Balance of Terror (Episode)

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"Balance of Terror"

"Balance of Terror" (TOS 08)

Series	Star Trek
Season	1
Episode	14
Production Number	09
Released	15 December 1966
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Stardate 1709.2: After attacking an outpost, Romulans battle the Enterprise.

The Enterprise is patrolling along the Romulan Neutral Zone, a border between the Federation and the Romulan Star Empire. As Captain Kirk is performing a wedding ceremony for crewmembers Angela Martine and Robert Tomlinson, an outpost along the border announces that it is under attack from the Romulans. Kirk witnesses the destruction of the outpost, but is helpless to assist. The Romulans have perfected an invention that renders their ships invisible, and Kirk reasons he must overtake and destroy the enemy vessel before it can return home. To the surprise of all, transmissions intercepted from the Romulan ship reveal that they look almost exactly like Vulcans, which causes Lieutenant Stiles to express his distrust of Spock. When the Romulan Commander is finally cornered, he destroys his ship rather than surrender—and Stiles, whose life was saved by Spock, realizes his prejudicial attitude is wrong.

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Related Data

Astrometrics	asteroids; Comet Icarus IV; Earth; Earth Outposts 1-8; Remus; Romii; Romulan Neutral Zone; Romulus; sector; Sector Z-6; Vulcan
Chronology	Prime Timeline; c.2160; 2266; Stardate 1709.2-1709.6
Culture	cruise; dancing; engagement; marriage; sorcerer; tennis; wedding
Education	doctor; doctorate; physician
Food	coffee
People	Brenner; Centurion; Decius; Fields; Hansen; Kirk, James T.; Martine, Angela; McCoy, Leonard; Navigator; Rand, Janice; Romulan Commander; Scott, Montgomery; Spock; Stiles, Andrew; Stiles family; Sulu, Hikaru; Tomlinson, Robert; Uhura, Nyota
Politics	Command Base; Federation law; Romulan Neutral Zone; Romulan Praetor; Romulan Ranks (Centurion, Commander); Romulan Star Empire; Romulan War; Starfleet; Starfleet Ranks (Crewman, Ensign, Lieutenant, Lieutenant Commander, Commander, Captain); treaty; yeoman
Science & Technology	asteroid; bearing; bed; camera; cloaking device; comet; communications; companel; computer; cryptography; deflector; distress call; fire; heading; impulse drive; iron; meter; microtapes; mile; nacelle; nuclear weapons; PADD; phaser coolant; phasers (shipboard); plasma torpedo; plastiform; radiation; radiation sickness; recorder-marker buoy; rodinium; sector; self-destruct; sensors; shields; subspace; subspace radio; time (cycles, hour, minute, second);transporter; tricorder; viewscreen; warp drive
Ships & Vehicles	Constitution class; U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701; Romulan Bird of Prey
Xenology	Humans; hybrids; Romulans; Vulcans
Miscellaneous	Achilles heel; battle stations; bigotry; bridge; briefing room; captain's quarters; chapel; chief engineer; chief medical officer; commanding officer; first officer; galley; logs; Main Engineering; phaser control room; port; Red Alert; science officer; sickbay; sorcerer; sorcery; starboard; Starfleet Uniforms (2266)

Credits

Starring
William Shatner

Also Starring
Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock

Directed by
Vincent McEveety

Written by
Paul Schneider

Created and Produced by
Gene Roddenberry

Associate Producers
Robert H. Justman, John D.F. Black

Also Starring
Mark Lenard as Romulan Commander

Co-Starring
Paul Comi as Styles
Lawrence Montaigne as Decius

Featuring
DeForest Kelley as Dr. McCoy
Grace Lee Whitney as Yeoman Rand

George Takei	…	as Sulu
James Doohan	…	as Scott
Nichelle Nichols	…	as Uhura
Stephen Mines	…	as Tomlinson
Barbara Baldavin	…	as Angela
Garry Walberg	…	as Hansen