Let That Be Your Last Battlefield

Episode aired Jan 10, 1969
TV-PG
51m

IMDb RATING

7.1/10

3.4K

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Lou Antonio and Frank Gorshin in Star Trek (1966)

Star Trek: Let That Be Your Last Battlefield

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Action Adventure Sci-Fi

The Enterprise encounters two duo-chromatic and mutually belligerent aliens who put the ship in the middle of their old conflict.The Enterprise encounters two duo-chromatic and mutually belligerent aliens who put the ship in the middle of their old conflict.The Enterprise encounters two duo-chromatic and mutually belligerent aliens who put the ship in the middle of their old conflict.

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IMDb RATING

7.1/10

3.4K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Trivia
The original story concept did not depict the aliens with bi-colored skin. One was a devil with a tail and the other was an angel. Episode director Jud Taylor came up with the idea of bi-colored skin shortly before the episode began filming. His original suggestion was that they be half-black/half-white, one color from the waist up and the other from the waist down, but each wearing reversed color schemes. The central idea stuck but the colors were finally separated along the vertical axis rather than along the horizontal.

Goofs
Chekov reports that Bele's ship is "out there" while at his station at the helm. The camera shot from behind the helm shows Kirk and crew looking at the display screen appears, Hadley rather than Chekov is at the navigation station. When they cut back to a shot from the front angle as before to show the crew's faces, Chekov is back in his seat and Hadley is in Sulu's position at the helm.

Quotes
[last lines]
Mr. Spock: [On the bridge, after Lokai and Bele have beamed to the surface of Charon] And another life form has appeared on Cheron.
Uhura: That doesn't make any sense.
Mr. Spock: To expect sense from two mentalities of such extreme view points is not logical.
Sulu: Their planet's dead. Does it matter now which one's right?
Mr. Spock: Not to Lokai and Bele. All that matters to them is their hate.
Uhura: Do you suppose that's all they ever had, sir?
Captain James T. Kirk: No, but that's all they have left. Warp factor two, Mr. Sulu. Set course for Starbase 4.

Alternate versions
Special Enhanced version Digitally Remastered with new exterior shots and remade opening theme song

Connections
Featured in The Star Trek Saga: From One Generation to the Next (1988)

Soundtracks
Theme
Music credited to Alexander Courage
Sung by Loulie Jean Norman

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Featured review

5/10

Weak, but there's a possible explanation

The cinematography was very distracting here. Apparently zooming in and out on the Red Alert lights was a nod to one of the guests playing on Batman. It's still weird and distracting.

But the zooms and extreme closeups during the self destruct sequences are very weird and distracting. They don't add anything to the tension, other than, "that's a really tight closeup!" Too bad, too, because the scene had plenty of inherent tension.

Bele chasing Lokai for 50,000 years makes no sense. After all, the Enterprise just barely saved Lokai from death. Hard to believe these guys could be doing Todd this long if they need spaceships and oxygen environments, etc. Was this the first close call?

I think a better explanation is Cheron was actually destroyed 50,000 years ago and Lokai and Bele are ghosts, doomed to fight this battle for all eternity.