Uhura: "Will I become like Chekov?" McCoy: "No, no. We're working hard to find an antidote." Uhura: "An antidote for russkiness?" McCoy: "No. An antidote for overacting."
In spite of its several flaws, one of the better ST episodes - if for no other reason than because it deals with sci-fi matters, instead of being yet another badly-disguised soap-opera ("Amok Time", "The Paradise Syndrome") or a story with elements of witchery/sorcery instead of science ("A Private Little War").
Exactly half-way through the episode Spock does what he'd never done before: he explains/summarizes the plot of the first half at Kirk's "funeral". Had the writers of ST lost that much confidence by that point in their viewers? But I guess that this way even the dimmest Trekkie can follow the story-line without getting too confused.
In the meantime, McCoy draws the most illogical conclusion of his emotion-stained career as medical officer: because Spock stayed to look for Kirk, that, in McCoy's mind, proved that Spock wanted to make sure that Kirk is dead, so that Spock can take over as captain! Ironically, only a minute later, Kirk's video-message is played and in it he praises this supposed "wisdom" that McCoy has. The wisdom of reaching idiotic conclusions? In that case nobody isn't wise... A little later, just to underline how utterly wrong Kirk's positive appraisal of McCoy's intellectual abilities was, McCoy PREVENTS Uhura from telling Spock that Kirk is still alive.
Still... apart from McCoy's over-the-top anti-spockness and his total lack of interest in Kirk's alleged demise, TTW is light years ahead of episodes such as "Turnabout Intruder" or "Naked Time".
In spite of its several flaws, one of the better ST episodes - if for no other reason than because it deals with sci-fi matters, instead of being yet another badly-disguised soap-opera ("Amok Time", "The Paradise Syndrome") or a story with elements of witchery/sorcery instead of science ("A Private Little War").
Exactly half-way through the episode Spock does what he'd never done before: he explains/summarizes the plot of the first half at Kirk's "funeral". Had the writers of ST lost that much confidence by that point in their viewers? But I guess that this way even the dimmest Trekkie can follow the story-line without getting too confused.
In the meantime, McCoy draws the most illogical conclusion of his emotion-stained career as medical officer: because Spock stayed to look for Kirk, that, in McCoy's mind, proved that Spock wanted to make sure that Kirk is dead, so that Spock can take over as captain! Ironically, only a minute later, Kirk's video-message is played and in it he praises this supposed "wisdom" that McCoy has. The wisdom of reaching idiotic conclusions? In that case nobody isn't wise... A little later, just to underline how utterly wrong Kirk's positive appraisal of McCoy's intellectual abilities was, McCoy PREVENTS Uhura from telling Spock that Kirk is still alive.
Still... apart from McCoy's over-the-top anti-spockness and his total lack of interest in Kirk's alleged demise, TTW is light years ahead of episodes such as "Turnabout Intruder" or "Naked Time".