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.
This is great! It's amazing how our brains have the capacity to hold so much random information. :)
ReplyDeleteits amazing my brain can hold anything!
ReplyDeleteI would like to make a correction that I overpassed before. Mark Lenard played Sarek much earlier than I had mentioned. He first appears on Star Trek TOS second season episode Journey to Babel. To be technical the first time we see Sarek in the Star Trek timeline is the film First Contact. Sarek is the captain of the Vulcan ship that discovers that Humans have achieved warp capabilities and lands to make first contact.
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