History Recap / StarTrekS1E17TheSquireOfGothos

* AccentSlipUp: Trelane speaks in a posh, eloquent manner befitting his cultured façade, [[labelnote: e.g.]](''"Dear Captain, your inquiries are becoming tiresome...''")[[/labelnote]] until his parents appear. Then, he tellingly starts talking like a stereotypical bratty kid. [[labelnote: e.g.]](''"Aw, but ya said I could [play]! Ya promised!"'')[[/labelnote]]

* HollywoodTorches: There are a number of them burning at various places on the walls of Trelane's mansion. This is {{Justified}} InUniverse because Trelane is a RealityWarper who created his mansion using his powers;

* ImmortalImmaturity: Trelane is an extremely powerful near-god and hundreds if not thousands of years old, but acts like a child... and by the standards of his race, he is—- ''his parents'' show up at the end to drag their whining kid home.

No such luck. The landing crew investigates the manor to find it filled with unusual artifacts, including [[PropRecycling one that looks suspiciously like]] their old nemesis, [[Recap/StarTrekS1E1TheManTrap the Salt Vampire]]. Sulu and Kirk are frozen like wax figures, but freed with a touch. [[GhostButler Slam goes the door.]] Tinka-tinka-tink goes the harpsichord. They are introduced to General Trelane (retired), the Squire of Gothos.

* GracefulLadiesLikePurple: Trelane believes this. The [[RegencyEngland Regency style]] [[GorgeousPeriodDress gown]] with OperaGloves he [[InstantCostumeChange zaps]] Yeoman Ross into is a fine shade of lavender.

* GorgeousPeriodDress: Trelane outfit, as well as the gown he conjures up for Yeoman Ross.

* HangingAround: Trelane tries to make Kirk stick his head in a noose but he naturally refuses.

* HeroicSacrifice: Kirk intends this, staying behind to distract Trelane so that the ''Enterprise'' can escape from orbit. This would have two possible outcomes - either the vengeful Trelane kills him or Kirk dies from oxygen deprivation after defeating him. It's subverted when Trelane's parents show up just as he is about to finish Kirk off.

* ImmortalImmaturity: Trelane is an extremely powerful near-god and hundreds if not thousands of years old, but acts like a child... and by the standards of his race, he is—''his parents'' show up at the end to drag their whining kid home.

* JapanesePoliteness: Trelane bows to Sulu and calls him, "Honorable Sir." Sulu responds, "Is he kidding?!"

* NotSoHarmlessVillain: Trelane doesn't kill or even injure anyone aboard ''Enterprise'' over the course of the entire episode (though, perhaps, not through lack of trying). The worst they suffer is a delay in their otherwise routine mission and some humiliation. Yet the majority of the tension of the episode comes from knowing that Trelane '''is''' so powerful, as he demonstrated on multiple occasions, that he '''could''' kill the entire crew with a flick of his fingers if he decided to -- and he seems to think that death is only a "time out" or a temporary loss in a game, so he could easily kill them without having the slightest understanding of what that really means. Kirk walks a delicate tightrope for the entire runtime: keeping Trelane entertained enough not to kill them, bored enough to consider letting them go, but not ''so'' bored he'll kill them all out of spite.

* SwordFight: Trelane and Kirk get in one. Trelane doesn't fight fair.

* TrialOfTheMysticalJury: Kirk is put on trial by Trelane.

* WheresTheFunInThat: Kirk asks his captor, "Where's the sport?" in simply hanging him, as he had planned. Instead, Kirk talked his captor into [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame staging a "royal hunt".]] This bought Kirk enough time for a DeusExMachina rescue.

* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: The character of Yeoman Ross was very likely written as Janice Rand until Creator/GraceLeeWhitney was fired.

* WackySoundEffect: Along with the usual "BOING" whenever anyone disappears, we get a cavalcade of goofy noises right out of an old Creator/WarnerBros cartoon when Kirk shoots out Trelane's mirror, where he's been hiding the power source of his illusions.