TOS S01E14

All the Trek that I watched today:

Star Trek: The Original Series S01E14: "The Conscience Of The King"

Things:

• This is the last time Janice Rand (Grace Lee Whitney) will appear on Star Trek until they brought here back for The Motion Picture.  I won't weigh down my little blog post here with an editorial about why she was fired from the show, but it's sad stuff if you want to read up on it.  Suffice it to say that I'm happy that she was able to overcome everything in the 1980s and we got a chance to see her in several of the films, a VOY episode and even some fan productions.  She provided one of my favorite one-look performances in all of Trek--the scene in The Search For Spock when USS Enterprise is entering Spacedock after being heavily damaged during the battle with USS Reliant in The Wrath Of Khan, and Rand is in an observation lounge and stands up with a shocked look on her face when she sees how badly damaged the ship is.
• This was apparently Ronald D. Moore's favorite TOS episode.  There's some fun background info in the episode's Memory-Alpha entry (linked above), if you want to check it out.
• I <3 Nichelle Nichols, but we really don't need the 23rd Century harp ballads.  I think this is at least two in one season (there was one in "Charlie X" as well).  There really should be a one-per-season limit, I think. 

Edit:  I said that that "The Conscience Of The King" is the last episode for Grace Lee Whitney, but I should clarify that this is only true for production order.  In airing order, she appears again in "Balance Of Terror" (and possibly elsewhere).