Operation -- Annihilate!
- Episode aired Apr 13, 1967
- TV-PG
- 50m
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7.5/10
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The Enterprise crew attempts to stop a plague of amoeba-like creatures from possessing human hosts and spreading throughout the galaxy.The Enterprise crew attempts to stop a plague of amoeba-like creatures from possessing human hosts and spreading throughout the galaxy.The Enterprise crew attempts to stop a plague of amoeba-like creatures from possessing human hosts and spreading throughout the galaxy.
Craig Huxley
- Peter
- (as Craig Hundley)
David Armstrong
- Kartan
- (uncredited)
Bill Blackburn
- Lieutenant Hadley
- (uncredited)
Bob Bralver
- Denevan Colonist
- (uncredited)
Frank da Vinci
- Guard
- (uncredited)
Carey Foster
- Enterprise sciences crew woman
- (uncredited)
Jeannie Malone
- Yeoman
- (uncredited)
- Director
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Did you know
- TriviaThere is an outtake on the Star Trek Blooper Reel showing the alien parasite attaching itself to Spock's buttocks by mistake.
- GoofsEarly on when the Enterprise tries to stop the space ship heading towards the Deneva sun Kirk instructs Sulu to set an intercept course and increase speed to warp 8. As the Enterprise was already in the inner solar system this would have caused them to run into the sun in just a few seconds. Warp factor 8 is approximately 512 times the speed of light (553 billion km/hr), a ship traveling at that velocity could travel across the entire Sol system, a distance of 12 billion kilometers (7.45 billion miles), in only 1.3 minutes.
- Quotes
Dr. McCoy: Unusual eye arrangement. I might've known he'd turn up something like that.
Capt. Kirk: What's that, doctor?
Dr. McCoy: I said, please don't tell Spock I said he was the best first officer in the fleet.
Spock: Why thank you, Dr. McCoy.
Capt. Kirk: You've been so concerned about his Vulcan eyes, Doctor, you forgot about his Vulcan ears.
- Alternate versionsSpecial Enhanced version Digitally Remastered with new exterior shots and remade opening theme song
- ConnectionsFeatured in Bring Back... Star Trek (2009)
- SoundtracksTheme From Star Trek
Written by and credited to Alexander Courage
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Considering Genocide on a Planetary Scale
The Starship Enterprise arrives at the Planet Deneva where Captain James T. Kirk is looking forward to a little personal time with his brother Sam and Sam's wife and son. But it turns out the planet and its people are under attack by some strange collective parasite intelligence which attachs itself to people and forces them to their will under duress of great pain if they don't.
William Shatner's brother died from it and his sister-in-law and nephew are still in its grip. Also Leonard Nimoy is attacked by one of the parasites himself and functions under great pain.
It's a medical problem that DeForest Kelley diagnoses. But surgery is too complex and to have a whole planet undergo it is time consuming and not terribly efficient.
Nimoy proves a useful guinea pig for an experiment that Kelley conducts as to the cure which I won't reveal. But the risk might be genocide on a planetary scale and Kirk is truly reluctant to take that on as a responsibility.
Another episode involving the strain of command and the choices a commander might have to make. These parasites apparently have been making their way through space and it's a question of preventing this from spreading to places like Vulcan and Earth.
Shatner handles it well and Kelley is a good doctor.
William Shatner's brother died from it and his sister-in-law and nephew are still in its grip. Also Leonard Nimoy is attacked by one of the parasites himself and functions under great pain.
It's a medical problem that DeForest Kelley diagnoses. But surgery is too complex and to have a whole planet undergo it is time consuming and not terribly efficient.
Nimoy proves a useful guinea pig for an experiment that Kelley conducts as to the cure which I won't reveal. But the risk might be genocide on a planetary scale and Kirk is truly reluctant to take that on as a responsibility.
Another episode involving the strain of command and the choices a commander might have to make. These parasites apparently have been making their way through space and it's a question of preventing this from spreading to places like Vulcan and Earth.
Shatner handles it well and Kelley is a good doctor.
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- Northrop Grumman Space Park, One Space Park, Redondo Beach, California, USA(Buildings on the planet surface)
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