Colonel Phillip Green
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| Colonel Phillip Green | |
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| Species: | Human |
| Gender: | male |
| Home planet: | Earth |
| Rank: | Colonel |
| Portrayed by: | Phillip Pine |
Colonel Phillip Green is a character in the fictional Star Trek universe. He is introduced in the Original Series episode "The Savage Curtain". He was played by Phillip Pine and later by Steve Rankin.
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[edit] Overview
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 is said to have led a genocidal war on Earth in the mid-21st century, and whose actions led to the deaths of millions of people. No further details about this war are given, although the Green re-creation expresses the original's ideas about the rules of warfare (he is reluctant to negotiate with anyone, except where it might personally benefit him). Also, Kirk and Spock point 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.
Star Trek: Enterprise's "Terra Prime" confirms a popular fanon speculation: the war Green was involved with was World War III. Green was a leader of a major faction during the war; the group's actions directly led to 600 million deaths. After the war, Green killed hundreds of thousands of victims of radiation poisoning in order to prevent their offspring from contaminating the human genome (Ent: "Demons"). Despite Green's claims that the operation was "humanitarian," this eugenicist action was labeled as genocidal by future historians. Colonel Green's ultimate fate remains unknown.
Green's first name is revealed on a computer readout screen in Star Trek: Enterprise's "In a Mirror, Darkly".
[edit] 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.
[edit] Quotes
- "Overwhelm and devastate." (Original and Excalbian duplicate)
- "We must reject the impure and cast it out."
- "This is not a time for timidity and second guessing. We cannot afford to doubt ourselves."
- "To be human is to be pure."
- "Men don't talk peace unless they're ready to back it up with war." (Excalbian duplicate)
- "History tends to exaggerate." (Excalbian duplicate)
[edit] Non-canon appearances
- The roleplaying game FASA gave Green a full name of Edward Featherstone Green that was accepted until the canonical name was shown in Star Trek: Enterprise. Nevertheless, some fans prefer to continue to use FASA's name over ENT's name.
- The novel Federation (1994) portrays Green as the leader of a Nazi-like organization called the Optimum Movement in the mid-21st Century. In this the Optimum slowly took power throughout the Western world, and was the ultimate cause of World War III.
[edit] Trivia
- Manny Coto had attempted to use Green in the Augments arc in Star Trek: Enterprise. However, after Coto learned that Brent Spiner was interested in appearing on the show, Coto created the character of Arik Soong and removed Green from the story arc.
- In the original outline for Green's appearance on the show, the logo worn by the Fourth World military in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Encounter at Farpoint" would have been shown as Green's personal emblem. After the script was rewritten and Green removed, the only other appearance of that logo was in the Mirror Universe Enterprise episode "In A Mirror, Darkly".
[edit] External links
- Colonel Phillip Green article at Memory Alpha, a Star Trek wiki.
