Feb 092012
Guest Stars
- Diana Muldaur … Ann Mulhall
- Cindy Lou … Nurse
- Bill Blackburn … Lt. Hadley / Android (uncredited)
- Frank da Vinci … Lt. Brent (uncredited)
- Roger Holloway … Lt. Lemli (uncredited)
- Eddie Paskey … Guard (uncredited)
Trivia
- The voice of Sargon was played by James Doohan. Sargon of Akkad was a Mesopotamian king, who by most accounts, began ruling around 2269 B.C. In the show the year is around 2268 A.D.
- In Kirk’s speech on risk, he states “Do you wish that the first Apollo mission hadn’t reached the moon”? At the time of the original airing, only one year after the launch pad fire that killed the Apollo 1 crew, reaching the moon was far from certain and the risks were enormous.
- Scriptwriter John Kingsbridge used a pen name. His real name was John T. Dugan.
- First Star Trek appearance of Diana Muldaur. She would also appear in the episode “Is There in Truth No Beauty?”, as well as appear as the 2nd Season regular character of Dr. Kathryn Pulaski on Star Trek: The Next Generation.
- Thalassa is a Greek name for the sea. Henoch is a variation of the Hebrew name Enoch, who in the Book of Genesis was a man taken bodily to Heaven without dying.
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