No, I'm still on "The Naked Time".
Really good teaser. What could possibly have come among these people to cause all this destruction and strangeness?
Tormolen is a jerk for tossing his glove on the dead person like that. Have some respect!
"Instruments only register those things they are designed to register." Some nice scientific sanity to counterbalance the nonsense of a shrinking object invisibly losing mass or gaining gravity.
Watching McCoy and Chapel work on Tormolen, I'm thinking about how something like
House or
Bones would insist on having the two of them banter about some inane B-plot, rather than risk two seconds of silence.
Sickbay's entrance is not well-designed to get a stretcher into the place.
I see Memory Alpha mentions it partly, but another Trek book talks about Spock's breakdown scene further. TPTB wanted a series of short cuts. Nimoy insisted on attempting the more difficult single long take. It was the end of the production day and they did indeed have just the one shot at doing it the way he wanted. Watching it now I'd say they nailed it.
And I love that, when Spock is so vulnerable as to tell Kirk that he considers Kirk a friend and is ashamed of it, Kirk just slaps him again.
Kirk is just not a touchy-feely guy.
Quote:
Kirk: What's happening? Is it more magic?
Spock: Yes. If you knew the deeper magic, you'd know that when the planet cracked, time itself would start working backwards.
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I'm sure this is a reference that I don't recognize.
I do not know what the Pax would be either.