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Full Title	Errand Of Mercy				Season	ONE
Prod #	27	Aired	23 March, 1967		Stardate	3198.4
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Writer(s):	Gene L. Coon
Director:	John Newland
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Synopsis:	The Enterprise journeys to Organia to offer protection before the Klingons arrive to impose dictatorship. They arrive to find the Organians not at all concerned about the Klingon threat, and seem to know everything on their world as it happens. They insist they do not need protection, even when the Klingons start to kill them.
Themes & Issues:	Data Coming Soon
Closing Stills:	Data Coming Soon
Featured Races:	Human Vulcan
Equipment/Misc. Objects:	Communicator (classic black base, gold foil flip-up antenna) Desktop Viewer (approx. 10" tube moveable viewer sitting atop desktops) Earpiece Communicator (very short range communicator designed for listening only, fits on the ear, designed to monitor various channels, usually worn by communications officer) PADD (classic black design, touch pad with electronic pen for notes, reports and signatures) Sicbay bio-bed diagnostic display (standard mid-23rd century Federation) Transporter (standard mid-23rd century Federation) Tri-Viewer (triangular shaped unit centered on the briefing room table, sports 3 7" or 8" viewscreens to enable all seated to view) Wall Comm (communicator built into the walls throughout the ship)
Alien Food/Drinks:	Data Coming Soon
Sets/Locations:	Data Coming Soon
Flaws/ Nitpics:	Mis-Spoken Terms Data Coming Soon Story Flaws Data Coming Soon Uniform Flaws Data Coming Soon Editing Flaws Data Coming Soon
Miscellaneous Keywords:	Data Coming Soon
Cast:	Series' Regulars Captain James T. Kirk -  William Shatner Commander Spock -  Leonard Nimoy Dr. Leonard H. "Bones" McCoy -  DeForest Kelley Lt. Commander Montgomery Scott -  James Doohan Lieutenant Hikaru Sulu -  George Takei Lieutenant Nyoto Uhura -  Nichelle Nichols Semi-Regulars Guest Cast Ayelborne -  John Abbott Commander Kor -  John Colicos Trefayne -  David Hillary Hughes Claymore -  Peter Brocco Klingon Lieutenant -  Victor Lundin Klingon Soldier #1 -  Walt Davis Klingon Soldier #2 -  George Sawaya Barona -  see Captain Kirk
Editorial:	E rrand Of Mercy gives us our first look at Klingons and sets their tone as being a hostile race that is bent on power and control through dictatorship. The scene where Ayelborne frees Kirk and Spock from prison comes from the Bible (Acts 5:19), when the angel of the Lord came by night to open the prison doors for the apostles to escape. The peace treaty imposed, at the end of the episode, on the Klingons and the Federation would stand until the Deep Space Nine fourth season premiere The Way Of The Warrior; it would go back into effect within a year thereafter. That's not to say it didn't have ups and downs along the way; it was almost a couple of times by Kirk himself in the Feature Films. Canadian actor John Colicos would reprise his role in the late second season Deep Space Nine episode Blood Oath. (Source for background information on "Errand Of Mercy": The Star Trek Compendium by Allan Asherman)