Background Information
- This is Alexander Courage's last score for Star Trek. This episode was also the last episode to have an original score, although new songs for "The Way to Eden" and a Brahms paraphrase for "Requiem for Methuselah" were composed.
- George Takei (Sulu) and Walter Koenig (Chekov) do not appear in this episode.
- The story outline was originally titled "The Sons of Socrates" and submitted June 13, 1968. The episode was filmed early to mid-September.
- Spock's observation that Plato desired justice above all is quite correct. In The Republic, the philosopher envisioned justice as the highest ideal to which any state could aspire, achieved through the harmonious interplay of wisdom, courage, and temperance.
- Leonard Nimoy composed "Maiden Wine", the song that he performs in this episode.
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