Stardate: 3497.2 --Kirk negotiates with the highly honor-bound natives of Capella 4 to obtain mining rights. The Klingons interfere in the tribe's politics and attempt to secure their own deal. When the tribe's leader is killed, his wife must share his fate to destroy any possible heir, until Kirk saves her. Kirk, Spock, and McCoy escape with the pregnant woman, Eleen, and must keep one step ahead of the ruthless Capellans and the angry Klingons.

original airdate--December 1, 1967  Remastered date--January 6, 2007

music:Theme song  written by Alexander Courage

Goof--While Akaar is fighting with one of Maab's men, the man's uniform changes from blue to red.

Trivia--The title is based upon the childhood nursery rhyme that includes: Friday's child is loving and giving.

Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before.