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WRITER: Don M. Mankiewica and Stephen W. Carabatsos

GUESTS: Percy Rodriguez (Attorney?)
	Elisha Cook, Jr.
	Joan Marshall
	Richard Webb
	Alice Rawlings
	Hagan Beggs
	Winston DeLugo

AIRED:  February 2, 1967

HACK-MAN rating: .325
Usenet rating:   .532

QUOTES:
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 - "You may be able to beat your next captain at chess." --Kirk.


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PLOT:
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Kirk is placed on trial when the ship's records  show that  he committed an
error that cost a crewmember's life.  The "dead" crewman changed the ship's
computer tapes so  it shows  Kirk jettisoning  the pod  during YELLOW alert
instead of red alert.  Spock wins  at 3-D  chess against  the computer five
games in a row, convincing him that the  ship's computer  has been tampered
with (the best he  should have  been able  to achieve  was a  draw since he
programmed the  game in  himself.)   McCoy masks  out the  heartbeat of all
remaining crewmembers  after  most  have  beamed down  to see  if anyone is
hiding.  For some reason they can tell how many life forms are  on a planet
they are  orbiting,  but  not  on  their  own  ship!    McCoy masks Spock's
heartbeat out as if it were in  the human  position rather  than the Vulcan
position.  They then listen to  the noises  with the  heartbeats masked out
and hear another  single heartbeat  (and for  some reason  don't hear their
voices amplified about a billion times).

FACTS:
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 - The crewman "died" at stardate 2945.7.
 - Kirk was an ensign on the USS Republic NCC-1371.
 - Kirk's   serial   number   is  S [D|C] -937-0176-CEC  (Captain, Starship
   Commander).
 - Spock's  serial  number is  S-179-276-SP  (Lt. Commander, First Officer,
   Science Officer).
 - McCoy is Lt. Commander, Ship's Surgeon.
 - Kirk mentions amplifying "one to the fourth power"
 - Kirk  was hot  for  Areel Shaw.   He might also  have had  a tryst  with
   Yeoman Helen Johannson.

OPINIONS:
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Pretty minor offense for losing one's captaincy over.  Seems like they'd be
firing captains every day if this were the policy.

They make a big deal of "books" and "rights of the accused".