The Omega Glory
- Episode aired Mar 1, 1968
- TV-PG
- 50m
Responding to a distress signal, Kirk finds Captain Tracey of the U.S.S. Exeter violating the prime directive and interfering with a war between the Yangs and the Kohms to find the secret of... Read allResponding to a distress signal, Kirk finds Captain Tracey of the U.S.S. Exeter violating the prime directive and interfering with a war between the Yangs and the Kohms to find the secret of their longevity.Responding to a distress signal, Kirk finds Captain Tracey of the U.S.S. Exeter violating the prime directive and interfering with a war between the Yangs and the Kohms to find the secret of their longevity.
- Lieutenant Hadley
- (uncredited)
- Security Guard
- (uncredited)
- Lieutenant Leslie
- (uncredited)
- Enterprise Lieutenant
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaThis is the second of three times the Enterprise encounters another Constitution-class star ship with the entire crew dead. The other two were in The Doomsday Machine (1967) and The Tholian Web (1968).
- GoofsWhen Kirk and Cloud William are twisting the iron bars in their jail cell, they are actually working against one another at times. At certain points one is twisting clockwise while the other is twisting counter-clockwise.
- Quotes
Captain James T. Kirk: Among my people, we carry many such words as this from many lands, many worlds. Many are equally good and are as well respected, but wherever we have gone, no words have said this thing of importance in quite this way. Look at these three words written larger than the rest, with a special pride never written before, or since, tall words proudly saying, "We the People". That which you call Ee'd Plebnista, was not written for the chiefs of kings, or the warriors or the rich or the powerful, but for ALL the people! Down the centuries, you have slurred the meaning of the words, "We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty, to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution". These words and the words that follow, were not written only for the Yangs, but for the Kohms as well! They must apply to everyone, or they mean nothing!
- Alternate versionsSpecial Enhanced version Digitally Remastered with new exterior shots and remade opening theme song
- ConnectionsFeatured in William Shatner's Star Trek Memories (1995)
Whereas losing his crew in "The Doomsday Machine" drove Commodore Decker over the deep end, here Capt. Tracey (his ship is the Exeter) seems to have become more ruthless, more harsh. If ever there was a dark version of Capt. Kirk, an anti-Kirk, if you will, or an ultimate example of a starship captain gone bad, it's Tracey. He's like Kirk's evil older brother - taller, tougher, and possessed of the same indomitable will - geared towards non-Starfleet-like goals, including casual murder and even attempted genocide. He's somewhat obsessed about immortality for some reason and the economic gain from same, a throwback to yesteryear goals (this idea is revisited a century later in "Star Trek Insurrection" with the TNG crew); maybe he joined Starfleet with such goals in the back of his mind and hid his dark side from his peers all these past years. This is idle speculation and I suppose it's another weakness of the story that his backstory is never explained.
Most of the episode, until the last couple of scenes, is quite gritty and brutal, what with the elements of bacteriological war and further tension of a village under siege by an army of savages. Kirk and Tracey seem to fight it out in nearly half the episode. But, it's worth a chuckle to Trekkers hearing Kirk's voice-over about how a Starfleet captain should give up his life before violating the Prime Directive. We remember Kirk's approach towards this non-interference directive on past missions - "A Taste of Armageddon" anyone? How about "The Apple"? Uh, "Return of the Archons"? Gee, it gets worse: lets even things out in "A Private Little War"; stop the war in "Patterns of Force." What's Kirk talking about? To top things off, Kirk interferes with things at the very end of this episode, capping off Tracey's transgressions with his little instruction on how to read an important document. Spock hints to him he should have kept his mouth shut and Kirk just shrugs him off. Only one arrest per episode.
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- Dec 9, 2006
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