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On her way to bring much-needed aid to a disease-plagued planet, the Enterprise intercepts a stolen Federation shuttle, and on it finds a humanoid alien, Lokai (Lou Antonio) who's white on one side, black on the other - an unknown species to both crew and computer. Soon enough, another alien, Bele (Frank Gorshin), gains access to the Enterprise, who just like Lokai is half-white and half-black - only the other way round, where Lokai's white he's black and vice versa. Apparently on their home planet, that's enough for them to belong to totally different races, Bele to what he considers the master race, Lokai to the supressed race in revolt. Now Bele has been after Lokai for 50,000 years to bring him, obviously a rebel leader, to justice, and now demands from Captain Kirk (William Shatner) to hand over Lokai and take them to their home, a planet in an as of yet hardly charted star system. Since Kirk's on a mission and the Federation has no extradition treaty with the planet in question, and on top of that Lokai is actually charged by the Federation with the theft of a shuttle, Kirk refuses - so Bele takes over the ship using mind control on its computer to fly it back to his home planet, and as a result, Kirk launches the self destruct sequence, forcing Bele to return the ship to Kirk's control. The Enterprise finishes its humanitarian mission, upon which Bele takes over the ship again - but this time he has fried the ship's data base containing the self destruct sequence, rendering Kirk and crew mere passengers on their own ship. Arriving at Lokai and Bele's home planet, they find it has been destroyed by a terrible war that killed all of its populace, and with Lokai and Bele its only two survivors, they could learn from their mistakes and build their civilisation anew based on race equality - but no, the two continue their chase and beam down to the planet to ultimately destroy each other, just like everyone on their planet did ...

Now in its finest moments, this episode is a fine parable on racism and indeed war and its utter futility - but unfortunately, what it has to say about the subject in a metaphorical way doesn't fill the whole runtime, so the whole thing feels a bit padded out and repetitive where it should have been concise. And William Shatner's monologue at the end to try to convince the alien visitors to make piece is a bit too much of a sledgehammer to drive the message home, even if Shatner's boundless overacting is always fun to watch. Not at all a terrible episode mind you, and Frank Gorshin gives a great performance for sure, but as a whole the thing seems to miss its mark.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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