The Organians
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Their pacifistic attitude and the debate they opened up between the Klingons and the Federation was interesting but the concept of omnipotent beings leaves me cold. Once you introduce them as enforcing the peace one has to wonder why they stopped.
Mind you, I think I prefer the Organians to the Q (as a concept - I rather like Q as a character).
Mind you, I think I prefer the Organians to the Q (as a concept - I rather like Q as a character).
Presumably they decided to leave the Klingons and Feds to sort it out for themselves after the signing of the Organian Peace Treaty mentioned in The Trouble With Tribbles.
The Organians seem to be completely out of the picture by the time of "A Private Little War". Kirk says that if the Klingons are found violating the treaty, it could cause an "interstellar war". No mention is made of the Organians intervening to prevent such a war, as they did in "Errand of Mercy".
The only reason the Organians interfered was because the UFP-Klingon conflict had spread to their planet. Once they got those pesky kids out of the yard, they didn't give a damn anymore. Nothing in the episode or the rest of the series ever indicated the Organians ever intended to enforce the terms of the treaty. My guess is the OPT was a completion of a proposed agreement the governments had been haggling over at the negotiations which broke off right before "Errand of Mercy".
The Organians are actually a somewhat useful plot device because it prevents all out war, but allows small little skirmishes that apparently don't amount attract their attention. Like the analogy above, the Organians don't care if the kids are throwing pinecones at each other in the back yard as long as they're not doing it in the front or in the house.
The Organians appear in a number of spin-off Trek literature, such as John Byrne's recent Romulans saga from IDW. They definitely seem very much opposed to the Feds and Klingons fighting one another anywhere in the cosmos in "Errand of Mercy", not just on their home planet. I always liked the way they stepped in at the end and forced the two superpowers to stop fighting one another; they seemed very noble to me.
They are as far above us as we are above the amoeba.
Whenever I watch this episode I am reminded that even though the show made the Klingons as a whole out to be a cowardly, villainous race, the performances of John Colicos, Michael Ansara, and William Campbell brought a lot of depth to their characters that allowed the Klingons to become the honorable warrior race of TNG.
Whenever I watch this episode I am reminded that even though the show made the Klingons as a whole out to be a cowardly, villainous race, the performances of John Colicos, Michael Ansara, and William Campbell brought a lot of depth to their characters that allowed the Klingons to become the honorable warrior race of TNG.
I would agree with villainous, their role in TOS is as the foil for our heroes, but where are you seeing cowardly?
Would it be out of line to bring up ENT's "Observer Effect"?
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