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'''Spock:''' Vulcan has no moon.\\
'''Uhura:''' I'm not a bit surprised, Mr. Spock.

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'''Spock:''' Vulcan has no moon.moon, Miss Uhura.\\
'''Uhura:''' (''very'' deadpan) I'm not a bit surprised, Mr. Spock.
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* Any time Finnegan is on the screen and taunting Kirk. "You never could find your head with both hands!"
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* Scotty tells Krako that he'd better mind his manners or he'll be wearing "concrete galoshes." Scotty just stands there, smiling proudly to himself over having nailed the weird slang, and the guy cautiously asks if he means "cement overshoes." Scotty hesitates for a moment before saying yes.

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* Scotty tells Krako that he'd better mind his manners or he'll be wearing [[CementShoes "concrete galoshes." "]] Scotty just stands there, smiling proudly to himself over having nailed the weird slang, and the guy cautiously asks if he means "cement overshoes." Scotty hesitates for a moment before saying yes.
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* Chekov's scream. Dramatic back then, hilarious nowadays.

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* Chekov's scream. Dramatic back then, [[{{Narm}} hilarious nowadays.nowadays]].
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'''Chekov:''' I think ve're in a lot of trouble.\\

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'''Chekov:''' [[CaptainObvious I think ve're in a lot of trouble.\\]]\\
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* While giving his standard examination on Eleen, Bones feels her pregnant belly. Which earns him a smack. He does it again and gets another one. At which point, ''he smacks her'', and goes right back to work.

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* While giving his standard examination on Eleen, Bones feels her pregnant belly. Which earns him a smack. He does it again and gets another one. At which point, ''he ''[[RefugeInAudacity he smacks her'', her]]'', and goes right back to work.
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[[AC:3x22 - [[Recap/StarTrekS3E22TheSavageCurtain The Savage Curtain]]]]
* At a staff meeting discussing "UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln" appearing on board the ship:
-->'''Scott:''' Lincoln died three centuries ago on a planet hundreds of light years away! ''[gestures]''\\
'''Spock:''' More that direction, Engineer. ''[points]'''
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* {{Meta}}: The CastingGag when you realize that the same guy who played the Romulan Commander goes on to play Sarek, Spock's father, in Season 2. No wonder Stiles mistook Spock for a Romulan!

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* {{Meta}}: The CastingGag when you realize that the same guy who played the Romulan Commander goes on to play Sarek, Spock's father, in Season 2. No wonder Stiles mistook Spock for a Romulan!



* Meta: If you look closely, [[SpecialEffectsFailure you can still see the frozen Kirk and Sulu moving]].

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* Meta: If you look closely, [[SpecialEffectsFailure you can still see the frozen Kirk and Sulu moving]].



** It's even funnier from a {{Meta}} point of view, given that the line is spoken by ''Leonard'' Nimoy.

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** It's even funnier from a {{Meta}} point of view, given that the line is spoken by ''Leonard'' Nimoy.



*** Even ''even'' better is the {{meta}} reason for the avalanche. There were originally only meant to be a dozen or so Tribbles, but the crew decided to keep throwing them long after they were meant to stop because they'd had enough of [[ItsAllAboutMe Shatner's attitude]].

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*** Even ''even'' better is the {{meta}} behind-the-scenes reason for the avalanche. There were originally only meant to be a dozen or so Tribbles, but the crew decided to keep throwing them long after they were meant to stop because they'd had enough of [[ItsAllAboutMe Shatner's attitude]].



* A meta example: according to David Gerrold's book ''The World of Star Trek'', while they were shooting the episode, Shatner as Kirk had to utter the line "I want to hear who put the tribbles in the quadrotriticale!" Someone, possibly [=DeForest=] Kelley, ad-libbed "[[{{Vaudeville}} Well, I don't know it, but you sing it and I'll do the harmony.]]"

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* A meta behind-the-scenes example: according to David Gerrold's book ''The World of Star Trek'', while they were shooting the episode, Shatner as Kirk had to utter the line "I want to hear who put the tribbles in the quadrotriticale!" Someone, possibly [=DeForest=] Kelley, ad-libbed "[[{{Vaudeville}} Well, I don't know it, but you sing it and I'll do the harmony.]]"
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* Kirk walking down the corridor with Hengist, who's continuing his threats to kill everyone on the ''Enterprise'' between giggles, slung casually over his shoulder. What makes it even better is Hengist's actor is [[WesternAnimation/WinnieThePooh John Fiedler]]. That's right, the ''Enterprise'' is being threatened by a fear-eating EldritchAbomination with the voice of stoned Piglet.

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* Kirk walking down the corridor with Hengist, who's continuing his threats to kill everyone on the ''Enterprise'' between giggles, slung casually over his shoulder. What makes it even better is Hengist's actor is [[WesternAnimation/WinnieThePooh [[Franchise/WinnieThePooh John Fiedler]]. That's right, the ''Enterprise'' is being threatened by a fear-eating EldritchAbomination with the voice of stoned Piglet.
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* When Kirk suggests that Spock builds a computer:

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* When Kirk suggests that Spock builds build a computer:
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* Even despite remaining serious, the crew's various reactions to seeing Apollo's projected energy hand do sum up the strangeness of the whole thing:
-->'''[=McCoy=]:''' What in the name of-?
-->'''Chekov:''' Am I... seeing things?
-->'''Sulu:''' Not unless I am too. Captain, that thing's a... giant hand.

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