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| A Taste Of Armageddon |
| Production Number |
23 |
| Air Date (US) |
1967-02-23 |
| Season |
1 |
| DVD Disc No. |
6 |
| Rating |
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Cast:
William Shatner as James T. Kirk
Leonard Nimoy as Spock
DeForest Kelley as Leonard H. McCoy
James Doohan as Montgomery Scott
Nichelle Nichols as Uhura
Guest Cast:
David Opatoshu as Anan 7
Gene Lyons as Ambassador Robert Fox
Barbara Babcock as Mea 3
Miko Mayama as Yeoman Tamura
David L. Ross as Lt. Galloway
Sean Kenney as Lt. DePaul
Robert Sampson as Sar 6
Creative Staff:
Director: Joseph Pevney
Teleplay By: Robert Hamner and Gene L. Coon
Story By: Robert Hamner
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| Description |
The U.S.S. Enterprise is ordered to pick up Ambassador Robert Fox, who is headed to planet Eminiar VII on a diplomatic mission. Upon arriving at the planet, the ship is warned away.
Beaming to the surface with a landing party, Kirk and Spock are met by a young woman, Mea 3, who tells them that Eminiar VII has been at war with its neighboring planet, Vendikar, for over 500 years. Mea 3 takes them to the council chambers where they find banks of computers. Eminiar's head council Anan 7 informs them that the two planets have learned to avoid the complete devastation of war because computers are used. When a "hit" is scored by one of the planets, the people declared "dead" willingly walk into antimatter chambers and are vaporized. Anan 7 further tells Kirk that his ship and all the crew aboard her have been declared casualties and will be executed. When Kirk flatly refuses, the landing party members are taken prisoner.
The council members are unable to convince Scotty, in charge of the U.S.S. Enterprise, to lower shields without a direct order from Captain Kirk. Meanwhile, Ambassador Fox has beamed to Eminiar and is also taken prisoner, marked for death. Kirk and Spock escape and gain the council chambers where they destroy the computers. Kirk tells the council members that they have made this war too easy for themselves and that they will truly experience the horrors of war if they do not learn to make peace first. Ambassador Fox volunteers to stay behind and negotiate a peace between the neighboring planets.
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| Trivia |
This episode marks the first on-screen Star Trek appearance for Barbara Babcock (Mea 3), although she had previously been heard as Trelane's mother in "The Squire of Gothos."
David L. Ross (Lieutenant Galloway) appeared as a security guard in all three seasons of the original series; Sean Kenney (Lieutenant DePaul) played the crippled Captain Pike in "The Menagerie." There are stunning special effects in this episode - though a careful study of the background behind the spot where the Enterprise crew beams down reveals it to be a matte painting. (Catch the line across the footpath in the lower center of the screen; this is where the studio shot has been matched, in the optical printer, with the matte). |
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