I waited a while to respond to this post, out of respect for the main theme which is very serious indeed. As much as I’ve loved thsi episode for years, there are a few real howlers in it. The teenaged daughter, a pert pony-tailed young thing named Jody has the following dialogue with her dad (Played by Fritz Weaver):

Jody: Daddy, where will we tomorrow night?
Daddy/Fritz Weaver: In outerspace, Jody.

The way Fritz Weaver delivers that line is a tribute to his ability as an actor. Just picture any other actor trying to deliver this line with the appropiate realism. Many actors could not have done it at all without laughing. Shatner would have chewed the scenery such that the audience would be in hysterics. A methody actor of that period would have thrown the balance off entirely by accessing his birth experience and making the whole thing about him.

Still, I think this is a very funny line. Just picture it in another series.

Father Knows Best:

Kitten: Daddy, where wll we be tomorrow night?
Father: In outer space, Kitten.

The English and the French fought world wars with each other from 1740 until 1945,

If my history is right, the English and French were allies fighting the Germans in WWI and WWII, therefore the French and English did not war between themselves in the 20th Century.

Before Napoleon, the Hundred Years’ War was fought to establish the borders between the two countries, and though not completely sure without checking the facts, England and France had their last war in the 1800s during the Napoleon years.

The English and the French fought world wars with each other from 1740 until 1945, and the last phase from the massacres of the First War to the Vichy disgrace included terror, tyranny, extreme cruelty and finally the atomic bombs.

The last actual war between England and France that I’m aware of was 1812. The world wars were between a number of countries either voluntarily joining together (the Allies) or pressed into a forced union with Germany or Japan who had already conquered them. The Free French were fighting ALONG SIDE England in WW2.