The Mark of Gideon premiered

January 17, 1969


The Star Trek episode The Mark of Gideon where, Kirk is abducted and held aboard an abandoned duplicated of the Enterprise, first aired on CBS TV on this date.

A strange hole in the plot of this episode: The Gideons were obviously prepared to take drastic action to solve their overpopulation problem. But since their planet was so incredibly crowded that inhabitants were willing to kill for a moment of privacy, where did Hodin and his council find the space to construct a duplicate of such a large vessel as the Enterprise.

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