Let That Be Your Last Battlefield Line-by-Line

(Lokai beams himself away)
UHURA: Captain, someone has activated the transporter mechanism.

 

KIRK: Spock, anyone in the transporter room?

 

SPOCK: Negative, Captain. Transporter room is clear. However, there is a life-form materialising on the planet. It is Lokai. He is back on Cheron.

 

Kirk: There's nobody there to try him. His judges are all dead.

 

UHURA: Captain, the transporter mechanism has been activated again.

 

KIRK: Of course.

 

SPOCK: It is Bele, Captain. And another life-form has appeared on Cheron.

 

UHURA: It doesn't make any sense.

(Understatement!)

 

SPOCK: To expect sense from two mentalities of such extreme viewpoints is not logical.

 

Sulu: But their planet's dead. Does it matter now which one's right?

 

SPOCK: Not to Lokai and Bele. All that matters to them is their hate.

 

UHURA: Do you suppose that's all they ever had, sir?

 

KIRK: No, but that's all they have left. Warp factor two, Mister Sulu. Set course for Starbase Four.

The End.

 

Couldn't have happened to a more deserving planet....

Well, I gotta compliment the writers on one thing:
They certainly created a dreadful pair of villains to hiss.

Probably 2 of the most dreadful 1 dimensional card board standees you'll ever encounter.
I guess the one thing that kind of surprised me was that they made them both equally loathsome.
I mean, it's easy to detest Bele. He's the racist in power. But, Lokai was no slouch either in his underdog loathsome racism.

While, at a basic level, I'm drawn to root for the underdog, Lokai was such a duplicitous, manipulative racist, so you can't. Lokai is a master of "Let's You and Him Fight!" At least Bele was telling the truth on that score. Lokai reminds me of Che Guevara: Happily leading his followers to their deaths without a care for them. Just useful idiots to be used and murdered later. If Bele hadn't let it slip that Lokai's people really were herded into camps, one would wonder if they were oppressed at all. As much as Lokai was propagandizing, they might've been given the wrong flavor ice cream.

As bad as the episode was, I do have to hand them that.

But, one thing I just can't buy is that this has been going on for literally thousands of years? Really? And the Enterprise comes along, within a few weeks at the most of the final extermination? Any longer than that, and the bodies would have decomposed. (Roadkill doesn't last that long.)

 

Every time I hear cheron I think of the battle of cheron where the earth romulan war was decided there

 

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Okay,@Kertrats47 the next choice is yours.


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TOS

Where No Man Has Gone Before

The Man Trap

The Menagerie

Journey to Babel

The City on the Edge of Forever

The Doomsday Machine

Requiem for Methuselah

The Trouble with Tribbles

Spock's Brain

Space Seed

Mirror, Mirror

The Tholian Web

Bread and Circuses

Amok Time

The Corbomite Maneuver

Balance of Terror

Tomorrow is Yesterday

The Squire of Gothos

The Changeling

Return to Tomorrow

A Piece of the Action

That Which Survives

The Naked Time

Day of the Dove

The Devil in the Dark

I, Mudd

Arena

Wolf in the Fold

Errand of Mercy

The Enemy Within

The Immunity Syndrome

The Enterprise Incident

Let That Be Your Last Battlefield



The Animated Series

The Counter-Clock Incident

Yesteryear

How Sharper than a Serpent's Tooth




The Next Generation

Measure of a Man

Yesterday's Enterprise

Peak Performance

The First Duty

The Best of Both Worlds

Sins of the Father

All Good Things...

Contagion

Sarek

Face of the Enemy

Cause and Effect

Chain of Command

Q Who?

Lower Decks

Deja Q

The Enemy

Remember Me

Data's Day

The Defector

Parallels

Unification

Where No One Has Gone Before

The High Ground

Tapestry

Time's Arrow

Encounter at Farpoint

The Offspring

The Inner Light

Th Drumhead

Masks

I, Borg

Conspiracy

Darmok

The Arsenal of Freedom

Clues

Gambit



Deep Space Nine

The Visitor

Trials and Tribble-ations

The Way of the Warrior

Improbable Cause/The Die is Cast

Favor The Bold/The Sacrifice of Angels

Far Beyond the Stars

The Homecoming/The Circle/The Siege

The Maquis

Whispers

In the Pale Moonlight

Emissary

Second Skin

Badda-Bing, Badda-Bang

The Search

In Purgatory's Shadow/By Infernos Light

Children of Time

What You Leave Behind

Tribunal

Homefront / Paradise Lost

Rocks and Shoals

For The Uniform

Inquisition

You Are Cordially Invited...

The Sound of Her Voice

Take Me Out To The Holosuite

Our Man Bashir

The House of Quark

Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges

Little Green Men

The Jem'Hadar



Voyager

Bride of Chaotica

Dark Frontier

Scorpion

Counterpoint

Future's End

Basics

Message in a Bottle

The Voyager Conspiracy

Body and Soul

Caretaker

Memorial

Equinox

Year of Hell

Shattered

Blood Fever

Eye of the Needle

Worse Case Scenario

Timeless

Macrocosm

The Gift

Death Wish

Drive

Workforce

Tinker, Tailor

Living Witness

Blink of an Eye

Scientific Method

Twisted



Enterprise

Silent Enemy

Shuttlepod One

Borderland/Cold Station 12/The Augments

In a Mirror, Darkly

The Forge/Awakenings/Kir'Shara

Twilight

Breaking the Ice

Dead Stop

The Catwalk

Babel One/United/The Aenar

Storm Front

The Xindi

Affliction/Divergence

Broken Bow

Similitude

E2

Observer Effect

Damage

Azati Prime

The Forgotten

 

Hmmm... I don't see TNG: "Who Watches the Watchers" on the list... how about that one?

 

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