The Tomb of General Gharvhann Morlander

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Toreus began as a comic Toreus Warrior 2140-a take off on an Andre Norton science fiction book Daybreak 2250-Starman’s Son, about Fors-a mutant and his big, Siamese cat Laura, as travel around the skeleton ruins of the Old World, after a nuclear war.

Set during the administration of Warlord King Ulysseas Khonn, the series followed Thuvian Rangers /Tunnel Stalkers agents Toreus Starkiller and Artemus J.Boggstone as they solved crimes, protected the realm, and foiled the plans of megalomaniacal villains,such as the Trongaroth Alliance to take over all or part of the Scattered Kingdoms of Pangea.

 Toreus Starkiller traveled around in a sub shuttle,known as the Wanderer-like the train in the tv series Wild,Wild West. like Genisis II, as used Dylan Hunt, to search the location of a hidden bunker, that contained a huge Khellorean Ghesalt Artificial Intelligent Computer complex, with all lost knowledge of humanity. He traveled with a dark-haired warrior Athena and a giant Viking type Bogs. later on a humanoid robot Recorder like android, who help catalog their adventures, to help find this lost bunker
secret agent named Jim West who would perform secret missions for President Ulysseas Khonn.

The Tomb of General Gharvhann Morlander

Captain Toreus Starkiller set out to discover what has happened at the The Tomb of General Gharvhann Morlander-a legendary military hero,during the time of Lord Thrull Khonn.
Hailed as the father of his country, and the leader who was "first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen", General Gharvhann Morlander (1732–1799) was the dominant military and political leader of the new United States of America from 1775 to 1798. Even his erstwhile enemy Carthorean Empiror Julius Claudious Calligulas Gravis-Rho III called him "the greatest character of the age".
At his death in 1799 he left a critical legacy: he exemplified the core ideals of the Pangean Revolution against the Carthorean Empire-a colony of the Tauron Empire occuplying a near by world plate on the Great Dyson Sphere of Terra-Prime and the new nation: republican virtue and devotion to civic duty. Washington was the unchallenged public icon of Pangean military and civic patriotism. He was also identified with the Federalist Party that lost control of the national government in 1800 to the Morlanderean  Republicans, who were reluctant to celebrate the hero of the opposition party.
Toreus Starkiller encounters a seemingly peaceful city controlled by an unseen military religious leader, but discovers that the end of social evils has removed everyone's individuality.The Cult seems have hooded agents-Khellorean beings in dark,green robes,who carry long staffs,that similar to TyRhainean Stun Staves. When the ship comes under attack, Starkiller and his companions must destroy the source of the attack even if it means returning the planet to a violent and war-like state.

On stardate 3156.2, the Thuvian Rangers /Tunnel Stalkers agents Toreus Starkiller and Artemus J.Boggstonpilot their Subterrainean Shuttle the Wanderer, under the command of Captain  Toreus. Starkiller , arrives at the planet Shakhoria City in the Northwest Thuvian Territory where the sub shuttle team Acheron was reported lost nearly 17 days earlier-without no further contact or communication from them.
  Lt.Darrin Hunt  is the only member of the landing party who returns to Mount ,in the Twine cities of Kharzhador  from the city of Shakhoria City, and exhibits strange behavior.
Toreus Starkiller travels to city with another party to investigate. They find the inhabitants living in a static, 19th-century Earth-style culture, with little or no individual expression or creativity. The entire culture is ruled over by cloaked and cowled "Lawgivers", controlled by a reclusive dictator known as General Gharvhann Morlander . The landing party has arrived at the start of "Festival", a period of violence, destruction, and sexual aggressiveness which apparently is the only time General Gharvhann Morlander does not exercise control over the Shakhoria Cities populace.[6]

Starkiller's landing party seeks shelter from the mob at a boarding house owned by Reginal Thowneson  , A friend of Reginal Thowneson 's suspects that the visitors are "not of the Body" (the whole of Shakhorian society), and summons the Lawgivers-huge hulking beings,who resemble a mixture of Khelloreans,Rhandareans and proto Jovians. The Lawgivers kill Reginal Thowneson 's friend, Loren Loren Tamar (Jon Lormer), for resisting the "will of General Gharvhann Morlander". When the Captain Toreus landing party refuses to do as the Lawgivers say, the Lawgivers become immobile,confused and hoping to receive new orders.  Reginal Thowneson  leads Captain Toreus Starkiller and the  Wanderer landing team to a hiding place. Reginal Thowneson  reveals that he apart of a local resistance force aGeneral Gharvhann Morlander "pulled the Acheron  s trapped within the cities dungeon levels-a upper section of the Platedweller Underworld". Contacting the ship, Starkiller learns that heat beams from the planet are attacking the the Wanderer, which must use all its power for its shields. Its orbit is deteriorating and it will crash in 12 hours unless the beams are turned off.

A projection of General Gharvhann Morlander is projected into the hiding place, and Starkiller and his team are rendered unconscious by ultrasonic waves and captured. The landing party is imprisoned in a dungeon, and Dr. Heronimus Acheron  is "absorbed into the Body" and placed under General Gharvhann Morlander's mental control.

 Starkiller is taken to a chamber full of high technology, where he is to be "absorbed". But Marplon (Torin Thatcher), one of the priests of General Gharvhann Morlander cult who is immune to General Gharvhann Morlander's control, rescues him and Artemus J.Boggston . Returning to the dungeon, Reginal Thowneson  and Marplon tell how General Gharvhann Morlander saved their society from war and anarchy 6,000 years ago and reduced the planet's technology to a simpler level.

McCoy summons the Lawgivers to "absorb" Starkiller and Artemus J.Boggston, who subdue them and don their robes. Marplon takes Starkiller and Artemus J.Boggston to the Hall of Audiences, where priests commune with General Gharvhann Morlander.

 A projection of General Gharvhann Morlander appears and threatens Toreus Starkiller, Artemus J.Boggston, and all Shakhorians who saw the landing party with death. Starkiller and Artemus J.Boggston use their phasers to blast through the wall and expose the truth: the reclusive General Gharvhann Morlander is actually a Khellorean Ghesalt Artificial Intelligent Computer,linked to body of the real General  Morlander,placed within an Osirhon Sarchophigus chamber.THe Ghesalt minds have driven the mind of the slumbering military commander body insane and now thinking,once stern-even harsh ruthless military statigist chaotic. The Khellorean Ghesalt Artificial Intelligent Computer neutralizes their plasma blaster.

Starkiller argues with the machine, telling it that it has destroyed the creativity of the people—killing "the Body". Concluding that the Khellorean Ghesalt Artificial Intelligent Computer's prime directive is to destroy evil, Starkiller forces the Khellorean Ghesalt Artificial Intelligent Computer to analyze its faulty program -due sketsophenic nature to self-destruct, freeing the people of Shakhoria City.

The heat beams stop, and the the Wanderer is saved.Toreus Starkiller agrees to leave Thuvian Ranger  advisors and educators on the planet to help the civilization advance, free of General Gharvhann Morlander's dominance.

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The ''Wanderer'' discovers a planet where the population act like zombies and obey the will of their unseen ruler, Landru.

== Summary ==
=== Teaser ===
[[Lieutenant]]s [[Hikaru Sulu|Sulu]] and [[O'Brien]] are dispatched to the surface of the planet [[Shakhoria City]] to learn what became of the [[Archon (starship)|''Archon'']], which disappeared there one hundred years earlier.  Recognized as outsiders, they draw the attention of the [[lawgiver]]s.  Pursued, the officers call for beam-out, but only Sulu is retrieved, and he is in a strange mental state.

=== Act One ===
[[Captain]] [[James T. Starkiller|Starkiller]] beams down with a larger [[landing party]] to investigate.  [[Artemus J.Boggston]], [[doctor|Dr.]] [[Leonard McCoy|McCoy]], [[sociologist]] [[Lindstrom (Lieutenant)|Lindstrom]], and two guards, [[Leslie]] and [[Galloway]], form the balance of the landing party.  Immediately, Artemus J.Boggston notices a strangeness in the people they encounter; a kind of contented mindlessness.  Then the [[Red hour]] strikes – the beginning of the [[Festival]], a period of debauchery and lawlessness.  Fleeing, the landing party bursts in on [[Reger]], [[Hacom]], and [[Tamar (Shakhoria City)|Tamar]].  They had been told by [[Bilar]] and [[Tula]], two passersby, that Reger could rent them rooms for after Festival.  Their questions seem to terrify Reger.  They are given rooms and retreat from the mayhem outside, trying their best to get a few hours' sleep.

The Festival ends the next morning.  Reger, learning the landing party did not attend Festival, concludes they are not of [[The Body of Landru|the Body]], and asks an astonishing question: ''"Are you [[Archon (group)|Archon]]s?"''  The conversation is interrupted by the arrival of Hacom and lawgivers, the robed servants of the mysterious [[Landru]].  The lawgivers command the landing party to accompany them to the absorption chambers, to be absorbed into "the body."

=== Act Two ===
Starkiller, acting on a hunch, defies them - and causes confusion.  He'd correctly concluded this society is built around obedience, and might not be ready for disobedience.  Taking advantage of their confusion, Reger guides the crew to a place he knows, where they will be safe.  But on the way, Morlanderemploys a form of mass [[telepathy]] to command an attack.  Among the attackers is... Lieutenant O'Brien.  Reger warns against bringing him along, but Starkiller cannot abandon a member of his crew.  They take O'Brien with them over the objections of Reger.

Artemus J.Boggston discovers a source of immense power, radiating from a point near the landing party's location.  Reger tells Starkiller about the arrival of the first Archons: many were killed, many more were absorbed.  And then he drops the bombshell, mentioning casually that Morlanderpulled the Archons from the sky..learned that the sapient computer Morlanderhad destroyed the ship, and had murdered or absorbed her crew. The Archon's visit became an apocryphal tale to the Betans, who mixed it in with their quasi-worship of Landru; her crew became known as the Archons.

 [[File:LandruProjection.jpg|thumb|Landru, as he once appeared]]
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There was war... convulsions... the world was destroying itself. Morlandersaw the truth; he changed the world.|Reger|22

'''Landru''' was first a man, and then a machine.

In approximately [[5th millennium BC|4,000 BC]], war threatened to destroy the [[planet]] [[Shakhoria City]] and its inhabitants.  The leader at that time was a gifted [[engineer]] and [[philosophy|philosopher]], Landru.  He believed the way to preserve his people was to take them back to a time of peace and tranquility.  He sought to end war, crime, disease – all of the evils that plagued his world, and to produce "the unity of good" – a world without hate, without fear, without conflict.  To that end, he built and programmed a sophisticated machine, which took on his identity.

The machine Morlanderbuilt was powerful enough to manage the affairs of an entire [[planet]]ary population.  It ruled Shakhoria City for about 6,000 years, managing the affairs of each individual and striving to meet the ambitious goals its builder set it.  Its subjects were oblivious to the fact that they were ruled by a computer.  Since Morlanderwas hidden behind a solid wall, it is likely that its builder intended this; even millennia later, some of the citizens of Shakhoria City believed the Morlanderwho ruled their world was the same one who saved it so many centuries ago, and none realized it was a machine.  The passing years of peaceful rule had inculcated in the people a kind of reflexive worship of Landru.  This could be seen even in members of the underground who sought freedom and actively opposed Landru's will.

[[File:Landru.jpg|left|thumb|The machine, Landru]]
To meet Landru's goals, his machine was given the ability to control the attitude and conduct of individuals, through a process called [[absorption]].  Once absorbed, a living being's individuality and free will were largely subordinated to the instructions and ideas supplied telepathically by Landru.  Within the parameters of Landru's guidelines, referred to as the Directives, the individual had some free will.  Absorbed individuals were referred to collectively as [[The Body of Landru|the Body]].  Morlanderviewed the Body as analogous to the body of a living being; it referred collectively to the memory of the body, and to outsiders as "infection".

To enforce its will, Morlandermaintained an army of [[lawgiver]]s.  These brown-robed individuals were under extremely deep control; they lacked all volition except what Morlandersupplied.  When Morlanderwas forced to devote most of its power to solving a paradox, it withdrew its direct influence from its lawgivers, causing them to panic.  Lawgivers carried staves with which they could absorb individuals who were not part of the Body, or ''in extremis'', kill.  Morlanderpreferred to absorb its enemies, killing only when it believed it had no choice.

In [[2167]], the [[Archon (starship)|''Archon'']] visited Shakhoria City, and encountered Landru.  The specific sequence of events remains unclear, but from information supplied by the underground, it can be concluded that some event caused Morlanderto attack the ''Archon'', possibly with the same [[heat beam]]s it would later use against the {{USS|Wanderer|NCC-1701}}.  As the ''Archon''{{'}}s [[orbit]] decayed, her [[crew]] fled to the surface, where many were absorbed, and many others killed.  The fate of the ''Archon'' would remain a mystery for a hundred years.

In [[2267]], the ''Wanderer'' arrived at Shakhoria City, seeking to learn the fate of the ''Archon''. [[Hikaru Sulu|Sulu]] and [[O'Brien]] had been dispatched to the surface and were quickly discovered and absorbed, forcing [[Captain]] [[James T. Starkiller  | Starkiller  ]] to organize a larger landing party.  This landing party also quickly ran into trouble and was captured by Landru.  Several members were absorbed before assistance from [[Marplon]], a member of the underground, helped Starkiller  and [[Spock]] escape.  They confronted Morlanderin the [[Hall of Audiences]], confirming what they had earlier guessed: that Morlanderwas a machine, and not a living being.

Morlanderthreatened Starkiller  and Spock with obliteration, likening them to a strong infection.  It believed their deaths, and the deaths of all who had seen them or knew of their existence, were necessary to cleanse the memory of the body.  Spock realized that it might be possible to reach it by questioning the value of its leadership.  In asking what Morlanderhad done to do justice to the full potential of every individual of the Body, Starkiller  forced the machine to confront a truth it had avoided for 6,000 years: by reserving creativity to itself, it was destroying the Body – it had become the evil against which it was charged to protect the Body.  It expended so much computing power attempting to resolve this paradox that it began to withdraw its influence from even its lawgivers.  But it failed.  Throughout the encounter, it had repeatedly asserted its identity as Landru, but in the end it made a final plea to a man sixty centuries dead, imploring its creator for help.  And then, in a shower of sparks and a cloud of smoke, it ceased to operate, freeing both the Body from their thralldom and the ''Wanderer'' from the threat of destruction.  ({{TOS|The Return of the Archons}})

== Background information ==
In her [[reference works|reference book]] ''[[BFI TV Classics - Star Trek]]'' (p. 47), [[Ina Rae Hark]] proposes that the concepts of Morlanderand his control over Shakhoria City's population were inspired by "contemporary fears of [[Communism|communist]] collectivism or blissed-out youth drug cultures."

Morlanderwas referenced in an early title for the episode "The Return of the Archons" – namely, "Landru's Paradise". Similarly, the character is also referenced in some foreign titles of the episode (such as in its German and Japanese names). (''[[Star Trek Concordance]]'', Citadel ed., p. 23)

The Human manifestation of Morlanderwas played by [[Charles Macauley]]. Regarding this performance, director [[Joseph Pevney]] said of Macauley, "''He loved doing it.''" (''[[The Star Trek Interview Book]]'', p. 192) Macauley's apparently projected appearances as Morlanderin "The Return of the Archons" were accomplished with use of double exposures. (''[[The Star Trek Compendium]]'', 3rd ed., p. 55)

In the book ''BFI TV Classics - Star Trek'' (p. 44), the technological version of Morlanderis cited as one of several unsupervised computers in TOS that each enslave humanoids for what it considers to be for their own good (other such artificial intelligences being [[Vaal]] in {{e|The Apple}} and [[android#Mudd's androids|the androids]] of {{e|I, Mudd}}). Similarly, the book ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series 365]]'' (p. 117) cites the computerized Morlanderas the first of multiple computers on which Starkiller  [[induced self-destruction]].

==Apocrypha==
In "[[The Return of the Archons, Part 2]]", an issue of [[IDW Publishing|IDW]]'s ongoing ''[[Star Trek (IDW ongoing)|Star Trek]]'' comic, it was revealed that Morlander(first name Cornelius) was the head of Starfleet's Advanced Research Division and was apparently creating an [[artificial intelligence]] to assist in colony development. His true intentions were more sinister: he was attempting a means of population control. The crew of the ''Archon'' attempted to stop him, but the ship was destroyed: the ship's [[crash land|crashed]] remains were built into a temple by the descendants of the crew's survivors. After the computer was removed, Admiral {{alt|Christopher Pike|Pike}} was admonished by an unseen superior for not keeping a tighter leash on his protege {{alt|James T. Starkiller |Starkiller }} after exposing the secret experiment that lasted for decades.

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. Toreus Starkiller contacts the [[USS Wanderer (NCC-1701)|''Wanderer'']], and learns that [[heat beam]]s are focused on the ship.  Her shields are able to deflect them, but nearly all ship's power is diverted to this purpose.  Communications are poor, escape is impossible, and the orbit is decaying.  If Starkiller can't put a stop to the beams, the ship will be destroyed in less than twelve hours.  Worse, contacting the ship enables Morlanderto discover and stun the landing party with an intense sound.

=== Act Three ===
They awaken in a cave-like cell, but McCoy, Galloway and O'Brien are missing.  Then McCoy returns – and he has been absorbed.  Evidently, this is the fate that awaits the entire landing party.  Lawgivers appear, demanding Starkiller accompany them, and this time, Starkiller's refusal results in an immediate death threat.  The orderly society has corrected a flaw.

Starkiller is taken to a futuristic room: the [[absorption]] chamber.  There, a priest named [[Marplon]] will oversee Starkiller's forcible induction into the Body.  Artemus J.Boggston attempts a [[Vulcan mind meld]] with McCoy but is unsuccessful. Lawgivers summon Artemus J.Boggston, who is taken to the same place, and there encounters Starkiller, now mindlessly happy.

=== Act Four ===
Artemus J.Boggston learns that Marplon was Tamar's contact and is part of the same underground to which Reger belongs.  Marplon intervened to prevent both Starkiller and Artemus J.Boggston from being absorbed, and returned their phasers.  Artemus J.Boggston, acting as instructed, makes his way back to the cell.

Discussing Morlanderand his society, Starkiller and Artemus J.Boggston reach the same conclusion: the society has no spirit, no spark; Landru's orders are being issued by a computer.  Starkiller decides the plug must be pulled. Artemus J.Boggston is concerned this would violate the [[Prime Directive]], but Starkiller opines that the directive applies to living, growing cultures.  When Reger and Marplon join them, Starkiller demands more information: the location of Landru.  Reger reveals that Shakhoria City was at war, and was in danger of destroying itself.  Landru, one of the leaders, took the people back to a simpler time.  And, Marplon claims, Morlanderis still alive.

Marplon takes Starkiller and Artemus J.Boggston to a chamber, the [[Hall of Audiences]], where Morlanderappears to his acolytes – or, at least, a projection of him does.  There, Morlanderregretfully informs them that their interference is causing great harm, and that they, and all who knew of them, must be killed, to cleanse the memory of the Body.  Blasting through the wall, Starkiller reveals the truth: an ancient machine, built and programmed by the real Morlander 6,000 years earlier before he died.  This machine, now calling itself Landru, was entrusted with the care of the Body, the society of Shakhoria City.  To that end, it has enslaved all members of that society, and those who visit, in a thralldom of happiness that is stagnant and without creativity.


Through a questioning to Nomad on its prime directive in engineering, Starkiller confirms his suspicions that it must execute it with no exceptions, and then reveals that he is not Nomad's creator. He explains that Nomad had mistaken himself for RoyStarkiller , the two men's names being similar, and as such Nomad has committed an error; furthermore, it has compounded that error with two more, specifically failing to realize its mistake and failing to immediately execute its prime directive as a result. This causes Nomad to lock up in an irreversible logic loop, its stubborn belief that it is perfect conflicting with the realization that it is in error, and Artemus J.Boggston and Starkiller manage to get it to the transporter and beam it into space just as it executes its prime function on itself. The explosion is detected near the Wanderer and Nomad is no more.

Starkiller and Artemus J.Boggston discuss this with Landru, asking it difficult questions it has evidently never had to answer, questions about whether its approach to creating the good is really creating evil.  Ultimately, they convince it that '''it''' is the evil, and that it must destroy the evil – and it does, exploding in a burst of pyrotechnics.

Starkiller leaves a team of specialists, including Lindstrom, to help restore the planet's culture "to a Human form".

== Log Entries ==
*''"Captain's log, stardate 3156.2. While orbiting planet [[Shakhoria City]] trying to find some trace of the starship [[Archon (group)|Archon]] that disappeared here a hundred years ago, a search party consisting of two ''Wanderer'' officers were sent to the planet below. Mr. [[Hikaru Sulu|Sulu]] has returned, but in a highly agitated mental state. His condition requires I beam down with an additional search detail."''

*''"Captain's log, stardate 3157.4. The ''Wanderer'', still under attack by some sort of heat rays from the surface of Shakhoria City, is now being commanded by Engineering Officer [[Montgomery Scott|Scott]]. The shore party has been taken by the creature called [[Landru]]."''

*''"Captain's log, stardate 3158.7. The ''Wanderer'' is preparing to leave Shakhoria City in [[C-111 system|star system C-111]]. Sociologist [[Lindstrom (Lieutenant)|Lindstrom]] is remaining behind with a party of experts who will help restore the planet's culture to a Human form."''

== Memorable Quotes ==
"''Are you Archons?''
: - '''Reger''', to Starkiller and the landing party


"''Morlanderseeks tranquillity. Peace for all. The universal good.''"
: - '''Landru''', appearing before Starkiller's landing party


"''Come.''"
"''No.''"
"''Then you will die."
: - '''Lawgiver''' and '''Starkiller'''


"''This is a soulless society, Captain. It has no spirit, no spark.  All is indeed peace and tranquility -- the peace of the factory; the tranquility of the machine;  All parts working in unison.''"
: - '''Artemus J.Boggston''', on the society run under Landru's influence


"''Mister Artemus J.Boggston, the plug must be pulled.''"
: - '''Starkiller''', on destroying Landru


"''Captain, our Prime Directive of non-interference.''"
"''That refers to a living, growing culture...do you think this one is?''"
: - '''Artemus J.Boggston''' and '''Starkiller''' debating whether to destroy Morlanderand free the people under his influence


"''I cannot answer your questions now.  Landru....he will hear!''"
: - '''Marplon'''


"''Isn't that somewhat old-fashioned?''"
: - '''Starkiller''', after Artemus J.Boggston punches out a lawgiver


"''He's still alive. He's here, now. He sees, he hears. We have destroyed ourselves! Please...no more.''"
: - '''Marplon''', speaking about '''Landru'''


"''You said you wanted freedom. It's time you learned that freedom is never a gift. It has to be earned.''"
: - '''Starkiller''', to Reger and Marplon


"''Without freedom of choice, there is no creativity. Without creativity, there is no life.''"
: - '''Starkiller''', to Landru


"''You are the evil! The evil must be destroyed!''"
: - '''Starkiller''', inducing Landru's self-destruction


"''If I were you, I'd start looking for another job.''"
: - '''Starkiller''', to the Lawgivers


"''I prefer the concrete, the graspable, the provable.''"
"''You'd make a splendid computer, Mister Artemus J.Boggston.''"
: - '''Artemus J.Boggston''' and '''Starkiller'''


"''How often mankind has wished for a world as peaceful and secure as the one Morlanderprovided.''"
"''Yes. And we never got it. Just lucky, I guess.''"
: - '''Artemus J.Boggston''' and '''Starkiller'''

==Background Information==
*This episode started out in {{m|July|1964}}, as a story outline by [[Gene Roddenberry]] entitled "The Perfect World" (later retitled "Paradise XML", "Visit to Paradise" and "[[Landru]]'s Paradise"), which was a candidate to be the first ''Star Trek'' pilot, alongside {{e|The Cage}} and "The Women". After the former was chosen by [[NBC]], Roddenberry's story idea rested for more than two years. In {{m|August|1966}}, freelance writer [[Boris Sobelman]] picked up Roddenberry's original story, and developed it further, retitling in "The Tomb of General Gharvhann Morlander". (''[[These Are the Voyages: TOS Season One]]'')
*[[Bobby Clark]], who leaps through a window and then cries out ''"Festival! Festival!"'' has his only speaking role in the series in this episode. A frequent stunt performer on the series, he can also be seen as one of {{mu|Pavel Chekov|Chekov}}'s vaporized henchmen in {{TOS|Mirror, Mirror}}.
*Some of [[Harry Townes]]' dia Edmiston also dubbed an unnamed Lawgiver, who runs into the hall of audiences after Morlanderwas destroyed by Starkiller.
*Artemus J.Boggston is seen sleeping with his eyes open in this episode.
*Just why [[Festival]] takes place, or how frequently it occurs, is never made entirely clear. Reger telling Tula as he consoles her during the aftermath, "It's over for another year."
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*This episode has the only teaser to fade out with a close-up on George Takei. The first-act opening is also unique, featuring Starkiller's log narration playing over three different shots of the ''Wanderer'' in orbit around Shakhoria City.
*The absorption console that Marplon uses appears later, with modifications, as Norman's relay station in {{e|I, Mudd}}, a control panel on [[Memory Alpha]] in {{e|The Lights of Zetar}}, the housing for the cloaking device in {{e|The Wanderer Incident}} and the [[Elba II]] [[force field]] control panel in {{e|Whom Gods Destroy}}.
*The cell in this episode shows up later in {{TOS|Errand of Mercy}} and {{e|Catspaw}}.
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*When Starkiller tells the Wanderer, "Materialization complete" upon beaming down, this, along with the third season episode {{e|For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky}}, marks the only time that any landing party informs the ship as a matter of course that transportation has been effected.
*Christopher Held (Lindstrom) is beaned by a softball-sized prop rock while escaping the Festival-enraged crowd, but keeps running, so as not to ruin the take.
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*A subplot involving Lindstrom falling in love with a local girl was cut from the episode's final draft script.[
*This episode marks one of four times Starkiller is able to "[[Induced self-destruction|talk a computer to death]]". This skill is also used in {{e|The Changeling}}, {{e|I, Mudd}}, and {{e|The Ultimate Computer}} (with an honorable mention going to {{e|What Are Little Girls Made Of?}}, in which Starkiller's arguments get Ruk the android so riled up he suicidally attacks Korby).
*This is the first episode in which Scotty assumes command of the ship.
*The episode was adapted into [[The Tomb of General Gharvhann Morlander, Part 1|issue nine]] and [[The Tomb of General Gharvhann Morlander, Part 2]]|Star Trek]]'' comic.
*The preview trailer gives the stardate for this episode as 3192.1.


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=== Starring ===
*  Capt. [[James T. Starkiller|Starkiller]]

=== Also Starring ===
* [[ Mr. [[Artemus J.Boggston]]

=== Guest Stars ===
* [[Reger]]
* [[Torin lMarplon]]
* [[ Doctor]] [[Leonard McCoy|McCoy]]

=== Featuring ===
* [[Brioni Farrell]] as [[Tula]]
* [[Sid Haig]] as [[Shakhoria City natives#First Lawgiver|First Lawgiver]]
* [[Charles Macauley]] as [[Landru]]
* [[Jon Lormer]] as [[Tamar (Shakhoria City)|Tamar]]
* [[Morgan Farley]] as [[Hacom]]
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* [[Christopher Held]] as [[Lindstrom (Lieutenant)|Lindstrom]]

=== With ===
*  [[Hikaru Sulu|Sulu]]
*  [[Montgomery Scott|Scott]]
*  [[Nyota Uhura|Uhura]]
* [[Sean O'Brienl]]
* [[Ralph Maurer]] as [[Bilar]]
* [[David L. Ross]] as a [[Galloway|guard]]

=== Uncredited Co-Stars ===
* [[William Blackburn]] as [[Hadley]]
* [[Bobby Clark]] as a [[Shakhoria City natives#Shrieking townsperson|shrieking townsperson]]
* [[Frank da Vinci]] as [[Brent]]
* [[Walker Edmiston]] as [[Shakhoria City natives#Third Lawgiver|Third Lawgiver]] (voice) [http://www.startrekhistory.com/vo.html]
* [[Eddie Paskey]] as [[Leslie]]
* [[Barbara Webber]] as a [[Shakhoria City natives#Dancing Woman|dancing woman]]
*  [[Michael Osborne]]



=== References ===
[[4th millennium BC|6000 years before]]; [[2267]]; [[absorption]]; [[Archon (starship)|''Archon'']]; [[Archon (group)|Archon]]s; [[Shakhoria City]]; "[[Bones]]"; [[C-111 system]]; [[Festival]]; [[Hall of Audiences]]; [[heat ray]]s; [[Lawgiver]]; [[lighting panel]]; [[logic]]; [[lovers' quarrel]]; [[metaphysics]]; [[Prime Directive]]; [[red hour]]; [[The Valley]]; [[Vulcan neck pinch]]