Who Mourns for Adonais?

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

7.2/10

3.3K

S2.E2

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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.

7.2/10

3.3K

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)

The Enterprise is stopped dead in its tracks by a powerful energy force that appears in the form of a human hand. Soon, a being claiming to be Apollo orders Kirk (William Shatner) and several others down to the planet below. Apollo (Michael Forest) claims to have visited Earth 5,000 years ago and Kirk theorizes that he may be telling the truth. Apollo's demand for unquestioned servitude, however, doesn't give the crew much choice and it becomes imperative that they locate and destroy his power supply. —garykmcd

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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?