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158			    WHOM GODS DESTROY
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WRITER: Lee Erwin

GUESTS: Yvonne Craig (Marta)
	Steve Ihnat (Garth?)
	Key Luke
	Richard Geary
	Gary Downey

AIRED:	January 3, 1969

HACK-MAN rating: .720
Usenet rating:   .547

QUOTES:
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			    WHOM GODS DESTROY

PLOT:
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Captain Garth, the insane polymorph, takes over  the penal  planet where he
was being treated.  He is a shape-changing  psychopath on  an insane asylum
planet which is protected by force field.  He  changes into  an official of
the institute  and  also  James  Kirk  in  an  attempt  to  get  aboard the
Enterprise and  escape from  the planet.   Kirk  set up  a code  to be used
before transporting up, based on 3-D chess.  Spock must choose which is the
imposter Kirk and stun him.

FACTS:
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 - Password is  "Queen to queen's level three".   The  correct  response is
   "Queen to king's level one".
 - Kirk claims that there are an infinite number of responses  to the chess
   move (which is, of course, an incorrect statement).
 - Marta,  the  loopy  Orion  girl,  is played  by the actress  that played
   Batgirl in the Campy "Batman" TV series.
 - Andorian.

OPINIONS:
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Was there  any  reason  why  Spock couldn't  have stunned  *both* Kirks and
decided which was the imposter later?  Other  than this  point, the episode
was quite enjoyable.