The Savage Curtain "Mork & Mindy". The Savage Curtain "The Savage Curtain" is a episode of the American science fiction television series "", first broadcast on March 7, 1969, and repeated July 1, 1969. It is episode #77, production #77, written by Gene Roddenberry and Arthur Heinemann, based on an original story by Gene Roddenberry, and directed by Herschel Daugherty. In the episode, aliens force Captain Kirk and First Officer Spock to join forces with "Abraham Lincoln" and "Surak" to battle villains in a contest between good and evil. The Federation starship "Enterprise" arrives at the volcanic planet of Excalbia to conduct a
The Survivor (Star Trek: The Animated Series) Critics felt that the episode was similar to those of "The Original Series", but it was considered one of the best episodes seen in "The Animated Series" by Chris Cummins of the website Topless Robot. "The Survivor" was adapted into a novelization by Alan Dean Foster and was released on several different home media formats. On stardate 5143.3, while patrolling near the Romulan Neutral Zone, the Federation starship "Enterprise" finds a small private ship manned by a Vendorian, an alien species that can transform its shape at will. The alien dupes the crew on board the "Enterprise" into thinking that