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Title:The Conscience of the King
Production: 13
Original Airdate: December 8, 1966
Stardate: 2817.6
Synopsis: A tragedy from his past haunts Kirk again when boyhood friend Tom Leighton shares his suspicion that elder actor Anton Karidian is actually the infamous "Kodos the Executioner" of their onetime home, Tarsus IV. When Leighton's mysterious death leaves only Kirk and Lt. Kevin Riley as the sole surviving eyewitnesses to Kodos, Kirk approaches Karidian's beautiful daughter Lenore and offers their stranded troupe transport. Riley and Kirk each barely escape murder while the troupe performs a scene from Hamlet, which ironically helps unmask the real Kodos and the fates of the long-dead witnesses.

Guest Cast:
Arnold Moss as Anton Karidian
Barbara Anderson as Lenore Karidian
Grace Lee Whitney as Yeoman Rand
Bruce Hyde as Lieutenant Kevin Riley
Karl Bruck as King Duncan
Marc Adams as Hamlet
Eddie Paskey as Lieutenant Leslie

What play is the theater company performing at the beginning of the episode?

Lenore: "And this ship...all this power, surging and throbbing, yet under control. Are you like that, Captain?"

1966 saw the release of Shakespeare Wallah, a Merchant Ivory film about an English girl traveling with a theater troupe, who has a love affair with an Indian playboy.

MacBeth