Stardate: 3156.2
Original airdate: 2/9/1967
Writer: Boris Sobelman
Director: Joseph Pevney

Guest stars:

Harry Townes            Reger, most helpful to the Enterprise crew, immune to Absorbtion.
Torin Thatcher          Marplon, third man in the 'triad', runs the Absorbtion chamber
Charles McCauley        Landru, projected image of a man who lived 6000 years prior and build a machine that ended war on the planet by controling the people.
Christopher Heid        Lt. Lindstrom, sociologist, part of the landing party, left behind to help the Betans re build.
Brioni Farrell          Tula, daughter of Reger.
Sid Haig                First Lawgiver
Morgan Farley           Hacom, old man who called in the lawgivers
Ralph Maurer            Bilar, second man in Reger's triad, also plays in "The World is Hollow...."
Eddie Paskey            Lt.Leslie
David L. Ross           Guard

While finding out what happened to the crew of the Archon that disapeared 100 years ago, the Enterprise learns that the people there are being controlled by a computer programed by Landru 6000 years ago to end war and strife once and for all. Kirk ignores the Prime Directive and destroyes "Landru" so that the people can be free.

Beta III Earthlike, inhabited by humans in a simple, quiet culture in System C - 111.

Facts about Landru:
The Festival- starts at 6pm and ends at 6am, where Landru's control causes the people to go wild.

Communing- the method of communication Landru uses

Summoning the body- Landru called all the people to action at once.

Absorbed- processed through a machine for Landru to control someone

Conpulsive involumtary stimulus to action- What lead Kirk to believe that Landru wasn't a man but a machine.

Lighting Panel- a sheet of opaque plastic (looks like a kitchen cutting board) that shines light. "From a time before Landru" suggesting a previously advanced culture had existed at one time.

Resistance Underground- Betan who resist the 'will of Landru' waiting more Archons to come and help free them. Men are organized into groups of three.

hypersonic waves used to subdue the landing party

Prime Directive- non interference applying to a living growing culture which Kirk deemes Beta III is not and interferes.

Quotes:
"They're the friendliest people in the universe" Sulu.
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"I hear and obey the voice of landru." Tamar.
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"It is clear you simply did not understand" Lawgivers.
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Landru had pulled them down from the sky."
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I am Landru. You have come to this world as destroyers You bring an infection. you have come to a world without hate, without fear, without conflict. No war, No disease, so crime. None of the ancient evils. Landru seeks franquility, peace for all the unversal good. The good must transcend the evil. So it has been since the beginning." Landru.
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"Can I help you, friend?" mcCoy.
Are you not of the body?" McCoy.
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there is no Landru, Captain. Not in the human sense." Spock.
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"Traitors! Traitors!" McCoy.
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Isn't that somewhat oldfashioned" Kirk to Spock, when Spock uses a right cross instead of the neck pinch.
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"We have destroyed ourselves" Marplan.
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"Freedom is never a gift. It has to be earned." Kirk.
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"The good of the body is the prime directive." Landru.
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"Help me!" Landru.
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If I were you, i'd start looking for another job." Kirk to Marplan.
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"You'd make a splended computer, Mr. Spock." Kirk.
"THat is very kind of you, Captain." Spock.
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"Just lucky I guess." Kirk to Spock. Also a line in ST: The Return Home. Gillian says that to Kirk when he asks her how she became a cetacian biologist.