Balance of Terror was Star Trek’s first real space battle. Kirk’s Enterprise faced off against a wily Romulan in an encounter inspired by World War 2 submarine movies. The TOS science fiction classic influenced all battles that followed and defined what ship-to-ship combat in the stars would look like.

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