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Thanksgiving at my Grandparents!

Balance of Terror

This image, still burned into my mind from childhood both haunts and excites me. As a kid "Balance of Terror" was one of my all time favorite episodes of Star Trek. I would pull out my Star Trek Micromachine Enterprise and Romulan Bird of prey and recreate the battle myself with sound effects and all. This also reminds me of how many Star Trek toys I own. When you start as a child its hard not to build a collection. Anyways, Balance of Terror, is the classic battle between two captains. I love stories like that. Also this episode includes appearances from Mark Lenard as the Romulan captain. Years later Mark would play Sarek, Spocks father. Also starring Lawrence Montaigne as a Romulan crew member. Lawrence appeared in The Great Escape(1963) as a captured American 3 years before appearing in Balance of Terror.

And a bit more in depth, my fellow nerd fans, you may remember Lawrence Montaigne as Mr. Glee in the old Batman TV show.