Posted on 02/12/2015 7:16:16 AM PST by C19fan
In the 1968 Star Trek episode Bread and Circuses, Capt. James Kirk, Mr. Spock, and Dr. Leonard McCoy beam down to Planet 892-IV, a parallel to Earth in almost every way—except Rome never fell.
The aliens capture the Enterprise’s familiar trio. Kirk has a predictable romantic encounter. There are televised gladiatorial games that pit the crew against sword-wielding warriors named Flavius and Achilles.
The episode even lampoons the cutthroat competition between television broadcasters and their search for ratings. When one of the gladiators refuses to fight with his usual vigor, the master of the games snarls, “You bring this network’s ratings down, Flavius, and we’ll do a special on you!”
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Brings back memories. I remember this episode about a 20th century Rome.
Same SMG that was used in the original “Planet of the Apes” movies, but with a “futuristic” wooden stock. The carbines, with a similarly created stock, were .30 M1 Carbines.
Madsens are very cool little SMGs. Easy to maintain.
I remember that episode. At the end of the episode, the Enterprise crew was discussing the dissident group they’d encountered, the “Sons of the Sun.” Spock commented that it was odd that a culture this far advanced would still be engaged in sun worship. Lt. Uhura said that she’d been monitoring their radio broadcasts and it was not the sun up in the sky they were talking about but the Son of God. The disidents were Christians!
That was the episode with the infamous Kirk vs. Spock gladiator fight that they parodied in “Cable Guy”, right?
It appears to be slightly more refined than the M-3 grease gun and holds a couple of extra rounds.
Yes indeed...
Back when the Country as a whole still viewed itself as a Christian Nation, it made sense.
Now... ?? The producers would have a heart attack if a writer put that in the script.
No. That was in Time Amok. Spock was hormonal and fighting for his mate.
Amok Time rather
At a start trek convention, I saw a blooper real that included the cue-ball helmeted shock troops double timing into the cell block, with a guy in the back row losing his footing and sliding home safe!
No.
That was another episode.
But KUDOS for referencing the highly underrated Cable Guy. I love that movie.
No, different episode - but the same fight music!
Ah ok. I think I have seen both, but probably 25 years ago.
“....Like the sound of a machine gun bolt being pulled back....”!
Exactly, great line. I always wanted the Feds to return for their cut.
I cannot believe I am going to write this, but I think you are mistaking it for the time Spock went back to Vulcan to spawn, and he fought it out with Kirk. McCoy gave him some sort of micky-finn to knock him out, thus saving Kirk from a serious ass-whooping
At least I don’t know the episode name and original air date.
‘A Piece Of The Action’ was always my second favorite Star Trek episode. No. 1 was: ‘City On The Edge Of Forever’, (I think I read somewhere long ago that that was Shatner’s fave episode also), with the lovely Joan Collins.
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