Quotes tagged as "archons" Showing 1-20 of 20. Discussing Landru and his society, Kirk and Spock reach the same conclusion: the society has no spirit, no spark; Landru's orders are being issued by a computer. Lotsa guests in this one: Harry Townes as Reger, Torin Thatcher as Marplon, Brioni Farrell as Tula, Sid Haig as the first lawgiver, Charles Macaulay as the image of Landru (hell be back in Wolf in the Fold as Jaris), Morgan Farley as Hacom (hell return in The Omega Glory as a Yang scholar), Jon Lormer as Tamar (who previously played the image of a Columbia crewmember in The Cage and The Menagerie, and will return as the old man in For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky), and Ralph Maurer as Bilar (well see him again as a Nazi in Patterns of Force). The universal good." -Landru says this to Kirk just before knocking the landing party out with a hypersonic wave and just after causing the planet's population to riot in the streets "This is a soulless society, captain. Tamar is supremely well known, appearing in The Cage and a season three episode of. "genetic engineering mixing species and creating hybrids that were never meant to exist.". Club gave the episode a "B" rating, describing the episode as having a "loose, unpolished feeling" and lacking "the force of the series' best story lines", but praised the story's ambition. After subduing their captors (why they didn't do that, before, is anyone's guess, as is why Landru bothered to bring them to his inner sanctum to assimilate them instead of having the Brown Cloaks touch them with their Swiss Rolls), Kirk has Reger and Marplon take them to Landruwhich turns out to be a giant computer (what else?). Creativity is one of Kirk's best leadership traits and in the episode he explains that all of humanity would be lost without it. I wouldn't pay much for the books, but they are a pleasant enough read. Spock, acting as instructed, makes his way back to the cell, pretending to be as mindlessly happy as Beta III's inhabitants. Possibly the most character driven book of the series so far, the pacing was far better than the earlier books and the intrigue and plot drove the narrative. But on the way, Landru employs a form of mass telepathy on the townsfolk to command an attack, which is easily repelled by the landing parties' phaser fire. They destroy your passion for learning, and infiltrate and sabotage the educational system. The novelization offers the explanation that it's how the computer keeps the population from growing. When the Archon crew came, it saw them as a threat to its perfect society, and assimilated them, just like it's trying to assimilate the crew of the Enterprise. The Prime Directive, Starfleets General Order One, forbids the interference with cultures normal development. And then he drops the bombshell, mentioning casually that Landru pulled the Archons from the sky Kirk contacts the Enterprise, and learns that heat beams are focused on the ship. [15][unreliable source?] Yarn is the best search for video clips by quote. Written by Boris Sobelman (based on a story by Gene Roddenberry), and directed by Joseph Pevney, it first aired on February 9, 1967.. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Get help and learn more about the design. All is indeed peace and tranquility the peace of the factory; the tranquility of the machine; all parts working in unison., Following this intense disappointment is one of the most significant episodes in the shows history: Space Seed. Its the only episode to have a feature-length direct sequel in. , The computer complies. Special Enhanced version Digitally Remastered with new exterior shots and remade opening theme song. Once out of danger, Reger explains the whole thing: he is a resistance fighter against the Brown Cloaks and their master, Landru, who controls the people via Mind Control, and polices them with the Brown Cloaks; anyone out of its thrall is told You Will Be Assimilated (so, nothing like the Borg, then), and are killed if they can't be. O'NEIL: It's no use. He does find one thing interesting; the lawgiver's reaction to Kirk's defiance was similar to a computer's when fed insufficient data. To boldly go. Captain James T. Kirk: You'd make a splendid computer, Mr Spock. "The Return of the Archons" was the first appearance in Star Trek for actor Charles Macaulay. [21], The episode contains two errors. "It was the practice of transhuman, genetic engineering, which resulted in all flesh becoming corrupted. Find the exact moment in a TV show, movie, or music video you want to share. 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As it turns out, Landru was once a real person, a leader of the colony on the planet, who built the machine to help him keep the peace over the people; once Landru died, the computer took over his name, identity, and purpose, and went through a Zeroth Law Rebellion, force-assimilating people into the Hive Mind in order to keep order. And we have the various Enterprise crew, with the usual suspects DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei, and Nichelle Nichols, as well as David L. Ross and Eddie Paskey, plus Christopher Held as Lindstrom and Sean Morgan as ONeillMorgan will return as ONeil in The Tholian Web.. Kirk, acting on a hunch, defies them and causes confusion. Memorable Quotes from The Return of the Archons "Landru seeks tranquility. Marplon's absorption booth console was also reused several times in the series. Kirk leaves the ship's sociologist to guide the colony to a more "human" existence, and goes gallivanting off to a new adventure. I have said from the beginning, I would spend what it would take for the people of Connecticut to know who I am and what I stand for. A delusional person has false or unrealistic beliefs or opinions. Remove them. Now, I noticed that of the three archons that are currently playable, Venti and Raiden's gemstone quotes are already in-game, spoken by those archons during certain cutscenes. Please update your browser to one of the following: Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Flashback | Recap | Star Trek: The Original Series S1E21: The Return of the Archons, When Lt. Sulu (George Takei) returns to the. Then Jason's ship, the Phoenix, was stolen, along with Twingo and Doc. Spock is concerned this would violate the Prime Directive, but Kirk opines that the directive applies to living, growing cultures, of which this is not. Unless, that is, Kirk wants to willfully ignore it, as he does here. Its orbit is deteriorating and it will crash in 12 hours unless the beams are turned off. Spock mentions the Prime Directive of noninterference, but Kirk dismisses that as applying to a living, breathing culture, not a stagnant one. See also Trivia | Goofs | Crazy Credits | Alternate Versions | Connections | Soundtracks The Landru hologram declares that, for the good of the body, the landing party must die, as must everyone who saw them or spoke to them. "The Return of the Archons" is the twenty-first episode of the first season of the American science fiction television series Star Trek. He cant even play human well. Yarn is the best search for video clips by quote. Before you start this book, please realize it is the fifth title in the series: you will need to read the previous books in the series in order to understand the back story and the characters. In other words, they follow orders like an army of automatons., When the Christos saw the distress of Sophia, He traveled from the Pleroma to help awaken Sophia from her nightmare and to help her in her struggle against the mechanical robotic imitations of humanity., Archons are basically cosmic bureaucrats. $j("#facebookRegPrompt").hide(); The landing party finds themselves deep in Landru's sanctuary, on call to be assimilated, and with no hope of escape now that the Brown Cloaks have adapted to Kirk's Logic Bombs (again, no Borg similarities here). The landing party runs into a building, where theyre met by three older men, Reger, Hacom, and Tamar. He orders Leslie and Galloway to take the still-unconscious O'Neil with them over the strenuous objections of Reger. [27][28] Burstein criticizes the episode for attacking organized religion, which it presented as suppressing freedom and creativity. At six oclock the following morning, everyone stops rioting and wanders the streets as if nothing has happened. ", "This is a soulless society, Captain. Contacting the ship, Kirk learns that heat beams from the planet are attacking the Enterprise, which must use all its power for its shields. Kirk agrees to leave Federation advisors and educators on the planet to help reform the civilization. ("Swept Up: Snippets from the Cutting Room Floor". Mission summary. //]]>. Be the first to contribute! The away team finds shelter at a local boarding house run by a man named Reger, who grows interested in their lack of going nuts like the rest of the town and questions if they're "Archons", referring to the crew of the ship that the Enterprise came to the planet to find; Kirk refuses to say, thanks to that pesky Prime Directive. Is it like The Purge, where the people just get out all their repression in one fell swoop? Stardate: 3156.2. is utterly genuine as a conflicted man watching his society spin out of control, leading a bit of a resistance movement. A subplot involving Lindstrom falling in love with a local girl was cut from the episode's final draft script. 57 reviews Listening length: 9 hours Each member of Omega Force carries his own baggage. And the Landru computer winds up affecting the Ferengi a century hence in Caveat Emptor by Ian Edginton & Mike Collins. [26], Scholars Michael A. Burstein and John Kenneth Muir note that the plot of "The Return of the Archons" (in which Kirk and company discover a stagnant society worshiping a god-like being whom Kirk destroys with human illogic) became something of a clich in the decades after the series ended. Kirk's landing party seeks shelter from the mob at a boarding house owned by Reger. They are given rooms and retreat from the mayhem outside, trying their best to get a few hours' sleep. Kirk asks Landru what is the good? Probably what I love most about this series is that the bad guys are bad and get what they deserve, and the good guys are good and noble and honorable - none of the annoying gray space that so many movies and books now live in where truly awful and evil people are really just misunderstood - ugh. This is a very entertaining series. I doubt it takes much longer to write these books than it does to read them. Done in by Kirks total bullshit, the computer smokes and explodes. "[17] Indeed, the Prime Directive would only truly be honored during the series in the episode "Bread and Circuses". The landing party holds them off with phasers on stun (it helps that the people move really slowly). Just click the "Edit page" button at the bottom of the page or learn more in the Quotes submission guide. This story is told in the alternate timeline of 2009s Star Trek and Star Trek Into Darkness in issues #9-10 of IDWs Star Trek ongoing comic. I am really hooked on this series, kind of burning through the books. Story outline "Landru's Paradise" by Roddenberry: Story outline "The Return of the Archons" by. But of course, the good captain will have none of that! } else { Peace for all. Live your life with the power of Divine Love, which is the sweetness of choice., By any reasonable definition of the term, the Archons are crazy., Loosh is a hyperdimensional energy given off by the human soul when traumatized. Please no more. See production, box office & company info, Lieutenant Commander Montgomery 'Scotty' Scott, Self-defense, conflicting Prime Directives and how to outsmart an omnipotent power, Spider Baby or, the Maddest Story Ever Told (1967), Star Trek Logs: An MTV Big Picture Special Edition, Desilu Studios - 9336 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, California, USA. The moment the clock strikes six, everyone stopped moving in tandem, then goes berserk, trashing and burning things, grabbing women and carrying them off. MALcon) in Denver, Colorado this weekend, alongside Brian of Draco and the Malfoys, Stant Litore, Pandora Celtica, Tomas ODreams, Kilted Man, Quincy Allen, Vivian Trask, and bunches more. Star Trek (1966) - S01E21 The Return of the Archons clip with quote - You came for the Festival? Overhearing their whispered plans, McCoy summons the Lawgivers. From these foxholes, they launch their spiritual warfare against the general population and against specific individuals., When the electromagnetic flow of Sophia's intention approached specific types of metaloids, fermions, subatomic particles, and ions, this contact formed creatures similar to cyborgs; insectoid creatures, called Qlifot (fragments of broken vessels) in the Lurian Kabbalah, or the Archons in Gnosticism., Therefore, they [archons] meddle with human beings, inserting deviant thoughts into their minds, They are influence peddlers, a type of non-physical implant, a foreign installation in the brain, from which they launch their mind-control system., All thoughts, emotions, mindsets, archons, egregores, demons, mogwai, or non-physical beings are computer programs that will control your actions if you let them. The Archons keep people distracted with pornography and drugs, with sports and alcohol, with material possessions, exotic vacations, artificial reality, addiction to various pleasures, along with dreams of the artificial technological paradise of: radical life-extension, transhumanism, nootropics and Brain Computer Interfaces. Galloway and Leslieboth guys weve seen before in various rolesare security and do absolutely nothing of any use whatsoever. Story By Gene Roddenberry. It has no spirit, no spark. Following this intense disappointment is one of the most significant episodes in the shows history: Space Seed. Its the only episode to have a feature-length direct sequel in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. But of course, the good captain will have, Landru seeks tranquility. And he's not who he claims to be. Peace for all. Welcome back. ", "I prefer the concrete, the graspable, the provable." Yarn is the best search for video clips by quote. Archons are deceivers par excellence. The lawgivers take Kirk next, strapping him into a machine. Reger takes him to a safe house where he has a lighting panel that is obviously way beyond the technology of this world. Star Trek (1966) - S01E21 The Return of the Archons clip with quote It's the will of Landru. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. When Landru first appears in the hiding place, one of the background extras starts to cover his ears, mistaking the sound of the holographic Landru appearing for the crippling ultrasonic waves that would occur towards the end of the scene. Ultimately, they want to destroy all that makes you human, your hopes, your dreams, your joys, especially they want to destroy your spirituality., May we all stand tall together in the face of those forces, here and elsewhere, that seek to enslave us., Money is a tool of control invented by the Archons and implemented by your banking families., The Illuminati are the willing terrestrial servants of the Lord Archon, who demands everything from pedophilia and child sacrifice to war and chaos as offerings that create loosh., The Artificial Intelligence. Spock tries to mind-meld with McCoy, but even he cant get past the brainwashing. Kirk orders a guard placed on Sulu. Yarn is the best search for video clips by quote. Kirk and Spock discuss this with the Landru computer, asking it difficult questions it has evidently never had to answer; questions about whether its approach to creating the good is really creating evil. A delusional person is someone who has a . 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