STAR TREK: THE ANIMATED SERIES
Season 1, Episode 14
Season 1, Episode 14
Slaver Weapon
Series: Star Trek: The Animated Series - (1973-1974)Season: 1
Episode #: 14
Production #: 22011
Original Airdate: 12/15/1973
Writer(s): Larry Niven (Adapted from his story "The Soft Weapon")
Director(s): Hal Sutherland
Guest Stars
Majel Barrett as the Computer Voice of the Slaver Weapon
James Doohan as Chuft-Captain
James Doohan as Kzinti Telepath
James Doohan as Kzinti Flyer
Stardate: 4187.3
Synopsis
In the shuttlecraft Copernicus, Spock, Uhura, and Sulu are en-route to Starbase 25 to deliver a stasis box - a rare artifact of the Slaver culture - which stops time inside so any object can last forever. The now-extinct Slavers used these objects to carry weapons, valuables, and other scientific instruments and data. The boxes can detect each other and evidence shows that another device is located nearby. Spock begins to investigate. The shuttle lands on an ice planet where hostile Kzinti lie in ambush with an empty stasis box.
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The Kzinti once controlled the entire empire but now are bound to keeping peace. However, many Kzinti still take part in raiding Federation shipping and seek Slaver weapons to regain control of their empire.
The Kzinti take the shuttle crew hostage in an effort to take the box and its contents. The Kzinti leader obtains the weapon, but while tampering with it he enables the crew to escape. Spock steals back the weapon, but Uhura is recaptured. After Sulu creates an explosion with the weapon, it is recaptured by the Kzinti, who are killed when the device self-destructs.
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