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52			    ELAAN OF TROYIUS
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WRITER: John Meredyth Lucas

GUESTS:	France Nuyen (Elaan)
	Jay Robinson (Petri)
	Tony Young (Kryton)
	Majel Barrett (Nurse Chapel)
	Lee Duncan (Evens)
	Victor Brandt (Watson)
	Dick Durdock (Guard #1)
	Charles Beck (Guard #2)
	K.L. Smith (Klingon)

AIRED:	December 20, 1968

HACK-MAN rating: .205
Usenet rating:   .450

QUOTES:
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 - "If I have to stay here for ten light years..." --_____
 - "Are you out of your Vulcan mind?" --McCoy
 - "Spock,  the women  on your planet  are logical.   It is the only planet
   that can make that claim." --Kirk


			    ELAAN OF TROYIUS

PLOT:
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The Enterprise  is  transporting  Princess Dolman  (a spoiled  wench) to be
married (poor groom) to the ruler of a planet her  people are  at war with.
Things get complicated when Kirk falls in love with the princess.  Women of
Elas have magic tears that make you fall in love with them when touched and
the spell never wears off (as if Kirk need a *reason* to fall  in love with
a woman).  There is no antidote to the spell the tears cast.   McCoy spends
the entire episode trying  to come  up with  an antidote,  and finally does
just before the end of the episode.  It isn't needed,  though, because Kirk
is able  to  resist  her  on  his own  due to  his first  love--that of the
Enterprise.  Kinda makes you wanna retch, eh?

Dolman is  wearing a  dilithium crystal  necklace.   Dilithium crystals are
abundant on  Elas,  which  has  the  Klingons  interested  in  the  planet.
Klingons sabotage Enterprise's warp drive so it will  go kablooie.   If the
Enterprise had used warp as  the Klingons  wanted, *both*  ships would have
been destroyed!!

FACTS:
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 - Kirk wants  the princess  to eat chicken  (or something with very little
   meat on a bone) with *silverware*.
 - Elaan Dolman is the spoiled white Elasian.
 - Ambassador Petri is a blue Troyian.
 - 1 Enterprise crewman dead (engineering).
 - Telon star system.
 - Planet Elas.
 - Aphrodisiacal tears.
 - The Elasian is let on board with personal atomic weapons?!
 - The Elasian ship had atomic propulsion.

OPINIONS:
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She was a bit too much to take, and detracted from whatever plot there was.