildren" aired in many North American markets during the weekend of . Very few new effects were required. Like all other remastered episodes, the physical model of the Enterprise has been wholly replaced by a CGI model throughout the episode. Similarly, the Enterprise is universally shot at different – and typically closer – angles than in the original. The most dramatic new effect is that of the planet Platonius. It has changed from its original, Mars-like appearance to one that greatly resembles Earth. Dr. McCoy's tricorder insert also received a touch-up. Its display was transformed from a bar graph that approximated sickbay displays to an integrated line chart. The benefit of the changed effect is that the display now more easily reads as a true comparison of the blood of Alexander and Parmen, along with (ostensibly) Human norms. In addition, the digital restoration of non-SFX shots has resulted in an overall brightening of color that is perhaps more profound in this abstractly-designed episode than in others. Video and DVD releases UK VHS release (CIC Video): catalog number VHR 2084, Released with , the volume was originally unrated, as it was released prior to the . After , it received a rating of PG. Original US Betamax release: UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 35, catalog number VHR 2431, US VHS release: UK re-release (three-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 3.4, Original US DVD release (single-disc): Volume 34, As part of the TOS Season 3 DVD collection As part of the TOS-R Season 3 DVD collection Links and references Starring William Shatner as Captain James T. Kirk Also starring Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock And DeForest Kelley as Dr. McCoy Guest stars Michael Dunn as Alexander Liam Sullivan as Parmen Barbara Babcock as Philana James Doohan as Scott Nichelle Nichols as Uhura Majel Barrett as Nurse Chapel Ted Scott as Eraclitus Derek Partridge as Dionyd Uncredited co-stars William Blackburn as Hadley Jeannie Malone as Yeoman Frieda Rentie as a Sciences division crew woman Unknown performers as Platonian audience members Navigator Operations crewman Photo double Armando Gonzales as dancing double for Leonard Nimoy References 44 BC; 32 BC; 85 AD; academician; aging; anger; anniversary; answer; apology; apple; Aristophanes; arm; arrogance; arrow; atmosphere; bacteria; beauty; blood; blood sample; bloodstream; "Bones"; borogove; brain; brain wave; breathing; brotherhood; brow; ; bullwhip; century; chamber; chess; children; choking; common cold; comparative test; ; contact; contemplation; court buffoon; crying; culture; Cupid; cut; dance; day; death; death warrant; deficiency; delirium; democratic society; deposit; desire; dignity; disciple; distress call; drum; ; Earth; emergency gyro; emergency stabilizer; emotion; enemy; engineer; environmental condition; eugenics; Excellency; fact; fear; fever; fit; Flamenco; ; French language; ; fruit; furniture; genius; god; good faith; grapes; gratitude; Greek civilization; Greek language; guest; hatred; head (aka ruler); heart; Hippocrates; hoof; ; horn; hour; humble; humiliation; hypo; hypothesis; idea; ignorance; infection; information; intention; joking; justice; keg; kironide; kiss; kithara; knife; knowledge; laughing; laurel; leader; leadership; leg; life; light; logic; longevity; love; lyre; "Maiden Wine"; marriage; meaning; medical stores; medical tricorder; medicine (aka medical arts); meditation; Milky Way Galaxy; mind; month; mood; moralizing; murder; muscle; music; night; nova; order; pain; ; patience; peace; pebble; Pericles; philosopher king; physician (aka doctor); plate; pituitary gland; pituitary hormone; place; Plato; Platonian; Platonian's original leader; Platonius; population; power level; ; principality; prisoner; probability; problem; prognosis; psychokinesis (aka psychokinetic power, psychokinetic ability); puppet; question; rage; reality; recuperative power; refugee; ; research; result; revenge; rhyme; sadism; Sahndara; ; saint; savage; "scared to death"; science officer; secret; self-reliance; sensor; serenade; ; Shakespeare's sonnets; shape; shield; sing; size; skin; slap; slave; sleepwalking; Socrates; solution; smile; space fleet; spaceship; speech; spouse (wife); stabilizer; star; Starfleet; starship; stepchildren; storm; ; subspace communication; symbol; temper; ten scale; "theory; thing; thinking; Through the Looking-Glass; throwback; time; time factor; title; tone; torture; treasure; treatment; tricorder; trick; truth; turbulence; Tweedledum and Tweedledee; unconscious; universe; utopia; vagabond; vanity; velvet; voice; Vulcan; weapon; : wine; ; word; year External links de:Platons Stiefkinder es:Plato's Stepchildren fr:Plato's Stepchildren (épisode) it:Umiliati per forza maggiore (episodio) ja:キロナイドの魔力（エピソード） nl:Plato's Stepchildren pl:Plato's Stepchildren TOS episodes

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Wink of an Eye (episode)

The Enterprise is hijacked by hyperaccelerated, sterile aliens who want the crew for breeding stock. Summary Teaser "Ship's Log, Stardate 5710.5, Lieutenant Commander Scott reporting. While exploring an outer quadrant of the galaxy, the Enterprise received distress calls from an apparently uninhabited, incredibly beautiful city on the planet of Scalos. Captain Kirk and a landing party have beamed down to investigate." Captain Kirk and a landing party respond to the transmission site of the Scalosian distress call, but the planet seems deserted. McCoy and Spock can detect no signs of life but Kirk hears an insect buzzing. Spock reports that the civilization on Scalos was highly advanced, rating 7 on the industrial scale. He will have the abundance of literature translated and processed. Compton vanishes while taking a water sample, right before Dr. McCoy's eyes. Act One Kirk and the landing party return to the , where they begin to analyze the mystery. Lieutenant Sulu reports that he is having a malfunction on his console and Nurse Chapel says that the medical supply cabinets have been opened and rummaged through. While being examined by McCoy in sickbay, Kirk hears the strange insect noise again. Kirk and Spock discover an alien device hooked into the Enterprises environmental controls but they cannot disconnect or destroy it, as it is protected by a force field. Kirk, Scott and Spock consult the ship's computer, which concludes that an unknown presence is trying to gain control of the Enterprise. The computer recommends negotiation for terms but Kirk refuses. He takes a cup of coffee from a passing yeoman. Kirk hears the buzzing noise again and sets down his coffee on his chair's console arm. Some bubbles appear in his coffee. Kirk's perception slows and the crew on the bridge seem to move in slow motion. Kirk has become hyper-accelerated. Act Two The Queen of the Scalosians, , has given Kirk an agent that accelerates him to the Scalosian time frame; a Scalosian experiences time much more quickly, to a point where they can no longer be seen by the Enterprise crew. Kirk attempts to stun Deela with a phaser but she easily steps out of the way of the slowly moving beam. Deela is amused by Kirk's defiance; she says that "it always happens this way; they are very upset at first" but "then it wears off and they learn to like it." The scene momentarily cuts back to normal time; Kirk's sudden disappearance from his chair is noticed by Uhura, Spock, and Sulu. Then, Kirk runs to environmental engineering where he encounters Compton, who has been accelerated and is guarding the entrance. Compton assures Kirk that he will come to accept the new arrangement with the Scalosian invasion of the Enterprise. Kirk overpowers Compton, but Kirk is subdued in the control room by two male Scalosians. Deela fawns over the unconscious Kirk and hopes that she can keep him for a long time. Hopefully, she says, this species is strong enough to last. Kirk awakes, only to see Compton unconscious and exhibiting severe cellular damage. He ages rapidly and dies, becoming another . Kirk ruefully exclaims, "He was so young." "Was," Rael points out. Kirk makes a recording of his report in a medical lab on a microtape, while Spock, Chapel, and McCoy stand by like statues, moving in the slower time frame. He states that the cause is hyper-acceleration, and that the device in the environmental control will put the Enterprise into a deep freeze. Deela confirms his story, and tells him about the history of her race. Act Three Radiation poisoning had transformed the population of Scalos, accelerating them out of the normal timeframe and making them sterile. Their only hope, Deela suggests, is to abduct members from other races in order to procreate. Unfortunately, to do this, they must hyper-accelerate the other race, which usually causes them to die quickly. While Deela is distracted talking to Rael, Kirk slips the tape with his recorded message into the machine Spock is using and flees to the transporter room. Deela tries to transport Kirk to the surface, but the transporter is still inoperable thanks to Kirk's sabotage efforts earlier. They retire to Kirk's quarters while the problem is investigated. Meanwhile, Spock leaves the medical lab when he realizes what the buzzing sound is. He replays the distress call from the science station on the bridge and examines the telemetry from the original away mission. He uses the ship's controls to speed up and slow down the recording. Speeding up the distress call makes it sound like the now familiar buzzing noise. Back in the medical lab, McCoy discovers a tape with the same buzzing sound. He brings the tape to the bridge, where Spock slows it down and then the crew learns of the Scalosian plot. Having repaired the transporter, Rael tries to inform Deela but she is in Kirk's quarters and does not answer. He interrupts them as they are about to kiss and attacks Kirk. Act Four Deela subdues him with her weapon and chides him for being jealous. After Rael leaves, Kirk seems to have pleasantly accepted his fate. McCoy, Chapel, and Spock have synthesized an agent to counteract the hyper-acceleration, but do not know how they will administer it to Kirk. Spock takes the initiative and drinks the Scalosian water sample. Accelerated, he collects the antidote and goes off to find Kirk. The other Scalosians beam down to the surface, and Rael activates the refrigeration device. Catching Deela unaware, Kirk steals her weapon and meets up with Spock; together they incapacitate Rael and destroy the device. Kirk confronts Deela and asks what they should do with her. Kirk suggests putting her and the other Scalosians in suspended animation, but she notes that their survival does not depend on that. Kirk does not disagree and he believes that if he sends her and Rael back down to Scalos, she and her people would simply incapacitate another vessel with their distress call. Deela says that that will not happen any more as Kirk will undoubtedly warn the Federation and they will quarantine the area. She offers no protest, accepting the fact that it will effectively end her people’s difficult quest to restart their race. Later, in the transporter room, Deela points out that life with her would not be unpleasant but Kirk states that he would rather stay alive. He sends Rael and Deela back down to the surface. Spock gives the counter-agent to Kirk, but says that it has not been tested. Kirk says "Let's test it," and returns to normal time. Kirk appears in front of Scotty, who is both baffled and pleased to see him. Spock remains in accelerated time in order to efficiently effect repairs to the ship. With the Enterprise quickly repaired, Uhura slips and activates the tape of Deela, and Kirk says goodbye to her. Log entries Captain's log, USS Enterprise (NCC-1701), 2268 Memorable quotes "Who are you?" "Deela … the enemy." - Kirk and Deela, in their first encounter on the bridge "Captain, we have the right to survive." "Not by killing others." - Deela and Kirk, on her plans for the Enterprise crew "They all go so soon. I want to keep this one a long time. He's pretty." - Deela, to Rael while looking over an unconscious Kirk "I despise devious people. Don't you?" "I believe in honest relationships myself." - Deela and Kirk, after he sabotages the transporter "A room should reflect its occupant." - Kirk, on his quarters "You're married to your career, and you never look at another woman." "Well, if she's pretty enough, I'll look." - Deela and Kirk, as he seduces her "I liked you better before. Stubborn and irritating and independent, like Rael." - Deela to Kirk, on his behavior "Captain Kirk! Where the blazes did you come from?"" "Out of the nowhere into the here." - Scott and Kirk, as Kirk returns from hyper-acceleration "I found it … an accelerating experience." - Spock, on hyper-acceleration Background information Story and script Story outline: , filmed middle through late September. The story concept has an even earlier pedigree: the writer of The Wild, Wild West episode, John Kneubuhl (who made an uncredited story contribution to ) based it on an short story called "The New Accelerator." An episode of the 1966 Lone Ranger animated series also used this plot. The producers managed to slip past the censors the scene suggesting that Deela and Kirk have just had sex. The captain is sitting on the edge of the bed, tugging on his boot, while Deela is busy brushing her hair. (The Star Trek Compendium, p. 121) In a note from Gene Roddenberry to Fred Freiberger dated May 29th, 1968, he calls the water "Scalian water", which may be either a mistake on his part or an indication that the name was changed to "Scalosian" later. Production At the beginning of the episode, Scotty is shown on the bridge recording a log while other dialogue is played over this scene. The footage is reused from . This is evident because Scotty wears a very different hairstyle, and another woman takes the place of Uhura. A piece of Scotty's dialogue with Kirk on the planet below from "The Empath" can also be heard, very faintly. In fact, what he is saying originally played over Kirk's communicator in that episode. Chekov is seen in a recycled shot of the viewscreen with his and Hadley's back, but does not appear in the rest of the episode. The Eminiar VII matte painting is recycled here for Scalos, a statue seen in Anan 7's quarters is similar to a statue seen in this episode. This episode was, in essence, a bottle show with the need for only one set, a fountain, which was designed by Matt Jefferies. Jefferies' fountain sketch appeared in the Star Trek: The Original Series Sketchbook (p. 29). The environmental engineering room, also designed by Jefferies, was a redress of the briefing room set. Jefferies' life support room sketch also appeared in the Star Trek: The Original Series Sketchbook (p. 29). The Scalosian weapon, also designed by Jefferies, was made from lathe-turned aluminum, and measured approximately 6 ¾" in length. A sketch of the design appeared in the Star Trek: The Original Series Sketchbook (p. 91). The weapon made a sound identical to Klingon disruptors and the Ardana torture device in . Director Jud Taylor tilted the camera to indicate the journey into hyper-acceleration. This was also a common technique on Batman whenever the camera visited the villain-of-the-week's lair. In the episode trailer, when Compton is accelerated he merely disappears, rather than "flickering out" as he does in the final episode. This was Andrea Weaver's last episode as women's costumer. She went on to join another former Desilu production, . During the syndication run of Star Trek, no syndication cuts were made to this episode. Special effects When Kirk shoots at – and misses – Deela on the bridge, it is the only time that a phaser beam is tinted green. It is also the only time when the phaser effect is rendered in traditional beam form during the third season; on all other occasions, a green glow fills the frame. Continuity The ultimately used title of this episode was a working title for the episode , which had the similar premise of a hyperaccelerated alien entering the starship, but without hostile intention that time. After Spock drinks the Scalosian water sample in the medical lab to accelerate him to the Scalosian time frame, Dr McCoy and Nurse Chapel are seen by Spock starting to slow down so that they begin to appear almost motionless. Spock, now in the fully accelerated state, leaves the lab with the samples of synthesized chemicals, needed to counteract the hyper-acceleration, for Kirk and himself. As Spock walks away, McCoy’s eyes can be seeing moving in the accelerated time frame as his eyes follow Spock leaving the scene. Production timeline Story outline by Lee Cronin, Revised story outline, First draft teleplay by Arthur Heinemann, Second draft teleplay, Final draft teleplay by Arthur Singer, Revised final draft teleplay by Fred Freiberger, Additional page revisions by Freiberger, , , , Filmed, – Day 1 – , Wednesday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Bridge Day 2 – , Thursday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Bridge, Medical lab Day 3 – , Friday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Medical lab, Transporter room, Sickbay Day 4 – , Monday – Desilu Stage 10: Int. Scalosian plaza; Desilu Stage 9: Int. Corridors, Transporter room Day 5 – , Tuesday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Transporter room, Life support control Day 6 – , Wednesday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Life support control, Kirk's quarters Original airdate, Repeat broadcast, Remastered information The remastered version of this episode premiered in syndication the weekend of . New shots of Scalos from space, as well as an enhanced matte painting of the surface were inserted into the episode, alongside more realistic phaser effects. This was the first remastered episode from third season to air and thus featured a "new" opening titles sequence. The next remastered episode to air was . Video and DVD releases Original US Betamax release: UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 35, catalog number VHR 2431, US VHS release: UK re-release (three-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 3.5, Original US DVD release (single-disc): Volume 34, As part of the TOS Season 3 DVD collection As part of the TOS-R Season 3 DVD collection Links and references Starring William Shatner as Capt. Kirk Also starring Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock And DeForest Kelley as Dr. McCoy Guest stars Kathie Browne as Jason Evers as Rael James Doohan as Scott George Takei as Sulu Nichelle Nichols as Uhura Majel Barrett as Nurse Chapel Erik Holland as Ekor Geoffrey Binney as Compton Uncredited co-stars Majel Barrett as Computer Voice William Blackburn as Hadley Richard Geary as Security Guard 1 Eddie Hice as Security Guard 2 Roger Holloway as Roger Lemli Jay Jones as Engineer Walter Koenig as Pavel Chekov (archive footage) Jeannie Malone as Yeoman Unknown performers as Female Scalosian Male Scalosian Sciences crewman (archive footage) Operations crew woman (archive footage) References "a bit"; accident; ; affection; alien; "all right"; analysis; animal life; answer; appeal; area; assumption; belief; "Bones"; career ; cell damage; channel; chief scientist; children; circuit; city; civilization; coffee; comb; commander; communicator; compliments; computer; computer banks; comrade; console; coordinates; country; counteragent; crewman; cup; damage; ; deep freeze; deflectors; ; device; dignity; distress call; ear; energy; enslavement; evidence; experience; explanation; fact; family; Federation; feeling; force field; friend; hallucination; hand; hangar deck; harm; ; hello; history; Human body; humanoid; hyper-acceleration; industrial scale; infertility; information; insect; intercom; intercom system; "in the wink of an eye"; invasion; investigation; jealousy; king; kiss; landing party; lifeform; life support center; life support system; literature; location; logic; love; madam; malfunction; marriage; medical lab; medical supply cabinet; Milky Way Galaxy; nation (aka country); number; "on the double"; opportunity; order; painting; panel; parent; phaser; phenomenon; physical contact; physical examination; planet; pollution; population; ; prisoner; problem; protective shield; quadrant; quality; quarantine; quarters; queen; question; radiation; radiation poisoning; range; reaction time; readout; red alert; refrigeration unit; relationship; repair crew; right; room; sabotage; Scalos; Scalosian; Scalosian city; Scalosians' non-Scalosian mates; Scalosian weapon; scientist; screen; self-defense; self-defense mechanism; sensor; skin; skin damage; space traveler; spaceship; species; "stand by"; standby alert; sterility; stubborn; suggestion; surface; suspended animation; suspended animation device; tape; tape button; temper; thing; thousand; translation; transporter; transporter control; transporter malfunction; transporter room; transporter technician; transporter unit; tricorder; trick; vegetation; viewer; visual contact; volcanic eruption; Vulcan; wall; water, Scalosian; weapon; "where the blazes"; yeoman External links de:Was summt denn da? es:Wink of an Eye fr:Wink of an Eye (épisode) ja:惑星スカロスの高速人間（エピソード） nl:Wink of an Eye pl:Wink of an Eye TOS episodes

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That Which Survives (episode)

Enterprise crew members are stranded on a ghost planet and terrorized by the image of a beautiful woman. Summary Teaser The investigates a planet whose size is approximately that of Earth's moon, yet mass and atmosphere are similar to Earth. Stranger yet is that it is apparently only a few thousand years old. Its geological age is much less than the indigenous vegetation and atmospheric content would indicate. Captain Kirk is intrigued by the unexplainable planet and organizes a landing party consisting of himself, Doctor McCoy, helmsman Sulu, and senior geologist . But as the landing party steps onto the transporter platform and starts to transport down to the surface of the planet, a mysterious woman suddenly appears as if from nowhere, telling them all that they must not go. She then touches the transporter operator, an Ensign Wyatt, who instantly crumples to the deck as the dematerializing landing party watches helplessly. She is too late to prevent the beam down, and moments later the four men materialize on the planet's surface. Once on the planet, Kirk attempts to contact the Enterprise with his communicator to report the attack, but before he can do so, a powerful tremor rocks the planet. At the same instant the Enterprise is tossed about in some sort of turbulence. Both disruptions subside simultaneously, and the crew of the Enterprise quickly discovers that the planet is no longer on the viewscreen. On the planet D'Amato's tricorder reads an energy burst of almost immeasurable power. When Kirk is unable to raise the Enterprise on his communicator, Sulu discovers that the Enterprise is missing from orbit, effectively stranding the landing party on the planet. Act One The landing party is at a loss to explain the Enterprises sudden disappearance. Sulu conjectures that the Enterprise must have blown up, citing high radiation readings as evidence of a matter/antimatter intermix explosion. Kirk quickly dismisses Sulu's theory due to a lack of residual radiation. McCoy then suggests that the Enterprise may have crashed onto the planet itself. Neither of these theories fits the facts. Recognizing, that regardless of the Enterprises fate, the landing party will soon need food and water, Kirk orders a detailed analysis of the planet's resources. But the report of that analysis is not encouraging, as all plant vegetation on the planet is poisonous to Humans, there is no evidence of rainfall or surface water, and the only other form of life is a virus-like plant parasite. During the survey, Sulu makes a sweep with his tricorder and registers a sudden magnetic reading that quickly dissipates, like a door opening and then closing again. McCoy also detects a powerful lifeform reading that appears and then disappears. These fluctuations occur as the same woman who appeared in the transporter room of the Enterprise confronts D'Amato, killing him with her touch. McCoy reports that all the cells of D'Amato's body have been disrupted from the inside. Kirk attempts to dig a grave for the geologist with his phaser, but the surface of the planet withstands its force. Further investigation reveals that the planet is an artificial body. In the meantime, the crew of the Enterprise attempts to discern what had happened. Scott reports no damage to the ship's engines. Uhura reports that the ship is functioning normally and there are nothing more than bumps and bruises as a result of the turbulence, save one casualty: transporter officer Wyatt has been found dead. Doctor M'Benga reports that they are not yet sure of the cause of death, as Dr. Sanchez is in the middle of Wyatt's autopsy. Spock orders Scott to have the transporter checked for malfunctions. Helm officer Lieutenant Rahda notes that there is no debris, which would have been left over from a planet breakup. She then reports that the position of the stars have changed. She verifies her findings by replaying a recording of the stars made just prior to the turbulence on the viewscreen. Spock is able to interpolate that, in a manner of seconds, the Enterprise has somehow been thrown 990.7 light years from its previous position. The preliminary autopsy on the transporter officer comes in and the causes of death appears to be cellular disruption, as if every cell in the body had been blasted from inside. Spock orders that the Enterprise return to the planet at top warp speed, which turns out to be warp factor 8. Act Two Although the ship did not appear to suffer any damage, chief engineer Montgomery Scott is disquieted, and reports that the ship feels "wrong." Spock initially dismisses this as emotional. Still concerned, Scotty instructs crewman Watkins to check the bypass valve on the matter-antimatter reaction chamber to ensure that it is not overheating. While Watkins is doing this, the woman appears in the control room and inquires about the engine mechanisms. She then kills him in the same manner as the others. Before Watkins dies, he cries out a warning about the intruder to Scott, but she disappears before Scott can see her. Back on the surface of the planet, Sulu volunteers to keep watch while Kirk and McCoy sleep. But while the captain and the doctor are sleeping, the woman appears to Sulu and, although she is able to briefly touch him, disrupting all the cells his shoulder, she fails to kill him. Sulu yells out for help and Kirk and McCoy run to his rescue. Sulu cries out not to let her touch them since that was how D'Amato had died. The woman insists that she is for Sulu and that she must touch him. When she touches Kirk on his shoulder, however, nothing happens. Kirk asks how she can destroy others and she explains that she does not want to destroy. She then disappears. The landing party surmises that the woman's destructive power can only be directed at one specific person at a time. Act Three Aboard the Enterprise, which is warping back to the planet, the warp engines begin to race out of control. Scott discovers that the emergency overload bypass of the matter-antimatter integrator has been fused, although it would have taken all the power of the ship's phasers to do so. It becomes apparent that the woman is responsible for this sabotage. With this damage, the Enterprise has less than fifteen minutes before its engines will explode. Spock and Scott devise a risky plan to save the ship – Scott will enter the crawlway leading to the matter-antimatter reaction chamber and attempt to manually shut off the flow of fuel with a magnetic probe. Scott installs explosives at the end of the service crawlway that will permit Spock to jettison the pod if Scott ruptures the magnetic bottle. Recalling Scott's earlier assertion that the ship felt wrong, Spock runs an analysis comparing the condition of the Enterprise with its ideal condition. When the woman reappears to kill Kirk, the landing party is able to use this information to defend him. Kirk questions her with McCoy and Sulu keeping her at a distance. She calls herself Losira, commander of the station. When Kirk asks how she feels about killing him, she says that the act of killing is wrong but that she must do so. She says that she is sent to defend the station, although the people who once lived on it are no more. Kirk presses her, sensing her confusion and loneliness, and she disappears again. Following their tricorder readings, the landing party eventually finds an underground door to the planet-station. Spock's analysis proves crucial, for he has discovered that the Enterprise has been put through a molecular transporter and then reassembled slightly out of phase, which will require Scott to reverse the polarity on the magnetic probe in order to seal the incision. Scott attempts to do so as the final seconds tick down, but the mechanism on the probe becomes jammed. Scott insists multiple times to Spock that he jettison him, but Spock gives him a few seconds more. Scott is able to loosen the tool and, just moments before the engines go critical, accomplishes the task and the Enterprise finally begins to slow down to a safer cruising speed. Act Four On the planet, the landing party enters a computer room, where they are confronted with three versions of the destructive woman, each programmed to kill one of them. The landing party seems to be out of options when Spock and a security officer, materialize into the room and Lemli uses his phaser to destroy the computer. The women disappear and are replaced by a recorded image of Losira. In the recording, Losira welcomes her fellow Kalandans to the colony. She explains that the population of the colony has been destroyed by a disease that they accidentally produced when they created the planet. Losira is the last survivor, and because she does not believe she will survive until help arrives, she has adjusted the station defense mechanism controls automatic to defend selectively against all lifeforms but their own. McCoy surmises that the colony's supply ships most likely spread the disease back to the Kalandans' home planets, that the entire Kalandan species was destroyed by the disease, and that the image of Losira has been waiting thousands of years to deliver her message to a people who have become extinct. It is apparent to the landing party that the computer defense mechanism called upon the only image available, that of Losira, but the replication was too perfect and projected so much of her personality that it felt regret and guilt at killing. They agree that she was a remarkable and beautiful woman. Spock says that beauty is transitory, but Kirk disagrees, saying, "Beauty… survives." Memorable quotes "What is it, Jim?" "A planet that even Spock can't explain." - McCoy and Kirk, on the Kalandan outpost "What happened?" "The occipital area of my head seems to have impacted with the chair." "No, Mister Spock. I meant what happened to us?" - Uhura and Spock, after the Enterprise is hurled away from the planet "Mister Sulu, if I'd wanted a Russian history lesson, I'd have brought along Mister Chekov." - Kirk, after Sulu refers to the Tunguska Oblast of Siberia "Can you give me warp eight?" "Aye, sir. And maybe a wee bit more. I'll sit on the warp engines myself and nurse them." "… That position… Mister Scott… would not only be unavailing but also… undignified." - Spock to Scott, in a measured, very logically thought out response to Scott saying he will sit on the warp engines and nurse them "I am only for D'Amato." "Lucky D'Amato." - Losira and D'Amato, before she kills him "What a terrible way to die." "There are no good ways, Sulu." - Sulu and Kirk, after discovering D'Amato's body "Mister Spock, the ship feels wrong." - Scott, in the engineering room "It looks so lonely there." "It would be worse if he had company." - Sulu and McCoy, at D'Amato's grave "Mister Scott, there's a strange woman who knows the entire plan of the Enterprise!" - Watkins, before Losira kills him "Well, your guess is as good as mine." "My guess, doctor, would be valueless." - Joseph M'Benga and Spock, on the cause of death for Watkins "Stop or I'll shoot! I don't want to have to kill a woman!" - Sulu, to Losira "How can such people be, captain? Such evil and she's so, so beautiful." - Sulu, as McCoy treats him "Mister Spock, what are the chances of the captain and the others being alive?" "Lieutenant, we are not engaged in gambling." - Uhura and Spock, after the red alert is canceled "This thing is going to blow up, and there's nothing in the universe can stop it." - Scott to Spock, on the sabotage "You'll be killed, man!" "Unless a solution is found quickly, that fate awaits all of us." - Scott and Spock, on going into the crawlway "I'm so close to the flow now it feels like ants crawling all over my body." - Scott, inside the crawlway "I know what time it is. I don't need a bloomin' cuckoo clock." - Scott, as Spock counts down "You might at least say thank you." "For what purpose, Mister Scott? What is it in you Humans –" "Never mind." - Scott and Spock, after Scott fixes the sabotage "Beauty is transitory, doctor." - Spock, on Losira "Beauty survives." - Kirk, to Spock Background information Production timeline Series proposal, "Star Trek is...": – Mentions similar story idea "The Radiant One" Story outline by D.C. Fontana, titled "Survival", Revised story outline Second revised story outline, First draft teleplay by John Meredyth Lucas, titled "That Which Survives", Second draft teleplay, Final draft teleplay by Arthur Singer, Additional page revisions by Singer, Revised final draft teleplay by Fred Freiberger, Additional page revisions by Freiberger, Filmed, – Day 1 – , Thursday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Bridge Day 2 – , Friday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Bridge, McCoy's office, Engineering Day 3 – , Monday – Desilu Stage 10: Ext. Planet surface Day 4 – , Tuesday – Desilu Stage 10: Ext. Planet surface Day 5 – , Wednesday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Jefferies tube; Desilu Stage 10: Ext. Planet surface Day 6 – , Thursday – Desilu Stage 10: Ext. Planet surface; Desilu Stage 9: Int. Transporter room, Int. Underground chamber Original airdate, Rerun airdate, First UK airdate Story and production In the story outline, "Survival" () the image of Losira was more brutal and caused crewmembers to fight among themselves in a manner that seems reminiscent of the Defiants crew in . Final draft script , filmed late September, early October. This is the last episode of TOS in which Enterprise crewmembers (Wyatt, D'Amato and Watkins) are shown to die. This is the last episode of TOS to have an unknown stardate. D.C. Fontana was so frustrated with how her story premise had been altered that she removed her name from the script and used her "Michael Richards" pen name as the byline for its story instead. Sets and props In addition to the standard planet set, Matt Jefferies designed a "rocker plate" set within the set that gave the illusion of a "real" quake. Evidence of this new "rocker stage" can be seen by the movement of the individual "plates" on the stage, followed by sequence of the landing party stepping off it onto the main stage and resting on their hands and knees. Jefferies' original sketches depicting its design are found in the Star Trek: The Original Series Sketchbook (p. 30). The bypass valve room that Watkins enters consists of re-used pieces of the Yonada control room from . The control panel was re-used from the Vians torture chamber in . A new access tube was created to show where the matter-antimatter reaction chamber was. Designed by Matt Jefferies, it had sliding doors accessing the crawlway. Jefferies' original sketches depicting its design are found in the Star Trek: The Original Series Sketchbook (p. 30). Spock's calculation device was reused from the remote control prop created for . The central chamber which housed the outpost's central brain was created especially for this episode. Designed by Jefferies, whose original sketches are again published in the Star Trek: The Original Series Sketchbook (p. 30), the central chamber contained a "frosted 2D cube – rotating lights inside." The center section of D'Amato's tricorder differs substantially from the standard Starfleet model. Instead of tape discs and a moiré pattern, it features an intermittently glowing white panel and what appears to be a tubular sensor. In deference to D'Amato's specialty, some prop-conscious fans have dubbed this a "geological tricorder." Franz Joseph combined elements of both models to produce a "medical tricorder" in the Star Trek Star Fleet Technical Manual. Cast Former Lee Meriwether went on to co-star with () in the '70s television series . (Star Trek 30 Years) Previously, she was a regular on 's short-lived science fiction series The Time Tunnel, along with James Darren and Whit Bissell. Booker Bradshaw reprises his role as Doctor Joseph M'Benga in this episode. He appeared previously in . Walter Koenig (Chekov) does not appear in this episode, although Kirk mentions him. Continuity This is the second time Enterprise crewmembers create a resting place for a fallen comrade; it had happened before in the first season's , where crewmembers Latimer and Gaetano were buried. Captain Picard buries Captain Kirk in a similar way on Veridian III in . Sulu mentions the Hortas of Janus VI from , one of the few examples in the series of a past episode being referenced. Interestingly, Sulu did not appear in that episode. This episode is one of only a handful of TOS episodes to not contain any form of log entry. Remastered information "That Which Survives" was the sixty-first episode of the remastered version of The Original Series to air. It premiered in syndication on the weekend of and aside from the standard CGI replacement footage of the Enterprise, including one of the ship undergoing molecular transport, this episode most notably featured new effects shots of the Kalandan outpost. The next remastered episode to air was . Apocrypha This episode was used as the background for the Star Trek: Gateways novel , by Susan Wright, which elaborates extensively on the story. The mysteries of this episode were used to help tie in the original series with the rest of the Gateways books. Video and DVD releases Original US Betamax release: UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 36, catalog number VHR 2432, US VHS release: UK re-release (three-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 3.5, Original US DVD release (single-disc): Volume 35, As part of the TOS Season 3 DVD collection As part of the TOS-R Season 3 DVD collection Links and references Starring William Shatner as Captain Kirk Also starring Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock And DeForest Kelley as Dr. McCoy Guest stars Lee Meriwether as Losira James Doohan as Scott Arthur Batanides as Lt. George Takei as Sulu Nichelle Nichols as Uhura Naomi Pollack as Lt. Rahda Booker Bradshaw as Dr. M'Benga Brad Forrest as Ensign Wyatt Kenneth Washington as Watkins Uncredited co-stars Majel Barrett as Computer Voice William Blackburn as Hadley Frank da Vinci as Vinci Roger Holloway as Roger Lemli Jeannie Malone as Yeoman Unknown actors as Sanchez Command crewman Engineering technician Security guard Stunt and body doubles Unknown stunt performer as George Takei's stunt double Unknown performers as Lee Meriwether's body doubles References 1st millennium BC; acceleration; access panel; access plate; access tube; "all right"; alloy; analysis; android; answer; ant; antimatter; apparent age; artificial planet; assistant; assumption; atmosphere (aka air); atmospheric analysis; aurora borealis; automatic distress; autopsy; autopsy report; beam-down coordinates; beauty; body; "Bones"; brain; bruise; ; bypass valve; casualty; category; cause of death; ; cellular disruption; centigrade; central brain; chance; chair; ; chromosome; chronometer; ; circuit; civilization; commander; communicator; comparison analysis; comparison coordinates; computer; computer study; conference; conclusion; contact; course; "course of action"; crawlway; crawlway door; cuckoo clock; culture; custody; cut-off switch; damage control report; dance; danger; death; debris; deck; ; diburnium; digging; disease; disease organism; distance; door; dream; Earth; earthquake; emergency bypass control; emergency overload bypass; emotion (aka emotionalism); energy; energy stream; engineer; entrance; estimated time of arrival; evidence; evil; evolution; existence; expedition; explanation; explosion; explosive separator charge; eye; fact; fate; Fifth Interstellar Geophysical Conference; food; forest; friend; fuel; gambling; geologist; ghost; ghost planet; grave; guilt; hand; harm; head; helmsman; history lesson; home; Horta; Human; ideal condition; igneous rock; image; "in a flash"; "in fact"; "in that case"; "in time"; incision; information; intruder; invader; investigation; invitation; Janus VI; job; joke; Kalandan; Kalandan homeworld; Kalandan outpost; Kalandan supply ship; life (aka lifeform); light year; logic; luck; Luna; malfunction; magnetic bottle; magnetic field; magnetic flow (aka fuel flow); magnetic force; magnetic force indicator; magnetic probe; magnetic sweep; ; matter; matter-antimatter engine; matter-antimatter integrator; matter-antimatter integrator control; matter-antimatter reaction chamber; matter-antimatter reactor; maximum overload; medical assistance; melting point; memorial; meteor; millimeter; Milky Way Galaxy; minute; mission; molecular transporter; moisture; murder; name; necrosis; necrotic tissue; "never mind"; nurse; occipital bone; "one by one"; opportunity; order; organism; osmium; outphase condition; overload; overheating; painting; parasite; person; phaser; phaser bank; phenomenon; physician; planet; plant; period of time (aka space of time); personality; place; pod jettison system; poison; polarity; ; power level; power reduction; power surge; present condition; problem; question; radiation; rain; readout; red; red alert; regret; replica; report; representative; result; rock; Russian; sabotage; safety control; Scots language; search; second; security alert; security sweep (aka security search); seismic disturbance (aka geological disturbance); seismic force; seismic stress; sensor probe; service crawlway; sharing; shoulder; Siberia; silicon creature; size; solar hour; space; speculation; speed; star; star pattern; Starfleet; static electric charge; station; subspace report; supernatural; supernova; survey party; ; theory; thousand; tissue; tomb; tool; topsoil; top warp speed; transporter; transporter chief; transporter factor M7 (aka M7 factor); transporter malfunction; transporter officer; transporter room; tricorder; top warp speed; unconsciousness; vegetation; virus; underground water; universe; warp drive pod; warp engine; ; water; "wee"; "what the devil"; word; wound; year External links de:Gefährliche Planetengirls es:That Which Survives fr:That Which Survives (épisode) ja:無人惑星の謎（エピソード） nl:That Which Survives pl:That Which Survives TOS episodes

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Let That Be Your Last Battlefield (episode)

The crew of the Enterprise find themselves caught in the middle of an intractable conflict with a bizarre fugitive alien and his equally belligerent pursuer. Summary Teaser On an urgent decontamination mission to the planet Ariannus, the encounters a Federation shuttlecraft reported as stolen from Starbase 4. The vessel's life support systems are failing and the pilot may be suffocating in the lack of atmosphere. Captain Kirk orders the shuttlecraft to be brought aboard. When the pilot emerges and subsequently collapses in front of Kirk and Spock, he displays a unique appearance: black on one side of his face and white on the other. Act One In sickbay, Kirk, Spock and Dr. McCoy surmise the alien's skin coloration to be a rare mutation of some kind. McCoy revives the pilot, who identifies himself as Lokai from the planet Cheron. Although grateful for the Enterprises rescue, he is combative when Kirk questions him about the theft of the shuttlecraft. Kirk plans to return him to Starbase 4 to face serious theft charges once the important Arrianus mission is completed. En route however, Chekov reports that sensors have detected a highly sophisticated (and invisible) vessel on an apparent collision course with the Enterprise. At the last moment before impact, the ship appears to disintegrate, but deposits its pilot on the bridge – similar in appearance to Lokai. "Explain, Spock," Kirk asks. "One of a kind?" Act Two The alien identifies himself as Commissioner Bele, the "Chief Officer Of The Commission on Political Traitors," from Cheron, and informs Kirk that he has come to apprehend Lokai. When Bele is brought to sickbay to see Lokai, the crew learns that Bele has been pursuing Lokai for a very long time: 50,000 Earth years as it turns out. Bele charges that Lokai led a revolt against the ruling order, but Lokai counters that Bele's people enslaved his on Cheron and continues to oppress them. Bele demands that Kirk surrender Lokai, while Lokai requests political asylum with the Federation. Kirk ends the bickering, giving Bele quarters and states his intention to fulfill his mission, then hand both of the aliens to Starbase 4 to have the matter settled. Bele is clearly not satisfied, but leaves sickbay. Kirk advises that Lokai get some rest, especially his vocal cords, as he will get a chance to practice his oratory when they arrive at Starbase 4. Suddenly, the Enterprise is commandeered by an unknown source. Soon, Bele reveals on the bridge that he is controlling it, by using his mental powers to direct the ship to Cheron. When Bele proves impervious to phasers, Kirk, Spock, and Scott, are forced to activate the three-part self-destruct sequence in order to force Bele to relinquish control of the ship. The timer starts counting down from thirty seconds, and Kirk points out that once the countdown passes five seconds, the self-destruct sequence cannot be countermanded in any way. Act Three With only six seconds left before the Enterprise destroys itself, Bele reluctantly releases control of the starship, and Kirk issues the abort command to the self destruct at the last possible moment. With force having ceased to be an option, both Bele and Lokai attempt instead to enlist the sympathies of the crew while en route to Ariannus; Bele tries to win over Kirk and Spock, and Lokai appeals to the junior crew. Kirk submits a report to Starfleet Command for a resolution. Starfleet's answer to Bele's request is received while he speaks with Kirk and Spock – and it is to deny that request. Since Cheron has no diplomatic treaties with the Federation, Starfleet cannot extradite Lokai without due process. Uhura also adds that the decision from Starfleet notes that they are confident that Bele will be allowed to return to Cheron with Lokai after the hearing is over. Bele fumes that Lokai has again deceived outsiders about his people's obvious inferiority to Bele's people. He explains that his people are black on their right sides, while Lokai's people are white on their right sides. Kirk and Spock try to persuade him that this difference is not significant, but he dismisses the suggestion. The Enterprise arrives at Ariannus and begins the decontamination procedures. Once the decontamination mission to Ariannus is complete, Kirk orders to head to Starbase 4; however, Bele sabotages the self-destruct mechanism as well as directional control, rendering both of them inoperable, regains control of the ship, and forces it back onto course for Cheron. Act Four Lokai begs for the Enterprise crew to intervene, and Bele berates him, for he believes he has finally caught him. They fight, but Kirk tries to defuse the situation for fear of destroying the ship, saying the bridge will be their "last battlefield." Bele returns control, since their fighting will destroy themselves with the ship. The crew realizes they are near Cheron; however, its sensors reveal massive destruction of all Cheron's major cities and huge piles of unburied corpses – the entire population of Cheron has apparently mutually annihilated itself in a civil war. Consumed with mutual insane hatred and blaming each other for the resulting holocaust, Bele and Lokai fight on the bridge, despite Kirk's offer for them to live with the Federation. Kirk implores them to give up their mutual hatred of one another, since that destroyed their planet and their people. Lokai derides Kirk, accusing him of being an "idealistic dreamer," and flees the bridge, with Bele in pursuit. The pair then chase each other through the ship's corridors, each eventually finding their way to the transporter room and returning to the planet's surface to continue their fight…the last two sapient life forms on a dead planet. Kirk sadly notes that, in the end, all they have left is their hatred of each other. Kirk decides to leave them there and orders that Sulu set course for Starbase 4. Log entries Captain's log, USS Enterprise (NCC-1701), 2268 Memorable quotes "We must therefore conclude that this alien is that often unaccountable rarity. A mutation, one of a kind." - Spock, on Lokai's bi-colored appearance "When in doubt, the book prevails, Mister Spock." - McCoy, on Lokai's medical treatment "I'm grateful for your rescue." "Don't mention it. We're pleased to have caught you." - Lokai and Kirk, in sickbay "You monotone Humans are all alike. First you condemn and then attack!" - Lokai, upset with Kirk's accusations "I'm very tired." "And very evasive. Or, at least, not… fully responsive." - Lokai and Kirk "Explain, Spock. One of a kind?" - Kirk, seeing Bele on the bridge "You can no more destroy this ship than I can change color." - Bele, calling Kirk's bluff "Begin thirty second countdown. Code zero-zero-zero-destruct-zero." - Kirk, initiating the destruct sequence countdown "30 seconds… 29… 28… 27… 25 seconds… 20 seconds… 15 seconds… 10… 9… 8…7…6 –" "I AGREE!!!" - Computer Voice counting down to self-destruct and Bele screaming his submission "Mr. Spock, is this ship headed for Ariannus?" "Negative, Captain. The Enterprise is now moving in a circular course." "And at warp 10, we're going nowhere mighty fast." - Kirk, Spock and Scotty, after Bele releases his control from the ship "Disgusting is what I call them." - Scott, on Bele and Lokai's mutual hatred "There was persecution on Earth once. I remember reading about it in my history class." "Yes, but it happened way back in the twentieth century. There's no such primitive thinking today." - Chekov and Sulu, trying to understand Cheron's civil war "It is obvious to the most simple-minded that Lokai is of an inferior breed." "The obvious visual evidence, Commissioner, is that he is of the same breed as yourself." "Are you blind, Commander Spock? Well, look at me! Look at me!" "You're black on one side and white on the other." "I am black on the right side." "I fail to see the significant difference." "Lokai is white on the right side. All of his people are white on the right side." - Bele, Spock, Bele, Kirk, Bele, Kirk, Bele "Change is the essential process of all existence." - Spock, to Bele "I once heard that on some of your planets, people believe they are descended from apes." "The actual theory is that all lifeforms evolved from the lower levels to the more advanced stages." - Bele and Spock, on evolution "Yes, he will delay, evade, and escape again. And in the process put thousands of innocent beings at each others throats, getting them to kill and maim, for a cause which they have no stake in. But, which he will force them to violently espouse by twisting their minds with his lies, his loathsome accusations, and his foul threats." - Bele speaking about Lokai "What do you do? Carry justice on your tongues? You will beg for it, but you won't fight or die for it!" "After so many years of leading the fight, you seem very much alive." "I doubt that the same can be said for many of his followers." - Lokai pleading with Kirk and Spock to kill Bele "You're finished, Lokai! Oh, we've got your kind penned in on Cheron into little districts, and it's not going to change! You've combed the galaxy, and come up with nothing but monocolored trash, do-gooders, and bleeding hearts. You're DEAD, you half-white!" "You useless pieces of bland flesh… I'll take you with me, you half-black!" - Bele and Lokai, before lunging at each other "My people… all dead?" "Yes, Commissioner. All of them." "No one alive?" "None at all, sir." - Bele, Spock, Lokai, Spock, after finding Cheron all but destroyed "You band of Murderers did this…" "You Pyromaniacs!" - Bele, Lokai, now both driven mad at their homeworld's demise "Listen to me. You both must end up dead if you don't stop hating." "You're an idealistic dreamer. "Bele. The chase is finished." "He must not escape me!" "Where can he go?" - Kirk', Lokai, Bele, and Spock, after Lokai flees the bridge, soon followed by Bele "Shall I alert security, sir?" "No, Lieutenant. Where can they run?" - Uhura and Kirk, after Lokai and Bele leave the bridge "It doesn't make any sense." "To expect sense from two mentalities of such extreme viewpoints, is not logical." "But their planet's dead. Does it matter now which one of them was right?" "Not to Lokai and Bele. All that matters to them is their hate." "Do you suppose that's all they ever had, sir?" "No… but that's all they have left." - Uhura, Spock, Sulu, Spock, Uhura, and Kirk after Bele and Lokai return to Cheron Background information The original story concept did not depict the aliens with bi-colored skin. Fred Freiberger recalled, "Gene [Coon] originally had a devil with a tail chasing an angel." (Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages, p. 74) Episode director Jud Taylor came up with the idea of bi-colored skin shortly before the episode began filming. His original suggestion was that they be half-black/half-white, one color from the waist up and the other from the waist down, but each wearing reversed color schemes. The central idea stuck but the colors were finally separated along the vertical axis rather than along the horizontal. (Inside Star Trek: The Real Story, pp. 399-400) Producer Fred Freiberger stated that this was one of the episodes of which he was most proud. This was the last episode Robert Justman worked on as co-producer. He resigned from the show's production team because of the program's declining quality and NBC's harsh treatment of it. He was also disappointed that instead of making him the new producer, Gene Roddenberry hired Freiberger instead. Justman felt burned out and eager to get out of the show. (Inside Star Trek: The Real Story, These Are the Voyages: TOS Season Three) Bele and Lokai both have brown hair on their heads, but their eyebrows are black and white to match their faces. This episode represents the last on-screen appearance of the hangar deck in the original series. The shuttlecraft itself makes one last appearance on the planet set of . Effects footage from was re-used for all of the original episode's shuttlecraft shots. As a result, despite dialogue stating that the shuttlecraft had been stolen from Starbase 4, the shuttlecraft tractor-beamed into the hangar deck was labeled Galileo NCC-1701/7. In the remastered version of the episode, the stolen shuttlecraft's front and sides markings were corrected to show Starbase 4 as its post. This CGI version of the shuttlecraft was labeled Da Vinci, after the noted Renaissance artist/scientist Leonardo da Vinci, and it had SB4-0314/2 as its new registry number. Gene L. Coon's association with the series ended with the production of this episode. As with all of his contributions to the third season, for which he was unable to use his real name due to contractual obligations elsewhere, the story was credited to one of his pen names, Lee Cronin. The reference book Inside Star Trek: The Real Story (pp. 197 & 399) attests that this episode was originally a first season story outline from , titled "Portrait in Black and White". The book additionally states that, by , NBC and Paramount were keen on using every available story idea, so Coon's outline was "taken out of the trash bin" and Oliver Crawford based a teleplay on it. However, documentation from the making of TOS reveals that these two episodes actually were, from a production standpoint, significantly different. A first draft script of "Portrait in Black and White", never mentioned in the book, was issued on , and was entirely different from the storyline of "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield". (Gene Roddenberry Collection at UCLA, Box 19, Folder 10) They had different story numbers too – "Portrait in Black and White" was story #28, and "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield" was #93. Also, in the writers' report dated , the latter was listed as a new story assignment in progress, whereas the former had been listed among TOS' few shelved teleplays in the writers' report dated 1 March 1968. (Gene Roddenberry Collection at UCLA, Box 35, Folder 15) This episode was filmed in early . This episode features a close-up of the Enterprise model. Zoom shots from below and above the saucer section are used, representing some of the rare 'beauty shots' of the ship filmed during the series (episodes and have unique shots of the Enterprise as well). During the opening credits in the first scene, for example, the camera glides underneath the saucer to an extreme closeup of the saucer's phaser section and light. uses the same shot briefly when the Enterprise is shaking at warp. The self-destruct sequence from this episode is repeated exactly in ; however, in Search for Spock, it is Scott who gives the second command in place of Spock, and Chekov who gives the third command instead of Scott. (The Star Trek Compendium 4th ed., p. 123) In this episode, the self-destruct is set for a 30-second countdown whereas the film has a 60-second countdown. The final chase scene depicting Lokai and Bele running through the corridors of the Enterprise is mixed with stock footage of burning cities filmed after World War II aerial bombing raids, as each visualizes the destruction of their shared home planet. Fred Freiberger stated, "We ran a little short on that show which is why it ended with a chase that went on forever. I thought it was a hell of a creative solution." (Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages, p. 74) The Remastered version shows Cheron cities still burning from space. Bele's totally "invisible" ship perhaps is the most noticeable effect of the biggest budget cut in the original series. (The Star Trek Compendium 4th ed., p. 123) The close-up of Chekov's hand operating the decontamination of Ariannus is a recycled shot of Kirk's hand from . (It was also used as Spock's hand in both and .) The episode's director, Jud Taylor, included a unique effect in this episode. During the "red alerts," the camera zoomed in and out quickly on the blinking red alert signal, and moreover, it was tilted at an angle. According to several sources, among them The Star Trek Compendium, this effect allegedly paid homage to Frank Gorshin's role as the Riddler in Batman, even though Taylor never directed any episodes of Batman. In the third season blooper reel, several sequences from this episode are featured. In one, Frank Gorshin, who was also a talented impressionist, does a James Cagney imitation while on the transporter pad. In another, he and Lou Antonio collide forcefully as they are running through the corridors. (The Star Trek Compendium 4th ed., p. 123.) In yet another, Gorshin initially pronounces his character's name "Belly," before correcting himself and pronouncing it as it was pronounced in the finished episode. Finally, footage of nude swimmers in a pool was inserted at the point where Kirk asks, "Could it be a Romulan ship, using their cloaking device?" Both Bele and Lokai wear gloves the entire episode, which freed Fred Phillips of the burden of having to make up the hands of actors Frank Gorshin and Lou Antonio. In some editions of Allan Asherman's The Star Trek Compendium, this episode is incorrectly titled "Let This Be Your Last Battlefield." In the 1970s, the Mego toy company created a "Cheron" action figure doll, but unlike both Bele and Lokai's makeup and costuming, the doll had no hair, and its costume was entirely half-black and half-white, right down to the boots. The Sci-Fi Channel, the DVD, and the remastered version added some new scenes that were not in the original and VHS version. After Kirk makes his first log entry at the beginning of this episode, he asks Chekov about estimated time to Ariannus, tells Uhura to contact them to tell them that decontamination is to begin on arrival, and asks Scott if it will it present any danger. Then after the shuttle is brought to the hangar deck, there is a shot of the shuttlecraft docking with the Enterprise. Sulu then calls Kirk in the turbolift to inform him that hangar doors are closed. Finally, there is a shot of Kirk and Spock in the hallway before they meet with the guards. Several shots of the main viewer from the rear of the bridge are recycled shots that show Hadley in Chekov's position, but we hear Chekov's voice and see him in the closeup. The Cherons' names approximate the names of fire deities: Logi (not to be confused with Loki) in Norse myth and Pele in Hawaiian myth. Reception Harlan Ellison thought this episode a terrible one with a weak message: "Roddenberry may have been a big-deal progressive, but I never heard of him giving a dime to the civil rights movement. Now I don't know what his personal attitude was, 'cause he was always talking about the perfectibility of mankind – which is bullshit – and talking about equality, but it was a very awkward kind of liberalism, as evidenced by that stupid episode where people are painted half white and half black – the kind of heavy-handed, wannabe liberal thing that embarrasses anyone who has true feelings about racism". (Vibe, Feb 1997) Producer Fred Freiberger stated that this was one of the episodes of which he was most proud. Production timeline Story outline by Lee Cronin, titled "Down from Heaven", Revised story outline, First draft teleplay by Oliver Crawford, titled "Down from Heaven, Up from Above", Second draft teleplay, Final draft teleplay by Arthur Singer, titled "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield", , , , , , Revised final draft script by Fred Freiberger, Additional page revisions by Freiberger, Filmed, – Day 1 – , Friday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Bridge Day 2 – , Monday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Bridge Day 3 – , Tuesday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Bridge, Sickbay Day 4 – , Wednesday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Sickbay,Bridge Day 5 – , Thursday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Engineering, Corridors, Transporter room, Bele's quarters Day 6 – , Friday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Bele's quarters, Turbolift, Bridge Day 7 – , Monday (Half Day) – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Recreation room (redress of Briefing room), Bridge Original airdate, Rerun airdate, First UK airdate, Syndication cuts During the syndication run of Star Trek, the following scenes were typically cut from broadcast: Extra discussions about Bele's ship being invisible, followed by Kirk asking Chekov for magnification, to which Chekov replies that there is still no visual contact. Extended pause and reaction shots to Bele announcing his name when he appears on the bridge. A slightly longer exit of Bele, Kirk, and Spock exiting the bridge for the first time. A extra line spoken by Kirk, where he says that the conflict between Lokai and Bele is settled "at least for the present". Extended scene of McCoy examining Lokai in sickbay. More dialogue between Scott and Kirk about the ship being off course, Scott switching to auxiliary power, then Kirk calling him again to see if the ship is back on course. A more lengthy scene of Bele explaining he has control of the ship, followed by reaction shots from the bridge crew. As a prelude to entering the destruct sequence, Kirk asks the computer if it is ready to copy the destruct order and then orders the computer to standby to verify the destruct order. The computer counting down from twenty five to twenty in the destruct sequence scene. An establishing shot of the Enterprise approaching Ariannus. Additional shots of the Enterprise orbiting Ariannus during the ship's "crop dusting" scene. In an additional rare syndication cut, shown only on the Sci-Fi Channel, the destruct scene was heavily cut to show Kirk entering the codes and activating the sequence entirely by himself, without dialogue from Spock and Scott entering and confirming their own destruct codes. Video and DVD releases Original US Betamax release: UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 36, catalog number VHR 2432, US VHS release: UK re-release (three-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 3.5, Original US DVD release (single-disc): Volume 35, As part of the TOS Season 3 DVD collection As part of the TOS-R Season 3 DVD collection Links and references Starring William Shatner as Kirk Also starring Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock And DeForest Kelley as Dr. McCoy Guest stars Frank Gorshin as Bele Lou Antonio as Lokai James Doohan as Scott Walter Koenig as Chekov Nichelle Nichols as Uhura George Takei as Sulu Majel Barrett as Nurse Chapel Uncredited co-stars Majel Barrett as Computer Voice William Blackburn as Hadley Frank da Vinci as Brent Vinci Roger Holloway as Roger Lemli Jeannie Malone as Enterprise yeoman Frieda Rentie as Enterprise yeoman Dick Ziker as Enterprise sciences lieutenant Unknown actors as Enterprise sciences crew woman (recycled footage only) Enterprise sciences lieutenant (recycled footage only) Enterprise security guard 1 Enterprise security guard 2 References 50,000 years ago; 20th century; ability; accusation; alien; "all hands"; anger; animal; answer; ape; apology; apprehension; Ariannus; Ariannus Ministry of Health; army; authority; bacteria; battlefield; benefactor; billion; black; "bleeding heart"; blood; bluff; "Bones"; breed; brig; brother; brown; cargo; case; cattle; chain; Cheron; Cheron cities; Cheron native; Cheron scout vessel; chief engineering officer; Chief Officer; choice; circular course; Civil Rights Movement; Class F shuttlecraft; cloaking device; Coalsack; collision; collision course; color; comb; combat; command frequency two; commercial lane; Commission on Political Traitors (traitor); commissioner; conclusion; Constitution-class decks; contact; cooperation; coordinates; corpse; countdown; course (aka heading); courtesy; creature; crewman's lounge; crime; criminal; cross-examination; danger; Da Vinci; day; deal; death; death warrant; decontamination procedure; deflector shield; destination; destruct sequence (aka self-destruct or destruct mechanism); dignitary; dignity; directional control; disciple; discipline; discussion; district; do-gooder; due process; Earth; education; enslaver; equality; estimated time of arrival (ETA); evasive action; evidence; evil; evolution; existence; experience; explanation; extinction; extradition; fact; family; father; fear; Federation member; flesh; fool; freedom; frequency; friend; frustration; genocide; green; grievance; guest quarters; ; hailing frequency; hangar deck; hangar door; hate; ; heart; history; history class; home; hospitality; hour; home; hull breach; Human; humanoid; husband; idealistic dreamer; image; imagination; individual right (aka right);information; instruction; intergalactic treaty; interrogation; judge; ; just; justice; knowledge; land; lava; "let her rip"; liar; lie; living creature; logic; love; lower animal; madman; madness; magnification; maim; malfunction; maneuvering control; master computer; master race; mercy; memory bank; ; Milky Way Galaxy; million; mind; minute; mission; mission of mercy; motive power; murder; mutation; name; natural disaster; nostril; nucleotide; opportunity; oppressor; oratory; orbit; order; organ; oxygen; peace; permission; persecution; phaser; planet; plea; pleasure; "point of view"; political asylum; potion; pressure door; prison; problem; product; prognosis; property; punishment; quality; question; race; racism; readout; recreation room; recuperative powers; red alert; regret; representative; rescue; research; result; revolutionary; Romulans; sabotage; ; sapient lifeform; savage; scanning range; science officer; scope; scout vessel; security team; self-discipline; sensor; sensor failure; sentience; shields; skin; skin pigmentation; slave; solution; space; space vehicle; specimen; speed; spray tank; spouse; s; Starbase 4; Starfleet Command; Starfleet regulations; stealth; stimulant; suffering; suffocation; suicide mission; sun; tear; theft; theory; thief; thing; thinking; thought; thousand; threat; throat; toast; tongue; "touch and go"; tractor beam; traffic; traffic system; transfer point; transporter mechanism; transporter room; trash; treason; treaty; United Federation of Planets; United Fleet of Planets; universe; utopia; value; vegetation; viewing screen; violence; visual range; vocal cords; voice; volcano; Vulcan (planet); Vulcans; week; white; ; word; year; yellow Retconned references External links de:Bele jagt Lokai es:Let That Be Your Last Battlefield fr:Let That Be Your Last Battlefield (épisode) ja:惑星セロンの対立（エピソード） nl:Let That Be Your Last Battlefield pl:Let That Be Your Last Battlefield TOS episodes

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Encounter at Farpoint (episode)

Captain Jean-Luc Picard leads the crew of the USS Enterprise-D on its maiden voyage, to examine a new planetary station for trade with the Federation. On the way, they encounter Q, an omnipotent extra-dimensional being, who challenges Humanity as a barbaric, inferior species. Picard and his new crew must hold off Q's challenge and solve the puzzle of Farpoint station on Deneb IV, a base that is far more than it seems to be. (Series premiere) Summary Act One "Captain's log, Stardate 41153.7. Our destination is Planet Deneb IV, beyond which lies the great unexplored mass of the galaxy. My orders are to examine Farpoint, a starbase built there by the inhabitants of that world. Meanwhile I'm becoming better acquainted with my new command – this . I'm still somewhat in awe of its size and complexity. As for my crew, we are short in several key positions, most notably a first officer, but I'm informed that a highly experienced man, one Commander William Riker, will be waiting to join the ship at our Deneb IV destination." The year is 2364. Captain Jean-Luc Picard has assumed command of the new starship, the , the fifth Federation starship to bear the name Enterprise. The vessel is about to embark on its first mission to Deneb IV, beyond which lies the great unexplored mass of the galaxy. Picard, in his log, notes that he is impressed with the size and complexity of the ship as he walks through the Enterprise, surveying engineering, then finally enters the bridge, manned by tactical officer Lieutenant Natasha Yar, Worf, Counselor Deanna Troi and Lieutenant Commander Data. Picard continues with his log, in which he reports that the ship is en route to Farpoint Station and that the ship is short in several key positions, most notably a first officer, but Picard is informed that a very experienced officer, one William T. Riker, will fill the position. Picard sits at his command chair and makes an off-hand comment on how Starfleet wants the crew of the Enterprise to "snoop" around Farpoint station, to which Data makes an inquiry into the definition of the word snoop. Picard wonders how Data, a complex android with encyclopedic knowledge does not know the meaning of a basic word like "snoop". Data responds that he possibly was not designed to emulate this type of Human behavior. Picard says that it means "to spy, to sneak." Data responds, "Ah, to seek covertly, to go stealthily, to slink, slither, creep, skulk, pussyfoot, gum…" "Yes" Picard interjects, to which Data finishes, "…shoe." Suddenly, Counselor Troi senses a powerful mind. The ship then goes to red alert, with the familiar alert sound blaring through the bridge. Then, conn officer Lieutenant Torres reports that there is something reading as strange on his detector circuit. A large field begins to appear in front of the Enterprise, which reads as solid. Picard calls for Yar to turn off "that damned noise!" and go to yellow alert. Picard orders helm to make the ship come to a full stop. Soon after controls read full stop, a white light shines on the bridge and a humanoid emerges, dressed from 16th century Europe. Picard asks the being to identify itself. The being notes that he is called "Q" and walks around the bridge, while Torres discreetly takes a hand phaser out from the bottom of his console. Q, however, senses this and freezes Torres before he can fire. Q, after showing his ability, warns the crew of the Enterprise to go back to Earth or they shall most certainly die. Act Two "Captain's Log, supplementary. The frozen form of Lieutenant Torres has been rushed to sickbay. The question now is the incredible power of the Q being. Do we dare oppose it?" Later, Q changes into many costumes of Earth's eras, including the late 20th century in the guise of a United States Marine Corps captain: "Actually, the issue at stake is patriotism. We must go back to your world and put an end to the Commies. All it takes are a few good men." Picard tells Q that that kind of nonsense is centuries behind them. Q brings up that Picard cannot deny that Humans are a dangerous, savage child race, which Picard denies, saying that Humans have made rapid progress in only a few centuries. Q then changes again, thinking Picard and his crew will be able to identify with the period that he next embodies, that of a soldier in the late 21st century, where Q notes that Humans learned to control their militaries through drugs. The other officers, not amused with Q's behavior, attempt to make him leave, but Q keeps on heaping disapproval on Humans, noting that when they finally reached deep space, they found enemies to fight out there as well, which Q says is "the same old story all over again." Picard says that Q is the same old story they have been seeing, self-righteous beings who prosecute and judge for things they can't understand nor tolerate. Q notes that "prosecute and judge" is an interesting concept, and asks, "Suppose it turns out we understand you humans all too well?" Picard says he does not fear the facts, and Q seems to take this as a suggestion. He then says that there are preparations to make, but notes that he will be back and will proceed the way Picard suggests. Picard, who gets many suggestions from his senior staff, orders that no stations on the ship will make audio transmissions, only printout, in an attempt to catch Q off guard, with Picard noting, "Let's see what this Galaxy-class starship can do." Picard orders Worf to head down to engineering and have them prepare for maximum acceleration. Picard also asks Data if it is possible to perform a saucer separation at a high warp velocity. Data notes that the separation is inadvisable at any warp speed; it is theoretically possible, but there can be no margin for error. Worf returns from engineering, with the report that the engine room is ready, and takes his position at the helm. Picard orders "Engage", and the ship turns away from Q's force field and warps away. The entire force field collapses into a ball and heads towards the Enterprise. The object is at high warp speed, at warp 9.6, and the Enterprise increases speed accordingly. However, the object is increasing speed. Data notes that the Enterprise may be able to match the object's 9.8 warp, but at extreme risk. However, the object reaches warp 9.9 while the Enterprise is only at warp 9.5. Picard, seeing no other alternative, calls out to the entire ship, "Now hear this, printout message, urgent, all stations, all decks, prepare for emergency saucer sep." The bridge officers are shocked at this new order. Picard orders Worf to command the saucer section, while Picard commands the battle section. Worf stands up from his conn station and tells Picard, "I am a Klingon, sir. For me to seek escape when my captain goes into battle…", to which Picard bluntly overrules him and reminds him that he is a Starfleet officer. Worf grudgingly agrees. Picard, Yar, Troi, and Data take the bridge's emergency turbolift to the battle bridge. Act Three "Captain's Log, Stardate 41153.7. Preparing to detach saucer section so that families and the majority of the ship's company can seek relative safety while the vessel's stardrive containing the battle bridge and main armaments will turn back and confront the mystery that is threatening us." The Enterprises corridors are filled with crewmembers and families leaving the stardrive section to the saucer section. Picard, Data, Yar and Troi enter the battle bridge, with Chief Miles O'Brien manning the conn. First, Picard orders that Yar fire photon torpedoes towards the object. Yar complies and the torpedoes are away. Shortly after, Picard orders that the countdown to saucer separation begin. Data counts down, and the ship separates while at warp. The stardrive section turns around and heads towards a confrontation with Q. The stardrive section arrives to see the torpedoes hit the object, however, it has no effect, the point being that the detonation of the torpedoes masked the getaway of the saucer section. Picard asks Troi to send out a message in all languages that they surrender. Then, the stardrive section is soon encompassed by a sphere-shaped force field and bright white light surrounds the battle bridge. Picard, Troi, Data and Yar are taken to a World War III-style courtroom, which Troi reveals that everything that is happening is real, even the soldiers with lethal weapons. The magistrate orders everyone in the courtroom to stand as the judge enters. The judge is revealed to be Q, who charges Humanity of being a grievously savage race, to which Yar is unable to control her anger and starts to berate Q, saying that she comes from a world where a similar "court" was commonplace, and that it took people like her Starfleet comrades to save her from such atrocities. Q then freezes Yar, the same way he did to Torres. Outraged, Picard demands that Q uphold his promise that "the prisoners would not be harmed" and thaw out Yar, which he does, much to the crowd's displeasure. Picard pleads not guilty to Q's charges. Q does not take kindly to this and has two soldiers aim their weapons at Data and Troi, ordering them to push the triggers if Picard says anything other than guilty. Act Four Picard, forced into a tight spot, admits that there is indeed evidence to support the court's contention that Humans have been savage. Therefore, he asks Q to test the crew of the Enterprise to see if this is presently true of Humans. Q is fascinated by this idea and tells Picard that the Farpoint station will be an excellent site for this test. Picard, with his crew are transported back to the battle bridge, where O'Brien has been the entire time. O'Brien claims that he has heard that Farpoint is a rather dull place, but Picard hears that it might be rather interesting. "Personal Log, Commander William Riker, Stardate 41153.7. The USS Hood has dropped me off at Farpoint Station where I await the arrival of the new USS Enterprise to which I have been assigned as first officer. Meanwhile, I've been asked to visit the Farpoint administrator's office in the old city." On Deneb IV, Commander William T. Riker walks to Groppler Zorn's office. Riker has just been dropped off by the for his new assignment. He talks with Zorn for a while, and Zorn asks him if he would like a piece of fruit off of his desk. Riker looks for an apple but cannot find one. Then, a bowl of apples suddenly shows up on Zorn's desk, which Riker swears could not have been there two seconds ago. Zorn assures him that it has been there the whole time. Riker then leaves eating the apple, while Zorn, alone in his office, says "You have been told not to do that. It will arouse their suspicion, and if that happens, we will have to punish you. We will! I promise you!" Meanwhile, at Farpoint Station, Riker meets up at Farpoint's mall with the beautiful Dr. Beverly Crusher and her son, Wesley, who is eagerly anticipating joining the Enterprise. Riker asks Dr. Crusher if there is something useful they can do while they wait for the ship to arrive. For example, Riker tells Crusher about the apple incident at Zorn's office, which Dr. Crusher dismisses as Riker attempting to pull favor with the captain, as she is shopping. She sees a purple and says that gold would look great on it, then five seconds later, a gold pattern appears on the fabric. Dr. Crusher later apologizes to Riker and that she looks forward to meeting Picard, which Riker wonders if she knows the captain. Wesley solemnly tells Riker that when he was a child, Picard brought his father's body back to them. Dr. Crusher notes that it was a long time ago and ends the conversation. Riker tells Wesley that he'll see him on board. Riker then meets up with blind Starfleet officer Lieutenant Geordi La Forge, who makes an official report that the Enterprise has arrived, but with the stardrive section only and that Captain Picard has requested his presence. Riker taps his combadge and is beamed up to the Enterprise. Act Five Once aboard, the commander is greeted by Lieutenant Yar, who escorts him to the battle bridge. Riker arrives and is not greeted warmly by Picard, who tells him to watch the video recording of Q, so he'll know what the ship is facing. Picard leaves the bridge for the ready room and asks Riker to enter once he is done watching the recording. Riker enters and Picard asks him to perform a manual docking of the stardrive section and the saucer section, a difficult task. The saucer section enters orbit of Deneb IV, ready for reconnection. Riker asks O'Brien to adjust the pitch angle, then assures, with the stardrive's velocity being zero, that its inertia should finish the job. Riker orders the lock up of the stardrive and saucer, and thus the Enterprise is successfully reconnected. In the ship's conference lounge, Picard discusses with Riker how during an incident on the planet Altair III, he refused to let Captain Robert DeSoto of the USS Hood beam down to the planet, seeing that a captain's life could be in danger. Picard tests him by suggesting that Riker doesn't respect a captain's authority, which Riker denies, only to state that preserving a captain's life takes priority over obeying his orders. Picard asks him if he intends to back down from that policy. Riker confidently says "No, sir." Confident in Riker's loyalty, Picard proceeds to express his discomfort with the substantial number of families and particularly children aboard the Enterprise and orders Riker's assistance in ensuring Picard project the image of geniality expected of a starship captain, to which Riker agrees. Then, Captain Picard formally welcomes Riker on board the Enterprise and shakes his hand. Riker enters the bridge of the Enterprise for the first time, when he inquires to Lt. Worf as to the location of Lieutenant Commander Data. Worf reports that Data is on special assignment, having escorted an admiral around the ship for the whole day, who arrived on the Enterprise to inspect the new vessel's medical layout. Data is now in the process of transferring the admiral to the Hood, via shuttlecraft. When asked why the admiral couldn't have just beamed over instead, Worf responds, "Well, I suppose he could, sir, but the admiral is a rather… remarkable man." In a corridor, Admiral Leonard McCoy claims that Data wanted his atoms scattered all over space. However, Data claims that with his age, he should not have to bother with the time and trouble of a shuttlecraft. McCoy stops walking and asks Data "What about my age?" Data apologizes, if the subject of his age bothers McCoy. "Troubles me? What's so damn troublesome about not having died?!", McCoy exclaims. The admiral then asks Data just how old he thinks he is. Data reports quickly that he is 137 years old, according to Starfleet records. McCoy wonders how he can remember that so exactly. Data replies that he remembers everything he is exposed to. McCoy sarcastically says that Data may not have pointed ears, but that he sounds like a Vulcan, only to claim that the actual fact that he is an android is "almost as bad," much to Data's puzzlement over his own perception of Vulcans as an advanced and respected race. McCoy replies, "They are, they are – and damn annoying at times." While continuing to walk down the corridor, McCoy tells Data to treat the Enterprise like a lady and that she will respond by always bringing him and the crew home. Act Six Later, on the bridge, Q appears on the Enterprises main viewscreen and tells Picard that his time is running out. Worf reacts by pointing a phaser at him, but Picard restrains him, pointing out that he would be shooting the viewscreen instead of Q himself. Picard states that they will proceed the same regardless of Q's involvement, stating that, "If we're going to be damned, let's be damned for what we really are." "Personal Log, Stardate 41153.8. Of the 24 hours Q allotted us to prove ourselves, 11 have now passed without incident and yet I cannot forget Q's prediction that we will face some critical test." In Picard's ready room, Riker then tells the captain about objects appearing when thought of on the planet. Picard is a bit skeptical about Riker's observations and orders Counselor Troi to join him and Riker on an away mission, which results in an awkward reunion on the bridge between Troi and Riker, her Imzadi. Picard meets Zorn, but Zorn immediately becomes fearful since there is a Betazoid at the meeting. Troi assures Zorn that she is only half-Betazoid and that she can only sense strong emotions in people. She then feels a strong flood of emotions coming from somewhere, namely pain and loneliness. Picard begins to leave and tells Zorn that the Federation may not protect Farpoint anymore, to which Zorn says that the station may become vulnerable to species like the Ferengi, to which Picard replies, "Fine, let's hope they find you as tasty as they did their past associates." Later, on the Enterprise, Riker finally meets Data in the ship's holodeck, where the android is in a forest program trying to whistle "Pop Goes the Weasel". He requests Data's participation in the away mission, to which Data agrees. They then proceed to discuss Data's background and his studies at the Academy, with Data admitting that, while superior to Humans in many ways, he would rather be Human. Act Seven As Riker and Data discuss the intricacies of the holodeck technology, Wesley enters the holodeck, excited about the potential of the technology, but accidentally falls into a pond, only to be rescued singlehandedly by Data. They exit as Picard is walking down a corridor, Riker stating that he is leading an away mission down to Deneb IV, and Wesley apologetically dripping water on the corridor carpet. Wesley tells Picard that he thinks he should find something to dry himself up with and the Enterprise captain tells him that that would be a good idea. On Deneb IV, Riker then leads a team to explore more of Farpoint Station, with Yar, La Forge, Data and Troi. They go underground into tunnels, where Troi again senses great despair and pain. In sickbay, Wesley asks his mother to let him see the bridge. Crusher hadn't met Picard since her husband died and goes with Wesley to see him on the bridge. Taken aback, Picard lets Wesley in the bridge, though suddenly an unexpected ship appears. Act Eight Zorn insists he does not know the ship or expect one. The ship scans the Enterprise and begins attacking the surface of Deneb IV, though it targets only the Old Bandi City rather than the station. On the surface, the away team loses communication and exits the base into the city on hearing of the attack. Riker orders Yar, Troi, and La Forge to beam back up to the ship and tells Data that he wants to survey the damage on the old city. Troi protests this, stating that Riker could get hurt, but he overrules her, telling her she has her orders and to carry them out. The three officers beam up and Riker and Data proceed. The conspicuous targeted attack leads Picard to suggest that Zorn may have more information about the aliens than he is letting on and orders Riker to seize him (admittedly illegally) so that they may interrogate him further. After he confirms with Troi that attacking the ship will not violate the Prime Directive and orders phasers prepared, Q appears, mocking Picard by telling him that savage Humans never seem to follow even their own rules. Act Nine Q says he expected force from Picard, when the motives of the ship should be clear. Picard orders the Enterprise in between the ship and the planet, but Worf says his helm control has been lost. In the Bandi city, Riker and Data find Zorn, who is now willing to explain, however, he is transported out of his office while he screams in horror. Riker reports in to Picard about Zorn's abduction, speculating that Q might be responsible. Q mocks the crew for not knowing who abducted Zorn, but then Troi reports a feeling of satisfaction emanating from the alien vessel. Riker and Data return to the Enterprise. Q goads Picard into ordering an away team onto the vessel, which Picard resists, but Riker volunteers, independent of Q's mocking. Act Ten Riker and the away team beam over to the entity and see that its corridors are exactly the same as the underground tunnels on Deneb IV. They find Zorn suspended in mid-air, being tortured. Riker and Data fire their phasers and free him. Suddenly, the ship pulses. Picard attempts to beam the away team back from the entity but is unsuccessful. Q returns, now wearing the uniform of a Starfleet captain, and informs him that the time of the test has expired. Picard begs Q to let him rescue his people, even to the point of promising to do whatever he says if he does so. At that exact moment, the away team is transported back to the Enterprise, and Q and Picard appear ready to honor that hastily made bargain. However, Troi points out that it was the entity, not Q, that returned the away team to the Enterprise. Soon, the captain realizes the truth: the Bandi have captured an alien lifeform, a space vessel lifeform, and have constructed Farpoint Station and its goods by feeding off its power; feeding it the energy it needs just enough to keep it alive so it can morph into any shape Farpoint wants. The ship in space is not actually a ship, but rather the alien life-form's mate. Picard assists the captured alien by using the Enterprises phasers to deliver an energy beam to the entity allowing it to break free of its bonds, thus solving the mystery much to Q's dismay. Q then retreats, though he hints that it won't be the last time the crew sees him. "Captain's Log, Stardate 41174.2. The agreement for the rebuilding of Farpoint Station has been completed per my instructions." With the Farpoint mission over, the crew settles in. Picard asks Riker if he has a problem. Riker replies that he wonders if all their missions will be like their first. Picard assures him that he doesn't think so – they should be much more interesting. Picard orders Lt. La Forge to set a course, "Let's see what's out there. Engage." Log entries Captain's log, USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D), 2364 Personal log, Jean-Luc Picard Personal log, William T. Riker Memorable quotes "Would you agree, Mr. Data, that Starfleet's orders are difficult?" "Difficult? Simply solve the mystery of Farpoint Station." "Simple as that." - Picard and Data, first spoken lines of the series (outside of the preceding captain's log entry) "Farpoint Station. Even the name sounds mysterious." - Troi "Captain, I'm sensing a… a powerful mind!" - Troi, sensing Q for the first time "Shut off that damn noise! Go to yellow alert." - Picard, after the red alert sounds for the first time "Thou art notified that thy kind hath infiltrated the galaxy too far already. Thou art directed to return to thine own solar system immediately." "That's quite a directive. Would you mind identifying what you are?" "We call ourselves the Q. Or thou mayest call me that. It's all much the same thing. I present myself to thee as a fellow ship captain so that thou mayest understand me. Go back whence thou camest." - Q and Picard Knowing Humans as thou dost, captain, wouldst thou be captured helpless by them?" - Q "Actually, the issue at stake is patriotism. You must go back to your world and put an end to the Commies. All it takes is a few good men!" - Q, in a 20th century United States Marine Corps uniform "He's frozen!" - Troi, on Lieutenant Torres "That nonsense is centuries behind us!" "But you can't deny, Captain, that you are still a dangerous, savage child race." "Most certainly, I deny it. I agree we still were, when Humans wore costumes like that four hundred years ago." "At which time you slaughtered millions in silly arguments about how to divide the resources of your little world. And four hundred years before that, you were murdering each other in quarrels over tribal god images. Since then, there has been no indication that Humans will ever change." - Picard and Q "But even when we wore costumes like that, we were still making rapid progress!" "Oh yeah? You want to review your 'rapid progress?" - Picard and Q "Sir, sickbay reports Lieutenant Torres' condition is better." "Oh, concern for one's fellow comrade! How touching." - Worf and Q "And now a personal request, sir; permission to clean up the bridge!" "Lieutenant Worf is right. As security chief, I can't just stand here and let – " "Yes, you can, Lieutenant Yar!" - Worf, Yar, and Picard "And later, on finally reaching deep space, Humans found enemies to fight out there, too. And to broaden those struggles, you again found allies for still more murdering! The same old story all over again!" "No, the same old story is the one we're meeting now. Self-righteous lifeforms who are eager, not to learn but to prosecute, to judge anything they don't understand or can't tolerate." "What an interesting idea! Prosecute and judge! But suppose it turns out that we understand you Humans only too well." "We have no fear what the true facts about us will reveal." "Facts about you? Splendid, splendid, Captain! You're a veritable fountain of ideas. There are preparations to make, but when we next meet, Captain, we'll proceed exactly as you suggest." - Q and Picard "Let's see what this Galaxy-class starship can do!" - Picard "The prisoners will not be harmed… until they're found guilty." - Q "Because I grew up in a world that allowed things like this court! And it was people like these that saved me from it! This so-called court should get down on its knees to what Starfleet is! What it represents!" - Yar "I recognize this court as the one that agreed with that line from Shakespeare: 'Kill all the lawyers!' " "Which was done." "Leading to the rule: Guilty until proven innocent." "Of course, bringing the innocent to trial would be unfair. You will now answer to the charge of being a grievously savage race!!" "Grievously savage could mean anything. I will answer only specific charges." "Are you certain you want a full disclosure of Human ugliness? So be it, fool." - Picard and Q "Criminal! You will read the charges to the court!" (reads the charges silently) "I see no charges against us, Your Honor." - Bailiff and Picard "You have been told not to do that! Why can't you understand? It will arouse their suspicions, and if that happens, we will have to punish you! We will!! I promise you!!" - Groppler Zorn "Captain, the Ferengi would be very interested in a base like this!" "Fine. Let's hope they find you as tasty as they did their past associates." - Zorn and Picard "Do you know anything about Farpoint Station, sir? Sounds like a fairly dull place." "We've heard that we may find it rather interesting." - Battle bridge conn and Jean-Luc Picard, after Q's trial "He calls that a little adventure?" - Riker, on Picard's description of the Enterprise-D's journey to Deneb IV "Now hear this! Maximum, you're entitled to know, means we'll be pushing our engines well beyond safety limits. Our hope is to surprise whatever that is out there, to try and outrun it. Our only other option is to tuck tail between our legs and return to Earth as they demand." - Picard "Commander, signal the following in all languages and in all frequencies: we surrender." - Picard "What the hell? Children are not allowed on the bridge!" - Picard, after seeing Wesley Crusher standing in a turbolift on the bridge "Get off the bridge, both of you!" - Jean-Luc Picard, to Beverly Crusher and Wesley "You will command the saucer section, Lieutenant." "I am a Klingon, sir. For me to seek escape when my captain goes into battle…" "You are a Starfleet officer, Lieutenant!" - Picard and Worf "A captain's rank means nothing to you." "Rather the reverse, sir. But a captain's life means a great deal more to me." - Picard and Riker "A personal favor, I'd appreciate it if you could prevent me from making an ass of myself with children." "Sir?" "I'm not a family man, Riker, and yet Starfleet has seen fit to give me a ship with children aboard." "Yes, sir." "And I'm… not comfortable with children. But since a captain is supposed to project an image of geniality, you're to see that's what I project." "Yes, sir." - Picard and Riker, discussing the former's discomfort with the ship's population of children "Welcome to the Enterprise, Commander Riker." - Picard, finally giving Riker a proper welcome "Where will I find Commander Data?" "Commander Data is on special assignment, sir – he is using our shuttlecraft to transfer an admiral over to the Hood." "An admiral?" "He's been aboard all day, sir, checking over medical layouts…" "Why a shuttlecraft? Why wouldn't he just beam over?" "I suppose he could, sir, but the admiral is a rather… remarkable man." - Riker and Worf "Have you got some reason why you want my atoms scattered all over space, boy?!" - McCoy, to Data "I don't see no points on your ears, boy, but you sound like a Vulcan!" "No, sir. I am an android." "Hmph. Almost as bad." - McCoy and Data "Well, this is a new ship. But she's got the right name. Now you remember that, you hear?" "I will, sir." "You treat her like a lady… and she'll always bring you home." - McCoy and Data "Something's happening, sir!" - Worf "If we're going to be damned, let's be damned for what we really are." - Picard "Do you consider yourself superior to Humans?" "I am superior, sir, in many ways. But I would gladly give it up, to be Human." "Nice to meet you, Pinocchio!" (Data looks perplexed) "A joke." "Hmm. Intriguing. "You're going to be an interesting companion, Mr. Data." - Riker and Data "Sir, maybe I should get something to wipe this water up." "Good idea." - Wesley and Picard "Either leave or finish us!" "Temper, temper mon capitaine, I'm merely trying to assist a pitiful species." - Picard and Q "I'll attend to my duty." "To the bitter end?" "I see nothing so bitter about that." - Picard and Riker "Perhaps you and I?" "Tasha, you and the counselor. And Geordi, I want your eyes down there." - Troi and Riker "Would you object to your captain ordering a clearly illegal kidnapping?" - Picard, trying to learn more about the space vessel lifeform from Groppler Zorn "Lucky guess. I see now that it was too simple a puzzle. Generosity has always been my… weakness." - Q "Send it to our starship when it arrives. Charge to Dr. Crusher." - Beverly Crusher, speaking about a bolt of fabric "Captain? Wonderful! A feeling of great joy and gratitude! Great joy and gratitude from both of them." - Troi "Get off my ship!" "I do so because it suits me to leave. But I do not promise never to appear again" - Picard ordering Q to leave and Q's response. "Some problem, Riker?" "Just hoping this isn't the usual way our missions will go, sir." "Oh no, Number One. I'm sure most will be much more interesting." - Picard and Riker "Let's see what's out there. Engage." - Picard Background information Production history Initial mention by Paramount Television president Mel Harris, at press conference: (The Fifty-Year Mission: The Next 25 Years, pp. 26 & 53) Robert Justman suggests D.C. Fontana write the episode: First story outline by D.C. Fontana: (titled "Meeting at Farpoint") (Creating the Next Generation, p. 65) First casting call released, noting absence of script: () Revised preproduction schedule by Robert Justman and Edward K. Milkis: Projected date of first draft story outline: D.C. Fontana's delivery of first draft story outline (now titled "Encounter at Farpoint"): (The Fifty-Year Mission: The Next 25 Years, p. 66) Projected date of second draft story outline: Revised outline: (The Fifty-Year Mission: The Next 25 Years, p. 66) Green-lighting of first draft script assignment: (The Fifty-Year Mission: The Next 25 Years, p. 66) Projected date of first draft script: First draft script: (Creating the Next Generation, p. 67) During first meeting of new series production staff, production issues from D.C. Fontana's script are discussed: () Projected date of second draft script: Second draft script: Tentative post-production schedule by Peter Lauritson: Projected start date of director: Second draft script: Projected start date of first assistant director and casting (both episode-specific): Projected date of and actual submission of final draft script: 13 April 1987 Projected final budget of episode: Projected start of filming: Breakdown of optical costs by Peter Lauritson: Rehearsals: – ("Encounter at Farpoint" production reports) Start date of filming, with holographic stream and parkland scene: () Projected start date, and second day of production, with start of filming Farpoint scenes: Third day of production, with filming of Leonard McCoy cameo: Projected and actual end date of filming, concluding twenty-day shoot: (; Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Continuing Mission, p. 48) Projected end date of filming: Projected date of editor's assembly of footage: Shooting of ILM scenes: ("The Beginning", TNG Season 1 DVD special features) Projected date of director's cut: Projected date of producer's cut and studio screening: Projected date of final cut: Projected date of assembly: Projected date of , mixing, electrical effects (EFX), and additional dialogue recording (ADR): Projected date of on-line assembly of titles and effects: Projected dates for more ADR: – Projected dates for score: – Projected dates for dubbing: – (4 days) Projected date of video duplication: Projected date of delivery to network: Premiere airdate: Projected premiere airdate: UK premiere (BBC2): Footnotes Introduction This episode is the series premiere of . It was the third live-action pilot episode (the other two being TOS pilots and ) and the fourth pilot in general (counting ). According to Beyond the Final Frontier (p. 78), though, this first TNG episode technically wasn't a "pilot", as such, because TNG had already been commissioned at the time of its making. On the other hand, much of the documentation used in its production referred to this project as a "pilot". In fact, this was the first Star Trek pilot which was presold as a series. () Story and script In a press conference that announced a new Star Trek series on , Paramount Television president Mel Harris declared that, in the fall of , "a two-hour telefilm" would launch the upcoming series, which was already entitled . (The Fifty-Year Mission: The Next 25 Years, pp. 26 & 53) At the first TNG meeting Rick Berman and Gene Roddenberry attended, the length of this then-forthcoming episode was the subject of heated debate between Roddenberry and Paramount. Berman stated, "There was some contention, because the studio wanted a two-hour pilot and Roddenberry only wanted to do a one-hour pilot." (The Fifty-Year Mission: The Next 25 Years, p. 48) The meeting was held in Roddenberry's office and, according to Berman, was "a big blustery argument." One of the debaters was President of Paramount Network Television John Pike. "The premiere episode we have to make a splash with," he recalled thinking, "and that must be a two-hour episode [....] I thought Gene was going to come across the table at me, 'We're not doing a two-hour and I'm not writing a two-hour.' And I said, 'Gene, quite frankly, if you do not do this, I will bar you from the lot. We are going forward with a two-hour.' I don't know who's going to write it, and now everybody is looking around the room and nobody is saying nothing." Pike was bluffing to Roddenberry. In reality, Pike was anxious that, with tens of millions of dollars at stake if Roddenberry refused to produce the episode as a two-hour pilot, he would decline to do so and simply leave instead. As an awkward silence descended on the room, Pike found no one present was backing up his claim. (William Shatner Presents: Chaos on the Bridge) Although he had accompanied Pike to the meeting, Berman chose to totally stay out of the debate. () Relaying Roddenberry's response, Pike noted, "He knew I was dead serious." (William Shatner Presents: Chaos on the Bridge) However, the issue of this episode's duration became the subject of a long-running dispute. As a compromise, the studio even attempted to persuade Roddenberry to agree to do a ninety-minute pilot instead. () Commented Producer Robert Justman, "I know […] we were having problems with the studio, which couldn't seem to make up its mind whether it was gonna be a two-hour pilot, an hour pilot, or a 90-minute. And so," he laughed, "we were going around and around with them." Berman continued, "There was a lot of arguing, a lot of very high-level executives came in." (Stardate Revisited: The Origin of Star Trek - The Next Generation, Part One: Inception, TNG Season 1 Blu-ray special features) The TNG creative staff began to focus their work on the details of this first episode after concentrating on the show's backstory. For the writers, the presold nature of this episode meant the pressure was on introducing the characters instead of trying to sell the show. However, the work of the writers was not any simpler as a result. () In a one-page memo Robert Justman wrote Gene Roddenberry about the Crusher family and their relationships with Picard (the memo was dated ), Justman concluded the document by expressing that the end of this initial episode could feature the departure of Beverly Crusher. He recommended, "In a bittersweet emotional love scene in the Captain's 'Ready Room,' Wesley's mother bids farewell to Picard and entreats him to protect and nurture her son. She leaves at the end of the premiere episode content only with the knowledge that Picard will be both mentor and surrogate father to her only child." In hindsight, Justman exclaimed, "Well, that certainly didn't work out!" () Though Gene Roddenberry was recognized as the "creator" of Star Trek in general as well as Star Trek: The Next Generation in particular (in addition to the original Star Trek series), he needed to delegate some of his responsibilities in crafting this episode, as well as the series at large. For example, the producers needed guidance on a script for the pilot episode. (Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Continuing Mission, p. 55) In a one-page memo Robert Justman sent Roddenberry (on ), Justman proposed that D.C. Fontana "could write 2 hr. opener and/or episodes." Although he also listed five other writers in the same memo, Fontana was the only one Justman suggested tackle the series premiere. In late , Roddenberry called Fontana with an invite to work on the outing. She recalled, "I was asked to come in, by Gene, and he said, 'Would you write the pilot?" (William Shatner Presents: Chaos on the Bridge) Years after the incident, Fontana reflected that she was "intrigued and drawn into the process" because of this invite. Fontana was hired to write the script, as a two-hour initial installment, by early . () "So I was writing introduction of the new Enterprise, the new crew, the new captain obviously," she remembered. (William Shatner Presents: Chaos on the Bridge) Although Fontana was hired to write the episode while the deadline for initiating preproduction on it was approaching, she almost immediately ran into trouble because no one seemed absolutely sure what she should do; as of December 1986, Paramount was yet to decide whether the episode should be two hours, ninety minutes, or an hour in length. (Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Continuing Mission, p. 30) An early version of D.C. Fontana's first story outline, bearing the working title "Meeting at Farpoint" (and dated 5 December 1986), was more focused on action than the episode ultimately became and had several plot points and names that were also different from the final product. For instance, Groppler Zorn was named "Elzever". The captain of the Enterprise-D, which had just completed a successful mission, was Julien Picard instead of Jean-Luc Picard, first officer was Kyle Summers, and security chief was Macha Hernandez instead of Tasha Yar. Summers was promoted to captain and was scheduled to take over command of the science vessel Starseeker at Farpoint Station. While in orbit of that facility, crew transfers included Lieutenant Commander William Ryker, Lieutenant Commander Data, Dr. Beverly Crusher and her fifteen-year-old daughter, Leslie. Ryker and Data shared a deep friendship. Following the transfer, an alien vessel appeared near the planet and sent a message that all personnel had to beam to the planet or all would die. The captain of the Starseeker was preparing to have his ship fire photon torpedoes at the newly arrived vessel, but before he could do so, the Starseeker was destroyed. At Picard's orders, the crew of the Enterprise-D beamed to the surface and made contact with their enemy, the Annoi, an ape-like species with a high technology. The Annoi enslaved both the crew and the inhabitants of Farpoint, and forced them to mine the mineral balmine. An away team including Data, Ryker, Troi, and Hernandez got aboard the Annoi ship, and, with the help of Leslie Crusher's knowledge about the vessel's layout, Troi then learned that there was no engineering room aboard the ship – the "ship" was actually a lifeform. This lifeform had been enslaved by the Annoi and needed balmine to survive. (Creating the Next Generation, pp. 64-65) Noted Fontana, "I did want the reveal at the end to be a true surprise, that it wasn't a mystical something, it was a creature." (Stardate Revisited: The Origin of Star Trek - The Next Generation, Part One: Inception, TNG Season 1 Blu-ray special features) The series' first casting call, which was sent to talent agencies on , predicted that the two-hour "TV movie" would start filming at the end of but also noted there was no script yet available for the project. () DeForest Kelley's cameo as an aged McCoy was a late addition to the story and was devised by Gene Roddenberry. "It came about as a result of, I think, a meeting between him and De," remembered Robert Justman. "I think it had been on Gene's mind." The scene was written after Roddenberry sought Kelley's permission for it to go ahead. It was written into a later version of the first draft story outline (dated ), while the episode was now called "Encounter at Farpoint". In the same outline, the Annoi became the Annae, the people who were living at Farpoint. Data was described as looking eastern, and the story also featured Doctor Ansenzi, Dr. Crusher's predecessor as the Enterprise-D's chief medical officer. Subsequently, D.C. Fontana submitted a revised draft of the outline (on ). (The Fifty-Year Mission: The Next 25 Years, p. 66) Between submitting the two different drafts of the installment's story outline and receiving approval to proceed to the script stage, D.C. Fontana found that the running length of the pilot was still under review. "It had been decided between Roddenberry and Justman that the outline I had was enough for ninety minutes and that I should develop that material. As I began writing the script, and throughout the writing of the first draft, the length of the script kept bobbing up and down from two hours to an hour and a half to one hour and back up again," Fontana explained. "I was told that this was due to the fact that the decision had not been made as to whether the premiere would have a 'history of Star Trek section, a behind-the-scenes section, or an extended preview section in addition to the dramatic story. Or whether it would be all story." Fontana was asked, every few days, by Roddenberry's attorney, Leonard Maizlish – who had started to come to the studio daily – about whether she thought the script might be an hour, an hour and a half, or two hours. While the episode's duration was undecided, Fontana was attempting to develop the outline, a task that proved extraordinarily difficult, since she didn't know how long the episode was intended to be. (The Fifty-Year Mission: The Next 25 Years, p. 66) Eventually, both Gene Roddenberry and Leonard Maizlish told D.C. Fontana to simply concentrate on writing a ninety-minute episode, even though Fontana's contract specified she would be given a bonus if she wrote a two-hour pilot. Heeding their instruction, she instead developed the installment to be ninety minutes long, missing out on her bonus. (The Fifty-Year Mission: The Next 25 Years, p. 66) In the first draft script, the people who were living on Farpoint were still named the Annae, although Leslie Crusher was renamed Wes Crusher. Data was still described as looking eastern, but Dr. Ansenzi was now described as Dr. Crusher's assistant aboard the Enterprise-D. The story started aboard the starship Belvedere. Ryker first met Geordi La Forge and Ensign Sawyer Markham at Farpoint. The Enterprise started a twenty-year mission to explore the galaxy and had to protect Farpoint Station from an alien vessel. (Creating the Next Generation, pp. 66-70) Gene Roddenberry and Leonard Maizlish finally revealed to D.C. Fontana that the episode would indeed be two hours in length. (The Fifty-Year Mission: The Next 25 Years, p. 66) The studio had decided to make the episode two hours long so that it could be halved into a pair of hour segments for later broadcast. In the meantime, however, there were other issues which could potentially have an impact on the episode's pacing and duration. "By that time, we felt that our script was short for a two-hour," said Robert Justman, "plus the fact that by that time we knew who was going to direct it." Justman had previously worked on multiple occasions with the chosen director, Corey Allen, and therefore knew he usually paced scenes faster than any other director. This meant the production would definitely require a longer script than Fontana had written. According to TNG Research Consultant Richard Arnold, D.C. Fontana declined the opportunity to write the extra thirty minutes. "Gene wanted Dorothy to write the two-hour script," Arnold stated. "She said she couldn't do it. She said, 'I can't in less than two weeks." (William Shatner Presents: Chaos on the Bridge) However, Fontana herself recollected, "I was ready and willing to expand my story to encompass the additional half hour." (The Fifty-Year Mission: The Next 25 Years, p. 67) Instead, Gene Roddenberry chose to write the extra material himself. "Gene said, 'Don't worry about expanding your story. I'll put a frame on it, Dorothy," relayed David Gerrold. D.C. Fontana herself noted, "I was told that Roddenberry would write what came to be called 'the prequel." Gerrold added, "When Gene said he would put the frame on it, Dorothy said, 'There goes my bonus.' Gene said, 'Don't worry, we'll take care of you." (The Fifty-Year Mission: The Next 25 Years, pp. 66-67) Gerrold retrospectively alleged, too, that the reason Roddenberry gave for arranging to do so much writing on the episode was actually dishonest. Explained Gerrold, "He says, 'I have to add thirty minutes to the script because the studio wants my name on the pilot,' which was a lie." Richard Arnold claimed that the real reason why Roddenberry took on the task of fleshing out the script was that he was capable of writing extremely well under pressure whereas Fontana wasn't. (William Shatner Presents: Chaos on the Bridge) Nonetheless, the situation reminded Fontana of an earlier scenario in which, while working together on , Roddenberry had caused her to lose out on money she was rightfully owed, due to a promotion in her career, while he sneakily acquired those finances for his own salary. (The Fifty-Year Mission: The Next 25 Years, p. 67) Recalling what happened after she submitted the first draft of the "Encounter at Farpoint" teleplay, she noted, "The script was taken out of my hands and it was totally rewritten by Gene." () According to the reference book Creating the Next Generation (p. 67), the first draft script was submitted on . However, according to the book Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Continuing Mission (pp. 30 & 40), Fontana completed her work on the script in mid-March 1987, when she turned in "a revised draft of a ninety-minute version of 'Encounter at Farpoint'." As Robert Justman remembered, the ship separation sequence was a late addition which helped flesh out the script from ninety minutes to two hours. () David Gerrold recollected, "When Dorothy wrote 'Encounter at Farpoint', and we had the ship split into two parts, one of the women crew members was left in charge. Next thing, when we get the script back, here's this Klingon head of security, named Worf [....] So, that's where Worf comes from. After months of Gene saying no, suddenly it gets written in." (Stardate Revisited: The Origin of Star Trek - The Next Generation, Part One: Inception, TNG Season 1 Blu-ray special features) Both Worf and the saucer separation idea were introduced in the second draft of the script. (Creating the Next Generation, p. 72) Despite identifying that draft as having been Roddenberry's rewrite of Fontana's script, Justman himself took credit for scripting the saucer separation sequence. The reason this plot point wasn't scripted until such a late draft of the teleplay was that the TNG creative staff needed to first seek Paramount's approval to have the Enterprise capable of saucer separation at all. By the time the studio allowed for that to be the case, the production crew was just about to start filming the episode. Justman explained, "I wrote it cut by cut, exactly what would happen while you're in the master scene. I wrote each individual cut to show the editors and the people who were making the photographic miniatures, compositing, what we needed, what else we needed." Gene Roddenberry's newly-added framework introduced the character concept of Q. (The Fifty-Year Mission: The Next 25 Years, p. 67) Originally, that character was instead meant to be introduced in a later entry of the forthcoming series. (Beyond the Final Frontier, p. 77) Although all the other members of the writing team very gently tried to advise Roddenberry that the Q subplot wasn't very good (immediately recognizing Q as clearly a direct copy of Trelane from ), he was adamant about writing it into this episode. "He said, 'Trust me, the way I'll do it, the fans will love it," recounted Gerrold. (The Fifty-Year Mission: The Next 25 Years, p. 67) Gene Roddenberry was working on the Q subplot when avid Star Trek fan Doug Drexler, who later worked extensively on the series himself, visited the TNG offices for the first time. During a chat with Edward K. Milkis and Robert Justman there, Drexler overheard a plot detail from this story. "While I was talking to Eddie and Bob, Roddenberry bursts into the room and says, 'I've got it! The captain stops the ship, turns around, and surrenders," Drexler recalled. "And Gene turns and looks at me and he sees a blank look on my face, and Bob says, 'Gene, you don't realize what you just did to this guy." (The Fifty-Year Mission: The Next 25 Years, p. 64) Although Gene Roddenberry had recently been suffering from chronically lagging energy levels, Robert Justman was pleased that he was, by now, physically able to do so much work on the installment. "He finally hit his stride on the opening episode, on 'Farpoint', after Dorothy turned in her teleplay and made her revisions," Justman recalled. "Time was getting short, and Gene took it and rewrote it, and that's when he got up to speed, finally – that's when he really started cooking on all cylinders and turned in a terrific rewrite. I mean, he added the Q character and really, some elements that hadn't been there." Although he was baffled by what the story was about, John Pike was adamant about how little he would influence Gene Roddenberry in its writing. "There was no way in the world I was gonna give any notes whatsoever to Mr. Roddenberry," he emphasized. (William Shatner Presents: Chaos on the Bridge) According to the book Creating the Next Generation (p. 72), the Q subplot wasn't introduced into the script until the next "draft" after the one that first involved the saucer separation, which the book cited as the second draft of the teleplay. The book added that Q was also an aspect of all subsequent script drafts. However, at least one version of the second draft script did include Q. Picard surrendering the Enterprise was another element of that same script, in which Gene Roddenberry subsequently made numerous handwritten notes in preparation for creating the final draft of the script. According to Richard Arnold, the script that introduced Q was delivered by Roddenberry one week after D.C. Fontana finished her work on this entry. (William Shatner Presents: Chaos on the Bridge) The McCoy scene was kept secret, so much so that his name wasn't referenced in the script and isn't in the completed episode's dialogue either. (Beyond the Final Frontier, p. 78) The handwritten notes by Roddenberry obscured all references to "McCoy", changing them to "Admiral" instead. The final draft script described McCoy as 147 years old, rather than 137. (; ) In the final draft script, the stardate was originally given as 42353.7. The other stardates were 42354.1, 42354.22, 42354.71, and 42372.5. The founding date of the New United Nations was given as 2016 in the shooting script, whereas the setting of Q's courtroom was given as 2049. These were changed to 2036 and 2079 respectively. (; ) In the script, the frozen lieutenant's name was Graham. It was changed to Torres in the filmed episode. (; ) Also, in the final draft script, Q froze both Tasha and Troi during the mock trial. Yet, in the episode, only Tasha gets frozen and eventually revived. (; ) Another change was that the final draft script didn't have Picard's line, "Lets see what's out there." () Because the pacing of many of the filmed scenes turned out to be insufficiently long (due to Corey Allen's very fast-paced filming style), Robert Justman wrote to Gene Roddenberry and Rick Berman (on ) about the need for some additional scenes to be written to "pad out" the episode, in order to make the episode fill the two-hour airtime. Such scenes, the contents of which were suggested by Berman, were actually devised at essentially the last minute. They included the conversation between Crusher and La Forge in sickbay as well as Picard's more cordial reintroduction to Crusher shortly thereafter. Due to Gene Roddenberry's rewrite work on this installment, the episode went to the Writers' Guild of America for credits arbitration. (William Shatner Presents: Chaos on the Bridge) As described by D.C. Fontana, this was an automatic and fairly usual process for any episodes whose development involved heavy revision or rewrite. In a handwritten note from Fontana to David Gerrold about this episode's arbitration, she stated, "Needless to say, you never saw this. I'm in touch with the Guild on it." The Guild's conclusion was that the episode would have a split writers' credit between Roddenberry and Fontana. In hindsight, Gerrold remarked, "What he had done was jump her credit. He was now getting half the residuals for that episode, and that's in perpetuity." In Richard Arnold's opinion, though, the split credit was a fair summation of how Roddenberry and Fontana had devised the script. (William Shatner Presents: Chaos on the Bridge) Cast and characters Despite having proclaimed that he regarded TOS as the only true Star Trek in 1986, DeForest Kelley was eager to appear in this episode. (The Fifty-Year Mission: The Next 25 Years, p. 52; ) Robert Justman reflected, "[Gene Roddenberry] invited De to lunch and he says, 'How would you feel about it?', expecting De to say, 'No. NO' – and De said, 'I'd be honored.' And not only that, not only did he say 'I'd be honored,' but he refused to take any more than SAG scale [salary]. He could have held us up for a lot of money, and he didn't." According to D.C. Fontana, Kelley "loved" the line in which McCoy advises Data, "You treat her like a lady and she'll always bring you home." (Stardate Revisited: The Origin of Star Trek - The Next Generation, Part Two: Launch, TNG Season 1 Blu-ray special features) This episode marks Kelley's final television appearance before his death on , discounting his appearance in , which was archive footage from . Colm Meaney (Miles O'Brien), John de Lancie (Q), Richard Sarstedt (Enterprise-D officer), and David B. Levinson (post-atomic court spectator) are the only actors, besides the regulars, to appear in both this episode and the finale "All Good Things…". Denise Crosby (Natasha Yar) also appeared in both episodes, but she was no longer a regular at the time of the finale. In addition, Colm Meaney and Patrick Stewart are the only actors to appear in the pilots of both TNG and (indeed, Patrick Stewart delivered the opening lines of both premieres, the former as Jean-Luc Picard, and the latter as Locutus of Borg). Meaney, however, also appears in both shows' finales, as do Levinson and Michael Dorn (Worf). When Patrick Stewart was preparing to assume the role of Captain Picard, he did some research that encompassed reading "the pilot episode over and over and over again," in his own words. By the time Stewart realized how life-changing the role might be for him and he started getting nervous about auditioning for it, Corey Allen had been hired to direct the first installment, so he helped Stewart get through the auditioning process. (Stardate Revisited: The Origin of Star Trek - The Next Generation, Part Two: Launch, TNG Season 1 Blu-ray special features) Brent Spiner (Data) read this episode's script to determine if he was interested in playing Data. Reading the teleplay showed Spiner that indeed he was. (Stardate Revisited: The Origin of Star Trek - The Next Generation, Part Two: Launch, TNG Season 1 Blu-ray special features) Yar actress Denise Crosby was happy with this episode, stating, "I think they did a great job." An element of the outing she cited as "really interesting" was the presentment of the Q character. () On the other hand, Jonathan Frakes (Riker) wasn't satisfied with this episode. He commented, "The first episode really felt like two stories forced together [....] I think the look of the pilot had the quality of the original." Frakes also deemed it not as good as the later installments, because the company knew their characters better by then and were less anxious over discovering whether the show would succeed. (Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages, p. 155) He said, "I think we were all floundering around trying to find out who we were; when you look back at the pilot you can certainly sense that we had a sort of Data-like wonder in our eyes!" () Marina Sirtis (Troi) felt likewise. "It was difficult to watch the pilot with my hands over my eyes; I didn't feel it was working really well," she admitted. Sirtis was particularly embarrassed about her own performance in this episode. (The Fifty-Year Mission: The Next 25 Years, p. 100) This episode marks David B. Levinson's first Star Trek appearance. He reprised the same role in the finale, , and also appeared in other roles in the episodes and but received more credit as regular background character Broik and stand-in for Armin Shimerman during the seven-year run of . This episode is the only TNG episode in which a male stunt performer doubled for an actress. In this episode, an unknown stunt performer doubled Denise Crosby's fight scene in the courtroom. Marty Valinsky, one of the post-atomic courtroom soldiers, later worked as a stand-in on . Consulting Senior Illustrator Andrew Probert made a cameo appearance as a post-atomic courtroom spectator. Proceeding with pre-production The production design of this installment was based on the episode's narrative. "Once the bits and pieces of the 'Farpoint' story really started to come together," offered Rick Sternbach,"that's when the memos and the sketches really started to go back and forth between the art department and the production office." (Stardate Revisited: The Origin of Star Trek - The Next Generation, Part One: Inception, TNG Season 1 Blu-ray special features) When the new series production staff met for the first time as a full group on , specific production issues stemming from Fontana's pilot script were discussed by the team. () As production manager for this episode in February 1987, David Livingston witnessed first-hand how the arrangements for the episode were developing. "I was in a trailer by myself," he explained. "The rest of the guys were in the writers' building, but they didn't have any space for the production. I was the only one in it for a couple of weeks while they were gearing up [....] They were doing some preproduction planning. They needed someone to come in and finalize the pilot as well as hire the crew." (The Fifty-Year Mission: The Next 25 Years, p. 70) Hence, one of Livingston's responsibilities was to finalize a production budget for the pilot. He was amazed by how much money Paramount was investing in the start of the making of a television pilot, later recalling, "At that time, when I saw the budget, I went, 'Wow. I mean, this is incredible that Paramount's willing to take this kind of financial risk." (Stardate Revisited: The Origin of Star Trek - The Next Generation, Part One: Inception, TNG Season 1 Blu-ray special features) He elaborated, "The way the pilot was written, we didn't have to make substantive changes to make a budget. We didn't film a budget, we filmed a pilot." (The Fifty-Year Mission: The Next 25 Years, p. 117) According to , illustrators Andrew Probert and Rick Sternbach, while working on this episode, developed a system whereby Probert usually designed ships and Sternbach mostly focused on designing props. However, both Farpoint Station and the space vessel lifeform were designed by Sternbach. He created concept artwork of both elements. (Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Continuing Mission, pp. 49 & 50) Although production on this episode was at first planned (in such documents as a schedule and the aforementioned casting call from December 1986) to begin in late March 1987, that month came and went without filming started. (; Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Continuing Mission, p. 48) Corey Allen was extremely keen to direct this episode. He was particularly attracted by the "Q" story line, interpreting the character of Q as a metaphorical representation of questions he believed are constantly asked, mentally, by each and every person, about oneself and their own worth. "I really believe that my understanding of that human questioning is what I brought to the episode," he noted. (Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages, pp. 155-156) Allen was selected as the episode's director by Thursday . His name was displayed on several clapperboards used on that date. (Stardate Revisited: The Origin of Star Trek - The Next Generation, Part One: Inception & Part Two: Launch, TNG Season 1 Blu-ray special features) Being very familiar with Corey Allen, Robert Justman expected difficulties with him directing "Encounter at Farpoint". Allen trusted Justman and they had a good friendship. However, the director had gotten in trouble while shooting other shows because he employed a very demanding camera technique. Another issue was his aforementioned quick pacing. "And not only that, he would never hold onto the end of a scene – he'd chop it short," stated Justman. "And so there were these problems that I knew, and I knew there'd be some of these problems with Corey." Wardrobe and makeup tests of DeForest Kelley as an elderly McCoy were filmed on Wednesday 20 May 1987. Recalling the events of that day, D.C. Fontana said, "He came in to visit one day when we were prepping, and I handed him the scene and I said, 'Would you like to do that?' He said, 'Well, yeah, but will they let me?' And I said, 'Are you kidding?" Fontana laughed "You're DeForest Kelley." Although the camera tests demonstrated Kelley wearing a combination of makeup and grease paint on his face, appliances were instead used to depict McCoy in the episode, because he was meant to look older than what the tests showed. It was also decided that, whereas he was wearing a in the camera test, Admiral McCoy should be portrayed wearing a civilian outfit. (Stardate Revisited: The Origin of Star Trek - The Next Generation, Part Two: Launch, TNG Season 1 Blu-ray special features) The Farpoint set was the subject of similar camera tests a week later, on Wednesday . (Stardate Revisited: The Origin of Star Trek - The Next Generation, Part One: Inception, TNG Season 1 Blu-ray special features) According to , Costume Designer William Ware Theiss and Make-Up Supervisor Michael Westmore were "hard at work" while the pilot script "took shape." However, Westmore joined the production staff either on 27 or 28 May 1987, just a couple of working days before shooting started. (Information from Larry Nemecek) Sets and props During Doug Drexler's first visit to the TNG offices while this installment was being written, none of the sets had yet been built. They were under construction by the time David Livingston arrived to serve as the production manager for the pilot, for a few weeks in . When Livingston arrived, Production Designer Herman Zimmerman had "three soundstages full of the most unbelievable sets you could imagine," in Livingston's words. (The Fifty-Year Mission: The Next 25 Years, pp. 64, 70, & 116) That month, Michael Okuda was also assigned to work on the main sets. (Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Continuing Mission, p. 29) The sets were still under construction as of mid-March 1987, while production loomed. (Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Continuing Mission, pp. 30, 40, & 41) During preproduction, the color of the walls proved to be a point of contention. "I had to go in on a weekend to discuss the color of sets for painting," David Livingston recalled. "All the creative people and producers were standing around on a weekend discussing the color of a wall. It was crazy. It wasn't necessary. To me, it was silly." (The Fifty-Year Mission: The Next 25 Years, p. 70) This episode ultimately debuted many sets which had been redressed from the aborted Star Trek: Phase II project. Among them were the corridor sets, which had previously been seen as the corridors of the refitted Enterprise (NCC-1701) in the first feature film, . For the film, only the portion of the corridor set beginning just past the sickbay doors and ending just past the Engineering set – approximately three-quarters of the eventual set – had been constructed, ending at a T-junction (itself a freestanding wall which went on to be seen throughout the new series) just past sickbay. The corridors were not extended to the configuration seen in later seasons until the start of the second season. The metallic wall was also placed outside the holodeck doors on many occasions when it was necessary to see the Enterprise-D from within the simulation (it can be differentiated from the Stage 8 corridor complex by different lighting and the fact of those corridors having three segments on the wall opposite the holodeck door, versus the standalone wall, which has four segments). For the first season of the series, the metallic walls in the hexagonal corridor outside the transporter room, as well as the three-segmented walls in the main corridors, were much more reflective than they came to be in later seasons. They had previously had this appearance in Star Trek: The Motion Picture and retained this appearance until the show's third season. In this episode, the holodeck door is seen directly opposite the blind corridor leading to the transporter room, where an alcove containing a turbolift appears later in the series. In this instance, the producers took advantage of the large open space behind the corridor walls to build a partial in-studio set of the simulated Earth forest. This was one of only several instances where the actors could step directly from the starship sets and into a simulated holodeck environment. This small set can also be seen in , , and , among other episodes. For most of its later appearances, when a crewmember activated a holoprogram and was seen entering or leaving the holodeck, the scene took place on a small section of the Enterprise-D corridor, specially erected outside a duplicate holodeck entrance. This had to be done because of space concerns – large sets, such as the simulated London from "Elementary, Dear Data", could not be placed behind the door in the Stage 8 corridor set, both because of limited space on the sound stage, as well as the more mundane problem of the turbolift placed behind the door just to the left of the holodeck entrance. The bird sculptures seen in Q's courtroom appeared again in the final episode . The sculptures can also be seen in Karnas' office in the first season episode and in the bar on Qualor II in the fifth season episode . The diamond-shaped chrome shelf unit in the Farpoint Mall set evidently came from Kirk's apartment in . It can be later seen in Tasha Yar's quarters in and at the Café des Artistes in . This is one of a few episodes where the vertical blinds in Doctor Crusher's office in sickbay are opened and several windows with a starfield behind them can be seen. In later episodes when the blinds are opened (like and ), a corridor with several doors can be seen behind the window. The sickbay set also appeared in , with Dr. Crusher's office playing the role of a medical lab; for that appearance, the blinds were open as well, offering another view of the corridor backing. In all cases, the corridor behind the blinds was realized by a re-use of a matte painting originally seen in Star Trek: The Motion Picture, and later re-used for , in both cases extending a practical corridor set farther than was physically possible. In the first film, this painting was positioned outside the doors to main engineering, and can be seen from within the engine room; in the second, it was positioned outside a turbolift door. In this episode of The Next Generation, it can be seen in the final moments of Data's conversation with Admiral McCoy, replacing a turbolift door at the end of the blind corridor outside the transporter room. In this episode only, the central biobed in sickbay is seen without a cushioned covering, similar to how it appeared in Star Trek: The Motion Picture. In later episodes, the transparent biobed surface is covered by a fabric cushion the size and shape of the biobed. On close inspection, the drug dispensers that Q and his fellow soldiers from World War III wear as part of their uniforms are labeled "Army R2D3PO-D", a reference to the Star Wars 'droids R2-D2 and C-3PO. Sections of the set constructed for the Klingon Bird-of-Prey in were reused for Groppler Zorn's office. Specifically, the hallway outside of Zorn's office was a reused section of the Bird-of-Prey's hallway, and the three yellow lights behind Zorn's desk were reused from the Bird-of-Prey's transporter room. One of the shelves from the Bandi marketplace at Farpoint Station appeared in the next episode, , in Deanna Troi's quarters. This episode's workload included changes made to Paramount Stage 16. "For 'Encounter at Farpoint' I put a very large crater off to one side in a good portion of the stage," stated Herman Zimmerman. This allowed the shooting company to film below the level of the other sets by approximately twelve feet. () The Farpoint set was also located on Paramount Stage 16. (Stardate Revisited: The Origin of Star Trek - The Next Generation, Part One: Inception, TNG Season 1 Blu-ray special features) Production Whereas TOS pilots and had been allowed much more time to evolve, the shooting company that worked on this episode knew, by the time the project entered production in May 1987, that it would need to be finished by September that year. This was because the episode's premiere airdate had already been tentatively scheduled for then. The company had approximately five weeks in which to produce the episode, a relatively very quick schedule. (Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Continuing Mission, pp. 47-48) Although Paramount was contractually obligated to deliver a full first season's worth of new Star Trek episodes to television networks, the production crew and main cast members were under the impression, since the first season technically wasn't guaranteed, that this episode might be the only one the studio would produce. (Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Continuing Mission, p. 57) The first footage to be shot was the scene where, at a holographic parkland and stream, Riker first meets Data and Wesley Crusher. Extremely nervous and insecure about filming TNG because he had had very little camera time, Patrick Stewart was glad that he didn't work the first day, when this footage was shot. (Stardate Revisited: The Origin of Star Trek - The Next Generation, Part Two: Launch, TNG Season 1 Blu-ray special features) The scene was filmed on Friday 29 May 1987, at Fern Dell Drive, Griffith Park, where the weather was clear during the location shoot. (Daily production reports from "Encounter at Farpoint") Gene Roddenberry drove to the location with his mistress and assistant Susan Sackett, and during their drive, Sackett suggested to him that Geordi La Forge's visual device might be called a "VISOR". ("Log Entry 37", Inside Trek: My Secret Life with Star Trek Creator Gene Roddenberry ) Patrick Stewart, whose first scenes as Picard were due to be filmed on the next production day, also attended the location shoot, merely as an observer, because he felt it was all he could do to experience what the filming was like. (Stardate Revisited: The Origin of Star Trek - The Next Generation, Part Two: Launch, TNG Season 1 Blu-ray special features) After a crew call at 6 am and a shooting call at 6:45 am, the first shot was taken at 7:28 am. From 12 pm, the shooting company took half an hour to have lunch. They then returned to work, with filming resumed at 1:28 pm and concluded at 5:39 pm. (Daily production reports from "Encounter at Farpoint") Stewart related, "Water, as I remember, played a big part in that day's filming." (Stardate Revisited: The Origin of Star Trek - The Next Generation, Part Two: Launch, TNG Season 1 Blu-ray special features) Production was continued after the weekend of 30 and 31 May 1987. On Monday , the shooting company did their first on-set filming, using Paramount Stage 16 to shoot on the sets of both the "Farpoint foyer" and the "Farpoint mall". Following a crew call at 7 am and a shooting call at 7:45 am, the first shot was captured at 9:45 am. (Daily production reports from "Encounter at Farpoint") Recalled Susan Sackett, "Fred Bronson, my mother and I were thrilled to accompany Gene as they filmed the first setup." The first of the Farpoint scenes to be prepared for filming was in the shopping mall, with Gates McFadden playing Dr. Crusher. Because McFadden wasn't completely settled into her role yet, she portrayed Crusher with an irritable attitude. ("Log Entry 37", Inside Trek: My Secret Life with Star Trek Creator Gene Roddenberry) Filming continued until 1 pm, when the company took an hour-long lunch break. They returned to filming at 3:50 pm, and the day's shoot finished at 7:59 pm. (Daily production reports from "Encounter at Farpoint") After filming on Stage 16, the first promotional photographs and video were shot with the producers and cast (with Worf actor Michael Dorn absent, as he was not yet contracted to play Worf). As well as cast-only shots, they also gathered with Rick Berman, Robert Justman, and Gene Roddenberry on the caves set of Stage 16, soon to become known as "Planet Hell". On the call sheets, McCoy was referred to simply as "Admiral", and no indication was given in any way that this was to be McCoy. This was done to keep his appearance a secret until the episode's premiere on television. The McCoy scene was filmed on Tuesday 2 June 1987. That day's filming also included the first footage involving Patrick Stewart playing Picard. On Friday , the company filmed for the first time on the sets for engineering and the observation lounge. The first filming on the set of the Enterprise-D's main bridge followed on Monday 8 June. It was around this time, when the episode had been in production for a week, when Michael Dorn was called in to audition for the role of Worf. (Cinefantastique, Vol. 22, No. 2, p. 20) Corey Allen's very quick pacing began having a tangible effect on the production by Wednesday . On that date, Robert Justman wrote to Allen with specific notes on how to get more out of what was yet to be filmed: the "Q courtroom" scenes and some footage on the set of the Enterprises main bridge. On Friday , the company filmed scenes involving Groppler Zorn suspended in mid-air aboard the angry space vessel lifeform. Other scenes they shot that day included footage in the same alien's corridor-like internals. All scenes involving Q were filmed during the last two weeks of the four-week production schedule, since John de Lancie was involved in a theatrical play, and could only be available from mid-June onwards. Gene Roddenberry and Robert Justman were both keen on having de Lancie play the part and were willing to adjust the schedule in order to accommodate the actor. The company undertook a four-day shoot on the "Q Courtroom" set on Paramount Stage 16. This period began on Monday 15 June 1987. The extra character scenes that were devised to "pad out" the episode were filmed on Friday 19 June 1987. The production shoot was scheduled to take twenty days and finish on Thursday 25 June 1987. The final scenes to go before the cameras were various bluescreen shots on the main bridge set. Overseen by Corey Allen, the filming wrapped on schedule. According to Patrick Stewart, however, the episode's making took twenty-one and a half days. (Cinefantastique, Vol. 21, No. 2, p. 48) David Livingston was left with mixed opinions of how difficult this episode's creation had been. He stated, "Shooting the pilot wasn't difficult [....] The only thing that stands out in my mind was the issue over the color of the walls. If that's the most profound thing I remember about a problem, then you can gather the pilot went over smoothly." (The Fifty-Year Mission: The Next 25 Years, p. 70) On the contrary, he also remarked, "Well, the pilot was really hard, because there was such a sense of wanting to have everything just right, perfect. You can't make it perfect, but there was such a desire to say let's really do this right, and no stone was left unturned." (Stardate Revisited: The Origin of Star Trek - The Next Generation, Part Three: The Continuing Mission, TNG Season 1 Blu-ray special features) The production of this episode is featured in the TNG Season 1 DVD special feature "The Beginning". Visual effects and editing Built for this episode was a two-foot model of the Enterprise-D and a six-foot model of the ship. (Cinefantastique, Vol. 22, No. 2, p. 33) Before any of the visual effects footage could be shot, candidates for doing this work needed to bid against each other, even though the episode was meanwhile on a very tight schedule. Recalled Robert Justman, "I had to set dates […] for when [the ship] would go to the various optical houses to bid on filming this stuff, […] as to when it would be filmed, as to when the material would be delivered to us so we could put it together with the show and get it done in time so we could go on the air in September 1987." Fortunately, every scheduled date was met on time, and the bidders who responded included Industrial Light & Magic. To additionally prepare for the VFX to be shot, Justman and Edward K. Milkis wrote a shopping list of shots of the Enterprise that they felt were absolutely necessary, for both the pilot and the series at large. ILM did the special optical effects for this episode only but was also credited for the rest of the series because footage was continuously reused. Noted Peter Lauritson, "The reality of the situation is that they did effects for the pilot, but even then they just did the raw material; our team composited them." () Robert Legato added, "[ILM's workload] included about 40 ship shots and miniatures of creatures and villages. Then editor Ron Moore, associate Gary Hutzel, and I composited the shots at Paramount. We augmented what they did and didn't do." (Cinefantastique, Vol. 19, No. 3, pp. 32-33) Under ILM artists Pat Sweeney and , the team filmed the fire and explosion scenes with the "Old Bandi City" model on . ("The Beginning", TNG Season 1 DVD special feature) Robert Justman pointed out that the saucer separation sequence was done precisely as he had written it. "It was filmed that way and it was cut that way, intact in the show as you see it today," he noted. A deleted scene from this episode included footage (filmed on ) of tentacles which reached out of a wall of the alien lifeform and grabbed Troi and Riker. Deciding these special effects looked too hokey, the producers removed the scene from the episode. Corey Allen's faster-than-usual scene pacing affected the editing of the episode. "As I had feared, the show was woefully short when we cut it together," explained Robert Justman. "In order to make the show two hours we had to skillfully edit it and cut it not as tight as we ordinarily would for pace." () This episode contains no teaser, beginning instead with the opening credit sequence. For the syndicated version of this episode, a teaser is formed out of the first several minutes of the episode proper, ending with Q's "warning" of death to Picard and crew, should they not "go back" to Earth. Soundtrack Once Gates McFadden better understood her character's emotional range, she re-recorded her lines in a studio, with her characterization greatly softened. The lines she re-recorded included at least some of those at the Farpoint mall. ("Log Entry 37", Inside Trek: My Secret Life with Star Trek Creator Gene Roddenberry) This was the first of eleven TNG Season 1 episodes scored by Composer Dennis McCarthy. With its ninety-minute running length, the pilot required a lot of music, and the results would be vital to much of the series' success. "The main request was to keep it lush and romantic and to try to sound like a hundred players rather than the 38 that we used," McCarthy recalled. "I scored it in a romantic vein, instead of playing up the science fiction, and I used synthesizers to make the orchestra sound larger than it was." (Cinefantastique, Vol. 19, No. 3, p. 46) According to the reference book Beyond the Final Frontier (p. 78), the incidental music in this episode was based on a theme tune that was originally meant to be TNG's title music but was ultimately unused, replaced relatively late in the day by the main theme from , by Jerry Goldsmith. According to Dennis McCarthy, he originally used the TMP main theme a lot in this episode. "I tried to use the Goldsmith theme when I was first writing the pilot episode, but I felt I needed something a little softer, that I could stretch out a lot more," said McCarthy. (Cinefantastique, Vol. 19, No. 3, p. 46) The scene depicting the Enterprise-D's saucer separation is the first instance since where a series' entire title theme was included in an episode. In this case, although the arrangement of the theme matches that of TNG's first several seasons, the actual orchestration does not match any theme music actually audible in the title sequence (it can be distinguished by bells which can be heard at 0:19 and 0:52). This music was not made a part of the commercially available soundtrack that was later released for this episode, although it did feature as part of 's Star Trek: 50th Anniversary Collection, as an alternate take on the series' season 1 theme. For this episode's score, Dennis McCarthy made frequent use of the eight-note theme which had been previously used, by Alexander Courage, to represent the USS Enterprise. This was because he felt it important that audiences accept the Enterprise-D as the new starship Enterprise. The theme that is played when Q floats into the courtroom in his judge's chair was originally composed by Dennis McCarthy for "The Rescue", an episode of the 1984 series . In that episode, it is played during the wedding of aliens Diana and Charles (played by and Duncan Regehr). The theme is heard again in the last episode of the series, "The Return", where it sounds shortly before a fake shuttle, used by the alien leader, is destroyed. Credits sequences This episode is the only one with the credits scrolling up instead of the text fading, as was done in the other 177 episodes. In its original airing, the main cast members were credited only with their names and not alongside their character's credits as they were during the run of the series (as in "Starring Patrick Stewart" instead of "Starring Patrick Stewart as Captain Jean-Luc Picard", etc.) This was done because, on its original airing, it was billed as a television movie. The syndicated version features the regular first season opening. Unlike other episodes, this episode does not have the "Executive Producer Gene Roddenberry" credit at the end. However, in the edited two-part version, it does. In the original version, Roddenberry is credited as "Executive Producer" instead of "Created by" in the opening credits. Reception At the end of production on this episode, Gene Roddenberry made an announcement which hinted at how extremely proud he was of the installment. "I remember when we finished the pilot of Next Generation," recalled Herman Zimmerman, "and Mr. Roddenberry said, 'People say you can't go home again, but we just proved that under the right conditions you can." (Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages, p. 13) Paramount was uncertain of how much potential this pilot episode (as well as the forthcoming series that would follow it) would have. The studio feared that audiences would reject a new cast of characters and actors. (Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages, p. 30) Footage from this episode was originally unveiled in early . Mel Harris demonstrated the footage, via satellite, to the personnel of 170 television stations across the United States, which would initially air the new series. Harris did this as part of a large-scale promotional campaign to generate interest in the yet-unaired pilot and the subsequent series. () A completed version of this series opener wasn't available for the producers, cast, and crew of TNG to watch until a week before the episode was first broadcast. (Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Continuing Mission, p. 57) Then, the episode was given a screening at the Paramount Theater. "I remember watching the first episode at Paramount," offered Wesley Crusher actor Wil Wheaton, "and at the end of the opening credits, when the Enterprise sort of flies underneath the camera and you can see a little person walking in the conference room, I just got chills." The screening was followed by a party. However, extremely embarrassed about her performance in this episode, Marina Sirtis didn't attend the party. "I just grabbed my date and escaped!" she exclaimed. "We were in the middle of shooting [other episodes] and I was going to see everybody on Monday morning, but I just couldn't face them after the screening." () This episode was also screened in the executive conference room at Paramount. "All the hitters and everybody that was important [was there], and up we put on the big screen 'Encounter at Farpoint'," said John Pike. "Everybody looked at it and they were visually knocked out at how stunning the two-hour looked. As I assumed, everyone would look at it and go, 'What is this about?! What in the world is that thing that looks like a big jellyfish?!' It didn't really even have an ending, and it was a smash!" Pike remained puzzled about the episode's story. He conceded, "To this day, I have no idea what that episode was about." (William Shatner Presents: Chaos on the Bridge) D.C. Fontana's writing of this show delighted Paramount. "The studio was thrilled with her work on 'Encounter at Farpoint'," noted David Gerrold. (The Fifty-Year Mission: The Next 25 Years, p. 76) However, Fontana herself was unhappy with how the episode turned out, noting, "The whole Q storyline […] I felt didn't fit with the other story line [concerning Farpoint Station]." () She clarified that her problem with the episode wasn't anything to do with John de Lancie's participation in it (on the contrary, she thought he did "a wonderful job"), but was merely about how the Q character was "thrust into that story." She went on to elaborate, "It was like, this is not what the story was supposed to be about. It was supposed to be about the mystery of Farpoint and putting this new crew together." (William Shatner Presents: Chaos on the Bridge) In contrast, Fontana described McCoy's line, "You treat her like a lady and she'll always bring you home," as "lovely." (Stardate Revisited: The Origin of Star Trek - The Next Generation, Part Two: Launch, TNG Season 1 Blu-ray special features) Rick Berman found that the Q plot line ended up as "the most interesting and exciting part of that episode." (Stardate Revisited: The Origin of Star Trek - The Next Generation, Part One: Inception, TNG Season 1 Blu-ray special features) Corey Allen thought very favorably of this episode. His enthusiasm regarding the pilot was inspired by his interpretation of the Q character as a metaphor for Human questioning. "The script turned me on immediately [....] I think what Gene Roddenberry did was put two adversaries on the screen so they could effectively deal with those questions [....] [The Farpoint scenario] wasn't as important to me as the concepts we've been talking about," he remarked. "There had to be an issue for the Enterprise to face, and it was okay with me that that was the issue, but the best part for me was that at first we failed to see that there was sentience; that there are passionate beings other than those that resemble ourselves. I thought that was a very nice issue to raise. We don't always recognize other sentient beings and it's analogous of the way we treat each other [....] So I like the point it made, although it could have been any issue there." (Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages, pp. 155-156) Robert Justman noted that, due to the relatively "loose" editing of the episode, "at times that two hours drags a bit here and there. And that's strictly because we didn't have enough material. If we'd had enough material, we would have been pacier and of course it would have been written that way." However, Justman not only approved of Gene Roddenberry's adjustments to the episode's script, such as the addition of Q, but was also pleased that the saucer separation sequence was retained. He also held high regard for DeForest Kelley's cameo, remarking, "It was just great; it really got to me, the way he did it [the scene]. It really got to me; it was a beautiful, beautiful scene." In common with Justman, Richard Arnold thought Gene Roddenberry did a "brilliant job" with his work on the writing of this episode. (William Shatner Presents: Chaos on the Bridge) Maurice Hurley opined, "I thought the execution was herky-jerky, because it was the first show. Having, basically, God tell man you've come far enough; that everywhere you've come, everything you've touched, you've sullied. I love that. I thought that was just awesome. There were also a lot of little things in it that I loved. Beyond that, it has the problems of the first episode of any show." (Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages, p. 156) Michael Piller stated, "I think the Q thing did come out of a time requirement, but there isn't any question in my mind that the best thing in the show is that Q story. If it had been only that other story, it would have been a disappointment. The other thing that comes out of 'Farpoint' is a vision of Roddenberry's where we have Picard arguing for the future of mankind, representing the advocate of humanity to this Q who puts humanity on trial. That's an extraordinary, philosophically ambitious idea, and it really helps to define why Star Trek is what it is. Without that, it would have been spaceships and monsters and special effects." Piller also liked how the story structure of "Encounter at Farpoint" doesn't introduce Riker, Crusher, and La Forge until relatively late in the episode. (Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages, p. 19) Writer David A. McIntee opined, "Encounter at Farpoint' was hideously dull." (, p. 13) This episode was initially aired during a period in the history of Star Treks fan base when disagreement was rife as to how successful the new series would be. "I vividly recall the anticipation and discord leading up to the premiere of The Next Generation," noted Ain't It Cool News film and TV critic Glen C. Oliver. (The Fifty-Year Mission: The Next 25 Years, p. 53) Mark A. Altman explained, "If you look at 'Farpoint', there was a feeling of doom and gloom, everyone saying, 'Lightning can't strike twice [….] No one thought this series was going to work, including a lot of the fans." (Trek: Deepspace Nine, p. 66) The pressure of whether this pilot episode would succeed caused Marina Sirtis to start to feel very insecure. "It suddenly hit me a week before the pilot aired that if it didn't work out," she remarked, "we were going to be destroyed [....] If I had sat and thought about it logically, I would have known that wasn't going to happen." (The Fifty-Year Mission: The Next 25 Years, p. 100) Upon its debut airing, this episode garnered incredible ratings. (SciFiNow, issue 123, p. 034) It beat its prime-time network competition in Dallas, Denver, Los Angeles, Miami, and Seattle. (; Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Continuing Mission, p. 57) The record-breaking ratings were achieved by ninety-eight independent television stations and 118 network affiliates that ran the episode. However, the cast, crew, and Paramount executives knew that, in reality, these massive ratings might just be the one-time result of viewer curiosity. (Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Continuing Mission, p. 57) Despite the huge ratings this episode received, "Encounter at Farpoint" was just one of many bones of contention among the production staff at the time the installment first aired. (SciFiNow, issue 123, p. 034) However, "Encounter at Farpoint" was well received by most critics and fans. () The tactic of trying to keep the McCoy scene a secret was largely successful and led to the scene becoming a pleasant surprise to fans on premiere night. The holodeck was also immediately popular, which Starburst magazine (issue 428, p. 26) speculated may have been due to the drenching of Wesley Crusher during this inaugural appearance of the holodeck. Another aspect of the episode that was popular with fans (as well as the writing staff) was John de Lancie's portrayal of Q. (Cinefantastique, Vol. 21, No. 2, p. 28) In a review of this installment, Ed Bark of the Dallas Morning News, writing for the Knight-Ridder-Tribune service, commented that the episode "soared with the spirit of the original," representing a "fine redefining of a classic and a considerable breakthrough for non-network syndicated television." () Martha Bayles of the Wall Street Journal described this episode as a "cross between Masterpiece Theatre and an action cartoon – in other words, full-blown kitsch." (Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Continuing Mission, p. 58) John Carman of the San Francisco Chronicle was unimpressed by this installment but declared the series had "potential." (Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Continuing Mission, p. 58) Monica Collins of USA Today characterized the episode as "a fabulous meshing of story, character, and special effects," which "succeeds brilliantly." (Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Continuing Mission, p. 58) Don Merrill reviewed "Encounter at Farpoint" for TV Guide. He gave the episode and the forthcoming series a positive appraisal, particularly for its optimistic view of Humanity's future. (Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Continuing Mission, p. 58) Cinefantastique (Vol. 21, No. 2, p. 26) scored this episode two and a half out of four stars. This episode was nominated for a Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation in . In their review reference book Trek Navigator: The Ultimate Guide to the Entire Trek Saga (pp. 72-73), authors Mark A. Altman and Edward Gross each wrote a generally mixed review of this episode. Altman scored the episode two out of four stars but was highly impressed with how "Encounter at Farpoint" managed to "reenergize" the Star Trek franchise. Gross rated the installment three out of four stars. Despite feeling that the installment borrowed too heavily from Star Trek: The Motion Picture (particularly the reunion scene between Riker and Troi being clearly similar to Decker and Ilia reuniting in that film), both Altman and Gross felt the episode still worked, primarily due to John de Lancie's performance as Q. Both writers also related that they found the McCoy scene to be another highlight, Altman describing it as "pure joy." On the other hand, however, he pointed to Roddenberry's conjecture about the existence of post-atomic courts in the 24th century as "one of Treks less optimistic visions of the future." Gross considered "the Farpoint scenario" as "a bit tame" but approved of how its theme of looks being deceiving reflected thematic material in TOS. Gross was also not entirely happy with the performances of the main cast, remarking that although they, especially Patrick Stewart, demonstrated great potential, he did not think so highly of the portrayals of Deanna Troi and Natasha Yar. Altman summed up his opinion of the episode by commenting, "The pilot may do little more than get the franchise back on its feet, but that's really all it had to do and it does it competently." In conclusion, Gross referred to the episode as "an enjoyable first effort with spectacular effects." Elsewhere, Altman regarded this installment as one of a few "really sub-par" episodes in the early run of TNG. (Trek: Deepspace Nine, p. 73) In their reference book Beyond the Final Frontier (pp. 76 & 78), writers Mark Jones and Lance Parkin described "Encounter at Farpoint" as "an episode with a lot to introduce" and remarked it was "at pains to make clear" that, over the past hundred years since TOS, the Star Trek universe had evolved. The writers went on to comment, "The Farpoint plot is fairly light and unsatisfactory, but the Q stuff is more promising. Nowadays, the episode doesn't feel like The Next Generation at all and seems very slow. It's an OK start, not a brilliant one." The book Star Trek 101 (p. 72), by Terry J. Erdmann and Paula M. Block, lists this episode as one of the "Ten Essential Episodes" from Star Trek: The Next Generation. In magazine (issue 326, p. 26), critic Helen O'Hara referred to this episode as "far from a classic." In his TNG rewatch, Keith R.A. DeCandido commented, "This two-hour premiere is bogged down a bit by a languid pace, way too much exposition, and a plot that isn't actually all that interesting. The acting from many of the regulars is stiff. The episode also spends a whole lot of time distancing itself from its predecessor [....] For all that, there are acknowledgments to the past [....] Where this pilot does work, though, is in the non-stiff performances. Patrick Stewart has a tremendous gravitas in the role of Jean-Luc Picard. You never doubt for a moment that he's in charge, and that he's twelve steps ahead of everyone else – even the omnipotent guy. Speaking of whom, John de Lancie is a revelation, as the screen lights up when he's on it (and drags to a halt when he isn't). And Brent Spiner is delightful as the android Data. Plus, there's a guy walking around the corridors of the Enterprise in a minidress. Whole episode's worth it for that. It set up what was to come, but isn't a lot of fun to watch, especially when you know the show's going to do better." Ultimately, DeCandido rated the episode a score of four out of ten. Aftermath After completing his work on this episode, Edward K. Milkis left the series. (Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Continuing Mission, p. 55) Conversely, the first airing of this episode marked the start of Rick Berman's long association with Star Trek. "It was the beginning of a journey of exploration… for Picard and his crew, and also for me," Berman mused. "My life was about to change in remarkable ways. I would soon undertake a progression of steps… a process of learning about Star Trek, but, more important, a process of learning how to open my mind and my imagination to the limitless possibilities of Gene Roddenberry's vision." (Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Continuing Mission, p. XI) After their collaboration on this episode, Robert Justman didn't find out what the problem had been in the interpersonal relations between D.C. Fontana and Gene Roddenberry but reckoned that it may have been because Fontana "didn't like being rewritten, on 'Farpoint'." When it seemed to Gene Roddenberry as though David Gerrold was about to file a lawsuit against him for not acknowledging Gerrold's role in creating TNG, Leonard Maizlish asked D.C. Fontana what sources she'd used when writing the pilot episode, to which Fontana remembered she'd been supplied with, firstly, a writers' guide and, secondly, memos which had addressed subjects that had not yet been featured in the writers' guide. (Gene Roddenberry: The Myth and the Man Behind Star Trek, paperback ed., pp. 239-240) Not long after the making of this episode, Gene Roddenberry and John de Lancie had a discussion in which Roddenberry gave the actor a memorable piece of advice. "[He] said I had no idea what I was getting into," de Lancie related. "I say those words with a sense of pride and a bit of glee in the same way he said them to me, but of course, I had no idea at the time." (The Fifty-Year Mission: The Next 25 Years, pp. 106-107) Although filming in a pit lower than other sets would usually be prohibitively expensive for a one-camera TV series, the fact that a pit (in Paramount Stage 16) was dug for this episode meant it could be reused multiple times as the series progressed. () Michael Piller was so fond of how this episode's narrative belatedly introduces Riker, Doctor Crusher, and La Forge that, when writing s pilot episode , he chose to introduce Jadzia Dax and Julian Bashir relatively late in that episode in a similar way. He commented, "One of the tricks I learned from watching 'Encounter at Farpoint' again was that they didn't introduce Riker and Geordi and Crusher until two or three acts in." (Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages, p. 19) In fact, according to Mark A. Altman, there were many aspects of this episode that the DS9 creative personnel learned from upon designing that series, Altman citing such qualities as "things to do, things not to do, certainly in terms of money and production value." (Trek: Deepspace Nine, p. 66) Furthermore, Rick Berman credited his experience with working on this episode as key to helping launch Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. (Cinefantastique, Vol. 23, No. 6, p. 22) Continuity This episode is the first mention of the Ferengi Alliance on Star Trek. It is hinted at being a non-benevolent enemy of the Federation, and the Ferengi were intended to be the new villains for the TNG crew, because peace had been made with the Klingons. This idea was eventually abandoned, however, after the Ferengi made their first appearance and were not taken seriously by the actors and later writers. (Quark's Story, DS9 Season 2 DVD special feature) Picard can be heard using the phrase, "Now hear this," repeatedly in the first part of the episode, preceding his orders to the entire ship's company. This is a fairly standard military protocol that is audible again in and . While the wording of Picard's initial captain's log could imply that Starfleet had selected Riker for the position of first officer, later clarified that Picard had personally chosen Riker for the position. During Picard and Riker's formal first meeting on board the Enterprise-D, Riker mentions that Picard previously served as a first officer himself. However, no mention of Picard serving in this position is ever made again; it is indicated in that Picard taking command of the after its captain was killed was considered a risky move, while this would be the natural course of action for a starship's first officer. It is possible that the incident cited led to Picard's promotion to first officer, with him being given command at some later time. In this episode, Data states that he graduated from Starfleet Academy in the "Class of '78", which, given TNG's establishment in the 24th century, could be either "2278" (meaning Data would have been in Starfleet for twenty-three years at the beginning of the 24th century) or "2378". However, this contradicts the dating that has since been established for TNG – Data himself specifically states in that the Earth year at that time was 2364. In addition, other episodes established that Data was not built until 2336 and that he graduated from the Academy in 2345. Also, Data uses a couple of verbal contractions in this episode ("We're right next to it," in reference to the holodeck wall, and, "I can't see as well as Geordi, sir…"), something which is established later in the series as being beyond his abilities. This is the only time in TNG and subsequent series that an additional captain's log entry is referred to as "supplementary", rather than the usual "supplemental". The final scene of this episode is the only time Tasha Yar appears wearing the skirt style uniform. This episode marks the last time that Counselor Troi is seen in a regular Starfleet uniform until with the exception of , although in the latter case, Troi – as well as the entire events of that episode – turn out to be an illusion. When we first meet Doctor Crusher at the Farpoint Mall, she can be seen wearing the rank insignia of lieutenant commander. In her next scene aboard the Enterprise, this is changed to the rank insignia of full commander. This was likely a costuming error; furthermore, it was later established that Crusher had taken the Bridge Officer's Test a couple of years before joining the Enterprise to earn her promotion to Commander (). Until Troi becomes a full Commander in Season 7, Crusher and Riker are the only "three pips" seen as part of the crew, not counting imposters or Katherine Pulaski, who replaced Crusher for season 2. Riker calls Troi "Lieutenant", while she is wearing the rank insignia of a Lieutenant Commander, which remains her rank until her promotion in season 7. The proper abbreviation for Lieutenant Commander is simply "Commander", as seen for Data and later Geordi La Forge and Worf and indeed other Lieutenant Commander's throughout the franchise. It is very unlikely to be a character error since an experienced Starfleet officer like Riker would be aware of this convention. However, it is possible that Troi's promotion is recent, and this is the first time Riker has seen her since it happened, and he called her by her previous rank out of habit. Crusher tells Riker that her interests "lie outside the command structure" in this episode. Based on the fact that, later in the series, when Crusher is left in command of the Enterprise and is also depicted commanding the night shift in and , her interests may have changed. This episode marks the first time that a saucer separation is ever depicted on screen. While the Enterprise-D separated three more times (at least on screen, specifically in the TNG episodes , , and the film ), "Encounter at Farpoint" is the only time the reconnection process is ever shown in Star Trek. At the time of filming the pilot, the maneuver was intended to be a regular feature of the series. However, the producers soon found the costs for visual effects and rebuilding the battle bridge set too expensive. It was also felt that it slowed down storytelling. () Apparently at some point during this mission, Geordi La Forge told Data a joke, which the humorless android did not "get" until years later, when he activated his emotion chip during the events of Star Trek Generations. Picard describes the facsimile 2079 court created by Q as "one that agreed with that line from Shakespeare: 'Kill all the lawyers." This is a line from Shakespeare's play Henry VI, Part II. When Riker is walking to the holodeck to find Data, the Computer directs him that it is "the next hatchway on your right". However, based on the direction Riker was walking, the door was actually to his left. The line may have been based on stage directions, as Riker turns around before facing the door to enter. When Riker, Data, and Wesley leave the holodeck, Wesley is soaked in water, which drips on the floor, and he tells Captain Picard he'll get something to clean it up. However, as later established, the water should not have been able to leave the holodeck. This is the first of several times when incidental matter like water or ice leaves the holodeck despite it being established this isn't possible, at least not beyond a few moments. The 2360s combadges are first seen in this episode and continued to be used up to the episode . Troi's statement, "I'm only half-Betazoid. My father was a Starfleet officer," could be interpreted that no other Betazoid had ever served in Starfleet who could have been her father. mentioned a high ranking full Betazoid Starfleet officer by the 2320s, though. The courtroom is supposedly set in 2079, while first contact with the Vulcans, which is regarded as the turning point which leads to a peaceful, civilized Earth, happened in 2063. This suggests that the societal changes that followed took at least sixteen years to get underway. This may help explain Vulcans' attitudes towards Humans in 2153, and T'Pol's skepticism that the progress Humanity had made would last; they would have observed a substantial period of brutality of the kind seen in the courtroom scene before Earth cleaned up its act. This episode is the only time that "Startime", a subdivision of Stardate, is mentioned in the series. The episode establishes that when Picard said, "Let's see what's out there" at the end of this episode, he was quoting something his mother used to say to him as a boy, when looking up at the stars. Apocrypha When Groppler Zorn threatens to give access to Farpoint Station to the Ferengi Alliance, Picard remarks that he hopes the Ferengi find Zorn as tasty as they did their past associates. The The Buried Age establishes that the Ferengi's early reputation as a dangerous race was merely propaganda established by Grand Nagus Zek because the Ferengi, after hearing early reports about the Federation and their moneyless economy, decided that the Federation might well be insane if they truly did not seek profit. Zek also threw funding into a large military buildup in order to preserve their appearance as a dangerous race and in order to defend themselves against the Federation, should it prove necessary. The novel Provenance of Shadows establishes that, immediately after telling Data, "You treat her like a lady and she'll always bring you home," McCoy thought to himself, "Except that wasn't so true for Jim, was it?" referring to Kirk's presumed death aboard the . Provenance of Shadows also establishes that McCoy's tour of the Enterprise was a birthday present arranged for him by his wife, Tonia Barrows. This seems to somewhat clash with the episode's script, as Worf tells Riker that McCoy was onboard to conduct all-day inspections of the ship's medical facilities. indicates that the manual docking performed by Riker and the battle bridge crew isn't a true manual docking, as there is still significant computer control involved. According to the novel, a real manual docking would have taken all day and half the night to accomplish. The novel also indicates that Riker had performed manual dockings as such, on the Hood and, before that, on the Lexington. The novelization also indicates that Picard, if Riker had given any indication that he might actually back off from his position of not compromising Picard's safety, would have booted Riker immediately off the Enterprise and right back to the Hood but that he was very impressed with what Riker had to say. Remastered version The remastered version of this episode greatly increased the quality of the shots, though one shot used in the composite "recap" sequence seems to have not been upgraded. The increase in quality incidentally corrected colors that had "smudged" together at the lower resolution. The most notable differences because of this are in shots of Farpoint Station and the Old Bandi City, where the "brown smudges" have become green trees and individual buildings, respectively. The windows on the Enterprise-D are also now clearly distinguishable from each other, and the planet has also benefited from the upgrade, as an atmosphere can now be seen between the planet and open space. Also, the location of the phaser energy beam was corrected to come from the phaser array instead of the captain's yacht. The shot also included a CGI version of the Enterprise-D, based on the original six foot model. The attacking space vessel lifeform encountered by the Enterprise-D is also now clearly a shade of pink when compared to the blue one that was Farpoint Station. Related merchandise Mission report, by Robert Greenberger, in : Soundtrack: Releases UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 1, catalog number VHR 2261, US LaserDisc: As part of the UK VHS release Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Full Length TV Movies: Volume 1, catalog number VHR 4101, US VHS 1st release: Japan LaserDisc: As part of the UK VHS collection Star Trek - 30th Anniversary Trial Pack: US VHS 2nd release: UK LaserDisc: Germany LaserDisc: UK re-release (three-episode tapes, Paramount Home Entertainment): Volume 1.1, catalog number VHR 4642, As part of the US VHS collection Star Trek: The Next Generation - Q Continuum: As part of the TNG Season 1 DVD collection As part of the Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Complete TV Movies collection As part of the Star Trek: Fan Collective - Q collection As part of the Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Next Level Blu-Ray collection As part of the TNG Season 1 Blu-ray collection Links and references Starring Patrick Stewart as Captain Jean-Luc Picard Jonathan Frakes as Commander William T. Riker Also starring LeVar Burton as Lt. Geordi La Forge Denise Crosby as Lt. Tasha Yar Michael Dorn as Lt. Worf Gates McFadden as Doctor Beverly Crusher Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi Brent Spiner as Lt. Commander Data Wil Wheaton as Wesley Crusher Guest stars John de Lancie as Q Michael Bell as Zorn Special guest appearance by DeForest Kelley as Admiral Leonard McCoy Featuring Colm Meaney as Battle Bridge Conn Cary-Hiroyuki as Mandarin Bailiff Timothy Dang as Main Bridge Security David Erskine as Bandi Shopkeeper Evelyn Guerrero as Young Female Ensign Chuck Hicks as Military Officer Jimmy Ortega as Torres Uncredited co-stars Marti Avila as operations lieutenant jg Michael Bailous as operations officer James G. Becker as Youngblood Robert Vernon Biggs as post-atomic trial spectator Darrell Burris as operations officer Steve Casavant as Longo Post-atomic trial spectator Dexter Clay as operations officer Jeffrey Deacon as command officer Susan Duchow as operations officer Roy Fussell as 21st century soldier Kelly Gallant as post-atomic trial spectator Joe Gieb as post-atomic horror bell ringer John Johnson as 21st century soldier Nora Leonhardt as sciences ensign David B. Levinson as post-atomic trial spectator Daryl F. Mallett as person in marketplace Tim McCormack as Lorine Mendell as Diana Giddings Larry Polson as post-atomic trial spectator Andrew Probert as post-atomic trial spectator Larry Robb as Bandi citizen Angelo Rossitto as post-atomic trial spectator Richard Sarstedt as command officer Marty Valinsky as 21st century soldier Unknown performers as Bandi Enterprise-D civilians Enterprise-D sciences crewmembers Enterprise-D operations crewmembers Enterprise-D transporter officer (voice) Command crewmember Command lieutenant jg Command officer Command officer Female command crewmember Female command officer Female medical officer Female medical technician Female sciences officer Female computer voice Operations officer Sciences lieutenant Security officer (voice) Post-atomic horror trial spectators Vulcan boy Vulcan sciences ensign Stunt doubles Bob Brown as stunt double for Brent Spiner William Perry as stunt double for Wil Wheaton Unknown stunt performers as Stunt double for Michael Bell Stunt double for Denise Crosby Stand-ins James G. Becker – stand-in for Jonathan Frakes Darrell Burris – stand-in for LeVar Burton Dexter Clay – stand-in for Michael Dorn Jeffrey Deacon – stand-in for Patrick Stewart Susan Duchow – stand-in for Denise Crosby Nora Leonhardt – stand-in for Marina Sirtis Tim McCormack – stand-in for Brent Spiner Lorine Mendell – stand-in for Gates McFadden Richard Sarstedt – stand-in for John de Lancie Guy Vardaman – stand-in for Wil Wheaton References 16th century; 2036; 2079; 20th century; 21st century; 2227; 2364; ability; accusation; adjournment; ; administrator; admiral; adult; advice; aft; age; agreement; alertness; alien; alliance; ally; Altair III; amusement; android; anger; annoyance; answer; apology; applause; apple; aquarium; architect; argument; armament control; armory control; army; arrival; Asian; assault; assignment; associate; "at ease"; atom; attention; automation; automatic weapon; away team; back-up conn panel; back-up ops panel; bailiff; baldric; banana; Bandi; barbarian; bargain; ; 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printout; prisoner; prisoner's dock; probability mechanics; probation; progress; projection; promise; proof; Propulsion Systems station; prosecutor; puzzle; ; Q Continuum; quarrel; quarters; question; quote; race; radio wave; rank; readout; ready room; reason; record; recreation; red line; reply; ; result; reverse power; risk; roll angle; room; rule; "run-of-the-mill"; safety; safety limit; safety precaution; saucer section; saucer separation; savage; sciences division; sculpture; secondary hull; secret; security chief; security team; self-righteous; senor; sensor scan; sensor signal; sentence; service record; ; shields; shield control; ship's company; ship's log; shop; shopkeeper; shopping; sickbay; sign; signal; silence; simulation; size; skant; smile; snoop; soldier; soil; Sol system; son; sound; space; space station; space vessel lifeform (unnamed 1, unnamed 2); spaceship; spectator; species; spoon; SS 433; stairs; "stand by"; standard parking orbit; standing order; stairs; starbase; 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viewport; viewscreen; viewscreen control; VISOR; voice; ; Vulcan; walkway; wall; warp; warp core; warp speed; water; weapon; weight; whistling; window; woodland pattern; word; World War III; year; yellow alert Dedication plaque references USS Enterprise dedication plaque: Chief of Staff; Design Engineer; Federation Space Systems; Mars; A.G. Probert; ; Utopia Planitia Fleet Yards Other references (script, deleted) 2324; 2348; Altair IV; "Beat to Quarters"; belt; bugle call; Bill; burrhog; capitalism; coffee; Cygnus IV; design tremor; dictatorial government; distance; docking crew; docking speed; Dreyer; duraglass; emerald green; evaporation; exit door; foyer; glass; ; ; intelligence; knowledge; memory; microphone; mouth; personality; pill; ; Security and Weapons Officer; skill; spaceport; spider web; steel; stretcher; vapor; visitor; Weapons Station External links cs:Encounter at Farpoint de:Der Mächtige es:Encounter at Farpoint fr:Encounter at Farpoint (épisode) it:Incontro a Farpoint (episodio) ja:TNG:未知への飛翔 nl:Encounter at Farpoint pl:Encounter at Farpoint pt:Encounter at Farpoint ru:Встреча в дальней точке (эпизод) sv:Encounter at Farpoint TNG episodes

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Whom Gods Destroy (episode)

Kirk and Spock are held captive in an insane asylum by a former Starfleet hero. Summary Teaser Kirk and Spock beam down to the Elba II asylum with a revolutionary new medicine to treat the inmates' mental disorders. They are met in the asylum control center by Dr. Cory, the governor of the penal colony. He explains that in order to maintain security they are under a transport shield, and so he laughingly won't take "no" for an answer on his invitation to Kirk and Spock to dinner. He also explains that the colony has just increased the number of 14 inmates by one, and that new inmate is Garth of Izar. Kirk mentions that Garth was a legendary Fleet Captain before going insane, and that his exploits were required reading for cadets at the Academy. Kirk asks to see Garth, so Dr. Cory leads Kirk and Spock to his holding cell, only to discover the actual Dr. Cory restrained and looking roughed-up. At this point, the man who had appeared as Dr. Cory reveals himself to be Garth and electronically opens the remaining holding cells, releasing the inmates of Elba II, including a Tellarite, an Andorian and a beautiful, young, Orion woman. Act One After Spock is stunned by Garth with a phaser and dragged away by the Andorian and Tellarite, Kirk is placed into the holding cell with the real Dr. Cory. Garth demands to be called "Lord Garth" and talks about destroying his enemies. Destroying the medicine, he is intent on taking command of the , seeking vengeance against his former crewmembers, planning to hunt them all down. He instantly morphs into Kirk in front of the real Kirk and goes to the control room. When he leaves, Dr. Cory explains that Garth had learned how to morph his cellular structure from the Antos natives on Antos IV to look like other people, unfortunately only after he had escaped his cell. Dr. Cory also says, "He claims to have developed the most powerful explosive in history and I believe him." Scott, who is in command of the Enterprise, asks "Kirk" for the transport code sign: "Queen to Queen's level three," but Garth/Kirk is unable to respond with the correct countersign. Finally understanding, Garth/Kirk tells Scott that it was just a test and signs out. Fortunately, Scott is suspicious, and considers options to investigate. Garth/Kirk becomes enraged over almost succeeding to escape the planet, causing him to revert to his true form. Standing silently after his rant, Garth tells the Andorian and the Tellarite that they will take over the Enterprise even if he has to "shatter every bone in Captain Kirk's body." Act Two Realizing that he can't board the Enterprise without the countersign, Garth returns to Dr. Cory's cell and renews his dinner invitation for Kirk and Spock but states that Governor Cory is not on the guest list, an intentional oversight, as Garth puts it. They all proceed to an elaborate feast with the inmates providing the entertainment, including a seductive dance by Marta, the Orion inmate seen earlier. Kirk and Spock whisper to each other the idea of causing some sort of distraction which would allow Spock to get to the control room and de-activate the shield. Kirk surmises that Scott has already put together a security detail on the Enterprise and all they need is a few seconds. Garth silences them and asks that they instead pay attention to Marta's recitation of her "poetry", which is actually by Shakespeare and Housman. After the feast, Kirk and Spock talk with Garth about his record including the battle of Axanar as well as his attempt to destroy the inhabitants of Antos IV. He clearly had gone insane over some rejection and his crew mutinied to prevent his actions. Spock tries to reason with him, only to be carried away. Garth then brings in a rehabilitation chair which he has modified to cause pain. He places Governor Cory in the chair and tortures him for a short while, demanding that Kirk provide him with the countersign. Kirk still refuses to give in, then Garth places him in the chair for some torture as well. Marta begs that Garth cease the torture on Kirk, but Garth continues. Act Three Marta again protests the torture, saying she can convince him, and Garth agrees. Kirk is placed in a separate room where Marta pours him a drink and goes over to him. She begins to seduce him on his bed. While they kiss, she suddenly reaches for a dagger under a pillow and tries to stab Kirk, who manages to fight her off. Spock arrives with a phaser and Marta explains that Kirk is "her lover and she must kill him." Spock prevents her from doing so, apparently by administering a Vulcan nerve pinch. Spock and Kirk proceed to the control room, which is guarded by the Tellarite inmate. Spock stuns the Tellarite and retrieves Kirk's phaser from him. Once inside the control room, they contact the Enterprise and lower the planetary force field. Spock attempts to get Kirk to give the countersign to Scott. Kirk suspects a trick and demands that Spock give the countersign himself. He steps back and draws his phaser instead. Overhearing the commotion between Kirk and Spock, Scotty prepares to beam the security detail down to intervene. At this point, "Spock" morphs back into Garth and energizes the force field again. Kirk's phaser, not surprisingly, is uncharged. Kirk now tries to appeal to Garth's better impulses, asking him to remember the man he was "before the accident." Kirk wants Garth to be the sort of man he was before he went mad, the sort of man that Kirk and so many others admired. Garth is nearly persuaded, until he wavers and shouts, "I am Lord Garth! You doubt me only because I have not as yet had my coronation." Unsuccessful, Kirk rushes for the shield controls. Garth, however, stuns him before he can reach them. Act Four When Kirk awakens, Garth is trying yet another tactic: he has arranged an elaborate coronation ceremony for himself, also naming Marta as his consort, giving her a necklace, and names Kirk as his heir apparent, perhaps as an appeal to Kirk's vanity. When the ceremony is over, however, Kirk is not returned to his cell, but brought to the asylum control center. There, as a show of power, Garth displays the explosive Dr. Cory had alluded to earlier that has enough power to destroy an entire planet and explains that he has put a very small portion of it in Marta's necklace. Through the window in the control room, Kirk is forced to watch Marta choke in the poisonous atmosphere of the planet, brought out in the open by inmates in environmental suits. With no real motivation or remorse behind his actions, Garth is clearly and completely insane. Garth kills Marta by triggering a massive explosion. The explosion registers above the planet. Scott and McCoy on the Enterprise change their orbit to focus their phaser banks on weak areas of the force field, to no avail. Meanwhile, Garth has decided he may get further in his quest for the code with Spock, since he is "a very logical man." He sends the Tellarite and Andorian inmates to retrieve him from his holding cell. Spock feigns unconsciousness when the inmates approach. They de-activate the cell force field and carry him out, each with one arm around their neck. After a few steps, Spock jumps to his feet and incapacitates them both with a double Vulcan nerve pinch. An alarm sounds in the control room. Garth turns on a security monitor and sees Spock with a phaser walking alone in the corridors and making his way toward the control room. Spock enters the control room and finds two Captain Kirks. Obviously, one of them is Garth in Kirk's form once again. Spock asks for the countersign to "Queen to Queen's Level Three", but one of the Kirks refuses to answer, claiming that's exactly what Garth wants to know while the other Kirk rebuffs the claim, saying it's what he was going to say. Spock arranges for a security team from the Enterprise to be beamed down, but one of the Kirks objects, saying they may beam into a trap, while the other one agrees. Spock asks the two Kirks what maneuver the Enterprise recently used to defeat a Romulan vessel near Tau Ceti. One of the Kirks answers with the Cochrane deceleration maneuver, but the other Kirk states that every starship captain would know such a classic battle strategy, to which Spock agrees. Spock decides that whoever is Garth must be expending a great deal of energy to assume the appearance of Captain Kirk, which cannot be maintained indefinitely. He intends to wait Garth out and begins to pull up a chair. However, Garth, still disguised as Kirk, attacks Spock. The two Kirks begin to struggle, with one of them gaining the upper hand on the other. This Kirk prepares to clobber the other Kirk with the chair and demands that Spock realize that he is his captain and shoot the other. The other Kirk agrees that Spock must indeed shoot, but he must shoot both of them, as it is the only way to ultimately guarantee the safety of the Enterprise. This is all the evidence Spock needs; he shoots the Kirk holding the chair, who crumples to the floor and resumes his true form of Garth. Deactivating the force field, Spock signals the Enterprise and gives the proper countersign: "Queen to King's level one." Dr. McCoy has beamed down to the asylum with Lieutenant Brent to administer newly synthesized doses of the medicine to the inmates. Dr. Cory places Garth in the rehabilitation chair (the non-painful version) and returns him to a sedated state. As he is being moved from the chair to his cell, he notices Kirk and very calmly asks if they know each other. Kirk tells him that they do not, and Garth is led away. Kirk asks Spock why it was so impossible for him to determine who the real Kirk was earlier. Spock tells his captain the interval of uncertainty was actually fairly brief; it only seemed long for him. Kirk notes that Spock let himself be hit on the head by Garth to make his determination, a method he does not think that King Solomon would have approved of. Log entries Captain's log, USS Enterprise (NCC-1701), 2268 Memorable quotes "How can we be powerful enough to wipe out a planet and still be so helpless?" - McCoy, to Scott "We are going to take the Enterprise. Do you hear me? We are going to take her if I have to shatter every bone in Captain Kirk's body." - Garth, to his followers "Why can't I blow off just one of his ears?" - Marta to Garth, on Spock "I may have you beaten to death." "No, you won't, because I am the most beautiful woman on this planet." "You're the only woman on this planet, you stupid cow!" - Garth and Marta, as she accuses him of jealousy "You wrote that?" "Yesterday, as a matter of fact." "It was written by an Earth man named Shakespeare a long time ago!" "Which does not alter the fact that I wrote it again yesterday!" - Garth and Marta, after she recites Sonnet XVIII "What is your reaction, Mr. Spock?" "Well, I find it, uh, mildly interesting and somewhat nostalgic, if I understand the use of that word." "Nostalgic?" "Yes. It is somewhat reminiscent of the dances that Vulcan children do in nursery school. Of course, the children are not so… well-coordinated." - Garth and Spock, during Marta's dance "Gentlemen, you have eyes, but you cannot see. Galaxies surround us. Limitless vistas. And yet the Federation would have us grub away like some ants on some… somewhat larger than usual anthill. But I am not an insect. I am master of the universe, and I must claim my domain." - Garth, asking Kirk and Spock to join him "They were humanitarians and statesmen. And they had a dream. A dream that became a reality and spread throughout the stars. A dream that made Mr. Spock and me brothers." - Kirk, on Starfleet's peace missions "On your knees before me!! All the others before me have failed! Alexander, Caesar, Napoleon, Hitler, Lee Kuan, Krotus! All of them are dust! But I will triumph! I will make the ultimate conquest!" - Garth, to James T. Kirk, before stunning him with a phaser "In the midnight of November, when the dead man's fair is nigh. And the danger in the valley, and the anger in the sky." - Marta "He's my lover and I have to kill him." - Marta to Spock, after she tries to attack Kirk "Captain Garth, starship fleet captain. That's an honorable title." - Kirk, appealing to Garth "Captain Kirk, I presume." - Spock, after stunning Garth "Queen to queen's level three." "Queen to king's level one." - Scott and Spock, giving the sign and countersign "Letting yourself be hit on the head, and I presume you let yourself be hit on the head, is not exactly a method King Solomon would have approved." - Kirk, on Spock's solution in finding out who was the real Kirk "Should I know you, sir?"" "No…Captain." - A newly cured Garth's inquiry to Kirk, having no recollection of his recent actions. Background information Story and Script The title is based on an anonymous Greek proverb often wrongly attributed to Euripides, and quoted by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in The Masque of Pandora: "Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad." The story outline was produced . In the first draft script () Garth of Titan threw the asylum guards out into the poisonous atmosphere. The conditions inside the asylum were also more graphic, with inmates displaying symptoms of various mental illnesses. Produced mid-October 1968. The plot of inmates taking over the asylum and impersonating the warden closely resembles , right down to the "agony chair" prop which is reused from that episode. In his memoir I Am Not Spock, Leonard Nimoy shares a memo that he wrote to the producers to complain about the similarities. According to an interview published in Star Trek Lives by Sondra Marshak and Joan Winston, Nimoy also complained at some length about discrepancies in the script, including but not limited to inconsistencies in his own character. He blamed the director for making changes in the script to focus on "action" rather than on intelligent problem-solving, and felt the changes were a form of lying to the audience. He also complained about Spock not being able to tell the difference between the real Kirk from the impostor. Nimoy sent the memo to both producer Fred Freiberger and Paramount Television executive in charge of production, Douglas S. Cramer. Kirk tells Spock that he doubts King Solomon would have approved of the Vulcan's manner of determining who was Kirk and who was Garth. The two of them, and Dr. McCoy, would meet Solomon (an immortal Human who was born Akharin and was then living as Flint) not long afterward in . Similarly, Garth had earlier referred to Alexander the Great, another of Flint's assumed identities. Kirk refers to Spock as his "brother" and Spock agrees with this figurative interpretation of their relationship. Kirk would refer to Spock as his "brother" again in . Spock's sentence "Captain Kirk, I presume?" is an allusion to the famous question asked by explorer Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904) to David Livingstone (1813-1873) on the shores of Lake Tanganyika on November 10, 1871: "Doctor Livingstone, I presume?". The question was later alluded to in the title of the episode . Despite the apparent success of the drug in this episode being able to cure the mental illness of Garth and the other inmates, it seems never to have been employed again. In future episodes of TOS, the Enterprise crew encounters characters who are pronounced insane (such as Dr. Sevrin from ; Lenore Karidian from and Janice Lester from ), but no mention is made of using the drug introduced in this episode to cure them. (It could be, however, that this drug was only successful in the treatment of criminal/homicidal insanity and not all mental illness generally.) There is no need for Spock to watch Garth and Kirk fight in order to determine who the real Captain Kirk is as he can stun both men non-fatally and reveal the impostor. This is obvious later as Garth sits unharmed in the chair receiving the insanity cure. In his interview in Star Trek Lives, Leonard Nimoy said the original script called for Spock to ask a series of questions and determine from the men's answers which is the real captain. When Kirk makes a remark about the safety of the Enterprise being more important than his own life he establishes his own identity. (This is the version of the story used by James Blish.) According to the Star Trek Lives interview with Nimoy, this is what the director threw out in favor of more "action". Although the Elba II asylum is mentioned in this episode as being the last of its kind, mental asylums are mentioned as being maintained in future incarnations of Star Trek, such as the "Federation Funny Farm" from and the episode , though the former may simply be an unofficial nickname for the Elba II asylum. Unless, Captain Kirk's claim that Elba II was the only treatment facility for "the few remaining incorrigible, criminally insane of the galaxy" is meant to differentiate criminally or homicidally insane individuals and those individuals suffering from mental illness or insanity of a type without criminal or homicidal tendencies. In such a case, there may be many other institutions throughout the Federation to treat mental illness without there being another, beyond Elba II, for the treatment of the criminally insane. Elba II derives its name from the Earth island of Elba where Napoléon I was exiled to following his forced abdication. This notion is reinforced by the further dictatorial similarities between Garth and Napoléon, as well as the scriptwriters including the French emperor among the names of those failed leaders whom Garth references. After already having claimed to have written a poem that is really by Shakespeare, Marta later recites another poem she claims to have written. It it is not original either: they are from Last Poems XIX, by . The exact fragment is "In the midnight of November, when the dead man's fair is nigh. And the danger in the valley, and the anger in the sky." Cast In the episode, Garth is stated to have already been a famous Starfleet Captain when James Kirk was at Starfleet Academy, and was known as the "Hero of Axanar" which was a battle established to have taken place sometime in the mid 2250s, approximately 15 years prior to the episode. The script notes also called for Garth to be an "aged starship captain in his late 40s or mid 50s," thus implying that Garth is perhaps fifteen to twenty years older than Kirk. Actor Steve Ihnat was in fact three years younger than William Shatner and wore silver hair coloring on his temples to make himself appear older. (Star Trek Compendium (3rd edition); ) This is the second consecutive episode to guest star an actor from the Batman TV series – namely, Yvonne Craig, and the third in a row to feature an actor connected to Batman, as Lee Meriwether (Losira in ) played the Catwoman in the 1966 feature film. Previously, Frank Gorshin who played the Riddler played Commissioner Bele in . Walter Koenig (Pavel Chekov) does not appear in this episode. According to James Doohan, Yvonne Craig was considered for the role of Vina in (mostly because of her exceptional dancing skills). Steve Ihnat worked with Gene Roddenberry (and DeForest Kelley) in his failed pilot Police Story, which led to the former being cast as Garth. Costumes Garth's uniform appears to be the same one worn by Commissioner Ferris in . It also appeared in the second season episodes and , worn by background extras. However, Garth wears the outfit with one silver boot and one gold boot. Garth's furred robe is the same one worn by Anton Karidian in . The dress Marta wears in the Teaser was originally worn by an Tantalus Colony inmate played by Jeannie Malone in . While the Andorian inmate is wearing an almost boa-like red costume, one of the Human inmates is wearing the traditional Andorian costume seen in the second season (and which can be seen again on an Andorian corpse in ). The environmental suits are reused from . The treatment smock worn by Dr. Cory has the same insignia as the one worn by Adams in . Garth's uniform includes a medallion from which three beads are hanging. In the scene where he is shouting and punching the floor, right after shifting from Kirk's form, one bead can be seen falling and spinning next to him, and when he stands up, his medallion has only two beads. In later scenes the beads are restored back to three. Production This was the first episode produced without co-producer Robert Justman, who had been with the series, in different capacities, since the production of in 1964. He left the series to work on other projects, specifically the series Then Came Bronson. According to the book Inside Star Trek: The Real Story, Justman broke his contract with Paramount Television, and didn't set foot on the lot for almost twenty years (when he began working on ). Footage of the firing phasers down to the surface of a planet is reused from . Garth's torture chair is a reuse of the chair in the neural neutralizer room from , except this time with the addition of earpieces mounted on either side. The bridge scenes were directed by Jud Taylor, who finished filming running a day over, at midday on Monday , and jumped into directing this episode in the remainder of that day. Herb Wallerstein took over the next day, Tuesday . (These Are the Voyages: TOS Season Three) The music accompanying Marta's dance (titled "Arab Hootch Dance") was composed by Alexander Courage, and was recorded during the sessions, on . (Star Trek: The Original Series Soundtrack Collection liner notes) During the syndication run of Star Trek, no syndication cuts were made to this episode. Other Information This is the only episode where Spock performs a simultaneous double Vulcan nerve pinch on two distinct alien species. In this episode a Human, Garth, performs a Vulcan nerve pinch while impersonating Spock, although it is possible that Marta is playing along with the deception. This is also one of four episodes where Leonard Nimoy plays a character other than Spock, the others being: , , and ". In the United Kingdom, the BBC skipped this episode in all runs of the series through to the early 1990s, due to its content. An official BBC statement by Sheila Cundy of the Programme Correspondence Section reads: "After very careful consideration a top level decision was made not to screen the episodes entitled "Empath" [sic], "Whom The Gods Destroy" [sic], "" and "" [actually transmitted in 1970, but not re-aired until the '90s], because they all dealt most unpleasantly with the already unpleasant subjects of madness, torture, sadism and disease" (BBC form letter, undated, Reference 28/SPC). "Whom Gods Destroy" was finally shown for the first time on . The UK satellite channel Sky had already acquired the rights to show the banned episodes before the BBC did. Contrary to popular belief, the Tellarites in TOS always had three fingers, even in this episode. The fingers are sleeker in appearance than they were in Season Two. would be the only time we see a Tellarite with five fingers in TOS. This was the last appearance of the Orions in a live action episode or movie until in . However, Orions also appeared in the episode . In , Kirk and McCoy must escape a penal facility that is surrounded by a force field. Their escape is ultimately facilitated by a shapeshifter named Martia, who impersonates Kirk. Production Timeline Story outline by Lee Erwin, Revised story outline, First draft teleplay, Second draft teleplay, Revised second draft teleplay, Additional page revisions, Final draft teleplay by Arthur Singer, Additional page revisions by Fred Freiberger, , , , , Filmed, – Day 1 – , Monday (Half Day) – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Bridge (directed by Jud Taylor) Day 2 – , Tuesday – Desilu Stage 10: Int. Elba control room with view to Ext. Elba II surface Day 3 – , Wednesday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Elba control room, Elba corridors Day 4 – , Thursday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Elba control room; Desilu Stage 10: Int. Elba corridors, Security cells Day 5 – , Friday – Desilu Stage 10: Int. Security cells, Dining room Day 6 – , Monday – Desilu Stage 10: Int. Dining room Day 7 – , Tuesday – Desilu Stage 10: Int. Dining room, Security cells, Elba corridors Day 8 – , Wednesday (Half Day) – Desilu Stage 10: Int. Kirk's guest quarters Original airdate, First UK airdate Video and DVD releases UK VHS release (CIC Video): catalog number VHR 2084, Released with , the volume was originally unrated, as it was released prior to the . After , it received a rating of PG. Because of the BBC's decision to omit this episode from its initial runs, this release was the first time that UK viewers could see it. Original US Betamax release: UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 37, catalog number VHR 2433, US VHS release: UK re-release (three-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 3.6, Original US DVD release (single-disc): Volume 36, As part of the TOS Season 3 DVD collection As part of the TOS-R Season 3 DVD collection Links and references Starring William Shatner as Kirk Also Starring Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock And DeForest Kelley as Dr. McCoy Guest Stars Steve Ihnat as Garth Yvonne Craig as Marta James Doohan as Scott George Takei as Sulu Nichelle Nichols as Uhura Richard Geary as Andorian Gary Downey as Tellarite And Keye Luke as Cory Uncredited Co-Stars William Blackburn as Hadley Frank da Vinci as Brent Lars Hensen as Elba II inmate Roger Holloway as Roger Lemli Jeannie Malone as Yeoman Unknown performers as Five Elba II inmates Operations crewman Stand-ins Unknown actor as William Shatner's photo double References accident; advice; ; ; Alexander the Great; amusement; Andorian; anger; animal; ant; anthill; Antos IV; Antos native; arm; armed detail (aka security detail or security team); artery; asylum; asylum dome (aka protective dome); atmosphere; attention; Axanar; ; Axanar Peace Mission; ; billion; boasting; body; ; bone; brain damage; brother; cadet; ; candidate; cell; cellular metamorphosis; ceremony; chair; chance; chess; chess problem; children; choking; Cochrane deceleration maneuver; commanding officer; compassion; conscience; consort; control room; coronation; course; cow; crown; crown prince; crystal; courtesy; dance; dancer; danger; day; death; ; disease; dinner; divertissement; ; dream; dust; ear; Earth; Elba II; Elba II asylum; elite; emotion; enemy; energy; energy level; enlightened self-interest; entertainment; environmental suit; explorer; explosion; eye; fact; fasting; Federation; figuratively; flattery; flask; flavor; fleet; fleet captain; force field; friend; galaxy; Garth's crew; Garth's starship; Garth's guard; genius; governor; gratitude; greatness; guest; guest list; hand; hand-to-hand struggle; head; health; heir apparent; hero; history; ; ; hospitality; humanitarian; Human sacrifice; image; infinity; injection; inmate; insanity; insect; intramuscular; intravenous; invention; Izar; jealousy; justice; ; King; knee; Krotus; leader; liar; lie; Lord; lover; madman; maimed; maneuver; margin of safety; master of the universe; May; medical staff; memory; mental illness; Mental illness medicine; midnight; mile; Milky Way Galaxy; minute; mistake; model; morning; mutiny; necklace; November; nursery school; objection; orbital coordinates; orbital path; order; Orion; pain; paint; patrol; peace mission; pedestal; performer; permission; persuasion; pessimist; phrase; picture; place; plagiarism; poem; poetry; poison; politician; proof; protective dome; prototype; ; rapport; reality; rehabilitation chair; Romulan vessel; room; sand; science officer; second; secret; sensor; ; Shakespeare's sonnets; ; shuttlecraft; sky; solar system; Solomon; star; Starfleet Academy; starship; statesman; stubbornness; student; subordinate; suggestion; summer; symbolism; synchronous orbit; table; Tau Ceti; Tellarite; thing; thousand; three-dimensional chess; throne; tissue; title; transporter room; trap; tricked; ultrasonic wave; universe; valley; victim; Vulcan; Vulcan neck pinch; warrior; weakling; wealth; wind; wine; word; world External links de:Wen die Götter zerstören es:Whom Gods Destroy fr:Whom Gods Destroy (épisode) ja:宇宙の精神病院（エピソード） nl:Whom Gods Destroy pl:Whom Gods Destroy TOS episodes

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The Mark of Gideon (episode)

Kirk is held captive on an empty duplicate of the USS Enterprise. Summary Teaser The is in synchronous orbit over the capital city of , a candidate for Federation membership. This is itself unusual, as Gideon has repeatedly refused to establish diplomatic relations with the UFP before this. The physio-cultural reports the Gideons have submitted to the Federation describe their planet as a virtual paradise, with a germ-free atmosphere. Yet for the duration of the delicate negotiations, Starfleet has agreed to the Gideons' unusual stipulation that no surveillance scans be carried out upon their planet. Hodin, the Gideon Council's de facto ambassador to the Federation, accordingly provides the coordinates for the landing party's beam-down – 875-020-079 – a spot he says is within the Council Chamber. Furthermore, the Enterprise landing party must comprise of only one particular individual: Captain Kirk. After being beamed down by Commander Spock, Kirk arrives in what seems to be a completely depopulated Enterprise. He presumes the beam-down was unsuccessful, and upon arriving on the empty bridge satisfies himself from looking at the viewscreen that he and the ship are "still orbiting Gideon." Act One In a corridor, Kirk continues to search every part of the ship, and can find no one. He has sustained a bruise on his arm, but has lost any recollection of the incident or indeed the minutes in which it occurred. While speaking to Spock via a viewscreen, the High Council's Ambassador Hodin denies responsibility for the loss of the captain, suggesting that the Enterprises equipment must be faulty. Hodin repeats the coordinates for Kirk's transport that were given to the Enterprise, which Chekov confirms on a PADD that he was sent to. He frustrates ship's surgeon McCoy and even First Officer Spock with his steadfast refusal to drop his planet's sensor-jamming shields. He claims they are necessary to protect the Gideons against any "contaminating contact" with violent otherworldly nature. Hodin does assent to a "thorough search" but pretends that Spock has agreed that the High Council should be the party to institute it. Continuing his search, Kirk encounters a young woman wandering the empty corridors of the ship in an ecstasy of new-found personal space. Telling Kirk that her name is Odona, she says that on her world "thousands pressed in against me. I could hardly breathe." When she evinces fear Kirk consoles her, offering his hand. She notes that Kirk too seems to be troubled. The captains says he is, "I seem to be the only one of my crew left on board the Enterprise. 430… and I apparently am the only one left." Lieutenant Uhura tells Spock that Starfleet wants him to go through diplomatic channels – the Federation – but that the department she has been referred to, the Bureau of Planetary Treaties, has, of course, no treaty with the Gideon and wishes Starfleet to handle the crisis. Spock muses that diplomats and bureaucrats may function differently, but they seem to achieve the same results. Seeing the chronometer on the astrogator, Kirk says that there are indeed some nine minutes that are unaccounted for since his transport. Odona is plainly a Gideon, but apparently is not in the habit of calling her world by that name. Putting the Enterprises forward environs onto the main viewer, Kirk finds that they seem no longer to be in orbit, but rather in some unfamiliar quadrant. Act Two Meanwhile, back on the real USS Enterprise, the ambassador informs Spock that Kirk is not on Gideon after conducting a thorough search of the planet by the natives. However, Spock insists on transporting to the planet. The ambassador grants permission with the provision that a Gideon co-worker beam aboard the Enterprise. Spock agrees, and Scotty beams Krodak, a Gideon representative aboard, but when Spock begins to press for his beam-down to the planet, the Gideon ambassador prevaricates again, and claims that he has acted outside his authority to grant Spock the permission to come to the planet. Spock is clearly insistent and exasperated by both the bureaucratic logjam in the Federation, and by the diplomatic stonewalling of the ambassador. He tells Uhura to demand an answer from Starfleet about the issue of beaming to the planet's surface. At the same time, Kirk and Odona are together on the bridge of the empty Enterprise, and unable to raise any form of communication at all. At the engineering station, the captain drops the ship out of warp, explaining this to Odona, who remarks that it feels exactly the same as when they were at warp. This raises Kirk's attention because there "is no change in how the ship feels." He grows suspicious and looks at the viewscreen, which is displaying a field of stars moving slowly. Odona asks Kirk if he is having a problem with the way the stars look. After Odona and Kirk toy with the idea of remaining alone aboard the Enterprise, Kirk decides he has to discover and contact whoever is manipulating them. He asks Odona about her homeworld, and she says she doesn't remember; she only knows she is at the moment happy. She explains that her home planet is packed to the brim with people. There is not one area on the surface where an individual can find solitude, in fact, there are some who would kill for it. Odona and Kirk embrace; however, other hooded people now appear on the viewscreen unbeknownst to them. Act Three While Kirk and Odona walk about the ship and discuss Kirk's bruise, they hear a strange thumping noise. Though Odona believes it is the engines or a storm, the captain knows every sound the Enterprise makes and that is not one of them. He opens a viewport, which shows an ordinary star field after a momentary ghostly appearance of the dense planetary population en masse, with the captain surmising the thumping sound was the heartbeats of all the people he saw out the window. As Kirk begins to request answers from Odona, she begins to feel faint with the manifest prognostics of illness as the ambassador – her father – and his aides watch from the council chamber, unknown to them. Hodin then boards what Kirk now knows to be a fake Enterprise. The captain and the ambassador partake in a brief exchange regarding Odona's health before Hodin takes Kirk prisoner and lays Odona in a bed in the captain's quarters. Act Four Spock contacts Starfleet Command and argues with Admiral , who refuses to allow Spock to beam down to the planet's surface without being able to determine that Kirk's life is in immediate danger. On the planet, Hodin comforts Odona in Kirk's quarters, expecting her to die. However, he asks her what pain is like, foreign to both of them, and is proud of her strength in fighting the infection. Going outside to Kirk, he reveals he knows what she has – Vegan choriomeningitis – and that they sought Kirk out because they knew he had it. Kirk attempts to subdue the guards unsuccessfully. On the Enterprise, Spock finally resolves to violate Starfleet orders and search for Kirk. He demonstrates the slight difference between the coordinates given them for beaming down Kirk to those beaming up the Gideon councilman, Krodak. He orders McCoy and the others to remain aboard the Enterprise, leaving Scott in command. Hodin explains to Kirk in the council chambers how Gideon was once a paradise, and its atmosphere has always been germ-free. The lifespan increased and death became almost unknown to the Gideons. The birthrate continued to rise until Gideon became encased in a "living mass," with no space to live in comfort. Hodin says is impossible as their organs renew, and contraception is unthinkable because of their "love of life." Eventually, they decided to introduce mortal illness to Gideon, choosing Kirk as its source, and Odona as an inspirational model of self-sacrificial heroism. Hodin tries to convince Kirk to stay and provide the necessary virus, but Kirk argues against it. They are notified of the approaching death of Odona and they go to her. Meanwhile, Spock initiates a search for Kirk on the duplicate Enterprise and surmises that this is some experiment and Kirk is in danger. Spock finds them, subdues the guards. On Kirk's orders, Spock asks Scotty to beam up him, Kirk, and Odona to the Enterprise immediately. Before they dematerialize however, Spock warns Hodin not to interfere. In sickbay, McCoy then cures Odona and Kirk shows her around the real Enterprise, now filled with people. She tries in vain to persuade Kirk to go live with her on Gideon, wishing her homeworld could now fit one more person on it. Kirk alerts Transporter Control that they have a person to beam down, as Kirk and Odona prepare to part ways. Kirk returns to command the Enterprise and Odona returning to Gideon to save her people. Log entries Captain's log, USS Enterprise (NCC-1701), 2268 Ship's log, USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) Memorable quotes "We must acknowledge once and for all that the purpose of diplomacy is to prolong a crisis." - Spock, to McCoy "Diplomats and bureaucrats may function differently, but they achieve exactly the same results." - Spock, to Sulu "And just when I was beginning to think you might find a whole new career as a diplomat, Mr. Spock." "Do not give up hope, doctor." - McCoy after Spock is yet again unsuccessful in gaining permission from Hodin to beam down to Gideon "You're mad!" "No. We are desperate." - Kirk and Hodin, on Odona's deliberate infection "Your report to the Federation was a tissue of lies! You described conditions that would make Gideon a virtual paradise!" - Kirk to Hodin, in the council chamber "We are incapable of destroying or interfering with the creation of that which we love so deeply. Life, in every form, from fetus to developed being. It is against our tradition, against our very nature. We simply could not do it." "Yet you can kill a young girl." - Hodin and Kirk "Your Excellency, please do not interfere. I already have one serious problem to resolve with upper echelons." - Spocks parting words to Hodin "How can you bear to look at me after the way I deceived you?" "At least you owe me the privilege of letting me look at you." "You are a gentleman, Captain Kirk." - Odona and Kirk, after her recovery "As crowded as my planet is, I could wish for it to hold one more person." - Odona, to Kirk Background information Story and script The story for this episode was co-written by Stanley Adams, who previously played Cyrano Jones in . Reportedly, Adams was deeply concerned about the issue of overpopulation and had some casual discussions with Gene Roddenberry, during the production of "The Trouble with Tribbles", in which he suggested that Star Trek do an episode reflecting that subject matter. This episode is the evident result of those conversations. (Star Trek: The Original Series 365, p. 324) Adams' writing of this episode was influenced by advice from his son. Explained the writer, "My son says, 'Dad, you're in a position to really say something about the overpopulation problem.' He stood over my shoulder while I wrote around the beehive society." However, neither Stanley Adams nor his son were as pleased with the episode's final form. In hindsight, Stanley Adams commented, "[My son] sees the TV version. He says, 'What did they do?!' But they do it to you. When you write for TV, there's an old expression: 'Take the money and run." ( issue #3, p. 29) A detailed description of the episode's initial story outline can be found . Fred Freiberger, producer of Season 3, was satisfied with this episode. He related, "One of my pet themes is overpopulation and I thought this was a good idea. We were taking a shot at something fresh and gutsy, and it worked out pretty well. That one was also shot entirely on the Enterprise. I felt that if we had to do the show under those restrictions, we had to come up with good stories and that one worked." (Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages, p. 74) Remarkably, this episode did not run afoul of NBC censors, despite Kirk broaching such sensitive matters as sexual sterilization and birth control. Continuity This is also the only episode showing an exterior viewing port. The only other time a window looking outside the ship is seen is on the observation deck in . Of course, in this case, the port seen is not on the real Enterprise. The exterior viewing port from this episode is the same design as the one used to witness Marta's execution in . This is the second of two TOS episodes that show an empty bridge, the other installment being the first season outing (which shows the bridge of the actual Enterprise). When Kirk tries to address anyone on the ship, one of the shots, showing an empty corridor, is recycled from . Also, another shot shows an empty Sickbay – with the Red Alert indicator light flashing, an obvious pickup shot from an earlier episode. Cast and characters Among the many disembodied Gideon citizens seen on the viewscreen is frequent background performer William Blackburn. His face is pointed out in the finale of the bonus featurette "Billy Blackburn's Treasure Chest: Rare Home Movies and Special Memories", offered on the third season DVD collection of . Despite playing father and daughter, David Hurst was only nine years older than Sharon Acker. Reception In their unofficial reference book Trek Navigator: The Ultimate Guide to the Entire Trek Saga (pp. 138 & 139), co-writer Mark A. Altman scores this episode 2 out of 4 stars (defined as "mediocre") while fellow co-writer Edward Gross rates the installment 1 out of 4 stars (defined as "lousy"). Cinefantastique gave this episode 1 and a half out of 4 stars. (Cinefantastique, Vol. 27, No. 11/12, p. 104) In the unauthorized reference book Beyond the Final Frontier (p. 50), co-writers Mark Jones and Lance Parkin give their opinions of this installment; "An episode that starts out spooky and tense, but collapses well before the end under a mass of plot holes – leaving aside how the people of Gideon built such an exact replica of the Enterprise that even Kirk is fooled, there's just no reason why they build it. And if Kirk's so infectious, why is he allowed to beam down to planets in the first place?" The Star Trek Concordance (p. 82) also laments the plot holes; its synopsis of the episode unusually editorializes that "Odona … is to die as a symbol (of the faultiest logic in the galaxy)." Production timeline Story outline by George F. Slavin and Stanley Adams, titled "No Place to Die", Revised story outline, titled "The Mark of Gideon", First draft teleplay, late- Revised first draft teleplay, Second revised first draft teleplay, Second draft teleplay, Final draft teleplay by Arthur Singer, Additional page revisions by Fred Freiberger, , , , , Filmed, – Day 1 – , Wednesday (Half Day) – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Bridge Day 2 – , Thursday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Bridge Day 3 – , Friday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Bridge Day 4 – , Monday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Bridge, Corridors, Observation deck Day 5 – , Tuesday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Corridors, Kirk's quarters Day 6 – , Wednesday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Kirk's quarters, Corridors, Sickbay, Transporter room Day 7 – , Thursday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Gideon Council Chamber Original airdate, First UK airdate During the syndication run of Star Trek, no syndication cuts were made to this episode. Video and DVD releases Original US Betamax release: UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 37, catalog number VHR 2433, US VHS release: UK re-release (three-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 3.6, Original US DVD release (single-disc): Volume 36, As part of the TOS Season 3 DVD collection As part of the TOS-R Season 3 DVD collection. Links and references Starring William Shatner as Capt. Kirk Also starring Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock And DeForest Kelley as Dr. McCoy Guest stars Sharon Acker as Odona David Hurst as Hodin James Doohan as Scott George Takei as Sulu Nichelle Nichols as Uhura Walter Koenig as Chekov Gene Dynarski as Krodak Richard Derr as Admiral Uncredited co-stars William Blackburn as Gideon native Frank da Vinci as Brent Jay Jones as Gideon guard 1 Unknown actors as: Enterprise command crewman Enterprise sciences lieutenant Gideon guard #2 Gideon natives Three Gideon Council members References accident; agony; agreement; ambassador; apology; area; arm; assistant; "as yet"; "at a time"; atmosphere; "at once"; "at our disposal"; "at stake"; "at the moment"; auditorium; authority; ; beam; "be crystal clear"; birth rate; blood; body; body temperature; "Bones"; bridge personnel; Bureau of Planetary Treaties; bureaucrat; capital city; career; case; children; civilization; clearance; communicator signal; conception; conclusion; contact; cooperation; courage; crisis; criticism; cure; daughter; death; ; delegation; department; despair; device; diplomacy; diplomat; disaster; dream; duplicate (aka replica); engine; Enterprise, USS (replica); event; evidence; evolution; Excellency; experiment; explanation; face; father; fear (dread); Federation; Federation member; feeling; fetus; fever; five-year mission; food; formulation; "for that matter"; "for the record"; freedom; garden; germ; Gideon; Gideon (planet); Gideon capital city; Gideon Council; Gideon Council Chamber; Gideon prime minister; gift; grief; happiness; idea; heart; heatbeat; "heart of the matter"; home; ; hour; house; "in a manner of speaking"; "in order to"; "in that case"; "in the meantime"; illusion; intention; interference; investigation; ; isolation; jealousy; joy; land; language; life; life cycle; life span; listening; location; logic; longevity; love; loyalty; machinery; madness; malfunction; margin for error; meaning; medical kit; medical practitioner; medical tricorder; microorganism; Milky Way Galaxy; mind; minute; mirage; misery; mission; mountain; name; negotiation; noise; "not so fast"; "of course"; officer; "on the spot"; "once and for all"; opportunity; orbit (synchronous orbit); order; organ "out of order"; oxygen; pain; paradise; patient; peace; permission; person; personal property; physio-cultural report; place; plan; planet; population; ; pride; prime minister; prisoner; problem; profession; progress; proposal; quadrant; record; red priority; regeneration; repairman; representative; result; room; sacrifice; scientist; screaming (aka shouting); screen; search; sensor; sensor scan; serum; session; skill; sky; smile; space; space terminology; speed of light; spell; soil; sound; space; spaceship; staff; standing; star; Starfleet; Starfleet channel; Starfleet Command; star system; ; storm; stranger; street; strength; subject; sublight speed; surveillance; symbol; terminology; thigh; thing; thousand; time; "tissue of lies"; tool; tradition; transmission; transporter; transporter control; transporter coordinates; transporter room; treaty; tricorder; truth; understanding; Vegan choriomeningitis; viewing port; virus; volunteer; Vulcan neck pinch; warp speed; weapon; wish; word; working order; year External links de:Fast unsterblich es:The Mark of Gideon fr:The Mark of Gideon (épisode) ja:長寿惑星ギデオンの苦悩（エピソード） nl:The Mark of Gideon pl:The Mark of Gideon Mark of Gideon, The

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The Lights of Zetar (episode)

At the planetoid Memory Alpha, an Enterprise crew member's body is taken over by mysterious energy lifeforms. Summary Teaser While the ferries Lieutenant Mira Romaine to Memory Alpha, a planetoid that serves as the central library of the Federation, Montgomery Scott and Romaine spend a good deal of time together working in engineering and Scott seems to be falling in love with her. On the bridge, Spock detects an apparent storm from his station, approaching the ship at warp factor 2.6, and concludes that it cannot be a natural phenomenon. After Kirk orders yellow alert, the storm bypasses the shields and penetrates the Enterprise. Soon after, the crew loses their voice. Act One The phenomenon backs off, and the crew is normal again. Romaine, however, faints after making some strange inaudible sounds, and is taken to sickbay. Dr. McCoy examines the lieutenant, but Romaine minimizes the event to the point of being uncooperative. Dr. McCoy insists that Romaine was the most affected of the crew of 430 and he wants to know why. Scott attributes it being her first deep space mission, and coaxes Romaine to cooperate more fully but Romaine fears her assignment is at risk. Lieutenant Sulu projects the storm's course as heading for Memory Alpha, which was built without defensive shields in view of its academic purpose. The Enterprise cannot contact Memory Alpha to warn it, nor reach Memory Alpha until the storm has come and gone. Kirk assembles a landing party. Upon beaming over to Memory Alpha, they learn the generator is inoperative and all the staff are dead. Act Two The landing party finds one person alive – a female who is making the same garbled sounds Romaine made during the initial "attack" on the bridge. She soon dies, of "severe brain hemorrhaging due to distortion of all neural systems, dissolution of autonomic nervous system", according to McCoy. The other Memory Alpha personnel have each had a different brain center destroyed. Kirk asks Sulu to have Romaine beamed down for questioning. Romaine, however, interrupts the dialogue, seeing that the staff is dead, to urge the crew to get back to the Enterprise, as she is sure the storm is returning. When Sulu soon reports the same thing, Kirk orders the landing party back to the ship. Lieutenant Kyle has a tough time trying to complete the transport of Romaine, though, as it is interfered with but eventually completed by Scott. Romaine tells Scott she saw the dead workers on Memory Alpha, "in their exact positions." Scott ascribes it simply to "space" and tells Romaine not to report it unless "you want to spend the rest of the trip in sickbay." As the storm closes in on the Enterprise, Ensign Chekov cannot evade it. Spock reports ten distinct lifeforms in the cloud and doubts that the ship can adequately be shielded against it. The cloud approaches the ship. Since Spock has reported that the entity may be alive, Kirk believes he can reason with it through communication. He has Uhura open hailing frequencies and tie in the universal translator. He announces that the crew of the Enterprise mean it no harm and asks that the "storm" cease its approach as physical contact with their form of life is fatal. The cloud passes the Enterprises starboard side and positions itself directly in front of the ship. Act Three It is increasing its approach. Kirk says that "perhaps it understands another kind of language." He orders the ship be put on red alert and for phasers to be fired, first a warning shot, then a shot directly into the cloud. As Sulu reports that the direct shot has slowed the cloud, Kirk orders phaser crews to fire again. In engineering, Romaine has become affected by the phenomenon again in agony, comforted by Scott. Scott reports by intercom that the damage to the cloud seems to be killing Romaine as well, so Kirk calls off the attack. Kirk orders key personnel to the briefing room. There, Kirk searches for personal data on Romaine from Starfleet that might relate to the attacking cloud. McCoy reports that two hyperencephalograms show that Romaine's brain wave patterns have been altered since the encounter. Spock thinks McCoy has presented the wrong tape, but his concern shows that the hyperencephalogram now matches the ship's tracking of the cloud. Her mind is joining that of the attacker. Scott now discloses that Romaine has been seeing future events. Kirk asks Romaine to describe each event. She describes the effects that have occurred, and one that has not occurred: Scott dying. Sulu reports from the bridge that attempting to escape at warp factor 8 is useless. Kirk asks Romaine not to resist but to let the aliens operate through her, hoping to control that moment to save the ship. Finally, he orders the medical lab to prepare antigrav units. As they make their way to the lab, the lights appear in a corridor, heading toward Romaine. Act Four The lights swarm on Romaine and enter her body. Scott despairs that Romaine is lost, and McCoy believes there is no way to force the lights out without killing her. Romaine is determined to retain her identity, but begins speaking for the aliens, which Spock encourages. The alien reports through Romaine that they are from Zetar, a planet where all humanoid life was destroyed. They are the will of the last hundred from Zetar, who have searched for a millennium "for one through whom we can see and speak and hear and live out our lives." Kirk insists that Romaine's body "has its own life to lead." The aliens say they regret the killing they have done, but intend to survive. Scott insists to Kirk that Romaine cannot hurt him and carries her to the pressure chamber. The aliens attack Scott – as Romaine foresaw – but the attack is ultimately not fatal. Chamber pressure is increased, despite the risk of killing Romaine. The aliens are successfully driven out of her body. "Now, we have all the time in the world," Scott beams. The Zetarians did not further attack the Enterprise. In sickbay, Kirk asks McCoy and Spock for estimates on the incident's long-term impact on her. Spock thinks the episode should strengthen her. Kirk orders a return to Memory Alpha to let Romaine begin her assignment. Kirk believes they may have an "Enterprise first," with Scott, McCoy, and Spock, for once, in complete agreement. Kirk laughs at this. Log entries Captain's log, USS Enterprise (NCC-1701), 2269 Memorable quotes "I didn't think Mister Scott would go for the brainy type." "I don't think he's even noticed she has a brain." - Chekov and Sulu, on Scott and Romaine "With a bedside manner like that, Scotty, you're in the wrong business." - Chapel, before leaving him and Romaine in sickbay "Is the doctor there with you, or will I find him in engineering?" - Kirk to Scott, on his dereliction of duty "Doctor McCoy can no more cure it than he can a cold." - Scott, convincing Romaine not to report her visions "I'd rather die than hurt you. I'd rather die!" - Romaine to Scott, on foretelling his death "Somehow, I find transporting into the darkness unnerving." - McCoy when the landing party beams down to a dark Memory Alpha "Mira will not kill me." - Scott, before placing Romaine in the chamber "Reduce the pressure very, very gradually, Spock." "We may tax Mister Scott's patience, doctor." - McCoy and Spock, on ending Romaine's treatment "Now we have all the time in the world." - Scott to Kirk, on Romaine "Humans do claim a great deal for that particular emotion." - Spock to Kirk, on love as a factor in Romaine's recovery "Mister Scott, how's Lieutenant Romaine?" "Beautiful, captain." - Kirk and Scott "Well, this is an Enterprise first. Doctor McCoy, Mister Spock, and Engineer Scott find themselves in complete agreement. Can I stand the strain?" - Kirk Background information Script and production The co-writer of this episode was ventriloquist and puppeteer Shari Lewis of "Lamb Chop" fame. A fan of Star Trek, she co-wrote this episode with her husband Jeremy Tarcher. She also wanted to play Mira Romaine, but was not cast. When Lewis originally pitched the idea to producer Fred Freiberger, he turned it down, saying that they were already working on a similar concept. When Lewis came back with another story idea, Freiberger told her that he'd buy the first one, because the other similar project had been scrapped. Lewis wrote Scott's love affair into the episode because she thought "Captain Kirk is the one who always gets the girl". In a story outline dated , Romaine was Scott's new engineering assistant and shared his fascination for machinery. Final draft script , filmed early November. The overhead zoom shot of the bridge in the teaser was not shot for this episode. It apparently was filmed for (but not used in) . Bill Blackburn, rather than Walter Koenig, is at the navigator station in the shot. It is noticeable that he is wearing lieutenant stripes in the shot. The crew is also noticeably wearing the velour uniforms seen in season 1 and 2, not the nylon variety that replaced them in season 3. There is extensive use of Alexander Courage's music from in this episode. Most notable is the piece used for the approach of the Zetarians which was scored for the "Where No Man…" scene when the Enterprise encounters the galactic barrier. This is the only episode of The Original Series in which the four principal personnel of the Enterprise (Kirk, Spock, McCoy, and Scott) beam down from the ship without any supporting crewmembers. Sets and props This is the last time the emergency manual monitor and engineering sets were used. Engineering was seen briefly in , but as stock footage. This is the only time more of Dr. McCoy's medical lab, including an antigrav tube, is seen. The Memory Alpha monitor room was the reused control room set from . The glass-covered portal of the medical decompression chamber appears to be a door left over from a suspended-animation pod in . During the tag in sickbay as Kirk, Spock, and McCoy discuss Lt. Romaine, a discarded newspaper can be seen through the doorway to next room lying on the floor (to the right of Nimoy's elbow). Continuity This was John Winston's only appearance during Star Treks final season. It is also the only episode in which he appears in addition to all eight regulars, including Christine Chapel. Additionally, this is the final episode in which a Tellarite and an Andorian appears in TOS. The Human-looking female Memory Alpha technician was originally scripted as being a member of a species known as the "Reidonians". All the scenes of Scott while Lt. Romaine is being treated in the chamber in the medical lab show him with a Sciences style chest insignia (with a stylized "globe," as Spock and Dr. McCoy would wear) as opposed to the usual "spiral" on his red duty uniform. Reception Ronald D. Moore once cited this episode as his least favorite installment of the original Star Trek series, saying that it "doesn't even have the campy fun of 'Spock's Brain' to get you through it." () Remastered information "The Lights of Zetar" was the seventy-second episode of the remastered version of The Original Series to air. It premiered in syndication on the weekend of and aside from the standard CGI replacement footage of the Enterprise, this episode most notably featured new effects shots of the Zetarians and Memory Alpha, which included the appearance of the library complex, where none had appeared before. According to Michael Okuda: "Based on the size and spacing of the windows, I'd estimate that each of the domes must be similar to the ." Also, "if you look very closely at the far left dome, you might notice a small blue patch on the top of the dome. That's the Memory Alpha emblem." The next remastered episode to air was . Apocrypha The third book in Wallace Moore's "Balzan of the Cat People" pulp SF series, 1975's "The Lights of Zetar," was apparently an homage to this episode. Star Trek Novel #42, Memory Prime by Gar and Judith Reeves-Stevens, continues the story of Romaine on Memory Prime, the successor to Memory Alpha. Other than her romance with Scott and a very brief mention of the Zetarians, no other story elements are carried over from the episode. The short story "Ancient History" in the Strange New Worlds VI anthology portrayed Scott and Captain Morgan Bateson, both catapulted into the future by their respective mishaps, meeting and hashing out, physically and verbally, old rivalries, one of which was based on the fact that Mira Romaine married Bateson after her relationship with Scott had ended. Production timeline Story outline by Shari Lewis and Jeremy Tarcher, titled "Sentry 7", Revised story outline, titled "The Lights of Zetar", Second revised story outline, First draft teleplay, Second draft teleplay, mid- Final draft teleplay by Arthur Singer, Additional page revisions by Fred Freiberger, , , , , Filmed, – Day 1 – , Friday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Bridge Day 2 – , Monday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Bridge, Corridors Day 3 – , Tuesday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Briefing room Day 4 – , Wednesday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Briefing room, Sickbay, Transporter room Day 5 – , Thursday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Medical lab (with the Decompression chamber) Day 6 – , Friday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Medical lab (with the Decompression chamber), Briefing room, Emergency manual control Day 7 – , Monday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Emergency manual control; Desilu Stage 10: Int. Memory Alpha control room Original airdate, Rerun airdate, First UK airdate During the syndication run of Star Trek'', no syndication cuts were made to this episode. Video and DVD releases Original US Betamax release: UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 38, catalog number VHR 2434, US VHS release: UK re-release (three-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 3.6, Original US DVD release (single-disc): Volume 37, As part of the TOS Season 3 DVD collection As part of the TOS-R Season 3 DVD collection Links and references Starring William Shatner as Capt. Kirk Also starring Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock And DeForest Kelley as Dr. McCoy Guest stars Jan Shutan as Lt. Mira Romaine James Doohan as Scott George Takei as Sulu Walter Koenig as Chekov Nichelle Nichols as Uhura Majel Barrett as Nurse Chapel John Winston as Lt. Kyle Libby Erwin as Technician Uncredited co-stars Majel Barrett as Computer Voice William Blackburn as Hadley Frank da Vinci as Brent Roger Holloway as Roger Lemli Jeannie Malone as Yeoman Barbara Babcock as voice of the Zetarians Unknown actors as Alien technician Andorian technician 1 & 2 Human technician 2 Medical lab technician Command lieutenant Command crew woman References ability; acceleration; accent; agreement; alien; analysis; Andorian; anti-grav test unit; area; "a shot across the bow"; assignment; attack; attack on Memory Alpha; attacker; ; autonomic nervous system; bedside manner; biographical material; blast; body; "Bones"; brain; brain hemorrhage; brain circuitry pattern (BCP); brain hemorrhage; brain wave; brain wave pattern; briefing room; business; calibration; career; case; central brain; chief engineer; channel: common cold; community; computer; computer analysis; conclusion; condition yellow; contact; cooperation; course; creature; cultural history; damage report; darkness; ; death; deck; deductive reasoning; deep space assignment; deflector shield; desire; disaster; discipline; dissolution; distortion; ; duty; ego; emergency; emergency manual monitor; emotion; empathy; enemy; energy; environment; ; estimated time of arrival (ETA); evasive action (aka evasive maneuvers or evasion tactics); event; experience; explanation; eye; fact; fainting; Federation; Federation members; feeling; fingerprint; file; formulation; "for the moment"; forward scanner; French language; frequency; friend; general quarters; gravity; hail; hand; harm; heart; ; Human; humanoid; hyperencephalogram; identity; impact; impulse tracking; information; impulse tracking; interference; intruder alert; investigation; investigative procedure; judge; landing party; language; library; library complex (aka computer complex); lifeform; life unit; light; logic; loneliness; long range scanner; love; magnification; main screen projection; Martian Colony 3; medical lab; medical record; Memory Alpha; memory core; Milky Way Galaxy; millennium; mind; minute; motivation; neural system; number; orbit; orbit range; order; "out of order"; paralysis; parent; pathology; patience; person; personality; personality factor; phaser; phaser tracking controls; phenomenon; physical contact; place of birth; planet; planetoid; power generator; precognition; pressure; pressure chamber (aka gravity chamber); price; prognosis; progamming; protective shield; psychological profile; psychosomatic illness; question; red alert; researcher; result; retirement; ; ; scholar; scientist; scientific knowledge; Scots language; search; Security Condition Three; sensor; ; sound; space legs; space sickness; space travel; speaking; specialist; ; speed; speed of light; "stand by"; starbase; starboard; Starfleet; Starfleet preliminary examinations; Starfleet records; Steinman analysis; storm; tape deck D (aka tape D); tape H; technician; teenage; telepathy; telepathic ability; Tellarite; terror; therapy; thought; threat; transporter control; transporter coordinates; transporter room; transporter signal; transporter suspension; treatment; trick; truth; unconscious; universal translator; velocity; victim; viewing range; vision; voice; voice analysis; voluntary nerve function; walking; warp engine; warp factor; "where the devil"; ; word; year; Zetar; Zetar system; Zetarians External links de:Strahlen greifen an es:The Lights of Zetar fr:The Lights of Zetar (épisode) it:Le speranze di Zetar (episodio) ja:消滅惑星ゼータの攻撃（エピソード） nl:The Lights of Zetar pl:The Lights of Zetar Lights of Zetar, The

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The Cloud Minders (episode)

Kirk's efforts to obtain a vital mineral are complicated by terrorists striking at the beautiful cloud city Stratos and its virulent apartheid policies. Summary Teaser The travels toward Ardana, under Federation orders, quickly passing many stars. Ardana is the only known source of zenite, the mineral which they need to end a botanical plague on the planet Merak II. Kirk orders Uhura to send a message to the high advisor of Ardana that they must hurry to the mine entrance. They don't have time to attend the welcoming ceremony. On the surface, the landing party (Kirk and Spock) materializes on a platform. They look up at the cloud city named Stratos and find the mine entrance vacant. Suddenly, they get lassoed by four Troglytes, who wear dusty jumpsuits, boots, and gloves. The attackers' eyes are covered by silver bands, with narrow eye-slits. Bandanas cover the attackers' hair. Kirk and Spock are captured. Act One Kirk demands to know why he and Spock have been captured. The woman in the group replies, "interference breeds attack, captain." Mistaking them for Stratos dwellers, Kirk starts to explain the situation, but she argues, so Spock pulls his lasso rope to topple one. Kirk kicks another. Some attackers swing knives. They all wrestle until three more men materialize on the platform. Two guards are wearing sky-blue tunics. The bearded man yells for the fighting to stop, and guards raise weapons and shoot. The weapons hit one of the attackers. The other attackers manage to escape into the mine. The robed figure introduces himself as Plasus, the High Adviser of the Council, and explains the situation. The Disrupters, a rebel group of Troglytes, have confiscated the zenite in order to force negotiations in their favor. He orders the guards to immediately organize a search party and invites Kirk and Spock to visit Stratos in the meantime. Kirk, Spock, and Plasus materialize on a balcony in Stratos with steps leading down from it. They are impressed with the city, Spock commenting that Stratos is the "finest example of sustained anti-gravity elevation" he has ever seen. As they descend the stairs, a beautiful woman comes to meet them, Plasus' daughter Droxine. Plasus shows them around and points out the artwork assembled there, though he stops in mid-sentence as his eyes come upon a miner's tool embedded in one of the pieces of art. Plasus invites them to stay in a rest chamber while they wait for the zenite to be found. When they leave, two sentinels struggle to bring a miner into the presence of Plasus and his daughter on the balcony. The Troglyte was apprehended leaving the city without carrying a transport card. Plasus questions him and it is clear that the man is not answering him truthfully. Plasus commands that the Troglyte be secured to the rostrum, but the Troglyte breaks free from the sentinels, and hurls himself over the balcony instead, falling to his death. In the luxuriously appointed resting chamber, Kirk is asleep on a bed while Spock reclines on a chair, meditating on the contrasts between the two classes that live on the planet. He hears Droxine and leaves to talk to her about Vulcans, however, they fail to notice a woman that lurks behind some columns nearby and then enters the resting chamber where Kirk is, putting a cavern implement to his neck. Act Two At the last moment, Kirk grabs her arm and in one swift move, pins her to the bed. He recognizes her as his attacker on the surface and insists that she answer his questions. When Kirk releases her, however, she again grabs the weapon and attempts to attack Kirk but is subdued once again. Kirk's attacker insists that murder was not her intent – she wanted to take Kirk hostage. When Droxine and Spock enter, it is clear that Kirk's attacker, named Vanna, is a servant on Stratos, who mistakenly believes that the Enterprise and her crew have been called there to decisively end the Disrupters' rebellion. Droxine's and Vanna's conversation indicates that the Stratos dwellers view the Troglytes as inferior, both intellectually and physically, and thus undeserving of any privileges. Vanna is taken away by a sentinel and Kirk tries to understand the logic behind the mistreatment of the Troglytes from Droxine. She insists that the system, as it stands, is perfect and can see no reason to change it. Outside, Vanna's hands are bound behind her back to the rostrum. Droxine and two Sentinels are also present. As some people stroll by casually, Plasus demands to know the names of the other Disrupters. When Vanna denies their existence, he signals for the torture rays. Vanna is unable to look away or even shut her eyes, but does scream, attracting Kirk and Spock. As they arrive, the torture stops and Vanna slumps unconscious. Kirk did not realize torture was involved in obtaining the zenite, and objects. Plasus reiterates it is necessary. After some heated words and threats are exchanged between Kirk and Plasus, he orders the Sentinels to remove Vanna from the torture device and demands Kirk and Spock to return to the Enterprise or risk a diplomatic incident. After Kirk and Spock beam up, Plasus advises the sentinels to kill Kirk if he ever sets foot on Stratos again. Act Three Kirk and Spock are back on the bridge of the Enterprise. The crew now has twelve hours remaining to get the zenite to Merak II. Dr. McCoy, who has been studying the Troglytes' environment, reports. It appears that exposure to the gas emanating from unrefined zenite has deleterious effects on the mental function of the Troglytes. This would partly explain their decreased mental capacity. McCoy adds that the effects are fully reversible, regardless of the repeated exposure. Therefore, simply wearing gas mask filters should protect them from the effects of the gas. It is further postulated that since Vanna has passed a considerable amount of time at the city in the clouds, the effects of the gas on her are minimal and she is thus in a position to lead the Troglyte uprising. Seeing that they now may have a bargaining chip to help persuade the Disrupters to give them the desperately needed consignment of zenite, Kirk orders McCoy to acquire as many gas masks as he can. Kirk, Spock, and McCoy contact Plasus from the transporter room to advise him of their findings but his resolve and obvious prejudice keep him from accepting them. Moreover, he accuses Kirk of interfering with the workings of a local government. Plasus abruptly terminates the communication. Kirk orders Spock to beam him to Vanna's confinement cell, against Plasus' stern demand that he not return to Stratos. Kirk, with gas mask in hand, is transported to the cell, where he tries to persuade Vanna. He promises her that after the zenite has been delivered, he will return to mediate the differences between the Cloud Dwellers and the Troglytes. At first, she too seems unmoved: "Hours can become centuries... and promises can become lies...." But in the end, Kirk seems to have gained her trust, and Vanna agrees to take him directly to the consignment, which is in a mine deep below the surface. A sentinel enters to deliver Vanna's refreshments. Kirk, hiding in a corner, stuns him with his phaser. They appropriate the fallen sentinel's transport pass and leave the cell. Once they have made it into the subterranean zenite mine, Vanna strikes the mine wall three times with a mortae as a signal, and two other Disrupters, Anka and Midro, appear. But once Vanna has greeted them both, she orders them to subdue Kirk, take his phaser, and toss his communicator out of reach. She does not believe that an invisible and odorless gas has been keeping her people from functioning at the height of their potential. Now she has laid a trap, and has a very valuable hostage. She forces him to mine zenite with his bare hands. Act Four Vanna sends the two Disrupters away, Anka to transport the gas mask to the Cloud Dwellers' City as a message to the High Adviser, and Midro to alert the other Disrupters of any Enterprise officers who try to rescue Kirk. An argument between her and Midro reveals some disagreement about who makes the decisions. This leaves her alone with Kirk. Having somewhat placated Vanna by getting her to talk, he throws zenite dust at her, which distracts her. He then rushes at her and retrieves his phaser, using it to seal them in. Vanna exclaims that Kirk has cut off their air, but Kirk says he needs to run a demonstration. He finds his communicator and orders Spock to transport Plasus to Kirk's coordinates in the mine, without warning. On Stratos, Plasus is at the moment very close to Droxine (too close to transport without taking her as well), who currently is thinking about Kirk and Spock. They are interrupted by a sentinel who informs them of Vanna's escape with Kirk's help. Droxine points out Kirk is desperate, and Plasus sends her away, not tolerating any defense, but not before she asks her father whether their methods of dealing with the Troglytes are really the only correct recourse. Soon, Plasus finds himself beamed into the mine. In the mine, Kirk forces both Plasus and Vanna to mine the zenite in order to become exposed to the gas. Plasus eventually refuses and challenges Kirk to a duel with the mining implements. Kirk accepts, and the two rumble on the mine floor. Vanna finally realizes that the gas does have an effect on even Plasus and on Kirk, who are descending into fits of rage. She grabs the communicator, and pleads to the Enterprise for help, to transport them away from this mine, lest the two combatants kill each other. Spock orders it so, and once the three materialize on the transporter platform, Spock has to restrain Kirk and remind him of the effects of the zenite gas. Kirk slowly becomes himself again. On Stratos, Kirk now has Vanna's trust and receives the consignment of zenite. Furthermore, Vanna makes it clear that with their minds unimpaired by the zenite, her people will be pursuing their political cause with even more vigor and determination. Kirk once again offers his assistance in mediating on behalf of the Troglytes, referring them to the Federation Bureau of Industrialization. Plasus and Kirk again exchange accusations, but Vanna convinces them to drop them both. Spock bids farewell to Droxine; she states that she will leave Stratos and go to the mines on the surface below. Memorable quotes "I have never before met a Vulcan, sir." "Nor I a work of art, madam." - Droxine and Spock, on their first encounter "This troubled planet is a place of the most violent contrasts. Those who receive the rewards are totally separated from those who shoulder the burdens. It is not a wise leadership." - Spock, meditating on Stratos "You sleep lightly, captain." "Yes. Duty is a good teacher." - Vanna and Kirk, after he disarms her "At that time, the mating drive outweighs all other motivations." "And is there nothing that can disturb that cycle, Mister Spock?" "Extreme feminine beauty is always disturbing, madam." - Spock and Droxine, on Vulcan mating habits "If Captain Kirk appears again – kill him." - Plasus "Violence in reality is quite different from theory, is it not, madam?" "But what else can they understand, Mister Spock?" "All the little things you and I understand and expect from life, such as equality, kindness, justice." - Spock and Droxine, responding to Vanna's torture "It's hard to believe something which is neither seen nor felt can do so much harm." "That's true. But an idea can't be seen or felt. That's what's kept the Troglytes in the mines all these centuries, a mistaken idea." - Vanna and Kirk, in her cell "Hours can be centuries, just as words can be lies." - Vanna, to Kirk "But soon the atmosphere will go. We'll die!" "Die from something that can't be seen? You astound me, Vanna." - Vanna and Kirk, as he creates a cave-in "Father, are we so sure of our methods that we never question what we do?" - Droxine, to Plasus "I am high advisor of all the planet! I will take no more orders!!" - Plasus "Dig!" - Captain Kirk, under the effect of zenite gas Log entries Captain's log, USS Enterprise (NCC-1701), 2269 Background information Story and production This episode was based on a story submitted by David Gerrold called "Castles in the Sky". According to Gerrold, in The World of Star Trek: "It was intended as a parable between the haves and the have-nots, the haves being the elite who are removed from the realities of everyday life – they live in their floating sky cities. The have-nots were called "Mannies" (for Manual Laborers) and were forced to live on the surface of the planet where the air was denser, pressure was high, and noxious gases made the conditions generally unlivable. The Mannies torn between two leaders, one a militant, and one a figure. (Mind you, this was in , shortly after King was assassinated, and just before the assassination of .) In my original version, Kirk, Spock, McCoy and Uhura were captured by the Mannies when their shuttlecraft was shot down by a missile. (The Enterprise desperately needed dilithium crystals. This planet was one of the Federation's biggest suppliers, and Kirk's concern was to restore the flow of crystals. He didn't care who worked the mines, just that the supply was not interrupted. The shuttlecraft was necessary because I felt that the crystals might be too dense for the transporter.) In the process of the story, Kirk realizes that unless living conditions for the Mannies are improved, the situation can never be stabilized. Because Uhura has been injured in the shuttlecraft crash, McCoy starts treating her in a Mannie hospital. But he is so appalled at the condition of the other patients there, especially the children suffering from high-pressure disease, that he begins treating them as well. Meanwhile, Kirk and Spock have convinced their captors to let them go up to the sky city and try to negotiate a settlement to the local crisis. The story focused primarily on the lack of communication between the skymen and the Mannies. Kirk's resolution of the problem was to force the two sides into negotiation. He opened the channels of communication with a phaser in his hand. "You –sit there! You –sit there! Now, talk!" And that's all he does. He doesn't solve the problem himself, he merely provides the tools whereby the combatants can seek their own solutions, a far more moral procedure. In the end, as the Enterprise breaks orbit, Kirk remarks on this, as if inaugurating the problem-solving procedure is the same as solving the problem. He pats himself on the back and says, "We've got them talking. It's just a matter of time until they find the right direction." And McCoy who is standing right next to him, looks at him and says, "Yes, but how many children will die in the meantime?" This answer was not a facile one; the viewer was meant to be left as uneasy as Kirk. – But in the telecast version, the whole problem was caused by Zenite gas in the mines, and "if we can just get them troglytes to all wear gas masks, then they'll be happy little darkies and they'll pick all the cotton we need..." Somehow, I think it lost something in the translation." Producer Fred Freiberger assigned Oliver Crawford (who previously penned and ) to co-write the episode with Gerrold, because he didn't trust the young writer (Gerrold described himself as "being twenty-three, looking like twelve" at the time) having enough experience. Eventually, Crawford and Gerrold were taken off the project by Freiberger, and Margaret Armen was assigned to develop the story into a workable script (this time titled "Revolt"). Armen was Freiberger's potential choice to be the next story editor for the series, and this assignment was intended to be her "try-out" (much like D.C. Fontana was "tried out" by rewriting Jerry Sohl's script). Since the series was cancelled, Armen was never appointed story editor. (These Are the Voyages: TOS Season Three, pp. 525-530) Allan Asherman suggests that this episode was partially based on 's 1927 science fiction classic, , which features the ruling class living in huge skyscrapers, and the downtrodden workers in underground caverns. In the movie's climax the workers finally revolt against their masters. (The Star Trek Compendium) A line of dialogue forgotten in the filming of this episode was dubbed in later by Shatner, but Kirk's mouth is not even moving as he says, "Who are you? What is the meaning of this attack?" Some recent telecasts have cut that line. It is most unusual that Spock would discuss the Vulcan mating ritual so casually with a stranger Droxine; in , he tells Kirk that such ceremonies are not fit for discussion with outworlders. Similarly, his observation that "we [Vulcans] do pride ourselves on our logic" is uncharacteristic, given that pride is a Human conceit—as Amanda Grayson points out to Sarek in . This episode contains a unique sequence with Spock giving an internal monologue which contained clips recapping the events up to that point. This was a frequently used device by producer Fred Freiberger, in cases when he thought the audience might not follow the story when only supported by the images, but needed additional information to understand the going-ons. In , Freiberger added internal thoughts "spoken" by Captain Kirk while enjoying his new life with Miramanee, and in , he added an extra Captain's log entry to the beginning of the episode concerning the romance of Scotty and Mira Romaine. Neither of these were originally scripted, but added in post-production. (These Are the Voyages: TOS Season Three) Executive Producer Manny Coto has mentioned on several occasions that if the series had gone on to a fifth season, they would have done a prequel episode to "The Cloud Minders" which would have featured the city of Stratos. Continuity Vanna wears three different outfits throughout the episode; her mining garb (with face mask) when attacking Kirk and Spock, then later again (without the mask) when accepting the filter masks; a long, elegant purple gown to infiltrate Stratos and attack Kirk, and finally, a short white shift with symbols on the collar. In the scene after Vanna is subdued by Kirk in the Rest Chamber, some of the braid on Kirk's cuff is missing. Props and special effects Stratos was designed by Matt Jefferies, who drew a "rough sketch", without ever drawing a final sketch. The city itself was created from green foam, white glue, hacksaw blades, and Xacto knives. The production designers then chopped up the foam and glued it together and put the final shapes on it, finished it off by wrapping the bottom with cotton, and hung it from the ceiling. (TOS Season 2 DVD special features) According to John Dwyer, the metal artwork that appeared in the corridors throughout the city was metal furniture, tables, etc. that he had rented from "a guy up in ," minus the glass tops. (TOS Season 2 DVD special features) The image of the planet river, seen from the Cloud City balcony, is the dry river basin in southern Yemen, taken by astronauts on the Gemini IV orbital mission in 1965. For the remastered effect, the distant mountains on the horizon are based on a different photo taken by astronauts on the International Space Station. The weapon used by the Stratos guards is a re-use of the Scalosian weapon from The bed Kirk sleeps on was last seen as the couch from and, earlier, as the Eymorg's table in . The miners' goggles would later reappear in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, in which they are worn by Khan when he meets Chekov on Ceti Alpha V. Apocrypha James Blish's novelized version of this episode is titled "The Cloud Miners." Production timeline Story outline by Oliver Crawford and David Gerrold, titled "Castles in the Sky", Revised story outline, Story outline by Margaret Armen, titled "Revolt", Revised story outline, First draft teleplay by Armen, Second draft teleplay, titled "The Cloud Minders", Revised second draft teleplay, Final draft teleplay by Arthur Singer, Additional page revisions by Fred Freiberger, , , Filmed, – Day 1 – , Tuesday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Bridge, Transporter room Day 2 – , Wednesday – Desilu Stage 10: Ext. Ardana surface Day 3 – , Thursday – Paramount Stage 5: Int. Confinement quarters, Rest chamber Day 4 – , Friday – Paramount Stage 5: Int. Rest chamber, Lounge, Hallways, Mine tunnel, Mine Day 5 – , Monday – Paramount Stage 5: Int. Mine Day 6 – , Tuesday – Desilu Stage 10: Int. Council gallery Day 7 – , Wednesday – Desilu Stage 10: Int. Council gallery, Ext. Ardana surface Post-production page revisions by Freiberger, Original airdate, First UK airdate, Video and DVD releases Original US Betamax release: UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 38, catalog number VHR 2434, US VHS release: UK re-release (three-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 3.7, Original US DVD release (single-disc): Volume 37, As part of the TOS Season 3 DVD collection As part of the TOS-R Season 3 DVD collection. Links and references Starring William Shatner as Capt. Kirk Also starring Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock And DeForest Kelley as Dr. McCoy Guest star Jeff Corey as Plasus Co-starring Diana Ewing as Droxine And Charlene Polite as Vanna James Doohan as Scott Nichelle Nichols as Uhura Kirk Raymone as Cloud Guard #1 Jimmy Fields as Cloud Guard #2 Ed Long as Midro Fred Williamson as Anka Garth Pillsbury as Prisoner Harv Selsby as Guard Uncredited co-stars William Blackburn as Hadley (stock footage) Lou Elias as Troglyte #1 Jay Jones as Prisoner #1 George Takei as Hikaru Sulu (stock footage) Marvin Walters as Troglyte #2 Unknown performers as A male and female passer-by Sentinels #3, #4 & #6 Stunt doubles Donna Garrett as stunt double for Charlene Polite Ralph Garrett as Troglyte stunts Unknown stunt performer as stunt double for William Shatner Unknown stunt performer as stunt double for Jeff Corey References abbreviation; abduction; abstract concept; advisor; agreement; "all right"; ally; alternative; ancestor; answer; antigravity; Ardana; Ardanan; art; art form; atmosphere; attack; "at the time"; average; bargain; bargaining; beauty; bigotry; biological law; "Bones"; botanical plague; brain; captain; cargo; cavern; cavern implement; century; ; child; choice; cloud; Cloud City Council Chamber; Cloud City Council Gallery; command personnel; communicator; computer; confidence; confinement quarters; confiscation; consignment; contact; container; coordinates; crime; criticism; culture; danger; daughter; deal; ; desperation; delivery; despoiling (despoil); device; digging; diplomacy; diplomatic relations; Disrupter; ; dressmaker; ear; Earth; education; emergency; emergency mission; engineer; entomology; entrance; entrance panel; environment; equality; evolution; execution; existence; exposure; eye; face; fainting; father; Federation; Federation Bureau of Industrialization; Federation member; filter mask; first officer; fool; freedom; friend; gift; government; government council (aka planet council or city council); guest; harm; ; high advisor; home; honor; hostage; hour; household; humanoid; humanitarianism; idea; imbecile; impression; "in fact"; "in my opinion"; "in other words"; "in the meantime"; inhabitant; injury; instruction; insult; intellect rating; invitation; justice; kindness; knowledge; leader; leadership; leisure; lie; life (aka lifeform); light; local government; location; logic; loyalty; madam; malcontent (rebel); mate; mating cycle; meaning; medical analysis; meditation; mentally inferior beings (inferior species); Merak II; metropolis; Milky Way Galaxy; million; mind; ; mine entrance; miner; mining; minute; misery; mission; mistake; Mister Advisor; month; mortae; motivation; music; name; natural growth; "no doubt"; noise; obligation; "of course"; offer; opportunity; order; oxygen; percent; period of time; permission; personal sacrifice; phaser; physical discomfort; place; planet official; plant; plant bacteria; pon farr''; population; prejudice; prisoner; problem; progress; protector; purity; quadrant; question; quote; rays; reality; refining; repair permit; reputation; rest chamber; ; retardation; right; rostrum; ruse; sample; search; search party; scientist; sentinel (aka guard); shields; shipment; side effect; sky; sleep; social system; society; soil; species; staff; "stand by"; Starfleet Command; starship; starship commander; stranger; Stratos; Stratos city-dweller; stubborn; studier; sunlight; surface; surrender; talk; teacher; term; theory; thing; thinking; thong; thought; toil; top warp speed; torture; training; translation; transport card (aka transport pass); transport officer; transport platform/transporter platform; transporter; transporter room; troglodyte; Troglyte; truth; unconscious; value; vegetation; violence; visit; vocabulary; Vulcan; Vulcan (planet); warmth; weapon; welcoming ceremony; word; worker; work of art; year; zenite External links de:Die Wolkenstadt es:The Cloud Minders fr:The Cloud Minders (épisode) ja:惑星アーダナのジーナイト作戦（エピソード） nl:The Cloud Minders pl:The Cloud Minders Cloud Minders, The

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The Naked Now (episode)

The crew of the Enterprise is subjected to an exotic illness that drives them to unusual manic behavior, akin to a type of alcoholic intoxication. Summary Teaser The has been assigned to investigate a loss of contact with the , which had been assigned to observe the final days of a dying red supergiant star. Opening communications, the Enterprise bridge crew hear a woman speaking in a seductive voice. In confusion, Data requests for the woman to repeat her message, in which she states that a huge 'blowout' is about to occur. Many other crew on the Tsiolkovsky begin laughing and are shouting encouragement before a large explosive sound is heard followed by silence. Captain Picard requests a report. Data responds stating that the crew had just opened an emergency hatch. This prompts Commander Riker to stand up and head to the turbolift, followed by Data, Geordi La Forge and Natasha Yar, to beam over to the Tsiolkovsky. As they leave, Worf reports to Picard that sensor scans have revealed that there are no life signs on board the ship. On the Tsiolkovsky, the ship is on red alert as the away team spreads out to investigate the ship. The corridors are quiet, but are littered with discarded items and food. The walls are also covered with phaser burn marks. Data states that the mess in the corridor indicates a "wild party", to which Riker agrees. They approach a distorted screen which Riker makes out as the bridge. Data successfully repairs the screen to clear the static, to which they see the bridge is empty of all loose items, and people; and is open to space; the emergency hatch was indeed blown. Riker remarks the crew were all sucked out into space, to which Data corrects him, stating that they were instead "blown out." Yar contacts Riker from engineering, stating that ten people present there are frozen. Someone had modified the environmental controls, venting all heat into space. In the crew quarters, La Forge witnesses many nude or barely clothed bodies, all frozen. He enters the bathroom and opens the shower to find a fully-clothed woman frozen, who falls in his arms. La Forge feels something strange in his hands and rubs his fingers together after gently letting the frozen woman fall to the ground. Riker contacts the Enterprise to submit his report. He reports to Picard that the crew – all 80 people, are dead. Act One In Doctor Crusher's office, the doctor and Deanna Troi are analyzing the tricorder readings from the away team to ascertain what happened to the Tsiolkovskys crew. Picard enters to request a report, but Crusher and Troi are unable to give any theories as to what happened to the crew. Picard asks if it could have been madness, hysteria, or delusion to which Troi responds it could have been any or all. Picard then requests that the away team be returned to the Enterprise after undergoing full decontamination. Later in sickbay, Dr. Crusher is giving medical scans to all members of the away team. Scanning Data, she notes how perfect his overall condition is, stating that she would write him up in a Starfleet Medical textbook. Data responds to her praise by stating that he already is in many bio-mechanical texts. With that said, Data leaves the main biobed and Geordi La Forge takes his place. After a few moments, she checks the scan results for La Forge. All of his systems are normal, except Crusher notes that he's perspiring. He raises his voice saying that the room is too hot; the perspiration is visible on his face. Those in the room are surprised by La Forge's response, with even Riker noting that it didn't sound like him. La Forge smiles and says that Dr. Crusher threw her voice. He means this as a joke, but nobody is amused. With this response, Crusher decides to perform some more tests on La Forge. Later, after conducting her tests, Crusher contacts Picard via the communications network. She notifies him that she is confining La Forge to sickbay until further notice, as she couldn't determine what the problem was, if any. On the bridge, Riker steps out from the turbolift towards Data at the science station. Riker wants some information and enlists the help of Data. He has a vague memory of reading something about a person fully clothed in a shower, relating to La Forge's discovery on the Tsiolkovsky. Data agrees to help Riker and commences an extensive library computer inquiry for Riker after he comments that it should be easy for Data to find the information as he is written in many bio-mechanical texts. Data is curious and inquires if he was boasting about his comment about being in many texts to Crusher. Riker comments that he possibly was in a dry way, and inquires about the time it would take for the search. It would take several hours. Data, however, continues the conversation about him by saying that Crusher may look him up in the texts he mentioned. Back in sickbay, Crusher continues her tests on La Forge, who is still lying on the main bio-bed. She checks the reading of one of her latest scans and then proceeds to her office and compares her readings with ones on her viewer. Meanwhile, La Forge sits up in his bed, removes his combadge and quietly leaves sickbay unnoticed. Not long after, Crusher returns and notices La Forge missing. She snatches his combadge and runs out the door calling out for him, but there is nobody present in the corridor. She sends a message to the bridge to notify Tasha Yar of La Forge's escape. Tasha Yar confirms and notifies her teams while Picard orders a ship-wide search. In Dr. Crusher's quarters, Wesley Crusher and La Forge are present. Wesley is showing La Forge a miniature tractor beam emitter he created. He demonstrates its abilities by lifting a small chair, stating that the emitter uses technologies similar to those of the Enterprises emitters with his own ideas included. Despite La Forge's compliment, Wesley is disappointed that Picard still won't let him on the bridge, even with his superior knowledge of ship's systems. He brings out a cube-shaped object that makes him feel like he's welcomed. The object emulates Picard's voice from words he has used over the communication network. La Forge compliments Wesley again, but he notices something wrong in La Forge's voice. La Forge notes that he has a burning feeling, then comments that the room is hot. He exits Crusher's quarters, leaving Wesley confused. La Forge finds refuge in the observation lounge, looking out the room's viewports into space. However, he is discovered by Tasha Yar, who tells him that medical is worried about him. Still staring out the room's windows, La Forge yearns for help. Ignoring him, Yar calls for a security team. La Forge asks for help yet again – help to not give in to the wild behavior in his mind. She asks how she can help, but he wants to see with his eyes again. The security team arrives outside the door as La Forge removes his VISOR, revealing his blind eyes. She tells him that they'll talk about it later and leads him to sickbay. Act Two In sickbay, La Forge lies on a bio-bed again but is having difficulty controlling his emotions. Both Dr. Crusher and Deanna Troi are monitoring his condition while Picard and Yar are discussing the current circumstances. She mentions to Picard that La Forge was quite upset and kept expressing how he wanted normal vision. Picard acknowledges her and proceeds to sickbay while Yar leaves. Right before she reaches the exit, she wipes her hand on her head; she knows she doesn't feel right but continues to leave. When Picard arrives at La Forge's bio-bed, Crusher tells him that none of her equipment can detect an elevated temperature in him, but it is obvious by sight. Picard is worried about the spread of the infection, but Crusher doubts it can be spread as full decontamination procedures were performed. Crusher states that the condition was more likely to be a case of insanity or severe emotional upset. Picard and Crusher both look to Troi for answers. All she can sense is confusion, and possibly intoxication. Crusher denies this as tests showed no drugs or hallucinogens in his body. Back on the bridge, Data and Riker are continuing their search, but it is proving nearly impossible. The mention of a proverb by Riker prompts him to tell Data to search the historical records of all starships named Enterprise. As Data looks over the relevant medical records, Picard arrives on the bridge. Just as he reaches the station, Data finds the relevant information from the medical database from the old . The records state that during a planetary breakup, complex water molecules had acquired carbon from the body creating similar effects of alcohol on the brain, essentially intoxication. By Picard's orders, this information is downloaded and transmitted to medical. He contacts Crusher and notifies her that the information and a cure is being transmitted to the medical database. Crusher requests confirmation, in which Picard gives an out-of-character 'Absolutely!' making Data curious. Later, Deanna Troi goes to her quarters to find Tasha Yar rummaging through her selection of gowns. Troi enters, confused. Yar is comparing the gowns to her body, but the clothes are noticeably not right for her. Yar tells her that she wants help with clothes and hair style, noting that she wants to change her image and that Troi wears great clothes while off-duty. She holds up one gown, but Troi says it is not her style. She senses Yar's confusion and tries to comfort her, but Yar resists, puts the clothes down and heads for the exit, saying that she'll find what she wants in the ship's stores. As she leaves, Troi heads for the door but can't stop her. She hits the comm panel and notifies Picard that she thinks Yar's been infected with the mysterious Polywater intoxication. Picard says Yar "has the equivalent of a snootful", but Data is unfamiliar with the term. Instead of helping Data, Picard replies 'Forget it!'. Back in sickbay, Crusher is continuing her work. Wesley calls out for his mother, prompting her to leave her work and see him levitating a medical tricorder. Perspiration is also notable on his face. Crusher is too worried for Wesley, however, to compliment him on his work. She tells him to go to their quarters until it is safe. He excessively acknowledges her orders and starts to leave, but notes that she is stunting his emotional growth. Just as he leaves, he says that the room is hot and wipes his forehead of sweat. Before she can think about what he said, Picard contacts her, inquiring if a test injection had been created. She replies with a negative. In one of the Enterprises corridors, Tasha Yar moves about in a very seductive way. Around her, everybody is acting unprofessionally, with lots of flirting. A crewman walks past a corner in the corridor in front of Yar. She beckons him closer and gives the officer a huge kiss. On the bridge, Data continues to upload the information from the Tsiolkovsky to the Enterprise. He notes to Picard that it will take another 41 minutes to complete the upload. Picard asks him why the upload is so slow and Data says the Tsiolkovsky had eight months of information that needed to be transferred. However, Picard looks at the viewscreen, revealing the system's star. He asks what the danger is from the star if it exploded in the worst-case scenario. Data notes that they could outrun any dangerous events from the star at half-impulse. A view of the star again reveals many surface flares. In engineering, both Chief Engineer MacDougal and her assistant Jim Shimoda are working at their posts. A boatswain's whistle is heard, accompanied by orders from Picard for MacDougal to come to the bridge. She is obviously not happy with the order and reluctantly leaves engineering, leaving Shimoda in charge. A moment later, Shimoda is ordered by Picard to go to sickbay. He, too, is reluctant, but Wesley arrives inquiring about the order. Shimoda notes that if he left, nobody would be in charge of engineering. Wesley tells Shimoda that he could take care of engineering and contact MacDougal if anything bad was to happen. He gives a big smile at Shimoda, who then leaves, while Wesley stands in engineering with his arms crossed along with a big grin. MacDougal arrives on the bridge, but Picard doesn't know why she's there. She notes that he called her to the bridge. As far as he knows, he didn't and he wants her in Engineering in case they need to immediately leave the system. Another boatswain's whistle is heard with Picard's voice accompanying it. Picard looks in disbelief as he hears his own voice turning over command of the vessel to Acting Captain Wesley Crusher. As Picard repeats the title in disbelief, Wesley's voice is heard with joy thanking the recording and he gives a short speech mentioning that this marks a brave new day for the Enterprise. Act Three After hearing Wesley's recording, Picard orders MacDougal and Riker to take control of engineering. She heads for the turbolift as Riker follows to assist. Worf, at operations, mentions that abnormal behavior is being reported from all decks, including the ship's training division ordering all officers to attend a lecture in metaphysics. Data confirms this, including a limerick developed by an officer from the shuttlebay involving a "woman from Venus." Picard interrupts Data before he can finish the "adult" limerick by contacting security. The officer who replies is laid back, speaking informally to Picard, even acting rude, telling him "Keep your britches on!" Picard inquires for Yar's location. Yar replies that she's in her quarters and is busy right at the moment. Picard tells her to stay there and orders Data to take her to sickbay. As Data leaves, Picard orders all security supervisors to report to the bridge immediately. In engineering, Wesley has gained complete control, cutting off everybody from himself in the main work area with a force field from his tractor beam emitter. He and the officers outside the force field are contaminated with the intoxication, with all focus on Wesley. He continues his speech, mentioning that a dessert course would precede and follow every meal in his command. Everybody outside the force field cheers for "the acting captain." Shimoda walks into the force field and is knocked back slightly. Being intoxicated, he asks Wesley how he created the field. Wesley motions towards his tractor beam emitter and notes that he connected it to ship's power and made it into a repulsor beam. He asks if Shimoda wants in, and he joyfully nods, giving an oath of loyalty to Wesley. The field is deactivated, then quickly reactivated after Shimoda enters the work area, leaving the rest of the officers outside. Data goes to Yar's quarters and finds her provocatively dressed. Unsure how to react, Data tells Yar that he needs to take her to Sickbay; however, she has no intention of going with him. Data indicates that Yar needs time to return to uniform, but she notes that she got out of uniform just for him. She tells Data that she was abandoned when she was five years old and learned how to stay alive from rape gangs. It wasn't until she was 15 that she escaped, but now all she wants is love and joy. She asks how "functional" Data is; he replies he is fully functional and is programmed in many "techniques," a wide variety of pleasuring. She leads him to her bedroom, where Data gives a programmed smile. The door closes. In engineering, Riker and MacDougal are working as Picard contacts them for a progress report. Shimoda had removed all the isolinear chips from the command computers, disabling the ship's engines. In the office, Shimoda is sitting in a great pile of isolinear chips, throwing them around with glee. Riker tells Picard about Wesley's tractor beam force field. Picard asks if there was a way to short out power to the emitter. MacDougal thinks for a moment, then says she can, but it would take some time. Picard, with concern about the impending star explosion, orders her to do it. Riker and MacDougal begin work on a panel near the office, but a door opens nearby and a voice calls for "Bill," Troi's rare nickname for Riker. She goes towards Riker, obviously intoxicated. She's feeling a Human side she had never felt before. Riker picks her up and takes her to sickbay, but all Troi wants is to be alone with him. After a long time, Crusher finally concocts the antidote found in the medical database to combat the intoxication. She fills a hypospray and injects La Forge with the antidote. Expecting instant results, she waits, but La Forge asks how the antidote was to help him to see with normal sight, to see a rainbow or sunset. To her dismay, it didn't work. Later, Riker brings Troi over his shoulder into sickbay and puts her down on a bio-bed. He calls Crusher, but gets no response. He rushes into her office where he finds a disconsolate Dr. Crusher. He shakes her slightly, repeating his call. She tells him that the formula didn't work, and that the water-carbon complex had possibly mutated. She snaps out of her funk and heads back to sickbay with Riker to treat Troi. Crusher then realizes that Riker touched Troi, then Riker touched her. They have both been infected. She tells him that he can't leave, but Riker insists on leaving to assist in reactivating the command computers. If he stayed, they could die; if no formula could be made, they would die. The stress on Dr. Crusher is worsening. Act Four On the bridge, Picard is speaking to Wesley on the viewscreen. Despite Wesley's condition, he speaks formally to Picard as a superior. Picard demands for him to return control of the Enterprise to the bridge, but Wesley simply states that he'll do whatever it is he wants from engineering. Picard interrupts him and tells him that starships are controlled by their own captains. Wesley then notes that the captain doesn't control the vessel by himself, but orders people to do the work. He then asks what the problem is with asking him to perform the work. Interrupting the conversation, Worf notes that there are unusual readings coming from the star. Picard tells him to stand by, then tells Wesley that he's been infected by the intoxication that occurred on the Tsiolkovsky. Wesley thinks for a moment, then asks if that is why he feels hot and strange, he then asks if he's drunk, because he feels "good." Picard, in a calm tone, tells him that the intoxication is greater than that of alcohol. Wesley appears to be buying it and asks what Picard will do with the Enterprise. He tells Wesley that he intends to tow the Tsiolkovsky away with a tractor beam. The instant Picard mentions of towing, Wesley notes that he's an expert in tractor beams and proceeds to work, closing the channel. Additionally, without warning, the officer at the Conn leaves the bridge, ignoring Picard. Just as the officer leaves, Worf reports that the star is collapsing. In engineering, Wesley is attempting to get the tractor beam working to tow the Tsiolkovsky, but all the command chips are still out of their slots, now mixed up due to Shimoda. Meanwhile, Riker and MacDougal think they've found the solution. They look back at the office, where the force field is still active. Dr. Crusher attempts to find a new formula to cure the intoxication. Out of habit, she wipes her forehead and realizes that the intoxication is beginning. She attempts to focus, but finds difficulty handling simple objects. Thanks to Wesley's efforts, a tractor beam instantly activates and locks onto the Tsiolkovsky. On the bridge, Worf reports on this. Picard attempts to contact Wesley with no luck; however, Data has arrived on the bridge but in a weird stagger, since he's been infected by Yar. Picard is confused as to how Data got infected. Dr. Crusher arrives and asks to talk to Picard in his ready room on an urgent matter, then goes into it anyway. Entering the ready room, he finds Crusher with a smile on her face; she's obviously been infected. She giggles, but Picard is not amused. She tries to control herself, speaking in a formal nature but having difficulty controlling her emotions. She can't help but keep mentioning her extreme attraction to Picard, but all Picard wants is a cure. All of a sudden, he finds himself wiping sweat from his forehead; he's been infected, too. They exit the ready room; Crusher giggles again and waves to Picard. Picard tries to refrain from giggling and waving. Worf notices this and contacts Riker to notify him that Data and Picard have been infected. Riker tells him he's on his way and leaves MacDougal alone to continue the work in Engineering. The reaction in the star is becoming more severe, prompting the red alert klaxon to activate. Seconds later, the star implodes into a white dwarf, ejecting a vast number of fragments of its former mass in the process. Despite being intoxicated, the bridge crew look with concern towards the viewscreen; an object is approaching. Worf tells the crew that a portion of the star's surface is on a collision course just as Riker arrives. Picard attempts to order Worf to move the ship, but he can't think of the correct words to say. Finally, Riker finishes Picard's sentence for him and orders Worf to move the ship out of the area, to which Picard shakily agrees. Worf tries his controls at the Ops station, but there is no response. He jumps over to the helm, but still no response. Riker contacts Wesley in engineering, but he ignores the call. Meanwhile, MacDougal is continuing her work and finally shorts the power to the force field. She rushes in as Riker calls engineering again to reactivate ship power. She walks over to Shimoda, who is playing gleefully with the chips, and admonishes him that they are command chips and not toys. She contacts the bridge to reply to Riker's call. Agitated, she tells him that nothing can be done as all the command chips have been removed. Worf estimates fourteen minutes until the stellar mass collides with the ship, but that isn't enough time to return all the chips into their slots. Wesley, trying to help as much as he can, notes that Data can replace them due to his great speed. Riker orders Data to report to engineering. Act Five As MacDougal attempts to sort the pile of isolinear chips, Data arrives, obviously infected. Wesley and Data exchange greetings, but Riker interrupts them so work can proceed. He yells at Data to get to work before he ends up like everybody else. Wesley compares the task to a game, which intrigues Data and he starts replacing the isolinear chips. To see the progress of the star's explosion, Wesley switches one of the engineering consoles to the main viewer; visible is a stellar core fragment, racing towards the Enterprise. Riker asks Data if he can finish in time, but Data needs slightly more time than is available. Riker wipes his head, to find he's sweating. He starts to panic as he's now succumbing to the infection. In her office, Crusher is continuing to work on finding a vaccine. Picard skips into her office and Crusher calls him by his first name, which he still considers inappropriate despite being infected. However, Crusher sees it all as a game and tells Picard that he can call her "Chief Medical Officer." Picard begins to wander off and starts to have fun with the conversation, but quickly shakes his head, trying to concentrate. Crusher stands up, taking the blue hypospray container, but she forgets where she was going. Picard indicates the hypospray, which reminds her that she was going to test it on La Forge. Meanwhile, in engineering, Data continues to rapidly work on resetting the isolinear chips, but Wesley is trying to show off his school project. He shows it to Riker, boasting about how he had reversed fields on it, but Riker focuses on Data instead. Back on the screen, the core fragment continues to approach the defenseless Enterprise, and it begins to worry Wesley. He looks at his project and contemplates what it could do if it were much more powerful. Crusher vaccinates La Forge in sickbay with Picard still present. She is unsure about her new vaccine as it is still based on the old Enterprises remedy. However, after being injected with the modified vaccine, La Forge notes that his head is clearing – the new vaccine has worked. Crusher instantly turns around and injects Picard and herself with the working vaccine. She then hands the hypospray to Picard and both leave to inoculate the crew. With the fragment homing in on the Enterprise, Wesley develops the idea to turn the starship's tractor beam into a repulsor beam. MacDougal says it would take weeks to lay out new circuits for the idea to work. Despite his intoxication, Wesley is able to formulate an idea to make his theory reality. He begins work at the console he's at; however, he is unable to think straight and becomes stuck halfway through. Picard rushes into engineering, where Riker is not confident that they have enough time. While Picard inoculates the officers present, Wesley, still suffering from the intoxication, manages to finish turning the ship's tractor beam into a repulsor beam. The beam activates and bounces the Enterprise away from the Tsiolkovsky, buying the extra time needed for Data to finish inserting the last of the isolinear chips. The core fragment impacts the Tsiolkovsky, utterly destroying her. As the crew tensely watches the monitor as the fragment bears down on them, Data finishes inserting the last isolinear chip and Riker orders the bridge to engage the warp engines. The Enterprise blasts into warp speed with seconds to spare as the fragment drifts harmlessly out into space. With his mind now clear, La Forge, who is present on the bridge, wonders what pushed them out of the way. Worf thinks it was Data, but Picard corrects him saying it was both Data and Wesley. Worf, incredulous, asks if the captain had said Wesley's name. Dr. Crusher, glowing with pride, confirms what Picard had said. Additionally, Riker recommends to Picard that Wesley should receive a fair mention in his log. Picard begrudgingly agrees with the intent to acknowledge his science teacher, as well. With everything back to normal, the senior staff returns to the bridge to commence normal operations. However, when Yar arrives on the bridge, she turns to Data at the science station and informs him, out of embarrassment, that as far as she is concerned, their "encounter" earlier that day never happened. As Data puzzles over her statement, the Enterprise warps off to its next destination as Picard states that he believes his new crew will work out well, if they can avoid temptation. Log entry Captain's log, USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D), 2364 Memorable quotes "Well, hello, Enterprise, welcome. I hope you have a lot of pretty boys on board, because I'm willing and waiting. In fact, we're going to have a real blowout here." - The Tsiolkovskys message "Indications of what Humans would call… a wild party?" "Yeah." - Data, upon viewing the distressed corridors of the Tsiolkovsky with Riker "You were right. Somebody blew out the hatch. They were all sucked out into space." "Correction, sir, that's blown out." "Thank you, Data." "A common mistake, sir." - Riker and Data get precise about the physics of rapid decompression into the vacuum of space "Wouldn't you rather be alone with me? With me in your mind?" - Troi, while Riker takes her to sickbay "Normal, all across, except… why are you perspiring, Lieutenant?" "I suppose because you have it too hot in here! What else would it be?" "That doesn't sound like you, Geordi." "Well, maybe it's not. Maybe she threw her voice. Hey, it was a joke!" - Beverly Crusher, Geordi La Forge, and William T. Riker, as La Forge exhibits symptoms of polywater intoxication "Number One, MacDougal, get that boy out of engineering!" - Picard, after Wesley Crusher takes control of the Enterprise from engineering "And there was a rather peculiar limerick being delivered by someone in the shuttlecraft bay. I'm not sure I understand it. 'There was a young lady from Venus, whose body was shaped like a–" "Captain to security! Come in!" "Did I say something wrong?" "I don't understand their humor, either." - Data, Picard, and Worf "Attention all decks, all divisions: effective immediately, I have handed over control of this vessel to acting captain Wesley Crusher." "Acting captain?!!" "Thank you, Captain Picard. Thank you. And with that order dawns a brave new day for the Enterprise." - Picard's voice, Picard and Wesley Crusher "Tractor beams are my specialty, skipper! I'll contact you when that's done. Wesley out!" - Wesley Crusher to Picard when he mentions he needs tractor beam functions back "Doctor, there must be a cure; some formula… huh-huh-huh-huh… similar to the old one." - Picard, clearing his throat uncomfortably due to Dr. Crusher's close proximity and behavior. "Captain Picard." "Lieutenant, where are you?" "I'm in my quarters, and um, I'm pretty busy right at the moment, Jean-Luc." "All right, Lieutenant. You just stay right there." - Tasha Yar and Picard "Ah, good Data. Least you're functioning." "Fully, captain." - Picard and Data, after Data has been with Tasha Yar "We are more alike than unlike, my dear captain. I have pores. Humans have pores. I have fingerprints. Humans have fingerprints. My chemical nutrients are like your blood. If you prick me, do I not… leak?" - Data "Are you saying that's why I feel so hot…so strange?" "That's… that's a bit of adult reasoning, Wesley." "So you mean I'm drunk! I feel strange, but also good." "Because…! Because you have lost the capacity for self-judgment. Now alcohol does this, Wesley, but the contaminant we brought back from the Tsiolkovsky does this even more." - Wesley and Picard "Lieutenant Yar?" "Here, Data. You wanted me?" "Captain Picard ordered me to escort you to sickbay, Lieutenant." "Did he say when?" "I'm sure he meant now. So, you should get into uniform." "But I got out of my uniform for you, Data. Do you know how old I was when I was abandoned?" "Chronological age, no. I'm afraid I'm not familiar with…" "Five, five years old. I survived, I learned how to stay alive, how to avoid the rape gangs. I was fifteen before I escaped." "I am sorry, I did not know." "What I want now is gentleness, and joy, and love from you, Data. You are fully functional, aren't you?" "Of course, but…" "How fully?" "In every way, of course. I am programmed in multiple techniques. A broad variety of pleasuring." "Oh, you jewel! That's exactly what I hoped." - Data and Tasha Yar "And, henceforth, a dessert course shall precede and follow every meal, including breakfast." "Hooray for the acting captain!!" "Never got as far as sickbay, Wes. I feel too good for that." - Wesley, Crewman, and Shimoda "Do we owe our thanks to Commander Data?" "Yes and… Wesley may have bought us a few seconds, too." "Did he say Wesley, the boy?!" "He said Wesley." - Worf, Picard and Beverly Crusher, on Wesley Crusher saving the Enterprise from destruction "Here, take this to engineering. I'll make up hypos for the others." "Okay… Bev." - Dr. Crusher and Picard "Data, I'm only going to tell you this just once: it never happened." - Tasha Yar, to Data "I put it to you all, I think we shall end up with a fine crew… if we avoid temptation." - Picard Background information Production history D.C. Fontana's first draft story outline: Story notes from Herbert J. Wright and Robert Justman: Original script: – titled "Revelations" as a planned sequel to First draft script: – titled "The Naked Now" Filmed: – Premiere airdate: UK premiere (BBC2): Story and script The plot of this episode was based on the episode , written by John D.F. Black. Like that episode, this one was intended by Gene Roddenberry to serve as a means to quickly introduce the wants and needs of new characters. However, he was aware, in this case, that approving the story to proceed to the script stage was a calculated risk; although he had decided and declared that wouldn't be a retread of TOS, he was aware he might be accused of simply copying the original series with this story. (Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Continuing Mission, p. 59) Gene Roddenberry assigned D.C. Fontana to write the script for this episode. (Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Continuing Mission, p. 59) Fontana herself recalled, "During the period of April and May [1987], I delivered the outline, revised outline, first and second draft scripts for 'The Naked Now'." (The Fifty-Year Mission: The Next 25 Years, p. 77) D.C. Fontana asked for her name to be removed after rewrites changed the episode significantly from her original intent. (Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Continuing Mission, pp. 59-60) Fontana stated, "While the script was given a good reaction by almost everyone, the Roddenberry pattern of dealing with scripts befell it. After a staffer turned in the official second draft of the script, they were not allowed to touch it again. No matter how good a script appeared to be, it would be rewritten by Gene Roddenberry. If possible, scenes of sexual content would be inserted into the script. When two such scenes were put into 'The Naked Now', in addition to other scenes which I felt debased the female characters of the series, I put my sentiments into a frankly worded memo of comment on the script. My comments were ignored." (The Fifty-Year Mission: The Next 25 Years, p. 77) In the episode's writing credits, "J. Michael Bingham" is a pseudonym for D.C. Fontana. Cast and characters According to Wil Wheaton, Jonathan Frakes sharply criticized this episode, going so far as to call it the worst segment of The Next Generation he ever did, saying he felt "totally ashamed" by it. However, while recalling the first season (at a time near the end of the series), Frakes noted on how much greater the chances the writers had taken on the show than they did at the end of the series. In contrasting , which he described as "absurd" and one of that season's "misses", he described this episode as "great" in as far as it being "the episode which we've never done anything quite like where everyone got drunk and horny. That was risky." (Trek: The Next Generation Crew Book) In a 2006 review, Wil Wheaton gave this episode a D+. He concluded, "The Naked Now' has some genuinely funny moments, but it was only the second time (after series pilot '') that audiences had seen us, and this episode was not the best way to introduce the audience to a new show, with a new cast, especially when we all knew we were standing on the shoulders of giants." Beverly Crusher actress Gates McFadden was given this episode for her audition. The installment gave McFadden, whose favorite parts to play were comedic roles, the mistaken impression that Dr. Crusher would be a hilarious character. (The Fifty-Year Mission: The Next 25 Years, p. 103) Yar actress Denise Crosby did not cite this as her favorite TNG episode but acknowledged that, in the moment when Tasha Yar seductively invites Data into her quarters, it includes her most famous scene as Yar. Crosby observed, "Brent [Spiner] and I always have a twinkle in our eye when we talk about it." (SFX, issue 136, p. 028) Sets and props As seen in the scenes set in main engineering, the main engineering central interface console (the "pool table") hasn't been added to the set yet. In addition, the glass partitions seen in sickbay were removed after this episode and never seen again. This is the first appearance of the 24th century medical tricorder. A wooden sculpture, seen in Natasha Yar's quarters, later turned up in Marla Aster's quarters in the third season episode . More artwork was created for a sequence where Data views information at high speed. A number of notable designs are mixed into the graphics, such as ship designs from the FASA role-playing reference works. (See: USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) library computer) The Tsiolkovsky is a reuse of the model from . A piece of background artwork seen behind Data was the Tsiolkovsky dedication plaque, which lists the ship's NCC number and its origin in the USSR, a nation that disintegrated in 1991, four years after this episode was produced. Starfleet usually places the plaque on the bridge, but the Tsiolkovsky had its plaque in the anteroom outside the bridge where Riker and Data examined a viewscreen. Like the dedication plaque, the door labels on the Tsiolkovsky, indicating that the away team beamed to Deck 7 on the ship, feature black writing on a white background, both unusual when compared to later plaques and labels. In the crew quarters of the Tsiolkovsky, a chair from can be seen. The shelf seen in Deanna Troi's quarters was previously used as one of the Bandi shop decorations in "Encounter at Farpoint". The diamond-shaped statue in Tasha Yar's quarters previously appeared in Kirk's apartment in and can later be seen in the Antican guest quarters in the episode and at the Café des Artistes in the episode . Production and visual effects This episode entered production on , merely eight working days after "Encounter at Farpoint" wrapped principal photography. (Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Continuing Mission, p. 48) According to Robert Legato, ninety-five visual effects shots were used in this episode. ("Departmental Briefing Year Five" ("Visual Effects"), TNG Season 5 DVD special feature) Music The episode's score was recorded on at Paramount Stage M. For this episode, composer and conductor Ron Jones had a smaller orchestra than ultimately became the norm for the series – thirty-one players, as opposed to more than forty musicians. Jones composed two cues that were cut from the finished episode. "Needing Love" was to have underscored the scene where Tasha talks about her feelings. "Horny Doctor" was to have played during the scene between Beverly and Picard in the ready room. Jones attributes Rick Berman with the decision to cut the cues, recalling that Berman asked him, "Can't you write anything non-emotional?" (Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Ron Jones Project liner notes ) The complete episode score, totalling twenty-two minutes, forty-nine seconds and including the two cut tracks, appears on Disc One of the Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Ron Jones Project collection. Continuity This is the first time Captain James T. Kirk is referred to by name in the new Star Trek series. This is the first Star Trek episode that does not feature any Vulcan. Although literature for many years had referred to the original as "", this was the first episode in any series that actually used it in its dialogue, thus making it canon for the very first time – even though, as the TOS reference is made, the refit configuration appears on the screen. In the Blu-ray restoration, it was corrected to the original model of the ship. This is the only appearance of Lieutenant Commander MacDougal as chief engineer. After this episode, Lieutenant Commander Argyle, Lieutenant , and Lieutenant Commander Leland T. Lynch all served as chief engineers of the Enterprise-D. As described by Riker in , the Enterprise-D had several chief engineers before Geordi La Forge assumed the position as the ship's sole chief engineer in TNG Season 2. Data uses a few contractions in this episode – “Captain, what we’ve just heard is… impossible”, "That's blown out", "I'm sure he meant now". It was later established, in , that Data has an inability to use contractions. This is the only episode of the series where Picard refers to Beverly Crusher as "Bev",…though Troi addresses Crusher by this name much later in the series, in . Deanna Troi debuts her dark casual attire in this episode, which she wore during the rest of the first season. This is one of the few early episodes where "Will" Riker is referred to as "Bill". In this case, Troi uses "Bill" during a scene in engineering. This is one of three episodes where Picard is seen occupying the first officer's chair instead of his usual command chair – the other two being and . Data later speaks of his and Tasha Yar's intimate encounter in , making an exception to his vow never to mention it to others. Data's "fully functional" sexual anatomy and knowledge of multiple techniques are also referenced in . At the start of the episode, Captain Picard's log mentions that they are traveling at Warp 7. However, the fact that the stars around the ship are not streaking would indicate they are running at impulse speed. Captain Picard begins showing symptoms of polywater intoxication after speaking to Dr. Crusher in the Ready Room. However, no skin to skin contact is apparent between the two, and the "sizzling" sound effect usually indicative of transmission is never heard. This episode marks the first time in The Next Generation that someone from the production staff can be seen. This time, the reflection of a camera operator can be seen in the glass front in sickbay during the final scene. Further production staffers who can be seen include two unknown men in , Bill Gocke in , an unknown man in , June Abston Haymore in , and a boom operator in . Gene Roddenberry made an unexpected cameo (of sorts) in this episode. Around the fifteen-minute mark, as Data explores the LCARS database for info, a brief picture can be seen of Roddenberry's head superimposed onto a parrot. This is in reference to his nickname, the Great Bird of the Galaxy. The same image was reused in several episodes during the first three seasons when someone was portrayed exploring through the ship's information quickly. Reception Despite Yar's seduction of Data being highly memorable for viewers, many fans reacted to this story by expressing accusations that it plagiarized "The Naked Time". (Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Continuing Mission, p. 59) Original series cast member George Takei wrote in his autobiography, To The Stars: The Autobiography of George Takei, that he thought this episode was a total copy of one of the best original series episodes, that it was unoriginal, and was like seeing "young children putting on their parents' clothes and trying to act like grown-ups." Maurice Hurley commented, "That, to me, represented, 'Don't we have a new idea?' I didn't like that show at all. It just wasn't very good. What it did show, though, was that the new ensemble could interact, and that there were relationships between them that worked. But doing it was terrible. It was a warmed-over premise. Why do it?" (Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages, p. 156) However, at least some production staffers who worked on this episode thought it was sufficiently different from "The Naked Now". Rick Berman maintained, "It was an homage, not a copy. We even mentioned the old Enterprise and its remedy, which doesn't help our crew… after all." () Director Paul Lynch commented, "Because it's a new case, they [the intoxicated characters] change accordingly […] I'd say that 'The Naked Now' is slightly more comic than the original […] In this it's much more of a character change in the way of romance and strangeness leading to humor… It's all quite subtle compared to the original, because the original episode was quite heavy-handed like most of the original episodes were." (Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages) In another interview, Lynch also commented, "I would say 'The Naked Now' is slightly more adult and much more comic. In this, it's much more of a character change in the way of romance and strangeness leading towards humor. Everybody in the show is affected by it in different ways, but not that dissimilar. For instance, while one person might be affected by becoming amorous in a lighter sense. It's all quite subtle." ("Inside 'The Naked Now'", ) In , Lynch stated that this episode was his favorite of the five Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes he had directed. Mark A. Altman regarded this episode as one of a few "really sub-par" episodes in the early run of TNG. (Trek: Deepspace Nine, p. 73) A mission report of this episode, by Patrick Daniel O'Neill, was published in . Video and DVD releases Original UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 2, catalog number VHR 2264, US LaserDisc (): catalog number LV40270-103, Original US VHS release: Japan LaserDisc: UK re-release (three-episode tapes, Paramount Home Entertainment): Volume 1.1, catalog number VHR 4642, As part of the TNG Season 1 DVD collection As part of the TNG Season 1 Blu-ray collection Links and references Starring Patrick Stewart as Captain Jean-Luc Picard Jonathan Frakes as Commander William T. Riker Also starring LeVar Burton as Lt. Geordi La Forge Denise Crosby as Lt. Tasha Yar Michael Dorn as Lt. Worf Gates McFadden as Doctor Beverly Crusher Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi Brent Spiner as Lt. Commander Data Wil Wheaton as Wesley Crusher Guest star Brooke Bundy as Lieutenant Commander MacDougal Co-stars Benjamin W.S. Lum as Jim Shimoda Michael Rider as Transporter Chief (deleted scene) Featuring David Renan as Conn Skip Stellrecht as Engineering Crewman Kenny Koch as Kissing Crewman Uncredited co-stars Marti Avila as Female security officer Michael Bailous as sciences officer James G. 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The Way to Eden (episode)

The Enterprise picks up a group of renegades who have rejected modern technological life to search for the mythical planet Eden. Summary Teaser The intercepts the , a stolen space cruiser. The crew of the craft attempt to run away, but the engines overheat and the vessel is destroyed. Moments before the explosion, Scott is able to beam them safely aboard. There, the thieves are revealed to be a wild-looking group of primitivist space hippies. Act One In the transporter room, Kirk and Spock meet the thieves. Among them is Tongo Rad, the son of a Catullan ambassador – and whose involvement prevents Captain Kirk, under orders from the Federation, from arresting the group for theft. Instead, Kirk is ordered to bring them to a starbase as guests. Rad and the group are not fazed by Kirk, and continue to sit on the floor, though they do demand Kirk bring them to the planet Eden – which Kirk insists is a myth. Spock apparently seems to understand the group's gestures and motives, though they do not give him details, either. They chant Kirk derisively, "!" "Captain's log, stardate 5832.3. The son of the Catullan ambassador is one of six we have beamed aboard from the stolen cruiser Aurora. We have been ordered to handle him with extreme delicacy, because the treaty negotiations now in progress between the Federation and Catulla are in a crucial phase." Kirk goes to the bridge to have Lieutenant notify the starbase that they have the group alive. Another member of the group is Irina Galliulin, an acquaintance of Ensign Chekov and a dropout from Starfleet Academy. The group, led by Dr. Sevrin, a former university professor on Tiburon, rejects conventional society. In sickbay, Chekov meets Galliulin after losing track of her a long time ago. He asks what happened, and she says she believes in her path and knew Chekov would not approve. When she rejoins her group, shouting is heard since Dr. Sevrin is quarantined. Chekov joins the security officers guarding sickbay in pushing back Sevrin's followers from entering. Act Two After being examined in sickbay, Dr. Sevrin is found to be a carrier for the deadly bacteria synthococcus novae, created by the very advances that make life in the 23rd century possible. The disease has no cure, but immunization is available. Kirk orders Dr. McCoy that boosters be administered to the crew, but that Dr. Sevrin must be put in isolation until he no longer poses a danger to the crew or his companions. Dr. Sevrin protests the action, claiming he did not know he was a carrier. Meanwhile, Dr. Sevrin's companions boldly circulate among the crew, attempting to incite the younger members, in particular, Sulu, to join them. "Captain's log, stardate 5832.5. The arrogance of Dr. Sevrin and his followers is creating an intolerable situation aboard the Enterprise. If it continues, I'll be forced to use controls which might not agree with Starfleet's suggestion that they be handled with extreme tolerance." Kirk finally asks Spock to speak to Dr. Sevrin to persuade his followers to stop their actions before they are charged under Federation laws and barred from continuing their search for Eden. Dr. Sevrin then reveals to Spock he did know he was a carrier, and blames advanced technology for infecting him, then forcing him to stay near advanced technology. He says only a primitive world – such as Eden – can fully cleanse him from the disease. Spock counters that his presence would destroy any life on that planet, but Dr. Sevrin is unrelenting in his quest. Spock concludes that Dr. Sevrin is insane, but offers to help in the search for Eden by using the resources of the Enterprise. "Captain's log, stardate 5832.6. I have asked Dr. McCoy to check Starfleet medical records to verify Mr. Spock's suspicion that Dr. Sevrin is insane. In spite of Dr. Sevrin's antipathy to us, he has promised Mr. Spock that he will order his disciples to conform to our rules and regulations." Adam, one of Dr. Sevrin's followers, visits Spock in his quarters with a request to put on a concert for the crew. Spock agrees to ask Kirk about the idea. Adam spots Spock's Vulcan lute on a shelf behind him and Spock lets him try it out. Adam then hands the lute to Spock for a little demonstration on how to play it. Adam asks Spock to join him on the concert that he has proposed. Spock agrees. Meanwhile, in auxiliary control, Chekov is assisting Spock's search for Eden, but he is distracted by Irina's presence. In trying to seduce the young ensign, Irina learns about the functions of the secondary control room. Adam and Irina then rejoin the rest of the group and there the true plan is revealed: the group is attempting to seize control of the Enterprise once Eden is located. Act Three During the concert, Tongo Rad climbs up a ladder, sneaks up behind Sevrin's guard, knocks him out and releases Dr. Sevrin. They make their way to auxiliary control and the others join them, they divert control of the ship to themselves and change course for Eden – taking the Enterprise across the Romulan Neutral Zone and into Romulan territory. On the bridge, Sulu reports to Kirk that the helm is unresponsive. Scott believes it may have shorted out, but determines that helm control has been redirected to auxiliary control. Sevrin announces that he now has control of the Enterprise, as well as the ship's life support, and will not release control of the vessel until they reach Eden. Knowing that Dr. Sevrin will do whatever he plans to do, Kirk orders Scott to break into auxiliary control by cutting through a wall with a phaser. As Kirk, Spock, and Scott attempt to enter the room, Sevrin prevents he and his followers from being seized by applying ultrasonics to knock out the crew of the Enterprise. Act Four Kirk and Spock come to, however, and, under great agony, manage to shut off the sound waves. Kirk contacts the shuttlebay and discovers that a shuttle is missing. Dr. Sevrin and his followers stole the shuttlecraft Galileo II to take them to the planet's surface. Kirk decides to go after them. They are joined by Chekov and Dr. McCoy in the transporter room and beam down to the planet's surface in search of the group. They learn the legends about the planet are true – Eden is a fabulously beautiful planet. However, they learn the beauty hides deadly secrets: the grass and plant life are full of a powerful acid, and the fruit is poisonous to Humans. Eventually, the shuttlecraft is found, with Sevrin and his followers nursing severe burns on their bare feet from the acid in the grass and Adam dead from eating the fruit. McCoy makes plans to beam everyone to the ship for medical treatment, but Sevrin refuses to leave, runs to a tree, takes a bite out of the fruit and quickly dies. Back on the Enterprise, Sevrin's followers prepare to leave the ship. On the bridge, Spock urges Irina to continue their quest for Eden. "I have no doubt you will find it … or make it yourselves," he tells Irina as she and Chekov then kiss goodbye. "We reach… Mr. Spock," Kirk says. The Enterprise continues on its mission. Log entries Captain's log, USS Enterprise (NCC-1701), 2269 Memorable quotes "Herbert!" - Space hippies chanting and refusing to comply – "One." "We are one." "One is the beginning." "Are you One, Herbert?" "I am not Herbert." "He's not Herbert! We reach!" - Spock and Sevrin and Adam, as Spock opens a dialogue "Many myths are based on truth, Captain." - Spock, on the existence of Eden "There are many who are uncomfortable with what we have created. It is almost a biological rebellion – a profound revulsion against the planned communities, the programming, the sterilized, artfully balanced atmospheres. They hunger for an Eden – where spring comes." "All do. The cave is deep in our memory." - Spock and Kirk, on why Sevrin's followers embrace the primitive lifestyle "They regard themselves as aliens in their own worlds – a condition with which I am somewhat familiar." - Spock, to Kirk, showing his knowledge of Sevrin's beliefs "Herbert was a minor official, notorious for his rigid and limited patterns of thought." "Well, I shall try to be less rigid in my thinking." - Spock and Kirk, after Kirk was called "Herbert" "Gonna crack my knuckles and jump for joy! I got a clean bill of health from Doctor McCoy!" - Adam, in sickbay – "I thought all the animals were kept in cages." - Chapel, when Sevrin's followers angrily try to enter sickbay "I am proud of what I am, I believe in what I do. Can you say that?" - Chekov, to Irina, in hallway after leaving sickbay with her. "Why did you stay away?" "Because you disapproved of me, just as you do now. Oh Pavel, you have always been like this, so correct. And inside, the struggle not to be. Give in to yourself, you will happier, you'll see." - Chekov and Irina "You don't belong with them! You know what we want – you want it too! Come! Join us!" "How do you know what I want?" "You're young. Think young, brother!" "You make it tempting." - Female space hippie, to Sulu "Stiff man putting my mind in jail And the judge bang the gavel and say 'No bailGonna lick his hand and wag my tail!" - Adam – "Captain, I just had to give one of those barefooted what-do-you-call-'ems the boot out of here. She came in bold as brass, tried to incite my crew to disaffect." - Montgomery Scott, to Captain Kirk, about one of Sevrin's young followers – "I could never obey a computer." "You could never listen to anyone. You always had to be different." "Not different, what I wanted to be. There is nothing wrong in doing what you want." - Irina, before kissing Chekov"I don't understand why a young mind has to be an undisciplined one." "I used to get into some trouble when I was that age, Scotty, didn't you?" - Scott and Kirk, on Severin's young followers "We cannot allow them to come after us. It will not reach us in here; I can control it all. I have adjusted it so that it will suspend its effects after a few moments and allow us time to escape. Then, after we've gone, it will automatically reactivate. Rejoice, brethren! Soon we shall step together into Eden." - Doctor Severin, on how he will disable the Enterprise crew so he and his followers can escape. "Stepping into Eden Yea brother Stepping into Eden Yea brother No more trouble in my body or my mind Gonna live like a king on whatever I find Eat all the fruit and throw away the rind Yea brother." - Space hippies, after putting Kirk and the Enterprise crew to sleep with ultrasonics – "His name was Adam." - Spock, seeing Adam's corpse next to the half-eaten fruit "Be incorrect, occasionally." "And you be correct." "Occasionally." - Irina and Chekov, after their last kiss "It is my sincere wish that you do not give up your search for Eden. I have no doubt but that you will find it, or make it yourselves." - Spock''' to Irina, just before she leaves the ship Background information Production timeline Story outline by D.C. Fontana, titled "Joanna", Revised story outline, Revised story outline, titled "The Way to Eden", Second revised story outline, First draft teleplay by Arthur Heinemann, Second draft teleplay, Final draft teleplay by Arthur Singer, Revised final draft teleplay, mid- Second revised final draft teleplay by Fred Freiberger, Music recording session, Makeup tests, Additional page revisions by Freiberger, , Filmed, – Day 1 – , Thursday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Bridge Day 2 – , Friday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Bridge, Auxiliary control center Day 3 – , Monday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Recreation room (redress of Briefing room), Transporter room Day 4 – , Tuesday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Transporter room, Sickbay, Corridors, Auxiliary control center Day 5 – , Wednesday – Desilu Stage 10: Ext. Eden surface, Int. Shuttlecraft; Desilu Stage 9: Int. Sickbay Day 6 – , Friday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Brig, Auxiliary control center, Recreation room (redress of Briefing room) Original airdate, First UK airdate, During the syndication run of Star Trek, no syndication cuts were made to this episode. Story and production D.C. Fontana was unhappy with the rewrite of her original script, and requested to be credited under her pseudonym "Michael Richards". The character of Irina Galliulin was originally to be Joanna McCoy, daughter of Dr. McCoy, and to be a love interest for Captain Kirk (the episode's original title was "Joanna"), but that script was later rejected. Joanna was also supposed to appear in an episode in season four, but again, it was not to be. Chekov's character (which in the original story, was meant to have been Kirk's character) is portrayed in this episode as a rigid, rule-quoting straight arrow, in contrast to the writers' initial concept of the character as a younger, less authoritarian character who might appeal to teenage viewers. Walter Koenig has called the episode "badly written" partly because of this. He also called this episode the low point of his character's tenure on the show. To create reaction shots of Kirk that were not filmed, several shots of William Shatner are repeated, printed backwards. This is obvious in a shot on the surface of Eden, where Kirk's insignia appears on the wrong side of his shirt. In the scene in which Spock plays his Vulcan harp for Adam (the last time he plays the instrument on the series), the background music for Uhura's song from is recycled. Nurse Chapel's collapse, as well as the collapse of other crewmembers in the corridor, is reused footage from . This is why the lights go out in sickbay during that shot, while they are functioning normally elsewhere on the ship. The references to the insult "Herbert" and the official it was named after were inserted at the behest of production executive Douglas S. Cramer. It is thought that they were digs at his predecessor, Herbert F. Solow, though has also been suggested as a target. Due to the extra makeup load for this episode, Paramount brought additional outside makeup artists Larry Abbott and George Barr to assist in show's regular makeup staff. (On the Good Ship Enterprise, p. 249) Cast Nichelle Nichols (Uhura) does not appear in this episode. Lieutenant , who fills in, makes her second and final TOS appearance after in the second season. Skip Homeier also starred in as Melakon. Charles Napier co-wrote two of the songs he sings in this episode, including "Headin' Out to Eden" and "Looking for a New Land". (Star Trek: The Original Series Soundtrack Collection ; These Are the Voyages: TOS Season Three, p. 555) He later appeared as Denning in the fourth season episode . Sets and props The hijacked Class F shuttlecraft was the oft-used Galileo, although in this adventure she bore the name Galileo II. In the original version of the episode, the spacecraft Aurora is a Tholian ship with AMT model kit nacelles added to it. It is shown in the preview trailer without the nacelles. For the remastered version, a new design was created. A brief shot of the surface of Eden is reused footage of the lakeside from . A shot of the surface of Gamma Trianguli VI from is also recycled and used in the same scene. Gary Mitchell's Kaferian apple tree can be seen in the foliage on Eden. Continuity This episode marks the first mention of Chekov's patronymic / middle name. Galliulin greets him with "Pavel Andreievich". Spock's desire to find Eden is further explained in , although it is unlikely the stories were intended to be linked. Star Trek V closely parallels some of this episode's plot points, too. Reception According to James Doohan, this was the only episode of the series that he did not like. Video and DVD releases Original US Betamax release: UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 39, catalog number VHR 2435, US VHS release: UK re-release (three-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 3.7, Original US DVD release (single-disc): Volume 38, As part of the TOS Season 3 DVD collection As part of the TOS-R Season 3 DVD collection Links and references Starring William Shatner as Capt. Kirk Also starring Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock And DeForest Kelley as Dr. McCoy Guest star Skip Homeier as Sevrin Also starring Charles Napier as Adam Mary-Linda Rapelye as Irina James Doohan as Scott Walter Koenig as Chekov George Takei as Sulu Majel Barrett as Nurse Chapel Victor Brandt as Tongo Rad Elizabeth Rogers as Lt. Deborah Downey as Girl #1 Phyllis Douglas as Girl #2 Uncredited co-stars William Blackburn as Hadley James Drake as a Sickbay intern Frank da Vinci as Brent Roger Holloway as Lemli Jeannie Malone as Female patient (archive footage) Lieutenant Frieda Rentie as Sciences crew woman 2 (archive footage) Gary Wright as Enterprise sciences crewman Unknown actors as Command lieutenant 1 Command lieutenant 2 Crewman (archive footage) Crew woman Engineering technician 1 (archive footage) Engineering technician 2 Engineering technician 3 Medical technician Operations crew woman 1 Operations crew woman 2 Operations crew woman 3 Sciences crew woman 1 Sciences crew woman 3 Sciences technician 1 Sciences technician 2 Security guard 1 Security guard 2 References ability; acid; acoustics; Adam and Eve; Adam's guitar; alien; ambassador; ancient history; anger; animal; answer; antipathy; area; arrest; arrogance; aseptic; atmosphere; attack; ; authority; auxiliary control center; bacillus; back; bail; bearing; belief; Bible; biological rebellion; body; "bold as brass"; boarding; "Bones"; booster shot; botany; breathe; briefing room; brig; brother; ; ; case; Catulla; Catullan; Catullan ambassador; cave; ; "checkup"; ; children; choice; circuit; city; civilization; Class F shuttlecraft; "clean bill of health"; clothes (aka clothing); combat; communications; computer; computer banks; computer program; confusion; coordinates; course; cream; crime; criminal; crying; curiosity; danger; day; destination: disease; disciple; disciplinary action; door; Earth city; Eden (garden); Eden (planet); electronics; emergency power; emptiness; endangering; engine; evidence; evolution; explanation; explosion; favorite; Federation regulations; file; fire; flight regulations; floor; flower; friend; fruit; fun; immunization; Galileo II; Galliulin's friends; gavel; grass; guest; ; hailing frequency; hand; hangar deck; harassment; "Headin' Out to Eden"; ; ""; "Hey, Out There!"; hippie; hobby; honey; hospital; hostility; hour; humanoid; imprisonment; incitement to disaffection;infection; information; infringement; insanity; isolation; jail; joy; judge; : king; knowledge; knuckles; leader; legend; licking; "Like Hail"; life; life support; location; "Looking for a New Land"; main control room; malfunction; mathematics; medical gear; medical team; memory; mile; Milky Way Galaxy; mind; mood; mutual understanding; myth; name; navigation; objection; official; ; orbit; order; overheating; panel; passenger ship; patrol; permission; physical; piracy; planned community; planet (aka world); plant; poison; peace; ; prejudice; primitives; prisoner; problem; product; programming; promise; psychological profile; quarters; radiation; report; research; research engineer; ; ; right; rind; Romulans; Romulan Neutral Zone; Romulan space; room; science; scientist; scope; sensor range; sentence; session; shield; shuttlecraft; sitting; son; sound; space; space cruiser; space studies; specialist; speed; spring; standing; starbase; Starbase Planet; star chart; Starfleet Academy; ; suicide; suspicion; sympathy; Synthococcus novae''; tail; tape; teasing; technology; text; thinking; thought; Tiburon; Tiburonian; tolerance; tractor beam; transportation range; transporter room; treaty negotiations; truth; Typhoid Mary; ultrasonics; United Federation of Planets; voice; Vulcan; Vulcan lute; wagging; way of living; weapons; wheel harp; whistle; white; wish; word; year External links and de:Die Reise nach Eden es:The Way to Eden fr:The Way to Eden (épisode) ja:自由の惑星エデンを求めて（エピソード） nl:The Way to Eden pl:The Way to Eden TOS episodes

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Requiem for Methuselah (episode)

While the Enterprise searches for the rare cure to a deadly disease, the landing party is confronted by a reclusive man who is willing to kill to preserve his privacy. Summary Teaser Its crew suffering from the deadly Rigelian fever, the pays an emergency call on a supposedly barren planet, Holberg 917G, to gather ryetalyn, a rare element that is the key ingredient of the antidote. Beaming down to the planet, Kirk, McCoy, and Spock are attacked by a hovering robot called M-4. An old man, Flint, arrives to halt the robot's attack, but insists to Kirk that the landing party leave at once or die. Act One Kirk asks Flint to reconsider but Flint still refuses. As a result, Kirk flips open his communicator orders that Scott have the Enterprise lock phasers onto their coordinates. When the situation seems completely hopeless, Flint relents and gives Kirk two hours to obtain the ryetalyn. Flint orders M-4 to gather the ryetalyn. In the meantime, Flint invites the landing party to his impressive home. When they arrive, Kirk, Spock and McCoy find in the living room what appears to be authentic but undiscovered specimens of Earth art, such as a score by Brahms and paintings by Leonardo da Vinci. They also come across a Gutenberg Bible and several works of Reginald Pollack. The men are unaware that a beautiful young woman wearing a long, elegant silver dress is watching them on a video screen in what appears to be the drawing room. When M-4 returns with the ryetalyn, Kirk prepares to beam back up to the ship but ultimately accepts Flint's offer to process the rare element. It is at this moment that Flint introduces the young woman from the drawing room: his beautiful, highly intelligent, but ultimately enigmatic ward named Rayna, whose beauty immediately attracts Kirk's attention. Act Two Flint introduces Rayna to McCoy and Spock. Her first time encountering a Vulcan, she wishes to discuss field density with him at a later time. Flint explains that Rayna's parents were in his employ and died in an accident. They placed her in his custody and she has been with him ever since. Rayna explains that the landing party are the only other men she has ever seen, which McCoy replies, "the misfortune of men everywhere and our privilege." Flint seems to encourage encounters between Kirk and Rayna, such as having them play billiards or having them dance while Spock plays the piano. Kirk recalls to Flint that he had said something earlier about savagery and wonders when was the last time Flint had visited Earth. Flint tells him that Kirk will probably say that it is no longer cruel but he notes that the Enterprise itself is "bristling" with weapons and its mission is to colonize, exploit, and destroy if necessary. Kirk replies that their missions are peaceful and their weapons are used strictly for defense. He notes that if they were truly barbarians, they would not have asked for the ryetalyn, they would have simply taken it. He recalls that Flint's own introduction to the landing party lacked a certain benevolence when they arrived. Kirk is becoming closer to Rayna while they play a game of billiards, and while she teaches him some pointers on the game, Kirk tells Flint that to be Human is to be complex, the species cannot avoid ugliness from within or without. Meanwhile, McCoy returns with the report while Kirk and Rayna are dancing. He reports that the ryetalyn contains irillium in quantities sufficient enough to render the antidote useless. Flint offers to go with M-4 and collect more samples and to screen them himself. He offers to let McCoy join him. Later, Kirk enters Flint's laboratory. He is looking around when Rayna enters. He walks over to her and notes that the room became lonely without her. She tells him that loneliness is "a thirst. A flower dying in the desert," something Flint had said to her earlier. Kirk does not understand what she is talking about and asks what is in the room behind a closed door in the lab. Rayna does not know, as Flint has told her she must never enter that room. Kirk asks why she is here then, and she tells him she often comes to this place when she is troubled. Kirk asks why she is troubled and also if she is happy here with Flint. She says Flint is the kindest man in the galaxy, but if so, Kirk wonders, why is she troubled? As Kirk leans in to give her a kiss, M-4 arrives and prepares to attack him. Act Three Rayna orders the robot to stop, but it does not respond to her command. Just as M-4 prepares to fire on Kirk, Spock enters and vaporizes it with a blast from his phaser. Later, Flint tells Kirk that the robot was programmed to defend the house and its occupants; it did not anticipate Kirk looking around in the lab. However, another M-4 unit arrives in Flint's living room. He states that it is too useful a device to be without. Flint notes that Kirk should be thankful that he did not attack him, as he has twice the captain's strength, but Kirk remarks that, as Flint had said earlier, it would be an interesting test of power. Rayna is pleased that Kirk did not die in the incident and Flint states that death, when unnecessary, is tragic. He orders that Kirk wait in his study, "patiently, safely," while McCoy analyzes the quality of the ryetalyn in the lab. He reminds Kirk that his defense systems operate automatically and not always in accordance with his wishes. As Flint and Rayna leave, Kirk and Spock realize Flint loves Rayna and is exhibiting jealousy towards Kirk. However, Kirk points out that Flint seemed to want Rayna and Kirk to participate in activities together, which Spock notes seems to defy male logic as he understands it. Kirk contacts the Enterprise and asks for a status on the progression of the Rigelian fever. Scott tells him that the disease has infected nearly everyone on board and they are now operating with a skeleton crew. Kirk also asks for the report on a computer search on both Flint and Rayna. Uhura informs him that there are absolutely no past records of Flint and, later, of Rayna. Kirk and Spock realize that Flint wishes for them to linger for reasons unknown. In the drawing room, Rayna and Flint are watching Kirk and Spock on the video screen. Rayna tells him that she could not have summoned M-4, as she was not frightened. She believes Flint had sent the robot there to kill Kirk, which he vehemently denies. He asks her to say her farewells before Kirk leaves. Rayna sees Kirk again, and the captain tells Spock he will see him in the lab later. She tells Kirk that she has come to say goodbye, but he does not want to. He kisses her, asks her to leave with him and leave Flint. Shortly after, Rayna runs away when Kirk tells her she loves him, not Flint. Later, in Flint's lab, Kirk meets up with McCoy and Spock. They discover the room that is off-limits to Rayna, where they discover Flint has been hiding the processed ryetalyn. Searching for the antidote, the men discover three earlier versions of Rayna: one bald, one brunette, and another unseen under a sheet — indicated by signs reading RAYNA 16, RAYNA 15 and RAYNA 14 respectively. They realize the woman Kirk loves is not human; she is an android. Act Four Flint then arrives and reveals his other secret; he is an ancient immortal, born almost four millennia before Christ, in 3834 BC. Over the course of his long lifetime, Flint has taken on many names, such as Brahms and da Vinci. Eventually, he acquired enough wealth to purchase Holberg 917G and work on a perfect, ultimate – and equally immortal – woman. Kirk had provided the final step in her creation, stirring her emotions to life. Flint presses a button on a small remote control device, and the Enterprise vanishes from the planet's orbit — reappearing the size of a model on a table. An astounded Kirk looks inside the 'model' starship (his face appearing on the bridge's viewscreen as he does so) and sees the crew members on the bridge going about their duties but frozen like statues. Flint says he has put the Enterprise and its crew into suspension and will do the same to Kirk, Spock and McCoy, keeping them and the Enterprise in that state for a thousand years or more, as Rayna's emotions turn to him. Despite Flint's intent to keep her creation a secret, Rayna enters the room and learns the truth — forcing Flint to use his remote control to release the ship. The 'model' Enterprise vanishes from the table, and the full-sized starship reappears in orbit. Flint and Kirk fight over Rayna, stopped only by the emergence of Rayna's emotions. However, her new feelings and suddenly having to choose between Flint and Kirk overwhelms her, and she shuts down — collapsing to the floor. Back aboard ship, the plague is stopped and Kirk finally falls asleep at the desk in his quarters after ruefully reflecting on what had happened. McCoy enters and informs Spock that the full tricorder readings on Flint indicate he is aging and will eventually die of natural causes. By leaving Earth, he had sacrificed his immortality. After commenting about love and Spock's eschewing of that emotion, the doctor looks at Kirk and wishes the captain could forget Rayna. As McCoy leaves, Spock moves over to his sleeping captain, and places one hand on Kirk's temple. Spock then proceeds to grant McCoy's wish by whispering "Forget" and using a Vulcan mind meld to erase Kirk's memory of Rayna — thus easing his captain's pain. With the Enterprises crew now cured of the plague, the starship flies on through space towards new adventures. Log entries Captain's log, USS Enterprise (NCC-1701), 2269 Memorable quotes "If you do not leave voluntarily, I have the power to force you to leave – or kill you where you stand." - Flint, to Kirk "Are you a student of history, sir?" "I am." - Spock and Flint, as Flint recalls the bubonic plague "What is loneliness?" "It is thirst. It is a flower dying in the desert." - Rayna and Flint "Do you think the two of us can handle a drunk Vulcan?" - McCoy to Kirk, after pouring some Saurian brandy "Flint is my teacher. You are the only other men I've ever seen." "The misfortune of men everywhere. And our privilege." - Rayna and McCoy, after they meet "To be human is to be complex. You can't avoid a little ugliness from within and from without." - Kirk, to Flint "I have married a hundred times, Captain. Selected, loved, cherished. Caressed a smoothness, inhaled a brief fragrance. Then age, death, the taste of dust." - Flint, on why he created Rayna "At her age, I rather enjoyed errors with no noticeable damage." - McCoy, countering Flint musings that Rayna's intellectual cultivation is a priority to avoid errors and wasting time in unprofitable pursuits. "I know death better than any man. I have tossed enemies into his grasp. And I know mercy. Your crew is not dead, but suspended." - Flint, to Kirk "Stay out of this! We're fighting over a woman!" "No, you're not. For she is not." - Kirk and Spock, during Kirk's fight with Flint "She's human. Down to the last blood cell, she's human. Down to the last thought, hope, aspiration, emotion, she's human. The human spirit is free." - Kirk, after Rayna stops the fight "I was not human. Now I love. I love." - Raynas last words "The joys of love made her Human. And the agonies of love destroyed her." - Spock, on Rayna's death "A very old and lonely man. And a young and lonely man. We put on a pretty poor show, didn't we?" - Kirk to Spock, lamenting Rayna's death "You see, I feel sorrier for you than I do for him because you'll never know the things that love can drive a man to. The ecstasies, the miseries, the broken rules, the desperate chances, the glorious failures, the glorious victories. All of these things you'll never know simply because the word love isn't written into your book." - McCoy, to Spock "Forget." - Spock, using a Vulcan mind meld to ease Kirk's pain Background information Production timeline Story outline by Jerome Bixby, Revised story outline, Second revised story outline, First draft teleplay, Second draft teleplay, Final draft teleplay by Arthur Singer, late- Revised final draft teleplay by Fred Freiberger, Additional page revisions by Freiberger, , , Filmed, – Day 1 – , Monday – Paramount Stage 5: Int. Central room Day 2 – , Tuesday – Paramount Stage 5: Int. Central room Day 3 – , Wednesday – Paramount Stage 5: Int. Central room, Rayna's quarters Day 4 – , Thursday – Desilu Stage 10: Ext. Planet surface, Int. Flint's lab Day 5 – , Friday – Desilu Stage 10: Int. Flint's lab; Desilu Stage 9: Int. Life lab Day 6 – , Monday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Life lab Day 7 – , Tuesday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Life lab, Bridge, Kirk's quarters Original airdate, Rerun airdate, First UK airdate, Story This episode's title is a dual allusion: first to a ritualistic liturgy of Roman Catholicism (and other related religions), the "Requiem" being a Mass for the dead, and second to , son of the Biblical prophet and paternal grandfather to , who was the longest-lived Human being in the Bible (in Genesis 5:21-27) having lived 969 years; existing for nearly a millennium, Methuselah's lifespan has historically become a proverbial reference for longevity. In a story outline (dated ) the 8,000-year-old Flint was also Ludwig van Beethoven. Spock enabled Kirk to forget Rayna by using mental suggestion from a distance, while Kirk was in his cabin and Spock was on the bridge. In the final scene in the episode, Spock causes Kirk to forget but not from a distance, but by touching his head and telling him to forget. Bixby wanted Flint (originally depicted by him as a Neanderthal) to have been Beethoven, because, according to him, "Beethoven had a kind of Neanderthal cast to his face". However, in staff rewrites, it was changed to Johannes Brahms. (These Are the Voyages: TOS Season Three, p. 572) In Bixby's first-draft script, Flint is revealed to have been Jesus, Moses and Pablo Picasso as well. The former two aliases were nixed due to a request by NBC's Broadcast Standards, who were concerned this would "bring repercussions" from viewers with orthodox religious views. Picasso was eliminated as well, because the artist was still alive at the time, and researcher Joan Pearce warned that "attributing fictitious work of art to a living artist can bring legal repercussions". (These Are the Voyages: TOS Season Three, p. 575). An element from Bixby's story – that of an immortal man who became several of Earth's historical figures – was mirrored in his final screenplay, which became the film which featured Trek alumni John Billingsley, Tony Todd, Richard Riehle, and David Lee Smith. According to the , "Rayna Kapec was named for Czechoslovakian writer , who first coined the term "robot" in the classic science-fiction play entitled ." Kirk's second log entry has a stardate with two decimal numbers. This is the only episode in The Original Series that used this stardate format. Production The Brahms paraphrase that Spock plays was written especially for this episode by Ivan Ditmars. The sheet music shown is from Brahms, his 16 Walzes, Op. 39. The TOS Season 3 DVD release incorrectly spells Rayna's name "Reena" in the end credits. Her name is shown in the episode very clearly as "Rayna" during the reveal of the multiple versions of the android. The correct spelling could be seen in the end credits on the earlier LaserDisc and VHS releases, and was later restored for the TOS-R Season 3 DVD collection. Each version of the caption used a different shot of Spock playing 3D chess: the correct spelling shows Spock apparently contemplating his next move, while the incorrect spelling shows Spock moving a black chess piece. In the third season blooper reel, there is a shot of the M-4 on its dolly mount, being wheeled toward William Shatner by its operator. There is also a clip of Leonard Nimoy rocking his head sarcastically while "fill-in" elevator music plays during the scene where Spock plays Brahm's waltz for Kirk and Rayna. Ivan Ditmars' performance was dubbed in later. This episode apparently had a scene deleted which contained an appearance by John Buonomo as an orderly. Cinematographer Al Francis was absent for the first three days of production due to illness. He was replaced by John Finger (working on Gomer Pyle, USMC at Desilu at the time) for the first two days, then by veteran cameraman Ernest Haller (who also shot the second pilot, ) for the third. Francis is solely credited as director of photography for the episode. (These Are the Voyages: TOS Season Three) Cast When cast for this episode, Louise Sorel, a theater actress, did not take Star Trek all that seriously. "They put me in this funny costume – I stood still and they just wrapped fabric around me – and I had an and eye make-up. James Daly and I thought of ourselves as these two very serious theater actors and we kept looking at each other, 'Why on Earth are we doing this?' Eventually, we just started saying, 'Christmas money, Christmas money, Christmas money." Overall, however, Sorel remembered the episode as "really very sweet. I loved working with Shatner. We had played lovers once before. In the story, Flint forgot to give Rayna the tools to survive emotionally, and – when he and Kirk started fighting over her – she couldn't bear the pain. It was really very touching." (Star Trek 30 Years, p. 77) Louise Sorel and William Shatner appeared together on an episode of Route 66, "Build Your Houses With Their Backs to the Sea" that aired in 1963. Curiously, also starring in this show was Glenn Corbett, who played Zefram Cochrane in . Sets and props Flint's castle is a reused matte painting of the Rigel VII fortress from . The Rigel VII fortress image was replaced in the remastered version by a Hans Gabl digital model and matte painting of a completely different, -style "fortress." Flint's viewscreen appears to be the Beta III lighting panel seen in . It is also similar to the one seen in . This episode includes the newest footage of the Enterprise seen since , utilizing the three-foot model built to demonstrate the Enterprise shape in 1964. Captain Kirk peers into the bridge of the Enterprise through the viewscreen, much like Q does when Quinn shrinks the to the size of a Christmas ornament in . Some of the furnishings in Flint's castle are recognizably recycled from previous episodes. Spock sits in the ornate chair used by Korob and in . In the outer room of Flint's laboratory, just in front of the vertical grill, is the female Romulan commander's "communications box" from . In the same room, the back walls are lined with the consoles from the Elba II control room in . One of the wall ornaments in the game room was previously used in in the Stratos reception room (although "The Cloud Minders" was filmed prior to "Requiem for Methuselah," it wasn't broadcast until after it). The undercarriage of Flint's robot, M-4, is a reused portion from the upper carriage of Nomad from . Continuity This episode is referenced in the fourth season episode , in which Captain Kathryn Janeway mentions that Captain Kirk claimed to have met Leonardo da Vinci. This would leave one to conclude that Spock's mind touch at the end of the episode only erased Kirk's memory of Rayna, and not necessarily the whole encounter. Whereas Spock uses the mind meld at the end of the episode and tells Kirk, "Forget", in he uses the technique on McCoy and tells him, "Remember". Doctor McCoy states that alcohol easily makes Vulcans drunken. This is contradictory to his reply to Kirk's question about how well Spock would handle whiskey in , in that instance he predicts alcohol would have little effects on Spock, due to his Vulcan metabolism. It seems yet possible McCoy was merely teasing Spock in this episode, as Spock himself was in the film more concerned about his Human half. In Lal, the android created by Lt. Cmr. Data, also died after experiencing and being overwhelmed by love. Video and DVD releases Original US Betamax release: UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 39, catalog number VHR 2435, US VHS release: UK re-release (three-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 3.7, Original US DVD release (single-disc): Volume 38, As part of the TOS Season 3 DVD collection As part of the TOS-R Season 3 DVD collection Links and references Starring William Shatner as Capt. 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Code of Honor (episode)

A mission of mercy is jeopardized when a planetary ruler decides he wants an Enterprise officer as his wife. Summary Teaser The has traveled to Ligon II for a vaccine, found only on that planet, that is needed to cure a plague, Anchilles fever, on the Federation planet Styris IV. Captain Picard has to negotiate with the Ligonian leader Lutan for the vaccine. Picard, Troi and Riker meet up with Natasha Yar in Cargo Bay 1 to greet the Ligonians. While travelling to the cargo bay in a turbolift, Riker and Troi inform Picard that the Ligonians are a closely humanoid race with similarities to Human culture, as well as an extremely proud race of people with a highly-structured society. The Ligonians beam over with a red carpet, which is rolled out before Lutan himself beams over. Picard greets him, and Lutan introduces his secondary Hagon. Picard then introduces his crew. Immediately, Lutan is intrigued that a woman, Yar, is in charge of security on the Enterprise. Hagon approaches Picard with a sample of the vaccine, and brushes Yar out of the way when she tries to take it from him. Yar then throws Hagon to the ground before inspecting the vaccine and giving it to Picard. Troi recommends not to apologize for the incident as the Ligonians would view this as a sign of weakness. Picard thanks Lutan and invites them to stay for entertainment. Lutan agrees, however, once the Enterprise crew leaves, he tells Hagon that Yar may be "just what he needs." Act One In the observation lounge, Picard presents Lutan with a 13th century statue of a horse from China's Sung Dynasty as a gift of gratitude and friendship. Lutan makes a praising Picard and saying he hopes their two peoples can become friends, while promising to make the vaccine available to all who need it. Lutan tells Picard that on Ligon, the women own all the land and wealth, but apart from that they are subservient to the men. He then asks to see the holodeck, and specifically requests Yar to show it to him. She brings him and Hagon there and shows them an aikido training holoprogram. Lutan tells Yar that he is very impressed by her. They return to the cargo bay and prepare to leave. Lutan goes to shake Yar's hand, but then grabs her and forcefully beams her down to Ligon with Hagon at his side. Picard taps his combadge and immediately orders a red alert. Act Two Picard tries to contact Lutan through Ligon's orbital control station, but he doesn't respond. He then orders Riker to fire a display blast of photon torpedoes 1,000 meters above the planet's surface. Unfortunately, they cannot trace the location of the transporter beam. Troi advises the captain that she sensed avarice and ambition from Lutan, but general attraction and curiosity from the rest of the Ligonians. Data comments that the Ligonians value patience and that perhaps they should wait and see if Lutan contacts them. A day later, Dr. Crusher visits the captain in his ready room and tells him that the vaccine can't be replicated – only the original will work. She also asks him to allow her son Wesley to come on to the bridge. Picard relents and goes out onto the bridge and asks him to come out from the bridge's turbolift and to sit at the operations officer station. The crew is surprised as this violates Picard's order that no children should be allowed on the bridge, let alone man a station. But Picard reiterates his request for Wesley to sit at "Ops" (operations) and clarifies that it's "temporary." Data is ready with his briefing on the Ligonians. He tells Picard that they live by a strict code of honor and that what Lutan has done is similar to what Native Americans called "counting coup". In this case, Lutan's abduction of Yar was a sign of his heroism. Since Yar was the chief of security, she was the riskiest target to capture and thus carried the most prestige. Lutan hails them and Troi, Riker, and Data advise Picard that he ask for Yar back, politely. Although he's not happy about it, Picard agrees with their advice and asks Lutan to return Yar. Lutan invites them down to the planet. Act Three Riker is persuaded to allow Picard down to the planet, as a visiting leader becomes an honored guest and cannot be harmed. Riker jokingly warns Picard that if he gets hurt, he will put the captain on report. Picard and Troi beam down to a building Lutan calls his Centerplace. He arrives with Hagon and his "first one" Yareena. Lutan offers any courtesy Picard desires, and so Picard insists to see Yar. When she is brought out, she tells him that she's all right. The culture difference in the incident is acknowledged, and Lutan says she will be returned at a banquet in their honor tonight. At the banquet, Picard makes a speech about Lutan and his honor and asks for Yar back. However, Lutan refuses, saying he wants Yar as his first one. This outrages both Picard and Yareena, who challenges Yar's right of supersedence with a fight to the death. When Picard objects, Lutan exclaims he won't give them the vaccine or enter a treaty. Riker is alerted and maintains sensor sweeps of the compound. A message is received from Starbase 14, saying that the plague has worsened and that millions could die without the vaccine. Riker urgently calls Picard. Picard and Troi come to visit Yar in a room prepared for her, where she admits that she finds Lutan attractive. She is confident that she can win, and Troi agrees, saying that the odds are in her favor. Picard decides to reason with Lutan. He finds out that Lutan needs Yareena's wealth and land if he is to stay in power. If she dies, he gets her wealth and land, so he's in a win-win situation. Picard says he will order Yar to fight, and they toast. Act Four On the Enterprise, Data visits La Forge in his quarters while he shaves with a and tries to tell him a joke, but Data still doesn't understand humor, despite having told 662 jokes. Then they are ordered to beam down to the surface, where they meet Picard. He orders them to examine the weapons on display, as they won't know which is to be used until just before the fight. On the Enterprise, investigation of the area continues in order to be ready to transport Yar out in case of trouble. Yareena comes to see Yar at her request. Yar tries to talk her out of fighting, but Yareena is determined to fight for Lutan, unconvinced that Yar is only fighting for the vaccine, and not out of love for Lutan. Clearly, the honor is to fight even if death is likely. Yar reports this to Picard, as Data and La Forge return with their report on the weapons, which are very sharp, light, flexible, durable and tipped with poison. Hagon arrives with the weapon to be used – a spiked metal ball on a glove, called a glavin. As Yar examines the weapons, the group overhears Yareena practicing in the arena. Act Five Data beams back to the Enterprise to inform Riker on what the captain is planning. Meanwhile, down on the surface, Picard, Troi, La Forge and Yar enter the arena. The fight starts and Yar dodges and parries Yareena's attacks. Then Yareena's glove hits an electrified pole, and it flies off her hand and hits a spectator. The spikes pierce his body, and he is dead in seconds. After the dead Ligonian man is carried away, the fight resumes and eventually Yar bests Yareena, hitting her with her weapon, and dives down on top of her. They are both beamed up to the Enterprise where Dr. Crusher attempts to counteract the poison while Yareena lies dead on the transporter platform. Lutan is initially upset, however, Picard convinces him he has seen the final blow, concluding the fight. Hagon reminds him he has Yareena's wealth and land. Happy with the outcome, he allows medical teams from the Enterprise to beam down to get the vaccine. Quickly, though, Picard orders the away team to be beamed up, along with Lutan and Hagon. They are brought to the observation lounge, where Yareena is alive, resuscitated by Dr. Crusher. Since Yareena technically died, her marriage to Lutan is over, but she still has her wealth. Upset with Lutan, and as she heard Hagon call out to her during the fight, she selects Hagon as her new first one. He now has all Yareena's wealth and power. She asks Lutan to be her second one and he accepts. Picard returns to the bridge and sees Wesley is still manning one of the bridge stations and says "Thanks again for manning one of our bridge stations, Wesley. We'll see… that you have another chance." Wesley is delighted at the thought and leaves. With the vaccine secured, the Enterprise leaves for Styris IV at warp three. Log entries Captain's log, USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D), 2364 First officer's log, USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) Ship's log, USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) Memorable quotes "He's on the turbolift. You'll remember you ordered him to stay off of the bridge." - Beverly Crusher, to Picard about Wesley "Then you shall have no treaty, no vaccine and no Lieutenant Yar!" - Lutan "A code of honor protects one, Captain, like a magic cloak." - Lutan, to Picard "This is my first one, Yareena." "Lutan is a fortunate man." - Lutan, introducing Yareena to Picard "May I speak to you about my son, Wesley?" "What? Oh, yes [grumbling]… all right." - Beverly Crusher and Jean-Luc Picard "Most interesting. Could this be Human joke number 663?" "Negative, Data. That's a captain's order." - Data and La Forge, when Picard asks both of them to examine the weapons Yar and Yareena will be using "Surrounded by such friendship, I feel no need for my guards." - Lutan, to Picard in the Enterprise-D's conference lounge "You can create people without a soul?" - Lutan, on the holographic simulation of an Aikido fighter "Ah, I see. You too understand the proper value of women!" - Picard, to Lutan "Your skill impresses me. I like you." - Lutan, to Tasha Yar "You speak of a code of honor. What you are saying now, according to our customs is called an act of war!" "This is not an act of war, but of love!" - Picard and Lutan, after Lutan finds he cannot part with Tasha Yar "Are you making demands, Captain?!" - Lutan "(To Wesley Crusher) Why don't you sit at Ops, next to Lieutenant La Forge?" "Sir?" "Sir?" "Is the whole ship deaf? Sit down over there, young man! Temporarily!" - Picard, Wesley Crusher, and Geordi La Forge "I fight for the vaccine. That's the truth." "The truth… is I will kill you if I can. And believe me, I can. There is nothing else to say." "In my world, it's a greater honor to refuse…" "You are on our world!!" - Tasha Yar and Yareena "Lutan is such… such a basic male image and having him say he wants you..." "Well, yes of course, it made me feel good when he… Troi, I'm your friend and you tricked me!" "Only so you'd think about it, completely and clearly." - Deanna Troi and Tasha Yar "We're all being manipulated, Lieutenant. Myself most of all." - Picard, to Tasha Yar "Includling" the kiddlies! Now, see that's funny!" - La Forge, to Data after his tongue slipped while telling an old and unfunny joke "For example, what Lutan did is similar to what certain American Indians once did, called 'counting coup'. That is from an obscure language known as French. 'Counting coup'…" "Mr. Data, the French language for centuries on Earth represented civilization." - Data and Picard "By our standard, the customs here – their code of honor – is the same kind of pompous, strutting charade that endangered our own species a few centuries ago. We evolved out of it because no one tried to impose their own set of… I'm sorry, this is becoming a speech." "You're the captain, sir, you're entitled." "Hmm. I'm not entitled to ramble on about something everyone knows. Carry on." - Picard and Troi, during an impromptu lecture with Data on the Prime Directive "Move!" - Riker, ordering Dr. Crusher to treat Yareena before she and Yar have finished materializing on the transporter pad "She is not dead!" - Lutan, seeing Yareena alive and well in the Enterprise-D's conference lounge "These I understand." - Yar, examining the combat weapons "As you can see, Captain, you may excel in technology, but not in civilized behavior." - Hagon "What? Wesley?" "Yeah. Wesley had been manning that station for me. I forgot." "Well, thanks again for manning one of our bridge stations, Wesley. We'll see that you get another chance." "Yes, sir." - Picard, Riker, and Wesley "Damn! Where are the calluses we doctors are supposed to grow over our feelings?" "Perhaps the good ones never get them." - Beverly Crusher and Picard Background information Production history First story outline: (Creating the Next Generation) Kellam de Forest research notes: sent on , received on 8 May 1987 Four pages of script notes from Merri Howard: 28 May 1987 Revised final draft script: Filmed: 15 July 1987 – 24 July 1987 Score recorded at Paramount Stage M: Premiere airdate: UK premiere (BBC2): Story and script The original concept of this episode's story, by Kathryn Powers and Michael Baron, called the Ligonians "Tellisians", a reptilian species with a culture similar to the Japanese samurai and a warrior caste called the Kadim. (Creating the Next Generation, p. 39) This story concept also named the planet Ligon II "Tellis" and Lutan was the captain of a Tellisian ship. He met the Enterprise-D crew on a shore leave planet where ritual fightings were held and kidnapped Tasha on this planet where she had a fight with Lutan's son. The concept also featured a reference to James T. Kirk, who once fought against Lutan's grandfather. Yareena's uncle, the king, was poisoned by Lutan and the away team of the Enterprise-D was imprisoned. In this prison, they met the Tellisian Hinun, a nephew of Lutan who assisted in their escape. (Creating the Next Generation, pp. 76-78) Despite having vetoed Herbert J. Wright previously writing (into a different episode) a warning shot fired by the Enterprise at a Ferengi ship that had fired at the Enterprise (objecting that Captain Picard wouldn't allow the Enterprise to retaliate), Gene Roddenberry wrote into this episode's script, when he did a rewrite of it, that the Enterprise fired at a planet with full power, as a warning. (Gene Roddenberry: The Myth and the Man Behind Star Trek, paperback ed., pp. 235-236; The Fifty-Year Mission: The Next 25 Years, p. 81) Production In this episode, the entire humanoid population of the planet is portrayed by African American performers. In the teleplay, however, only Lutan's guards were specifically written as being African. Glenn R. Wilder served as stunt coordinator for this episode. He was among the group of "one time" hired coordinators, prior to Dennis Madalone's employment on the series. Wilder also coordinated , two years later. This was the only Star Trek episode directed by Russ Mayberry. He left the production during filming and was replaced by First Assistant Director Les Landau. Music The score for this episode was composed by Fred Steiner, who had written numerous scores for TOS and was the only composer to write for both series. The score was recorded on at Paramount Stage M. The complete episode score appears on Disc Three of the Star Trek: The Next Generation Collection, Volume One collection. Cast and characters Jonathan Frakes referred to the episode as a "racist piece of shit." At a 2007 science fiction convention in Toronto, Canada, he told the audience, "The worst and most embarrassing and one that even Gene would have been embarrassed by was that horrible racist episode from the first season 'Code of Honor', oh my God in heaven!" Brent Spiner regarded this episode as the "worst episode we ever did" and "an inadvertently racist episode." (The Fifty-Year Mission: The Next 25 Years, p. 82) In a 2012 interview with , Spiner recalled, "It ["Code of Honor"] was just a racist episode. Maybe not intentionally but it felt that way and looked that way. It was the third episode so it was fortuitous that we did our worst that early on and it never got quite that bad again." According to Wesley Crusher actor Wil Wheaton, 'if the cast wasn't arbitrarily decided to be African-American,' the idea of the episode being racist or non-racist wouldn't have been an issue. Michael Dorn (Worf) does not appear in this episode. This is his first non-appearance. The only other TNG episode in which he does not appear is . At the 2013 Toronto Comic Con's "An Evening With the Cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation", Dorn referred to this episode as "the worst episode of Star Trek ever filmed," to agreement from the rest of the cast and the crowd. La Forge actor LeVar Burton wasn't proud of the episode, either. Michael Rider can be seen for the first time after his scene from was deleted. He later reprised this role in the episodes and . Stuntman Bernie Pock later worked as stunt double for William Shatner on . Stuntwoman Sharon Schaffer previously worked as stunt actress on . James Louis Watkins, who played Hagon, later worked under a different name on the episode . Sets and props Doctor Crusher is seen wearing an antiquated wristwatch when she is reviving Yareena in the transporter room. The ivory-like sticks the Ligonians use to show approval or to applaud are later seen again in , where an illusory Tilonian inmate plays with them. Characteristic white lamps, consisting of several tubes in different shapes, are seen on Ligon II for the first time. They later re-appear on many planets, like on Angel I, Risa, Cardassia, and the first . One of the lamps, a spherical type, was recycled from the 1983 film , and later reused on Angel I in and on the first in . Another one was recycled from , where it appeared in the San Francisco bar. Another type of these lamps also appeared on Babylon 5. In this episode, the floor of the holodeck is not yet covered by the familiar pattern of yellow stripes on black background; instead, the floor is covered by grey carpet. Special care was taken to include a Ligonian logo into many set pieces. The hexagonal shape, consisting of three diagonal stripes and a small circle, is seen on walls, doors, the vaccine box and the weapon boxes. The hexagonal shape is also echoed in the shape of doors, windows, and the weapon wall in the large open courtyard. The blue prop that La Forge uses to shave was later seen, again as a razor, in – which, coincidentally, was directed by actor LeVar Burton. The Ligonian glavin appears in later episodes such as and , slightly repainted, in Worf's quarters as a Klingon hand-weapon. The Ligonian gongs were later re-used in the Temple of Akadar in . Special and visual effects According to Robert Legato, eighty visual effects shots were used in this episode. ("Departmental Briefing Year Five" ("Visual Effects"), TNG Season 5 DVD special features) Continuity This episode is similar to and , as, in each episode, a member of the series' main cast (and the Enterprises senior staff) is forced into fighting in ceremonial combat. Both this episode and "Amok Time" (in which Spock is forced to fight Captain Kirk) feature two characters (Lieutenant Yar and Spock) who both later die but return in some form in their respective series (Tasha Yar dies in but returns in and ; Spock dies in before being resurrected in ). Reception Katharyn Powers was later responsible for the very similar Stargate SG-1 Season 1 episode "Emancipation". Both episodes feature a female officer being abducted and later participating in a fight to the death which both parties survive. Both episodes were also widely criticized, not only by much of the cast, but by fans as well. As noted in the , Tracy Tormé was embarrassed by what he called a "1940s tribal Africa" view of Africans in this episode. Tormé commented, "That episode was offensive. It was like in the way African Americans were depicted." (The Fifty-Year Mission: The Next 25 Years, p. 81) At a Star Trek panel at DragonCon 2010, actor Garrett Wang said this episode "stinks", to which LeVar Burton agreed, adding, "Without question." Furthermore, Wang attributed his viewing of the episode as the reason why he ended up landing the role of Harry Kim, stating that, had he watched another episode of TNG, he would have been "too nervous" during his audition, as he would have ended up being a big fan of the show: "So three times I tried watching [the series] and I realized God was telling me 'Do not watch Star Trek: The Next Generation." Consulting Producer David A. Goodman and Gene Roddenberry's son Rod were rare voices of approval for this installment. "As weirdly offensive as people think 'Code of Honor' is, I, at least, liked it because it felt new and different," Goodman commented. "There was some action, and it had a great score – it probably has the best score of any Next Generation episode." Rod Roddenberry stated, "Code of Honor' is the one that people say is the most racist, but I just didn't see it. Is it the best episode ever? No. But did I enjoy the episode? Sure. I just saw them as people on a planet that happened to be of dark skin that evolved in this certain way." (The Fifty-Year Mission: The Next 25 Years, p. 82) Mark A. Altman regarded this episode as one of a few "really sub-par" episodes in the early run of TNG. (Trek: Deepspace Nine, p. 73) A mission report for this episode, by Patrick Daniel O'Neill, was featured in . Apocrypha The Dark Mirror establishes that in the mirror universe, when the ISS Enterprise-D arrived at Ligonia and the Ligonians tried to make the Enterprise-D crew follow their rituals, they simply sterilized the planet's southern continent, which forced the Ligonians into cooperating with the Empire's demands. Video and DVD releases Original UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 2, catalog number VHR 2264, US LaserDisc (): catalog number LV40270-103, UK re-release (three-episode tapes, Paramount Home Entertainment): Volume 1.2, catalog number VHR 4643, On both UK VHS releases, the title of the episode was given as "Code of Honour" on the video sleeve. As part of the TNG Season 1 DVD collection As part of the TNG Season 1 Blu-ray collection Links and references Starring Patrick Stewart as Captain Jean-Luc Picard Jonathan Frakes as Commander William T. Riker Also starring LeVar Burton as Lt. Geordi La Forge Denise Crosby as Lt. Tasha Yar Gates McFadden as Doctor Beverly Crusher Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi Brent Spiner as Lt. Commander Data Wil Wheaton as Wesley Crusher Guest stars Jessie Lawrence Ferguson as Lutan Karole Selmon as Yareena James Louis Watkins as Hagon Co-star Michael Rider as Transporter Chief Uncredited co-stars James G. Becker as Youngblood Darrell Burris as operations division officer Dexter Clay as security officer Jeffrey Deacon as command division officer Nora Leonhardt as science division ensign Tim McCormack as Lorine Mendell as Diana Giddings Bernie Pock as Aikido fighter Richard Sarstedt as command division officer Ken Warfield as Ligonian juggler Unknown performers as Command division crewmember Ligonian victim Operations division officer Six Ligonian guards Twenty-one Ligonian spectators Two Ligonian servants Two operations division crewmembers Yareena's maid Stunt doubles Dwayne McGee as stunt double for James Louis Watkins Sharon Schaffer as stunt double for Karole Selmon Cheryl Wheeler Duncan as stunt double for Denise Crosby Stand-ins James G. Becker – stand-in for Jonathan Frakes Darrell Burris – stand-in for LeVar Burton Jeffrey Deacon – stand-in for Patrick Stewart Susan Duchow – stand-in for Denise Crosby Nora Leonhardt – stand-in for Marina Sirtis Tim McCormack – stand-in for Brent Spiner Lorine Mendell – stand-in for Gates McFadden Guy Vardaman – stand-in for Wil Wheaton References 13th century; 14th century; 2164; abduction; accusation; achievement; act of war; agreement; aikido; Aikido 1''; alien; alkaloid poison; ambition; American Indians; analysis; ancestor; Anchilles fever; antidote; apology; area; art form; attack; avarice; away party/away personnel; axe; banquet; banquet hall; ; battle; behavior; Betazoid; blood; bridge; bridge station; briefing study; bronze; callus; career; Cargo Bay 1; career; carpet; Centerplace (Ligonian government compound); century; charade; China; Chinese dragon; civilization; code of honor; combat; combatant; combat readiness; composition; computer; conduct; Constellation-class model; contact; contest; counting coup; coordinates; course; crossbow; culture; cushion; custom; dais; danger; day; deafness; death; defense training; ; display blast; durability; Earth; efficiency; effect; embarrassment; enemy; exercise mat; experience; expertise; explanation; expression; eye; Federation; Federation laws; feeling; festivity; "fight to the death"; First One; foolishness; foot; ; French language; friend; friendship; graduate; Galaxy-class decks; gift; glavin; gong; goods; graduate; gratitude; guard; guest; hailing frequency; headband; Heglenian shift; holodeck; honor; horse; hospitality; ; Human; Human equation; Human history; humanoid; humor; idea; image; importance; infection rate; information; injection; instruction; joke; juggler; kidneys; land; language; leader; liar; life; Ligon orbital control station; Ligon II; Ligon II settlement; Ligonian; Ligonian armaments; Ligonian custom; Ligonian government; Ligonian history; Livingston; location; love; magic cloak; maid; main viewer; mate; mating agreement; matter-energy conversion; medical team; medical tricorder; meeting; message; metal; meter; million; mind; mission; necklace; need; Neptune; number one; observation lounge; odds; "on report": opinion; painting; patience; patient; peace; percentage; person; personality profile; photon torpedo; physical training; physician; pity; place; plan; plague; "point of view"; poison; ; politeness; pound; Prime Directive; prize; ; ready room; reasoning; rectangle; red alert; red carpet; respect; right; risk; room; "round the clock"; rule; safety; sample; scar; sculpture; second-in-command; Second One; security officer; self-image; sensor; sexual attraction; shaving; shield; ship's captain; ship's company; shopkeeper; signal; size; skill; society; soul; spectator; ; square; square meter; SS 433; standard orbit; Starbase 14; Starfleet; Starfleet Academy; starship operations; statue; stick; store; stranger; Styris IV; Sung Dynasty; subspace message; supersedence; surface; table; technology; thing; thought; thousand; threat; tongue; trace; tradition; transmission; transporter beam; transporter chief; transporter device; transporter lock; transporter people; transporter room; transporter trace; treaty; treaty negotiations; tricorder; Triton; truth; turbolift; unnamed plants; vaccine; value; victor; viewscreen; VISOR; wealth; weapon; "welcome aboard"; welcoming party; wisdom; witchcraft; wristwatch; Deleted references Olympics; Turkana IV External links cs:Code of Honor de:Der Ehrenkodex es:Code of Honor fr:Code of Honor (épisode) it:Codice d'onore (episodio) ja:愛なき惑星（エピソード） nl:Code of Honor pl:Code of Honor ru:Кодекс чести (эпизод) TNG episodes

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The Savage Curtain (episode)

Kirk and Spock are forced to fight alongside such historical figures as Abraham Lincoln of Earth and Surak of Vulcan by rock-like aliens who want to understand the concepts of "good" and "evil." Summary Teaser The is conducting some last observation scans of a planet incapable of supporting life – the surface is molten lava and the atmosphere is poisonous. However, from his science station, Spock detects an enormous power generation coming from the supposedly uninhabitable planet. During the ensuing investigation, the ship undergoes a deep, swift scan from the surface of the planet, causing the lights on the bridge to flicker. Then of Abraham Lincoln appears on the viewscreen, stunning the bridge crew. Act One The stunned crew of the Enterprise takes in the image of "Lincoln". He asks to be beamed aboard when the Enterprise is directly above his location on the planet below, to allow the crew to confirm his Humanity. Captain Kirk orders full dress uniforms and for the crew to take the guest at face value, with Presidential honors, while his real nature is determined, much to the chagrin of Scott and Dr. McCoy. While waiting, Spock notes a small change happening on the planet. A landmass has appeared out of nowhere on the lifeless planet, inexplicably capable of supporting life. In the transporter room, Scott locks the transporter on Lincoln. Spock notes that their target a moment earlier appeared "almost mineral, like living rock with heavy fore claws." Dickerson has his security officers stand ready with their phasers on heavy stun. The lifeform is beamed aboard, with band music playing and Dickerson blowing a bosun's whistle. "The USS Enterprise is honored to have you aboard, Mr. President," Kirk tells the 16th President of the United States. Lincoln steps off the transporter platform and charms them by asking about the taped fanfare and noting his age. Doctor McCoy scans him with his tricorder and confirms to Kirk that he is indeed Human. After introducing Lincoln to Spock, Scott, and Dickerson, Lincoln immediately wants to answer Kirk's questions about him, as well as questions Lincoln himself would like answered. Kirk dismisses security and leads Lincoln away. After everyone but McCoy and Scott leave, McCoy and Scott wonder about the "living rock" reading. Act Two Lincoln makes a brief tour of the ship, impressing Kirk with his charm. A conversation with Lieutenant Uhura illustrates that "Lincoln" knows terminology from the era of slavery and Lincoln escapes from a gaffe with the same grace. He then acknowledges to Spock a concept in Vulcan philosophy, and that there is a great Vulcan philosopher on the planet, but has no explanation for how he knows. Kirk had a meeting in the briefing room to consider the situation, and leaves "Lincoln" with Uhura to go there. McCoy warns Kirk of the risks on discipline of Kirk being seen admiring an impostor. McCoy and Scott insist that the whole affair is a trap, however, Spock says it would be illogical given their power – they could just as easily destroy the ship, if that were their goal. Kirk declares that they have been offered contact with a new race – the reason for their mission out here– and that he will accept it. Kirk, Lincoln, and Spock are beamed down, but the phasers and tricorders are left behind on the transporter pads. The surface resembles a canyon on Earth. Kirk now confronts Lincoln, but he insists there's nothing wrong. Then, another being in the form of Surak greets them, also believing to be himself. When Kirk tells them they won't go along with the charade, a nearby rock comes alive. Yarnek, one of the planet's rock-like inhabitants, called Excalbians, says they stage "plays" to learn more about alien philosophies. The current contest, their first experiment with Humans, is to compare good and evil – "good" being represented by the two Enterprise officers, Lincoln, and Surak, and "evil" represented by four archetypes: (based on Kahless the Unforgettable, founder of the Klingon Empire), (based on of Tiburon), (based on ancient Human conqueror Genghis Khan), and (based on the charismatic but duplicitous 21st century genocidal Human military officer Colonel Green). Kirk protests the manner of the invitation, to which Yarnek responds by enabling the Enterprise crew to watch the contest. Act Three McCoy, Scott and Chekov confirm the uselessness of their situation, but are allowed to watch the area. Kirk refuses to participate, and, when Yarnek becomes solid and lifeless again, Green comes forward and appeals to Kirk that all eight were tricked, and that they should join forces against the Excalbians. Kirk reminds Green that he would attack enemies while their guard was down during negotiations. But the truce is insincere and Green's associates ambush during the parley, but are repulsed. Kirk refuses to participate further, and the Excalbians re-enable communication with the Enterprise for just long enough to reveal that its matter/antimatter seal is failing, which will cause the ship to "blow itself to bits" in four hours. Yarnek says this can only be avoided by victory in the combat. Kirk selects high ground for a defensible base, though noting there is no time for a defensive war. Surak proposes to become an emissary, the option that resolved the final war on . Kirk protests that Vulcan logic will not sway their treacherous enemies on Excalbia, but Surak says that their belief in peace may be what the Excalbians are testing. Ultimately, Kirk says he cannot command Surak, who leaves for the enemy camp. He is captured and his cries and screams for help to Spock are heard. Act Four Kirk says they should rescue Surak: "He's in agony." Spock says that Surak knew his risks and that a Vulcan "would not cry out so." Lincoln proposes that they should do what the other side wants – "Not the way they want it, however." He proposes a distraction by attacking in a noticeable manner. This will allow a stealth rescue from behind. Kirk and Spock each carried many wooden spears. They reveal their approach, distracting Green's henchmen. Spock threw a spear but Khan dodged. Meanwhile, Lincoln silently crept around Green's henchmen to find and free Surak. Khan lobbed a rock. Kirk dodged and threw a rock back. Spock threw wood spears, and Kirk joined that effort as a distraction. Lincoln crawls and finds Surak dead. He realizes that Kahless was imitating Surak's voice. Kahless starts to imitate Lincoln's voice. Green watched Lincoln, while Kirk and Spock stand ready to throw more spears, but see no target. Lincoln returns to the battlefield. He reveals that Surak died and warns them to stay away. Suddenly, Lincoln falls forward due to a spear in his back. Despite Lincoln and Surak dying, Kirk and Spock continued the attack, for the purpose of saving the Enterprise's crew. Now Green's henchmen outnumber them four-to-two. Green and Kahless charge at Kirk and Spock. Khan again threw a rock. Spock threw a spear but missed Khan, so Khan dueled Spock. Zora attacked Kirk until he toppled Zora. Kahless starts dueling Kirk. Zora crawled away from combat. Green watched (ready to help whichever needed aid, but Kahless kept Kirk busy). Kirk kicks Kahless while they are dueling. Spock continues wrestling Khan. Finally, Kirk jabbed his wood spear into the Klingon, who fell dead. After he speared Kahless, he ran to save Spock by choking Khan. From behind Khan, he lowered his spear over Khan's head and started choking him. Khan turned and pulled free. Khan and Green flee. Kirk chases and tackles Green. Green wrestles Kirk and tries to stab Kirk using a pointy stick as a knife. Kirk jumped back, and grabbed Green's arm. Kirk bent his arm so the wood knife is behind green's back and tackles Green onto the point. Green's own weapon killed himself. Zora and Khan escaped, so "good" wins the battle. Yarnek, who had been observing says, "it would seem that evil runs off when forcibly confronted." and that he sees no difference between good and evil. Kirk explains a difference: that he [Kirk] repeatedly resisted combat, and only battled when compelled by the threat to the Enterprise crew. In contrast, "evil" usually fights for a leader's personal gain. He asks Yarnek, "By what right" you trapped us and coerced us to fight. Yarnek replies, "The same right that brought you here: the need to know new things." Ultimately, Kirk calls the Enterprise to beam himself and Spock up. Back aboard the Enterprise, Scott and Chekov report that the damage to the ship is reversing, for which they have no explanation. Kirk and Spock reflect on how real "Lincoln" and "Surak" seemed. Spock says it could not be otherwise, since the replicas were created "out of our own thoughts." Kirk feels he understands the effort on Earth to achieve final peace – and all of their work still left to be done in the galaxy. Kirk has Sulu break orbit of Excalbia and the Enterprise flew away. Log entries Captain's log, USS Enterprise (NCC-1701), 2269 Memorable quotes "Fascinating." "I have been described in many ways, Mr. Spock, but never with that word." - "Lincoln" and Spock "President Lincoln, indeed! No doubt to be followed by Louis of France and Robert the Bruce!" - Scott, as Kirk and Spock enter the transporter room "What a charming Negress. Oh, forgive me, my dear. I know that in my time some used that term as a description of property." "But why should I object to that term, sir? You see, in our century we've learned not to fear words." - "Lincoln" and Uhura "Jim, I would be the last to advise you on your command image…" "I doubt that, Bones, but continue." - McCoy and Kirk, in the briefing room "Lincoln died three centuries ago on a planet hundreds of light years away!" (Scott points)"More… that direction, engineer." (Spock corrects) - Scott and Spock "You're the science officer. Why aren't you – well, doin' whatever a science officer does at a time like this?" - McCoy, to Spock "If they’re wrong and they do beam into a pool of lava." "Then they're dead men. I could'na pull them back in time." - McCoy and Scotty about to beam Kirk, "Lincoln", and Spock "Despite the seeming contradictions, all is as it appears to be. I am Abraham Lincoln!" "Just as I am whom I appear to be." "Surak!" - "Lincoln" is confronted by Kirk on his true identity only to be joined by "Surak", surprising Spock "May we together become greater than the sum of both of us." - "Surak", to Kirk "You're somewhat different than the way history paints you, Colonel Green." "History tends to exaggerate." - Kirk and "Green" "The face of war has never changed." - "Surak", to Kirk "Your Surak is a brave man." "Men of peace usually are, Captain." - Kirk and Spock, before "Surak" is killed "There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war except its ending." - "Lincoln", to Kirk and Spock "What gives you the right to hand out life and death?" "The same right that brought you here: the need to know new things." "We came in peace." "And you may go in peace." - Kirk and Yarnek, before Kirk and Spock depart Background information Story and script This episode evolved from a story idea in Gene Roddenberry's series proposal, Star Trek is..., titled "Mr. Socrates". Roddenberry's inspiration for the staged fight scenario between Kirk, Spock and "vicious historical figures" came when he was writing a memo to NBC regarding Gene Coon's script "The Last Gunfight" (later retitled ). (These Are the Voyages: TOS Season Three, p. 592) Roddenberry's original story outline dated featured Socrates visiting the Enterprise along with Abraham Lincoln, and then participating in the fight on the planet surface. In this version, Surak was called "Lvov" and the "good" team also featured the recreation of a "1970s flower power guru" named "Pon". The "evil" team consisted of "Mr. Green", a late-20th century Earth dictator, Adolf Hitler and Attila the Hun among others. (These Are the Voyages: TOS Season Three, pp. 592-594) Similarly to , Roddenberry originally intended this episode to be in part a sour commentary on present-day network television. The Excalbians use their staged "dramas" of recreated figures confronting each other as a means of entertainment and education for their population, who all became dependent upon these "stage plays" as their sole means of gaining knowledge and entertain themselves. In Arthur Heinemann's later script version and Fred Freiberger and Arthur Singer's staff rewrites this angle was mostly abandoned, except for a few lines such as Yarnek claiming that "countless who live on that planet are watching". (These Are the Voyages: TOS Season Three, p. 594) Yarnek is never named in dialogue, but is so named in the script. Even in the closed captioning, he's merely identified when speaking off-screen as "Excalbian." Casting The first choice for the role of Lincoln was none other than Mark Lenard, but prior commitments prohibited him from taking the part. As Lenard explained it, "I was doing a series at the time called Here Come the Brides in which I played Aaron Stemple, the resident bad guy/rich man. The Lincoln segment came up about Christmas time when we had a slight hiatus, and I thought I could work it in. I had already played two roles on Star Trek and they were well received. But it turned out we just couldn’t work it in. I think we went back to work on the other series too soon, and instead of having the six or seven days I would have needed to do the role, I only had three or four days." Though credited for their appearances, both Nathan Jung (Genghis Khan) and Carol Daniels Dement (Zora) had no lines in this episode. Continuity This episode includes two further contributions to the ambiguous time period that the series is set in, establishing that "Lincoln died three centuries ago," indicating a mid-22nd century time period, while at the same time establishing, more ambiguously, that the 21st century was "centuries ago." In all previous episodes time aboard the ship is measured in standard units (seconds, minutes, hours). When Lincoln asks Kirk if people "still measure time in minutes," Kirk replies that they can convert to them, implying that they, like the mile (also frequently used), were in fact old-style measurements. This episode introduces several notable figures in the Star Trek universe that would be further explored in later incarnations of the franchise. They include the Human despot Colonel Green (), Kahless the Unforgettable (, et al.), and Surak (, et al.). The image of Lincoln sitting in his chair next to the Enterprise in space is glimpsed in . Kahless is seen here in the Klingon style typical of TOS. It would seem to contradict the explanation given in for the change in physical appearance of the Klingons, since Kahless lived long before those events. However, since the image of Kahless was drawn from Kirk's and Spock's minds, not from "fact", this is not necessarily a contradiction. The appearances of Kahless and Surak mark the final respective guest appearances of a Klingon and Vulcan in The Original Series. This episode marks the final appearance of dress uniforms in the original series. Uniquely, the security guards wear weapons belts constructed of white Velcro. This episode marks the final appearance of Nichelle Nichols (Uhura) in the series. As a result, this is the final episode of the series to feature the entire ensemble cast of Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Scotty, Uhura, Sulu, and Chekov. This is the second and final mention in a TOS episode that it may be possible to separate the nacelles from the ship, in this case by specifically jettisoning them. The illusory version of Colonel Green is the final character to die on-screen in TOS's run, as the following episode, has no deaths at all, and the only character deaths that occur in the final episode, , happen off-screen before the episode begins. Reception As with the fan mail phenomenon that occurred after the broadcast of , the airing of "The Savage Curtain" resulted in another flood of mail in response to the introduction of Surak. The fans were intrigued by Surak, and demanded to see more of him. (The World of Star Trek) Surak, however did not appear on-screen again until , over thirty-five years later, though he was referenced in numerous episodes and films in the intervening years. In 2005, the episode was mentioned in a Time magazine article, "The True Lincoln" (the centerpiece of a "special issue" largely devoted to him), contrasting the lionized, iconic Lincoln seen in the episode, common in the 1960s, with the more flawed, "Human" portrayals often found today. In 2014, the episode again made its way into the news, after supermodel Bar Refaeli, on her Twitter account, repeated the "no honorable way to kill" line as an authentic Lincoln quote. Leonard Nimoy did not think highly of the episode when interviewed in 2012, saying "That didn't work very well, as I recall. It was an interesting attempt that did not really come to life like 'Four Score and seven years." Remastered information The episode was remastered in featuring new shots of Excalbia. Production timeline Series proposal, "Star Trek is...": – mentions similar story idea "Mr. Socrates" Similar story premise, "Valley of the Giants" by Gene Roddenberry, early Story outline by Gene Roddenberry, Revised story outline, First draft teleplay by Gene Roddenberry, First draft teleplay by Arthur Heinemann, mid- Second draft teleplay by Heinemann, Final draft teleplay by Arthur Singer, Additional page revisions by Fred Freiberger, , , , Filmed, – Day 1 – , Wednesday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Bridge Day 2 – , Thursday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Transporter room, Briefing room Day 3 – , Friday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Briefing room, Bridge Day 4 – , Monday – Desilu Stage 10: Ext. Planet surface Day 5 – , Tuesday – Desilu Stage 10: Ext. Planet surface (Kirk's base, Green's base) Day 6 – , Wednesday – Desilu Stage 10: Ext. Planet surface (Green's base) Day 7 – , Thursday – Desilu Stage 10: Ext. Planet surface (Green's base, Boulders) Original airdate, Rerun airdate, First UK airdate Soundtrack The anthem that plays as President Lincoln is beamed aboard the Enterprise was composed by Desilu's music director, Wilbur Hatch. It is also the last original piece of music ever composed for the original series and is only heard in this one episode. (Starlog Magazine) Syndication cuts Although there were no official syndication cuts to this episode, many local television stations were known to trim segments of Yarnek's speech on the planet, where he is explaining the reason and rules for the conflict between good and evil. One particular line of dialogue, frequently omitted, is a segment where Yarnek pauses and then asks "Why do you hesitate?" when speaking to Kirk and Spock. (The Star Trek Compendium) Video and DVD releases Original US Betamax release: UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 40, catalog number VHR 2436, This volume is a three-episode tape to close out the series. US VHS release: UK re-release (three-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 3.8, Original US DVD release (single-disc): Volume 39, As part of the TOS Season 3 DVD collection As part of the TOS-R Season 3 DVD collection Links and references Starring William Shatner as James Kirk Also starring Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock And: DeForest Kelley as Dr. McCoy Guest star Lee Bergere as Co-starring Barry Atwater as Surak Phillip Pine as James Doohan as Scott George Takei as Sulu Nichelle Nichols as Uhura Walter Koenig as Chekov Arell Blanton as Chief Security Guard Dickerson Carol Daniels Dement as (no lines) Robert Herron as Nathan Jung as (no lines) Uncredited co-stars William Blackburn as Hadley Roger Holloway as Lemli Bart La Rue as voice of Yarnek Janos Prohaska as Yarnek Unknown actors as: Helmsman Security guard 1 Security guard 2 Stunt doubles Unknown stunt performer as stunt double for William Shatner Unknown stunt performer as stunt double for Leonard Nimoy Unknown stunt performer as stunt double for Lee Bergere Unknown stunt performer as stunt double for Barry Atwater References 19th century; 21st century; 23rd century; ability; active duty; age; agony; agreement (aka ); alert status; alien; alternative; American Civil War; American history; analysis; answer; antimatter; Arcturian dog bird (Arcturian); area; assignment; associate; attack; atmosphere; attitude; authority; backwoodsman; ; battery; belief; body; body chemistry; "Bones"; boomerang; boatswain's whistle; briefing room; camp; campaign; carbon cycle life form; century; channel; charade; charm; chief security guard; choice; civilization; class M; claw; clothing; commander in chief; communications officer; communicator; concept; confrontation; contact; contradiction; conviction; courtesy; creature; curiosity; custom; damage report; danger; death; defensive war; definition; ; detonation; device; discipline; distance; drama (aka ); dress uniform, Starfleet; Earth; Earth history; Earth-like; Earth-type; emergency; emergency battery power; emergency procedure; emotion; enemy; energy; energy-matter scrambler; engine damage; engine room; engineering officer/Engineering Officer; estimate; evil; environment; Excalbia; Excalbia's solar system; Excalbians; Excalbian spectators; existence; experiment; explanation; eyes; face; fact; factor seven; failure; father; father image; flesh; ; ; France; friend; friendship; frontal assault; galley; game; general; genocide; gentle; goal; good; ; ; guide; haggis; hailing frequency; hat; have the hide of; heavy stun; hero; honor; honor detachment; hour; Human (aka Earth men or Earthling); humanoid; humor; IDIC; illusion; image; immorality; impostor; inch; information; insubordination; intelligent life; invitation; Kahless the Unforgettable; ; kindness; Klingon; knowledge; landing party; lava; life (aka lifeform); light year; ; log entry; logic; loony; Louis of France; logic; magnification; ; matter; matter-energy conversion; meaning; memory; mile; Milky Way Galaxy; mind; mineral; minute; mister; Mr. President; molecule; music; musician; nacelle; name; Negress; nitrogen; Nome; number; objection; observation; observation balloon; observation station; odds; old-style measurements; opportunity; orbit; order; "out of your heads"; oxygen; "paint someone"; peace; phaser; phaser team; phenomenon; place; plate; ; pocket watch; ; ; power; power failure; prejudice; president; presidential honors; property; ; quality; quantity; quarrel; question; Qo'noS; radiation; reality; recklessness; red; red alert; red zone; repair crew; rescue; reserve power; restart cycle; result; right; risk; Robert the Bruce; rock; ruffles and flourishes; rumor; sanity; scan; science officer; sea; second; second-in-command; Security Officer; security detachment; sensor; ship's surgeon; sidearm; skin; slavery; ; smile; solution; space legend; spear; spectacle; speculation; square kilometer; stage; standard dress; Starfleet; Starfleet Command; starship; subject; suffering; suggestion; Surak; surface; surrender; ; survivor; synchronous orbit; tape; teacher; telegraph; term; theme; theory; thing; thought; thousand; Tiburon; Tiburonian; time; Time of Awakening; transporter chamber; transporter room; trap; tribe; tricorder; tyranny; Union Army; United States of America; violence; Vulcan; Vulcan (planet); Vulcan emissaries; Vulcan history; Vulcan language; Vulcan philosophy; Vulcan salute; warp engine; "when in Rome do as the Romans do" (Rome, Romans); vessel; war; warp power; warrior; weapon; whiskey; wisdom; word; World War III; wrestle; Unreferenced materials insectoid; External links de:Seit es Menschen gibt es:The Savage Curtain fr:The Savage Curtain (épisode) ja:未確認惑星の岩石人間（エピソード） nl:The Savage Curtain pl:The Savage Curtain Savage Curtain, The

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All Our Yesterdays (episode)

Kirk, Spock, and McCoy are trapped in a planet's distant pasts, where Spock finds love with an exiled woman. Summary Teaser A star shines with a reddish glow, and will soon destroy the planet orbiting it, Sarpeidon, in a supernova. Captain Kirk plans to go with a landing party to warn the inhabitants that their sun (the star Beta Niobe) is about to destroy their planet. Kirk materializes with Doctor McCoy and Spock in a room. They find the building is empty except for Mr. Atoz, a librarian in this library. They soon meet several of his replicas. Act One Atoz tells the 's landing party that the inhabitants knew about the impending supernova. They are safe by traveling into the planet's past, using a time portal called the atavachron. Kirk and McCoy are intrigued by the library and start exploring the small discs which archive the planet's past. Kirk is viewing a disc of an era of horse-drawn carriages, when people wore the style that resembles 17th century England on Earth. McCoy is viewing one detailing the Sarpeidon Ice Age. Spock offers to evacuate Atoz, but Atoz explains he will join his wife and family when the supernova comes. Suddenly, Kirk heard a scream so he runs toward the adjoining room... the atavachron repeatedly flashes and instantly he stands by a brick wall during the era of the disc that he saw. Spock and McCoy immediately follow after him, and appear in a windy blizzard on frozen wasteland. They realize that they are in the era five thousand years prior when this planet was in an ice age. Kirk sees a man push a lady, then another fop pushes her. He runs to stop this evil, just as one raises a fencing sword to slash her. He grabs the arm of the murderer. The other draws a sword, so Kirk duels with him. When Kirk wins, the two men flee, and Kirk discovers that the woman is a thief. Kirk looks back to the brick wall and cannot find the entrance back to the library. Act Two Kirk goes to the wall from which he had emerged and is able to talk to McCoy and Spock, but cannot get to them. When Kirk is arrested by the authorities for aiding a thief, McCoy and Spock ask him what is going on, and the authorities can also hear the voices. The woman then betrays Kirk and denounces him as a witch, claiming that he and the "spirits" made her steal against her will. Kirk is forcefully taken away. Meanwhile, Spock and McCoy try to find shelter while stuck in Sarpedion's ice age. McCoy falls down, his hands and face are frostbitten and he cannot feel his feet. McCoy asks Spock to abandon him and find Kirk himself but Spock refuses. Just then, a figure clothed in a jacket and hood emerges from the snow and leads them to a heated cave. Spock has McCoy put onto a bed and wraps him up in a blanket. The figure removes its hood and jacket, revealing it to be a beautiful woman named Zarabeth. While McCoy sleeps, she informs Spock that she has been exiled to the ice age because one of her kinsman tried to assassinate Zor Kahn, the tyrannical leader of her time. While in prison, Kirk is questioned by the Prosecutor. When Kirk mentions the library, the Prosecutor becomes extremely uncomfortable. At first, he tries to maintain that Kirk might indeed be innocent. But when the guard insists that he heard voices talking to Kirk, he is forced to back off. When Kirk then starts repeating the word "library" to the Prosecutor, the Prosecutor gets flustered and rushes out, saying he wants nothing to do with Kirk. Act Three Meanwhile, in the ice age, Spock tells Zarabeth that he must find his captain and get back to his own time. He proposes that she join him and the doctor and find the time portal. He will have the both of them immediately beamed up to the Enterprise upon making it to the future. However, Zarabeth tells Spock that the atavachron alters a person's structure and that he therefore cannot return to the future, as he will die. At the same time, Kirk escapes from his cell when he grabs the guard who is trying to pour soup into his bowl, steals his cell keys, and knocks him out. Kirk hides the guard's body to the side of his cell just as the Prosecutor arrives to take Kirk to the inquisition. However, Kirk overpowers him as well. He questions him and comes to realize that he too had also been sent from the future. Kirk threatens to denounce him as a witch as well if he does not help get him back to the library. The Prosecutor then informs Kirk that the atavachron alters cell structure and brain patterns to prepare people for their journey into the past. The Prosecutor had been "prepared" before crossing and cannot return without immediately dying, but when Kirk announces that he hadn't been similarly prepared, the Prosecutor tells him that they must get him back to the future immediately. If not, Kirk can only survive for a few hours in the past. The Prosecutor then leads Kirk back to the brick wall from which he had emerged. The Prosecutor says he cannot go any further and backs away while Kirk steps back into the library and returns to his own time. He meets one of the Atoz replicas, who insists again that Kirk be prepared, and Kirk is forced to lock him in a closet. Another replica appears and Kirk knocks him out. The real Atoz then appears and stuns Kirk with a cylindrical weapon. Act Four In the ice age, Spock's personality is beginning to change. He falls in love with Zarabeth and believes her when she tells him he cannot go back. McCoy notices the changes in Spock (especially when Spock responds to a typical insult from the doctor by grabbing him by the scruff of the neck and announcing "I don't like that") and guesses that Zarabeth is not being completely truthful in order to keep Spock with her. Spock also begins to notice that he is not himself after he eats meat and enjoys it. However, even with this knowledge in hand, Spock continues and proceeds to tell Zarabeth that she is beautiful and embraces her. While kissing her, he then begins to further emote and smiles. Meanwhile, Kirk has managed to recover enough from the stun blast to avoid having Atoz wheel him back into the atavachron. He overpowers Atoz and forces him to help him locate Spock and McCoy by trying out various discs in the viewer. McCoy has begun to realize that it is only Zarabeth who cannot return and confronts Spock with this fact. When McCoy also confronts Zarabeth and tries to force her to admit the truth to Spock, Spock grabs McCoy and flings him against a wall with his hand around his neck. McCoy then asks Spock if he's trying to kill him and if that's what Spock really wants. Spock angrily asserts that this is impossible for him to be acting like this because he's a Vulcan. McCoy reminds Spock that the he knows won't exist for another five thousand years and then asks Spock what's happening there at this very moment. Spock remembers his ancestors at that point were warlike barbarians and McCoy tells Spock he's reverting to the ways of his ancestors, five thousand years before he was born. Spock says he has lost himself and does not know who he is anymore. He then asks Zarabeth if it's possible for them to go back. She says she doesn't know definitively but McCoy says he's going to try to find the portal because that's where his home and life is. Spock agrees finally to go with him and Zarabeth accompanies them as well. When they find the area where they had came into the past, and where they once again hear Kirk call out to them through the atavachron, Spock can't bring himself to leave Zarabeth alone in the past. But she once again tells Spock that if she were to cross through the portal she would immediately die. Kirk calls to McCoy and Spock and tells them they've got to come back, that it's almost time for the supernova. Spock tries to send McCoy on ahead but McCoy can't go through. Mr. Atoz realizes that they can't come back separately because they had gone through together initially. Finally, Zarabeth turns and leaves them behind and Spock reluctantly goes with McCoy back through the portal. Zarabeth turns around and takes one last look at Spock, with a tear running down her cheek. With everyone back, Atoz puts in a disc, pushes Kirk, Spock, and McCoy out of his way, and rushes to join his family before it is too late. Kirk tells McCoy that Atoz had his escape well planned, and that Kirk is glad he made it to where he was going. He then begins to call the Enterprise to have Scott beam them up. Spock tells McCoy that there's no need to watch him anymore, that he has fully returned to the present. McCoy tells Spock that it did happen though, and Spock agrees, but that it was five thousand years ago and Zarabeth is dead now, dead and buried, long, long ago. On Kirk's communicator Scott tells Kirk "It's now or never." Kirk orders them to be beamed up and to have the Enterprise taken to maximum warp as soon as they're aboard. The landing party is beamed up and the Enterprise warps out of orbit just as Beta Niobe explodes into a supernova and Sarpeidon disintegrates. Log entries Captain's log, USS Enterprise (NCC-1701), 2269 Memorable quotes "A library serves no purpose unless someone is using it." - Atoz, to Kirk "You're a very agile man, Mister Atoz! Just how many of you are there?" - Kirk, after encountering another Atoz "We're in a wilderness of arctic characteristics." "He means it's cold!" - Spock and McCoy, talking to Kirk through the atavachron portal "Away! Away, spirit! And let honest men approach." - Constable, on hearing Spock and McCoy's voices "We go together." "You stubborn, thickheaded Vulcan!" - Spock and McCoy, after McCoy collapses in the snow "I'm called Spock." "Even your name is strange." - Spock and Zarabeth, in the cave "Do you know what it's like to be alone, really alone?" "Yes. I know what it is like." - Zarabeth and Spock "What is this island?" "It's called Earth." "I know no island Earth. No matter. Continue." - Kirk and the Prosecutor, in Kirk's jail cell "I heard the spirit talk to him. He answered...and did call it "Bones"!" - Constable, relating Kirk calling out to McCoy "Witch!! Witch!! They'll burn ya!" - Mort, in her cell "Don't let him doctor you. I'm the doctor around here." "And known as the worst patient in the entire crew of the Enterprise." - McCoy and Spock, to Zarabeth "Now you listen to me, you pointy-eared Vulcan!" "I don't like that! I don't think I ever did, and now I'm sure!" "What's happening to you, Spock?" "Nothing that shouldn't have happened long ago." - McCoy and Spock, as he grabs McCoy "You are beautiful. More beautiful than any dream of beauty I've ever known." - Spock, after kissing Zarabeth "Spock, you're reverting into your ancestors five thousand years before you were born!" - McCoy, on Spock's behavior "I know I'm going to try, Spock, because my life is back there. And I want that life." - McCoy, on returning to the portal "And she is dead now. Dead and buried. Long ago." - Spock to McCoy, on Zarabeth Background information Production timeline Story outline by Jean Lisette Aroeste, titled "A Handful of Dust", Revised story outline, First draft teleplay, titled "All Our Yesterdays", Second draft teleplay, Final draft teleplay by Arthur Singer, Revised Final draft telepay by Fred Freiberger, Additional page revisions by Freiberger, Filmed: – Day 1 – , Friday – Paramount European Town backlot: Ext. Alleyway; Desilu Stage 10: Ext. Alleyway wall Day 2 – , Monday – Desilu Stage 10: Ext. Alleyway wall, Int. Jail cell, Ext. Arctic, Ice cliff Day 3 – , Tuesday – Paramount Stage 5: Int. Caverns, Cavern living room Day 4 – , Thursday – Paramount Stage 5: Int. Interior Cavern, Cavern sleeping chamber Day 5 – , Friday – Paramount Stage 5: Int. Library Day 6 – , Monday – Paramount Stage 5: Int. Library Original airdate, Rerun airdate, First UK airdate Syndication cuts During the syndication run of Star Trek, no official syndication cuts were made to this episode. However, several local television stations would often edit extended bits of dialogue in order to allow for more commercial breaks. This included: Atoz expressing regret at Kirk wanting to know about "recent history", stating that there was no great demand for such information. A longer scene where the lawman identifies Kirk as the "Mort's henchman" The Magistrate cautioning the Mort that he had no doubt about her guilt and to not falsely accuse Kirk. Mr. Atoz telling Kirk that his actions would get both Atoz and Kirk killed, and that Atoz didn't want to die. Spock's telling Zarabeth that Vulcan was "millions of light years" from Sarpeidon. This allowed for the removal of a glaring plot error, given that this meant the Enterprise would be capable of intergalactic travel. (The Star Trek Compendium) Story and script Story outline, "A Handful of Dust" , had Spock and McCoy trapped in a desert wasteland, with McCoy dying from the desert heat when the pair was captured by misshapen humanoids, and there was no Zarabeth. Kirk was trapped in a period which resembled San Francisco's Barbary Coast, but returns to the library with another time traveler. At the end the time traveler who helped Kirk destroys the time portal. Kirk, Spock, and McCoy flee the building and it ages to a hollowed ruin behind them. Kirk picks up a tattered book and it literally crumbles to dust in his hands. The title for this episode is from Shakespeare's Macbeth, Act V, Scene 5, line 22: "And all our yesterdays have lighted fools/ The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle." Other episodes with titles from Shakespeare are , , , , , , and . A scene in the story draft that was cut would have had McCoy "stuck" in the time doorway, with part of his body in the present and the rest in the past. Mr. Atoz's name is a word play – a librarian named "A to Z." The name for this character was selected to suggest how one might search a library: from "A to Z". () Author Jean Lisette Aroeste was a UCLA librarian at the time she wrote this script. Cast George Takei (Sulu), Nichelle Nichols (Uhura) and Walter Koenig (Chekov) do not appear in this episode. James Doohan (Scotty) does not appear on screen but has several voice-over lines. In no other episode are only three regular members of the crew seen in person. Mariette Hartley (Zarabeth) was not allowed to show her belly-button in this episode, despite the appearances of other navels in previous episodes. To comment on this censorship, Gene Roddenberry gave Hartley's character two navels in his pilot, "Genesis II", stating that "the network owed me one." (Star Trek Compendium) Sets and props The interior of the Enterprise is not seen in this episode, marking this as the only episode of TOS in which none of the action takes place aboard the ship. The brief sword fight scene is the only outdoor shot in the series after . The stock footage showing the endless snow fields on the disc McCoy watches was also used as the surface of Exo III in . The atavachron device is the reused prop of Gary Seven's Beta 5 computer from . The floor of the Sarpeidon library is identical to the floor of the asylum on Elba II in . Continuity According to the stardate this episode is chronologically the last of the series, even though its production number and air date are earlier than . This is the last time travel episode of TOS. This is the only episode of any Star Trek series to ever mention a physiological limitation on time travel. According to Mr. Atoz, one had to undergo what he called "preparation" for the era which they would travel to. Failure to do so would result in death after a few hours. Additionally, one could not return to the present era for the same reason (the reason Zarabeth could not accompany Spock and McCoy). It is not known whether this is a result of how the atavachron works, a characteristic of Sarpeidon's atmosphere, or something unique to Sarpeidon's inhabitants. Additionally, this is the only Star Trek story which mentions mental changes to travelers traveling to the past. Spock found himself reverting to the savage nature of the Vulcans of that time period. Curiously, however, McCoy did not find himself reverting to the relative savagery or intelligence of Humans from five thousand years ago. This could be interpreted to mean that Humans have changed little in five thousand years, technology notwithstanding. Or it could reflect Spock's telepathy – we have seen how linked he is to the Vulcan people when the Intrepid was destroyed. briefly references the fact of Enterprises presence near Beta Niobe when it began its supernova explosion. Remastered information The remastered version of "All Our Yesterdays" aired in many North American markets during the weekend of . While the episode required very few new effects, the planet Sarpeidon was given a CGI-makeover as was its sun, Beta Niobe. When that star goes nova at the end of the episode, dramatic new effects were inserted into the episode, based upon photographs taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. Initially, when Beta Niobe explodes, Sarpeidon glows before disappearing. And in the remastered version, Sarpeidon crumbles into dust from the supernova blast. Novelization releases Bantam Books published a series of fotonovels, which took photographic stills from actual episodes and arranged word balloons and text over them, to create a formatted story. The sixth installment was an adaptation of this episode, released in . This was the last of Bantam Books Star Trek fotonovel releases to see internationally translated editions. Translated into Dutch as Al onze dagen van Weleer, the Dutch language edition saw a release in , whereas a German language edition was released in as Flucht aus der Vergangenheit. The novels Yesterday's Son and Time for Yesterday written by A.C. Crispin are non-canon follow-ups to this episode, concerning a conceived child of Spock and Zarabeth named "Zar." Video and DVD releases Original US Betamax release: UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 40, catalog number VHR 2436, This volume is a three-episode tape to close out the series. US VHS release: UK re-release (three-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 3.8, Original US DVD release (single-disc): Volume 39, As part of the TOS Season 3 DVD collection As part of the TOS-R Season 3 DVD collection. Links and references Starring William Shatner as Kirk Also starring Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock DeForest Kelley as Dr. McCoy Guest star Mariette Hartley as Zarabeth Co-starring Ian Wolfe as Mr. Atoz (s) Kermit Murdock as Prosecutor Ed Bakey as First Fop James Doohan as Scott Anna Karen as Woman Al Cavens as Second Fop Stan Barrett as Jailer And Johnny Haymer as Constable Uncredited Unknown performers as: Constable #2 Several onlookers Townspeople (archived footage) References 5,000 years ago; accomplice; accusation; "all right"; alternative; ancestor; angler; animal flesh; answer; archive; arrest; "as a matter of fact"; atavachron; Atoz's family; attack; attention; barbarian; beauty; bed; belief; benefactor; Beta Niobe; "Bones"; book; boulder; brain pattern; bruise; building; cell structure; century; chance; ; cheating; choice; class M; cliff; climate; collection; commanding officer; companionship; comrade; conspiracy; constable; controlling mechanism; cook; crime; cup; danger; ; death; desk; ; door; dream; Earth; equation; evil spirit; execution; exile; face; fact; false accusation; feeling; feet; field of interest; file; food and clothing animals; "for the moment"; fop; friend; frostbite; "go ahead"; greenhouse; ; hand; head; ; henchman; hour; horse; hot spring; humanoid species; ice; individual; information; inhabitant; Inquisitional Tribunal; ; instruction; "I see"; island; jailor; jealousy; key; kinsman; landing party; lie; law; leech (slang); lesson; librarian; library; light year; logic; loneliness; lord; luxury; machine; manners; mass suicide; ; maximum warp; meat; medical license; medication; medicine; millennium; million; minute; mistake; mort; mouth; Mort's leech; murder; name; "no matter"; nomenclature; nourishment; nova; "now or never"; "of course"; "of sorts"; order; passion; patient; person; phaser; physiology; place; place of safety; power source; pre-warp civilization; prisoner; prosecutor; progress; purse; purse cutting; question; rage; rapier; reading; reference material; Reference Services; replica; report; sacrilege; sapient lifeform; Sarpeidon; Sarpeidon Ice Age; Sarpeidon native; ; scream; search; shelter; slave; spell; "stand by"; story; stranger; stubborn; subject; suicidal maniac; supernova; supper; survivor; tape viewer; thief; thievery; thing; time period; time portal; trial; truth; tyrant; verism tape (aka history tape); vixen; voice; Vulcans; ; wall; weapon; weather; wilderness; wind; witch; witchcraft; witness; word; Zarabeth's kinsmen; Zor Kahn Unreferenced material Coradrenalin; musketeer; ; troglodyte; External links de:Portal in die Vergangenheit es:All Our Yesterdays fr:All Our Yesterdays (épisode) it:Un tuffo nel passato (episodio) ja:タイムマシンの危機（エピソード） nl:All Our Yesterdays pl:All Our Yesterdays TOS episodes

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Turnabout Intruder (episode)

Dr. Janice Lester, a mad scientist, tries to take control of the Enterprise by switching bodies with Captain Kirk. (Series finale) Summary Teaser The answers a distress call from an archaeological expedition on Camus II and a landing party beams down. Captain Kirk finds that Dr. Janice Lester, whom he knows, is gravely ill, and Dr. Arthur Coleman is tending to her. Lester is in bed and awakens just as Spock's tricorder picks up faint life-form readings. Lester becomes unquiet and Dr. McCoy suggests that Kirk stay with her while the others leave to investigate the readings. When Kirk and Lester reminisce about their time together at Starfleet Academy, Lester is still resenting her inability to rise to a captaincy. When Kirk examines an apparatus in the room, Lester activates it. It traps Kirk into position on one side of it. Lester then rises from her bed and stands alongside Kirk on the apparatus and effects a life-entity transfer, each from one body into the other. Act One Lester (in Kirk's body) discloses to Kirk (in Lester's body) her plan to command the Enterprise, as well as her willingness to kill. Lester/Kirk starts to strangle Kirk/Lester but is interrupted as the others return. McCoy reports that the rest of the staff on the planet are dead of exposure to celebium, though Coleman says that this is unclear, a disagreement that will affect the choice of treatment. The survivors beam back to the Enterprise. Lester, in Kirk's body, orders that a medical team stand by in the transporter room for Kirk in Lester's body. In sickbay, Lester/Kirk and Dr. Coleman discuss Kirk/Lester, whom they want to keep from reawakening. Coleman knows Lester's plans, and in fact knows both that celebium was the lethal agent and that Lester had caused the deaths by sending the personnel to where the celebium shielding was weak. On the surface of Camus II, Coleman had kept the rest of the landing party apart to give Lester time enough to kill Kirk, but he refuses to induce Kirk's death. McCoy arrives and is surprised to see the captain in sickbay. Lester/Kirk transfers responsibility for the patient's care to Dr. Coleman, despite McCoy's strenuous protests. Kirk/Lester regains consciousness, but Coleman orders Nurse Chapel to administer a sedative. Act Two The impostor Kirk orders Sulu to execute a course change for a hospital on Benecia Colony, even though Spock points out that a course for Starbase 2 would provide a better radiation treatment without delaying the rendezvous with the at Beta Aurigae. Lester/Kirk reacts sternly to being informed of the consequences of her/his orders. The captain next meets with McCoy in Kirk's quarters, who defends his qualifications to treat Lester and has discovered that Coleman was relieved of duty as a chief medical officer on a starship due to severe incompetence. The captain says his decisions stand but McCoy uses his authority to order the captain to a medical examination based on "emotional instability and erratic mental attitudes since returning from that planet." The captain calls this revenge, but the confrontation is interrupted by a recall to the bridge. In sickbay, Kirk/Lester again regains consciousness and calls for McCoy. Dr. Coleman says he is in charge and tells Chapel that Kirk's claims are symptoms of a paranoia that has been developing for six months. He tells Kirk, "You are insane, Dr. Lester." He orders the nurse to keep Dr. Lester under constant sedation. Act Three Kirk, in Lester's body and working not to seem paranoid to Nurse Chapel, asks to meet with McCoy or Spock, but is alarmed to hear in passing of the course change ordered for the Enterprise. Chapel gives the patient a drink and leaves. After the nurse has gone, Kirk/Lester pours the drink onto the floor, breaks the glass and uses it to cut the restraints on his/her bed. Nearby, McCoy discusses with Spock his plans to run tests on "Kirk". News of the captain's aberrant behavior is spreading around the ship, and both of them are convinced that a rapid-onset mental illness began during Kirk's brief time alone with Lester on Camus II. The patient approaches the two – but the captain had arrived a moment earlier. Lester/Kirk violently knocks Kirk/Lester unconscious and orders him/her to be placed in isolation with a twenty-four-hour watch. Soon, however, Spock arrives at the cell to question the prisoner. Lieutenant Galloway concedes Spock's point that isolation orders have never applied to the Enterprises senior staff. Kirk/Lester calmly explains to Spock the technology of life-entity transfer, "accomplished and forgotten long ago on Camus II." When Spock protests that Starfleet requires objective evidence, Kirk describes events from their common past, such as their encounter with the Tholians and also the Vians, then finally, he invites the Vulcan mind meld. Performing, then breaking, the meld, Spock is convinced and asks Kirk?lester to come with him. When Galloway tries to block this, Spock disables him with a Vulcan neck pinch — but not before Galloway can call for backup. The captain passes McCoy's physical, but McCoy insists on performing the Robbiani dermal-optic test to compare to a previous test. This, too, reveals nothing. Then they hear on the intercom that the prisoner has escaped. The captain goes to the cell, Spock surrenders, and the captain broadcasts throughout the ship a call for an immediate court martial of Spock on the charge of mutiny. Act Four The court martial convenes in a briefing room. Scott interrogates Spock, who describes his telepathic evidence that Kirk and Lester have exchanged bodies. Scott tells Spock that Starfleet Command will need more concrete proof than that. Later, McCoy testifies that the captain's physical and mental state are as they were when he assumed command of the Enterprise. Spock's logic compels Lester/Kirk to call Kirk/Lester out of isolation to testify. Lester/Kirk describes the life-entity transfer, but Kirk/Lester interrogates her/him in such a way so as to ridicule her/him. Lester/Kirk accuses Spock of inventing the life-entity transfer controversy to assume the captaincy. Spock asserts his intent to reveal the truth and oppose the captain (i.e. Lester/Kirk). Lester/Kirk regards this as an overt confession of mutiny, but as she/he makes this clear, she/he sounds increasingly irrational. She/he declares a recess, followed immediately by the vote. In the corridor, McCoy and Scott agree that the captain's (impostor) state of mind is unprecedented. Scott admits he never saw him "red-faced with hysteria" until now. Scott asks McCoy what the captain will do if they vote a ruling that Spock is innocent? They conclude that the captain will claim that they joined the mutiny ergo: "we'll have to take over the ship". Lester/Kirk is recording the conversation and extends the mutiny charge and orders the death penalty to them. Chekov and Sulu protest that the death penalty is expressly forbidden, except for General Order 4, which has not been violated by any Enterprise crew member. The enraged Lester/Kirk angrily orders that the other senior officers return to their posts, but imprisons McCoy, Scott and Spock. Lemli locks Kirk/Lester in a cell with a force field. Lester/Kirk schedules a group execution on the hangar deck, with interment to take place on Benecia, but Sulu and Chekov take their hands away from their helm and navigation consoles in defiance. Unexpectedly, the life-entity transfer temporarily reverses, as Kirk/Lester senses it briefly in the holding cell. Lester/Kirk runs to meet Dr. Coleman in the archaeology lab to tell him the transference is weakening. Coleman says the only solution is to quickly kill Lester's body but again refuses to do so personally. However, Lester/Kirk says Coleman is already complicit in many murders and now has no choice. Coleman gives Lester/Kirk a phaser and prepares a doubly lethal hypospray which he also gave the captain. They hurry to her cell, to kill Kirk/Lester before the transference wears off. Lester/Kirk disables the cell's force field and orders Kirk/Lester to come out as he/she will be the first to be executed, lying that the prisoners would be moved to different cells — supposedly to prevent further conspiracy. But before Lester/Kirk can kill Kirk/Lester with the hypospray, the life-entity transference wears off completely and Kirk, now in his own body, successfully prevents the murder. Lester, in her original body, collapses into enraged hysterics over her total, and now permanent, defeat. Kirk lets Coleman accompany Lester back to sickbay to care for her and laments her bad decisions. Log entries Captain's log, USS Enterprise (NCC-1701), 2269 Memorable quotes "Your world of starship captains doesn't admit women." - Lester to Kirk, on Camus II "I loved you. We could've roamed among the stars." "We'd have killed each other." "It might have been better." - Lester and Kirk, before their life-entity transfer "Believe me, it's better to be dead than to live alone in the body of a woman." - Lester, inside Kirk's body "Youth doesn't excuse everything, Dr. McCoy." - Lester, as Kirk, in the transporter room "Love? Him?!? I loved the life he led. The power of a starship commander. It's my life now!" - Lester, as Kirk, to Coleman "You are closer to the captain than anyone in the universe." - Kirk, as Lester, to Spock "You claim that… that you are Captain James T. Kirk?" "No. I am not Captain Kirk. That is very apparent. I claim that whatever it is that makes James Kirk a living being special to himself is being held here in this body." "Oh. Well. However, as I understand it, I… am Dr. Janice Lester." "That's very clever, but I didn't say it. I said, the body of James Kirk is being used by Doctor Janice Lester." "A subtlety that somehow escapes me. I assume that this switch was arrived at by mutual agreement." "No. It was brought about by a violent attack by Dr. Lester and the use of equipment she discovered on Camus II." "Violence by the lady, perpetrated on Captain Kirk? I ask the assembled personnel to look at Dr. Janice Lester and visualize that historic moment. Can you, can you tell me why Dr. Janice Lester would agree to this ludicrous exchange?" "Yes. To get the power she craved, to attain a position she doesn't merit by temperament or training. And most of all, she wanted to murder James Kirk, a man who once loved her. But her intense hatred of her own womanhood made life with her impossible." - Janice Lester, as James T. Kirk, and James T. Kirk, as Janice Lester – "You are not Captain Kirk. You have ruthlessly appropriated his body, but the life entity within you is not that of Captain Kirk. You do not belong in command of the Enterprise, and I will do everything in my power against you." - Spock at his hearing, to Lester as Kirk "You have heard the statements you put into the record. Do you understand the nature of it?" "I do, sir. And I stand by it." "It is mutiny!" - Lester, as Kirk, and Spock "On the basis of these statements, I call for an immediate vote, by the powers granted to me as Captain of the Enterprise. A recess is declared, to be followed by a vote." "Yes, sir. An immediate vote before our chief witness can be left to die on some obscure planet with the truth locked away inside of her." "Silence! You will be silent!! A recess has been declared. There will be no cross-discussion. When I return, we will vote on the charge of mutiny. The evidence presented here is the only basis of your decision." - Lester, as Kirk, and Spock – "Doctor, I've seen the captain feverish, sick, drunk, delirious, terrified, overjoyed, boiling mad. But up to now I have never seen him red-faced with hysteria." - Scott to McCoy, outside the hearing room "Headquarters has its problems, and we have ours. And right now, the captain of the Enterprise is our problem." - Scott, to McCoy "We're talking about a mutiny, Scotty." "Aye. Are you ready for the vote?" "Yes, I'm… I'm ready for the vote." - McCoy and Scott, before returning to the hearing room "The death penalty is forbidden. There is only one exception." "General Order 4! It has not been violated by any officer on the Enterprise!" - Sulu and Chekov, on the death penalty "The bridge is where you belong." - Scott to Kirk as Lester, in the brig "Oh, I'm never going to be the captain, never… kill him…" "You are… you are as I loved you." - Janice Lester and Dr. Coleman "I didn't want to destroy her." "I'm sure we all understand that, Captain." "Her life could have been as rich as any woman's. If only… if only…" - Kirk and Spock, speaking the last lines of the Original Series Background information Production timeline Similar story premise, "Turnabout" by Gene Roddenberry: early Story outline by Gene Roddenberry: Revised story outline: Second revised story outline: Third revised story outline: First draft teleplay by Arthur Singer: Second draft teleplay: early- Final draft teleplay: Revised final draft teleplay by Fred Freiberger: Additional page revisions by Freiberger: , , Filmed: – Original airdate: , postponed from First UK airdate: Title, story, and script Because was canceled instead of coming to a natural end, and the idea of a series finale was not as popular in the 1960s, "Turnabout Intruder", despite being the series finale of TOS, is closer to a normal episode and does not have the "finale" touches. In James Blish's novelization of "Turnabout Intruder" in Star Trek 5, Dr. Arthur Coleman's first name is "Howard" – probably from an early draft of the script. At the end of the episode, Kirk muses about Janice Lester, "Her life could have been as rich as any woman's, if only… if only…" In Blish's rendition, Spock finishes the sentence, adding: "If only she had been able to take pride in being a woman." The set crew's nickname for this show was "Captain Kirk, Space Queen". (Star Trek Lives!, p. 176) Cast Uhura is the only regular character absent in this episode. The actress, Nichelle Nichols, had a singing engagement at the time and was unavailable, so was replaced by Barbara Baldavin as Lisa. After two years on the series, Roger Holloway finally got to speak dialogue – all of two words: "Aye, sir." His character's name (Lemli) was the same as William Shatner's license plate at the time, a mixture of his daughters' names (i.e., Leslie, Melanie, and Lisabeth). Typically blonde, Christine Chapel appears with auburn hair in this episode, as well as previously, in . By the time of , her hair had re-darkened to its natural dark brown color. Lieutenant Galloway reappears in this episode, despite having been killed by Ronald Tracey in . He was credited as "Galoway" even though actor David L. Ross had been recast as Lieutenant in after the character of Galloway was killed off. Leonard Nimoy (Spock) and Majel Barrett (Nurse Christine Chapel and Number One) were the only actors to appear in both this episode and first pilot . Nimoy was the only actor to appear in every episode of the series. William Shatner appeared in every episode with the exception of "The Cage". Jeffrey Hunter, who had played Christopher Pike in the first pilot episode, died a week before "Turnabout Intruder" aired. The very last Enterprise crew member to be seen in the original series is Scotty. As he, Kirk, and Spock enter the turbo-elevator at the end of Act IV, a glimpse of his forearm, grasping the control handle, is visible before the doors close. In his The Star Trek Compendium, author Allan Asherman credited Sandra Smith as the only actor besides William Shatner to have "played" James T. Kirk. With the release of J.J. Abrams' , this was no longer true, as the film featured a "new" Kirk, played by Chris Pine, Jimmy Bennett, and an unidentified baby. Nevertheless, Smith still remains the only woman to have portrayed Kirk. Sets and props For story reasons, Janice Lester convalesces in a private, never-before-seen room down the corridor from sickbay. Production There is a detailed account of the filming of this episode in the book Star Trek Lives!. Co-author Joan Winston had the opportunity to spend six days on the set while "Turnabout Intruder" was being shot. Winston wrote that Shatner was very ill with the flu at the time and had considerable difficulty in picking up and carrying Sandra Smith, the actress who played Dr. Lester, for take after take. At one point, he said, "You know I love you, baby, but you've got to lose about six inches off that ass," which brought down the house. Joan Winston also recalled many amusing anecdotes that took place during the shooting. For example, William Shatner flubbed the line, "Spock, give it up. Come back to the Enterprise family. All charges will be dropped. And the madness that overcame all of us on Camus II will fade and be forgotten." Instead, he blurted out, "Spock, it's always been you, you know it's always been you. Say you love me too." Shatner clashed with director Herb Wallerstein, when Wallerstein wanted Kirk to exit a scene via what was established as a wall. During the first three filming days, pre-production was underway for the 25th episode of the season, "The Joy Machine", to be directed by William Shatner. However – as reported by Winston – on the fourth day of filming, Monday , Gene Roddenberry came to the set and informed Shatner that the series was canceled by NBC, and his directorial debut wouldn't be produced. Despite suffering from the flu, and saddened by the news, Shatner performed his scene perfectly. (These Are the Voyages: TOS Season Three, pp. 637) The rest of the cast and crew were notified of NBC's decision at the end of the day by associate producer Gregg Peters, making a formal announcement. (These Are the Voyages: TOS Season Three, pp. 637-638) Pro football player , just starting his acting career at that point, visited the set the same day, and was escorted by Roddenberry. Simpson witnessed the aforementioned event with Shatner on the bridge set. Regarding Shatner's professional demeanour, Roddenberry told him, "You have just seen an actor at work.". (These Are the Voyages: TOS Season Three, pp. 637) Even as filming was wrapping up, crew members were dismantling the Enterprise sets. Filming was completed on . Production went one day over schedule, resulting in seven filming days. (Inside Star Trek: The Real Story) The final scene ever filmed for the original series was of William Shatner and Sandra Smith in front of the alien transference machine. (These Are the Voyages: TOS Season Three, p. 641) Music This installment opens with the same music cue as the previous three episodes, taken from the opening titles of . In common with the immediately prior entry to this one, this episode ends with the closing music cue from . Reception A scheduled airdate of was preempted by news coverage of the death of former president Dwight D. Eisenhower. This episode was not aired until for that reason. Due to being rescheduled, the episode missed the deadline for Emmy nominations. (Smithsonian magazine, issue, p. 59) It was the last installment of the franchise to air in the 1960s. Although the BBC's first run airdate order during - was very different to NBC's, this was also the final episode screened in the UK, on . Bjo and John Trimble were very impressed by this episode. "[It] was very good; it might have won an Emmy for William Shatner," they appreciatively speculated. (Smithsonian magazine, issue, p. 59) Critic Scott Mantz considered the episode's final moments to be significant. "There is something somewhat apropos," he said, "about the last words of the last episode, 'Turnabout Intruder': 'Her life could have been as rich as any woman's. If only… If only.' And then Kirk walks off." (Smithsonian magazine, issue, p. 59) The episode drew Nielsen ratings of only 8.8, in contrast to rival shows on CBS and on ABC, which gained ratings of 14.7 and 15.2 respectively, a drop of over 50% since the show premiered. Cultural theorist Cassandra Amesley states that this episode is "agreed to be one of the worst Star Trek episodes ever shown" by Star Trek fans. Brenton J. Malin sees the episode as a reactionary response to the radical feminism of the late 1960s. Dr. Lester is a "caricature and condemnation of the feminism of the late 1960s, evoking a fear of powerful, power-hungry women… The message seems clear: women want to kill men and take their jobs, but ultimately they can't handle them." David Greven has a more positive view of the episode, even referring to it as "moving". He calls it the "infamous last episode" of the original series, in part because of the "campiness" of Shatner's performance when portraying himself as a female in a male's body, but also because of the sexist premise that "female desire for power was a clear sign of insanity". While accepting that "the sexism of the episode is indisputable", he argues that the exploration of the idea that man can inhabit a woman's body, and vice versa, gives the episode a "radical" dimension, which he claims implies the interchangeability of gender and sexual identity. In 2017, this episode was rated by ScreenRant as the 4th worst episode of the Star Trek franchise, including later spin-off series. A ranking of every episode of the original series by Hollywood placed this episode in last place. In 2017, Den of Geek ranked this episode as the 7th worst Star Trek episode of the original series. Continuity The name of the planet Benecia is pronounced differently in this episode than it was in , i.e., "beh-NEE-shee-a" as opposed to "beh-neh-SEE-a". In this episode, Kirk mentions the events of two previous episodes ( and ) to Spock. Starfleet's General Orders appear to have changed by this time. Sulu and Chekov say that only violating General Order 4 warrants the death penalty. In , though, it was stated that violation of General Order 7 (the ban on contact with Talos IV) was the "only death penalty left on the books." Although this was the last episode of the Original Series to be filmed and aired, this episode has a lower stardate than the previous episode, . Janice Lester, in the body and voice of Captain Kirk, makes a captain's log entry, discussing the status of the conspiracy. As a subtle hint that all is not right with Kirk, whenever Lester/Kirk refers to himself, he uses the more formal "Captain Kirk" instead of the usual "Kirk". (e.g., "Captain Kirk to the Enterprise" instead of the usual "Kirk to Enterprise," "Captain Kirk out" instead of "Kirk out," etc.) This episode is subtly referenced in . In that episode, Jean-Luc Picard mentions in his captain's log that "The Enterprise has bypassed its scheduled archaeological survey of Camus II…", referencing the same planet that this episode begins on. This was mentioned because, with the airing of its eightieth episode, "Legacy", officially "bypassed" the series-run of Star Trek: The Original Series. () In this episode Janice Lester states, "Your world of starship captains does not admit women." In fact, the entire basis of the episode is that Janice Lester wanted to be a starship captain so badly (but could not because of her gender) that she switched bodies with and tried to murder Captain Kirk. This was later contradicted by and . In , set in 2154, the second warp-5 ship to be launched in the NX Program, the is captained by a woman, Captain Hernandez. In Discovery, set a decade prior to this episode, Captain Philippa Georgiou is established not only as the captain of the , but to be among the most decorated Starfleet captains (in ). This, however, is not necessarily a contradiction. Lester's line "Your world of starship captains does not admit women" might not have been intended to mean "Starfleet doesn't allow women starship captains," but rather could have meant that Kirk's world as a starship captain did not (and, by a necessity she refused to appreciate, could not) include her, since they were talking about their relationship, not Starfleet. Remastered information This was the second to last episode of TOS to be remastered, and the second to last to be aired. The remastered version of "Turnabout Intruder" ends with the Enterprise flying toward a colorful nebula, to artistically signify the episode as being the last of the TOS series. Video and DVD releases Original US Betamax release: UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 40, catalog number VHR 2436, (This volume is a three-episode tape to close out the series.) US VHS release: UK re-release (three-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 3.8, Original US DVD release (single-disc): Volume 40, As part of the TOS Season 3 DVD collection As part of the TOS-R Season 3 DVD collection. As part of the Star Trek: Fan Collective - Alternate Realities'' collection Links and references Starring William Shatner as James Kirk Also starring Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock And DeForest Kelley as Dr. McCoy Guest stars Sandra Smith as Janice Lester Harry Landers as Dr. Coleman James Doohan as Scott George Takei as Sulu Walter Koenig as Chekov Majel Barrett as Nurse Chapel Barbara Baldavin as Communications Officer David L. Ross as Lt. 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The Last Outpost (episode)

In pursuit of Ferengi marauders, the Enterprise and its quarry become trapped by a mysterious planet that is draining both ships' energies. Summary Teaser The is in pursuit of a Ferengi vessel suspected of stealing a Federation-owned T-9 energy converter from Gamma Tauri IV. The mission is also a long-awaited opportunity to encounter the Ferengi, who have never established visual contact with the Federation. The pursuit ends when the Ferengi ship gets close to a planet in the Delphi Ardu system and goes to sub-warp speed, possibly suffering a power surge and damage to their engines. After a while, it opens fire on the Enterprise, causing her minimal damage. Captain Picard chooses not to return fire, arguing that the Ferengi are just reacting to the Enterprises pursuit. Soon after, however, the Enterprise also suffers a power system failure, becoming immobilized with phasers and shields off-line. Act One The crew members believe their ship is trapped by the Ferengi. In the attempt to understand more of their adversaries, Data summarizes what is known about them: they are traders, and value profit above all, not unlike Yankee traders of 18th and 19th century North America. In engineering, Riker and La Forge envisage a way to escape the trap, by jumping abruptly to maximum warp and taking advantage of the relatively slower reaction of the force field. To catch the Ferengi off guard, Picard hails them, asking for the restitution of the stolen equipment, but receives no answer. The Enterprise then attempts the warp jump, but the plan is not successful. Furthermore, the computer data banks are being accessed by some unknown external source. Counselor Troi points out that all the attention has been devoted to the Ferengi, neglecting the possible role of the planet. A conference is held in the observation lounge among the senior officers, and, after discarding the hypothesis of fighting, they decide to try contacting the Ferengi again. After everyone leaves, Picard asks Riker to stay in the conference lounge for a moment. Picard notes that his first officer had not offered up an assessment. Riker believes that the senior staff had covered all available alternatives, unless Picard has another option he would like analyzed. Picard tells Riker that there is one left that needs no conversation and one they must avoid. Returning to the bridge, Picard hails the Ferengi, reluctantly asking to present their terms. Act Two After a moment, the Ferengi DaiMon Tarr replies. Much to the astonishment of the Enterprise bridge crew, he says that he is ready to discuss surrender, but not unconditional surrender: he will return the energy converter and offer the lives of the second officers. It is now clear that both ships are trapped, and that the Ferengi are not the actual source of the energy field. The Enterprise senior officers convene again in the observation lounge. There, Data explains what is known about the mysterious planet, but not before becoming stuck with a Chinese finger puzzle left in the room by a couple of children, and Pola. Thanks to the help of Picard, Data gets his fingers released and explains that the planet might be one of the most distant outposts of the Tkon Empire, an ancient and powerful space that existed over six hundred thousand years in the past and was now extinct due to their star going supernova. During the meeting, a probe launched from the Enterprise transmits its information, revealing that indeed both ships are trapped in a force field emanating from the planet's surface. Picard thinks that they should investigate with an away team sent to the surface and perhaps team up with the Ferengi. As Picard, Riker, Data, and La Forge leave the lounge, La Forge tosses the finger trap to Data, who catches it. Act Three Picard again contacts the Ferengi, who have also discovered the true nature of the trap. After some confrontation with DaiMon Tarr over his deception, Picard suggests exchanging information in order to solve the common problem, which is endangering both ships. They each decide to send a joint away team of Starfleet officers and Ferengi down to the surface. Despite the apparent risks, including a loss of communication and no way to beam back on board the Enterprise, Riker, La Forge, Data, Worf, and Yar beam to the planet. On the surface, the Enterprise members are initially separated and try to rejoin. The planet surface is full of crystalline tree shapes and the sky is beset by thunder and lightning. Worf, Riker, Data, and La Forge are attacked by the Ferengi away team armed with energy whips, rendering them unconscious. Act Four On the Enterprise, the situation is getting critical, as life support is failing. All energy is diverted to the family decks to extend their survival. It is getting colder and very dark. Picard and Beverly Crusher discuss whether she should give a sedative to her son, Wesley, or if he should keep awake waiting for death. Picard thinks Wesley has the right to greet death while awake, which Crusher considers to be a simple male perspective. The Ferengi on the planet have the Enterprise away team's weapons, and examine Riker's combadge, wondering whether it is gold, while the crew gradually recover their senses, and they begin to argue. With an acute sense of hearing, the Ferengi are disturbed by the planetary thunderclaps. Taking advantage, Worf attacks, and the resulting fight is resolved when Yar intervenes with a phaser. The Ferengi show their surprise for the way Humans work together with their females and keep them clothed. Suddenly, a mysterious figure materializes and is very loud, sending the acutely hearing Ferengi trio into agony. Act Five The newly-arrived entity declares himself as Portal 63, a guardian of the Tkon Empire, and asks the away teams whether they want to enter the Empire. The aged guardian is then told by Riker and Data that the Tkon Empire does not exist any longer, and that several ages have passed. Portal 63 has been asleep for a very long time: hundreds of thousands of Earth years. The Ferengi try to strike a friendship with the Portal, asking for control of their ship, and promising to destroy the Enterprise and its crew. They describe the Humans as savages and barbarians, and misrepresent Humanity by noting their non-interference with other civilizations as proof of being against legal trade. Also, their allowance of females to wear clothing as proof of their "insanity". The Enterprise team, however, accepts the Portal's trial, ready to prove their innocence. Riker is challenged first. Riker is surprised that the Portal knows his name (Portal 63 can read Riker's mind). The Portal guardian attacks him with his sharp, bladed spear and is impressed by the composure with which Riker faces his fate after the blade lands perilously close to his right ear. Riker replies that "Fear is the true enemy, the only enemy." The Portal is pleased by Riker's thoughts, unlike those of the deceptive Ferengi. The Portal says to Riker that he wants to know more about Sun Tzu and Earth History, as it is similar to that of the Tkon. Then at Riker's request, he immediately releases the Enterprise, restoring its power just in time to let the crew recover from what looks like their slumber, but is their point of death. The Portal explains to Riker that he would usually destroy both ships since they were fighting, but then he saw that they were curiously trying to cooperate. The Portal asks Riker if he wants him to destroy the Ferengi, but Riker asks him to release them, since they are similar to ancient Humans: they have much to learn, but they can grow. Portal 63 asks "What if they never learn, Riker?" Riker says his values, and that of the Federation, require them to face the possibility of the Ferengi learning how to destroy them. When Riker asks what the Portal will do now that his Empire is gone, Portal 63 says he will sleep until needed again and then disappears in a flash of lightning. On board the Enterprise, the energy converter has been regained. Picard congratulates the away team for the success of the mission. Riker, with a devilish grin, then asks him permission to beam aboard the Ferengi ship Data's box of the Chinese finger traps as a "thank you for all they tried to do". After Picard commands "Make it so", the two ships leave orbit but not before La Forge has his fingers caught in a finger trap, at which Data enters the course on the helm for him. Log entry Captain's log, USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D), 2364 Memorable quotes "We offer the lives of our second officers as required by the Ferengi code." "Fortunately Starfleet has no such rules involving its second officers." - DaiMon Tarr, to Picard and Data "What's our acceleration delay between slow reverse impulse and top warp-speed?" "Well, it's point three hundred milliseconds, but… Oh, I see where you're going, we shift down then kick hard into warp nine! Yeah, come back fighting, WOO-WEE!" - Riker and Geordi La Forge "It appears the Ferengi have us right where they want us; in their sights." - Picard "Hello, stranger." - Geordi La Forge, when the Enterprise crew gets their first glimpse of a Ferengi vessel "Yes, the ugliness of the Human was not an exaggeration!" - DaiMon Tarr "Your alien images again shock us!" - DaiMon Tarr, to Picard "Immobilized by the damn Ferengi?" - Worf "If he moves, kill him!" - Letek "It looks like gold. It tastes like gold!" "It is gold." - Letek and Riker, as Letek examines Riker's combadge "The universe exists to me to create life. I shall sleep, until needed again. " - Portal 63 "Pygmy cretins!" - Worf, on the Ferengi landing party "They admit the evil that they DO!" - Letek referring to Starfleet and the Federation "You work with your females, arm them and force them to wear clothing." - Letek "Merde." - Picard "Data, what are you doing?" "Apologies, Captain. I seem to have reached an odd functional impasse. I am … stuck." "Then get un-stuck and continue with the briefing!" "Yes, sir. That is what I am trying to do, sir, but the solution eludes me." "My hero." (laughing) - Data, Picard, and La Forge, when Data gets his fingers stuck in a children's toy "Are you conscious?" "Do I look conscious?" - Riker and La Forge, after La Forge is beamed to the planet upside-down and with his foot stuck in a tree "Permission to beam over a box of Data's Chinese finger puzzles over to the Ferengi. A thank you, for all they tried to do." "Make it so." - Riker and Picard Background information Production history Original story outline: (Creating the Next Generation) Two-page memo of story notes from David Gerrold: 7 May 1987 Revised final draft script: Filmed: 14 August 1987 – 25 August 1987 Premiere airdate: UK premiere airdate: Story and script The original concept for this episode's plot named the planet Gamma Tauri IV "Gamma XII". The Enterprise-D followed the first Ferengi ship and had to face a Ferengi warship while in orbit of a planet. When the ships lost their energy, away teams beamed to the surface and had to face creatures which were described as a mixture of Earth dogs and Ferengi Uvex. Beverly Crusher was part of the away team and it was planned to let the Ferengi have green blood. Portal 63 was originally named "Dilo", a groundskeeper of the planet. At the end of the story, the planet became a library planet for the Humans and the Ferengi. (Creating the Next Generation, pp. 79-81) After Co-Producer Herbert J. Wright submitted his final draft script for this outing, it was the subject of significant last-minute changes. "The script disc was turned over to the show's typist to format and print out a copy, which would then go to the print shop for formal copying," explained Associate Producer D.C. Fontana. "On our way out of the building, at about six P.M., Herb, his assistant, and I stopped in the script typist's office to say good night. We all saw that there were handwritten changes being made to Herb's script before anyone else had seen it. And before it went to the print shop. From long experience of working with [Creator and Executive Producer] Gene [Roddenberry], I knew it was not his writing. Herb's assistant recognized it as Leonard Maizlish's. The typist confirmed Maizlish was sitting in [Production Associate] Susan Sackett's office, making these line changes. Herb immediately went in and confronted Maizlish. [Co-Producer] Bob Lewin was leaving via that office and was witness to Herb's questioning of why Maizlish, a lawyer, not a writer, was making changes. Maizlish said he was just putting in some word changes that [Supervising Producers] [Robert] Justman and [Rick] Berman wanted and Roddenberry had also had some last-minute thoughts. Herb's counter to that was: how could anyone want word changes or have last-minute thoughts when no one except him had seen the script yet? And, in any event, such changes could have been conveyed to him and he would have made them. Herb immediately took his complaint to Rick Berman and thought he had effectively stopped this kind of script tampering by someone not a writer." However, this episode's teleplay was not the last script that Maizlish meddled with, as he also tampered with the script for later first season outing . (The Fifty-Year Mission: The Next 25 Years, pp. 74-75) In Herb Wright and Richard Krzemien's final draft script, the stardates were originally given as 41194.6 and 41194.8. This is the first of two TNG episodes in which Picard is heard to utter the French curse, "merde". That language's equivalent of "shit" (and widely known for this meaning, even by English speakers), this marked the first time in the Star Trek franchise that a curse word of this type had been uttered on screen, years before marked the franchise debut of the English word. Production According to Armin Shimerman, the actors playing the Ferengi were directed to "jump up and down like crazed gerbils." (Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Continuing Mission, pp. 61-62) Kerrie Cullen served as stunt coordinator for this episode. She was among the group of hired coordinators prior to Dennis Madalone's employment with the series. Cullen is so far the only female stunt coordinator who worked on Star Trek, beside Leslie Hoffman, who served as assistant stunt coordinator on and . Cast and characters Armin Shimerman made his second Star Trek appearance in this episode, after portraying the Betazoid gift box in (although audiences could first see him here, as "Haven" aired later). He went on to play another Ferengi, Bractor, in , before being given the role as Quark on . Quark also appeared in and . Shimerman has often said that one of the reasons he took the role of Quark was to try and undo the damage done to the Ferengi in this episode. (DS9 Season 6 DVD: Crew Dossier: Quark) Mike Gomez and Tracey Walter went on to play different Ferengi, Lurin and Berik, respectively, in . Wil Wheaton (Wesley Crusher) does not appear in this episode, although Wesley is discussed briefly by Picard and Dr. Crusher. Star Treks most "used" stuntman, Tom Morga, made his first TNG appearance in this episode, doubling Michael Dorn in the role of Worf. Darryl Henriques also made his first Star Trek appearance here. He later played Romulan ambassador Nanclus in . Sets and props The master systems display table, nicknamed the "pool table" by the production staff, appears for the first time in this episode, though it still looks very much like its previous appearance in and not like it appeared throughout the rest of the series. This is also the first time that two of the four corridors leading to main engineering have been blocked by consoles, so only the main corridors close to the MSD remain. This was the norm until , when the wall consoles were removed, and main engineering once more is reachable by four corridors. In this episode and , the integrated blinds of the windows are seen, here in the Observation Lounge. The logo of the Tkon Empire, seen during the observation lounge briefing, later reappears in the shape of the halberd that Portal 63 wields. The weapon later makes several more appearances, including in and . The Ferengi Marauder's shape was inspired by a horseshoe crab on the desk of writer Herb Wright. The model itself was designed by Andrew Probert (who added the forward "earwig" pincers) and built by Greg Jein. () The hand-held energy whips used by the Ferengi in this episode did not appear again until , in which Quark is seen holding an action figure equipped with a whip. "Actual" laser whips did not reappear until , coincidentally the last live-action Ferengi episode of Star Trek to be made, albeit the first one (chronologically) to feature Ferengi. Continuity This episode marks the first appearance of the Ferengi. Although he is unaware of having done so at this time, Captain Picard had already encountered a Ferengi starship in 2355, while commanding the , as is revealed in and elaborated on in . The notes that the act of Riker beaming the Chinese finger traps on board the Ferengi ship is reminiscent of Montgomery Scott beaming tribbles onto the Klingon battle cruiser in . Scott, however, did not ask his captain's permission. The Ferengi starship had the capability to "stretch" its neck section, but that only happens in this episode and, perhaps coincidentally, when ship-to-ship visual communications are engaged. featured a similar story line: in each episode, both the Enterprise and a hostile vessel are disabled by an ancient and mysterious device and accuse each other of doing so. This is one of the few times that Data uses a contraction: "Captain, this shouldn't be," when speaking to Picard, as well as "I'm afraid not," when later speaking to Portal 63. The phrase "The Last Outpost" is parodied, somewhat, in the dialogue of the penultimate episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, , when Quark proclaims that his bar will be "the last outpost of what made Ferenginar great!" Coincidentally, that episode suggests Ferengi society, at the time of the episode's events, is evolving to become a more benevolent one, just as Riker suggests they might in this episode. Reception The introduction of the Ferengi has been heavily derided and several production staff members have called it "a disaster." (Quark's Story, DS9 Season 2 DVD special features) On the other hand, Robert Justman thought this episode's portrayal of the Ferengi was the best depiction of the species. () Aron Eisenberg was provided with a tape of "The Last Outpost" when he was auditioning for the role of Nog in . ("In For a Penny, In For a Pound", Star Trek: The Official Fan Club of the UK Magazine issue 8) A mission report of this installment, by Eddie Berganza, was published in . The episode received its UK premiere on BBC2 on , airing out of order. Video and DVD releases Original UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 3, catalog number VHR 2273, US LaserDisc (): catalog number LV40270-107, UK re-release (three-episode tapes, Paramount Home Entertainment): Volume 1.2, catalog number VHR 4643, As part of the TNG Season 1 DVD collection As part of the TNG Season 1 Blu-ray collection Links and references Starring Patrick Stewart as Captain Jean-Luc Picard Jonathan Frakes as Commander William T. Riker Also starring LeVar Burton as Lt. Geordi La Forge Denise Crosby as Lt. Tasha Yar Michael Dorn as Lt. Worf Gates McFadden as Doctor Beverly Crusher Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi Brent Spiner as Lt. Commander Data Wil Wheaton as Wesley Crusher Guest stars Armin Shimerman as Letek Jake Dengel as Mordoc Tracey Walter as Kayron Guest star Darryl Henriques as Portal Co-star Mike Gomez as DaiMon Tarr Uncredited co-stars Marti Avila as Female security officer James G. Becker as Youngblood Darrell Burris as operations division officer Jeffrey Deacon as command division officer Tim McCormack as Unknown performers as Command division crewmember Female medical officer Female science division officer Fifteen civilians Operations division officer Operations division officer Pola Science division crewmember Technician Stunt doubles Richard Hancock as stunt double for Jake Dengel Tom Morga as stunt double for Michael Dorn Gary Morgan as stunt double for Tracey Walter Pat Romano (stunt double for either Shimerman or Spiner) Unknown stunt performers as Stunt double for LeVar Burton Stunt double for Armin Shimerman Stunt double for Brent Spiner Stand-ins James G. Becker – stand-in for Jonathan Frakes Darrell Burris – stand-in for LeVar Burton Dexter Clay – stand-in for Michael Dorn Jeffrey Deacon – stand-in for Patrick Stewart Susan Duchow – stand-in for Denise Crosby Nora Leonhardt – stand-in for Marina Sirtis Tim McCormack – stand-in for Brent Spiner Lorine Mendell – stand-in for Gates McFadden References 600,000 years ago; 18th century; 19th century; ability; acceleration delay; accumulator; advice; accusation; act of war; Ages of Tkon; alien; allusion; alternative; amusement; analogy; annihilation; answer; apology; area; argument; ; assassin; assumption; "at ease"; "at first sight"; attention; automatic scanner; away team; barbarian; Bastu; battery; battle; biped; black; blue; "bottom line"; box; "breaks my heart" (heart); ; briefing; British; business opportunity; buyer; capitalist; chance; chart; Chinese; Chinese finger puzzle; choice; Cimi; civilization; class M; clothing; clue; color; commerce; communicator; comparison; compliments; computer; conclusion; conference evaluation; conversation; cooperation; coordinates; country; course; crime; criminal; crystalline tree; culture; custom; DaiMon; damage report; death; deception (deceit); defense system; deflector shield deflector shield power; ; Delphi Ardu IV; Delphi Ardu system; design; ; Earth; Earth history; electromagnetic pulse; Emergency Manual Override station; emotion; enemy; empire; energy; energy collector; energy device; energy whip; engine; evil; exaggeration; exploration; eye; fact; family deck; fate; fear; ; Ferengi; Ferengi Alliance; Ferengi Code; file; fingernail; foot; forebear; force; force field; France; French; frequency; friendship; fusion generator; galactic motionary startime chart; Gamma Tauri IV; German nation; gesture; (color); gold (element); green; guardian; hailing frequency; hearsay; "hello"; hour; Human; imagination; impulse engine; impulse power; information; ; Italian; ; kilometer; knowledge; landing party; language form; Latin; legend; library computer; lifeform; life support; life support system; long range scan; madness; main engine; Makto; malfunction; maneuver; matter-energy device; "matter of record"; memory banks; mercy; merde; message; metal; millisecond; Milky Way Galaxy; mind; minute; mission; monitor post; monster; month; murder; mutual problem; name; "nothing to write home about"; number one; observation lounge; ocean; offer; opinion; opportunity; orbit; order; outpost; painting; patience; pattern; paw; percent; performance; petition; perversion; phaser; philosopher; photon torpedo; place; planet (world); population; ; power accumulator; power drain; power surge; power system; primary color; principle; probe; profit; proof; property; pygmy; quality; quarters; question; red; red alert; relationship; report; reserve power; right; rumor; salvo; savage; scholar; science team; screen; search; science team; second; second officer; sedative; sensor; sensor probe; shorty; shuttle; signal; slang; slow-reverse impulse; solution; sound; staff; "stand by"; star; Starfleet; Starfleet Academy; status; stranger; strategic retreat; strategy; subwarp speed; Sun Tzu; supernova; surface; surrender; T-9 energy converter; tactic; target; Tarr's Marauder; tattoo; technology; ; theft; thief; thing; thirdhand report; thought; thousand; Tkon Empire; Tkon Empire sun; top warp speed (high warp speed); trade (aka exchange or swap); trader; transporter device; transporter room; treachery; tricorder; trillion; type I phaser; type II phaser; ugliness; "Uncle Sam"; unconditional surrender; United Federation of Planets; United States of America (America); universe; unnamed plants; value; viewscreen; VISOR; visual range; Vulcan; warp capacity; weapons report; "what the hell": white; wisdom; wish; word; Xora; Yankee trader; year Other references Library computer references: 61 Cygni; Alpha Centauri; Barnard's Star; Bayard's Planet; concussion ring; ; Diana; Epsilon Eridani; Epsilon Indi; ; extra galactic probe; ; great bird of the galaxy; ; Groombridge 34; Klingonese; ; Lalande 21185; light year; Luyten 789-6; Martian insect; ; Phi Puma; Procyon; Proxima Centauri; Ross 154; Ross 248; sector; Sirius; Sol; supernova; Tau Ceti; Type 7 shuttlecraft; ; Wolf 359 Script references Age of Fendor; Age of Ozari; baktun External links cs:The Last Outpost de:Der Wächter es:The Last Outpost fr:The Last Outpost (épisode) ja:謎の宇宙生命体（エピソード） nl:The Last Outpost pl:The Last Outpost ru:Последний форпост (эпизод) Last Outpost, The

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Where No One Has Gone Before (episode)

When an experimental engine modification throws the Enterprise to the edge of the known universe, the crew must rely on a mysterious alien to guide the ship home. Summary Teaser The has rendezvoused with the starship in order to take on a Starfleet propulsion specialist who will perform an upgrade on the ship's warp drive. He has already performed the upgrade on the Fearless, as well as the . Both these ships reported a notable increase in engine efficiency. Riker, however, is not convinced. He and Data have run a controlled test of the formulae that the engineer, Kosinski, has sent over, and found them to have no effect. Picard reasons that there's no harm in letting him come over and attempt the upgrade, especially since it doesn't change the hardware. Riker is still skeptical, so Picard sends him to meet Kosinski when he beams aboard, along with his assistant. Riker, Troi, and Chief Engineer Argyle go to meet him in the transporter room. Kosinski is pompous and arrogant. He asks why the captain isn't there to meet him and demands to be taken to engineering. As he leaves, Troi comments to Riker that Kosinski is as he appears – loud and arrogant – but she can sense nothing from his assistant, not even his presence. Riker tells Troi to stay concerned, as the safety of the Enterprise may be entrusted to the two of them. Act One In engineering, Riker questions Kosinski about what he is going to do and asks him to explain his formulae. At first Kosinski resists, but eventually agrees to explain himself to Riker and Argyle. Meanwhile Wesley, who is also in engineering working on a school project, watches the assistant enter the formulae on a screen and suggests various changes to the inputs. When Kosinski is ready, Picard orders La Forge to take the Enterprise to warp 1.5. As the ship accelerates, both Kosinski and his assistant enter various information. Suddenly a console alarm goes off and Kosinski shouts at the assistant, who has made an error. Outside the ship, the Enterprises engines suddenly engage with a massive burst of speed. The assistant grabs his console and starts to "phase" in and out of view, noticed only by Wesley. On the bridge, La Forge tells the captain they are passing warp 10, and Data later says that their velocity is currently off the scale. The Enterprise hurtles through space, with phenomena whizzing past on the viewscreen at extremely high speed. Picard orders that they reverse engines (which Data comments on as having never been done at their current speed), and the Enterprise flashes out of warp. When asked for the ship's position, La Forge replies incredulously that they have traveled 2,700,000 light years. They are now in the galaxy known as M-33, and La Forge reports that at maximum warp it will take them over three hundred years to get home. Act Two Kosinski, Riker, and Argyle arrive on the bridge. Picard asks them what happened and Kosinski replies that he made "a mistake, a wonderful mistake". He is highly excited, claiming he has broken the warp barrier and that his name will go down in history. However, hearing the procedure that Kosinski used, Commander Riker isn't too convinced. Down in engineering, Wesley is talking to the assistant in the chief engineer's office. He realizes that the assistant has been performing the "upgrades" all along, and that Kosinski is just a joke. The assistant tells him he means no harm to the ship or the crew – he simply made a mistake. He is exhausted now, and Wes offers to get his mother, but the assistant declines. Wes then says that from looking at the warp equations he thinks time and space and thought are all one thing. This surprises the assistant, who tells him never to say such a thing again "in a world that's not ready for it." Picard orders Kosinski to bring them home, and they return to engineering. Wes tries to tell Riker about the assistant, but he won't listen. Kosinski sets up to return them home, and the Enterprise shoots into warp with another tremendous burst of speed. As they input the equations, it becomes obvious to Kosinski that it is not working. Then Riker sees the assistant as he starts to "phase" again and then collapses across the console. Meanwhile, the Enterprise picks up incredible speed moving into untold measurements. On the viewscreen, spatial phenomena streak past faster and faster into indistinguishable light blurs. Picard orders full stop, and the Enterprise blasts out of warp once more, but they are certainly not back in their own galaxy. Outside the ship, clouds of cosmic dust and energy beings swim in a never-ending blue abyss. Data concludes that they must be at the edge of the known universe, "where none have gone before." Act Three The Enterprise is now a billion light years from the Milky Way Galaxy in the other direction. Kosinski, Commander Riker, and the chief engineer come to the bridge to explain what has happened to the captain. Kosinski is struggling to explain everything and seems nervous yet persistently arrogant. In an effort to lighten the situation Kosinski decides to take a positive approach and says the Captain should be thrilled as an explorer because "in three centuries of space travel we've charted just 11 percent of our galaxy… and then we accomplish this!" But Captain Picard is more interested in getting home and Kosinski assures Picard that he can get them back. Picard asks his crew for suggestions and the crew goes back and forth about whether it's smart to continue to trust Kosinski. In frustration, Picard leaves for engineering. The crew now starts to see things that cannot be there. Worf is at his station when he suddenly sees a Klingon targ in front of him, his childhood pet. Yar also sees it but it disappears just as quickly. Then she sees her pet cat and is back on the colony where she grew up, trying to avoid a rape gang. La Forge touches her, and she snaps out of it. When the turbolift doors open, Picard almost steps out into open space before throwing himself back inside. The doors open again, and he goes into a corridor. He meets two crewmen running away from some unseen pursuer. Further down the corridor, he sees an ensign in a cargo bay dancing ballet while elsewhere, another crewman is performing the first movement of Mozart's Eine Kleine Nachtmusik with a baroque-looking string quartet. The visions of thought seeming to become visual reality soon become more evident to the captain when he then sees his dead mother drinking tea in a corridor and starts to talk to her before he is interrupted by Riker. When he looks back, she's gone. Picard realizes he must get the crew's attention quickly to prevent their thoughts from causing a catastrophe. He immediately orders general quarters and goes to engineering. He tells the crew that they are in a region of space where thoughts become reality, and that they must try to subdue their thoughts. In engineering, Dr. Crusher is examining the now unconscious assistant. Riker informs Picard that it was the assistant the whole time, not Kosinski. Crusher says the assistant is dying. Picard says he cannot, as he is their only way to get back home. Act Four The assistant is brought to sickbay, where Picard tells Crusher to wake him. They must leave this place before their own thoughts cause the ship to be destroyed. The assistant wakes and tells Picard that he is a Traveler from another plane of existence. He is traveling through their galaxy, observing them, using his knowledge of propulsion to get passage on Starfleet ships. Kosinski is just his cover. He meant no harm to the Enterprise. He tells them Humans shouldn't be here until their "far, far, distant future," until they have learned to control their thoughts. Picard asks him if he can get them home. He tells him he will try. He then asks for a private word with Picard. The others leave and the Traveler tells Picard that people like Wesley are the reason that he travels. He compares him to Mozart, only instead of music, Wes has, or will have, the ability to manipulate time, space, and thought. He urges Picard to encourage Wes, but not to tell him or Beverly any of this. He weakens, and Picard helps him up to Riker to go to engineering. Picard hurries to the bridge, helping a crewman on the way to put out a fire he has created in a corridor. Act Five The Traveler sits at engineering's master systems display table starting to enter the necessary formula and Picard makes a ship-wide announcement, telling everyone to concentrate on getting back home and on the Traveler's wellbeing. They follow the same procedure as before: the ship jumps to warp 1.5 and the Traveler uses his powers to attempt to send them back. He starts to "phase" as before and the ship hurtles through space. Then the Traveler disappears altogether, and the Enterprise finds itself right back where it started. Mindful of the Traveler's advice, Picard calls Wesley to the bridge and thanks him for his part in their successful return. He then makes him an acting ensign, "for conduct in the true spirit and traditions of Starfleet." He instructs Riker to make out a duty roster for him and tells him to learn the ship and its operations from top to bottom. Then Wesley takes a seat on the bridge as the Enterprise resumes course. Log entry Captain's log, USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D), 2364 Memorable quotes "Yes, but where is this place?" "Where none have gone before." - Picard and Data "The safety of the Enterprise may be entrusted to those two." - Riker, on The Traveler and Kosinski "How basic shall I be?" - Kosinski "Data, what distance have we traveled?" "Two million seven hundred thousand light years, sir." "I can't accept that." "You must, sir. Our comparisons show it to be completely accurate." "And I calculate that at maximum warp sir, it would take over… three hundred years to get home." - Picard, Data, and La Forge "Perhaps you could call it the Kosinski scale." "Why not? Yes, of course. Since I'm the one who has made the so-called warp barrier meaningless." - Argyle sarcastically to Kosinski "Captain, we're here. Why not avail ourselves of this opportunity for study? There is a giant protostar here, in the process of forming. No other vessel has been out this far." "Spoken like a true Starfleet graduate. It is tempting, eh, Number One?" - Data and Picard "If you knew something, why didn't you tell anybody?" "He tried, twice. I didn't listen." - Picard and Riker, referring to Wesley's observations of the Traveler "Well yes, this could seem like magic to you." "No. No, it actually makes sense to me. Only the power of thought could explain what has been happening." - The Traveler and Picard "Thought is the essence of where you are now." - The Traveler "He and a few like him are why I travel." - The Traveler, on Wesley Crusher's abilities "You're not involved in this decision, boy!" - Picard, to Wesley Crusher "Please don't interrupt me, Wesley." - Picard "It's a Klingon Targ, from home, from when I was a child." "So you're telling me that that thing's a kitty-cat?!" "Yes. I suppose you could call it that." - Worf and Tasha "Should I send for Dr. Crusher?" "Why? Is someone ill?" - Riker and Picard, just after Wesley has been made acting ensign Background information Production history First story premise: Gene Roddenberry greenlights story development: 17 December 1986 Second draft story outline: Original story outline: (Creating the Next Generation) Second draft outline: (Creating the Next Generation) First draft script: (Creating the Next Generation) First draft script: Five-page memo of script notes by Gene Roddenberry: 27 May 1987 Script draft: Revised script draft: Final draft: 27 July 1987 Revised final draft script: 30 July 1987 Filmed: – Score recorded at Paramount Stage M: (Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Ron Jones Project liner notes ) Premiere airdate: UK premiere airdate on BBC2: Story and script This story was loosely based on the Pocket TOS novel The Wounded Sky, also written by one of this episode's writers – Diane Duane. Producer Maurice Hurley did numerous uncredited rewrites on Duane and Michael Reaves' original script. () Diane Duane has published the second draft versions of the episodes original and on her website. Of the production process, she writes: "We turned in the first-draft script and waited a couple of weeks for the notes – heard nothing, called the TNG office, and discovered that we had been "cut off" at first draft, and the script given to someone else for rewrite. (....) We were unclear about the reasons for this particular cutoff for a long, long time – nearly ten years. (....) (W)e'd unwittingly become caught up in interoffice politics. One member of production staff got up another one's nose, and as a result was chucked out – and (though they weren't told what was going on) so were all the writers associated with that production staffer. (....) At any rate, after the rewrite, in the shooting script for the episode, only two elements of our original (besides the general idea) remain: the scene with Picard and his mother (which was Michael's), and the shot of Picard almost falling out of the turbolift into open space (which was mine)." Notably, the characterization of Kosinki and the addition of The Traveler were entirely products of the rewrite. (, October 8, 2006) In the original teleplay, Kosinski was responsible for both the warp effect and the accident. He also had a son, who felt his father was more interested in his work than in him. The hallucinations were much more bizarre than in the final episode: Jack Crusher appeared to Picard and Beverly, and the Enterprise appeared inside a "cosmological egg". When the starship escaped, it exploded and caused the birth of a new universe. As a sort of "Biblical pun", the Enterprise spends six days "missing", and Picard orders the next day to be a day of rest. () Production This episode marks the debut of Rob Bowman as a Trek director. He later went on to direct twelve more episodes of The Next Generation. was originally hired to direct the episode, but quit when he was approached to direct the film Cocoon: The Return. Producer Robert Justman said that hiring twenty-seven-year-old Bowman to direct this segment was one of his proudest achievements on the show. Bowman was terrified, trying to make a good impression on his first assignment, and overcome any doubts of his youth. () Concerning how he prepared to film the installment, he recalled, "I spent about twenty days before my first episode walking through those sets, and on Saturdays and Sundays, eight hours a day, just sitting and looking." (The Fifty-Year Mission: The Next 25 Years, p. 117) While shooting the scene in this episode where Riker tells Picard, "It wasn't him, it never was; it was his assistant," Jonathan Frakes had some difficulty saying the line and eventually could not say it without breaking into a laugh. According to Patrick Stewart, the event soon spread "like a bushfire" throughout the set, to the point where The Next Generations sound mixer, Alan Bernard, had to wheel his sound cart off the set as he also could not stop laughing. Stewart later recalled this story to Frakes in , at the Calgary Comic-Con Expo, where he still couldn't say the phrase very well. (TNG Season 1 DVD special feature "Memorable Missions"; ) La Forge's line about the ship passing warp 10 was looped in post-production, and the line as it was originally spoken ("warp 5" instead of "warp 10") is featured in the episode's trailer. Worf's targ was played by a Russian wild boar named Emmy-Lou. Robert Justman recalled, "That pig smelled horrid. A sweet-sour, extremely pungent odor. I showered and showered, and it took me a week to get rid of it!" () Cast and characters This episode marks the first appearance of Eric Menyuk's The Traveler. Menyuk was a finalist for the role of Data and was given the role here as a consolation prize. () He reappears in and . This episode marks the first appearance of Dennis Madalone in a Star Trek production. Madalone performed stunts in several more first and second season episodes and started to work as Stunt Coordinator beginning with the third season. He also worked as stunt coordinator on and . Music The piece of music played by the string quartet in this episode is Mvt. 1, "Allegro", from Mozart's Eine kleine Nachtmusik, K. 525. When Picard meets his mother, there is also an unidentified recurring (until episode 17 ) melody. The episode's score, composed and conducted by Ron Jones, was recorded on at Paramount Stage M. (Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Ron Jones Project liner notes ) The complete episode score, totalling 21 minutes 15 seconds, appears on Disc One of the Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Ron Jones Project collection. The musical piece to which the ballerina is dancing is titled "Waltz of the Chocolate Donut". Sets, props, and costumes The master systems display (nicknamed the "pool table") in main engineering was used for the first time in this episode. However, as was broadcast before this episode, though produced later, the table is first seen in that episode. Main engineering also features many chairs and benches never seen again. The two vertical light panels flanking the wall mounted master systems display in main engineering are illuminated green (which is only visible in the color-corrected HD release; the original mistakenly shows them being yellow), an effect only seen in this episode. For the last time until a corridor leading to main engineering, which is located directly behind the office, is seen. Normally, that opening is closed by a fake wall with LCARS interfaces, which is only removed when main engineering is redressed as a corridor lounge. Among the items from this episode which were sold off on the It's A Wrap! sale and auction on eBay is a pair of special effects make-up hands for The Traveler. Special and visual effects Visual effects artist Robert Legato recalled that he had to devise the special effects for the "end of the universe" based on vague directions in the script. He noted, "I did it simply, at home in my basement, with water. I had always noticed water reflections on the wall, so I shot multiple layers of that through dissolved Mylar bits. It was peculiar and bizarre. And I used little suspended moving Christmas tree lights for the little blinkies." () Legato also described the creation of these effects in the TNG Season 5 DVD special feature "Departmental Briefing Year Five" ("Visual Effects"). Director Rob Bowman recalls, "The effects in that episode were, at times, extremely frustrating and complex, so I didn't know what they were going to look like. It's tough to have people react to something that even I can't identify. Many special FX are just vaguely discussed during shooting and only finalized during post-production. So at times, that was difficult." ("Rob Bowman – Director of a Dozen", ) Continuity Wesley Crusher is given a field commission of acting ensign in this episode. Footage of the traveling next to the Enterprise-D was previously seen in (sans Deneb IV in the background), where the vessel represented the . When the illusory string quartet disappears, the crewman is sitting at a table with a small bottle and a glass on a tray. As both were originally created for , the bottle features the Federation logo of that time. During Picard's speech towards the end of the episode, a crewmember is seen looking at an LCARS interface with directions to Holodeck 4J. This is the same graphic that was seen in when Commander William T. Riker was looking for the holodeck. Upon arrival at M-33, it is mentioned that a return trip to the Federation, using normal warp drive, through two galaxies, would take three hundred years. The time given is the same as that of the Kelvan's trip in from the Andromeda Galaxy. This is the only episode where Picard says "cease red alert" to stand down red alert. Despite The Traveler's admonition to Picard never to discuss their conversation regarding Wesley with either him or his mother, in , both Beverly and Wesley discuss that conversation as if they had full and open knowledge of it. In this episode, Kosinski states that in "three centuries of space travel, we've charted just 11% of our galaxy." In , set one year later, Wesley notes an increased figure of 19%. The scene where Picard's mother appeared and offered him tea and a chat would be brought up in where it was revealed that Yvette suffered from severe mental illness that she refused to treat, and her struggle with it would eventually lead Yvette to commit suicide in the 2310s, something which Picard blamed himself for as a child. This led him to often imagine what his mother would've been like had she survived to an older age - a thought which here becomes reality for a moment. Reception Maurice Hurley commented, "Everything about that episode worked. That's when everybody started to hit their stride a little bit. The casting was good, the Traveler was wonderful, the optical effects were excellently outstanding. You could feel things starting to come together." (Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages, p. 158) Director Rob Bowman remembers, "It was a very enlightening script, the likes of which you don't very often see on television. I felt very fortunate that it was such a great script, but, personally, I was terrified because it was my first episode and I wanted to make a good impression. I worked on that show every day I had the script, which, including the shooting, was like twenty days for me." ("Rob Bowman – Director of a Dozen", ) A mission report titled "Where None Have Gone Before" by Robert Greenberger was published in . Awards This episode was nominated for an Emmy Award in the category Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Drama Series in . The nominees were Sound Mixers Chris Haire, Doug Davey, Jerry Clemans, and Alan Bernard. Video and DVD releases Original UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 3, catalog number VHR 2273, UK re-release (three-episode tapes, Paramount Home Entertainment): Volume 1.2, catalog number VHR 4643, As part of the TNG Season 1 DVD collection As part of Star Trek: The Next Generation 25th Anniversary Event As part of the TNG Season 1 Blu-ray collection Links and references Starring Patrick Stewart as Captain Jean-Luc Picard Jonathan Frakes as Commander William T. Riker Also starring LeVar Burton as Lt. Geordi La Forge Denise Crosby as Lt. Tasha Yar Michael Dorn as Lt. Worf Gates McFadden as Doctor Beverly Crusher Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi Brent Spiner as Lt. Commander Data Wil Wheaton as Wesley Crusher Guest stars Stanley Kamel as Kosinski Eric Menyuk as The Traveler Herta Ware as Yvette Picard Guest star Biff Yeager as Argyle Featuring Charles Dayton as Crewmember Victoria Dillard as Ballerina Uncredited co-stars James G. Becker as Youngblood Byron Berline as command division officer Darrell Burris as operations division officer Dexter Clay as security officer Jeffrey Deacon as command division officer Emmy-Lou as Klingon Targ Nora Leonhardt as science division ensign Dennis Madalone as science division crewman Tim McCormack as Lorine Mendell as Diana Giddings Natalia Silverwood as civilian Unknown performers as Command division officer Command division officer in a skant Eight operations division crewmembers Female command division officer Female command division officer Female science division crewmember Four rape gang members Male civilian Tasha's cat Three string quartet musicians Transporter chief (hand) Transporter chief (voice) Stand-ins James G. Becker – stand-in for Jonathan Frakes Darrell Burris – stand-in for LeVar Burton Dexter Clay – stand-in for Michael Dorn Jeffrey Deacon – stand-in for Patrick Stewart Susan Duchow – stand-in for Denise Crosby Nora Leonhardt – stand-in for Marina Sirtis Tim McCormack – stand-in for Brent Spiner Lorine Mendell – stand-in for Gates McFadden Guy Vardaman – stand-in for Wil Wheaton References 2064; 2415; 26th century; ability; acting ensign; advice; age; ; alien; "all right"; answer; application; arrogance; assignment; assistant; astonishment; "as you wish"; "at least"; attention; auxiliary panel; ballet; battle stations; Bessel function; billion; bridge; calculation; candle; cat ("kittycat"); cello; century; chance; chief engineer; child; choice; "come on": commissioned officer; computer; concept; concern; controlled test; conversation; crisis; cup; curiosity; danger; day; definition; destination; disposition; distance; distant future; ; door; drill; duty schedule; earring; Eine kleine Nachtmusik; end of the universe; energy; ensign; entrance application; ; "excuse me"; exhaustion; existence; explanation; explorer; explosion; fact; fatigue; ; flashlight; fire; fraud; friend; French language; full alert; galaxy; Galaxy-class decks; general quarters; genius; graduate; harm; heading; ; "here we go"; history; Holodeck 4J; home; Human (mankind); humanoid; ; hypospray; idea; "if you like"; ignorance; "in a moment"; information; "in my opinion": "in order to"; intermix formula; "in the process of"; "in time"; joke; "just a moment"; Klingon; Kosinski scale; lens; library; lifeform; life sign; light year; log entry; luxury; magic; main computer; malfunction; maximum warp; mechanics; medical problem; medical tricorder; Milky Way Galaxy; million; minute; minimalist; mistake; month; ; music; name; nature; navigation sensor; "no doubt": "no need"; number one; observation; "of course"; "on the double"; opportunity; order; outer rim; painting; parameter; percent; performance; pet; physiology; place; ; pronunciation; propulsion; propulsion expert; protostar; puzzle; question; rank; rape gang; rate of speed; reality; reason; reciprocal course; record; red alert; rendezvous; report; retroactive course; risk; safety; "scared to death"; school project; science vessel; scientific discovery; screen; sewer; sickbay; sleigh ride; space; spaceflight; specs; speed; "stand by"; Starfleet; Starfleet Academy; Starfleet Command; Starfleet tradition; straight line; strength; ; string quartet; study; subspace; subspace field compensator; subspace message; symbol; symphony; targ; target acquisition; Tau Alpha C; tea; teacher; term; theory; thing; third person; thought; thousand; threat; time; toe shoes; trading; tradition; transportation; Transporter Room 3; traveler; ; Triangulum Galaxy (M-33); truth; turbolift; Turkana IV; tutu; unconsciousness; understanding; universe; unnamed plants; velocity; vessel; viola; violin; visitor; VISOR; Waltz of the Chocolate Donut''; warp barrier; warp drive; warp drive engine; warp drive system; warp field; warp formula; warp speed; warp speed experiment; week; "welcome aboard"; wig; Worf's pet targ; year External links cs:Where No One Has Gone Before de:Der Reisende (Episode) es:Where No One Has Gone Before fr:Where No One Has Gone Before (épisode) it:Dove nessuno è mai giunto prima (episodio) ja:宇宙の果てから来た男（エピソード） nl:Where No One Has Gone Before pl:Where No One Has Gone Before ru:Где никто не был прежде (эпизод) TNG episodes

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Lonely Among Us (episode)

While transporting delegates, an alien life form wreaks havoc on the Enterprise computer – and begins to take over the minds of her crew. Summary Teaser The has begun orbiting the two major planets in the Beta Renner system, Antica and . The two species of those worlds, the Anticans and the Selay, have both achieved space flight and they have applied to become members of the United Federation of Planets. However, the two species are mortal enemies. The Enterprise has been ordered to transport both peoples to a neutral planet called Parliament, in the hopes of resolving their conflicts. On the Enterprise, Captain Jean-Luc Picard, Commander William T. Riker and Lieutenant Natasha Yar stand in the transporter room wearing their dress uniforms awaiting the delegates. The delegates from Selay beam on board. Picard introduces himself to Ssestar, a male Selay. Riker is about to lead them to their accommodations, but Ssestar insists that the Selay's quarters be upwind from the Anticans and be as far away as possible. Riker attends to this and leads them to their quarters. After the delegation leaves the transporter room, Yar tells Picard that neither species seems like promising Federation candidates. Picard agrees and believes that Parliament's peacemakers may have difficulty satisfying the two species' needs. Later on, the Enterprise leaves orbit of Selay on course for Parliament. On the bridge, Lieutenant Commander Data notes that his sensors are picking up an unusual energy object ahead of the Enterprise. On the viewscreen, an enormous cloud is shown. Data notes that it is also traveling at warp speed. Picard, intrigued, orders Data to make a close sensor pass on the cloud, then jump back to warp speed so they are still on schedule for Parliament. In sensor maintenance, Lieutenants Geordi La Forge and Worf are running diagnostics on sensor assemblies. La Forge wonders why Worf is so interested in routine maintenance on sensors. Worf tells him it is simple, because Picard wants his junior officers to "learn, learn, learn". Yar signals sensor maintenance to see if there are any problems with systems, since they are making a close sensor pass. La Forge replies that all equipment is online and functioning perfectly. The Enterprise begins scanning the cloud. Worf, while working at a console, hears a strange noise. He goes over to investigate, but his body is struck by swirling blue energy. The energy discharges from Worf and he falls to the floor, unconscious. La Forge rushes over to Worf's side and taps his combadge, signaling a medical emergency. Act One Dr. Beverly Crusher arrives in sensor maintenance with a medic. She is about to examine Worf, but he awakes, violently attacks the medic and throws him away, knocking him off his feet. La Forge heaves himself down on top of Worf, so Crusher can administer a sedative, via her hypospray. Worf finally calms down and is taken to sickbay. In Picard's ready room, La Forge tells Picard that he could see a glow in sensor maintenance and Worf jerked, as though something had hit him. Picard asks La Forge if his VISOR could have malfunctioned, but La Forge doubts it. In the Antican's quarters, Yar and Riker are attending to the Antican's dietary requirements. Yar had misunderstood that the Anticans prefer their food live, not dead. Riker tells Badar N'D'D, the lead Antican delegate, that Humans no longer enslave animals for food purposes, rather they consume meat that has been inorganically produced from the ship's replicators. Badar N'D'D finds this practice "sickening" and "barbaric". In sickbay, Crusher examines Worf. She uses a medical tool, but the same energy that entered Worf's body now enters Crusher's. Soon after, Counselor Deanna Troi enters sickbay to inquire about Worf's condition, but Crusher is now acting strangely and Troi begins to notice. She asks if she is all right. Crusher responds, "Yes, perfectly. Both of us, quite normal now." Worf awakens on a bio-bed and inquires where he is. Troi responds that he is in sickbay and asks if he remembers what happened to him. Worf can only remember what happened prior to his accident and asks what he is doing in sickbay. Troi replies that Crusher will tell him all about it, but instead she promptly leaves sickbay. On the bridge, Picard and Data wish to examine the cloud further, since there are many unexplained mysteries surrounding it, but Picard tells Data that it will have to wait until the delegates are delivered to Parliament and orders helmsman La Forge to take the ship to warp eight. Crusher enters her quarters, where she finds her son, Wesley Crusher, working at a desktop monitor. Wesley tells Crusher that he is working on a project for his physical sciences class, where he is studying Dr. Channing's theory on dilithium crystals. Crusher asks Wesley to tell her about it, which strikes Wesley as odd, since his mother has never shown interest in warp theory before. Wesley explains that Channing believes that it may be possible to force dilithium into more useful crystals. Crusher asks if that would affect navigation. Wesley replies that this theory is related to engineering, not helm control. Crusher then remembers that helm is located on the bridge. Wesley then notices that his mother is now acting strange and wonders if she is all right, but she abruptly leaves without answering. Crusher arrives on the bridge and walks over to helm, manned by La Forge, while relief operations officer eyes her strangely. She replies that La Forge's station must be the helm. La Forge replies that it is, unless there have been some changes that he is unaware of. Picard walks over to Crusher and asks about Worf's condition. Crusher does not give Picard a lot of information and Picard presses her to give him an accurate diagnosis, since it involves a bridge officer. Crusher replies that she will have to run medical cross checks in the ship's computer. She uses science station II next to Data. Data looks at her console and wonders what helm control has to do with medical cross references. Crusher remains silent. Then, the blue energy that was inside Crusher enters the computer. Crusher is disoriented and leaves the bridge. Suddenly, Data cannot get any of the science stations to work. From engineering, assistant chief engineer Lieutenant , reports that there is a failure with the warp drive circuits. Various other stations on the ship report failures, as well. Picard, seeing that the Enterprise is not even a year out of spacedock, asks Data what the chances are of the ship having all these failures. Data responds that it is a virtual impossibility. Act Two In the conference lounge, Picard, Riker, Data, and Singh, along with other department heads discuss the various problems currently occurring on board the Enterprise and the solutions to them. Singh believes that an electronic short made its way into several systems is to blame, but Singh concedes that that should not be possible, as the affected systems do not interact with each other. Singh replies that chief engineer Argyle and all engineering staff are just as puzzled as they are. Picard wants an explanation for the system failures by the time the ship reaches Parliament. Singh doubts he can find the solution before the Enterprise reaches the planet. In the Antican's quarters, Riker and Yar confront and confiscate weapons from Anticans seen out of sight, near the Selay delegation's quarters. Riker tells Badar N'D'D that all weapons, no matter what their basic function, will be taken away and that violence will not be tolerated on the Enterprise. On the bridge, conn officer Worf announces that warp drive is failing yet again and the Enterprise drops out of warp. Picard asks Data to send a message to Parliament, informing them that they will be delayed. However, Data cannot send a message as communication systems are down. In Picard's ready room, Data replies that if the Enterprise had all these system failures, the ship would have never left spacedock. Therefore, Riker and Data believe the Enterprise has a saboteur on board. Riker believes the Ferengi may have bribed the alien delegation to sabotage the Enterprise, as Ferengi have had contact with both the Selay and the Anticans. Picard asks if they have any more suspects, to which Riker tells Picard that he is beginning to sound like a private eye. Data wonders as to the meaning of the term "private eye". Picard tells him that it is a person who solves crimes, like the immortal Sherlock Holmes, which piques Data's interest. In engineering, Wesley Crusher and Singh are trying to come up with solutions to the system failures. Singh tells Crusher that he will relieve him and that it is time for him to commence work on his studies. Crusher reluctantly leaves and tells Singh on his way out that he does not learn nearly this much while in school. In the Crusher's quarters, Wesley finds his mother, Beverly, sitting down off-duty reading from a PADD. Wesley complains that he has learned more about starship operations than any of the senior staff care to admit, like Channing's theory on dilithium crystals he told Beverly about earlier, to which she has no memory of. Wesley replied that he told her about it just that morning, but she cannot remember. Singh, in engineering, works at a console. He touches a button, then the same energy that enveloped Worf and Crusher strikes his body, quite violently. It blasts Singh backwards and he falls unconscious, right next to the ship's warp core. Worf, coming down a lift, sees Singh. He rushes over to him and checks his pulse. Worf taps his combadge to inform Picard that Singh is dead. Act Three Picard has ordered an investigation into the death of Singh. In engineering, it is discovered by La Forge, Wesley, and Worf that the warp drive has been miraculously restored and the Enterprise can jump back into warp at any time. Wesley wonders how Singh could have repaired the computer before he was killed, as the problem was inside of the warp engine. The Enterprise goes to warp six, on course of Parliament. Yar again questions the Antican delegates where they were during the time when Singh was killed. Badar N'D'D replies that they were eating for hours, because the animal they were eating was a large one. In sickbay, Crusher and Troi have called Worf to discuss his memory blockage, as well as Dr. Crusher's. Troi announces that she would like to try hypnosis, as it may restore their memories as to what happened to them. In the conference lounge, Data, adopting the mannerisms of Sherlock Holmes, discusses the possible involvement of the Selay and the Anticans in the ship's systems failures and the death of Singh. Data, smoking a pipe, tells Riker and Yar that the two species were too involved in their own affairs to have disabled the ship and murdered Singh. The two species would rather kill each other than the crew. Back in sickbay, Troi has begun hypnosis of Dr. Crusher, while Worf watches. Troi asks Crusher to remember what happened up to the point she had memory loss. She recalls walking up to scan Worf, but then, there was someone else, another presence in the room. Troi then snaps Crusher out of the hypnosis and replies that her responses were identical to Worf's. Troi reports her findings to Picard and believes that something invaded their bodies, as it is the only reasonable conclusion. Data replies that, although improbable, it is possible. On the bridge, Wesley Crusher is talking to La Forge. He tells him that the warp computer in engineering could not possibly have fixed itself. Suddenly, the warp engines are failing again and the Enterprise drops to impulse. Picard walks out of his ready room to the bridge, where he monitors the situation from the helm console. Then, the blue energy emanates from the console and enters Picard's body, where he is now beginning to act strangely. Act Four Picard, inhabited by the non-corporeal lifeform, restores warp power back to the Enterprise and orders La Forge to double back on their course and head back to the strange energy cloud. The entire senior staff is completely puzzled by this change of orders, since the ship is behind schedule for Parliament. Picard assures them that he wants to take another look at the cloud, since they only obtained minimal information on it. In a corridor, Miles O'Brien is following Badar N'D'D, who is demanding to see Picard to know why the Enterprise has changed course. O'Brien orders him to return to his quarters, but Ssestar comes out of his quarters and a confrontation ensues. The senior officers gather together and discuss Picard's strange orders. Troi senses that Picard is deliberately concealing something from her and that he has become dangerous. If Picard is dangerous, they argue, he should be relieved of command, which Dr. Crusher could do, falling under her responsibilities as chief medical officer. Crusher and Riker arrive in Picard's ready room to order a medical scan on Picard. He refuses and believes they are hallucinating and working too much. He instead orders that all senior staff be examined. Later, Dr. Crusher comes into the ready room with the test results. She hands it to Picard, who then casually tosses it aside. She asks if she is talking to the real Picard. The lifeform within Picard tells her that Picard is there, along with more and that very soon, the both of them will be home. Act Five The Enterprise arrives at the cloud, again. Picard walks out of his ready room and examines the cloud from the viewscreen. The lifeform tells the crew that when the Enterprise passed the cloud before it accidentally took a lifeform with it. The lifeform within Picard recalls the horror of being taken from the cloud, then going from body to body, and accidentally causing the death of Singh. Troi asks Picard if he exists in combination with the entity in his body. The entity reveals that both it and Picard have the same desires, for exploration and dreams beyond Human expectations, since the lifeform is essentially an energy pattern, free of matter, Picard could literally go anywhere in his energy state. The lifeform plans to beam itself and Picard to the energy cloud. The crew pleads with Picard to reconsider, but the lifeform inside Picard has full control and overwhelms the bridge crew when it fires the blue beams at them all over the bridge. Riker yells for security to restrain the Captain, but the entity is far too powerful. It leaves the bridge unopposed and travels to the transporter room, with the transporter chief incapacitated. The entity activates the transporter controls and beams away. After searching for over an hour, the Enterprise still cannot find Picard's energy pattern. Riker, seeing no other option, orders La Forge to set course for Parliament. But, Troi senses Picard. He does not belong with the rest of the lifeforms in the cloud and needs help. Riker tells La Forge to move the Enterprise into the cloud, so they can find Picard's energy signal. At first, there is no sign of Picard anywhere in the cloud, but on La Forge's helm console, the circuits re-arrange to form a "P". Data surmises that Picard has found his way into the ship's systems. Data asks Troi and Riker to accompany him to the transporter room. Since Picard's physical pattern is stored in the transporter system, Data attempts to recombine his energy pattern, as he hopes that Picard has worked his way into the transporter. Data energizes and Picard materializes on the transporter pad. Picard has a vague memory of what happened to him, much like Worf and Crusher. Riker tells Picard that he should head down to sickbay, as Dr. Crusher believes Picard is very tired. Yar enters, with news that one of the Selay delegates is missing and the Anticans have asked the chef to broil reptile. Picard turns to Riker and tells him to take charge of the situation, as he believes he needs a rest. The Enterprise continues on course for Parliament. Log entries Captain's log, USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D), 2364 First officer's log, USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) Memorable quotes "It's elementary, my dear Riker… sir." - Data, one of the rare instances when Data uses a contraction "I still don't remember having one." - Worf, responding to Dr. Crusher's statement that she wants to discuss his memory blockout "Sorry, wrong species." - Ssestar "Data… let's proceed without the pipe." - Picard "Violence will not be tolerated on the Enterprise." - Riker, to Badar N'D'D "Return to your quarters, delegates!" - O'Brien, as the Selay and Antican representatives begin fighting in a corridor "So, Worf, why the interest in this? It's just routine maintenance on sensor assemblies." "Simple, Geordi. Our captain wants his junior officers to learn, learn, learn." "Not just his junior ones!" - Geordi La Forge and Worf "Why the drop to impulse power, lieutenant?" "The helm is suddenly malfunctioning, sir." "Malfunctioning? You're wrong. Look again." - Picard, while under the influence of the Beta Renner cloud and Geordi La Forge "I must ask where you were during this vessel's Earth hours of 1800 last night and 0700 this morning." "Eating." "Sir, I'm talking about hours here…" "It was a large meal… and an interesting animal." - Lt. Yar and Badar N'D'D "Captain Picard, you are now relieved of duty! I judge you to be disabled and mentally incapacitated!" - Dr. Beverly Crusher "It's blinding me!" - Troi, on the electrical field incapacitating the bridge crew "Security! Red alert! Restrain the captain!" - William Riker, scrambling to act when the Picard alien attacks the bridge crew "The problem is, is that one of the cooks has just been asked to broil reptile for the Anticans, and it looks like the Selay delegate." - Lt. Yar Background information Production history Original story outline: (Creating the Next Generation) Final draft script: First revised final draft script: 18 August 1987 Second revised final draft script: 21 August 1987 Filmed: 26 August 1987 – Score recorded at Paramount Stage M: (Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Ron Jones Project liner notes ) Premiere airdate: UK premiere (BBC2): Story and script Michael Halperin's original story was broadly similar to the finished episode, but had a different subplot involving the dilithium on the ship breaking down. D.C. Fontana replaced this subplot with the crew ferrying diplomats, inspired by the episode , which she had also written. () In Halperin's story, Picard used the slingshot effect to return the Beta Renner cloud to its home. () Production This episode was the first bottle show done on TNG. () Both the Anticans and the Selay were designed in concept drawings by illustrator Andrew Probert, even though Michael Westmore was the series' regular make-up supervisor. Both of these designs broke Gene Roddenberry's "rule of thumb," as the makeup for both species involved full head masks. () Westmore and his team created the lightweight Antican masks themselves, but the Selay masks were outsourced and ended up being very heavy and rigid. Westmore then recast two of the "snakeheads" in lighter foam rubber, but the background actors were forced to wear the original heavy versions. (Star Trek: The Next Generation 365, p. 037) The Beta Renner cloud was created with a cloud tank, a large water tank used for creating various atmospheric effects. (Star Trek: The Next Generation 365, p. 037) Kavi Raz was not available for the reshooting of a scene in which Singh is seen in the background. The production staff solved this by simply putting a wig on a chair as a "photo double". () Cast and characters This is the second appearance of Colm Meaney on , and his first wearing his familiar operations division gold uniform color. This character was not named as O'Brien until in the second season, however. Marc Alaimo makes his first Star Trek appearance as Badar N'D'D. He went on to play Tebok, Macet, and Frederick La Rouque before taking on the recurring role of Dukat in . Alaimo went uncredited for the Antican commenting that the reason was "I wasn't sure how it was going to turn out so I asked them not to put my name on it. But it turned out to be fun". ("Marc Alaimo: The Unlikely Sex Symbol", ) Stunt actor John Meier can be seen. He previously doubled for William Shatner in and . This episode marks the first appearance of James McElroy as one of the Selay delegates. He auditioned for this part and shot it in two days being the scenes in the transporter room the first scenes to be shot. His makeup was applied by Michael Westmore and he had a makeup call of about 4:30 am. (James McElroy) He later appeared as a recurring background actor during the first four seasons of The Next Generation and in the fourth season of . Music The episode's score, composed and conducted by Ron Jones, was recorded on at Paramount Stage M. (Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Ron Jones Project liner notes ) The complete episode score, totaling 22 minutes and 35 seconds, appears on Disc One of the Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Ron Jones Project collection. Sets and props The prop used (or one similar) for the Antican hunting device was later used as a coil spanner in . A model of an original shuttlecraft is visible when the bridge crew plans their mutiny. Also glimpsed very briefly, behind Beverly Crusher, there is a silver model of a starship. This starship is seen more prominently in . Among the costumes and props from this episode which were sold off on the It's A Wrap! sale and auction on eBay, was the Selay costume of John Durbin. Continuity This is the first appearance of Data as Sherlock Holmes after Picard mentioned detective stories. The regular 24th century PADDs, designed by Rick Sternbach, first appeared in this episode. This is the first appearance of the TNG-era dress uniforms used up until the end of . This is the only episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation to have Tasha Yar in a dress uniform. This is the first TNG episode where a crewman dies on board the Enterprise-D. This is the first episode of Star Trek to be directed by Cliff Bole. Bole would go on to direct a further 24 episodes of The Next Generation including , as well as seven episodes of and ten episodes of . Remastered version In the original episode, Picard's "P" signal appears only on La Forge's helm control screen. In the remastered edition included in the TNG Season 1 Blu-ray set, the "P" signal also appears to Worf on the Propulsion Systems station at the rear of the bridge. Reception Director Cliff Bole remembered this episode: "They got a lot of calls for that. They just wanted to do some kind of shocker. You've never seen anything like it since. I don't recall that being one of my better shows, but I worked as hard on that episode as on anything else. The subject matter affects the end product. There are some better written shows, obviously." ("Cliff Bole – Of Redemption & Unification", ) According to Bole the show received negative letters after the episode, criticizing the portrayal of what was seen to be cannibalism by the Anticans. () Michael Okuda and Rick Sternbach both criticized the episode's use of the transporter to restore Picard, arguing that it was an inappropriate use of the technology so early in the series' run. They subsequently rationalized the use here as being due to the unique electromagnetic influences of the Beta Renner cloud. () A mission report by Patrick Daniel O'Neill was published in . Video and DVD releases Original UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 4, catalog number VHR 2395, The video sleeve image (taken from this episode, and seen at right) features an oddity – the picture is of rehearsal footage, and features LeVar Burton sans VISOR. US LaserDisc (): catalog number LV40270-107, UK re-release (three-episode tapes, Paramount Home Entertainment): Volume 1.3, catalog number VHR 4644, As part of the TNG Season 1 DVD collection As part of the TNG Season 1 Blu-ray collection Links and references Starring Patrick Stewart as Captain Jean-Luc Picard Jonathan Frakes as Commander William T. Riker Also starring LeVar Burton as Lt. Geordi La Forge Denise Crosby as Lt. Tasha Yar Michael Dorn as Lt. Worf Gates McFadden as Doctor Beverly Crusher Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi Brent Spiner as Lt. Commander Data Wil Wheaton as Wesley Crusher Guest star John Durbin as Ssestar Guest stars Colm Meaney as First Security Guard Kavi Raz as Lt. Uncredited co-stars Marc Alaimo as Badar N'D'D Marti Avila as Female security officer James G. Becker as Youngblood Darrell Burris as operations division officer Steve Casavant as Antican diplomat Dexter Clay as operations division officer Jeffrey Deacon as command division officer Susan Duchow as operations division officer Shana Ann Golden as off duty command division officer Nora Leonhardt as science division ensign Tim McCormack as James McElroy as Selay delegate John Meier as science division officer Lorine Mendell as Diana Giddings Unknown performers as Female conn officer Female science division crewmember Science division officer Two civilians Three Selay delegates Transporter chief (voice) Two civilians Two command division crewmembers Two operations division crewmembers Stunt doubles Al Simon as stunt double for Michael Dorn Unknown stunt performer as stunt double for Kavi Raz Stand-ins James G. Becker – stand-in for Jonathan Frakes Darrell Burris – stand-in for LeVar Burton Dexter Clay – stand-in for Michael Dorn Jeffrey Deacon – stand-in for Patrick Stewart Susan Duchow – stand-in for Denise Crosby Nora Leonhardt – stand-in for Marina Sirtis Tim McCormack – stand-in for Brent Spiner Lorine Mendell – stand-in for Gates McFadden Guy Vardaman – stand-in for Wil Wheaton References 2363; abrasion; acting ensign; active array status; ; adversary; animal; announcement; Antica; Antican; Antican hunting tool; antimatter; assistant chief engineer; axiom; beaucoup; behavior; Beta Renner cloud; Beta Renner entity; Beta Renner system; Betazed; blood; bribe; bridge; bridge officer; broil; candidate; captain's log; case; chance; Channing; chief delegate; choice; class; Class F shuttlecraft; claw; CMO; colleague; command officer; commissioned officer; complement; computer intelligence; conclusion; conference planet; confiscation; ; ; consulting detective; contact; control network; cook (unnamed); coordinates; credo; crew locator; crime; custom; damage; danger; death; deck; delegate; delegation quarters; department head; desktop monitor; diagnosis; diagnostic hat; diet; dilithium crystal; dream; dress uniform; duality; Earth history; Earth hour; eating; economic system; Emergency Manual Override station; enemy; energy; energy circuit; energy form; energy pattern; engineering; engineering deck; engineering staff; entity; evidence; experience; explanation; exploration; failure; family member; Federation; feedback; feeling; Ferengi; food supply; foot; " game; garrote; God concept; guest quarters; hallucination; hate; heading (course); helm control; hide and seek; history; ; home; homeworld; hospital bed; hostility; hour; Human; hypnosis; hypnosis device; hypospray; impulse power; "in your corner"; information; inquiry; ; interlink; investigation; junior officer; kilometer; Klingon; knowledge; library computer; lie; lifeform; lifeform reading; literature; Livingston; loitering; magnifying glass; major lifeform; malfunction; matter; matter-energy conversion; meal; meat; medical emergency; medical exam; medical log; medical supply; medical tricorder; memory; memory circuit; memory loss; message; meter; mind; mission; model; morning; murder; mutiny; mystery; nature; navigation; NCC-7100; night; number one; object; observation lounge; occupation; "office; offline; online; "orbit; order; painting; panel; Parliament; passion; passive array status; pattern; peace conference; peacemaker; perimeter; person; physical pattern; physical sciences class; pipe; planet; politics; private eye (private consulting investigator); problem; propulsion system; psychiatric exam; puddle; question; quote; ready room; reason; reasoning; record; red alert; relay; reptile; resignation; result; Richard III; saboteur; schedule; school; science station 2; scientific discovery; scientific tests; search; second; second-in-command; Sector 500; security alert; security guard; security team two; Selay; ; senior officer; sensation; sensor; sensor assembly; sensor circuit; sensor console; sensor control; sensor maintenance; sensor pass; sensor subsystem; sentient being (aka intelligent being); shape; sickbay; slavery; smoking; solution; spacedock; spaceflight; speculation; species; specimen; stardate; Starfleet; Starfleet regulations; state of the art; statue; story; subspace radio; suite assignment; suspect; taste; thing; thinking; thousand; time; transporter; transporter chief; transporter console; transporter pattern; transporter room 6; transporter relay; treatment; truth; turbolift; unnamed plants; upwind; velocity; viewscreen; violence; VISOR device; warp capacity; warp drive; warp drive circuitry; warp engine; warp engine command; warp engine computer net; warp engine computer tie; warp factor; warp power; warp speed; warp theory; "what the devil"; "what the hell"; wish; wound Dedication plaque references USS Enterprise dedication plaque: Chief of Staff; Design Engineer; Federation Space Systems; Mars; A.G. 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Justice (episode)

When Wesley Crusher is condemned to die on an idyllic, primitive planet, Captain Picard must face breaking the Prime Directive to save the boy's life. Summary Teaser "Captain's log, Stardate 41255.6. After delivering a party of Earth colonists to the Strnad solar system we have discovered another class M planet in the adjoining Rubicun star system. We are now in orbit there having determined it to be inhabited as well as unusually lovely. My first officer has taken an away team down to make contact and they are in the process of returning to the ship." Upon his return back from the surface, Commander Riker tells everyone on the bridge with great enthusiasm about the planet; he explains that the planet's inhabitants, the Edo, are almost identical to Humans, and that it is a class M planet, beautiful and stunning. Doctor Crusher suggests shore leave for everyone, stating that nothing is better than fresh air and open spaces. Lieutenant Natasha Yar states that the inhabitants' laws and customs are pretty straightforward and nothing out of the ordinary. What is special about them, however, says Geordi La Forge, is their great affection for others… and the fact that the Edo make love at the drop of a hat. "Any hat," Yar adds. The doctor's suggestion of shore leave is approved but only for a small group at first. Among them is Wesley Crusher, whom the captain personally designates as the one to evaluate this planet as a place for young people to relax. If their scans and observations support the report from the away team, then shore leave for the entire crew will be approved, says Captain Picard. He just hopes the planet it is not too good to be true. Before they beam down, however, Commander Data continues to receive a faulty reading in the sensors, indicating there is something in orbit, despite the fact that nothing appears on the viewscreen. Act One "Captain's log, supplemental. We are in orbit of a planet designated Rubicun III, the home of a lifeform who call themselves the Edo. Our away team, including Wesley Crusher, has beamed down to make some arrangements concerning some well-earned recreation." Commander Riker, Lieutenant Yar, Lieutenant Worf, Wesley, and Counselor Deanna Troi beam down to the surface where they are passionately greeted and welcomed. Two of the planet's inhabitants, Rivan and Liator, introduce themselves by hugging everyone in turn. Worf compliments them on their planet and uncomfortably accepts the hugs and affections. Wesley isn't sure how to take them and how to react. Overall, these aliens are warm, empathetic, and seem to have thought of everything. Suiting to their fit and joyous lifestyle, people do not walk anywhere, but run and jog along. They wish everyone health and happiness, even passers-by as they run to the counsel chamber. When they arrive, three children take Wesley to play right away, while the adults enter the chamber to find more of a massage parlor, where people are playing games, dancing, exercising, receiving massages, hugging, and kissing. Meanwhile, aboard the , Data has completed his analysis. None of the internal systems are at fault; the reading, though mysterious, is accurate. It appears to be some sort of shadow, like something that is "neither in nor out of their dimension". When the main viewer is not showing anything out there, Data hails the empty space, requesting that it identify itself. Suddenly, a strange object fully appears and the ship enters automatic red alert. Act Two The sensor readings do not make any sense, and the response to their transmission is difficult to decode. When La Forge looks out of the window with his VISOR, he experiences the same confusion; it is as if whatever he is seeing is not really there. Data, however, is finally able to make out something, stating that the message they are receiving translates as something like "stand by". Then, a small, transparent, ball-like object exits the big one, and passes right through the Enterprises hull, moving through corridors and bulkheads. The shimmering ball of light makes its way to the bridge, and then rocks the entire ship as it speaks. Captain Picard speaks with it, explaining, between shakes, who he is, and that he is on a mission of peaceful exploration. It then demands to know why they have come to visit. Picard explains that they have sent down an away team to make peaceful contact and that he does not plan on leaving lifeforms there. It asks about the colony they just planted and Picard explains terraforming, and that they would only do it for uninhabited worlds. It gives a warning not to interfere with its "children" below (on the planet) and then tries to communicate with Data, it seems telepathically. Data says "I do not understand how but it is asking me if I was constructed for information exchange." Picard encourages him to go along with it and the object then communicates directly with Data, who falls unconscious. Down on the planet, Worf is extremely uncomfortable with the advances of the women, avoiding them as much as he can. He is not much concerned with pleasure, according to himself, as he is a warrior. Plus, he is convinced that these women couldn't handle his Klingon mating habits. When Riker fails to contact Enterprise with his combadge, he gets nervous and orders everyone together, including Wesley, just in case. Troi doesn't believe it is anything these people have done, since they are much too open and friendly. Nevertheless, Riker has Troi head outside with him to look for Wesley. Yar, who is just fascinated by the Edo, is talking with Rivan and Liator about their laws as Worf approaches to brief her on the situation. They explain to her that there is no crime in their world and that no one breaks the laws. A long time ago, there was much disorder, but no longer. They explain that they have no police or law enforcement but instead have so-called s who select only one area each day for a certain period of time: the punishment zone. It is a completely random selection, no person ever knows when or where a zone will be and so no one risks death. The Edo explain to Worf and Yar, who are both very disturbed by this news, that there is only one punishment for any crime: death. While it sounds drastic, the Edo consider it very wise and a basis for their lasting peace. After all, since no one would want to risk execution, no one breaks the rules. Hearing this, the two officers are immediately alarmed and head off to find Wesley quickly, who they realize knows nothing about these rules. Act Three While Wesley is playing ball with the others, he jumps for it in midair, crashing into a small greenhouse structure past a short white bar, disturbing the new plants within. The mediators then arrive. The Edo youth attempt to cover for him, pleading that he is only a visitor and did not know he was committing an infraction, but the mediators are adamant and insist on applying the law equally to everyone to avoid chaos, crime, and disobedience. It pains them deeply what they have to do, but given the circumstances and existing canon of laws, they have no other choice. As one of them raises a syringe to inject Wesley, Worf and Yar draw their phasers and Riker knocks him down to the ground. The mediators are taken aback by this, not knowing why they are not allowed to simply execute the boy. They are disappointed in the Enterprise crew, stating that they thought they came as friends. Riker tries to contact the Enterprise but there is still no response. On the ship, the bubble finishes its information exchange with Data and disappears, leaving him unconscious. At the same time, communication is restored. After being informed of the situation, Captain Picard beams down to the planet. Act Four Picard arrives in the council chamber, and the dialogue begins. They regret that their system of justice is troubling him. Liator explains that Wesley is being held, pending the execution of his sentence at sundown, and they stand by their system of justice. They explain that the tranquility in their lives has been made possible by their laws, for they are a people of law. Picard makes the argument that when Earth executed criminals, they thought for the longest time that it was necessary to do so until they learned to detect the seeds of criminal behavior; capital punishment is, therefore, no longer considered a justifiable deterrent. Liato feels that Picard is suggesting some kind of a superiority. He suggests that the Enterprise just use their superior powers to rescue the boy, stating that they would just record him as a convicted criminal out of their reach, an advanced person who luckily escaped the barbarism of their "backward little world". But Picard tells them that he wants to honor and respect the Edo's rules and law, referencing the Prime Directive. He takes the time, since the Edo guarantee Wesley will not be harmed, to ask about the vessel in orbit. The Edo recognize it as their god, who is said to be somewhere "up there"; a protector who is far above them, both here and in another place, with great powers. Doctor Crusher calls in, and says Data wishes to speak with him urgently. Not wanting to involve all of the Edo, and not sure if he accepts their description of god, he beams himself, Counselor Troi, and a frightened Rivan up to the Enterprise. On the way to a room with a window, Rivan is amazed at "the city" in the sky, and is surprised that with all this power, they do not just take Wesley. When she sees the object in orbit, she kneels and bows down before it immediately, confirming that yes, it is god. Rivan seems to be extremely frightened by the object. Deanna coaxes her to explain that she can identify it because it has appeared before. Suddenly, it then thunders for Picard to "return its child," and begins moving closer. Hurriedly, Picard attaches his combadge to Rivan and has her beamed back to the planet's surface, and the object moves off again. In sickbay, Picard then talks to Data about his experience. When Data regains consciousness he explains to Picard everything that was communicated to him. Data says that it's not one entity (it is many) and they know that the Edo worship them as a god thing and feel that said worship is "quite expected and harmless at the present Edo stage of evolution." Data also states that the "god" aliens are inter-dimensional beings and thus can be in several places at once, and due to this the "Edo Gods" consider this entire star cluster to be theirs. He then points out the obvious that it was unwise to place a Human colony in this star cluster and then rambles on about potential colonization until Picard stops him and says "Data! Don't babble. Please organize it into brief answers to my questions." They continue to talk until Data "volunteers" the information that the Edo God aliens may be observing them now as they know everything Data knows (including the Prime Directive) and may be watching to see what the Enterprise will do next. Finally, Picard asks how the Edo God aliens would react if they were to violate the Prime Directive and Data answers that they would consider the Enterprise crew to be "deceitful and untrustworthy" and subsequently reminds Picard that the Edo God aliens warned them to not to interfere with their children below. Dr. Crusher begins to cry and Data starts to babble on about "the emotion of motherhood" when he is abruptly cut off by Crusher telling him to "Shut up!" It is at this moment that Data realizes that he does, in fact, babble. Act Five "Captain's Log, Stardate 41255.9. Whatever the object or vessel in orbit with us, it hangs there like a nemesis. It is one thing to communicate with something mysterious but it is quite another to be silently observed by it. I am concerned whether it understands the same concept of reason that we do." Picard sends for Data to ask more questions, as he attempts to try and put together what he knows into some sort of decision. Picard asks Data to help him with this decision and Data asks in response "What level of communication, sir?" Picard smiles and says "Any. My apologies for saying that you babbled. You see things in a way we do not but as they truly are." Picard is torn between following the letter of the law, and the knowledge that the Prime Directive never intended to cover a circumstance like this. Data states simply that it is the object he should be worrying about. They know of the Prime Directive, but how it will be viewed is the question. How would they react to taking Wesley, especially with regard to that warning? While pondering these questions, Picard asks if breaking the Prime Directive and saving Wesley's life will potentially endanger the entire Enterprise and the 1,000 people who live on the ship. Data answers his question with "Would you choose one life over 1,000, sir?" and Picard responds sternly that he "refuses to let arithmetic decide questions like that." Data believes that they did exist earlier in our dimension, but now are taking advantage of their present abilities. Perhaps they did share a value system like that of the Federation and existed in some flesh and blood form previously. Picard asks why would such an advanced species feel obliged to protect the Edo. Data theorizes that the Edo are a child race they have chosen to protect just as the Federation puts down colonies and protects them. When Dr. Crusher arrives, Picard lets her beam down with him, and announces his decision: under no circumstances will he allow the Edo to execute Wesley, regardless of the cost. Picard simply states that he will ensure Wesley will not be executed, but in a way everyone will agree upon. The mediators do not like it, saying he cannot understand what they were like before. Picard knows what they went through and their laws were in the spirit of justice for them, which does not mean being executed for such a minor offense. Risking the wrath of God – and the Federation when he returns – he gives the order to beam up. Nothing happens. When the Edo are vindicated, Picard then shouts to the ceiling that "there can be no justice so long as laws are absolute." He elaborates that such laws as these – without degrees of punishment, and with such severe consequences – cannot be just. He argues that rules should also have exceptions, and that rules with no exceptions can never be just. The transporter works. When they return to the ship, Picard hails the object to inform them they are leaving, and that the colony will be removed at its signal. It dematerializes, which is enough for Picard. With Wesley's life saved, the Enterprise departs. Log entry Captain's log, USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) Memorable quotes "Nice planet." - Worf "Let's hope it is not too good to be true." - Picard, on Rubicun III "They make love at the drop of a hat." "Any hat." - Geordi La Forge and Tasha Yar, on the Edo "Rivan, perhaps they can't run." "Can't run?! Of course we can run! Right, Commander?" - Liator and Wesley Crusher, to Riker "They certainly are... fit." "They certainly are." - Riker and Troi, on the Edo "When in Rome, eh?" "When in where, sir?" - Riker and Worf "DO NOT INTERFERE WITH MY CHILDREN BELOW." - Edo God "This may be nothing, but let's move all our people together." "Including Wesley, the boy?" - Riker and Worf "RETURN MY CHILD." - Edo God "We'd better find Wesley." - Worf, when Liator and Rivan explain the nature of their laws "Sharing an orbit with God is no small experience." - Troi, to Picard about Rivan on being on the Enterprise "I want to do something too! With you." "Uh... what?" "Something you can teach me. Will you?" "Well, actually, there are some games I... uh, don't quite know yet..." "It's playing ball. Will you teach me?" - the Edo girl and Wesley "It was probably unwise of us to attempt to place a Human colony in this area. Of course, there are three thousand four other planets in this star cluster in which we could have colonized. The largest – and closest –" "Data! Don't babble." "Babble, sir? I'm not aware that I ever "babble", sir. It may be that from time to time I have considerable information to communicate, and you may question the way in which I organize it –" "Please – organize it into brief answers to my questions. We have very little time. Do they... accept our presence at their planet?" "Undecided, sir." "..." "..." "Data... please... feel free to volunteer any important information." - Data and Jean-Luc Picard "The Edo want to execute my son. I will not allow that to happen, Jean-Luc." "Most interesting, sir. The emotion of motherhood is, compared to all others felt by Hu.." "SHUT UP!" "You were right, sir. I do tend to babble." - Beverly Crusher and Data "I'm with Starfleet; we don't lie." - Wesley Crusher "You're not involved in this decision, boy!" - Picard, to Wesley Crusher "There can be no justice so long as laws are absolute. Even life itself is an exercise in exceptions." "When has justice ever been as simple as a rulebook?" - Picard and Riker "Seems the Edo Lord agrees with you, Number one." - Picard to Riker upon leaving Edo Background information Production history John D.F. Black's original story outline: (Creating the Next Generation) John D.F. Black's second draft story treatment: (Creating the Next Generation) Worley Thorne's first draft story outline: (Creating the Next Generation) Second Worley Thorne story outline: (Creating the Next Generation) First draft script: (Creating the Next Generation) Final draft script: First revised final draft script: Second revised final draft script: 4 September 1987 Filmed: 8 September 1987 – 16 September 1987 Premiere airdate: UK premiere (BBC2): (aired out of order) Story and script This was the first script to be commissioned for the series after the pilot episode (then known as "Meeting at Farpoint") was written. Due to the extensive rewrites that the story went through however, it ended up being the eighth episode to be filmed. (Creating the Next Generation) Writer John D.F. Black used his pseudonym "Ralph Willis" in the credits, because the televised episode bears little resemblance to his original first draft script. In Black's treatment, the colony of Llarof installed punishment zones to fight anarchy; however, the zones are now enforced to abide the law, but for only those who are deemed not immune to them. An Enterprise-D security guard, Officer Tenson, protecting two children while on shore leave, happens upon a crime scene, and is shot dead by the policeman Siwel, who is also killed by his partner Oitap on the spot, for misinterpreting his duty. In his first draft, Picard decides not to help the rebels led by Reneg who fight against this system of council member Trebor. Finally, it turns out the rebels install a similarly totalitarian regime when they gain power. In the second draft, the rebel leader, called Reneg is put on trial and executed for treason. Picard muses on the topic of people having their right to decide their own justice without interference. (; Creating the Next Generation, p.44-45) Production This episode was the first to feature location shots since the holodeck scene in . The Edo exteriors were filmed at the Tillman Water Reclamation Plant in north Los Angeles, and the section with Wesley's fall at the Huntington Library in Pasadena. (; ) The Tillman Plant was used to represent Starfleet Academy and Starfleet Headquarters in later Star Trek episodes. The Tillman plant was right under the flight path of Van Nuys municipal airport, which meant that airplanes were constantly flying over the head of the actors, and the entire scenes filmed there had to be re-dubbed in post production. Some filming for this episode also took place on Paramount Stage 6. That sound stage was used near the end of the installment's production schedule. (, issue 126, p. 46) Cast and characters Josh Clark, who later went on to play Joe Carey in , appears here as an unnamed tactical officer. Given the time frames of TNG and VOY, it is possible that this unnamed officer is Carey, assuming a later transfer to Engineering division and departure from the Enterprise-D prior to 2371. This episode marks the first appearance of recurring season one background actor Steve Reed who was hired at his local gym for this episode. Guest actor Richard Lavin also appeared in the second season episode . Sets and props The Edo God model was later reused as Lysian Central Command in . The statue seen in the corridor outside the starboard lounge was previously seen in Deanna Troi's quarters in the episode . The guitar-like instrument used by one of the Edo bears a striking resemblance to Adam's guitar seen in the third season episode . Another similar instrument appeared later in the first season episode . Continuity This marks the first of four times the Captain shows a native female her home planet from orbit. This happens again with Nuria in , Mirasta Yale in and Lily in . This approach clearly has meaning to the Captain as he tells Anij in , seeing his home planet from space for the first time was a moment where time stood still. It also marks the first time the Captain is believed to be a god by a native inhabitant of a pre-warp civilization. The only other time is Nuria from . The Prime Directive is violated by Captain Picard by interfering in the Edo's judicial system. This was referenced by Lieutenant Commander Dexter Remmick later in season one in . Additionally, pre-warp civilizations are normally off-limits, yet Picard states in the opening that they discovered the planet Edo only just now. It is never explained on what basis they are permitted to contact the planet to begin with. Later episodes such as and explain the prohibition on contact with primitive civilizations unequivocally. Riker tells Worf "When in Rome..." while they are running with Rivan and Liator on Rubicun III. Nine years later, Julian Bashir says the same thing to Worf during their trip to Risa in . Jonathan Archer also said this to T'Pol (who also did not understand the reference) while hosting a Tellarite delegation on 210 years earlier in . This episode bears a resemblance to in that both involve a starship coming into contact with an Eden-like planet under the direction of a godlike machine. This is the first time that Data takes the helm when Picard and Riker are away. Reception A mission report for this episode by Patrick Daniel O'Neill was published in . Video and DVD releases Original UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 4, catalog number VHR 2395, UK re-release (three-episode tapes, Paramount Home Entertainment): Volume 1.3, catalog number VHR 4644, As part of the TNG Season 1 DVD collection As part of the TNG Season 1 Blu-ray collection Links and references Starring Patrick Stewart as Captain Jean-Luc Picard Jonathan Frakes as Commander William T. Riker Also starring LeVar Burton as Lt. Geordi La Forge Denise Crosby as Lt. Tasha Yar Michael Dorn as Lt. Worf Gates McFadden as Doctor Beverly Crusher Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi Brent Spiner as Lt. Commander Data Wil Wheaton as Wesley Crusher Guest stars Brenda Bakke as Rivan Jay Louden as Liator Co-stars Josh Clark as Conn David Q. Combs as 1st Mediator Richard Lavin as 2nd Mediator Judith Jones as Edo Girl Eric Matthew as 1st Edo Boy Brad Zerbst as Medical Technician David Micahael Graves as 2nd Edo Boy Uncredited co-stars James G. Becker as Youngblood Darrell Burris as operations division officer Steve Casavant as Edo Steven Craig as Edo Jeffrey Deacon as command division officer Susan Duchow as operations division officer Nora Leonhardt as science division ensign Tim McCormack as Lorine Mendell as Diana Giddings Steve Reed as Edo Tricia Sheldon as Edo Brian Sterling as Edo Unknown performers as Edo God (voice) Edo massage girl Edo player Edo runner Edo woman Female medical officer Female science division crewmember Female science division officer Female science division officer Four command division crewmembers Four operations division crewmembers Science division officer Science division officer Ten Edo Transporter chief (voice) Two Edo musicians Stunt doubles Unknown stunt performers as Stunt double for Brent Spiner Stunt double for Richard Lavin Stunt double for Wil Wheaton Stand-ins James G. Becker – stand-in for Jonathan Frakes Darrell Burris – stand-in for LeVar Burton Dexter Clay – stand-in for Michael Dorn Jeffrey Deacon – stand-in for Patrick Stewart Susan Duchow – stand-in for Denise Crosby Nora Leonhardt – stand-in for Marina Sirtis Tim McCormack – stand-in for Brent Spiner Lorine Mendell – stand-in for Gates McFadden Guy Vardaman – stand-in for Wil Wheaton References ; age; air; "all right"; alarm relay; ancestor; answer; area; arithmetic; "as if"; "as per"; "at least"; "at this moment"; away team; away team report; ball; barbarism; bat; ; ; bridge; ; "by comparison"; captain's log; children; choice; city; class M; CMO; colonist; "come in"; "come on"; common sense; concept; consciousness; contact; Council Chambers; creature; crime; criminal; criminal behavior; curiosity; custom; dance; danger; day; death; death penalty (capital punishment or execution); ; deflector; desktop monitor; dimension; disorder; Earth; Earth-like; Eden; Edo; Edo God; efficiency; Emergency Manual Override station; emotion; enforcement; ensign; ; evolution; existence; experience; Federation; fence; "flesh and blood"; fountain; friend; friendship; "from time to time"; game; garden; "go ahead"; god-like; god thing; grass; ; guitar; hailing frequency; happiness; harm; harp; hat; health; hello; holodeck; home; hostage; hour; Human; idea; ignorance; "in accord"; "in a moment"; "in a way"; "in effect"; information; information exchange; intruder alert; intruder relay; joy; justice; kiss; Klingon; language circuit; law; lifeform (life); lifestyle; listening; location; ; lounge; love; main phaser bank; main viewer; "make love"; malfunction; massage; ; medical tricorder; Milky Way Galaxy; mind; minute; motherhood; music; necklace; ; "no doubt"; nudity; number one; object; obligation; observation; "of course"; "one moment, please"; orbit; order; "out of breath": painting; patient; peace; permission; person; place; plant; planet; playing; pleasure; precept; poison; police; pride; Prime Directive (Non-interference directive); probe; problem; promise; punishment; punishment zone; question; ready room; reason; recreation; red alert; relationship; result; Rhea; Rome; Rubicun III; Rubicun star system; rule; rulebook; running; sadness; Saturn; scan; scanning device; sensor; sensor channel; sensor glitch; sensor technician; ; shadow; shield; shore leave; "short and sweet"; sickbay; signal; "sit down"; sky; society; spectral analysis; "stand by"; starboard; stardate; Starfleet; statue; stellar cluster; stick; stranger; Strnad colony; Strnad solar system; Strnad solar system planet; sundown; supply vessel; syringe; talk; "the good life"; thing; thought; thousand; tranquility; transgression; transmission; transporter room; tricorder; truth; turbolift; type I phaser; unnamed plants; value; viewscreen; visit; visitor; VISOR; wall; warrior; "what the hell"; "when in Rome"; white; window; wisdom; witness; word; worship External links cs:Justice de:Das Gesetz der Edo es:Justice fr:Justice (épisode) ja:神からの警告（エピソード） nl:Justice ru:Правосудие (эпизод) TNG episodes

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The Battle (episode)

When a group of Ferengi present Captain Picard with the derelict remains of his old starship, he begins to lose himself in the past. Summary Teaser "Captain's log, Stardate 41723.9. In response to a Starfleet order, we are in the Xendi Sabu star system having rendezvoused with a Ferengi vessel which has requested a meeting. Although we arrived here and made appropriate signals to the Ferengi three days ago they have so far responded only with the message, "Stand by, Enterprise."" In response to an order from Starfleet, the has been sent to the Xendi Sabu system to rendezvous with a Ferengi Alliance vessel. For three days there has been no message from the Ferengi except for "Stand by, Enterprise." Dr. Crusher comes to see Captain Picard in his quarters, where he complains of feeling fatigued and having a terrible headache. Crusher is so surprised at his suggested diagnosis of a headache she says "A what?" and an annoyed Picard repeats his diagnosis. Crusher assures Picard she knows what a headache is but says that she doesn't encounter them often. She examines him and can find nothing wrong but tells him to come to sickbay all the same. He begins to refuse when she orders him to go and says "You've got an order to report to sickbay from the only person aboard this ship who can give you an order." Just then the Ferengi hail the Enterprise. Picard returns to the bridge and talks with the Ferengi captain, DaiMon Bok, over the Enterprises viewscreen. Bok claims to know Picard, but Picard doesn't recognize Bok at all. He wants to meet Picard in person, so despite being wary of his intentions, Picard agrees to meet him aboard the Enterprise. Act One Picard goes to sickbay where Crusher examines him again. He feels like she's running a lot of tests for something as simple as a headache. Dr. Crusher scoffs "As simple? ... It may be true that headaches were once quite common. That was in the days before the brain was charted, before we understood the nature of pain. When we were suffering from things such as the common cold." But even with all the tests, she fails to find any medical reason for his headaches. She gives him a painkiller for the time being and asks for him to come back for more tests when the Ferengi matter is settled. He returns to the bridge, where Wesley Crusher arrives and tells Geordi La Forge that when he was boosting the range of the long-range sensors, he detected a starship approaching. Then La Forge detects it as well. It's an unidentified starship, which is neither responding to hails nor sending out call letters. The time arrives for the Ferengi to beam over, and three of them materialize on the bridge in front of the viewscreen: Bok and two of his officers, Kazago and Rata. Bok tells Picard that the starship is under their control and is a gift to honor the "hero of Maxia," Captain Picard. Data realizes they are referring to an incident that took place nine years prior while Picard commanded the . Traveling through the Maxia Zeta system, they were attacked by an unknown vessel, which Picard was forced to destroy. Bok is momentarily enraged to discover that Picard had no knowledge of exactly what vessel he destroyed and reveals that it belonged to the Ferengi. Picard is then hit by another severe headache, before ordering La Forge to zoom in on the approaching starship. It's the Stargazer, which the Ferengi found adrift, and are now giving to Picard. Bok says "it's a gift, free of charge," which his subordinates don't like. Act Two "Captain's log, supplemental. Bok and his officers have returned to their vessel inviting us now to officially take possession of the Stargazer." Picard is back in sickbay describing his new symptoms to Dr. Crusher and Counselor Troi. He says his new headache hit with more impact. Counselor Troi states that she felt something too and describes it as a thought but more mechanical in nature. Picard thinks she was picking up on his thoughts because at the moment in question he was thinking about being at the helm of the Stargazer. As he is describing his thoughts about the incident on the Stargazer he begins to experience physical sensations like being able to smell the smoke from the fire on the bridge in his memories. Later in the observation lounge, Picard tells the crew about the battle. They had been traveling at warp 2 through the Maxia Zeta system when they were fired upon by an unidentified starship, damaging their shields. In the confusion, the Stargazer was hit again. Suddenly, Picard asks the Stargazers weapons officer, Vigo, to identify the attacking ship. This surprises the Enterprise crew, and Picard then realizes what he's said. Riker reminds Picard where he left off and he continues with the story, saying he ordered a sensor bearing on the enemy vessel as it came around for another pass. He then performed what is now known as the Picard Maneuver: he ordered a jump to high warp, making it appear to the Ferengi for a second that the Stargazer was in two places at once. The Ferengi vessel fired at the Stargazers former position while the actual ship pulled out of warp right next to it. He was then able to destroy the Ferengi vessel, but was forced to abandon ship and he and his crew drifted around space in shuttlecraft for weeks until they were picked up. Data, Natasha Yar, Worf, and La Forge beam over to inspect the Stargazer. La Forge gets the emergency power going, and as everything looks all right, Picard then beams over. He affectionately acknowledges his old ship ("Hello, old friend"), then goes to look at his old cabin, and is going through his things when he suddenly gets another headache. He grabs his head and falls back in agony. Among his things in an old , a pink sphere glows. Bok is controlling it aboard the Ferengi vessel. Dr. Crusher passes by and sees Picard in pain. She brings him back to the Enterprise, telling him that his belongings will be beamed over later. The Enterprise tractors the Stargazer. Data tells Picard that Starfleet is sending a tug to bring it to Xendi Starbase 9, before Picard goes to his quarters for a rest. When he starts to dream, he dreams about the battle. Meanwhile in the ready room, Data shows Commander Riker a personal log that Picard supposedly recorded, claiming that he attacked the Ferengi vessel without provocation and that the Ferengi ship was under a flag of truce. Act Three When Riker shows Picard the log in the captain's quarters, Picard denies making the entry, but tells him he has to report his findings to Starfleet. Then Picard's headache returns. Riker heads to the Enterprises bridge and enters Picard's ready room. He walks over to Picard's desk and uses his desktop monitor to contact Kazago, Bok's first officer. After they both secure their respective channels, Riker asks Kazago if he finds it odd that Bok is returning the Stargazer to Starfleet. Kazago reacts incredulously to this, telling Riker that they gave Starfleet the Stargazer back free of charge and they "repay" the Ferengi by accusing them of a crime. He angrily closes the channel. Picard is in his quarters when Crusher arrives. He tells her the headache is worsening, and he is worrying about the battle and whether he did the right thing nine years ago but is uncertain. Crusher gives him a sedative and puts him to bed. He starts to dream about the battle again and relives it, seeing the crew and the bridge. Bok laughs aboard his own ship as he manipulates a matching sphere to the one in Picard's chest. Act Four In Picard's ready room, Data is informing Riker that the log is a forgery, when Picard enters. Crusher follows soon after and is surprised to see the captain up and about. He dismisses everyone except Riker, whom he tells to disengage the tractor beam. In sickbay, Dr. Crusher is discussing the headaches with Troi when Wesley enters. He tells her that he noticed the captain's brain patterns were exactly the same as low intensity transmissions detected coming from the Ferengi ship. They report this to Riker, who checks on Picard's location and finds out he has left the Enterprise and beamed onto the Stargazer. Aboard the Stargazer, Bok meets Picard and raises the ship's shields. He is carrying his pink sphere and tells Picard that the ship the Stargazer destroyed was his son's first command as a DaiMon. Bok has spent years devising a suitable revenge and bought the two spheres with his life savings. He leaves the sphere on the bridge and beams back onto his own vessel, leaving Picard to relive the battle. Act Five Aboard the Enterprise, the sphere in Picard's quarters has been found, and as the Stargazer turns to attack them, Riker realizes that the sphere is being used to influence the captain's thoughts. He hails Kazago, who recognizes the sphere as a "thought maker," a device that is forbidden. Then Captain Picard comes on the viewscreen. Riker realizes that he is going to use the Picard Maneuver, so he orders Data to come up with a suitable defense. Then Kazago hails and tells Riker that Bok has been removed from command for his part in this "unprofitable venture". Data comes up with a defense which involves detecting the correct ship by noting the compression of gas in space and then immobilizing the Stargazer with the tractor beam. The defense works, and Riker hails Picard. He manages to convince Picard to destroy the sphere with his phaser, at which point Picard returns to normal. He then beams over to the Enterprise, leaving the dead to rest in peace and letting the past remain the past. Log entries Captain's log, USS Stargazer Captain's log, USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D), 2364 Memorable quotes "Let the dead rest and the past remain the past." - Picard "I can't believe they're coming here!" - Worf, on the Ferengi's upcoming visit to the Enterprise "As you hew-mons say, I'm all ears." - Kazago, conferring with Riker "Yes! Who the hell is it?!" - Picard, hearing the doorbell in his quarters while suffering from a massive headache "Not now, Kazago!" - Riker "You transferred some of his belongings from the Stargazer?" "Yes... including a fairly heavy chest!" - Tasha Yar and Worf "Captain, he may refer to an encounter which occurred nine years ago in the Maxia Zeta star system, in which an unidentified starship…" "UNIDENTIFIED?! That fine vessel was Ferengi!" "Which... you destroyed, sir." - Data and Bok, summarizing the Battle of Maxia "The [Stargazer's] logs will be downloaded into the Enterprises records… " ...at a pri–..." "NO PRICE." "No price?" - Bok, Rata, and Kazago "With the enemy vessel coming in for the kill, I… ordered a sensor bearing, and when it came into the return arc…" "You performed what Starfleet textbooks now refer to as the 'Picard Maneuver'…" "Well, I did what any… good helmsman would've done – I dropped into high warp, stopped right off the enemy vessel's bow, and… fired with everything I had." "And blowing into maximum warp speed, you appeared, for an instant, to be in two places at once!" "And our attacker fired on the wrong one!" - Picard (with help from Data and Riker), explaining the tactical stratagem that bears his name "Hello, old friend." - Picard, after beaming onto the Stargazers bridge "You're welcome, ladies. Adults…" - Wesley Crusher, after informing his mother and Troi the cause of Picard's frequent headaches "This is a confession, given by me, Jean-Luc Picard, commanding USS Stargazer, in the hopes that my... belated honesty will be taken into account by Starfleet when judging my actions during a confrontation with an unidentified vessel. I admit, I must have mistaken their subspace antenna for a weapons cluster – unfortunately, I fired our main phasers, and the... direct hits destroyed the unknown vessel." - Picards final Stargazer log, as faked by Bok "What is wrong with me?!" "I wish to Hell I knew, Captain, but something unusual has definitely been happening to you!" "Why do doctors always say the obvious, as though it's a revelation?" "Why do captains always act like they're immortal?" - Picard and Dr. Crusher "I hope you're right, Mr. Data." "No question of it, sir." - Riker and Data, regarding Data's Picard Maneuver countermeasure "Where is Bok?!?!" "Removed from command, sir, and placed under guard for his act of personal vengeance – seems there was no…profit in it." "In revenge, there never is." - Picard, freed from the thought maker, and Riker Background information Production history Original story outline (titled "Ghost Ship"): First draft script: Preliminary script draft: 9 September 1987 Final draft script: 14 September 1987 Filmed: 17 September 1987 – 25 September 1987 Score recorded at Paramount Stage M: (Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Ron Jones Project liner notes ) Premiere airdate: 16 November 1987 UK premiere airdate (on BBC2): Production A blooper from this episode exists on a gag reel included with the Blu-Ray season 1 disc set. On it, Brent Spiner, as Data, walks through the Stargazer bridge and upon seeing the dedication plaque, reads it using an imitation of 's voice and then saying "For God's sake Mary, they built this thing in !" () Director Rob Bowman on filming the scenes aboard the Stargazer, "It was just Patrick [Stewart] on stage, and when I shot first unit, I put a little compass, a degree meter, on the camera and got vertical, horizontal and lateral degrees, height of the camera. lens and so on. [Special FX supervisor] Rob Legato then would go back and do matching shots of the people in the chairs, over-expose them, put a number five fog filter on and transparent them about 50% on the screen so that they looked like ghosts. That was all done in post-production. It was kind of hairy, and as far as I know, I was the first person to use Steadicam on the show, which was fun. I try to use the Steadicam when I go on to other spaceships, just to give them a different feel from the Enterprise, that sense of uneasiness. But, working with Patrick was a real thrill." ("Rob Bowman - Director of a Dozen", ) Cast and characters Frank Corsentino played a Ferengi for the first time. He would do so again in and . Sets, props, and costumes The bridge of the Stargazer is a redress of the Enterprise-D's battle bridge from (which in turn, was a redress of the movie Enterprise bridge). For this occasion, the TNG-era chairs and conn/ops stations were replaced with Kirk's command chair and the combined navigation/helm station last seen in . The turbolift interior from the first three Star Trek films also appears, although curiously several crewmembers are seen leaving through the side of the turbolift rather than using the car in its established capacity; within the context of the storyline, it is logical to infer that this is due to battle damage rendering the system inoperable, and the crew having to bypass it to access the turboshaft (as was later seen in ). The headrest on the navigator's chair aboard the Stargazer changes position three times: when Data and Tasha first enter the bridge, it is inserted upside down into the body of the chair; when Picard beams over during his confrontation with Bok, it is now inserted in the proper orientation; and when Picard orders Vigo to get a fire control party, the headrest is completely gone. Picard's quarters, with the characteristic starbase painting, bookshelves and the sextant, are first seen in this episode. This episode marks the first time Wesley wears his rainbow-striped shirt, a costume he wears in every scene in which he appears for the rest of the season. Music The episode's score, composed and conducted by Ron Jones, was recorded on at Paramount Stage M. (Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Ron Jones Project liner notes ) The complete episode score, totaling 20 minutes 29 seconds, appears on Disc Two of the Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Ron Jones Project collection. Continuity The had the warp effect from the TOS-era movies, instead of the warp effect used from TNG onward. The feud between Jean-Luc Picard and Bok was revisited and finally resolved in the seventh season episode . The Stargazer was originally a starship and would have reused the refit model from the first four . However, it was decided after the episode was filmed to change it from a "Constitution-class" starship to the similar sounding "" cruiser. This was so that when LeVar Burton dubbed over the line, the new dialogue would closely match his lip movements on screen. Wesley Crusher says the ship class when making his announcement on the bridge; his lips also appear to say "Constitution". Data also mentions the ship's class by name when reading from the dedication plaque, but his back is turned to the camera; when he says "Constellation" the closed captions say "Constitution." () This can also be confirmed as Picard's Constellation-class starship model in his ready room changes to a silver Constitution-class starship model in this episode and the following episode . In this episode Dr. Crusher says "It may be true that headaches were once quite common. That was in the days before the brain was charted, before we understood the nature of pain. When we were suffering from things such as the common cold." This indicates that headaches and the common cold are a thing of the past. Wesley Crusher also mentions the common cold and refers to it as a "disease my mom says people used to get" in the episode . The Xendi Sabu system could have been named after the species who evolved there or after who colonized there. The Xendi Sabu system is reported as "inhabited", but it is never said who inhabits the system or what the species of the inhabitants is called. Reception A mission report for this episode by Patrick Daniel O'Neill was published in . In his online reviews of the TNG episodes, Wil Wheaton states that this is the episode in which Wesley went from, in Wheaton's own words, "mildly annoying to vehemently-hated character," talking about how having Wesley figure out the problem and the solution before the senior staff could was "perhaps the worst way to help the audience accept that this kid (Wesley) is going to be part of the main crew." Wheaton also remarked that the scene in sickbay where Wesley tells Dr. Crusher and Troi that he "glanced" at the scans while Dr. Crusher was researching them and, quote: "…in that brief moment, magically divined exactly what the rest of the professionally-trained crew – including the hypersmart robot – hadn't noticed: the patterns in Picard's scan are identical to the low-intensity transmissions picked up from the Ferengi ship. Wesley cements his relationship with Trekkies by muttering, "You're welcome, ladies… heh. Adults." after they leave the room. Oh, that's pure genius writing there, guys; that's not going to alienate a single fan. Bravo." Aside from that (and feeling the episode was derivative of ) however, Wheaton deemed the episode to be solid overall, in large part due to Rob Bowman's direction, and the performances of Patrick Stewart and Frank Corsentino. Apocrypha The novel The Buried Age establishes that the course Picard set for the Stargazer was to have taken the ship into the atmosphere of the gas giant Maxie Zeta V, thereby destroying the ship. However, after the crew escaped in the ship's shuttlecraft, the Stargazer somehow bounced off the planet's atmosphere and was drifting near the planet when Bok arrived in the area, took possession of the Stargazer, and began plotting his revenge. It also establishes Bok's son was named Flax, and the ship he commanded was known as the Seventy-Fifth Rule (referring to the 75th Rule of Acquisition: "Home is where the heart is, but the stars are made of latinum"). The Seventy-Fifth Rule was conducting a survey of the Maxia Zeta system, discovering a massive wealth of dilithium and other precious metals before the Stargazer arrived in the system on its own survey mission. Believing the Federation to be insane due to its moneyless economy, Flax ambushed the Stargazer, leading to his death in the "Battle of Maxia". Video and DVD releases Original UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 5, catalog number VHR 2396, UK re-release (three-episode tapes, Paramount Home Entertainment): Volume 1.3, catalog number VHR 4644, As part of the TNG Season 1 DVD collection As part of the TNG Season 1 Blu-ray collection Links and references Starring Patrick Stewart as Captain Jean-Luc Picard Jonathan Frakes as Commander William T. Riker Also starring LeVar Burton as Lt. Geordi La Forge Denise Crosby as Lt. Tasha Yar Michael Dorn as Lt. Worf Gates McFadden as Doctor Beverly Crusher Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi Brent Spiner as Lt. Commander Data Wil Wheaton as Wesley Crusher Guest stars Frank Corsentino as Bok Doug Warhit as Kazago Co-star Robert Towers as Rata Uncredited co-stars Michael Bailous as operations officer James G. Becker as Youngblood Dexter Clay as operations division officer Jay Crimp as Stargazer officer James Davison as Stargazer officer Jeffrey Deacon as command division officer Susan Duchow as operations division officer Schae Harrison as Stargazer officer Tim McCormack as Lorine Mendell as Diana Giddings Susan Raborn as operations division officer Unknown performers as Command division crewmember Command division crewmember Female computer voice Operations division officer Science division officer Three science division crewmembers Stargazer officer (voice) Stargazer navigator (voice) Stargazer helmswoman (voice) Stunt double Unknown stunt performer as stunt double for Patrick Stewart Stand-ins James G. Becker – stand-in for Jonathan Frakes Darrell Burris – stand-in for LeVar Burton Dexter Clay – stand-in for Michael Dorn Jeffrey Deacon – stand-in for Patrick Stewart Susan Duchow – stand-in for Denise Crosby Nora Leonhardt – stand-in for Marina Sirtis Tim McCormack – stand-in for Brent Spiner Lorine Mendell – stand-in for Gates McFadden Guy Vardaman – stand-in for Wil Wheaton References 2355; "a bit"; abandon; accident; accusation; adult; aggregate amount; "all clear"; "all ears"; amplifier; android; anger ; anomaly; answer; armament; "as you wish"; "at a price": attack; attacker; "at the moment"; bargain; Battle of Maxia; Battle of Maxia combatant; bearing; Betazoid; ; blood; Bok's Marauder; Bok's son; "bottom line"; ; brain; brain scan; brain scan graph; bridge; cabin; call letters; captain's log; captain's personal log; channel; checksum; ; chief engineer; choice; clue; common cold; computer; computer science; confession; confrontation; confusion; conscience; conservation; ; cooperation; crater; crime; criminal; DaiMon; damage report; danger; day; debt; deception; dedication plaque; ; derelict; desktop monitor; destruction; ; ; download; "duty calls": duty station; Earth hour; embarrassment; emergency order; emergency power cell; emotional pressure; era; evidence; fatigue; Ferengi; fire; fire control party; fish; flag of truce; flashlight; forgery; friend; friendship; fury; fusion generator; gift; "good luck"; guest; hailing frequency; head; headache; heading; "hello"; helm; helmsman; "Hero of Maxia"; high warp; home; honesty; house; Human; hypospray; idea; identity; impact; impulse reactor; impulse tow; inertia; "in fact"; infamy; information; "in my right mind": "in person"; insult; intruder alert; joke; kilometer; klaxon; laboratory; lesson; Livingston; location; log; log entry; long distance sensor; main computer log; main phaser; main sensor; main system; main viewer; maneuver; Maxia Zeta; Maxia Zeta system; medical tricorder; meeting; medical exam; memory: merchandise; ; message; minute; mission; mistake; model; moon; murder; mutual problem; mystery; NCC; name; nature; neural scan; night; nightmare; "none of my business"; "not half as"; number one; observation lounge; "of course"; offer; "oh my God"; "on hand"; online; "on my way"; "on record"; order; pain; painting; pattern; peace; permission; person; phantom; phaser; photon torpedo; Picard Maneuver; place; planet; point blank range; power system; price; problem; profit; proof; quarters; question; ready room; reason; record; rendezous; report; revenge (); Richard III; sale; scan; scanning device; "second hand"; second-in-command; secure channel; senior staff; sensitivity experiment; sensor; sensor beam; sextant; shield; sickbay; signal; ; "sit down"; sleep; smoke; space; sphere; "stand by"; starbase; stardate; Starfleet; Starfleet Academy; Starfleet Registry; Stargazer shuttlecraft; ; statue; structural analysis; sub-warp speed; subspace antenna; subspace communication; surge control; surprise; tactical station; "take over"; tampering; tattoo; textbook; thing; thought maker; thought pattern; thought process disorder; thousand; thought; time; towing; trace gas; tractor beam; tractor beam power; transmission; Transporter Room 3; trap; tricorder; truth; tug; turbolift; type I phaser; "under protest"; unnamed medical tools; unnamed plants; viewscreen; Vigo; VISOR; voice; warp; warship; weapons cluster; weapons officer; weapons report; week; Xendi Sabu system; Xendi Sabu system planet; Xendi Starbase 9; year Other references USS Stargazer captain's log entries: impulse reactor; Maxia Zeta III; Maxia Zeta IV; Stargazer chief engineer; terraforming USS Stargazer dedication plaque: ; Federation Space Systems Division; San Francisco Fleet Yards Unreferenced materials ; museum; Picard's father External links cs:The Battle de:Die Schlacht von Maxia es:The Battle fr:The Battle (épisode) ja:復讐のフェレンギ星人（エピソード） nl:The Battle Battle, The

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Hide and Q (episode)

Q returns to the Enterprise, testing Commander Riker by giving him the power of the Q. Summary Teaser Having dropped Deanna Troi off at Starbase G-6 for a shuttlecraft ride to Betazed, the is fortunately close to the Sigma III solar system, when its Federation colony transmits an urgent call for medical help. An accidental explosion has devastated a mining operation there. There are 504 colonists at the site. Doctor Beverly Crusher is hurriedly preparing her medical staff to treat the massive number of injured colonists. En route to the mining colony at warp 9.1, the Enterprise is once again trapped in Q's force field grid. Q appears as an Aldebaran serpent on the bridge of the Enterprise, and informs the bridge crew that the Q Continuum, after studying their recent contact with Humanity, are mostly impressed by them and wishes to discuss it. Picard urgently asks to wait until they've completed their mission, but Q demands he abandon it. He then changes into a Starfleet admiral. Act One Picard again says that he will listen to Q's offer of the realization of their "impossible dreams," but only following their rescue mission. Q, however, disagrees, and turns himself towards Riker, asking what he finds of Q's offer. Riker says that they do not have time for Q's "games," which triggers Q's excitement. He transports Riker, Data, La Forge, Yar, and Worf off the bridge to a class M planetoid, appearing before them in the uniform of a Napoleonic marshal wearing the insignia of The Order of the of the Goldren Fleece. (A Marshal outranks a Admiral) Picard is left alone on the bridge and is unable to contact anyone on the ship. Q colorfully engages them in a Napoleonic-era campaign tent, declaring that the point of his game will be to stay alive. He promises a great future for Humankind if they win, but something "disastrous" if they lose. Furthermore, the game will be completely unfair, brushing off fairness as a Human concept. Yar protests, and Q transports her away into a "penalty box," but, unbeknownst to the crew, she is really back on the Enterprise. He says, that if anyone else violates the rules of the game, he will be put in the penalty box, displacing Yar into nothingness. Act Two Back on the Enterprise, Picard paces around the bridge, powerless to do anything. He laments that even the log entry system doesn't work, as it feeds back and distorts his voice every time he tries to speak. Just then, Yar re-appears on the bridge and explains her situation to Picard while standing at tactical. Being controlled by Q's whims has left her off-balance and she is so fed up that she is on the verge of tears. Picard tries to comfort her, but she is ashamed of herself for even thinking about showing weakness, especially in front of Picard. Picard reassures her that showing emotion is not a sign of weakness, and Yar hints at what their relationship could be if he weren't captain. Suddenly, Q appears before Yar and Picard, apparently bored with the display the two officers have made, and says that Yar's penalty is now over. While seated in the captain's chair, he makes a starlog entry for Picard, explaining that the real intent of his game is to test whether the ship's first officer is worthy of the greatest gift the can offer. They make a bet: Picard's command against Q's keeping out of Humanity's path forever. Q then promptly tells Picard that he has already lost as Riker will be offered something impossible to refuse. Picard then confronts Q in his ready room. Q sits in his chair, reading one of Shakespeare's works. Picard asks why Q is demonstrating a "need" for Humans through this confrontation, instead of providing a simple, direct explanation, a statement of what he seeks. Through Q's recitation, Picard understands that how Humans respond to a game tells him more about them. Q proposes to continue and quote some Hamlet for him. Picard refuses, and quotes him instead: "What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculty, in form, in moving, how express and admirable. In action, how like an angel; in apprehension, how like a god…" Q stands up in objection from his chair, and responds that surely Picard doesn't see Humanity like that. Picard answers that he sees Humanity as one day becoming like that, and perhaps that is what the Q fear. Q, obviously irritated by Picard, throws the large Shakespeare book at him and then disappears. Meanwhile, down on the planetoid, Riker, Data, and La Forge discuss the situation while Worf gathers reconnaissance. Apparently, aliens dressed in 18th century French uniforms are heading their way, armed with ancient muskets. Data explains that muskets are inferior to their phasers. The muskets, however, turn out to have phaser power. Q, appearing as Data before Riker, tells him that he now has the power of the , and is able to transport his crewmates back to the ship. He does so, and is amazed by his immense new power. Act Three Back aboard Enterprise, all systems are again functioning, and the Q grid has disappeared. There is no sign anything happened, and no others noticed anything. Data, La Forge, and Worf appear back on the bridge, where Picard explains to them Q has shown some kind of interest in their first officer since their mission at Farpoint. On the planetoid, Riker and Q discuss the powers Q has granted Riker. Interestingly, the rank insignia that Q now carries on his uniform is that of a Starfleet commander, implying they are now equals. Riker asks what Q wants from him. Q replies that the Continuum has granted them a gift, beyond all other gifts. He explains that, before Farpoint Station, they saw Humanity as savages only. However, they discovered instead that Humans are unusual creatures, in their own limited ways. He also states that since Humans are constantly evolving, they may eventually become stronger than the Q one day. Riker rejects Q's powers, and Q disappears. Suddenly, the bridge crew, including Picard but also Wesley Crusher, appear on the planetoid's surface again, while they are approached by the soldier creatures Q created. Now unarmed, only Riker's powers can save the crew now. Worf is stabbed by a bayonet from one of the animal soldiers, and after Crusher runs to his rescue, the acting ensign is killed as well. Frustrated and angry, Riker uses his new-found powers to create a Q-style force field around the soldiers, and transports the crew back to the Enterprise, healing Worf and Crusher in the process. Picard is stunned. Act Four The Enterprise, meanwhile, has arrived at the mining colony. In Picard's ready room, Picard tries to advise Riker on his new powers. During the discussion, Picard has Riker guarantee to him that he will be strong enough not to use the power of the Q. An away team beams down to the mining colony, and they find a small group of people seriously injured. They find a young child underneath some large rocks that Data moves rapidly out of the way. Dr. Crusher says it is too late, and that the child has died. Riker is faced with the dilemma of whether to bring the child back to life. He says that he is prevented from doing so by a promise. He shows his frustration to Picard on the Enterprise and surprisingly demands from Picard a meeting with the senior staff. The senior staff, including Wesley, meets on the bridge. Riker explains that even though he has been granted unusual powers, he is not a monster, that he is still the same William Riker they know. Picard reminds him that he has already changed, for example, by not addressing him as captain but by his first name. Riker doubts that his decision not to save the child was right, comparing it to when he saved the Enterprise crew earlier, however, Picard reminds him that that was a fiction Q created. He tries to convince Riker that the Q do not admire Humans, but that they have muddled Riker's mind. Then, Q appears as a medieval on the bridge. Act Five Picard furiously asks Q why he takes on so many guises, "Have you no identity of your own?" Q retorts, "I forgive your blasphemy." Riker asks to give each of the senior staff something they would most like. Dr. Crusher asks Wesley to leave with her. Riker, however, knowing that his young friend wishes he was older, turns Wesley into an adult, aging him ten years in an instant. He offers to make Data Human, but the android declines, saying that it will never feel real to him. Data then quotes Shakespeare to drive his point home and says "this above all, to thine own self be true." Riker then walks to La Forge, granting him his vision. After taking in the view of Quadra Sigma III (and taking a long look at Tasha Yar's "beautiful" face), La Forge also declines Riker's gift, telling the commander that "the price is too high" and he does not like who he has to thank. Riker then creates a Klingon female as a mate for Worf. Worf, however, says that there is no place for the female in his life. Wesley also asks Riker to make him young again. It isn't until Q says "But it's easier, boy! Listen to Riker!" that Riker realizes his mistake. He admits he feels like a fool, and Picard comforts him by confirming that he should. Picard then walks up to Q, pulls off his hood and tells him to uphold their wager. Q stomps around the bridge, recalling no wager. Picard replies that his fellow Q will remember that because he failed to turn Riker, he'll promise to stay out of Humanity's way forever. Thunder sounds on the Enterprise bridge, and Q is abruptly called back to the Continuum, screaming for a second chance. For the Enterprise crew, it is as if they had just returned from their rescue mission, like no time had passed in between. Data asks the captain how the Q can handle space and time so well, while they handle interactions with Humans so badly. Picard answers that they may one day learn that space and time are easier to handle than the Human equation. Sitting in their chairs, Picard has Riker order La Forge to set a new course and the Enterprise-D engages its warp drive. Log entry Captain's log, USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D), 2364 Memorable quotes "Drink not with thine enemy. The rigid Klingon code. That explains something of why you defeated them." - Q "I feel like such an idiot." "Quite right, so you should." - Riker and Picard "Macrohead… with a microbrain!" - Q, to Worf "You're no Starfleet admiral, Q!" - Picard, when Q appears on the Enterprise dressed as an admiral "Oh, your species is always suffering and dying." - Q "Seized my vessel. These are the complaints of a closed mind, accustomed to military privileges. But you, Riker, and I remember you well, what do you make of my offer?" - Q, dismissive of Picard's complaints regarding his past actions, and trying to tempt Riker "Q is nothing if not imaginative." - Riker "No one has ever offered to turn me into a god before." - Riker (referring to Tasha Yar) "Where is she, Q? You can forget your game if–" "To use a 20th century term, she is in a penalty box. Where she will remain unharmed unless one of you merits a penalty. Unfortunately, there is only one penalty box. If any of you should be sent there, dear Tasha must give the box up to you." "And where does she go?" "Into nothingness. I entreat you to carefully obey the rules of the game. The only one who can destroy your Tasha now is you." - Riker, Q, and La Forge "I'm offering you a bright future." - Q "Incredible, Worf! You came out of nowhere." "A warrior's reaction." - Geordi La Forge and Worf "There's a new ship's standing order on the bridge: when one is in the penalty box, tears are permitted." - Picard, to Tasha Yar "A marshal of France… ridiculous!" - Picard, upon seeing Q dressed as an 18th century French military officer "Hear this, Picard, and reflect: 'All the galaxy's a stage." "'World', not 'galaxy'; 'all the world's a stage." "Oh, you know that one… well, if he was living now, he would have said 'galaxy.' " - Q and Picard"Let us pray… for understanding and for compassion." "Let us do no such damn thing!" - Q (disguised as a monk) and Picard"I'm sure your fellow Q remember you agreed to never trouble our species again. Just as they're now aware that you failed to tempt a Human to join you." (to the ceiling) "No! No, if I could do just one more thing…" "Q, I strongly suspect that it's some explaining you have to do now." - Picard and Q''' "Oh, thank you very much I'm glad you enjoyed it. Perhaps maybe a little… Hamlet?" "No. I know Hamlet. And what he might say with irony I say with conviction. 'What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculty. In form, in moving, how express and admirable. In action, how like an angel. In apprehension, how like a god…" "Surely you don't see your species like that, do you?!" "I see us one day becoming that, Q. Is it that which concerns you?" - Q and Picard "But it's what you've always wanted Data, to become Human." "Yes, sir. That is true. But I never wanted to compound one… illusion with another. It might be real to Q… perhaps even you, sir. But it would never be so to me. Was it not one of the captain's favorite authors who wrote, "This above all: to thine own self be true?" Sorry, Commander, I must decline." - Riker and Data Background information Production history First draft story outline: (Creating the Next Generation) Revised final draft script: Filmed: 28 September 1987 – Score recorded at Paramount Stage M: Premiere airdate: 23 November 1987 UK premiere airdate: Story and script This episode represented Maurice Hurley's first contribution to TNG. Gene Roddenberry gave him the episode as a rewrite assignment. However, Roddenberry was thereafter so disappointed with his work on the episode that he ignored Hurley whenever they passed each other in the hallway at Paramount, which was about four or five times a day. (William Shatner Presents: Chaos on the Bridge) Ultimately, the script was rewritten by Roddenberry to such an extent that Hurley requested the pseudonym "C. J. Holland" be used instead of his own name for the episode credits. () Cast and characters Marina Sirtis (Deanna Troi) does not appear in this episode. This is her first non-appearance. The revised final draft screenplay submitted only three days prior to filming featured Deanna Troi which suggests that Marina Sirtis' sudden unavailability was the reason for her non-appearance. Her lines were eventually cut from the episode or transferred to other characters (mostly Tasha Yar) and Picard's log entry explaining her absence (a trip home) was written for the beginning of the teaser. Costumes and sets Q is wearing a French marshal uniform. Many marshal uniform versions existed, so this version seems plausible. His bicorne holds a from the French Empire era (blue in center, red in middle, and white outwards, a color order used until 1812). The musket-wielding aliens who attacked the crew of the Enterprise-D wear uniforms which seem to be a mix of several Napoleonic era armies, including and/or French royal army (these nations shared the same colors, blue being predominant in France and red in the UK). The headgear bears the royal coat of arms of Spain. However, Data states that "muskets are appropriate to the 1790-1800 French uniform." Q's tent shows French royal arms with three , which was the French national flag from 1376 until the French Revolution, when it was replaced by the tricolor (blue, white, red) of modern-day France. Continuity The illusory female Klingon seen in this episode is both the first Klingon besides Worf and the first female Klingon to appear on The Next Generation. This is the first appearance of Q since . Q's force field grid is stock footage from "Encounter at Farpoint". This episode is the last time it appears in Star Trek, although it was mentioned in the finale . Another scene from "Encounter at Farpoint" was reused for this episode, the scene at the beginning of the episode when the four officers are leaving the sickbay. A couch can be seen at the place where Crusher's office would be at this time. This episode marks the first appearance of a Starfleet admiral's uniform in Star Trek: The Next Generation, although the dress uniform worn by Q was never seen again. An actual uniformed admiral did not appear until , although Leonard McCoy did appear as a retired admiral in the pilot episode. The command division Starfleet uniform Q wears while talking with Riker on the planet has the rank pips of a commander, the only time Q ever appears in a command division Starfleet uniform without the rank of captain, aside from his admiral's uniform at the start of this episode. Q also appears in Data's operations division Starfleet uniform, marking the only instance that Q wears either the rank pips of lieutenant commander or a gold operations uniform. This is also the only time that John de Lancie wears the makeup and appearance of another character while playing Q on The Next Generation. The ready room conversation between Q and Picard references William Shakespeare's plays As You Like It, Hamlet, and Macbeth. This episode marks the first appearance of LeVar Burton without the VISOR or contact lenses. The second is in the fourth season episode and the third and last is in the seventh season episode . Data's quote from Hamlet, "This above all, to thine own self be true", is the source of the TNG Season 7 episode title, , an episode in which Data figures prominently. Music The episode's score, composed by Dennis McCarthy, was recorded on at Paramount Stage M. Cues M51, M51A, and M52 from the score (the first three cues from Act Five), totaling 5 minutes 24 seconds, appear on Disc One of the Star Trek: The Next Generation Collection, Volume One. The music, played during the fight scenes between the Enterprise-D crew and the illusory aliens, is the revolution song , which is the French Republic's National Anthem since its adoption in 1792. Remastered version In the original episode, the desolate planet set was extended through use of video compositing, a difficult effect to recreate using the original components. CBS Digital created a new set extension using matte paintings for the episode's release as part of the TNG Season 1 Blu-ray collection. Reception Director Cliff Bole remembered: "I liked the episode but it wasn't one of my favorites." But Bole praises John de Lancie for his performance and mentioned that he is an excellent actor and he took him to Australia for an episode of Mission: Impossible. ("Cliff Bole – Of Redemption & Unification", ) A mission report for this episode by John H. Sayers was published in . Apocrypha The novel establishes that Q was sent by the Continuum to give Picard the power of the Q as a test of Humanity's ability to save the universe eventually, but Q disregarded their directive and gave the Q power to Riker. Video and DVD releases Original UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 5, catalog number VHR 2396, As part of the UK VHS collection Star Trek: The Next Generation - Q Continuum: UK re-release (three-episode tapes, Paramount Home Entertainment): Volume 1.4, catalog number VHR 4645, As part of the US VHS collection Star Trek: The Next Generation - Q Continuum: As part of the TNG Season 1 DVD collection As part of the Star Trek: Fan Collective - Q collection As part of the TNG Season 1 Blu-ray collection Links and references Starring Patrick Stewart as Captain Jean-Luc Picard Jonathan Frakes as Commander William T. Riker Also starring LeVar Burton as Lt. Geordi La Forge Denise Crosby as Lt. Tasha Yar Michael Dorn as Lt. Worf Gates McFadden as Doctor Beverly Crusher Brent Spiner as Lt. Commander Data Wil Wheaton as Wesley Crusher Guest star John de Lancie as Q Co-stars Elaine Nalee as Female Survivor William A. Wallace as Wesley Crusher, age 25 Uncredited co-stars James G. Becker as Youngblood Darrell Burris as operations officer Steve Casavant as Animal thing Longo Dexter Clay as operations officer Jeffrey Deacon as command officer Nora Leonhardt as sciences ensign Daryl F. Mallett as crewmember Tim McCormack as Lorine Mendell as Diana Giddings Faith Minton as female Klingon Steve Reed as animal thing Unknown performers as Dead girl Seven animal things Eight survivors Engineering crewmember (voice) Female command crewmember Female command officer Female medical officer Female sciences crewmember Sciences lieutenant Sciences officer Stunt doubles Unknown stunt performers as Stunt double for LeVar Burton Stunt double for Michael Dorn Stand-ins James G. Becker – stand-in for Jonathan Frakes Darrell Burris – stand-in for LeVar Burton Dexter Clay – stand-in for Michael Dorn Jeffrey Deacon – stand-in for Patrick Stewart Susan Duchow – stand-in for Denise Crosby Tim McCormack – stand-in for Brent Spiner Lorine Mendell – stand-in for Gates McFadden Richard Sarstedt – stand-in for John de Lancie Guy Vardaman – stand-in for Wil Wheaton References 1790; 1800; 18th century; 19th century; 20th century; 21st century; ability; accuracy; acting ensign; admiral; ; affection; agreement; Aldebaran serpent; "all right"; All's Well That Ends Well; ; amusement; angel; animal; animal thing; answer; apprehension; As You Like It; "at best"; athlete; "at least"; "at this moment"; "at your service"; author; ; bayonet; Betazed; bicorne; blasphemy; blood; bridge; bridge crew; bridge officer; bridge staff; brother; burn unit; "by all means"; campaign headquarters tent; campfire; candle; cannon; Cargo Bay 6; century; ; class M; colonist; "come on"; compassion; complaint; compliment; computer report; concept; confrontation; ; conviction; coordinates; costume; couch; counselor; course; court; creature; custom; crying; danger; death; deflector; ; dimension; disaster; discipline; dream; dress uniform; drum; Earth; emergency; emergency area; Emergency Manual Override station; enemy; evil; explanation; explosion; explosion site; eye; Farpoint Mission; Farpoint Station; fear; Federation colony; feather; first name; flag; flim-flam man; force field; force field grid; "for example"; "for shame"; France; freckle; French; French Army; French Army uniform; French language; friend; friendship; fury; game; gas; gift; ; god; gratitude; gravity; gunpowder; Hamlet; happiness; harm; ; heart; hour; Human (Humanity); Human condition; Human equation; Human history; Human philosophy; hypospray; idea; identity; idiot; illusion; immortality; "in fact"; information; "in reason"; insect; intelligence; ; "in time"; irony; "I see"; jealousy; job; joke; "keep in mind that"; kligat; Klingon; Klingon mating rituals; lead; lemonade; lesson; library; lifeform; log entry; lower rank; Macbeth; "macrohead"; marshal; medical tricorder; medkit; meeting; meter; methane; ; Milky Way Galaxy; mind; minute; mistake; model; ; monster; moon; musket; Napoleonic era; nature; nose; nothingness; number; number one; objection; "of course"; offer; online; orbit; "out of the goodness of your heart"; oxygen; path; penalty; penalty box; phaser; pity; place; plain; planning; ; plea; ; ; price; promise; proposal; Q Continuum; ; Q's moons; Q's planet; Qo'noS; Quadra Sigma III; quality; question; rank; ready room; real life; reason; red alert; regiment; rescue mission (aka rescue operation); rescue team; ridge; ring; risk; rosary; rule; savage; saying; schematic; school; search; ; shadow; ; shako; shape; shield; Sigma III solar system; signal horn; sitting; skant uniform; skirmishing line; soldier; Sol system; sound; space; space vessel lifeform; species; speed; stage; standing order; Starbase G-6; strength; survivor; tale; teaching; tear; temptation; tent; term; theory; thing; time; tradition; tricorder; ; truism; truth; turbolift; Turbolift Control; Twelfth Night, or What You Will''; type I phaser; type II phaser; understanding; uniform; universe; unnamed plants; value; viewscreen; visit; VISOR; "what the hell"; warrior; weapon; wish; word; wound Dedication plaque references USS Enterprise dedication plaque: Chief of Staff; Design Engineer; Federation Space Systems; Mars; A.G. 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Haven (episode)

Tensions mount as Counselor Troi's arranged marriage nears, and her mother takes a liking for Captain Picard. Meanwhile, a plague ship threatens the planet where they are meeting. Summary Teaser "Captain's log, Stardate 41294.5. Our destination, the Class M Beta Cassius planet known simply as Haven. It is a world so renowned for its peaceful beauty that some believe it to have mystical healing powers. We will rest and relax, all too briefly, I fear." The arrives at the planet Haven. Captain Picard notes that the planet has been said to mend souls and heal broken hearts. Lieutenant Commander Data tells the captain that those legends are completely unsupported by fact; but Picard believes that such legends are the spice of the universe, as they sometimes can become true. Meanwhile, Commander Riker sits in his quarters, relaxing to miniature holograms of attractive women playing harps. Just then, security chief Lieutenant Yar informs the commander that his presence is requested in Transporter room 1. "Sorry, ladies. Duty calls", he says before deactivating the holographic interface. Arriving at the transporter, Riker asks what he is needed for. She answers that an object is being beamed up to the Enterprise but does not know what it is. The transporter chief informs them that Haven has approved the beam up and the object materializes on the transporter pad. Riker finds it odd looking. Counselor Troi then enters, asking what is going on. The box's "face" opens its eyes and states "I hold a message for Deanna Troi. Lwaxana Troi and the honorable Miller family will soon arrive. The momentous day is close at hand. Rejoice! Ha, ha, ha!" After frightening Yar, a compartment underneath the "face" opens, spilling jewels onto the transporter pad. Troi tells Lieutenant Yar that the jewels are "bonding gifts", or what Humans would call wedding presents. When asked by Commander Riker who is getting married, Troi says "I am." Act One In Picard's ready room, Troi tells the Enterprises captain that she thought the arranged marriage would never happen, as the years she assumed she would be on the Enterprises mission of exploration for, as well as the distance it would take her from her homeworld of Betazed. She tells him that a man named Steven Miller was her father's closest friend. When asked by Picard if she will be staying on the ship along with her soon to be husband, she says she will not. Picard nevertheless congratulates her and excuses himself, leaving Riker and Troi alone together. Addressing the Enterprises first officer as "Bill", she tells her former imzadi that more than anything else, he wants to be commanding officer of a starship. He tells her that is not all he wants in his life. Troi can feel that, and she invites Riker to come dance at her wedding. Riker promises he will try and leaves. Troi is told by Data that she has a message from Haven. They wish to beam the Miller family aboard the Enterprise. The Miller family arrives on the Enterprise to make the necessary arrangements for the wedding. Greeting them in the transporter room is Captain Picard and Troi. Steven Miller tells Picard that he has quite the starship and looks forward to his visit. His wife, Victoria Miller warmly greets Troi. Their son, Wyatt, appearing to be shy, comes up to Troi to introduce himself. He gives her the gift of a chameleon rose, a flower that changes color according to the mood of the individual holding it. Troi thanks the young man for his gift and asks where her mother is. Wyatt tells her that she is still on Haven. Victoria Miller seems to be disdainful of Troi's mother and asks to be taken to their quarters. Picard agrees and has the Miller family escorted out of the transporter room. Picard remarks that Wyatt seems like a fine young man. Troi agrees but notes that she is not what he had expected. Picard does not understand and nor does Troi, but she senses that she is definitely something of a surprise to him. Before Troi's mother is beamed aboard, Troi warns the captain that her mother is "a little… eccentric." With that, Lwaxana Troi and another very tall individual are beamed aboard. Lwaxana materializes facing the back wall of the chamber and wonders where everyone is. She turns around and remarks on how much she hates beaming. Troi verbally greets her mother. Lwaxana however, insists that she think it, not say it. In defiance, Troi again says "Hello, Mother". Lwaxana appears dismayed that her daughter has chosen to speak verbally, wondering telepathically what her current life has done to her. "Don't tell me, you're the captain." Picard tells her he is aware of her telepathic ability, but Lwaxana tells the captain that it was merely common sense and asks Picard to carry her luggage. Troi is aghast that her mother is demanding the captain do this menial task, but Picard insists it is all right. However, Picard finds the luggage case almost unbearably heavy. Act Two Picard leads the way to Lwaxana's quarters, straining to keep ahold of the luggage case down a corridor, past Data and La Forge. Lwaxana exhibits what most Humans would consider to be rude behavior during the entire trip from the transporter room to the guest quarters. So much so that in the middle of the trip, Deanna Troi insists that her mother's valet, the tall Mr. Homn, carry the heavy case himself. Picard gratefully allows it and Homn lifts the case up with ease. During this luggage transfer from Picard to Homn, Lwaxana tries to fill the silence with small talk and says "It's amazing how that accent of yours reminds me of your father" and Deanna replies with "Your last valet tried so hard to rid me of it." While in a turbolift, Lwaxana continues talking and talking, and at one point, tells of how Betazoids are much more advanced than plodding Humans, before her daughter telepathically tells her "that's enough!" Lwaxana finally ceases talking. Lwaxana finds her quarters "adequate". She tells Picard that he may go, and the captain sarcastically bows and leaves the room. Lwaxana apologizes to her daughter for the sudden marriage. She tells her daughter that Steven Miller had tracked her down and reminded her of the vows they had made many years before. Troi tells her mother she is having trouble believing in those vows as she did in the past, but she will honor them as she is a Betazoid. Lwaxana tells her daughter that she may find Wyatt Miller to be an unusual person, as she has sensed remarkable depths in him. On the bridge of the Enterprise, helmsman La Forge reports that a message is coming in from Haven. Appearing on the Enterprises viewscreen is Valeda Innis, the First Electorine of Haven. She tells Picard that their timing is fortuitous. Picard is puzzled but Innis tells him that an incoming vessel has bypassed their stargate and violated their law. Picard asks if she believes the vessel is hostile and she replies "failure to communicate is inherently hostile." She notes that Haven possesses no defensive capabilities and the Federation specifies the Enterprises obligations in this matter. Innis again expresses to Picard her gratitude at the Enterprises presence. Meanwhile, Troi visits Wyatt in his quarters. She wanted to apologize for her mother's behavior, but Wyatt finds her honesty refreshing and ultimately respects it. Wyatt begins to describe himself to her, telling the counselor he is a medical doctor. When he asks her about her mind reading ability, she tells him that someday, they could be able to read each other. She tells him she has only felt this way with someone is currently aboard the Enterprise. When Wyatt asks if this means that he has competition, she says no, what he really wants is to captain a starship. Wyatt says that what he really wants to do is cure people. Troi sees the drawings Wyatt has done of a woman. He thought that Troi could be this woman which explains why he was surprised at her appearance. Wyatt tells Troi that he has seen this face ever since he was a boy and when he closed his eyes, he heard her voice whispering his name. Troi tells him she's sorry she is not what he expected but Wyatt feels honored to be married to her soon. "Captain's personal log. I trust my concern over the problems of ship's counselor Troi are not based merely on losing a highly valuable crew member. But it seems to me that she is trapped by a custom of her homeworld which the facts of the 24th century life have made unwise and unworkable. I wish I could intervene." Back on the bridge, Data has obtained an image of the rogue vessel approaching Haven. It is traveling at sub-warp, several hours away from reaching the planet. When La Forge increases magnification, Picard asks his android operations officer "is that the trouble I believe it is?" Data replies that it is, indeed, a Tarellian starship. Picard signals for Dr. Crusher to report to the bridge at once. He says that ship must not be permitted to destroy the crew of the Enterprise… or Haven. Act Three "Captain's log, supplemental. It has been believed the Tarellian race was extinct, an assumption contradicted now by the sight of one of their vessels approaching Haven." In the observation lounge, the crew discuss the current problem. Riker and La Forge suggest the ship has been damaged, explaining its slow speed and why it would have taken all these years to reach Haven from their world. Data explains that Tarella, their homeworld, was once much like Earth but "hatred outpowering intelligence" occurred, as Data puts it. During the hostilities, one group of inhabitants unleashed a biological weapon on the other group. As the Tarellians were at a 20th century level of technology, the virus became deadly and infectious. As all Tarellians were infected with the plague, they were hunted down and destroyed since they could take their sickness and spread it to other worlds. The last Tarellians were believed to have been wiped out by the Alcyones eight years prior. The Tarellians will reach Haven in just over thirteen hours. Picard reminds the crew that they will protect Haven from the Tarellians and asks the senior staff to help him find answers. He also tells the crew that their voluntary second assignment will be the pre-joining announcement of Deanna Troi and Wyatt Miller. Riker sadly leaves the lounge. In a lounge on the Enterprise, Victoria Miller asks Picard if he will perform the marriage ceremony. Picard agrees, so long as both parties request him. However, Lwaxana's eccentric behavior causes friction as she demands the traditional Betazoid marriage ceremony, during which all participants are expected to be nude, be respected. Lwaxana refuses Victoria's request, stating that the captain is not experienced in Betazoid tradition, so Mr. Homn will conduct it. The Millers and Lwaxana continue to argue over this but Captain Picard states that it is a Starfleet tradition that disputes at social gatherings are not permitted. He declares "all disagreements resolved." Later, Picard raises his glass in a toast to Deanna and Wyatt, as well as their families. Homn bangs the Betazoid chime at a regular interval during the meal, generally annoying everyone in the room as they drink and eat. Riker excuses himself, claiming to Picard that he would like to consider the Tarellian situation further and he leaves the celebration, while looking at Troi. Data, fascinated by the social activity in the room, asks Homn, who is drinking beverages profusely, if his lineage is mixed at all with Human. Homn takes it as an insult and turns his back on the android. The dinner, however, continues to go badly, as Victoria and Lwaxana bicker over differences between Humans and Betazoids. As this continues to go on, Troi explodes at her wedding party, especially at her mother to stop their petty bickering. She storms out, knocking over Homn's chime as she leaves. Data then asks everyone to please continue their petty bickering as he finds it most intriguing. Act Four In a holodeck, Riker is sitting on a rock while in a simulation of a desert on an alien world, brooding. Troi enters and asks if she can join him. Riker admits that he will miss her and calls her by her first name. Troi is taken aback and says "I am no longer Imzadi to you?" and Riker replies with "You taught me that the word means 'my beloved,'" implying that the word would no longer be appropriate to use. They discuss the difficulty involved in their parting and Troi remarks that Humans, particularly those who are young, often have difficulty separating platonic and physical love. Riker admits that he cannot, not now. Suddenly, Wyatt Miller walks in marveling at the realism of the holodeck. Riker excuses himself again and leaves the holodeck. Wyatt tells Troi that their parents have come to an agreement, some wedding guests will go naked, and some will not. Wyatt asks Troi if she really wants to go through with their wedding and Troi says she really wants to. They kiss. "Captain's log, supplemental. All attempts at warning off the Tarellian ship have failed. They still refuse to communicate, and I am growing concerned." Picard is faced with a difficult decision. The Tarellian ship still refuses to answer their hails. Valeda Innis contacts the Enterprise and fearfully notes that the plague ship will soon be approaching transporter range. "You do realize that they can turn this wonderful world of ours into a graveyard? Please, please take action now before it's too late!" she pleads. Then, Picard comes up with a solution. He orders that the Enterprise hold the Tarellian vessel with a tractor beam. Finally, the ship sends communication, showing their bridge crew. Troi recognizes the woman in front as the woman in Wyatt's drawings. Act Five "Captain's log, Stardate 41294.6. Orbiting Haven with the Tarellian vessel locked in our tractor beam. Question. What strange combination of circumstances has caused a woman out of someone's imagination to appear on the plague ship?" The leader of the Tarellian group introduces himself as Wrenn and explains that the eight people remaining on his ship wish to live their last days on an isolated on Haven. Wyatt, now on the bridge, is surprised to find out the woman from his dreams was aboard that vessel upon seeing her image through the viewscreen on the bridge. Wyatt consults Lwaxana about why his thoughts were of this woman who he now sees is real. Later, without any hesitation, Wyatt takes a small case from sickbay. Before he leaves sickbay, Wyatt fills a hypospray with a vial and puts it in his pocket. Entering the transporter room, Wyatt incapacitates the transporter chief with the hypospray and he beams aboard the Tarellian vessel without authorization. On the ship, he sees drawings of himself, obviously by the woman. Wyatt communicates with the Enterprise and explains he's decided to remain there, to try to cure the Tarellians. Everyone, especially his parents, are shocked but they come to respect his decision. The Tarellians agree to move on, removing the threat to Haven, and are released to return to space. The Enterprise warps away from Haven and the crew continues their mission of exploration. Log entries Captain's log, USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D), 2364 Captain's personal log, USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) Memorable quotes "Look at your father, Wyatt. He just can't wait to strip off his clothes for that barbaric ceremony!" - Victoria Miller "Your mother relented. And I just caught my father practicing naked in front of his mirror." - Wyatt Miller, on how a compromise on the traditional Betazoid nude wedding was structured "They must not be permitted to destroy us. Or the planet." - Picard, upon viewing a Tarellian plague ship "Actually, Bill was concerned that you might be upset that I care deeply for him, too." - Deanna Troi, referring to Commander Riker as "Bill" when explaining the Commander's outburst on the holodeck "Hello, Wyatt. We always thought you were a dream." - Wrenn "How could you let this happen? My son surrounded by those horrible lepers!" - Victoria Miller, to Picard after her son Wyatt beams over to the Terellian plague ship "Thank you for the drinks." - Homn, to Picard, his only spoken line in the entire series "Stop this petty bickering, all of you! Especially you, Mother!" (Storms out of the dining room and knocks over the Betazoid chime) "Could you please continue the petty bickering? I find it most intriguing." - Deanna Troi and Data "That was meant as a joke, Captain." "I was not amused." - Deanna Troi and Picard "Considering the rate at which you imbibe, sir, is your lineage at all mixed with Human?" - Data, to Homn at the prejoining reception Background information Production history First draft story outline (titled "Love Beyond Time And Space"): (Creating the Next Generation) Second draft story outline (titled "Love Beyond Time And Space"): (Creating the Next Generation) Revised final draft script: Second revised final draft script: 15 July 1987 Filmed: 27 July 1987 – Score recorded at Paramount Stage M: Premiere airdate: UK premiere (BBC2): Story and script A working title of this episode was "Eye of the Beholder". The name had previously been used for episode . This name was also later reused for of s seventh season. The original story for this episode, by Lan O'Kun, was titled "Love Beyond Time And Space". (Creating the Next Generation, p. 49) The final draft script contained several lines for Worf and Wesley Crusher that were either cut or reassigned to other characters. Cast and characters Michael Dorn (Worf) and Wil Wheaton (Wesley Crusher) do not appear in this episode. This marks the first appearance of Majel Barrett as Lwaxana Troi and of Carel Struycken as Homn. Armin Shimerman's appearance as the Betazoid gift box marks his only non-Ferengi role on Star Trek (other than Herbert Rossoff in ) and his first role in the show, because "Haven" was filmed before . Robert Ellenstein previously played the Federation President in , Anna Katarina played a Vulcan Science Council member in 's , and Raye Birk played a Son'a doctor in . Props and sets The exterior of the Tarellian ship was designed by Andrew Probert. () The set of the vessel's bridge was designed by Production Designer Herman Zimmerman. () The command chair on that bridge was created by . The MSD in engineering was evidently replaced with a wall and a fake cargo bay-type door in this episode, to give the illusion of a corridor lounge. Curtains made of pearl strings, as seen in Lwaxana Troi's quarters, appear only in this episode. Production and effects Despite being aired later in the season, this episode was produced as the third episode after the pilot. This is the only Star Trek episode that was directed by Richard Compton. He had earlier appeared twice in . According to Robert Legato, 110 visual effects shots were used in this episode. ("Departmental Briefing Year Five – Visual Effects"), TNG Season 5 DVD special feature) Continuity This is the second and last episode in which Commander Riker is referred to as "Bill". He was previously called "Bill" in . This episode features the only significant usage of the Enterprise-D's dining room. In future seasons, formal events were almost always held in Ten Forward. The dining room does however make a brief appearance in the following episode to be produced, , when a crewman is hallucinating playing with a string quartet. This is the one and only time that Homn speaks. The fact that this episode was produced earlier in the first season than it aired creates a small error in continuity. This is because, in "Haven", Deanna Troi hasn't seen her mother for some time. However, in the previous episode to air, , Deanna is away visiting her home on Betazed. When Wyatt enters the holodeck to find Deanna with Will, there is no sound played for the doors. This is likely so the two would be surprised at his entry. It is possible he entered from "further away" in the simulation, and simply walked up to where the two had stopped. In this episode Lwaxana states "It's amazing how that accent of yours reminds me of your father" and Deanna replies with "Your last valet tried so hard to rid me of it." This implies that Deanna Troi got her unique accent from her human father. However, when she conversed with her father in the Season 7 episode , he is depicted as having a North American accent. In this episode an exchange between Counselor Troi and Commander Riker take place that defines a word used previously. Counselor Troi asks "I am no longer Imzadi to you?" and Riker replies with "You taught me that the word means 'my beloved'," This word is first used in the pilot, but it is not defined until this episode. Music Dennis McCarthy, who composed the score for this episode, noted that Rick Berman strongly disliked his approach to the episode – so much so that McCarthy was certain he would be fired. The score was recorded on at Paramount Stage M. The complete episode score appears on Disc One of the Star Trek: The Next Generation Collection, Volume One. Reception and aftermath For this episode, Richard Sabre was nominated for an Emmy Award in the category Outstanding Achievement in Hairstyling for a Series in . A mission report for this episode, by Will Murray, was published in . Richard Compton later went on to produce and direct , which was co-created by the writer of this story, Tracy Tormé. The Tarellian command chair from this episode was later re-used as a chair in Worf's quarters in the episodes , , , , , , , , , , and . Video and DVD releases Original UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 6, catalog number VHR 2397, UK re-release (three-episode tapes, Paramount Home Entertainment): Volume 1.4, catalog number VHR 4645, As part of the TNG Season 1 DVD collection As part of the TNG Season 1 Blu-ray collection Links and references Starring Patrick Stewart as Captain Jean-Luc Picard Jonathan Frakes as Commander William T. Riker Also starring LeVar Burton as Lt. Geordi La Forge Denise Crosby as Lt. Tasha Yar Gates McFadden as Doctor Beverly Crusher Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi Brent Spiner as Lt. Commander Data Guest stars Majel Barrett as Lwaxana Troi Rob Knepper as Wyatt Miller Nan Martin as Victoria Miller Robert Ellenstein as Steven Miller And Carel Struycken as Mr. Homn Co-starring Anna Katarina as Valeda Raye Birk as Wrenn Danitza Kingsley as Ariana Michael Rider as Transporter Chief Uncredited co-stars James G. Becker as Youngblood Jeffrey Deacon as command division officer Nora Leonhardt as science division ensign Tim McCormack as Lorine Mendell as Diana Giddings Rebecca Rose as holographic harp Armin Shimerman as Betazoid gift box Unknown performers as Female operations division officer Female operations division officer Female science division officer Holographic harp Operations division officer Science division officer Six Tarellian survivors Two operations division crewmembers Stand-ins James G. Becker – stand-in for Jonathan Frakes Darrell Burris – stand-in for LeVar Burton Jeffrey Deacon – stand-in for Patrick Stewart Susan Duchow – stand-in for Denise Crosby Nora Leonhardt – stand-in for Marina Sirtis Tim McCormack – stand-in for Brent Spiner Lorine Mendell – stand-in for Gates McFadden References 20th century; 24th century; 2356; accent; age; Alcyone; ambition; amusement; announcement; answer; arch; artist;attraction; assignment; assumption; automation; bearing; beast; beauty; behavior; best man; Beta Cassius; Betazed; Betazoid; Betazoid chime; Betazoid gift box; Betazoid tradition; Betazoid wedding; biological virus analysis; biological weapon; body; bonding gift (wedding present); bridge; briefing; broken heart; buzzard; ceremony; chair; chameleon rose; class M; clothes; clothing; colleague; color; common sense; competition; compliment; compromise; confusion; consciousness; ; ; contact; coordinates; couple; custom; daughter; day; desert; desktop monitor; destination; destiny; disappointment; discussion; distance; drawing; dream; dream image; "duty calls": earring; Earth; Earth tradition; Earth wedding; employment; extinction; eye; face; fact; family; fantasy; fear; Federation policy; feeling; Fifth House of Betazed; First Electorine; food; fool; fork; frequency; friend; genetic bonding; graveyard; guest; habit; hairstyle; harp; hatred; Haven; Haven's moon; healing power; hello; heritage; holodeck; hologram; Holy Rings of Betazed; home; honesty; hour; Human; humanoid; humor; hypospray; idea; ignorance; imagination; imzadi; infection; inhabitant; intelligence; island; jewelry; job; joining; joke; kiss; knife; knowledge; land mass; law; legend; leper; lifeform (life); lineage; love; luggage; magnification; marriage; mate; medical doctor; medical school; medical supply; medicine; mental power; message; Miller family; mind; minute; mirror; mission; model; mood; moon; mother; mouth; name; nature; necklace; need; night; nudity; object; obligation; observation lounge; order; override; owner; painting; passenger accommodation; peninsula; person; pet; phaser burst; physical love; place; plague; plague ship; planet (world); platonic love; population; pornography; problem; psychologist; puzzle; quarrel; quarters; question; ready room; responder echo; rest and relax; Richard III; ring; ritual; romance; room; rose; running light; Sacred Chalice of Rixx; sanity; screen; sea; second; secret; security training; sense of humor; sensor; sign language; social gathering; son; soul; spoon; Starfleet Academy; Starfleet tradition; stargate; starship captain; statue; story; subject; sub-warp speed; sun; superstition; Surface Station; surprise; Tarella; Tarellian; Tarellian Civil War; Tarellian starship (aka Tarellian vessel); telepathy; telepathic ability; temper; temperature; termination; thing; thought; threat; toast; tomorrow; tractor beam; training; transporter pad; transporter range; Transporter Room 1; treaty; ; ; turbolift; United Federation of Planets; universe; unnamed plants; valet; velocity; viewer; virus; visit; VISOR; vow; warp speed; wedding; wedding party; whispering; window; word; Xelo; year Deleted references lie; mile; ruby; standard orbit; wedding dress; viral immunology External links cs:Haven de:Die Frau seiner Träume es:Haven (episodio) fr:Haven (épisode) it:Haven (episodio) ja:夢の人（エピソード） nl:Haven (aflevering) TNG episodes

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The Big Goodbye (episode)

Captain Picard and some of the Enterprise crew get stuck on the holodeck while on their way to an important diplomatic mission. Summary Teaser The is en route to a meeting with the Jarada on a diplomatic mission. Captain Picard has been appointed by Starfleet to attempt to establish a relationship with them; however, the captain must recite their complicated greeting to them, in their native tongue, without any errors, or otherwise the meeting will fail. The captain and Deanna Troi have been practicing the speech in his ready room for hours. Troi says that the captain should take a break and suggests trying out the new holodeck upgrades. Picard's face brightens when he remembers that he's been looking forward to trying out the new Dixon Hill holodeck program. Troi tells the captain that the program has been installed and is waiting. After entering the holodeck, Picard is impressed by the upgrades. He is met by a lady, Mrs. Jessica Bradley, in Dixon Hill's office, who claims someone is trying to kill her – Picard has been hired. Act One Bradley briefs Dixon on her predicament. As she leaves his office, Bradley takes Dixon Hill's business card with her and kisses Picard, leaving lipstick on his upper lip. Picard turns to the window, and notices automobiles outside, a fascinating sight to him. He leaves the simulation for the time being. Just as he is leaving the holodeck, a Mr. Leech knocks on the door, and opens it, to find, to his surprise, that the captain has "vanished". Picard calls a meeting in the observation lounge with all the senior staff to discuss the Jarada mission. Before starting, though, he marvels at the holodeck upgrades, and invites Dr. Crusher to accompany him next time, along with Mr. Whalen, a 20th century historian. After Dr. Crusher removes Jessica Bradley's lipstick off Picard's lips, the conversation quickly turns to the Jarada, where Riker starts the briefing, noting the requirement that Picard perfectly enunciate the greeting for a successful outcome. Lieutenant Commander Data further emphasizes this, starting to mention in detail the last Federation attempt twenty years ago, much to the captain's annoyance and ends the meeting since he has seen it enough. Data and Geordi La Forge discuss Dixon Hill after the meeting in a corridor and compare him to Sherlock Holmes. This intrigues Data, and he decides to look up every piece of literature on Dixon Hill in the ship's computer on the bridge. He then decides he should accompany the captain and Whalen on their holodeck excursion. The three enter holodeck 3. Act Two Kitted out in full '40s-style clothing, they arrive in the middle of a busy San Francisco street. Data almost immediately attracts attention by not being "from around here", and Picard claims that Data is from South America, to which a near-by newspaper seller responds "Yeah, he's got a nice tan!". Reading a newspaper, Picard notes that Jessica Bradley has been murdered, and he feels sorry that he couldn't do anything to stop it, despite Whalen's remark that she's only a character from a story. Two police officers arrive, and accuse Picard of Jessica's murder, since she had his business card on her. Back on the bridge, the Jarada send out a long-range probe, and commence scanning the Enterprise, disrupting the ship's systems momentarily, including causing the holodeck's doors to open and close repeatedly. The Jarada then attempt to communicate with the Enterprise, more specifically with the captain, but they are offended to hear that only Commander Riker, a subordinate, is available to speak to them. He tells La Forge to go find the captain on the holodeck. Dr. Crusher enters the holodeck, with some difficulty, but thinks nothing of it. She meets up with Whalen and Data in the lobby of a police station. Data confuses her with his newly-learned '40s accent. Dr. Crusher seems excited by the idea of her shipmates being "on ice" and wants to know why they're not all being interrogated. In a back room of the station, Picard is being "grilled" by the two officers, Dan Bell and McNary, and loving every minute of it. Outside the holodeck, La Forge has arrived and discovered a problem with the holodeck controls and cannot locate the captain or the rest of the team inside. Act Three Wesley Crusher and Commander Riker leave the bridge and join La Forge outside the holodeck to try to solve the problem. Meanwhile, inside the holodeck, Picard realizes he's got to be getting back to the bridge soon for the greeting of the Jarada. He manages to worm his way out of the interrogation and leaves the room. Back in the station foyer, Dr. Crusher is getting some unwanted attention from a desk sergeant. She's distracted from him by Picard's return, and they both look at each other for a lingering moment. At her request, they all head back to Dixon Hill's office before leaving the holodeck. However, Leech is waiting for them when they arrive, and he pulls a gun on them. Back on the other side of the holodeck doors, Wesley and La Forge are searching for the problem. Wesley proposes the problem started with the Jaradan probe, which may prove difficult to fix. Yar communicates from the bridge, saying they have arrived in the Jaradan sector, and that there has been no further communication from Torona IV, so Riker decides to wait. Leech continues to detain the crew members and demands to know what Picard has done with a certain "object" Dixon Hill was hired to find. Whalen acts tough in front of Leech, and Leech fires a shot at him. Whalen falls backwards, and initially everyone thinks he's just acting. But everyone is shocked as Whalen is genuinely bleeding and turning pale; the holodeck safety protocols that prevent injuries must have been deactivated by the Jarada scan. Dr. Crusher rushes forward to tend to him. Act Four Crusher announces Whalen is suffering from massive internal injuries and that if he isn't taken to the sickbay immediately, he will die. When Leech comes closer, Picard rushes at him, knocks the gun out of his hand and punches him, letting him run out of the office. The captain then tries to call for the holodeck exit, with no response. Data goes to try another exit point, but to no avail: the computer is not responding to their commands. On the bridge, the Enterprise has arrived at Torona IV already, without resolving the holodeck problems. Riker announces to the repair team that they're running out of time before the greeting will be expected to be given to the Jarada. Back in the holodeck, Dr. Crusher is struggling to keep Whalen alive while Picard and Data search in vain for a solution from their side. At that moment, Leech returns with a thug and a large man announcing himself as Cyrus Redblock. Redblock proceeds to look around Dixon's office, searching for "the object". He tries to get Whalen removed from the room, but Picard objects. Leech strikes Picard on the face with his gun, cutting his mouth. Officer McNary walks into the office at that moment and is surprised to find Cyrus Redblock and his cronies there, too. He's quickly disarmed by the thug. Redblock then notices Data and asks where he comes from. Picard decides to reveal where they all came from, but Leech is unconvinced. Data then exacerbates the situation by revealing that none of the others' characters are actually real, a comment that seems to enrage Leech. Redblock wants to test Picard's theory by shooting one of them. He instructs Leech to shoot Dr. Crusher. Act Five Just before Leech pulls the trigger, Picard says that he has the item. Redblock is intrigued and calls off Leech. Picard then tries to bargain with Redblock to try to save Whalen. Back on the bridge, Commander Riker attempts to contact the Jarada, only to receive an earful of angry insectoid-buzzing sounds in return. Hoping for better luck with the holodeck controls, he contacts La Forge and Wesley. Wesley comments that the problem can be fixed, but if it is not done properly, the holoprogram could abort and everyone inside the holodeck could vanish. Riker gives the order to proceed with the repair. Inside the holodeck, the Enterprise crew members are trying to explain their situation to Redblock and his team, however there are problems with the vocabulary. Leech is getting ever more edgy and demands that he should be allowed to kill Data. At that moment, the holodeck scenery changes to a windy, snowy alien environment, much to the astonishment of the holodeck characters. Just as suddenly, the group are returned to the office, still shell-shocked by the sudden change. The holodeck exit appears and opens, revealing the Enterprise corridor. Picard remarks to Redblock and Leech that that is the way into their world. Redblock and Leech decide to attempt to leave the holodeck but dematerialize just outside the doors. Data takes the remaining thug's gun and bends the gun with his fingers before knocking him out with one blow; Data then picks up Whalen and takes him to sickbay, accompanied by Dr. Crusher. Lt. McNary, who has befriended Picard throughout the episode, realizes the possibility that his own reality is in doubt. He asks Picard, "When you've gone, will this world continue to exist? Will my wife and kids still be waiting for me at home?" Picard responds with the only honest answer he can find "I don't know...". Picard then rushes to the bridge, where he recites the greeting perfectly, much to the relief of everyone on board. The Enterprise then leaves Torona IV. Log entries Captain's log, USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D), 2364 Captain's personal log, USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) First officer's log, USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) Ship's log, USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) Memorable quotes "What a language!" "But you spell knife with a "k"." "I spell "knife" with an "n". But then, I never could spell." - Picard and Troi, discussing the complexity of the Jaradan language "I lost a bet." - Picard, explaining his Starfleet uniform to a bemused holodeck character "You'll have to call again; I was just leaving. I'm uhh... not dressed properly." - Picard, in response to a knock at Dixon's office door "The sense of reality was absolutely incredible! When that woman kissed me, it was so..." "Exciting?" "Real!" - Picard, after getting kissed by Jessica Bradley on the holodeck, and Beverly Crusher "Hey, Dix! How's tricks?" "Oh, she's fine. Fine." - Vendor greeting Picard, who doesn't understand 1940s vernacular "Hiya Doc. What's cookin'?" "Y'know, I had some trouble getting through. Where's Captain Picard?" "He's on ice." "Pardon?" "He's being grilled." "What is he, a fish?" "He's being interrogated. They think he committed a murder." - Data, Dr. Crusher, and Whalen "And when I looked down into the street, I actually saw automobiles!" "Auto-mobiles?!" - Picard and Worf, discussing automobiles "Often a prime ingredient in teenage mating rituals." "Teenage mating rituals?" - Data and Wesley Crusher, discussing automobiles "If on the other hand, the captain makes even the slightest error." "The captain is well aware of the gravity of the situation, Commander." "We are all aware of the tape of the last starship to come into contact with them. It graphically demonstrates what happened when that captain offended them." "Captain Picard is familiar with that, Data." "Should we not rerun it?" - Data and Troi. "Why would the Captain not want to review all available information on the subject?" "Data, when you've seen the Jaradan react once, you don't ever have to see it again." - Data and La Forge. "I can't communicate with them; I can't access the program and I can't open the doors." - La Forge "You better not leave town!" "If I leave town, the town leaves with me." - Lt. Dan Bell and Picard "But... they're not real!" - Whalen, after being shot with holographic bullets by Felix Leech "I am NOT Dixon Hill! I just look like Dixon Hill!" "He speaks the truth, sir. From your point of view, he is only a facsimile, a knock-off, a cheap imitation..." "...thank you, Mr. Data." - Picard and Data "If you are going to go through yourself, sir that is not possible." "One look at you, sir is proof that anything is possible." - Data and Cyrus Redblock "So, Data, How was It?" "It was raining in the city by The Bay. A hard rain. Hard enough to wash the slime."" "Data." "Sorry, sir." - Geordi, Data, and Picard "Helm, take us out of orbit. And Mr. La Forge?" "Yes sir?" (with gangster accent) "Step on it." - Picard and La Forge Background information Production history First draft story outline: (Creating the Next Generation) Revised final draft script: Filmed: 19 October 1987 – 27 October 1987 Score recorded at Paramount Stage M: Premiere airdate: UK premiere airdate (on BBC2): Story The basic premise of this episode was conceived by Gene Roddenberry, who suggested doing a detective story on the holodeck. It was writer Tracy Tormé, however, who added numerous references in the script, being a fan of the genre. The events of the Dixon Hill program as depicted on the holodeck were a homage to the 1941 film . Cyrus Redblock was based on the character of Kasper Gutman, played by , and Felix Leech was based on 's Joel Cairo. Director Joseph L. Scanlan noted that Picard's office was a homage to 's office in the film, with a similar window and venetian blinds being used. (Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages) The character of Dixon Hill was originally named "Dixon Steele", as a homage to Tormé's favorite Bogart movie (), but it had to be changed because it too closely resembled the name of the protagonist of the then-successful series . () The title of this episode would seem to be a composite of the books and , featuring iconic detective . Cast and characters In a online review, Wil Wheaton gave this episode an "A". He remarked, "We'd done 12 episodes before this, which is half a season, and this one was our favorite to shoot at the time. There isn't an actor in the world who doesn't love playing a period piece, and I think our real joy in filming 'The Big Goodbye' cascaded into our performances. As actors, we're clearly enjoying ourselves, so our characters feel relaxed and unselfconscious (Except for me, of course, but I was supposed to be nervous and self-conscious in this one.) It's a subtle change from some of the earlier episodes, but this is one of the very first times where the audience could really feel the actors – and therefore their characters – coming together and settling in." Gregory Itzin mentioned in an interview that he was originally cast in this episode (apparently as McNary) but elected to do an episode of instead. He acknowledged that "The Big Goodbye" is now considered a "classic" and regretted turning down the episode. Itzin went on to appear in several other roles. This episode includes multiple on-screen performers who later reappeared in Star Trek. These include: Lawrence Tierney as Regent of Palamar in ; Dick Miller as Vin in and ; Mike Genovese as Zef'No in ; William Boyett as a policeman in ; and Erik Cord as a stunt double in and . This episode was the first Star Trek appearance of David Selburg, who later appeared in , , and . Rhonda Aldrich portrayed Dixon Hill's secretary, , for the first time here. She reprised that part in the episodes and . This episode also marked the first on-screen appearance of regular background actor, stand-in, and body double Guy Vardaman. Sets and props This episode marks the third appearance of the silver starship model in TNG. The other two are and . Just like in the last instance, this model is seen in the ready room. The boxing poster of the boxers DeWaay and was re-used in the episode . Production Rob Bowman was initially set to direct this episode, but the episode was given to Joe Scanlan at the last minute when problems emerged in producing and the two episodes were switched in production order. () Tormé and Scanlan together suggested filming the 1940s scenes in black and white. Rick Berman and Robert Justman disagreed, arguing that the holodeck could not change the appearance of the crew. () The Captain Proton program, seen in several episodes of , later indeed showed characters in black and white, however, Voyager was a more advanced ship. is listed as the author of the Dixon Hill stories, as seen on a computer screen. The text from the actual stories is from three books: The Listening Man, by , published in 1924. Dangerous Ground, by Francis Sill Wickware, published in 1946. and a fictional detective magazine called National Detective Gazette that came with the 1980s computer game The Witness. The illustrations are from various Star Trek books published by FASA. As noted in the , budget restrictions prevented the Jarada from appearing on screen. Tormé was disappointed, because he had developed a hive mind culture for the aliens. The script of the episode describes them as "wasp-like; black and yellow, with pointed insectile features and waving black antennae." The scenes in the 1941 holographic San Francisco were filmed on Paramount Pictures' New York Street backlot. (Energized! Taking The Next Generation to the Next Level, TNG Season 1 Blu-ray special feature) Music The song "Out of Nowhere", by Edward Heyman and Johnny Green, can be heard playing aptly in Dixon Hill's office block as Picard enters the holodeck for the first time. This was suggested by Robert Justman. () Dennis McCarthy arranged the version heard in the episode, which appears on Disc One of the Star Trek: The Next Generation Collection, Volume One. The episode's score, composed by Dennis McCarthy, was recorded on , at Paramount Stage M. Continuity This episode marks the first – of many – holodeck malfunction episodes in Star Trek. At one point, this episode had been scheduled for production after . If this had indeed happened, the computer modifications of the Bynars would have served to explain the holodeck malfunctions in this episode. () This episode is the first time when holodeck characters become aware that they are holograms. The illustrations of the characters for the Dixon Hill series are from FASA-based materials. Some of these illustrations are of canonical Star Trek characters: Phillip Green, Harry Mudd, Zefram Cochrane, Ilia, Cyrano Jones, Richard Daystrom, Sarek, and Garth. One of the headlines Captain Jean-Luc Picard reads is "DiMaggio streak reaches 37." According to the , DiMaggio reached that number on 25 June 1941. The unnamed baseball player who broke Joe DiMaggio's record for longest consecutive game hitting streak was later revealed, in , as Harmon "Buck" Bokai of the London Kings. Picard accesses the Dixon Hill holodeck program again in later episodes and as well as in the film . Cyrus Redblock and Felix Leech do not begin to disappear until they have completely exited the holodeck. Subsequent episodes, such as and , make it clear that a holographic character or object will disappear immediately upon passing beyond the range of holographic projectors. This also means the lipstick on Picard's cheek should have disappeared, either gradually or immediately, after leaving the holodeck. This is the only episode that briefly shows Tasha Yar in command on the bridge. This is also the only time that any holodeck is shown to have two entrances; while Wesley Crusher is working at the entrance Picard and the others entered, Cyrus Redblock obviously leaves the holodeck through another hatch. This is the second episode where a potential romance between Captain Picard and Dr. Beverly Crusher is hinted at or explored. The pilot () establishes their non-romantic history, is the first to establish their potential romantic relationship, and this episode confirms that there is a romantic interest while in a sober state ("The Naked Now" romance happens under the influence). Reception "The Big Goodbye" won the George Foster Peabody Award for excellence in television broadcasting in . This episode was the first hour-long drama to win a Peabody Award in that category. (Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Continuing Mission, p. 62) For this episode, William Ware Theiss won an Emmy Award in the category Outstanding Costume Design for a Series in . Edward R. Brown received an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Cinematography for a Series. TV Guide, however, criticized the episode as being too derivative of , which concerned a planetary culture based on 1920s gangland Chicago. Tracy Tormé dismissed such criticisms as being based merely on the appearance of "three-piece suits." () Producer Maurice Hurley described this episode as being like a "breath of fresh air." He explained, "It was just fun to do. It's got humor and life to it. The thing is that Star Trek can't brood. If it broods, it gets self-important and self-indulgent and preachy, like it has a tendency to do if it's not careful. But if it has some life to it, some humor, then it just jumps up and flies. It's different, but absolutely locked in the Star Trek format. Everything in there worked." (Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages) A mission report for this episode, by Will Murray, was published in . Among the items which were sold off on the It's A Wrap! sale and auction on eBay was the hat for the double of Brent Spiner, a gray fedora with black trim. Video and DVD releases Original UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 6, catalog number VHR 2397, UK re-release (three-episode tapes, Paramount Home Entertainment): Volume 1.4, catalog number VHR 4645, As part of the TNG Season 1 DVD collection As part of the Region 1 release of the Star Trek: The Next Generation - Jean-Luc Picard Collection As part of the TNG Season 1 Blu-ray collection Links and references Starring Patrick Stewart as Captain Jean-Luc Picard Jonathan Frakes as Commander William T. Riker Also starring LeVar Burton as Lt. Geordi La Forge Denise Crosby as Lt. Tasha Yar Michael Dorn as Lt. Worf Gates McFadden as Doctor Beverly Crusher Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi Brent Spiner as Lt. Commander Data Wil Wheaton as Wesley Crusher Guest stars Lawrence Tierney as Cyrus Redblock Harvey Jason as Felix Leech William Boyett as Dan Bell David Selburg as Whalen Gary Armagnac as McNary Co-starring Mike Genovese as Desk Sergeant Dick Miller as Vendor (aka "Mac") Carolyn Allport as Jessica Bradley Featuring Rhonda Aldrich as Erik Cord as Thug Uncredited co-stars James G. Becker as Youngblood Dan Campise as Operations officer Police officer Dexter Clay as operations officer Jeffrey Deacon as command officer Susan Duchow as operations officer James McElroy as operations officer Nora Leonhardt as sciences ensign Lorine Mendell as Diana Giddings Susan Raborn as operations officer Richard Sarstedt as command lieutenant Guy Vardaman as San Francisco citizen Unknown performers as Cleaning lady Command crewmember Command officer Female computer voice Female sciences officer Jaradan voice Police secretary Three civilians Three operations crewmembers Three sciences crewmembers "Toots" Twenty-five San Francisco citizens Two command crewmembers Two police officers Stand-ins and photo doubles James G. Becker – stand-in for Jonathan Frakes Darrell Burris – stand-in for LeVar Burton Dexter Clay – stand-in for Michael Dorn Jeffrey Deacon – stand-in for Patrick Stewart Susan Duchow – stand-in for Denise Crosby Nora Leonhardt – stand-in for Marina Sirtis Tim McCormack – stand-in for Brent Spiner Lorine Mendell – stand-in for Gates McFadden Guy Vardaman – stand-in for Wil Wheaton/ hand double for Brent Spiner References 20th century; 1924; 1931; 1934; 1936; 1941; 1944; 1946; 2026; 2344; .45 automatic; "a bit"; AD; access code; alcohol; "all right"; Amazing Detective Stories; American flag; amusement; anomaly; apparatus; ashtray; assistant; "at a loss"; "at last"; "at least"; "at the time"; automobile; balcony; baseball; bellboy suit; bi-converter interface; bicycle; blinds; blonde; blood; body; ; book; ; bottle; bow tie; boxing; ; briefing; bridge; British; brunette; building; business; business card; "but then"; c-note; Cadillac Series 61; California; car; carpet; case; chair; chance; character; chat; chewing gum; childhood; choice; cigarette; Cleveland; Cleveland Indians; coat rack; Colt Detective Special; "come on"; ; computer; ; contact; cooking; cop; copyright; couch; "cut you loose"; dance; date; day; deal; ; desk sergeant; desktop monitor; destiny; detective; De Soto S-11; device; diplomatic mission; Dixon Hill series; ; door; ; dream; earring; Earth; environment; ; Esky; exit; expense; experience; explanation; facsimile; Fairmont Hotel; feather; Federation; Federation starship (2344); Federation starship captain; fee; feeling; fiction; fiction expert; file; filing cabinet; fire hydrant; fish; "for the moment"; friend; French language; "from the top"; fun; funny farm; Galaxy class decks; game; gangster; garbage (trash); genre; ghost; "good day"; greeting; grilling; gun; hailing frequency; hall; Halloween; hat; hatching; heart; hero; ; historian; ; ; Holodeck 3; holodeck repair tools; Holodeck safety protocol; home; horse; hour; hurler; illusion; image; imitation; immorality; "in advance"; information; ingredient; insect; insect-like; intercom; internal bleeding; interrogation; Jarada; Jarada contact; Jaradan language; Jaradan probe; Jaradan sector; Jaradan sector planet; jewelry; Kaferian; "keep your nose cleaned"; knife; knowledge; kiss; Latin language; LCARS; leg; light; lighter; Lincoln-Zephyr; lipstick; Livingston; location; London; London Kings; ; "look what the cat dragged in"; Lord Halifax; lover; "Mac"; madam; make-up; manhole; manners (etiquette); mathematical operation; mating ritual; matter-energy conversion; ; McNary's kids; meeting; memory; midnight; millimeter; mistake; mister; model; modus operandi; money; moonlighting; mop; morning; murder; ; name; necktie; newsstand; newspaper; ; night; novel; NRA; number one; object; observation lounge; obsession; "of course"; office; "oh well"; Omicron Theta; "on ice"; "on the other hand"; "on your mind"; "Out of Nowhere"; page; painting; pallor; partner; passage; ; permission; place; plan; pleasure; "point of view"; 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water cooler; Walther PP; "wear it well"; "what's cooking": word; working girl; wristwatch; year; "your goose is cooked" Library computer references Dixon Hill references: A.M.A. Journal; abnormal psychology; accident; advertisement ("ad"); address book; advice; affair; "after all"; afternoon; agent; air; airplane; alderman; ; Allcroft; alley; Alvano; ambition; Ambrose National; ambulance; America; American; analyst; "and so forth"; Anglo-American National Bank; animal; annoyance; answer; apartment; apology; appointment; Arabia; Arc Radio Laboratories; Arizona; arm; arrest; assignment; "at a time"; "at that point"; "at the time"; August; automobile; Australia; autopsy; autumn; back; badge; bag; ; bandage; bank; bank manager; bank safe; baritone horn; barn; ; barrel; barricade; baseball; bass note; bathrobe; beans; bed; bedroom; beer; ; beneficiary; Berkshire County; best friend; ""; bird; black; blood; blood type; blue; "blue in the face"; Boston; box; Boy Scouts; brain; brass; broad; 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Datalore (episode)

The Enterprise explores Data's home planet, Omicron Theta. They find his brother, and the dark secret he carries. Summary Teaser While passing by Omicron Theta en route to their next assignment, the stops to investigate the site of Data's discovery. However, Data is in his quarters practicing sneezing. Wesley Crusher walks in on Data pretending to sneeze in front of a mirror and asks him if he has a cold. Data has never heard of such thing (at least not in reference to an illness) so Wesley says "It's a disease my mom says people used to get." Data acknowledges this fact, but presses that Humans sneeze for other reasons and he'd like to learn how to do it so he will better "fit in" with the crew. Wesley wonders out loud how Data could be practicing sneezing in a time like this; they're about to arrive at his home planet. Data clarifies that he is excited to see his point of origin, but that he is also interested in sneezing. They leave for the bridge. The crew learns of an entire Earth colony that disappeared from the planet twenty-six years ago, and the whole planet now appears dead. Riker leads an away team that beams down to the spot where Data was found by crewmembers from the . For some reason, Data has been given the memories of all 411 colonists, and he is interested in learning why. Act One The away team proceeds to the topographical site where Data was found; it is a hollow with a rock wall. He was found in the open, and was apparently activated by a marker beacon that detected the crews' presence. Geordi La Forge examines the rock wall with his VISOR and sees that it was man-made. He finds a hidden door in the wall that opens onto a passage that leads to an underground shelter. The away team goes down one of the corridors before coming to a door that leads to a laboratory, where Data recalls impressions of his basic functions being tested. There are children's pictures on the wall, all apparently of the same scene. Data doesn't know what they represent, only a sense that they refer to something dangerous. Riker presses him and asks if he can remember anything else about the lab. Data replies that he can remember one of the machines in a work area in the lab that was used by a Dr. Noonian Soong. La Forge recognizes the name of Earth's foremost robotics scientist. He tried to create a positronic brain, but failed when he could not deliver on his grand promise and then disappeared. Now, they realize he went to Omicron Theta under a different name to continue his work. Data, La Forge, and Riker continue to search the lab, while Natasha Yar and Worf search the rest of the bunker. They find molds for making Data's skin, and Yar reports that the rest of the bunker is empty. Then La Forge comes across a storage area. Inside, they find another android identical to Data. Data is excited by the discovery and they decide to bring it back to the Enterprise for assembly. Act Two Back on the Enterprise, a team of engineers and technicians try to reassemble the android. Argyle confirms that "it" has the same body parts as Data, and asks if he can examine Data if he needs more information, comparing the internal circuitry, and Data agrees. He then joins Captain Picard, Commander Riker, and Geordi La Forge in the observation lounge to discuss the situation. Everyone seems to be tip-toeing around the subject so Picard stops the briefing momentarily to say "All right. Legitimate questions about any of this need not be asked apologetically. You feel uncomfortable on aspects of your duplicate, Data. We feel uncomfortable too… it feels awkward to be reminded that Data is a machine, just remember that we are merely a different variety of machine." He concludes by stating that they should handle this situation like they would anything else and continue the briefing. After asking and answering a few more questions, Data returns to Dr. Crusher. He shows Crusher where his off switch is located on his body, asking her to keep it secret. Then she and Argyle open him up and check his internal construction. After they close him up, Picard and Riker arrive in sickbay. The other android has been fully assembled, but he is still not active. Picard wonders aloud which was made first. Suddenly, the second android comes alive and says that Data was. He calls himself Lore, and says he was made to replace the "imperfect" Data. Act Three Data and Picard talk in the ready room. Data believes that both he and Lore have the same physical and mental capabilities. Picard then asks Data where his loyalties lie, and Data assures him that his loyalty is to Picard and Starfleet, completely. They go out onto the bridge where Wesley Crusher and La Forge are explaining the helm controls to Lore. Riker then says the first part of Pythagorean theorem, and Lore unthinkingly completes it, except the last word, "sides," which he claims he never really knew in the first place. While his face twitches, he says he enjoys pleasing Humans. Data leads him off to show him the rest of the ship, telling him Riker tricked him into revealing he knew more than he let on. He warns him not to underestimate Humans, but Lore is dismissive. He tells Data not to be jealous of his ability. They go to Data's quarters, where Data checks up information about Dr. Soong. Lore calls him "Often Wrong Soong" and derides Data for the way he tries to mimic Humans. Data asks him again which of them was built first, and Lore admits he, himself, was built first. He says the colonists became envious of him and persuaded Soong to build a less perfect android – Data. Lore was too Human, understanding language and humor. Lore points out that he can easily handle speech and says "I use their contractions. For example, I say "can't" or "isn't" and you say "cannot" and "is not." Lore then begins to sing "I say tomato and you say tomahto," proving again how much more Human he is than Data. Lore than states that he can help Data become more Human and Data says that he is obligated to report all of this – the lies Lore told Riker about his knowledge, the lie that he was built before Data, and every other lie he said since "waking up." Data leaves to go on duty and asks Lore to make a report to the captain about what happened to the colonists. Act Four On the bridge, Picard and Riker analyze Lore's report. The colonists were killed by a Crystalline Entity that feeds on lifeforms, and is capable of stripping all life from an entire world. The two androids survived because they were not alive when the entity attacked. Yar tells Picard that Lore has left his room to go to deck four, and Picard tells Data to check up on him. When he goes, Yar asks if he can be trusted, to which Picard replies that he trusts him completely. In Data's quarters, Lore mixes a pill into some Altairian Grand Premier champagne which he offers to Data when he enters. Data drinks the champagne, and realizes immediately something is wrong. He collapses, and Lore reveals that he learned to communicate with the Crystalline Entity, which he led to the colonists in order to get revenge. On the bridge, Worf reports that a subspace communication is detected coming from Data's quarters, and Riker sends Wes down to check it out. Lore is communicating with the crystalline entity. He tells it to identify him as Data. Wes comes in and "Data" tells Wes that "Lore" attacked him and he had to switch him off. His face twitches and covers it up, saying he's been practicing Lore's facial twitch. Lore/Data says he's coming up onto the bridge, and after Wes leaves he uses a small tool and fixes his own twitch and causes one in Data. Dr. Crusher walks over to the helm and asks Wes on the bridge what happened. Wesley tells her he shut Lore off, which makes her suspicious since it was their secret. "Data" arrives on the bridge when La Forge detects an unknown object approaching at high speed. It is the crystalline entity. Act Five Picard says they need to question Lore. Wesley loudly protests that he doesn't trust Data/Lore. Picard and Riker are both annoyed at his display and decide that Riker would go with Wesley and "Data" to see "Lore". "Data" approaches "Lore" and causes him to shake by using Data's activation switch to rapidly turn him on and off. He tells Riker and Wes to leave, saying he can't control "Lore". After they leave, he kicks Data in the head in anger, causing part of his "skin" on his temple to come loose and exposing the circuitry on his skull. On the bridge, Riker tells Picard what happens, but Wes is still not convinced. The Crystalline Entity brushes against the shields. "Data" rushes in and says he wants to talk to it. He tells it the Humans here are powerful. It backs off, and "Data" suggests beaming something like a tree out into space and destroying it in a show of force. Picard agrees. "Data" leaves, but Wes continues to protest. Wesley tries again to convince Picard that "Data" is really Lore, but the captain refuses to listen and dismisses him, telling him to "shut up, Wesley." He still orders Worf to monitor what "Data" does, since it is unusual. Beverly, just as hurt as her son, repeats in shock, "Shut up, Wesley?!" Picard dismisses her also and orders them both off the bridge. Wesley, angered, starts to complain, but Beverly fearfully adds, "Shut up, Wesley" herself in an attempt to protect her son from further ridicule by the rest of the crew. Worf steps into the turbolift with Lore, who knocks his phaser out of his hand and taunts him by asking the Klingon to show him "your warrior fierceness." Lore then assaults Worf after he smacks him in the android's face and knocks him unconscious. Meanwhile, Wes has managed to convince Dr. Crusher to stop off at Data's quarters. She sees Data hurt on the ground and switches him on. He tells her he is not badly hurt, and they go to cargo bay 3 to stop Lore. They sneak into the cargo bay and hear Lore talking to the Crystalline Entity. Lore spots Data and Wesley and threatens to kill Wesley. Beverly comes out from hiding and pulls a phaser on him, but she is too close and he grabs it from her after shoving his brother into her. He then tells her to leave and demands that Data cooperate with him or he will kill Wesley. Dr. Crusher hesitantly makes her exit, but not before Lore fires his phaser at her, igniting the sleeve of her blue lab coat. Taking his chance, Data knocks the phaser out of Lore's hand and they start to brawl. Data throws him into cargo containers and then onto the transporter pad where the phaser landed. Lore fires just as Wes is able to energize the transporter, beaming him out into space. Picard, Riker, Yar, and Crusher enter with phasers drawn to find that Lore is gone. With no way to reach the crew, the Crystalline Entity leaves; Picard orders Data to get rid of the twitch and to find a proper uniform as the Enterprise resumes course for a computer overhaul. Log entries Captain's log, USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D), 2364 First officer's log, USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) Memorable quotes "Shut up, Wesley!" - both Captain Picard and Beverly Crusher, at different times "Now, show me your warrior fierceness." - Lore, to Worf "The troublesome little man-child." - Lore, about Wesley "If you had an off switch, doctor… would you not keep it secret?" - Data, after showing his deactivation switch to Beverly Crusher "AH… AH… CHOO!" - Data, attempting to sneeze "How sad, dear brother. You make me wish I were an only child." - Data, to Lore "The troublesome little man-child. Are you prepared for the kind of death you've earned, little man?" - Lore to Wesley Crusher "Back off… or I'll turn your little man into a torch." - Lore, to Beverly Crusher while pointing a phaser at Wesley "Make it so." "Sir?" "Do it." - Picard and Lore, while impersonating Data and not understanding Picard's order "He was." - Lore, his first two words "Lore's gone sir. Permanently." - Wesley Crusher, unaware that Data will encounter him again three years later "Have you got a cold?" "A cold what?" - Wesley and Data "Since I am finished here, may I point out that everything I said would have been listened to, if it came from an adult officer!" - Wesley before leaving the bridge Background information Production history Original story outline (titled "Apocalypse Anon"): (Creating the Next Generation) Final draft script: Revised final draft script: 26 October 1987 Filmed: 28 October 1987 – Storyboards for visual effects shots of the Crystalline Entity's pursuit of the Enterprise: 19 November 1987 Score recorded at Paramount Stage M: (Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Ron Jones Project liner notes Premiere airdate: UK premiere (BBC2): Story and script Lore was originally planned to be a female android to provide a love interest for Data. Her job would have been to go out and repair dangerous situations. It was Brent Spiner who suggested the old "evil twin" concept be used instead. () The female android concept was later used in the third season episode . However, the female android depicted there was Data's offspring, and not a love interest. This was the final episode of Star Trek on which Gene Roddenberry was a credited writer before his death on . An early story for this episode was named "Apocalypse Anon". In this story, the Enterprise-D was on a rescue mission at a planet. Part of the away team was a female Starfleet officer with the name Minuet, who fell in love with Commander Riker. Riker was shocked when he learned that Minuet was an android. (Creating the Next Generation, p. 51) Cast and characters Marina Sirtis (Deanna Troi) does not appear in this episode. The characters of Data and Lore were portrayed by four different people: actor Brent Spiner, photo double Ken Gildin, stunt double Brian J. Williams, and an unknown photo double. (Star Trek: The Next Generation 365, p. 45) Director Rob Bowman commented on Brent Spiner's performance in the double role; "His ability to delineate those brothers… I felt like I had the best seat in the house, saying 'Action' and watching him do it […] I remember […] giggling at Brent's dexterity [during the shoot]. He was just unbelievable." Production Concept drawings of the Crystalline Entity were produced by illustrator Andrew Probert. However, he found this was the only time when the TNG modelmakers didn't adhere to his designs, with the Crystalline Entity ultimately looking radically different from how he'd imagined and drawn it. () This episode was originally to have been directed by Joe Scanlan but the choice of director was changed to Rob Bowman just before the episode was scheduled to be filmed. "The script, or so I heard, was not in good shape and they got to a point in pre-production where they said they couldn't have the script ready in time," Bowman recalled. "We were going to have to switch scripts. So, they switched 'The Big Goodbye' with 'Datalore', which I was then given […] Anyway, I took on 'Datalore' and said, 'Here's a show they don't think will work, so I'm going to make it work. I'm going to prove to them that they made a mistake.' The episode was a learning experience, and there were lots of discussions with Rick Berman and Bob Justman. In a sense of working technique, there are many visual effects and split screens. It was a technically difficult show to do, and we had an extra day to shoot it because of that." ("Rob Bowman – Director of a Dozen", ) Bowman also enjoyed collaborating on "Datalore" with Brent Spiner. "We were both really keen on making that a special show," commented Bowman. "We were like, 'Fine, 'The Big Goodbye' is going to be a fun script, but we're going to make this one even more popular if we can.' I remember that, and I remember feeling really good during the shoot." Chuck Courtney served as stunt coordinator for this episode. He was among the group of "one time" hired coordinators, prior to Dennis Madalone's employment for the series. Courtney had appeared, twenty years earlier, in the episode as Davod, and he went on to assist Madalone in further episodes of TNG and . This episode marks the first Star Trek appearance of stuntman Brian J. Williams as stunt double for Brent Spiner. Williams doubled Spiner throughout the run of The Next Generation, all four TNG films, and also in . In addition, he performed stunts in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, , and Star Trek: Enterprise. Continuity Picard notes at the end of the episode that the Enterprise-D is overdue for a computer refit, which does not happen until (two episodes later). When Riker makes his log entry at the beginning of act one, he uses the stardate 4124.5. This was no doubt meant to be 41242.5, as Picard's log entry in the teaser is 41242.4. Data's quarters are seen for the first time in this episode. The design changes significantly in later episodes. There is a costume blooper involving Data's rank. When the away team is examining the child drawings displayed in the lab, Data has a full commander's rank. Moments later, when talking about Dr. Soong's workstation, Data's rank returns to the proper lieutenant commander insignia. At the end of the episode, Data uses a contraction in his reply to Captain Picard asking Data if he is alright. Instead of saying "I am fine," Data replies, "I'm fine." This is even more noteworthy than "contraction slip-ups" in other episodes, since the use of contractions was the main method the crew used in this episode to determine whether they were talking to Data or Lore. Music The episode's score, composed and conducted by Ron Jones, was recorded on at Paramount Stage M. (Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Ron Jones Project liner notes ) The complete episode score, totaling twenty-five minutes exactly, appears on Disc Two of the Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Ron Jones Project collection. The sequence where Lore is assembled contains a variation on Ilia's Theme from composed by Jerry Goldsmith. Reception Rob Bowman was very pleased with how this episode ended up. "I thought it came off excellently," he said. ("Rob Bowman – Director of a Dozen", ) A mission report for this episode, by Robert Greenberger, was published in . Remastering On , Director Robert Meyer Burnett confirmed and released the first image of the remastered Crystalline Entity for the Blu-ray edition of TNG Season 1. Video and DVD releases Original UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 7, catalog number VHR 2398, UK re-release (three-episode tapes, Paramount Home Entertainment): Volume 1.5, catalog number VHR 4646, As part of the TNG Season 1 DVD collection As part of Star Trek: The Next Generation 25th Anniversary Event As part of the TNG Season 1 Blu-ray collection Links and references Starring Patrick Stewart as Captain Jean-Luc Picard Jonathan Frakes as Commander William T. Riker Also starring LeVar Burton as Lt. Geordi La Forge Denise Crosby as Lt. Tasha Yar Michael Dorn as Lt. Worf Gates McFadden as Doctor Beverly Crusher Brent Spiner as Lt. Commander Data Wil Wheaton as Wesley Crusher Guest star Biff Yeager as Argyle Uncredited co-stars James G. Becker as Youngblood Darrell Burris as operations officer Dan Campise as operations officer Dexter Clay as operations officer Jeffrey Deacon as command officer Lorine Mendell as Diana Giddings Brent Spiner as Lore Guy Vardaman as Darien Wallace Unknown performers as Command crewmember Female command crewmember Female medical technician Female operations officer Operations officer Sciences officer Three civilians Three operations crewmembers Three sciences crewmembers Stunt doubles Al Simon as stunt double for Michael Dorn Brian J. Williams as stunt double for Brent Spiner Unknown stunt performer as stunt double for Gates McFadden Stand-ins and photo doubles James G. 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Angel One (episode)

While Riker leads an away team to a female-dominated planet, a mysterious virus spreads among the Enterprise crew. Summary Teaser The has discovered the wreckage of the Odin, a freighter that disappeared seven years earlier. It was disabled by a collision with an asteroid, and there are no life signs on board, but three escape pods have been discovered missing. The Enterprise travels to Angel I, the nearest class M planet, to search for the freighter's survivors. Angel I is a female-dominated society, ruled by six elected mistresses and a leader known simply as "the Elected One". It has been 62 years since the last Federation contact with the planet. The Enterprise hails the planet, and Captain Picard suggests Troi speak with the Elected One, Mistress Beata. Although initially wary, she agrees to let an away team beam down to visit the planet. Act One As the away team heads for the transporter room, they encounter Wesley and a friend entering the holodeck for a skiing lesson in the Denubian Alps. The away team of Data, Riker, Troi, and Yar beam down to the planet, where they meet with Beata and ask about any survivors that might be on the planet. Still suspicious, she asks why they are only coming now, and Troi explains that the Enterprises discovery of the freighter was unexpected. Their only purpose in coming is to simply find any survivors and bring them home to their families. Another member of the council, Ariel, expresses her misgivings, and Beata refuses to tell them if there are survivors. Instead Beata's male servant, , takes them to another room where they will stay until summoned. Troi reckons that Beata's refusal to tell them about the survivors confirms that there are in fact survivors. Back on the Enterprise, Picard tells Worf in the turbolift that all department heads will have to prepare for a trip to the Neutral Zone when the away team returns, as Romulan battle cruisers have been detected near one of the Federation's border posts. As they pass the holodeck, they are hit by a snowball thrown by Wesley. Picard scolds him. He also detects an unusual smell that Worf identifies as Night-Blooming Throgni, a Klingon scent. Data is investigating some perfume when Trent returns to bring them back to the council chambers. Beata tells them that, although the decision was not unanimous, they have decided to tell them about the survivors. She says there were four of them, and their leader is a man named . However, they are now fugitives in hiding: some time after arriving on Angel I, they started to abuse the hospitality they received and began to cause trouble. She warns Troi that they are dangerous. Act Two Meanwhile, Dr. Crusher tells Picard that Wes and his friend are sick with a respiratory ailment. She is, however, working on a vaccine. On the planet, Data suggests that they can locate the survivors by searching for platinum, an element not found on Angel I, but which would have been brought by the survivors. Data asks La Forge to break orbit and to begin the search. Riker is brought an outfit worn by the men of the planet, as he wants to wear it when he meets Beata, to impress her by wearing indigenous apparel. Troi and Yar find his appearance wearing the outfit hilarious, however. Dr. Crusher examines Captain Picard in his ready room. She pronounces him unfit for command and orders him to bed. He relents and tells La Forge while stumbling to the turbolift that he has command. La Forge sits in the captain's chair, and Worf tells him the platinum has been located on the planet. Riker meets with Beata and tells her the Enterprise has found the location of the survivors. Ariel is still suspicious and tells Riker this, then she storms out. Riker waits with Beata and tells Yar to begin the search. She, Data, and Troi beam to the location of the platinum, a cave mouth, where they meet a man who says he's been expecting them. Act Three Crusher tells La Forge there are 82 more cases of the virus and she's converted a holodeck to deal with it. Worf then leaves the bridge to go to sickbay. Meanwhile, Yar tells Ramsey how they found him, and tells him they're bringing him home. He shocks them by telling them he doesn't want to leave as he and the others are happy. They have wives and in some cases children. Beata tells Riker that Ramsey and his friends are anarchists and outlaws. She starts flirting with him, and as they start to kiss, Trent walks in with a present that Riker has brought for her. He shows her the Albeni meditation crystal, before they get back to kissing. Ramsey tells the rest of the away team that at first, they thought Angel I was great, but then they saw how the men had no respect and were discriminated against. When they spoke out, they were forced to become fugitives. He refuses to leave, and Data adds that they can't force him, as he and his crew are not members of Starfleet, nor do they have to obey the Prime Directive. Crusher tells La Forge there are more sick than beds, and he remarks they'd be seriously undermanned if they were forced to take action against the Romulans. Yar contacts La Forge, asking to beam the three of them to their previous location, where they will regroup with Riker and return to the ship. He informs them that one-third of the crew has been infected and more Romulan vessels are converging in the Neutral Zone. Ramsey won't tell them how he knew they were coming, but after they beam away, Ariel comes out of the cave and kisses him. Riker is with Beata when Trent enters and tells her that the away team hasn't got the survivors. Yar fills in Riker, and then Beata says she is forced to sentence the survivors to death. Act Four Dr. Crusher visits Picard in his quarters to give him some medicine and notices the same odor that Picard smelled at the holodeck. She realizes that the virus is caused by an airborne particle whose sweet scent induces deep inhalation and that this is the way the virus spreads. Down on the planet, Data tells Riker that seven Romulan battle cruisers are now in the vicinity of the outpost, and the has responded to the distress call. However, the presence of the Enterprise is still regarded as a vital show of strength by Starfleet. Beata brings in Ramsey and his crew, whom she found by having Ariel followed. She tells Riker that the fugitives are to be executed tomorrow. Riker is outraged and asks her for another chance to convince Ramsey to leave with them. She agrees, but Ramsey still won't go. Riker wants to beam them aboard anyway, against their will, in violation of regulations. However, Dr. Crusher won't allow anyone to come aboard the ship. La Forge has succumbed to the virus, and she can't find a cure. Riker orders Data to beam up and take the Enterprise to the Neutral Zone before it is too late. Act Five The next day, Trent invites them to come to the execution. Data contacts them and says they still have time for Dr. Crusher to develop a vaccine before their ship has to leave for the Neutral Zone: 47 minutes to be exact. Riker agrees to attend the execution, which will be carried out by disintegrating the fugitives. Riker makes a speech about how Beata is trying to hold back evolution, which can't be done, and warns her that she'll just make a martyr out of Ramsey. At the last second, she relents and adjourns to reconsider. Crusher informs Data that she has devised an inoculant. Data then informs Riker that the Enterprise is ready for the away team to return. Riker instructs Data to maintain a lock on the away team and Ramsey's group but to stand by for further instructions. Beata then returns and says she's decided to stay the executions, and she exiles Ramsey and his followers to a remote region. It's not quite as hospitable as the rest of the planet, but she is confident that if they work hard, they can make a life for themselves… and be free to live as they please. The away team returns to the Enterprise and is inoculated by Dr. Crusher against the virus. Captain Picard, although hoarse, has returned to the bridge, and the ship heads for the Neutral Zone. Log entry Captain's log, USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D), 2364 Memorable quotes "I think I may sneeze." "A Klingon sneeze?" "Only kind I know." - Worf and La Forge discuss matters on the bridge "Ever feel like you're not really wanted?" - La Forge, after Beata's terse statement to the Enterprise "Save us some deep powder." "No problem, sir. The holodecks have all you'll ever need." - Riker, when Wesley Crusher and his friend are dressed in snow wear "Engineering reports computer ma… ah… ACHOO!! …I'm sorry, I'm getting sick." "I'm sure half the ship knows that by now." - Worf and La Forge, on Worf's rather loud "Klingon sneeze" "On the Enterprise, Mr. Crusher, nothing just happens!" - Picard, to Wesley Crusher after he accidentally throws a snowball at him "Make it so!" - La Forge, while in temporary command of Enterprise "You can't rescue a man from what he calls his home." - Ramsey, refusing to be transported aboard the Enterprise from Angel I "It looks horrible, tastes worse, but it's absolutely guaranteed to make you feel better." - Beverly Crusher, giving Picard a liquid remedy on his sickbed "I must say, Commander, it looks kinda sexy!" "Thank you. Actually, it feels quite comfortable." - Yar and Riker, regarding the latter's outfit for his rendezvous with Beata (hoarsely) "Mr. Data, set course for the Neutral Zone. Warp six." "Coordinates set. Warp six, on your mark, sir." (inaudibly) "Engage." "Sir?" (Picard turns to Riker, who gives the order) "Engage." - Picard, Data, and Riker, after Picard's recovery from the virus "We have determined that the heretical teachings of Ramsey and his followers are inconsistent with harmonious life on Angel I. Our patient efforts to silence revolutionary voices have failed. Therefore, we are left with none but the most final alternative." (Trent demonstrates the device used on Angel I for executions, vaporizing a vase) "As you can see, we are not without compassion. Your deaths will be swift and painless." - Beata, Elected One of Angel I "After careful consideration this legislature has voted to stay the executions of the prisoners. Their children will be returned to them immediately. Do not rejoice prematurely. Ramsey and his followers are to be exiled to a distant and unpopulated region. Life will be difficult there, with little time for revolutionary or evolutionary upheaval. As some have observed we may not be able to stop evolution, but perhaps we can reduce it to a slow crawl. (aside) For a man, you can be very clever, Commander Riker." - Beata, informing Ramsey and the Enterprise crew of the vote to stay the executions Background information Production history Revised second draft script: Final draft script: Revised final draft script: 9 November 1987 Filmed: 11 November 1987 – 19 November 1987 Premiere airdate: UK Premiere airdate on BBC2: Story and production In Patrick Barry's original story, Beata was named "Victoria" and she imprisoned Riker after he directly addressed her and then touched her hand. Tasha Yar stunned Riker to prevent him being killed and then took over command of the away team. In this version, Captain Picard was the only person aboard the Enterprise-D who was affected by the virus. The male slaves started a revolution, led by Lucas Jones, who was killed. (Creating the Next Generation, p. 52) An early story meeting about this episode was attended by Patrick Barry, Gene Roddenberry, and Herbert J. Wright. Wright was wary that the concept of a matriarchal society had been too overdone. "So one of the major issues that we didn't want to do was an Amazon Women kind of thing where the women are six feet tall with steel D cups," he recalled. "I said, 'The hit I want to take on this is apartheid, so that the men are treated as though they are blacks of South Africa. Make it political. Sexual overtones, yes, but political.' Well, that didn't last very long. Everything that Gene got involved with had to have sex in it. It's so perverse that it's hard to believe. The places it was dragged into is absurd. We were talking about how women would react, and Gene was voicing all the right words again, saying, 'Oh, yes, we've got to make sure that women are represented fairly, because, after all, women are probably the superior sex anyway, and it's real important we don't get letters from feminists, because we want to be fair and we don't want to infer that women have to rule by force if they do rule, because men don't have to rule by force.' Very sensible stuff. All of a sudden something kicks in and he changes: 'However, we also don't want to infer that it would be a better society if women ruled." His voice becoming increasingly louder, Roddenberry continued that this was because women were untrustworthy, "vicious creatures," which he angrily blurted out in a torrent of hateful verbiage. Concluded Wright, "Then he looks out the window, looks at the outline, and says, 'Okay, on page eight…' and continues like that didn't even happen." (The Fifty-Year Mission: The Next 25 Years, p. 83) In , production was shut down for a few days because the script of this episode wasn't available yet. This was the first of two occasions in TNG Season 1 when production was stopped for a few days due to the unavailability of scripts (the other being for ). (Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Continuing Mission, p. 56) The final draft script, which was submitted seven days before shooting began, is slightly different from the final episode: Wesley Crusher had two friends who accompany him to his ski trip on the holodeck, which was to the Swiss Alps instead of the Denubian Alps. In this script version no Romulan was mentioned being a threat. The heading for the Enterprise-D was the Avastam Triangle where a Federation outpost was surrounded by seven Ferengi battle cruisers. Following their first visit on the planet's surface, the away team was invited to an evening meal. This was also the time Riker and Troi delivered their gift, the Albeni meditation crystal. During the evening meal, Data sat next to Mistress Di who would later bring him to a separate room and a terminal where he could study the history of Angel I. She also tried to seduce him and kissed him. Ramsey and fellow survivors were not hiding in this version. There was only one survivor, Ramsey, and he was a prisoner of Beata. A guard brought him into the evening meal, restrained, at the order of Beata. Ramsey tried to knock one of the guards down and was himself knocked to the ground. When Tasha scanned him with a tricorder, she tried to calm him down and told him that they'd bring him home, but Ramsey responded that this is his home. Wesley and his two friends were treated in sickbay because of their viral infection. Wesley compared the infection to a Romulan thumping cough. During the away team mission, there were several conversations between Troi and Riker with harsh words. Troi named the attraction between Beata and Riker and Riker had a problem accepting Troi as the commanding officer of the away team. Dr. Crusher relieved La Forge from duty when he became ill. She took command of the Enterprise-D and did her research from the conn station. Ramsey escaped from his prison before he could be transported to the Enterprise-D. When Troi decided to beam back to the ship and head for the Avastam Triangle and come back later, Beata and two guards disarmed the away team and held them prisoners. They got their gear back when Ramsey was imprisoned again. But Dr. Crusher declined to beam the away team back because of the virus; only Data was beamed aboard. The rest of the away team was again held prisoner. Mistress Ariel, who previously helped Ramsey to escape, brought a communicator to the away team. When the away team prepared to beam aboard, including Ramsey, Ariel told them that she was expecting Ramsey's child. After a discussion about the Prime Directive, the away team assisted Ariel and Ramsey in their escape and then paid a visit to Beata who got furious and threw the Albeni meditation crystal at the away team but failed because Troi, Tasha, and Riker already beamed back aboard the Enterprise-D. The episode was filmed between Wednesday and Thursday for seven days on Paramount Stage 6, 9, and 16. This episode wrapped principal photography on the same date as Paramount announced that had been renewed for a second season. (Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Continuing Mission, p. 58) Cast and characters This was Leonard John Crofoot's first Star Trek appearance. He later appeared in and . This episode was also the first for recurring background actor David Eum who was most notably featured as Ensign during the first three seasons of The Next Generation. Props and sets The matte painting of the surface of Angel I was reused many times in later Star Trek episodes. The first reuse came in the second season episode , when the Angel I matte was used to depict Starbase 515 without any change. In the fourth season episode , the painting remained substantially the same to depict the surface of Malcor III, though the colors were slightly more intense, the hue being overall more green compared to Angel I. A completely new painting was produced to represent another view of the planet, the style being similar to the original Angel I scenery. In the episode , the Angel I matte was modified to represent the Klingon colony Krios Prime. Trees were removed, and the style of the buildings were "Klingon-ized". Several new buildings were added in the background, the most prominent bearing the Klingon emblem. For the first season episode , much of the original Angel I scenery was restored, adding a new tall building in the background for the night shot (which had curiously disappeared at daytime) and omitting some of the greenery. The colors for the day shot are more intense than the original matte; instead, it appears more similar to Malcor III. The most recent reuse of the Angel I matte came on the first season episode , when it was used to depict the surface of . Likewise, pieces of decoration from the episode were seen many more times on various episodes: White lamps in various sizes, helix-shaped statues and round wall decorations appeared in several episodes. The silver box in which Riker keeps the Albeni meditation crystal later housed Miles O'Brien's pet Lycosa tarantula in . The pen that Mistress Beata uses to sign the death sentences popped up as a pen again in . The Albeni meditation crystal later appeared as an artifact housing the embryonic lifeform in . A flower-shaped wall decoration (presumably the Angel I logo) is seen in several scenes in the episode. Among the items from this episode which were sold off on the It's A Wrap! sale and auction on eBay, was an Angel I costume lot including the costume of Jacqueline Drake , the costumes of Jonathan Frakes, Karen Montgomery, Leonard John Crofoot, Wil Wheaton, Chris Hall, and three background performer costumes. Continuity This episode marks the first mention of the Romulans in The Next Generation. At the end of the episode, the Enterprise heads for the Romulan Neutral Zone. However, apparently no confrontation actually ensued, since the encounter with the Romulans in is described as the first direct encounter since 2311. Data's party transports directly from their planetside accommodations to Ramsey's camp, marking the second occurrence of site-to-site transport, though it is not given its specific name yet. The first occurrence was in , when Riker and Data beamed to Troi's position underneath Farpoint Station. This episode depicts the Prime Directive into a doctrine of total non-interference with the affairs of other species or cultures, irrespective of technology level. This is consistent with , which stated that "No starship may interfere with the normal development of any alien life or society." While would later establish the idea that the Directive was meant to apply to pre-warp civilizations, it would also continue to be applied to post-warp civilizations as well; for instance, Starfleet could not intervene in either the Klingon Civil War or the coup of the Alliance for Global Unity as long as they were believed to be strictly internal matters. This episode does differ from other portrayals of the Prime Directive in stating that the rule applies only to Starfleet personnel and not Federation civilians. This is one of only two episodes where La Forge was in command, the second being . This episode marks the second time in The Next Generation someone from the production staff can be seen. This time the reflection of a boom operator and another man can be seen in the Albeni meditation crystal prop in Beata's quarters. Previously a camera operator was seen in a reflection in the episode . Further production staffers who can be seen include Bill Gocke in , an unknown man in , June Abston Haymore in , and a boom operator in . After his ski lesson, Wesley accidentally hits Captain Picard (standing outside the holodeck) with a snowball. Some water from this snowball remains on both his and Worf's uniform for the entire scene. The permanence of basic matter exiting the holodeck is unclear. At the conclusion of the episode, as the bridge crew discusses moving on to the Neutral Zone, the turbolift the away team entered from remains open. Reception Maurice Hurley was succinct in his opinion of "Angel One": "Terrible. Just terrible. One of the ones you'd just as soon erase". (Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages, page 118)) A mission report by Patrick Daniel O'Neill for this episode was published in . Keith DeCandido reviewed the episode for Tor.com. He described the episode as being "one of the most sexist episodes of Star Trek ever produced under the veneer of feminism", and that the virus subplot was "filler, and boring filler at that". He said that it was "one of the absolute low points of the show", giving it a score of two out of ten. Wil Wheaton watched it for AOL TV, and thought that it started well but soon descended into the appearance of an episode from with Riker in the Kirk role. He also noted that if the speech that Riker gave towards the end of the episode had been given to Yar or Troi then the overall message would have been more subtle. He gave it a grade of D overall. James Hunt of Den of Geek said that the episode was not as bad as , but that it contained "almost every terrible cliché seen in TNG's first season in one episode". He summed up, "We've seen all of this before, and it was barely interesting the first time around. The second time, it's just tedious. A horrible episode on so many levels." Zack Handlen watched the episode for The A.V. Club and said that he was not sure what the reversal of gender roles in the episode was meant to achieve. He described the virus subplot as "absurd" and gave the episode an F grade. The episode was included in a couple of worst episode lists, including in one compiled by Scott Thrill for Wired magazine, and it was ranked the fourth worst episode by Jay Garmon at the website TechRepublic. Video and DVD releases Original UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 7, catalog number VHR 2398, UK re-release (three-episode tapes, Paramount Home Entertainment): Volume 1.5, catalog number VHR 4646, As part of the TNG Season 1 DVD collection As part of the TNG Season 1 Blu-ray collection Links and references Starring Patrick Stewart as Captain Jean-Luc Picard Jonathan Frakes as Commander William T. Riker Also starring LeVar Burton as Lt. Geordi La Forge Denise Crosby as Lt. Tasha Yar Michael Dorn as Lt. Worf Gates McFadden as Doctor Beverly Crusher Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi Brent Spiner as Lt. Commander Data Wil Wheaton as Wesley Crusher Guest stars Karen Montgomery as Beata Sam Hennings as Patricia McPherson as Ariel Co-star Leonard John Crofoot as Uncredited co-stars James G. Becker as Youngblood Kellee Bradley as Angel I guard Jeffrey Deacon as command officer Jacqueline Drake as Angel I mistress Susan Duchow as operations officer David Eum as Odin crewmember Curtis Fairchild as Odin crewmember Chris Hall as Wesley's friend Nora Leonhardt as sciences ensign Tim McCormack as James McElroy as operations officer Lorine Mendell as Diana Giddings Rebecca Rose as Angel I native Guy Vardaman as Darien Wallace Unknown performers as Engineering crewmember (voice) Female Angel I native Female command officer Female medical officer Female tactical officer Four Angel I mistresses Four command crewmembers Nurse Odin crewmember Operations crewmember Sciences officer Six civilians Three Angel I guards Three male Angel I natives Two male Angel I servants Stand-ins James G. Becker – stand-in for Jonathan Frakes Darrell Burris – stand-in for LeVar Burton Dexter Clay – stand-in for Michael Dorn Jeffrey Deacon – stand-in for Patrick Stewart Susan Duchow – stand-in for Denise Crosby Nora Leonhardt – stand-in for Marina Sirtis Tim McCormack – stand-in for Brent Spiner Lorine Mendell – stand-in for Gates McFadden Guy Vardaman – stand-in for Wil Wheaton References 20th century; 2302; 2357; 47; adjournment; advice; ailment; Albeni meditation crystal; alcohol; alternative; amusement; anarchist; android; Angel I; Angel I execution device; Angel I native; Angel I settlement; : anticipation; aphrodisiac; appointment; area; Armus IX; asteroid; attack; attention; attitude; audience; audio signal; autopilot; away team; ; bed; ; Betazed; bingo; border post (border outpost); cabin; campfire; carbon-based lifeform; case; choice; citizen; class M; cloud; combadge; computer; contact; collision; cologne; color; compassion; compliments; comportment; coordinates; course; courtesy call; court martial; culture; day; death; Denubian Alps; Denubian Alps planet; death penalty (execution); department; desktop monitor; destination; diplomatic relations; ; dissent; distance; distress call; domestic affairs; earring; Earth; effect; Elected One; element; evolution; escape pod (rescue pod); eternity; examination; exile; existence; eye; fact; failure; family; fear; feather; Federation; Federation starship (2302); field trip; figure of speech; fixed orbit; floral scent; freighter; friend; fugitive; fur; Galaxy-class decks; gesture; ; governing body; guilt; hailing frequency; head of state; heaven; hiding place; holodeck; ; hospitality; hostility; hour; ; hypospray; idea; impression; information; inhalation; inoculation; instruction; isolation ward; job; Kabatris; kiss; Klingon; law; leader; leadership council; leniency; lesson; library; listening device; log entry; malfunction; marooning; martyr; matriarchal; maximum warp speed; medical emergency; medical situation; medical test; medical tricorder; meeting; Milky Way Galaxy; minute; mission; mister; ; month; moral imperative; morning; mountain; murder; natural order; nature; necklace; Night-Blooming Throgni; number one; object; objection; obligation; Odin; olfactory nerve; oligarchy; "on the double"; opinion; opportunity; order; painting; paper; paranoia; Parliament of Angel I; perfume; permission; phaser; place; planet; platinum; plea; pleasure; praise; Prime Directive; prisoner; privacy; problem; quadrant; Quazulu VIII; Quazulu VIII virus; question; ready room; reason; reference; region; repatriation; report; representative; revolution; revolutionary; Romulan; Romulan battle cruisers; Romulan Neutral Zone; Romulan Neutral Zone outpost; room; sculpture; search; search pattern; second; scanner; sensor range; ; sextant; sexual pleasure; sexy; shipmate; sickbay; sincerity; skant; skiing; ski instructor; smell; sneeze; snow; snowball; society; "soldier; "stand by"; Starfleet; Starfleet regulations; starship; statue; status; status report; stimulation; stranger; student; success; surface; survivor; symbol; technological development; technology (advanced technology); ; term; time; tomorrow; trace; traitor; transmission; transporter; transporter room; tricorder; ; tunic; turbolift; type I phaser; universe; unnamed plants; value; viewscreen; visit; VISOR; voice; vote; window; wings; wish; Wong; word Deleted references Hesperan thumping cough External links cs:Angel One de:Planet Angel One es:Angel One fr:Angel One (épisode) ja:奪われた女神達の惑星（エピソード） nl:Angel One TNG episodes

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11001001 (episode)

While a group of technologically advanced aliens board the Enterprise to update the ship's computer systems, Riker discovers just how real a holodeck character can be. Summary Teaser The has arrived and is preparing to dock at Starbase 74, in orbit around the planet Tarsas III, for a maintenance check and upgrades. The ship docks, and Captain Picard and Commander Riker go to meet the maintenance crews. The crews' leader, Commander Quinteros, greets them and tells them he was in charge of the team who constructed the Enterprise. Also with him are the Bynars, two aliens named One Zero and Zero One who work as a unified pair – neither male nor female. They have recently completed a successful upgrade to the computer aboard the , and will be upgrading the computers on the Enterprise, as well as making repairs to the holodeck. Riker and Picard discuss the Bynars on the way to the bridge. Apparently, over time they have become so interconnected with the master computer on their home planet that their thought patterns are as close to binary code as is possible. On their way back to the bridge, the two discuss their plans for the downtime. Picard plans to relax with an old novel in his quarters, but Riker hasn't decided yet, as he doesn't manage his time off very well. "Something'll turn up. It always does", he tells Picard. On the bridge, Wesley Crusher is watching the Bynars work. They have been joined by two more of their species. Picard goes to his ready room, and Riker tells Wesley to keep an eye on the Bynars, as he doesn't altogether trust them. He then leaves to take a walk around the ship. Act One Riker is walking the decks. He meets Worf, Natasha Yar, and two other crewmembers on their way to play a game of Parrises squares with some of the starbase maintenance crew. They invite Riker to join, but he declines; they already have the requisite team of four, and switching off mid-game disrupts a team's rhythm. Instead, he wishes them luck and jokingly tells them that the reputation of the Enterprise is at stake. However, Worf's reply seems too forceful and Riker tells him to simply enjoy himself and the friendly competition. Worf asks him that if winning is not important, than why keep score? Taking Riker aside, Yar assures him that Worf is probably just joking; he is picking up a sense of humor. As they leave, the lights dim in the corridor. Inquiring at a wall interface, Riker learns from the computer that uninhabited sections of the ship are being selectively shut down to free computer resources and facilitate the systems upgrade. Satisfied with the explanation, he next drops in on Data, who, with the help of Geordi La Forge, is exploring his creativity by trying to paint a creative picture of zylo eggs in the observation lounge. Riker amusingly tells the two to take notes; a blind man teaching an android how to paint is bound to be of scientific significance someday. Riker then visits sickbay, where Dr. Beverly Crusher is getting ready to meet Professor Terence Epstein, the leading mind in cybernetics who had lectured at her medical school. She is highly excited with the chance to meet such an expert, mentioning the disaster at Micromius as when she started working on an approach that combines cybernetics and regeneration. She keeps talking about him with Riker even as she heads for the turbolift. Finally, Riker approaches holodeck four, where two of the Bynars are working. They tell him the holodeck is repaired, enhanced, and ready for use, so he creates a jazz club, the Bourbon Street Bar, in New Orleans, circa 1958, a trombone, a trio accompaniment, and a one-woman audience. He experiments with various looks and hair colors for his female companion until he finally gets what he wants: a brunette who is more alluring and realistic than anything he has ever seen on a holodeck. He starts to chat with her and her name is Minuet. Act Two On the bridge, Wes asks the Bynars how they can process information so fast. They tell him they store information in buffers and save it until they need it. Picard emerges from the ready room. Upon learning that Riker is on the holodeck, he decides to join him there. Riker is playing the trombone with a backing group. He tells Minuet he has to leave and get back to his duties, but she asks him to dance with her. He still can't get over how realistic she is. She asks him why his work "consumes and enthralls" him. He tells her that his posting is a dream come true, and starts to kiss her passionately when Picard walks in. On hearing his name, Minuet speaks to him in French. They ask him to join them, and Minuet praises him, telling him Riker is a credit to his captain. Picard is also highly impressed with the program, commenting how it adapted to speak French to him. On the bridge, Wesley calls Data and tells him that there is a problem in engineering. The magnetic containment field that holds the antimatter is reporting difficulties. Data and La Forge rush down to engineering and learn that the containment field is deteriorating; a containment breach will destroy the ship. Data initiates a red alert while La Forge tries to determine the source of the problem, but he can't halt the collapse. They quickly learn that they have only four minutes until the antimatter is released. Unable to reach Picard, Data makes an emergency command decision and broadcasts an "all hands" message ordering everyone on board to abandon ship. Act Three Instructions are broadcast through the ship instructing people to appropriate transporter rooms for beam-off to the starbase; Wes is among the first to leave this way. Others leave via the gangway. The commotion attracts Yar and Worf at the starbase who are quickly filled in. On the bridge, Data and La Forge set the autopilot to put the maximum distance possible between the Enterprise and any inhabited area. Though the computer reports they are the last two aboard, Data is concerned for Picard since, as captain, he is usually the last to leave, but there is no time to search for him. They beam onto the starbase, and are told by Yar, Worf, and Dr. Crusher, who had been on the starbase since before the emergency, that Picard and Riker aren't there either. Data wants to return for him, but there's no time. As the Enterprise starts to move out of the starbase, the magnetic field suddenly restores itself. The ship, no longer in danger, clears the starbase and jumps to warp. Picard and Riker, unknowing of what has been going on this entire time, are still in the holodeck, amazed at how intuitive the program is. When Picard tries to leave, however, Minuet becomes nervous and goes to great lengths to make him stay. He gets suspicious and orders the holodeck exit to show. Upon the emergence of the holodeck arch and the opening of the doors, he and Riker discover the red alert, learning there is no one on the bridge. Picard consults the computer and learns the details of the situation. They come to a conclusion; the Bynars have stolen the Enterprise for some reason. The ship is on a heading for Bynaus in the Beta Magellan system. They question Minuet, who tells them she was programmed by the Bynars to keep Riker busy. Picard's presence was just a lucky coincidence. She is not able to tell them what the Bynars want with the ship. On Starbase 74, Data asks what the nearest Starfleet ship is. When told it is the , he dismisses it as too small and too slow, to which Commander Quinteros replies that even if it is the ship closest to the starbase, it is still too far away. Then Data notices that the Bynars are missing and deduces that they stole the ship. He also guesses their most likely course: their homeworld, Bynaus. Back on the Enterprise, Picard and Riker enter the weapons room to obtain phasers. It is now up to them to retake the ship. Act Four Riker follows Picard into main engineering. Facing an unknown opposition, they must assume the worst, so they activate the one function of the ship that requires both of them to consent: the auto-destruct sequence. Riker is concerned they'll only have five minutes once the auto-destruct is activated, but should they retake the ship, they can stop the countdown at the bridge. As they leave, Picard notices that huge amounts of information are being stored in the ship's computer. Finding access to the turbolift blocked, they decide to use the transporter room. La Forge tells the others that there is no response from the Enterprise, and Worf states that someone else must be in control of the ship. Data blames himself for what happened, claiming that he was negligent of his duty since he doesn't require rest or recreation and thus theoretically can be on duty constantly, but the others console him by saying that the incident could have occurred even if he was present on the bridge. The ship nearest to readiness in the starbase is the , but it's still eighteen hours from being ready. Quinteros tells them that there is simply nothing they can do at present. Using a timed delay, Picard and Riker both beam onto the bridge at the same time and in different locations in order to give themselves a better chance of retaking the ship should they meet resistance. Upon arriving, they find the four Bynars, collapsed near the entrance to the observation lounge. Two of them ask for help before they pass out. Act Five With the bridge under their control again, Picard and Riker deactivate the auto-destruct sequence and find that they're in orbit around Bynaus. All the equipment on Bynaus is inert, and no one is responding; they reason they're probably dying like the ones on board. Another look at their computer shows it completely packed with data – a core dump from the main computer on Bynaus – but they cannot access it. They go back to Minuet, who tells them that a star in the Bynaus system went supernova. The electromagnetic pulse was going to knock out the main computer, so the only option was to back up its contents into the only mobile computer large enough: the computer aboard the Enterprise. However, the star went supernova sooner than expected and the Enterprise arrived later than scheduled at the starbase, leaving them no time for consultation and forcing them to resort to their desperate action. Riker and Picard must now restore the computer before it is too late, but not even Minuet knows the means to access it. They return to the bridge, where Picard contacts Data. Data tells him that the Bynars would want them to access the stored file, which would be called something simple; based on the Bynars' way of thinking, the most likely name is an 8- or 16-character binary string. Riker runs some 8-bit possibilities and they find the file called 11001001. They both have to work together as a pair, as the Bynars do, to access the information. The Bynaus computer reboots and the Bynars awaken. They tell Picard they didn't ask for help because they were afraid that they might be turned down; their situation was too desperate to gamble on such an uncertainty. They trapped Riker because they thought they might need someone to restore the computer for them. Picard takes the conn, and they return to Starbase 74. The crew comes on board and the Bynars are led off to face a hearing. Riker returns to the holodeck, but the Minuet he knew is gone; in her place is another brunette – similar looking to his, but nowhere near as sultry, enchanting, beautiful, and perceptive. He is unable to get her back. Disappointed, he returns to the bridge. Picard suspects that maybe it was part of the Bynar's programming, stating, however, that "some relationships just can't work." Riker sighs, admitting that she will be difficult to forget. Log entries Captain's log, USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D), 2364 Ship's log, USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) Memorable quotes "If winning is not important, then, Commander, why keep score?" - Worf, to Riker "Believe it or not, Worf is developing a sense of humor." - Tasha Yar, to Riker "A blind man teaching an android how to paint? That's got to be worth a couple of pages in somebody's book!" - Riker, finding Data and La Forge's hobby amusing "Gentlemen, if this is what you call "enhancement," you've got a gift for understatement." - Riker, regarding the upgrades to the holodeck (and Minuet's appearance) made by the Bynars "What's your name and tell me you love jazz." "My name is Minuet and I love all jazz, except Dixieland." "Why not Dixieland?" "Because you can't dance to it." "My girl!" - Riker, upon meeting Minuet "What's a knockout like you doing in a computer-generated gin joint like this?" - Riker, to Minuet in the holodeck after the Bynars' enhancements "Au fond c'est vrai, nous sommes tous parisiens." (Deep down, it is true: we are all Parisians) - Minuet, to Captain Picard "This is Lieutenant Commander Data speaking for the captain. Abandon ship! This is not a drill! All personnel, this is not a drill. I say again, abandon ship! All personnel, this is not a drill. Abandon ship!" - Data "Am I to understand that the Bynars have stolen the Enterprise?" "That information is not available." - Picard and the computer "This vessel must not fall into hostile hands." - Picard, on the importance of arming the auto-destruct Background information Production history First draft script (titled "10101001"): Second revised final draft script: Filmed: 20 November 1987 – Score recorded at Paramount Stage M: (Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Ron Jones Project liner notes ) Premiere airdate: UK premiere airdate: Story and script The episode was originally intended to be filmed and aired before , with the latter's holodeck malfunction explained as having been caused by the Bynars' modification. () According to the script, a working title for this episode was "10101001". The script included a short scene where Terence Epstein and Beverly Crusher are chatting in the starbase lounge, just before the evacuation of the Enterprise-D, making Epstein appear on screen, and establishing him as being only twenty-six years old. Production The voice tracks of the actors playing the Bynars were shifted down in pitch. Initially, conversations between them in their own language were to have been subtitled. Some scenes of crewmembers reacting to the evacuation alert were lifted from . The Bynars were designed by illustrator Andrew Probert, even though Michael Westmore was the series' regular make-up supervisor. His son, Michael Westmore, Jr., created the mechanisms on the sides of the Bynars' heads. () Music The episode's score, composed and conducted by Ron Jones, was recorded on at Paramount Stage M. (Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Ron Jones Project liner notes ) The complete episode score, totaling 29 minutes 56 seconds, appears on Disc Two of the Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Ron Jones Project collection. The trombone piece played by Riker is "The Nearness of You" by and . The same tune can be heard in the score when Riker re-enters the holodeck to find that Minuet is no longer there. He is also seen playing the opening notes of the tune in the later episode after having had his memory wiped. Further music in this episode includes "I Remember You" by and , "Isn't It Romantic?" by and , and "Out of Nowhere" by and . "I Remember You" was previously used as background music in . John Beasley composed the music piece "Jazz M14" for this episode. Cast and characters Actor Jonathan Frakes noted this episode was, to him, one of the highlights of the first season. "A fabulous show. Those were the kind of chances we took first season that when they worked, they worked great. It was a very chancy show and I loved it. Those characters, the Binars [sic], why haven't they returned? That was a very well conceived idea. They should have them as a regular on the ship to fix the engines or whatever the hell they do." (Trek: The Next Generation Crew Book) Marina Sirtis (Deanna Troi) does not appear in this episode. Computer Voice is shared in this episode by Majel Barrett and an unidentified male voice. This voice had also been heard in the syndicated second part of , announcing, "Last time on 'Encounter at Farpoint'…" prior to the recap of the first part. This is the first episode of The Next Generation in which Barrett supplies the voice of the computer. This was Minuet actress Carolyn McCormick's first Star Trek appearance. Aside from reused footage in , McCormick made her second and final appearance in , an episode in which the events on the holodeck are pivotal. Gene Dynarski previously appeared as Ben Childress in and as Krodak in . Iva Lane previously appeared as an Enterprise crewmember in . Continuity The Bynars The Bynars seen in this episode are somewhat similar to the Talosian species from : they were androgynous aliens with male-sounding voices and played by females. In both cases, the effect suggests an alien gender (or non-gender) to the viewer. The Bynars make reference to the "probe" which had caused the problems in the holodeck Picard mentions in the captain's log, referring to the Jaradan probe that disrupted the holodeck in . The species is mentioned again in . Minuet This is the first appearance of the holodeck character Minuet. Minuet was originally the name for the female android Starfleet officer in the original story for . (Creating the Next Generation, p. 53) Several years later, in , an alien named Barash manufactured a visual record – derived solely from Riker's own memories – depicting Minuet as both Barash's mother and Riker's wife. 11001001 The binary sequence 11001001 can be interpreted in various ways: When converting from base 2, additional factors like sign interpretation might apply: In decimal (base 10) – 201 when interpreted as an unsigned integer (or −55 as a signed 8-bit integer) In octal (base 8) – 311 when unsigned (or −67 as a signed 8-bit integer) In hexadecimal (base 16) – C9 when unsigned (or −37 as a signed 8-bit integer) Countless standards exist for character codes. 201 (C9 in hex) can be interpreted as: I – in IBM's early EBCDIC RET – Unconditional Return Opcode for an Intel 8080 CPU (copied in the Z80 CPU) ╔ – a box-drawing character in MS-DOS É – in Unicode, ISO 8859-1 (Latin-1), and Windows-1252 character sets In Unicode the episode's working title "10101001" is translated as the copyright symbol "©". The two 4-bit nybbles (1100 and 1001) correspond to the combined names of each pair of Bynars who come aboard the Enterprise: 11 with 00 and 10 with 01. Additionally, the name of each Bynar represents one of the four possible bit pairs. Miscellaneous Commander Quinteros remarks that the was expected at Starbase 74 a week earlier, a delay which Riker claims is due to an unexpected stop at Omicron Pascal. At the end of (which aired two weeks before this episode), Picard informs Riker that the ship is due for a computer refit which is what happens in this episode, however, the Enterprise-D would carry out an unexpected mission to Angel I and an outpost near the Romulan Neutral Zone in (which aired a week later) in-between. It is possible that the outpost was Omicron Pascal and would account for the one week delay. Modified effect shots of the spacedock from are used to represent Starbase 74. The most noticeable difference is the Enterprise-D added in place of the original . The aspect ratio has been cropped from the theatrical 2.39:1 to television's 1.33:1. Stock footage from this episode was reused later in , , and to represent other starbases. Data claims he is familiar with the . In , it is followed up on as Data claims he served aboard the vessel. When Data orders the crew to abandon ship, one of the crewmembers is looking at the "Holodeck 4-J" display from . Also during Data's command to abandon ship, a crewmember listens from a station in engineering (the blue glow from the warp core is visibly reflected in the window), though engineering was empty when the announcement was given, save for himself and La Forge. The reason for this is that it's actually a recycled shot from (see above). Picard describes the holodeck with references to previous episodes, telling Minuet that it "has given us woodlands," () "ski slopes," () "figures that fight," () and "fictional characters with whom we can interact." () This episode is the first of only three occasions in the series in which Picard takes the conn of the Enterprise-D. The other times are in and . Near the end of the episode, Minuet reveals that her purpose was to keep Riker on the ship so he could access the files needed to reboot the Bynars' central computer. She specifically says that Picard staying behind was a "fortunate happenstance," meaning that the Bynars likely had an alternate crewmember in mind for the second person. As Picard later points out, the files required two people to access them. This is one of the very few instances where a performer (an unidentified male) other than Majel Barrett-Roddenberry voices the Enterprise-D computer, though her voice is heard as well. At the end of Act Two, when antimatter containment appears to be failing, Data is in engineering and gives three orders to Wesley on the bridge: (1) Tell Starbase 74 we are abandoning ship; (2) begin automated departure sequence; and (3) set a course and speed. Wes listens while standing in front of the bridge’s aft stations. Data then orders the crew to abandon ship. The camera cuts to Wes, who has not moved from his position on the bridge. The inference is that he has not carried out Data’s three orders. But he does leave the bridge to abandon ship. At the beginning of Act Three, Data and La Forge are on the bridge entering commands into the ops and conn stations, respectively. The inference here is that they are carrying out Data's original orders to Wes, thus negating Data's purpose for having issued them. As Data and La Forge leave the bridge, they don't take note as to the current location of the Bynars in which during Act Two, they were standing next to Wes at one of the bridge's aft stations when the evacuation order was given and didn't leave the bridge when Wes did. It isn't until much later, when Picard and Riker beamed on to the bridge, Riker finds them collapsed on the floor near the entrance to the observation lounge. Reception A mission report by Will Murray for this episode was published in . This episode won an Emmy Award in in the category Outstanding Sound Editing for a Series, namely Bill Wistrom, Wilson Dyer, Mace Matiosian, James Wolvington, Gerry Sackman, and Keith Bilderbeck. TV Guide ranked this as the sixth best Star Trek episode for their celebration of the franchise's 30th anniversary. (TV Guide August 24, 1996 issue) Video and DVD releases Original UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 8, catalog number VHR 2437, UK re-release (three-episode tapes, Paramount Home Entertainment): Volume 1.5, catalog number VHR 4646, As part of the TNG Season 1 DVD collection As part of the TNG Season 1 Blu-ray collection Links and references Starring Patrick Stewart as Captain Jean-Luc Picard Jonathan Frakes as Commander William T. Riker Also starring LeVar Burton as Lt. Geordi La Forge Denise Crosby as Lt. Tasha Yar Michael Dorn as Lt. Worf Gates McFadden as Doctor Beverly Crusher Brent Spiner as Lt. Commander Data Wil Wheaton as Wesley Crusher Guest stars Carolyn McCormick as Minuet Gene Dynarski as Quinteros Katy Boyer as Zero One Alexandra Johnson as One Zero Co-stars Iva Lane as Zero Zero Kelli Ann McNally as One One Jack Sheldon as Piano Player Abdul Salaam El Razzac as Bass Player Ron Brown as Drummer Uncredited co-stars Majel Barrett as computer voice James G. Becker as Youngblood Steve Casavant as Longo Dexter Clay as operations division officer Jeffrey Deacon as command division officer Susan Duchow as operations division officer David Eum as Bar patron Nora Leonhardt as science division ensign Tim McCormack as James McElroy as Starbase 74 technician Lorine Mendell as Diana Giddings Natalia Silverwood as civilian Guy Vardaman as Darien Wallace Unknown performers as Bartender Command division officer Command division officer Command division officer Eight Starbase 74 Starfleet officers Female civilian Female command division officer Female medical officer Four command division crewmembers Four science division crewmembers Male computer voice Minuet-like Woman Parrises squares player Pretty Blonde Science division officer Science division officer Sixteen civilians Starbase 74 officer (voice) Stunning Brunette Technician Ten operations division crewmembers Thirteen bar patrons Three Starbase 74 technicians Transporter officer (voice) Two waitresses Stand-ins James G. Becker – stand-in for Jonathan Frakes Darrell Burris – stand-in for LeVar Burton Dexter Clay – stand-in for Michael Dorn Jeffrey Deacon – stand-in for Patrick Stewart Susan Duchow – stand-in for Denise Crosby Tim McCormack – stand-in for Brent Spiner Lorine Mendell – stand-in for Gates McFadden Guy Vardaman – stand-in for Wil Wheaton References 1958; "abandon ship"; ability; aft; agreement; airlock five; AM; ammonite; amount; android; answer; antimatter; appointment; area; armory; ; ashtray; assignment; audience; auto-destruct; automated sequence; autopilot; Beta Magellan; Beta Magellan system; binary language; blindness; blonde; boatswain's whistle; book; Bourbon Street Bar; bow tie; bracelet; bridge; buffer; Bussard collector; Bynar; Bynar scanner; Bynaus; byte; cabin; candle; cargo transporter; chance; ; choice; circa; circuit; city; code; commandeering; competition; computer; computer-generated; computer-generated image; contact; conversation (chat, discussion); coordinates; core dump; countdown; course (heading); creativity; cybernetics; dance; ; deck; departure; destination; diagnostic program; disaster; disco ball; distance; distraction; division; Dixieland; docking; docking clamp; door; double bass; dream; drill; drum; earring; efficiency; effect; electromagnetic pulse; emotion; environment station; ; era; evacuation; explosion; face; fail-safe; feeling; feet; fictional character; file; file name; fingernail; fool; foreign language bank; friend; French language; ; Galaxy-class decks; gift; gin; gin joint; ; "good luck"; gratitude; harm; ; Holodeck Four; home planet; hour; "Hula Blues"; humor; idea; illusion; image; information; input; inspection; inspiration; intercooler; "I Remember You"; "Isn't It Romantic?"; Jaradan probe; jazz; job; jukebox; Kansas City; kiss; "knock out": ; knowledge; language; laugh; lecture; Lexington; location; love; luck; magnetic containment field; main computer; main computer bank; maintenance check; maintenance personnel; master computer; medical school; ; message; Micromius; microphone; minute; mission; moon; mooring beam; music; name; ""; necklace; necktie; New Orleans; note; novel; number one; Omicron Pascal; organic being; opinion; opportunity; "Out of Nowhere"; orbit; orbital shuttle (unnamed); page painting; Paris; parrises squares; password; Pelleus V; perimeter; permission; personal relaxation light; phaser; piano; place; planet; plasma injector; ; pleasure; port; position report; power reduction; problem; professor; program; programming; project; propulsion; "pulling your leg"; punishment; puzzle; question; ready room; real; reason; red alert; regeneration; relationship; repairs; report; reputation; ring; room; scholar; second; section; section L94; security team; sense of humor; sensor; shuttle drone; situation analysis; situation report; size; ski slope; Slim; smell; smile; society; sound; soul; species; speed; "stand by"; Starbase 74; Starbase 74 parrises players; Starbase 74 ships; starbase maintenance; Starfleet Operational Support Services; ""; subconcious; subject; supernova; surprise; "Sweet and Low"; Tarsas III; Tarsas III moon; team; test program; thought pattern; tone; touch; transporter pad; transporter room; ; trombone; trumpet; turbolift; type II phaser; understatement; unnamed plants; VISOR; warp coil; warp engine; weapons room; week; ; "whoa"; wine; woodland; work; "work up a sweat"; Wurlitzer; zylo egg External links cs:11001001 de:11001001 es:11001001 fr:11001001 (épisode) ja:盗まれたエンタープライズ（エピソード） nl:11001001 TNG episodes

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Too Short a Season (episode)

An elderly Starfleet admiral hides a deadly secret as he leads the Enterprise-D in a hostage rescue mission. Summary Teaser The has been sent to Persephone V to confer with Admiral Mark Jameson. Starfleet received a subspace transmission from Karnas, the governor of Mordan IV two days previously. In it, he says that terrorists have taken the Federation Ambassador and his staff hostage. They want to talk to a Federation negotiator, and in his opinion there is only one man qualified – Admiral Jameson. Captain Picard transmits the message to Jameson and asks that he come with them. Mordan is at peace after forty years of civil war and Picard wonders why Karnas would be unable to deal with this threat, having settled the civil war five years ago. Jameson was the man who negotiated the release of hostages from Mordan 45 years previously. Jameson beams aboard in a wheelchair with his wife, Anne. In the transporter room, Jameson warns Picard that Starfleet has designated him senior mission officer, and as such he will be in charge of the away team and the mission itself. However, Picard will still be in command of the Enterprise. Picard is slightly taken aback but agrees to this. Act One They go to the bridge, where Karnas contacts them again. He informs Jameson of the situation on Mordan and says that the terrorists demand that the discussions are held on Mordan, and that they speak only with the Federation negotiator. Jameson accepts the conditions, and the transmission ends. Deanna Troi says that, judging by Karnas' body language and tone, she senses that he is being honest, but that he is also holding something back. Jameson suggests that maybe he doesn't want to admit his failure to deal with the situation. Doctor Beverly Crusher contacts Picard and says she's ready to perform the standard medical exam on Jameson, who looks nervous at this, which Troi notices. They go first to the ready room, where Riker asks how Karnas knew Jameson was still alive. He says he briefed Hawkins before he took over his post on Mordan. Data wonders what the terrorists want, but no one is able to offer an answer. Later in Jameson's quarters, he gets out of his wheelchair and staggers to a chair. His wife says he seems better, but then he gets a sharp pain in his chest. She wants to call sickbay but he won't let her. He says it has happened before, but it will go away. In the ready room, Dr. Crusher is talking to Picard. She says that the medical records Jameson gave her were two months old and not two days old as he claimed. She wonders why he lied to her about this. Picard reminds Crusher that he's 85 years old, but Crusher says he suffers from Iverson's Disease, which affects the body but not the mind. Picard decides he wants her on the bridge for the duration of the mission so she'll be on hand should anything come up with Jameson. As the Enterprise approaches the Idini Star Cluster, Picard asks Jameson if he would like to take the conn as they make transit. He amazes everyone by standing up and walking slowly to the conn, which Geordi La Forge relinquishes to the admiral. He says he has begun some new therapy that is working well for him. Act Two In the ready room, Crusher says there's no known cure for Iverson's and it has never been known to go into remission. Jameson has been confined to the wheelchair for the last four years due to the effects of the disease. Picard orders Crusher to look into this, thoroughly. In his quarters, Jameson is watching the recording of Karnas' initial message again, when his wife comes in. He stands up and walks over to her. She's delighted at first but then gets suspicious after looking at his face. She brings him over to a mirror and sees that he looks twenty years younger. Suddenly, he gets the chest pain again and she calls sickbay, telling them there is a medical emergency. After examining him, Crusher tells Picard that she has detected some unknown chemicals in his bloodstream, and that there is no trace of Iverson's Disease, but she doesn't know how this is possible. Picard goes to Jameson's quarters, where he now looks about fifty. He demands answers, so Jameson tells him how he obtained a drug from Cerberus II that rejuvenates the body. He negotiated a treaty there and the inhabitants gave him the medicine, as they felt obligated to honor his request. It is a combination of drugs to be slowly administered over two years. He got enough for himself and his wife but took both doses himself when this mission came up. After Picard leaves without getting answers to his questions, Anne gets upset, saying he didn't think of her and why did he not tell her what he was doing. She goes to the next room, and Jameson leaves his quarters. Jameson goes to the observation lounge and opens a secure communications frequency to Mordan. He talks to Karnas and asks him who's behind the kidnapping. He claims it is political opponents. He says that now that Jameson is returning, it is as if the last 45 years never happened. Jameson comments that Karnas never forgave him. Then he realizes that Karnas has the hostages and there are no terrorists. Karnas says he's going to ask a very high price for their release. Jameson goes to the bridge and tells Picard to increase the Enterprises speed to warp 8 to put Karnas off balance. He tells Picard that Karnas has the hostages and that negotiations are no longer the answer. He intends to lead an away team on an armed rescue mission. Act Three Jameson notes that the maze of tunnels under the city were simply built over without changing. He reckons that Karnas is holding the hostages there, the same as he did 45 years ago; La Forge points out that could be a trap, but Jameson responds that Karnas is just using the same tactics because he is dogmatic; what tactics worked for him in the past he still uses. He claims again that an armed raid is the only option. Picard tells him that the Federation might feel differently now that the situation has changed, but Jameson still claims command of the mission. Meanwhile, Troi, Crusher and Anne are talking in the doctor's office. Anne is distraught, asking why he did what he did. Then Crusher breaks the news that Jameson is not stabilizing, and that his life is now in danger. Picard goes to the observation lounge, where Jameson is sitting in the shadows, initially keeping his face turned away from the captain. He slowly turns to face Picard in his chair and reveals himself to be now in his thirties. Picard asks why the mission is so important to him and what he is hiding. Jameson tells how Karnas took the passengers of a starliner hostage 45 years ago and demanded weapons from Starfleet. After two other negotiators were killed, Jameson went in and brought the hostages out safely, as the official version goes. What really happened was that it wasn't Jameson's golden oratory that saved the hostages; he gave Karnas the weapons he wanted in order to avenge his father's death at the hands of his enemies; and then Jameson gave the exact same weapons to his rivals. Picard is appalled, but Jameson defends his actions, stating that this was his way of bending the Prime Directive without technically breaking it; however, this plunged Mordan into forty years of civil war, instead of the brief skirmish that Jameson thought would happen. Now he wants to vindicate himself, but all Karnas wants is revenge. Picard points out that not just Jameson brought about the civil war, Karnas could have worked for peace instead of continuing the fighting. When the away team prepares to beam down, Picard decides to go with them, leaving Riker in charge of the Enterprise. Act Four Jameson beams down to Mordan along with Picard, Data, Worf, La Forge, and Tasha Yar. They move through the tunnels under the city following Jameson's memory of the tunnel layout, even though Data scans reveal that things changed since Jameson was last there 45 years earlier. They eventually find their way to the area where Jameson believes that the hostages are being held but there is a recently built steelplast wall blocking the path. The landing party blasts their way through the wall, but in doing so alert Karnas's troopers to their location. A phaser fight ensues, and as they take cover, Jameson suddenly clutches his chest and collapses into Data's arms. Initially, Picard assumes that he was hit by a phaser blast, but there is no sign of a visible injury. With the group outnumbered and Jameson unable to continue, they all beam back up to the Enterprise. Back aboard the Enterprise, Picard reports to Riker that Jameson's condition is deteriorating sharply. An infuriated Karnas then hails them, saying that he knows full well that Jameson beamed down and tried to extract the hostages by force, and demanding that the admiral be turned over to him. Picard tells him he's critically ill, but Karnas doesn't care. He gives them ten minutes to beam Jameson down. Picard goes to sickbay, where Jameson is very sick. However, he still wants to beam down so he can save the hostages, but Picard tells him that even if the hostages are still in the same place, he is in no condition to attempt another rescue mission. Riker then contacts Picard, informing him that Karnas has sent another message; if Jameson is not turned over within the next five minutes, one of the hostages will be the victim of a "most painful" execution, after which Karnas will continue to execute the hostages at a rate of once every fifteen minutes. Picard realizes that he is now out of options and has no alternative but to allow Jameson to beam down, even though this will mean almost certain death at Karnas' hands. They beam down along with Dr. Crusher. Karnas doesn't recognize Jameson, and Picard insists the man with him is in fact Jameson. Act Five Karnas doesn't believe Picard and demands that the real Jameson beam down. Jameson talks to him and calls him by his old title to try to convince him. But Karnas still doesn't believe him, saying he's been coached. Jameson collapses, and Picard tells Karnas about the age reversing, but Karnas won't be moved. He blames Jameson for the war, death and destruction that have taken place on Mordan. Picard tells Anne Jameson to beam down and shows Karnas a visual record put together by Dr. Crusher of Jameson's transformation in an effort to convince him. Picard tells Karnas that some of the blame lies on his head as well, and that Jameson wanted to atone for what he did. Jameson, although sick and sweating, manages to convince Karnas by showing him the scar of the blood cut on his wrist they made to seal the bargain. Karnas takes a phaser, intending to shoot Jameson, ironically with one of the weapons he provided to Karnas, but then he stops, saying he would get better revenge in seeing him suffer. Anne talks to Jameson and says she'll always love him as he dies in her arms. Satisfied with Jameson's death, Karnas tells Picard the hostages will be freed immediately, and is prepared to cooperate. Jameson is buried on Mordan at the request of his widow and the consent of Karnas. The Enterprise leaves the planet, heading for Isis III. Log entry Captain's log, USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D), 2364 Memorable quotes "Come here." "I hope you're heading for the bedroom!" - Anne and Mark Jameson "Make it so." - Mark Jameson "I'm strong, I'm alert, I'm fit! I'm fitter than you are, Picard. And I'm getting younger!" - Mark Jameson "What I don't understand sir, is how Karnas knew you were still… available." "Still alive, you mean." - Riker and Jameson "So… Jameson, I see time has not been too kind." "It seldom is, Karnas." - Jameson and Karnas "There's no substitute, Lieutenant, for a little personal reconnoiter." - Jameson, to Yar "They're phasers, sir. Set on kill." "Thank you, Mr. Data. I have heard the sound before!" - Data and Picard "If it's you, show me the scar." "There! The blood cut you gave me to seal our bargain!" - Karnas asks Jameson to give proof of his identity "It is you. Somehow… it is you!" - Karnas, realizing Jameson has de-aged "Sir, look out!" - Worf, to Jameson "The admiral?" "Sickbay. 'Not good' is a galactic understatement." - Riker and Picard "Annie… with the golden hair." "Flatterer. It's gray now." "I see only the gold…" - Mark Jameson and Anne Jameson, as Mark Jameson dies in his wife's arms "Rest, Jameson. Your long night… and mine, are over." - Karnas, after Admiral Jameson dies "The quest for youth, Number One. So futile." - Picard, to Riker Background information Production history First draft script: Revised final draft script: Shooting schedule: 7 October 1987 Filmed: 8 October 1987 – 16 October 1987 Premiere airdate: UK premiere airdate (on BBC2): , airing in original production order Story and script In Michael Michaelian's original script, Jameson's name was Paul Jameson (though he was mentioned as having a son named Mark), and he was in his 60s and in decent physical shape. In this story, Jameson demoted himself to the rank of commander, and moved Riker away from the Enterprise-D to command his own ship, the . His de-ageing treatment was only meant to make him younger by two decades, but an unforeseen complication from Jameson receiving a transfusion of alien blood served to make it far more effective than it should have been. Other elements of this early script included the planet Mordan IV being under threat from a Ferengi invasion, and the planet having strategic importance due to being the only source of a powerful anti-viral drug (which was likely removed due to a similar plot detail having appeared earlier that season in ). At the end of Michaelian's script, Jameson did not die, but reverted to the age of fourteen. The accelerated de-ageing also had the side effect of erasing all of his memories past any given age, eventually including those of his wife. He helped Governor Zepec and his rival, a high priest, in their negotiations, after they take Jameson's de-ageing as the fulfilment of an ancient prophecy whereby a warrior will return from the stars and be reborn as a young man. () At the end, the fourteen-year-old Jameson received a tour of the Enterprise-D by Wesley Crusher. (Creating the Next Generation, p. 54) In common with Co-Producer Herbert J. Wright's final draft script for , Associate Producer D.C. Fontana's script for this episode was tampered with by Gene Roddenberry's meddling attorney, Leonard Maizlish. As a result of his tweaks, the script suddenly included handwritten changes as well as a pair of new scenes, including one with Wesley Crusher, that Maizlish claimed had been written by Roddenberry. Aware that Roddenberry had been out of town and therefore could not have written the scenes, Supervising Producer Rick Berman asked Maizlish, who had been strongly in favor of Wesley being included in all scripts, if he had actually written them, to which Maizlish admitted that he had. "Berman said he told Maizlish he could in no way present these scenes to me for inclusion in the script," Fontana recalled. "The next morning, Berman and [fellow Supervising Producer] Bob Justman had come in early to make sure [that day's scenes] were ready to go to the stage, and they had found a Maizlish-written scene inserted in the revised pages. In addition, there were Maizlish-originated line and word changes incorporated into the revised pages. Berman and Justman were outraged. Berman called Roddenberry at home and informed him of the incident and also told him that I had every right to go straight to the WGA and begin a suit against Maizlish, Roddenberry, and Paramount, and that Berman would back me one hundred percent if I did so. [And] Justman called Maizlish personally and ripped him up one side and down the other for having the gall to insert his own material in a script." (The Fifty-Year Mission: The Next 25 Years, pp. 75-76) Production The episode was filmed between Thursday and Friday for seven days on Paramount Stage 6, 9, and 16. The first day's filming included Scene 119. (Stardate Revisited: The Origin of Star Trek - The Next Generation, Part II: Launch, TNG Season 1 Blu-ray special features) Although the episode was supposed to focus on Clayton Rohner's character, the regular cast felt that Rohner did not work in the ensemble manner very well. Director Rob Bowman felt that the show was too verbose, more words than action. Rohner's makeup during the earlier parts of the show was a source of disappointment, being described as "sub-par" and ineffective. () The "arms for hostages" element of the story was inspired by the . (Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Continuing Mission, p. 66) During the filming of this episode, Mark A. Altman visited the set for the bridge of the Enterprise, the first of many Star Trek set visits in his lifetime. At this early point in his career, he was a young college student writing about TNG for the student newspaper. (The Fifty-Year Mission: The Next 25 Years, p. 1) Sets, props, and costumes Admiral Jameson's state-of-the-art twenty-fourth century wheelchair was a problem. It cost the prop department ten thousand dollars, but it did not even move well enough to be anything more than a hindrance, and Bowman simply had to shoot around it. (Trek: The Unauthorized Behind-The-Scenes Story of The Next Generation) Property master Joe Longo referred to the wheelchair as a "big albatross". Learning from the fiasco, the production crew opted for a much simpler chair when one was required for the episode . () The bird sculptures seen in Karnas' office were also featured in Q's court room in the pilot episode and in the final episode and in the bar on Qualor II in the fifth season episode . Karnas has a phaser from , a phaser from , a modified Klingon disruptor rifle and Portal 63's staff from hanging on his wall behind his desk. A set extension painting in the background of the installation during the phaser fight is a reuse of the Mega Maid set extension from ' 1987 comedy, . The same painted background was reused in . During the bridge scene where Admiral Jameson takes the conn, the console to Commander Riker's right has been removed to accommodate his wheelchair, while the console on Counselor Troi's side is still there as Dr. Crusher needed somewhere to sit. The shooting schedule featured the note for the art department to put "Riker guest bench out/in". Cast and characters Wil Wheaton (Wesley Crusher) does not appear in this episode. Michael Pataki also played Korax twenty years earlier in . Following the death of Norman Lloyd, Annie Jameson actress Marsha Hunt became the oldest living Star Trek performer, a distinction she held until her death in 2022 at the age of 104. Continuity This episode marks the first appearance of a uniformed Starfleet admiral in The Next Generation, although Q wore an admiral's dress uniform in . In this episode, Admiral Jameson sits in the command chair while Picard is seen occupying the first officer's chair. This is one of three episodes where Picard sits in Riker's chair - the other two being and . The title of this episode is very similar to that of a play for television written by Gene Roddenberry, "So Short A Season," starring Albert Salmi and Rip Torn, which aired as a segment of NBC's The Kaiser Aluminum Hour on Tuesday 12 February 1957. Reception Director Rob Bowman recalls, "That was a show with a lot of dialogue. I considered it sit and tell, rather than show and tell, and I prefer to show the audience. I believe in the word, but one of your tools in making movies is visual aspects, and just as there is verbal dialogue, there is visual dialogue. One without the other can get very monotonous. But, the real treat for me was working with Clayton Rohner. He and I got together on weekends, and I think that's the most I ever spent with an actor off the clock, developing a character. We just decided to do it, and it was pretty much his episode, with all of them reacting to him. It was a solid episode, with lots of makeup challenges, special FX and a wheelchair that never worked." ("Rob Bowman - Director of a Dozen", ) A mission report for this episode by Carr D'Angelo was published in . Video and DVD releases Original UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 8, catalog number VHR 2437, UK re-release (three-episode tapes, Paramount Home Entertainment): Volume 1.6, catalog number VHR 4647, As part of the TNG Season 1 DVD collection As part of the TNG Season 1 Blu-ray collection Links and references Starring Patrick Stewart as Captain Jean-Luc Picard Jonathan Frakes as Commander William T. Riker Also starring LeVar Burton as Lt. Geordi La Forge Denise Crosby as Lt. Tasha Yar Michael Dorn as Lt. Worf Gates McFadden as Doctor Beverly Crusher Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi Brent Spiner as Lt. Commander Data Guest stars Clayton Rohner as Admiral Mark Jameson Marsha Hunt as Anne Jameson And Michael Pataki as Karnas Uncredited co-stars James G. Becker as Youngblood Darrell Burris as operations officer Dexter Clay as operations officer Jeffrey Deacon as command officer Susan Duchow as operations officer Shana Ann Golden as command officer Nora Leonhardt as sciences ensign Larry Robb as Mordanite veteran Richard Sarstedt as command officer Guy Vardaman as Darien Wallace Unknown performers as Command crewmember Eight Mordanite soldiers Male civilian Operations officer Sciences officer Six sciences crewmembers Two former Mordanite soldiers Two operations crewmembers Stunt double Unknown stunt performer as stunt double for Brent Spiner Stand-ins James G. Becker – stand-in for Jonathan Frakes Darrell Burris – stand-in for LeVar Burton Dexter Clay – stand-in for Michael Dorn Jeffrey Deacon – stand-in for Patrick Stewart Susan Duchow – stand-in for Denise Crosby Nora Leonhardt – stand-in for Marina Sirtis Tim McCormack – stand-in for Brent Spiner Lorine Mendell – stand-in for Gates McFadden and Marsha Hunt Richard Sarstedt – stand-in for Clayton Rohner References 2279; 2314; 2319; 2359; 2360; 2362; admiral; advisor; age; agreement; alarm trigger; alien; ambassador; anniversary; answer; Ardan; assassin; assignment;away team; bargain; bedroom; "big jump"; bird; blood sample; body; body language; bottle; bridge; career; case; ; cellular structure; Cerberus II; Cerberus II native; Cerberus system; charade; chemical substance; chess; ; ; civil war; commodity; communication; communication frequency; conclusion; conn station; coordinates; crime; crisis; cure; ; day; de-aging drug; deal; death; decade; deck; desk; desktop monitor; discussion; disruptor rifle; dissident (dissident group); DNA; ; dosage; dose; drug; Earth; effect; embassy staff; enemy; ETA; execution; executioner; executive officer; explanation; faction; failure; family quarters; family unit; farce; Federation; figure of speech; file number; fish; flattery; French language; guest quarters; golden hair; "gut feeling"; ; Gilnor; governor; governor's residence; graveyard; gray; ; Hawkins' staff; health; heart; ; herb; honor; hostage; hostage situation; hour; Human; husband; hypospray; Idini Star Cluster; information; infrared light signal; installation; insult; Isis III; Iverson's Disease; Karnas' father; "keep an eye on her"; kiss; "know...like the back of my own hand"; lieutenant; Livingston; long range shuttle; M4 tunnel; main tunnel; marriage; match; maze; mediator; medical checkup; medical emergency; medical file; medical file coder; medical recording device; medical test; medical tricorder; meeting; memory; message; million; mind; mirror; mission; mister; model; month; Mordan IV; Mordan IV civil war; Mordan IV principal city; Mordan IV wasted cities; Mordanite; mortality rate; murder; myth; native; necklace; negotiation; negotiator; night; number one; observation; observation lounge; "off balance"; official record; "on schedule"; "on your head"; opinion; oratory; orbit; order; organ; overdose; pain; painting; passenger; peace; Peretor; period; permission; Persephone V; pharmacopoeia; phaser; place; plan; planet; pleasure; price; Prime Directive; problem; productivity; proof; question; rank; rat; ready room; rear admiral; reason; red cell; reference; rejuvenation; remission; report; rescue mission; result; retirement; revenge; right; ring; rival; Sain; scar; schematic; sculpture; secure channel; senior mission officer; sensitivity; sentiment; services; sickbay; skill; sleep; soldier; soul; sound; space; star; Starfleet; starliner; starship; statue; steelplast; stellar cluster; story; strategist; strength; ; stubborn; subsidiary tunnel; subspace transmission; surprise; tale; tape; terrorist; therapy; thing; thinking; three-dimensional chess; tissue sample; title; tone; trace; transporter room; treatment; treaty; tribe; trick; tricorder; truth; tunnel; turbolift; type I phaser; type II phaser; understatement; unification; unnamed plants; viewer; viewscreen (screen); VISOR; visual record; waist; war; warrior; weapon; week; wheelchair; widow; wife; wisdom; word; wound; year; youth Script reference ; New Yelva; Starbase 45 External links cs:Too Short a Season de:Die Entscheidung des Admirals es:Too Short a Season fr:Too Short a Season (épisode) ja:大いなる償い（エピソード） nl:Too Short A Season TNG episodes

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When The Bough Breaks (episode)

Wesley Crusher must protect a group of kidnapped Enterprise-D children while Captain Picard fights for their release. Summary Teaser Commander Riker walks down a corridor when Captain Picard contacts him and orders him to come up to the bridge. As he continues down the corridor, a young boy named Harry is running away from his father and runs directly into Riker. Harry falls to the floor and Riker helps him up. It turns out that Harry was running away because he refuses to study calculus any longer. Riker witnesses the confrontation between father and son before limping away into a turbolift to take him to the bridge. Entering the bridge, Picard informs Riker that the crew have been investigating faint energy readings coming from the nearby Epsilon Mynos system. Upon hearing the name of the system from Geordi La Forge, Riker now knows why Picard called him up to the bridge. The system is thought to contain the legendary mythical world of Aldea, a place Riker puts on par with Atlantis of Earth or Neinman of Xerxes VII. Lieutenant Yar is unfamiliar with the legend of Aldea and Riker explains that the inhabitants of Aldea were thought to be able to cloak their planet in darkness in order to hide it from marauders or hostile passersby. Then, all of a sudden, the crew of the are witness to the revealing of the legendary planet Aldea. Act One On the viewscreen, a woman contacts the Enterprise and introduces herself as Rashella, welcoming them and wishing to talk with them. Suddenly, she and Radue, introducing himself as the leader, appear on the bridge, startling everyone, notably Doctor Crusher, as they did not undergo decontamination procedures by going through the transporter, but they quickly explain that the Enterprises transporters won't work because of the planet's shields. They formally invite them to the planet, but also show visible signs of discomfort, which they justify by not being used to bright lights and soon afterwards they beam back on the planet. Without warning, Commander Riker, Deanna Troi, and Dr. Crusher are transported from the Enterprise bridge to the surface of Aldea, and they're welcomed to their community. However, the Aldean's motives are quickly revealed, as Radue explains that he wishes to acquire some of the Enterprises children, in exchange for technology and information that would take the Federation centuries to acquire. This outrages both Riker and Crusher, and Troi explains that Humans are very attached to their children; other species might be tempted. Then Radue explains that the Aldean society is dying out, and they've become infertile. Riker expresses his sympathy, but unequivocally declines their trade offer. Radue promptly returns them to the ship. Meanwhile, strange beams of light come from the planet, scanning everyone on board but focused only on the children, such as Wesley Crusher on the bridge. Data reaches out to help him, but Picard warns him not to touch the teen, as they may unknowingly harm him. Suddenly to Dr. Crusher's alarm, Wesley is beamed away by the Aldean's transporter, and the disappearances of several other children across the ship's primary hull are reported by Worf. Act Two The captain is infuriated, and contacts Radue, demanding to have their children back. Radue appears on the viewscreen and informs Picard that the children will be well looked after, and that they'll want for nothing. He wants to discuss compensation, but Picard's response prompts him to close communication. Picard and Dr. Crusher along with Troi have a meeting with the other parents in the observation lounge to explain what's happened. Picard will have Dr. Crusher with him to represent the other parents and assures them that the Enterprise will not leave without the children. On Aldea, Wesley and the children meet their new foster parents, and are quickly enticed by the skill-enhancing instruments that are offered to them. Wesley, however, is not impressed by the Aldeans and resists. Radue attempts to label him as the leader of the group and gives him the task of helping the others adjust since he has no choice, like the Aldeans. Riker reports that Data has discovered random fluctuations in the shield, holes in essence, that could possibly be used to transport an away team through. Riker is surprised that the Aldeans haven't perfected their technology after all this time and eliminated the flaw. As using a hole would have to be precise with timing and there would be no guarantee, Data notes it may be better to crack the code used to transport through the magnetic shield, but it will take time as the sheer number of possible codes is almost endless. While Data works on it, Picard orders Riker to work with La Forge to figure out a way through a hole. An away team can then find the power source for the shield and neutralize it; Picard knows that they have to keep the Aldeans talking, because once they realize the crew will not accept anything but the childrens' return, they will just turn the cloaking device back on and the Enterprise will have lost any chance to get them back. Act Three Duana introduces Wesley to the Custodian for storing records of him. Wesley immediately wants to know more about the computer system, which takes care of the Aldeans' every need. He asks about what the other children are doing and interacts with the Custodian and learns the controls. He also asks what's behind one of the doors, but Duana admits that she doesn't know. Picard and Dr. Crusher are transported to the planet to negotiate for "compensation" for the children. They refuse to give the children back, thinking that it's not a problem as they can have more children, but the captain warns that the Aldeans are messing with a primal Human instinct and that parents are willing to die if necessary for their children. To Crusher's questions about the children's future fertility, Radue is convinced that the problem is a genetic dysfunction and not contagious. Picard nevertheless remains amicable and says they sympathize with the Aldeans and is open to a satisfactory solution to both sides. The Aldeans see their problem as solved and they're offering the sum of their knowledge: what more could they want? Picard manages to convince him to let Dr. Crusher see Wesley. While with him, she coordinates a covert scan of Duana with the hand scanner from her medical tricorder. Rejoining Picard, she reports her son and the others are well; Radue states that the crew have their offer, which is final, and the away team is sent back to the ship. Radue decides to show the Enterprise that there is no bargaining room and displays the planet's power by blasting the ship and throwing it back in ten seconds the equivalent distance of three days travel from the planet at warp 9. He claims that he could very easily push the Enterprise so far away that by the time they returned to Aldea, their children would be grandparents. Act Four During the return trip to Aldea, Picard tells Radue that there is room for discussion and ends the communication. Dr. Crusher has analyzed the covert scan and discovers that Duana is dying, suffering from some chromosomal damage, probably like the rest of the population. Crusher can't determine if it is genetic or environmental, so leaves to determine the cause. On Aldea, the children each show signs of dissatisfaction while being taught their respective activities. Wesley, however, firmly says to Radue and Duana that they will not cooperate. That night, he decides to convince the younger children to go on a hunger strike and to not speak to their hosts, in an attempt to make the Aldeans return them to the ship, using passive resistance. Using the Custodian, he locates all the children and explains to them that it is a form of passive resistance. He assures them that while the Aldeans may become upset, they will not harm them as they need them. While a couple are not sure, he reminds them that while the Aldeans are very nice, they all want to go home and gets the mutual solidarity he needs. Rashella walks in and finds them. Act Five Upon the Enterprises return, Crusher confirms the Aldeans are suffering from acute radiation poisoning, which is causing the infertility. It also explains their pallor, general lack of appetite and sensitivity to light. While Data says it would take too long to decode the Aldean's transporter beam, La Forge has found that the holes in the shielding can be used to beam down a team with the right timing. When Radue beams Picard and Crusher down to negotiate, Worf carefully orders the transporter officer to beam Riker and Data down to Aldea in a discreet location. They are successful and locate the Custodian. Radue meets with Picard and Crusher and first demands that he make the children end their strike. Picard goes to the children and surprises Radue by taking them back to him and reveals that Riker and Data are on the planet. Crusher tries to convince Radue that the cause of their infertility is the planetary shield and cloaking device affecting their ozone layer, similar to Earth in the 21st century. Eventually, the children will become affected as well. Radue does not believe her, insisting that their scientists would've known but Crusher retorts that they have been so reliant on their technology, they've stopped questioning it or know how it works. Radue attempts to beam the officers away but his commands to the Custodian are not responding; Riker and Data have temporarily disabled it. Picard has the Enterprise to beam up the children, but not before young Harry Bernard says goodbye to his "adoptive" father, Accolan. When they are gone, Radue is convinced that Picard has destroyed them. The captain says they are doing the exact opposite. The Aldeans, led by the Starfleet personnel, go to the mysterious door and find what Data identifies as the power source. Radue muses that they need to relearn how to look after themselves and use the power source safely. Picard offers their help, which is gladly accepted. The crew successfully reseeds Aldea's ozone layer: neither the cloak nor the shield can ever be used again if they want to preserve it. On the Enterprise, Dr. Crusher reports that the population is responding well to treatment and will become fertile in time. Picard remarks that while the planet's legend will die, its people will live. They leave Aldea, but not before Wesley escorts Alexandra, one of the children, to the bridge as she wants to thank and hug Picard. When she leaves, everyone on the bridge giggles behind the captain's back as Alexandra's plush toy, a Tribble, has become accidentally stuck to his back. Log entries Captain's log, USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D), 2364 Chief medical officer's log, USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) Memorable quotes "Data, find a way to defeat that shield." "That may be impossible, sir." "Things are only impossible until they're not!" "Yes, sir." - Picard and Data "It's Aldea, Captain. It has to be." - Riker, to Picard after the fabled planet suddenly appears in front of the Enterprise "We need some of your children." - Radue "Our children are not for sale at any price." - Beverly Crusher, to Radue "What's your hurry, Harry?" - William Riker, to Harry Bernard after he runs into him "You've stolen our children away from their classrooms, away from their bedrooms and you talk about compensation?! You claim to be a civilized race and yet for some reason you have just committed an act of utter barbarity!!" "Captain, we will continue these discussions when you have calmed down." - Picard and Radue "The Aldeans are suffering from a form of radiation poisoning." "Is that what made them sterile?" - Crusher and Picard "Instead of the children being our hope, what if we're just condemning them to our fate?" "Rashella, they're just protecting their own interests." "As are we. But hear them out. The captain and Doctor Crusher are saying that the very thing which has given us this wonderful world is what has caused this tragedy." "That's it. Exactly. Your Custodian has controlled you so completely you've lost even the desire to even question it." - Rashella, Radue, and Picard "OK, kids. Let's go home." - Wesley Crusher "The legend will die but the people will live." - Picard "Captain, I am not aware of Regulation 6.57." "No, Data, neither am I." "I see, sir." (Pause, understands) "Oh, I see, sir!'" - Data and Picard "Dad, I want to be an artist, but I don't want to take calculus anymore." "You can be anything you want, Harry. Anything. But you still have to take calculus." "Okay. Thanks, Dad." - Harry Bernard and Harry Bernard, Sr. Background information Production history First draft story outline: Two-page memo of story notes from Gene Roddenberry: Final draft script: Two-page memo of script notes from Gene Roddenberry: 9 December 1987 First revised final draft script: 10 December 1987 Second revised final draft script: 11 December 1987 Filmed: 15 December 1987 – 23 December 1987 Score recorded at Paramount Stage M: (Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Ron Jones Project liner notes ) Premiere airdate: 15 February 1988 UK premiere airdate: Story and script Writer Hannah Louise Shearer pitched this story to D.C. Fontana as an opportunity to better use the shipboard families aboard the . The story led to Shearer being invited to join the writing staff. () Originally, the story featured a subplot where the ship would separate, with the saucer section being held hostage. This was removed to focus on the main plot. () Production This is the very first episode of the series not to open the introductory teaser with an external visual of the Enterprise. The next episode to also forego an exterior Enterprise visual will be , which opens with a game of poker between several of the senior staff. This is the only Star Trek episode directed by Kim Manners. Cast and characters This episode marks Jerry Hardin's first appearance on Star Trek. He later reappeared as Samuel Clemens in and and as Neria in . Paul Lambert, who played Melian, appeared in the fourth season as Howard Clark in the episode . McKenzie Westmore, daughter of makeup supervisor Michael Westmore, was featured as . She later appeared in and as Ensign in . Wil Wheaton's sister Amy Wheaton and his brother Jeremy Wheaton are featured as Tara and Mason in this episode. Continuity This episode takes its name from the children's lullaby "Rock-a-bye Baby" ("…when the bough breaks, the cradle will fall…"). The Doctor would later adapt the lullaby for B'Elanna Torres's baby and sing it to Seven of Nine in . The Enterprise-D being blasted away from Aldea is similar to the original Enterprise being hurled 990.7 light years away from the Kalandan outpost (minus the earthquake effect) in . Special and visual effects The visual effect of the Enterprise-D being blasted far away from Aldea is reused in and . Sets, props, and costumes The large dome window in the Aldean's meeting room was later put on top of a building in Paradise City on Nimbus III in . The Aldean's planetary shield and cloaking device was not a full-scale set piece but rather a three foot long maquette, as was revealed in the Reading Rainbow's season 5 episode "The Bionic Bunny Show" (see YouTube videos and ). Effects Supervisor Robert Legato explained that it was kit-bashed out of parts from model-kits of aircraft carriers, tanks and cars. Michael Okuda elaborated in 2012, "I built the Aldean reactor core. Rob Legato and Gary Hutzel came to me and asked me to work with them on that shot. They needed something cool and powerful looking, but had no money in the budget to build anything. I had an idea for an internally-lit structure that would be seen mostly in silhouette. The advantage of this would be that the model could be fairly simple, but would look dramatic because of lighting. I used parts from several children's toys and model kits, including a Space Shuttle launch tower. I think I even used some left-over pieces from the Star Trek: TMP space dock model in the base. Rick Sternbach helped out with some of the scaffolding around the core. The core of the model was a clear acrylic tube with a fluorescent tube in it. Wrapped around the tube was a sheet of high-contrast black and white film with a pattern that I designed for this. The design incorporated lots of vertical lines and a series of hexagons, which was one of the signature graphic elements that I had used for this planet. Later, I used the same art for the back wall of the Klingon transporter room and the back wall of a Starfleet interrogation room. Rob and Gary loved the model and made it look like this huge, mysterious, powerful reactor." Music The melody that Katie plays for Melian is the same piece of music used as "The Traveler's theme" in , scored by Ron Jones. The episode's score, composed and conducted by Ron Jones, was recorded on at Paramount Stage M. (Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Ron Jones Project liner notes ) The complete episode score, totalling 27 minutes 30 seconds, appears on disc three of the Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Ron Jones Project collection. Reception This is Shearer's favorite episode. In particular, she praised Wil Wheaton's performance. "Alas, poor Wesley got the brunt of a lot of criticism, but he was really extraordinary with those kids and turned them into a little family on the set, and I think it really translated." (Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages, p. 164) Maurice Hurley remarked, "That had a nice quality to it, sad and poignant at the same time." (Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages'', p. 164) A mission report for this episode by John Sayers was published in . Video and DVD releases Original UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 9, catalog number VHR 2438, UK re-release (three-episode tapes, Paramount Home Entertainment): Volume 1.6, catalog number VHR 4647, As part of the TNG Season 1 DVD collection As part of the TNG Season 1 Blu-ray collection Links and references Starring Patrick Stewart as Captain Jean-Luc Picard Jonathan Frakes as Commander William T. Riker Also starring LeVar Burton as Lt. Geordi La Forge Denise Crosby as Lt. Tasha Yar Michael Dorn as Lt. Worf Gates McFadden as Doctor Beverly Crusher Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi Brent Spiner as Lt. Commander Data Wil Wheaton as Wesley Crusher Guest stars Jerry Hardin as Radue Brenda Strong as Rashella Jandi Swanson as Katie Paul Lambert as Melian Ivy Bethune as Duana Co-stars Dierk Torsek as Dr. Bernard Michèle Marsh as Leda Dan Mason as Accolan Philip N. Waller as Harry Connie Danese as Toya Jessica and Vanessa Bova as Alexandra Uncredited co-stars James G. Becker as Youngblood Dexter Clay as operations division officer Jeffrey Deacon as command division officer Susan Duchow as operations division officer Nora Leonhardt as science division officer Tim McCormack as James McElroy as operations division officer Lorine Mendell as Diana Giddings Steve Reed as Mason's father Richard Sarstedt as command division officer Guy Vardaman as Darien Wallace McKenzie Westmore as Amy Wheaton as Tara Jeremy Wheaton as Mason Unknown performers as Command division officer Custodian (voice) Father Female operations division crewmember Female science division officer Female teacher Mason's mother Mother Seven school children Three command division crewmembers Two civilians Two science division crewmembers Stand-ins James G. Becker – stand-in for Jonathan Frakes Darrell Burris – stand-in for LeVar Burton Dexter Clay – stand-in for Michael Dorn Jeffrey Deacon – stand-in for Patrick Stewart Susan Duchow – stand-in for Denise Crosby Nora Leonhardt – stand-in for Marina Sirtis Tim McCormack – stand-in for Brent Spiner Lorine Mendell – stand-in for Gates McFadden Guy Vardaman – stand-in for Wil Wheaton References 14th century; 21st century; 22nd century; accident; Aldea; Aldean; Aldean holographic toy; Aldean musical instrument; Aldean shield; Aldean transport device; amount; answer; appetite; Aran; area; arrival; art; artist; "at any price"; Atlantis; atmosphere; away team; ; bed; bedroom; breed; bridge; brightness; calcium; calculation; calculus; calculus teacher; celebration; century; chance; children; choice; chromosome; citizen; civilization; classroom; cloaking device; code; colleague; communications; compensation; computer; conscience; contract; corridor; culture; curiosity; Custodian; Custodian's room; danger; darkness; death; deck; decontamination; dedication plaque; defense shield; deflector; ; desktop monitor; discussion; distortion; dolphin; Earth; eating; electromagnetic; emotion; Epsilon Mynos system; Epsilon Mynos system sun; evidence; eye; fairy tale; family; fate; father; fear; Federation; feeling; file; First Appointee; fish; fork; fruit; genetic dysfunction; generation; god; goods; grandparent; guest; hailing frequency; harm; head; "hello"; heritage; hole; home; honor; ; hour; Human; hunger strike;infertility; information; instinct; intention; invitation; Katie's instrument; kidnapping; language; leader; legend; lesion; lie; light; light ray; light refracting device; list; magnetic shield; ; marauder; medical doctor; medical literature; medical tricorder; medicine; Milky Way Galaxy; millennium; mind; mother; music; musician; mutual interest; myth; mythology; name; nature; necklace; negotiation; Neinman; note; number; number one; observation lounge; ocean; oceanographer; offer; offspring; orbit; order; override; ozone layer; painting; pallor; parent; passers-by; passive resistance; pattern; payment; peace; person; planetary defense system; plunder; position report; potential; power source; Progenitor; quadrant one; question; race; radiation; radiation poisoning; reason; red alert; representative; repulsor beam; risk; ; Romulan; room; saucer section; scanner; scanning device; scientist; school; screen; sculpting; sculpting tool; sculptor; sculpture; sensitivity; sensor; shield; shielding device; sickbay; skant; society; solution; son; sprinter; staff officer; Starfleet Regulations; statue; status; sterility; story; stubborn; stuffed animal; subject; surface; symptom; talent; teacher; technology; terminal illness; theory; thing; third level clearance; thousand; three-dimensional chess; toy; trade; "trail of breadcrumbs"; trait; transporter room; transporting procedure; treatment; tricorder; turbolift; ultraviolet radiation; ; Unit B375; unnamed plants; viewscreen; vision; VISOR; voice; voice command; Vulcan lute; way of living; week; window; wood; word; work; Xerxes VII; year; Zadar IV; Other references Diagnostic analysis: air; A vitamin; B complex vitamin; calcium; carcinogen; carbon monoxide; chemical exposure; diagnostic analysis; disruption; environmental factor; exposure; extraterrestrial disease; failure; fluorocarbon; food chain; gamma ray; gravitational variation; industrial waste byproduct; magnetic field; micronutrient; monosodium glutamate (MSG); neutrino; nitrogen; nuclear radiation; oxygen; parasitic organism; personal hygiene; potassium; quark; red dye number two; resorption; solar flux; trace element; viral contaminant; visible light; vitamin; vitamin deficiency; waste management; water Unreferenced material Garen External links cs:When The Bough Breaks de:Die Sorge der Aldeaner es:When The Bough Breaks fr:When the Bough Breaks (épisode) ja:死に急ぐ惑星アルデア（エピソード） nl:When the Bough Breaks pl:When the Bough Breaks TNG episodes

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Home Soil (episode)

When the Enterprise-D visits an outpost in the process of terraforming a dead planet, they find the science team threatened by a mysterious new form of life. Summary Teaser The is on a mission to catalog young planets in the Pleiades Cluster. Along the way, they have been instructed by the Federation to check on the terraforming colony on Velara III, as they were behind schedule. Captain Picard calls down to the station, and after a minute or two of no answers from the planet, Director Kurt Mandl finally responds. On the viewscreen, the director insists there is no need for them to pay a visit as they are back on schedule. Counselor Troi senses that he is extremely nervous about something, especially when Picard insists that an away team be sent down to have a look around. Troi, Commander Riker, Lieutenant Yar, Lieutenant Commander Data, and La Forge beam to the facility. Act One They are greeted by hydraulics specialist Arthur Malencon, biosphere designer Luisa Kim, and Chief Engineer Bjorn Bensen. Outside the complex is Velara III's dark, windswept desert, a hostile place, which Kim tells them to remember; in a couple of decades, she plans for it to look like a Garden of Eden. Kim apologizes for their director's rudeness. She points out that they don't get many visitors and mentions that Dr. Mandl has been under a great deal of stress lately. Kim offers a look around, proudly explaining their amazing procedure of taking a lifeless planet and converting it into a class M environment. Afterwards, La Forge and Data can't help but go to Malencon at the controls for the hydraulic probes. He mentions he has been having problems with the erratic power surges in the servos that control the probes. La Forge offers assistance, wondering if the high saline content of the soil is disrupting conductivity. Mandl finally enters, appearing gruff and moody. He reminds Malencon of their tight schedule and sends the reluctant tech off to work in the laser drilling room. Mandl directs the away team's attention to a schematic diagram of their planning; everything is specific and exacting. Suddenly, Troi senses terror and announces that Malencon is in serious trouble. A warning siren sounds and the group runs to the hydraulic station. As they approach, they hear the blasting of a drilling laser and cries of pain. The door to the room is sealed; they try to force the hatch when the laser blasts and screams abruptly stop. Upon opening the door, they find the room is a complete mess and spot Malencon, so badly injured he probably cannot be saved. In the center of the room a large drilling laser hangs from a control arm, still pointing down at him. Act Two Riker has Malencon transported to the Enterprise-D sickbay, but indeed Crusher cannot save him. In the meantime, they have the power to the hydraulics room shut down. Kim, Mandl, Troi, and Riker head to the ship as well; the rest stay to survey the damage. Data finds it interesting that the laser drill seemed to stop at the moment Malencon stopped screaming. He reactivates power to the room and reruns the drilling program. Data watches the drill run its cycle as it blasts down into each of the bore holes. As he turns away for a moment to check the readouts, the drill suddenly pivots toward him from behind and the door closes by itself. Fortunately, Data is saved by his android reflexes and quickly dodges the drill's beam as it blasts past him. Hearing the drill firing repeatedly, La Forge and Bensen come to the rescue but find the door is sealed again. Beyond it, they hear a horrendous crash and the smashing of equipment. La Forge screams Data's name but receives no answer. They finally get the hatch open, and find that Data has ripped the drilling machine down from its mounting. The whole device lies mangled on the floor, and Bensen laments that a year's work has been destroyed. Data simply tells Bensen he had no choice. In Picard's ready room, he tells Mandl he is shutting down operations until the matter is investigated; Mandl is outraged, stating that Picard is overstepping his authority. Picard says a member of his crew has been attacked, which gives him the right to intervene. Mandl reminds him that he has a delicate schedule to maintain, but Picard says it is on hold until he has answers. Yar escorts Mandl to his temporary quarters and now La Forge and Data inform him the drilling laser was somehow reprogrammed to kill anyone who entered the room. The three remaining terraformers seem to be the only possible suspects. Picard instructs La Forge and Data to return to the planet to look for any sabotage or tampering. He also tells Yar to dig up the service records of all the terraformers for himself, and Counselor Troi to review and look for a possible motive. Data and La Forge return to the station. Data notices a strange flicker of light down at the far end of one of the bore shafts. He makes sure it isn't a reflection, then scans it with his tricorder. He gets no readings, so he asks La Forge to look at it with his VISOR. Using its various visual modes, La Forge scans the object. It's inorganic, yet the pulses of light and color are unexplainable. Data wonders if it could be alive; it might be what the terraformers are trying to cover up… and why someone killed Malencon. Act Three The object is beamed to the Enterprise-D, where Dr. Crusher has it placed inside a glass bell jar for analysis in a medical lab. The computer makes scans and verifies that it contains no organic molecules. Crusher enhances the scan on the wall display, which shows a complex pattern of crystalline forms. Energy patterns flow throughout a beautiful network of structures. It begins to emanate an audible hum. Crusher asks the computer what is causing the flashes and noise, but it is uncertain, since it is theoretically impossible for the substance to produce such an effect. However, it gets louder as they approach the object. She asks the computer for a hypothesis, to which it replies: "Life". Picard relays the findings to Mandl and his staff. Mandl reiterates that the Federation verified Velara III to be lifeless, but Picard says this was an understandable mistake given the novel nature of the lifeform. Regardless, Picard mentions his suspicions that Mandl knew there was life down there; if so, he was in direct violation of the Prime Directive. Mandl makes it clear that he is in the business of creating life, not taking it. He leaves, and now Troi and Yar make it clear he suspected the truth but did not intend to commit murder. Furthermore, only he and Malencon would have necessary skills to program the drill in the manner it behaved. Back in the medical lab, Crusher calls for Picard for new information. Picard arrives, and La Forge indicates he has detected a shift in the infrared spectrum; its internal structure is somehow changing. Suddenly, the small flicker of light brightens, nearly blinding everyone in the room. The hum grows louder as well. The hum and light subside, revealing two points of light inside the bell jar. Data points out that only life can replicate itself. As a precaution, Crusher activates a containment field around the bell jar, but the computer has trouble maintaining the field. The computer indicates that a "translation request" is being made; the glowing objects are trying to communicate with the computer. Power is increased to the containment field, but the fight for control continues. It looks as if Data is right; it's a lifeform, and also intelligent, with the power to access the computer. Everyone evacuates the lab. Act Four In the observation lounge, Picard now directly confronts Mandl, asking if he knew there was life on Velara III. He admits he knew of random energy patterns that disrupted their drilling, but that hardly indicated life by anything he is aware of. He adds they're meaningless silicon crystals that rebroadcast sunlight. Picard tells him they are hardly meaningless; they are clearly alive and intelligent, and are trying to communicate. By now, the bell jar contains a cluster of several points of light. Data, La Forge and Worf further the analysis and confirm its structure and properties. From engineering, however, an ensign reports that the power fluctuations are increasing, causing numerous systems around the ship to go haywire; something is taking over. Soon, the universal translator comes online by itself, saying "Ugly giant bags of mostly water." Picard is confused, and Data indicates it is an accurate description of Human physiology; he points out that Humans are 90% water surrounded by a flexible container. The crystals speak, saying they had asked the Humans to leave, but they did not listen. It has driven them to kill. Picard tries to reassure the crystals that they come in peace; they didn't understand the message, and were unaware there was life on the planet. The crystals object, stating the "bags" at the station knew. They tried peaceful contact, but were ignored, and some were killed. They have no choice now but to declare war. Before Picard can respond, the crystals end communication. At this point the whole ship is jarred by a force. Data indicates that the crystals have joined together into a kind of living computer he calls a "microbrain"; the more there are, the stronger they become. Act Five Data identifies the flashes of light they emit appear to be program instructions allowing them to interface with the ship's computers. Additionally, it is intelligent enough to interface faster than the crew can. After a quick flare up of energy and more disturbances in the ship, the crystals seem to power down. Crusher indicates that with single-celled organic life, replication is followed by a resting state; perhaps it is the same for the microbrain. Picard orders Yar to beam the entity back to the planet. She tries to energize the beam, but the beam is redirected. Picard is agitated; lifeform or not, the safety of the ship is at stake. He tells Data to remove the atmosphere from the medical lab. Data tries, but again, the controls are locked out. Picard meets with the terraformers, explaining that the entity said it has tried to contact them before, but they ignored it. Mandl claims that if it tried communicating, they didn't understand it; how were they to know? Picard wants to know what the terraformers did to cause the crystals to fight back. Kim indicates Malencon was siphoning off a layer of saline water on the surface of the sand. Crusher suggests that life needs water; perhaps it was sustaining them. Data suggests that as saline water conducts electricity, it might have been what linked them together; individually, a single brain cell is not intelligent, but when linked to others, intelligence is formidable. To prevent the loss of the saline, which would have destroyed them, it understandably drove them to kill. Any one would declare war after such action against them, notes Picard. The image of the medical lab shows the mass in the bell jar growing brighter. Suddenly, the glass shatters and now the crystal is large enough to see. Data and La Forge come up with an idea; they had detected cadmium salts, which create electrical current under infrared light. Perhaps the crystals are photoelectric in nature. Picard orders the lights in the medical lab killed, but again the controls do not work. Picard sends Riker, who opens an access panel outside the lab, and disables the lighting that way. Kim realizes now that the species must have evolved within the thin layer where light penetrated the sand enough to reach the saline water; if the water level dropped even one centimeter beyond the light, the lifeforms would have starved to death. Now in total darkness, the glow of the microbrain begins to soften, and the crystals communicate, begging for more light. They reluctantly declare the war to be over if they are returned to the "wet sand". Picard has Riker bring the lights back up, just a bit, to relieve them of their torment. He expresses his apologies for having caused them harm, it was not intentional and asks if the microbrain believes him: they do. However when he says it's important that the beings trust them, they opine that they can't yet, as they believe Humans to be too arrogant and primitive, and ask that they return no earlier than three centuries; perhaps by then, Humanity can be trusted. Picard replies that he understands, and agrees to leave after sending them home. After Riker check up on the microbrain in the medical lab, he has the transporter chief lock on to its coordinates and reports to Picard that the transporter is ready, at which Picard has the entity beamed back to the sand layer on Velara III. Data is disappointed that they couldn't learn more about the strange lifeform, to which Picard says that they will in time, when they're better prepared. Afterward, Picard places an indefinite quarantine on the planet. They set course to the nearest starbase to drop off the surviving terraformers, Picard noting in his log that he hopes the lessons they learned at Velara III will prevent it from happening elsewhere. Log entries Captain's log, USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D), 2364 First officer's log, USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) Memorable quotes "Someone that tense could be very unpredictable. Stay on your toes, Number One." - Picard, to Riker about Mandl "Ugly giant bags of mostly water." - The crystal lifeform, describing Humans "I sense deliberate concealment, sir." "Of what?" "I don't know, but it's intense." - Deanna Troi expresses concern to Jean-Luc Picard about Kurt Mandl "I'm Luisa Kim, gardener of Edens." - Luisa Kim, introducing herself to the away team "She is as open as she seems." - Deanna Troi, on Luisa Kim "I create life… I don't take it!" - Kurt Mandl "A year's work… destroyed!" - Bjorn Bensen, remarking on the laser drill Data destroyed to save himself "Terraformers are often obsessive. It frequently goes with the career profile." - Troi "…But is it alive?" "Probability: positive." "I wasn't asking you." - Worf and the computer "Terraforming makes you feel almost God-like." - Luisa Kim "Agreed. We will send you home, to your wet sand." - Captain Picard, talking to the crystal lifeform Background information Production history Second draft story outline (titled "The Sandy Soils of Home"): Two-page memo of story notes from Gene Roddenberry: Preliminary script draft: 23 November 1987 Four-page memo of script notes from Gene Roddenberry: 25 November 1987 Third revised final draft script: Filmed: 3 December 1987 – 14 December 1987 Premiere airdate: UK premiere airdate: Story and production This was the final episode of the series on which Gene Roddenberry acted as head writer. Maurice Hurley took over control of the writing staff starting with the following episode, . (William Shatner Presents: Chaos on the Bridge) According to Hurley, the production was troubled. "An interesting idea, but the execution fell apart. I thought it was a wonderful idea. If you could think of all the problems you could possibly put together in one episode, we had it in that one. Casting, sets, location, time, the fact that the director was getting pages the day before we had to shoot … that was a real tough show to do." (Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages, p. 164) Director Corey Allen noted, "I think we struggled with that script for a very long time. The 'Q' in that one was, 'Do I recognize that there could be other life forms than the kind of life I'm used to?' To ask that question was okay, but I don't feel it was asked as strongly as it was in ." (Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages, p. 164) Cast and characters This episode was the second time on Star Trek for Carolyne Barry. Twenty-one years earlier she appeared as a Metron in the episode under the name Carole Shelyne. Continuity Like , this episode also has people with good intentions unwittingly killing and being attacked by creatures that wish to continue to exist. Sets, props, and costumes Among the items and costumes from this episode which were sold off on the It's A Wrap! sale and auction on eBay was a distressed costume worn by Mario Roccuzzo. Reception A mission report by Robert Greenberger for this episode was published in . Video and DVD releases Original UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 9, catalog number VHR 2438, UK re-release (three-episode tapes, Paramount Home Entertainment): Volume 1.6, catalog number VHR 4647, As part of the TNG Season 1 DVD collection As part of the TNG Season 1 Blu-ray collection Links and references Starring Patrick Stewart as Captain Jean-Luc Picard Jonathan Frakes as Commander William T. Riker Also starring LeVar Burton as Lt. Geordi La Forge Denise Crosby as Lt. Tasha Yar Michael Dorn as Lt. Worf Gates McFadden as Doctor Beverly Crusher Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi Brent Spiner as Lt. Commander Data Wil Wheaton as Wesley Crusher Guest stars Walter Gotell as Kurt Mandl Elizabeth Lindsey as Luisa Kim Gerard Prendergast as Bjorn Bensen Co-stars Mario Roccuzzo as Arthur Malencon Carolyne Barry as Female Engineer Uncredited co-stars Majel Barrett as Computer Voice James G. Becker as Youngblood Darrell Burris as operations officer Dan Campise as operations officer Dexter Clay as operations officer Susan Duchow as operations officer David Eum as Nora Leonhardt as sciences officer Tim McCormack as James McElroy as operations officer Lorine Mendell as Diana Giddings Susan Raborn as operations officer Unknown performers as Command crewmember Command officer Female sciences officer Female sciences crewmember Female tactical officer Five operations crewmembers Technician Technician Transporter chief (voice) Two command crewmembers Velara III lifeform (voice) Stand-ins James G. Becker – stand-in for Jonathan Frakes Darrell Burris – stand-in for LeVar Burton Dexter Clay – stand-in for Michael Dorn Jeffrey Deacon – stand-in for Patrick Stewart Susan Duchow – stand-in for Denise Crosby Nora Leonhardt – stand-in for Marina Sirtis Tim McCormack – stand-in for Brent Spiner Lorine Mendell – stand-in for Gates McFadden Guy Vardaman – stand-in for Wil Wheaton References 2360; 2363; 2395; 28th century; ability; accusation; achievement; air; alien lifeform; amount; analysis; android; announcement; apology; apprehension; aquarium; area; artificial intelligence; ; atmosphere; attack; attention; authority; away team; bag; base drilling program; basin; bell jar; biomed research unit scanner; biosphere; biosphere designer; body; brain cell; cadmium selenide; "calm before the storm"; carbon; career profile; carbon; career profile; ; cell division; centimeter; certainty; channel; chief engineer; choice; class M; ; color; communication; computer; computer console; computer program; computer science; concept; conclusion; conductivity; ; conduit; conference room; container; ; contact; containment field; control console; coordinates; damage; ; darkness; day; death; debate; decade; definition; degree; diameter; desalinization; desktop monitor; desolation; detective; director; ; discussion; dome; door; drilling system; Earth; Eden; effect; efficiency; electricity; element; Emergency Manual Override station; emergency power; energy field; energy level; energy pattern; energy surge; environment; environmental systems; excretion; existence; expertise; explanation; facility; fantasy; fear; Federation; feeding; file; firing program; fish; fixed program; gallium arsenide; gardener; geometric shape; germanium; god-like; gravity; growth and development; guest; hailing frequency; harm; ; Henry V; holodeck; home; hum; hydraulic chamber; hydraulic landscaping; hydraulic probe; hydraulics; hydraulics engineer; hydraulics room; hydraulics specialist; idea; image; imager; infrared; injury; inorganic life (inorganic lifeform); input; inspection; instruction; intelligence; intelligent life; intent; ion; job; knowledge; laser drill; lesson; life force; lifeform (life); life support system; light (artificial); light (natural); Livingston; location; magnification; main viewer; malfunction; mass; master servomotor drive system; master subsurface pump; medical lab; memory bank; microbrain; microorganism; mind; miracle; mistake; mister; model; month; motive; MSD; murder; nature; negligence; newcomer; night; nonessential personnel; number one; nursery; observation lounge; obsession; ocean; opportunity; organic life; overload; painting; panic; pattern; peace; percent; permission; person; personnel record; phenomenon; photoelectric; photosynthesis; place; planet; Pleiades Cluster; ; power drain; power surge; Prime Directive; probability; problem; programmer; psych profile; quarantine; quarantine field; quarantine seal; quarters; question; rapport; rate of rotation; ready room; reality; reason; recon expedition; recon scout; refraction; report; reproduction; reproductive cycle; respiration; resting state; rest room; rhythm; ribbon; right; rock; room; sabotage; saline fluid; saline water; salt; sand; scanner; schedule; science laboratory; scientific method; sea; secretion; section; sensor; series; servo-mechanism; shipboard video feed; shock; silicon; single-celled lifeform; situation report; size; skant; snow; sodium salt; speculation; spectral analysis; staff; standard orbit; state of war; starvation; status; storm; subject; substance; subsurface; sulfide; sunlight; surface; tactics; talent; tear; Terraform Command; Terraform Command uniform; terraformer; terraforming; terraforming site; terraforming station; theory; thing; third-in-command; thought; time; timetable; topsoil; trace; training; transistor; translation; translator circuit; transporter power; transporter room; tricorder; truth; tunnel; turbolift; type 1 phaser; universal translator; universe; unnamed plants; unnamed starbase; utility uniform; vacuum; Velara III; Velara Base; vegetation graph; victim; viewscreen; vision; visionary; visitor; VISOR; visual contact; war; water; water table; ; window; work; wound; year Unused production references Velara system External links cs:Home Soil de:Ein Planet wehrt sich es:Home Soil fr:Home Soil (épisode) ja:神に似た人々（エピソード） nl:Home Soil TNG episodes

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Coming of Age (episode)

As Wesley Crusher faces the Starfleet Academy entrance exam on Relva VII, representatives from Starfleet Command conduct an exhaustive investigation into Captain Picard and the Enterprise-D crew. Summary Teaser Wesley Crusher runs through a corridor to catch up with his friend Jake Kurland and tell him he's sorry that Jake didn't make the final exam for Starfleet Academy. Jake was short just 32 points, but says it is okay and wishes Wes the best, though he appears troubled as Wes leaves for Transporter room 8. The is in orbit around Relva VII, where Wesley is taking the Starfleet Academy entrance exam. Captain Picard's old friend, Admiral Gregory Quinn is also at Relva and he requests to beam aboard immediately. He brings Lieutenant Commander Dexter Remmick with him, and wants a private meeting with Picard, on official business, much to the confusion of both Picard and Commander Riker. The three officers go directly to the ready room. Act One Arriving at Picard's ready room, Quinn announces to the captain that Remmick is with the Inspector General's office and is on board the ship to conduct a thorough investigation of the Enterprise. According to Quinn, there is something seriously wrong on the Enterprise, but he won't tell Picard what it is. He emphasizes that Picard is under orders to cooperate fully with the investigation. On Relva, Wes is in the testing center examining a flux coordinating sensor, when a Human girl comes in the room. She introduces herself as Oliana Mirren. She is also taking the test, and claims she's heard of Wesley's reputation aboard the Enterprise. Then a Vulcan, T'Shanik, enters, along with a Benzite, Mordock. In much the same way Oliana has heard of Wes, Wes has heard of Mordock; he constructed the Mordock Strategy. The officer in charge of the test, Lieutenant , enters. He tells them that they are all top candidates and any of them could qualify, but only one of them can go forward to the academy this year. He warns them that the test will be challenging, as well as exhausting and wishes them the best. The candidates all take to their consoles to begin. Later, Remmick is on the bridge, entering information rapidly into his PADD and watching the crew, who are not happy with his presence. Sensing the crew's unease, Riker goes to the ready room to ask Picard what is going on. Picard tells him he doesn't know. Riker is unhappy with this, and he returns to bridge in a huff. Remmick asks and then demands that Riker talk to him, but Riker adamantly refuses, claiming that he has duties to attend to and leaves the bridge on a turbolift. Act Two Down on the planet, the candidates are finishing one part of the exam, the hyperspace physics test. Oliana comments how lucky Wes and Mordock are that everything comes so easy to them, but Wesley denies this, saying he has to study hard. Oliana, who has taken a liking to Wes, says that he's lucky that he's cute, because his statement could be taken as obnoxious by someone else. As Oliana leaves, Wes can hardly believe he's just been flattered by such an attractive girl but begins to second-guess himself when he tries to explain Oliana's behavior to Mordock. Meanwhile, on the bridge, Riker apologizes to Picard for his earlier behavior, and agrees to go with Remmick to the ready room for an interview. Remmick questions Riker about discrepancies in the captain's logs. Unnerved, Riker argues that any questions about Picard should be brought to Picard himself face-to-face. Remmick vehemently reminds Riker that he is required to answer his questions unless he is trying to hide something. After a beat, Riker reluctantly agrees to proceed. Later, Remmick asks La Forge in engineering about the incident with Kosinski and the Traveler, and La Forge is coerced into acknowledging that the captain ultimately lost control of the ship. He then questions Troi about the incident with the Ferengi and , concluding that it demonstrated a mental lapse on Picard's part. Some time later, Wesley is in an empty holodeck when Worf enters. Worf asks him about how his testing is coming along, and Wes says that he's felt prepared for most of them. However, he's most worried about the psych test, a test that confronts the examinee with their greatest fear. Wesley admits that he's in the holodeck because he has no idea what his greatest fear is, and he's trying to figure out what images might scare him the most. Worf tells him there's no point in worrying about something that you can't change and reveals that his own greatest difficulty is depending on someone else for his life. Wes realizes that, as part of being an officer, Worf faces that fear every day. When Wes asks if that means Worf has overcome his fear, Worf replies that, "it is still my enemy." Meanwhile, on the bridge, Tasha Yar detects an unauthorized entry to the shuttlebay – it is Jake Kurland. He steals a shuttle, intending to sign onto a freighter at Beltane IX, unable to face his father after he failed to make the entrance exam. Picard orders him to return to the ship, but Jake refuses out of fear of his father's reaction. This causes him to lose concentration on his flying for a moment and he accidentally unbalances the dilithium reactor, and his engine stalls. He is heading for Relva VII's atmosphere, where he will burn up. The tractor beam won't work and he's out of transporter range. He can't get the engine started as it needs time to cool down, and he starts to panic. Act Three In a calm voice, Picard orders Jake to point the nose of the shuttle towards the planet. Jake initially resists, not realizing Picard's plan, but Picard forcefully repeats the order and Jake does as he's told. Picard tells him to restart the engines and pull up hard when he reaches a certain speed. Jake does this and manages to pull out in time. All on the bridge cheer, including Remmick, who is astounded at what he saw, and La Forge explains that Jake built up enough speed, and then bounced the shuttle off the atmosphere. Remmick then questions Picard on how he got access to the shuttle, but Picard assures him that he will get a refresher in discipline from Commander Riker. Meanwhile, Wes and Mordock are stopped by a tall Starfleet officer called Rondon in a corridor down on Relva. He has a package for the operations department and asks where it is. Wesley steers him in the right direction, as he leaves, he bumps into Wesley's shoulder and starts to insult him. Wes begins to apologize, but suddenly Lt. Chang arrives, wondering what the problem is. Wes begins to explain, but Rondon interrupts with more insults, and raises a hand. Wes seems to realize something, and suddenly stops apologizing and starts shouting at Rondon. All of a sudden, Rondon's mood changes and he laughs and leaves. Chang asks what happened, and Wes says he noticed from his webbed hands that he was a Zaldan, and Zaldans hate courtesy. They view it as insincere behavior meant to cover up true emotions. Chang congratulates him and tells him it was part of the test, and explains that not all tests are announced, or what they appear to be. Mordock gravely admits he wouldn't have passed, as he was unaware Zaldans have webbed fingers. Remmick interviews other crewmembers, among them Worf and Data, who says that there is nothing wrong with Picard, despite Remmick's claim to the contrary. He also questions Dr. Crusher, asking her how she feels serving with the man who was responsible for the death of her husband. She says her personal feelings are irrelevant to the investigation and none of Remmick's business. He finally questions Picard himself regarding his violation of the Prime Directive with the Edo. Picard is at the end of his patience and points out that Remmick must have all the information he needs, as he has interviewed every officer on the ship. Remmick cryptically fires back, wondering that Picard is afraid that he will be found guilty if Remmick keeps investigating. Now angry, Picard retorts that the only thing he is guilty of is allowing Quinn's charade to go on this long. He storms out of the room and heads for Quinn's quarters to find out what's really going on. Act Four Picard demands that Quinn tell him what is going on. Quinn tells him Remmick's report is nearly due and needs more time but relents and calls for Remmick. Nearly at his wit's end, Picard tells Quinn that this investigation has put a strain on their friendship, which Quinn acknowledges and sincerely regrets, but insists that it has been necessary. Back on Relva VII, the candidates are taking the dynamic relationships test and Mordock is having trouble, so Wes helps him. Mordock finishes first, and Chang comes in and tells him his time was the second fastest ever for this particular test. Mordock admits that he does not deserve the honor and that Wes helped him, but Chang knows this. Chang matter-of-factly states to Wes that his choice might not have been the best one, considering that he and Mordock are neck and neck for the lead in overall score. There is only one test left – the psych test. Remmick makes his report to Quinn and tells him he could find no problem on the Enterprise despite his best efforts. The only thing of note he found was a 'casual familiarity' among the bridge crew, but he believes that comes from a sense of teamwork and a feeling of family. Quinn is satisfied and dismisses him, but before he leaves, he lets Picard know that he wants to transfer to the Enterprise once his tour in the Inspector General's office is up in six months, much to Picard's visible discomfort. Quinn urges Picard not to judge Remmick too harshly, as he is a good officer. He then finally explains that the purpose of the investigation was that he had to be sure about Picard. He says there is increasing reports of problems and erratic behavior among those in high positions in the Federation and that he believes someone is trying to destroy it, though he doesn't know if the threat is external or internal. He says he needs people he can trust, and close to him, and offers Picard a promotion to admiral and take over as Commandant of Starfleet Academy. Picard says he doesn't think he's the best man for the job but promises to think about it. Act Five Lieutenant Chang leads Wes to Room 101 where the psych test will take place, and notes that Mordock will be finished with his in a moment. Just then, a visibly shaken Mordock walks out the door, barely aware of his surroundings. Wesley asks him if he is alright, to which Mordock replies, he will be in time. Wes nervously watches Mordock leave before Chang ushers him into the room and wishes him luck. The room is empty except for a chair. For a long while, nothing happens. Wes wonders for a moment if the proctors forgot about his exam, making him more nervous. Then, without warning, a large bang is heard outside. Wes tentatively goes out to investigate, and finds the corridor is deserted. Suddenly, explosions, klaxons and cries for help ring out through the corridor and Wes runs towards them, finally realizing they are coming from the environmental lab. A computer voice indicates that the lab will be sealed off in sixty-five seconds. Wes yells for assistance, but no one is coming. He is the only one who can help. He opens the door and finds the lab is virtually destroyed. Debris and live wires are strewn everywhere, broken pipes are venting gaseous chemicals, and two technicians are calling for help. One is trapped under a fallen pipe and the other is frozen with panic at the far end of the lab and won't leave. Wes learns that the liquid hydrogen stored in the lab is about to explode, and if they don't get out quickly, the computer will seal them in to contain the explosion. He attempts to convince the fearful technician to come and help free the other man, but he won't move. Wes frees the trapped man, and drags him out, but has only just enough time to get him out before the lab is sealed off. Just as Wes picks himself up, he finds Lt. Chang standing over him. Wes frantically tries to explain what happened, but Chang stops him and tells him it's alright. The technician Wes had saved stands up, unhurt, and thanks Wesley, while the other walks out of the lab, very much alive, and gives Wes a wink and a nod. Wes now realizes that this was the psych test, confronting his fear of having to choose between saving one man and leaving another behind. This was because the same situation resulted in the death of his father. Wes had overcome his fear and made a similar choice; whom he chose was not as important as the fact he actually chose to save whom he could; Wes had passed the test. Some time later, Chang says he's proud of all the candidates and hopes they will all return next year. He reveals that Mordock has won, and although Mordock protests that Wes shouldn't have lost points because Wes helped him, Chang tells him that Wes' help wasn't the only difference between them. With this, Mordock becomes the first Benzite in Starfleet. The other candidates congratulate him, and Oliana gives Wes a friendly warning that she won't be easy to beat next year. On the Enterprise, Picard is walking down the corridor when he meets Jake, who apologizes for what he did. Picard reminds him that running away solves nothing but compliments him for keeping his wits about him. He finds Wesley in the observation lounge. He tells Picard that he failed the exam and let him down. Picard disagrees, saying that as long as he did his best, and would improve next year, he shouldn't worry. He reminds Wes that the only person he is truly competing against is himself. He then confides to the young man that he failed the test the first time himself. With Wesley's spirits lifted, he and Picard exit the lounge for Admiral Quinn's dinner. Picard tells Wesley on the way out that he unfortunately must disappoint an old friend. Later, Quinn is leaving, and says he's sorry that Picard turned down the promotion. Picard promises that he will be ready if Quinn needs him. With that Quinn beams back down to Relva. Picard arrives on the bridge and orders Wesley, resuming his duties as acting ensign, to set a course for Algeron IV. With that, the Enterprise warps away. Log entry Captain's log, USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D), 2364 Memorable quotes "Thinking about what you can't control only wastes energy and creates its own enemy." - Worf "Only fools have no fear." - Worf "Expect the unexpected." - Chang, to the candidates "Any problem with using your ready room, Captain?" "No, Mr. Remmick. Be my guest." - Remmick and Picard "You're an android, correct?" "Yes, sir." "And as an android, you are programmed to tell the entire truth?" "Yes, sir." "There's a problem with this ship, Mr. Data. It's in the records. Somewhere. I need your help to find it." "All of the ship's records are available to you, sir." "But this information is very cleverly hidden. Your captain is not what he appears to be. Do not forget you have loyalty to Starfleet above all else." "Loyalty is not the issue, Commander. There is nothing wrong with Captain Picard or the ship's logs. Therefore, there must be something wrong with your original assumption." "That is not acceptable, Mr. Data." "Acceptable or not, sir… it is the truth." - Remmick and Data "Just how did this contaminant come on board?" "By accident, sir." "Meaning that Captain Picard has no standing procedure for this type of situation?" "No. Meaning by accident… sir." "You don't like me very much, do you?" "Is it required, sir?" - Remmick and Worf "My personal feelings about Captain Picard are irrelevant to this investigation… and none of your business." - Beverly Crusher, to Remmick "Mr. Remmick, you have talked to every member of this ship. I think you've had enough time to find out whatever it is you're looking for." "Are you afraid if I keep looking that I'll find you're guilty?" "The only thing I'm guilty of is allowing this charade to go on so long." - Picard and Remmick "How dare you! I am Rondon, you despicable melanoid slime worm! LIAR!!" "Who do you think you're bullying?! You bumped into me! It was your mistake! You were at fault! Do you want this to become violent?" "Friend. I like you." - Rondon and Wesley Crusher "A very strange reaction." "Not really. When he raised his hand, I saw that it was webbed – the sign of a Zaldan." "But you became hostile." "Zaldans are infuriated by courtesy – they view it as a form of phony social behavior designed to cover true feelings." - Mordock, Wesley and Chang, after Rondon leaves "Was this 'incident' deliberate?" "It's important to know how you… candidates deal with other cultures, other species…" "Then it was a test!" "Yes… not all tests are announced or…what they appear to be." - Mordock and Chang "Zaldans have webbed fingers… hmph. I wouldn't have passed." - Mordock "Did you hear what she said, Mordock? She said I was cute." "Is that good, Wesley?" "Yes… I think." - Wesley and Mordock "Mr. Crusher… you're next." - Chang, to Wesley prior to the start of his psych test "I failed, sir. I didn't get into the academy. I failed you, and I failed the Enterprise." "Ridiculous. Did you do your best?" "Yes." - Wesley and Picard "I failed the first time, and you may not tell anyone." "You? You failed?" "Yes, but not the second time." - Picard and Wesley Background information Production history Second draft story outline: Four-page memo of story notes: Bob Justman memo of story notes: Breakdown of optical costs by Dan Curry: Second revised final draft script: 29 December 1987 Third revised final draft script: 30 December 1987 A day of filming: () Premiere airdate: UK premiere airdate: Story and script Although scripted by Sandy Fries, "Coming of Age" was rewritten by Hannah Louise Shearer. (Trek: The Unauthorized Behind-The-Scenes Story of The Next Generation) An early draft of the episode's script, written by Fries, had the working title "Starfleet Academy" and was written while the episode's director had not yet been selected. Starting with this episode, Maurice Hurley took over the job of showrunner from Gene Roddenberry. Hurley was concerned that the show's writing process had stalled under Roddenberry's leadership, and so personally paid for a holiday for Roddenberry and Majel Barrett on the understanding that he would take over while they were gone. Upon his eventual return, Roddenberry opted to leave Hurley in charge of the writing staff. (William Shatner Presents: Chaos on the Bridge) Bob Justman suggested several changes to improve episode flow and cut costs in a memo, including adding an orbital shot to open the episode, noting that a cut to Wesley and Worf in a "calm" program on the holodeck may confuse viewers and be unnecessarily costly, instead recommending shooting in a corridor or the observation lounge (the shot would end up set on the empty hologrid,) and suggesting a single scene featuring Argyle be adapted for one of the regulars (La Forge or Yar) rather than bring in an additional actor. () Production A scene cut for time showed Wesley and the whole bridge crew celebrating his sixteenth birthday. The script named the location of the scene as "Deck 21 Forward Lounge", probably an early predecessor of Ten Forward. The scene also featured a short, humorous bit: Data asks Worf how Klingons celebrate their birthdays, and Worf replies that they do not. Data then asks him, how does he know how old he is. Worf replies: he doesn't know and asks Data how does he know, with Data replying that he has no age. (; ) Cast and characters Ward Costello and Robert Schenkkan both reprise their roles in the episode . This episode was the first time on Star Trek for John Putch. He later appeared as Mendon in and as a journalist in . Robert Ito can be seen as John Kim in and Daniel Riordan as a Bajoran deputy in and as Duras, son of Toral in and . Continuity This episode lays the groundwork for the season's penultimate episode, . Dexter Remmick makes a return in that episode, as does Gregory Quinn. This episode was the first to be directed by Mike Vejar, and it was the only time he directed an episode of TNG. He returned to Star Trek in , when he began directing episodes of and . He continued directing until , when was canceled. Remmick makes reference to the events of , , , and . Wesley's repeat Starfleet exams, which Picard insists that he will take the next year, can be seen in although the testing itself is not shown with the drama associated with the "psych test". Room 101 might be a reference to 's novel , where Room 101 was used to psychologically break the subjects by torturing them with their greatest fears. While Remmick's conversation with Tasha Yar wasn't shown, it is assumed to have happened since Picard said to Remmick that he had spoken to every member of the crew. While in the Academy testing room, the other candidates ask Wesley Crusher if he's old enough to qualify for Academy entry and he replies that he will be 16 next month. This implies that the age requirement to be admitted to Starfleet Academy is 16. Sets and props The original matte painting of the Relva VII surface is in the possession of Dan Curry and displayed in his house. (TNG Season 6 DVD special feature, "Departmental Briefing Year Six – Profile: Dan Curry"). The same background painting was originally created by him for Universal Studios' science fiction television series , where it appeared as the Aldebaran II spaceport in the 1979 two-part episode "The Plot to Kill a City", reused for the later, same season episode "Planet of the Amazon Women" , and was only slightly modified by its creator for its Star Trek appearance, among others by adding the Starfleet symbols on the dome. () This episode features the first appearance of a shuttlecraft model on Star Trek: The Next Generation. Reception A mission report by Patrick Daniel O'Neill for this episode was published in . UK premiere airdate: 6th February 1991 Awards This episode was nominated for an Emmy Award in the category Outstanding Achievement in Makeup for a Series in , namely Michael Westmore, Werner Keppler, Gerald Quist, and Rolf John Keppler. Video and DVD releases Original UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 10, catalog number VHR 2439, UK re-release (three-episode tapes, Paramount Home Entertainment): Volume 1.7, catalog number VHR 4648, As part of the TNG Season 1 DVD collection As part of the TNG Season 1 Blu-ray collection Links and references Starring Patrick Stewart as Captain Jean-Luc Picard Jonathan Frakes as Commander William T. Riker Also starring LeVar Burton as Lt. Geordi La Forge Denise Crosby as Lt. Tasha Yar Michael Dorn as Lt. Worf Gates McFadden as Doctor Beverly Crusher Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi Brent Spiner as Lt. Commander Data Wil Wheaton as Wesley Crusher Guest stars Ward Costello as Gregory Quinn Robert Schenkkan as Dexter Remmick John Putch as Mordock Robert Ito as Stephen Gregory as Jake Kurland Tasia Valenza as T'Shanik Co-stars Estee Chandler as Oliana Mirren Brendan McKane as Technician #1 Wyatt Knight as Technician #2 Daniel Riordan as Rondon Uncredited co-stars James G. Becker as Youngblood Darrell Burris as operations officer Dan Campise as operations officer Dexter Clay as operations officer Jeffrey Deacon as command officer Nora Leonhardt as sciences officer Tim McCormack as Lorine Mendell as Diana Giddings Burt Nacke as Relva VII engineer Richard Sarstedt as command officer Guy Vardaman as Darien Wallace Unknown performers as Command officer Female sciences officer Female sciences officer Female transporter officer Five civilians Nine Relva VII Starfleet officers Operations officer Relva VII female test computer voice Relva VII male computer voice Relva VII technician 1 and 3 Three command crewmembers Two operations crewmembers Stand-ins James G. 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Heart of Glory (episode)

Worf's loyalties to Starfleet are tested when three fugitive Klingons come on board the Enterprise-D. Summary Teaser Starfleet Command sends a communication to the about a disturbance in the Neutral Zone, a battle. There are no Federation vessels in the area, and Commander William T. Riker suggests that the Ferengi are involved. On arriving at the location of the battle, they find a vessel adrift without power. Data scans the debris from the explosions and speculates that the weapons used in the battle may have been Romulan in origin. The drifting vessel is identified as the Talarian freighter Batris, a cargo vessel. Riker has an away team consisting of Data, La Forge and himself beam over to the Batris after Worf detects possible life signs aboard. Act One Riker, La Forge, and Data go to Transporter room 3. The away mission to the Batris gives La Forge a chance to test out his visual acuity transmitter. The device transmits what his VISOR sees, but only has a range of a few kilometers, due to the amount of complex visual information, making it difficult to encode. The away team beams over and finds the ship in ruins. La Forge switches on the transmitter, and the viewscreen shows an image of flashing colors and indistinct shapes, a visual frenzy. Captain Picard is intrigued by the images and asks La Forge how he is able to filter out all the extra information. La Forge compares it to listening to an individual conversation in a noisy room; mentally "filtering out" information that isn't wanted, something he has learned during his years with his VISOR. Picard also has trouble identifying Riker and Data. They move off down the corridor, dodging falling beams amid smoke and deuterium gas. La Forge spots a fissure in the bulkhead, and reckons they only have five minutes until the hull breaches, which will have catastrophic results given its proximity to the engineering section. The bridge loses the transmission from the VISOR. They locate the survivors on the far side of the engine core. Data goes across on his own, to minimize the risk to the others. He returns, telling them that the door to the compartment is jammed. The others run over, and Data pulls open the door. Entering the room, Riker and La Forge discover that there are three Klingons inside the compartment, one badly injured. Act Two They all make their way out of the engineering section, as the ship's superstructure begins to collapse. In the transporter room, Tasha Yar tries to get a lock on them, and tells them to get further away from engineering, but Worf says that there is no time; the Batris is a matter of seconds away from exploding. Picard yells that they have no further options and to beam them out immediately, and Yar tries to do so, but the transport fails and drops them back on the Batris. The away team and Klingons are alarmed to see an explosion racing toward them from the engineering section, and seconds later the entire ship explodes. For a few terrible moments, it appears that the away team has been lost, but Yar is able to materialize them on the transporter pad, having gotten them off right as the ship exploded. The survivors are brought to sickbay, and Picard and Worf go down there to meet them. Dr. Crusher says the injured Klingon is in critical condition. The others introduce themselves as Commander Korris and Lieutenant Konmel. They say they were passengers on the freighter being transported to Outpost M-Zed-5 when a Ferengi cruiser attacked them. Worf says the weapons were of Klingon origin. They agree but reiterate that the ship was Ferengi. They took control at the captain's request, and pretended to surrender, but when the Ferengi dropped their shields they destroyed the cruiser with merculite rockets. Worf shows them to their quarters, but Picard is suspicious as to why they were on the freighter in the first place. In the Klingons' quarters, they get something to eat from the replicator. Worf tells them that as far as he knows, he is the only Klingon in Starfleet, and they mock him, saying he has become soft and docile living among Humans. Then they reassure him, telling him they are only trying to anger him to see if it is still possible. Worf assures them it is. Then the captain calls from sickbay, where the third Klingon, Kunivas, is dying. They go to sickbay, and Korris opens Kunivas' eyes and looks into them. Then all three howl at the ceiling. They leave again, Korris telling Crusher that the body is now only an empty shell, and to treat it as such. Act Three As they return to the Klingons' quarters, Konmel carelessly let's slip that the opponent they battled was in fact not an enemy. Worf asks the pair what really happened, and they in turn ask Worf how he came to be in Starfleet and serving aboard the Enterprise. He tells them that he was at Khitomer as a child when it was attacked by the Romulans. He was buried under some rubble, but survived to be rescued by a Starfleet officer, who brought him home with him. He was raised as his son on the farming colony Gault, and when they were old enough, he and his foster brother attended Starfleet Academy together. His brother hated it and dropped out; Worf stayed. Korris and Konmel tell him that he was shunned and misunderstood all his life, and even now he is driven by something inside, even though there are no other Klingons around. Worf admits those feelings are still there, but that he is able to control them. They say that is the mark of a warrior. Korris says that the peace was like a living death to them and admits that he and Konmel have been lying. They commandeered the freighter and left the crew behind so they could go in search of somewhere they could live as true Klingon warriors. The ship they destroyed was a Klingon cruiser that was sent to bring them back, and they claim they didn't want to fight their brothers but had no choice because those Klingons had been corrupted by the illusion of peace. Worf is initially outraged by this revelation, but Korris placates him and then asks to be shown around the ship. On the bridge, Data comments to Picard that this was the first-time outsiders have witnessed the Klingon death ritual. The howling is a warning to the afterlife that a Klingon warrior is about to arrive. Data then detects a ship approaching, though is unable to yet discern what type. Meanwhile, Worf shows Korris and Konmel around main engineering. Konmel wonders of the battles they could wage if they had command of the Enterprise, but Worf tries to persuade his two fellow Klingons that their desire for battles and glory is something that does not fit into the modern era. Korris, however, remains resolute in his desire to return to the old ways. The approaching ship is in visual range – it is a Klingon cruiser. Picard hails and Commander K'Nera answers. Picard tells him they rescued three Klingons. K'Nera asks if that is all that is left of the . Picard tells him that they were on the freighter and K'Nera replies that they are criminals who have stolen a freighter and destroyed a cruiser. He wants them delivered to him when he arrives. Picard sends a security team led by Yar to arrest the fugitives, who are in a corridor on Deck 17 talking with Worf about the ship's saucer separation capabilities. Just as Worf comments that the Enterprise is an "exceptional weapon" when relieved of the bulk of the saucer section, Yar and her security team arrive. Worf asks what's going on. The Klingons appeal to Worf for help, saying he is one of them. Act Four Then, a turbolift door opens, and a small girl runs into the corridor. Korris picks her up, and after a moment, hands her over to Worf. Yar's team arrests them and brings them to the brig. Yar says she was afraid for a moment that she was going to have a hostage situation, but Worf replies that Klingons don't take hostages, that it's a cowardly thing to do. The prisoners are in the brig when the Klingon ship arrives. K'Nera tells Picard that they will be tried and executed for their crimes. Worf appeals to him, saying their words have stirred something inside him, and asking him to allow them to die an honorable death on their feet with a weapon in their hands on a remote planet in the Halee system. K'Nera says he feels the same as Worf does, but he must follow orders. In the brig, Korris and Konmel assemble a disruptor from their belts and other components of their uniform. They disable the force field and kill security guard Ramos. The second guard hits Konmel three times before he dies, but then Korris kills him too. He runs, and Yar arrives on the scene. She informs the captain what has happened. Korris gets to engineering and climbs onto the second level around the core. He points his phaser at the dilithium crystal chamber and announces that he will only speak to one of his countrymen – to Worf. Act Five Worf and Picard go down to engineering. Yar wants to wait him out, but Worf says that Korris will fire his phaser the moment he feels the situation is not to his advantage, destroying the Enterprise and taking everyone along with it. Worf climbs a ladder and goes up to the second level to talk to Korris. He wants Worf to separate the ship and come with him in the stardrive section. Worf says that Captain Picard will not allow that to happen. He pulls out his phaser and points it at Korris. He can't believe what is happening and appeals again to Worf. Worf tells him he is looking for battles in the wrong place, that the true test of a warrior lies within. He hasn't mentioned duty, honor, or loyalty, the things a true warrior must have. Korris doesn't respond to this, saying that Worf has become weak like the Humans. Worf makes one last attempt to talk Korris into surrender, but this causes Korris to completely lose his temper and angrily tell Worf that he is no true Klingon, momentarily pointing his weapon away from the warp core as he does so. Worf admits that Korris is right, and then blasts him with his phaser, mortally wounding him as well as sending him reeling forwards and down through the glass floor to the first level. Worf returns down and performs the death ritual for Korris. He and Picard return to the bridge and tell K'Nera that the fugitives are all dead. Worf adds that they died well. K'Nera is impressed with Worf and invites him to join his ship when his tour of duty is finished aboard the Enterprise saying that his training and experience would be of benefit to them, and perhaps there are some things they could also teach Worf. Worf says he would be honored. K'Nera closes communications and Worf assures Captain Picard he doesn't want to leave the Enterprise, he was just being polite to K'Nera. Taking a seat in his chair, Picard replies to Worf that the bridge wouldn't be the same without him. Log entry Captain's log, USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D), 2364 Memorable quotes "Is there any special arrangements you would like for the body?" "It is only a empty shell now; please treat it as such." - Beverly Crusher and Korris "And Number One? Everything about this seems wrong." "Agreed, it smells like a trap. Let's go." - Picard to Riker, shortly before he beams over to the Batris "Now, I'm beginning to understand him." - Picard, after viewing what Geordi La Forge sees through his VISOR on the Enterprise-D's viewscreen "(Over the communicator) What is it? What do you see?" "Klingons..." - Picard and Riker, finding Klingons on the Batris "Cowards take hostages, Klingons do not." - Worf "What magnificent battles we could have at the helm of this ship." "Perhaps your dreams of glory no longer fit the time, they belong buried with the past." "Standing here we will never know." - Korris, Worf, and Konmel "The true test of a warrior is not without, it is within." - Worf "Where are the words: duty, honor, loyalty, without which a warrior is nothing?" - Worf "You are a sham! My words were dust upon the ground...your blood has no fire, you are weak, like them! I don't care what you look like, YOU ARE NO KLINGON!" "Perhaps not." - Korris, and Worf just before Worf fires on Korris, killing him. "Starship Enterprise! I am Commander K'Nera! What is your purpose in this area?" - K'Nera to Captain Picard Background information Production history Final draft script: Revised final draft script: Score recorded at Paramount Stage M: (Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Ron Jones Project liner notes ) Premiere airdate: 21 March 1988 Peter Lauritson notifies Gene Roddenberry of Emmy Award consideration: UK premiere airdate: Story A developmental precursor of this installment was the unproduced TNG episode "Once a Klingon", by Herbert J. Wright and D.C. Fontana. Director Rob Bowman noted about this episode, "It was a very late script that [co-executive producer] Maurice Hurley wrote in two days." ("Rob Bowman – Director of a Dozen", ) Cast and characters Marina Sirtis (Deanna Troi) and Wil Wheaton (Wesley Crusher) do not appear in this episode. This was Vaughn Armstrong's first appearance on Star Trek, playing Captain Korris, and his only appearance on The Next Generation. He later played an unequaled twelve other roles in various Star Trek series. Worf actor Michael Dorn once referred to this episode as somewhat lacking in how it portrayed his character, commenting, "Even that one I must admit was just information. It was an informational show. They were explaining where he came from, why he was there, and whether he was loyal. And that was it. You really didn't see the complexity of Worf." (Star Trek: The Official Fan Club Magazine issue 72, p. 4) This is Dennis Madalone's second appearance in Star Trek. He would become the stunt coordinator starting with season 3. Production Stock footage from was evidently used to depict the Klingon battle cruiser in this installment. Rob Bowman found "Heart of Glory" was very enjoyable to direct. "That episode was, I think, one of the easiest of my shows, because everything worked so well," he reminisced. "Once I got the script, ideas on how things should look came very quickly. For instance, the final battle in Engineering was supposed to be played on the first deck. Worf shoots the Klingon, he falls down and that's it. However, nobody had shot vertically in the chamber before, so we did some things in the end with the camera that hadn't been done on the show. One thing I added is that it took three phaser hits to take care of a Klingon. I wanted to make these guys as tough and as bad as I could." ("Rob Bowman – Director of a Dozen", ) Bowman also reminisced about the episode, "I had a lot of fun with Michael [Dorn] on that." () The scenes showing Riker and Data through the visual acuity transmitter were filmed with the photo doubles of Jonathan Frakes and Brent Spiner: Richard Sarstedt and Ken Gildin. Music The episode's score, composed and conducted by Ron Jones, was recorded on at Paramount Stage M. (Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Ron Jones Project liner notes ) Fifteen minutes of the score appear on The Best of Star Trek, Volume One, while the complete episode score, totaling 25 minutes 42 seconds, appears on Disc Three of the Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Ron Jones Project collection. Continuity La Forge's VISOR is tied into the Enterprise-D's viewscreen during the away mission, allowing the bridge crew to see what he saw. It wasn't used again until , although Dr. Tolian Soran later used it against the Enterprise-D in . The appearance of images varied in each occurrence, so much so that it seems no different than normal visual perception in Generations. This episode marks the first time that we see a Klingon death ritual. It is also the first time in the series we see Klingons in their full body armor. This episode alludes to the fact that some Klingons are not happy about being at peace with the Federation. The back wall of K'Nera's bridge featured both the Federation and Klingon emblems, indicating the alliance. When Tasha Yar is beaming the away team and Klingons back to the Enterprise, the panel behind her is flickering on and off on its left side. While in sickbay, Captain Picard mistakenly refers to the freighter they encountered as a Terrelian ship rather than a Talarian ship. While in the engine room, Korris says, "I would rather die here than let the traitors of Kling pick the meat from my bones." The authors of the note, "At the time the episode was written, Kling was intended as the name of the Klingon Homeworld. Once the episode was filmed, it was realized that the name sounded pretty silly, so later scripts simply referred to 'the Homeworld,' and we now assume that Kling is a city or district." The planet was renamed to Qo'noS in . This episode marks the first reference to the Talarians, who did not appear until the TNG Season 4 episode . While investigating the damaged freighter, a matte painting originally made for can briefly be seen over La Forge's shoulder. The painting is a forced-perspective depiction of a series of arches and was originally part of the main engineering set for the refitted . Reception Director Rob Bowman recalled being "pretty blown away" upon reading this episode's script. He also admired how the invulnerability of the Klingons "helped to give the show balls" and concluded, "That episode to me, had lots of strength." ("Rob Bowman – Director of a Dozen", ) Bowman summed up his feelings about the installment by saying, "It was a great episode." () A mission report for this episode, by Will Murray, was published in . In a memo he sent Gene Roddenberry (on ), Peter Lauritson listed this episode as one of the first season episodes which had been submitted for Emmy Award consideration. This entry was recommended for an Emmy due to its editing. Video and DVD releases Original UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 10, catalog number VHR 2439, UK re-release (three-episode tapes, Paramount Home Entertainment): Volume 1.7, catalog number VHR 4648, As part of the TNG Season 1 DVD collection As part of the TNG Season 1 Blu-ray collection Links and references Starring Patrick Stewart as Captain Jean-Luc Picard Jonathan Frakes as Commander William T. Riker Also starring LeVar Burton as Lt. Geordi La Forge Denise Crosby as Lt. Tasha Yar Michael Dorn as Lt. Worf Gates McFadden as Doctor Beverly Crusher Brent Spiner as Lt. Commander Data Guest stars Vaughn Armstrong as Korris Charles H. Hyman as Konmel David Froman as K'Nera Featuring Robert Bauer as Kunivas Brad Zerbst as Nurse Dennis Madalone as Ramos Uncredited co-stars James G. Becker as Youngblood Darrell Burris as command officer Dan Campise as operations officer Dexter Clay as operations lieutenant Jeffrey Deacon as command officer Susan Duchow as operations officer John Eskobar as security officer David Eum as Shana Ann Golden as command officer Tim McCormack as James McElroy as operations officer Lorine Mendell as Diana Giddings Burt Nacke as operations technician Guy Vardaman as Darien Wallace Unknown performers as Female civilian Female medical officer Female sciences officer Female sciences officer Female sciences crewmember Four command crewmembers Command crewmember at tactical Mother Operations officer Six civilians Three operations crewmembers Young girl Stunt doubles Dennis Madalone as stunt double for Vaughn Armstrong Unknown stunt performer as stunt double for Charles H. Hyman Stand-ins and photo doubles James G. Becker – stand-in for Jonathan Frakes Darrell Burris – stand-in for LeVar Burton Dexter Clay – stand-in for Michael Dorn Jeffrey Deacon – stand-in for Patrick Stewart Susan Duchow – stand-in for Denise Crosby Ken Gildin – photo double for Brent Spiner Tim McCormack – stand-in for Brent Spiner Lorine Mendell – stand-in for Gates McFadden Richard Sarstedt – photo double for Jonathan Frakes References ; adrenaline; adversary; Age of Inclusion; alliance; "a lot"; android; answer; area; "as yet"; "as you wish"; "at least"; attack; aura; auxiliary turbolift; away team; Batris; Batris personnel; battle; battle bridge; biobed; birthright; blood; boarding party; body; bone; "bred in the bone"; brother; bulkhead; cadaver; chance; ; choice; cloaking device; "come on"; commander; commandeering; communication; compartment; comrade; conquest; control mechanism; convulsion; coordinates; corridor; course; coward; criminal; ; custody; death; debris; deflector; Deimos; desire; destiny; destruction; deuterium; device; dilithium crystal chamber; dishonor; door; dream; drifting; dust; ear; effect; enemy; engineering section; execution; experience; eye; farming colony; fear; feeling; field of fire; feet; Ferengi; Ferengi cruiser; fire; fissure; food service; force field; fork; foster brother; freighter; friend; Galaxy-class decks; gas; Gault; general cargo vessel; glory; "go back"; ground; guest; hailing frequency; heart; ; Halee system; Halee system planet; hand; heart; "hello"; helm; home; hostage; hostage situation; hour; hull; hull integrity; Human; ; hypospray; illusion; impulse; idea; infidel; information; injury; "in order to"; instinct; interference; K'Nera's battle cruiser; "keep an eye on"; Khitomer Massacre; Khitomer Outpost; kilometer; kindness; Kling; Klingon; Klingon cruiser; Klingon death ritual; Klingon Defense Force; Klingonese; knee; knife; knowledge; ; leader; legend; life sign; life support system; location; long range sensor; loyalty; M-Zed-5; main engineering; main viewer; Mars; meat; medical ability; medical tricorder; Merculite rocket; message; metal fatigue; Milky Way Galaxy; minute; mister; MSD; name; nature; navigation; Neutral Zone; Neutral Zone sector; night; number one; O'mat Gri T'M pffiots; "of age"; "of course"; opponent; order; outpost; outsider; painting; passenger; patient; permission; phaser; phaser discharge; photon; place; point of departure; ; prey; prisoner; problem; propulsion; Quadrant 9; quarters; range; renegade; repent; replicator; report; result; Romulan; room; ; ; ; rubble; saucer separation; scar; Science II; sculpture; search; second; sector; security chief; security team; Security Three; sensor; shield; sickbay; signal; skant; ; sleep; "so far"; soul; sound; spectrograph; speed; standard procedure; Starbase 84; Starfleet; Starfleet Academy; Starfleet uniform; "steady on"; subspace frequency; surrender; survivor; ; tactical officer; Talarian; Talarian freighter; ; thing; tour of duty; trace; training; traitor; transfer; transmission; transporter lock; transporter range; transporter room 3; trap; tricorder; turbolift; type 1 phaser; type 2 phaser; "under control"; unnamed plants; utility uniform; ; viewscreen; VISOR; visual acuity transmitter; visual contact; voice; warp core; warp drive system; warrior; weapon; word; yellow alert External links cs:Heart of Glory de:Worfs Brüder es:Heart of Glory fr:Heart of Glory (épisode) ja:さまよえるクリンゴン戦士（エピソード） nl:Heart of Glory TNG episodes

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The Arsenal of Freedom (episode)

Geordi La Forge leads the Enterprise-D into battle while Captain Picard and an away team are trapped on planet Minos, taking fire from a dangerous automated weapons system. Summary Teaser Arriving at Minos in the Lorenze Cluster to investigate the disappearance of the light cruiser , the enters orbit. Data explains to the bridge crew that the Minosians became famous during the Ersalrope Wars as arms merchants, manufacturing and selling highly advanced weaponry – to both sides in the war. Discovering no life signs on the planet's surface more evolved than plants or animals, they are surprised by a hail from a peddler, which is soon realized to be an automated message from the time of the Wars. Commander Riker, Natasha Yar, and Data transport down to the planet's surface to investigate, Picard cautioning them that if the automated message system is still functioning, then there may well be automated weapons systems as well. Act One Materializing within a jungle, the away team searches the area. Yar finds a piece of melted tritanium and Data uncovers an undamaged high-tech weapon mounted in a ruined structure. Riker comments on the finds, and Yar mentions that whatever weapon melted the tritanium is beyond current Federation technology. Suddenly, Captain Paul Rice, the commanding officer of the USS Drake, appears from behind the bushes and engages Riker, who personally knows him and attended Starfleet Academy at the same time, in conversation. Back on the Enterprise, Ensign T'Su confirms that there are still no lifeforms other than the away team, but that there is an energy build-up close to the commander. Captain Rice asks Riker about the abilities of the Enterprise, which raises suspicions in Riker's mind, and he soon realizes that he's not speaking to the real Captain Rice. Rather than give away any information about the Enterprise, Riker gives Rice false information about the , calling it "a good ship." Riker then reveals to the that he knows Rice isn't real, having among other things not called him "Will" even once, and Rice is quickly replaced by a weapon device. Before the away team can be beamed back to the Enterprise, the weapon fires on Riker, encasing him in a bubble of energy. Yar quickly fires back and destroys the weapon, but the bubble does not disappear from Riker's body. Data and Yar examine the bubble holding Riker in stasis, and contact Captain Picard to tell him that Riker has been trapped by a force field and it is unknown at present if he is still alive. Act Two Unable to transport Riker back to the ship, the captain and Doctor Crusher transport down to the planet's surface to help, leaving Geordi La Forge in charge on the bridge. On the surface, Picard and the others theorize about the reason why the weapon put Riker in stasis rather than kill him. Data is instructed to try and use his phaser to cut away the bubble, but just as he starts, the Enterprise hails the away team, informing them that another energy reading has appeared, and that it is moving towards them. Suddenly, the second weapon arrives and fires, chasing Picard and Crusher from the area. They fall into a deep underground cavern. Picard lands well and is unharmed, but the doctor is almost buried in loose sand and rocks, suffering multiple lacerations as well as significant injuries. Meanwhile, Data and Yar battle with the second weapon, discovering that it has learned and adapted from its previous encounter, and is now evasive and much more difficult to destroy. However, the combined effort of the two is enough to destroy it. Finally noticing the disappearance of the captain and the doctor, Yar and Data try and contact them, but their combadges aren't functioning. Yar decides to go off and try to find them, leaving Data with the still immobile Riker. Back in the cavern, Crusher is nearly unconscious, with a broken arm and heavy bleeding. Picard also discovers that their communicators are malfunctioning. Realizing the need to tend to Crusher, Picard begins to treat her broken arm by using a twig from a branch nearby to fashion a splint and stopping the bleeding by tearing a piece from Crusher's lab coat for a makeshift bandage. Yar returns to Data after failing to find the captain and doctor, and Data informs her that he has figured out the precise setting needed to dissolve the bubble around Riker. He fires his phaser and Riker is released, disoriented, but unharmed. Back on the Enterprise, La Forge receives a report that they can now beam up the entire away team, but suddenly the deflector shields raise automatically, just before one of the weapons starts firing at the ship from almost point-blank range. The blast rocks the ship, but the shields hold. Just before their weapons can target the device and destroy it, it vanishes from the sensors, appearing seconds later behind the ship, and firing again. Realizing that the shields won't be able to stand up to this much punishment indefinitely, and that the away team can't be transported back with the shields up, La Forge is left to ponder his options. Act Three Chief Engineer Lieutenant arrives on the bridge and, hearing La Forge's plan of staying in orbit to try and rescue the away team, demands that La Forge relinquish his command to him; a higher-ranked and more experienced officer. However, La Forge is more interested in trying to destroy the weapon, so he ignores Logan and tells Worf to compute the predicted attack path of the weapon, firing in the dark against their cloaked opponent. Logan continues to interfere, and La Forge sends him back to engineering, saying he's in command until relieved by either Commander Riker or Captain Picard. Back on the planet, a third weapon device has been released, and this time it is equipped with its own deflector shield. Data comments that the weapon continues to upgrade itself after every encounter. With the combined firepower of their phasers, the officers only just manage to destroy the weapon. Data tells the team that the weapons appear every twelve minutes, which gives them all the incentive they need to be off the planet by that time. In the cavern, Picard continues to make sure Crusher doesn't fall unconscious. He discovers that she's got another, more serious wound on her leg, which is bleeding heavily. Searching for a clotting agent, Crusher notices some roots nearby. At the doctor's instruction, Picard breaks a piece off and tastes it to learn how bitter it is, and notices some discoloration when he applies some of its liquid to his hand. Crusher slips in and out of consciousness much to the concern of Picard, who needs her help to treat her as he crushes the root and applies it to the wound. To help her stay awake, he asks her to relate how she knew to use roots she'd never seen before. Crusher explains how she and her grandmother Felisa Howard were present during the Arvada III colony disaster, and it was during this time Felisa learned how to use herbs and roots for medicinal purposes after regular medical supplies had been exhausted. This inspired Beverly to a career in medicine. The root stops the bleeding, and although Crusher is still in shock, he tries to do his best for her by elevating her legs to settle her down. Back on the ship, La Forge and the bridge crew are ready for their first test shot. The Enterprises phasers and photon torpedoes are fired simultaneously, but they miss completely. This is confirmed by the weapon firing on the ship once again. With the crew reporting increasing damage to the shields, and the weapon continuing to fire unabated, La Forge appears increasingly frustrated. Everyone on the bridge is now looking to him for orders. With a hint of hesitation in his voice, La Forge then calls for Logan to come to the bridge. Act Four As soon as Logan arrives, La Forge calls for the Enterprise to go to warp and leave orbit of the planet, surprising everyone on the bridge. He then orders Logan to take command of the saucer section of the Enterprise, to ensure the safety of the majority of the crew by taking it to Starbase 103, while La Forge will be taking the stardrive section back to the planet. La Forge retreats to Picard's ready room to devise his strategy. Counselor Troi enters and gives him some advice on how to properly command the two young junior officers and T'Su, telling him that it is he they will draw strength from. She advises him to show confidence in them, just as Captain Picard showed confidence in La Forge when he left him in command of the Enterprise. La Forge gratefully accepts Troi's advice. When La Forge and the bridge crew have relocated to the battle bridge, the ship separates, leaving the saucer section behind. Meanwhile, back in the cavern, Picard uncovers an alien viewscreen. A holographic projection of the same salesman as they'd seen before appears and begins extolling the virtues of the "Echo Papa 607," the Minosians' ultimate achievement. Picard is shocked to be told that the attacks on the away team and the Enterprise have simply been part of an automated "demonstration" of the weapon. Picard tells the salesman to abort the demonstration, but the salesman says they have to see what the weapon's capabilities are in order to be convinced of its worth. Beverly volunteers that the salesman program doesn't understand anything other than what its been programmed to sell – it has no idea that its parent civilization was wiped out. The salesman continues to explain the system: after each encounter with the enemy, the central unit learns and adapts its weapons to combat them. Once it is activated, the Echo Papa 607 is unstoppable. The captain realizes that this is all too true: it was the Minosians' own weapon system that destroyed their civilization. The unit then signals that the final weapon device is about to be launched. Commander Riker and the others locate the hole the captain and doctor fell through, but there is no way for them to climb down to Picard or Crusher without seriously injuring themselves. Then Data states, that since he can be of more good down there, he should simply jump down, confident that he can withstand the resulting impact of the 11.75 meter drop without damage. This surprises everyone, but without hesitation, the android officer drops down the hole, and easily lands firmly on his feet. Data takes out his tricorder and begins assessing Dr. Crusher's injuries. Riker and Yar take up defensive positions in an attempt to prepare for the final weapon, though neither of them has any ideas as to how to fight it. Act Five As the stardrive section of the Enterprise returns to Minos, La Forge tries to give the two young officers (Solis and T'Su) some encouragement just as Troi suggested. Back in the cavern, the final weapon is launched, and Data attempts to reprogram the targeting settings. Finding no alternate targets for the weapon to lock onto, however, Data draws a blank. Crusher suggests that they just turn the machine off. The idea is so simple, Picard hadn't even considered it. He demands the peddler turn off the machine. Again, the peddler seems not to understand, insisting that they have to see everything the machine can do. Picard says they've seen enough, and quickly agrees to "buy" the Echo Papa 607. Satisfied, the peddler congratulates Picard on his decision and disappears. The effect is immediate – the display screen goes blank, the final surface weapon deactivates, and the dampening field blocking communications is released. However, things are not so good on the stardrive section of the Enterprise. The previous weapon sent after the ship is still functional in orbit of the planet, and is chasing the ship. La Forge orders the ship into the planet's atmosphere, where he hopes atmospheric friction and turbulence will reveal the weapon's presence, despite its cloaking device. As the Enterprise descends, the shields begin to fail and Solis begins to lose helm control, but just in time, T'Su detects a disturbance to starboard. The plan works perfectly as Worf instantly locks phasers on the weapon manually and obliterates it with ease. Celebrating their victory, the bridge crew quickly returns the Enterprise to standard orbit and T'Su reports the away team being transported aboard. When Captain Picard and Riker arrive on the battle bridge, La Forge rises from the captain's chair to relinquish command but Picard refuses. At first La Forge doesn't understand but Picard tells La Forge that when he left, the Enterprise was still in one piece and that he would appreciate it being returned to him in that same condition. So La Forge, delighted that he will remain in command for a bit longer, orders Solis to lay in a course for a rendezvous with the saucer section while Picard and Riker look on and T'Su reports that sickbay says Dr. Crusher will be fine. La Forge orders Solis to engage the warp drive and the Enterprise leaves Minos to rendezvous with the saucer section. Log entries Captain's log, USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D), 2364 Ship's log, USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) Memorable quotes "What happened to all the people?" "War?" "Disease?" "A dissatisfied customer?" - Deanna Troi, Worf, Data, and Geordi La Forge "Captain, we are being hailed." "How can that be, from a planet with no people?" - Data and Riker "If you need a little something 'special', be it for one target, or multiple targets, we got it, you'll see it, here on Minos, where we live by the motto, 'Peace through superior firepower'." - The Peddler, in the automated message played to the Enterprise "Minos, the arsenal of freedom. Perfection in highly advanced weaponry. Versatility, flexibility, and everything one hundred percent guaranteed! So, lock onto my signal and beam on down! Because we don't just provide weapons, we provide complete weapons sys-" - The Peddler "That's a heck of a sales pitch." - Geordi La Forge, on the Peddler "Who sent you here to look for me?" "Your mother. She's worried about you." - Rice's hologram and Riker "Spooky." - Riker, upon beaming down to Minos "Tell me about your ship, Riker. It's the Enterprise, isn't it?" "No... the name of my ship is the... Lollipop." "I have no knowledge of that ship." "It's just been commissioned. It's a good ship." - Rice's hologram and Riker "What's the armament on your ship?" "Ten." "Ten? I don't understand, ten what?" "Six." "Commander Riker, your answers make no sense." "You haven't used my first name once, Paul. You remember it, don't you?" - Rice's hologram and Riker, who is becoming suspicious "You can't fight what you can't see." - Logan to Geordi La Forge "Mr. Logan, you will take command... of the saucer section." - Geordi La Forge "We MISSED!" - Worf "So what went wrong? Where are its creators? Where are the people of Minos?" "Once unleashed, the unit is... invincible – the perfect killing system." "Too perfect... You poor fools – your own creation destroyed you!" - Picard, realizing the truth about Minos, and The Peddler "Captain, Data's going to join you down there." (Data jumps 11.75 m down into the cavern, landing on his feet, unaffected) "Data?" "At your service, Captain." - Riker, Picard and Data "Relinquishing command, Captain." "As you were, Lieutenant." "Sir?" "Mr. La Forge, when I left this ship, it was in one piece. I would appreciate your returning it to me in the same condition. Do you concur, Number One?" "Absolutely, sir." - La Forge, Picard, and Riker, just as Picard and Riker arrive on the battle bridge Background information Production history Revised final draft script: Second revised final draft script: Premiere airdate: UK premiere airdate: Story and script Robert Lewin had originally meant "The Arsenal of Freedom" to develop the implied romantic relationship between Picard and Crusher. Roddenberry, however, nixed the idea, and Lewin cited Roddenberry's lack of interest in character development as his reason for leaving the show. Other sources have suggested that Lewin's departure may also have been stimulated by friction with Maurice Hurley, who adapted Lewin's story and wrote the episode's teleplay. The big emotional scene, with Picard and Crusher trapped in a cavern, was conveniently interrupted by a handy plot development before it could go beyond anything but the vaguest of hints. Originally, Crusher was going to reveal her true feelings to the gravely wounded Picard, but matters were switched so that Crusher was the injured party. This change worked, but the failure of the scene to make its intended point was frustrating not only to Lewin but to director Les Landau and to most viewers. The scene was further marred by a fact not readily discernible to viewers watching at home; it seems that the sand in the cavern was infested with fleas, which made the shoot an utterly miserable experience for Patrick Stewart and Gates McFadden, who were under constant attack by the minute bloodthirsty creatures. (; Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages; Trek: The Unauthorized Behind-The-Scenes Story of The Next Generation) The closed captioning for this episode replaces the term "Ersalrope wars" with "Romulan wars." Production In , production was shut down for a few days because the script of this episode wasn't available yet. This was the second of two occasions in TNG Season 1 when production was stopped for a few days due to the unavailability of scripts (the other being for ). (Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Continuing Mission, p. 56) Director Les Landau whose first assignment as director was this episode, remembered, "...the episode..., was in creative turmoil and going through a massive, last-minute rewrite. In five years, that was the only time the company had to shut down because there was no shooting script to be shot. I was familiar with the sets, cast and crew, so although the script was late in appearing, I had all the knowledge and background to go ahead and do my job. To this day, 'Arsenal' still stands out as one of the better shows, certainly one of the shows with the most production value of any we've ever done. Fortunately, all the elements fell together on that first day. I had the total support of the cast, crew and company to go ahead and do the best job possible. The cast was, and has always been, totally supportive of working with and for me, and I can't say enough about their cooperation." () Cast and characters Wil Wheaton (Wesley Crusher) does not appear in this episode. Marco Rodriguez later played Glinn Telle in and Julia Nickson played in the episode . This episode marks the first Star Trek episode of John Nowak, Patrick Stewart's stunt double. Nowak later doubled Stewart in twenty more episodes and in , , and . He also doubled Mark Margolis in and Robert Picardo in several episodes of . Continuity This episode marks the third appearance of one of the Enterprise-D's chief engineers, after MacDougal () and Argyle (). In this case, it is . The saucer separation was created completely by using stock footage from . Footage of Jonathan Frakes (William T. Riker) from the scene with Rice was later used in the series finale so he could appear younger and beardless. This is the last episode in Season One to have red alert sounded and is also the last appearance of the old style red alert flashing lights. The old style red alert lights only flash on and off at the top and bottom, however, the next episode to have red alert sounded which will be will feature the regular lights that entirely flash on and off and will be used for the rest of the show's run. An Echo Papa 607 drone, holographically masquerading as , stated the had a maximum speed of Warp 3, which would make it the slowest known starship in Starfleet in the 24th century. (That was probably conjecture by the drone's control computer, computed from the speed of ships of their time period.) After , this is the second and final episode to show La Forge in command. This is the first episode of the series to show Worf at the Enterprise-D's tactical station, a position he would be officially stationed at starting with and would remain there for the rest of the series and . This is the third episode to hint at or explore a potential romance between Dr. Crusher and Captain Picard. The first being and the second being . The pilot establishes their non-romantic history and thus is not counted as an episode that explores a romantic partnership between the two characters. Logan shows an interestingly contradictory attitude to La Forge. When he first tries to take command, he suggests that Geordi needs to focus on the safety of the ship. The second time, when Geordi tells him they are leaving orbit, he chides him for abandoning the away team. This may be him simply question any decision La Forge made in order to take command. This marks the second time that a saucer separation appears on screen. The saucer does not get separated again until and the film Star Trek Generations. Sets, props, and costumes The miniature of the Echo Papa 607 was built by visual effects supervisor Dan Curry, using an old L'Eggs pantyhose container and a discarded shampoo bottle. (Star Trek Encyclopedia, TNG Season 1 DVD special feature "Memorable Missions") The prop for the big surface cannon that had been used to melt tritanium, speculated by Riker for being a demonstration model for a potential buyer, was a prop rented from Modern Props. It was later on seen again in as a 22nd century mining laser used on Luna. Reception A mission report for this episode by John Sayers was published in . Video and DVD releases Original UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 11, catalog number VHR 2440, UK re-release (three-episode tapes, Paramount Home Entertainment): Volume 1.7, catalog number VHR 4648, As part of the TNG Season 1 DVD collection As part of the TNG Season 1 Blu-ray collection Links and references Starring Patrick Stewart as Captain Jean-Luc Picard Jonathan Frakes as Commander William T. Riker Also starring LeVar Burton as Lt. Geordi La Forge Denise Crosby as Lt. Tasha Yar Michael Dorn as Lt. Worf Gates McFadden as Doctor Beverly Crusher Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi Brent Spiner as Lt. Commander Data Guest stars Vincent Schiavelli as Minosian peddler Marco Rodriguez as Vyto Ruginis as Julia Nickson as Lian T'Su George De La Peña as Uncredited co-stars James G. Becker as Youngblood David Eum as Richard Sarstedt as command division officer Unknown performers as Command division officer Command division officer Female computer voice Three operations division crewmembers Three science division crewmembers Transporter chief Transporter chief (voice) Two command division crewmembers Stunt doubles Laurie Creach as stunt double for Gates McFadden Dana Dru Evenson as stunt double for Denise Crosby John Nowak as stunt double for Patrick Stewart Unknown stunt performer as stunt double for Brent Spiner Stand-ins James G. Becker – stand-in for Jonathan Frakes Darrell Burris – stand-in for LeVar Burton Dexter Clay – stand-in for Michael Dorn Jeffrey Deacon – stand-in for Patrick Stewart Susan Duchow – stand-in for Denise Crosby Nora Leonhardt – stand-in for Marina Sirtis Tim McCormack – stand-in for Brent Spiner Lorine Mendell – stand-in for Gates McFadden References ability; achievement; Advanced Navigation; aft; air disruption; animal; ; answer; aquarium; area; arm; armament; arms business; arms merchant; "Arsenal of Freedom"; Arvada III; arrogance; assailant (attacker); assignment; atmosphere; attack; attacker; attack path; automated message system; away team; backup crew; backup system; battle; battle bridge; battle section; battle stations; blanket; blood; botanist; ; bridge; buyer; calculation; cannon; cavern; chair; chance; choice; channel; citizen; classified; clotting agent; colony; color; ; communications log; communicator; complement; connector level; confidence; consciousness; "cool head"; course; courtesy call; ; crisis; customer; deck; deflector; deflector shield; ; delivery; ; demonstration model; design; desktop monitor; dirt; disappearance; discussion; disease; distance; ; ; "early bird"; east; Echo Papa 607; efficiency; emergency power; enemy; energy bolt; energy build up; energy field; Ersalrope Wars; exit; experience; explosion; extinction; fake; failure; fame; firing pattern; first name; fish; fog; fool; force field; frequency; friend; ; Galaxy-class decks; grade; ground personnel; hand; heading; heat shield; "hello"; herb; ; ; ; hull; hull temperature; idea; image; information; inhabitant; intelligence gathering device; intelligent life; interrogation; interval; job; knowledge; laceration; landing party; language bank; leadership; leg; life sign; light cruiser; Livingston; location; ; long range probe; "long shot"; Lorenze Cluster; machine; malfunction; main latch; main viewer; medical kit; medical supply; medical tricorder; ; message; meter; Minos; Minosian; minute; mistake; mister; module; motto; mystery; name; natural disaster; nest; noise; number one; object; orbit; order; overload; PADD; patient; pattern search; phaser; phaser lock; photon torpedo; plan; planet; planetary defense system; plague; port; power level; power source; pressure; product; program; program schematic; projectile; projection; question; range; rank; ready room; reciprocal course; red alert; rendezvous; reserve power; right; ring; risk; root; sale; salesman; sales pitch; saucer section; saucer separation; scanner; schematic; sculpture; second; sensor; shield; shock; "shot in the dark"; sickbay; signal; situation report; size; skant; sleep; sound; space vessel; speed; spitting; standard orbit; Starbase 103; starboard; stardrive section; Starfleet; Starfleet Academy; stasis; stasis field; state of the art; static charge; storage; ; student; subject; surface; ; survivor; target; targeting sequence; technology; temperature; test; thing; thousand; top speed; tour; tracking device; trajectory; transporter beam; transporter lock; transporter room 3; tricorder; tritanium; turbulence; type 2 phaser; underbrush; underground structure; unnamed plants; vegetation; velocity; viewscreen; VISOR; vital sign; voice; vortex; war; warp 3; weapon; weapons system; wood; word; wound; yellow External links cs:The Arsenal of Freedom de:Die Waffenhändler es:The Arsenal of Freedom fr:The Arsenal of Freedom (épisode) ja:生き返った死の宇宙商人（エピソード） nl:The Arsenal of Freedom Arsenal of Freedom, The

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Symbiosis (episode)

After the Enterprise-D rescues a freighter crew and the ship's important cargo, Captain Picard faces a difficult dilemma: uphold the Prime Directive, or save an entire civilization from exploitation? Summary Teaser The is investigating unusual solar flares and magnetic activity in the Delos system. While taking a look at the enormous solar eruptions, the crew receive a distress signal from the Ornaran freighter orbiting the fourth planet of the system. The bridge crew, Captain Picard and Commander Riker in particular, are perplexed by the apparent incompetence of the freighter's crew. Act One The Enterprise reaches the freighter and Picard tries to discern the problem from the freighter's captain, but he is unable to describe it without being vague. Data determines the problem for him by connecting to his computer – their electromagnetic coil is misaligned. Picard offers to beam a new one over to them, but the captain admits he doesn't know how to install it, despite being captain of the freighter for over seven years. An attempt to pull the Sanction to safety with the tractor beam also proves fruitless, as the electromagnetic radiation from the system's sun makes a lock-on impossible. Worf warns the rest of the bridge crew that the Sanction is entering the planet's atmosphere, and will not last long. Instead of risking beaming their crew over, due to the solar interference, Yar attempts to beam them to the Enterprise by interconnecting their transporter system with theirs, though quickly gets irritated by the freighter crew's lackadaisical attitude and inability to follow simple instructions. On the first attempt, the cargo of the freighter is beamed over instead. Act Two Riker and Yar momentarily stare at the cargo in disbelief, wondering why the crew would value it over their own lives. With little time to lose, Yar clears the cargo to cargo bay 11 and attempts to beam again. She is able to beam four onto the Enterprise-D in the nick of time. Two are left behind on the Sanction, however, and Yar does not have enough time to make another attempt to lock on to their life signs before the freighter is incinerated re-entering the planet's atmosphere. When the crewmembers, two Ornarans and two Brekkians, arrive, they are very anxious to see the cargo. Even though two of those aboard the freighter have been lost, the primary concern of all four is the cargo. The Ornarans, named T'Jon and Romas, claim that they have paid for the cargo, therefore it belongs to them. The Brekkians, Sobi and Langor, argue that since the payment was lost on the destroyed freighter, the cargo still belongs to them. Sobi and T'Jon begin to fight, using their natural electric charges, until Yar breaks it up by shooting at them with a phaser set on stun. The four are taken to the observation lounge, where T'Jon and Romas reveal that the cargo is felicium, medicine that their planet needs to combat a plague on their planet. Furthermore, Langor and Sobi note that the medicine is very expensive to cultivate and harvest, and they cannot give the medicine when payment has not been delivered. Then, T'Jon reveals that Romas and himself are carrying the plague, and Captain Picard now realizes that the "plague" they have may infect the entire ship. He puts the ship on med alert and calls Doctor Beverly Crusher to report to the observation lounge immediately. Act Three As the Ornarans suffer from their lack of medicine in sickbay, the Brekkians continue to refuse them the cargo. Doctor Crusher reveals that she cannot find a cause of the signs of infection. The Ornarans entreat Picard to give them the felicium, and Picard offers to talk to the Brekkians, asking them to give enough for the Ornarans' needs. The Brekkians agree to "two doses for immediate use." In the cargo bay, Langor removes the casing and measures out two doses. It is revealed that Brekkian society is entirely dependent on the trade of felicium with the Ornarans; they have no other industry, nor do they need it. The Ornarans provide all the goods they need in return. They have focused on increasing the potency of the felicium since there is no cure. Dr. Crusher goes to sickbay and observes T'Jon administer the drug to Romas and then himself, both instantly feeling better, free of any sickness and both exhibiting the same euphoric daze. Entering Picard's ready room, Crusher furiously informs the captain that the "medicine" is really a narcotic, which means there is no "plague", and T'Jon, Romas, and the entire population of their planet, are all drug addicts - the illness they believe afflicts them is simply the symptoms of withdrawal if deprived of the drug for too long. Act Four Data and Riker research the history of the drug which confirms the contraction of the Ornaran plague, though there is not much detail. Dr. Crusher interjects, convinced that the plague has already been cured, but now the Ornarans have become dependent on the addictive nature of the medicine. To Crusher's frustration, though, Picard says he cannot intervene in their societies, despite Crusher's belief she can develop a non-addictive version of the drug. Then, the Enterprise-D receives a signal from Ornara. Someone named Margan wants to contact T'Jon, so Picard, Riker and Crusher go to the guest quarters, as Picard does not want to grant access to the bridge to T'Jon and Romas. Meanwhile, at the science station at the back of the bridge, Wesley Crusher wonders aloud how – and why – people let themselves become addicted to drugs. Initially, the inquiry is directed at Data. However, Yar jumps in and answers for him: drugs have their draw for people in desperate circumstances. Alluding to her own possible use of drugs on Turkana IV, where she was born and grew up an orphan, Tasha explains that drugs often seem to solve problems…which is enough for the common addict, even though nothing has improved in the real sense. When Wesley fails to comprehend all of this, Tasha assures him it's just as well. In the guest quarters for T'Jon and Romas, Margan desperately pleads that the Ornarans on the Enterprise-D must get the felicium to Ornara. T'Jon attempts to explain the current situation, but Margan stops him and terminates the transmission. T'Jon, frustrated, then attacks Riker and demands that the Enterprise-D send the felicium to the planet. Picard does not believe he will kill, and refuses. T'Jon releases Riker. Act Five Langor comes to the Ornarans' guest quarters and asks to talk to Picard. He and Crusher go to the Brekkians' quarters where they offer to "give" the drug to the Ornarans. Picard and Crusher swiftly realize that the Brekkians know full well that there is no longer any plague, because it once afflicted their planet, and they managed to cure it using the felicium, but realized its addictive nature in time to avoid becoming dependent on it. But they have purposely kept this from the Ornarans, exploiting them by keeping them desiring it indefinitely. The last thing Sobi and Langor want is for the Ornarans to break the cycle, which they will do if deprived of the drug any longer. But Picard admits that the Prime Directive prevents him from telling T'Jon and Romas the truth, and requires him to let the Brekkians give them the drug, much to Crusher's visible frustration. In the cargo bay, the Ornarans prepare to leave with the coils they need to repair their ships. Picard arrives with the Brekkians. He informs them they can leave with the medicine, however, he refuses to repair the Ornarans' freighters, again citing the Prime Directive of non-interference for both decisions. Without the ability to repair their ships, the Ornarans will therefore not be able to obtain the drug anymore and will finally break the cycle of addiction, but not before suffering severe withdrawal pains and believing themselves to be dying. After beaming Sobi, Langor, T'Jon and Romas down to Ornara with their cargo, Picard orders helmsman La Forge to put some distance from the Ornaran system and the Enterprise-D heads for the Opperline system, a place never before explored. Memorable quotes "Are we losing our professional detachment, Doctor?" - Picard to Doctor Crusher "… Beverly, the Prime Directive is not just a set of rules; it is a philosophy… and a very correct one. History has proved again and again that whenever mankind interferes with a less developed civilization, no matter how well intentioned that interference may be, the results are invariably disastrous." "It's hard to be philosophical when faced with suffering." "Believe me Beverly, there was only one decision." "I just hope it was the right one." "And we may never know." - Picard and Crusher "Freighter, we're going to lock on the tractor beam and pull you out of orbit." "Hey, that… that's great." - Picard and T'Jon, as the Sanction begins to burn up in the atmosphere "Captain, my console seems to be overloading." - Wesley Crusher "Drugs… make you feel good." - Tasha Yar, to Wesley Crusher "Behave yourselves, gentlemen." - Tasha Yar, to T'Jon and Sobi after they attack each other "You're feeling better?" "Yes, thank you. I'm fine now." - Crusher, when T'Jon and Romas inject themselves with felicium after which their "symptoms" disappear "I guess I don't understand." "Wesley, I hope you never do." - Tasha Yar and Wesley Crusher, discussing drug dependency "Destination, sir?" "I don't care. Let's just get some distance between us and this system." "Course 970, Mark 318, Speed: Warp Three." "Where will that take us, Mr. La Forge?" "The Opperline system." "An interesting choice. Why?" "Curiosity. We've never been there." - La Forge, Picard, and Riker "Wesley, on my home world, there was so much poverty and violence that for some people, the only escape was through drugs." "How can a chemical substance provide an escape?" "It doesn't. But it makes you think it does." - Tasha Yar and Wesley Crusher, discussing drug addiction "Captain, we are beaming over a replacement coil." "Great… and that'll fix us up?" "Yes, once it's installed." "Right." (pause) "And how do we do that?" - Picard and T'Jon "What is the matter with these people?" - Picard "Captain, how long have you been in command of this freighter?" "Seven years, with 26 trips to Brekka." "And you don't know how to align a controller coil?" "It's never come up." - Picard, to T'Jon "Captain, I hope you realize what you've done to us." "Of that you can be sure. Good luck." - T'Jon, after Picard has refused to repair the Onarans' freighters Background information Production history Final draft script: Revised final draft script, and two pages of research notes from de Forest Research: 17 February 1988 One-page memo of script notes from Gene Roddenberry: 18 February 1988 A filming day: 22 February 1988 (Energized! Taking The Next Generation to the Next Level, TNG Season 1 Blu-ray special features) Premiere airdate: Cast and characters This marks Denise Crosby's last appearance as a full cast member. Although Natasha Yar appears in the following episode, , this episode was filmed following that. In the scene with Crusher and Picard leaving the cargo bay at the end of the episode, Crosby can be seen waving goodbye in the extreme background. () Gates McFadden talked about this episode, as a socially relevant TNG installment, in the documentary 50 Years of Star Trek. Merritt Butrick and Judson Scott, who had appeared in (as David Marcus and Joachim respectively), are in this episode as well. However, this is Butrick's final Star Trek role before his death from AIDS in 1989. Judson Scott later appeared in as the Romulan Commander Rekar. Richard Lineback (Romas) later appeared as Selin Peers in and as Kessick in . Margan actor Kenneth Tigar later played Dammar in . Special and visual effects The visual effect of the fluctuating force field around the Enterprise-D while near the star Delos was created by using a bowling ball which was trickled with salt. The salt bumping off the bowling ball was used and squeezed during the digital compostion and turned upside down to give this effect. ("The Making of a Legend", TNG Season 1 DVD special feature) The felicium grains shown in the episode were actually red lentils. Continuity This is the first time that we see a system interlock used with an alien transporter system showing that it is possible to interlock two different types of transporter beams. The only previous time that we see a Federation transporter working in conjunction with an alien beam is when the Enterprise intercepted an alien transporter beam and redirected it to their transporter pad in . This is one of only five TNG episodes (and the only season one episode) that doesn't have a stardate. The others are , , , and . Reception "Symbiosis" featured a reviled 'just say no' discussion on drugs between Wesley and Tasha. (Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages, page 166) Behind-the-scenes footage and bloopers from this episode appeared on a 1988 episode of the LeVar Burton-hosted show Reading Rainbow, "The Bionic Bunny Show." The episode presents behind-the-scenes footage including the makeup process and the filming and editing of a brief sequence on the bridge beginning with La Forge's statement "Solar flares are increasing in magnitude, Captain," featuring editing at The Post Group with Robert Legato, Fred Raimondi and Rich Thorne. This marked the first time outtakes from TNG were officially circulated. A mission report for this episode by Patrick Daniel O'Neill was published in . Director Win Phelps remembers, "There were many continuity problems. Down on the set, we began to notice discrepancies. Some sequences just didn't really work. The actors would say "My motivation is totally wrong here", because a previous scene would be contradictory. They were trying to act scenes that they had never read before, or where substantially different from what they had read. That didn't happen every scene, but it did happen." About Denise Crosby's final scene he recalls, "As Patrick and Gates leave the hold where the drugs were kept, we had Denise wave goodbye to the camera. She was about 40 yards in the background, where nobody would notice. It was Denise's last scene on her last day." () Video and DVD releases Original UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 11, catalog number VHR 2440, UK re-release (three-episode tapes, Paramount Home Entertainment): Volume 1.7, catalog number VHR 4648, As part of the TNG Season 1 DVD collection As part of the TNG Season 1 Blu-ray collection Links and references Starring Patrick Stewart as Captain Jean-Luc Picard Jonathan Frakes as Commander William T. Riker Also starring LeVar Burton as Lt. Geordi La Forge Denise Crosby as Lt. Tasha Yar Michael Dorn as Lt. Worf Gates McFadden as Doctor Beverly Crusher Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi Brent Spiner as Lt. Commander Data Wil Wheaton as Wesley Crusher Guest stars Judson Scott as Sobi Merritt Butrick as T'Jon Richard Lineback as Romas Co-star Kimberly Farr as Langor Uncredited co-stars James G. Becker as Youngblood Susan Duchow as operations division officer David Eum as Shana Ann Golden as command division officer Dan Kelpine as operations division officer Tim McCormack as Lorine Mendell as Diana Giddings Burt Nacke as operations division technician Kenneth Tigar as Margan Unknown performers as Command division officer Female command division officer Female computer voice Female engineer (voice) Female operations division officer Female Vulcan engineer Male operations division officer Operations division officer Operations division officer Seven operations division crewmembers Three command division crewmembers Transporter ensign Two civilians Two science division crewmembers Stand-ins James G. Becker – stand-in for Jonathan Frakes Darrell Burris – stand-in for LeVar Burton Dexter Clay – stand-in for Michael Dorn Jeffrey Deacon – stand-in for Patrick Stewart Susan Duchow – stand-in for Denise Crosby Nora Leonhardt – stand-in for Marina Sirtis Tim McCormack – stand-in for Brent Spiner Lorine Mendell – stand-in for Gates McFadden Guy Vardaman – stand-in for Wil Wheaton References Several thousand years ago; 2164; 2357; ability; agreement; "all hands"; "all right"; "a matter of life and death"; amount; answer; anxiety; area; associate; "at last"; "at least": atmosphere; "at once"; bacteria; barrel; billion; biobed; biofilter; board game; Brekka; Brekkian; Brekkian ancestors; bridge; brute; business; : cargo; Cargo Bay 11; century; chance; chemical substance; choice; civilization; close range; compassion; computer; computer analysis; comrade; conference lounge; console; contact; contagion; corona; course; cultivation; culture; cure; curiosity; customer; danger; deal; death; decaying orbit; deflector shield; ; Deimos; Delos sun; Delos system; Delos system moon; design; desktop monitor; destination; detachment; device; disease; distance; distillation; distress signal; ; dosage; dose; download; drug; drug addict; drug addiction; Earth; effect; electrical system; electrical charge; electrocution; electromagnetic; electromagnetic coil; Emergency Manual Override station; Enterprise history; escapism; event; evolution; exchange; "excuse me"; exploitation; facility; Federation; Federation scout ship (scout ship); felicium; fool; freighter; ; Galaxy class decks; generation; gift; "good luck": goods; guest; guest quarters; hailing frequency; hand; health; history; "hold on"; homeostasis; ; hospitality; hostage; hour; hull; hull integrity; hull temperature; humanoid; impulse; "in control"; "in dispute"; individual; industry; "in exchange"; "in fact"; infection; information; inhabitant; "in private"; "in series"; instinct; "in the meantime"; investment; irony; Langor's grandfather; lie; lifeform; long range shuttle; magnetic field; magnetism; magnification; main engineering; main thruster; main viewer; malfunction; Mars; med alert; medical emergency; medical scan; medical tricorder; medicine; merchandise; Milky Way Galaxy; milliliter; million; minute; mission; mister; model; ; moon; murder; narcotic; neural scan; "no doubt"; number one; observation lounge; "of course"; "one way or the other"; online; Opperline system; Ornara; Ornaran; Ornaran freighter; Ornaran plague; overload; ownership; PADD; pain; painting; passenger; path; "pay a call"; payment; percent; person; phenomenon; philosophy; photosphere; physical reaction; physiology; plague; potency; poverty; ; price; Prime Directive; problem; product; production; prominence; property; purification (chemistry); puzzle; quadrant; question; ready room; reason; reasoning; record; refining; relationship; remorse; result; room; rule; ; Sanction casualties; science station; second; section; sensor; shipment; ship's store; shuttle; sickbay; sickness; signal; size; skant; society; solar flare; solar interference; solution; space travel; spare part; specification; speed; standard orbit; "stand by"; star; status report; substance; suffering; sun flare; sunspot; ; symbiotic relationship; symptom; system interlock; tale; team; technology; temperature; theme; thousand; threat; three-dimensional chess; time; tool; tractor beam; trade; trade agreement; trading; transmission; transporter; transporter coordinates; transporter lock; transporter pad/transporter platform; transporter room; transporter signal; trap; treatment; turbolift; Turkana IV; type 1 phaser; United Federation of Planets; unnamed plants; utility uniform; value; view; viewscreen; violence; virus; visitor; VISOR; Vulcan; warp core; weapon; withdrawal; word; world; "wow"; x-ray; year; yellow alert External links cs:Symbiosis de:Die Seuche es:Symbiosis fr:Symbiosis (épisode) it:Simbiosi (episodio) ja:禁断の秘薬（エピソード） nl:Symbiosis TNG episodes

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Skin of Evil (episode)

A rescue operation to save the lives of a shuttle crew becomes complicated thanks to a malevolent entity, and one Enterprise-D crew member pays the ultimate price in their rescue. Summary Teaser The is traveling through the Zed Lapis sector where it will rendezvous with shuttlecraft 13, carrying Counselor Deanna Troi, who is returning from a conference, along with the shuttle pilot, Lieutenant Ben Prieto. As the engineering crew is conducting maintenance of the ship's dilithium crystals, the ship is flying at impulse, with the main engines deactivated. On the bridge, Worf tells Lieutenant Natasha Yar that deep space probes have picked up no vessels or debris within three light years. Worf then shifts the conversation towards the martial arts competition happening on the Enterprise-D in three days. He asks Yar if she is ready. She replies that she needs some practice with the Mishiama wristlock and break, and if she can use it on Worf, she can use it on anybody, an assumption Worf promptly assures her is valid. He then asks who she is facing, and Yar says her first opponent is science officer . Worf says that she will easily defeat him. However Yar is more concerned about being beaten by Lt. Minnerly, a skilled kickboxer. Worf then boosts her confidence by telling her that she is heavily favored in the ship's pool to win. Yar asks Worf if he placed a bet on her. Worf replies that it is a sure thing. Yar then looks at Worf with a smile. Worf, embarrassed, moves away. Helmsman Lieutenant Geordi La Forge reports to Captain Picard that the Enterprise-D will meet up with the shuttle in just over an hour. Picard comments how it will be good to have Troi back aboard, a sentiment Commander Riker agrees with. Suddenly, Worf receives an emergency distress call from the shuttle. The shuttle's computer is severely damaged and impulse engines are off-line. Prieto can't even tell what their current location is. Picard calls down to main engineering and asks chief engineer Lieutenant Commander Leland T. Lynch how long it would take to restore warp drive. When Lynch complains that he's currently in the middle of re-aligning the dilithium crystals, Picard tells him there is an emergency and they urgently need warp drive. Lynch initially says it'll be more than twenty minutes, and Picard berates him, telling Lynch that they don't have that much time. Lynch promises to re-align the crystals by hand to get warp drive restarted immediately. La Forge then tells Prieto that he's coming dangerously close to a planet, which Prieto confirms. Lieutenant Commander Data reports that the shuttle is near Vagra II, an uninhabited planet. Picard calls down to engineering again and Lynch tells him that although he offers no guarantees, he's working on it and it'll be about three minutes. Just then, Prieto reports that the shuttle is now out of control and has been caught in Vagra II's gravity, to the grave concern of the bridge crew. Act One In engineering, the engineers are frantically trying to restore the Enterprise-D's warp drive. Lynch, along with his engineering crew, quickly re-align the dilithium crystals into the warp reactor and Lynch decides to ignore the final safety check, telling the computer to restart the warp drive. When the ship's computer begins the checklist, Lynch overrides the checks and they go directly to startup. As the warp reactor comes back online, Lynch calls Picard and tells him that they now have minimum warp drive. When La Forge reports course for Vagra II is laid in, Picard orders warp eight. Over the intercom, Lynch tells Picard he recommended minimum warp drive. Picard then tells Lynch he heard his command and to make it so. Shortly thereafter, the Enterprise-D arrives at Vagra II and enters standard orbit, although the ship is not reading the emergency signal from the shuttle. Data runs a scan of the planet. There is no vegetation and no lifeforms on the planet, but the atmosphere is breathable for Humans. Worf locates the shuttle on the planet. It appears to be buried under debris. Picard asks if they can beam up Troi and Prieto; however, the debris appears to be blocking the ship's sensors. Picard, seeing this as strange, orders Riker to prepare an away team. He chooses Data and Yar. Picard signals Doctor Beverly Crusher to join them. On Vagra II, the shuttle's nacelle has been ripped off and the shuttle itself has been embedded within a rock face. The away team materializes on the barren surface of the planet, near the wreckage of the shuttle. Dr. Crusher notes that the signals inside the shuttle are weak. The away team begins to walk over to the shuttle, but a giant black liquid pool is blocking the way. Dr. Crusher asks the away team to walk around it, just to be on the safe side. However, the black substance follows the away team to the right side. Yar suggests that they go to the left, but the substance still follows them. Crusher prepares to step over a narrow part of the pool, but Riker stops her. He then asks if the creature has a skeletal structure. Data scans with his tricorder, however, he cannot confirm Riker's question. Picard asks Data if the black substance is a lifeform. Again, Data cannot confirm. When asked finally if it is possible that this pool is alive, Data says it is but again, he has insufficient information. Then they hear an ominous voice calling Data "Tin Man" and a figure begins to slowly arise from the black liquid. Picard asks Riker what he sees, and Riker simply replies, "Trouble." Act Two Picard signals Riker and comes to the conclusion that the placement of the creature and the location of the shuttle's crash landing cannot be a coincidence. Picard asks Riker to try to communicate with the creature, which Riker does. The creature states that his name is Armus, and asks why the crew has come. Riker explains that they mean no harm and they have injured crewmembers on the shuttle and asks permission to pass over. Armus states that he has not given him a good enough reason. Riker states that preserving life is important to all Humans, but Armus is not satisfied and suggests the Enterprise-D crew leave the planet. Yar walks up to Armus and says that they will not leave without their crew and that they must help them. Yar begins to walk over to the shuttle and is hit by a blast of energy from Armus and knocked away. Riker and Data react quickly and fire their phasers at Armus as Dr. Crusher rushes over to Yar, followed by Riker and Data. Picard asks for a report on the situation and Data says their phasers had no effect on Armus as he seemed to feed off their energy. As Armus retreats back into the black liquid, Picard inquires about Yar's condition. After scanning her body, Dr. Crusher grimly reports that Yar is dead, prompting Picard to have the four of them beamed up quickly. As soon as the away team rematerializes on the transporter pad, Dr. Crusher reports that they will have to get Yar to sickbay immediately if they are to revive her. Picard tells Worf to put the ship on yellow alert and leaves the bridge for sickbay. In sickbay, Dr. Crusher and her medical assistants are desperately trying to revive Yar. When Picard asks for a report on her condition, Crusher reports that it is unchanged. Riker and Data stand in the back, joined by Picard, waiting and watching intently. Crusher puts Yar on total life support, but Yar is still not responding and her synaptic network is breaking down. Crusher, seeing no other choice, decides to go for direct reticular stimulation. The electrical energy goes into Yar's body, but she is still flatlining. Trying the procedure a few more times out of desperation, Crusher then pronounces Yar officially dead, and that Armus sucked the life right out of her. On Vagra II, Armus moves toward the shuttle. Inside, Lieutenant Prieto is unconscious, lying down on his console but Troi is uninjured. She taps her combadge and tries to contact the ship, but Armus is blocking the communication. She can feel Armus' presence, and he taunts her by saying that her friends deserted her and that he killed one of them. Troi says she knows, as she felt Yar die. Armus then says that he wanted to kill Yar to amuse himself. Troi tells him that he thought it would amuse him, but it did not. Sensing that he has a great need for something, Troi asks Armus to let her and Prieto go, and that the crew of the Enterprise-D will not give him what he wants: to break their spirit. Armus coldly replies that if breaking their spirit amuses him, he will do it. In the conference lounge on the Enterprise-D, the senior officers are arguing and talking over each other about Yar's death and how she did nothing to provoke Armus. Only Worf and Picard remain silent. Picard taps the table with his fingers to bring the meeting back under control. He tells the crew that Yar's death is painful for all of them, but they will have to put it aside until the crisis is resolved. Picard makes Worf acting chief of security, which Worf accepts. Crusher says the life signs of the shuttle crew are faint, but the sensor readings are fluctuating, which means they may not be accurate. Riker asks to go down to the planet again and La Forge volunteers to join the away team; his VISOR may see something in Armus that the other crewmembers may not be able to see. Riker asks Worf to join them, but Worf believes he will be better used at tactical, since the main objective is to not battle Armus directly, but to safely bring back Troi and Prieto without any more deaths. Act Three The away team sees Armus stretched out over the shuttle. He is surprised that the away team came back for Troi and Prieto. Troi senses something in Armus, that he was abandoned by his kind. Troi says he cannot hide the emptiness he feels from her. Back on the Enterprise-D, Worf and acting ensign Wesley Crusher are monitoring Armus from a science station. Worf notes that Armus' energy went down when he enveloped the shuttlecraft. Picard asks them to chart it and to see if there is a pattern. The away team beams down again. Armus returns to his humanoid state and speaks with Riker. La Forge examines Armus with his VISOR discreetly as Riker pleads with Armus to see their injured crewmembers, with Dr. Crusher making an impassioned plea to the creature. Armus says she can, but only if she says please. Crusher submits to Armus' strange request and he allows her to communicate with Troi via combadge. Troi responds and says she is fine. Armus is angered when the crew continues to ask him about going over and helping their crewmembers, which he views as ungrateful. He then rises up again, but taller than before. Armus uses his powers to throw Data's phaser and La Forge's VISOR away. La Forge, blinded, falls to his knees looking for his VISOR. Data directs him, but Armus moves it away. Data then refuses when Armus demands that he try to help La Forge again, knowing he will just keep moving the VISOR away anyway. Angry that the crew won't amuse him, Armus allows Data to retrieve the VISOR then leaves. Armus re-envelops the shuttle, and on further probing from Troi, reveals how he came to be. The original inhabitants of Vagra II devised a process via which all their negative drives would be physically manifested as a "dank and vile" second skin, which could then be shed. This left them as "creatures whose beauty now dazzles all who see them," who then left the planet, while the parts that they left behind coalesced into the singular being that is Armus. Troi expresses sympathy for him, but this causes Armus to temporarily lose cohesion. He becomes enraged again, he shakes the shuttle, then moves over to the away team. Suddenly, Riker falls to the ground and is dragged toward Armus' liquid state. Riker screams for Data's help, but Armus threatens to kill Riker if any of them touches him. The first officer is sucked into the slick and disappears beneath the surface. Picard orders the away team to return to the ship, but Armus warns that if they leave, Riker and the crash survivors will all be killed. Data, La Forge, and Crusher gasp as Riker's lifeless face briefly surfaces, wracked with pain, before disappearing back into the pool. Act Four Picard, after seeing the grave danger his crewmembers are in, decides to beam down. Troi, feeling her imzadi, struggling and in pain, pleads with Armus to let him go. Armus continues taunting Troi, with her begging him to let the away team go. He considers it, but then realizes that Picard has beamed down. Data surmises that, since death can no longer alleviate Armus' boredom, then Riker is, indeed, still alive. Picard asks to see his crewmembers, and Armus asks Picard to entertain him, but Picard refuses. Armus replies that he will have to provide entertainment for himself. Data, under Armus' influence, takes out his phaser and points it at Crusher and then Picard. Armus asks Data how he would feel if he was responsible for the death of Captain Picard. Data notes that as he is not in control of himself, thus he would not be an instrument of his death. Armus then makes Data point the phaser at Dr. Crusher, then La Forge, then finally, has Data point the phaser at his own head, before finally having Data drop the phaser from his hand. Data feels that Armus must be destroyed, since he is capable of great cruelty and sadism and thus he cannot be redeemed. Picard again asks Armus if he can see Troi and Prieto. Armus lets Picard see one member of his crew, Commander Riker, covered in black, who is finally brought up to the surface by Armus. Act Five As Crusher sees to Riker, Picard tells Armus that this is now between the two of them. He tells Armus to let the Enterprise-D beam up the remaining members of the away team; they are beamed back to the ship. Picard is eventually allowed to see Troi and is taken inside the shuttle by Armus. He checks Prieto's pulse and finds that he's still alive, while Troi asks if they were able to revive Yar. Picard, regretfully, tells her that they weren't. Troi is saddened by the loss of her friend, but Picard is able to find out about Armus' past, and works out how to distract him long enough for Troi and Prieto to be rescued. Armus brings Picard back outside the shuttle, and asks to be taken aboard the Enterprise. He makes it clear that he wants to find Vagra II's original inhabitants and avenge himself upon them. Picard attempts to sympathize with Armus, who irately dismisses his attempts and taunts him over Yar's death. On the Enterprise, Worf and Wesley notice that Armus' energy field has almost weakened enough for Troi and Prieto to be transported, and set the computer to automatically beam them out when the field weakens sufficiently. In response to Armus' claims to be the embodiment of evil, Picard says that true evil would be allowing Armus to force them into giving him what he wants. Armus threatens to kill Picard and the shuttle crewmembers, to which Picard points out that even if Armus murders them, he will still be immortal and alone, forever, on Vagra II. Armus lets out an angry scream, and is distracted enough and the Enterprise-D beams out Troi and Prieto from the shuttle. Finally, Picard announces he will not take him anywhere, at which Armus yells out another enraged scream as the Enterprise-D beams up Picard, once again leaving Armus as the only lifeform on the entire planet as the sadistic creature continues to scream in rage. Back on the Enterprise-D, Picard orders that the shuttle be destroyed with a photon torpedo fired from the ship so that Armus will not have a chance to leave Vagra II and declares the planet off-limits. Still, as Picard notes in his log, the damage has already been done. On the holodeck, a funeral on a grassy knoll with a bright blue sky for Yar has begun. All of the senior staff – Worf, Data, La Forge, Beverly and Wesley Crusher, Riker, Troi, and Picard – attend the service. To begin the service, a hologram of Yar is played, with her noting all of the exceptional qualities that each member of the crew possess and what she in turn learned from them. The service concludes when the hologram of Yar fades away. Everyone leaves the holodeck, except Data and Picard. Data notes that, during the service, he was not thinking about Yar, but how empty it will be without her. He asks if he missed the point of the service, but Picard assures him that he understood it completely. Log entries Captain's log, USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D), 2364 Memorable quotes "Data, something's got me!" - Commander William Riker, while being pulled into the black sludge "Lieutenant Yar's death is very painful for all of us. We will have to deal with it as best we can for now. Until the shuttle crew are safely beamed aboard the ship, our feelings will have to wait, is that understood? Lieutenant Worf, you're now acting chief of security." "I will do my best, sir." - Captain Picard and Worf "You wanted her to suffer. You have a great need." "I need nothing." "Liar!" - Troi talking to Armus after the death of Tasha Yar "I think you should be destroyed." - Data, to Armus "She said you'd be back." - Armus, to the Enterprise away team regarding Troi "I would guess that death is no longer sufficient to alleviate its boredom." - Data, on Armus "If any of you leave now, he dies… and so do the survivors of the crash." - Armus "Save your compassion; it's revolting. You offer it like a prize, when, in fact, it's an insult." - Armus to Captain Picard "A great poet once said "All spirits are enslaved that serve things evil.'" - Captain Picard quoting from "Prometheus Unbound" by Percy Bysshe Shelley to Armus "You say you are true evil? Shall I tell you what true evil is? It is to submit to you. It is when we surrender our freedom, our dignity, instead of defying you." "I will kill you, and those in there." "But you will still be here. In this place. Forever. Alone, immortal." (Armus begins growling loudly)"That's your real fear: Never to die. Never again to be united with those who left you here."(Armus begins screaming) "I'm not taking you anywhere." (Armus screams continually as Picard beams out) - Captain Picard and Armus – "We are here to honor our friend and comrade, Lieutenant Natasha Yar. Coming to terms with the loss of a colleague is perhaps the most difficult task we must face in the work we have chosen to pursue. We will all find time to grieve for her in the days that are ahead. But for now, she has asked that we celebrate her life, with this." - Picard, introducing Tasha's holo-recording. – "Hello, my friends. You are here now watching this image of me because I have died. It probably happened while I was on duty, and quickly, which is what I expected. Never forget I died doing exactly what I chose to do. What I want you to know is how much I loved my life, and those of you who shared it with me. You are my family. You all know where I came from and what my life was like before. But Starfleet took that frightened, angry young girl and tempered her. I have been blessed with your friendship and your love." - Tasha Yar, to the crew of the in her recorded message – "Will Riker, you are the best. You trusted me, you encouraged me, and most of all, you made me laugh." - Tasha Yar, to William T. Riker in her recorded message – "Deanna, you are capable of so much love. You taught me without ever having to say a word. I realized I could be feminine without losing anything." - Tasha Yar, to Deanna Troi in her recorded message – "Ah, Worf. We are so much alike, you and I: both warriors, orphans who found ourselves this family. I hope I met death with my eyes wide open." - Tasha Yar, to Worf in her recorded message – "Beverly. Your fierce devotion comes from within. It can't be diminished. From you, I have learned to strive for excellence, no matter what the personal cost." - Tasha Yar, to Beverly Crusher in her recorded message – "Wesley, I'm sorry I won't be able to see you grow into the exceptional man you'll become. But your kindness and innocence are ageless." - Tasha Yar, to Wesley Crusher in her recorded message – "Geordi, in those moments I felt the most despair, you took my hand and helped me to see things differently. You taught me to look beyond the moment." - Tasha Yar, to Geordi LaForge in her recorded message – "My friend Data, you see things with the wonder of a child. And that makes you more Human than any of us." - Tasha Yar, to Data in her recorded message – "Captain Jean-Luc Picard. I wish I could say you've been like a father to me, but I've never had one so I don't know what it feels like. But if there was someone in this universe I could choose to be like, someone who I would want to make proud of me, it's you. You who have the heart of an explorer and the soul of a poet. So, you'll understand when I say: death is that state in which one only exists in the memory of others; which is why it is not an end. No goodbyes, just good memories. Hailing frequencies closed, sir." - Tasha Yar, to Jean-Luc Picard in her recorded message – "Au revoir, Natasha. The gathering is concluded." - Picard – "Sir, the purpose of this gathering confuses me." "Oh? How so?" "My thoughts are not for Tasha, but for myself. I keep thinking, how empty it will be without her presence. Did I miss the point?" "No you didn't, Data. You got it." - Data and Jean-Luc Picard (last lines) – Background information Production history Final draft script (titled "The Shroud"): Four-page memo of script notes from Robert Justman: 27 January 1988 Maurice Hurley "polish" of final draft script (still titled "The Shroud"): 28 January 1988 Three-page memo of script notes from Robert Justman: 29 January 1988 Revised final draft script: Two-page memo of script notes from Robert Justman: 4 February 1988 Score recorded at Paramount Stage M: (Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Ron Jones Project liner notes ) Premiere airdate: 25 April 1988 UK premiere airdate: Story and script The original title of this episode was "The Shroud" (another name for the entity), and during the funeral/memorial scene, Commander Riker was scripted to have "signs of the shroud" still on his face. The writing of this episode was influenced by Natasha Yar actress Denise Crosby requesting to be released from the series because she had become disappointed by how little Yar was being developed in the series' first season. On leaving the show and marking the end of her character, Crosby stated, "Gene [Roddenberry] really felt that the strongest way to go would be to have me killed. That would be so shocking and dramatic that he wanted to go with that." (Trek: The Next Generation Crew Book) At the time this episode was written, several rumors had been surfacing that Roddenberry's lawyer, Leonard Maizlish, was rewriting a majority of the season's scripts, an illegal act in terms of Writer's Guild policies. According to one source, Maizlish was responsible for the dismal manner of Yar's demise, and wanted to be sure that Roddenberry's story idea was enforced, and that Yar's death happened as a matter of course during a dangerous mission, despite the differing views held by the various writers involved with the story. In the end, there was considerable controversy among the show's staff regarding this death: some felt that it was cynically manipulative, while others felt that a swift death made sense to avoid sentimentality. (Trek: The Unauthorized Behind-The-Scenes Story of The Next Generation) Cast and characters Denise Crosby has expressed that, if more TNG scripts had provided parts for her that were as strong as this episode, she would never have asked to leave the series. (Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Continuing Mission, p. 61) She has also said that, had there been more scenes like the one at the beginning of the episode between her and Worf, she may have considered staying on the show. () However, Crosby added, "Perhaps Tasha should've really gone out in a blaze of glory. There's never any real battles ever fought. The show is never supposed to be about violence and it shouldn't be. But I think if you have one cause for there to be a show about a real violent battle, that was it. Let's see this supposed expert security officer do her stuff." (Trek: The Next Generation Crew Book) Denise Crosby later returned to the series, firstly as an alternate timeline version of Yar (in ), then as Yar's offspring Sela (in , , , and ), and finally as Yar again in the series finale . As a whole, Troi actress Marina Sirtis felt she did some of her best work in this episode, citing it as one of two episodes from the first season that she fondly recalls, with the other being . (Trek: The Next Generation Crew Book) In describing TNG Season 1 and Gene Roddenberry's attempts to "push the limits a little," Jonathan Frakes stated, "I think we took greater chances then than we do now. The shows may be better, the level of it, but 'Skin of Evil' was absurd. We had Patrick sitting and talking into a black oil slick – but what was wrong with that? [....] That was absurd." Frakes referred to the physicality of his own part in the episode as another bizarre aspect of the installment. (Trek: The Next Generation Crew Book) He expressed sadness, too, regarding Crosby's departure in "Skin of Evil", musing, "That's an episode where we were all crying as our characters and ourselves." (The Fifty-Year Mission: The Next 25 Years, p. 112) Frakes also commented, "It's ironic, that they finally came up with a script that gave Tasha great things to do, and it was the one where she died." ("Jonathan Frakes – Commander William Riker", ) Mart McChesney later portrayed the Sheliak director in . This episode marks the first appearance of recurring background actress Juliet Cesario. This was also Wil Wheaton's final appearance of the first season. Roddy McDowall was a favorite of director Joseph L. Scanlan for voicing Armus in this episode but ultimately didn't get the part. (Creating the Next Generation, p. 60) Production Michael Westmore created Armus' head, whereas his body was represented with a costume made by Makeup & Effects Laboratories. () The black slime was actually a mixture of and printer's . (Journey's End: The Saga of Star Trek: The Next Generation) The slime was created by TNG's special effects department. Westmore recalled, "It was a combination of printer's ink and a water-soluble gel, but I don't know what else was in it because it caused the glue in the costume – very strong shoe glue – to undo itself, and the costume would fall apart, so we would need a new costume for the next day!" () The scene when Riker is sucked into Armus was actually performed by Jonathan Frakes himself. During a break in filming – while Frakes was lying on the beach set, covered in the black sludge – LeVar Burton approached him and said, "Frakes, I never would have done that!" (Journey's End: The Saga of Star Trek: The Next Generation) Recalling the experience, Frakes himself said, "I suffered physically like a fool with Mikey – sure, I'll get in that black fucking Metamucil shit. That was absurd." (Trek: The Next Generation Crew Book) Filming the funeral/memorial service for Yar was an emotionally charged affair for the cast and crew; indeed, the tears cried by Marina Sirtis during the scene were real, as she and Denise Crosby had become particularly close friends while working together on the series. () Sirtis regarded Yar's holographic farewell as "one of the most moving things we've ever shot," adding, "Jonathan [Frakes] and I were standing together at that point and I was sobbing… unfortunately, I started sobbing which got Jonathan very teary-eyed and set the tone. Every time Denise [Crosby] looked at me, she just walled up because I was so sad that this was happening. I cried all day. No matter how many times I heard Denise do [the lines], no matter how many takes, it still made me cry." (Trek: The Next Generation Crew Book) Despite the cast being very deeply saddened by Denise Crosby's departure, there was meanwhile a need for the cast to try to avoid becoming maudlin about the situation and instead maintain a sense of levity during production. As Jonathan Frakes later recalled, there was a particularly memorable lighthearted moment on the set; while shooting the final holodeck scene for Yar's funeral, Patrick Stewart jokingly lightened everyone's mood by singing "The Hills Are Alive" from the musical The Sound of Music as they were walking up the grassy knoll. (The Fifty-Year Mission: The Next 25 Years, p. 112) On another occasion, Frakes spoke not only about how sad he had found "the day we finished up filming that last show," but also remarked about Crosby, "She shot her farewell message to us in one take." ("Jonathan Frakes – Commander William Riker", ) Music The episode's score, composed and conducted by Ron Jones, was recorded on at Paramount Stage M. (Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Ron Jones Project liner notes ) The complete episode score, totalling thirty-two minutes, twenty-four seconds, appears on Disc Four of the Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Ron Jones Project collection. Continuity With its depiction of Natasha Yar's death, this episode marks the first time in Star Trek history that a regular character is killed and not brought back to life. Although Tasha Yar dies in this episode, Denise Crosby's name remains in the opening credits for the remainder of the season. The stardate for this episode (41601.3) is set before the stardates of seven other first-season episodes, four in which Tasha Yar is still alive: , , , and . This episode is part of a story arc involving Data's treatment as an equal member of Starfleet. Armus continues to refer to him as just a device. In episodes of the second season, he is continued to be regarded as such until , when Data is declared property of Starfleet. Reception According to Ronald D. Moore, strong dissatisfaction among fans and production staff with the manner of Yar's death in this episode was one of the main reasons the character was brought back in the alternate timeline of . (Chronicles from the Final Frontier, TNG Season 4 DVD special features) Alternatively, in his online review, writer Keith R.A. DeCandido expressed much more satisfaction with Yar's death in this episode, saying, "Frankly, I've never gone along with the complaints about how Yar is killed. Klingon feelings notwithstanding, there's no such thing as a 'good' death, and Yar going out in a blaze of glory isn't inherently any better than being casually snuffed out by a sadistic oil slick. In fact, Yar's death is in keeping with the deaths of security people throughout Trek history – the only difference is that this one's listed in the opening credits… I actually prefer this random, pointless death to the clichéd-up-the-wazoo one she would get in the third season's 'Yesterday's Enterprise', though many, including the cast and crew of the show and a large chunk of the fanbase, disagree with me." DeCandido also commented on Yar's death in general, saying, "The loss of Yar is unfortunate. While it's true the character as portrayed didn't live up to the character as envisioned – Yar was the most interesting person in the TNG bible – that's also true of a lot of characters. Denise Crosby has never been the best actor in the universe, but Michael Dorn, Jonathan Frakes, and Marina Sirtis weren't any great shakes in the first season, either, and their characters didn't blow the doors off. They got better with time, and there's every reason to believe the same would've been true for Crosby had she remained." A mission report by Robert Greenberger for this episode was published in . Reviewing this episode for its re-release on video in the UK in , Star Trek Monthly described it as "arguably the bravest moment in all of Star Trek for being the permanent death of a regular character in such a sudden manner." Video and DVD releases Original UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 12, catalog number VHR 2441, UK re-release (three-episode tapes, Paramount Home Entertainment): Volume 1.8, catalog number VHR 4649, As part of the TNG Season 1 DVD collection As part of the TNG Season 1 Blu-ray collection Links and references Starring Patrick Stewart as Captain Jean-Luc Picard Jonathan Frakes as Commander William T. Riker Also starring LeVar Burton as Lt. Geordi La Forge Denise Crosby as Lt. Tasha Yar / (hologram) Michael Dorn as Lt. Worf Gates McFadden as Doctor Beverly Crusher Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi Brent Spiner as Lt. Commander Data Wil Wheaton as Wesley Crusher Guest star Mart McChesney as Armus Co-stars Ron Gans as Voice of Armus Walker Boone as Leland T. Lynch Brad Zerbst as Nurse Raymond Forchion as Ben Prieto Uncredited co-stars Majel Barrett as Computer Voice James G. Becker as Youngblood Juliet Cesario as operations division officer Dexter Clay as operations division officer Tim McCormack as Burt Nacke as operations division technician Steve Reed as Enterprise-D science officer Guy Vardaman as Darien Wallace Unknown performers as Female medical officer Female medical officer (voice) Female science division crewmember Female science division officer Technician Three command division crewmembers Two female operations division crewmembers Stunt doubles Dana Dru Evenson as stunt double for Denise Crosby Tom Morga as stunt double for Jonathan Frakes Stand-ins Demetrius Bryant – stand-in for Armus James G. Becker – stand-in for Jonathan Frakes Darrell Burris – stand-in for LeVar Burton Dexter Clay – stand-in for Michael Dorn Jeffrey Deacon – stand-in for Patrick Stewart Susan Duchow – stand-in for Denise Crosby Nora Leonhardt – stand-in for Marina Sirtis Tim McCormack – stand-in for Brent Spiner Lorine Mendell – stand-in for Gates McFadden Guy Vardaman – stand-in for Wil Wheaton References acting; aikido; "a lot"; "all right"; amusement; analysis; answer; antimatter injectors; assumption; "as yet"; atmosphere; attack; attention; audio; au revoir; away team; battle; beauty; blood; blood pressure; boredom; brain; bridge; cellular structure; central nervous system; "change my mind; chart; checklist; chief of security; child; choice; circulatory system; cloud; coincidence; colleague; "coming to terms"; community; compassion; competition; competitor; computer; comrade; conference; conference room; contact; coordinates; cortical stimulator; course; crash landing; creature; cruelty; current feed; damage; danger; day; death; debris; deep sensor probe; despair; device; dignity; dilithium articulation frame; dilithium assembly; dilithium crystal; direct reticular stimulation; distress call; ; effect; emergency; emergency signal; emergency transmission; emptiness; energy; energy core; energy field; energy level; entertainment; entity; evidence; evil; excellence; existence; explorer; extinction; eye; fact; family; father; father figure; fear; feeling; feminine; first officer; flight control computer; force field; freedom; frequency; friend; friendship; frustration; funeral; Galaxy-class decks; gift; goal; gravity; hailing frequency; hand; harm; hate; haywire; heart; holodeck; hologram; ; hour; Human; humanoid; hypospray; idea; image; impulse power; imzadi; "in effect"; "in fact"; information; ; insult; intelligence; intermix ratio; internal organ; "in time"; ; kickboxer; kindness; last will and testament; leader; liar; library computer; lifeform; life sign; light year; life support; location; loneliness; love; machine; main engineering; main viewer; martial arts; matter injectors; matter-antimatter reaction assembly; meaning; medical tricorder; medkit; memory; meter; microvolt; Minnerly; minute; Mishiama wristlock; mission; mister; moral judgment; musculature; neural stimulator; neural system; neuron; non-humanoid; norepinephrine; number one; observation lounge; obstacle; "off limits"; onboard system; "on the safe side"; order; orphan; "out of control"; override; pain; painting; parallel transport; path; pattern; personification; phaser; phaser energy; pilot; prize; pity; place; poet; position report; ; preventive maintenance; prime; problem; protein; proximity; psychology; pulse; quality; race; rage; ratio; reactant; ready room; reason; rendezvous; respiration; reticular stimulation; right; "right away"; robot; sadism; science officer; Science II; sensitivity factor; sensor; ; ship's pool; Shuttlecraft 13; shuttle crew; sickbay; sight; skant; skeletal framework; slick; soul; spirit; standard orbit; Starfleet; start-up sequence; status; status report; strength; survivor; ; synapse; tactic; tactical station; thing; thought; "Tin Man"; s; transportation; transporter; Transporter Room 4; tricorder; turbolift; type 2 phaser; Type 7 shuttlecraft; unnamed plants; utility uniform; universe; Vagra II; Vagrans; vegetation; VISOR; vital signs; warp drive; warp power; warrior; wonder; word; yellow alert; z-particle; Zed Lapis sector Unused production references Zed Lapis system External links cs:Skin of Evil de:Die schwarze Seele es:Skin of Evil fr:Skin of Evil (épisode) ja:悲しみの星に消えたターシャ（エピソード） nl:Skin of Evil TNG episodes

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We'll Always Have Paris (episode)

Captain Picard encounters a woman from his past after her scientist husband's experiments begin to unravel the fabric of time. Summary Teaser The is on its way to Sarona VIII for some much needed shore leave. Captain Jean-Luc Picard is getting a head start by fencing with Lieutenant Dean. Although he loses the first point, he wins the second. As Dean congratulates him, time loops, and the moment between them is repeated. When the captain and Dean notice this, Picard hails Riker, who confirms that it also occurred on the bridge. Picard goes to the bridge, where Data reports a moment in time repeated itself. Worf receives an automated distress call from the Pegos Minor system from Paul Manheim, calling for help and directing them to a set of coordinates. Picard remembers that Manheim left Earth fifteen years previously, along with a team of scientists, to perform experiments on non-linear time. It must be related, and he orders the helm to travel there immediately at warp 8. Act One Data explains that Manheim was highly respected, particularly because of his theories about the relationship of time and gravity, but his theories didn't find acceptance. Picard says that he knew of Manheim teaching at the university in Paris when Picard was there, but never met him. After he orders Riker to check how widespread the time distortion was, Deanna Troi approaches him. She tells him Manheim's name caused an emotional response in him, and advises him to try to analyze his feelings in this area. Picard brushes off her concerns and leaves the bridge. Picard goes to the holodeck, where he recreates the Café des Artistes, Paris, 22 years previously on April 9th at 1500 hours, "a warm spring day", as he recalls it. He enters and is greeted by the waiter. He admires the view, and tells the waiter he had a rendezvous with a woman there many years before, and he didn't show. The waiter asks Picard if she had shown up and Picard does not know, but has always imagined she did. He sits at a table, and overhears a conversation between two women. One of them, Gabrielle, is waiting for a man to show up. The other gets frustrated and leaves. Gabrielle asks Picard why her man didn't show. He answers that maybe he was afraid, but then gets annoyed with himself, declares "enough of this self-indulgence" and leaves for the bridge. Riker tells him that the and the farming colony on Coltar IV both experienced the loop. Since Manheim was performing time-gravity experiments, it could be linked to him. They reach the given coordinates, but there is nothing there. Then new coordinates arrive, directing them to the Vandor system, a binary system of a red giant and a pulsar. When they reach Vandor, Data detects activity on Vandor IV, a planetoid in an elliptical orbit of the binary system. There is a small force field on the planet. Picard hails the planet, but doesn't mention his name. A woman answers, saying Manheim is having convulsions. She lowers the force field, and both are beamed directly to sickbay. Picard heads there with Data and Riker. Dr. Crusher puts Manheim on the biobed, and when Picard enters, the woman calls him Jean-Luc. Act Two Picard introduces the woman as Jenice Manheim, and asks her what happened. She says a second lab was completely destroyed in an accident, killing everyone else. Manheim believed that there were infinite dimensions, and that by changing the constancy of time, a window could be opened to these dimensions as, according to him, time is no more immutable than space is. He had been trying to do this in his lab. She tells them the team spent two years searching for a location before settling on Vandor, a planetoid in a system with the pulsar's dense gravity, and that he thought he was very close to proving his theories. He had installed a security system and force fields, and he made her stay in a protected room whenever he performed an experiment. As he neared his goal, he became more and more obsessive, maybe causing his judgment to be clouded. She also tells Picard he's done well for himself, being the captain of a great starship on the far reaches of the galaxy. Then Dr. Crusher enters and asks to do some tests on Jenice, who kisses Picard on the cheek as she leaves. Crusher tells Picard that Manheim is dying, but she doesn't know why. The three officers leave sickbay and enter a turbolift, for the bridge, but when the doors open they see themselves in the corridor before they got on the lift. As the doors close, the "past" Data supposes that the Manheim Effect is becoming more pronounced, before they enter the lift. In the captain's ready room, Data says there is immense energy emanating from the planetoid's core being focused at the lab. Riker says if they want to find out what's going on, they're going to have to beam down. Picard agrees, and an away team tries to beam down, but they can't materialize on the planet, as the signal is being bounced back up. Transporter chief Herbert is afraid he is losing them. Act Three Fortunately, Herbert is able to bring all three back to the Enterprise, and Riker contemplates options. In sickbay, Manheim wakes. He tells Jenice that it was all worth it, and that he has been on the other side, another dimension. His mind is still floating between two places. Picard and Data arrive, and Manheim tells them he was able to harness a dynamic energy source in center of the planetoid and open a crack, a window to another dimension, but when he learns how far the effect has spread, he tells them it must be shut down. He will give them the transporter coordinates and the security codes to get into his lab. In the observation lounge, Data says the closing of the window must be timed to match the occurrence of the effect, or the new dimension will rip further into the fabric of the galaxy and reality itself will be fundamentally changed and become unrecognizable. Jenice comes in as they are leaving, and Picard remains behind to talk to her. She asks him why he didn't come to Café des Artistes 22 years ago. They joke about it, but he eventually tells her he was afraid of staying, of losing himself. She says the real reason was that he thought life with her would be ordinary. Act Four Troi visits sickbay. She asks Crusher how Manheim is doing, but she really wants to talk about how Beverly feels. She says she can't compete with a ghost from the past, which is what Picard sees when he sees Jenice. On the bridge, Data is informing Picard that the next distortion will occur in 28 to 47 minutes. Picard then is called down to sickbay to talk to Manheim. He warns Picard he might have forgotten some of the security codes. Then he asks him to take care of Jenice if anything should happen. Picard agrees, and Manheim tells him she's had a terrible time the last few years. He gave her no attention, and he thinks she deserves better. Picard suggests he underestimates her, as he had done. Picard tells Data he wants him to go down alone, since he is not affected as badly by the time distortion as the others, decreasing the risk of disorientation affecting the mission. Data agrees, and he beams down successfully. As he approaches the lab, he is fired on by phasers mounted on the wall, but manages to destroy them. He keeps an open comm channel as he goes into the lab. Act Five The next distortion will occur in ninety seconds. Data explains he has to add antimatter to realign the system. He gets the antimatter and goes to the opening. Suddenly, there are three Datas, only one of whom is in the correct time continuum. They figure out which one it is and he releases the antimatter and seals the hole. Manheim has returned to normal, but is unable to describe his experiences, only saying there is some kind of life there. As his lab is intact, he wants to go back and finish his experiments, telling Jenice he has learned too much, and that he owes it to his friends. She agrees. Later, Troi brings her to the holodeck, where Picard awaits in the Paris program. He tells her he wanted to say goodbye properly. She thanks him for Paris and Picard returns to the bridge, where he orders Geordi La Forge to set course for Sarona. Log entry Captain's log, USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D), 2364 Memorable quotes "You've done well. A great starship – on the far reaches of the galaxy. It's everything you'd hoped." "Not exactly. Nothing works just as you hoped…" - Jenice Manheim and Jean-Luc Picard "I've been away far too long." - Picard, upon viewing the holographic simulation of Paris, France "Enough of this self indulgence." - Picard, exiting the Café des Artistes holo-simulation "Mr. Data, what's going on?" "Dr. Manheim forgot to mention one of his security precautions, sir." - Picard and Data, after Data is attacked by Paul Manheim's security system "Oh, we are us, sir. They are also us. So, indeed, we are both us." - Data, on duplicate versions of the crew "Are you all right?" "Why wouldn't I be? I've got one of the medical wonders of the galaxy dying in my sick bay!" "That's not what I meant." "I don't think I want to talk about what I think you mean!" "Captain Picard." "I can't compete with a ghost from his past. No one could." "She's not a ghost. She's here right now." "She may be in the here and now, but it's the ghost he sees. Excuse me, I have to get back to my patient." - Deanna Troi and Beverly Crusher Background information Production history Final draft script: Four pages of research notes from de Forest Research, and Gene Roddenberry receives a four-page memo of script notes from Robert Justman: 25 February 1988 (memo mistakenly dated 19 February 1988) Score recorded at Paramount Stage M: (Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Ron Jones Project liner notes ) Premiere airdate: UK premiere airdate: Story and script This episode was affected by the Writer's Guild strike of 1988, with the result that filming had to be shut down while the show's ending was written. () Its title was a direct reference to the classic 1942 film . () Indeed, Riker recalls a bar on Sarona VIII, and Picard recalls its name – the Blue Parrot Café. This is the name of Signor Ferrari's bar in Casablanca. In the original draft of "We'll Always Have Paris", writers Deborah Dean Davis and Hannah Louise Shearer wanted to create a romantic mood with the insistence that Picard do "the wild thing" – discreetly, during commercial – some time in the course of the episode. The idea was vetoed by a number of men involved in the production – most notably Patrick Stewart. (Trek: The Unauthorized Behind-The-Scenes Story of The Next Generation) Music The episode's score, composed and conducted by Ron Jones, was recorded on at Paramount Stage M. (Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Ron Jones Project liner notes ) The complete episode score, totaling 25 minutes 38 seconds, appears on Disc Four of the Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Ron Jones Project collection. Cast and characters Michelle Phillips is best remembered as one of the four members of the '60s music group , which had such hits as "California Dreamin'" and "Monday, Monday". (Star Trek 30 Years) Jean-Paul Vignon, the actor playing Edouard, the waiter of the Café des Artistes, is the only actor (main actor or supporting actor) playing a French person in TNG who actually speaks French as a first language. Wil Wheaton (Wesley Crusher) does not appear in this episode. Dan Kern (Lieutenant Dean) later appeared as Kellan in and Lance Spellerberg reprised his role from this episode in the second season episode . Continuity When Data attempts to determine which version of himself is in the correct time continuum to patch the time disparity, he uncharacteristically uses a contraction when he says "Me! It's me!" A scene filmed earlier including Patrick Stewart and Marina Sirtis on the bridge also includes the arm and shoulder of Denise Crosby's character Natasha Yar who died in . Jean-Luc Picard is the first character to use a terrestrial date when he has the holodeck recreate the Café des Artistes as it appeared 22 years earlier on April 9th. According to Janice Manheim, Paul Manheim's theory is that there are infinite dimensions, with the constancy of time holding individuals within one particular dimension. would establish that there are in fact numerous alternate quantum realities, each with differences based on decisions made, and that a rupture in time could cause one to shift between those realities. Sets, props, and costumes The diamond shaped chrome shelf unit in the Café des Artistes was originally part of James T. Kirk's apartment room furniture in and was also used in the TNG pilot as well as Counselor Troi's quarters in . The continuity issues associated with door signage continue in this episode. The characters refer to this holodeck as "Holodeck Three" (a problem which also occurred in ) when the signage clearly indicates the holodeck is four (or more formally, holodeck area 4-J). And the turbolift, first seen in "The Big Goodbye", which is seen to the right of the main door into the holodeck shows signage which is more appropriate to a room. According to the by Larry Nemecek, the menu at the Café des Artistes includes such delicacies as "Croissants D'ilithium", "Klingon] Targ a la mode", "Tribbles dans les blankettes", and "L'Antimatter Flambé". Inspired by noticing that there was a fencing scene in this episode's script, illustrator Andrew Probert planned to design a scoreboard for the scene, which Production Designer Herman Zimmerman recommended he do, but to also meanwhile propose a costume idea. () Elements from Dr. Manheim's lab, including the ceiling, are reused in as part of the Operation Theatre. Reception A mission report for this episode by John Sayers was published in . Remastered version Two seconds of footage could not be located when CBS Digital remastered this episode as part of the TNG Season 1 Blu-ray collection. Occurring twelve minutes, twenty-five seconds into the episode, this brief shot of actor Jonathan Frakes was included as an upconverted image from the original standard-definition videotape. This shot constitutes the only bit of missing footage in the entire Season 1 Blu-Ray collection. Video and DVD releases Original UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 12, catalog number VHR 2441, UK re-release (three-episode tapes, Paramount Home Entertainment): Volume 1.8, catalog number VHR 4649, As part of the TNG Season 1 DVD collection As part of the TNG Season 1 Blu-ray collection (see previous heading for missing film footage) Links and references Starring Patrick Stewart as Captain Jean-Luc Picard Jonathan Frakes as Commander William Riker Also starring LeVar Burton as Lt. Geordi La Forge Michael Dorn as Lt. Worf Gates McFadden as Doctor Beverly Crusher Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi Brent Spiner as Lt. Commander Data Guest stars Michelle Phillips as Jenice Manheim Rod Loomis as Paul Manheim Co-stars Isabel Lorca as Gabrielle Dan Kern as Lt. Dean Jean-Paul Vignon as Edourd Kelly Ashmore as Francine Lance Spellerberg as Transporter Chief Uncredited co-stars Majel Barrett as Computer Voice James G. Becker as Youngblood Darrell Burris as operations division officer Dexter Clay as operations division officer Jeffrey Deacon as command division officer Susan Duchow as operations division officer David Eum as Nora Leonhardt as science division ensign Tim McCormack as Lorine Mendell as Diana Giddings Steve Reed as Enterprise-D science officer Guy Vardaman as Darien Wallace Unknown performers as Command division officer Command division officer Couple Female command division officer Female science division officer Flower woman Man on phone Musician Three operations division crewmembers Two command division crewmembers Woman on phone Stunt doubles Victor Paul as stunt double for Dan Kern Brian J. Williams as stunt double for Brent Spiner Unknown stunt performer as stunt double for Patrick Stewart Stand-ins James G. Becker – stand-in for Jonathan Frakes Darrell Burris – stand-in for LeVar Burton Dexter Clay – stand-in for Michael Dorn Jeffrey Deacon – stand-in for Patrick Stewart Nora Leonhardt – stand-in for Marina Sirtis Tim McCormack – stand-in for Brent Spiner Lorine Mendell – stand-in for Gates McFadden References 2342; 2347; 2349; 2355; 2364; accident; "a head start"; aircar; amount; analogy; android; antimatter; anxiety; April; aquarium; area; arrival; "at least"; "at the moment"; audio; automated signal; away team; bar; B class star; beard; binary star system (aka binary star, binary system); biobed; bird; blue concoction; Blue Parrot Café; body function; bridge; Café des Artistes; Café Moulin; calculation; chair; channel; cheese; choice; circulatory system; cloud; ; Coltar IV; "come in"; "come on"; computer; consciousness; ; contact; convulsion; coordinates; countdown; course; crack; damage; danger; date; day; decade; deck; defense system; ; déjà vu; desktop monitor; dimension; disorientation; distress signal; earring; Earth; effect; Eiffel Tower; elliptical orbit; emergency transmission; empath; emotion; energy; energy source; ensign; "excuse me": exit; experiment; expression; farming colony; fear; Federation; feeling; fencing; foil; fool; force field; freighter; French; French language; frequency; friend; Galaxy class decks; ghost; glottis; goal; gravity; hailing frequency; hat; here and now; hiccup; hole; Holodeck 3; homeostasis; hour; husband; ice; idea; Ilecom system; illusion; image; "in a moment"; information; inhalation; "in order to"; "in private"; "in reality"; "in real time"; "I see"; ; kindness; knowledge; laboratory; ; Lalo captain; landing point; latitude; leg; lie; light year; lionfish; Livingston; location; longitude; madame; main system; Manheim Effect; Manheim project; medical emergency; medical test; medical tricorder; menu; Milky Way Galaxy; mind; minute; (angle); mister; mmHg; model; monsieur; musician; name; nature; NCC-7100; neural scan; neurochemistry; night; north; note; number; number one; nurse; observation lounge; "of course"; "on my way"; PADD; pain; painting; Paris; path; Pegos Minor system; personal life; phenomenon; pigeon; place; planet; planetoid; pleasure; practical application; problem; professor; prognosis; program; protected room; pulsar; question; rain; range; ready room; reality; reason; record; red giant; relationship; relay signal; rendezvous; repercussion; report; research; rescue; respiration; sacrifice; Sarona VIII; scientist; second; security code; security system; self-indulgence; sensor; shore leave; sickbay; sky; solution; sound; space; speed; spring; ; standard orbit; star; Starfleet Headquarters; statue; "stitch in time saves nine"; success; sun; surface; table; taxicab; teaching; team; temperature; terminator; "thank God"; theory; thought; thousand; time; time continuum; time distortion; time distortion episode; time effect; time gravity experiment; "time flies when you're having fun"; toast; towel; transporter chief; transporter room; transporter system; truth; Tuesday; tunnel; turbolift; type I phaser; unnamed medical tool; unnamed musical instrument; unnamed plants; unnamed sector; Vandor IV; Vandor system; view; viewer; viewscreen; visionary; VISOR; vital signs; voice; ; waiter; Wednesday; week; wife; window; wine; wing; "with pleasure"; word; work; year; Zanza Men's Dance Palace Menu references Antimatter Flambé; Aquanaut; bateaux; beurre; cafe; cheveaux; Croissants D'ilithium; dessert; fleur; Francais; frittes; frommage; gateaux; Jean Cougar Mellencamp; Klingon; pain; poisson; targ; tomat; tribble; vanilla glace Unused production references Bordeaux; Pegos Minor sector; Tarte tatin External links cs:We'll Always Have Paris de:Begegnung mit der Vergangenheit es:We'll Always Have Paris fr:We'll Always Have Paris (épisode) ja:時のはざまに（エピソード） nl:We'll Always Have Paris TNG episodes

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Conspiracy (episode)

After Captain Picard receives a dark warning from an old friend, the Enterprise-D returns to Earth to stop an alien invasion from taking over Starfleet Command. Summary Teaser The is en route for the planet Pacifica for a scientific mission. Commander Riker, along with the rest of the crew, is looking forward to seeing the blue waters and es that make the planet a jewel of the galaxy. On the bridge, Geordi La Forge is telling a joke to Data, who, after going into detail of why it is funny, starts to laugh rather unconvincingly before stopping and returning to his console. While talking to Riker, Counselor Troi says that she is most looking forward to taking a swim while visiting Pacifica. After asking Worf if he will do the same, he remarks that he finds swimming to be too much like bathing. A moment later, Data detects a code 47 transmission coming in – meant for the commanding officer's eyes only. Asleep in his quarters, Captain Jean-Luc Picard is contacted by Riker and is told that the ship is receiving a code 47 emergency message from one Walker Keel, an old friend of Picard's who is captain of the . Keel asks Picard for a secret rendezvous on the abandoned mining colony on Dytallix B. Even though it is a secured channel, Keel says to Picard that he cannot tell him what this is all about and insists they meet face to face. Act One Picard quickly arrives on the bridge and asks Data what he knows about Dytallix B. Data reports that Dytallix is one of seven planets mined for the Federation by the Dytallix Mining Company. Picard orders the helm to travel there immediately, with no record of the change and no communication to Pacifica. He goes to his ready room, leaving Commander Riker to wonder what is going on. On arriving at Dytallix B, Picard meets alone at the entrance to a mining tunnel with Walker and two other captains, Tryla Scott and , who, after confirming Picard's identity with a series of questions about his past, tell him about their suspicions of a conspiracy of some sort reaching up to the highest levels of Starfleet Command. They don't have all the answers, but they cite recent suspicious orders and deaths. They are convinced that people, even top-level personnel, are "changing" somehow. Keel already suspects his first officer and chief medical officer. The only sign of the change appears to be loss of long-term memories. They ask that Picard stay vigilant. Act Two After returning to the Enterprise, he first consults Deanna Troi, saying he believes Keel and trusts him as a friend, even though he is violating Starfleet regulations. Picard looks into the matter, having Data review Starfleet directives of the past six months. While Data is reviewing the records in Picard's ready room, the Enterprise continues on to Pacifica, but along the way encounters an unusual disturbance in a nearby sector. Picard re-directs the Enterprise toward it, and they eventually identify it as shipwreck debris. Speculating that it could be one of the three ships they encountered at Dytallix B, Worf informs them that based on the volume of debris, it could only be the , Walker Keel's ship. Act Three In light of Keel's death, Picard tells Riker about the suspicions Keel voiced in the observation lounge. Picard is connecting them with Rear Admiral Quinn's earlier that year when the admiral was aboard the Enterprise during its visit to Relva VII. During their conversation, Data enters and reports what he has found: during the past six months there has been a great deal of "uncustomary reshuffling of personnel – usually in the command areas" of a select number of starbases. Furthermore, the new officers have had a great deal of contact with the highest levels of command. Data hypothesizes that the reorganizations are an attempt by a hostile force or individual to control important sectors of Federation territory. Faced with this information, the Enterprise returns to Earth. Upon entering orbit of Earth, the Enterprise is contacted by three admirals from Starfleet Command, requesting an explanation for their return. Picard states that he would prefer a discussion of that sort occur in private; the three admirals convene for a moment, then invite Picard and Riker to dinner at Starfleet Headquarters for the discussion to take place. Quinn says that he will not be able to attend the dinner, but that he would like to see the Enterprise once again. Just before he is beamed up to the ship by Dexter Remmick, he looks at a purple, scorpion-like creature he has in a case. Act Four When Quinn is on board the Enterprise, he bluffs his way through references to old times, stating that his earlier perception of a threat to the Federation was merely a metaphor for the "tumultuous process" of assimilating new species into the Federation. Picard realizes that Admiral Quinn is an impostor of some sort and after leaving Quinn, tells Riker to observe the admiral closely while he beams down alone to dinner. Also, he wants Doctor Crusher to give him a full medical examination under false pretenses; after Riker reaches his conclusions, he is to join Picard on Earth, in force if necessary. Picard then beams down and meets with Rear Admiral Savar and Vice Admiral , as well as Dexter Remmick. On the ship in the guest quarters, Quinn offers to show Riker the creature and tells him about it. It was discovered by a Starfleet survey team on an uncharted planet, and Quinn refers to it as "a superior form of life". When Riker says he'll get his science officer to examine it, Quinn grabs his arm very strongly, saying the creature will only like Riker. After a brief scuffle, in which Quinn displays amazing strength, Riker is knocked unconscious, but not before calling security. Running down the corridor, Worf and La Forge arrive, calling a medical emergency. Quinn says that Riker slipped and hit his head, and then announces his departure. When they try to detain him, however, he throws La Forge out into the corridor, his body knocking down the door. He turns to Worf and tells him it is now between he and him. Act Five He similarly beats Worf before being repeatedly phasered with increasingly powerful stun settings into unconsciousness by Dr. Crusher. In sickbay, Crusher's scans show that Quinn really is Quinn, but she and Worf discover a bizarre appendage sticking out of the back of his neck. On Earth, the two admirals try to subtly persuade Picard that there is in fact no conspiracy. However, they reveal they know his first officer by name, which is unusual. Furthermore, they know the Horatio is destroyed, and they blame Keel's negligence. Dinner is announced, so Picard takes a moment to contact Riker. Crusher answers on Riker's combadge, as Riker is unconscious. Crusher informs Picard that a parasitic creature of some sort has taken control of Quinn and all his brain functions. The spike at the back of Quinn's neck appears to be a gill, which is a helpful indicator of those who have been taken over by one of the creatures. Crusher states her doubts about removing the creature, believing it would kill Quinn. She instructs Picard to set his phaser to kill rather than stun, which has little effect on the creature or its host; Picard, however, believing that no one beams down to Starfleet Headquarters armed, has no phaser with him at all. Picard goes in to dinner. The dish being served is a bowl filled with insect larvae. Picard is disgusted, and realizes that everyone at the dinner has been infiltrated by the aliens. He gets up to leave, and runs into Riker. Riker has also apparently been taken over by the creature: he has a gill in his neck, as confirmed by the being inhabiting Aaron. So, too, has Captain Scott. The "conspirators" announce that they have known of Picard's intentions the whole time. They talk of their plan to infiltrate the Enterprise. Riker moves to eat the living food, but instead he pulls out a type 1 phaser and shoots the dining security guard. When Captain Scott draws her phaser at Riker, Picard grabs at her arm and throws off her aim, allowing Riker to shoot her as well. However, Admiral Savar begins to subdue Riker with a Vulcan neck pinch. Picard then grabs the Captain Scott's phaser and uses it to take down Savar. Admiral Aaron flees the dining room, and Picard and Riker pursue and shoot him in the hallway after he returns fire. The admiral falls to the ground, and the parasite infesting him crawls out of his mouth and goes under a nearby door. They follow it to find Remmick sitting in a chair. He turns to look at it, unconcerned; Riker goes to shoot it, but Picard stops him, as the creature crawls up Remmick and enters his mouth. He swallows it, and it begins moving around in his neck. "We mean you no harm", he says as he stands, his neck noisily bulging in and out. "We seek peaceful coexistence". Picard and Riker open fire with their phasers, knocking Remmick back into the chair. Riker aims higher and destroys Remmick's head, the outer layer of skin vaporizing and the rest exploding. Remmick's chest cavity begins to dissolve, and a large creature breaks through with several blood soaked parasites trickling behind, screaming at the two Starfleet officers. With a disgusted look on his face, Picard opens fire again with Riker following suit, both phasers continuing until the creature is vaporized, leaving several blood soaked parasites around the chair and floor, and the decapitated smoldering remains of what was once Lieutenant Commander Remmick. Back aboard the Enterprise, Picard notes in his log on how strange it is to be taught to respect all life and then having no choice but to destroy it. Picard further elaborates that Admiral Quinn will make a full recovery, and with the death of the "mother creature" inside of Remmick, the remaining parasites died while Riker reveals that Dr. Crusher had simulated the gill on the back of his neck in order to fool everyone, including Picard. As the Enterprise moves on into space, Data theorizes that the message Remmick was transmitting at the time he died was a homing beacon. As the Enterprise moves on through space, the sound of electronic beeping is heard, focused on an unexplored sector of the galaxy, leaving the ominous possibility that some or all of Remmick's message might still reach its intended recipients, letting the parasites know where to find Earth. Log entries First officer's log, USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) Captain's personal log, USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) Captain's log, USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D), 2364 Memorable quotes "It's about Starfleet. About something we've always considered to be impossible." - Walker Keel, to Captain Picard "You owe me, and you owe it to yourself to hear what I have to say. Something is beginning. Don't trust anyone. Remember that, Jean-Luc. Don't take anything for granted." - Walker Keel, to Captain Picard "It won't like your science officer. It DOES LIKE YOU! Vitamins… they do wonders for the body." - Quinn "Friendship must dare to risk, Counselor, or it isn't friendship." - Picard, on risking his career to follow up on Walker Keel's conspiracy theory "Apologies, Captain. We had to be sure you were really you." - Rixx, after lowering his phaser at Picard "I'm glad, Jean-Luc. I'm glad you're still one of us. Tell Beverly I… I said "hello"." - Walker Keel "Captain, you must set your phaser on kill. Stun has little effect." "Doctor, one does not beam down to Starfleet Headquarters armed." - Dr. Crusher and Picard "If I could see, I'd be seeing stars." - La Forge, after regaining consciousness from being thrown through a door "You don't really think we were in the dark about your intentions, do you?" "Patience is one of our virtues, Captain. We didn't go after you; we allowed you to come after us." "More dramatic that way, don't you think?" "Yes. The one thing both races share is a love of theater, and you've put on a fine show." - Aaron, Savar, and Tryla Scott "You don't understand. We mean you no harm. We seek peaceful co-existence!" - Remmick Background information Production history Eight-page outline memo from Tracy Tormé (titled "Assassins"): First draft story outline in ten-page memo from Tracy Tormé: 10 February 1998 One-page memo of story notes from Robert Justman: 14 February 1988 First draft script: 26 February 1988 Three-page memo of script notes from Robert Justman: 28 February 1988 Second revised final draft script: Score recorded, at Universal Studios Scoring Stage: Premiere airdate: Script and story Writer Tracy Tormé, adapting a story by Robert Sabaroff to The Next Generation, had hoped to make "Conspiracy" a commentary on the Iran/Contra Affair, but this potentially controversial notion was nixed. A plot by Starfleet officers out to undermine the Prime Directive (already introduced six episodes before, in ), turned out to be the result of an infestation of alien insects, not part of Tormé's original approach. The episode was critiqued by Maurice "Maury" Hurley. "I wrote this thing called 'Conspiracy' and I was intentionally trying to shake things up and do a different kind of story [....] Maury came back to me and said it's not Star Trek," Tormé remembered. "It's too dark, it's got a dark ending, it's unhappy, it's this and that, and he turned it down. Somebody overruled him, maybe it was Rick Berman, but somebody loved the script and thought it's exactly what we should be doing, but Maury and I had a very bad relationship from that point on." (William Shatner Presents: Chaos on the Bridge) The original version of the script did not feature alien parasites; the conspiracy in question was simply a military coup within Starfleet. Gene Roddenberry vehemently opposed such an idea, since he believed Starfleet would never stoop to such methods; there was just no way Tormé could get away with suggesting that the Federation was anything less than a perfect government. Thus the alien angle was introduced at his insistence. later featured a similar plot, however, in the two-part episodes and . Indeed, the whole idea of the episode, its violence, and its unresolved ending caused quite a stir, but Robert Justman, Rick Berman, and Rob Lewin backed Tormé against the objections of Maurice Hurley, and the show stood pretty much as he had intended it, with the topical references subtly shoved under the carpet. Things did not go so well for writer Tormé in the future; he was left with the feeling that, as far as creative freedom for writers, the second half of Star Trek: The Next Generations second season was the best part of the series as a whole. The ending in Tormé's original script had threat of the parasites definitively ended. Justman felt this was too anticlimactic and suggested ending the episode with the implication that the parasites were the vanguard of a much more powerful threat. Although the ending pointed toward a possible follow-up to the parasite storyline, none was ever produced, though some works of Star Trek fiction did carry on the arc (see "Apocrypha" section). Michael and Denise Okuda elaborated in their Star Trek Chronology (rev. 1996, p. 290): "At the time the episode was written, this was apparently intended to lead to the introduction of the Borg in Star Trek: The Next Generations second season. The Borg connection was dropped before 'Q Who?' (TNG) was written, and the truth about the parasites remains a mystery." This episode originally had the working title "The Assassins". (Creating the Next Generation, p. 61) Production The opening credits to this episode include Denise Crosby's character, Natasha Yar. Yar was killed off and didn't appear regularly after . Jonathan Frakes states that during the dinner scene, grub worms did "cross" his lips. Cast and characters Wil Wheaton (Wesley Crusher) does not appear in this episode. Ward Costello and Robert Schenkkan reprise their roles from the episode . Henry Darrow later appeared as Kolopak in and , Ray Reinhardt as Tolen Ren in , and Gary Wayton as stuntman in and as stunt double for Scott Bakula in . Michael Berryman previously appeared as the alien Starfleet officer in . Sets and props The chair in which Remmick is seated is a redress of the wheelchair used by Admiral Mark Jameson in . The parasitic beings were fabricated by Makeup & Effects Laboratories, headed by Allan A. Apone following a design from Rick Sternbach. (Star Trek: The Next Generation 365, p. 111) The desk in Admiral Quinn's guest quarters aboard the Enterprise-D was later seen again as the desk of Benjamin Sisko at Starfleet Headquarters in the fourth season episodes and . This is the first episode in which the crystal Picard has on his desk is seen in his ready room. Music The episode's score, composed by Dennis McCarthy, was recorded on at the Universal Studios Scoring Stage, as The Next Generations usual recording location, Paramount Stage M, was unavailable due to scheduling conflicts. Cues M51, M52, M53, M54, M55, and M56 from the score (covering the entirety of Act Five), totaling 7 minutes and 44 seconds, appear on Disc One of the Star Trek: The Next Generation Collection, Volume One. Continuity This episode marks the first appearance of a Bolian. The exterior footage of Starfleet Headquarters was recycled from ; as such, this episode is the only time Tellarites appear on TNG. They are wearing robes originally worn by Kazarites in . When Data is commenting on the orders he has just read, the computer interrupts him by saying "Thank you, sir. I comprehend." This is an unusual instance of a Federation computer speaking in the first-person narrative ("I"). The non-canon reference work Star Trek: The Next Generation Officer's Manual explains this by stating that the Enterprise-D computer was one of the most advanced ever constructed and was in fact self-aware. It is also one of the only times the computer has expressed "frustration" with its user, more often the frustration is the other way around. Among the logs reviewed by Data, the "great bird of the galaxy" can briefly be seen. This episode marks the last appearance of the Starfleet admiral's uniform which was seen through the first season of The Next Generation, not including flashback scenes as shown in . The uniform, notable for its "triangle pip" insignia, was replaced in season two by an interim uniform which used the more familiar "boxed pip" insignia. By season three, the admiral's uniform was changed again to become the standard which was used for the rest of the series. A star chart featured in this episode, on the wall behind Remmick's chair, was created by the art department and shows several dozen planets and star systems mentioned in and . The star chart was re-used in many more TNG episodes and later appeared in the of the Doctor Who spin-off series in the eponymous main character's attic. This graphic also appeared in DC Comics Supergirl, Volume 7 Issue 1 (November 2016) as a display on a wall on the planet Krypton. This is the first episode of the series to feature Earth and Luna. The Vulcan nerve pinch is used in this episode, however unlike TOS, a person doesn't fall unconscious after the pinch but grimaces in pain. It's possible, however, that the parasite controlling Savar may not have been performing the neck pinch properly. would later establish that Admiral Norah Satie had been instrumental in uncovering the parasite conspiracy. During the fight scenes with Admiral Quinn, his stunt double is clearly seen several times. During the scene, after Data’s attempt at laughing, Commander Riker clearly states to conn to increase speed to warp 6. Lieutenant La Forge however, replied with: “Aye sir, full impulse”. Awards This episode won an Emmy Award in in the category Outstanding Achievement in Makeup for a Series, namely Michael Westmore, Werner Keppler, and Gerald Quist. Reception On its first airing in the UK (on ), the BBC cut several minutes of footage from this episode (most notably the death of Remmick). In addition, , Canada's science fiction network, precedes this episode with a viewer discretion warning, the only The Next Generation episode to receive this. Consulting Producer David A. Goodman deemed this (as well as the next episode, ) as an installment that was "watchable", aired near the end of TNG's first season, when he began to think the series "started to pick up a bit and I was, like, 'OK, not bad.'" (The Fifty-Year Mission: The Next 25 Years, p. 82) A mission report for this episode, by Will Murray, was published in . Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens opined in The Art of Star Trek (p. 103): "Though tame in comparison to Alien, this story was not typical of what viewers had come to expect of STAR TREK, and was not followed up." Video and DVD releases Original UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 13, catalog number VHR 2466, Natasha Yar's face is obscured by shadow on the video sleeve, reflecting her death in the previous volume. UK re-release (three-episode tapes, Paramount Home Entertainment): Volume 1.8, catalog number VHR 4649, As part of the TNG Season 1 DVD collection As part of the TNG Season 1 Blu-ray collection Apocrypha The parasitic beings have thus far never reappeared on-screen but have been shown in a taking control of a spacefaring species called the "Onglaatu" in a DC TNG story entitled "The Broken Moon!". The parasites also returned in Pocket Books' novels, first in The Lives of Dax, in which Audrid Dax and Christopher Pike discover that the parasites are closely related to the Trill. The last book in the Mission Gamma series, Lesser Evil, then picks this up, leading into the novel in which it is revealed that the Trill symbionts and the parasitic beings have been fighting a long secret war, with several species' worth of hosts and governments as their weapons against each other. The parasites' latest gambit has been the continued fervor for Bajor to join the Federation; for unknown reasons this would represent a great victory to their secret plan. (Bajor does become a member of the Federation in 2369.) This story arc is completed in the novella "Trill: Unjoined" by Andy Mangels and Michael A. Martin, in which the parasites are revealed to actually be genetically modified Trill symbionts, created on the remote Trill colony of Kurl. A deadly plague had been killing symbionts, and the experiments were intended to develop a cure. However, the experiment failed, and the symbionts so affected became violent and xenophobic – the parasites – and swore revenge on Trill society for this disaster. In the Star Trek Online bonus episode "What's Left Behind", it is revealed that the parasites were bio-engineered by the Iconians as a way of controlling the Vaadwaur. Links and references Starring Patrick Stewart as Captain Jean-Luc Picard Jonathan Frakes as Commander William T. Riker Also starring LeVar Burton as Lt. Geordi La Forge Michael Dorn as Lt. Worf Gates McFadden as Doctor Beverly Crusher Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi Brent Spiner as Lt. Commander Data Guest stars Henry Darrow as Savar Ward Costello as Gregory Quinn Robert Schenkkan as Dexter Remmick Ray Reinhardt as Jonathan Farwell as Walker Keel Guest stars Michael Berryman as Captain Ursaline Bryant as Captain Tryla Scott Uncredited co-stars James G. Becker as Youngblood Majel Barrett as Computer Voice Jeffrey Deacon as command division officer Steve Casavant as Longo Dexter Clay as operations division officer Susan Duchow as Starfleet officer Nora Leonhardt as science division ensign Tim McCormack as Lorine Mendell as Diana Giddings Steve Reed as Enterprise-D science officer Richard Sarstedt as command division officer Gary Wayton as Starfleet Headquarters security officer Unknown performers as Two Arcadian councilors (archive footage) Enterprise-D command division crewmember Enterprise-D command division crewmember at ops station Enterprise-D command division female officer Enterprise-D command division male officer Two Enterprise-D operations division crewmembers Enterprise-D operations division female officer Three Enterprise-D science division crewmembers Seven Starfleet Headquarters civilians (archive footage) Eleven Starfleet Headquarters officers (archive footage) Two Starfleet Headquarters technicians (archive footage) Two Tellarite dignitaries (archive footage) Stunt doubles Geoff Brewer as stunt double for Ward Costello Kirk Elam as stunt double for LeVar Burton Wayne King, Sr. as stunt double for Michael Dorn Tom Morga as stunt double for Jonathan Frakes Jim Wilkey as stunt double for Ray Reinhardt Stand-ins James G. Becker – stand-in for Jonathan Frakes Darrell Burris – stand-in for LeVar Burton Dexter Clay – stand-in for Michael Dorn Jeffrey Deacon – stand-in for Patrick Stewart Nora Leonhardt – stand-in for Marina Sirtis Tim McCormack – stand-in for Brent Spiner Lorine Mendell – stand-in for Gates McFadden References 2364; accident; admiral; adrenal gland; advice; "ahead of schedule"; alliance; "all in good time"; "all right"; Altairian Conference; alternative; ; amusement; Andonian tea; anecdote; answer; aphorism; apology; aquarium; Arcadian; "as a result"; assignment; "at least"; "at risk"; ball; bar; bathing; ; bed; biobed; blue; body; Bolian; bracelet; brain; brain function; breathing; bridge; bridge crew; brother; caliber; cancer; captain; career; cargo; carpet; ; choice; cloud; code 47; colony; comnet database; company; computer; computer record; conclusion; conspiracy; conspiracy theory; ; contact; coordinates; corridor; course; "cover our tracks"; ; ; day; death; debris; ; Delaplane; delusion; desk; desktop monitor; destruction; dinner; directive; distance; duty roster; Dytallix B; Dytallix Mining Company; Dytallix Mining Company planets; Earth; effect; emergency; emergency channel; emergency frequency; entrance; environment; ETA; evacuation; "excuse me"; executive officer; explosion; evidence; explanation; eye; "face-to-face"; fact; fascination; favor; Federation territory; Fleet Operations Center; food; foot; ; "for God's sake"; flotsam; French language; friend; friendship; frigate; fun; Galaxy class decks; garden path; gill; "go ahead"; Golden Gate Bridge; governor; greeting; guest quarter 17; harm; head; heading; heavy cruiser; "hello"; holodeck; homing beacon; ; Horatio first officer; Horatio medical officer; hour; Human; hyperspace; hypospray; idea; idiosyncrasy; impact; implosion; impulse; "in a manner of speaking"; "in fact"; "in force"; information; "in person"; intention; internal scan; invasion; "I see"; jewel; ; ; Keel's brother; ; Klingon; Klingonese; larva; life; 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sculpture; sector; Sector 63; secret; sector; secure channel; security code; "see stars"; senility; sensor; series; show; sickbay; ; "sit down"; skant; Sol; Sol sector; space vessel; speed; SS 433; standard orbit; "stand on ceremony": starbase; Starbase 12; star chart; Starfleet; Starfleet Command; Starfleet Headquarters; Starfleet regulations; starship; star system; stimulation; strength; subject; subversion; superior; surface; survey; suspicion; swimming; table; talent; talk; Tau Ceti III; Tellarite; temperature; tendril; "thank God"; theater; ; thought; threat; toast; tour; trace; transmission; transporter room; ; turbolift; type 1 phaser; type 2 phaser; Type 7 shuttlecraft; unexplored sector; United Federation of Planets; Unnamed Federation space stations; unnamed medical tools; utility uniform; subspace; victim; viewscreen; virtue; visit; VISOR; vitamin; voice print identification; Vulcan; Vulcan nerve pinch; Vulcan salute; warp factor; "watch your back"; water; "what the hell"; "why the devil"; window; wreckage; year; zero gravity Library computer references Federation Star Chart ("The Explored Galaxy"): Aldebaran; Alfa 177; Alpha Carinae; Alpha Centauri; Alpha Majoris; Altair VI; Andor; Ariannus; Arret; Babel; Benecia; Berengaria VII; Beta Aurigae; Beta Geminorum; Beta Lyrae; Beta Niobe; Beta Portolan; Camus II; Canopus III; Capella; Daran V; Delta Vega; Deneb; Eminiar; Fabrina; First Federation; Gamma Canaris N; Gamma Trianguli; Holberg 917G; Ingraham B; Janus VI; Kling; Kzin; Lactra VII; Makus III; Marcos XII; Manark IV; Memory Alpha; Mudd; Omega IV; Omega Cygni; Organia; ; Pallas 14; Phylos; Pollux IV; Psi 2000; Pyris VII; Regulus; Remus; Rigel; Romulan Neutral Zone; Romulus; Sarpeid; Sirius; Talos; Tau Ceti; Theta III; Tholian Assembly; Star Chart: 61 Cygni; Alpha Centauri; Argelius II; Barnard's Star; Bayard's Planet; concussion ring; Diana; Epsilon Eridani; Epsilon Indi; ''; ; Groombridge 34; ; Lalande 21185; Luyten 789-6; ; Phi Puma; Procyon; Proxima Centauri; Ross 154; 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The Neutral Zone (episode)

After rescuing three ancient Humans from cryogenic stasis, the Enterprise-D is ordered to the Romulan Neutral Zone on an important mission. (Season finale) Summary Teaser "First Officer's Log, Stardate 41986.0. We are awaiting the return of Captain Picard who was summoned to Starbase 718. Meanwhile, our sensors have been monitoring an ancient capsule floating in our vicinity, which appears to be from Earth." Captain Jean-Luc Picard is attending an emergency conference on Starbase 718. While the waits for his shuttle to return, it is observing an ancient space capsule, apparently of Earth origin. Data requests permission from Commander Riker to board the vehicle while waiting for the captain's return. Riker grants him permission but asks that Worf accompany him and he wants them both back aboard the Enterprise before Picard returns. Data and Worf beam aboard the capsule and examine the still-functioning old-style equipment. Worf is momentarily baffled by a door that must be manually opened by Data using his android strength. Upon entering the vessel's main chamber, the two discover a number of refrigeration pods. The seals on two of them have been broken, and the environment corrupted; these two contain decomposed Human remains. Three pods contain frozen Humans. Act One When Data is ordered back to the Enterprise in preparation for Picard's return, he requests that the frozen people also be brought aboard, as the capsule is seriously damaged, and he believes they should not be left there. Upon Picard's return, he immediately orders helmsman Geordi La Forge to lay in a course that will take them into the Neutral Zone. He explains to the senior officers in the observation lounge that several outposts have been destroyed, and the Enterprise is being sent as the only Federation vessel to investigate, as it is the flagship. It is assumed that Romulans are behind the problems, but since the Federation has had no contact with them in a number of years since the Tomed Incident, the situation is at present very uncertain. Riker and Worf both advise the captain to be prepared to fight, but he is determined to wait and see what the situation truly is before deciding on a aggressive course of action. Picard dismisses the senior officers and tells them to regroup in six hours and to stay sharp. Meanwhile, Doctor Crusher has thawed and revived the frozen Humans. She informs the captain, who is surprised that he was not previously aware of the situation. Dr. Crusher explains that it was vital that she thawed them because the cryogenic chambers these individuals were frozen in were falling apart. Dr. Crusher saw to their medical needs and explained to Picard that "Each one needed minor medical attention. Minor, now but then, their conditions were obviously terminal. One had a heart problem and another, an advanced case of emphysema with extensive liver damage." She also notes that each one had been frozen after they died, which is unusual. All three had been cryogenically frozen in the late 20th century on Earth. Dr. Crusher awakens the woman, who promptly faints at the sight of Worf. "Welcome to the 24th century," Picard remarks to her while she lies unconscious. Act Two Data states that he was able to retrieve their personal information from the module's computer and revealed that the Humans are Clare Raymond (35, homemaker), Ralph Offenhouse (55, financier), and L.Q. "Sonny" Clemonds (age unknown, musician). Dr. Crusher explains that Clare died of an embolism, Ralph died of advanced cardiomyopathy, and Sonny died from massive chemical abuse. She notes that these conditions "were inoperable at the time but easily correctable now." As the ship continues toward the Neutral Zone, Riker explains to them what has happened, and they attempt to make sense of their new situation. Offenhouse, in particular, is shocked to learn from Data that the current year is 2364. Offenhouse is very concerned about his financial investments and repeatedly demands to speak to the captain so he can get in touch with his attorney or bank on Earth. Act Three In the ready room, Riker, Worf, Data and La Forge are all in belief that, if the Romulans are inviting confrontation to see how far the Federation has advanced, the Enterprise should be ready for combat. Picard does not like the option, but, suddenly, Offenhouse calls Picard, obviously having observed Riker use the room's comm panel. This forces Picard to visit the survivors, and Offenhouse seizes the opportunity for a face-to-face talk with the captain, demanding contact with his attorney. But the captain tells him that people are not consumed with owning possessions in this century and his attorney has been dead for four hundred years. Offenhouse believes his lawyer's firm is still operating and that he has a lot of money coming to him. He stands firm, stating that Humanity must still be as it once was: power-hungry and controlling. Picard retorts that Humans no longer seek such material things; they have grown out of their infancy. Clare becomes very upset thinking about her sons and family, so Picard has Counselor Deanna Troi come down to talk to her. She shows her the computer library's recorded family tree for her. It turns out there are ten generations there. Sonny goes to Dr. Crusher to find something to relax him, though he has no medical need. He is having trouble waiting around without "something to do." He asks if Data can come visit him, and he suggests throwing a party when he arrives in his quarters. Data says he will suggest it to the captain. However, the Enterprise now reaches the Neutral Zone and Data leaves, but not before confirming the Romulans will not be coming to the party. Act Four "Captain's Log, supplemental. We have arrived at the edge of the Neutral Zone where we will now have an opportunity to learn firsthand what happened to our distant outposts." When the Enterprise arrives at the edge of the Neutral Zone, they find that a number of outposts have been completely obliterated. There is no evidence of conventional weapons or attack, but Riker and Worf find this as clear evidence. Picard orders the ship to yellow alert, though Riker and Worf urge him to go to red alert and battle stations. Meanwhile, Offenhouse notices the tension level on the ship has considerably jumped up and decides that he must take matters into his own hands and heads out to look for the captain. He eventually finds a turbolift and reaches the bridge after finding out from the computer that Picard is located on the main bridge. He arrives while the bridge crew wait for a Romulan vessel to appear. Picard has decided not to fire as it de-cloaks, but it remains cloaked. Riker sees Offenhouse and immediately orders him off the bridge, but just then the Romulan ship de-cloaks. Act Five The Romulan ship responds to the Enterprise hailing them, and the Romulans reveal that their outposts have been destroyed in the same manner as the Federation's. Picard asks who is responsible, and the Romulans fall silent. Offenhouse interjects, "They haven't got a clue! They're hoping you know, but they're too arrogant to ask." Picard proposes an agreement of cooperation as both sides investigate the disappearance of the outposts, and the Romulans agree. Before heading back toward their own territory, Tebok states to Picard that Federation "expansion" will not be tolerated anymore, that the Romulans "are back." Offenhouse is finally removed from the bridge. Deanna Troi helps Clare locate one of her living descendants living outside of Indianapolis, and Picard makes arrangements for the three Humans to be returned to Earth on the at the nearest starbase. At warp 8, the Enterprise can make it there in five days. Riker says that it is a shame they can't take the three with them; it's like a visit from the past. Picard tells him that would be a step backward, when they still have so much to do and to learn. The Enterprise-D continues onward. Log entries First officer's log, USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) Captain's log, USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D), 2364 Memorable quotes "Welcome to the 24th century." - Picard, after the newly-revived Clare Raymond fainted at the sight of Worf "[Sonny died from]… massive chemical abuse. Unbelievable." "Sounds like someone who hated life, yet he had himself frozen presumably so he could go through it all again." "Too afraid to live, too scared to die." - Beverly Crusher and Captain Picard "What is that?" "An android." "You mean a robot?" "Actually, there is a distinct difference between an android and a robot…" "And… and him, the one I saw before with the… head?" "She means Worf…" "He's a Klingon – that takes a little more… explanation." - Clemonds, Riker, Data, Raymond, and Dr. Crusher "I wanna go to the, um… the, um… Where would a captain be?" "Captain Picard is on the main bridge." "Well, then, take me to the main bridge!" - Offenhouse and the computer "The Yankee's right. Let's get the big boy in here!" - Clemonds, when Offenhouse states he wishes to speak to Picard "They are the most unusual Humans I have ever encountered." "Well, from what I've seen of our guests, there's not much to redeem them. Makes one wonder how our species survived the 21st century." - Data and Riker, discussing Clemonds, Raymond, and Offenhouse "This is the worst-run ship I have ever been on. You should take lessons from the QE2. Now that's an efficient operation." - Ralph Offenhouse, to Picard "A lot has changed in the past three hundred years. People are no longer obsessed with the accumulation of things. We've eliminated hunger, want, the need for possessions. We've grown out of our infancy." - Picard to Ralph Offenhouse "Captain. I didn't mean to come on so strong. It's just that I've built my whole life on knowing what's going on. For the first time I feel completely out of touch. It's making me crazy. You can understand that?" "It's the first thing you've said I do understand. I'll see what I can do. And, please, stay off the comm panels." - Ralph Offenhouse and Picard "Captain, these are Romulans. They are without honor. They killed my parents in an attack on Khitomer when they were supposed to be our allies. They believe that Humans and Klingons are a waste of skin!" - Worf "Silence your dog, Captain!" - Tebok, insulting Worf "They haven't got a clue! They're hoping you know, but they're too arrogant to ask!" - Offenhouse, deducing that the Romulans don't know who attacked their outposts "Your presence is not wanted. Do you understand my meaning, Captain? We… are back." - Tebok ''I think our lives just got a lot more complicated'' - Picard, regarding the sudden return of the Romulans "The challenge, Mr. Offenhouse, is to improve yourself… to enrich yourself. Enjoy it." - Picard, describing life on 24th century Earth "Come back later, you and me can find us a couple of low-mileage pit woofies and help them build a memory." - Sonny, to Data "Our mission is to go forward, and it's just begun. […] There's still much to do. There's still so much to learn." - Picard, aptly ending the first season and promising that the adventures will continue… Background information Production history First draft story outline: Two-page memo of story notes from Rick Berman: 22 October 1987 Second revised final draft script: Score recorded at Paramount Stage M: (Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Ron Jones Project liner notes ) Premiere airdate: 16 May 1988 UK premiere airdate (on BBC2): Story and script While writing this first season finale, Maurice Hurley intended for it to be the first part of a trilogy that would continue in the second season, in which the Borg would be formally introduced, and an alliance would be formed between the Federation and the Romulan Empire to counter the new threat. () Although he was careful to ensure the audience first accepted the then-new Star Trek: The Next Generation on its own grounds, Gene Roddenberry felt comfortable enough, by the time this episode was written, to bring back the Romulans to Star Trek. (Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Continuing Mission, p. 66) The names of the Romulan characters Tebok and Thei were devised by Eric A. Stillwell, at Maurice Hurley's request. (Information from Larry Nemecek) This episode's teleplay established that it was Wesley Crusher who replicated a guitar for Sonny Clemonds. In a scene from the script, Sonny asked him about several genres of popular music (including rock and roll and rhythm 'n' blues) but despite being a teenager, Wesley was entirely unfamiliar with them. (Star Trek: The Next Generation Companion - A Series Guide and Script Library) The writing of this episode was abruptly ended by the . Director James L. Conway remembered, "It was the last episode of the first season and there was a writers' strike underway. I think it was a first draft, and since there was a strike, no one could do any work on it. Gene and the producers couldn't do rewrites." () The strike provided little time and opportunity to revise the story outline, as originally submitted, into a teleplay, which Maurice Hurley had to do on the fly in one and a half days. (Star Trek: The Next Generation 365, p. 67) Cast and characters The opening credits include Denise Crosby's character, Natasha Yar, despite her death in , three episodes earlier. This is the last episode to credit her as a regular. Wil Wheaton (Wesley Crusher) does not appear in this episode, although the character was featured in the final draft script (see above). This episode is the last time regular stand-ins Darrell Burris and Susan Duchow worked on TNG. Burris was prominently featured as one of the two security officers holding Ralph Offenhouse on the bridge while Duchow was roaming the corridors. This episode marks Marc Alaimo's second time on Star Trek. He previously appeared as Badar N'D'D in and went on to portray Gul Macet in , Frederick La Rouque in and Gul Dukat in . The skanted science division ensign who left the turbolift was played by Gene Roddenberry's assistant, Susan Sackett. She wore Marina Sirtis' uniform from . The face of Associate Producer Peter Lauritson was used to portray Thomas Raymond on the desktop monitor. Anthony James appears as Sub-Commander Thei. His prior credits include Gunsmoke, V, The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear, and Buck Rogers in the 25th Century. Sets and props When Deanna Troi is conferring with Clare Raymond concerning her family tree during this episode, the desktop monitor on Troi's desk displays a list of the first six actors who starred as the Doctor in Doctor Who, as well as television characters Mary Richards, Lou Grant, Kermit T. Frog and Miss Piggy (among others). In the remastered version, most of the names were replaced with names from the TNG actors, production staffers, and the staff from CBS Digital and CBS Television Distribution. Additionally, a starship model is seen near Clare in the guest quarters; however, the nacelles of the model are attached perpendicular to their standard positions and backwards. This episode marks the only time the Romulan uniform is seen with a black sash around the shoulder. The glass-shaped obelisk appears in this episode as a decoration with flowers inside in the guest quarters of L.Q. Clemonds. It was previously seen in James T. Kirk's apartment in , in Tasha Yar's quarters in , in the guest quarters of the Anticans in , and in the Café des Artistes in . The painting seen in L.Q. Clemonds' guest quarters appeared previously, in the episode and was later featured in several season 2 episodes. This episode marks the only appearance of this painting missing the planet next to the sun. The space module was identified only as "an ancient capsule" or "space module" in the episode. Both the and the mention that the name was inscribed in the hull. The topmost segment of the satellite was labeled with the registry or identification number 4077, one of many references to M*A*S*H in Star Trek. Production Principal photography on this episode wrapped ten months after entered production. (Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Continuing Mission, p. 66) With the writers' strike ongoing, the shooting company simply had to film what unfinished story material they had of this episode. () Music The episode's score, composed and conducted by Ron Jones, was recorded on , at Paramount Stage M. (Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Ron Jones Project liner notes ) The recording included the music for this episode that was intended to foreshadow the inevitable first contact with the Borg. The complete episode score, totalling seventeen minutes, fourteen seconds, appears on Disc Four of the Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Ron Jones Project collection. Continuity The premise of this episode shares some similarities with , as that outing also featured a starship Enterprise encountering an ancient, derelict spacecraft with cryogenically frozen Humans from 1990s Earth, and then reviving the occupants whose chambers had not failed. (Of course, these occupants prove to be much easier for the crew to deal with than Khan Noonien Singh and his followers were.) This episode marks the first time a specific year is mentioned as the setting of a Star Trek series, when Data cites the current year as 2364. This year served as the fixed reference around which subsequent timeline data were placed. Prior to this, Star Trek: The Next Generation had generally been placed in the early 24th century, per Data's line in , where he established that he was from the "class of '78." This episode also marks the first appearance of the warbird, which is seen numerous times throughout the series as well as in and . Like 's reference to the USSR earlier in the season, this episode contained a historical prediction which would be proved inaccurate within a few years. While the episode was being made, Sonny Clemonds' belief that his beloved Atlanta Braves are "probably still finding ways to lose" was an accurate reflection of their performance, because, by the time in the mid-1990s when the space module would have been launched, the Braves were in the middle of a fifteen-year run in which they were consistently one of the premier teams in Major League Baseball. They even won the World Series in 1995 (defeating the Cleveland Indians, who had been similarly misrepresented in , where the Dixon Hill vendor thought Data was "nuts" when he mentioned that the Indians would stop Joe DiMaggio's hitting streak – they were as bad as the Braves in 1988, but had been one of the better teams in the American League at the time the holonovel takes place). However, while the Braves won fourteen straight division titles between 1991 and 2005, 1995 was their only championship in that span, "finding ways to lose" in the other years. This is the first episode in which the Borg are mentioned, although at this point, they are only an unknown (and therefore unnamed) entity which has been destroying starbases. After this episode, the attacks the Romulans complain about in "The Neutral Zone" dangled as an unresolved plot device for quite some time. In , Commander Chakotay of the starship encounters liberated Borg drones in the Delta Quadrant nearly a decade later. Among them was a former drone named Orum who identified himself as Romulan. Several episodes of , most notably , also feature Romulan ex-Borg drones on board the . Worf mentions the Romulans having killed his parents during the attack on Khitomer "when they were supposed to be our allies." However, later established that Klingons and Romulans had been blood enemies for decades before that. This is the last episode until in which Will Riker is clean-shaven and the last episode where Geordi La Forge and Worf wear the command division uniforms, which were first seen in the premiere episode, . For Season 2 onward, Riker sports a beard and La Forge and Worf switch to the operations division uniforms, although in , Worf switches back to the command division uniform when he joins the crew of Deep Space 9. La Forge is seen in a command division uniform twice more, in TNG Season 4 as his younger self in and in 2390 while commanding the in an alternate future in the Voyager Season 5 episode . This is also the last episode until Season 3 to feature Dr. Beverly Crusher, as she leaves the Enterprise to become the head of Starfleet Medical throughout Season 2. For the entirety of that season, she is replaced (both in the ensemble of main characters and as the ship's chief medical officer) by Dr. Katherine Pulaski. When Clare Raymond awakes (and promptly faints) in sickbay, Captain Picard says, "Welcome to the 24th century." He later says the same thing to the 22nd century time traveler Berlinghoff Rasmussen after he became trapped in 2368 in . Worf also says it to Captain K'Temoc of the in . In this episode Dr. Crusher says "Each one needed minor medical attention. Minor now, but then, their conditions were obviously terminal. One had a heart problem, another an advanced case of emphysema with extensive liver damage," and that these diseases "were inoperable at the time but easily correctable now." She is clearly stating that Human medicine has rendered these medical problems obsolete. Similar references were also made in and . Reception James L. Conway remembered that this episode was considered one of the weaker first season shows, speculating, "If there hadn't been a strike, I think it would have been a better script." () Despite the intense glee fans felt over the return of the Romulans, there was concurrently a sense of unease at the time, over some uncharacteristic statements uttered by the principal characters, which they felt flew in the face of the spirit of Star Trek. These included, Scene 2: "It's just a piece of space debris. If we weren't sitting here waiting for the captain, we wouldn't have even noticed it. Leave it be. Let nature take its course." - Riker, contradicting the exploratory nature of the mission, especially from a period of time in Earth's history which had been established as somewhat mired. Scene 23: "But, Data – they were already dead. I mean… what more could have happened to them? […] They are alive now, so we have to treat them as living Human beings." - Picard, contradicting himself, as apparently they were not dead, and expressing a willingness to have left them, without even trying to revive them, as well as showcasing bigotry in the closing remark. While writer Maurice Hurley could have been faulted for this, this was only partly true, due to the fact that he was only recently hired, not having any experience whatsoever with science fiction in general nor Star Trek in particular. As indicated by James L. Conway's comments, most responsible was the writer's strike that intervened in the writing of the episode. (Star Trek: The Next Generation 365, p. 67) A mission report for this episode, by Robert Greenberger, was published in . Consulting Producer David A. Goodman deemed this (as well as the previous episode, ) as an installment that was "watchable", aired at the end of TNG's first season, when he began to think the series "started to pick up a bit and I was, like, 'OK, not bad.'" (The Fifty-Year Mission: The Next 25 Years, p. 82) Maurice Hurley's plans for the introduction of the Borg hereafter were ruined by the 1988 writers' strike. As such, the Borg's introduction had to wait until . () Like the score of this episode, the Borg-themed music in that installment was also composed by Ron Jones. Afterward, he additionally composed the widely praised music for Borg-centric two-parter and . Video and DVD releases Original UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 13, catalog number VHR 2466, Natasha Yar's face is obscured by shadow on the video sleeve, reflecting her death in the previous volume. UK re-release (three-episode tapes, Paramount Home Entertainment): Volume 1.8, catalog number VHR 4649, As part of the TNG Season 1 DVD collection As part of the TNG Season 1 Blu-ray collection Links and references Starring Patrick Stewart as Captain Jean-Luc Picard Jonathan Frakes as Commander William T. Riker Also starring LeVar Burton as Lt. Geordi La Forge Michael Dorn as Lt. Worf Gates McFadden as Doctor Beverly Crusher Marina Sirtis as Counselor Deanna Troi Brent Spiner as Lt. Commander Data Guest stars Marc Alaimo as Tebok Anthony James as Thei Leon Rippy as L.Q. Clemonds Gracie Harrison as Clare Raymond And Peter Mark Richman as Ralph Uncredited co-stars Majel Barrett as Computer Voice Darrell Burris as operations division officer Dexter Clay as operations division officer Jeffrey Deacon as command division officer Susan Duchow as operations division officer David Eum as Shana Ann Golden as command division officer Peter Lauritson as Thomas Raymond (photography) Nora Leonhardt as science division ensign Tim McCormack as James McElroy as Romulan officer Lorine Mendell as Diana Giddings Susan Sackett as science division ensign Guy Vardaman as Darien Wallace Unknown performers as Command division crewmember Command division officer Command division officer Female command division officer Female command division officer Female command division officer Five operations division crewmembers Four civilians Four science division crewmembers Romulan officer Three command division crewmembers Stand-ins James G. Becker – stand-in for Jonathan Frakes Darrell Burris – stand-in for LeVar Burton Dexter Clay – stand-in for Michael Dorn Jeffrey Deacon – stand-in for Patrick Stewart Nora Leonhardt – stand-in for Marina Sirtis Tim McCormack – stand-in for Brent Spiner Lorine Mendell – stand-in for Gates McFadden References 20th century; 1939; 21st century; 2040; 24th century; 2311; 2364; address; advice; age; aggression; alliance; ally; American; android; answer; aquarium; Arloff IX; arrogance; assumption; Atlanta Braves; Atlantic Ocean; atmosphere; attack; bank; battle; battle stations; bear; belief; biobed; ; body; Borg; brain; bridge; brown out; calendar; Captain's shuttle; cardiomyopathy; career; case; celebration; century; chance; ; children; choice; chord; circulatory system; Clemonds' ex-wives; cloaking device; clue; colony; communications panel; conference; confrontation; conjecture; ; ; construction work; contact; container; contract; cooperation; coordinates; corruption; couch; country fried potatoes; 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utility uniform; velocity; viewscreen; visit; VISOR; vitamin; Vulcan; Wall Street Journal; war; warbird; warp factor; whacko; whisper; window; word; Worf's mother; Yankee; year; yellow alert Library computer references Clare Raymond's family tree (original): 1988; 1990; 1992; 2016; 2035; 2058; ; ; ; Earth; exobiology; ; ; ; ; ; Indiana Park; Indianapolis; ; ; New Jersey; North America; ; ; ; ; Professor; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; Secaucus; ; ; Clare Raymond's family tree (remastered): 1957; 1959; 1982; 1986; 1989; 1994; 2005; 2007; 2009; 2011; 2012; 2027; 2030; 2032; 2035; 2038; 2045; 2050; 2051; 2052; 2054; 2057; 2059; 2071; 2072; 2073; 2084; 2087; 2088; 2114; 2115; 2120; 2121; 2127; 2129; 2131; 2142; 2147; 2157; 2329; 2351; 2354; ; Alpha Centauri City; ; Armstrong City; Austria; Boston; British Columbia; Budapest; Burbank; California; Chicago; Czech Republic; Danville; Dejong; ; exosociology; February; Fort Ord; ; ; Hannibal; Hawaii; ; Honolulu; Houston; Hungary; ; Iceland; Illinois; 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Cardassia Prime, also known as Cardassia or the Cardassian homeworld, was the inhabited second and prime planet in the Cardassian system, located in the Cardassian Zone of the Alpha Quadrant. The planet had one moon. Cardassia Prime was the capital planet of the Cardassian Union and the homeworld of the Cardassians, a warp-capable humanoid species. For two years, from 2373-2375, Cardassia Prime was a member of the Dominion. Location In 2259, the location of this planet was labeled on a stellar cartography chart that was seen on the 's ready room viewscreen. The planet's symbol had a yellow color and this color was used for indicating the affiliation of nearby locations. () In 2375, the location of Cardassia was labeled on a tactical map that was displayed in the wardroom of Deep Space 9. Cardassia was located at least five light years from Bajor, at least thirty light years from Starbase 375, and at least fifty-five light years from Ferenginar. (, okudagram) Later that year, the position and orbital path of Cardassia was illustrated on a tactical map that was displayed in the wardroom of Deep Space 9. (, okudagram) In 3189, the location of Cardassia Prime was denoted on a holographic star chart of the galaxy at Federation Headquarters. () Planetary features In comparison to Humans, Cardassians preferred a darker, warmer and more humid environment, most likely reflecting the surface conditions on their homeworld. () Although Cardassia Prime was a world with few natural resources, the rare mineral jevonite could be found on the planet. () Geographical Landforms Ithian Forests Cities Lakarian City Lakat Locations Cardassian Institute of Art Cardassian War Room Central Prison Central University Imperial Plaza Obsidian Order's Headquarters University of Culat Flora and fauna Cardassian vole Gettle Riding hound Taspar Wompat History Main article: Cardassian history Prior to the militarization of the Cardassian government, Cardassia was home to some of the finest art and architecture in the quadrant. However, the once great Cardassian civilization fell in to severe decay. Due to the planet's scarcity in natural resources, the impoverished society suffered from famine and disease, leading to millions of deaths. The Cardassian military continued this destruction of its heritage in order to fund the Federation-Cardassian War. () At the end of the Dominion War, determined to punish the Cardassian people for their acts of rebellion against the Dominion, Weyoun ordered that Lakarian City be destroyed, resulting in the deaths of two million civilians. This could not, however, have prepared the Cardassian people for an even greater tragedy. After the destruction of Lakarian City, the Cardassian forces switched sides to aid the Federation Alliance. Enraged by the turn of events and betrayal, the Female Changeling demanded that the Cardassian people be wiped out. After planetary bombardment from the Dominion and Breen fleets in orbit and mass slaughter from the Jem'Hadar on the planet surface, the death toll stood at an estimated eight hundred million Cardassians, with a large portion of the cities in ruins. () In 2380, Cardassia Prime was to host a historic peace summit, with Captain Carol Freeman of the mediating between the parties. However, the talks were relocated to because the Cardassians were "creeping everyone out." () Appendices Appearances References Background information "car-DASS-ee-uh" was the pronunciation for this planet's name from the script pronunciation guide for "Tribunal". The DS9 writing staff hoped to establish Cardassia in the second season of the series. "We're going to have to explore what Cardassia is," declared Ira Steven Behr. (Cinefantastique, Vol. 24, Nos. 3/4, p. 108) The second season outing established that the Cardassian homeworld was called Cardassia Prime. The planet was first seen on screen shortly thereafter, in (Season 2's penultimate episode). Benjamin Sisko actor Avery Brooks, who directed "Tribunal", had to account for the newness of the locale. "So there were new things for me to consider," he recalled, "like what the temperature was likely to be, and that kind of thing." () In "Tribunal", the Cardassian homeworld was realized with several matte paintings illustrated by Illusion Arts, Inc.. (Cinefantastique, Vol. 25/26, No. 6/1, p. 111) One such painting was specifically done by Syd Dutton and Robert Stromberg. () Stromberg was instrumental in creating the views of Cardassia in "Tribunal". A matte painting he created of the episode's Cardassian cityscape took cues from space station Deep Space 9. "Robert took architectural elements from that and painted buildings that emulate that type of structure," stated , the optical cameraman at Illusion Arts. "He used dark lighting because Cardassians don't like light." Stromberg also added a volcano, in some preliminary sketches, but it was later removed, because the producers thought it was slightly too much activity for the scene. The final version of the matte painting measured 20x24 inches. (Cinefantastique, Vol. 25/26, No. 6/1, p. 72) For the views of Cardassia in "Tribunal", several forced-perspective miniatures were crafted by model-maker Tony Meininger. () As well as being populated by adding footage of people from Illusion Arts, the aforestated Cardassian matte painting by Stromberg was combined with a miniature for the foreground, which allowed for a considerably complex camera move. The landscape portion of the painting was shot in one camera pass, then a second pass filmed the clouds above the city. While the clouds were being recorded, the motion control rig moved the painting at a faster rate than for the first pass, creating the illusion of rolling clouds when the two passes were put together. (Cinefantastique, Vol. 25/26, No. 6/1, pp. 72-73) Production Designer Herman Zimmerman has said he took inspiration in the set design for "Tribunal" from 's 1948 book , and of the final look of Cardassia, Zimmerman explained, "Spartan, uncompromising and merciless are all adjectives that you could use to describe Cardassia." () Following its on-screen debut in "Tribunal", plans were made for Cardassia to continue being developed in DS9 Season 3. "There are things happening on Cardassia which you heard a bit about in 'The Maquis' and 'The Wire'. We're going to keep that bubbling," stated Ira Steven Behr. (Cinefantastique, Vol. 25/26, No. 6/1, p. 98) At the conclusion of that season, Behr declared that "deepening Cardassia" was an important goal for the writers to bear in mind for the fourth season. (Cinefantastique, Vol. 27, No. 4/5, p. 115) The DS9 writing staff continued elaborating on the politics of Cardassia. In season four offering , the writers used the planet to metaphorically represent the USSR during the period after the Berlin Wall came down, when communism waned in favor of capitalism. "We were kind of going down that road with Cardassia," reflected Robert Hewitt Wolfe. () Similarly, Wolfe likened Cardassia, shortly before it joined the Dominion in fifth season installment , to impoverished Germany under the governance of the in the time between the two world wars. "Cardassia was losing," he noted. () At one time, writing duo David Weddle and Bradley Thompson – taking inspiration from a news story about Russian scientists who were extracting plutonium from nuclear warheads and selling it, and bearing in mind Cardassia Prime was falling apart – imagined what would happen if the planet's inhabitants decided to sell off Cardassia's weapons. This idea was the genesis of season five outing , though the planet was ultimately written out of the story. () By the time René Echevarria wrote DS9 Season 7 installment , the DS9 writing staff were definite they aimed to have Cardassia destroyed at the end of the series. "That was something Ira [Behr] specifically wanted," explained Echevarria. "The world in flames. The earth salted. Destroyed. It was almost personal." () In , a scene set on Cardassia, in Enabran Tain's basement, was edited down. () Views of Cardassia from orbit were included in visual effects footage from which was supervised by David Stipes. (Cinefantastique, Vol. 32, Nos. 4/5, pp. 87 & 88) According to Star Trek: Star Charts (pp. 35, 43 & 46) and the Stellar Cartography: The Starfleet Reference Library ("The Dominion War: Strategy and Battles, 2373-75" & "Stellar Cartography", p. 18, 20-21), the capital of Cardassia (Cardassia VI) was Lakat. The dominant species were the humanoid Cardassians. In 2378, the population was 7.9 billion. The Cardassians have been warp-capable since 1925. Major attractions of the planet included the Imperial Plaza, the Lakarian Amusement Park, and University of Culat. In December 2375, the Battle of Cardassia was won by the Federation and its allies. During this battle, the Dominion instrumented a planet-wide "vengeance genocide" against their former allies. Most of the major cities were destroyed. Lakat alone suffered 2 million dead. After the war, Bajorans aided the Cardassians in the rebuilding of their world. Apocrypha According to Decipher's Aliens sourcebook, Cardassia is the third planet in its system. However, the Worlds sourcebook says it's the second planet in its system. In the non-canon novel A Stitch in Time, Elim Garak aids in the reconstruction of Cardassia after the Dominion War. Furthermore, despite opposition from prominent figures such as Gul Evek and Gul Madred, Cardassia took on a democratic-styled government, ending the military's rule. In the alternate future seen in the Deep Space Nine book trilogy Millennium, Cardassia Prime, along with the entire Cardassian Union, were razed by the Grigari. By the year 2399, the Cardassians were all but extinct. External links bg:Кардасия ca:Cardàssia de:Cardassia Prime es:Cardassia fr:Cardassia Prime ja:カーデシア・プライム nl:Cardassia prime pl:Cardassia Prime pt:Cardássia sv:Cardassia Cardassia Cardassia Homeworlds

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Cardassian system

The Cardassian system, also known as the Cardassia system, was an inhabited planetary system in the Alpha Quadrant. The system consisted of a primary and at least five planets. Cardassia Prime (Cardassia II) was the inhabited homeworld of the Cardassians, a warp-capable species. This planet was also the capital planet of the Cardassian Union. () The system also included Cardassia I, and the planets Cardassia III, Cardassia IV, and Cardassia V that were colonized by the Cardassians. () In 2375, the location of Cardassia was labeled on a tactical map that was displayed in the wardroom of Deep Space 9. Cardassia was located approximately five light years from the Bajoran system, thirty light years from Starbase 375, and fifty-five light years from Ferenginar. (, okudagram) Later that year, the Dominion began their withdrawal to Cardassia Prime during the waning days of the Dominion War. The Allied Forces planned a risky and costly military operation to end the war by penetrating the system and engaging the Dominion forces stationed in orbit over Cardassia Prime. () In 2399, the location of Cardassia was labeled in a Federation star chart that was in Fleet Admiral Kirsten Clancy's office at Starfleet Headquarters. () Appendices Background information "Tactical Display 7624N" was reproduced in legible detail in Star Trek: Star Charts (p. 49). The alternate name of this system came from the source material used, the Star Trek: Star Charts and Stellar Cartography: The Starfleet Reference Library, to create the star chart seen in Star Trek: Picard. According to Star Trek: Star Charts (p. 36, 42-43), the primary was named Cardassia. Cardassia was a K class star with an absolute magnitude of -1.1, which was a hundred times brighter than Sol. There were a total of eight planets in the system, four of which were inhabited, and two asteroid belts. The system was visited by a Bajoran solar-sail vessel in 1571. Distance between Bajor and Cardassia was 5.25 light years. A briefing on the construction of Terok Nor in , notes that about a third of the framing in the station's central core was mined from asteroids in the Cardassian system. Apocrypha According to the RPG book Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Narrator's Toolkit, the Cardassian sun was a bright red dwarf (M2 V type), the first two planets were class F, Cardassia Prime was the third planet in the system, Cardassia VI and VII were Class J gas giants and Cardassia VIII was class G.j External link de:Cardassianisches System fr:Système de Cardassia ja:カーデシア星系 nl:Cardassia systeem pl:Kardasjański system Cardassia Star systems

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Cardassian vole

A Cardassian vole was an animal native to Cardassia Prime. Cardassian voles were about twenty-five centimeters long, had little hair on their bodies, and were generally regarded as pests. They had six legs and were attracted to energy fields. Voles featured spoon-shaped impression on their foreheads, similar to those of Cardassians, and lines at the base of the cheeks (under the ears). A pair of mating voles were said to "breed like tribbles", but that "they're not as cute." They had even been described as "disgusting hairy little creatures with ravenous appetites." They lived in nests, and were known to create secondary nests in addition to the main one. () In the mirror universe, Dr. was operating on a vole in 2155 when he heard Commander 's announcement that he had taken command of Enterprise. () In 2256, Captain kept the bodies of three Cardassian voles in a laboratory aboard USS Discovery. (, ) Li Nalas likened Bajorans who were evacuating Deep Space 9 in 2370 to frightened Cardassian voles who were abandoning their homes. () Deep Space 9 suffered an infestation of voles in formerly uninhabited sections of the station. In dealing with this infestation, Commander Benjamin Sisko asked that station personnel shoot them with phasers on stun, as he wanted them taken alive. He later reversed his stance after the infestation spread and began causing damage to critical systems, declaring "no more Mr. Nice Guy." Their mating season began about six weeks after the infestation was discovered. () After the supposed eradication of the infestation, Quark's suffered from a further infestation in 2373 and had to be temporarily closed down while they were exterminated. () Later that year, when crewman Pechetti expressed excitement about bringing a phaser along to Empok Nor, his fellow crewman told him that the only thing it would be good for would be "shooting voles," though it was unknown if the station was actually infested. () Although illegal in Bajoran space, it was possible to train Cardassian voles to fight. Quark was warned at least once by Odo that no live vole fights would be permitted on the station, and both he and Morn were once caught by Odo preparing a number of voles for a fight. () There was apparently a market for their bellies. () These voles were the subject of a number of colorful expressions. When complaining about Chief O'Brien's bedside manner, crewman Enrique Muniz stated that he had "known nicer voles. Certainly prettier ones." () Two individuals engaged in intense sexual activities were said to leap on each other "like a pair of crazed voles." () An individual who was particularly ill was said to be "sick as a vole." () Vargas described AR-558 as a "vole hole" and demanded to be removed from it, noting that Starfleet regulations stated that ground personnel were to be rotated off the front lines every ninety days. () External link de:Cardassianische Ratte fr:Vole nl:Cardassian veldmuis pl:Vole Cardassia Animals Mirror universe

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Riding hound

The riding hound was a Cardassian animal. An almost five-year-old Elim Garak once attempted to ride on the back of a riding hound repeatedly on the only day he and his father Enabran Tain ever went to the country. On his deathbed, Tain recounted the event and how he was proud of his son for not giving up. () External link de:Reithund nl:Riding hound Cardassia Canines

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Yamok sauce

Yamok sauce was a popular Cardassian condiment. Tojal in yamok sauce was considered a Cardassian delicacy. () Yamok sauce was also adapted to serve with Terran food, and was found to be enjoyable served with asparagus. () It could also be eaten on sand peas. () On Deep Space 9 in 2369, Broik ordered 5,000 wrappages of the sauce, which were worthless without Cardassians to consume it. Nog was able to acquire the sauce, and he and Jake Sisko traded it to a Lissepian captain for 100 gross of self-sealing stem bolts. () Aamin Marritza mentioned that his replicated sem'hal stew could use a little yamok sauce. () Quark, in anticipation of a Dominion takeover of DS9, smuggled in 10,000 wrappages of the sauce, which was promptly dumped by station officials when discovered. () External link de:Yamok-Sauce fr:Sauce yamok Cardassia Sauces

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Cardassian ranks

The Cardassian ranking system was a hierarchical collective command structure, utilized by the Cardassian military, based on at least three known officer ranks. In addition to their rank, the nature of their duties also defined their military hierarchy, in as far as an officer holding the title of "prefect", or one who served as the commanding officer of an Order. (, et al.) Legate Legate was a rank given to members of the Central Command and high-ranking flag officers. (, et al.) Legate Broca Legate Damar Legate Dukat Legate Tekeny Ghemor Legate Goris Legate Hovat Legate Legate Legate Parn Legate Porania Legate Turrel Gul Gul was a military rank held by the commander of a vessel or installation. (, et al.; , et al.) Gul Benil Gul Broca Gul Cazanjian Gul Gul Darhe'el Gul Damar Gul Danar Gul Dolak Gul Dukat Gul Evek Gul Gul Hadar Gul Gul Jasad Gul Lemec Gul Macet Gul Madred Gul Marratt Gul Nador Gul Ocett Gul Pirak Gul Ranor Gul Revok Gul Rusot Gul Russol Gul Seltan Gul Spumco Gul Gul Gul Gul Trepar Gul Tulet Gul Vorlem Gul Zarale Glinn Glinn was a rank below gul, and may be held by officers who served as a gul's aide. (, et al.) Glinn Boheeka Glinn Borven Glinn Corak Glinn Daro Glinn Damar Glinn Delgado Glinn Dukat Glinn Lasaran Glinn Tajor Glinn Telak Glinn Telle Trooper Troopers were the lowest rank of soldier in the Cardassian military, comparable to a private. After two Cardassians were taken prisoner by Federation colonists on Dorvan V in 2370, Gul Evek of the orbiting Vetar ordered his officer Glinn Telak to "[p]repare to send an armed squad of troopers to rescue them and to occupy the village." () Appendices Apocrypha The Star Trek: Terok Nor novel Day of the Vipers introduces the ranks of dalin and dal (in between glinn and gul), and jagul (between gul and legate) and also refers to the rank of gil. External link de:Cardassianerränge es:Rangos Cardassianos fr:Grades cardassiens it:Gradi militari cardassiani ja:カーデシア軍の階級 nl:Cardassian rangen Cardassia

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Sarpedion V

Sarpedion V was the fifth planet in the Sarpedion system, in the Alpha Quadrant. This planet was the headquarters of the Cardassian Twelfth Order and one of the most heavily fortified positions in the Cardassian Union during the Dominion War. At that time, a direct assault by fifteen attack cruisers was considered barely able to scratch the planetary defenses. In 2375, Chancellor Gowron suggested that it should be the Klingons' next target despite the objections of General Martok and Commander Worf. Ultimately, Sarpedion was not attacked, as Gowron was killed by Worf in ritual combat shortly thereafter. () External link de:Sarpedion V nl:Sarpedion V Sarpedion 05 Cardassia

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Arts and music

Art and music facilities Educational facilities Aldebaran Music Academy Andorian Academy Cardassian Institute of Art Music academy Pennington School (New Zealand, Earth) Performance halls Behr Theater (San Francisco, Earth) Jalanda Forum (Bajor) Palace Theater (Chicago, Earth) People Artists/Architects Writers Composers Musicians Genres Graphic arts Creation lithograph (Human) Cubism (Human) Dadaism (Human) Eseeka (Argrathi) Fauvism (Human) Geometric constructivism (Human) Icon painting (Bajoran) Proto-Vulcan (Vulcan) Sandpainting (Human) Stained glass (Human) Surrealism (Human) Tyrellian laser-art Valonnan School (Cardassian) Sculpture Bone-carving Eventualistic movement Kurlan naiskos Matoian movement Tanesh pottery Tyrinean blade carving Veltan sex idol Music genres Writing Anapestic tetrameter Drabian love sonnet Enigma tale (Cardassian) Epic poetry Haiku (Human) Ode Repetitive epic (Cardassian) Serialist poets (Cardassian) Sonnet Specific works Art Human Adam and Eve Expelled from Paradise The Persistence of Memory Mona Lisa Unknown Bosotile Rejac Crystal Woman in Four Dimensions Movies Music Drama Literature Background information A lot of Danish or Swedish books used as set dressing were sold off on the It's A Wrap! sale and auction on eBay. de:Kunst nl:Kunsten en Muziek pl:Muzyka i sztuka sv:Konst och musik Arts and music Arts and music Arts and music Arts and music

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Past Prologue (episode)

A Bajoran terrorist tests Kira's loyalties to the Federation when he attempts to rid Bajor of the Federation for good. Summary Teaser Garak, a Cardassian tailor on Deep Space 9, unexpectedly stops by Doctor Julian Bashir's lunch table at the Replimat to introduce himself. With little tact, Bashir suggests that Garak is a Cardassian spy. Garak asks Bashir to stop by his shop if he desires new apparel or wishes, as he does, for an interesting conversation. After Garak tells Bashir he is happy to have met "such an interesting new friend today," Bashir rushes to Ops to report the encounter, but Commander Benjamin Sisko is busy trying to head off a Cardassian attack on a Bajoran scout ship. With the ship breaking apart, the sole occupant is beamed to DS9. He identifies himself as Tahna Los and requests political asylum. He recognizes Major Kira Nerys and is taken to the infirmary. Act One Gul Danar, commanding the Aldara, demands he be released to them immediately as a Kohn-Ma criminal terrorist; Sisko pledges to investigate the matter before proceeding and invites him aboard the station, asking O'Brien and Jadzia Dax to stall him with docking regulations. Kira goes with Sisko to the infirmary, along the way in the turbolift explaining she and Tahna worked together in the Bajoran Resistance, and she sympathizes with his cause. Sisko warns her he can't have a divided loyalty under him, and she indignantly declares a loyalty to Bajor. She also points out that splinter groups, like the Kohn-Ma, will need to be repatriated if the government is going to be rebuilt. When Sisko questions Tahna, it's clear Kira is on his side and Sisko dismisses her. Alone, Tahna admits to carrying out brutal acts against Cardassians, even after the end of the occupation of Bajor but hints that his days of violence are a thing of the past. He's obviously been subjected to Cardassian torture. Meanwhile, Kira goes over Sisko's head, asking Starfleet Admiral Rollman to intervene; but the Admiral immediately reports Kira's actions back to Sisko, noting that he has a problem on his hands with her insubordination. Soon, Danar arrives in his office, angry at the docking delays, and demands the fugitive; Sisko politely denies him, saying he would have a problem with Bajor if he gave him up. He grants asylum to Tahna Los and Danar says nothing and leaves. Act Two Kira shows Tahna to quarters, and they soon debate Bajoran politics; Tahna wants a completely free and independent Bajor, whereas Kira sees the need for the Federation's involvement, at least for the time being, until they can fully exploit the wormhole commercially. Tahna is skeptical, and Kira understands with all their people have been through. She wants Tahna to take a leadership position to bring more people together, but he doesn't see the government as valid and sees her as having adapted to a misguided role. Kira promises her help and support in getting amnesty for him and any who follow him on Bajor, as long as he is no longer with the Kohn-Ma, which he assures her is true. Elsewhere, the Klingon sisters Lursa and B'Etor of the House of Duras arrive on DS9. Unwilling at first to relinquish their weapons on the Promenade, they relent when Odo gives them Hobson's choice; do so or leave. He promptly notifies Sisko of their presence, currently just sitting around at Quark's. However, unknown to him, Garak, and soon Bashir, are observing their "outfits" closely, merely for tailoring purposes, he tells Bashir. They observe Tahna arriving, and immediately the sisters leave with him to meet in a private location, demanding payment for a deal they had made. Odo, disguised as a rat, observes the entire illicit exchange. Act Three Kira has arranged an amnesty hearing in the Ministers' Court on Bajor for Tahna. She informs Sisko, and also tells him of two other former Kohn-Ma agents who are also seeking asylum. Sisko promises to protect them as well, and Kira, surprised and relieved, tells him his help is greatly appreciated. Sisko thanks her, then bluntly warns her to never go over his head again to the admiralty. When Sisko hears from Odo, however, about the dealings between Tahna and the scheming Klingon sisters, he reserves judgment and keeps this information from her for the moment. Meanwhile, Garak receives the Duras sisters in his shop. After he gives a few lines about fashion, the sisters immediately get to the point of selling Tahna to the Cardassians, believing he still represents their interests. Garak eventually negotiates with them. Kira happily informs Tahna that she has the necessary votes in the Ministry for his amnesty; Tahna is not interested, though. He reveals the fact that he knew Kira was on the station before he got there, and announces his pride at still being a Kohn-Ma. He promises her that he wasn't lying when he said he has renounced the use of violence, but he needs a small ship with warp speed to carry out his latest plan, which he can't tell her. Kira asks how he can know she won't go straight to Sisko. Tahna just smirks and says that will only confirm what she so adamantly denied before: that she has turned her back on her friends and her own people, and become a willing puppet of the Federation. Act Four Garak finds Doctor Bashir on the Promenade, but dispenses with pleasantries. He notes the two recently arrived Kohn-Ma terrorists, which immediately worries Bashir. Garak, however, convinces him to come to his shop that evening at exactly 20:55 hours to "buy a suit." Bashir eventually understands and leaves. Unsure of what to do, Bashir asks Sisko for advice. Sisko recommends that he keep his appointment, as he understands it is a means for unofficial communication. They may be signaling a common enemy. Sisko also asks Kira about the two terrorists, but Kira doesn't reveal what she's learned. Unsure of whom to support, she asks for Odo's advice. In his office, Odo senses that she is torn between loyalties, but also that she knows what she wants to do and is afraid to do it. He gets her cleverly to say it out loud, including that, even if she refuses to help Tahna, he will still find a way to complete his plan. He convinces her to divulge everything to Sisko by simply calling him down to security since "someone" wants to talk to him. Bashir, arriving two minutes late to Garak's, is quickly herded into a changing room, where he is allowed to overhear the Klingon sisters agreeing to sell a small cylinder of bilitrium to Tahna in the Bajor system in four hours. Once they have departed, Bashir asks what bilitrium is, and Garak informs Bashir that it is a rare crystalline element, the atoms of which can release a tremendous amount of power. Garak also happens to know that Tahna was fleeing from the Cardassians for the theft of an antimatter converter. Combined together, Tahna would have the ingredients for "a bomb of significant destructive capability." Act Five Kira, under orders from Sisko, provides Tahna with the runabout and accompanies them to the rendezvous; Sisko and O'Brien are nearby in the , lurking behind Bajor VIII's second moon, reconnoitering the rendezvous area for the illegal weapons deal. After the bilitrium is exchanged for 13 kilograms of gold-pressed latinum, Sisko gives chase to Tahna and Kira. Tahna finally sees through Kira's act; he strikes her to the floor, and then combines the bilitrium he just purchased with an antimatter converter, activating the weapon. They go to warp and head toward DS9. With the Ganges and the Aldara closing fast, Kira learns that DS9 is not the target of the weapon; the target is the wormhole. By collapsing the entrance to the wormhole, and shutting it forever, Tahna seeks to remove Bajor from prominence in the Alpha Quadrant, so that Bajor will be left alone by both the Federation and the Cardassians. At the last second, however, Kira steers the Yangtzee Kiang straight into the wormhole, just as they drop to impulse power and release the weapon. But the weapon is deployed in the Gamma Quadrant, on the other side of the wormhole, where it explodes harmlessly. Following them through the wormhole, Sisko confronts Tahna via the communications system. Tahna angrily says he still has Kira as a hostage, but Sisko informs Tahna that his choices have been reduced to two: surrender now, or be returned to the Cardassians. Quaking visibly, Tahna chooses the former. Tahna is taken back aboard DS9 and incarcerated by Odo. Although Kira has lost Tahna's friendship and been labeled a traitor by him, she has begun a new one with Commander Sisko. Memorable quotes "You're very kind, Mister Garak." "Oh, it's just Garak. Plain, simple Garak." - Bashir and Garak "Go over my head again, and I'll have yours on a platter." - Sisko to Kira, regarding her conversation with Admiral Rollman "That damned Cardassian's firing on a Bajoran scout ship in Bajoran space!" - Kira "You won't believe who sat down next to me in the replimat!" - Bashir, regarding meeting Garak for the first time "Commander, the Cardassians are hailing us." "Now they want to talk!" "They're hopping mad." - O'Brien and Kira "Why don't I… lock them up and call the Klingons to come get them?" "Odo…" - Odo and Sisko, discussing the Duras sisters "We're talking about terrorists and you want me to buy a new suit?" - Bashir, to Garak "You've never fought Cardassians, have you?" "No." "Well, you wouldn't wanna turn a man… any man… over to their tender care, sir. You just wouldn't." - O'Brien and Sisko "They went straight to Quark's, but not for the gambling… and certainly not for the food." - Odo, on Lursa and B'Etor's whereabouts "You know, Cardassian rule may have been oppressive but at least it was… simple." - Odo "We have specific regulations. You can leave the weapons, or leave the station. Your choice. Please make it now." "Who are you?" "I'm the one giving you the choice." (The Duras sisters surrender their weapons.) "Welcome to DS9." - Odo and B'Etor "Well, what do you want me to do?" "I think, Doctor… you could definitely use a new suit." - Bashir and Sisko "Ah, an open mind. The essence of intellect." - Garak, to Bashir Background information Story and script In Katharyn Powers' original conception of this episode, Kira and Tahna were to be former lovers, but Michael Piller decided that this was a television cliché. Powers' version also had Kira persuade Tahna to turn his back on terrorism and attempt to forge peace with the Cardassians, before being killed by his own people. Despite the changes, Powers remarked, "As filmed, the story was structurally very close to my original conception." (Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages, p. 41) While Katharyn Powers is the solely credited writer on this episode, the teleplay credits her only for the story, with Producer Peter Allan Fields being credited as the teleplay writer. According to Michael Piller, Fields didn't work alone on the episode. "We were still searching for a style. Peter worked on that story and I worked on it a little bit with him," Piller attested. "We struggled early on to find Kira's voice in those scenes." () Fields added both the character of Garak and a scene between Odo and Kira to the plot. "It was terribly important to put in a scene between Odo and Kira that establishes trust between them," he said, "and the idea that she would turn to him when she didn't know where else to turn or what to do." Regarding the addition of Garak to the storyline, Fields commented, "We needed a character whom Lursa and B'Etor would come to as a kind of go-between." The writers didn't want the character to act like an out-and-out spy nor like a typical Cardassian. "I finally put him in a tailor shop, and nobody hit me, so we kept him there," Fields recalled, with a chuckle. () The Duras sisters, Lursa and B'Etor, were included in this episode's plot at Michael Piller's suggestion. () It was part of an attempt to tie Deep Space Nine into existing Star Trek continuity. "Essentially, we had a story," recalled Piller, "and, in the case of Lursa and B'Etor, we said, 'Hey, we've got a real kind of spy story and we need someone to really be doing double dealings and bringing money and doing gun exchanges; why don't we use the Klingons – and use those characters that we love so much?" While doing so, however, the writing staff was careful to nonetheless maintain the episode's focus on one of the series' principal characters. "In 'Past Prologue', there's a moral dilemma for Major Kira where she has to confront her loyalty to her past life and what her new life is going to be," Ira Steven Behr pointed out. "It's really about her. It's illuminating our new characters." (Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages, p. 42) Cast and characters Elim Garak actor Andrew Robinson was highly impressed with the writing of this episode, so much so that he believed Garak practically created himself, as the writing gave Robinson a very strong impression of how to play the role. () Furthermore, Robinson revealed that, during their getting to know each other in this episode, Garak's interest in Bashir clearly was purely sexual. (What We Left Behind) When interviewed by Amazon.com, the performer stated, "Originally, in that very first episode, I loved the man's absolute fearlessness about presenting himself to an attractive Human being. The fact that the attractive Human being is a man (Bashir) doesn't make any difference to him." Barbara March and Gwynyth Walsh found their participation in this episode was minor. March commented, "We were only in the episode briefly, and we didn't have much to do. I was hoping they'd give us an action-packed episode, where we could fight and use our weapons and kick a little more butt! Also, we didn't really get to work with the show's main cast – we were either alone or with one character." Walsh commented, "I think they brought us back because it was time. It was fine. It was lovely to work with Rene [Auberjonois], but we mostly worked just by ourselves in that one. We didn't have that much interaction with anyone else." ("Double Trouble", ) Admiral Rollman was played by Leonard Nimoy's wife Susan Bay. According to Bay herself, her casting in the role wasn't due to her being married to Nimoy but was because she had a long-standing relationship with Executive Producer Rick Berman and had a previous working relationship with Casting Director Junie Lowry-Johnson. () Production The change which takes place in Kira's hairstyle from the pilot episode, , was at the request of Nana Visitor herself; "I just didn't feel that Major Kira would style her hair every day. She wouldn't care! I wanted a hairstyle that looked like she just woke up in the morning looking like that." () Although this episode was the first to air after the show's pilot "Emissary", it was actually produced after (which was, in production order, the only episode between the pilot and this installment). This is the first episode of the series to be directed by Winrich Kolbe. Although Barbara March and Gwynyth Walsh found that most of their work on this episode was alone, working with the production crew was highly enjoyable for them. March remarked, "Winrich Kolbe, the director, was really wonderful." Walsh added, "It was largely the same crew – a lot of the crew had left ST:TNG for ST:DS9 – so it was nice to see some old buddies." ("Double Trouble", ) Filming the scene in Quark's Bar where the Duras sisters, seated on the first floor of the bar, are spied on by Garak (who is joined by Bashir) from the ground floor was somewhat difficult. This was because it included a couple of shots from the first floor looking down to the ground floor. Winrich Kolbe was extremely fond of this point-of-view, although it would usually be very time-consuming to set up. "We actually made it on that particular day. We were lucky, I guess," he commented. (Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages, p. 15) Reception Michael Piller was generally proud of this episode, commenting, "I liked that one quite a bit [….] I think the scenes with Kira and Odo turned out to be some of the best from the first half-season. There was a lot going on, a lot of interaction. Some of the performances were a little broad, still looking for our style, but it was a solid, exciting episode." () On the subject of his performance-related complaint about the installment, Piller elaborated, ""One of the things about 'Past Prologue' that bothered me was that Bashir's performance was in a very broad range." However, Piller, talking at the end of the first season, chalked this up to the show's "newness." He went on to say, "The first [regular] episode hurt the character of Bashir because he was so broad in those scenes with Andy Robinson that he looked like the greenest recruit in the history of Starfleet. That hurt him for two or three episodes. If we were shooting it today, his performance would be much more credible. He wouldn't get the same reaction from the audience that he has now." (Cinefantastique, Vol. 24, No. 3/4, pp. 102 & 103) Piller was, though, happy with how the episode included the Duras sisters. "It's interesting how we used them [….] It works out just fine to use those guys because then there's a connection and an identification," he stated. "There's a backstory, there's a history, and all of these things make for a much richer series." Comparing this installment with , Piller commented, "We decided that 'Past Prologue' would be more appropriate to follow the two-hour since it had a better action quotient and was a real opportunity for us to continue the themes that had been set up in the pilot and to see what happens when a terrorist comes on board." In addition, he opined that the post-production addition of music and visual effects "really didn't help 'Past Prologue much," whereas they seemed to improve "A Man Alone", in his opinion. (Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages, pp. 42 & 43) Although he mistakenly cited the incident as being in , Winrich Kolbe was impressed by the confrontation between Sisko and Kira in which he warns her that, if she ever goes over his head again, he'll serve hers on a silver platter. "I love that. That, to me, is more human, it is more contemporary [….] It intrigued me because I felt that, yes, we are changing, but we are not necessarily becoming more advanced. There's nationalism two thousand years from now, and it will always be there, because it's something genetically inside us. Like racism, which is something that's always coming out. We only seemingly live in a better social society if we are able to combat it, but the moment we let our guard down, bingo, there's the conflict." (The Fifty-Year Mission: The Next 25 Years, pp. 448-449) Kolbe also approved of Andrew Robinson's performance in this episode, commenting, "[He] turned out to be terrific." (Cinefantastique, Vol. 24, No. 3/4, p. 91) Ira Steven Behr liked the moment when O'Brien ignores Bashir excitedly revealing, in Ops, that he has been talking with Garak. "O'Brien just gives Bashir a look, that's like 'Get the hell away from me, kid.' It's funny, it's good, and it's character," said Behr. (Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages, p. 336) In Cinefantastique (Vol. 24, No. 3/4, p. 91), Mark A. Altman rated this episode two-and-a-half out of four stars and critiqued the installment as a "routine first one-hour episode that failed to live up to the promise of the pilot. Indicative of the new Star Treks more passionate approach to character interaction is a terrific scene between Odo and Kira and Sisko's actions with a Starfleet admiral. The real standout here is the relationship between a Cardassian spy, Garak, played by an effete Andy Robinson and Siddig El Fadil as Bashir, who brings a manic enthusiasm to his role. It instills the episode with a vibrancy that's lacking in the espionage story. Klingon refugees Lursa and Bator [sic] from The Next Generation (and their wonderful Bob Blackman-designed costumes) are welcome additions." In their book Beyond the Final Frontier (p. 183), writers Mark Jones and Lance Parkin critiqued this episode as "a solid start to the regular series with more colour added to the Bajoran political situation. The trust between Odo and Kira is neatly established, plus we have the first appearance of fan favourite Garak. The major problem is Tahna's ploy – if the bomb is powerful enough to irradiate the system, won't Bajor be affected also?" Trivia This was the first appearance of Andrew Robinson as Elim Garak in the series. Garak eventually became a recurring character, making his final appearance in the series finale . The sentiments Tahna Los expresses toward the Federation, as well as his phrase "Bajor for Bajorans" come back in the beginning of the second season, with a three-part story arc involving an extremist faction known as Alliance for Global Unity. () The Cardassian method of torture, via a pain-inducing implant under the skin that leaves an unpleasant scar as seen in is referred to in this episode, as Julian Bashir notes scarring on Tahna Los during a medical exam. This is the first time that Klingons appear on Deep Space Nine. This episode marks the only appearances of Lursa (Barbara March) and B'Etor (Gwynyth Walsh), the Duras sisters, on the series. However, their mirror universe counterparts, and , were later mentioned in and their nephew Toral appears in . After being introduced in this episode, Admiral Rollman made a second appearance in . The friendship between Kira and Odo is first established in this episode, and we see for the first time the great level of trust she has in him. The idea for establishing this friendship was Peter Allan Fields', who went on to explore its origins in the second season episode . Among the clothes seen in Garak's shop are the costume worn by Steven Miller in , the Risa outfit worn by Sovak in , and one of Kamala's dresses from . Sisko mentions the Klingon Civil War, which took place in the episodes and . This episode reveals the House of Duras is attempting to rebuild its forces by making profit. Doubly Ironic is Kira herself is involved in an attempt to collapse the Wormhole in an attempt to prevent the Dominion from invading the Alpha Quadrant–only to be prevented from doing so by the Dr. Bashir/Changeling spy. Likewise, the Bashir Changeling almost succeeded in destroying the Bajor Sun, which would have caused the end of life on Bajor–a result that would have been nearly identical had the Bomb gone off in this episode on Bajor instead of the Wormhole. () This is the first episode of Star Trek in which no ship named "Enterprise" appears. In , the only appears in the episode's opening sequence and credits. Armin Shimerman (Quark) and Cirroc Lofton (Jake Sisko) do not appear in this episode. This was Vaughn Armstrong's first appearance on DS9 and his second in Star Trek after . His next appearance on the show, in the episode , again had him playing a Cardassian, Seskal. All in all, he has played a record twelve roles in various Star Trek series. This episode is the first to introduce gold-pressed latinum. In this episode, the value of latinum is defined by its weight, but later episodes establish the usage of divisions such as slips, strips, bars and bricks. Both B'Etor and Odo once refer to it simply as "gold". This episode features five characters who had also appeared or went on to appear in TNG: Chief O'Brien, Doctor Bashir, Lursa, B'Etor, and Morn. The episode name alludes to the quote "what's past is prologue" from The Tempest, Act 2, Scene 1, by William Shakespeare. In , Jake writes a story called "Past Prologue". Remastered version Remastered scenes from the episode are featured in the documentary What We Left Behind. Video and DVD releases UK VHS release: As part of the US VHS release Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - The Collector's Edition: US VHS release: release: As part of the LaserDisc release Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - First Season Vol. 1: (Japan) As part of the DS9 Season 1 DVD release: (Region 1), (Region 2) Links and references Guest Stars Jeffrey Nordling as Tahna Los Andrew Robinson as Elim Garak Gwynyth Walsh as B'Etor Barbara March as Lursa Susan Bay as Rollman Vaughn Armstrong as Danar Co-Star Richard Ryder as a Bajoran Deputy Uncredited Co-Stars Scott Barry as a Bajoran officer Robert Coffee as a Bajoran officer Brian Demonbreun as a Starfleet science officer Jeannie Dreams as Human operations division ensign Holiday Freeman as a Human DS9 resident Kevin Grevioux as a Human operations division ensign Mark Lentry as a command division lieutenant David B. Levinson as Broik Chad McCord as operations ensign Robin Morselli as Bajoran officer Tyana Parr as a Human DS9 resident Mark Allen Shepherd as Morn Michael Zurich as a Bajoran security deputy Unknown performers as Bajoran medical assistant Bajoran officer Bajoran woman on the stairs Human woman on Promenade Human command division ensign Pelian Stunt Doubles Tom Morga as stunt double for Jeffrey Nordling Patricia Tallman as stunt double for Nana Visitor Stand-ins Randy James as stand-in for Colm Meaney Mark Lentry as stand-in for Rene Auberjonois References 2319; Aldara; Alpha Quadrant; amnesty; antimatter converter; assassination; Bajor VIII; Bajor VIII's second moon; Bajoran Intelligence; Bajoran Intelligence net; Bajoran Provisional Government; Bajoran scout ship; Bajoran space; Bajoran system; Bajoran underground; Bajoran wormhole; bed; bilitrium; bomb; Cardassian; Cardassian war vessel; choice; clothier; clothing shop; concussion; conspiracy; crime; cylinder; crystalline; dance instructor; death sentence; docking regulation; drowning; Duras sisters; Duras sisters' Bird-of-Prey; element; evasive maneuvers (aka evasive action); explosive device; Federation; fire; First Minister; food; freedom; friend; ; gambling; Gamma Quadrant; ; glinn; gold-pressed latinum; Gul; Haru outposts; have one's head on a platter; heart; House of Duras; humanoid; impulse; isolinear rod; Joranian ostrich; kilogram; Klingons; Klingon Bird-of-Prey; Klingon Civil War; Klingon High Council; Kohn-Ma; Kraus IV; laceration; liaison officer; lingerie; merchant; minister; Ministers' Court; monitoring device; moon; murder; nightmare; nose; Occupation of Bajor; officer; photon torpedo; political asylum; politician; prefect; Promenade; protective shield; Quark's; radiation; rat; renegade; repatriation; replimat; runabout; scar; second-degree burn; short-sightedness; silk; space station; splinter group; spy; Starfleet; storage cell; structural integrity field; suit; subspace transmission; surrender; Tahna's scout ship; Tarkalean tea; terrorist; tongue; tractor beam; traitor; transporter; vote; wanted criminal; warp engines; water; Other references Bajoran Intelligence net: Barkano; Cardassian Central Command; Cazanjian; Delgado; Manak City; Matiovsky IV; Ozolu City; Rush Asteroid Belt; Sector 52043 External links de:Die Khon-Ma es:Past Prologue fr:Past Prologue ja:DS9:"スペース・テロリスト"ターナ・ロス nl:Past Prologue pl:Past Prologue sr:Предговор прошлости (епизода) DS9 episodes

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A Man Alone (episode)

An old enemy of Odo's is murdered behind locked doors, and all the evidence points to Odo as the killer. Summary Teaser Doctor Bashir finds Dax playing with an Altonian brain teaser, a puzzle responding to neural theta waves in a holosuite. Eager to get closer to her, he says he loves puzzles and volunteers to play. Before she transfers control to him, she casually mentions that she's been trying to solve it for 140 years. As soon as she transfers control to him, the puzzle bursts in a matter of seconds. Dax tries to warn him about Trill relationships, but is saved by the appearance of Benjamin Sisko, picking her up for dinner. Unwilling to give up, Bashir gloomily tells the computer to re-start the puzzle after Sisko and Dax leave. Act One In Quark's, Odo is sitting at the bar, keeping an eye on Quark's business. Both of them notice Chief O'Brien arguing with his wife Keiko at a table on the upper level. Keiko is miserable aboard Deep Space 9; with no need for a botanist, she has nothing to do, and also has doubts about the station as a fit place to raise their daughter. Odo denies being able to understand why humanoids place so much emphasis on mating with other members of their species; he himself has never "coupled," as he had decided that the aggravation of a relationship, worst of all the need to compromise, which idea he already hates, far outweighed its benefits. Having dinner in the bar, Sisko and Dax are still adjusting to their new relationship. Sisko has trouble seeing the young woman in front of him as his old mentor and father-figure, Curzon, which was how he had always seen Dax. Dax reminds Sisko that sometimes, relationships between Trills and other species do not survive the change of a host. Sisko assures her it will not be that way with the two of them – it is just a little uncomfortable now. Glancing around the bar, Odo tenses up when he notices a Bajoran man playing at the dabo table. Odo goes over to the table and informs the man that he is unwelcome on the station. A fight breaks out between the two and, after Commander Sisko forcibly separates them, Odo tells the man he has 26 hours to leave DS9. Elsewhere on the Promenade, a bored Jake Sisko approaches Quark's nephew, the only boy on the station of any species close to Jake's age, and tries to make friends. The Ferengi is standoffish at first, but grudgingly shares his name, Nog. Jake smiles, seeing the beginnings of a friendship. In Sisko's office, Odo explains his actions: the man, whose name is Ibudan, had lived aboard the station during the Occupation, smuggling medical supplies and other black market goods to the planet. Some Bajorans considered him a hero, but Odo saw him as nothing but a ruthless profiteer – he had once allowed a young Bajoran girl to die, when her parents were unable to afford his asking price for the drug that would have saved her life. A few years before, Odo had arrested Ibudan for killing a Cardassian officer who wanted a bribe to look the other way, and he went to prison for murder. Now, the Provisional Government has granted him amnesty, since "killing a Cardassian isn't considered much of a crime nowadays." Sisko agrees Ibudan is undesirable, but does not see what they can do when he has not recently broken any laws. Odo vows to get him off the station, one way or another, and goes on the record saying, "Commander, laws change depending on who's making them. Cardassians one day, Federation the next. But justice is justice, and as long as I'm in charge of security…" Thereupon Sisko interrupts, "If you can't work within the rules, I'll find someone who can." Sisko dismisses Odo with a curt nod of his head. That evening, is enjoying a massage in a holosuite, when a gloved hand pushes the holographic masseuse away, then plunges a knife into Ibudan's back. Act Two Jake and Nog play a practical joke on the Promenade, releasing some Garanian bolites that infect a dining couple that harmlessly turn alternately blue, green, and yellow for a short time. A security officer catches the boys before they can run and marches them to the security office, while Keiko looks on disapprovingly. She doesn't believe that children should have the same freedom as they did on Starfleet ships like the . She later mentioned to Miles that the station should have a school. Sisko, Bashir, Odo, and Kira are in the deactivated holosuite, looking at Ibudan's dead body on the floor. Odo reports that, according to the security logs, the holosuite's door was locked, and only opened twice – the first to admit Ibudan, and the second time, presumably, to let his killer exit. There is also no evidence of a transporter being used within the suite. Sisko orders Bashir to sweep the suite for DNA evidence to identify all persons who have been inside the suite. Sisko orders Kira to inform all docked ships that their departures will be delayed as the crime is investigated. In Ops, Sisko and Kira receive Zayra, a Bajoran businessman from the Promenade, who confides that Ibudan talked to him shortly before his death, and confided fears that Odo was going to murder him. Kira quickly discounts the accusation, but Zayra remains suspicious. Odo investigates Ibudan's berth on the Bajoran freighter he arrived on. According to the ship's manifest, he was alone, but booked a room with two bunk beds. The ship's officer had assumed he simply wanted the extra room. Examining Ibudan's computer terminal, Odo finds an appointment book, stating that Ibudan had a meeting with Odo scheduled for the time he was murdered. Keiko talks to Sisko in his quarters, with Jake present. She lobbies to open a school aboard the station, as there are no fewer than twelve children of school-age there. Sisko is more than happy to provide her with an empty room and some computer equipment; the only question is how many other parents aboard the station will accept her as a teacher. After Keiko departs, Sisko starts to read Jake the riot act, warning him to stay away from Nog, but Jake ducks into his room. Bashir reports that only five persons' DNA traces can be found in the holosuite: Ibudan's, and those of the four officers who were in there after he was murdered. Kira is baffled: Ibudan entered the room alone, and the door stayed locked until his killer exited – which is impossible. Odo grimly says that the only explanation is that the killer was a shapeshifter like himself, who could enter the room through the cracks in the door. Act Three Odo says in Ops that if he is being framed, it is a very "neat package"; only a shapeshifter could have entered the holosuite in order to murder Ibudan, Ibudan's calendar said he was going to meet with Odo at the time he was murdered, and since Odo would be expected to investigate the murder, traces of his DNA would be left at the crime scene, regardless of whether he entered it earlier (during the murder) or later. Kira asks him if he has an alibi, and Odo confesses that he has to regenerate every 18 hours, and was shapeless in a pail in the back of his office when the murder occurred, so the answer is no. He asks Kira to instruct Bashir to do a sweep of Ibudan's quarters aboard the freighter. Quark's brother, Rom, is initially hostile towards the idea of enrolling Nog in a Federation-run school, saying that a traditional Ferengi education is designed to teach young Ferengi the cutthroat skills needed to thrive in commerce. Keiko does a clever sell job, convincing Rom that she can teach his son those virtues, and more: learning commerce from the perspective of other cultures, his son's future customers, will be a huge advantage. Rom appears thoughtful, and Keiko leaves him to mull it over. In another corner of the bar, Zayra and several other Bajorans are questioning Odo's innocence; after all, he is the purest form of alien, and all they really know of him is that he worked on the station when the Cardassians occupied Bajor. Quark, overhearing, cuts in and defends Odo: no one knows (and loathes) Odo better than Quark does, and whatever else he is, Odo was not a collaborator and is no murderer. Nevertheless, Zayra returns to Ops with a group of Bajorans for support, to confront Sisko with their suspicions. To avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest, Sisko reluctantly relieves Odo of his duties on a temporary basis. In the infirmary, Bashir reports to Odo that he has found the destroyed remains of a biological sample container in Ibudan's quarters. It appears that Ibudan was conducting some kind of medical experiment, but Odo says that Ibudan was neither a scientist nor a doctor. Bashir finds a small biological sample in the remains of the container. When he puts it into a solution to culture it, its cells begin dividing rapidly. Odo is summoned to Ops, where Sisko reluctantly informs him that he is relieving him of duty. He assures Odo that he does not believe the Bajorans' suspicions of him, but Odo sardonically replies that, with all the evidence mounted against Odo, Sisko would be inhuman if a small part of him did not believe Odo might be guilty. Act Four Odo returns to his office and finds it vandalized: his datapads are littered all over the floor, his monitors have been smashed, and the word "SHIFTER" spray-painted across the wall. As he starts to clear up, Quark happens by and offers to find out who did it. Chafing at the idea of asking the Ferengi for help, Odo declines. Then he asks Quark if he would be interested in Odo working for him, since it looks like Odo will be out of a job soon. Quark is briefly enthralled by the idea of having a shapeshifter to use in his various dealings, before he realizes Odo is joking with him. As he leaves the office, Quark mentions that he has been making some inquiries about Ibudan's stint at Kran-Tobol prison, but he seems not to have made any enemies (who might be suspects in his murder) as he had spent most of his time hanging around the Bajoran dissidents jailed by the Cardassians for various non-criminal acts. In the Infirmary, Bashir and Dax show Sisko the sample from Ibudan's container, which has been growing exponentially and is now a large, flesh-colored blob. Both Bashir and Dax are sure it is a vital clue, but cannot yet say what it is. Sisko invites Dax to lunch, and Bashir, mistakenly thinking he is being invited as well, accepts. To diffuse the awkward moment, Dax begs off, leaving Sisko and Bashir to go by themselves. Over lunch, Bashir admits that he is attracted to Dax, but does not want to step on Sisko's toes, since Sisko has known "her" far longer. Sisko explains to the doctor that in all the previous years he knew Dax, the Trill was his male mentor and friend, Curzon. Therefore, Sisko assures Bashir, he is not interested in Dax romantically and the young doctor is free to choose to pursue Dax in that manner. Sisko and Bashir then witness Odo rejected by the customers at Quark's who refuse to drink with, or even be near, the former chief of security. Miles is helping Keiko to set up her new schoolhouse, and has replicated an old-fashioned schoolhouse bell. Molly, from her father's arms, says that she wishes she could attend her mother's school, and Keiko wryly responds that she does too, at least that way she would know someone would show up. They are interrupted by the sound of an angry mob on their way to Odo's office screaming that he is a murderer and a freak. O'Brien signals Ops to have them send security to assist Odo and requests Commander Sisko's presence to handle the mob. From afar, Bashir observes the mob outside Odo's office, trapping him inside and yelling for his head. Turning back to the infirmary, Ibudan's "blob" amazingly has grown much larger. Act Five Sisko and security arrive to see the mob growing larger and more violent. While Kira secures the turbolifts, more armed security arrives. Sisko plants himself in front of the door and defends the Constable, telling the Bajorans not to condemn a man just because he happens to be different from them. Zayra and others begin yelling about the evidence against Odo. Meanwhile, Bashir and Dax are frantically analyzing the blob, which has grown larger still like a man-sized humanoid. Bashir makes a realization and they appear to the mob, announcing that they have a breakthrough in the case: the murder victim was not Ibudan. Bashir's pronouncement stuns everyone there, including Odo, and they lead Sisko and Odo to the infirmary, while Kira and O'Brien tell the crowd to disperse. The man who was murdered was Ibudan's clone, whom Ibudan created himself, specifically to kill, then to frame Odo for the crime. (As Odo later finds out, one of the dissidents with whom Ibudan had associated in prison was a Bajoran geneticist who had been jailed for conducting cloning experiments.) Bashir and Dax have already checked the victim's DNA and found the signature gene sequence degradation that identifies him as a clone. Bashir predicts that the second clone will gain consciousness in about two days and be a more-or-less exact copy of Ibudan, though (Odo adds) hopefully not psychologically. Now Odo concentrates on finding Ibudan, who turns out to be masquerading as an elderly Bajoran man who arrived a short time ago on a ship. Odo captures him as he boards the ship for departure from the station, pulling off his mask and informing him that killing his own clone still makes him guilty of murder. "Commander's log, stardate 46421.5. Ibudan has been turned over to the Bajoran authorities just hours after his clone gained consciousness and began a new life. The perpetrators of the mob violence have retreated into their own business. To my knowledge, Odo has received no apologies. Meanwhile, life on the station has begun to return to normal." In her empty schoolroom, Keiko glumly checks the time. Sisko enters with Jake, and, to her surprise, Rom enters a few minutes later with Nog. Nog starts to take the desk next to Jake's, but Rom tells him to sit on the other side of the room, not wanting him to have anything to do with "that Human boy"; apparently he and Sisko are of one mind on this subject. A short time later, two other Bajoran children are escorted in by their parents, and Keiko happily introduces herself, and begins her lesson plan, with a basic introduction to Bajoran history. Memorable quotes "I can't believe you're defending him, Quark. You're his worst enemy." "I guess that's the closest thing he has in this world to a friend." - Zayra and Quark, about Odo "Business is good, Quark. You're almost making an honest living." - Odo "She doesn't like it here." "Mmm. Who does?" - Quark and Odo on why Miles and Keiko O'Brien are arguing "Killing a Cardassian isn't considered much of a crime nowadays." - Odo "How do you get a rope around the neck of a shapeshifter?" - Zayra "Little lady, little lady. What would you know about Ferengi education?" - Rom, to Keiko O'Brien "I know for a fact, that when she was a he… you know? Before she had this new body, they were old friends." "Things change." - Quark and Odo, on Benjamin Sisko's and Jadzia Dax's relationship "The man we have in charge of a murder investigation is the prime suspect, Major. Those people have a right to complain." - Sisko, on the Bajoran hostility towards Odo "Do not condemn this man because he is different from you!" - Benjamin Sisko, about Odo, to the Bajoran mob "Steamed azna would put years on your life." "Dax, I don't want years on my life if I can only eat steamed azna. Sautéed… rolloped, fricasseed, fine! But not steamed!" - Jadzia Dax and Benjamin Sisko "I don't want you on this station." "Well, that's too bad because I have every right to be here!" "I decide who has the rights and who doesn't on this station!" - Odo and Ibudan "You've… never coupled?" "Choose not to. Too many compromises. You want to watch the karo-net tournament, she wants to listen to music – so you compromise: you listen to music. You like Earth Jazz, she prefers Klingon opera – so you compromise: you listen to Klingon opera. So here you were, ready to have a nice night watching the karo-net match and you wind up spending an agonizing evening listening to Klingon opera." - Quark and Odo "Killing your own clone is still murder." - Odo, to Ibudan "Commander, laws change depending on who's making them. Cardassian one day, Federation the next. But justice is justice." - Odo "Freak! Shapeshifting freak!" - Zayra, along with a Bajoran mob at Odo Background information Story and script Michael Piller wanted this installment to have a multilayered narrative structure. "I […] wanted to explore the idea of looking at Deep Space Nine as [Steve] Bochco looked at Hill Street Blues and that station – although I wasn't interested in doing continuing stories. I wanted to show that within the building structure of DS9, there were lots of different stories that are crossing paths," Piller explained. "I wanted to do an A-B-C story and see if we could keep them all going at one time, interacting and intersecting. That was the goal." (Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages, p. 32) He further commented, "This is one of those shakedown cruise kind of shows. We thought we could do the show like Hill Street Blues. Think of the space station as Hill Street. We said, 'Why can't you do three stories at the same time, intercutting between them, with people passing in the hallways?' So, we tried that." () This episode had its roots in an early story pitch session in which Gerald Sanford presented about seven or eight story ideas, of which the writing staff liked only three or four. "Then they said, 'Gee, maybe we ought to do a sort of Grand Hotel-style episode and do a lot of vignettes all taking place around the station. I did one treatment the old way, using about two basic stories, and then Michael Piller said, 'Let's pick up three more of those stories and make it really like Grand Hotel, a lot of things going on at once.' So I wrote the story up with about five of the vignettes and really never heard from them again." (Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages, p. 42) Explaining what the chosen subplots were, Michael Piller stated, "Odo and the murder investigation was one story. The Keiko O'Brien story was another, and the triangular relationship between Sisko, Dax and Bashir was the third." () Regarding the first of those three storylines, Gerald Sanford commented, "I thought it might be an interesting show to have someone accuse Odo of being a Nazi of the Cardassians who had murdered people. He's accused of this, although we find out later it's not true. So what I wanted to do was a story about what one's false accusations could lead to [….] In my original version, the only one who believed Odo was innocent was Sisko, but even he starts to doubt him. He has to really go out on a limb, and finally there's so much evidence that goes against Odo that he too has to believe it. Even his own crew began to say, 'Hey, when you're caught up in the regime, you begin acting like the regime.' I really did want to say something [in that aspect of the installment]." (Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages, p. 42) Approving of Gerald Sanford's idea of having Odo be falsely accused, Michael Piller proceeded to develop the story with him. "The more we talked about it, the more we came to a point where someone did accuse him of [a recent] murder," Sanford continued. "Then we came up with the notion of using the holosuite where a client is killed and Odo is the only one who could have gotten in and gotten out." This plot point made it even harder for Odo to prove his innocence. The collaboration between Sanford and Piller also resulted in changes to the specifics of exactly who accused him. "It was totally changed around," Sanford noted. (Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages, p. 42) Michael Piller and Ira Steven Behr asked themselves if it was too early in the first season for one of the three storylines to be a murder mystery. "We talked about that because we are aware of these things," stated Behr. "We felt that what was nice about being the third Star Trek series is that there is no such thing as early in the season, to a certain extent […] It makes sense to do a murder mystery with a character that happens to be a figure of justice and law. You want to get him involved with a murder, and what better way to show his feelings about his job?" (Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages, p. 32) Indeed, the same storyline was key to Piller's interest in developing the episode. He commented, "I wrote it to have the opportunity to really develop Odo, because he didn't have all that much to do in the pilot." () In writing the episode's script, Michael Piller knew he wanted the trio of storylines to be connected intrinsically as well as thematically. (Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages, p. 32) Despite wanting this installment's narrative to have a complex structure, Michael Piller tried to make this an easy episode to produce. "I wrote it to be as simple and straightforward as we could do," he stated. "I was thinking we had used all the effects and gags at our command in the pilot and now let's do a very simple character show and see how it plays […] We were just right out of the pilot and were still freshmanlike people in that episode." Piller described this installment as "the simplest bottle show I could create." As such, he expected it would be US$100,000 under pattern (or average) budget. (Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages, p. 32) Piller clarified that, in the writing of the episode, the first goal was "establishing on the characters" and the second goal was "to save money we had spent on the pilot." () The scene with the Garanian bolites was originally to have been part of "Emissary" but was removed during Michael Piller's rewrites. (The Making of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) The character of Zayra was named after Zayra Cabot, Jeri Taylor's assistant. () In the writing of the character, the show's staff of in-house writers attempted to, in Ira Steven Behr's words, "show a character that would be a problem for us to face on a semirecurring basis." (Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages, p. 42) Cast and characters Odo actor Rene Auberjonois was delighted by how this episode explores the theme of prejudice and how multi-layered he perceived the episode to be. "On one level, it's just a murder mystery, but on another level it goes beyond that," he observed. "Star Trek consistently does that and I'm really happy about that." (Trek: Deepspace Nine, p. 17) Auberjonois was also pleased by how this installment developed his character of Odo. (Captains' Logs: The Unauthorized Complete Trek Voyages, p. 332) Though Colm Meaney had worked with Director Paul Lynch on TNG before (for the episode ), this was the first time that DS9's principal cast worked with Lynch. "The only problem, if any, was having these actors say so much technical stuff early on," the director commented. "There was so much they had to learn. It would drive anyone to distraction." Lynch also cited Terry Farrell as having had to perform huge passages of hard-to-memorize technobabble. () Production For this episode, multiple clone-growing tanks had to be designed and built. Rick Sternbach was involved in the design work. Regarding one of the larger tanks that was constructed, he stated, "The design was such that the shop could build it out of Plexiglass, and add various bits of tubing, and 'blinky boxes' and that sort of thing, and make it look like everything had a purpose." ("Deep Space Nine Sketchbook", DS9 Season 1 DVD special features) This was the first regular episode of the series to be produced, but was chosen to be broadcast first. (; Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages, p. 32) According to Cinefantastique (Vol. 24, No. 3/4, p. 96) and Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages (p. 32), work on this installment began a week after filming on ended on . Paul Lynch remarked, "It was the first show we shot, so they were a little more relaxed about schedule and as the show went on, they tightened up." (Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages, p. 43) The costs from the production of "Emissary" got accrued to this episode, because the rebuilding of the sets from the pilot that had been destroyed by the Cardassians needed to be paid for. Partly because of this situation, this installment was US$200,000 under pattern budget, surprising Michael Piller. (Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages, p. 32) He observed that the plan to produce this installment as a money-saver "didn't succeed" and went on to say, "It ended up as being one of our most expensive shows, strictly in terms of extras, costumes, hair and other things." () Paul Lynch greatly enjoyed directing "A Man Alone", his first for Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. He could recall no other production problems encountered during this episode's making, aside from the actors struggling with their technobabble. () "It gave me a chance to explore what the Deep Space Nine series was about," he related. (Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages, p. 43) Reception Paul Lynch was proud of this episode. He commented, "I thought it was a damn good story, a murder mystery in space. It was a kicker, because only in space could you have a man murdering his own clone. It made for a very interesting and very different kind of murder mystery. I thought Piller's script was exceptional and really worked on that level." Lynch also enjoyed working with the actors for the first time. "I found that they were all wonderful performers. I also found I had a great comedy duo in Odo and Quark." The director was likewise impressed by Avery Brooks as well as the other cast members. "Siddig, Nana, Terry and Colm were all real pros," Lynch stated. He specifically thought it was "to her credit" that Terry Farrell managed the difficult task of performing all the "incredible passages of technical jargon" she had in this episode. () Lynch also commented, "It was the first chance to see Armin and Rene work together as a wonderful team and it was quite a compelling story." (Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages, p. 43) Ira Steven Behr commented, "I always thought the ending of 'A Man Alone' was weak, with the Mission: Impossible-like taking off of the mask." Behr implied that his frustration with the episode wasn't due to the writing of it but because he found it "lacked pacing." Although he admitted that the idea of trying to establish Zayra as a potentially antagonistic character if encountered semiregularly "never really worked out" (as the character never returned), Behr stated that he "liked" that they had made this attempt. He also retained the opinion that it hadn't been too early in DS9's first season for a murder mystery. (Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages, pp. 32 & 42) Michael Piller wasn't entirely satisfied with this episode. He commented, "A Man Alone' is a very soft episode and a soft character show with some serious conflicts in it, and it's a wonderful show that defines our characters in ways that weren't in the pilot." (Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages, pp. 42-43) Piller also commented, "From a script point of view, I thought it worked quite well. On film, it flattened out a little bit." (Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages, p. 32) He elaborated, "It was interesting [….] As a script, I thought it was wonderful. When I saw it filmed and cut together, I thought it was flat. That might just be the result of it being the first show we shot. I felt it got better in post-production and with the music added. The performances were good, but I thought it was soft. It did what it had to do in elaborating on the characters." () As Piller expressed it, the reasons this episode wasn't aired as the first regular episode were that it was regarded as "too soft" for that and due to Piller thinking it didn't have as good an "action quotient" as , explaining why that episode was preferred to be the next aired after the pilot , but concluded, "Oddly enough, I thought that in post the addition of music and effects lifted 'Man Alone', where they didn't really help 'Past Prologue' much." (Captains' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages, p. 43) Mark A. Altman commented that "probably the strongest thing" in this episode was the relationship between Quark and Odo. He also regarded the murder mystery in this episode as one of a few "hokey clichés" in the early run of DS9, which he would have personally avoided, opting instead for more interesting character-driven stories. (Trek: Deepspace Nine, pp. 69 & 72) Trivia "A Man Alone" provides some expository information, being the first episode filmed after "Emissary". Information on the Trill, Sisko's relationship with Curzon Dax, and the fact that Rom is Nog's father are all revealed. Jake and Nog meet for the first time, and Keiko and Molly O'Brien make their first appearances in the series, with Keiko establishing the school on the station. () Following its opening in this episode, Keiko's school aboard Deep Space 9 remains open until third season episode , when it closes due to a lack of students. Nog's friendship with Jake Sisko is also established in this episode. However, during this show (and in several subsequent shows), Sisko openly opposes their friendship and actively tries to end it. It is not until third season episode that Sisko comes to truly accept the bond Jake and Nog have. While investigating Ibudan's death, Odo views his schedule, which contains several in-jokes. For example, it shows that he traveled to Deep Space 9 from Alderaan Spaceport; Alderaan is the planet destroyed by the Death Star in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. He also had several dealings with individuals named Ahern, Della Santina, Gocke, and Moudakis, all named after DS9 production staffers. In the same scene, it is established that the murder occurred on stardate 46384, a stardate which is earlier than the last log entry of the pilot , which was stardate 46393.1. A future Deep Space Nine sub-plot, involving conflicts over jurisdiction in regards to security personnel on the station, is first hinted at in this episode. This conflict is seen most clearly in later first season episode , where Odo clashes with Lieutenant Primmin, and in third season episode , where he clashes with Lieutenant Commander Eddington. On both occasions, Odo offers his resignation to Sisko, and on both occasions, Sisko refuses to accept it. Though Rom first appears in the pilot episode "Emissary", this is the first episode in which he is given a name, as well as being established as Nog's father. (In "Emissary", he is credited as "Ferengi Pit Boss", and Quark refers to Nog as "my brother's boy.") In this episode, Max Grodénchik has not yet adopted Rom's trademark voice or mannerisms. Max Grodénchik, as Rom, says "Human" rather than the typical Ferengi pronunciation "hew-mon" twice in this episode. Grodénchik did the same thing as Sovak in . In this, his second appearance on the series, Aron Eisenberg (Nog) is credited as "Aron Eisenerg". This is the first episode to suggest, though not explicitly stated, that the station operates on a twenty-six-hour day. As Deep Space 9 is a Bajoran station, it can be inferred from this that Bajor itself has a twenty-six-hour day. Remastered version Remastered footage from the episode is featured in the documentary What We Left Behind. Video and DVD releases UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 2, As part of the DS9 Season 1 DVD collection Links and references Guest Stars Rosalind Chao as Keiko O'Brien Edward Laurence Albert as Zayra Max Grodénchik as Rom Peter Vogt as Bajoran man Aron Eisenerg [sic] as Nog Stephen James Carver as Ibudan (first clone) Tom Klunis as Lamonay S. Co-Stars Scott Trost as a Bajoran Officer Patrick Cupo as a Bajoran Man Kathryn Graf as a Bajoran Woman Hana Hatae as Molly O'Brien Diana Cignoni as a Dabo Girl Judi Durand as Computer Voice Uncredited Co-Stars Scott Barry as Bajoran officer Ivor Bartels as Human security officer Patti Begley as Bajoran officer Robert Coffee as Bajoran officer Jeannie Dreams as Human operations division ensign Robert Ford as operations officer Grace Harrell as holographic alien masseuse David B. Levinson as Broik Vincent Mazzella, Jr. as Bajoran Chad McCord as operations ensign Kim Meredith (unconfirmed) Tom Morga as Bajoran Robin Morselli as Bajoran officer Tyana Parr as Human DS9 resident Mic Rodgers as Bajoran security deputy Tammy Rodriguez as yellow-skinned dabo girl Mark Allen Shepherd as Human DS9 resident Morn Michael Zurich as a Bajoran security deputy Unknown performers as Alien with upturned nose Bajoran boy Bajoran girl Bajoran nurse Bajoran transport computer voice Human command division ensign Human security officer Human security officer Pelian References 2229; 2353; 2361; alibi; Altonian brain teaser; anatomy; apprenticeship; arboretum; azna; Bajor; Bajoran (aka Bajora); Bajoran Provisional Government; Bajoran sector; (Bajoran transport); Bajoran wormhole; bed; biological sample container; bioregenerative field; black market; botanist; business; Cardassian; ; champagne; chopstick; chromatin; chromosome analysis; clone; collaborator; commander; "Comparative Xenobiology"; computer; confidence man; conflict of interest; court of law; crime; crook; culture; curriculum; dabo; daughter; ; Deep Space 9 levels; dinner; dissident; DNA; DNA sequence; DNA sequence analysis; docking pylon; doctor; donor; drug; Earth; economics; education; electrophoretic analysis; ; evidence; Federation; Federation survey ship; female; Ferengi; flower; forensics; freak; freedom; fricassee; friendship; Gamma Quadrant; Garanian bolite; gene-sequence degradation; genetic drift; grapevine; hair follicle; hand; hanging; heart; hero; holodeck; holosuite; host; Human; humanoid; (second clone); jar; jazz; jumja; Juro Counterpunch; justice; Karo-Net; killer; Klingon opera; knife; Korris I; Kran-Tobol prison; law; Lauriento massage holoprogram 101A; law; massage facility; masseuse; matter reclamation unit; medical supplies; mentor; metabolic field energy; microscope; module; murder; music; neck; neural theta wave; nowadays; nuisance; Occupation of Bajor; officer; ops; pail; passenger; passenger list; payoff; perfume; personal calendar file; petri dish; philosophy; plant; ; power transfer grid; prime suspect; prison; Promenade; promotion; protein; puzzle; Quark's; quarters; recipe; regenerative cycle; relationship; replimat; report; rhythm; rollope; romance; rope; Ruji; Ruji twin sisters; Rujian Steeplechase; runabout; sauté; scene of the crime; school; school bell; schoolroom; scientist; scum; security chief; security office; semi-circle; seofurane; shapeshifter; shifter; ship's manifest; ; skin; space station; spectrograph; sphere; Starfleet; starship; steam; step; supper; sweep; teacher; test taster; thoracic vertebrae; tournament; transfer; Transit Aid Center; transporter; tree; tri-phasic cloning; Trill; turbolift; unnamed medical tool; ventricle; Vulcan science vessel; wager; water; Yadozi desert Other references Personal calendar files: Ahern; Alderaan Spaceport; Gocke; lifeboat drill; lunch; Moudakis; ; subspace teleconference; tennis; Zarro Comparative Xenobiology: Deneb IV; Denebian slime devil; flying parasite; Excalbia; Excalbian; Horta; Iota Geminorum IV; Large Magellanic Cloud; Ornithoid life form; Regulan bloodworm; Regulus II; tribble External links cs:A Man Alone de:Unter Verdacht es:A Man Alone fr:A Man Alone (épisode) ja:宇宙ステーション殺人事件（エピソード） nl:A Man Alone pl:A Man Alone sr:Сам (епизода) Man Alone, A

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Babel

Babel was the code name for an inhabited neutral planet in the Alpha Quadrant. This planet was used by United Earth, and later the United Federation of Planets, as a venue for conferences, which were mediated in council chambers. (; ; ) Location Relative to Tellar Prime, Babel was located on the far side of Andorian space. () In 2259, the location of this planet was labeled on a stellar cartography chart that was seen on the 's ready room viewscreen. This planet's symbol had a blue color, indicating that it was affiliated with the . () In 2293, the location of Babel in the Milky Way Galaxy was labeled in the star chart The Explored Galaxy, which was on display in James T. Kirk's quarters aboard the . (, okudagram) In 2367, the location of Babel was labeled on a tactical situation monitor in Captain Benjamin Maxwell's ready room on the . (, okudagram) In 2366, in an alternate timeline, during the , the location of Babel was labeled on a tactical situation monitor in the ready room aboard the . (, okudagram) In 2399, the location of Babel was labeled in a Federation star chart that was in Fleet Admiral Kirsten Clancy's office at Starfleet Headquarters. This planet was in or near to Federation space. () In 2401, the location of Babel was labeled on a star chart that was seen on the 's bridge viewscreen. The chart was used to show the location of the combined Starfleet-Borg armada and where it needed to go to face a galactic-level threat. () History The planet was planned to host negotiations to settle trade disputes between the Andorians and the Tellarites and mediated by Starfleet on behalf of United Earth in 2154. However, the meeting was postponed due to tensions between the two powers caused by a raiding Romulan scout vessel in the area. () In 2268, on stardate 3850.3, the Babel Conference considered Coridan's admission to the Federation. Two things came of this conference: the Babel Resolutions and Coridan's admission to the Federation. (; ; ) In 2270, the transported Commodore Robert April and his wife Sarah to Babel, where ambassadors from all Federation worlds had converged to honor April as he had reached his mandatory retirement age. () Appendices Background information Babel was described as a planetoid in its first mention in "Journey to Babel", but as a planet in "The Counter-Clock Incident" and "Babel One". StarTrek.com described Babel as a rogue planet. According to Star Trek: Star Charts (pp. 45,66, "United Federation of Planets I") and Stellar Cartography: The Starfleet Reference Library ("Federation Historical Highlights, 2161-2385"), Babel was located in the system. The system's primary was a M-class star. In the late 24th century, it was an independent system. Apocrypha According to Star Trek Maps (p. 24 and chart D), Babel was located in the Wolf 424 system. The Babel planetoid had three small moons called Zion, Ba, and Ruim. Babel had a diameter of 4,200 kilometers and orbited a red dwarf star. The Federation sourcebook identifies Babel as the twelfth planet in the Wolf 424 system. External links de:Babel (Planetoid) es:Babel (planeta) fr:Babel nl:Babel Planets

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Vilix'pran

Lieutenant Vilix'pran was a Starfleet crew member assigned to Deep Space 9 in the 2370s. In 2371, he was an ensign assigned to cargo inventory, but Julian Bashir made a request for the ensign's transfer because he was budding with twins. Bashir and Miles O'Brien were throwing him a baby shower; O'Brien was also building him a hatchling pond, while Bashir had ordered baby clothes from Elim Garak. A prior budding had produced four offspring. () By 2373, Vilix'pran had been promoted to lieutenant, and was in the process of budding for a third time. Doctor Bashir indicated this would bring the total number of children between eight and eighteen, indicating the nature of his species' reproductive system produces litters of two to twelve (as Vilix'pran already had 6 children). Bashir indicated that Major Kira should expect a request soon for larger quarters. () Jake Sisko babysat his hatchlings on several occasions, a task which involved preventing their wings from getting tangled. () External link de:Vilix'pran ja:ヴィリックスプラン Individuals Deep Space 9 personnel

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USS Majestic

The USS Majestic (NCC-31060) was a 24th century Federation starship operated by Starfleet. The Majestic was an active participant in the Dominion War. In 2374, the Majestic was part of the fleet assembled by Captain Benjamin Sisko for Operation Return. During the battle, the Majestic and the escorted the as the ships attempted to break through the Dominion lines. It was severely damaged after its saucer section was penetrated by a beam, and finally destroyed when a torpedo fired from a nearby Jem'Hadar battle cruiser severed its starboard nacelle. () Appendices Background information The scene from "Sacrifice of Angels" depicting the destruction of the Majestic was later reused in the battle sequence from . The Majestic was featured in the Star Trek: Starship Spotter. A model of the Majestic (featuring battle damage) was released by Johnny Lightning. The Majestic was possibly named for the ocean liner RMS Majestic, the world's largest passenger ship when completed in 1922, the various ships of the British Royal Navy that bore the name , or the of the Royal Navy, the largest battleships in the world when first launched in 1894. External link cs:USS Majestic de:USS Majestic ja:USSマジェスティック nl:USS Majestic bg:USS Маджестик Majestic

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USS Sitak

The USS Sitak (NCC-32591) was a 24th century Federation starship operated by Starfleet. The Sitak was an active participant in the Dominion War. In 2374, the Sitak was part of the fleet assembled by Captain Benjamin Sisko for Operation Return. During the battle, the Sitak and the escorted the as the ships attempted to break through the Dominion lines. It was damaged after being hit in the port nacelle by a particle weapon, before finally being destroyed by taking a direct hit from a torpedo which vaporized much of its saucer section. () External link cs:USS Sitak de:USS Sitak ja:USSシタック nl:USS Sitak bg:USS Ситак Sitak

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Starfleet Fleets

During the Dominion War, Starfleet ships were divided into fleets or task forces. Some of these fleets included Federation Alliance ships and included Klingon and Romulan forces as well. Second Fleet Third Fleet Fifth Fleet Sixth Fleet Seventh Fleet Ninth Fleet Tenth Fleet Other Starfleet fleet assemblages: Battle Group Omega Destroyer units Destroyer Unit 2 Destroyer Unit 6 Galaxy wings Galaxy Wing 9-1 Galaxy Wing 9-3 Seventh Tactical Wing Unit XY-75847 See also Assault fleet Sortie External link bg:Флотове на Звездния флот de:Flotten der Sternenflotte nl:Starfleet vloot Lists Military units

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2379

Events Prime reality By starship Beckett Mariner is demoted to ensign and transferred from the to the . () Brad Boimler is commissioned and later assigned to the Cerritos. () Samanthan Rutherford is transferred from Douglas Station to the Cerritos on Stardate 56329.4. () The shuttlecraft is tested for the first time on Kolarus III. One of Dr. Noonian Soong's prototypes, B-4, is discovered on the planet. Data attempts to expand B-4's abilities by copying all of his memories into the older android. () Captain Jean-Luc Picard is ordered to go to Romulus by Starfleet after a military coup results in a new government being formed, and peace overtures are made towards the Federation. This is discovered to be a ploy by the new Praetor, Shinzon of Remus, to lure the Enterprise to Romulus so he can capture Picard and use his DNA to stabilize his own dying body. The Enterprise-E is seriously damaged by Shinzon's ship, the Scimitar, during the Battle in the Bassen Rift. Shinzon is killed by Picard and the Scimitar is destroyed when the thalaron energy weapon on his ship is overloaded by Lieutenant Commander Data, who is also killed in the process. () The Enterprise-E is towed back to Earth for repairs. () The conducts first contact with the Galardonians. () William Riker is promoted to captain and takes command of the Titan. Deanna Troi also transfers to the Titan as the ship's counselor. () After the death of the Shinzon, the initial approaches between the Federation and the Romulan Star Empire are continued, marking the beginning of a new era of peace for both powers. Several vessels, led by the , are dispatched to the Romulan Neutral Zone in order to begin talks with the Romulans. () Other events Kathryn Janeway is a vice admiral serving at Starfleet Command during this year. () Evidence suggests (but other interpretations are possible) that sometime prior to this year, Wesley Crusher returns to Starfleet and gains the rank of lieutenant junior grade. () William T. Riker and Deanna Troi are married on Earth. A second ceremony on Betazed is scheduled, but interrupted when the is summoned to Romulus. () The , , , , , , and together make up Star Fleet Battle Group Omega, a battle group sent to assist the Enterprise-E and intercept the Scimitar. () In an alternate timeline aboard in the Delta Quadrant, Kes nearly dies at the age of 9, experiences a temporal flux, and begins to travel back in time to the year of 2373. At that point in time she is put in a bio-temporal chamber, reactivating dormant chronitons in her body. She experiences temporal reversion as she time travels. () Alternate reality Yor travels from this year to the future of the prime universe. () Appendices Appearances Episodes (in part) Films Notes In a holoprogram created by Barash, William T. Riker saves a Romulan battle cruiser. () External links bg:2379 cs:2379 de:2379 es:2379 fr:2379 nl:2379 pl:2378-2380 sv:2379 Alternate reality timeline

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2377

Events The Doctor is transmitted to the Alpha Quadrant in order to treat the terminally ill Doctor Lewis Zimmerman. () Tom Paris is returned to the rank of lieutenant junior grade. () The is destroyed by the Borg Tactical Cube 138. Captain Kathryn Janeway, Lieutenant Commander Tuvok, and B'Elanna Torres are assimilated by the Borg in order to assist the drones of Unimatrix Zero in their rebellion. The Borg drones capable of entering Unimatrix Zero begin a rebellion against the Collective, aided by the . () The original Delta Flyer is rebuilt as a new . Janeway consents to permit Tom Paris to use the Delta Flyer in the Antarian Trans-stellar Rally. Paris loses the race after a plot is discovered and thwarted to sabotage the Delta Flyer for the purpose of committing an assassination. () Tom Paris and B'Elanna Torres are married, and take their honeymoon on the Delta Flyer. () Azan and Rebi are reunited with their people, who also agree to give Mezoti a home. () Icheb applies to Starfleet Academy and begins taking the necessary courses on board Voyager. Captain Janeway sponsors his application. () Teero Anaydis, a Bajoran Maquis fanatic, uses a mind control program to attempt to revive the Maquis rebellion on the USS Voyager, causing the vessel's former Maquis crew members to seize control of the ship. Tuvok is able to reverse the effects via mind melds. () Ensign Harry Kim briefly commands a Kraylor vessel, with the understanding that it is a medical courier. It is revealed that the vessel is carrying a prototype cloaking device midway through the journey to the Kraylor homeworld, and although hesitant, Kim successfully commands the vessel to its destination. () Voyager encounters a temporal distortion which briefly splits the ship up into several different time periods. () Janeway and Chakotay die in an alternative reality. () B'Elanna Torres discovers she is pregnant. () A group of Klingons who left Qo'noS in the 23rd century believe B'Elanna Torres' unborn child to be the Kuvah'magh, the prophetical "savior of their people." The child's DNA is used to cure a virus plaguing the Klingons, and they settle on a planet similar to Qo'nos. () Voyager is trapped in a region known as , and forges alliances with several species in order to escape. () The crew of Voyager is abducted by a secret criminal faction of . Their identities are reassigned to that of laborers on the planet, but they are eventually rescued. () When they entered the Void in 2375, Voyager expected to exit it by this year. () Episodes (in part) (in part) Apocrypha The first "relaunch" to be set in this year is Warpath, with Fearful Symmetry and The Soul Key set soon after. The flight simulation game Star Trek: Invasion occurs between stardate 54111 and stardate 54620. The strategy games Star Trek: Armada II and Star Trek: Away Team are also set in this year. The opening and ending of the game Star Trek: Borg is set in this year. External link de:2377 es:2377 fr:2377 it:2377 nl:2377 pl:2377 rok sv:2377

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2371

Events Prime universe By Starship or station The starship departs Deep Space 9 on a mission to find the Maquis raider Val Jean. Both ships are thrown seventy-five thousand light years into the Delta Quadrant by the Caretaker. The Caretaker's array, the only means home, is later destroyed by Captain Kathryn Janeway in order to protect the Ocampa and the two crews are forced to work together to find a route back to the Alpha Quadrant. () Several crewmembers on Voyager, including first officer Cavit, flight control officer Stadi, the chief medical officer, and the chief engineer, are killed during the transit to the Delta Quadrant. () Voyager makes first contact with the Ocampa, Talaxians, and Kazon. () Neelix and Kes join the Voyager crew. () Voyager approaches an M-class planet. Kes enters the bridge, reporting a vision of a planet being destroyed. She is relieved to find out that the planet is teeming with life. It appeared to be a pre-warp civilization, so Captain Janeway makes a note in the log and orders Voyager to continue towards the Alpha Quadrant. () Originally, Voyager discovered the class M planet devastated by an explosion that happened the previous day due to the detonation of polaric ion energy. Captain Janeway and Tom Paris were thrown back in time before the explosion by a subspace fracture. The Voyager crew attempts to rescue them by opening a fracture with a polaric generator but cause the original explosion and destroy all life on the planet, including the captain. Janeway resets time by closing the fracture before it causes the explosion. This creates a new timeline in which Voyager never went to the planet and the civilization is spared. () Voyager discovers a micro-wormhole. The crew sends in a microprobe, which reveals the wormhole leads to the Alpha Quadrant. Voyager, using the probe as a relay for a message, contacts a Romulan science vessel named Talvath, commanded by Telek R'Mor. However, it is later found out that the wormhole is a rift through time and that R'Mor is from the year 2351. After some consideration, R'Mor agrees to take the crew's personal messages with him and deliver them to Starfleet at the appropriate time. R'Mor is later discovered to have died in 2367 and the messages were apparently never delivered to Starfleet. () Voyagers Tom Paris is convicted of murdering the Banean Tolen Ren. After much evidence gathering, Tuvok is able to prove Paris' innocence and reveals a Numiri plot to steal Ren's technology. () Kes travels to this year from five years in the original version of the future. She attempts to give the crew of Voyager to the Vidiians in exchange for safe passage for her future and present self to . Her plan fails and Janeway is forced to kill Kes. Kes then makes a holographic projection to prevent her future self from going back in time, thus changing history. () Seska's true roots as a Cardassian spy are revealed. She betrays the Voyager crew and joins the Kazon. () Ensign Samantha Wildman discovers she is pregnant while stranded on Voyager in the Delta Quadrant. () Voyager lands on a planet in the Delta Quadrant and discovers a colony of Humans, including Amelia Earhart, transported to the planet by the Briori centuries prior. () Deep Space 9 Deep Space 9 is spared destruction by mere seconds after a legacy counter-insurgency program installed by the station's original Cardassian commander is inadvertently initiated. () The Maquis member Thomas Riker steals the USS Defiant and uses it to expose a Cardassian military buildup in the Orias system. () With help from Bareil Antos, Kai Winn and Legate Turrel sign the Bajoran-Cardassian Treaty. It sends political shock waves throughout the Alpha Quadrant. Bareil dies soon after. () The Romulan Star Empire sends Ruwon and Karina to Deep Space 9 to take possession of Starfleet's data on the Dominion. This was agreed upon earlier in the year, in exchange for allowing the USS Defiant to operate a cloaking device. The Romulans also send a Warbird, intending to destroy the station and the wormhole. However, their plan is thwarted by Miles O'Brien, who had foreseen the future and warned Benjamin Sisko. () The Cardassian Obsidian Order, together with the Romulan Tal Shiar, are lured into a trap when they attack the in the Gamma Quadrant. The following battle leads to the complete destruction of the combined Romulan-Cardassian fleet of twenty ships and severely cripples both organizations, which, in turn, reduces possible resistance against the Dominion down to the Federation and the Klingon Empire. () The Bajoran Shakaar Edon, a former cell leader in the Bajoran Resistance, becomes first minister of Bajor's provisional government. () Benjamin Sisko is promoted by Starfleet Command from commander to captain. () It is discovered that the Founders of the Dominion have infiltrated the Alpha Quadrant. () Kira Nerys speaks to Latha Mabrin for what will ultimately be the last time. () The undergoes a major refit. ( commemorative plaque) Worf is promoted to lieutenant commander. () The Enterprise is destroyed over Veridian III. Almost the entire crew survives in the vessel's saucer section after the ship's separation, which crash lands on the planet along with the attached captain's yacht Calypso after the ship's stardrive section exploded, impacting the saucer with an ion shock wave. () The starship disappears, pulled into the Delta Quadrant by the . The ship sets a return course to the Alpha Quadrant, but encounters the Krowtonan Guard, becoming severely damaged while losing half of its crew. () Other Events Starfleet introduces a new combadge, a gold rectangle with a cutout oval in the center replacing the gold oval. (; ; ) The Federation, as well as the other Alpha and Beta Quadrant powers, becomes aware of the Dominion threat after the returns from its mission to the in the Gamma Quadrant, the home of the designated leaders of the Dominion. () The Obsidian Order exposes Legate Tekeny Ghemor's ties to the Cardassian dissident movement. () Robert Picard and his son René die in a fire at their home in La Barre, France. () Dr. Tolian Soran uses a trilithium weapon: the solar probe to collapse the Amargosa star. () Captain James T. Kirk emerges from the Nexus and is killed helping Jean-Luc Picard prevent Dr. Soran from destroying the Veridian system. () Reginald Barclay transfers to Jupiter Station and works at Dr. Lewis Zimmerman's holographic laboratory to test the Emergency Medical Hologram's interpersonal skills. () According to William Riker, the fusion reactor in the Uxbridge house would last until this year. () Martok is captured by the Dominion on Kang's Summit and sent to Internment Camp 371. () Tuvok joins Chakotay's Maquis cell as an undercover operative of Starfleet. () Kar, a young Kazon-Ogla, begins his combat training on Tarok. () Sometime around this year, variable geometry pylons are introduced on Federation starships. () The crashes on a planet in Rutharian sector. Captain Lisa Cusak's distress call is sent three years into the future by the planet's energy barrier and is intercepted by the . Captain Cusak dies on the planet. () Mirror universe is killed by the Klingon-Cardassian Alliance. recruits the prime universe Benjamin Sisko to take his counterparts place temporarily. () Smiley steals the design schematics for the during his visit to Deep Space 9. () defects to the Terran Rebellion. () Episodes Episodes (in part) (in part) (in part) (in part) (in part) (in part) (in part) (in part) Apocrypha According to her biography in Star Trek: Starship Creator, graduated from Starfleet Academy in this year and was assigned to the as conn officer. External link de:2371 es:2371 fr:2371 it:2371 nl:2371 pl:2371 rok sv:2371 Mirror universe timeline

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Treaty of Sirius

The Treaty of Sirius was a treaty signed by the Kzinti government. It required the complete disarmament of the Kzinti, with only police vessels allowed. In 2269, Spock, Hikaru Sulu, and Nyota Uhura discovered that the Kzinti had broken the treaty some time ago, as they possessed phaser weapons. () External link de:Vertrag von Sirius fr:Traité de Sirius nl:Verdrag van Sirius Sirius

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Sirius IX

Sirius IX was the inhabited ninth planet in the Sirius system of the Alpha Quadrant. The system was approximately eight light years from Sol. The planet had at least a thousand inhabitants, who allegedly had a unique biochemistry. At some point before stardate 4978, Harry Mudd sold a love potion to a thousand people on Sirius IX. When they became ill, Mudd quickly left the planet. (; production art) de:Sirius IX it:Sirio IX nl:Sirius IX Sirius 09

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Events By starship Stardate 9522.6: departs the Earth Spacedock to rendezvous with Kronos One. Captain James T. Kirk is framed for the assassination of Klingon Chancellor Gorkon. He and Dr. Leonard McCoy are given life sentences and sent to the dilithium mines of Rura Penthe but are both rescued by Captain Spock and the crew of the Enterprise-A. () The USS Enterprise-A is decommissioned. () Stardate 9715.5: The is commissioned under the command of Captain John Harriman. (, Enterprise-B dedication plaque) Doing his part to save the Enterprise-B from being destroyed by the Nexus on her maiden voyage, Captain James Tiberius Kirk, one of the most celebrated Starfleet officers in history, is believed to be killed. () Other events Stardate 9521.6: The Klingon moon Praxis explodes. () Stardate 9529.1: The Khitomer Conference takes place, paving the way for nearly a hundred years of peace between the Klingon Empire and the Federation. Curzon Dax is one of the Federation diplomats present who negotiates the Accords. (; ) The Nexus; a powerful, destructive energy-ribbon and inter-dimensional portal is discovered by the Federation for the first time with the crew of the Enterprise-B. It claims the lives of hundreds of El-Aurian refugees aboard the and which were both destroyed by the ribbon. () Tuvok graduates from Starfleet Academy and is assigned to the starship , under the command of Captain Sulu. () Starfleet opens up a classified database on the Borg, likely due to the contact with the El-Aurians, a species which has nearly been wiped out by the Borg, and the mysterious incident in 2153. ( production art) Appendices Appearances Episodes Films External link bg:2293 de:2293 es:2293 fr:2293 nl:2293 sv:2293

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Interstellar history

See also: History Interstellar history was the term for the timeline of events and was a course at Starfleet Academy. () The distant past Main article: Distant past Billions of years ago 16 billion years ago The universe comes into being through a massive explosion known as the Big Bang, gradually condensing into the more standard forms of matter and energy known in present time. At least two members of the Q Continuum, visiting from the future, are known to have taken refuge at the beginning of the cosmos, with one, later known as Quinn, also attempting to conceal the in the maelstrom. () ~ +5 billion years ago The Guardian of Forever, a sentient time portal of unknown origin and purpose, is created on what will later be known as the time planet at some point preceding the formation of the Sol solar system. () ~ 4 billion years ago The first humanoid species known to evolve explored the cosmos, but found themselves alone. Accepting the lifespan of their own race to be ultimately finite, they chose to spread genetic material throughout the oceans of many worlds of the galaxy, including Andor, Bajor, Betazed, Cardassia Prime, Earth, Indri VIII, Ruah IV, Qo'noS, Tellar, , Vilmor II, and , so that life on them would eventually develop on paths similar to their own. The ancient humanoids encoded the genetic seeds they left with a message that would be revealed only when their progeny had developed high degrees of technology and cooperation with one another. () One out of every 43,000 planets in the galaxy would eventually support intelligent life. () Hundreds of millions of years ago Over five hundred million years later, the first life developed on the planet Earth. By the time, however, there were already other flourishing civilization throughout the galaxy. A notably advanced civilization is that of Bajor, which already established a flourishing civilization 500,000 years prior. At that time, Humans hadn't even learned to walk upright. (). Humanoid civilizations Civilization on Earth began to develop around 5500 BC. Following a classical period of thousands of years, and a millennium of Dark Ages, Human history entered a bright new era or Renaissance, which was the starting point of its advanced civilization. On other M-class worlds similar to Earth, numerous civilizations developed. After several centuries of technological development, many races became spacefaring around the same time. In 2161 several planets formed what was to become known as the United Federation of Planets, an interstellar organization for economic, social, and military cooperation, with the ultimate goal to protect future generations from intergalactic war and conflict. United Federation of Planets Since its founding in 2161, the Federation expanded considerably in member worlds. By the 24th century, several hundreds of planets and star systems had joined the organization. However, in its history, it has stumbled upon a number of conflicts with neighboring empires. A long-lasting conflict with the Klingon Empire ended in 2293, when the Khitomer Conference resulted in a peace treaty between the two powers. The ongoing cold war with the Romulan Star Empire, however, lasted until deep into the 24th century. () Following the peace with the Klingons, previously considered the Federation's traditional adversaries, a Renaissance period for the Federation began, signified by the construction of large exploration starships and the establishment of numerous colonies throughout Federation space and beyond. However, resistance to expansion of the Federation was encountered and the Federation became embroiled in many conflicts during the 2350s, most notably the Cardassian War. Since the military (Starfleet) was at its greatest strength, a peace treaty was forced upon the Cardassian Union, but the Federation was about to face two of its greatest threats. () First contact with the Borg was made in 2365. A conflict with this cybernetic species followed, leading to two major assaults deep into the heart of Federation space. () During the 2370s, contact was made with the Dominion, which hailed from the Gamma Quadrant. The Dominion allied with the Cardassians and later the Breen and began a massive offensive against the Alpha Quadrant. In response the Federation allied with the Klingons and later also the Romulans. The Federation alliance was eventually able to win the war, with assistance from former Dominion ally Cardassia, but it left most of the Alpha Quadrant devastated. () A new era of peace with both the Cardassians and the Romulans was now in reach. Having fought side-by-side during the Dominion War, a mutual respect had grown between the powers, and it is likely a peace will be signed shortly. () Notable histories of specific civilizations Andorian history Andorian-Vulcan history Bajoran history Borg history Cardassian history Dominion history Ferengi history Federation history Human history Human-Klingon history Human-Romulan history Klingon history Klingon-Human history Klingon-Romulan history Romulan history Romulan-Human history Romulan-Klingon history Vulcan history Vulcan-Andorian history Xindi history Interstellar events 4th century Time of Awakening on 14th century Hur'q invasion of Qo'noS Promellian-Menthar War Battle of Orelious IX 18th century Eminiar-Vendikar War 21st century Xindi Civil War: c. 2030s First Contact between Humans and Vulcans Kzinti Wars 22nd century Temporal Cold War: c. 2150 Xindi incident Augment Crisis Battle of Andoria Babel Crisis Earth-Romulan War: c. 2160s Battle of Cheron 23rd century Battle of Donatu V: 2245 Federation-Klingon War (2267) Neutral Zone Incursion Battle of Klach D'kel Brakt Battle of Caleb IV V'ger traverses Klingon space and threatens Earth A Whale Probe later traverses Klingon space and threatens Earth Khitomer conspiracy 24th century Tomed Incident occurs in 2311 Occupation of Bajor: 2328-2369 Bajoran Resistance: 2328-2369 Federation-Klingon War (alternate timeline): c. 2340s-2366 Klingon-Romulan conflicts Battle of Narendra III in 2344 Khitomer Massacre in 2346 Federation-Cardassian War Setlik III massacre: ~2347 Battle of Narendra III: 2344 Khitomer Massacre: 2346 Klaestron Civil War: mid-24th century Gentonian trade wars: mid-24th century Norkan Campaign: mid-24th century Tarsian War: mid-24th century Galen border conflict: c. 2357 Battle of Maxia: 2355 Federation-Tzenkethi War: c. 2360s Battle of Wolf 359 Klingon Civil War Battle of Mempa Dominion cold war: 2370-2373 The Dominion destroys the colony of New Bajor The Dominion engages and destroys the Battle of the Omarion Nebula: 2371 Battle of Veridian III: 2371 Voyager-Kazon conflict: 2371-2373 Klingon-Cardassian War: 2372-2373 First Battle of Deep Space 9 Federation-Klingon War (2372-73): 2372-2373 Battle of Terok Nor: 2372 (mirror universe) Borg-Species 8472 War: 2373-2374 Proxcinian War Q Civil War: 2373 Battle of Sector 001: 2373 Dominion War: 2373-2375 Second Battle of Deep Space 9: 2373 Battle of Torros III Operation Return: 2374 Battle of Betazed First Battle of Chin'toka Raid on Trelka V: 2375 Battle of Ricktor Prime Second Battle of Chin'toka Breen attack on Earth Cardassian Rebellion Battle of Cardassia Year of Hell Iden's Rebellion Battle in the Bassen Rift: 2379 Conflicts of the possible future 26th century Battle of Procyon V 31st century Temporal Cold War Conflicts with indeterminate dates Battle of Vorkado Battle of Prexnak Battle of Zambrano Betreka Nebula Incident Ersalrope Wars Kenzie Rebellion See also Galactic history de:Interstellare Geschichte ja:恒星間の歴史 nl:Interstellaire geschiedenis pl:Historia międzygwiezdna History Starfleet Academy courses