A personal visit causes a comedy of errors during Spock & Pike's crucial negotiations with an unusual alien species.A personal visit causes a comedy of errors during Spock & Pike's crucial negotiations with an unusual alien species.A personal visit causes a comedy of errors during Spock & Pike's crucial negotiations with an unusual alien species.
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- TriviaIn Spock's dream of a Kal-if-fee fight with himself, the music is the same as in Amok Time (1967) when Spock fights with Kirk. The striking music, by composer Gerald Fried, is frequently cited as not only one of the best Star Trek scores, but one of the most outstanding television music scores ever.
- GoofsThe Scorch cannot exist since it was part of the saucer section that was obliterated in Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2 (2019) when a photon torpedo got jammed into the hull and exploded.
- Quotes
Spock: Thank you for your advice. If I can ever return the favor, please do not hesitate to ask.
Nurse Christine Chapel: What are friends for?
Spock: [whispers to himself] What are friends for?
Nurse Christine Chapel: It was rhetorical, Spock.
Spock: Oh, I know. Humans are almost as easy to tease as Vulcans.
- ConnectionsReferences Star Trek: Amok Time (1967)
Featured review
The Shore Leave episode
It was a nice, laidback episode given what happened the episode prior, it's the perfect excuse for an impromptu Shore Leave episode while the Enterprise is getting repairs.
Apparently, Ortegas' is everyone's BFF/social butterfly of the bridge crew, seeing how she's generally friendly with everyone, but this particular episode it seems her & Chapel go back a ways, presumably from their academy/college days.
You have Una & La'an having a surrogate mother/daughter time-because that's definitely the vibe those two give off whenever they're together.
Pike with the classic Green Wraparound Tunic and him showing off his diplomatic skills.
And Spock & T'Pring having relationship issues with added Mind Meld "hi-jinks", which at first is pretty eye rollingly cliché, BUT when you think about TSFS(The Search For Spock) or that one TNG episode with Sarek going senile, it's certainly a possible consequence of a Vulcan Mind meld, so I was okay with it. As a consequence, it gives T'Pring a more important role in Spock's life than a 1-off plot device.
But most importantly in my opinion, it sets up the Spock x Chapel dynamic and it puts an interesting take on it.
Apparently, Ortegas' is everyone's BFF/social butterfly of the bridge crew, seeing how she's generally friendly with everyone, but this particular episode it seems her & Chapel go back a ways, presumably from their academy/college days.
You have Una & La'an having a surrogate mother/daughter time-because that's definitely the vibe those two give off whenever they're together.
Pike with the classic Green Wraparound Tunic and him showing off his diplomatic skills.
And Spock & T'Pring having relationship issues with added Mind Meld "hi-jinks", which at first is pretty eye rollingly cliché, BUT when you think about TSFS(The Search For Spock) or that one TNG episode with Sarek going senile, it's certainly a possible consequence of a Vulcan Mind meld, so I was okay with it. As a consequence, it gives T'Pring a more important role in Spock's life than a 1-off plot device.
But most importantly in my opinion, it sets up the Spock x Chapel dynamic and it puts an interesting take on it.
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- Jun 3, 2022
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