There are instances in the series where Kirk is logging within real time. I believe in the episode, Metamorphosis, he states he's unable to provide more information because he says, "he doesn't know how it's going to end".
Kirk, Spock, and McCoy are bringing Nancy Hedford to the Enterprise to be treated for a serious illness when the shuttle is pulled from the skies and forcibly set down on a planet. The episode is a good one, one of my favorites, and I've watched it many times. That said, there are elements that ruin it; the issue of Kirk, Spock, (and even McCoy) leaving the Enterprise vulnerable so all three of them can shuttle her back to the Enterprise for treatment.
Hedford is supposed to be this brilliant (ASSISTANT) commissioner. If she's so good I wonder why she's an assistant, but then the answer became clear. She's a woman, and brilliant or not, is out of reach of being a commissioner. To put that point home, even Kirk comments at the end that Star Fleet should be able to find another brilliant someone somewhere to replace her.
My main nitpick with this episode is why the three leads are there at all. I get that this was a 60s show and main characters were often in situations they had no business being in in the first place, but............ I know, we need Kirk to prattle on with a brilliant solution, Spock to utter astonishment at Cochrane balking about being fodder to a being crawling around inside him, and McCoy to grumble and fiddle around trying to keep Hedford comfortable. But certainly a science team could have accomplished the same outcome, and maybe even been better at it, having the science knowledge to deal with this entity. In the end, they might have saved Desilu a few bucks and kept the Enterprise going for another season.
The Companion was planning on keeping them prisoner on the planet forever. They, like Cochrane, would have ended up a mystery.
I've never thought much about the ending before as it was plain the Companion wanted to keep Cochrane with her. Cochrane forces Kirk to keep the whole episode a secret. Just how would Kirk go about doing that do you think? He's already made a log on the whole episode. If he is required to keep it all a secret, then would crewmembers Spock and McCoy have to keep it a secret too? We're never really privy to how these logs work, but Kirk has already blabbered most of this adventure to his log, which may, or may not, have gone to Star Fleet.
Kirk, Spock, and McCoy are bringing Nancy Hedford to the Enterprise to be treated for a serious illness when the shuttle is pulled from the skies and forcibly set down on a planet. The episode is a good one, one of my favorites, and I've watched it many times. That said, there are elements that ruin it; the issue of Kirk, Spock, (and even McCoy) leaving the Enterprise vulnerable so all three of them can shuttle her back to the Enterprise for treatment.
Hedford is supposed to be this brilliant (ASSISTANT) commissioner. If she's so good I wonder why she's an assistant, but then the answer became clear. She's a woman, and brilliant or not, is out of reach of being a commissioner. To put that point home, even Kirk comments at the end that Star Fleet should be able to find another brilliant someone somewhere to replace her.
My main nitpick with this episode is why the three leads are there at all. I get that this was a 60s show and main characters were often in situations they had no business being in in the first place, but............ I know, we need Kirk to prattle on with a brilliant solution, Spock to utter astonishment at Cochrane balking about being fodder to a being crawling around inside him, and McCoy to grumble and fiddle around trying to keep Hedford comfortable. But certainly a science team could have accomplished the same outcome, and maybe even been better at it, having the science knowledge to deal with this entity. In the end, they might have saved Desilu a few bucks and kept the Enterprise going for another season.
The Companion was planning on keeping them prisoner on the planet forever. They, like Cochrane, would have ended up a mystery.
I've never thought much about the ending before as it was plain the Companion wanted to keep Cochrane with her. Cochrane forces Kirk to keep the whole episode a secret. Just how would Kirk go about doing that do you think? He's already made a log on the whole episode. If he is required to keep it all a secret, then would crewmembers Spock and McCoy have to keep it a secret too? We're never really privy to how these logs work, but Kirk has already blabbered most of this adventure to his log, which may, or may not, have gone to Star Fleet.
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