Trivial matters: This episode introduces the Romulans, an enemy of the Federation that will continue to recur in this series, as well as all the spinoffs and a couple of the feature films. Channel open. He fires on the Romulan ship while it’s still on their side of the Zone, and then follows them in, ordering Uhura to report to Command that he has no choice but to do so. Capt. The interrupted wedding. (Baldavin will return in the role in “Shore Leave”). The characters don’t change much from start to finish, but it is an incredibly expansive world-building episode for Star Trek. No, the Enterprise is not just a research vessel. McCoy’s trademark humanism is on display in the briefing room, as he’s against war at all costs, and he also gives Kirk a rather hokey speech about how there’s billions of planets in the universe, but only one Jim Kirk. He confers with one of his officers (the centurio… Unique and colorful, this poster will look great in any room. Like all episodes from the series, "Balance of Terror" was digitally remastered with upgraded visual effects. Before the ceremony, Spock reports Outpost #2 along the Romulan Neutral Zone still is quiet, and now Outpost #3 has gone dark as well. Kirk orders phasers to fire—and nothing happens. The episode was directed by Vincent McEveety and written by Paul Schneider. No sex, please, we’re Starfleet. Still and all, he agrees to finish the Enterprise off. Sulu floors the accelerator, but the weapon is still overtaking them. Thank you for keeping the discussion, and our community, civil and respectful. Captain’s log. Season 1, Episode 8 In 2017 a new series set a decade before TOS, Star Trek: Discovery (or STD… which is unfortunate), is set to air. McCoy, for his part, thinks they’re insane to start a war that will cost millions of lives over theories about a people they know nothing about. Like all episodes from the series, "Balance of Terror" was digitally remastered with upgraded visual effects. COVID-19 Shipping Updates - Learn More. The remastered air dates listed below are based on the weekend each episode aired in syndication. Reviews; Indieweb Television; Books ; Todays Date. A “Touchstone” for Star Trek: Discovery. All episodes about Romulan empire are very good because Romulan is my favorite race in Star Trek. Amazingly, the only Enterprise crew member who dies is Tomlinson. Star Trek Balance of Terror 1/7 - TOS (The Original Series) #ScienceFiction #StarTrek “Balance of Terror”: Star Trek, History, and National Security “Star Trek meets Van Gogh” by Aja Apa-Soura. Only then does Kirk agree. It’s about McCoy, unwilling to accept war as a given. "Balance of Terror" is the fourteenth episode of season one of the American science fiction adventure TV series Star Trek. Related: Star Trek Theory: One Of Picard's New Crew Is A Romulan Spy In Star Trek: Picard episode 4, "Absolute Candor," Jean-Luc took his new crew to the Romulan colony planet Vashti where Cristobal Rios' starship, La Sirena, is attacked by the TOS-era Romulan Bird-of-Prey.The ancient ship was captained by a Romulan warlord named Kal Kantar and, between the Bird-of-Prey's phasers … Yes, we would have been deprived of her lovely curves, but the drama would have been outstanding. "Cygnus-X1.Net" is in no way associated with, nor endorsed by, Paramount Pictures and/or Viacom; Pocket Books and/or Simon & Schuster; their parents or their affiliates. Go put on a red shirt. A ship appears suddenly, fires a high-energy plasma beam, demolishes the outpost, and disappears again—all while the Enterprise watches helplessly, still too far away to assist, and the ship is ignoring Uhura’s challenges and hails. Kirk then adds that his orders are to avoid violating the treaty at all costs—to avoid war, the outposts and the Enterprise are considered expendable. He orders Decius to put all debris in the disposal tubes—as well as the body of the centurion, who was killed saving the commander’s life from falling debris during the Enterprise’s earlier attack at the comet. But it laid a lot of good groundwork for the franchise's action stories, and remains a nostalgic success. Spock commented that Balok bore a resemblance to his father in “The Corbomite Maneuver,” yet he made no such comment about the Romulan commander, who is played by the same actor who would play his father. [Ship's Chapel] SCOTT: The ceremony will be carried on all viewing screens, sir. With William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Mark Lenard, Paul Comi. He knows the outpost called a ship, and that ship could be what’s following them. To boldly go. She also gets to take over navigation again, but still has to open the damn hailing frequencies from there…. The revised final draft script for "Balance of Terror" fleshed out Stiles' suspicion that Romulan … Release Dates His first name has been given as John and Andrew. Several novels by Diane Duane—My Enemy, My Ally; The Romulan Way; Swordhunt; Honor Blade; and The Empty Chair—developed a detailed history and language for the Romulan people, including the name “Rihannsu” as the name the species has for itself. The blip has changed course, and in a leisurely manner. The briefing room, with Sulu poking holes in Stiles’s gung-ho attitude, with McCoy doing the same for Spock’s insistence on war being an imperative. Kirk learns that the Romulan ship has also destroyed three other outposts and is now running at full speed towards home. The episode was directed by Vincent McEveety and written by Paul Schneider. Stiles would have died also, but Spock pulled him out in time to save his life. Voyager had an opportunity: leave Jeri Ryan in full Borg costume for her time on the show. Oscars Best Picture Winners Best Picture Winners Golden Globes Emmys STARmeter Awards San Diego Comic-Con New York Comic-Con Sundance Film Festival Toronto Int'l Film Festival Awards Central Festival Central All Events With William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Mark Lenard, Paul Comi. The Romulans are back on course for home, and Kirk orders Sulu and Stiles to ghost them again. The Enterprise doesn’t detect it until the last minute and detonates it with a phaser, but the damage is done. —Macbeth, Act I, Scene v One of the best parts about revisiting the original Trek, at least for me, is rediscovering the episodes that I'd forgotten. Sensors—portrayed in every other Star Trek story ever as being super-efficient methods of detecting things—are shown here to be less reliable than sight, which makes them useless in space. "Balance of Terror" is, to this Star Trek fan, what the series is all about. Paul Comi is the latest member of the navigator derby as Stiles, while Stephen Mines and Barbara Baldavin play the ill-fated couple of Tomlinson and Martine. Comic Book News & Reviews. It’s about Stiles, whose family history in the last war has made it impossible to look at the possibility of a new one rationally. The reference book Star Trek: The Original Series 365 (p. 063) speculates that Stiles' longing for vengeance may have been inspired by the film Run Silent, Run Deep. “Balance of Terror” Written by Paul Schneider and directed by Vincent McEveety, it first aired on December 15, 1966, and a repeat broadcast was aired on August 3, 1967. I’ve talked about it about it quite a bit in my earlier reviews, so I won’t dwell on it too much here, but Star Trek got really good really quickly. It involves nixies, scuba diving, rock and roll, the ghost of a wrecker captain, and the evils of spam filters. We could have addressed prejudice and bigotry in outstanding ways. This gift mug features an artistic rendering of the classic Star Trek episode "The Balance of Terror". The commander’s centurion cautions that Decius has powerful friends, but the commander has no shits to give on that score. "Balance of Terror" is the fourteenth episode of season one of the American science fiction adventure TV series Star Trek. Hansen reports that not just #2 and #3 but also Outpost #8 are all destroyed. Paul Schneider’s script doesn’t just wear its submarine-movie influences on its sleeve, it wears the whole damn shirt. This is my top ten list of Star Trek episodes about Romulan: 1: Balance of Terror "Balance of Terror" does a nice job of working out the moves and counter moves in the running battle. "Balance of Terror" is the fourteenth episode of season one of the American science fiction adventure TV series Star Trek. This Star Trek: The Original Series Juan Ortiz Arena Poster represents a classic Star Trek episode and makes the perfect housewarming, birthday, or just because gift to any fan! Spock detects the debris, but reports that it has insufficient mass to be the ship. Sulu saves Stiles’s ass by nominally agreeing with his racial profiling and suggesting security alert and then in the briefing room—probably because Stiles didn’t even thank him, the ungrateful bastard—argues against every point the navigator makes with regard to attacking the Romulans. On the Romulan ship, we learn that the commander’s plan is to disappear within the comet and then turn around quickly and double back on the Enterprise. Spock shows a piece of Outpost #4’s debris that Scotty brought on board. Spock is surprisingly quiet when Stiles treats him like crap—if nothing else, his line in the phaser room when he calls him “Vulcan” with disgust should get him written up, not to mention his attitude in the briefing room—and also reveals that Vulcans weren’t always rational, logical, peaceful types. An urgent call from an Outpost interrupts the wedding, and the ship discovers that a series of outposts have been destroyed by a new energy weapon. This episode is the only time the firing of weapons on the ship is done by relaying commands from captain to navigator to phaser room—though there is a reference to “phaser crews” in “The Corbomite Maneuver.” After this, weapons are fired directly from the navigation console, either by the helmsman or navigator. Plus, every single scene on the Romulan ship, giving us a complex character in the commander and a wonderful glimpse at the politics of life in the Romulan Star Empire. The commander also plays a large role (and remains unnamed) in John Byrne’s various comics featuring the Romulans for IDW, one of which, Alien Spotlight: Romulans, serves as the prequel to this episode. (How he did so without the warhead used for that purpose is left as an exercise for the viewer.). As Douglas Adams reminded us, space is big—really big. This is the first of half a dozen episodes directed by Vincent McEveety, and the first of three written by Paul Schneider (the others being “The Squire of Gothos” and the animated episode “The Terratin Incident”). Besides the we’re-almost-newlyweds banter between Tomlinson and Martine, we also have a totally gratuitous moment where Kirk clutches Rand to him when the Romulan weapon’s about to hit. Also the phasers seem to fire like photon torpedoes (which hadn’t been conceived yet) and like torpedoes in submarines. It’s only logical. His ancestors who fought in the Earth-Romulan War are seen in Starfleet Year One by Friedman and the Romulan War duology by Martin. "Balance of Terror" is the fourteenth episode of season one of the American science fiction adventure TV series Star Trek. Recurring regulars DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei, Nichelle Nichos, and Grace Lee Whitney are all here, too. Filming & Production Decius broke the rule of silence and is reduced two steps in rank. McCoy bucks him up with a bit of existentialism. Feature. To celebrate the release of Star Trek: Into Darkness this month, we’ll be running through the first season of the classic Star Trek all this month. A classic. But after Star Wars came out in '77, the old Star Trek episodes started to come on in the afternoon, and I was psyched (Star Wars got me into Star Trek). Lieutenant Stiles reveals that he had several ancestors who died in the previous war, and Kirk has to remind him that it was their war—not his. Down in the phaser room, Martine assures Tomlinson that he doesn’t get off her hook that easily, and she fully intends to marry him. Featuring a mix of bold and subtle colors, this poster looks great with any current home decor. | Spock, amazingly, agrees with Stiles. Everything is too far away from everything else for sight to really matter all that much, so the fact that they can “only” target with sensors is a feature, not a bug. Series overview. Next week: “What Are Little Girls Made Of?”. When Uhura says that cryptography is working on the code they intercepted, Stiles mutters, “Give it to Spock,” at which point Kirk tears him about fifteen new assholes with regards to being a bigot on his bridge. Kirk calls a meeting that includes Spock, Scotty, McCoy, Sulu, and Stiles. Veteran character actor Garry Walberg plays Hansen, John Warburton plays the centurion, and Lawrence Montaigne plays Decius; Montaigne will return in “Amok Time” as Stonn. “He’s a sorcerer, that one, he reads the thoughts in my brain.” What an amazing thrill-ride of an episode. Had the TV show Enterprise continued to a fifth season, it is likely that the show itself would have covered the war. Kirk is ready to dismiss the notion as paranoid fantasy until Sulu agrees and recommends they go to security alert. Cygnus-X1.Net: A Tribute to Star Trek is maintained by John Patuto. Our Privacy Notice has been updated to explain how we use cookies, which you accept by continuing to use this website. It’s available for free on Buzzy Mag online. When Spock hears Kirk bellow for Stiles to fire, he runs back to the phaser room to find Stiles and Tomlinson out cold on the floor, the room filled with coolant. The ship becomes visible. The commander then upbraids one of his people, Decius, who sent the coded message Uhura intercepted. I cannot change the laws of physics! It first aired on NBC on December 15th, 1966. Poor Martine…. This Star Trek: The Original Series Juan Ortiz Arena Poster represents a classic Star Trek episode and makes the perfect housewarming, birthday, or just because gift to any fan! In Review: Star Trek Discovery – Terra Firma Part 2 (S.3 Ep.10) December 17, 2020. The Myriad Universes short novel A Less Perfect Union by William Leisner in Infinity’s Prism has the commander making use of that resemblance in an alternate timeline in which the Federation was never formed. 1 References 1.1 Characters 1.1.1 Episode characters 1.1.2 Novelization characters 1.1.3 Comic adaptation characters 1.2 Starships and vehicles 1.3 Locations 1.4 Races and cultures 1.5 States and organizations 1.6 Other references 2 Appendices 2.1 Related media 2.1.1 Adaptations 2.1.2 Video releases 2.2 Images 2.2.1 Episode images 2.2.2 Adaptation images 2.3 Timeline 2.4 External link … Once the Enterprise is one minute from the Zone, Kirk decides to go on the offensive. Welcome aboard. The invisibility screen they’re using consumes tremendous power—probably why it needs to be dropped in order to fire—and that may also keep them from seeing the Enterprise. The glances at Martine and Tomlinson throughout, making their tragedy at the end all the more poignant. Stiles is rather baffled by this. The episode isn’t perfect, for all that I can watch it a million times and be enthralled by it. Fascinating. For nine hours, both ships sit, playing possum. Vulcan had an aggressive, savage colonizing period, and if the Romulans are an offshoot of that time, then they dare not show weakness. Yet, in this episode, Stiles makes no secret of his hatred toward Romulans and his distaste for Spock once he learns what the Romulans look like. I would record them on cassette and listen to them over and over, and I believe this was one of the ones I heard the most. Unique and colorful, this poster will look great in any room. While Mark Lenard’s commander is never named onscreen, the Star Trek Collectible Card Game gave him the name Keras (an anagram of Lenard’s more famous role of Sarek). But of course the big guest is Mark Lenard as the commander. When Kirk realizes his trick didn’t work, he goes hard to starboard and orders Stiles to fire at random. Balance of Terror is essential Star Trek. "Star Trek: The Original Series" Balance of Terror (TV Episode 1966) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. All comments must meet the community standards outlined in Tor.com's Moderation Policy or be subject to moderation. After Spock leaves, Stiles notices a phaser coolant leak. The USS Discovery from 2017’s STAR TREK: DISCOVERY. But when the sensor readings go clear when they enter the comet, the commander figures it out and calls for an evasive course. Stiles—who is already whiny that they’re not on an intercept course—expresses a concern that there might be Romulan spies on the ship. Kirk orders him to keep his bigotry to himself. Writer Paul Schneider successfully evoked war stories and submarine dramas, a la the film The Enemy Below, in his teleplay.As the Star Trek Compendium puts it, think of the Enterprise as a "surface vessel" and the invisible Romulan ship as a "submarine" and you've got the basic concept. [Ship's Chapel] SCOTT: The ceremony will be carried on all viewing screens, sir. I’m a doctor not an escalator. Lenard will also play a Klingon in The Motion Picture, making him the first person to play a Vulcan, a Romulan, and a Klingon. The commander, frustrated, orders Decius to flush more debirs, this time with a nuclear warhead, used for self-destruct. Kirk orders Uhura to send regular reports to Command and orders Sulu to call battle stations. On the Romulan ship, their commander orders the cloak reactivated. In Episode 14 of Fascinating? There was no ship-to-ship visual communication, so no one even knows what the Romulans look like. Uhura opens a channel to the Romulan ship, and Kirk and the commander share a bonding moment before the latter falls on his sword by destroying the ship. It first aired on NBC on December 15th, 1966. It’s about Martine, who’ll never get to marry the man she loves. Production episode 6149-09 Yes, there is a future history, that the show is ambitious enough to explore. Stiles volunteers to help out, and Kirk sends him down, putting Uhura at navigation, and orders Spock to play dead, in the hopes of luring the Romulans back to their side of the Zone. Yes, there are stakes here, and yes the potential consequence of an interstellar war is a devastating one, but it works on an emotional level because throughout the entire episode, we see that it’s not about governments fighting or space ships firing on each other, it’s about people. ; Schneider also wrote the TOS episode "The … This episode saw the introduction of the Romulan Star Empire in Star Trek. To withdraw your consent, see Your Choices. Kirk, of course, calls him on the carpet for his views. At any rate, "Balance of Terror" is a good episode, but not really an outstanding one. The enemy ship seems to appear and disappear. The Enterprise approaches Outpost #4. Blish's treatment also listed Stiles as a fatality, removing the premise that he was saved by Spock, as seen in the episode. | Kirk learns that the Romulan ship has also destroyed three other outposts and is now running at full speed towards home.. The USS Enterprise is on duty near the Romulan Zone border, and things are calm enough that Kirk can preside over a wedding between two crew members. Perhaps Fuller is simply suggesting that the “spirit” of these two episodes will heavily influence the overall tone of Star Trek: Discovery. Schneider’s script was heavily inspired by two submarine films, The Enemy Below and Run Silent, Run Deep. 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