History Recap / StarTrekS1E16TheGalileoSeven

* YouKeepUsingThatWord: Whoever wrote this clearly doesn’t understand what the word "logic" means. For example, Spock dumping and igniting the fuel is 100% logical. It was a calculated gamble.

* WholePlotReference: Based on the 1939 film [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Came_Back ''Five Came Back'']] RecycledINSPACE

* YouKeepUsingThatWord: Whoever wrote this clearly doesn’t understand what the word “logic” means. For example, Spock dumping and igniting the fuel is 100% logical. It was a calculated gamble.

* RedShirt: Gaetano and Latimer wear yellow, but same thing.

* BlackDudeDiesFirst: Averted! Lt. Boma makes it out of here alive! Which means he gets to keep being a dick the whole episode!

!!Tropes for this episode include:

* ScienceMarchesOn: All the talk of quasars and "quasar-like phenomenon". When the episode was made it had still not been determined exactly what a quasar is. Today we know that it is a supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy that emits a LOT of energy due to infalling matter in its accretion disc. But modern understanding of quasars makes the premise of this episode (a "quasar-like phenomenon" within a galaxy) extremely silly.

* NothingIsScarier: We never get a good look at who or what is hunting the ’’Galileo’’ crew, only a few brief shots. We ’’do’’ see their shields and spears, revealing they are ’’huge’’, and we hear a [[HellIsThatNoise rasping sound]] whenever they’re in the vicinity.

* NothingIsScarier: We never get a good look at who or what is hunting the ‘’Galileo’’ crew, only a few brief shots. We ‘’do’’ see their shields and spears, revealing they are ‘’huge’’, and we hear a [[HellIsThatNoise rasping sound]] whenever they’re in the vicinity.

** In a follow-up novel (non-canon though), Boma was court-martialed for his insubordination. The charges were brought by [=McCoy=] and Scotty, not Spock.
** Charges may not have been necessary if [=McCoy=] had reprimanded Lt. Boma after his derisive comment about Spock's brain (no not that one), instead of condoning and/or supporting it.

* MustHaveCaffeine: Kirk! A shuttlecraft carrying seven crewmen including your first officer, chief medical officer and head engineer has just disappeared into a quasar! Whaddya do? Why, have a cup of coffee, of course! Even offer a cuppa to the [[TryToFitThatOnABusinessCard Galactic High Commissioner]]!

* AssInAmbassador: Galactic High Commissioner Ferris is fond of nagging Kirk, reminding him that they may have to abandon search for the ''Galileo''. In fairness, he was worried about people dying of a plague on Markus III, but that still didn't stop him from being a total {{Jerkass}} and even seeming to relish news of the shuttle and all hands being lost.

* BotheringByTheBook: When Ferris orders Kirk to leave orbit and set course for Markus III, he does... at "space-normal speed" rather than warp, while continuing to scan the planet as the ship slowly pulls away from it.

The ''Enterprise'' is on their way to Markus III with medical supplies when they come across Murasaki 312, a quasar-like formation. Much to the objection of Galactic High Commissioner Ferris, Kirk sends a party to investigate. After all, there might be a planet of space babes out there! (There is, Jim, but you'd probably get lost inside one!)

* AssInAmbassador: Galactic High Commissioner Ferris is fond of nagging Kirk, reminding him that they may have to abandon search for the ''Galileo''. In fairness, he was worried about people dying of a plague on Markus III.

* OminousFog: In the mountains that Lt. Latimer and Lt. Gaetano explore, just before Latimer takes a giant spear to the back.

* BlackDudeDiesFirst: Averted! Lt. Boma makes it out of here alive!