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Requiem for Methuselah

"Requiem for Methuselah" (TOS 76)

Series	Star Trek
Season	3
Episode	19
Production Number	76
Previous	The Way to Eden (TOS 75)
Next	The Savage Curtain (TOS 77)
Released	14 Feb 1969
Advertising	Amazon

Prime Timeline
(The root of all realities)

Stardate 5843.7: Kirk and crew meet an immortal human named Flint.

When an outbreak of deadly Rigellian fever strikes aboard the Enterprise, the starship travels to planet Holberg 917-G in search of ryetalyn — the disease's only known antidote. Kirk, Spock, and McCoy beam down to the supposedly uninhabited planet's surface, only to discover a mysterious man named Flint. Despite his initial anger over their presence, Flint orders his robot servant to gather the crucial mineral while he and his ward Rayna Kapec entertain the Enterprise landing party. Spock notices that Flint's home is filled with rare art treasures, including an unknown Brahms waltz. Meanwhile, Rayna and the captain are swiftly developing feelings for one another.

When Flint's robot proves to be more of a hindrance than a help in gathering the ryetalyn, the landing party strikes off on its own and makes a shocking discovery — a succession of Rayna androids, the latest of which is the one that Kirk knows. Flint reveals that he is an immortal who wandered the Earth for millennia, existing as da Vinci, Brahms, and many other important individuals. He came to Holberg 917-G to rest at last — and to ease his loneliness, he built the Rayna androids. He initially encouraged the present Rayna's involvement with Kirk in the hope that it would accelerate her emotional development, but is now intensely jealous. As he and Kirk begin to fight over Rayna, the android, sensitive and confused by her newfound and conflicting emotions, short-circuits and dies. The landing party collects the ryetalyn and returns to the Enterprise, where McCoy tells Kirk and Spock that Flint, too, will soon die: in leaving Earth, Flint also left behind the source of his immortality. To help ease Kirk's heartache at Rayna's death, Spock uses a Vulcan mind meld to erase the painful memory from Kirk's mind.

Image Gallery

Holberg 917-G
Surface of Holberg 917-G
Flint's home
billiards
music
waltz
brandy
Flint
Rayna Kapec
Rayna 14 & 15
Rayna 15
Rayna 16
antitoxin
M4
ryetalin

Related Data

Astrometrics	Centauri VII; Constantinople; Earth; Europe; Holberg 917-G; Marcus II; Mesopotamia; Omega system
Chronology	Prime Timeline; 3834 BCE; 1334; 20th Century; 2169; 2269; Stardate 5843.7-5843.8
Culture	art; Bible; billiards; bookworm; chess; dancing; Heaven; Hell; music; piano; Shakespeare; waltz
Education	doctor; doctorate; physician; university
Food	alcohol; brandy; Saurian brandy
People	Abramson; Akharin; Alexander the Great; Johannes Brahms; Leonardo da Vinci; Flint; Galileo Galilei; Johannes Gutenberg; Hadley; Rayna Kapec; James T. Kirk; Lazarus (Biblical); Leonard McCoy; Merlin; Methuselah; Moses; Reginald Pollack; Montgomery Scott; William Shakespeare; Socrates; Solomon; Spock; Taranullus; Nyota Uhura
Politics	Starfleet; Starfleet Command; Starfleet Ranks (Ensign, Lieutenant, Lieutenant Commander, Commander, Captain); United Federation of Planets
Science & Technology	androids; antitoxin; bearing; blood; books; bubonic plague; communications; communicator; desert; disease; epidemic; gravity; irillium; kilometer; M4; medkit; mind meld; phasers (Type 2, shipboard); physics; Rigelian fever; robotics; ryetalin; telepathy; time (hour, year, century, millennium); tricorder; viewscreen
Ships & Vehicles	Constitution class; U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701; ox cart
Xenology	flowers; hawks; Humans; hybrids; oxen; rats; Vulcans
Miscellaneous	logs; Starfleet Uniforms (2266)

Credits

Created by
Gene Roddenberry

Starring
William Shatner

Also Starring
Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock
and
DeForest Kelley as Dr. McCoy

Written by
Jerome Bixby

Directed by
Murray Golden

Produced by
Fred Freiberger

Executive Producer
Gene Roddenberry

Associate Producers
Edward K. Milkis
Gregg Peters

Guest Stars
James Daly as Flint
Louise Sorel as Rayna

James Doohan as Scott
Nichelle Nichols as Uhura

Story Consultant
Arthur H. Singer

Theme Music by
Alexander Courage

Additional Music by
Fred Steiner

Brahms Paraphrase
Ivan Ditmars

Art Director
Walter M. Jefferies

Director of Photography
Al Francis

Film Editor … Donald R. Rode
Unit Production Manager … Gregg Peters
Assistant Director … Claude Binyon Jr.
Set Decorator … John M. Dwyer
Costumes Created by … William Ware Theiss
Photographic Effects … Westheimer Company
Sound Effects Editor … Douglas H. Grindstaff
Music Editor … Richard Lapham
Re-Recording Mixer … Gordon L. Day, C.A.S.
Production Mixer … Carl W. Daniels
Script Supervisor … George A. Rutter
Sound … Glen Glenn Sound Co.
Casting … William J. Kenney
Makeup Artist … Fred B. Phillips, S.M.A.
Hair Stylist … Pat Westmore
Gaffer … George H. Merhoff
Head Grip … George Rader
Property Master … Irving A. Feinberg
Special Effects … Jim Rugg

A Paramount Production

In Association With
Norway Corporation

Executive Vice President in Charge of Production
Douglas S. Cramer

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