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** Kodos himself to a degree, despite his [[ColdEquation ruthless calculation]], executions of the four thousand colonists, and evading justice, having done so in order to save the other half of the colonists instead of everyone starving to death, until it proved to be AllForNothing. He demonstrates a HeelRealization through the episode, and in the end he takes a phaser blast intended for Kirk, perhaps in an act of RedemptionEqualsDeath.
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** Kodos himself to a degree, despite his [[ColdEquation ruthless calculation]], executions of the four thousand colonists, and evading justice, having done so in order to save the other half of the colonists instead of everyone starving to death, until it proved to be AllForNothing. He demonstrates a HeelRealization through the episode, suffers a VillainousBreakdown when he realizes that Lenore knows the truth and has been murdering people to protect him, and in the end he takes a phaser blast intended for Kirk, perhaps in an act of RedemptionEqualsDeath.
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* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Karidian clearly loves his daughter, and is disappointed to find out she's been killing innocent witnesses on his behalf - he didn't want his crimes to affect her. Lenore herself adores her father to a [[LoveMakesYouEvil disturbing extent]], murdering seven people (with plans to murder two more) to make sure he could never face punishment for the crimes in his past.
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* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Karidian clearly loves his daughter, and is disappointed horrified to find out she's been killing innocent witnesses on his behalf - he didn't want his crimes to affect her. Lenore herself adores her father to a [[LoveMakesYouEvil disturbing extent]], murdering seven people (with plans to murder two more) to make sure he could never face punishment for the crimes in his past.
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* DaddysLittleVillain: Karidian is distraught once he realizes his daughter is killing people for him, having thought that she was the one part of him which remained untainted by his past.
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* DaddysLittleVillain: Lenore becomes this. Karidian is distraught once he realizes his daughter is killing people for him, having thought that she was the one part of him which remained untainted by his past.
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* EvilMalthusian: Kodos, Governor of Tarsus, also known as Kodos the Executioner. He killed half the population of the planet when a famine was threatening starvation, little knowing that relief ships were en route. James Kirk was one of a handful of people who saw Kodos in person and could identify him.
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* DarkAndTroubledPast: Kirk, Leighton and Riley are all haunted by the events on Tarsus IV--so is Karidian.
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* DarkAndTroubledPast: Kirk, Leighton and Riley are all haunted by the events on Tarsus IV--so IV -- and so is Karidian.
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** Karidian is horrified and disgusted to learn that Lenore has been murdering witnesses to his past crimes; he hates the idea of being further stained with innocent blood, and even more so, that Lenore stained herself with it.
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** Karidian is horrified and disgusted to learn that Lenore has been murdering witnesses to his past crimes; he hates the idea of being further stained with innocent blood, and even more so, so that Lenore stained herself with it.
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** The massacre that got Kodos the moniker 'The Executioner' happened when the colony he governed lost most of its food supply. The remaining food wasn't enough to hold until ships bringing food relief were expected to come, so he killed half of the 8,000 colonists according to personal eugenics theories, making a hard decision so that at least some colonists would survive. And then the relief ships arrived early, meaning nobody had to die at all.
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** The massacre that got Kodos the moniker 'The Executioner' happened when the colony he governed lost most of its food supply. The remaining food wasn't enough to hold until ships bringing food relief were expected to come, so he killed half of the 8,000 colonists according to personal eugenics theories, making a hard decision (or using it as an excuse) so that at least some colonists would survive. And then the relief ships arrived early, meaning nobody had to die at all.
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* AlasPoorVillain: Lenore breaks down in tears after having accidentally shot and killed her own father before she is taken away.
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* AlasPoorVillain: AlasPoorVillain:
** Lenore breaks down in tears after having accidentally shot and killed her own father before she is taken away.
** Lenore breaks down in tears after having accidentally shot and killed her own father before she is taken away.
* AxCrazy: In the midst of a VillainousBreakdown when confronted by Kirk, Lenore responds to his insistence that she'd never get off the ''Enterprise'' by proclaiming, with a mad glint in her eye, that the ship would become "a floating tomb, drifting through space, with the soul of the great Karidian giving performances at every star he touches".
* CuteAndPsycho: Lenore Karidian catches Kirk's eye even before he seriously starts suspecting her father of being Kodos, and she comes across as a bright-eyed, innocent young woman. Beneath that, however, she's revealed to be ''deeply'' disturbed, considering her father's past crimes to be nothing compared to the possibility of him being punished for them, even proclaiming that she'd murder an entire ''world'' if it meant keeping him free.
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* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Karidian clearly loves his daughter, and is disappointed to find out she's been killing innocent witnesses on his behalf - he didn't want his crimes to affect her.
* EvilParentsWantGoodKids: Karidian hid his past as Kodos from his daughter Lenore so that she would grow up untainted by his crimes. Alas, she found out on her own and followed in his footsteps.
* EvilParentsWantGoodKids: Karidian hid his past as Kodos from his daughter Lenore so that she would grow up untainted by his crimes. Alas, she found out on her own and followed in his footsteps.
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* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Karidian clearly loves his daughter, and is disappointed to find out she's been killing innocent witnesses on his behalf - he didn't want his crimes to affect her. \n Lenore herself adores her father to a [[LoveMakesYouEvil disturbing extent]], murdering seven people (with plans to murder two more) to make sure he could never face punishment for the crimes in his past.
* EvenEvilHasStandards:
** While Kodos' actions were brutal and based on his own eugenics theories, Spock notes that the victims of the massacre at least died painlessly.
** Karidian is horrified and disgusted to learn that Lenore has been murdering witnesses to his past crimes; he hates the idea of being further stained with innocent blood, and even more so, that Lenore stained herself with it.
* EvilParentsWantGoodKids: Karidian hid his past as Kodos from his daughter Lenore so that she would grow up untainted by his crimes. Alas, she found out on her own and followed in hisfootsteps.footsteps, much to Karidian's horror and disgust.
* EvenEvilHasStandards:
** While Kodos' actions were brutal and based on his own eugenics theories, Spock notes that the victims of the massacre at least died painlessly.
** Karidian is horrified and disgusted to learn that Lenore has been murdering witnesses to his past crimes; he hates the idea of being further stained with innocent blood, and even more so, that Lenore stained herself with it.
* EvilParentsWantGoodKids: Karidian hid his past as Kodos from his daughter Lenore so that she would grow up untainted by his crimes. Alas, she found out on her own and followed in his
* FakingTheDead: Kodos the Executioner was presumed dead on Tarsus IV, but all that was found was a body burned beyond recognition, and the episode reveals that Kodos did survive and flee justice.
* TheGuardsMustBeCrazy: Despite two very recent murder attempts aboard the ship, security fails to keep an eye on one of the victims or a storage locker; Riley manages to slip out of Sickbay without [=McCoy=] even noticing, he breaks into a weapons locker and gets a phaser without being caught, and he very nearly murders Karidian despite Kirk alerting security to both his actions and his intended destination.
* {{Irony}}: While Karidian, in character as King Hamlet, gives a speech entreating his son to avenge his murder, Kirk is backstage, convincing Lt. Riley not to murder Karidian to avenge ''his'' father.
* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: Kodos faked his death and fled justice, becoming Anton Karidian, but he never managed to outrun karma; his beloved daughter dove headlong into madness to protect him from possibly facing judgement, murdering seven people and further staining her father with innocent blood before accidentally killing him. Even before all this, Karidian lived with the weight of what he'd done, to say nothing of the fact that his actions were AllForNothing; by the time he finally dies, he's a shell of a man who finds no joy in life outside of his daughter, and even that, he loses when he realizes what she's done.
* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: Kodos faked his death and fled justice, becoming Anton Karidian, but he never managed to outrun karma; his beloved daughter dove headlong into madness to protect him from possibly facing judgement, murdering seven people and further staining her father with innocent blood before accidentally killing him. Even before all this, Karidian lived with the weight of what he'd done, to say nothing of the fact that his actions were AllForNothing; by the time he finally dies, he's a shell of a man who finds no joy in life outside of his daughter, and even that, he loses when he realizes what she's done.
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* MoralMyopia: Lenore challenges Kirk's right to judge Kodos for committing the massacre of 4,000 people -- an event Kirk himself actually lived through and witnessed. Lenore herself had not even been ''born'' yet at the time of the massacre, and is thus judging the entire matter based solely on her love for her father, with no concern for the thousands that were executed or for the surviving witnesses she herself has been murdering in order to protect his secret identity.
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* MoralMyopia: Lenore challenges Kirk's right to judge Kodos for committing the massacre of 4,000 people -- an event Kirk himself actually lived through and witnessed. Lenore herself had not even been ''born'' yet at the time of the massacre, and is thus judging the entire matter based solely on her love for her father, with no concern for the thousands that were executed or for the surviving witnesses she herself has been murdering in order to protect his secret identity. The only thing that gets her to show any remorse whatsoever is when she accidentally takes her father's life.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Lenore is horrified when she accidentally kills her father while aiming for Kirk, her shock and remorse shattering her already fragile mental state.
* {{Revenge}}: Kirk spends the episode torn over the possibility of taking revenge against Karidian for his actions as Kodos, while Riley is driven to nearly murder the man to avenge his father. Ultimately, Kirk, choosing not to give in to his own rage, talks Riley out of killing Karidian and sends him on his way.
* SkewedPriorities: While Kirk is trying to arrest her and her father, Lenore just insists that the play has to go on, refusing to allow little things like her father's crimes against humanity or her own string of murders to interfere with "the great Karidian" giving one last performance.
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* StupidEvil: Lenore's murders were done because her victims could all potentially identify Anton Karidian as Kodos... but all this ends up doing is making people wonder why the witnesses to Kodos's crimes keep dying when a certain innocuous acting troupe is there. Had she done nothing, no one would have reason to suspect that Karidian was anyone more than some random civilian who bore a passing resemblance to Kodos.
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* StupidEvil: Lenore's murders were done because her victims could all potentially identify Anton Karidian as Kodos... but all this ends up doing is making people wonder why the witnesses to Kodos's crimes keep dying when a certain innocuous acting troupe is there. Had she done nothing, no one would have reason to suspect that Karidian was anyone more than some random civilian who bore a passing resemblance to Kodos. Given that she's insane, one can forgive her this.
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* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Kodos never apologizes for his actions, arguing that he'd be seen as a hero [[ForWantOfANail had the rescue ships not arrived early]].
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* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Kodos never apologizes for his actions, arguing that he'd be seen as a hero [[ForWantOfANail had the rescue ships not arrived early]].early.
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** Lenore trying to ensure her father doesn't get identified by witnesses who saw him only leads to him getting noticed, and when she tries to prevent his arrest she accidentally shoots him when [[TakingTheBullet took a shot aimed at Kirk]].
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** Lenore trying to ensure her father doesn't get identified by witnesses who saw him only leads to him getting noticed, and when she tries to prevent his arrest she accidentally shoots him when [[TakingTheBullet he took a shot aimed at Kirk]].
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** Kodos himself to a degree, despite his [[ColdEquation ruthless calculation]], executions of the four thousand colonists, and evading justice, having done so in order to save the other half of the colonists instead of everyone starving to death, until it proved to be AllForNothing. He demonstrates a HeelRealization through the episode, and in the end he takes a phaser blast intended to for Kirk, perhaps in a RedemptionEqualsDeath.
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** Kodos himself to a degree, despite his [[ColdEquation ruthless calculation]], executions of the four thousand colonists, and evading justice, having done so in order to save the other half of the colonists instead of everyone starving to death, until it proved to be AllForNothing. He demonstrates a HeelRealization through the episode, and in the end he takes a phaser blast intended to for Kirk, perhaps in a an act of RedemptionEqualsDeath.
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** Kirk himself does a particularly cold seduction of Lenore in this one, as he manipulates her in order to get closer to her father. It's used as an example of him going too far, and both Lenore and Spock call him out on it.
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** Kirk himself does a particularly cold seduction of Lenore in this one, as he manipulates her in order to get closer to her father. It's used as an example of him going too far, and both Lenore and Spock call him out on it.it, although Spock is more justified than Lenore, given what she already did and what she does later on.
