In Kirk’s quarters, he confides in Spock how he is wished to be a captain for therefore lengthy, however now that he has it, he is flailing about. Kirk invokes the proverb of the canine who caught the automobile he was chasing, which Spock compares to the Vulcan idiom that offers this episode its title. However Spock, unburdened by Kirk’s emotional turmoil, is ready to remind Kirk of how he wished to be captain as a result of he knew he may do the job.
In “The Unique Collection,” Spock was all the time Kirk’s closest advisor subsequent to Dr. McCoy (DeForest Kelley); the Captain’s job was balancing Spock’s logic and Bones’ emotion. In “Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan,” after Spock’s (non permanent, however nonetheless heartbreaking) loss of life, Kirk’s studying glasses are pointedly proven cracked. As prolific “Star Trek” video reviewer SFDebris famous, the damaged glasses symbolize how Kirk has misplaced Spock, the one who all the time helped him see extra clearly.
Observe, too, how Kirk’s musing in “The Sehlat Who Ate Its Tail” occurs whereas he is looming over a chess board. Spock and Kirk have a mutual love for chess and sometimes performed in opposition to one another in “The Unique Collection.” Throughout their very first scene collectively in the (supposed) “Star Trek” pilot “The place No Man Has Gone Earlier than,” they’re enjoying chess, and Spock is considerably confounded by Kirk’s “illogical” methods.
In “Courtroom Martial,” when Kirk is on trial for seeming negligence that triggered a crewman’s loss of life, chess is integral to Spock clearing Kirk’s title. Spock cannot dispute the pc report of Kirk’s actions with out direct proof of a malfunction. So, to check if the Enterprise pc is working correctly, he performs in opposition to it in chess. Spock wins 4 occasions in a row, which must be not possible, and thus he concludes the pc has been tampered with to border Kirk. To Spock, the extra logical conclusion was the pc, not Kirk, was fallacious. There is not any larger testomony to his religion in his pal than that.
The J.J. Abrams-directed “Star Trek” movie depicted a younger Kirk (Chris Pine) and Spock (Zachary Quinto) who initially hated every others’ guts, however grew into being associates throughout a trial by fireplace. “Unusual New Worlds” has been far more refined in exhibiting the beginnings of this legendary bond.
“Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds” is streaming on Paramount+, with new episodes of season 3 debuting on Thursdays.
