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Star Trek: The Original Series - "Errand of Mercy" Full Reaction! (Patreon)

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2024-01-06 18:00:08
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Star Trek: The Original Series - "Errand of Mercy" Full Reaction!

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SuicuneSol

Star Trek ToS had a lot of political commentary. And as you may or may not gave guessed, the Klingons were an allegory for the Soviet Union. To say that the Federation (USA) and the Klingons (Russia) would be friends in the future was radical for the time, but thankfully it turned out to be true (for a little while, at least lol.) So I think Organia was intended to represent whatever country the Soviet Union may have been invading at the time. (ie. Bulgaria). Kirk actually mentions that country by name in the episode.

Absolute0

If I'm to continue to hold up Balance of Terror as the exemplar of my own personal top tier, I don't know that I'd quite put this one along side but not much more than a pip below it. Really great episode. Not exactly filled with action, outside of our raid on the munitions dump (big boom 💥!) and a little hand to hand, but more of a simmering stress that ends up working really well. The actors playing the Organians do such a great job pulling off the ubiquitously friend yet slightly unnerving vibe. Others have pointed out the political parallels of the time so I won't expand on that other than to say I very much enjoy it for the biting critique of imperialism that it is. Back when I was getting into TNG as a kid I remember asking my dad about the Klingon makeup and his answer was something like "Yeah it was the 60s and now they're able to do more stuff with TNG so they did" lol A very pragmatic "yeah that's tv for ya" sort of answer. I always took that to heart as way to explain inaccuracies and retcons. Some later iterations of Trek make an attempt at an in-universe explanation but I've been very comfortable with "the writers had a vision/story they wanted to tell and with such an expansive world sometimes you have to adjust some things along the way" That's all I can think of for now, B, so I'll just say see you in the next one! 🖖