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Nov 11, 2016 · This wonderful creature is known as the "Alfa 177 Canine", seen in the Star Trek: TOS Episode The Enemy Within. More information can be found on Memory Alpha at the following link: Alfa 177 Canine Share
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A transporter malfunction creates an evil Kirk.
Teaser
During a survey of Alfa 177, geological technician Fisher slips down a rock, gashing himself badly and smearing his uniform with a strange magnetic type of yellow ore. He beams up to the USS Enterprise for treatment. Detecting a curious overload in the transporter circuitry, Lieutenant Commander Montgomery Scott has Fisher decontaminated before reporting to sickbay, but the problems have already begun; the strange ore has altered the function of the transporter. Next, Captain Kirk beams up from the planet, before the fault is discovered. He apparently materializes normally and Scott escorts the disoriented captain out of the room. Kirk is, in fact, a shadow of himself. Due to this transporter accident, Kirk has been split into two beings. The first that materialized embodies all of Kirk's positive qualities. Moments later, after Kirk and Scott have left, Kirk's evil twin — Negative Kirk — materializes in the transporter chamber.
Act One
Some time passes before the mishap is discovered. Negative Kirk demands Saurian brandy from McCoy in sickbay and proceeds to roam the ship's corridors drunk. McCoy then informs Commander Spock about this, who then consults good Kirk about McCoy's concerns. Kirk shrugs it off, telling Commander Spock that McCoy was just pulling his leg. Meanwhile, Negative Kirk, who is now instinctively consumed by lust for his beautiful Yeoman – Janice Rand – is alone with Rand in her quarters, drunk and amorous. Negative Kirk mentions to her the feelings they've been hiding, claiming she is "too beautiful to ignore," and "too much woman," and that they've both been "pretending too long." Negative Kirk suddenly grabs Rand and shouts,"Let's stop pretending!" He pulls her in close, put his arms around her, and mutters, "…Don't fight me, Janice." He then starts kissing her very aggressively, and as she is forcefully trying to fight back, Negative Kirk pushes her to the floor and attempts to rape her. But she defends herself and leaves a large scratch on Negative Kirk's face. During the struggle, Negative Kirk attacks Crewman Fisher, who was walking by Rand's quarters and saw the attack. In sickbay, a crying and flustered Rand tells Kirk, Spock and McCoy, that the Captain tried to assault her, an accusation Fisher corroborates. Kirk firmly denies having done so, whereupon Spock deduces that there must be a Kirk impostor aboard the Enterprise.
Act Two
Scotty finds that the yellow ore Fisher beamed up with somehow caused an overload in the transporter. The transporter does indeed work but they dare not use it for risk of duplicating Sulu and the rest of the landing party. Kirk tells Spock that he must inform the crew of what has happened to him, since they deserve to know. Spock, with all due respect, tells Kirk that as he is the captain, he cannot afford to be anything less than perfect in the eyes of the crew. If he does appear so, the crew will lose faith in him – and in turn, he will lose command of the Enterprise. Kirk knows this and wonders why he just forgot it just now. Later, on the bridge, Kirk makes an announcement to his crew from his chair about the impostor aboard. While making the announcement, Negative Kirk is rummaging through the captain's quarters. Kirk informs the crew that the impostor can be identified by scratches on his face, and warns the crew to set the phasers for stun and must not injure the impostor. Negative Kirk angrily destroys the captain's desktop monitor and rants at the top of his lungs "I'm Captain Kirk… I'M CAPTAIN KIRK!!!" Negative Kirk goes to Kirk's mirror and finds make-up on the table. He applies some of it to his scratches and they are now barely visible. He opens the door to Kirk's quarters and finds Crewman Wilson walking down the corridor near the room. Negative Kirk asks Wilson for his phaser; Wilson hands it over and is promptly knocked out. Later, both Kirk and Spock in the briefing room try to figure out where Kirk would go on the Enterprise to elude a mass search. Kirk quickly deduces that Negative Kirk is hiding in the lower levels of the ship – the engineering deck. He and Spock head there. In main engineering, a cat and mouse game ensues between the two Kirks and they confront each other near the warp core. Just as Negative Kirk is about to kill Kirk, Spock knocks him out with the Vulcan nerve pinch, but not before Negative Kirk's phaser accidentally discharges and a shot disables the transporter ionizer, making it harder to rescue Sulu and the landing party who are trapped on the rapidly freezing planet.
•Captain's log, USS Enterprise (NCC-1701), 2266
"Oh! Captain! You startled me! Is there something that you… can I help you, Captain?"
"Jim, will do here, Janice."
"Ooohhh…"
"You're too beautiful to ignore… Too much woman. We've both been… pretending too long."
- Rand, before being attacked by Negative Kirk
"You can't afford the luxury of being anything less than perfect. If you do, they lose faith, and you lose command."
Production timeline
•Story outline by Richard Matheson: 4 April 1966 •Revised story outline: 22 April 1966 •First draft teleplay by Matheson: 25 April 1966 •Revised first draft teleplay: 19 May 1966 •Second draft teleplay: 31 May 1966 •Revised teleplay by John D.F. Black: 6 June 1966 •Final draft teleplay by Gene Roddenberry: 8 June 1966 •Additional revisions: 11 June 1966, 15 June 1966 •Filmed: 14 June 1966 – 22 June 1966 •Day 1 – 14 June 1966, Tuesday – Desilu Stage 10: Ext. Alfa 177 surface; Desilu Stage 9: Int. Transporter room •Day 2 – 15 June 1966, Wednesday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Transporter room •Day 3 – 16 June 1966, Thursday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Kirk's quarters, Bridge •Day 4 – 17 June 1966, Friday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Sickbay, McCoy's office •Day 5 – 20 June 1966, Monday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Sickbay •Day 6 – 21 June 1966, Tuesday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Engineering, Corridors, Janice Rand's quarters •Day 7 – 22 June 1966, Wednesday (Half Day) – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Corridors, Briefing room •Score recording: 14 September 1966 •Original airdate: 6 October 1966 •First UK airdate (on BBC1): 13 April 1970 •First UK airdate (on ITV): 4 October 1981 •Remastered airdate: 26 January 2008
Story and production
•Writer Richard Matheson's main influence on writing this episode was Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, as he envisioned Robert Louis Stevenson's classic story put in a science fiction context. He eventually came up with the idea of the transporter causing a man to be split into two halves. •The subplot of Sulu and three other crewmembers stranded on the planet was not present in Matheson's original script, and was added in staff re-writes. Matheson did not like the idea, as he had an aversion to B-stories in general, believing they slowed stories down. He explained, "My script stayed entirely with Bill [Shatner] having this trouble of his two selves, on the ship […] They added a whole subplot about people down on the planet, ready to freeze to death, because they have [a] transporter functioning problem […] I stuck entirely with Bill." •The last two scenes of Act One are switched in order from what appears in the script. In the teleplay, Kirk and Spock learn about the assault of Janice in sickbay, then head to the transporter room, where they are faced with the discovery that the transporter is creating duplicates. The act ends with Scotty suggesting, "We don't dare beam up the landing party. If this should happen to a man…" and Kirk exclaiming, "Oh, my God!" In the episode itself, the sickbay scene follows the one in the transporter room, and the act ends with Spock declaring, "There's only one conclusion – we have an impostor aboard." Director Leo Penn was known to reorganize scenes when he deemed them to be more dramatic in a different order from what was scripted. •In the final draft and the revised final draft of this episode's script, McCoy mused that part of "the Human condition" was having "an enemy within." •Grace Lee Whitney once recounted that, while shooting the scene when a distraught, tearful Janice Rand accuses Captain Kirk of trying to rape her, William Shatner slapped her across the face to get her to register the proper emotion. As they shot the rape scene days earlier, Whitney couldn't get into the same emotion successfully, and it was Shatner's "solution" to the problem. (The Longest Trek: My Tour of the Galaxy, p. 94)
Props and sets
•The scanning device used by Scott to scan the ore on Fisher's uniform appears to be a modified Nuclear-Chicago Model 2586 "Cutie Pie" radiation detector. This Feinberger reappeared in "The Naked Time", "The Doomsday Machine", and "Obsession". •A shot, showing two extras (Frank da Vinci and Ron Veto) in red technician jumpsuits (and Veto holding the aforementioned "Cutie Pie" prop) in the engineering set was filmed, but cut from the episode. It was probably filmed as an insert shot for scenes at engineering. •The gauzy, red-bordered triangular set piece behind which the evil Kirk emerges briefly in engineering during the hunt scene appears to have been left over from the early briefing room as seen in "The Cage" and "Where No Man Has Gone Before". •The unit that Negative Kirk accidentally phasers in engineering was recycled as the housing for the main circulating pump for the PXK pergium reactor in "The Devil in the Dark".
Starring
•William Shatner as James T. Kirk
Also starring
•Leonard Nimoy as "Mr. Spock"
Featuring
•DeForest Kelley as "Dr. McCoy" •Grace Lee Whitney as "Yeoman Rand" And •George Takei as "Sulu" •James Doohan as "Scott" •Edward Madden as "Fisher" •Garland Thompson as "Wilson" •Jim Goodwin as "Farrell"
Episode 1.5 “The Enemy Within” 1966. Something goes horribly awry with the ship’s transporter, causing it to beam back two versions of each life form: one good and one evil. This is probably the most memorable use of a dog on a Star Trek episode.
This "evil" Kirk begins to wander the ship, and those he encounters are confused by his behavior. Scott assists in beaming a dog-like animal specimen from the planet, but two identical creatures materialize (the "good" one then the "evil" one, like Kirk) – one completely docile and the other vicious.
The Enemy Within: Directed by Leo Penn. With William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Grace Lee Whitney. A transporter malfunction splits Captain Kirk into two halves: one meek and indecisive, the other violent and ill tempered.
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- Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
- Leo Penn
- 1966-10-06
In the revised story outline of "The Enemy Within", this animal was initially described as "a small, gentle, dog-like creature." Also, it was still portrayed as being held and briefly petted by Kirk in the episode's teaser.
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Enemy Within: Well, duh! Look at the episode's title! Enemy Without: How it comes to be. Everybody Lives: The only fatality is the cute but non-sentient dog-unicorn thing from the planet. Evil Is Hammy: Good Lord. Evil Kirk makes all of Shatner's other performances look subdued.
