"Star Trek" Whom Gods Destroy (1969)

User Rating:

6.9/10   

Director:

Herb Wallerstein

Writers:

Lee Erwin (teleplay)
Lee Erwin (story) ...

TV Series:

"Star Trek" (1966)

Original Air Date:

3 January 1969 (Season 3, Episode 14)

Genre:

Adventure | Sci-Fi

Plot:

Kirk and Spock are taken prisoners by a former starship captain named Garth, who now resides at, and has taken over, a high security asylum for the criminally insane.

Plot Keywords:

Federation | Space | Starship | Computer | Vulcan

Cast

William Shatner	...	Captain James T. Kirk
Leonard Nimoy	...	Mr. Spock
DeForest Kelley	...	Dr. McCoy
Steve Ihnat	...	Garth
Yvonne Craig	...	Marta
James Doohan	...	Scott
George Takei	...	Sulu
Nichelle Nichols	...	Uhura
Dick Geary	...	Andorian (as Richard Geary)
Gary Downey	...	Tellarite
Keye Luke	...	Cory

Runtime:

60 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Argentina:Atp

Filming Locations:

Paramount Studios - 5555 Melrose Avenue, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Paramount Television

Trivia:

The Elba 2 jumpsuit Gov. Cory wears is the same worn by Dr. Adams on Tantalus 5; blue in color with a symbol of a hand holding a turtledove beneath a sun.

Goofs:

Plot holes: Garth transforms himself using 'cellular metamorphosis'. This would change his body, but should leave him in the same clothes.

Quotes:

Mr. Spock: Spock to Enterprise.
Scott: [over intercom] Enterprise. Queen to Queen's level three.
Mr. Spock: Queen to King's level one.

"Lord" Garth of Izar in the comics

Garth of Izar was revealed as the villain who stabbed Captain Kirk in the fifty-fifth issue of DC Comics's original STAR TREK series. Yet in that issue, he is depicted as an old man with a wrinkled face and a bald head wearing a green leotard and does not resemble Steve Inhat at all - this was due to issues surrounding the use of Mr. Inhat's image in the comic; he had died fourteen years earlier, in 1971. Garth had passed himself off as Ensign Bloemker and then as Sean Finnegan, Kirk's old nemesis from his Academy days, in order to kill him, but he ended up failing miserably, due to Mr. Spock's interference. This last of the regular stories from that series was one of the best as well, yet it is sad that the artist could not use Steve Inhat's image when he drew the evil Garth of Izar for the comic.