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The Original Series, Season 1: The Return of the Archons
The Original Series, Season One
"The Return of the Archons"
Airdate: February 9, 1967
23 of 80 produced
21 of 80 aired
Click here to watch on CBS.com
The Enterprise discovers a world where the people are euphoric zombies controlled by an unseen leader, Landru. Disobedience to this leader is met with swift consequences. Several Enterprise crewmen have been taken and apparently brainwashed. Can Kirk free his people and this planet from the mysterious Landru?
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Kevin: This episode does have a pretty solid science fiction conceit, even if it comes in a really boring package. Increased automation to the point where every aspect of life is regulated would be one in the minds of 60s writers, witnessing the boom of technology in decades following World War II. The problem with this episode is with the execution. First, several aspects of this society make no sense and as a result, I never really come to care about them or what happens to them. First, what in the hell is Festival and why does it happen? Given the way Tula sobs afterwards, it appears to be some sort of rape party. Also, why are old men excused from Festival? They don't even attempt an explanation.
Matthew: One of the key intellectual struggles of the post-war 20th century was between the ideologies of central planning and individualism. This is clearly one of the elements at play here. So indeed, it is a strong science fiction concept, since telepathic computers would indeed be able to control individuals in accordance with a central plan. It could be seen as a precursor to ideas like the Borg, just played out in a completely different way. We will see future plots with a central planning computer, but not one which also alters the minds of its subjects.
Kevin: Second, I never really get the motivation for Reger or his cohorts. If the cycle of Festival and zombie-euphoria-brain washing last their whole lives, how do they even develop the basis to object to festival? How did one rise to be the high priest when Landru seems essentially omniscient? They don't seem to have a credible motivation or plan in terms of changing their society, so it's hard to actually care about them.
Matthew: I agree, but that said, I do like the fact that we have an opportunity for Zombies in Star Trek. Not that I want it over and over. But it's fun to see once or twice.
Kevin: I will say the idea that an idyllic society is also a stagnant one is pretty interesting, and one explored with varying success in a lot of science fiction, like the Eloi in H.G. Wells' "The Time Machine" or less successfully discussed in The Matrix . I also like the idea that a less technologically sophisticated one will the happier, more stable one is a very 1960s science fiction idea, given that they seemed perpetually on the bring of technological self-immolation. However, an actual idyllic, not immediately horrifying society might have gotten the message across a little better. As it stands, no one could possibly think Beta III's existence was worth the cost. It flattens the drama by making the correct choice obvious. It should have felt like Kirk was taking away something of value in exchange, ultimately, but certainly not immediately or pleasantly, for something of greater value.
Matthew: I like the concept of a regressed society very much, also. The "lighting panel" is neat, I can imagine it being a dazzling notion to someone in the 19th or even mid 20th century - it's nice to have a "mundane" technological object represented in the story. So at its core, there is a lot of good science fiction going on here. But, as you say, the execution is lacking. The "resistance" on this world makes little sense. "The Body" is a nebulous concept at best - if they are linked to a group mind, wouldn't it be relatively easy to tell if someone you're looking at is a part of that body? There are very rarely body parts in my vicinity that I mistake for mine.
Kevin: This episode introduces the Prime Directive, and the canon is certainly more complex for it. However, the way it is introduced is stupid. Kirk dismisses it out of hand by engaging in the Earth/human-centric value judgment of another culture exactly of the kind the Prime Directive is aimed at preventing. At the end of the episode, we essentially have the Federation tasked with taking a pre(maybe once-but-no-longer-)-warp society and molding them in their own image. In its first time out of the box, the Prime Directive seems anything but.
Matthew: It was quite off-putting when Kirk, after talking Landru to death, says "well, it's up to you now, might as well get rid of those robes and look for a new job." This is shockingly cavalier with regards to a society that one has just plunged into chaos. Granted, a line of dialogue later establishes that a team of experts (who were apparently on board already) will oversee a transition. But a team of no more than 390 (assuming everyone but the bridge crew stayed behind) for a planet of millions (Spock established in dialogue that there were millions, plural, meaning at least 2 million people)? If we can't do it in Iraq, I have a hard time seeing how a team of experts can do it in an alien culture with a ritual orgy-rape festival.
Kevin: Lastly, we get another, more intense round of Kirk talking a computer to death. This has always troubled me. Intelligences that advanced, artificial or no, must have the ability to hold contradictory thoughts at the same time and evaluate them in a non-binary way. Further, once presented with evidence of its misdeeds, why is the solution some form of suicide? Why not simply change in response to the stimulus. At no point in the past 6,000 years did the machine realize circumstances required a new way of doing things to achieve its goal, and just make the changes without exploding?
Matthew: I'd like to know what this 6,000 year old computer is made of that it doesn't break down after so much up-time. I mean, presumably Landru would direct someone to maintain it and then wipe their memory, but this is never established. Instead, we are forced to accept a completely isolated server room with no maintenance, and a computer that never overheats, gets dusty, never suffers an OS crash or virtual memory problems, never has a part or transistor that wears out, etc.
Kevin: The main and guest cast turn in solid to good performances. Sulu and McCoy in the thrall of Landru were pretty well done. In a vacuum, I bought Reger's concern and fear as a matter of acting, it's just that the writing never brought it together effectively with the story.
Matthew: I enjoyed DeForrest Kelley in his role as brainwashed body-member. He played it with a nice amount of comedy, which turned chilling when he began screaming that Kirk and Spock were impostors.
Kevin: Shatner turns in a pretty good performance for me, too. Realizing the Lawgivers have never had to deal with and thus cannot deal with disobedience was a nice little scene.
Production Values
Kevin: The production values were pretty good, actually. They were clearly using a Western set on Paramount's back lot, but they use it well. There are several locations both in and out of doors. Costuming was good as well, as long as you overlook the conceit that Beta III has fashions identical to the 19th Century American west.
Matthew: In this case I found the backlot distracting. We are forced to consider yet another perfectly human-seeming society with identical architecture, curtains, lamps, everything. While the sets looked nice, I felt they were inappropriate. Did this society tear down all the buildings from the era of lighting panels and replace them with an old-west set?
Kevin: Once critique is Landru himself. The machine looks far to similar to the Enterprise computers that I would not be surprised if it were repurposed from the Engineering set.
Matthew: Engineering computers have showed up in A Taste of Armageddon as well as other episodes. However, I think this one is a new creation. It may have had various lights pasted onto the box, but the box itself is a new creation for this set.
Kevin: Overall, this gets a two from me. It's a weakly executed story that is bogged down by funeral pacing. I never really come to care about these people or their problems, and the problem is solved in almost a glib way. Several large, attractive sets and the core of a good idea save it from a 1.
Matthew: Yeah, I hate to sound like a broken record here, but this is a 2. There are enough big ideas to lift this from the lowest rungs of television and Trek, but not much more. Choosing one or two of these concepts and really examining them in a logical way might have helped, but instead we just get a bunch of failed springboards from a more interesting story. That gives us a total of 4.
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Pending Framing March 3, 2010 at 9:38 AM
I could buy a 6,000 computer having some means of maintaining itself, but I do think Kirk should consider himself really lucky he never ran across a super computer tyrant whose engineer had been all "and if somebody tries to point out you're flawed and ought to destroy yourself, just go ahead and have him killed." (I'm still working on this principle with my netbook, just in case.)
At least this version of confusing the computer to death sounds a lot less painfully embarrassing than using illogic in the form of dance, mime, and bizarre statements to defeat Mudd's robot army.
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Mestizo are Spanish-speaking, and although many speak English fluently, to a great extent they can be credited with the fact that Spanish is now the mother-tongue of over forty percent of Belizeans.
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C'était une commune à part entière avant la fusion des communes du 17 juillet 1970.

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Voting Opens for Year's Best Military and Adventure SF Readers' Choice Award
Today Baen Books released The Year's Best Military and Adventure SF, Vol. 3, edited by David Afsharirad, and started taking votes for the third annual Year's Best Military and Adventure Science Fiction Readers' Choice Award. The public will pick one of the 15 short stories in the anthology as the award-winner:
"Cadet Cruise" by David Drake
"Tethers" by William Ledbetter
"Unlinkage" by Eric Del Carlo
"Not in Vain" by Kacey Ezell
"Between Nine and Eleven" by Adam Roberts
"Sephine and the Leviathan" by Jack Schouten
"The Good Food" by Michael Ezell
"If I Could Give this Time Machine Zero Stars, I Would" by James Wesley Rogers
"Wise Child" by Sharon Lee & Steve Miller
"Starhome" by Michael Z. Williamson
"The Art of Failure" by Robert Dawson
"The Last Tank Commander" by Allen Stroud
"One Giant Leap" by Jay Werkheiser
"The Immortals: Anchorage" by David Adams
"Backup Man" by Paul Di Filippo
Registration with Baen Ebooks is required to vote. Alternatively, people may send a postcard or letter with the name of their favorite story from this volume and its author to Baen Books Year's Best Award, P.O. Box 1188, Wake Forest, NC 27587. Voting closes August 31, 2017.
The winning story will be announced at Dragoncon in Atlanta, held over Labor Day Weekend 2017, and at Baen.com. The author will receive an inscribed plaque and a $500 prize.
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21 thoughts on "Voting Opens for Year's Best Military and Adventure SF Readers' Choice Award"
Al the Great and Powerful on June 6, 2017 at 9:38 pm said:
Just don't care, even if its Baen, the editor's previous choices have NOT interested me. Plus its got MZW, who anti-interests me these days (in fact, it would require something like the cold dead hand of Robert Heinlein rising from the grave to pat MZW on the back to convince me to ever read anything he writes).
Dann on June 7, 2017 at 6:14 am said:
@Al TGAP
RE: MZW
Why? I have a couple of his books in my Goodreads TBR list.
Dann
PhilRM on June 7, 2017 at 7:55 am said:
This just seems like such a silly idea for an award: pick one of the stories from this anthology and we'll declare it the year's best.
James Davis Nicoll on June 7, 2017 at 8:57 am said:
How else would Baen get its extruded MilSF crap awards except by limiting the pool to Baen?
Bruce A on June 7, 2017 at 9:22 am said:
@PhilRM: Did you miss that the collection is the Best MilSF of the year? That means the best in the collection is clearly the best of the best. And, since the award will be presented at Dragon Con, you know that it's going to be a meaningful award.
Matt Y on June 7, 2017 at 9:24 am said:
Ok this one I want to read now.
Lenora Rose on June 7, 2017 at 9:46 am said:
I must admit it is a clever title. Not interested in the anthology though.
Peter J on June 7, 2017 at 9:50 am said:
Matt Y:
it's here
John A Arkansawyer on June 7, 2017 at 9:55 am said:
@Matt Y:
I almost praised that one for the title myself. That's a great title.
Mark on June 7, 2017 at 10:18 am said:
@James Davis Nicoll
The pool isn't limited to Baen.
Adding the award to the anthology seems like a harmless piece of puffery to me.
Bruce A on June 7, 2017 at 10:47 am said:
I looked at the table of contents, and 5 were originally published by baen.com or a Baen anthology, 2 came from Crises and Conflicts (Newcon Press), one each from Analog, Clarkesworld, and Strange Horizons, two published in two different Beyond the Stars anthologies (Astral Press), and several were published in other magazines or anthologies, maybe online, not at Baen. Despite my sarcasm in my previous post, I compare this award to something like the Analog AnLab award.
"If I Could Give this Time Machine Zero Stars, I Would" by James Wesley Rogers: I only read the first page, but it starts out quite funny. From the first page, though, I wouldn't expect it to be MilSF.
Cora on June 7, 2017 at 1:02 pm said:
@Dann
If I might hazard a guess, it's due to MZW's dreadful best related work Hugo nominee "Wisdom from the Internet" from two years ago and his behaviour related to that.
Linda S on June 7, 2017 at 3:29 pm said:
@Peter J
Thanks for the link to "If I Could Give this Time Machine Zero Stars, I Would." That was a fun story! For those who were wondering, it's definitely not MilSF; I'm guessing it's included in the "adventure SF" category.
That's a very funny story! Lives up to the title, doesn't take longer than need be.
Here's the Lee and Miller story, and I'm not going to look for any more because the Baen site is still using their pre-WWW architecture and I am OVER gopher and archie.
http://www.baen.com/readonline/index/read/sku/9781625794987
(And yes, MZW's public behavior guarantees I will never buy anything that funnels money to him.)
Kendall on June 7, 2017 at 5:06 pm said:
@Peter J: ROFL, thanks for the link to the time machine story. It was perfect. 🙂 Not MilSF, nor Adventure SF, methinks – it's a humor piece – still, I loved it.
Has anyone read the anthology it's from – "Unidentified Funny Objects 5"? (I'm not usually into humor SF and I don't read much short fiction.) I recognize 7 out of 18 names.
I read UFO 1 and 2, maybe 3, but lost touch with the series. It was nice light reading.
Peter J on June 7, 2017 at 5:20 pm said:
lurkertype's link above takes you to all Baen's free stories for 2016, which includes the Drake, Ledbetter and Williamson. Also available online:
Backup Man
The Art of Failure
Sephine and the Leviathan
The Werkheiser and Schouten stories are also available in audio.
kathodus on June 7, 2017 at 5:40 pm said:
Chiming in to agree that the time machine story was a good one, and lived up to its title.
Thanks to everyone providing links to the stories.
Also, yeah, Michael Z Williamson's behavior during the mid-era Kerpupple has soured me for good on him. You have to be a pretty durn good writer for me to read your work if you're a blatant asshole (Lovecraft, Ellison, Asimov…)
World Weary on June 7, 2017 at 7:45 pm said:
Thanks for the links!
Sorry for the lag in response. Yes, as described above, it was MZW's behavior and posts primarily but not exclusively related to the Puppies (accursed be their names). Plus he's still being the same sort of asshole on other fora I read, so I keep getting reminded not to buy his works.
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Premier John Horgan wouldn't speculate on whether his government would approve or reject any proposal by Metro Vancouver mayors for road-pricing tolls around the region to reduce congestion and pay for transportation upgrades.
"I'll await their requests for action by the government before I take any speculative action," said Horgan, hours after the Mobility Pricing Independent Commission said it was studying "congestion point charges" as a possibility for its final report.
"We'll wait to see what they come up with, but I haven't formed an opinion on what those outcomes would be," he said.
The independent commission said congestion point charges is "an umbrella term that includes a system of point charges (which involves levying fees on vehicles when passing a defined point or location, such as a busy section of road, a bridge or tunnel), and cordon charges (which involves levying fees on vehicles when passing through entries and/or exits to and from a defined area)."
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But Horgan, who campaigned and delivered on a promise to remove tolls from the Port Mann and Golden Ears bridges, expressed some concern on the costs of such a plan.
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The commission will further study the options and engage with the public before a final report is issued in the spring.
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Guidance Counselling Department
The Guidance Counselling Department is an integral part of Canadian International School of Hong Kong. Counsellors take a proactive, child-centred, and developmental approach in working with students, parents, and teachers. Our counsellors teach character education lessons, provide individual and family counselling, facilitate small group workshops for students, lead parent coffees and coordinate student services in the school. The Guidance Department comprises two Lower School Counsellors and five Upper School Guidance Counsellors.
Lower School Counselling Programme
The Lower School Counselling Programme criteria is developed along the PYP personal, social and physical education outlines. Support is comprised of a balance between prevention, proactive and responsive education and counselling for students. The counsellors work collaboratively with the classroom teacher, parents and external professionals to design and implement programmes to promote optimum individual emotional, academic and social development.
Upper School Guidance Counselling Programme
The Transition Years Guidance Counsellors provide comprehensive counselling support in Grades 6-8. They provide academic guidance along with social and emotional support at this critical stage of young adolescence. The counsellors work closely with teachers and families in providing a holistic level of support. The counsellors move with their assigned students through their years in the Transition Years programme at CDNIS.
In Grade 9, students are assigned a new Guidance Counsellor who will follow them through to Grade 12. Our dedicated team of highly trained counsellors with clinical and school experience assist students and their families with navigating the complexities of maturing adolescence. These counsellors focus on the domains of social, emotional, and academic growth through promoting problem solving, building positive relationships, and overall character development.
In addition, students in Grades 11 and 12 are assigned one of the three University Counsellors who work with students and families in optimizing their success in desired post-secondary aspirations.


Don't even think about not having videos on your website. It's 2014 and if you want to be successful with your audience, videos must be a part of your marketing strategy.
The first thing a video on your website does is grab your visitor's attention. It's easier to watch a video than it is to read through a lot of text. Visitors are more likely to click on a video, than they are to read the text. This is why today it's considered such an effective tool.
Another lesser known fact, is that by having a video on your website, makes it more likely to get your website ranked higher in search engines, than your competition. When you consider the effort website owners put, into getting their website ranked high in Google and other search engines, few understand that by adding videos to the mix, along with necessary SEO terms and keywords, will rocket them to the top more quickly than any other SEO marketing tactic.
YouTube is soon expected to become the most popular source for internet traffic search results in 2014. It's currently the second largest search engine in the world; Google currently is in the number one spot. Consider the importance of YouTube having over 4 billion viewers of videos every single day. That works out to more than 800 million unique viewers going to YouTube on a monthly basis. Can you afford to lose that audience and the potential it could bring to your business? This is proof positive that people want to see videos, and shows you how powerful they are when incorporated into your website.
Website owners face a unique challenge when it comes to embedding a YouTube video into their website. Often, the default code which YouTube provides for embedding into your website does not look the way you need it to look. Below we look at ways to help you avoid this problem and show you easy ways to embed your videos into your website.
The simplest way to embed a YouTube video into your WordPress website, is to grab the embed code from YouTube, and paste it into a text widget, located on your post or page in WordPress. Before we show you how to do this, you'll need to go to YouTube, load any video, and then you'll be ready to proceed to the steps below.
Click on the share function.
Now you're ready to go back to your website and paste the HTML code into your text widget in your post or page in WordPress.
NOTE: If you are in editing mode for a post or a page, make sure you paste it into the Text editor.
showinfo=0 – Will not show the video title at the top.
modestbranding=1 – This will reduce the size of the YouTube logo on the video.
theme=light – Use a light color theme instead of the default dark color theme.
Let me demonstrate how this would work.
Taking it a step further, I can add controls=0 which which will hide the control bar at the bottom of the video.
I hope you find this information useful and the task of embedding YouTube videos on your site less frustrating.