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Star Trek: The Animated Series Season 1 Episode 8

The Magicks of Megas-Tu

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AIRED: 10/27/73

The Enterprise goes to the center of the galaxy, where they find a race of powerful aliens who once fled Earth.

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The Enterprise discovers a dimension where magical abilities exist and encounter a pan-like being named Lucien.

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By Celedorian, Jan 30, 2011

This may sound familiar: the Enterprise visits the center of the galaxy and discovers an alien with God-like powers. Sounds like Star Trek V, doesn't it? The Enterprise here even endures the same wild ride as in the feature film as the ship approaches the calm "eye of the hurricane" center. That said, this episode is actually closer to the original series episode "Who Mourns for Adonais" than anything else. It's a middle of the road animated episode; there are better and there are worse. Like Apollo, Lucien is probably one of the more memorable guest stars, but he can also be a little annoying.moreless
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While investigating the big bang theory, the Enterprise arrives at a planet with people who Earth's history knows very well.

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By GameraTrekkie, Jan 08, 2011

I really did love this episode. This is a very interesting, and very controversial, episode for sure. The crew goes to a planet and are greated by Lucien. Yes, you guessed, on Earth he is known as Lucifer. In this story, it is told that Lucifer and the witches burned during the Salem Witch Trials were actually from another planet who visited Earth. They also say that the pentagram is a symbol from their planet that, when step on, can cause magic to happen. As I said, a very interesting and a very controversial episode. I really loved it. The crew of the Enterprise are put on trial at the end of the episode and it is very similar to what Q did on the first episode of TNG.moreless
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Leonard Nimoy	Mr. Spock
William Shatner	Capt. James Tiberius Kirk
DeForest Kelley	Dr. Leonard "Bones" McCoy

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Ed Bishop	Megan Prosecutor	Guest Star
James Doohan	Lucien	Guest Star
George Takei	Megan	Guest Star
George Takei	Lt. Hikaru Sulu	Recurring Role
James Doohan	Lt. Cmdr. Montgomery "Scotty" Scott / Lt. Arex	Recurring Role
Majel Barrett	Nurse Christine Chapel / Lt. M'Ress	Recurring Role

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- In this episode the Enterprise explores the center of the galaxy. In Star Trek V - The Final Frontier Kirk claims that no vessel or probe sent into the center of the galaxy has ever returned. (Note however that the Trek producers don't consider the animated series canon.)
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- The beginning stardate of this episode is 1254.4, which would have it set even before Star Trek's second pilot episode "Where No Man Has Gone Before" at 1312.4. In the latter, Uhura and McCoy weren't yet serving onboard the Enterprise and Sulu was the ship's physicist, and as a science officer, was wearing a blue uniform at the time.
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- This episode along with "The Time Trap" was released on The Animated Adventures of Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek: Volume 5 for VHS.
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- Larry Brody did no previous Trek work, but he later was credited as story writer for the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Tattoo."
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- The Salem Witch Trials:
  The name of the character, Lucien, and the name of the prosecutor, Asmodeus, are both names assigned to the Devil or to demons in the Bible. Part of the episode takes place in a recreation of Salem, Massachusetts as the animators thought it might have appeared circa 1700.
  
  This episode attempts to explain the Salem Witch trials, circa 1692 in Salem, Massachusetts, USA, in a manner similar to the episode "Who Mourns For Adonias?" attempts to explain Greek mythology.
  
  The witch trials were real enough, although it is unclear exactly what most of the defendants did to warrant accusation. It is generally conceded now that most of the victims received at best a perfunctory defense, and that hysteria was the rule of the day.
  
  These events are the origin of the phase "witch hunt", a colloquialism that is still in use today, to refer to any activity that is thought to place more emphasis on accusation and defamation than on truth.
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