Basically just for context

Mr adventure Lt jg

Uhura commander

If you guys want army ranks equivalent it would be

Mr adventure first Lt

Uhura - Lt colonel

Also calling her old....

We know that the Salt Vampire used its victims' memories, thoughts and feelings to seduce them. We also know that it murdered Nancy Crater. What we don’t know is if and how it seduced the Mrs.

It would seem that Crater’s wife was aware of the creature…

CRATER: Like the creatures here. Once there were millions of them. Now there's one left. Nancy understood.

…but did it use its ability to read her mind and desires to beguile her before murdering her? If it did, who did it appear as….?

Given Crater’s personality and his forgiveness of the thing that sucked the life out of his better half…could these have been Nancy’s final words?

“Plum…?! What are you doing here?”

The Man Trap

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I'm taking Will Shatner out to Chuckie Cheese!

After rewatching this I was wondering does this episode have the fastest "deaths" in all of Star Trek from the time they are first seen till they are discovered dead?

I think this has been a long time debate. To me, it is no question to go by production order (at least to like 11-12). But, there are still some who don't know better or want to be purists and do it as it was done to begin with.

"What do you call those?" "I call them ears." "Are you trying to be funny?" "Never."

Most fans have an episode or two that they just can’t call good Trek. For me, The Mark of Gideon, is one example. I won’t go into detail, here, as to why, (the reasons are plentiful), but I will say this…there is almost always an element, in even the most criticized storylines, that offers some redemption.

For me, the ever-restrained Spock, as frustrated diplomat, caught between the nonsensical Gideons, bureaucracy and his own impatient crew, is an enjoyable bright spot in this Season 3...’adventure’…

SPOCK: Lieutenant Uhura, has Starfleet honored our request with a reply?
UHURA: There has been no response, as yet, sir.
SPOCK: Did you advise them the captain's life is at stake?
UHURA: Yes, sir. They insist that the matter must be referred to the Federation.
SPOCK: What department?
UHURA: Bureau of Planetary Treaties.
SPOCK: Contact them directly.
UHURA: I did, Mister Spock. They insist that we must go through Starfleet channels.
SULU: With the captain lost, sir, that's the best they could come up with?
SPOCK: Diplomats and bureaucrats may function differently, but they achieve exactly the same results.

…..

HODIN: Good news. Very good news indeed, Mister Spock. Your captain is definitely not on Gideon. As you requested, we made a most thorough search, and you will be relieved to know that you may now investigate all the other possibilities and forget about Gideon.
SPOCK [on screen]: But that is not what we requested.
HODIN: You requested a most thorough search. It is in the record. And we have used every means at our disposal to accommodate you.
SPOCK [on screen]: Your record on the subject is not precise, Your Excellency.
HODIN: Surely, Mister Spock, you do not intend, I hope, to create a dispute between the Federation and Gideon?
SPOCK [on screen]: Your Excellency, a dispute is the farthest thing from our minds, and there's no need to check your records. I merely suggest that the language of our statement may not have been understood exactly as intended.
HODIN: Mister Spock, you're an officer of a spaceship. In your profession, you use many instruments, tools and weapons to achieve your objectives.

[Bridge]

SPOCK: True, Your Excellency.
HODIN [OC]: However, the only tool diplomacy has is language.

[Council chamber]

HODIN: It is of the utmost importance that the meaning be crystal clear.

[Bridge]

SPOCK: Your Excellency, I am basically a scientist. Clarity of formulation is essential in my profession also.

[Council chamber]

HODIN: I'm glad to hear it. Perhaps you could then make greater effort to choose your words more precisely.

[Bridge]

MCCOY: Are you going to let him get away with that?
SCOTT: No matter what you say, Mister Spock, he'll twist your meaning.
UHURA: Yes, he's infuriating, sir. How can you stand it?
MCCOY: We do not leave without being absolutely sure ourselves that everything has been done.

[Council chamber]

MCCOY [OC]: Now certainly you understand our feelings about that.
HODIN: Mister Spock! Mister Spock!

[Bridge]

SPOCK: Yes, Your Excellency.

[Council chamber]

HODIN: Are you still there?

[Bridge]

SPOCK: Yes, Your Excellency.

[Council chamber]

HODIN: There was considerable interference with your transmission. A lot of noise drowned out

[bridge]

HODIN [OC]: What was said. Would you repeat, please?
SPOCK: I apologize for the noise, your Excellency. To summarize, I request permission to transport down to Gideon.

[Council chamber]

HODIN: Forgive me, Mister Spock. No criticism of your equipment was intended. But it has sent your captain on some strange journey, a safe one we all still hope.

[Bridge]

HODIN [OC]: But it could create for us serious incidents with your Federation, and now you propose to

[Council chamber]

HODIN: Repeat this disaster with another officer? This would be madness.

[Bridge]

SCOTT: I'll not take that, Mister Spock. That transporter was in perfect condition. I guarantee that myself. Transport me down right this minute, and I'll prove to those.. gentlemen.
SPOCK: Mister Scott, you'll go to the transporter room and await my orders.
SCOTT: Aye, Mister Spock.
(Scott leaves, muttering)
HODIN [OC]: I could not quite make that out, Mister Spock.

[Council chamber]

HODIN: Would you be so good as to repeat what you said?

[Bridge]

SPOCK: Yes, Your Excellency. The ship's engineer was explaining that the malfunction, which did exist, has now been repaired. We would appreciate an opportunity to test the equipment. I, therefore, request permission

[Council chamber]

SPOCK [OC]: To beam down to your council chamber.
HODIN: But, Mister Spock, you…

[Bridge]

SPOCK: Your Excellency, grant this one request.

[Council chamber]

HODIN: You are a very persistent fellow, Mister Spock. Very well, then, You shall test the skill of your very excitable…

[Bridge]

HODIN [OC]: …repairman.

[Council chamber]

HODIN: There is one proviso. We cannot risk further incidents. You will therefore transport a member of my staff to your ship. Let us first see if that works.

[Bridge]

SPOCK: Thank you, Your Excellency. Your proposal is accepted. Mister Scott.
SCOTT [OC]: Scott here.
SPOCK: Prepare to beam aboard a representative of the Gideon council.
SCOTT: Aye, aye, sir.

[Council chamber]

HODIN: My assistant will provide you with the proper, what is the word?
SPOCK [OC]: Co-ordinates.
HODIN: Thank you. Proceed, Krodak.
KRODAK: (standing) Eight seven five.
SCOTT [OC]: Eight seven five.
KRODAK: Zero two zero.

[Bridge]

SCOTT [OC]: Zero two zero.

[Transporter room]

KRODAK [OC]: Seven zero nine.
SCOTT: Seven zero nine. Energizing.
(Krodak disappears from the bridge viewscreen and appears in the transporter room)
SCOTT: Mister Spock, the gentleman from Gideon is here.

[Bridge]

SPOCK: Your Excellency, your assistant has arrived safely, and I am now ready to transport down to Gideon.
HODIN [on viewscreen]: Now, now, not so fast, Mister Spock. That is quite a different matter. We agreed to allow one representative on our soil, your captain.
SPOCK: Sir, our captain is still missing, and I now demand that I be allowed to transport to Gideon as we agreed.
HODIN [on viewscreen]: Forgive me, Mister Spock, but I overstepped my authority when I made that agreement. However, your request will be taken up at the next full session of Gideon's council.
(Transmission ends)
SPOCK: Mister Scott, beam down the gentleman from Gideon.
SCOTT; Yes, Mister Spock. I'm sending him straight to the same co-ordinates.
MCCOY: Just when I was beginning to think you might find a whole new career as a diplomat, Mister Spock.
SPOCK: Do not give up hope. Lieutenant Uhura, contact Starfleet Command. Demand an immediate reply to our request for permission to beam down to Gideon.
UHURA: Yes, Mister Spock. Enterprise to Starfleet Command. Enterprise to Starfleet Command.

Are there satisfying moments peppered into your...’less than favorite’…eps, that help get you through?

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I just learned something interesting.

In The Way to Eden, the "space hippies" land on a planet where the plants are poisonous. Two of them die by eating fruit from one of the trees.

It turns out there's a tree on Earth that is just as bad.

The manchineel tree, known in Spanish as "manzanilla de la muerte." That's "the little apple of death."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchineel

Eating the fruit will kill you. The sap will give you burns. Rain water that drops on you from the tree will cause skin problems. Smoke from burning the wood will blind you permanently.

I can't find anything that hints that D.C. Fontana or the other folks that worked on that episode intentionally referenced the manchineel, but I find it very interesting that the seemingly exotic, poisonous plants on Eden have a direct counterpart right here on Earth.

Has anyone else read this book? I thoroughly enjoyed it and all the references to “The Enterprise Incident” episode.

Bottom one is from strange new worlds takes place 2262

The Vulcan was inwented by a Russian.

Mr. Chekov would be so pleased.

For decades I thought the premise of stealing a brain was ridiculous.

For just as long I have thought that remote piloting a person with electrical stimulation was even more ridiculous.

And yet here we are:
Brain Organoid use is now a reality. Lab grown micro brains are being used to run robots. You can lease organoid AI systems.

And we are now piloting rodents with electronics using neuro-stimulation.

https://arxiv.org/html/2503.19770v2

https://spectrum.ieee.org/researchers-steer-cyborg-mice-through-maze-with-brain-stimulation

The only part that doesn’t make sense is how little McCoy and medical science knew about the brain.

I used to have a poster of the TMP Enterprise refit and it was around 24x36" and I can't find it anywhere in that size. I'm pretty sure it looked like this one I see on Ebay. They only have 11x17 and 13x19 that I can find. Is there somewhere that I'm missing looking for this? Does anyone have any secret place they go for old Trek memorabilia?