The Enterprise hosts a number of quarrelling diplomats, including Spock's father, but someone on board has murder in mind.The Enterprise hosts a number of quarrelling diplomats, including Spock's father, but someone on board has murder in mind.The Enterprise hosts a number of quarrelling diplomats, including Spock's father, but someone on board has murder in mind.
- Amanda
- (as Miss Jane Wyatt)
- Lieutenant Hadley
- (uncredited)
- Babel Conference Attendee
- (uncredited)
- Montgomery
- (uncredited)
- Small Copper-Skinned Ambassador
- (uncredited)
- Vulcan Aide
- (uncredited)
- Purple-Skinned Delegate
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaFor two weeks after the airing of this episode, Mark Lenard received more fan mail than Leonard Nimoy.
- GoofsKirk is attacked and clearly stabbed in the lower back. McCoy later reports that the knife narrowly missed Kirk's heart and Kirk is bandaged across the upper chest, nowhere near where the knife wound occurred.
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McCoy: Spock, I've always suspected you were a little more human than you let on. Mrs. Sarek, I know about the rigorous training of the Vulcan youth, but tell me, did he ever run and play like the human children, even in secret?
Amanda: Well, he, uh, he did have a pet Sehlat he was very fond of.
McCoy: Sehlat?
Amanda: It's sort of a... a fat teddy bear.
McCoy: [grinning] A teddy bear?
Sarek: Excuse me, Doctor. It has been a rather long day for my wife. Captain.
Captain James T. Kirk: Ambassador.
McCoy: [needlingly Spock after Sarek and Amada have gone] "A teddy bear."
Spock: Not precisely, Doctor. On Vulcan the "teddy bears" are alive, and they have 6-inch fangs
- Alternate versionsSpecial Enhanced version Digitally Remastered with new exterior shots and remade opening theme song
- ConnectionsEdited from Star Trek: The Galileo Seven (1967)
All three of the series' main characters are nicely scripted and well played in this episode, and the only moment at which the directing slips slightly over-dramatized moment just after a fairly wild fight scene between Kirk and Thelev. The cinematography, special effects and editing are all about as good as TOS gets.
The Enterprise is delivering a number of diplomats from various cultures to the neutral planet Babel for a negotiation summit. After an argument with Sarek, one of the delegates turns up murdered by what appears to be a Vulcan martial arts technique. Soon after, Sarek falls ill with a cardio-vascular problem. And Spock, his disassociated son is his only hope for a blood donor. This takes us about 1/3rd of the way through the story..... Things get much worse later on.
Recommended for those generally familiar with TOS, not recommended as an introduction to the series.
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- Sep 17, 2007
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