Star Trek: "The Savage Curtain"

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Title: Star Trek: “The Savage Curtain”
Year: 1969
Network: NBC
Episode: the twenty-second (of twenty-four) from season three; 50 minutes
Creator: Gene Roddenberry
Director: Herschel Daugherty
Writers: Gene Roddenberry & Arthur Heinemann; story by Roddenberry
Starring: William Shatner
With: Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Lee Bergere, Barry Atwater, Phillip Pine
Music: Alexander Courage (theme); Fred Steiner
Cinematography: Al Francis
Editing: Bill Brame
I saw it: on video and TV several times, most recently yesterday (have on DVD)
Synopsis: first, Abraham Lincoln In Space; then, yet another arena battle

My reaction
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Acting: Great casting. The ancient Vulcan looks like he walked in out of a medieval painting, and the guy from 21st-century Earth is a classic 1950's spaceman.
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Subjective Rating: 7/10 (Good, ). When Abraham Lincoln shows up, even though you know by this point in the series that it's just going to be some god-like-powers bullshit, you can't help being intrigued. There's just something inherently fascinating to me about showing the future to a figure from the past. And you really want to know where this could possibly be leading. It doesn't end up leading anywhere novel - just another Space Monster Wants to Make You Fight Each Other scenario. But it's one of the better episodes of that formula, with a relatively interesting character dynamic.
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