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Who Mourns for Adonais?

Episode aired Sep 22, 1967
TV-PGTV-PG
50m

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7.1/10

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A powerful being claiming to be the Greek god Apollo appears and demands that the crew of the Enterprise disembark onto his planet to worship him.A powerful being claiming to be the Greek god Apollo appears and demands that the crew of the Enterprise disembark onto his planet to worship him.A powerful being claiming to be the Greek god Apollo appears and demands that the crew of the Enterprise disembark onto his planet to worship him.

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7.1/10

3.4K

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Director
- Marc Daniels
Writers
- Gene Roddenberry
- Gilbert Ralston
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Michael Forest and Leslie Parrish in Star Trek (1966)

Walter Koenig, William Shatner, and DeForest Kelley in Star Trek (1966)

Walter Koenig, William Shatner, James Doohan, DeForest Kelley, and Michael Forest in Star Trek (1966)

Walter Koenig, William Shatner, James Doohan, DeForest Kelley, Michael Forest, and Leslie Parrish in Star Trek (1966)

Leonard Nimoy and Nichelle Nichols in Star Trek (1966)

James Doohan and DeForest Kelley in Star Trek (1966)

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Trivia
The title is taken from Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats by Percy Bysshe Shelley. Line 415 reads "Who mourns for Adonais?". Shelley's Adonais is derived from Adonis, a male figure of Greek mythology associated with fertility. Also, "Adonais" would be the English plural the Hebrew Spoken Name of God (the Hebrew word adonai simply means lord), so it would mean "Who Mourns for the Gods?"

Goofs
At minute 22, Spock refers to Apollo by name. Apollo told his name only to the landing party, and not the people left on the ship.

Quotes
[last lines]
Dr. McCoy: I wish we hadn't had to do this.
Capt. Kirk: So do I. They gave us so much - the Greek civilization, much of our culture and philosophy came from the worship of those beings. In a way, they began the Golden Age. Would it have hurt us, I wonder, just to have gathered a few laurel leaves?

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

Connections
Featured in William Shatner's Star Trek Memories (1995)

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Theme
Music credited to Alexander Courage
Sung by Loulie Jean Norman

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5/10

All Greek to Me...

Captured and enslaved by Apollo, who insists he's the god they must follow, doesn't live up to the hype, a despicable type, with lightning bolts conjured up to throw.

Who knew the Greek legends of yore were actually conniving and vain aliens?

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