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[[File:tos-20.jpg|350px|thumb|right|<div class="HeaderRow ButtonAll" style="width:99%;text-align:center;background-color:#487d49;">''[[Star Trek]]''<br/>Season 1, Episode 20<br/>"The Alternative Factor"</div>
 
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| style="text-align:left;" | 3087.6
 
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| style="text-align:left;" | 20
 
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| style="text-align:left;" | 30 March 1967
 
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| style="text-align:left;" | [[Ingalls, Don|Don Ingalls]]
 
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''' ''A mysterious being fights himself across two realities.'' '''
 
  
Orbiting a lifeless planet, the ''[[U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701|Enterprise]]'s'' instruments detect a moment of "nonexistence" experienced throughout the universe. [[Starfleet Command]] believes it to be the prelude to an invasion, and [[Starfleet Ranks#Captain|Captain]] [[Kirk, James T.|Kirk]] must determine its cause. When [[Spock]]'s sensors detect the sudden presence of a humanoid life form on the planet, Kirk beams down and meets [[Lazarus]]. The stranger is actually two different people: one rational, the other a madman from what is described as an "[[antimatter]]" universe. The "nonexistence" effect is the result of the [[Lazarus (Alternate)|irrational Lazarus]] passing through a dimensional corridor between universes. The sane Lazarus steals the ship's [[dilithium]] crystals to prevent his mad counterpart from using them to open the rift between the [[:Alternate Universes|parallel universes]]. When he discovers the truth, Kirk aids Lazarus in trapping his insane counterpart within the dimensional corridor, and the two Lazaruses will likely remain locked in combat in that area outside spacetime for all eternity, thus assuring the safety of both universes.
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'''[[Stardate]] [[2267#SD3087|3087.6]]: A mysterious being fights himself across two realities.'''
  
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Orbiting a lifeless planet, the ''[[U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701|Enterprise]]'s'' instruments detect a moment of "nonexistence" experienced throughout the universe. [[Starfleet Command]] believes it to be the prelude to an invasion, and [[Starfleet Captain|Captain]] [[Kirk, James T.|Kirk]] must determine its cause. When [[Spock]]'s sensors detect the sudden presence of a humanoid life form on the planet, Kirk beams down and meets [[Lazarus]]. The stranger is actually two different people: one rational, the other a madman from what is described as an "[[antimatter]]" universe. The "nonexistence" effect is the result of the [[Lazarus (Myriad)|irrational Lazarus]] passing through a dimensional corridor between universes. The sane Lazarus steals the ship's [[dilithium]] crystals to prevent his mad counterpart from using them to open the rift between the [[parallel universes]]. When he discovers the truth, Kirk aids Lazarus in trapping his insane counterpart within the dimensional corridor, and the two Lazaruses will likely remain locked in combat in that area outside spacetime for all eternity, thus assuring the safety of both universes.
File:earth_lazarus-tos20.jpg|Lazarus' Earth
 
File:earth_lazarus_surface-tos20.jpg|Surface of Lazarus' Earth
 
File:lazarus-tos20.jpg|Lazarus
 
File:lazarus_alternate-tos20.jpg|Lazarus (Alternate)
 
File:lazarus_ship-tos20.jpg|Lazarus' ship
 
File:barstow-tos20.jpg|Commodore Barstow
 
File:leslie-tos20.jpg|Lieutenant Leslie
 
File:masters_charlene-tos20.jpg|Yeoman Charlene Masters
 
File:negative_magnetic_corridor-tos20.jpg|Negative Magnetic Corridor
 
File:dilithium-tos20.jpg|Dilithium
 
File:transporter_controls-tos20.jpg|Transporter controls
 
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|style="width:85%;"|[[Earth (Lazarus)]]; [[Earth (Lazarus)#Antimatter_Universe|Earth (Lazarus Alternate)]]; [[Starbase 200]]
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|style="width:85%;"|[[Brown, Robert]]; [[Derr, Richard]]; [[Doohan, James]]; [[Ingalls, Don]]; [[Kelley, DeForest]]; [[MacLachlan, Janet]]; [[Nichols, Nichelle]]; [[Nimoy, Leonard]]; [[Oswald, Gerd]]; [[Paskey, Eddie]]; [[Shatner, William]]; [[Takei, George]]
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|style="width:85%;"|[[Stardate]] [[Chronology: 2266#3087|3087.6-3088.7]]; [[Chronology: 2266#August|2266]]
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|style="width:85%;"|[[Barstow]]; [[Kirk, James T.]]; [[Lazarus]]; [[Lazarus#Antimatter_Universe|Lazarus (Alternate)]]; [[Leslie]]; [[Masters, Charlene]]; [[McCoy, Leonard]]; [[Scott, Montgomery]]; [[Spock]]; [[Sulu, Hikaru]]; [[Uhura, Nyota]]
 
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|style="width:85%;"|[[Alternate Universes]]; [[Antimatter Universe]]; [[computer]]; [[dilithium]]; [[Fahrenheit]]; [[gravity]]; [[hydrogen]]; [[impulse drive]]; [[iron]]; [[magnetism]]; [[negative magnetic corridor]]; [[oxygen]]; [[parsec]]; [[phaser]]; [[satellites]]; [[silicon]]; [[time travel]]; [[transporter]]; [[tricorder]]; [[warp drive]]; [[warp nacelle]]
 
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|style="width:85%;"|[[Constitution class|''Constitution'' class]]; [[U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701|U.S.S. ''Enterprise'' NCC-1701]]; [[Lazarus' ship]]
 
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'''Writer'''<br/>
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[[Ingalls, Don|Don Ingalls]]
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'''Director'''<br/>
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[[Oswald, Gerd|Gerd Oswald]]
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'''Cast'''<br/>
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[[Brown, Robert]]; [[Derr, Richard]]; [[Doohan, James]]; [[Kelley, DeForest]]; [[MacLachlan, Janet]]; [[Nichols, Nichelle]]; [[Nimoy, Leonard]]; [[Paskey, Eddie]]; [[Shatner, William]]; [[Takei, George]]
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The Alternative Factor
"The Alternative Factor" (TOS 20)

"The Alternative Factor" (TOS 20)
Series Star Trek
Season 1
Episode 20
Production Number 20
Release Date 30 Mar 1967
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Stardate 3087.6: A mysterious being fights himself across two realities.

Orbiting a lifeless planet, the Enterprise's instruments detect a moment of "nonexistence" experienced throughout the universe. Starfleet Command believes it to be the prelude to an invasion, and Captain Kirk must determine its cause. When Spock's sensors detect the sudden presence of a humanoid life form on the planet, Kirk beams down and meets Lazarus. The stranger is actually two different people: one rational, the other a madman from what is described as an "antimatter" universe. The "nonexistence" effect is the result of the irrational Lazarus passing through a dimensional corridor between universes. The sane Lazarus steals the ship's dilithium crystals to prevent his mad counterpart from using them to open the rift between the parallel universes. When he discovers the truth, Kirk aids Lazarus in trapping his insane counterpart within the dimensional corridor, and the two Lazaruses will likely remain locked in combat in that area outside spacetime for all eternity, thus assuring the safety of both universes.

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