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"The Apple" is a second season episode of Star Trek: The Original Series. It is episode #38, first broadcast on October 13, 1967 and repeated July 12, 1968. It was written by Max Ehrlich, and directed by Joseph Pevney. Image from Star Trek: The Original Series episode The Apple © 1967 Paramount Pictures, produced by Gene Roddenberry. ...
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Stardate is one of the dating conventions used in the fictional Star Trek universe. ...
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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. ...
October 13 is the 286th day of the year (287th in leap years). ...
1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar (the link is to a full 1967 calendar). ...
July 12 is the 193rd day (194th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 172 days remaining. ...
1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ...
Joseph Pevney (born September 15, 1911, New York City) is a prolific film and television director, with a directing career that spanned over 80 productions from 1950 to 1984. ...
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Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow. On stardate 3715.3, the starship USS Enterprise arrives at Gamma Trianguli VI, a planet that appears to be a tropical paradise. Captain James T. Kirk, Dr. McCoy, Lt. Chekov, and Mr. Spock, along with several survey personnel, beam down to the surface to have a look. Stardate is one of the dating conventions used in the fictional Star Trek universe. ...
The fictional starship Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) from Star Trek: The Next Generation. ...
James Tiberius Kirk, played by William Shatner, was captain of two starships Enterprise (NCC-1701 and NCC-1701-A) in the fictional Star Trek universe. ...
Leonard Horatio McCoy, M.D., nicknamed Bones (as in Sawbones, an old-fashioned colloquialism for a doctor or a surgeon), is a fictional character in the Star Trek universe, played by the late DeForest Kelley. ...
Pavel Andreyevich Chekov (Cyrillic: Павел Ðндреевич Чеков), a character from the fictional Star Trek universe, was the Navigator and Weapons Officer on the Starship Enterprise under Captain James T. Kirk. ...
Spock, commonly called Mr. ...
They discover a world of poison dart-shooting plants, unstable explosive rocks, and bizarre lightning storms that appear out of cloudless skies. One of the crewmen is killed when he accidentally steps on an exploding rock, and then Spock is hit by a plant dart when he steps to block them from hitting the Captain. Spock is stunned, and McCoy rushes over to assist, injecting him with serum to counteract the poison. Spock soon recovers.
Realizing there is too much danger, Kirk orders an immediate beam-out, however Mr. Scott reports that the ship's power systems are being drained by an unknown energy field emanating from the planet. The Enterprise's transporters don't have enough power to beam anyone back. Montgomery Scott, nicknamed Scotty, is a fictional character in the Star Trek universe. ...
As the stranded party figures out what to do, Kirk notices they are being watched. He attacks their "observer", finding it to be a shy, and frightened primitive humanoid who wears glitter and colorful paints on his skin. Kirk promises not to hurt the curious man and holds him for questioning. The man calms down and identifies himself as Akuta, chief of the people known as the "Feeders of Vaal". Spock notices that Akuta appears to be in some kind of communication with someone, and points out the small antennae on Akuta's head.
Meanwhile, Mr Scott calls down to inform Kirk that the Enterprise is being held in orbit around the planet by some kind of tractor beam and is unable to break away. Kirk asks Akuta about this "Vaal", and requests to be taken to meet him. Akuta agrees and leads the landing team to a large stone dragon head carved into the side of hill. Akuta points to the structure and indicates that it is Vaal.
The head appears as a kind of doorway. Spock's tricorder indicates that it leads down into the planet. The structure is also protected by a powerful force field. The temple appears to be some type of sophisticated computer, possibly built by an ancient civilization. Spock also concludes that it may be the source of the energy draining field that is affecting the Enterprise. Tricorders (TNG era) In the Star Trek universe, the tricorder is a handheld device used for scanning an area, interpreting and displaying data from scans to the user, and recording information to isolinear chips. ...
In general physics, a force field is a vector field representing the gradient of a potential. ...
Akuta then leads the party to meet his people. They appear as young men and women, but all have a curious, childlike mentality. Kirk points out that the tribe doesn't seem to have any children and asks Akuta why. Akuta doesn't know what a child is, saying that Vaal has forbidden love and copulation, and provides them with "replacements" as they are needed. McCoy scans the tribe and is shocked when he discovers they are ageless and all in perfect health. The party later observes them as they perform a ritualistic "feeding" of Vaal.
Later, some women of the tribe come forward to look over their new guests. Seana is attracted to Mr. Spock, while Chekov has an eye for Martha, whom he later kisses passionately. A tribal couple observe Chekov and Martha and try to imitate their kissing. Vaal is angered by this and radios instructions to Akuta, telling him to gather his people and kill the strangers who have trespassed here. Akuta rounds some of his men and instructs them to kill the landing party by bashing their skulls with clubs.
The landing party goes to Vaal to investigate the structure. Vaal defends itself by striking Spock with a lightning bolt. The Feeders then attack, surrounding the landing party and killing a crewman. The landing party fights them off pretty easily however, and detains them, preventing them from feeding Vaal.
Vaal becomes weakened and loses its hold on the Enterprise. Kirk orders the ship's weapons to target the structure and fire. The ship blasts the dragon head with phasers and the structure is destroyed. Akuta and his people are finally free and the tribe soon sets off to discover birth, death, and the normal everyday ways of life. The Star Trek fictional universe contains a very large number of weapons. ...
Spock compares what the Captain has done to giving the primitive people the equivalent of the apple of knowledge and driving them from their Garden of Eden, but Kirk maintains that Spock's resemblance to the Devil is much more apparent than his own. Michelangelos painting of the original sin (the Fall) According to Christian tradition, Original sin describes the condition of sinfulness (lack of holiness) into which human beings are hereditarily born. ...
The Fall of Man by Lucas Cranach, a 16th century German depiction of Eden The Garden of Eden (from Hebrew Gan Ēden, גַּן עֵדֶן) is described by the Book of Genesis as being the place where the first man - Adam - and woman - Eve - lived after they were created by God. ...
The Devil is the name given to a supernatural entity, who, in most Western religions, is the central embodiment of evil. ...
Trivia
- This episode, more than any other, earned the series its reputation for killing redshirts — four die in "The Apple."
- In this episode Scotty was fired, and later rehired by Captain Kirk.
- 'Vaal' could be a reference to the ancient deity Baal.
- After apparently switching to metric in "The Changeling", the crew reverts to customary units in this episode (Spock says the planet has a uniform temperature around 76 degrees, which if it were Celsius would make the planet inhospitably hot, and says the force field exists 30 feet from Vaal).
A redshirt is a stock character in science fiction whose sole purpose is to die violently soon after being introduced. ...
Baal () is a Semitic title and honorific meaning lord that is used for various gods, spirits and demons particularly of the Levant. ...
The International System of Units (symbol: SI) (for the French phrase Syst me International dUnit s) is the most widely used system of units. ...
The Changeling is a season two episode of Star Trek: The Original Series, first broadcast on September 29, 1967 and repeated May 17, 1968. ...
U.S. customary units, commonly known in the United States as English units—but see English unit—or standard units, are units of measurement that are currently used in the USA, in some cases alongside units from SI (the International System of Units—the modern metric system). ...
Temperature is also the name of a song by Sean Paul. ...
A degree Celsius (°C) is a unit of temperature named after the Swedish astronomer Anders Celsius (1701-1744), who first proposed a similar system in 1742. ...
In general physics, a force field is a vector field representing the gradient of a potential. ...
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