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Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: VHS Tape
Brand: Paramount
EAN: 9786300213586
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC
ISBN: 6300213587
Label: CBS Paramount International Television
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageAnalogEnglishUnknownAnalog
Manufacturer: CBS Paramount International Television
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: CBS Paramount International Television
Release Date: April 15, 1994
Running Time: 46 minutes
Studio: CBS Paramount International Television
Theatrical Release Date: September 08, 1966
Editorial Review:
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What is it with Starfleet captains? So many of them become wildly grandiose. Witness "The Omega Glory," in which another starship commander, Ronald Tracey (Morgan Woodward), tramples the Prime Directive by interfering in a long-running conflict between primitive societies, in this case the Yangs and Kohms of planet Omega IV. Siding with the Kohms, Tracey creates an imbalance of power that Kirk works to adjust by arming the Yangs proportionately.
The script by series creator Gene Roddenberry is one of his not-so-subtle allegories for the state of the world in the 1960s, specifically our own cold war between nuclear superpowers. So bluntly drawn is Roddenberry's parallel between Omega IV and 20th-century Earth that this is one of the few Star Trek episodes that risks becoming completely absurd after a point. William Shatner (Captain Kirk) takes the biggest risk of all with a passionate, lengthy speech of the sort pranksters like comic actor Kevin Dunn are wont to imitate today. But the fact is that Shatner pulls off such chancy material very well, and certainly does so here. --Tom Keogh
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Rating:  -
The ending of this episode is what America will be like under Obama and his administration if their policies are not questioned and stopped
Rating:  -
I really liked the beginning of this episode. The idea that an entire crew had been completely dehydrated was very cool. But what do we get later? American propaganda shoved down our throats. William Shatner was pretty funny when he read the preamble to the United States, I mean Omega IV, Constitution. The Second Season really overdid it on earth parallel stories.
Rating:  -
First, the bad news. This is another one of those parallel-evolution stories that supposes the existence of an Earth PRECISELY like our own except for one critical difference. In this case, Yankees (Yangs) and Chinese Communists (Coms) went ahead with biological warfare in the 1990s and destroyed each other, leaving only tribal civilization. An enormous suspension of disbelief is required for this parallel-evolution premise.
Further, the resolution comes down to Kirk inspiring villagers ... Read More
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The Enterprise approaches Omega 4 and discovers the U.S.S. Exeter, on automatic helm, in orbit. The USS Exeter had been patrolling this sector for the last 6 months and the ship display not apparent damage but all that remained of the crew were their uniforms with water extracted and reduced too crystallized minerals and the away team finding no survivors. Captain Ron Tracy commanded 400 men and women. Kirk reviews the last logs and hears the following message "if you came on board this ship, your dead ... Read More
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Well, sometimes things don't live up to your memories. I was a wide-eyed six year old at my babysitter's house when this episode came on the air. Even though I as much too young to understand, I just got shivers all up and down my spine when Jim Kirk shouted "WE . . . THE PEOPLE!" That was all I remembered for thirty years, till AMAZON gave me the chance to recapture that memory. And at a great price!
Unfortunately . . . uh, this episode bites the weenie. It's not so much the yellow vs. white ... Read More
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