Star Trek (s03e22)

The Savage Curtain

by Gene Roddenberry and Arthur Heinemann, directed by Herschel Daugherty

Release: 7 March 1969
Format: TV Episode
Genre: Science Fiction
Audience: Adults
Content: No Time Phenomena
Original Language: English

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.

DEBUT

Star Trek (s03e22), “The Savage Curtain” (NBC-TV, USA, 7 March 1969).

VARIANTS

1 English variant

TAGS(SPOILERS!)

Time Periods

Circa AD 2200 to 2299

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

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