TOS S02E23, S02E24, S02E25, S02E26

In this installment:
(viewed Saturday, March 23rd)

Star Trek: The Original Series, S02E23 - "The Omega Glory"
Star Trek: The Original Series, S02E24 - "The Ultimate Computer"
Star Trek: The Original Series, S02E25 - "Bread and Circuses"
Star Trek: The Original Series, S02E26 - "Assignment: Earth"

"The Omega Glory"

• This episode features another Constitution-class starship, USS Exeter.
• This might just be my perception, but Season 2 seems to be big on the Prime Directive.  Contamination of native cultures features prominently in several episodes, including this one.
• "Pity you can't teach me that."
  "I have tried, Captain."
  (Kirk & Spock discussing the latter's use of the Vulcan nerve pinch)
• Oh, Yangs and Kohms.  I get it.
• In seriousness, the "parallel" in cultures here is absolutely pants-on-head.  Every once in a while, there's a Trek episode that's just egregiously stupid.  This is one of them.
• HAHA SPOCK LOOKS LIKE THE DEVIL.
• "Spock, I've found that evil usual triumphs...unless good is very, very careful."

"The Ultimate Computer"

• This episode has loads of remastered CGI eye-candy, including a starbase, multiple Constitution-class starships and automated cargo ships.  It also features the appearance of Dr. Richard Daystrom, the namesake of the oft-referenced Daystrom Institute.  So...it's pretty awesome.  I don't know that I'll need to make a lot of other comments about this episode, other than that it's a nice break after having watched "Patterns of Force" and "The Omega Glory" within a 24-hour span :P

"Bread and Circuses"

• "Exactly like Earth," meaning that we'll be working on NBC's backlots for this episode to save some money.
• HAHA SPOCK LOOKS LIKE THE DEVIL.
• "Hodgkin's Law of Parallel Planetary Development" :rolleyes:

"Assignment: Earth"

• In his opening log at the beginning of the episode, Kirk implies that the Enterprise was ordered to achieve time warp and travel to 1968, intentionally, for the purpose of "historical research."  This is contrary to almost every other time travel incident in Star Trek, which are almost exclusively either:  1) Accidental; or 2) Unauthorized.
• Gary Seven's cat sounds like a parrot.
• Terri Garr!
• I kind of want to buy a Selectric--not that I'd have any place to put it or anything to do with it, but it'd be neat to have.  I totally learned to type on a Selectric II.
• The orbital nuclear weapons depicted as a threat in this episode would've actually been prohibited by the 1967 Outer Space Treaty.