Spock getting frustrated with bureaucrats is great.
Damn Prime Directive. :mad:
She does. We’ll see it later in Kirk’s quarters. Oh wait that was a different version.
“Before I said I wasn’t afraid. Now I am.”
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Spock choosing his words well. That’s being agitated as a Vulcan. Nimoy is so great.
These bald guy cronies are cracking me up.
You know what? I don’t recall this episode at all. I genuinely don’t think I’ve ever seen it before.
So far, it doesn’t seem like I’ve missed much. 
isn’t the one the ambassador has bad enough?
One thing good about the third season is the supporting cast gets some more lines.
Especially when Shatner is off-set.
smacks head like Dobby
Scotty’s grumble grumble is great, especially on the cardboard set. The echo bouncing off the sound stage works.
I don’t think it’s still called a goatee when it’s…
uh.
Never mind.
That is my dream job. 
The story for this episode was co-written by Stanley Adams, who previously played Cyrano Jones in TOS: “The Trouble with Tribbles”.
isn’t the bald guy one of the miners of “Mudd’s Women” fame?
Are you suggesting that he’s the evil version?
I don’t think there’s a “good” version of this guy
Kirk is relatively calm.
What are they pumping through the airvents?
How does moving a bunch of memory tapes in a random console drop them out of warp? Isn’t that usually Sulu’s job?
are you suggesting there’s an antidote for Shatner’s acting?
Yep. Gene Dynarski. He was also a Commander in the TNG episode ‘11001001’
Them faces on the viewscreen freaked me out as a kid. I had nightmares for a week.