Balance of Terror

Name: Balance of Terror
Released: 1966
Rating: 50.41
Cast: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Mark Lenard

1966

50m

Star Trek - Season: 1, Episode: 14 - All Episodes

The Enterprise must decide on its response when a Romulan ship makes a destructively hostile armed probe of Federation territory. (imdb)

Directed by:

Vincent McEveety

Written by:

Paul Schneider

Starring:

William Shatner

Leonard Nimoy

Mark Lenard

Language:

English

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Balance of Terror

1966

50m

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Mentaculus

Rated 24 Jul 2021

If I have to quickly point to a perfect TV episode script, it'd be this one. (It's so good, it was basically remade into the best film of the bunch: Wrath of Khan.) There are civilizations at stake, a battle of wills between opposing equals, a duel of high-technology's limitations (how much sci-fi works in that?), using the best classical adventure tropes so eloquently you barely notice. It begins with a wedding and ends with a wake. The good guys win, I guess.

Rated 24 Jul 2021

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