Stardate: 5029.5 (2268)
Original Air Date: October 11, 1968
Writer: Edward J. Lakso
Director: Marvin Chomsky
“Hail, hail, fire and snow.
Call the angel we will go.
Far away, for to see.
Friendly Angel, come to me.”
Responding to a distress call from the science colony on Triacus, Kirk, Spock, and Bones beam down to the surface of the planet to investigate, but they shockingly find a piles of lifeless bodies. One man, Professor Starnes (Craig Huxley) staggers forward and then promptly dies –“he’s dead, captain.” The crew determines this must have been the site of a mass suicide. Then, a cohort of playful children emerge from a nearby cave, seemingly unaffected by the corpses all around them. They give no signs of grief. Perhaps they are suffering from depression, shock, lacunar amnesia, or an invasive bacteria of sorts.
The crew buries the bodies from the Starnes…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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