A Piece of the Action
Joe Siegler
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A Piece of the Action
This Story: Season 2 Episode 17 (production code 2.20)
TOS Overall: Story 46, Episode 47
Trek Overall: Story 46, Episode 47
Airdate: 12 Jan 1968
Written by David P. Harmon & Gene L. Coon
Directed by James Komack
Notes
- When I was a little kid, I thought fizzbin was a real game.
- The only time in the entire series that Kirk calls McCoy by his full nickname – Sawbones.
- This is the first time we saw a site to site transport in the series.
Links
[ Wikipedia | Memory Alpha | Amazon US Blu-Ray | Amazon US Blu-Ray ]#StarTrekMarathon Star Trek Ep 46 - A Piece of the Action - 12 Jan 1968 1/2
— jᎾᎬ sᎥᎬᎶᏞᎬᏒ (@JoeSiegler) June 21, 2024
A near all comedy episode. A lost Federation ship corrupts a complete society in 1920's gangster culture. The comedy comes from our crew trying to fit in & navigate their local power struggle. Kirk gets pic.twitter.com/nPuKWJEQnE
#StarTrekMarathon Star Trek Ep 46 - A Piece of the Action - 12 Jan 1968 2/2
— jᎾᎬ sᎥᎬᎶᏞᎬᏒ (@JoeSiegler) June 21, 2024
big time into all this. Love the fizzbin scene. Spock being visibly annoyed at a radio frequency error is GOLD! The end of this sets up a follow-up which has never been done. Wish someone would do that. pic.twitter.com/XPC4UlfkDI
