Balance of Terror, the Glossary
"Balance of Terror" is the fourteenth episode of the first season of the American science fiction television series Star Trek.[1]
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56 relations: Anson Mount, Arena (Star Trek: The Original Series), Barbara Baldavin, Bridal Chorus, Bryan Fuller, Business Insider, Cat and mouse, Christopher Pike (Star Trek), Cloaking device, Computer-generated imagery, Destroyer, Earth, Empire (magazine), Fred Steiner, Garry Walberg, Gerald Finnerman, IDW Publishing, James T. Kirk, John Warburton (actor), Journey to Babel, Klingon, Lawrence Montaigne, List of Star Trek regions of space, Long, Long Ago, Mark Lenard, Nuclear weapon, Paul Comi, Paul Schneider (writer), Pocket Books, Richard Wagner, Romulan, Sarek, Science fiction, Self-destruct, Shore Leave (Star Trek: The Original Series), Spacecraft, Spock, Star Trek canon, Star Trek: Discovery, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Star Trek: The Original Series, Star Trek: The Original Series season 1, Submarine films, Syfy, The Conscience of the King, The Enemy Below, The Washington Post, Thomas Haynes Bayly, U-boat, ... Expand index (6 more) »
- 1966 American television episodes
- Star Trek: The Original Series season 1 episodes
- Television episodes directed by Vincent McEveety
- Television episodes written by Paul Schneider (writer)
Anson Mount
Anson Adams Mount IV (born February 25, 1973) is an American actor.
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Arena (Star Trek: The Original Series)
"Arena" is the eighteenth episode of the first season of the American science fiction television series Star Trek. Balance of Terror and Arena (Star Trek: The Original Series) are star Trek: The Original Series season 1 episodes.
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Barbara Baldavin
Barbara Baldavin (October 18, 1938 – March 31, 2024) was an American television and film actress.
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Bridal Chorus
The "Bridal Chorus" from the 1850 opera Lohengrin by German composer Richard Wagner, who also wrote the libretto, is a march played for the bride's entrance at many formal weddings throughout the Western world.
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Bryan Fuller
Bryan Fuller (born July 27, 1969) is an American writer and producer, best known for creating the television series Pushing Daisies (2007–2009) and Hannibal (2013–2015).
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Business Insider
Business Insider (stylized in all caps, shortened to BI, known from 2021 to 2023 as Insider) is a New York City–based multinational financial and business news website founded in 2007.
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Cat and mouse
Cat and mouse, often expressed as cat-and-mouse game, is an English-language idiom that means "a contrived action involving constant pursuit, near captures, and repeated escapes." The "cat" is unable to secure a definitive victory over the "mouse", who, despite not being able to defeat the cat, is able to avoid capture.
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Christopher Pike (Star Trek)
Christopher Pike is a fictional character in the Star Trek science fiction franchise.
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Cloaking device
A cloaking device is a hypothetical or fictional stealth technology that can cause objects, such as spaceships or individuals, to be partially or wholly invisible to parts of the electromagnetic (EM) spectrum.
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Computer-generated imagery
Computer-generated imagery (CGI) is a specific-technology or application of computer graphics for creating or improving images in art, printed media, simulators, videos and video games.
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Destroyer
In naval terminology, a destroyer is a fast, maneuverable, long-endurance warship intended to escort larger vessels in a fleet, convoy, or carrier battle group and defend them against a wide range of general threats.
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Earth
Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life.
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Empire (magazine)
Empire is a British film magazine published monthly by Bauer Media Group.
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Fred Steiner
Frederick Steiner (February 24, 1923 – June 23, 2011) was an American composer, conductor, orchestrator, film historian and arranger for television, radio and film.
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Garry Walberg
Gerrit Christian Walberg Jr. (June 10, 1921 – March 27, 2012) was an American character actor primarily known for his work on television.
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Gerald Finnerman
Gerald Perry Finnerman (December 17, 1931 – April 6, 2011) was an American cinematographer who worked on TV series such as Moonlighting and the original Star Trek.
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IDW Publishing
IDW Publishing is an American publisher of comic books, graphic novels, art books, and comic strip collections.
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James T. Kirk
James Tiberius Kirk, commonly known as Captain Kirk, is a fictional character in the Star Trek media franchise.
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John Warburton (actor)
John Warburton (June 18, 1903 – October 27, 1981) was a British actor who appeared in numerous Hollywood films in the 1930s to 1960s.
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Journey to Babel
"Journey to Babel" is the tenth episode of the second season of the American science fiction television series Star Trek.
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Klingon
The Klingons (Klingon: tlhIngan) are a fictional species in the science fiction franchise Star Trek.
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Lawrence Montaigne
Lawrence Montaigne (February 26, 1931 – March 17, 2017) was an American actor, writer, dancer, and stuntman.
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List of Star Trek regions of space
Several films and episodes of the science fiction franchise Star Trek are set in distinct astrographical regions of space.
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Long, Long Ago
"Long, Long Ago" is a song dealing with nostalgia, written in 1833 by English composer Thomas Haynes Bayly.
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Mark Lenard
Mark Lenard (born Leonard Rosenson, October 15, 1924 – November 22, 1996) was an American actor, primarily in television.
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Nuclear weapon
A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission (fission bomb) or a combination of fission and fusion reactions (thermonuclear bomb), producing a nuclear explosion.
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Paul Comi
Paul Domingo Comi (February 11, 1932 – August 26, 2016) was an American film and television actor.
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Paul Schneider (writer)
Paul Schneider (August 4, 1923 – October 13, 2008) was an American screenwriter who worked in television and film between the 1950s and the 1980s.
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Pocket Books
Pocket Books is a division of Simon & Schuster that primarily publishes paperback books.
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Richard Wagner
Wilhelm Richard Wagner (22 May 181313 February 1883) was a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is chiefly known for his operas (or, as some of his mature works were later known, "music dramas").
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Romulan
The Romulans are an extraterrestrial race in the American science fiction franchise Star Trek.
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Sarek
Sarek is a fictional character in the Star Trek media franchise.
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Science fiction
Science fiction (sometimes shortened to SF or sci-fi) is a genre of speculative fiction, which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, and extraterrestrial life.
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Self-destruct
A self-destruct is a mechanism that can cause an object to destroy itself or render itself inoperable after a predefined set of circumstances has occurred.
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Shore Leave (Star Trek: The Original Series)
"Shore Leave" is the fifteenth episode of the first season of the American science fiction television series Star Trek. Balance of Terror and Shore Leave (Star Trek: The Original Series) are 1966 American television episodes and star Trek: The Original Series season 1 episodes.
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Spacecraft
A spacecraft is a vehicle that is designed to fly and operate in outer space.
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Spock
Spock is a fictional character in the Star Trek media franchise.
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Star Trek canon
The Star Trek canon is the set of all material taking place within the Star Trek universe that is considered official.
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Star Trek: Discovery
Star Trek: Discovery is an American science fiction television series created by Bryan Fuller and Alex Kurtzman for the streaming service CBS All Access (later rebranded as Paramount+).
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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is an American science fiction television series created by Akiva Goldsman, Alex Kurtzman, and Jenny Lumet for the streaming service Paramount+.
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Star Trek: The Motion Picture
Star Trek: The Motion Picture is a 1979 American science fiction film directed by Robert Wise.
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Star Trek: The Original Series
Star Trek is an American science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry that follows the adventures of the starship and its crew.
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Star Trek: The Original Series season 1
The first season of the American science-fiction television series Star Trek, originally created by Gene Roddenberry, premiered on NBC on September 8, 1966, and concluded on April 13, 1967.
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Submarine films
The submarine film is a subgenre of war film in which most of the plot revolves around a submarine below the ocean's surface.
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Syfy
Syfy (a paraphrased neology of former name Sci-Fi Channel, later shortened to Sci Fi; stylized as SYFY) is an American basic cable television channel, which is owned by the NBCUniversal Media Group division and business segment of Comcast's NBCUniversal.
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The Conscience of the King
"The Conscience of the King" is the 13th episode of the first season of the American science fiction television series Star Trek. Balance of Terror and the Conscience of the King are 1966 American television episodes and star Trek: The Original Series season 1 episodes.
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The Enemy Below
The Enemy Below is a 1957 American DeLuxe Color war film in CinemaScope about a battle between an American destroyer escort and a German U-boat during World War II.
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The Washington Post
The Washington Post, locally known as "the Post" and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital.
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Thomas Haynes Bayly
Thomas Haynes Bayly (13 October 1797 – 22 April 1839) was an English poet, songwriter, dramatist and writer.
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U-boat
U-boats were naval submarines operated by Germany, particularly in the First and Second World Wars.
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United Federation of Planets
In the fictional universe of Star Trek, the United Federation of Planets (UFP) is the interstellar government with which, as part of its space force Starfleet, most of the characters and starships of the franchise are affiliated.
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USS Enterprise (NCC-1701)
USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) is a starship in the Star Trek media franchise.
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Vincent McEveety
Vincent Michael McEveety (August 10, 1929 – May 19, 2018) was an American film and television director and producer.
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Visual effects
Visual effects (sometimes abbreviated VFX) is the process by which imagery is created or manipulated outside the context of a live-action shot in filmmaking and video production.
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Vulcan (Star Trek)
Vulcans, sometimes referred to as Vulcanians, are a fictional extraterrestrial humanoid species in the Star Trek universe and media franchise.
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Weapons in Star Trek
The Star Trek fictional universe contains a variety of weapons, ranging from missiles (the classic photon torpedo) to melee (primarily used by the Klingons, a race of aliens in the Star Trek universe).
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See also
1966 American television episodes
- A Death Worse Than Fate
- Balance of Terror
- Batman Is Riled
- Charlie X
- Dagger of the Mind
- Evening Primrose (ABC Stage 67)
- Fine Feathered Finks
- He Meets His Match, The Grisly Ghoul
- Hi Diddle Riddle
- Hot Off the Griddle
- Instant Freeze
- Marsha's Scheme of Diamonds
- Marsha, Queen of Diamonds
- Miri (Star Trek: The Original Series)
- Mudd's Women
- Not Yet, He Ain't
- Rats Like Cheese
- Shoot a Crooked Arrow
- Shore Leave (Star Trek: The Original Series)
- Smack in the Middle
- The Cat and the Fiddle (Batman)
- The Conscience of the King
- The Corbomite Maneuver
- The Enemy Within (Star Trek: The Original Series)
- The Joker Goes to School
- The Joker Is Wild (Batman)
- The Man Trap
- The Menagerie (Star Trek: The Original Series)
- The Moonglow Affair
- The Naked Time
- The Penguin Goes Straight
- The Penguin's a Jinx
- True or False-Face
- Walk the Straight and Narrow
- What Are Little Girls Made Of?
- Where No Man Has Gone Before
- Zelda the Great
Star Trek: The Original Series season 1 episodes
- A Taste of Armageddon
- Arena (Star Trek: The Original Series)
- Balance of Terror
- Charlie X
- Court Martial (Star Trek: The Original Series)
- Dagger of the Mind
- Errand of Mercy
- Miri (Star Trek: The Original Series)
- Mudd's Women
- Operation -- Annihilate!
- Shore Leave (Star Trek: The Original Series)
- Space Seed
- The Alternative Factor
- The City on the Edge of Forever
- The Conscience of the King
- The Corbomite Maneuver
- The Devil in the Dark
- The Enemy Within (Star Trek: The Original Series)
- The Galileo Seven
- The Man Trap
- The Menagerie (Star Trek: The Original Series)
- The Naked Time
- The Return of the Archons
- The Squire of Gothos
- This Side of Paradise (Star Trek: The Original Series)
- Tomorrow Is Yesterday
- What Are Little Girls Made Of?
- Where No Man Has Gone Before
Television episodes directed by Vincent McEveety
- Balance of Terror
- Dagger of the Mind
- Miri (Star Trek: The Original Series)
- Patterns of Force (Star Trek: The Original Series)
- Spectre of the Gun
- Sweet, Sweet Blues
- The Omega Glory
Television episodes written by Paul Schneider (writer)
- Balance of Terror
- The Squire of Gothos
- The Terratin Incident
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balance_of_Terror
Also known as Balance of Terror (Star Trek: The Original Series), Balance of Terror (TOS episode).
, United Federation of Planets, USS Enterprise (NCC-1701), Vincent McEveety, Visual effects, Vulcan (Star Trek), Weapons in Star Trek.