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{{Infobox episode
| title = "Arena"
| image = StarTrek-Gorn.jpg
| caption = Kirk's opponent for the episode
| franchise = ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series]]''
| preceded by = "[[Star Trek: The Original Series/Recap/S1/E17 The Squire Of Gothos|The Squire Of Gothos]]"
| followed by = "[[Star Trek: The Original Series/Recap/S1/E19 Tomorrow Is Yesterday|Tomorrow Is Yesterday]]"
| release date = January 19, 1967
| central theme =
| elevator pitch =
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The ''Enterprise'' is invited to visit an outpost near the edge of Federation space; Kirk, Spock, McCoy and three [[Red Shirt|Redshirts]]s beam down at the outpost commander's behest—only to discover that the invitation is a pre-recorded ruse; the outpost has been destroyed.
 
Almost immediately Kirk and co. are beseigedbesieged by unseen aliens. Simultaneously, the Enterprise is attacked in orbit by an alien vessel, so the away team cannot beam up. Two of the Redshirts are killed (one is allowed to die offscreen), but Kirk finds a mortar-like weapon among the rubble and manages to repel the alien attackers. Beaming back up to the Enterprise, Kirk initiates a pursuit of the alien ship, which was clearly responsible for the outpost's destruction, and he means to [[Revenge|avenge]] that attack.
 
However, as the two ships fly through space taking potshots at each other, they are seized by a group of [[Sufficiently Advanced Aliens]] called the Metrons, who are not pleased with the war-like goings on. But, as Sufficiently Advanced Aliens typically do, the Metrons have the solution, and Kirk abruptly vanishes from the bridge.
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{{small-caps|Recapper's Note:}} According to [[Word of God]], the [[Forced Prize Fight]] was indeed a [[Secret Test of Character]], but not quite as it comes across: The script includes a bit of dialogue (not aired, but included in James Blish's novelization of the episode) which reveals the Metrons had planned to destroy the '''winner''' of the fight rather than the loser, considering the winner to be a bigger threat to them. Luckily for us, [[Humans Are Special|Humans Really Are Special]].
 
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