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{{Infobox episode
| title = "The Doomsday Machine"
| image = Star-Trek-The-Doomsday-Machine-4.jpg
| caption = Not how you want to see your ship on TV.
| franchise = ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series]]''
| preceded by = "[[Star Trek: The Original Series/Recap/S2/E05 The Apple|The Apple]]"
| followed by = "[[Star Trek: The Original Series/Recap/S2/E07 Catspaw|Catspaw]]"
| release date = October 20, 1967
| central theme =
| elevator pitch =
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The ''Enterprise'' is investigating the destruction of several planetary systems when they come across the crippled starship, the U.S.S ''Constellation''. The only person on board is Commodore Matthew Decker, the ship's captain. Through the disturbed captain's rantings and the pre-recorded [[Captain's Log]], Kirk and co. deduce that after the ship was severely damaged, the entire crew was beamed down to a local planet, the captain taking the duty of going down with the ship after seeing to his crew's safety. However, a planet destroying weapon constructed long ago by a long dead race destroys the very planet where the captain thought his crew would be safe, leaving him alive and grieving. While Kirk, Scotty and a small repair crew stay on board the ''Constellation'', Decker is beamed back with McCoy.
Decker isn't taking [[Survivor Guilt]] very well and takes command of the ''Enterprise'' upon learning that Spock would rather take logical steps than press forward and destroy the planet killer at all costs. Decker recklessly endangers the crew in his attempts to destroy the thing that killed his crew. When Kirk finds out about this, he is not amused to say the least. He manages to talk Decker into giving command back to Spock and report to sick bay. Decker graciously returns command to the Vulcan, but doesn't go to sick bay as commanded. Instead, he steals a shuttlecraft, intent to shove it down the machine's gullet - with himself inside.
They are unable to save Decker. He doesn't want to be saved. However, Kirk believes he had the right idea to destroy the device. He just needs something bigger than a shuttlecraft. Hmmm... this junked up starship that no one's using just might do
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* [[Not So Different]]: It is inferred that before the disaster, Decker wasn't very different from Kirk.
* [[Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping]]: Scotty looses his brogue when he's telling Kirk how to detonate the ''Constellation''.
* [[Playing Sick]]: Inverted when Decker insists he's competent to command a starship when he is clearly mentally unbalanced. Played straight when he fakes a cough just before slugging Lt. Montgomery while being escorted to sick bay.
* [[Precision F-Strike|Precision H Strike]]: Contrary to popular belief, never once on the TV series did Bones say "Dammit, Jim, I'm a doctor, not a X!" (In this ep, for example, he says "No, I'm a doctor, not a mechanic.") Laws about swearing on TV were strictly enforced at the time. However, Decker does manage to slip in a "Hell" when comparing the machine to a devil.
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* [[Suicide Mission]]: Decker wants that machine destroyed at any cost, even his own life.
* [[Tear Jerker]]: Kirk begs Decker not to do what he's doing, but it falls on deaf ears.
▲* [[Weapon of Mass Destruction]]: The eponymous Doomsday Machine.
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