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Plato's Stepchildren: Directed by David Alexander. With William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Michael Dunn. After Dr. McCoy helps the leader of a planet populated by people with powerful psionic abilities, they decide to force him to stay by torturing his comrades until he submits.
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- Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
- David Alexander
- 1968-11-22
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Teaser
Summoned by an urgent distress call for medical help, the USS Enterprise landing party consisting of Kirk, Spock, and McCoy find a group of aliens who supposedly model their society on the teachings of Plato. Their leader is suffering from a massive infection in his leg and is close to death. Alexander, a servant to the Platonians, quietly suggests to Philana that they should not kill the Enterprise landing party, given that they are trying to save their leader, Parmen. Before he can finish h...
Act One
Kirk, Spock, and McCoy discover the Platonians' powerful psychokinetic abilities, as the man's deliriumhas violent effects on his surroundings. Another Platonian trait is extreme longevity, as well as frail physical immunity seemingly caused by their emphasis on mental prowess. This is what caused their powerful ruler to be so vulnerable to what should have been a minor treatable injury. The result of a mass eugenics project on their home planet, "Plato's stepchildren" had escaped to Earth in...
Act Two
After the ordeal with Kirk smacking himself around, he, Spock, and McCoy are back in their guest chamber, trying to contact the Enterprise with his communicator to no avail. The Platonians summon them and seem grateful for McCoy's help. They provide the landing party with variety of gifts: the shield of Pericles for Kirk, a kithara for Spock, and a collection of Greek cures written by Hippocrateshimself for McCoy. Parmen appeals for Kirk's forgiveness. He says he will release the ship, but he...
"Alexander, where I come from, size, shape, or color makes no difference." 1. - Kirk, on life outside Platonius "Doctor McCoy, you may yet cure the common cold." 1. - Spock, after Parmen's recovery "Philosopher kings have no need of titles." 1. - Parmen, correcting Kirk "I'm Tweedledee, he's Tweedledum." "We're spacemen marching to and from." "We s...
Production timeline
1. Story outline by Meyer Dolinsky, titled "The Sons of Socrates", 10 June 1968 2. Revised story outline, 13 June 1968 3. First draft teleplay, 8 July 1968 4. Second draft teleplay, 18 July 1968 5. Third draft teleplay, 8 August 1968 6. Final draft teleplay by Arthur Singer, 29 August 1968, 3 September 1968 7. Additional page revisions by Fred Freiberger, 3 September 1968, 4 September 1968, 5 September 1968, 9 September 1968, 10 September 1968, 13 September 1968 8. Filmed: 9 September 1968 –...
Cast
1. George Takei (Sulu) and Walter Koenig (Chekov) do not appear in this episode.
Music
1. This is Alexander Courage's last score for Star Trek. This episode was also the last episode to have an original score, although new songs for "The Way to Eden" and a Brahms paraphrase for "Requiem for Methuselah" were composed. 2. Leonard Nimoy composed "Maiden Wine", the song that he performs in this episode.
Starring
1. William Shatner as Captain James T. Kirk
Also starring
1. Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock And 1. DeForest Kelley as Dr. McCoy
Guest stars
1. Michael Dunn as Alexander 2. Liam Sullivan as Parmen 3. Barbara Babcock as Philana 4. James Doohan as Scott 5. Nichelle Nichols as Uhura 6. Majel Barrett as Nurse Chapel 7. Ted Scott as Eraclitus 8. Derek Partridge as Dionyd
- 24 min
List of episodes. " Plato's Stepchildren " is the tenth episode of the third season of the American science fiction television series Star Trek. Written by Meyer Dolinsky and directed by David Alexander, it was first broadcast on November 22, 1968. In the episode, the crew of the Enterprise encounter an ageless and sadistic race of humanoids ...
Plato's Stepchildren. Available on Paramount+, Prime Video, iTunes. S3 E10: Platonians use psychokinetic power to toy with the crew. Sci-Fi Nov 22, 1968 48 min. Starring Michael Dunn, Liam Sullivan, Barbara Babcock.
Nov 21, 2018 · 50 Years Later: "Plato's Stepchildren". Let’s just get this out of the way: “ Plato's Stepchildren ” is far from the best Star Trek episode ever made. In fact, it is fairly offensive on a few levels and especially so from my usual feminist point of view. It is counted among “groundbreaking” Star Trek episodes due to the interracial ...
The telekinetically powerful Platonians hold Capt Kirk and Mr Spock prisoner when Dr McCoy refuses to remain behind as Parmen's personal physician.
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