"Let That Be Your Last Battlefield" (season three, episode fifteen; production code: 070; 10 January 1969): Wikipedia-link.
Commentary: "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield" is a very ham-fisted, heavy-handed story about bigotry & hatred, not even redeemed by a brilliant performance from the great Frank Gorshin as Commissioner Bele. But the worst offense of the episode is Captain Kirk letting Bele & his enemy, Lokai, have the run of the ship even after they have manifested extraordinary powers & used those powers against the Enterprise. They aren't even confined to quarters, much less thrown into the brig. Absolutely unconscionable!
Still, "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield" is far superior to its Star Trek: Enterprise remake from almost precisely thirty-five years later, "Chosen Realm" (season three, episode twelve; 14 January 2004), which is a very ham-fisted, heavy-handed story about religious fanaticism instead of racial fanaticism.
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