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* FairForItsDay: On the one hand, "Massacre" (the Custer's Last Stand episode) has the Native Americans played by white actors and speaking like stereotypical Hollywood Indians. But on the other hand, Crazy Horse and his side are portrayed sympathetically, and Custer comes across as an arrogant JerkAss who brought it on himself. Not bad for a mid-60's TV portrayal of the event, really.

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* FairForItsDay: On the one hand, "Massacre" (the Custer's Last Stand episode) has the Native Americans played by white actors and speaking like stereotypical Hollywood Indians. But on the other hand, Crazy Horse and his side are portrayed sympathetically, and Custer comes across as an arrogant JerkAss {{Jerkass}} who brought it his destruction on himself. Not bad for a mid-60's TV portrayal of the event, really.

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* TearJerker:
** From "The Day the Sky Fell In": Tony witnessing his father's death at Pearl Harbor, and telling him the truth about who he is. His father actually believes him, and dies happy knowing that his son survived the attack.
** In the same episode, Tony and Doug are interrogated by Japanese agents, until Tony finally snaps "Do you want me to tell you about the ''atomic bomb''!?" James Darren's furious, desperate delivery carries the full weight of such a horrific event that at the time was still largely in living memory.
** Lt. Nakamura from "Kill Two By Two" is a self-loathing TragicVillain. Yes, he's {{hunting|the most dangerous game}} Tony and Doug, but only because he's living in shame (see RedemptionEqualsDeath on the main page to find out why) and has become a DeathSeeker. He doesn't really want to kill them -- he wants one of them to kill ''him'', thus granting him the honorable demise that's he unable to give himself, although they refuse. It all leads to an EsotericHappyEnding in which [[spoiler:some American soldiers arrive, and Nakamura finally gets his wish by provoking one of them into [[KillingInSelfDefense killing him in self-defense]]]]. And Creator/{{Mako}}'s anguished performance really takes the episode to the next level.
** Several elements of ”The Alamo", given the story's ForegoneConclusion, most notably these:
*** Colonel Travis is portrayed as an ObstructiveBureaucrat who disregards Tony and Doug's warnings until the scientists' attempt to save Doug goes wrong and brings him to the Time Tunnel complex. Colonel Kirk tells Travis where he is, then breaks it to him that he and his troops are about to be slaughtered -- and the only way he can keep things from getting even worse is to set the imprisoned Doug free (Tony has already escaped). An overwhelmed Travis is sent back to the Alamo; he lives just long enough to order Doug's release.
*** After the Alamo's doctor was killed, Captain Reynerson's wife was pressed into service as his replacement. Late in the episode, we see her mourning one patient she was unable to save -- her husband. At least Tony and Doug make sure she escapes safely.

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* TearJerker:
** From "The Day the Sky Fell In": Tony witnessing his father's death at Pearl Harbor, and telling him the truth about who he is. His father actually believes him, and dies happy knowing that his son survived the attack.
** In the same episode, Tony and Doug are interrogated by Japanese agents, until Tony finally snaps "Do you want me to tell you about the ''atomic bomb''!?" James Darren's furious, desperate delivery carries the full weight of such a horrific event that at the time was still largely in living memory.
** Lt. Nakamura from "Kill Two By Two" is a self-loathing TragicVillain. Yes, he's {{hunting|the most dangerous game}} Tony and Doug, but only because he's living in shame (see RedemptionEqualsDeath on the main page to find out why) and has become a DeathSeeker. He doesn't really want to kill them -- he wants one of them to kill ''him'', thus granting him the honorable demise that's he unable to give himself, although they refuse. It all leads to an EsotericHappyEnding in which [[spoiler:some American soldiers arrive, and Nakamura finally gets his wish by provoking one of them into [[KillingInSelfDefense killing him in self-defense]]]]. And Creator/{{Mako}}'s anguished performance really takes the episode to the next level.
** Several elements of ”The Alamo", given the story's ForegoneConclusion, most notably these:
*** Colonel Travis is portrayed as an ObstructiveBureaucrat who disregards Tony and Doug's warnings until the scientists' attempt to save Doug goes wrong and brings him to the Time Tunnel complex. Colonel Kirk tells Travis where he is, then breaks it to him that he and his troops are about to be slaughtered -- and the only way he can keep things from getting even worse is to set the imprisoned Doug free (Tony has already escaped). An overwhelmed Travis is sent back to the Alamo; he lives just long enough to order Doug's release.
*** After the Alamo's doctor was killed, Captain Reynerson's wife was pressed into service as his replacement. Late in the episode, we see her mourning one patient she was unable to save -- her husband. At least Tony and Doug make sure she escapes safely.
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** Creator/CarrollOConnor has a prominent role in "The Last Patrol".
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*** After the Alamo's doctor was killed, Captain Reynerson's wife was pressed into service as his replacement. Late in the episode, we see her mourning one patient she was unable to save -- her husband. At least Tony and Doug make sure she escapes safely.
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