The Devil in the Dark
- Episode aired Mar 9, 1967
- TV-PG
- 50m
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8.3/10
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The Enterprise is sent to a mining colony that is being terrorized by a mysterious monster, only to find that the situation is not that simple.The Enterprise is sent to a mining colony that is being terrorized by a mysterious monster, only to find that the situation is not that simple.The Enterprise is sent to a mining colony that is being terrorized by a mysterious monster, only to find that the situation is not that simple.
George Allen
- Engineer #1
- (as George E. Allen)
Lee Allen
- Janus VI Miner
- (uncredited)
Tom Anfinsen
- Civilian Engineer
- (uncredited)
Bill Blackburn
- Lieutenant Hadley
- (uncredited)
Frank da Vinci
- Lt. Osborne
- (uncredited)
Robert Hitchcock
- Miner
- (uncredited)
Monty O'Grady
- Miner
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
- All cast & crew
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Did you know
- TriviaIn his book "Star Trek Memories", William Shatner identified this as his favourite episode, because his father died during filming and Leonard Nimoy's delivery of the mind meld lines made him laugh. He thought it was "exciting, thought-provoking and intelligent, it contained all of the ingredients that made up our very best Star Treks."
- GoofsUsing clubs to attack the Horta would make no sense. Since the Horta exudes an extremely corrosive fluid to create its tunnels, capable of dissolving large quantities of solid rock in seconds, all it would need to do to protect against the clubs is release a large quantity of the corrosive. Any kind of club used to attack the Horta at that point would simply disintegrate when it touched the corrosive on the Horta's exterior.
- Quotes
[McCoy has been ordered to help a silicon-based life form]
McCoy: You can't be serious. That thing is virtually made out of stone!
Captain James T. Kirk: Help it. Treat it.
McCoy: I'm a doctor, not a bricklayer.
Captain James T. Kirk: You're a healer. There's a patient. That's an order.
- Alternate versionsSpecial Enhanced version Digitally Remastered with new exterior shots and remade opening theme song
- ConnectionsFeatured in Star Trek: The Animated Series: One of Our Planets Is Missing (1973)
- SoundtracksTheme From Star Trek
Written by and credited to Alexander Courage
Featured review
The Horta, not life as we know it
Leonard Nimoy's Vulcan mind meld proves of invaluable assistance in this Star Trek episode. Life may not look anything like it does on earth and it may not even function bodily as we do on earth. But life can be found in the strangest of places.
Consider this planet which looks to be made of solid rock, yet something is killing off the miners in Ken Lynch's crew. Which is why he sent a distress call and the Enterprise responds.
Lynch's men are not being killed, in fact they're being burned to a crisp. It's being done by a creature we learn calls itself a Horta and to our eyes it's not aesthetically pleasing.
This Star Trek story reduces life to a problem of communication. The Horta has a very good reason for doing what it does.
It's a good moral this story has, all we need in the Universe is better communication.
Consider this planet which looks to be made of solid rock, yet something is killing off the miners in Ken Lynch's crew. Which is why he sent a distress call and the Enterprise responds.
Lynch's men are not being killed, in fact they're being burned to a crisp. It's being done by a creature we learn calls itself a Horta and to our eyes it's not aesthetically pleasing.
This Star Trek story reduces life to a problem of communication. The Horta has a very good reason for doing what it does.
It's a good moral this story has, all we need in the Universe is better communication.
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