Day of the Dove
- Episode aired Nov 1, 1968
- TV-PG
- 51m
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7.7/10
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Both humans and Klingons have been lured to a planet by a formless entity that feeds on hatred and has set about to fashion them into a permanent food supply for itself.Both humans and Klingons have been lured to a planet by a formless entity that feeds on hatred and has set about to fashion them into a permanent food supply for itself.Both humans and Klingons have been lured to a planet by a formless entity that feeds on hatred and has set about to fashion them into a permanent food supply for itself.
David L. Ross
- Lt. Johnson
- (as David Ross)
Phil Adams
- Klingon Soldier
- (uncredited)
Albert Cavens
- Klingon Crewman
- (uncredited)
Dick Geary
- Security Guard
- (uncredited)
Eddie Hice
- Security Guard
- (uncredited)
Roger Holloway
- Lt. Lemli
- (uncredited)
Jay D. Jones
- Klingon
- (uncredited)
Pete Kellett
- Klingon
- (uncredited)
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Did you know
- TriviaNear the end of the episode, Scotty tells Kirk that the ship's dilithium crystals are deteriorating. Kirk asks "Time factor?" Scotty replies "In 12 minutes we'll be totally without engine power."
This happens with exactly 12:00 minutes left in the episode.
- GoofsWhen Kirk pulls Chekov from Mara and puts him against a wall Chekov runs his palms against the wall and smears on it Mara's bronzing makeup.
- Alternate versionsSpecial Enhanced version Digitally Remastered with new exterior shots and remade opening theme song
- ConnectionsFeatured in Koyaanisqatsi (1982)
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"And no doubt you will re-assemble..."
"...After I have hacked you to bits!" - Kang
This is the first appearance of a Klingon woman in the original series. The only other early appearance of a Klingon woman was in "Star Trek III: the search for Spock", but I don't remember if Cathie Shirriff was supposed to be half Romulan. Until finally we were confronted with Khey'lar, another half human/half Klingon hybrid, this time played by Suzie Plakson in the Next Gen episode "The Emmisary".
Also this is the final debut appearance of one of the three major Klingons from the original series: 1st we had Kor, then Koloth, and now, finally Kang. Who all three were later revealed friends of Curzon Dax. When they appeared in DS 9, they were called "Da'har Masters" and their hair looked like poodles.
We also got to see Kang in the 25th anniversary Voyager episode "Flashback", in Mr. Tuvoks' mind meld with Janeway. He did not have a poodle haircut but he inexplicably had regrown his brow ridges. Perhaps he had elected to get cosmetic surgery from "Antaak" after that incident in the Enterprise episode "divergence", where they finally reveal why there was a whole generation of Klingons who looked like humans...
There were a couple of other Klingon pests, including the one from Friday's child, but he was so irrelevant that they didn't even give him a name, he was just called "Klingon". And he died in disgrace, with dishonor.
There was nothing really honorable about the situation that was set up in this episode though. It was all for the benefit of an alien parasite. Apparently, it all started with the ersatz destruction of a human colony by and unidentified ship, but after watching this a few times, it's questionable whether or not this really happened, because a lot of this episode depends upon things that didn't really happen.
The ironic thing was that they reveal the manipulation early in the episode, but they didn't solve it until the very end of the episode. This kind of works against the episode because we actually kind of knew what was going on the whole time. But, the characters didn't know about it.
This elongated period of discovery gave Kirk an opportunity to interact with the very first Klingon women ever shown (which unfortunately happened to be Kang's wife).
It also provided an opportunity for a large amount of humans to attack and/or be attacked by an equally large number of Klingons.
Apparently there was also some memory manipulation going on as well, as Chekov kept on blathering on about his brother Piotr, which he never had.
Anyway it was Michael Ansara's line, about Kirk being reassembled, that had me in stitches when I first saw this in 1968. And even though I didn't think this was one of the better third season episodes (and there were a few good third season episodes), I have to give this one high marks for that line.
I thought I remembered something about this episode showing a Klingon battle cruiser being blown up... if this happened then they must have changed the special effects for the "enhanced edition". This is one example when the enhancements didn't really work out for the best.
This episode was written by Jerome Bixby who was the author of the mirror universe episode. And I have to consider that his original script probably could not be filmed the way that he wrote it because by the time the third season rolled out, The Star Trek budget had been cut down to a nubbin, and they really couldn't afford to do a whole lot. In fact most of the special effects from the third season and were kind of cheaply done and Chintzy, if not completely reused from earlier seasons. Oh, there were a couple of interesting effects but not as many as there had been in the first two seasons. But even with the cuts to the effects budget, they were still able to do some interesting things here. I just wish they would make an enhanced edition that shows the original special-effects.
This is the first appearance of a Klingon woman in the original series. The only other early appearance of a Klingon woman was in "Star Trek III: the search for Spock", but I don't remember if Cathie Shirriff was supposed to be half Romulan. Until finally we were confronted with Khey'lar, another half human/half Klingon hybrid, this time played by Suzie Plakson in the Next Gen episode "The Emmisary".
Also this is the final debut appearance of one of the three major Klingons from the original series: 1st we had Kor, then Koloth, and now, finally Kang. Who all three were later revealed friends of Curzon Dax. When they appeared in DS 9, they were called "Da'har Masters" and their hair looked like poodles.
We also got to see Kang in the 25th anniversary Voyager episode "Flashback", in Mr. Tuvoks' mind meld with Janeway. He did not have a poodle haircut but he inexplicably had regrown his brow ridges. Perhaps he had elected to get cosmetic surgery from "Antaak" after that incident in the Enterprise episode "divergence", where they finally reveal why there was a whole generation of Klingons who looked like humans...
There were a couple of other Klingon pests, including the one from Friday's child, but he was so irrelevant that they didn't even give him a name, he was just called "Klingon". And he died in disgrace, with dishonor.
There was nothing really honorable about the situation that was set up in this episode though. It was all for the benefit of an alien parasite. Apparently, it all started with the ersatz destruction of a human colony by and unidentified ship, but after watching this a few times, it's questionable whether or not this really happened, because a lot of this episode depends upon things that didn't really happen.
The ironic thing was that they reveal the manipulation early in the episode, but they didn't solve it until the very end of the episode. This kind of works against the episode because we actually kind of knew what was going on the whole time. But, the characters didn't know about it.
This elongated period of discovery gave Kirk an opportunity to interact with the very first Klingon women ever shown (which unfortunately happened to be Kang's wife).
It also provided an opportunity for a large amount of humans to attack and/or be attacked by an equally large number of Klingons.
Apparently there was also some memory manipulation going on as well, as Chekov kept on blathering on about his brother Piotr, which he never had.
Anyway it was Michael Ansara's line, about Kirk being reassembled, that had me in stitches when I first saw this in 1968. And even though I didn't think this was one of the better third season episodes (and there were a few good third season episodes), I have to give this one high marks for that line.
I thought I remembered something about this episode showing a Klingon battle cruiser being blown up... if this happened then they must have changed the special effects for the "enhanced edition". This is one example when the enhancements didn't really work out for the best.
This episode was written by Jerome Bixby who was the author of the mirror universe episode. And I have to consider that his original script probably could not be filmed the way that he wrote it because by the time the third season rolled out, The Star Trek budget had been cut down to a nubbin, and they really couldn't afford to do a whole lot. In fact most of the special effects from the third season and were kind of cheaply done and Chintzy, if not completely reused from earlier seasons. Oh, there were a couple of interesting effects but not as many as there had been in the first two seasons. But even with the cuts to the effects budget, they were still able to do some interesting things here. I just wish they would make an enhanced edition that shows the original special-effects.
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