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'The Enterprise Incident' by D. C. Fontana |
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Captain Kirk begins to behave oddly, acting uncharacteristically tense and erratic. After he orders the U.S.S. Enterprise into Romulan space, the ship is immediately surrounded by Romulan warships. Placing Chief Engineer Scott in command of the starship, Kirk and Lieutenant Commander Spock beam aboard the Romulan flagship to meet with the Romulan Commander. Kirk tells the woman that his ship entered Romulan territory because of equipment malfunction, but Spock denounces the explanation and informs the Commander that Kirk ordered them here due to his reduced mental stability - Kirk becomes furious at his First Officer's mutinous act. The Romulan Commander orders that the Enterprise be taken to the Romulan base, but Scotty vehemently refuses. When Doctor McCoy beams across to the Romulan flagship to tend to Kirk, who has now become irrational to the point of violence, the captain attacks Spock - who reacts without thinking and kills him using a Vulcan death grip. The doctor takes Kirk's body back to the Enterprise, leaving Spock on the Romulan ship; the Romulan Commander begins to show an attraction for the Vulcan, and she attempts to entice him into defecting across to the Romulan side. However, she is unaware that the recent events are merely a complex ploy to steal the cloaking device from her vessel. Back aboard the Enterprise, Doctor McCoy revives Kirk and then uses cosmetic surgery to change his appearance to that of a Romulan. Kirk returns to the Romulan ship and attempts to steal the cloaking device...
William Shatner (Captain James Tiberius Kirk), Leonard Nimoy (First Officer Lieutenant Commander Spock), DeForest Kelley (Doctor Leonard H. ‘Bones’ McCoy), James Doohan (Chief Engineer Montgomery ‘Scotty’ Scott), Nichelle Nichols (Lieutenant Nyota Uhura), George Takei (Lieutenant Hikaru Sulu), Walter Koenig (Ensign Pavel Andreivich Chekov), Joanne Linville (Romulan Commander), Jack Donner (Subcommander Tal), Majel Barrett (Nurse Christine Chapel)
Directed by John Meredyth Lucas
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27th September, 1968
Notes:
*Featuring Captain James Tiberius Kirk, First Officer Lieutenant Commander Spock, Doctor Leonard H. ‘Bones’ McCoy, Chief Engineer Montgomery Scott, Lieutenant Nyota Uhura, Lieutenant Hikaru Sulu, Ensign Pavel Andreivich Chekov and Nurse Christine Chapel