Let that Be Your Last Battlefield

This Story: Season 3 Episode 15 (production code 3.15)
TOS Overall: Story 70, Episode 71
Trek Overall: Story 70, Episode 71
Airdate: 10 Jan 1969
Written by Gene L. Coon (as Lee Cronin)
Directed by Jud Taylor

Notes

• This makes two (aired) episodes in a row that contain a cast member from the 1960’s Batman TV series. Last week was Batgirl, this week is the Joker (Frank Gorshin).
• The self destruct sequence in this movie was replicated in the third movie, “Star Trek III: The Search for Spock“.
• The last episode for Gene L. Coon, and also Bob Justman as producer.
• The last time we see the hangar deck in the series (although the shuttlecraft makes one final appearance after this).
• Allegedly the tilted camera angle for the red alert symbol was due to Frank Gorshin’s appearance, as it’s supposed to be a reference to the Batman TV series use of angled cameras for villains.
• The only time we see people from Cheron in the series.  The next time we would see another one would be in the 2025 streaming movie “Section 31“.  There was also one in the background in the 2026 series “Star Trek: Starfleet Academy”.  No attempt is made in either of those to reconcile with the fact that they’re all dead at the end of this episode.

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