50 - By Any Other Name

Data Stellare 4657.5: In seguito ad una chiamata di soccorso, Kirk, Spock e McCoy scendono su un pianeta e trovano dei Kelvani, alieni provenienti dalla galassia di Andromeda per valutare la possibilità di nuove conquiste. A causa della perdita della loro nave, si impossessano dell'Enterprise dopo aver neutralizzato quasi tutto l'equipaggio.

Note

• Warren Stevens ha interpretato il ruolo del dottor Ostrow in Forbidden Planet (Il pianeta proibito).
• Il titolo originale fa riferimento a un passo di Romeo and Juliet (II 2 43) di William Shakespeare in cui Juliet è al balcone e dice: «What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, so too would Romeo, if separated from his name, retain that sweet perfection which is his own.»

Citazioni

Rojan: We do not colonize. We conquer. We rule. There is no other way for us.

Kelinda: This business of love, you have devoted much literature to it. Why do you build such a mystique around a simple biological function?
Kirk: We enjoy it.
Kelinda: Literature?

Kirk: What are the odds in such absolute duplication of life forms in another galaxy?
Spock: The chances are very much against it.

Rojan: These shells in which we have encased ourselves -they have such heightened senses. To feel, to hear, to smell. How do humans manage to exist in these fragile cases?

Spock: Humans are very peculiar. I often find them unfathomable, but an interesting psychological study.

Kirk: You thought I was taking your woman away from you. You're jealous. You tried to kill me with your bare hands. Would a Kelvan do that? Would he have to? You're reacting with the emotions of a human. You are human.

Scott: It's green!

Rojan: You would really do that? You would extend welcome to invaders?
Kirk: No. But we would welcome friends.