Who Mourns for Adonais?

Episode aired Sep 22, 1967
TV-PG
50m

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7.1/10

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Michael Forest and Leslie Parrish in Star Trek (1966)

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A powerful being claiming to be the Greek god Apollo appears and demands that the crew of the Enterprise disembark onto his planet to worship him.A powerful being claiming to be the Greek god Apollo appears and demands that the crew of the Enterprise disembark onto his planet to worship him.A powerful being claiming to be the Greek god Apollo appears and demands that the crew of the Enterprise disembark onto his planet to worship him.

Director
- Marc Daniels
Writers
- Gilbert Ralston
- D.C. Fontana
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IMDb RATING

7.1/10

4.6K

YOUR RATING

Director
- Marc Daniels
Writers
- Gilbert Ralston
- D.C. Fontana
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

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Trivia
The title is taken from Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats by Percy Bysshe Shelley. Line 415 reads "Who mourns for Adonais?" Shelley's Adonais is derived from Adonis, a male figure of Greek mythology associated with fertility. Also, "Adonais" would be the English plural of the Hebrew Spoken Name of God (the Hebrew word 'adonai' simply means 'lord'), so it would mean "Who Mourns for the Gods?"

Goofs
At minute 22, Spock refers to Apollo by name. Apollo told his name only to the landing party, and not the people left on the ship.

Quotes
[last lines]
Dr. McCoy: I wish we hadn't had to do this.
Capt. Kirk: So do I. They gave us so much - the Greek civilization, much of our culture and philosophy came from the worship of those beings. In a way, they began the Golden Age. Would it have hurt us, I wonder, just to have gathered a few laurel leaves?