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Bread and Circuses

Series : The Original Series Rating : 2 Random Image
Disc No : 2.7 Episode : 44
First Aired : 15 Mar 1968 Stardate : 4040.7
Director : Ralph Senensky Year : 2267
Writers : Gene L. Coon, Gene Roddenberry Season : 2
Guest Cast :
Bart La Rue as AnnouncerBob Orrison as Guard Policeman
Eddie Paskey as Lieutenant LeslieIan Wolfe as Septimus
Jack Perkins as Master of the GamesLogan Ramsey as Claudius Marcus
Lois Jewell as DrusillaMax Kelvin as Achilles
Paul Baxley as PolicemanRhodes Reason as Flavius
William Bramley as PolicemanWilliam Smithers as Captain R. M. Merrick
Stunts :
Allen Pinson as Spock's stunt doubleGil Perkins as Stunt slave
Paul Baxley as McCoy's stunt doubleTom Steele as Stunt slave
Plotline : On another just-like-Earth planet, Kirk finds the Romans still in power and a Starship Captain assisting them.
Moral :
Restraint : Favours for loyalty is a high price to pay
Guest Reviews :
Rating : 2.0000 for 1 reviewsView existing reviewsAdd your own review
YATI : When Kirk breaks Spock and McCoy out of prison, he fires a burst at the lock from his machine gun. Amazingly, this does absolutely no damage to the door. It's almost like Kirk was firing blanks or something! Strangely, the door opens anyway.

Okay, time to take Kirk to task. As part of their efforts to convince him to side with them, the Neo-Romans send Drusilla, a rather attractive female slave, to make his night a little more comfortable, shall we say. Kirk resists a little, but apparently relents - we drift off to the lamp, cut to the next morning, and see Kirk putting on his boots. Maybe they just snuggled, but I really doubt it. Anyway, the point is... Drusilla is a slave. Yes, she tells him that she is happy to do this, but at the end of the day she is not a free person. At the very least she has been raised to believe that a slave should do as her Master tells her, regardless of her own feelings. Quite possibly a refusal or even an unconvincing performance would result in dire, even terminal, consequences for her. There is no way in hell that she can be taken as giving valid consent, or even taken as being capable of giving valid consent. And Kirk just does her anyway? What the hell, dude? That's NOT cool.

Great Moment : The argument between McCoy and Spock in the jail cell is one of the best they have ever had.
Body Count : One on the viewscreen in the teaser, three in Kirk's escape from the arena, one killed by the Proconsul.
Factoid : The Enterprise is stated of being able to lay waste to the entire surface of a planet.
Quote : "Once, just once, I would like to land somewhere and say 'Behold, I am the Archangel Gabriel.'" - McCoy to Spock.
Datapoints :
Planets : 892 IV
Regulations : General Order One (The Prime Directive)
Species : Neo-Roman, Vulcans
Temporal : Time And Again
Timeline : 2261
War : World War III
Weapons : Madsen Model 1950
Images :

Copyright Graham Kennedy Page views : 46,151 Last updated : 12 Mar 2013