Poor Mr. Spock. His away team is stranded and while in command he pursues a course of perfect logic. Nevertheless hairy men with giant spears create much havoc and everybody else whines at him. Too bad “Shut up and do what I tell you!” isn’t part of the Vulcan lexicon. Yeah, you can expect some near mutinous backtalk from McCoy. . .but what about these measly redshirts? Questioning Spock’s orders left and right. You just know Scotty wants to slap some sense into them, but he’s too busy trying to transfuse the power from a collection of hand phasers into the shuttlecrafts engines. (How do you do that exactly? Is that, like, a Fire Wire thing?) Anyway, all is saved in the end. . .and Spock learns a little bit about life. Namely, logic doesn’t always work — mostly the fault of pesky humans.
This episode was SILLY in the extreme. I disagree with you totally again.
McCoy would never had this type of attitude with Spock nor Scotty. Especially Scotty. He would have been giving shit to the redshirts for sure.
Besides if Spock were logical he would have seen the need to Zorch the nuts of one of the mutinous crewmen. That would have ended the hassle. In a situation like that the only chance for survival is discipline. Any craziness would have killed them all.
This is one of my favourite episodes, the end is sooooo good that it was years before I could watch it without crying 🙂 I love Spocks respectful attitude toward alien life even if it wasn’t right this time. Okay, the “big hairy men” were a bit cheesy 🙂 but this episode is very important for Spocks evolution and Kirks restrained relief when he gets the survivors on-board in the nick of time is quite splendid <3