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By Any Other Name: Directed by Marc Daniels. With William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Warren Stevens. Galactic alien scouts capture the Enterprise for a return voyage and a prelude to invasion.
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- 1968-02-23
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"By Any Other Name" is the 22nd episode of the second season of the American science fiction television series Star Trek. Written by D.C. Fontana and Jerome Bixby (based on Bixby's story) and directed by Marc Daniels, it was first broadcast February 23, 1968.
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Extragalactic aliens hijack the Enterprise and turn the crew into inert solids, leaving the four senior officers on their own to exploit their captors' weaknesses.
Teaser
Responding to a ship's distress call, Captain Kirk's landing party (including Spock, McCoy, Lieutenant Shea, and Yeoman Thompson) beams down to a planet in search of survivors. A male and female humanoid placidly approach, demanding the unconditional surrender of the USS Enterprise. Activating paralysis fields from small devices on their belts, the aliens leave the landing party frozen but conscious in their places. The male humanoid, Rojan, calmly explains to Kirk he is now their commander and will take them with his people out of the galaxy. Furthermore, all of Humankind will not exist as they do now.
Act One
The female, Kelinda, disarms them while paralyzed and then they are released. Rojan explains they are scouts from the Kelvan Empire of the neighboring Andromeda Galaxy, which seeks a new home by force as their galaxy will soon reach unsustainable radiation levels. The Kelvan ship that was used in crossing over into the Federation's galaxy was destroyed at the galactic barrier, but they still traveled in life pods. Rojan intends to take the Enterprise to get back to Andromeda. Meanwhile, on the Enterprise, Kelvans Hanar, Drea, and Tomar subdue the crew by freezing them the same way Rojan and Kelinda did the landing party and take over the starship. At first Kirk says there's little point in taking it as even at maximum warp, it would take Enterprise thousands of years to reach Andromeda. Rojan explains that Enterprise will be modified with Kelvan technology which will shorten the journey to only three hundred years, a concept which fascinates Spock, as an intergalactic journey requiring only three centuries is a leap far beyond anything they have accomplished. The Kelvans explain that their ship was a multi-generation starship and explains to Yeoman Thompson that they were born in the intergalactic void and they shall die there. Rojan says the mission will be completed by a commander who is his descendant. These descendants could report on the suitability of the Milky Way Galaxy for Kelvan conquest and occupation. Kirk then says that there's no reason to do all of this by force and he proposes to take the Kelvan problem to the Federation. He tells Rojan that expeditions have cataloged hundreds of uninhabited planets that are suitable for colonization. Rojan replies that the Kelvans do not colonize, but conquer and rule. The landing party is imprisoned in a nearby cave, guarded by Kelinda, while they wonder why they registered as Human, and also wonder if the paralysis field is centrally controlled. Using his mind meld ability to fool the guard as he did on Eminiar VII, Spock's attempt is thwarted before establishing an effective link, but Kelinda is distracted enough to get knocked unconscious by Kirk. The party's freedom lasts only for a brief moment before Rojan and Hanar recapture them by freezing Kirk. In a display of power, Rojan orders Shea, by Hanar, and Thompson, by Kelinda, be taken aside, declaring a punishment for what Kirk has done. The captain will now watch two of his crew die. Hanar uses his belt device for a new purpose, instantly reducing Shea and Thompson into dehydrated porous cuboctahedron solids, the size of a Human fist, composed of their base minerals which represents the "distilled" essences of their being. Hanar picks up both solids and Rojan orders him to bring them to him where he is standing next to Kirk. Rojan points out that the solids represent "the flesh and brain, … and even what … Humans … call personality" of Shea and Thompson. Rojan crushes and crumbles one solid, declaring "this person" dead. Rojan says the other one though can be restored and throws the other one over to where Hanar had earlier picked up both. Hanar touches his belt device, again, revealing that Lieutenant Shea is the one that is reconstituted. Thompson, on the other hand, is not so fortunate and a dispirited Kirk bends down to scoop up and shift through his hands the white powdery substance that is all that remains of her.
Act Two
Returned to confinement, Spock reports on what little he learned from his interrupted mind meld. He describes the Kelvans' native appearance as something quite far from the local humanoid norm, confirming the aliens expressed unease in their new humanoid "shells". The five Kelvans oversee the entire crew and Enterprise upgrades. Once underway, Kirk is still permitted to take the captain's chair with Rojan nearby and Kelvan female Drea taking the helm. With the ship accelerating to warp 11, the galactic barrier is now only a mere hour away. Spock and Montgomery Scott learn in the emergency manual monitor room that an attempt to disable the Kelvan belt devices at their source is hopeless. They prepare another option for Kirk, a self-destruct trigger to use at the Barrier. They present this plan to Kirk while heading up to the bridge in a turbolift, but Kirk wonders if they have gone mad. Upon entering the bridge, the Barrier looms and tension flares on the Enterprise's command center.
•Captain's log, USS Enterprise (NCC-1701), 2268
"I am Rojan of Kelva. I am your commander from this moment on. Any effort to resist us or escape will be severely punished. Soon we, and you, will leave this galaxy forever. You Humans must face the end of your existence as you have known it."
- Rojan
"We do not colonize. We conquer. We rule. There's no other way for us."
- Rojan, explaining the Kelvan way of life to Kirk
"The Federation has handled foreign invasions before…"
"Captain, we can control the Federation as easily as we can control you. The fate of the inferior – in any galaxy."
Production timeline
•Story outline by Jerome Bixby: 27 April 1967 •Revised story outline: 7 June 1967 •Second revised story outline: 26 June 1967 •First draft teleplay: 31 July 1967 •Second draft teleplay: 9 September 1967 •Revised second draft: 9 October 1967 •Final draft teleplay by D.C. Fontana: 31 October 1967 •Revised final draft: 7 November 1967 •Additional page revisions by John Meredyth Lucas: 8 November 1967, 9 November 1967, 10 November 1967, 13 November 1967 •Filmed: 10 November 1967 – 17 November 1967 •Day 1 – 10 November 1967, Friday – Desilu Stage 10: Ext. Planet surface •Day 2 – 13 November 1967, Monday – Desilu Stage 10: Ext. Planet surface, Int. Jail cell •Day 3 – 14 November 1967, Tuesday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Bridge, Life support control •Day 4 – 15 November 1967, Wednesday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Sickbay, Kelinda's quarters •Day 5 – 16 November 1967, Thursday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Engineering, Corridors, Turbolift, Recreation room (redress of Briefing room) •Day 6 – 17 November 1967, Friday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Recreation room (redress of Briefing room), Scotty's quarters •Score recorded: 22 December 1967 •Original airdate: 23 February 1968 •Rerun airdate: 31 May 1968 •First UK airdate (on BBC1): 20 July 1970 •First UK airdate (on ITV): 30 January 1983 •Remastered airdate: 8 March 2008
Story and production
•The title is part of a quotation from Romeo and Juliet, Act II, Scene 2. "What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet." Kirk recites it to Kelinda. It is often used to convey the idea that although you can change the name of something, its nature will remain the same. In this case, the Kelvans become Human. In doing so, they start behaving as Humans do. •The basis of this episode can be found in Gene Roddenberry's first ever produced science fiction script, "The Secret Weapon of 117" for Chevron Hall of Stars in 1956. The episode featured a pair of aliens (the male played by Ricardo Montalban) who disguise themselves as Humans to study Earth people but become overwhelmed by the sensations and experiences of their new host bodies, and decide to remain Human. (These Are the Voyages: TOS Season One) •In The Star Trek Interview Book, writer Jerome Bixby told Allan Asherman that he originally wrote the episode in a rather more serious vein, but that in depicting the potential end of the Human race at the hands of the Kelvans, he failed to heed producer Gene Roddenberry's warning to avoid getting wrapped up in "the immensity of it all." As a result, D.C. Fontana rewrote the script as a more "lightweight" episode. •Bixby's original script was much darker than the filmed episode. The Kelvans (then called the Dvenyens) executed ten Enterprise crewmembers by opening the shuttlebay doors and letting them get sucked out into space. Kirk was put through "hellish torture". Also, crewmembers were chosen to mate with each other (Kirk was paired with Yeoman Leslie Thompson) to eventually breed slaves to the Kelvans. NBC objected against all these, which led producer Gene Coon to order a heavy rewrite on the material. The production staff also deemed the mating aspect too similar to "The Cage". (These Are the Voyages: TOS Season Two) •According to David Gerrold, the writers could not figure out how the Kelvans could eliminate the crew. While in Roddenberry's office, someone spotted a Mexican onyx dodecahedron on his desk and suggested that they be transformed into objects of that shape. Dorothy Fontana describes the scene related by Gerrold on the Special Features on Season 2 DVD. She indicates that she had given the dodecahedron to Roddenberry, and that he played with it while they described their problem and then Roddenberry made the suggestion that they be transformed into objects of that shape. •This was the only episode lensed by cinematographer Keith Smith, replacing Jerry Finnerman, who was apparently unavailable for an unknown reason. Smith was the director of photography on Mission: Impossible, filmed next door to Star Trek at Desilu Studios at the time. •The final scene in the episode is an optical of the ship veering to the right to change course back to the Milky Way galaxy. Though this optical breakway shot was used several times in seasons 2 and 3, this is the only time the complete shot is shown in its entirety, with the left nacelle's sphere-shaped cap coming into view briefly before the ship exits the frame.
Cast
•George Takei (Sulu) does not appear in this episode. This is the tenth consecutive episode in which he is absent. But he returns to the series in the next episode to be produced, "Return to Tomorrow". •Uhura, Chekov, and Nurse Chapel are not seen being restored to Human form at the episode's end.
Starring
•William Shatner as Captain Kirk
Also starring
•Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock And •DeForest Kelley as Dr. McCoy
Guest star
•Warren Stevens as Rojan
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Captain James T. Kirk : Well, among humans, it's, uh, meant to express warmth and love. Kelinda : [understandingly] Oh. You are trying to seduce me. [Kirk and Kelinda are passionately kissing] Kelinda : Rojan has forbidden me to see you. Captain James T. Kirk : Yes, that's too bad.
By Any Other Name (1968) ← Back to episode. Patterns of Force (2x21) ... Guest Stars 10. Barbara Bouchet. Kelinda Eddie Paskey. Lt. Leslie (uncredited)
"By Any Other Name" is the twenty-second episode of season two of the science fiction television series Star Trek and the fifty-first episode of the series overall. It was directed by Marc Daniels with a script written by D.C. Fontana and Jerome Bixby based on a story treatment by Bixby.
