TOS S03E10

In this installment:
(viewed Monday, April 1st)

Star Trek: The Original Series, S03E10 - "Plato's Stepchildren"

"Plato's Stepchildren"

• Hey, Platonians.  Pro-tip:  If your eugenics program didn't breed people with superior immune systems, it was failsauce.
• If I was still unemployed, I would have spent about four or five hours today just making animated .GIFs from this one episode.
  
  (Disclosure:  I didn't make the one above, but only because someone else made it first.)
• This another in a long chain of Trek episodes that teach us something important:  When encountering a mentally-superior race of alien beings, your best bet is to just Hulk out and overwhelm them with your rage.
• "I'M GONNA CUT THEM.  I'M GONNA CUT THEM!"
• Having kironide be a banned substance in the Federation would've been a cool Easter egg for later episodes/series/movies/whatever.
• In the famous Trek tradition of using external alien forces to make the characters do things that they didn't have the freedom to just write into the script, the Platonians make Nurse Chapel finally kiss Spock.
• Along those same lines, this episode is famous as being the first interracial kiss on network television.  Actually, that's only like...a little bit true.
• "I have a little surprise for you".  Bwahahaha, midget joke!  NO.