Balance of Terror

This Story: Season 1 Episode 14 (production code 1.9)
TOS Overall: Story 14, Episode 15
Trek Overall: Story 14, Episode 15
Airdate: 15 Dec 1966
Written by Paul Schneider
Directed by Vincent McEveety

Notes

• The Romulan commander was played by Mark Lenard who later went on to play Spock’s father Sarek in “Journey to Babel“, and the unnamed Klingon commander in Star Trek: The Motion Picture.
• This is the first on screen appearance of the Romulans as well as the concept of the cloaking device for starships.
• In 2022, the Strange New Worlds episode “A Quality of Mercy” proposes an alternate version of the events of this episode.  It was most enjoyable.

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