Prepare to BEAM UP for your weekly dose of STAR TREK: THE ORIGINAL SERIES! Saturday, July 23, on MeTV at 7:00, 8:00 or 9:00 pm (depending on your time zone). MeTV is a local (airwaves) broadcast channel and is on most Cable providers lineups ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- THE CLOUD MINDERS TOS, Episode 3x19 First aired: 28 February 1969 Kirks efforts to obtain a vital mineral are complicated by terrorists striking at the beautiful cloud city Stratos and its virulent apartheid policies. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Droxine: You only take a mate once every seven years? Mr. Spock: The seven-year cycle is biologically inherent in all Vulcans. At that time, the mating drive outweighs all other motivations. Droxine: And is there nothing that can disturb that cycle, Mr. Spock? Mr. Spock: Extreme feminine beauty is always disturbing, Madam. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Did You Know? According to the IMDB data base, David Gerrold conceived the original story on which this episode was based, an outline called Castle in the Sky. He was deeply disappointed with the final script. His original concept dealt with a three-way conflict between the elite of the planets sky city and two groups of the cave-dwelling miners - one adhering to the tenets of a pacifist, Martin Luther King-like leader, the other followers of a more militant Malcolm X-like figure. Gerrolds story ended on a deliberately ambiguous note, with the only triumph being that Kirk finally managed to establish a dialogue between the groups. Gerrold later characterized the final script - in which the miners violent actions are blamed entirely on a toxic zenite gas in the mines - with the scathing line, And if we can just get them troglytes to wear gas masks, then theyll be happy little darkies and theyll pick all the cotton we need. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/The_Cloud_Minders
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