Kirk is on trial for the wrongful death of one of his officers.\u00a0 Lt. Commander Finney, the records officer, was in an ion pod (whatever that is) during an ion storm and according to the Enterprise\u2019s computer telemetry Kirk jettisoned the pod prematurely before a red alert was declared.\u00a0 The court martial featured one of Kirk\u2019s old girlfriends as the prosecutor and Elisha Cook Jr. as his defense attorney.\u00a0 We see a video clip of Kirk jettisoning the pod before the red alert status occurs.\u00a0 This evidence seems to seal Kirk\u2019s fate.\u00a0 After this scene we hear Kirk telling Spock that at least Spock\u2019s next captain might not be able to beat Spock at chess.\u00a0 After hearing this Spock raises an eyebrow.<\/p>\n
In the next scene we see Spock in his cabin playing chess against the computer.\u00a0 McCoy enters and berates Spock for his unfeeling frivolous actions while Kirk\u2019s career is in jeopardy.\u00a0 Spock explains that he has just beaten the computer five times in a row.\u00a0 Even McCoy recognizes that this is an impossibility.\u00a0 They rush down to the trial and Kirk\u2019s lawyer reconvenes the trial on the Enterprise where we learn that Finney is not dead but hidden on the Enterprise and is responsible for faking the accusatory video evidence against Kirk.\u00a0 In a climactic scene Kirk fights Finney and after a vicious shirt tearing fight defeats Finney and saves the Enterprise from crashing by pulling loose a couple of electrical cables.<\/p>\n
As silly as this episode sounds it was actually fun.\u00a0 Seeing Shatner calmly shrug off the cold shoulder he was getting from his peers at the star base where the trial was taking place was interesting.\u00a0 And Elisha Cook Jr. was amusing as the eccentric lawyer who preferred paper books to computer files.\u00a0 The courtroom drama was fairly entertaining.\u00a0 All in all, I\u2019d say it was a 7.<\/p>\n
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The Shatner mockery index was low.\u00a0 It really didn\u2019t break a 4.<\/p>\n
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