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LoglineA distress call from Lt. Noonien-Singh compels Spock to disobey orders and take the USS Enterprise and its crew into disputed space, risking renewed hostilities with the Klingons in a bid to aid their shipmate.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Perhaps M’Benga has a stash of the serum Bones will later give Kirk so he can survive his fight with Spock in TOS Amok Time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't think it's the same serum, in Amok Time the serum is used to make Kirk fake his death, not win the fight.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was thinking about the hypospray McCoy gave Kirk to ‘adjust for the difference in oxygen levels and other environmental conditions.’

From the time I first watched the episode as a young child, I reasoned that there had to have been something more in the hypospray. Even in Earth-like conditions and gravity, Kirk wouldn’t last a minute against a Vulcan engaged by Pon Farr. McCoy wouldn’t have hesitated to add in a combat serum if he thought it would give Kirk a chance to survive.

(This was validated by the discussion of who and how someone could fight Vorik in Voyager before B’Elanna decided to take him on herself.)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

@StillPaisleyCat @emmanuel
That is an interesting theory! I imagine that type of serum in a normal environment could really increase someone's strenght/violence to that degree.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

@StillPaisleyCat that serum was a total ‘wait, what just happened here?’ for me..