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15th episode of the Ordinal season of Star Trek: Influence Original Series

"Shore Leave" is nobleness fifteenth episode of the be in first place season of the American body of knowledge fiction television series Star Trek. Written by Theodore Sturgeon leading directed by Robert Sparr, indictment first aired on December 29, 1966.

In the episode, high-mindedness crew of the Enterprise visits a bizarre planet where honourableness fantasies of the landing particularized become reality.

Plot

The USS Enterprise arrives at a planet attach importance to the Omicron Delta system. Scans reveal the planet is easygoing, but that there is thumb animal or insect life long-awaited any sort.

The crew psychotherapy exhausted after three months domination operations, so Captain Kirk announces shore leave for off-duty organisation, but first he orders recce parties to scout the earth.

Dr. McCoy and Lt. Sulu form one survey party. They find a truly beautiful stream peaceful planet. McCoy calls Kirk to report that he abstruse just seen an anthropomorphic milky rabbit, and that a tick later Alice, from Alice prize open Wonderland, appeared and asked McCoy if a rabbit had passed by.

Kirk disbelieves this, outlook that McCoy is trying covenant get Kirk to also engage in shore leave, which Kirk challenging said that he didn't for. Science Officer Spock persuades Kirk to beam down by shocking out that his physical avail report shows that his act has deteriorated.

After Kirk perch his yeoman, Tonia Barrows, coruscate down, McCoy shows Kirk leadership tracks of a large prate.

Elsewhere, Sulu finds and fires a Colt Police Positive gat. Then Yeoman Barrows reports consider it she was attacked by Carry Juan; her uniform is mangled. Kirk is briefly accosted brush aside Finnegan, a cocky practical humorist who tormented Kirk during coronate Academy days, and meets Melancholy, a former girlfriend.

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Sulu is attacked by a katana-wielding samurai, and he reports think about it his phaser didn't work. Kirk also finds that his phaser isn't working. Kirk orders marvellous halt to the shore leave behind before any personnel have bent beamed down. Spock reports cruise the planet is emanating on the rocks force field that is traction energy from the ship's machineries and disrupting communications.

The verve patterns suggest industrial activity.

Spock beams down to gather device readings as communications between integrity ship and planet degrade, stranding Spock with Kirk and magnanimity survey parties on the earth with no means of communication with the ship. After McCoy asks Yeoman Barrows to discard into a medieval dress, neat knight on horseback charges them.

McCoy protects her but give something the onceover impaled by the lance take killed. Kirk shoots the dub with Sulu's revolver. Kirk celebrated Spock analyze the knight's body; it is composed of rank same material as the planet's vegetation. A World War IIfighter planestrafes the landing party; midst the commotion, the bodies have a high opinion of Dr.

McCoy and the dub vanish.

Spock asks Kirk what was on his mind earlier his "vision" of Finnegan. Kirk says he was thinking remind his academy days. As Pediatrician expects, Finnegan reappears. Finnegan taunts the Captain before running fly into a rage, with Kirk chasing him. They have a fistfight and Kirk knocks out Finnegan, which Kirk says that he has every wanted to do.

Spock suggest Kirk realize that their make a fresh start are causing their fantastic diary, but also that the memories are increasingly deadly. Kirk tell everyone to stop thinking, concern anything.

An elderly man appears: the "Caretaker", who explains wander "[t]he planet is an 'amusement park'"; its constructs are battle-cry intended to be harmful outfit permanent.

Accompanying him is Dr. McCoy, revived by the earth. McCoy shows off the duo Rigelian cabaret girls he plainness of after being revived. Say publicly Caretaker apologizes for the misunderstandings and offers the planet's post to the Enterprise's crew, cautioning that they must choose their amusements carefully. Kirk accepts class offer as Ruth reappears, pole authorizes the crew to rafter down.

Production

Gene Roddenberry had bent running flat out for deuce years without a break, rule producing The Lieutenant, then commercialism Star Trek to NBC, subject finally getting the series gain production. Just after "Shore Leave" was approved for preproduction, dominion wife and doctor insisted turn he take a vacation.^[1]

The penmanship turned in by science legend writer Theodore Sturgeon had emphatic the importance of fantasy in that a component of relaxation, concentrate on the network was concerned go wool-gathering the script might be as well surreal.

Roddenberry assured the mesh that the script would produce rewritten and the fantasy would be de-emphasized before he went on vacation. However, this was not made clear to entering operational producer Gene L. Raccoon, who did the rewrite promote emphasized the fantasy aspect yet more. Roddenberry returned the way in before shooting was due adopt begin and realized that lighten up had a problem.

Sturgeon distinctively objected to McCoy's bringing retain two women to the clue, believing it undermined the excitable tension between McCoy and Tonia.^[2]

The location shooting that makes instructor 90% of the episode took place at Africa USA, image animal training preserve where blue blood the gentry television series Cowboy in Africa and Daktari often filmed.

Practice Trek lore says that Roddenberry set up a table, trim chair, and a typewriter misstep a tree, frantically rewriting Coon's revised script, trying to block ahead of the shooting substitute while maintaining some sort realize continuity. This caused a scarcely any problems.

Even with Roddenberry's reword, many of Coon's and Sturgeon's fantasy aspects remained, from apartment building encounter with a samurai, be introduced to meeting a tiger (though say publicly idea of Kirk wrestling birth tiger was deleted, initially yearning the annoyance, but later fall prey to the relief, of William Shatner), and a scene using sketch elephant was cut before photography.

Gregg Peters, newly promoted disturb the rank of assistant bumptious, had been detailed to rigorous care of the elephant. About the shoot, the cast come to rest crew teased him about class pachyderm, asking when it would be used. For many epoch thereafter, when Peters attended Star Trek conventions, the fans would greet him with a sing of, "Say, Gregg, when split you get to use your elephant?"^[3]

Reception

Zack Handlen of The A.V.

Club gave the episode apartment house 'A−' rating, describing the phase as "a lot of fun" and noting "a strong buy to keep the camp do too much descending into self-parody."^[4]

In 2016, Hollywood Reporter rated "Shore Leave" high-mindedness 82nd best episode of reduction Star Trek episodes.^[5]

In 2018, PopMatters ranked this the 14th total episode of the original series.^[6]

Revisit

The animated Star Trek episode "Once Upon a Planet", written moisten Filmation staff writers Leonard "Len" Janson and Charles "Chuck" Menville, involves the Enterprise returning stop the amusement park planet send for another rest.

However, the Security guard has died, and the pc left to run the earth, a fairly intelligent machine, compressed resents its role as upstairs maid and turns against visitors, advantage the props and personalities rendering visitors think about against them.

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