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Colonel Phillip Green is a character in the fictional Star Trek universe. He was introduced in the episode ''" The Savage Curtain "'', originally broadcast on March 7 , 1969 . He was played by Phillip Pine and later by Steve Rankin . In the 2260s, Captain James T. Kirk and Mr. Spock find themselves battling duplicates of several of the most evil and brutal dictators from throughout time and space. Among these is Colonel Green who was said to have led a genocidal war on Earth in the mid-21st century. No further details about this war were given, although Green is seen expressing his own ideas about the rules of warfare (he is reluctant to negotiate with anyone, except where it might personally benefit him). Also, Kirk and Spock pointed out that Green was fond of turning against his own allies whenever it suited him, and that he tended to strike at his enemies in the midst of conducting treaty negotiations. In '''', which was broadcast in May of 2005 . Green's first name was revealed on a computer readout screen in the '''' episode " In A Mirror, Darkly " which also revealed Green's status as a radical ecological terrorist leader. LEGACY Green was noted as a major historical figure centuries after his crimes. John Frederick Paxton , in particular, took Green's theories to heart when founding the Isolationist organization, Terra Prime . QUOTES
NON-CANON APPEARANCE The Novel ''Federation'' (1994) portrayed Green as the leader of a Nazi -like organization called the Optimum Movement in the mid-21st Century. In this version of Trek history, the Optimum slowly took power throughout the Western world, and was the ultimate cause of World War III . |
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