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The Savage Curtain

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EPISODE DATA

Title ---------------------- The Savage Curtain
Story ----------------------- Gene Roddenberry
Teleplay - Gene Roddenberry & Arthur Heinemann
Director ------------------- Herschel Daugherty
Original Air Date ---------------- March 7, 1969
Order of Filming -------------------------- 77th
Order of Broadcasting -------------------- 77th
Filmed --------------------- Mid December 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
GUEST CAST

Abraham Lincoln ---------------- Lee Bergere
Surak ------------------------ Barry Atwater
Colonel Green -------------------- Phillip Pine
Zora ------------------- Carol Daniels Dement
Genghis Khan ------------------- Nathan Jung
Kahless ----------------------- Robert Herron
Lieutenant Dickerson ------------ Arell Blanton
Yarnek (costume) ------------ Janos Prohaska
Yarnek (voice) ------------------- Bart LaRue
Kirk's stunt double ---------------- Phil Adams
Lincoln's stunt double ----------- Bill Catching
Surak's stunt double ------------ Gary Eppers
Green's stunt double ---------- Jerry Summers
Spock's stunt double ------------ Bob Orrison
Genghis Khan's stunt double ----- Troy Melton
TITLE REFERENCE

"The Savage Curtain"
None


ORIGINAL TITLES

None
UNUSUAL FOREIGN TITLES

Germany ----- Since There Are Human Beings
Italy ---------------- Challenge to the Death
Japan - Rock Being on the Unidentified Planet
Portugal ----------------- Behind the Curtain
STORY SYNOPSIS

The U.S.S. Enterprise is scanned by a powerful energy source coming from the planet Excalbia. The starship had been sent to survey the planet, but it was thought to consist of nothing but a lavalike surface without inhabitants.

The image of Abraham Lincoln appears in space and requests to be beamed aboard, claiming to be the genuine Lincoln. Against McCoy's objections, Kirk and Spock beam the entity aboard. They accept his offer to visit Excalbia, where a rock-like creature named Yarnek appears. Yarnek declares that the Enterprise officers are to participate in a battle between good and evil. This is to teach the Excalbians about humanoid concepts. Fighting for the "good" are, Kirk, Spock, Lincoln and Surak, founder of the present Vulcan culture. On the "bad" side are, Genghis Khan, Colonel Green, Zora - a vicious killer, and Kahless, father of the Klingon Empire as it was now known.

When the Enterprise officers refuse to fight, Yarnek freezes the starship's engines, starting a breakdown of the matter/antimatter shielding. If Kirk doesn't win, the ship will explode in four hours. There is much plotting and counter-plotting, until only Kirk, Spock, Khan and Zora remain alive. After some philosophical discussion regarding "good" and "evil," Yarnek returns Kirk and Spock to the U.S.S. Enterprise and frees the ship.



THE SAVAGE CURTAIN

Click the name of the WAVs to listen

Total WAVs: 24
(1) Scanned ----------------- 9.71 KB
Mr. Spock
(2) Recognize ---------------- 26.7 KB
Abraham Lincoln - Captain Kirk
(3) Described ---------------- 14.0 KB
Mr. Spock - Abraham Lincoln
(4) Daft --------------------- 34.0 KB
Scotty - Lt. Dickerson
(5) Sanity ------------------- 8.95 KB
Scotty
(6) Honors ------------------- 23.1 KB
Scotty - Captain Kirk
(7) Miles --------------------- 10.7 KB
Captain Kirk

Sometimes they use the metric system and
sometimes they don't.

(8) Haggis ------------------- 12.7 KB
Dr. McCoy - Scotty
(9) Direction ----------------- 18.0 KB
Scotty - Mr. Spock

Spock DOES have a sense of humor!

(10) Observing --------------- 22.1 KB
Dr. McCoy - Mr. Spock
(11) Dogbird ----------------- 5.40 KB
Scotty

I wonder what an Arcturian Dogbird looks like.

(12) Speculation ------------- 7.43 KB
Mr. Spock
(13) Contact ---------------- 31.0 KB
Captain Kirk
(14) Lava -------------------- 19.3 KB
Dr. McCoy - Scotty
(15) Surak ------------------- 24.9 KB
Surak - Mr. Spock
(16) Prosper ----------------- 11.2 KB
Surak
(17) Image ------------------ 14.7 KB
Mr. Spock
(18) Greater ----------------- 8.95 KB
Surak

Wise words.

(19) Kahless ----------------- 15.5 KB
Yarnek

The voice of Yarnek is provided by Bart LaRue
who also voiced the Guardian of Forever.
You can see him as the TV Announcer in
"Bread and Circuses."  He had a great voice.
Of course as Yarnek, his voice was put through a synthesizer.
(20) Ship -------------------- 6.16 KB
Scotty
(21) Ending ------------------ 17.3 KB
Abraham Lincoln

Wise words from the President.


(22) Peace ------------------ 7.68 KB
Captain Kirk - Yarnek
(23) real --------------------- 21.6 KB
Mr. Spock

Very logical.

(24) Assignment ------------- 12.7 KB
Captain Kirk
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