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Star Trek: TOS 'The Corbomite Maneuver' 60th anniversary (Redshirts retro review)

A giant cube, a desperate bluff, and the day Star Trek chose curiosity over firepower.
Star Trek: The Original Series courtesy of Titan Books
Star Trek: The Original Series courtesy of Titan Books | Star Trek: The Original Series courtesy of Titan Books
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“The Corbomite Maneuver" holds up 60 years later because it's one of the clearest early statements of what Star Trek wants to be: tense, theatrical space danger that ends not with a kill shot, but with an offer of friendship.

First broadcast on November 10, 1966, and produced as the first regular episode after the pilots, it plays like a mission statement for Captain James T. Kirk's Enterprise. With that in mind, the following are five reasons "The Corbomite Maneuver" is still worth watching today.

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