STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES
Season 3, Episode 7

Day Of The Dove

Series: Original Series - (1966-1969)
Season: 3
Episode #: 7
Production #: 60043-66
Original Airdate: 11/01/1968

Writer(s): Jerome Bixby
Director(s): Marvin Chomsky

Guest Stars
Michael Ansara as Kang
Susan Howard as Mara
David L. Ross as Lt. Johnson
Mark Tobin as a Klingon Crewman

Uncredited Guest Stars
Phil Adams as a Klingon Crewman
Majel Barrett as the Voice of the Enterprise Computer
Roger Holloway as Ensign Roger Lemli
Charles Picerni as a Enterprise Security Lieutenant
Richard Geary as an Enterprise Security Guard
Eddie Hice as an Enterprise Security Guard
David Sharpe as a Enterprise Security Guard
Jay Jones as a Klingon Crewman
Pete Kellett as a Klingon Crewman
Hubie Kerns, Sr. as a Klingon Crewman
Victor Paul as a Klingon Crewman
George Sawaya as a Klingon Crewman
Jeannie Malone as a Bridge Yeoman

Stardate: Unknown

Synopsis

A U.S.S. Enterprise landing party beams to a human-colonized planet in answer to a distress call. A Klingon ship, apparently damaged, is detected and a group of Klingons accuse Kirk of having damaged their ship. Kang, their leader, claims the U.S.S. Enterprise as a prize and Kirk beams the Klingons on board, reluctantly. However, Spock is warned by Kirk and quickly takes the Klingons prisoner. Both ships seem to have received the same, false, distress call.

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A malevolent entity has entered into the U.S.S. Enterprise computer and excites both sides to aggressive behavior. It forces the ship out of control, rushing toward the galactic rim, while isolating a number of Klingons and U.S.S. Enterprise crew, heightening their sense of paranoia and violence turning them against each other. Phasers become swords and the battle begins.

Spock finally realizes that the entity feeds off hatred and emotional excitation and has acted as a catalyst to provoke combat, keeping the numbers on both sides even. Kirk is able, in the end, to make a common-cause truce with the Klingons and they drive the creature out of the ship with their laughter.

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