A Private Little War

This Story: Season 2 Episode 19 (production code 2.16)
TOS Overall: Story 48, Episode 49
Trek Overall: Story 48, Episode 49
Airdate: 2 Feb 1968
Written by Gene Roddenberry & Jud Crucis (Don Ingalls)
Directed by Marc Daniels

Notes

• One of the two episodes that has the other Doctor on the Enterprise – Joseph M’Benga.  The other episode was Season 3’s “That Which Survives“.  The name Joseph didn’t get created until the character’s appearance decades later in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.
• This episode was intended as a commentary on the Vietnam War, which was still an active thing at the time this episode was made.
• Jud Crucis was really a pseudonym for Don Ingalls, the original writer.  He did that when he got upset that Gene Roddenberry rewrote his story.
• There was a comic book published in 2007 called “The Order of Things” which tells this story from the Klingon point of view.
• One of the few episodes we get to see McCoy fire a phaser.

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