Patterns of Force (episode)

The Enterprise, searching for a missing Federation historian, discovers that the historian has apparently contaminated the cultural development of the planet where he was assigned as a cultural observer to have it follow the societal path of Nazi Germany in the 1930s and '40s.
==Summary==
===Teaser===
The heads for the planet Ekos to locate a missing cultural observer, Professor Dr. John Gill, Ph.D., a noted historian and brilliant history teacher who had been one of Kirk's instructors at the Presidio Campus of the Academy. Spock, whose studies of Earth history were from a text that Gill had prepared, and McCoy reminisce about his (Gill's) style of approaching history as a matter of causes and motivations, rather than simply dates and events.
But while it is approaching the planet Ekos, the Enterprise is attacked by an old-style chemical rocket with a thermonuclear warhead – technology of whose development the planet is not yet supposed to be capable. Kirk has Chekov destroy the rocket with the ship's phasers. McCoy notes that the missile is generations ahead from where they should be technically. Kirk surmises that they may have had help – and Spock glances at the photograph of Gill displayed on a video screen.
===Act One===
Fearing that Gill's mission has been compromised in violation of the Prime Directive of non-interference with developing planets, Kirk and Spock beam down to Ekos. Before they do, they have McCoy insert subcutaneous emergency transponders, dependent on crystalline rubindium, into their forearms, to locate them for retrieval in the event they cannot use their communicators. Kirk orders that Scotty beam them up at the appointed time if they fail to contact the ship, no matter what their condition may be.
Upon beaming down, Kirk and Spock find a culture almost identical to that of Germany during its Nazi period of the 1930s and 40s, right down to the uniforms, the salutes, and the persecution of another ethnic culture – in this case, the inhabitants of the neighboring planet , and the concept of the Führer – John Gill himself. Stealing some SS uniforms, Kirk and Spock attempt to infiltrate the Führer's headquarters but are quickly captured when Spock is forced to remove his helmet, revealing his pointed Vulcan ears.
===Act Two===
Kirk and Spock are stripped to the waist and interrogated by an SS-Major, who lashes them cruelly with a whip; this, however, is interrupted by Chairman Eneg, who chides the SS guard for not realizing that punishment is effective for only just so long.
File:KirkBuckles.jpg|Kirk, after being whipped, supports Spock…
File:Spock's rubindium laser, remastered.jpg|…as the latter takes aim with a makeshift rubindium laser cutting torch.
Left with their wounds still open, they find themselves imprisoned next to Isak, a Zeon underground member who explains how the Nazi movement began on Ekos, coinciding precisely with the time of Gill's arrival. Improvising a crude cutting-torch laser from the rubindium crystals from the transponders Kirk had had McCoy insert, at a subcutaneous level, into the skins of their forearms before beaming down, the trio then make their way to the SS laboratory, where Kirk pickpockets the keys from a guard; they manage to escape and retrieve two disassembled communicators from a SS laboratory. Kirk and Spock are able to steal SS uniforms again and leave, hauling out Isak in a stretcher. Later, the three return to the underground's base. There, Isak is greeted by his brother, Abrom, and told of the death of his fiancée, Uletta. In the midst of this, a squad of Ekosian stormtroopers (led by a woman) arrives, intent on arresting the entire lot. She apparently shoots Abrom dead and plans to "finish the job" by killing Kirk.
===Act Three===
When Kirk and Spock intervene to help the underground workers, it is revealed that the woman, Daras (who they recognized from a propaganda broadcast they viewed earlier), is an Ekosian member of the underground and the storming was a test to see if the two strangers could be trusted – once Kirk and Spock had responded to her apparent murder of Abrom by holding her at gunpoint, those gathered had realized that the two strangers were definitely on their side and had brought an end to the ruse. Kirk and Spock then reveal who they really are and why they are there.
The next opportunity to get to the Führer, they decide, is an upcoming in the chancellery in which Isak suspects war will be declared on Zeon — the "Final Solution." To infiltrate the chancellery, Kirk and Spock accompany Daras and Isak (in Nazi disguise) to Führer headquarters posing as a Nazi documentary crew to try and reach Gill. Kirk, Spock, Isak, and Daras walk down a corridor pretending to film a record of the Führer's Final Solution speech. During this, Spock catches a glimpse of John Gill in a guarded room, seemingly drugged. Kirk tells Spock that they need Dr. McCoy. Kirk hides inside a cloakroom with Spock and asks Lieutenant Uhura to have McCoy beamed down from the Enterprise; however, they learn from Daras that the transmission (whose reception abord the Enterprise was bad, Uhura having described it as being "nine points into the low-frequency band") was traced, prompting a search party. Then the doctor joins them, dressed in a Nazi colonel's uniform. Once he has materialized fully, McCoy complains (mistakenly, as Spock explains) that the ship's computer had gotten the measurements on his right boot wrong, and that it is too tight. Spock perceives that McCoy is actually not pulling the boot on correctly, and explains how to do so. Once McCoy has complied, he wonders what is going on there. But before Kirk can answer him, two guards led by Chairman Eneg, barge into the cloakroom.
===Act Four===
With seconds to think, Kirk quickly says that the colonel has had too much to drink and that his presence in a drunken state would have embarrassed the Führer. Eneg accepts their explanation; he then explains that they are conducting a search and leaves. Spock is left puzzled at Eneg's apparent failure to recognize either of the two of them. With McCoy now joined with them, the group listens to a speech by Gill, followed by another from his deputy, Melakon, pledging the destruction of Zeon which is already taking place as he speaks. Meanwhile, the three are able to sneak into the broadcast booth. They there find Gill, but McCoy finds that Gill has been heavily drugged. McCoy does succeed in partially reviving Gill with stimulants, but Spock is forced use his mind-melding abilities to attempt to enable Gill to communicate.
Meanwhile, they overhear Melakon announce the commencement of the Final Decision, the genocidal invasion of Zeon. Daras pleads with Kirk to have the Enterprise intercept and destroy the invasion fleet as a last resort. Kirk is unwilling considering that would mean the deaths of thousands of Ekosians, as well as numerous underground Zeons who have infiltrated the Ekosian forces to attempt to interfere with their operations. Daras rationalizes that would be the lesser evil than to permit the murder of millions on Zeon, but Kirk is determined to help both populations who are equally victims of Gill's interference. 
Eventually, Spock is able to establish contact with Gill and they learn the truth; Gill had taken matters into his own hands on Ekos, which he had found to be in a condition of anarchy. He had tried to help by encouraging the Ekosians to adopt Nazi Germany as a model, believing they could embrace its efficiency while avoiding its sadistic or xenophobic aspects. Kirk is appalled at Gill's naivete, but Spock points out that the Nazis's phenomenal recovery from Germany's economic and political collapse following World War I might have made it a compelling example, even for a gentle man such as Gill. Though Gill's plan to solve Ekos's problem of anarchy had worked at first, unfortunately, Melakon had seen an opportunity to take over. He had drugged Gill, installing him as a figurehead leader while keeping the real power in his own hands, and orchestrating the Ekosians's slide into violent militarism and racial hatred.
The search party, led by Eneg, steps into the room, and Kirk quickly pretends that they foiled an assassination attempt by Spock. They convince Eneg to present him to Melakon, which also convinces Isak that he is a member of the underground resistance. While they distract Melakon, Kirk struggles to revive Gill to a sufficiently coherent state. Gill is finally able to broadcast a message halting the invasion and declaring Melakon a traitor. Melakon takes an MP40 machine gun from a guard and shoots Gill through the broadcast booth curtain to silence him. Isak, in turn, shoots Melakon twice with a Luger, killing him instantly. As Gill dies in Kirk's arms, he admits to the captain that he had been wrong, and that the Prime Directive was the right way all along. Meanwhile, Eneg takes control of the government, declaring, "There has been enough killing. Now we'll start to live the way the Führer meant us to live." He plans to go on the airwaves with Daras to offer a new way of life for both Ekosians and Zeons.
Back on board the Enterprise, Spock expresses confusion about how a man as logical as Gill could have committed such a mistake as emulating the Nazis. Kirk says that the real problem was not simply the Nazis themselves but giving any one individual so much . McCoy remarks how (quoting ) power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely; Spock dryly points out several examples from Earth history of just that mentality. Kirk cuts off their argument by saying, "Gentlemen, we've just been through one civil war; let's not start another." Kirk then orders Ensign Chekov to plot a course and break out of orbit around Ekos as quickly as possible.
==Memorable quotes==
"Our missiles utterly destroyed the enemy."
"You look quite well for a man who's been utterly destroyed, Mr. Spock."
: - Ekosian Newscaster and Kirk, on the missile attack on the Enterprise
"That helmet covers a multitude of sins."
: - Kirk describing Spock's Nazi disguise
"You should make a very convincing Nazi."
: - Spock, commenting on Kirk's Gestapo uniform
"Lieutenant? Better see a doctor. You don't look well. Your color..."
"Yes. I shall tend to it, Major."
"Lieutenant! Your helmet. Remove it!"
: - SS-Major uncovering a disguised Spock
"I…don't care if you hit the broad side of a barn! Just hurry, please."
"Captain, why should I aim at such a structure?"
"Never mind, Spock. Just…get on with the job."
: - Kirk and Spock, before breaking out of their jail cell
"If we adopt the ways of the Nazis, we're as bad as the Nazis."
: - Isak, after learning of Uletta's death
"Captain, I'm beginning to understand why you Earth men enjoy gambling. No matter how carefully one computes the odds of success, there is still a certain… exhilaration in the risk."
"Very good, Spock. We may make a Human of you yet."
"I hope not."
: - Spock and Kirk, on the Human thrill of risk-taking
"Dr. McCoy is having difficulty with that uniform, sir."
"Send him down naked if you have to! Kirk out."
: - Uhura and Kirk, before McCoy beams into the cloakroom
"Planet… fragmented… divided. Took lesson from… Earth history..."
"But why Nazi Germany? You studied history; you knew what the Nazis were!"
"Most efficient state… Earth ever knew…"
: - John Gill and Kirk, on why Gill violated the Prime Directive 
"Note the sinister eyes, and the malformed ears. Definitely an inferior race."
: - Melakon to Daras, on Spock
"Even historians fail to learn from history…they repeat the same mistakes. Let the killing end, Kirk. Let--"
: - John Gills final words
"For so long I've prayed for this. Now I'm sorry."
"So was he."
: - Isak and Kirk, after Gill's death
"It is time to stop the bloodshed…to bury our dead."
: - Eneg, as the war between Ekos and Zeon (apparently) ends
"Gentlemen, we've just been through one civil war; let's not start another."
: - Kirk, as Spock and McCoy debate Gill's mistake
== Background information ==
=== Production history ===
* Production number: #60352
* Story outline "Tomorrow the Universe" by Paul Schneider: 
* First draft teleplay: 
* Second draft teleplay: 
* Revised second draft: 
* Story outline "Patterns of Force" by John Meredyth Lucas: 
* Revised story outline: 
* Second revised story outline: 
* First draft teleplay: late-
* Second draft teleplay: 
* Additional page revisions: , , , 
* Filmed: – 
** Day 1 – , Wednesday – Paramount European Street backlot: Ext. City street, Street corner, Alley; Paramount office buildings: Ext. Nazi party headquarters, Ext. Chancellery
** Day 2 – , Thursday – Desilu Stage 9: Int. Transporter room, Underground room, Newscaster room
** Day 3 – , Friday – Desilu Stage 11: Int. Ekosian jail, Jail cell
** Day 4 – , Monday – Desilu Stage 10: Int. Nazi headquarters: Lower corridor, SS Labs, Broadcast room
** Day 5 – , Tuesday – Desilu Stage 10: Int. Nazi headquarters: Interior corridor, Main room, Decoration area
** Day 6 – , Wednesday – Desilu Stage 10: Int. Cloakroom, Desilu Stage 9: Int. Bridge
* Original airdate: 
* First UK airdate (on BBC1): 
* First UK airdate (on ITV): 
* Remastered airdate: 
=== Story ===
* During the first season, Paul Schneider wrote a story outline entitled "Tomorrow the Universe" about the Enterprise encountering an alien planet adopting Nazi ideology and forming its own "Third Reich." Schneider began to develop the story further; however, when John Meredyth Lucas came up with his very similar idea of "Patterns of Force," it was deemed much better than Schneider's story, which was scrapped. (These Are the Voyages: TOS Season Two)
* John Meredyth Lucas wrote this episode out of his fascination with the functioning of totalitarian regimes (especially Nazi Germany) and their ability to stay in power. William Shatner quoted him to Chris Kreski, in Star Trek Memories, as saying that "it was fun to write a well-meaning Nazi, a guy who for the right cause completely fucked everything up. Y'know, we started with the question, 'How the hell did Nazism get past the shits and the street gangs and take root among the basically decent people? How did sane, reasonable adults come to buy into this bullshit?' The answer seemed to be because it was efficient and because, in a society beset by all kinds of problems, it may have seemed like a feasible necessity. So it becomes feasible, and the people take that leap."
* An early draft of this episode had the source of cultural contamination arriving aboard a small "Ambassador-class" vessel called the Magellan. The name was later applied in TNG to the of ships in the mid-24th century.
* No stardate is logged in the episode. Bjo Trimble gave it a stardate of 2534.0 in her Star Trek Concordance, apparently using an earlier script version.
* Based on the details of the episode's shooting schedule, at least two scenes were trimmed for unknown reasons; both scenes were filmed on :
** Act II, Sc. 39-41. When Kirk and Spock exit the Chancellery they rounded a street corner and entered an alley. With the removal of this scene, two storm troopers and two trooper guards and apparently a Jeep did not appear in the episode as filmed.
** Act III, Sc. 46. When the cars pulled up at night and unloaded at the Chancellery, it was indicated that more officials were seen being dropped off before Kirk's group drive up in Sc. 47. Namely missing from the scene were two storm troopers, along with an SS officer general and his wife, whereas only the SS Gestapo general and his wife were seen entering as was noted.
** In addition to these scenes, the shooting schedule indicates that there were, among the reception party crowd, two waiters that appeared throughout, however no such individuals appeared in the episode.
* Eneg's name is an inside joke – it is "Gene" backwards. () The name "Zeon" is a take on "Zion," while "Abrom" corresponds to "Abraham", "Davod" to "David", and "Isak" to "Isaac"; "Daras", reversed, is almost "Sara". 
* Star Trek 12 contains a novelization of this story by James Blish and J.A. Lawrence.
=== Sets and costumes ===
 	
The location of the Ekosian Chancellery at Paramount, where Desilu staffer Bill McGovern slates a scene	The location of the Ekosian Chancellery at Paramount, where Desilu staffer Bill McGovern slates a scene
* The headquarters of the Nazi Party in this episode are the redecorated offices of Paramount Pictures during the 60s, including the building where Lucille Ball ran Desilu. Paramount office buildings were also used as locations in , and a short newsreel scene in .
* The underground area is the same set as was used for .
* All the Nazi uniforms used in this episode are taken from Paramount's costume storage, and were previously featured in many of the studio's World War II-era films. Many of them featured mismatched epaulets, collar tabs, and other rank-identifying insignia. However, McCoy's collar tabs, bearing a single silver oak leaf, correctly identify him as a colonel, as Kirk had ordered. Several uniforms, such as Kirk's and McCoy's, show cuffbands reading "Adolf Hitler". They represent members of the Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler, special bodyguards of the Führer.
* On the archive file photograph shown by Spock in the teaser, John Gill is wearing Commissioner 's jacket from .
* The front of the Ekosian Chancellery has all of its windows and shutters closed, for the real world reason that the actual building was an active office of Paramount Pictures with daily business going on inside while the film crew and actors were shooting the exterior on . (To Boldly Go: Rare Photos from the TOS Soundstage - Season Two, p. 191) Even so, two individuals who appear to be curious Paramount Pictures employees can be seen looking down on the courtyard from an upper window.
=== Continuity ===
* This is the second mention of Nazi Germany in Star Trek, the first being in . However, in , Scott did compare 's security system to "the ancient Gestapo".
* This episode discounts the previously established theory of Hodgkin's Law of Parallel Planetary Development, which was established to explain the similarities seen in . In this case, Kirk observes that "The chances of another planet developing a culture like Nazi Germany, using the forms, the symbols, the uniforms of twentieth century Earth are so fantastically slim," which Spock described as "virtually impossible." But John Gill had contaminated the development of Ekos's culture by introducing a modified version of Nazism to the planet, thereby breaching the Prime Directive, and hence this society did not evolve normally; thus, Hodgkin's Law might not have been applicable here.
=== Cast and characters ===
* George Takei does not appear in this episode.
* James Doohan only had one line in this episode, "Aye, sir. Whatever your condition."
* This episode marks the only time, in any Star Trek series or film, that actor Leonard Nimoy is seen on camera not wearing a shirt. (Star Trek: The Original Series 365) Unlike William Shatner, Nimoy refused Gene Roddenberry's request to have his chest shaven. (These Are the Voyages: TOS Season Two)
* Several of the cast, who dress up as Nazis in this episode, notably William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy, had Jewish backgrounds. On , newspaper and magazine photographers were invited to the set for publicity. Nimoy refused to have any pictures taken of him in Nazi uniform, as he was due to attend the Wilshire Blvd. Temple children's Hanukkah services later the same month, and did not want any possible controversies to arise. (These Are the Voyages: TOS Season Two)
=== Special visual effects ===
* The attacking Ekosian missile on the viewscreen of Enterprise was reused footage of the Orion scout ship from earlier in the season.
* In a change from the stock explosions used throughout the second season, an animated nuclear blast was created for this episode.
* V-2 rocket footage from World War II Germany is used in the newscast showing Ekosian missile.
* In one of the sequences of news footage, all of which consisted of stock shots and stock footage, a car with Adolf Hitler accompanied by soldiers is used to represent John Gill as the Führer on the planet Ekos. The sequence is a use of stock footage from , the infamous Nazi propaganda film for whose production was responsible.
=== Controversies ===
* Because the subject matter of the nation's Nazi past was deemed too serious and too sensitive a topic for light TV entertainment, this episode was withheld from broadcast in its two original runs by the German stations that aired TOS – the public ZDF network in the mid-1970s and the private Sat.1 network in the late 1980s/early 1990s – and resulted that "Patterns of Force" became the only Original Series episode not to be aired in Germany. Only in 1996 was the (dubbed) episode finally shown as "Schablonen der Gewalt" on German pay TV, shortly after the first time German-language release on VHS the year previously, and included on all subsequent DVD/Blu-ray Disc season sets. On 4 November 2011 it was finally shown on the public network channel ZDFneo as well. (; TOS Season 2 DVD-special feature, "Red Shirt Logs: Bjo Trimble on censorship") During the first two German runs of TOS in the 1970s and 1980s, many former Nazis were still alive; during the third run in the 1990s, the former experienced a wave of neo-Nazi violence after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
* The episode's thesis, which Professor Dr. Gill espoused and which Spock corroborated, was that Nazi Germany was the "most efficient" state that was ever known in Earth history. But this notion, which was still widely accepted after World War II and even at the time of the episode's original broadcast on American television, has now been largely discredited. The historian , in particular, has noted that the Nazi hierarchy was actually a tangled web of hostile competition, with many of its high officials being bitterly opposed to each other. Consequently, their respective jurisdictions often overlapped and/or collided. Hence, this conflict between these officials and their jurisdictions actually reduced or even, in some cases, completely negated governmental efficiency in Nazi Germany. The infighting that resulted from this exhausted the said officials too severely to enable them to close ranks against the Führer, .
* When first screened in the United Kingdom in 1970, the BBC partially edited the episode, with the scene in which Kirk and Spock are whipped being cut down. The cuts remained until the 1992-94 repeat run. https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/star-trek-looking-back-at-the-bbcs-ban-and-censorship/
=== Syndication Cuts ===
The episode received no formal syndication cuts but was frequently edited by local television stations to add more time for commercial breaks. Commonly edited scenes included:
* Extended interrogation scene with the SS Major questioning Kirk about his mission and who Spock is and where he comes from. In the edited version, all of this dialogue is cut, leading directly to Eneg's entrance right after the initial whipping scene is concluded. 
* Extended scene of Kirk in disguise as a Nazi officer walking Spock and Isak to the SS research laboratory. This segment includes Kirk bumping into an SS soldier, stealing the lab key, and the soldier later realizing the key is gone. In the edited version, there is no explanation for why the soldier walks back into the lab after looking for something in his pockets.
* When Daras raids the resistance headquarters and shoots Abrom, a common edit to this scene was to cut to a commercial break after Daras says, "Do you know what we do to responsible Zeons?" without showing the shooting or her follow on dialogue about, "finishing the job".
* Lengthier conversations by the resistance team disguised as a Nazi camera crew, including Kirk instructing where to position the lights and a longer conversation about how Isak wants to simply kill John Gill immediately. 
* Longer scene of Kirk slapping Gill and trying to wake him up out of his drug induced state.
===Remastered information===
The remastered version of "Patterns of Force" aired in many North American markets during the weekend of . While the episode required very few new effects, an entirely new shot of the Enterprise phasering the Ekosian warhead was substituted. In addition, Ekos was given a CGI-makeover as a more Earth-like planet, with new orbital shots of the Enterprise, and the rubindium crystal beam was refined.
File:Zeon and Ekos.jpg|Planets Zeon and Ekos… 
File:Zeon.jpg|…remastered Zeon…
File:USS Enterprise approaching Ekos.jpg|…remastered Ekos
File:Orion scout ship and Ekosian missile.jpg|The Ekosian missile…
File:Ekosian missile.jpg|…remastered
File:Spock's rubindium laser.jpg|Spock's rubindium laser…
File:Spock's rubindium laser, remastered.jpg|…remastered
File:Ekos orbit.jpg|The Enterprise orbits Ekos… 
File:Ekos orbit, remastered.jpg|…remastered
===Video and DVD releases===
* Original US Betamax release: 
* UK VHS release (two-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 27, catalog number VHR 2379, 
* US VHS release: 
* UK re-release (three-episode tapes, CIC Video): Volume 2.8, 
* Original US DVD release (single-disc): Volume 26, 
* As part of the TOS Season 2 DVD collection
==Links and references==
===Starring===
* William Shatner as Kirk
* Leonard Nimoy as Spock
;And
* DeForest Kelley as McCoy
===Guest stars===
* Richard Evans as Isak
;And
* Valora Noland as Daras
===Special appearance by===
* Skip Homeier as Melakon
;And
* David Brian as John Gill
===Co-stars===
* James Doohan as Scott
* Nichelle Nichols as Uhura
* Patrick Horgan as Eneg
* William Wintersole as Abrom
;And
* Gilbert Green as S.S. Major
* Walter Koenig as Chekov
* Ralph Maurer as S.S. Lieutenant
* Ed McCready as S.S. Trooper
* Peter Canon as Gestapo Lieutenant
* Paul Baxley as First Trooper
* Chuck Courtney as Davod
* Bart La Rue as Newscaster
===Uncredited co-stars===
* Benjie Bancroft as Ekosian brigadeführer
* William Blackburn as Hadley
* John Blower as
** Ekosian lieutenant colonel
** Ekosian SS trooper
* Frank da Vinci as a Ekosian Reichsführer-SS
* Len Felber as Ekosian SA party official
* as Adolf Hitler (archive footage)
* Roger Holloway as Ekosian Reichsführer-SS
* Jeannie Malone as Ekosian SS General's wife
* Eddie Paskey as Zeon resistance member 2
* Basil Poledouris as SS trooper
* Robert Strong as SA member
* Robert Whitney as Ekosian SA official
* Unknown performers as
** Ekosian SA stormtrooper 2 and 3
** Ekosian SS General's wife 2
** Ekosian SS Gestapo official 4 and 5
** Ekosian SS Officer official 2
** Ekosian SS troopers 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 15, and 18
** Ekosian Wehrmacht generalmajor
** Ekosians at window
** Ekosians in newsreel
** SA official
** Zeon resistance member 3
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