A Taste of Armageddon (Episode)

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A Taste of Armageddon

"A Taste of Armageddon" (TOS 23)

Series	Star Trek
Season	1
Episode	23
Production Number	23
Previous	The Return of the Archons (TOS 22)
Next	Space Seed (TOS 24)
Released	23 Feb 1967
Advertising	Amazon

Prime Timeline
(The root of all realities)

Stardate 3192.1: The Enterprise is diverted by two planets fighting a computerized war.

The Enterprise journeys to planet Eminiar VII to establish diplomatic contact. Although the Eminians warn Captain Kirk against visiting, at the insistence of Federation Ambassador Robert Fox, a landing party beams down. They discover Eminiar has been at war for centuries with its neighbor world, Vendikar. Suddenly, Kirk is informed that the Enterprise has been declared a "casualty," and all aboard her are considered dead. Through Eminiar's council head, Anan 7, and a young woman named Mea 3, Kirk learns that the "war" is fought with computers: "casualties" on both planets willingly enter antimatter chambers and die to prevent all-out destruction. After the landing party is imprisoned, Ambassador Fox beams down and learns of the situation — whereupon Kirk and Spock escape and destroy Eminiar's computers. Now, Kirk tells the Eminiars, they will have to fight their war for real. To escape the horrors of material destruction, the two worlds, with the aid of Ambassador Fox, begin to negotiate for peace.

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Related Data

Astrometrics	Argona II; Earth; Eminiar system; Eminiar VII; NGC 321; Vendikar
Chronology	Prime Timeline; c.1767; 2217; 2267; Stardate 3192.5-3193.0
Culture
Education	doctor; doctorate; physician
Food	alcohol; haggis; trova
People	Anan 7; Brent; DePaul; Fox, Robert; Galloway; Hadley; Harrison; Kirk, James T.; McCoy, Leonard; Mea 3; Osborne; Sar 6; Scott, Montgomery; Spock; Tamula; Uhura, Nyota
Politics	ambassador; diplomacy; Eminian Union; Eminiar Division of Control; Eminiar High Council; penal colony; Starfleet; Starfleet General Orders (General Order 24); Starfleet Ranks (Lieutenant, Lieutenant Commander, Commander, Captain); United Federation of Planets; Vendikar High Council; Yeoman
Science & Technology	antimatter; audio receiver; communications; communicator; computer; deflector dish; disintegration machine; disruptors (pistol); fusion bomb; impulse drive; monkey wrench; nacelle; orbit; PADD; penal colony; phasers (Type 1, shipboard); photon torpedo; quadrant; radiation; satellite; sensors; shields; star cluster; subspace; time (minute, hour, year); telepathy; transporter; tricobalt; tricorder; warp drive
Ships & Vehicles	Constitution class; U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701; U.S.S. Valiant NCC-1223
Xenology	Eminians; Humans; hybrids; Vendikans; Vulcans
Miscellaneous	armory; bridge; code 710; logs; Vulcan nerve pinch; Yellow Alert

Credits

Starring
William Shatner

Also Starring
Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock

Directed by
Joseph Pevney

Teleplay by
Robert Hamner and Gene L. Coon

Story by
Robert Hamner

Produced by
Gene L. Coon

Executive Producer
Gene Roddenberry

Created by
Gene Roddenberry

Associate Producer
Robert H. Justman

Script Consultant
Steven W. Carabatsos

Guest Star
David Opatoshu as Anan 7

Co-Starring
Gene Lyons as Ambassador Fox
DeForest Kelley as Dr. McCoy
James Doohan as Scott

Featuring
Barbara Babcock	…	as Mea 3
Miko Mayama		as Tamula
David L. Ross		as Galloway
Nichelle Nichols		as Uhura
Sean Kenney		as DePaul
and
Robert Sampson		as Sar 6