The Omega Glory
- Episode aired Mar 1, 1968
- TV-PG
- 50m
Responding to a distress signal, Kirk finds Captain Tracey of the U.S.S. Exeter violating the prime directive and interfering with a war between the Yangs and the Kohms to find the secret of... Read allResponding to a distress signal, Kirk finds Captain Tracey of the U.S.S. Exeter violating the prime directive and interfering with a war between the Yangs and the Kohms to find the secret of their longevity.Responding to a distress signal, Kirk finds Captain Tracey of the U.S.S. Exeter violating the prime directive and interfering with a war between the Yangs and the Kohms to find the secret of their longevity.
- Lieutenant Hadley
- (uncredited)
- Security Guard
- (uncredited)
- Yang Drummer
- (uncredited)
- Lieutenant Leslie
- (uncredited)
- Enterprise Lieutenant
- (uncredited)
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Did you know
- TriviaThis is the second of three times the Enterprise encounters another Constitution-class star ship with the entire crew dead. The other two were in The Doomsday Machine (1967) and The Tholian Web (1968).
- GoofsWhen Kirk and Cloud William are twisting the iron bars in their jail cell, they are actually working against one another at times. At certain points one is twisting clockwise while the other is twisting counter-clockwise.
- Quotes
Captain James T. Kirk: Among my people, we carry many such words as this from many lands, many worlds. Many are equally good and are as well respected, but wherever we have gone, no words have said this thing of importance in quite this way. Look at these three words written larger than the rest, with a special pride never written before, or since, tall words proudly saying, "We the People". That which you call Ee'd Plebnista, was not written for the chiefs of kings, or the warriors or the rich or the powerful, but for ALL the people! Down the centuries, you have slurred the meaning of the words, "We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty, to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution". These words and the words that follow, were not written only for the Yangs, but for the Kohms as well! They must apply to everyone, or they mean nothing!
- Alternate versionsSpecial Enhanced version Digitally Remastered with new exterior shots and remade opening theme song
- ConnectionsFeatured in William Shatner's Star Trek Memories (1995)
Arriving at the last co-ordinates stored in the Exeter's computer, Kirk and his pals meet the Exeter's captain Ron Tracey (Morgan Woodward), who tells them that they have contracted an infectious disease and that they must spend the rest of their lives on Omega IV, where a war is raging between two civilisations, the Kohms and the savage Yangs.
This episode has received some critical mauling here on IMDb. Sure, the timeline is a little iffy: the two tribes at war have apparently evolved from early Chinese and American space travellers, yet there is no way that makes sense. They would have had to have set off into space sometime before the middle-ages for that to be possible! And yes, the story seems very jingoistic, with Kirk giving a rousing speech at the end about the true meaning of the American constitution. But when all is said and done, this one is a lot fo fun, with plenty of action as Kirk fights a pair of savage Yangs while trapped in a cell, and an exciting battle to the death between Kirk and Tracey, who has broken the Federation's prime directive by interfering with the evolution of a planet.
As for the accusations of racism levelled at this episode: Kirk clearly states at the end that freedom and liberty applies to everyone, not just the Yangs. He is advocating peace and friendship between the tribes, not genocide. Anything else wouldn't be Star Trek.
- BA_Harrison
- Jun 11, 2022
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