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Let That Be Your Last Battlefield

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EPISODE DATA

Title ------- Let That Be Your Last Battlefield
Story ------------ Lee Cronin (Gene L. Coon)
Teleplay -------------------- Oliver Crawford
Director ------------------------- Jud Taylor
Original Air Date ----------- January 10, 1969
Order of Filming ----------------------- 70th
Order of Broadcasting ----------------- 70th
Filmed ------------------ Early October 1968


REGULAR CAST

Captain James T. Kirk -------- William Shatner
Lieutenant Cmdr. Spock ------ Leonard Nimoy
Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy -- DeForest Kelley
Lt. Cmdr. Montgomery Scott -- James Doohan
Lieutenant Sulu --------------- George Takei
Lieutenant Uhura ------------ Nichelle Nichols
Ensign Pavel Chekov
---------- Walter Koenig
Nurse Christine Chapel --------- Majel Barrett


GUEST CAST

Lokai --------------------------- Lou Antonio
Bele -------------------------- Frank Gorshin
Computer voice ---------------- Majel Barrett
Stunt double --------------------- Dick Ziker


TITLE REFERENCE

"Let That Be Your Last Battlefield"

None


ORIGINAL TITLES

Satan
Down From Above, Up From Below
Down From Heaven
The Last Battlefield


UNUSUAL FOREIGN TITLES

France ------------------------ The Dilemma
Germany ------------------- Bele Hunts Lokai
Italy ------------ Let This Be Your Last Battle
Japan ---- Confrontation on the Planet Cheron


STORY SYNOPSIS

The U.S.S. Enterprise intercepts a stolen Federation shuttlecraft which contains a humanoid named Lokai. Taken aboard the ship, Lokai tells the crew he is from the planet Cheron, and asks for asylum on the U.S.S. Enterprise. His most distinctive feature is that he is half black and half white, starkly separated down the middle of his body.

The U.S.S. Enterprise tracks another vessel, pursuing at great speed. The ship's only passenger beams on board and is discovers to be another humanoid from Cheron. The difference in this man, Bele, is that his black and white skin is reversed from Lokai's. Bele claims to be Cheron's chief officer sent out to bring in political traitors, and has been pursuing Lokai. The more the two men are aboard the starship, the more Kirk realizes that the basic problem between them - and their entire race, apparently - is their opposite color. Tiring of their bigotry, Kirk decides to ignore the two guests and concentrate on his original mission; to decontaminate the planet Ariannus, plagued with a bacteria that endangers billions of lives.

When Bele takes control of the U.S.S. Enterprise in a desperate attempt, Kirk sets the ships auto-destruct sequence instead of allowing the hijacking to continue, and the alien returns command to the captain. However, once planet Ariannus is decontaminated, Bele takes back his control over the starship and leads it back to Cheron. What they find is a long-dead planet, annihilated by their interracial bigotry. Lokai beams down to the surface to escape Bele, who follows. The U.S.S. Enterprise leaves them on the surface, to decide their own fates.



LET THAT BE YOUR LAST BATTLEFIELD

Click the name of the WAVs to listen

Total WAVs: 40


(1) Pigmentation ------------- 21.1 KB
Mr. Spock - Dr. McCoy


(2) Captive ------------------ 54.6 KB
Mr. Spock


(3) Potions ------------------ 25.7 KB
Captain Kirk - Dr. McCoy - Mr. Spock


(4) Permission --------------- 10.2 KB
Mr. Spock


(5) Danger ------------------- 13.2 KB
Dr. McCoy


(6) Aboard ------------------- 4.63 KB
Captain Kirk


(7) Stolen ------------------- 9.71 KB
Captain Kirk


(8) Conclusions -------------- 12.7 KB
Lokai


(9) Lokai -------------------- 36.6 KB
Captain Kirk - Lokai

How would Kirk know where Cheron is
if it's in an uncharted quarter?


(10) Monotone --------------- 9.46 KB
Lokai

So now we're monotone!
What a racial slur!
(Just kidding)


(11) Hailing ------------------ 10.7 KB
Lt. Uhura


(12) Alert -------------------- 6.66 KB
Captain Kirk


(13) Disintegrated ------------ 14.2 KB
Mr. Spock


(14) Bele -------------------- 15.5 KB
Bbele - Captain Kirk

Did you know that the actor playing Bele is the
same actor that played the Riddler in the
original Batman TV series?
It's true!


(15) Craft ------------------- 20.8 KB
Mr. Spock - Bele

That sure beats the Romulan Cloaking Device!


(16) Treason ---------------- 27.2 KB
Bele


(17) Regulations -------------- 11.4 KB
Captain Kirk


(18) Thought ---------------- 32.0 KB
Bele

Wow, great dialogue from Bele.
Frank Gorshin really made this character come alive!


(19) Hospitality -------------- 34.0 KB
Captain Kirk - Bele


(20) Elusive ------------------ 10.7 KB
Captain Kirk - Mr. Spock


(21) Coalsack ---------------- 17.5 KB
Mr. Chekov - Captain Kirk


(22) Change ----------------- 16.3 KB
Bele


(23) Course ------------------ 16.8 KB
Captain Kirk


(24) Destroy ----------------- 29.0 KB
Captain Kirk - Bele

Bele just called Kirk's bluff
and discovered Kirk wasn't bluffing!


(25) Destruct 1 -------------- 63.7 KB
Captain Kirk - Computer

This destruct sequence was used again word
for word in Star Trek III: The Search For Spock.


(26) Destruct 2 -------------- 56.4 KB
Mr. Spock - Computer

In Trek 3 this sequence was spoken by
Mr. Chekov because he was the acting science officer.


(27) Destruct 3 -------------- 90.9 KB
Scotty - Computer


(28) Orders ------------------ 21.1 KB
Captain Kirk - Mr. Spock


(29) Countdown ------------- 39.9 KB
Captain Kirk


(30) Universe ---------------- 22.4 KB
Captain Kirk


(31) Final -------------------- 20.8 KB
Captain Kirk

Don't mess with James T. Kirk!


(32) Fast -------------------- 22.4 KB
Captain Kirk - Mr. Spock - Scotty

Can you imagine going in a circle at warp 10?!
Scotty has a great line here.


(33) Disgusting -------------- 39.4 KB
Mr. Spock - Scotty


(34) Obvious ----------------- 87.9 KB
Bele - Mr. Spock - Captain Kirk

Even though this isn't considered one of the
best episodes of classic Trek, it does a wonderful
job of exploring a very serious issue: race hatred.

By making the characters Bele & Lokai half black
and half white, the writer was able to comment on
race hatred in the 60's under cover of science fiction.

Very clever!

It shows just how stupid race hatred is.
We find ourselves thinking, "Who cares if Lokai is
white on the right side and black on the left.
He's a person and deserves to be treated as such."

Social commentary is something the original Star Trek did quite well.



(35) Evolved ----------------- 38.1 KB
Bele - Mr. Spock


(36) Trash ------------------- 36.8 KB
Bele

The obvious racial slur "half white" is interesting
because Bele is half white as well!


(37) Hate ------------------- 37.1 KB
Captain Kirk


(38) Chasing ----------------- 15.0 KB
Mr. Spock


(39) Lounge ----------------- 13.4 KB
Mr. Spock


(40) Sense ------------------ 29.0 KB
Lt. Uhura - Mr. Spock

Possibly the best "social commentary" episode,
althought generally not on many people's "best of" list.



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