STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES
Season 2, Episode 5

The Apple

Series: Original Series - (1966-1969)
Season: 2
Episode #: 5
Production #: 60338
Original Airdate: 10/13/1967

Writer(s): Max Ehrlich and Gene L. Coon
Director(s): Joseph Pevney

Guest Stars
Keith Andes as Akuta
Celeste Yarnall as Yeoman Martha Landon
David Soul as Makora
Jay Jones as Lt. Mallory
Jerry Daniels as Lt. Marple
John Winston as Lt. Kyle
Mal Friedman as Security Officer Hendorff
Shari Nims as Sayana

Uncredited Guest Stars
Paul Baxley as Vaalian 1
William Blackburn as Lt. Hadley and Vaalian 2
Ron Burke as Vaalian 3
Bobby Clark as Vaalian 4
Vince Deadrick as Vaalian 5
Jeannie Malone as Vaalian 6
Russ Peek as Vaalian 7
Dick Dial as Lt. Kaplan
Eddie Paskey as Lt. Leslie

Stardate: 3715.3

Synopsis

When a landing party beams down to the planet Gamma Trianguli VI, they find what appears to be an idyllic paradise. They quickly discover, however, that the planet is deadly, sporting plants that shoot thorns, rocks that explode, and incredibly accurate lightning bolts.

With a much reduced party, they encounter the planet's inhabitants. They are a peaceful, child-like people who call themselves the "Feeders of Vaal." They dress in flowers and bright paint, never reproducing because they don't age or die. Each day they "feed" Vaal offerings of food. Vaal seems to be a large serpent's head carved of rock, but is actually the terminal for an advanced, underground computer. Seeing Kirk and his party as a threat, Vaal takes them prisoner and tries to pull the U.S.S. Enterprise from orbit.

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Kirk realizes that by depriving Vaal of the natives' daily offerings of food, the computer won't be able to convert the offerings into reaction mass. Thus weakened, Kirk uses the U.S.S. Enterprise's phasers to destroy Vaal. This leaves the natives on their own to discover birth, death, and the everyday ways of life.

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