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Aug 6, 2013 · The episode is, after all, called “The Doomsday Machine” and features a literal doomsday machine built as a bluff in a war that ceased to be relevant eons ago, yet still remains to threaten the safety of the galaxy.
Weapon of Mass Destruction: The planet killer, hence Kirk's reference to "the Doomsday Machine" — an allusion to a popular 1960s term for thermonuclear warheads (or "the H-bomb"), as he himself points out. We Need a Distraction: Kirk uses the Constellation to divert the planet-killer from moving in on the Enterprise.
With virtually no time to spare, Kirk is safely beamed aboard Enterprise as Constellation explodes inside the planet killer, destroying the machine's power system and leaving it permanently dead in space. Kirk and Spock speculate there could be other doomsday machines out there.
Oct 20, 2019 · It's the episode that gave us Commodore Matt Decker and that bizarre horn thing known as the Planet Killer. To celebrate the occasion, StarTrek.com is pleased to share some facts, figures and anecdotes about "The Doomsday Machine."
Aug 30, 2012 · In this latest guest post by Joseph Dickerson, we dive into the Original Series episode “The Doomsday Machine” and revisit why it might just be one of the best episodes of Star Trek.
The Enterprise discovers a weapon capable of destroying entire planets, and a Starfleet flag officer whose crew was killed by the machine jeopardizes the crew on a crazed mission of revenge. On the USS Enterprise, Lieutenant Palmer receives a faint and garbled distress signal. It is apparently a...
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This episode is essentially 'Moby Dick' in space. The scene at the end where Decker sacrifices himself to destroy the alien doomsday machine is among the more powerful and memorable scenes in Star Trek.