TOS Episode - The Deadly Years

Series :

The Original Series

Rating :

Disc No :

2.3

Episode :

First Aired :

8 Dec 1967

Stardate :

3478.2

Director :

Joseph Pevney

Year :

2267

Writers :

David P. Harmon

Season :

Guest Cast :

Beverly Washburn as Lieutenant Arlene Galway	Carolyn Nelson as Yeoman Doris Arkins
Charles Drake as Commodore Stocker	Eddie Paskey as Lieutenant Leslie
Felix Locher as Robert Johnson	Laura Wood as Elaine Johnson
Majel Barrett as Christine Chapel	Sarah Mashall as Dr. Janet Wallace

Plotline :

Affected by a strange type of radiation which causes rapid ageing, Kirk is removed from command of the Enterprise. But his successor is an incompetent idiot who just might get them all killed.

Moral :

Old Age :

Old age is wasted on the young

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YATI :

Why the hell does Stocker send the ship straight into the Neutral Zone? Okay he's no Kirk, but I find it hard to believe that he is so incompetent that he doesn't know or care about the rules regarding trespass into the zone.

Great Moment :

The regular characters do a great job portraying old men in this episode, especially Shatner as an old Kirk.

Body Count :

There's one body at the outpost, although we don't see him die. One outpost member and one blueshirt die on screen on the Enterprise, one outpost member off screen.

Factoid :

The story is reused for the TNG episode: "Unnatual selection".

Quote :

"Give us some more blood, Chekov.' 'The needle won't hurt, Chekov.' 'Take of your shirt, Chekov.' 'Roll over, Chekov.' 'Breath deeply, Chekov.' 'Blood sample, Chekov.' 'Marrow sample, Chekov.' 'Skin sample, Chekov.' If... if I live long enough, I'm going to run out of samples." - Chekov to Sulu.

Datapoints :

Architecture :	Federation Science Outpost
Battles :	The Deadly Years
I'm a doctor :	McCoy
Illnesses :	Rapid Aging
People :	James T. Kirk
Planets :	Aldebaran III, Gamma Hydra IV
Scitech :	Autodestruct
Timeline :	2233