2x25 Bread and Circuses - Star Trek: The Original Series Episode Guide

Star Trek: The Original Series

- Episode 02x25

Episode: 02x25
Title: Bread and Circuses
Type: Regular Episode
Production Code: 60343
First Aired: Mar. 15, 1968

Season 2 » Episode #25 - Bread and Circuses

Star Trek: The Original Series - 02x25 Bread and Circuses

Summary: The Enterprise comes across debris from the Federation scout vessel, S.S. Beagle, that went missing six year earlier. The crew extrapolate the path of the wreckage backwards and finds it last visited the fourth planet of the System 892 which is inhabited by what appears to be modern day Romans who view their gladiatorial fights on TV. Kirk, Spock and McCoy beam down to look for the missing crew and find themselves part of the savage gladiatorial TV spectacle.

Who appeared in this episode?

Mr. Spock

Guest Stars:

Captain James T. Kirk	played by William Shatner
Dr. McCoy	played by DeForest Kelley
Merik	played by William Smithers
Claudius	played by Logan Ramsey
Septimus	played by Ian Wolfe
Policeman	played by William Bramley
Flavius	played by Rhodes Reason
Scott	played by James Doohan
Uhura	played by Nichelle Nichols

	Season 2 / Episode 25: - Bread and Circuses Flavius: What do you call those? Mr. Spock: I call them 'ears'. Flavius: Are you trying to be funny? Mr. Spock: Never.
	Season 2 / Episode 25: - Bread and Circuses McCoy: Medical men are trained in logic. Spock: Trained? Judging from you, I would have guessed it was trial and error.

[More Quotes]

MISTAKES/GOOFS

MISC: During the first fight in the arena, Flavius is struck twice, vigorously, by a bull whip, and yet on subsequent shots from Flavius' rear, there's no evidence of any kind of wound whatsoever on his back, which there surely would have been.

TRIVIA

The title refers to "Bread and circuses", an ancient Roman metaphor for people choosing food and fun over freedom.
The coat of arms on the clothes of the Proconsul Claudius Marcus is the coat of arms of William Shakespeare (I).