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"Balance of Terror" is a first season episode of the Star Trek: The Original Series. It was first aired on December 15, 1966 and repeated August 3, 1967. It is episode #9, and was written by Paul Schneider and directed by Vincent McEveety. 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 (link goes to calendar) // Events January January 1 - In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa ousts president David Dacko and takes over the Central African Republic. ...
Screenwriters, scenarists or script writers, are authors who write the screenplays from which movies are made. ...
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. ...
John Warburton (also credited as John Hayward-Warburton) is a British television producer and director, best known for his collaborations with television producer, critic and prankster Victor Lewis-Smith. ...
Johann Arndt (1555-1621), German Lutheran theologian, was born at Ballenstedt, in Anhalt, and studied in several universities. ...
Stardate is the dating convention used in the fictional Star Trek universe. ...
A year is the time between two recurrences of an event related to the orbit of the Earth around the Sun. ...
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. ...
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 (link goes to calendar) // Events January January 1 - In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa ousts president David Dacko and takes over the Central African Republic. ...
It was the first episode of Star Trek to feature the reoccurring alien race of the Romulans. The captain of the Romulan ship is played by Mark Lenard, who would later play Spock's father, Sarek. Romulan officer Decius Lawrence Montaigne would later play Stonn in the second season episode "Amok Time". http://www. ...
The Romulans, a fictional race in the Star Trek universe, are descended from Vulcans and are characterized as being deceitful, cunning, and treacherous. ...
Mark Lenard (October 15, 1924–November 22, 1996) was an American actor, primarily in television. ...
Sarek is a Vulcan character in the Star Trek fictional universe. ...
Amok Time is an episode of Star Trek: The Original Series. ...
The episode has been described as a 1950s submarine movie in space, specifically The Enemy Below (1957). // Events and trends The 1950s in Western society was marked with a sharp rise in the economy for the first time in almost 30 years and return to the 1920s-type consumer society built on credit and boom-times, as well as the the baby boom from returning GIs who...
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. ...
Quick Overview: The crew of the Enterprise face off with the Romulans, in a test of power. The starship Enterprise (NX-01) The USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) (2245-2270) The USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-A) The USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-C) The USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) The USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-E) The USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-J) In the Star Trek fictional universe, the USS...
On stardate 1709.1, the starship USS Enterprise, under the command of Captain James T. Kirk, is sent to pursue an alien ship that has destroyed a number of Federation outposts, the latest being #4 near the Romulan neutral zone. It is feared that after a century of non-contact the antagonistic Romulans, whom the Federation has never seen in the flesh, have rebuilt their forces for another round of warfare. Stardate is the dating convention used in the fictional Star Trek universe. ...
This article is about the vehicle for interstellar travel. ...
James Tiberius Kirk (William Shatner) was captain of two Starships Enterprise (NCC-1701 and NCC-1701-A) in the fictional Star Trek universe. ...
In the fictional Star Trek universe, the United Federation of Planets is a federation of more than 150 member planets and thousands of colonies, claiming territory in the Alpha and Beta Quadrants of the Milky Way Galaxy. ...
The Romulans, a fictional race in the Star Trek universe, are descended from Vulcans and are characterized as being deceitful, cunning, and treacherous. ...
In the fictional Star Trek universe, a neutral zone is a sort of buffer zone between the territories of two different powers. ...
Captain Kirk arrives in the Neutral Zone and discovers that a lone ship, identified as a Romulan Bird of Prey, has a surprising ability, it can attain invisibility with a cloaking device. The Star Trek fictional universe has presented a number of designs for Romulan starships. ...
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. ...
It is detected that this cloak is not perfect, and the Enterprise manages to track the ship, which appears to be returning home after what has been a test of military strength. The Enterprise also taps into the Romulans' internal security camera feed and makes another astonishing discovery: the Romulans are, in all appearance, identical to the Vulcans. Vulcans are a humanoid species in the fictional Star Trek universe who reside on the planet Vulcan and are noted for their attempt to live by reason and logic. ...
One of the Enterprise's bridge staff, Lieutenant Stiles, has long held a personal grudge against the Romulans for family reasons left pending from the last war. Stiles begins to associate the Vulcan Mr. Spock, a fellow officer, with his grievances. Ambassador Spock, commonly called Mr. ...
During a briefing over the Romulan ship's capabilities, Mr. Spock surprises everyone when he counsels the captain to attack the intruders as a demonstration of strength. While Spock is not positive, he thinks it likely that Romulans are an ancestral off-shoot of the Vulcans. Such an ancient schism would have occurred during an age of savage warfare, before the Vulcan philosophy of logic as introduced by the great Surak, took hold. If these are a people who rejected Surak, then they will imply weakness from their foes if not confronted.
A mutual game of cat-and-mouse between the two ships ensues, with each ship having unique advantages over the other. The Romulan ship has far greater stealth than the Enterprise and is armed with plasma torpedoes of immense destructive power, however, the Enterprise is much faster and more maneuverable than its opponent. The Romulan's torpedoes prove much less effective against an evasive target than they were against stationary asteroid bases, and require so much power to fire that the ship must decloak to do so. While cloaked, however, the Enterprise is unable to target the Romulan ship effectively itself. In the Star Trek fictional universe, plasma torpedoes are weapons used in starship combat. ...
As this conflict proceeds, the activities of both the Enterprise crew and the Romulan ship's captain, reveal the Romulan to be a thoughtful and well-developed adversary. The battle becomes as much a personal battle of wits between the two captains as a battle between starships, with each attempting to understand the other's psychology.
Finally, it seems to the Romulans that they have the upper hand. They should make for home but they cannot resist a finishing shot. When the Romulan ship becomes visible one last time to launch a torpedo, the Enterprise manages to disable it with its phasers, but not before suffering an equipment failure which leaves the weapons system crucially off-line and the bigoted Lieutenant Stiles incapacitated at his post. Ironically it is Mr. Spock who rescues both the ship and Stiles. The Star Trek fictional universe contains a very large number of weapons. ...
Kirk hails the crippled Bird of Prey and at last communicates directly with his Romulan counterpart, offering to take on survivors. The Romulan captain responds that he has "one last duty to perform" and triggers his ship's self-destruct, preventing its crew and technology from falling into Federation hands.
Trivia The relatives that Lieutenant Stiles mentions killed in the Earth-Romulan war would have served in Starfleet during the same time frame as the prequel series Star Trek: Enterprise. The actual Earth-Romulan war, however, is never depicted in the later series since Enterprise was cancelled in its fourth season before the Romulan threat to Earth could be fully developed. It is widely suspected in fanon that the war will be the main focus of the eleventh Trek film, Star Trek: The Beginning. The starship Enterprise (NX-01) Star Trek: Enterprise is a science fiction television series set in the Star Trek universe. ...
For the author, see Frantz Fanon. ...
The Enterprise's phasers, in this episode, were used on a proximity setting. As a result, the ship fired exploding flare like bursts that acted very much like depth charges. At the time this episode was written, phasers were the only known armament on the Enterprise and served as the all purpose weapon. Photon torpedoes were introduced later on in the season in episode 19 ("Arena") and this proximity phaser setting was never seen again. Depth Charge used by U.S. Navy later in World War II The depth charge is the oldest anti-submarine weapon. ...
The Star Trek fictional universe contains a very large number of weapons. ...
External links Balance of Terror article at Memory Alpha, a Star Trek wiki
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