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Star Trek: Season 1, Episode 29Operation - Annihilate! (13 Apr. 1967)The Enterprise crew attempts to stop a plague of amoeba-like creatures from possessing human hosts and spreading throughout the galaxy. Director:Herschel Daugherty |
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Title: Operation - Annihilate! (13 Apr 1967)
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The Enterprise traces a virus-like outbreak that seems to be traveling in a direct line across a planetary system. The next planet is home to Kirk's brother Sam, his sister-in-law and their young son. The Enterprise arrives too late however for Sam. They find flying jellyfish-like creatures that attach themselves to humans. They take over the victims nervous system forcing them to bend to their will. Spock finds a weapon to use against the creatures but it leaves him hopelessly blind. Written by garykmcd
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13 April 1967 (USA) See more »Filming Locations:
Desilu Studios - 9336 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, California, USA See more »Company Credits
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Dr. McCoy: Jim, that man is sick - and don't give me any damnable logic about him being the only man for the job.
Capt. Kirk: I don't have to, Bones. We both know he is.
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This is one of only two "Star Trek" episodes to have an exclamation mark in the title. The other is Star Trek: Voyager: Bride of Chaotica!. See more »Goofs
When Spock stuns the creature to take as a specimen, it lands face down, but close-ups show it face up. See more »Quotes
[Spock, infected, beams down to the planet to collect a specimen]Dr. McCoy: Jim, that man is sick - and don't give me any damnable logic about him being the only man for the job.
Capt. Kirk: I don't have to, Bones. We both know he is.
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This was always one of my favorite episodes as a kid: The Enterprise crew investigates an epidemic of "space madness" and traces the latest outbreak to a local human colony that just happens to be where Kirk's identical twin brother has been assigned as a research scientist. The fun really begins when it becomes apparent what the alien menace is, which are an invasion of flying interstellar space pancakes that make up a collective gestalt creature looking to spread it's way across the galaxy. It needs humanoids who can fly space ships to spread from colony to colony, and Kirk has to face the decision of his career when choosing between whether or not to just go back to the Sulaco and nuke them all from orbit. It's the only way to be sure ...
Just kidding. This was one of our favorite Star Trek adventures to act out when we were kids because you could use a bean bag as the pretend space pancake and smack each other on the back, beaming it with your wooden shop class phaser to save each other. The architecture in the city is also pretty rad, looks a lot like the State University at Albany campus I used to study at, which lo and behold was built at about the same time that the actual location (some sort of aerospace company's campus center) was made. It's a great episode for Spock and McCoy fans too, they have more to do than usual which may have been the result of Leonard Nimoy's surprise popularity with fans writing in -- much to the chagrin of William Shatner, who considered himself the focus of the show and resented any major actions that didn't center on Captain Kirk.
This one doesn't, and so it sort of sticks out. One of the best of the "overlooked episodes", and actually rather violent & filled with more physical suffering than usual for Star Trek.