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"Star Trek" A Private Little War (1968)


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"Star Trek" (1966): Season 2: Episode 19 -- The Klingons provide arms to a peaceful planet and disrupt the balance of power

Overview

User Rating:
6.9/10   285 votes
Director:
Marc Daniels
Writers:
Gene Roddenberry (teleplay)
Don Ingalls (story)
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TV Series:
"Star Trek" (1966)
Original Air Date:
2 February 1968 (Season 2, Episode 19)
Genre:
Adventure | Sci-Fi more
Plot:
Kirk returns to the planet Neural which he had spent time 13 years before. A friend of his from his previous visit is now leader of his people... more | full synopsis
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Additional Details

Runtime:
60 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.33 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
Argentina:Atp

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Janos Prohaska owned the ape suit, having acquired it from a previous film project. more
Goofs:
Crew or equipment visible: Nimoy's double is visible when Spock is shot by the Klingon-style flintlock. more
Quotes:
Capt. Kirk: Spock, ask Scotty how long it would take him to reproduce 100 flintlocks.
Scotty: I didn't get that exactly, Captain. 100 what?
Capt. Kirk: 100 serpents. Serpents for the Garden of Eden.
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in "Star Trek: The Counter-Clock Incident (#2.6)" (1974) more

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12 out of 16 people found the following comment useful:-
Cheesy-waxing philosophical about war, 26 July 2006
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Author: Brandt Sponseller from New York City

The cheese factor is very high in this one, but that's part of what I find attractive in the original series.

This episode waxes philosophical about war--a fairly common theme on the original series, which was made all the more poignant because it aired smack dab in the middle of the Cold War. Like usual, Gene Roddenberry (along with story writer Judd Crucis) has apt things to say about war and the necessity of taking up arms should an opposing group choose to do the same. More strongly, and this is especially relevant in retrospect, here in the early 21st Century, the crux of the episode is really superpowers creating/supporting/funding wars among third world peoples.

But as good as it can get on philosophical content, Star Trek excels because of its peculiar mixture of often cheesy or at least cheesily played elements, and this episode has that in spades. Not one, but two principal cast members almost die as they visit that same rocky scrub brush location in California again that always stands for some different planet. Another principle cast member is injured. This time they meet up with some ridiculously wigged primitive folks--one of whom Captain Kirk became friendly with on his first mission to another planet over a decade before. While there, they meet and fight with a ridiculously costumed "mugato" (maybe the problem was that they forgot the traditional "Domo arigato, Mr. Mugato" greeting?), and a ridiculously hot and beautiful Nona (Nancy Kovack), a member of a "witch tribe". This latter fact leads to some romantic scenes for Kirk, of course, and even a pretty racy (for prime time television in 1968) "healing" scene. This episode is also the source of a very humorous way of waking Vulcans out of a particular kind of "meditative" state.

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