  
Title ---------------------------------
Patterns Of Force
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Writer -------------------------- John
Meredyth Lucas
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Director -----------------------------
Vincent McEveety
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Original Air Date ----------------- February 16,
1968
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Order of Filming -----------------------------------
52nd
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Order of Broadcasting ----------------------------
50th
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Filmed -------------------------
Early December 1967
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Captain James T. Kirk ------------ William Shatner
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Lieutenant Cmdr. Spock ---------- Leonard Nimoy
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Dr. Leonard "Bones"
McCoy ---- DeForest
Kelley
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Lt. Cmdr. Montomery
Scott ------- James
Doohan
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Lieutenant Uhura ------------------ Nichelle
Nichols
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Ensign Pavel Chekov --------------- Walter Koenig
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John Gill ----------------------------------- David Brian
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Melekon --------------------------------- Skip Homeier
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Isak -------------------------------------- Richard Evans
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Daras ----------------------------------- Valora Noland
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Abrom ----------------------------- William Wintersole
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Eneg ------------------------------------ Patrick Horgan
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Davod -------------------------------- Chuck Courtney
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SS Lieutenant ------------------------- Ralph Maurer
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SS Major -------------------------------- Gilbert Green
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Newscaster ------------------------------- Bart La Rue
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Gestapo Lieutenant -------------------- Peter Canon
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First Trooper ------------------------------ Paul Baxley
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| SS Trooper ----------------------------- Ed McCready |
| Trooper ---------------------------------- Bill Blackburn |
| Trooper -------------- Laskey (first name unknown) |
The
U.S.S. Enterprise is sent to the planet Ekos to investigate the
disappearance of an old Academy professor of Kirk's - historian John
Gill. The Enterprise is attacked by an armed probe with a thermonuclear
warhead, technology that is too advanced to be from Ekos or the nearby
Zeon. Captain Kirk destroys the probe before it can do any damage, then
takes the ship into orbit around Ekos out of range of the planet's
detection devices. Spock tells him that, according to their records,
the Ekosians are primitive, warlike people in a state of anarchy; Zeon
has a relatively high level of technology, and its people are peaceful.
Kirk decides to beam down to Ekos with Spock; and Dr. McCoy fits them
both with subcutaneous transponders. Scotty is ordered to use the
transponders to locate and beam them back if they fail to make contact
in three hours. When Kirk and Spock arrive on the planet's surface, a
Zeon man urges them to hide. They watch as the man is arrested by
officers wearing swastika armbands. Spock reminds Kirk that the Prime
Directive prohibits them from interfering.
A viewscreen in the street plays news footage revealing that Ekos has
adopted a military regime similar to that of Nazi Germany, and is now
at war with Zeon. Kirk is puzzled that another planet could
independently develop a culture identical to one that once existed on
Earth. They watch a female Nazi officer called Daras receive a medal of
honor, and learn that the planet is committed to the death of Zeon. The
broadcast ends with a salute to the Fuhrer - John Gill.
Kirk and Spock steal uniforms and assume the identities of Nazi
officers in order to infiltrate government headquarters, but they are
arrested before they can find Gill. Their phasers and communicators are
confiscated, and they are tortured and interrogated. In jail they meet
Isak, the man they saw being arrested earlier. Isak tells them that the
Nazi movement on Ekos began when Gill arrived a few years earlier, and
it is only a matter of time before Ekos invades Zeon.
Spock uses his subcutaneous transponder to make a crude laser that cuts
open the cell door. They find their communicators in pieces, but Spock
takes one and they escape. Isak takes Kirk and Spock to an underground
resistance group led by his brother Abrom. Kirk explains to Abrom that
he needs to find John Gill in order to end the war. But then the
resistance cell is infiltrated by Daras, the high-ranking Nazi woman
seen in the newsreel, who shoots Abrom. Kirk and Spock overpower and
disarm her, but then they learn Daras is really a member of the
underground, and the shooting was a ruse to test their loyalty. Isak
and Daras explain that Deputy F?hrer Melakon is the one in command.
Gill sees no one, but he is making a speech from the Chancellery. Daras
agrees to help Kirk, Spock and Isak get past the guards. They dress as
members of a Gestapo film crew and make their way into the
headquarters. Isak wants Kirk and Spock to kill Gill as soon as
possible, but Kirk refuses.
They find Gill in a booth surrounded by guards. Spock observes that he
seems to be ill, or perhaps drugged. When Spock contacts the Enterprise
with a repaired communicator, Kirk tells McCoy to put on a Nazi uniform
and beam down. Watching Gill make his speech, McCoy confirms that he
has been heavily drugged. Kirk, Spock and Isak overpower the guards so
that McCoy can administer a stimulant to Gill, but he fails to revive
him. Spock performs a mind probe on Gill, which brings him to
consciousness. Gill tells them he used the example of Nazi Germany to
bring order to Ekos. It worked at first, but then Melakon seized
control, drugged Gill to use him as a figurehead, and started the war
with Zeon. With another, potentially fatal dose of stimulant, Kirk
keeps Gill conscious so he can make another broadcast from the booth.
Gill announces that he has recalled the fleet and that the war must
stop; he also tells the people that Melakon is a traitor. Melakon opens
fire on the booth, and Isak shoots him. Gill is fatally wounded, but
before he dies, he tells Kirk he was wrong to break the Prime
Directive. But now he hopes the damage has been undone, and the
Ekosians and Zeons will now work together.
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Click
the name of the
WAVs to listen
Total WAVs: 32
(1) Bones -------------------
10.2 KB
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Captain
Kirk
(2) Channel ------------------
8.95 KB
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Lt. Uhura
(3) Help ---------------------
20.6 KB
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Mr.
Spock - Dr. McCoy - Captain
Kirk
(4) Weapon -----------------
17.3 KB
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Mr. Spock
Captain
Kirk
Captain
Kirk - Mr. Spock
Newscaster
This is the
voice
of the Guardian of Forever!
Well, same actor anyway.
Captain
Kirk
Kirk
attempting
some humour!
(9) Gill ----------------------
23.6 KB
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Captain
Kirk - Mr. Spock
(10) Sins --------------------
6.66 KB
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Captain
Kirk
Hmmm....
This WAV is 6.66 kb and I named it "Sins."
I didn't even do that on purpose!
Gestapo
Lieutenant / Mr. Spock
Captain
Kirk - Mr. Spock
SS Major
- Captain
Kirk
Eneg -
Mr. Spock
Mr. Spock
(16) Gloomy -----------------
20.8 KB
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Mr. Spock
Mr. Spock
(18) Hurry -------------------
43.7 KB
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Captain
Kirk - Mr. Spock
Ouch!
That's
gotta hurt!
(19) Barn --------------------
42.7 KB
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Mr.
Spock - Captain
Kirk
Ouch!
I'll
bet that hurts even more!
Mr. Spock
Mr.
Spock - Captain Kirk
Funny
dialogue from
Spock, although he
didn't mean for it to be funny.
(22) Alone -------------------
9.97 KB
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Captain
Kirk
(23) Naked ------------------
24.6 KB
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Mr.
Spock - Lt. Uhura - Captain
Kirk
(24) Mistake -----------------
33.3 KB
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Dr.
McCoy - Mr. Spock
Computers
don't
make mistakes.
People make mistakes and people program computers.
Computers only output what we input.
At least, that's the theory....
(25) Blazes ------------------
5.40 KB
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Dr. McCoy
Mr.
Spock - Captain
Kirk
(27) Ears --------------------
19.1 KB
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Melakon
If Spock
could only
reply without giving himself away.
(28) Trapped ----------------
29.0 KB
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Melakon
How wrong
can you
get?
(29) Go ---------------------
9.97 KB
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Eneg
Eneg
(31) Leader ------------------
49.0 KB
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Captain
Kirk - Dr. McCoy - Mr. Spock
Great
dialogue!
(32) War --------------------
85.6 KB
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Dr.
McCoy - Mr. Spock - Captain
Kirk
Funny ending
to a
good episode.
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