Kirk manages to get rid of it by laughing with a few Klingons. Emotion Eater: The big glowy entity that feeds off of negative emotions and is turned off by good ones.How do the humans and Klingons get rid of it? By laughing at it. Easily Thwarted Alien Invasion: An alien powerful enough to destroy a Klingon battlecruiser, transmute matter and control the minds of hundreds of beings simultaneously takes control of the Enterprise.I, too, felt a brief surge of racial bigotry. McCoy: Gentlemen, if we are pawns, you're looking at one who is extremely sorry. After an argument on The Bridge nearly leads to an all-out fight.Apparently, the risk of Tele-Frag is much higher at extreme close range (though they get this flaw ironed out in about 100 years, where it is explained in supplemental materials as needing extra precision for a moving target). Dangerous Forbidden Technique: Intraship beaming (using the transporters to get to another part of the ship).Spock gets the message, and Scotty sees to it that Kirk and his officers materialize first while holding the Klingons in suspension until a security team shows up. Covert Distress Code: When Kirk calls the Enterprise and asks for a wide-field beam-up, he presses a button on his communicator that lights up a panel on the big chair.Color Motif: In this episode where the theme is aggression, red lighting is used a lot.While he remains pissed off at the Klingons, even moreso after his son is killed, he's finally on the side of diplomat now, discarding the good little soldier who follows rules. Character Development: Kirk gets some that sticks.Bridal Carry: Kirk does this to Chekov after knocking him unconscious.The energy being is keeping the injured alive so they can fight more, but this still seems a bit odd. Bloodless Carnage: Though swords are swung about and even hit a few people, we don't see any blood.Battle Couple: Kang and his wife Mara.Luckily, Kirk arrives and knocks him out before he can get too far. Attempted Rape: Chekov tries to rape Mara, Kang's wife, while under the influence of the alien.Klingons and Federation had always shared an enmity, but now it's getting out of hand! Boing! The chess set, some pool cues and the phasers have all turned into swords! Rather than question this turn of events, everyone decides to start swashing bucklers (yes, it is that way round).Ĭan two warring species drive a hate-fueled alien life form from a starship without driving each other crazy? Tempers flare as Irrational Hatred overrides good sense. Kang and his crew are detained in the lounge while a mysterious Anti- Tinkerbell looms nearby. Kirk pretends to surrender, but sends a secret signal to Spock that only the Enterprise crew be beamed aboard, with the Klingon crew kept in stasis until security can handle them. Kang tortures Chekov and threatens to do more if Kirk does not surrender his ship to the Klingons. Chekov accuses the Klingons (again, he calls them "Cossacks") of murdering his heretofore unmentioned brother, Piotr. Kirk denies doing such a thing and brings up his counter accusation. ![]() A small group of Klingons, led by Commander Kang (no, not THAT Kang) and his wife Mara (the first female Klingon to be aired thus far) beam down and accuses Kirk of attacking his ship and killing his crewmen. While Kirk laments the hundreds of men, women, and children who have been murdered (mysteriously, without leaving any bodies or building wreckage) Spock reports a Klingon ship in orbit, apparently in distress. Instead of the usual trio, it's Kirk, Chekov, Bones and an unusually long lived Red Shirt who beam down to Beta XII-A, a planet of rocks and pink trees, to answer a distress beacon. Would you believe this is the Big Bad of this episode?
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