The Savage Curtain
![Nichelle Nichols [as Uhura] and Lee Bergere [as Lincoln] converse on the bridge of the Enterprise.](https://img.ittdb.com/000000/75/69M-75-000000.jpg "The Savage Curtain")
- by Gene Roddenberry and Arthur Heinemann, directed by Herschel Daugherty
- TV Episode
- Science Fiction
- Adults
- No Time Phenomena
- English
- “The Savage Curtain” by Gene Roddenberry and Arthur Heinemann, directed by Herschel Daugherty (NBC-TV, USA, 7 March 1969).
The critics agree that this episode lives in the bottom ten of all Star Trek episodes, but we kinda liked seeing Lincoln and Surak, even if Spock concludes that they were mere sims.
—Michael Main
Conjecture, Captain, rather than explanation: It would seem that we were held in the power of creatures able to control matter and to rearrange molecules in whatever fashion was desired, so they were able to create images of Sarak and Lincoln after scanning our minds and using their fellow creatures as source matter.
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- Time Periods
- Themes
- Reconstruction of the Dead: Lincoln and others are reconstructed.
- Simulation: Lincoln and the others are just simulations, not the real thing.
- Real-World Tags
- Abraham Lincoln: just a sim
- Fictional Tags
- Chekov (Star Trek)
- James T. Kirk
- Kahless: just a sim
- Leonard McCoy
- Mr. Spock
- Scotty (Star Trek)
- Sulu
- Surak: just a sim
- Uhura
- Groupings
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- “The Savage Curtain” by Gene Roddenberry and Arthur Heinemann, directed by Herschel Daugherty (NBC-TV, USA, 7 March 1969).
Gene Roddenberry (story)
Arthur H. Singer (other contribution)