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-: '''Shore Leave''' ''[[19]] [[December 29]]''
+: '''Shore Leave''' ''[[1966]] [[December 29]]''
 (First watched 2009-02-02) &nbsp;This may be the weirdest seemingly-deadly but ultimately benevolent location yet. &nbsp;A technology high enough to read their mind (though requiring a goofy antenna device) and almost immediately recreate what a person is thinking of. &nbsp;You may get harmed, but you'll get patched right up. &nbsp;Still, it kinda bugs me how these professionals allowed themselves to get so distracted by various things while it was still a mystery. &nbsp;Sulu finds a gun on what's supposed to be an empty planet and immediately commences target practice. &nbsp;Another woman member of the crew goes with really old-fashion desires and wants to be a princess who's fought over. &nbsp;Kirk runs into a simulacrum of an old flame and basically falls for her immediately.
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+: '''The Galileo Seven''' ''[[1967]] [[January 5]]''
+(First watched 2009-02-09) &nbsp;A pretty nice Spock episode, though yet again some junior officers seem to totally despise him for his differences. &nbsp;If things had been left to those guys, I think they'd have spent their entire time on the planet killing native life forms and burying each other.
+I think the episode goes too far in trying to present some of Spock's choices as hard to understand for a human crew, or later emotional. &nbsp;First, people balk about a potential plan which could leave several people on the planet. &nbsp;Until they discovered the giant apes, I don't see why this is such a problem. &nbsp;Once in orbit the goal would be to contact the Enterprise. &nbsp;If that's done successfully, they can just send more help down to pick up the people remaining on the planet. &nbsp;If they failed at that they'd be boned anyway, so what difference would it make if they were on the shuttle or not? &nbsp;Later, they talk of Spock's &quot;flare&quot; maneuver as an emotional act of desperation... but what choices were left? &nbsp;They hadn't been found by Enterprise in the first few minutes, so they seemed to be gone. &nbsp;What were the options? &nbsp;Stay in orbit a few minutes longer, hoping that either another friendly ship happens by or that Kirk will turn his ship around? &nbsp;Losing a few minutes of orbit to make a signal that can be noticed from a distance seems the most logical thing to do.
+Are higher-ups from the Federation sent to the Enterprise ever ''not'' dicks who question Kirk's every move?
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