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"Balance of Terror", written by Paul Schneider and directed by Vincent McEveety, is a first-season episode of the original Star Trek series that first aired on December 15, 1966. On September 16, 2006, "Balance of Terror" became the first digitally remastered Star Trek episode, featuring enhanced and new visual effects, to be broadcast. The episode has been described as a 1950s submarine movie in space, "borrowing" a great deal from the 1957 World War II submarine movie The Enemy Below.[citation needed] Image from Star Trek: The Original Series episode Balance of Terror © 1966 Paramount Picture, produced by Gene Roddenberry. ...
December 15 is the 349th day of the year (350th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1966 calendar). ...
Screenwriters, scenarists or script writers, are authors who write the screenplays from which movies and television programs are made. ...
Paul Schneider wrote two episodes of Star Trek: The Original Series: Balance of Terror and The Squire of Gothos. He is also credited as a writer on Star Trek: The Animated Series. ...
A television director is usually responsible for directing the actors and other taped aspects of a television production. ...
Grace Lee Whitney greets a fan at a Star Trek convention (circa 1978). ...
Mark Lenard (October 15, 1924–November 22, 1996) was an American actor, primarily in television. ...
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The Conscience of the King is an episode of Star Trek: The Original Series. ...
Shore Leave is a first season episode of Star Trek: The Original Series. ...
Paul Schneider wrote two episodes of Star Trek: The Original Series: Balance of Terror and The Squire of Gothos. He is also credited as a writer on Star Trek: The Animated Series. ...
The starship Enterprise as it appeared on Star Trek Star Trek is a culturally significant science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry in the 1960s. ...
December 15 is the 349th day of the year (350th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1966 calendar). ...
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Remaster (and its derivations, frequently found in the phrases digitally remastered or digital remastering) is a word and concept ushered into the mass consciousness via the digital age, although it had existed before then. ...
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The Enemy Below is a 1957 film which tells the story of battle between the captain of an American destroyer escort and the commander of a German submarine during World War II. It stars Robert Mitchum, Curd Jürgens, David Hedison and Theodore Bikel. ...
This episode introduces the Romulans. Additionally, Mark Lenard, playing the Romulan commander, makes his first Star Trek appearance. Lenard later played Spock's Vulcan father, Sarek, in several episodes and movies, and appears as the Klingon commander in Star Trek: The Motion Picture. These roles made Lenard the first actor to play characters of the three major Star Trek lifeforms. Romulans are a fictional alien species in the Star Trek universe related to Vulcans. ...
Mark Lenard (October 15, 1924–November 22, 1996) was an American actor, primarily in television. ...
The current Star Trek franchise logo Star Trek is an American science fiction entertainment series. ...
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Sarek is a Vulcan character in the Star Trek fictional universe. ...
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Star Trek: The Motion Picture (Paramount Pictures, 1979; see also 1979 in film) is the first feature film based on the popular Star Trek science fiction television series and is released on Friday, December 7. ...
Plot The starship USS Enterprise under the command of Captain James T. Kirk is inspecting a line of manned Federation outposts, only to find they are being destroyed by an unknown enemy. The latest to fall is Outpost 4 near the Romulan neutral zone. Lieutenant Commander Spock explains that the neutral zone came into being following the Earth-Romulan War a century earlier. (The map of the neutral zone displayed Romulus as well as a second planet called Romii, despite Spock's spoken reference to Romulus and Remus.) Due to the lack of use of visual communications, the two races have never seen each other and only communicated over subspace radio. Captain James T. Kirk fears the Romulans are preparing for another war. One of the fictional ships called the Starship Enterprise from Star Trek, one of the most famous fictional starships. ...
The USS Enterprise is a fictional starship in the television series Star Trek, the USS Enterprise, (NCC-1701) was the ship in the original NBC TV series Star Trek, which chronicled the vessels most famous assignment, a five-year mission of exploration and diplomacy under Captain James T. Kirk...
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Romulans are a fictional alien species in the Star Trek universe related to Vulcans. ...
In the fictional Star Trek universe, a neutral zone is a sort of buffer zone between the territories of two different powers. ...
Lieutenant Commander is a commissioned rank of the Starfleet in the fictional universe of Star Trek. ...
For other uses, see Spock (disambiguation). ...
Combatants United Earth With support from Vulcan, Andor and Tellar Romulan Star Empire Strength Limited number of NX class starships Large number of less sophisticated ships Unknown number of Bird of Prey In the Star Trek fictional universe, the Earth-Romulan War was a major conflict fought between the United...
Captain is a commissioned rank of the Starfleet in the fictional universe of Star Trek. ...
James Tiberius Kirk (2233 - 2293/2371), played by William Shatner, is the leading character in the original Star Trek television series and the films based on it. ...
Kirk discovers that the attacker is a lone Romulan Bird of Prey equipped with a cloaking device. The cloak is not perfect; the Enterprise can track the ship, which is returning home to report on weaknesses in the Federation's defenses. The Enterprise taps into the Romulans' internal security camera, revealing that the Romulans appear identical to Vulcans. Lieutenant Stiles, who had family fight and die in the Earth-Romulan War, begins to suspect the Vulcan Spock of treason. This article or section cites very few or no references or sources. ...
A Klingon Bird of Prey from Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country fires while using a cloaking device In several science fiction universes, a cloaking device is an advanced stealth system which causes a spaceship or individual to be invisible and extremely difficult to detect with normal sensors. ...
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Lieutenant is a commissioned rank of the Starfleet in the fictional universe of Star Trek. ...
For other uses, see Spock (disambiguation). ...
During a briefing over the Romulan ship's capabilities, Spock advises Kirk to attack the Romulans before they can reach the Neutral Zone. Spock believes the Romulans are an offshoot of the Vulcans from their age of savage warfare, before Surak's philosophy of logic took hold. If the Romulans have rejected Surak, Spock concludes, they would infer weakness in the lack of response from the Federation and launch a full scale war. Surak is a fictional character of the Star Trek universe. ...
A game of cat-and-mouse ensues, with each ship having advantages over the other. The Enterprise is faster and more maneuverable, while the Romulan ship has the cloak and is armed with a plasma torpedoes of immense destructive power but limited range. The torpedoes require so much power that the ship must decloak to fire them. While cloaked, however, the Romulan ship cannot be targeted effectively. Eventually, the battle becomes as much about the two commanding officers' psychologically outwitting each other (the Romulan commander refers to Kirk as a "sorcerer") as it is about their ships' capabilities. // The Star Trek fictional universe contains a very large number of weapons. ...
When the Romulans believe they have the upper hand, their commander orders a nuclear weapon dumped along with other debris, hoping the Enterprise will get near enough the weapon to destroy the Starfleet ship. However, Kirk suspects a trap and orders a point-blank phaser shot that detonates the bomb. The Enterprise is badly shaken by the blast; Kirk decides to use this to his advantage, ordering operations to work at minimal power to exaggerate the apparent damage. Although the Romulan ship's fuel is running low, a member of the crew with connections to the Romulan praetor convinces the Romulan commander to finish off a seemingly helpless Enterprise. When the Romulan ship decloaks to launch a torpedo, Kirk tries to spring his trap, but an equipment failure leaves the phasers off-line and Mr. Stiles incapacitated. Spock rescues Stiles and makes repairs in time for the Enterprise to disable the Romulan ship. // The Star Trek fictional universe contains a very large number of weapons. ...
// Definition According to Cicero, Praetor was a title which designated the consuls as the leaders of the armies of the state. ...
Kirk hails the crippled vessel and at last communicates directly with his counterpart, offering to beam aboard the survivors. The Romulan commander declines regretting that He and Kirk live in the reality they do remarking, "In another world, I could have called you friend" ,and saying that he has "one more duty to perform", triggers his ship's self-destruct, preventing its crew and technology from falling into Federation hands.
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40th Anniversary remastering This episode was digitally remastered in 2006 for high definition television and first aired September 16, 2006 to mark the 40th anniversary of Star Trek's premiere. It was followed next by "Miri" which some network affiliate stations chose to air directly afterward. Aside from remastered video and audio and the newly created all-CGI animation of the USS Enterprise that are standard among the revisions, specific changes to this episode include: For the Manfred Mann album, see 2006 (album). ...
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Miri is a first season episode of Star Trek: The Original Series, that was first broadcast October 27, 1966, and repeated June 29, 1967. ...
- CGI refinements of the Bird of Prey.
- Phaser bursts and plasma torpedoes have been reworked, and light from the weapons reflects against the Enterprise's hull.
- The comet has been updated.
Trivia - This is the only time the Enterprise's phasers are fired with a "proximity" setting. At the time this episode was written, phasers were the only known armament on the Enterprise; photon torpedoes are introduced in "Arena" and use the same visual effect.
- In dialogue from the final shooting script, there is speculation that the Bird-of-Prey was designed from stolen Starfleet ship blueprints. This adds fuel to Lieutenant Stiles' tirades against Spock. (See "Script Review" below)
The Star Trek fictional universe contains a very large number of weapons. ...
Arena is an episode of Star Trek: The Original Series. ...
Starfleet Command symbol In the fictional universe of Star Trek, Starfleet is the paramilitary defense, research, diplomacy, and exploration force of the United Federation of Planets (UFP) with – as of the late 24th century – hundreds of starships and starbases at its disposal. ...
Captain Jean-Luc Picard, played by Patrick Stewart, is a character in the TV series Star Trek: The Next Generation. ...
The title as it appeared in most episodes opening credits. ...
Datas Day is a fourth season episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. ...
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