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Balance of Terror
"Balance of Terror"
, written by
Paul Schneider
and directed by
Vincent McEveety
, is the fourteenth episode of the
first season
of the original
science fiction
television series,
Star Trek
, that first aired on December 15, 1966. It was repeated on August 3, 1967. The episode is a science-fiction version of a
submarine film
; writer
Paul Schneider
drew on the film
The Enemy Below
, casting the
Enterprise
as the American
destroyer
and the
Romulan
vessel as the German
submarine
.
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Balance of terror
The phrase "
balance of terror
" is usually, but not invariably, used in reference to the
nuclear arms race
between the
United States
and the
Soviet Union
during the
Cold War
.
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