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Star Trek - The Original Series, Vol. 12, Episodes 23 & 24: A Taste of Armageddon/ Space SeedRating:
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Star Trek - The Original Series, Vol. 12, Episodes 23 & 24: A Taste of Armageddon/ Space Seed Reviews
Eugenics Wars
Eugenics selects the best strains for a sampling and promotes this survival strain in a limited population group. In "Space Seeds" the Enterprise encounters the "Botany Bay" spaceship, named after a penal colony. The Botany Bay has been a drift in space for centuries and barely operational. It nuclear fission reactors have managed to keep a group of "super humans" alive and, as Kirk and the crew beam on the Botany Bay, they active the revival routine, for the leader, Khan. The enterprise team immediately becomes fearful of Khan's reputation. Khan will manage to revive his small group of genetically enhanced warriors, who are eager too gain control of the Enterprise.
Eugenics has produced a superior human: improved reasoning capability, improved strength, improved beauty, and improved speed. Khan says, "It is true, man has improved. His technology has improved, but man, himself has not changed. Oh we will do well in this generation" It seems superior strength has produced a super ego. The Eugenic wars lead too World war III. The rhetoric of the cold war threatened a weaker nation by a stronger nation and eventually the stronger nation prevailed. Super ego not satified with mere survival; it required domination of the inferiors.
Khan has seduced, the Historian, "Marlin McGiver" into helping him gain control, of the Enterprise. Khan tells McGiver, "such men, as me, take what they will", "open your heart", the rape of independance, and discloses to McGiver her that he intends on taking the Enterprise. Khan becomes disgused with McGiver and tells her too leave. McGiver has fallen for Khan and says, "I will do anything", sells out herself too power, and agrees with his evil plot too take over the Enterprise.
Khan reasons, he needs the Enterprise as means for conquering worlds. After Khan and his team gain control of the Enterprise, Khan attempts too force the crew of the Enterpise into helping him. The crew see their captain being tortured in the decompression chamber and must make a decision whether too help or watch their captain die. Khan threatens to put all of them one at a time in the chamber, if they do not break too his will. Khan would torture and kill 80 percent of the crew in order too gain the cooperation of 20 percent. Khan idealogy of force was resisted by the democratic loving enterprise crew.
The eugenic warriors did not need the humans to navigate the Enterprise; Khan himself had a complete understanding of the operation manuals; Khan wanted slaves, who would obey him against their wills.
Spock, McCoy, and Scotty were aware of the trap and refused cooperation. The Eugenic warriors were the communists dictators and their promises were all lies. Kirk had previously admired the efficiency of Khan, saying of Khan, "I've always admire this one, he was the was the worst of them all." Spock was shocked and immediately protested. Kirk, Scotty, and McCoy laughed and told Spock, they could admire and oppose Khan, at the same time. Spock replied, "illogical". Isaiah states, "The heavan wept for a son of the morning had fallen"
Eventually, McGiver comes too her senses and frees the Captain from the decompression chamber. Kirk immediately takes actions to gain control of his ship against the tyrant. Kirk gases the Enterprise with knock out gas, but Khan manages too escape and gain control of engineering and put the ship on autodestruct. Khan initiates hand to hand combat against Kirk. Khan says, "I have five times your strength" and toss Jim around like a doll. Khan is too arrogant and Kirk knocks out Khan.
Khan behavior is strange. Khan is a conqueror, one moment and a coward then next. If Khan can't control then he must destroy all, mutual annihilation; a reflection of the philosophies of the cold war. Kirk does not want to see his ship autodestruct, so he fights Khan.
A court hearing is held against Khan and all charges dropped. Since, the Enterprise has no jurisdiction over a people from the past, Khan is somewhat freed; Khan is sent to a barren planet. Khan quotes Milten, "A he wept when their were no more worlds to conquer" - a statement about Lucifer before he was thrust down from heavan. McGiver goes with Khan rather than facing a court martial. Khan says, "It will be difficult at first even to survive" McGiver says, "I will go with him!" Khan says, "I will take her. Superior woman." Life would not go on happily ever after, Spocks plant in our minds, this statement, "If we return in a 100 years, I wonder what plants would sprout from the seeds we planted, today.". Khan would not flourish, bad fruit would emerge, communism would not flourish, and eventually it would rise its ugly head in another survival attempt, in "wrath of Khan". Prophetically, Khan would repeat his same strange behavior, ending up in self annihilation attempt which would be Messiahic defeated by Spock, as he aligned the dialithium crystals bring the warp drives online; and the Enterprise escaped, the KobiHashiMaru tactic test and solution, he never took. Kirk would cheat death, "I've never face death like this." Spock would sacrifice the one for the many. Jesus would sacrifice himself, so that all man could have salvation. In search for Spock, Spock would be resurrected by "Tau Pow".
A Taste of Armageddon/ Space Seed (Khan)
The very first STAR TREK tv series (1966-69) was broadcast on NBC on September 8, 1966. It a a Desilu production, a company put togther by Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz ("I Love Lucy") when they bought RKO. It was Lucy who chose "Star Trek" along with other proposed tv series and said to go with it.
I became a fan of Star Trek when the series was syndicated in the later 1970's. My father had it on. I liked the colorful sets and those red elevator doors, the sound effects were good to hear and the adventures out in space stretched our imagination of fantasy. Remember, this tv series originally aired before the USA astronauts landed on the moon for the first time on July 16, 1969. By that time, they had ended the Star Trek tv series (until 1979).
A TASTE OF ARMAGEDDON, episode 23, originally broadcast February 23, 1967.
Captain's Log, Stardate: 3141.9. Captain Kirk (William Shatner) has informed planet Eminiar 7 their wish to open diplomatic relations with them. Their reply is not to approach the planet. it is code 710. Ambassador Fox (Gene Lyons) is aboard the bridge and he tells Captain Kirk to ignore the message to continue en route to Eminiar 7. Once on orbit and have beamed down, Kirk meets Mea 3 (Barbara Babcock, later of Hill Street Blues tv series) and upon meeting Anan 7 (david Opatoshu) they are subjected to an unseen war fought by computers. People are disintegrated in machines at suicide stations. There is more trouble ahead for our Enterprise crew.
Note: Chekov and Sulu do not appear.
SPACE SEED, episode 24, originally broadcast February 16, 1967.
Stardate: 3141.9: The Enterprise spots a derelict Earth vessels. Kirk (William Shatner), McCoy (DeForest Kelley), Scotty (James Doohan) and at the request of Kirk, McGivers (Madlyn Rhue) joins the team due to her knowledge of the 20th Century. They discover on this sleeper vessel, from the 1990's, all of the crew is in a sleeping mode. They have been traveling for 200 years. They revive Prince Khan Noonien Singh (Ricardo Montalban) aboard the S.S. Botany Bay. He becomes a guest aboard the Enterprise, but soon takes control of Lt. McGivers. Khan was a ruler of a quarter of this world from 1992 to 1996. He controlled Asia through the Middle East. Not Khan, not familar with men of 2267, will try to take over the Enterprise.
Note: Chekov and Sulu do not appear.
This story did indeed contiunue 15 years later in the Star Trek motion picture, STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN (1982), with Ricardo Montalban returning as "Khan" in fine physical form.
John Winston appears as the Transporter Techician.
Easter Egg: on the EP #23, when the dot is red, click up. You will see no red dot, but the insigna is lighter. Now press "enter". You can select Next Voyage preview trailers of , A Taste of Armageddon, Space Seed, This Side of Paradise, The Devil in the Dark.
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