Star Trek: The Original Series, Season 2, Episode 17 - "A Piece of the Action"

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🗓️ 20 June 2013

⏱️ 56 minutes

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In the Star Trek: The Original Series episode, "A Piece of the Action," Kirk, Spock and McCoy land on a planet of 1920s Chicago gangsters. But it was an old encounter with people from Earth that made them that way. Can the Enterprise fix what the Horizon broke?

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