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Star Trek Review: LET THAT BE YOUR LAST BATTEFIELD

Director Jud Taylor's, "LET THAT BE YOUR LAST BATTLEFIELD", while rather heavy handed, offers a Sci-Fi morality play as relevant today as it was in the Sixties.

The script, (Teleplay by Oliver Crawford; Story by Lee Cronin), has some important things to say about prejudice and problematic race relations. However, having two aliens, painted half black and half white, chasing each other around the bridge offers a simplistic, though highly visual, manner of presenting the theme.

Frank Gorshin, under Taylor's energized direction, is compelling as Bele, from the planet, Cheron, where people are either black on the right side and white on the left side of their bodies, or white on the right side and black on the left side. Gorshin is convincing as an intense humanoid who harbors strong feelings about the white/black black/white issue.

Lou Antonio, as Lokai, is a worthy opponent to Gorshin's Bele. Antonio, who appeared in "Cool Hand Luke," and co-starred with Kim Bassinger in the TV series, "Dog and Cat", has since gone on to be a busy, and well regarded, television director.

Antonio's character's name, 'Lokai', is very close to 'Loki", a mischievous god in Norse mythology. Considering the caliber of the writing talent involved, the connection is probably intended.

"LET THAT BE YOUR LAST BATTLEFIELD" may be somewhat watchable for some Sci-Fi viewers. Fans of television's, "Batman," may enjoy seeing "The Riddler" in a different light, er skin tones.

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