How Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth

Series :	The Animated Series	Rating :
Disc No :	11	Episode :	21
First Aired :	5 Oct 1974	Stardate :	6063.4
Director :	Bill Reed	Year :	2269
Writers :	David Wise, Russell Bates	Season :	2
Guest Cast :	James Doohan as Ensign Dawson Walking Bear James Doohan as Kukulkan
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YATI :	At one point, we see a wide shot of the bridge; Uhura is drawn as a caucasian.
Great Moment :	Seeing the first Native American Starfleet officer on Star Trek; it's always nice to see more of Earth's cultural diversity depicted, and TAS beat Voyager to it by decades!
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Factoid :	The episode title is from a Shakespeare quote : "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child." from King Lear, Act I, Scene 4. My year for this episode is estimated from the Stardate; this is one of a group of TAS episodes set after the last known Stardate for TOS.
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Plotline

Tracking an alien probe, the Enterprise encounters a vessel which is surrounded by an energy field. When the field also engulfs the Starship, the alien vessel transforms into the shape of Kulkukan, a large feathered serpent from an ancient Mayan-Aztec legend. Kulkukan transports Kirk, Scott, McCoy, and Ensign Walking Bear to his ship to solve a puzzle in an ancient Earth-like city setting.