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Iotians
- Alien species from planet Sigma
Iotia II on episode No. 49 "A Piece of the Action" of the
sci-fi series STAR TREK/NBC/1966-69. When the crew of the
starship USS Horizon visit the planet Sigma Iotia II in the
year 2168, they accidentally leave behind a copy of a book
entitled Chicago Mobs of the Twenties (published on
Earth in 1992). Unfortunately, the inhabitants of the planet
use the information in the book (now a revered text called
"The Book") to pattern their society around mob bosses. One
hundred years later, the crew of starship USS Enterprise
return to the planet and discover the cultural contamination
the book had caused. In an effort to rectify the book's
influence on the Iotians, Captain Kirk (William Shatner)
played their game, acted like a mobster himself, and used the
fire power of the starship to intimidate the planet's mob
bosses into changing their society into a more ethical one.
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