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Star Trek - The Savage Curtain

episode 3.22
Raumschiff Enterprise - Seit es Menschen gibt

USA 1969
produced by
Fred Freiberger, Gene Roddenberry (executive) for Norway Corporation, Paramount/NBC
directed by Herschel Daugherty
starring William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Lee Bergere, Barry Atwater, Phillip Pine, James Doohan, George Takei, Nichelle Nichols, Walter Koenig, Arell Blanton, Carol Daniels, Bob Herron, Nathan Jung, Janos Prohaska, Bart La Rue (voice)
story by Gene Roddenberry, screenplay by Gene Roddenberry, Arthur Heinemann, created by Gene Roddenberry, music by Fred Steiner

TV series
Star Trek, Classic Star Trek, Star Trek (original crew), Abraham Lincoln, Genghis Khan

review by
Mike Haberfelner



The Enterprise receives a very unexpected visit from none other than Abraham Lincoln (Lee Bergere), and with him, Kirk (William Shatner) and Spock (Leonard Nimoy) - without their fazers or tricorders - are beamed down to a tiny stretch of land on a mostly uninhabitable planet that mostly consists of pure lava. On the planet, they are met by Surak (Barry Atwater), father of Vulcan pacifism and thus founder of their civilisation as it is. Soon enough that foursome is greeted by rock creature Yarnek (Janos Prohaska, voiced by Bart La Rue), who tells them they represent all that's good in the universe - and thus have to fight to the death with a foursome that represents all evil, Genghis Khan (Nathan Jung), Klingon warlord Kahless (Bob Herron), evil scientist Zora (Carol Daniels) and their leader, 21st century earth warlord Green (Phillip Pine). And nothing less than the fate of the Enterprise is at stake of course. At first, Green suggests a strategic alliance to find a way out of the situation together, but it's of course a ruse, and our heroes can only just fight off the baddies. Then though Surak insists to go on a peace mission - and is overcome by the villains. Kirk, Spock and Lincoln hear his screams of pain and know it's a trap - and yet decide to go and free Surak. The plan is for Kirk and Spock to create a diversion while Lincoln frees Surak. But not only does Lincoln find Surak already dead, the baddies are also much too clever not to notice what's going on, and kill Lincoln. With Lincoln dead, Kirk and Spock though outnumbered intensify their attack, and ultimately kill Kahless, upon which the others take a powder. Yarnek appears again to declare the experiment over, gets in a half-hearted debate with Kirk over the difference between good and evil, and then sends them, and the Enterprise, on their way ...

 

A very ambitious episode, at least storywise - that doesn't live up to its premise: Now an alien wanting to find out about the nature of good and evil, that's an idea as fun as it is inventive and promising, and making that alien as non-human as possible really goes with the concept regardless of what you think of the actual creature design. But having that distinction decided by hand-on-hand combat is the story's first weakness - even if it goes with the concept of the series where almost everything is decided by hand-on-hand combat. It's also of course questionable why two of the four representants of all that's good in the universe would be serving next to one another on the Enterprise, and if their "goodness" isn't vastly overstated. Likewise, the baddies are portrayed at just evil, no layers, all they do is just for evil's sake - which pretty much robs the story of its potential to say something meaningful. That said, the episode's still some fun at least, there's plenty of camp like Lincoln going into battle in this one, the whole thing just doesn't feel fully rounded.

 

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