History Recap / StarTrekLogSeriesLogFiveThePiratesOfOrion

Following the marauding ship's unique radiation trail, the Enterprise soon catches up with the culprit: an Orion vessel. After some bargaining with the Orions, Kirk and the Orion captain agree to meet on a nearby asteroid, where the pirate leader has consented to hand over the strobolin. Though [[GenreSavvy Kirk]] is aware that he's walking into a trap, [[TheNotLoveInterest Spock's]] deteriorating condition leaves him little choice. The Orions secretly plan to double-cross Kirk by detonating a dilithium bomb on the geologically unstable asteroid, but Chief Engineer Scott beams the dilithium out of the device in the nick of time, and beams Kirk and the Orions aboard the Enterprise as well. Captured and prevented from taking his suicide pill — [[BetterToDieThanBeKilled Orion operatives are supposed to kill themselves rather than be captured]] — the Orion captain and his crew now must face trial for the crime of piracy. Spock recovers from choriocytosis, thanks to the recovered strobolin, although he must endure [[VitriolicBestBuds Dr. McCoy's]] good-natured (and very relieved) jibes about his green Vulcan blood turning out to be a liability for once.

-->'''[=McCoy=]''': 'Blasted Vulcan. Why couldn't you have red blood like any normal human?

-->'''[=McCoy=]:''''' It's a nuisance to humans. To Vulcans it's fatal. Ninety-three percent probability, as Spock would say.''

Following the marauding ship's unique radiation trail, the Enterprise soon catches up with the culprit: an Orion vessel. After some bargaining with the Orions, Kirk and the Orion captain agree to meet on a nearby asteroid, where the pirate leader has consented to hand over the strobolin. Though [[GenreSavvy Kirk]] is aware that he's walking into a trap, [[TheNotLoveInterest Spock's]] deteriorating condition leaves him little choice. The Orions secretly plan to double-cross Kirk by detonating a dilithium bomb on the geologically unstable asteroid, but Chief Engineer Scott beams the dilithium out of the device in the nick of time, and beams Kirk and the Orions aboard the Enterprise as well. Captured and prevented from taking his suicide pill — [[BetterToDieThanBeKilled Orion operatives are supposed to kill themselves rather than be captured]] — the Orion captain and his crew now must face trial for the crime of piracy. Spock recovers from choriocytosis, thanks to the recovered strobolin, although he must endure [[VitriolicBestBuds Dr. Mc Coy's]] good-natured (and very relieved) jibes about his green Vulcan blood turning out to be a liability for once.

* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: [=McCoy=] is genuinely devastated as it seems he wouldn't be able to save Spock. Of course, once they get the cure and Spock begins to recover, the pair are back to snarking at each other again.

* AlienBlood: As Mc Coy says, for once Spock's Vulcan heritage makes him more vulnerable to a threat than his human crewmates. While iron based hemoglobin can fight off the blood-based disease spreading through the ship comparatively easily, green Vulcan blood is way more susceptible.
-->'''Mc Coy:''''' It's a nuisance to humans. To Vulcans it's fatal. Ninety-three percent probability, as Spock would say.''

* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther : Mc Coy is genuinely devastated as it seems he wouldn't be able to save Spock. Of course, once they have got the cure and Spock is beginning to recover, the pair are back to snarking at each other again.

* CyanidePill : Once he is captured and beamed aboard the Enterprise, the Orion captain tries to take one, only to be prevented by two random Redshirts grabbing hold of him in time. Evidently, they have learned from their previous encounter with Orions.

* Fainting: The first indication that something is seriously wrong with Spock is when he collapses on the Bridge. Of course, being [[TheStoic Spock,]] he wouldn't have shown any sign of weakness till it became that serious.

* FindTheCure : Sort of. At first it is comparatively straightforward, just a question of arranging a rendezvous with another ship carrying the cure, but when Orion pirates attack the latter, things get a whole lot more complicated.

* InsultedAwake : An increasingly desperate [=McCoy=] attempts this with a comatose [[VitriolicBestBuds Spock]], "praying for a comforting insult". Of course, it doesn't work, nor did the doctor really expect it to.
-->'''[=McCoy=]''': ''Blasted Vulcan. Why couldn't you have red blood like any normal human?

--> '''Scotty:''' ''Aye sir, I'll see what I can do.''

* CouldHaveAvoidedThisPlot : From the viewpoint of the Orions. If they had opened communications with the Huron crew and been told that the latter was about to rendezvous with a heavy cruiser, they'd probably have cleared the area in seconds. Orions KnowWhenToFoldEm, thank you very much. Even after that, if they had just taken the dilithium (which was what they were after anyway) and left the strobolin (useless to them), Kirk wouldn't have been so desperate to capture them and would likely have ceased pursuit when they entered the AsteroidThicket.

--> '''Scotty:'''''Aye sir, I'll see what I can do.''

* AwwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther : Mc Coy is genuinely devastated as it seems he wouldn't be able to save Spock. Of course, once they have got the cure and Spock is beginning to recover, the pair are back to snarking at each other again.

* AwwLookTheyDoLoveEachOther : Mc Coy is genuinely devastated as it seems he wouldn't be able to save Spock. Of course, once they have got the cure and Spock is beginning to recover, the pair are back to snarking at each other again.

Following the marauding ship's unique radiation trail, the Enterprise soon catches up with the culprit: an Orion vessel. After some bargaining with the Orions, Kirk and the Orion captain agree to meet on a nearby asteroid, where the pirate leader has consented to hand over the strobolin. Though [[GenreSavvy Kirk]] is aware that he's walking into a trap, [[TheNotLoveInterest Spock's]] deteriorating condition leaves him little choice. The Orions secretly plan to double-cross Kirk by detonating a dilithium bomb on the geologically unstable asteroid, but Chief Engineer Scott beams the dilithium out of the device in the nick of time, and beams Kirk and the Orions aboard the Enterprise as well. Captured and prevented from taking his suicide pill — [[BetterToDieThanBeKilled Orion operatives are supposed to kill themselves rather than be captured]] — the Orion captain and his crew now must face trial for the crime of piracy. Spock recovers from choriocytosis, thanks to the recovered strobolin, although he must endure Dr. McCoy's good-natured (and very relieved) jibes about his green Vulcan blood turning out to be a liability for once.

AlienBlood: As McCoy says, for once Spock's Vulcan heritage makes him more vulnerable to a threat than his human crewmates. While iron based hemoglobin can fight off the blood-based disease spreading through the ship comparatively easily, green Vulcan blood is way more susceptible.
-->'''Mc Coy:''''' It's a nuisance to humans. To Vulcans it's fatal. Ninety-three percent probability, as Spock would say.''