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 Doomsday Machine (Star Trek: The Original Series) The Doomsday Machine (Star Trek: The Original Series) "The Doomsday Machine" is the sixth episode of the of the American science fiction television series "". Written by Norman Spinrad and directed by Marc Daniels, it was first broadcast on October 20, 1967. In the episode, the starship "Enterprise" fights a powerful planet-killing machine from another galaxy. The Federation starship USS "Enterprise", following a trail of mysteriously destroyed star systems, picks up the automated distress beacon of another starship, the USS "Constellation". Upon arrival, the "Constellation" is found drifting in space and severely damaged; Captain Kirk, Chief Medical Officer Dr. McCoy,