Executive Producer: Gene Roddenberry
Producers: Gene L. Coon + John Meredyth Lucas
Associate Producer: Robert H. Justman
Script Consultant: D. C. Fontana

Writer: D. C. Fontana
Dir.: Joseph Pevney

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

Eleen: Julie Newmar
Kras: Tige Andrews
Keel: Cal Bolder
Akaar: Ben Gage
Duur: Kirk Raymone
Grant: Robert Bralwer

Stardate 3497.2

Capella IV. Both Klingons as well as the Federation try to establish an alliance with the Capellans, an honorable but warlike tribe. Kirk informs his people how to behave according to Capellan customs and about the presence of Klingons who already had made contact, too. They should not let themselves be provoked. Eleen, the wife of Akaar, the deposed leader (Teer) of the tribe, is pregnant and expecting her child to be born soon. When they arrive one of the guards quickly pulls his phaser in the sight of a Klingon, but the situation is smoothed. 

Here already the Klingon uses the moment to bring the people of the Federation into bad light. According to Capellan customs, Eleen, as the widow of the former leader should be killed, Kirk intervenes in her defence and they all have to flee from the Capellan forces. Eleen is impressed by McCoy, because he knows that her baby is about to be born and allows him to touch her, but she refuses Spock's hand as he offers to support her while climbing a hill. McCoy helps her delivering the baby, but Eleen escapes and flees to her own people lying that the child and the others are dead. Meanwhile Kras, the Klingon, has plotted with another Capellan to gain power and killed the Teer of Capella. As much as the Capellans are warlike, they disgust betrayal and dishonesty. Kar is killed. Now things have changed and the newborn son "Leonard James Akkar" (named after the doctor and the captain) is the official ruler.