Melakon (portrayed by Skip Homeier) was a guest character in Season 2 of Star Trek, appearing in the episode "Patterns of Force". He was a member of the Ekosian race, whose culture was divided and chaos-ridden before the arrival of the Federation historian John Gill. In violation of the Prime Directive, Gill had tried to save Ekos by introducing Nazism into their society, building a state from Nazi discipline without adopting the old Nazi policies of extreme prejudice against groups of differing race or religion. Melakon, however, was enamoured by the ideals of the original Nazi regime and sought power for himself. After becoming Gill's Deputy Fuhrer, he drugged Gill and acted as his stand-in, making all leadership decisions in Gill's name and using the intoxicated Gill as a figurehead for political speeches and public addresses.
Like Adolf Hitler had done with the Jewish population of Germany, Melakon used the Zeons, Ekos' planetary neighbours, as a scapegoat for his world's problems, declaring the Zeons as pests to be eradicated. With the technology elicited from Gill, Melakon rapidly upgraded Ekosian weapons. By 2268 the Final Solution, a genocidal invasion of the planet Zeon, was ready for deployment.
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The USS Enterprise, assigned to discover what had happened to Gill, arrived at Ekos just before the launch of the Final Solution. The intervention of Kirk, Spock and McCoy roused the drugged Gill in time to halt the invasion. Melakon's regime proved to be weaker than the German model; the Nazi government and "Final Solution" was not embraced by all of Ekos. An underground alliance of Zeons and Ekosians had formed, including high-level Nazi party members who wanted no part in the genocide. When Gill ordered a halt in the invasion and declared Melakon a traitor, Melakon shot him with a machine gun for ruining his plans. In return, the Zeon immigrant Isak killed him by shooting him in the stomach with a pistol.