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  Episode Information  
Title: For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky
Episode Number: 64
Season: 3
Season Episode #.: 8
Production Number: 60043-065
Original Airdate: Friday November 08th, 1968
6/10 (1 Vote cast)
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Episode Crew
Director: Anton Leader
Writer: Hendrik Vollaerts
  Episode Summary  
McCoy tells Kirk that he has become infected with a fatal disease for which there is no known cure. Shortly thereafter the Enterprise is attacked and extrapolates that the attack came from an asteroid which turns out to be a sophisticated and inhabited space vessel on a collision course with a planet. The Enterprise tries to stop the oncoming collision, while McCoy announces he plans to stay on the asteroid with the high priestess who has fallen in love with him and live out what's left of his life there.
 
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  Guest Stars  
Starring Roles
James Doohan (1)playedLt. Cmdr. Montgomery "Scotty" Scott, Oracle (voice) [uncredited]Recurring (49th appearance)
George TakeiplayedLt. Hikaru SuluRecurring (39th appearance)
Walter KoenigplayedEnsign Pavel ChekovRecurring (28th appearance)
Nichelle NicholsplayedLt. Nyota UhuraRecurring (56th appearance)
Majel BarrettplayedNurse Christine ChapelRecurring (29th appearance)
Guest Stars
Katherine WoodvilleplayedNatira 
Co-Guest Stars
Byron MorrowplayedAdm. WestervlietRecurring (second appearance)
Jon LormerplayedOld ManRecurring (5th appearance)
Uncredited
Bob BralverplayedMcCoy Stunt DoubleRecurring (second appearance)
  Episode Notes  
At eleven words, this has the longest title of any Star Trek episode.
 
James Doohan has an uncredited voice role as the Oracle.
 
  Episode Quotes  
Old Man: I climbed the mountains, even though it is forbidden.
Kirk: Why is it forbidden?
Old Man: I am not sure. But things... are not... as they teach us. For the world is hollow, and l... have touched the sky.
 
Natira: I hope you men of space, of other worlds, hold truth as dear as we do.
McCoy: We do.
Natira: I wish you to stay here... on Yonada... as my mate.
McCoy: But we're strangers to each other.
Natira: But is not that the nature of men and women... that the pleasure is in the learning of each other?
 
The Oracle: Kirk and Spock have committed sacrilege! You know what must be done!!
 
Spock: Your haemoglobin count is back to normal, Doctor, which indicates that the flow of oxygen to each cell of your body is back up to its abundantly energetic level.
 
  Analysis  
What Changed in the Remastered Version: Yonada's opening missile salvo received an upgrade - missiles formerly represented as blobs of light now have detail and relative motion. Yonada received an upgrade that more accurately depicts an asteroid in space for millennia. The new Enterprise model permitted several improved shots of the relative motion of ship and asteroid, but the Enterprise should have been far smaller relative to the size of Yonada in one of these shots. Other effects, such as the Oracle's electrical attack and the operation of the Instrument of Obedience, went unchanged.
 
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