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TREKCORE > TOS > EPISODES > PATTERNS OF FORCE > Synopsis. OFFICIAL SYNOPSIS The U.S.S. Enterprise is sent to planet Ekos to investigate the disappearance of an old Academy professor of Kirk's — historian John Gill.
Written by John Meredyth Lucas and directed by Vincent McEveety, it was first broadcast on February 16, 1968. In the episode, the crew of the Enterprise tracks down a Federation observer on a planet dominated by a "Naziesque" regime.
To infiltrate the chancellery, Kirk and Spock accompany Daras and Isak (in Nazi disguise) to Führer headquarters posing as a Nazi documentary crew to try and reach Gill. Kirk, Spock, Isak, and Daras walk down a corridor pretending to film a record of the Führer's Final Solution speech.
Infiltrating Melakon's headquarters as Gill is about to deliver a rigged speech on television, Kirk and McCoy revive the historian. Gill is able to denounce the regime before Melakon kills him. The Ekosians turn on Melakon, and Gill's misguided experiment comes to an end.
With William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Richard Evans. Looking for a missing Federation cultural observer, Kirk and Spock find themselves on a planet whose culture has been completely patterned after Nazi Germany.
"Patterns of Force"—in which Kirk, Spock, and Bones beam down to a planet that has modeled itself after Nazi Germany because Starfleet officer John Gill (David Brian) has violated the Prime Directive and intervened—is such an episode.
