Captain Tracey Violates The Prime Directive
Season 2, episode 23. The Enterprise arrives at the planet Omega IV because they received a distress call from the U.S.S. Exeter. When they hailed the ship no one answers. Kirk, Spock, Bone and a red shirt beam over to the Exeter to find no one aboard only their uniforms with piles of white crystals. McCoy examines the crystals to find those piles are what is left of the crew with the water from their bodies gone - disintegrated. Spock searches for information and finds a recording warning whoever finds the tape they are dead men, the only hope on the planet and Captain Tracey is on the planet. The party beam down to the planet and find Tracey. Tracey tells them that if they beamed over to the Enterprise then they would have died like the rest of the crew - as his crew did. Tracey then tells them it's something on the planet that has kept him alive, them alive. Tracey also revealed that there is a war on the planet between the Yangs and the Kohms. Everything that Tracey says is true but one thing that he has violated the prime directive - to help but never interfere with the progress of a planet and it's people. Kirk and his men must find a way to set everything right and get out alive.
Not a bad episode - interesting to see a Starfleet Officer turn "evil" because he likes idea of living a very long time over the prime directive.
8/10
Not a bad episode - interesting to see a Starfleet Officer turn "evil" because he likes idea of living a very long time over the prime directive.
8/10
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