TOS S02E12

 

In this installment:

(viewed Tuesday, Mar. 12)

Star Trek: The Original Series, S02E12 - "The Deadly Years"

"The Deadly Years"

• USS Enterprise enters orbit around Gamma Hydra IV.  Many years later, Lt. Saavik will take a simulated Enterprise on a routine training mission to this same (simulated) system.
• Commissioners, Commodores of all stripes and varieties...there never seems to be an end to impatient bureaucrats trying to push Kirk around.
• Being "married to your ship" seems to be a really good way to have a decades-long string of one-night stands and one-hit wonders.
• It's a shame that 23rd Century Captain Kirk didn't know 21st Century Bill Shatner's botox guy :P
• "What a stupid place to hang a mirror."
• It's established that, at the time of this episode, Kirk is 34 years old.
• Commodore Stocker, who is apparently in the engineering or security field, has apparently risen to his rank without ever having held a field command.
• "Lt. Uhura, let me know if we contact any Romulans."
  [BOOM]
  "I think we just made contact, sir."
• This remastered version of the episode features the new CGI of the Romulan Bird-of-Prey, but if I remember correctly the original version either didn't show the Romulan ships at all or was one of the first to re-use the Klingon D7 model as a stand-in for the Romulans.
• This episode features a re-use of the Corbomite bluff.