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38		       THE CONSCIENCE OF THE KING
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WRITER: Barry Trivers

GUESTS: Arnold Moss (Kodos?)
	Barbara Anderson (Lenore)
	Bruce Hyde
	Eddie Paskey

AIRED:  December 8, 1966

HACK-MAN rating: .510
Usenet rating:   .377

QUOTES:
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 - "My father's  race was spared the dubious benefits of alcohol."  --Spock
   "Oh.   Now I know  why they were conquered."  --McCoy   (In  some  other
   episode  it is  mentioned that  Vulcan has  not been  conquered in known
   history)


		       THE CONSCIENCE OF THE KING

PLOT:
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Kirk suspects the star of a Shakespearean acting troupe may be the infamous
"Kodos the Executioner", presumed dead for twenty years.

Twenty years ago a supply  ship was  delayed and  all people  on the planet
were doomed  to  die  of  starvation.    Kodos divided  population into two
groups, the ones that would live and the  ones that  would die.   This plan
would at  least  save half  of the  population.   For some  reason Kodos is
condemned for trying to save half the people instead  of letting *everyone*
die ("the death of the many outweighs the death of the few"?).

FACTS:
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 - This is the episode that features the only  Federation  doorknob  (other
   than Kirk).  It's right  after the opening credits;  not sure why it was
   important.  Someone else thought there was a doorknob in The Menagerie.
 - This is the only episode to show the Big E Observation Deck.
 - Also the only episode to feature a  "double red alert"  (when the phaser
   was on overload).
 - Sort of defy Star Fleet Command.
 - Lenore Karidian woos Kirk in order to kill him.

OPINIONS:
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Plot was okay and didn't drag too much, but  the reason  Kodus was disliked
was a bit bogus.