“Let That Be Your Last Battlefield”
Written by Oliver Crawford (Story by Lee Cronin)
Directed by Jud Taylor
Season 3, Episode 15
Production episode: 3×15
Original air date: January 10, 1969
Star date: 5730.2
Mission summary
Enterprise is on an important humanitarian mission to decontaminate Ariannus, which has succumbed to bacterial invasion that will kill billions of people without their timely intervention. But a funny thing happens on the way to the planet: they encounter a damaged Starfleet shuttlecraft which was jacked from Starbase 4. The lone pilot is injured and unable to respond to their hails, so they bring the shuttle onboard. Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock meet it at the hangar deck with a security team and a man in blackface stumbles into the corridor. But wait! He collapses and rolls over to dramatically reveal that the left side of his face is white!
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