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4.0 out of 5 stars
This episode gets a B+ grade and is ranked 20th out of 80, October 25, 1999
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This review is from: Star Trek - The Original Series, Episode 54: The Omega Glory [VHS] (VHS Tape)
The U.S.S. Enterprise finds a crewless starship, the U.S.S. Exeter, in orbit around the planet Omega IV. The boarding party from the U.S.S. Enterprise contracts a virus that may have killed the Exeter's crew, but the biosphere on Omega IV is found to contain an immunity. The party is beamed to the surface. There they discover Captain Tracey, the commander of the U.S.S. Exeter. He has been violating the Federation's Prime Directive by interfering in the politics of the natives, using his phaser to protect the Oriental villagers, the Kohms, against the barbarian raiders, the Yangs. Tracey demands that Kirk supply him with more phasers, which Kirk refuses to do. The Yangs capture the Kohms village and the U.S.S. Enterprise crew learns that these people are possibly descendants of Earth's Communist Chinese who left Earth in the last years of the 20th Century. The Yangs mouth a distorted version of the United States Constitution, which are their 'holy words' and which Kirk recites, gaining their confidence. Prolonged exposure to the planet's atmosphere cures the landing party and, with Captain Tracey under arrest, they return to the U.S.S. Enterprise.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Pro-American, or pro-people?, July 5, 2005
This review is from: Star Trek - The Original Series, Episode 54: The Omega Glory [VHS] (VHS Tape)
I really like this episode, as goofy as it gets in places. I interpreted it in rather a different way than some of the reviewers here, I suspect.
Rather than this being a jingoist, Pro-American episode, I saw it as a commentary on how people can lose sight of their own ideals. When Kirk sees the battered copy of the Constitution, he points out the words within " ... must apply to ALL people, or they become meaningless!" I see this episode as another example of Roddenberry's hope for a peaceful, unified future where basic human rights are commonplace, and applied to all people, not just a lucky few.
Roddenberry was certainly an idealist, which I think you have to keep in mind when watching episodes like this.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
A glorious episode, November 11, 2002
This review is from: Star Trek - The Original Series, Episode 54: The Omega Glory [VHS] (VHS Tape)
A Starfleet captain violates the Prime Directive by using Federation technology to protect a primitive tribe called the Kohms from barbarians that call themselves the Yangs. Throw in deadly viruses and a trip to a planet that houses people who are thousands of years old, and you have one of the most complex missions that Captain Kirk and crew have ever taken on full force. "The Omega Glory" is one of those suspenseful, action packed episodes of the original series. You'll see several fights, hear many arguments, and even see an UNFORGETTABLE technique used by Spock! It also has a nice patriotic theme and storyline in a way. Best of all, it's really entertaining. What more could you ask for? The Enterprise crew's mission is to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life, and new galaxies, and most of all, to go where no man has gone before. They certainly do a lot of that in this episode! It may not be a top 10 episode, but it is very good. To save a place in your Star Trek collection for it would be a smart decision. I can now say with 100% honesty that I've seen every single one of the Star Trek - The Original Series episodes, and "The Omega Glory" was a great episode to save for last.
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