“Who Mourns for Adonais?” (September 22, 1967) begins with the Enterprise being grabbed in area by an enormous inexperienced human hand. Kirk and firm beam all the way down to a close-by planet to search out Apollo (Michael Forest) dwelling there. This seems to be the precise god Apollo of Greek fable, and he calls for that the Enterprise crew worship him, similar to he was worshiped again on Earth. Kirk, Chekov, and the others surmise that Apollo is definitely an historical alien that when visited Earth hundreds of years in the past, and the locals assumed he was a god. Kirk explains to Apollo that people have outgrown the necessity for gods, and Apollo is gloomy. After Apollo ascends to affix the opposite “gods,” Kirk admits that even with out the advantage of divinity, trendy civilization nonetheless owes rather a lot to historical Greek tradition. The title is a reference to an 1821 Percy Shelley elegy about John Keats.
Yelchin most likely favored “Adonais” as a result of Chekov has rather a lot to contribute. He was a part of the episode’s touchdown occasion, and he was lively and contributive. In Yelchin’s phrases:Â
“In all probability the one with Apollo. I believe is such an clever episode. It’s an episode the place the fundamental level is that humanity … taking a look at it when it comes to the ’60s when males are their very own gods, and have a look at the place they introduced their universe to. It was such an enchanting, touching, bizarre factor to have an episode. The place males come to a planet the place a god desires to be a god once more.”Â
No such heady ideas have been included within the 2009 movie, because it was, as talked about, an motion image. However It is good to see that Yelchin discovered a few of the unique Trek ideas to be attention-grabbing.Â
