This is so very obviously the 2nd pilot, bumped back in the running order...
You can tell by the grinning, more satanic looking Spock (in wrong coloured shirt) and the fact that everyone's in those itchy-looking shirts that only come in yellow, peach & baby blue!
Scotty looks so young and skinny as he beams aboard a form of spacecraft black box.
Kirk's "Space, the final frontier" speech is so far down in the mix of the music you can hardly hear it.
Kirk's mate Gary Mitchell seems a bit like Bones in the Abrams films.
It's the original Hotlips! No not Loretta Swit, Sally Kellerman from the original film of M*A*S*H
Gary cracks on to psychiatrist Hotlips and calls her a freezer unit when she gives him the knock back.
There's a wibbly thing in space and Spock decides to have a shout about it.
An electrical storm breaks out on the bridge and Mitchell takes it full in the face.
Mitchell's eyes have gone all spacey. Kirk will have to break it to his brothers, Phil and Grant.
Spock and Hotlips argue about ESP. Kirk goes to see how Gary's coping with his new silver contact lenses.
When Mitchell raises his voice he goes all echo-y, and he can speed read like a demon now.
Spock does not look right in a yellow shirt, and this guy is not a patch on Bones.
Hotlips is horrified & fascinated, but as Mitchell thinks he's getting somewhere helmsman Lee interrupts.
Sulu looks utterly bizarre in a blue shirt.
Sulu does appear to be more of a science type in this episode.
"In a month he'll have as much in common with us as we would with a ship full of white mice!"
"I can sense mainly worry in you, Jim. don't worry, no one can see the join."
Mitchell goes all force lightning on Spock so Kirk smacks him and they beam him down to Delta Vega.
Kirk's real motives come out - he thinks Mitch is after nicking the Enterprise.
Kirk gives the order to peach shirt Lee. If thinks get hairy, blow Mitchell up.
Mitchell tries to throttle Lee with a cable then zaps Kirk & Spock.
Now Hotlips has gone all silver-eyed too. Doctor Wrong wakes up Kirk & Spock.
Gary abuses his great god-like powers to do a spot of gardening.
As per, Kirk thinks he can solve things with his massive weapon.
Gazza tries tio get Kirk stoned. That tombstone looks suspiciously like it has "1967" at the end of it.
Gaz gets Jim on his knees, Hotlips is convinced and gives him a jolt.
She buys him his chance for some shirt-rippin' fist-fightin' action.
Kirk manages to seal Mitch in the grave. Pretty sure that tombstone even had Kirk's middle initial as "R"
"I felt for him too." Really, Spock, really?
A fun episode, and a much better pilot but you can see it needed those final tweaks and the extra crew.
TTFN! K.
Coming Soon... The Caves of Androzani
By a country mile, my absolute favourite and most-watched episode of original series "Trek" although I don't really know why. Perhaps it was just the unusual nature of it compared to all the others (the road not travelled and so forth), or maybe it was because it was the second of the "Fotonovel" series and I pored over it again and again in those "pre-video" days, or maybe it was finally working out which episode that rather impressive matte painting which had been in "TV Sci-Fi Monthly" a few years earlier finally came from that gave me a great sense of satisfaction as another jigsaw piece clicked into position...
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