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* AntiVillain: Akuta, when he's told to kill Kirk and his officers. He has no understanding of the immorality of murder; to him, it's simply "a thing to do, like feeding Vaal".
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* DUmbassHasAPoint: Akuta, while not necessarily dumb - just naive and a product of extreme isolation, points out that Kirk's promise not to harm him ring hollow if you just ''struck in the face'' mere seconds before. So Kirk instead promises not to do it again.
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* DUmbassHasAPoint: DumbassHasAPoint: Akuta, while not necessarily dumb - just naive and a product of extreme isolation, points out that Kirk's promise not to harm him ring hollow if you just ''struck in the face'' mere seconds before. So Kirk instead promises not to do it again.
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* TakingTheBullet: Spock shouts out a [[HoYay rather impassioned]] "Jim!" as he jumps between him and a spine slinging plant.
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* TakingTheBullet: Spock shouts out a [[HoYay rather impassioned]] "Jim!" as he jumps between him and a spine slinging spine-slinging plant.
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* HalfwayPlotSwitch: It starts with a dangerous forest that the crew are trapped in, where Kirk quickly loses multiple crew members to. Then they find the people of Vaal, and the episode takes a sharp left turn into a discussion of the PrimeDirective.
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* HalfwayPlotSwitch: It starts with a dangerous forest that the crew are trapped in, where which Kirk quickly loses multiple crew members to. Then they find the people of Vaal, and the episode takes a sharp left turn into a discussion of the PrimeDirective.
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* NotMyLuckyDay: It's just not Spock's day as he's shot by a poisonous plant, laughed at by natives, bounced off of a force field he didn't notice, pulled into a very... [[TheTalk awkward conversation]], struck by lightning, and in the end called Satan by Kirk and Bones.
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* NotMyLuckyDay: It's just not Spock's day day, as he's shot by a poisonous plant, [[TheComicallySerious laughed at by natives, natives,]] bounced off of a force field he didn't notice, pulled into a very... [[TheTalk awkward conversation]], struck by lightning, and in the end called Satan by Kirk and Bones.
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* WhoWantsToLiveForever: The aliens are immortal, but in turn for stagnation and lack of choice. They do not create, or think or feel.
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* WhoWantsToLiveForever: Played with. The aliens people of Vaal are immortal, but in turn for stagnation and lack of choice. They do not create, or think or feel. The PowerTrio debate on whether this is a borderline-FateWorseThanDeath or not.
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* CrisisCatchAndCarry: Kirk picks up Spock after he's been struck by lightning and carries him on his shoulders until he finds Dr. [=McCoy=] to take a look at the second-degree burns Spock received.
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Another Redshirt bites the dust when a lightning bolt seems to strike at random. Yet another has the bad fortune to trip over an exploding rock. They have the feeling they're being watched and discover Akula, the local priest, who seems shocked that anyone would react violently towards him. Akula takes the remaining crew to his village, which seems to be a perfect Utopia, were it not for the social stagnation and sex being forbidden. All this is due to their worship of a strange god they cal "Vaal".
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Another Redshirt bites the dust when a lightning bolt seems to strike at random. Yet another has the bad fortune to trip over an exploding rock. They have the feeling they're being watched and discover Akula, Akuta, the local priest, who seems shocked that anyone would react violently towards him. Akula Akuta takes the remaining crew to his village, which seems to be a perfect Utopia, were it not for the social stagnation and sex being forbidden. All this is due to their worship of a strange god they cal call "Vaal".
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* ActionGirl: Yeoman Martha Landon knows judo and is the only redshirt on the planet to get out of this episode alive.
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* ActionGirl: Yeoman Martha Landon knows judo and is the only redshirt on the planet to get out of this episode alive.[[note]]In David Gerrold's ''The World of Star Trek'', Nichelle Nichols spoke about confronting Roddenberry with portrayals of herself and other female crewmembers as clinging and helpless; that they would know all kinds of self-defense techniques and be able to take care of themselves.[[/note]]
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* CargoCult: A misplaced AI has found its way on this planet and now the natives believe it's a god.
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* CargoCult: A misplaced AI has found its way on this planet and now the natives believe it's a god. Either that, or it's the remnant of an older, much more advanced civilization that has crumbled leaving the natives we see as the only survivors.
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* AbsenteeActor: Sulu and Uhura don't appear in this episode.
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* AdHominem: By the episode's end with Vaal destroyed and the ''Enterprise'' free to depart, Spock points out that with their interference, everything that the plant's natives had (the environment, immortality, their cultural practices, and even their hospitality - basically everything that made it a "paradise") may not be sustained for very long by using the analogy of the [[Literature/TheBible Garden of Eden]]. Kirk asks Spock if he's suggesting that he played the role of Satan, and the latter insists that he isn't. Bones walks up and Kirk (jokingly) asks the two if there's anyone on board who bears a resemblance to Satan, with the two looking at Spock. Spock (perhaps obliviously or brushing off Kirk's ribbing) replies that there isn't. This doesn't address anything that Spock said, and was a blatant dig at Spock's looks.
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* AdHominem: By the episode's end with Vaal destroyed and the ''Enterprise'' free to depart, Spock points out that with their interference, everything that the plant's natives had (the environment, immortality, their cultural practices, and even their hospitality - basically everything that made it a "paradise") "paradise" may not be sustained for very long by using the analogy of the [[Literature/TheBible Garden of Eden]]. Kirk asks Spock if he's suggesting that he played the role of Satan, and the latter insists that he isn't. Bones walks up and Kirk (jokingly) asks the two if there's anyone on board who bears a resemblance to Satan, with the two looking at Spock. Spock (perhaps obliviously or brushing off Kirk's ribbing) replies that there isn't. This doesn't address anything that Spock said, and was a blatant dig at Spock's looks.
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* AdHominem: By the episode's end with Vaal destroyed and the ''Enterprise'' free to depart, Spock points out that with their interference, everything that the plant's natives had (the environment, immortality, their cultural practices, and even their hospitality - basically everything that made it a "paradise") may not be sustained for very long by using the analogy of the [[Literature/TheBible Garden of Eden]]. Kirk asks Spock if he's suggesting that he played the role of Satan, and the latter insists that he isn't. Bones walks up and Kirk (jokingly) asks the two if there's anyone on board who bears a resemblance to Satan, with the two looking at Spock. Spock (perhaps obliviously or brushing off Kirk's ribbing) replies that there isn't. This doesn't address anything that Spock said, and was a blatant dig at Spock's looks.
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* DUmbassHasAPoint: Akuta, while not necessarily dumb - just naive and a product of extreme isolation, points out that Kirk's promise not to harm him ring hollow if you just ''struck in the face'' mere seconds before. So Kirk instead promises not to do it again.
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** Kirk punches Akuta in the face, after the latter sneaks up on the Enterprise crew. He then right after tries to persuade him that he means him no harm. Even Akuta, as simple as he is, points out that Kirk had ''just struck him'' ten seconds before using that line.
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* PerfectPacifistPeople: [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]] with the aliens: They have lived for millenia, a simple yet sustainable diet, yet live in bamboo huts, and are (at least initially) very friendly. However, they are completely dependent on Vaal - the AI that they believe to be a god, have no idea how to express attraction to another (it's implied that they haven't even so much as ''shook hands'' with one another) because Vaal forbade it, and produce no children - partly because they don't need to...again because of Vaal. It's eventually subverted when Vaal teaches them how to kill - introducing (well, apart from Kirk punching Akuta) violence into the society.
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** This is all brought out in a 1987 Mike Carlin comic book, "[[https://www.cbr.com/1987-and-all-that-star-trek-43-45/ Return of the Serpent]]".
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* ContrivedCoincidence: The crew know nothing of Vaal, the computer that runs the world, yet despite the entire planet having a virtually constant climate they beam down within walking distance of Vaal.
** They can detect humanoid life with their sensors, so probably just picked the spot near the largest concentration.
** They can detect humanoid life with their sensors, so probably just picked the spot near the largest concentration.
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* EverythingTryingToKillYouEverythingTryingToKillYou: Scratch four {{Red Shirt}}s.
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* ItsAllMyFault: Kirk blames himself for the RedShirt deaths.
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* ContinuityNod: [[Recap/StarTrekS2E1AmokTime Spock is still very uncomfortable when it comes to]] TheTalk.
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* NoHuggingNoKissing: InUniverse, by order of Vaal.
--> '''Bones:''' Well, there goes paradise.
--> '''Bones:''' Well, there goes paradise.
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* WhoWantsToLiveForever: The aliens are immortal, but in turn for stagnation and lack of choice. They do not create, or think or feel.
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* WhoWantsToLiveForever: The aliens are immortal, but in turn for stagnation and lack of choice. They do not create, or think or feel.feel.
* WritersCannotDoMath: Or perhaps "Special Effects People Cannot Do Math. When the ''Enterprise'' phasers attack Vaal, an exterior shot of the ship clearly shows two red beams diverging at a significant angle. At that distance, for one of the beams to hit the planet, the other almost certainly has to miss it entirely. However, the phaser beams which hit the [[CargoCult "god"]] do so no farther than perhaps a meter from one another.
** This is geometry, which is a kind of math.
* WritersCannotDoMath: Or perhaps "Special Effects People Cannot Do Math. When the ''Enterprise'' phasers attack Vaal, an exterior shot of the ship clearly shows two red beams diverging at a significant angle. At that distance, for one of the beams to hit the planet, the other almost certainly has to miss it entirely. However, the phaser beams which hit the [[CargoCult "god"]] do so no farther than perhaps a meter from one another.
** This is geometry, which is a kind of math.
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'''Spock''': [[LudicrousPrecision One hundred twenty two thousand, two hundred --\\hundred--]]\\
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Watching the episode right now and noticed 3 Red Shirts bit the dust about 10 minutes in
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* RedShirt: Along with "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E13Obsession Obsession]]", this episode is an exemplar of wanton killing of {{Bit Character}}s.
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* RedShirt: Along with "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E13Obsession Obsession]]", this episode is an exemplar of wanton killing of {{Bit Character}}s.Character}}s, with 3 of the 4 red shirts killed within the first 10 minutes of the episode.
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* TitleDrop: Twice at the end, when Spock mentions the Biblical story of the [[AsTheGoodBookSays Garden of Eden]].
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* FrequentlyBrokenUnbreakableVow: Never interfere...unless the celibate natives run around in loinskins worshiping a papier-mache dinosaur head.
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* TakingTheBullet: Spock shouts out a rather impassioned "Jim!" as he jumps between him and a spine slinging plant. [[BlatantLies I have no idea why people want to write]] SlashFic [[HoYay about this pair.]]
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* TakingTheBullet: Spock shouts out a [[HoYay rather impassioned impassioned]] "Jim!" as he jumps between him and a spine slinging plant. [[BlatantLies I have no idea why people want to write]] SlashFic [[HoYay about this pair.]]plant.
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* DivingSave: When a plant is about to shoot poisonous thorns into Captain Kirk, Spock pushes Kirk out of the way and takes a chestful of thorns himself.
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* {{Angst}}: Poor Kirk is having a bad day. He's torn between following Starfleet's orders and doing what he feels is right. The {{Redshirt}} [[SurvivorsGuilt body count]] is 4 by the episode's end. Spock nearly got himself killed twice. Spock and Bones are arguing...again. And as if that wasn't bad enough, an AI gone mad is trying to destroy his ship. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Oh, and the cute blonde seems to like Chekov more than him.]]
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* {{Angst}}: Poor Kirk is having a bad day. He's torn between following Starfleet's orders and doing what he feels is right. The {{Redshirt}} [[SurvivorsGuilt body count]] is 4 by the episode's end. Spock nearly got himself killed twice. Spock and Bones are arguing... again. And as if that wasn't bad enough, an AI gone mad is trying to destroy his ship. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Oh, and the cute blonde seems to like Chekov more than him.]]
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* {{Hypocrite}}: [=McCoy=] denounces Vaal for taking away the "choice and freedom" of the natives by making them entirely dependent on it and wants to destroy Vaal. Kirk seriously considers destroying Vaal even before it became necessary in violation of the Prime Directive. Only Spock points out [=McCoy=]'s hypocrisy of projecting his own values on to an alien culture or that Kirk has sword not to interfere. Never mind, both [=McCoy=] and Kirk were planning on not giving the natives a choice and arbitrarily deciding for them nor that without Vaal the natives are now entirely dependent on the Federation for survival. [=McCoy=] and Kirk are guilty of the very things they accused Vaal of.
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* {{Hypocrite}}: [=McCoy=] denounces Vaal for taking away the "choice and freedom" of the natives by making them entirely dependent on it and wants to destroy Vaal. Kirk seriously considers destroying Vaal even before it became necessary in violation of the Prime Directive. Only Spock points out [=McCoy=]'s hypocrisy of projecting his own values on to an alien culture or that Kirk has sword sworn not to interfere. Never mind, both [=McCoy=] and Kirk were planning on not giving the natives a choice and arbitrarily deciding for them nor that without Vaal the natives are now entirely dependent on the Federation for survival. [=McCoy=] and Kirk are guilty of the very things they accused Vaal of.
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* WhoWantsToLiveForever: The aliens are immortal, but in turn for stagnation and lack of choice. They do not create, or think or feel.
* WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove: Akuta comes out and asks "What is love?" Sayana and Hutch-uh, I mean Makora are intrigued by the concept of kissing and [[FirstKiss proceed to experiment.]]
* WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove: Akuta comes out and asks "What is love?" Sayana and Hutch-uh, I mean Makora are intrigued by the concept of kissing and [[FirstKiss proceed to experiment.]]
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* CulturalPosturing: McCoy preaches the superiority of human culture over the natives. Kirk's speech at the end assures the natives they will enjoy Federation culture more than their old one without ever giving them a choice. Spock is the only one to call them out on this.
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* CulturalPosturing: McCoy [=McCoy=] preaches the superiority of human culture over the natives. Kirk's speech at the end assures the natives they will enjoy Federation culture more than their old one without ever giving them a choice. Spock is the only one to call them out on this.
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* {{Hypocrite}}: McCoy [=McCoy=] denounces Vaal for taking away the "choice and freedom" of the natives by making them entirely dependent on it and wants to destroy Vaal. Kirk seriously considers destroying Vaal even before it became necessary in violation of the Prime Directive. Only Spock points out McCoy's [=McCoy=]'s hypocrisy of projecting his own values on to an alien culture or that Kirk has sword not to interfere. Never mind, both McCoy [=McCoy=] and Kirk were planning on not giving the natives a choice and arbitrarily deciding for them nor that without Vaal the natives are now entirely dependent on the Federation for survival. McCoy [=McCoy=] and Kirk are guilty of the very things they accused Vaal of.
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* PassThePopcorn: Kirk goes all [[TheGadfly Gadfly]] on Spock by getting him to give TheTalk while smirking and eating an apple.
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* {{Understatement}} when {{Understatement}}: When Spock is struck by lightning, Bones decrees he has "Second degree burns. Not serious but I bet they smart." [[DeadpanSnarker Spock commends him]] on his talent for understatement.
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* LivingIsMoreThanSurviving: Kirk destroys a computer that was keeping a planet's people in a stagnant, mollycoddled existence, and argues that this isn't a Prime Directive violation because the people didn't really have their own culture at all.
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* NotMyLuckyDay: It's just not Spock's day as he's shot by a poisonous plant, laughed at by natives, bounced off of a force field he didn't notice, pulled into a very... awkward conversation, struck by lightning, and in the end called Satan by Kirk and Bones.
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* NotMyLuckyDay: It's just not Spock's day as he's shot by a poisonous plant, laughed at by natives, bounced off of a force field he didn't notice, pulled into a very... [[TheTalk awkward conversation, conversation]], struck by lightning, and in the end called Satan by Kirk and Bones.
