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110			  A PIECE OF THE ACTION
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WRITER: David P. Harmon and Gene L. Coon

GUESTS: Anthony Caruso (Bella Oxmix)
	Victor Tayback (Georgeo Krako)
	Lee Delano
	John Harmon
	Steve Arnold
	Dyanne Thorne
	Sharon Hillyer
	Sheldon Collins

AIRED:  January 12, 1968

HACK-MAN rating: .845
Usenet rating:   .848

QUOTES:
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 - "Fascinating."  --Spock  (after staring at the posterior of a woman in a
   short skirt walking by)
 - "This is like coming home." --McCoy  "Home was never like this." --Kirk
 - "Don't give me those baby blue eyes." --Gangster
 - "That man's dead back there." --McCoy
 - "Published in 1992." --Kirk
 - "On Beta Antares Four they play a card game..." --Kirk
 - "The name  of the  game is  called  fizbin.   Each player gets six cards
   exceptfor the dealer and the player on the dealer's [right]." --Kirk
 - "The odds of getting a royal fizbin are astronomical...  Spock, what are
   the odds of  getting a royal fizbin?"  --Kirk    "I have  never computed
   them." --Spock
 - "Makers of bang-bang... the sweetest little  [heater|cereal]  in the..."
   --radio
 - "I just  think your  behavior is arrested." --Kirk   "I ain't never been
   arrested in my whole life." --Krako
 - "Why would he put a bag on my captain?" --Spock
 - "They can't do nothin' til they're through sparklin'" --Gangster
 - "Sir, you are employing a double negative." --Spock  "Eh?" --Oxmix
 - "[...] logic  [...] ---Spock   "You admit that." --McCoy   "To deny that
   would be illogical." --Spock
 - "Get out of the clothes." --Kirk
 - "Captain,  you are an excellent  Starship Captain,  but as a taxi driver
   you leave much to be desired." --Spock
 - "Where'd you get them ears?" --Kid  "Young man!" --Spock
 - "Out  of  the mouths  of babes..."  --Kirk    "Who you callin'  a babe?"
   --Young Man  "I'm calling you a babe... but [don't take it personally.]"
   --Kirk
 - "Who's your friend with the ears, Kirk?" --Krako
 - "I believe it would be  wise to do as he says. I believe I [just heard]"
   --Spock   "[Just heard the]  sound of a  machine gun  bolt being  pulled
   back." --Kirk
 - "That's  peanuts  to  [an outfit like  the]  Federation.  Right?" --Kirk
   "Unquestionably." --Spock  "*Right*?" --Kirk  "Right." --Spock
 - "Miniscule... a very... small... piece [of the action]" --Spock
 - "Check?" -Kirk  "Right." -Spock
 - "Right?" --Kirk  "Check." --Spock
 - "It looks like *we* put the bag on you." --Scott
 - "[___]  you'll be wearin' concrete galoshes." --Scott   "You mean cement
   overshoes?" --Krako  "Aye." --Scott
 - "You afraid of cars?" --Kirk  "[No], it's your driving." --Spock
 - "[   ] neutronium, but [   ]." --Scott
 - "I would advise *youse* to keep dialing, Oxmix." --Spock
 - "I'm comin' over with a couple of my boys and I'll... mother." --Boss
 - "The transtator  is the  basic  [component]  in all  of our  machinery."
   --Kirk
 - "Daddy, daddy,  I  hurt  myself!" --Boy    "Whatsa matter  kid, you hurt
   yourself?" --Guard

			  A PIECE OF THE ACTION

PLOT:
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Kirk must find a way to  counteract the  effects of  an earlier expedition,
which caused a planet's civilization (Iotians) to pattern  itself after the
Chicago mobs of the Twenties.  Kirk calls McCoy "Sawbones"  and calls Spock
"Spocko".

FACTS:
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 - Alternate Earth (the Iotians are imitative and pattern their lives after
   a book about the 1920s).
 - The USS Horizon left the book.
 - Vulcan nerve pinch.

OPINIONS:
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A good "campy" episode; entertaining  in much  in the  same way  as the old
"Batman" television series was.   Another  one of  those wonderful episodes
where the actors are able to step out of character.

It could have been worse.  They could have  accidentally left  a really bad
novel behind...  like maybe "The Royale".  :-)