And the Children Shall Lead
- Episode aired Oct 11, 1968
- TV-PG
- 51m
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5.2/10
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The Enterprise reaches a Federation colony where the adults have all killed themselves but the children play without care.The Enterprise reaches a Federation colony where the adults have all killed themselves but the children play without care.The Enterprise reaches a Federation colony where the adults have all killed themselves but the children play without care.
Craig Huxley
- Tommy Starnes
- (as Craig Hundley)
Melvin Caesar Belli
- Steve
- (as Caesar Belli)
Louie Elias
- 1st Technician
- (as Lou Elias)
Paul Baxley
- Ensign Freeman
- (uncredited)
Bill Blackburn
- Lieutenant Hadley
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaLeonard Nimoy explained that when he complained about the script to Fred Freiberger, Freiberger said, "This script is going to be what 'Miri' should have been". Nimoy objected, calling Miri (1966) a beautiful, well-acted story, and felt that Freiberger's comments were as much as saying, "'Miri' was a piece of trash".
- GoofsThe transporter was used to send a security detail down to the planet. The red shirt controlling the transporter was not under the control of the children, so he would have noticed that the Enterprise was not in orbit before beaming the two security red shirts in to outer space.
- Quotes
Captain James T. Kirk: Captain's log, supplementary. We have buried the members of the Starnes exploration party. Everyone has been deeply affected by what has happened here - with some important exceptions.
- Alternate versionsSpecial Enhanced version Digitally Remastered with new exterior shots and remade opening theme song
- ConnectionsFeatured in Cinematic Excrement: Spock's Brain (2014)
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Attack of the Brats and a Phantom Lawyer
They pump their fists at the command of an unseen menace and Uhura sees herself as a dying crone; Sulu sees daggers in outer space; Scotty threatens to kill anyone entering auxiliary control; and Kirk? He gets anxiety attacks (this popularized Shatner's style of tensing his body in an odd manner). These are some of the better scenes in this episode which proceeds at a limp pace in the first half, starting at a decimated scientific colony. The foot soldiers of this new threat turn out to be little children or, as I term them, brats. It recalls another low-rated episode which also had many kids, "Miri." They run around, playing their games, annoying Kirk (Capt. Picard on the TNG show also could do without children), and ignore the fact that all their parents have just died.
Mystery in space. The reveal is, certainly, a letdown: real-life famous attorney Belli is the culprit, materializing every time the kids voice a silly chant. Belli had no acting experience or ability that I could see, literally seeming to 'phone in' or 'project in' his performance. He resembles a holographic image, dressed in a weird robe, and I could kind of imagine that his scenes were filmed separately, matted in to the show later. No explanation is given for what his so-called evil character really is (a fallen angel? an alien lawyer?) and I found I didn't much care anyway. There was also a misconceived use of the transporter which, as depicted, cannot automatically detect the absence of a planet, even though it's the most sophisticated piece of hardware in the Federation. Any entertainment value stems from the scenes of our crew behaving in a strange or hostile fashion, such as Chekov's attempt to arrest Kirk and Spock. It was done better in the upcoming "Day of the Dove."
Mystery in space. The reveal is, certainly, a letdown: real-life famous attorney Belli is the culprit, materializing every time the kids voice a silly chant. Belli had no acting experience or ability that I could see, literally seeming to 'phone in' or 'project in' his performance. He resembles a holographic image, dressed in a weird robe, and I could kind of imagine that his scenes were filmed separately, matted in to the show later. No explanation is given for what his so-called evil character really is (a fallen angel? an alien lawyer?) and I found I didn't much care anyway. There was also a misconceived use of the transporter which, as depicted, cannot automatically detect the absence of a planet, even though it's the most sophisticated piece of hardware in the Federation. Any entertainment value stems from the scenes of our crew behaving in a strange or hostile fashion, such as Chekov's attempt to arrest Kirk and Spock. It was done better in the upcoming "Day of the Dove."
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