Stardate: Not available (although Kirk says: Armaggedon)
Original airdate: 11/1/1968
Writer: Jerome Bixby
Director: Marvin Chomsky
Guest Stars:
Michael Ansara
Kang
Susan Howard
Mara, Klingon Science officer and wife of Kang.
40+ Klingons
Crew Appearances:
Kirk, Spock, McCoy
Chekov
Scotty
Sulu
Uhura
Comptuer voice of Majel Barrett
Johnson fatally injured but recovers fully (and they don't know how)
Red Shirt (landing party)
Story
An energy force of pure energy feeds on hate, hostiliy and violent intentions by creating racial hatred and combat situations aboard the Enterprise between Klingons and Kirk's crew. Kirk and his opponent, Kang, must come to grips with what exactly is putting them through this, and combat the entity or they will go on and on fighting each other.
Factoids:
Klingons dark, savage hunters, conquerers
Beta 12A- dessert planet with rocks and pink bushes where the klingons and Crew first encounter each other.
Warp 9 acheived by the entity taking over the ship and brings the ship out of control to the edge of the galaxy
392 Enterprise crewmen trapped on the below decks to even out the numbers fighting each other above. (38 of Enterprise crew and 38 Klingons.)
instantaneous transmutation of matter: the entity has this ability and uses it to transform modern weapons into antiques
intraship beaming- a dangerous practice requiring precision. This is how Kirk is able to meet Kang in engineering.
3D chess set turns into several swords and knives
numinol a medicine given to injured crewmen by McCoy
Quote:
"Go to the Devil" Kirk to Kang (wonder what writers would have Kirk
say if ST was produced today.hm.
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"You killed my Brother, Peoter." Chekov.
(Later, Sulu says, Chekov doesn't have a brother.the entity created
the idea so that Chekov would hate klingons)
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"May I say that I have not thoroughly enjoyed serving with humans."
Spock.
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"This is Kang."..... "You will die of suffocation in the icy cold of
space." (most chilling delivery from a Klingon then and now.)