Trust me, youll love it! I am really hooked on this series, kind of burning through the books. Easily move forward or backward to get to the perfect clip. Theyre being chased by guys in monks robes. However, the Archons do not respect the limits of their living space, nor do they respect the limits of the purposes for which they were created., While the Archons cannot physically touchdown on Planet Earth, they can project their thoughts telepathically and their images holographically. This computer, now calling itself Landru, and speaking with the human Landru's voice, was entrusted with the care of the Body, the society of Beta III. //]]>. Spock protests: Captain, our Prime Directive of non-interference and Kirk retorts: That refers to a living, growing culture. Star Trek S1 E21 "The Return of the Archons". They stay the night. They are given rooms and retreat from the mayhem outside, trying their best to get a few hours' sleep. A delusional person is someone who has a belief that is held with an extremely strong conviction despite superior evidence to the contrary. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. When his life clashes it makes for an interesting story. And the Landru computer winds up affecting the Ferengi a century hence in Caveat Emptor by Ian Edginton & Mike Collins. The evil must be destroyed! | Spock." Despite the supreme awfulness of Bilar, we do get another episode with great guest stars, two of whom are prolific character actors from the sixties. Learn how your comment data is processed. We see many things come about in this book. Blasting through the wall, Kirk reveals the truth: an ancient computer, built and programmed by the real Landru 6,000 years earlier before he died. The dungeon set was first constructed for this episode, and reused in the first-season episode "Errand of Mercy" and the second-season episode "Catspaw". Return of The Archons Stardate: 3156.2 Original Airdate: 9 Feb, 1967 [Street] (Two men in colonial style clothing, complete with One falls.) 57 reviews Listening length: 9 hours Each member of Omega Force carries his own baggage. Reger leads the Enterprise landing team to a hiding place. Kirk, acting on a hunch, defies them and causes confusion. Pursued, the officers call for beam-out, but O'Neil flees before they are to be beamed up. I decided to use the star rating more objectively as follows: Another gem in the series and sets up for another great adventure in the series which I am greatly looking forward for it. Were told about so many things: the Festival, the Red Hour (which makes people run mad in the streets, smashing windows and molesting women), the Archons, the lawgivers and their sticks of doom, Landrus computer and how it controls everything. Kirk is taken to a futuristic room: the absorption chamber. [31], "Return of the Archons" is one of actor Ben Stiller's favorite episodes of Star Trek. Then Crusher was stabbed in the chest. Kirk and Spock discuss this with the Landru computer, asking it difficult questions it has evidently never had to answer; questions about whether its approach to creating the good is really creating evil. McCoy tends to her, but then Hacom returns with two lawgivers, the guys in robes. A large "rock" made of papier-mch accidentally hits one of the Enterprise security personnel in the head. Linda McMahon Kirk and Spock use their phasers to blast through the wall and expose a computer programmed by Landru, who died 6,000 years ago. [12] David L. Ross made his third appearance on Star Trek in this episode, after having appeared as a security guard in the episodes "Miri" and as a transporter chief in "The Galileo Seven" earlier in the first season. Back in the cell, Kirk, Spock, and Lindstrom speak in private while McCoy and Galloway sit beatifically (Leslie has, at this point, been completely forgotten about and is not seen for the rest of the episode). Reger, learning the landing party did not attend Festival, concludes they are not of the Body, and asks an astonishing question: "Are you Archons?" This is known as psychological warfare, but Archontic manipulation far surpasses anything the United States, Russia, Vatican City, Israel, or the United Kingdom has, of yet, invented. Finally, his parents were from Texas (he was born there), where "Catholic" meant neighboring Louisiana (and Mexico, of course). In "Archons," the problem was something as nebulous and ill-defined as the battle between good and evil, but in "Armageddon," the trouble is more concretewar, and the various things that it is . Lovell is sent to Beta III to deal with the aftermath of the Enterprises actions (aided by Scotty) in Foundations Book 2 by Dayton Ward & Kevin Dilmore. Through it all the crew grows in the face of danger and continues to have fun with each other. McCoy is actually pretty calm early on in the episode, which is probably so that itll be a bigger contrast when he goes bugnuts crazy later on. They try to right some wrongs being forced on people who cant fight back. The next day, though, someone tips the Brown Cloaks off to the landing party, and attempts to "absorb" them into the Lotus-Eater Machine. Tamar is supremely well known, appearing in The Cage and a season three episode of. What they find isn't promising; a giant Lotus-Eater Machine disguised as a 19th-century town, where every Victorian-clad citizen is nice and friendly and not at all a Stepford Smileruntil the evening falls, during which they, wellaren't. Then you will probably like listening to us too. With Sulu out of commission, Scotty is left in charge of the ship, the first time weve seen the chief engineer as part of the chain of command. Kirk refuses, which confuses the hell out of the lawgivers, who have never encountered disobedience before. Please update your browser to one of the following: Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Flashback | Recap | Star Trek: The Original Series S1E21: The Return of the Archons, When Lt. Sulu (George Takei) returns to the. Timeline Previous Next Your View. Spock replies that they are quite Human, it is just that there are facts missing currently as to why they behave like computers. The moment the clock strikes six, everyone stopped moving in tandem, then goes berserk, trashing and burning things, grabbing women and carrying them off. Sulu sets this up by becoming the first member of the crew to become absorbed by 'the body'. | They start communing, which according to Reger means they have time to get away to somewhere safe. Are the Festival and the Red Hour the same thing? The teaser and Act 1 have some great stuff. They find the inhabitants living in a 19th-century Earth-style culture, ruled over by cloaked and cowled "Lawgivers" and a reclusive dictator, Landru. [11] This was actor Jon Lormer's second appearance on Star Trek. But of course, the good captain will have, Landru seeks tranquility. Written by Boris Sobelman (based on a story by Gene Roddenberry), and directed by Joseph Pevney, it first aired on February 9, 1967. Quotes submission guide. He received his first speaking role as Lieutenant Johnson in the second season episode "The Trouble with Tribbles", and appeared in another speaking role as Lt. Galloway in the second season episode "The Omega Glory". Yarn is the best search for video clips by quote. Contacting the ship, Kirk learns that heat beams from the planet are attacking the Enterprise, which must use all its power for its shields. Its actually pretty frustrating. From now on, the inhabitants of Beta III must find their own answers. They live in hive-like structures. "genetic engineering mixing species and creating hybrids that were never meant to exist.". And before Sulu can be transported up, one of the guys in robes hits him with a stick. Possibly the most character driven book of the series so far, the pacing was far better than the earlier books and the intrigue and plot drove the narrative. The universal good." -Landru says this to Kirk just before knocking the landing party out with a hypersonic wave and just after causing the planet's population to riot in the streets "This is a soulless society, captain. Wiki Manage all your favorite fandoms one place Try FanCentral Don have account Register Sign Memory Alpha Manage all your favorite fandoms one place Try FanCentral Don have account Register Sign. Edit 11 - 'Tomorrow is Yesterday', Court Martial' and 'Return of the Archons.' (2010 Podcast Episode) Quotes It looks like we don't have any Quotes for this title yet. Is it like The Purge, where the people just get out all their repression in one fell swoop? Sulu calls for beam-out, but ONeil is panicking and runs away. Just click the "Edit page" button at the bottom of the page or learn more in the Quotes submission guide. Landru insists that they will be obliterated for the good of the body. This is another term for the Archontic hive mind. It's strictly paint by numbers. The leading lawgiver, who speaks with a strange inhuman-sounding voice (even though he and his fellow lawgiver appear to be Human), command the landing party to accompany them to the absorption chambers, to be absorbed into "the body.". "Yes. Marplon reveals that he wasnt able to help McCoy or Galloway, but he keeps Spock normal the way he did Kirk. There is so much introduced in this episode, and so much left hanging. Unless, that is, Kirk wants to willfully ignore it, as he does here. The landing party holds them off with phasers on stun (it helps that the people move really slowly). We begin with Lt . After subduing their captors (why they didn't do that, before, is anyone's guess, as is why Landru bothered to bring them to his inner sanctum to assimilate them instead of having the Brown Cloaks touch them with their Swiss Rolls), Kirk has Reger and Marplon take them to Landruwhich turns out to be a giant computer (what else?). [10] A projection of Landru appears and threatens them. Star Trek (1966) - S01E21 The Return of the Archons clip with quote - You came for the Festival? When he materializes, hes spouting gibberish about being of the body, looking for Archons, paradise, and so on, all with a goofy smile on his face. [27][28] Burstein criticizes the episode for attacking organized religion, which it presented as suppressing freedom and creativity. One was a direct sequel, as the Corps of Engineers ship the U.S.S. ", "Captain, our Prime Directive of non-interference." But on the way, Landru employs a form of mass telepathy on the townsfolk to command an attack, which is easily repelled by the landing parties' phaser fire. O'NEIL: It's no use. "[17] Indeed, the Prime Directive would only truly be honored during the series in the episode "Bread and Circuses". Is a Crapshoot: Landru was once a real person, a leader of the colony on the planet, who built the machine to help him keep the peace over the people; once Landru died, the computer took over his name, identity, and purpose, and . $j("#connectPrompt").show(); Quotes Captain James T. Kirk: You'd make a splendid computer, Mr Spock. Yarn is the best search for video clips by quote. But so what? Landru says peace, order, and tranquility are the good. If Kirk can't put a stop to the beams, the ship will be destroyed in less than twelve hours. I prefer the concrete, the graspable, the provable., Youd make a splendid computer, Mr. Spock.. Nor does the script ever bother to explain why older people dont participate in the festival. Captains log. Is it like. [24] The Federation's moral superiority is exhibited through its emphasis on individual freedom, progress, and resort to violence only in self-defense, while the Betan society is criticized for its state control, stagnation, and reliance on aggression. Spock explaining his worldview, Kirk insulting him, and Spock refusing delivery on the insult. Kirk and Spock put on the lawgivers robes and contact the ship. The universal good., This is a soulless society, captain. Scotty, in command of the Enterprise, reports that her shields are able to deflect them, but nearly all ship's power is diverted to this purpose. It never goes anywhere. Kirk and Spock convince the computer that without creativity, there is no life, and that by stifling creativity it is the evil that must be destroyed for the greater good. But so what? O'NEIL: It's no use, Mister Sulu. This is corrupting the image(s) YHVH originally created., Racism originates from Darwinian evolutionary thinking and is faulty at best and detrimental at worse. It looks like we don't have any Quotes for this title yet. The lawgivers then take Spock away. Kirk decides the plug must be pulled. $j("#generalRegPrompt").hide(); Lieutenants Sulu and O'Neil are undercover, wearing clothing of the style worn on Earth in the late 19th and early 20th century, and dispatched to the surface of the Earth-like planet Beta III to learn what became of the Archon, which disappeared there one hundred years earlier. The Archons, in fact, are much less powerful than the Aeons who live in the Pleroma. This story was very interesting because we got to learn about Crusher and his home planet - lots of fun surprises there! The universal good. To ensure the becalmed Beta III civilians moved at the same time as each other, prerecorded drumbeats were played on the exterior set then muted during post-production. The street scenes were part of the "Town of Atlanta", a set which consists of a mid-1800s city street, a town square, and a residential area (originally constructed for the motion picture Gone with the Wind in 1939). It is because of Landru that they go crazy? He's here, now. ", "You said you wanted freedom. When Kirk is released, he pretends to be of the body to fool the lawgivers. The lawgivers are relieved by a man named Marplon, who turns out to be part of the same resistance as Reger and Tamar. See also Archons make people think that they are more powerful than humanity. Written by Boris Sobelman (based on a story by Gene Roddenberry), and directed by Joseph Pevney, it first aired on February 9, 1967.. Who has the agency there? So,, Gog and Magog are celebrated as "patron saints" and "protectors" of London?, What if Rh negative blood is a remnant of Nephilim seed still woven into the fabric of humanity? There, Landru regretfully informs them that their interference is causing great harm, and that they, and all who knew of them, must be killed, to cleanse the memory of the Body. Kirk leaves the ship's sociologist to guide the colony to a more "human" existence, and goes gallivanting off to a new adventure. Kirk argues that the Prime Directive does not bar interference with other cultures, but rather bars interference only with a "living and growing" culture. Keith R.A. DeCandido will be a Special Guest at the Myths and Legends Convention (a.k.a. Another great addition to the Omega force series. Welcome back. He orders Leslie and Galloway to take the still-unconscious O'Neil with them over the strenuous objections of Reger. The mature and wise individual always is willing to listen to an opposing opinion, and actually is eager to hear the opposing point of view, in order to make sure his or her theories and beliefs can withstand all opposing ideas and to revise his or her ideas if necessary., Archons live mainly in Saturn's Rings. Were going to see something very similar to this in a few episodes, with This Side of Paradise. Therell be another force attempting to subsume Kirk and his crew into a euphoric zombie state. Captain Kirk beams down with a larger landing party all wearing clothing in the style of those worn by Sulu and O'Neil to investigate. Then when the Starfleet offices want to confront someone for assaulting a woman during the Red Hour, Reger shrugs them off: It wasnt Bilar [who attacked her], it was Landru. What does that mean? http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/StarTrekS1E21TheReturnOfTheArchons. Reger takes him to a safe house where he has a lighting panel that is obviously way beyond the technology of this world. is utterly genuine as a conflicted man watching his society spin out of control, leading a bit of a resistance movement. These quotes encapsulate the divine ideals/philosophies of each archon, and have been used as ripe material for speculation on the future nations/archons. He had previously appeared as Dr. Theodore Haskins in the episode "The Menagerie" and would make a third appearance as an unnamed old man in the third-season episode "For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky". What happens after Kirk destroys the only thing keeping this planet running? Landru says this is a world without hate, fear, conflict, disease, or crime. Revised final draft teleplay by Roddenberry: This episode started out as a candidate to be the first, According to the trivia section on the video release, "The Archons" was a club. Channel open. A friend of Reger's suspects that the visitors are "not of the Body" (the whole of Betan society),[8] and summons Lawgivers. A delusional person has false or unrealistic beliefs or opinions. [21], The episode contains two errors. "Landru seeks tranquility. [27] But religious scholar Michael Anthony Corey praises the episode for realizing that the elimination of a huge number of moral evils can occur only by causing a single, massive moral evil (the loss of free will). Once out of danger, Reger explains the whole thing: he is a resistance fighter against the Brown Cloaks and their master, Landru, who controls the people via Mind Control, and polices them with the Brown Cloaks; anyone out of its thrall is told You Will Be Assimilated (so, nothing like the Borg, then), and are killed if they can't be. Find the exact moment in a TV show, movie, or music video you want to share. Who has the agency there? This could be a seriously meaty episode, but it all falls flat and feels as hollow as the lawgivers sticks of doom. En route, a telepathic command causes the townspeople to attack the landing party. To that end, it has enslaved all members of that society, and those who visit, in a thralldom of happiness that is stagnant and without creativity. Find the exact moment in a TV show, movie, or music video you want to share. Yarn is the best search for video clips by quote. These guys are not white knights coming to the rescue, but they will get in and get dirty when needed. As Captain Picard will put it in . The Return of the Tropes: Absurdly Dedicated Worker: Landru continues to follow its original programming without seeing the damage it is causing the society. Peace for all. The Enterprise leaves Lindstrom and a team behind to help guide them back to normality. Probably what I love most about this series is that the bad guys are bad and get what they deserve, and the good guys are good and noble and honorable - none of the annoying gray space that so many movies and books now live in where truly awful and evil people are really just misunderstood - ugh. However, an important modification is made to the absolutist non-interference rule almost immediately. Taking advantage of their confusion, Reger guides the crew to a place he knows, where they will be safe. Following this intense disappointment is one of the most significant episodes in the shows history: Space Seed. Its the only episode to have a feature-length direct sequel in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. //]]>. It is. This could be a seriously meaty episode, but it all falls flat and feels as hollow as the lawgivers sticks of doom. Star Trek: The Original Series - The Roddenberry Vault, Memory Alpha articles needing page citations. SULU: O'Neil, we've got to keep going. This book was perfect overthought it got bit boring the middle chapters but swiftly after it picked up it's pace. Season 1, Episodes 22 Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. Goofs Landru, one of the leaders, took the people back to a simpler time. Just click the "Edit page" button at the bottom of the page or learn more in the Seeking the answer to a century-old mystery, Kirk and crew encounter a vacantly peaceful society under a 6000-year autocratic rule that kills all those it can't absorb. Unless, that is, Kirk wants to willfully ignore it, as he does here. [20] The doors to the Hall of Audiences were a reuse of doors previously seen in the episode "What Are Little Girls Made Of?" Is, animal-human hybrids are just as "Nephilim" as angel-human hybrids, it, It was the practice of transhuman, genetic engineering, which resulted in all flesh becoming corrupted. He'd correctly concluded this society is built around obedience, and might not be ready for any disobedience. They give these individuals what is essentially a computer virus. ("Swept Up: Snippets from the Cutting Room Floor". Directed by Joseph Pevney. (Clearly I really like these books by my total overuse of exclamation points! Cant we just reverse the polarity? It has to be earned." to Marplon: Kirk : "Without freedom of choice, there is no creativity. ", "If I were you, I'd start looking for another job. Reger reveals that Landru "pulled the Archons down from the skies". The single, important benefit of this episode is the creation of the Prime Directive, something that will become a cornerstone of Star Trek throughout the following fifty years. [15], This was noted as one of the episodes of Star Trek that does not have a traditional villain, and noted that computers gone wrong as a villain might be expected in a technologically advanced culture as depicted by Star Trek. Return of the Archons. Our Privacy Notice has been updated to explain how we use cookies, which you accept by continuing to use this website. And he's not who he claims to be. Original air date: February 9, 1967. Spock is concerned this would violate the Prime Directive, but Kirk opines that the directive applies to living, growing cultures, of which this is not. Ultimately, they convince the computer that it is the evil, and that it must destroy the evil and it does so, exploding and ceasing to function. Just click the "Edit page" button at the bottom of the page or learn more in the Quotes submission guide. Review Images Datapoints Quotes Morals. Quotes tagged as "archons" Showing 1-20 of 20. The natives are placid, but theirs is the mindless placidity . This planet is incredibly earthlike, except that the population runs amok in the streets at The Red Hour. Hooded, zombie-like, lawgivers stride throughout the streets killing dissenters, all while intoning that they do the will of Landru. The conversation is interrupted by the arrival of Hacom and two lawgivers, the robed servants of the mysterious Landru. Please no more. Reger (. ) Sulu and ONeil have been sent down to Beta III, dressed in native clothes, searching for evidence of the U.S.S. Its the birth of two of Star Treks most egregious clichs, the world-running computer and Kirk talking a computer to death, and while the former has potential (that the episode wastes), the latter is hilariously pathetic, as there is nothing in Kirks questioning of Landru that is in any way convincing as enough to make the computer go blooey. Home TV TV Reviews Flashback | Recap | Star Trek: The Original Series S1E21: The Return of the Archons. At Regers urging, McCoy sedates ONeil before he can come around from the stun blast. Unfortunately for it, Kirk regains his Logic Bomb mojo and makes it explode by forcing it to realize it's harming the very people it sought to protect by stifling their free will and creativity (how Anvilicious of you). It neutralizes the two phasers. Operation -- Annihilate! Theres jumping right into the middle with Sulu and ONeil being chased, then the intrigue of red hour and Hacoms comment about how the landing party is too young to be excused from the festival. Marplon gives him two phasers back and sends him away, with Spock, like Kirk, acting obedient for the sake of the lawgivers. Still some good writing. The episode contains Star Trek's first reference to the Prime Directive. "Red Hour", the time of day when the "Festival" begins, is the name of his production company. But, fun characters, quick adventures, easy reads. Archon, which disappeared there a hundred years earlier. Roddenberry picked this as one of his ten favorite episodes for the franchise's 25th anniversary. and would be reused in "A Taste of Armageddon". As one, everyone picks up a rock or a stick or something and moves on the landing party as a single unit. What is their purpose? The heat beams stop, and the Enterprise is saved. This episode marks one of four times Kirk is able to ", This episode has the only teaser to fade out with a close-up on George Takei. [16][17] Scholar Eric Greene argues this is reflective of the "frontier myth" of Star Trek and American foreign policy in the late 20th century, in which a superior culture expands to impose its understanding of freedom and progress on others. [14], "The Return of the Archons" introduces for the first time the Federation's Prime Directive. It's time you learned that freedom is never a gift. Spock mentions the Prime Directive of noninterference, but Kirk dismisses that as applying to a living, breathing culture, not a stagnant one. The landing party, he says, will be absorbed and subverted into the common good of the body. Landru says this to Kirk just before knocking the landing party out with a hypersonic wave and just after causing the planets population to riot in the streets. Kirk asks Landru what is the good? The USSEnterprise, under the command of Captain Kirk, arrives at the planet Beta III in the C-111 system where the USS Archon was reported lost nearly 100 years earlier. Return of the Archons (2016) Quotes It looks like we don't have any Quotes for this title yet. Enjoyed reading this review? Or likely release the emotions that are otherwise kept under wraps for the rest of the year; have to be vented sometime, similar to Vulcans. Tamar thinks that they simply have different ways in the valley (where theyre pretending theyre from), but Hacom says that Landru is all-seeing and they have lawgivers in the valley, too. They take O'Neill with them, but keep him sedated on Reger's advice. Yarn is the best search for video clips by quote. $j("#facebookRegPrompt").hide(); In S1:E21, The Return of the Archons, the crew arrives on a planet to find that nearly everyone exists in a kind of soulless trance; though during the "Festival" or "Red Hour" they succumb to violent rages against each other. He later appeared as Jaris, ruler of Argelius II, in the second-season episode "Wolf in the Fold". Required fields are marked *. Reger brings them to a room, and Kirk questions Reger about Landru, a name theyve heard a lot, but the very notion of questioning Landru puts Reger in a panic. - Yes. Quotes By Joshua Dalzelle. Copyright 2021 Ready Steady Cut. Rob Skiba, Archon Invasion: The Rise, Fall and Return of the Nephilim. Alien Parasites: 40 Gnostic Truths to Defeat the Archon Invasion. Star Trek TOS music ~ S01E21 The Return of the Archons ~ original film music extracted from the TV series. Alternate versions Special Enhanced version Digitally Remastered with new exterior shots and remade opening theme song Connections Featured in Star Trek Logs: An MTV Big Picture Special Edition (1991) Soundtracks Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Lieutenant Lindstrom (the ships sociologist), and two security guards, Leslie and Galloway, beam down, also in native attire. Find the exact moment in a TV show, movie, or music video you want to share. When Lt. Sulu (George Takei) returns to the Enterprise without his partner on the landing party, muttering dazedly about paradise, Captain Kirk (William Shatner) must investigate a strange planet. Communications are poor, escape is impossible, and the orbit is decaying. Welcome back. Mr. Spock: That is very kind of you, Captain. The Festival ends at six the next morning, with the townsfolk simply stopping their acts of havoc and violence; and going on their way as if nothing had happened. 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