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Monday, January 18, 2010

The 10 Year Old Perspective: All's Well That Ends Well (Journey to Babel)

TOS: Episode 39: Journey to Babel

In a lot of ways, I find this show quite dramatic. And I also find it quite hard to understand in several ways. But then again I'm only ten.

Pig Nose Guy

Episode Summary
The show starts out with Vulcans coming to the Enterprise. The Ambassador of Vulcans and his wife come to the ship. Kirk tells Spock to show them around but the Ambassador says he wants a different guide. Kirk seems to be very suspicious about this so he says to Spock, "Spock, why don't you beam down to the planet to see your parents." So Spock replies, "Didn't you know the Ambassadors are my parents." And Kirk is like, "Ohhh!" So after Kirk has given the Vulcans a tour of the Enterprise, they go to the engine room, and Kirk tells Spock to show the Ambassador and his wife the computer technology. And the wife says, "After all these years of being around humans, you still haven't learned to smile." And Spock says, "Well, smiling is a human trait." And she says, "Well you are part human."

At kind of like a celebration party for a meeting of all the aliens getting together, the Ambassador, slash Spock's dad gets in a fight with some piggish figure that we never learn the name of. Many hours later the Ambassador of the pig figure thingees was found dead with his neck snapped like a twig. Spock says the way it was snapped was a Vulcan practice. That they used to use as a ritual to logically kill somebody. So then the only suspect would be Spock's dad. So they go to his room but he's not there and his wife says that he had been out meditating because he was about to retire. He comes back and he has an attack so they bring him to sick bay and he says he has been attacked three times before, two before they left Vulcan and one while he was meditating, and the last one in his room.

Much later in the episode, we find out that there is an alien that has a communication device that is hidden in his antenna and was communicating with the enemy ship. And they blow up the enemy ship but the other alien dies too because he had taken poison. Also, Spock gives up about a fourth of his blood or so for his dad, because his dad was dying. Spock and his dad were okay. But Kirk had also been attacked earlier and the only way for him to get Spock to help his dad was for him to convince Spock that he was okay, but then he did end up taking command instead of giving command down to Scotty, because it was too dangerous. But in the end he did end up having to be in the hospital, and it's strange because Dr. McCoy kept saying "Shh! Shh! Shh! Shh! Shut up! Shut up!" to everybody like Spock, his dad, and Captain Kirk. Then at the end of the show Dr. McCoy said "Well, for once I get the last word." And that's where the show ended.

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