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STAR TREK: # 35 The Doomsday Machine, 1967
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Executive Producer: Gene Roddenberry
Producers: Gene L. Coon + John Meredyth Lucas
Associate Producer: Robert H. Justman
Script Consultant: D. C. Fontana
Writer: Norman Spinrad
Dir.: Marc Daniels
Captain Kirk: William Shatner
Science Officer, First Officer, Cmdr. Spock: Leonard Nimoy
Dr. Leonard "Bones" Mc Coy: DeForest Kelly
Lt. Sulu: George Takei
Lieutenant Commander Montgomery Scott: James Doohan
Lieutenant Uhura: Nichelle Nichols
Commodore Metthew Decker: William Windom
Russ: Tim Burns
Lt. Palmer: Elisabeth Rogers
Lt. Kyle: John Winston
Montgomery: Jerry Catron
Stardate: 4202.9
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All of a sudden several planets have
ceased to exist. The Enterprise is in the area, a region which included several planets
– all gone, by now. Here they come across the U.S.S. Constellation with
only her captain, commodore Matthew Decker, on board.
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The man is devastated. To save his
crew's life from a gigantic machine, built by a long dead race, he had them transported
on a planet. The whole planet then has been destroyed by the machine.
Kirk and others stay on the Constellation to care for repairs and Decker beams
on board of the Enterprise.
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Decker is guilt ridden and possessed by the idea to destroy
the machine. He pulls rank on Spock and takes command of the Enterprise. McCoy tries to find a way to confine Decker
to sick bay in order to get Spock back in the commanding chair, but he cannot.
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Commander Spock has no chance but to obey the superior officer.
The Enterprise crew on the Constellation has just managed to repair the screen.
The first thing they see is the Enterprise directly in front of the destroyer.
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Phaser have proved ineffective against it, but still Decker –in his obsession–
has attempted to destroy the machine and now the second ship is trapped. Kirk
immediately communicates with his ship and orders the command to be given back
to Spock. In despair Decker steals a shuttle and flies it directly into the giant
machine.
Partly he is in peace being where his crew has found their end.
Kirk tries to stop him, but in vain.
The shuttle entering the machine
gives Kirk an idea. He has everybody beamed on board of the Enterprise and stays
on the Constellation, preparing it for self destruction.
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Kirk steers the ship directly into
the machine setting the self destruction time shortly after it has reached the
center of it and order the Enterprise to beam on board, but the transporter has
been damged by the alien machine's attack and Scott is frantically trying to
repair it. He succeeds just before the Constellation reaches the machine. The machine is destroyed from
its inside. Kirk and Spock agree to report Decker as dead on duty.
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