09-15-2022, 11:40 AM
(This post was last modified: 09-15-2022, 01:32 PM by FaceInTheCrowd.)
This is one of many inconsistencies in that episode that lead me to believe that it was done early, or at least written early and shot later in haste without any script updates. Other signs of this are the fact that the dilithium crystals are in a drawer in some little room they call "Engineering" rather than the big Engineering set, the weirdly overdone makeup and the fact that the plot and much of the jargon are straight out of a typical bad 50s sci-fi pulp story. The whole thing is just out of place for something aired so late in the season.