Balance of Terror

"**Balance of Terror**"
"Balance of Terror"
Star Trek: The Original Series episode
	Paul Comi as Lt. Stiles
Episode no.	Season 1; Episode 14
Directed by	Vincent McEveety
Written by	Paul Schneider
Featured music	Fred Steiner
Cinematography by	Jerry Finnerman
Production code	009
Original air date	December 15, 1966
Guest appearances
	Mark Lenard – Romulan Commander; Paul Comi – Lt. Stiles; Lawrence Montaigne – Decius; John Warburton – Centurion; Stephen Mines – Lt. Robert Tomlinson; Barbara Baldavin – Lt. Angela Martine; Garry Walberg – Hansen; John Arndt – Fields; Robert Chadwick – Romulan Scanner Operator;

"Balance of Terror" is the fourteenth episode of the first season of the American science fiction television series Star Trek. Written by Paul Schneider and directed by Vincent McEveety, it first aired on December 15, 1966.

In the episode, the USS Enterprise battles a Romulan ship after investigating an unidentified assailant who methodically destroys the Federation's outposts at the Neutral Zone.

"Balance of Terror" introduces the cloaking device and the Romulans. Mark Lenard plays the Romulan commander; he later portrayed Spock's father Sarek in the majority of his later Star Trek appearances, as well as a Klingon captain in Star Trek: The Motion Picture. The episode also features the final appearance of yeoman Janice Rand (Grace Lee Whitney), who would not appear again until Star Trek: The Motion Picture.

The episode's events are explored within an alternate future in the Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (2022) episode "A Quality of Mercy".

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