History Recap / StarTrekS2E23TheOmegaGlory

* RealityEnsues: Captain Tracey is a starship captain, but his knowledge of medical science is limited, and as a result when he learns of the inhabitants' long life-spans, he assumes at first that it's a fountain of youth and/or immortality (obsession and madness didn't help). The moment a trained medical professional (particularly a CMO) comes along and properly examines all the clues, the claim is instantly dismissed.
-->'''[=McCoy=]:''' Leave medicine to medical men, captain; you've found no fountain of youth! People here live longer lives because it's ''natural'' for them!
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: The Kohms are a species of very long-lived folk. To impress Kirk, Tracey calls over a seemingly-young soldier who tells Kirk he's over four-hundred in Earth years. ("His father is well over ''a thousand''," adds Tracey.) Tracey assumes this is due to some youth potion, but to his regret, it is not.

!!Tropes for this episode include:

Of all the TOS episodes, this is the one that was made into a [=ViewMaster=] set. And in another piece of trivia, "The Omega Glory" script was originally written as [[Recap/StarTrekS1E3WhereNoManHasGoneBefore one]] of [[Recap/StarTrekS1E6MuddsWomen three]] potential [[PilotEpisode pilot episodes]] after the [[Recap/StarTrekS1E0TheCage original pilot "The Cage"]] got rejected by NBC. The aim supposedly being that the three scripts would showcase to the network different things that the series format could do (something that "The Cage" was criticized for not doing). To this end, the show being something of a literal SpaceWestern seems designed to showcase Roddenberry's original format pitch of ''Star Trek'' being a kind of WagonTrainToTheStars.

* AllThereInTheManual: In the shooting script, the main characters mention the Yangs and Kohms are too close to human to be a coincidence. They speculate they're a remnant of the early space program, setting up the ending where Kirk realizes the Yangs still have a copy of the Constitution. It's not hard to see echoes of the [=McCarthy=] era in Kirk lecturing Americans who have lost their way on what the nation's founding principles mean. But the scene was cut (possibly because it clashes with the timeline), and most viewers just rolled their eyes at the coincidence of an alien planet independently developing the US Constitution.

* SeriesContinuityError: Costumer William Theiss gives the USS ''Exeter'' crew their own insignia instead of the Starfleet chevron patch worn by the ''Enterprise'' crew. [[http://www.startrek.com/article/starfleet-insignia-explained This is a mistake]] that spawned a fan theory that every starship got its own patch, when in fact the intent was for the chevron to be akin to branch insignia, worn by all Starfleet starship personnel.

--> '''Cloud William:''' "Ay plegli ianectu flaggen, tupep like for stahn –"
--> '''Kirk:''' "And to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."

* DramaticAmmoDepletion: Tracey has Kirk at phaser-point, ready to kill him. He pulls the trigger -- and th phaser is out of power.

* BigDamnHeroes: Sulu and two Redshirts who don't have time to die beam in in the nick of time.

* TheGuardsMustBeCrazy: Averted. [=McCoy=] thinks his guard is not paying attention and starts to reach for a communicator. As his hand gets near the guard's very large sword stops him.

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Yangs = Yankees, Kohms = Communists.

* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: Spock being able to mentally compel someone to do what he wants; the only other episodes in which he used similar powers to those were "By Any Other Name" and "A Taste of Armageddon".

* StockFootage: The shot of Sulu manning the helm station with an empty captain's chair in the background in mid-Act One is recycled from "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E1Arena Arena]]".

* MoneyDearBoy: Roddenberry selected this episode for the Viewmaster adaption because as the episode's writer, he'd earn royalties on it.

* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: The Yangs are a species of very long-lived folk. To impress Kirk, Tracey calls over a seemingly-young soldier who tells Kirk he's over four-hundred in Earth years. ("His father is well-over ''a thousand''," adds Tracey.) Tracey assumes this is due to some youth potion, but to his regret, it is not.

Of all the TOS episodes, this is the one that was made into a [=ViewMaster=] set.

* GoMadFromTheRevelation: After Tracey learns all his evil deeds are AllForNothing, you can see him snap at the news and proceeds to threaten Kirk for weapons for a pointless fight on a planet they by now can leave any time.

* RealityEnsues: Captain Tracy is a starship captain, but his knowledge of medical aspects is limited, and as a result when he learns of the inhabitants' long live-spans, he assumes at first that it's a fountain of youth and/or immortality (obsession and madness didn't help). The moment a truly-trained medical officer (particularly a CMO) comes along and properly examines all the clues, the claim is instantly dismissed.
-->'''[=McCoy=]:''' Leave medicine to medical men, captain; you've found no fountain of youth! People here live longer lives because it's ''natural'' for them to!

* ShootTheMessenger: After Kirk and company tell him that his crimes were AllForNothing, part of the reason Tracey is goes literally AxeCrazy on Kirk has got to be for telling him that bad news.

* AGodAmI: The mere prospect of immortality has given Tracey one hell of a Messiah complex.

* AllThereInTheManual: In the shooting script, the main characters mention the Yangs and Kohms are too close to human to be a coincidence. They speculate they're a remnant of the early space program, setting up the ending where Kirk realizes the Yangs still have a copy of the Constitution. It's not hard to see echoes of the McCarthy era in Kirk lecturing Americans who have lost their way on what the nation's founding principles mean. But the scene was cut (possibly because it clashes with the timeline), and most viewers just rolled their eyes at the coincidence of an alien planet independently developing the US Constitution.

* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: Spock has never been able to mentally compel someone to do what he wanted before, and never does again.
** He uses similar powers in "By Any Other Name" and "A Taste of Armageddon".

* SanitySlippage: After Tracey learns all his evil deeds are AllForNothing, you can see him snap at the news and proceeds to threaten Kirk for weapons for a pointless fight on a planet they by now can leave any time.