Star Trek
A Private Little War
Season 2, Episode 19 · Aired 1968-02-02
Synopsis
Kirk returns to a planet he surveyed years ago as a younger officer. There he discovers that the villagers and the hill people are now fighting, because the villagers have developed crude firearms and the idea that they should simply take anything they want from the hill people. Worse, Spock is the victim of a gunshot! Kirk and McCoy return to the surface to investigate more completely, but Enterprise must leave to avoid detection - and then a mugato bites Kirk! He must make contact with the hill people, who number among them a kind of witch doctor called a kanutu, who may be able to help. But that help comes with a price...
In the series
This episode is part of Star Trek (1966–1969) on NBC.
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Key cast
- William Shatner as Capt. James T. Kirk
- Leonard Nimoy as Spock
- DeForest Kelley as Dr. Leonard McCoy
- Nichelle Nichols as Uhura
- James Doohan as Scotty