STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES
Season 2, Episode 23

The Omega Glory

Series: Original Series - (1966-1969)
Season: 2
Episode #: 23
Production #: 60354
Original Airdate: 03/01/1968

Writer(s): Gene Roddenberry
Director(s): Vincent McEveety

Guest Stars
Morgan Woodward as Captain Ronald Tracey
Roy Jenson as Cloud William
Irene Kelly as Sirah
Morgan Farley as The Yang Scholar
David L. Ross as Lt. Galloway
Lloyd Kino as Wu
Ed McCready as Dr. Carter
Frank Atienza as Liyang

Uncredited Guest Stars
William Blackburn as Lt. Hadley
Frank da Vinci as Lt. Vinci
Eddie Paskey as Lt. Leslie

Stardate: Unknown

Synopsis

The U.S.S. Enterprise finds a crewless starship, the U.S.S. Exeter, in orbit around the planet Omega IV. The boarding party from the U.S.S. Enterprise contracts a virus that may have killed the Exeter's crew, but the biosphere on Omega IV is found to contain an immunity. The party is beamed to the surface.

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There they discover Captain Tracey, the commander of the U.S.S. Exeter. He has been violating the Federation's Prime Directive by interfering in the politics of the natives, using his phaser to protect the asian-like villagers, the Kohms, against the barbarian raiders, the Yangs. Tracey demands that Kirk supply him with more phasers, which Kirk refuses to do.

The Yangs capture the Kohms village and the U.S.S. Enterprise crew learns that these people are possibly descendants of Earth's Communist Chinese who left Earth in the last years of the 20th Century. The Yangs mouth a distorted version of the United States Constitution, which are their 'holy words' and which Kirk recites, gaining their confidence. Prolonged exposure to the planet's atmosphere cures the landing party and, with Captain Tracey under arrest, they return to the U.S.S. Enterprise.

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