Whom Gods Destroy
- Episode aired Jan 3, 1969
- TV-PG
- 51m
Kirk and Spock are taken prisoners by a former starship captain named Garth, who now resides at, and has taken over, a high security asylum for the criminally insane.Kirk and Spock are taken prisoners by a former starship captain named Garth, who now resides at, and has taken over, a high security asylum for the criminally insane.Kirk and Spock are taken prisoners by a former starship captain named Garth, who now resides at, and has taken over, a high security asylum for the criminally insane.
- Andorian
- (as Richard Geary)
- Lieutenant Hadley
- (uncredited)
- Lt. Brent
- (uncredited)
- Elba II Inmate
- (uncredited)
- Lt. Lemli
- (uncredited)
- Yeoman
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaThe plot of inmates taking over the asylum and impersonating the warden closely resembles Dagger of the Mind (1966), right down to the "agony chair" prop which is reused from that episode. In his memoir 'I Am Not Spock', Leonard Nimoy shares a memo that he wrote to the producers to complain about the similarities.
- GoofsGovernor Cory explains to Kirk that Garth can change his appearance at will due to his control of his body cells, but that does not explain how his clothing changes as well (a typical hitch with sci-fi shape-shifters).
- Quotes
Marta: [reciting a poem she has written] Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?/Thou art more lovely and more temperate/Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May/And summer's lease hath all...
Garth: [shouts] You wrote that?
Marta: Yesterday, as a matter of fact.
Garth: It was written by an Earthman named Shakespeare a long time ago!
Marta: Which does NOT alter the fact that I wrote it again yesterday!
- Alternate versionsSpecial Enhanced version Digitally Remastered with new exterior shots and remade opening theme song
- ConnectionsFeatured in Atop the Fourth Wall: Batman: Jazz #3 (2015)
As Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock are about to embark on an away visit to a prison planet to deliver medical supplies, they suspect something isn't quite right. William Shatner arranges a code signal with James Doohan before he beams him and Leonard Nimoy back on board.
That proved to be a wise precaution because when the two beam down the prison and it's a prison for the criminally insane. The warden/governor of the planet Keye Luke has been overthrown and Steve Ihnat has taken over. This former starship commander is as mad as the mad hatter and also has developed shape shifting abilities. The inmates have taken over.
He's got ambitions just as mad people do, to take over the immediate universe with the Enterprise at his disposal and his ability now to become Captain Kirk. But there's that signal code that Shatner arranged with Doohan. Can't do much until he's on the Enterprise.
Ihnat completely takes over this story and dominates this episode. His performance is very similar to the one he gave in Madigan as an absolutely nuts criminal. There are very few performances of the criminally insane on the big and small screen to rival what Ihnat did in this story and in Madigan. He was a great talent who died too young.
It may be a rehash, but absolutely see this one for Steve Ihnat.
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