13 Darkest Star Trek: The Original Series Moments

9. The Festival In The Return Of The Archons

Star Trek The Original Series
CBS

Kirk leads a landing party on Beta III to determine what happened to a missing crewman. The town where they land assumes they are there to participate in the Festival, an affair where the stroke of six o'clock signals the start of utter chaos and mayhem. The Festival lasts all night, and the truly chilling part is that when it ends in the morning, people act as if nothing happened.

Considering how unnaturally calm the townspeople were when the landing party arrived, the last thing they expected was the wild outburst of the Festival. The fact that they did not participate in the Festival made them the target of scrutiny and suspicion, adding a level of danger to an already volatile situation.

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