"A Piece of the Action" is a second-season episode of Star Trek: The Original Series first broadcast on January 12, 1968. It was repeated on August 30, 1968, the last episode to air in the 8:30 pm time slot on Friday nights. It is episode #46, production #49, written by David P. Harmon and Gene L. Coon, and directed by James Komack.
Overview: The Enterprise visits a planet with an Earth-like 1920s gangster culture.
Stardate: Unknown; The starship...
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"A Piece of the Action" is a second-season episode of Star Trek: The Original Series first broadcast on January 12, 1968. It was repeated on August 30, 1968, the last episode to air in the 8:30 pm time slot on Friday nights. It is episode #46, production #49, written by David P. Harmon and Gene L. Coon, and directed by James Komack.
Overview: The Enterprise visits a planet with an Earth-like 1920s gangster culture.
Stardate: Unknown; The starship USS Enterprise, under the command of Captain James T. Kirk, is exploring space near Sigma Iotia II, where the space vessel Horizon was reported missing nearly 100 years earlier. Upon reaching orbit, the ship receives a message from Bela Okmyx, who invites the command crew down for a welcoming party.
Mr. Spock and Dr. McCoy are hesitant about interfering with the inhabitants, who are reported to be a pre-nuclear industrialized culture. Kirk points out that any cultural contamination would have started with the Horizon's visit, since the Prime...
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