TOS S02E10, S02E11

 In this installment:
(viewed Monday, Mar. 11)

Star Trek: The Original Series, S02E10 - "Journey To Babel"
Star Trek: The Original Series, S02E11 - "Friday's Child"

"Journey To Babel"

• McCoy trying to do the Vulcan salute.  Lollerskates.
• The most notable thing about this episode is that we're introduced to Spock's parents, Sarek and Amanda Grayson.  It's also somewhat amusing to me that Kirk doesn't know until this episode that his first officer's father is one of the most prominent diplomats in the Federation.
• The second most-notable thing is that we get to see representatives from the other two founding planets of the UFP:  Andorians and Tellarites.
• "On Vulcan, the teddy bears are alive...and have six-inch fangs."

"Friday's Child"

• Although at this point in the series, we've heard several references to a "non-interference directive", what governs the interactions between Starfleet exploratory missions and the native inhabitants of the worlds they visit clearly isn't the fully-evolved Prime Directive--at least not yet.  They seem to prefer not to literally interfere with the development of a civilization, but they don't seem to interpret mere contact with a civilization which has not yet attained warp capability as "interference".  We see multiple examples of the Federation negotiating with non-warp societies for mineral rights, etc.
• "Captain, I'm going to fix that woman's arm.  They can only kill me once for touching her."  Sometimes McCoy has brass ones.
• [Spock walks up while McCoy is "examining" Eleen and she's holding his hand.]
  [McCoy sees Spock, pulls his hand away quickly and shoots him the "This isn't what it looks like!" face.]
  [Spock gives him the "Whatever man, it's none of my business" face.]
• I love how Kirk essentially tricks both Spock and McCoy into doing different tasks while they're hiding from the Capellans. 
  
  When he pitches his idea bout using the communicators to cause sympathetic vibrations in the rocks (and thus bring an avalanche down on their attackers), Spock's like "Uh, I don't think that'll work, bro."  And then Kirk's all "Well, if you don't even think we should try, man..."  And then Spock's like "Hey, dude.  I didn't say that.  Let's give it a shot."  And then it totally works.
  
  And then McCoy's explaining to him the difficulty of attending to Eleen's labor, and Kirk's like "If you don't think you can do it, whatever."  And then McCoy shoots him this look like "Screw you buddy, I'll do it and it'll be awesome."
• Way to accidentally adopt an alien baby, dude.
• The Klingon in this episode is disappointingly small and frail.
• "Oochee-woochee-coochee-coo," Captain?