History Recap / StarTrekS3E14WhomGodsDestroy

* IdiotBall: Spock, while trying to determine which "Kirk" is really Garth, ask Kirk a question that Garth could also have known the answer to, and then gives up that line of reasoning altogether rather than asking a very specific question about their past that only the real Kirk could possibly know. Leonard Nimoy objected to this, but the director really wanted to do a fight scene.

* FamousFamousFictional: '''Garth:''' All the others before me have failed. Alexander, Caesar, Napoleon, Hitler, Lee Kuan, Krotus! All of them are dust! But I will triumph! I will make the ultimate conquest!

* PrettyInMink: Rare male example with Garth. Must've been one of those rare green minks from Aurora IV. A presumed insane Andorian wears a fluffy pink boa. [[CureYourGays WHAT ARE THEY INSINUATING?]]

* BadLiar: Marta was a pathological liar (likely one reason she was in the asylum), going so far as to recite [[WilliamShakespeare Shakespeare's]] Sonnet XVIII and claim it was her own work. Not even Garth believes a word she says.

* CuckooNest: Marta feigns being sane. She tells Kirk that [[TheCuckoolanderWasRight Corey isn't who he seems.]] Just because she's right doesn't mean she isn't crazy!

* FallenHero[=/=]TheParagonAlwaysRebels: Kirk describes Garth as his personal hero and the Federation's greatest warrior, and he was seemingly Starfleet's most legendary captain until his newly acquired abilities drove him mad with power.

* [[CaptainObvious First Officer Obvious]]: Spock, when he responds to Kirk's claim that they are "brothers" by saying that Kirk is speaking "somewhat figuratively."

* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: Garth declares Marta to be his consort. Her reign makes Jane Grey's reign look like an epoch.

* [[InsaneAdmiral Insane Captain]]: Garth of Izar, a former Starfleet Fleet Captain who develops megalomania and ends up in the asylum on Elba II.

* ItWorksBetterWithBullets: Phasers work better when charged.

* [[NoMrBondIExpectYouToDine No, Captain Kirk, I Expect You To Dine]]: When Garth first invites Kirk and Spock to dinner, it seems friendly, since he's borrowed the guise of Donald Corey. Then he forces the invitation at gunpoint.

* PrettyInMink: Rare male example with Garth. Must've been one of those rare green minks from Aurora IV. A presumed insane Andorian wears a fluffy pink boa. [[CureyourGays WHAT ARE THEY INSINUATING?]]

* ShellGame: Captain Garth [[InsistentTerminology "'''LORD''' Garth!"]] Lord Garth shape changes into the form of Captain Kirk and fights him, so neither the audience nor Spock know which one is which.

* [[TakeOverTheWorld Take Over The Universe]]: Garth's goal.

* UnderageCasting: Fleet Captain Garth of Izar, whose exploits've been studied by Kirk at the academy's played by a 34-year-old actor. Steve Ihnat was in fact younger than William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy.

* DamnedByFaintPraise: Garth calls Kirk the second best tactition in Starfleet. He considers himself to be the best.

Spock and Kirk beam down to Elba II to deliver a new miracle drug to a PenalColony in hopes of curing the patients permanently. Governor Donald Corey greets them warmly, accepts the medicine, strongly insists on them staying for dinner and visiting the poor unfortunates that they have come to cure. An Orion female insists that she's perfectly sane and that Corey is an imposter. Corey tuts over the poor woman's delusions and shows them the cell of the infamous Garth of Izar...only to find a severely battered Donald Corey in the cell. Suddenly, [[SpecialEffectsFailure the screen goes fuzzy]] and [[WackySoundEffect "Boing!"]] The person they thought was Donald Corey is really the mad captain Garth of Izar!

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The dinner party. Most of it got cut from the remastered scene, but most of Marta's dance remains. According to Spock, her dance is the equivalent of the Vulcan Hokey-Pokey. Not very nice, considering that Yvonne Craig is a trained ballerina.

* HeyItsThatGuy: [[{{Series/Batman}} Batgirl]] is an insane Orion! Governor Corey looks a lot like the "Number One Son" of CharlieChan.

* PropRecycling: Quite a bit as the show's budget was being pared down more than Marta's skimpy blue dress- which was a retailored version of the one worn by the Orion in "The Cage". The Haz-Mat suits from "The Tholian Web" are seen when Marta is executed. The electroshock therapy chair is from "Dagger of the Mind".

* TheissTitillationTheory: Like [[Literature/{{Wicked}} Elphaba]], Marta clashes with everything, especially that ugly robe she wears at first. Then she wears a very brief periwinkle garment accessorized with shells that clack when she moves.

* CapeCoat: Garth wears his green mink coat this way during the coronation.

* IdiotBall: Spock, while trying to determine which "Kirk" is really Garth, ask Kirk a question that Garth could also have known the answer to, and then gives up that line of reasoning altogether rather than asking a very specific question about their past that only the real Kirk could possible know. Leonard Nimoy objected to this, but the director really wanted to do a fight scene.

* IdiotBall: Spock, while trying to determine which "Kirk" is really Garth, ask Kirk a question that Garth could also have known the answer to, and then gives up that line of reasoning altogether rather than asking a very specific question about their past that only the real Kirk could possible know.

* TheissTitillationTheory: Like [[Literature/{{Wicked}} Elphaba]], Marta clashes with everything, especially that ugly robe she wears at first. Then she wears a very brief periwinkle garment accessorized with shells that clack when she moves.

* BadLiar: Marta was a pathological liar, going so far as to recite [[WilliamShakespeare Shakespeare's]] Sonnet XVIII and claim it was her own work.

Tropes for this episode include:
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[[TakeOverTheWorld Take Over The Universe]]: Garth's goal.

Garth was once a well respected Federation captain, but one day, he just got tired of being made to "grub away like some ants on some...[[BuffySpeak somewhat larger than usual anthill.]]" No! He was made for bigger things! He is not a mere captain but a GodEmperor! He is the true Master of the Universe, so sit and spin, [[HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse He-Man!]] His only mistake was overestimating the Federation's tolerance for [[FinalSolution mass genocide.]]