History Recap / StarTrekS1E23ATasteOfArmageddon

* SadisticChoice: a rare example perpetrated by the hero. When Kirk destroys Anan's computer, he forces the warring planets either to find a way to get along or to start an old-fashioned war, hence destroying the precious order they had wanted to preserve.

* RealitySubtext: Scotty's refusal to lower the shields against orders is based on an actual story from James Doohan's service in World War II.

Luckily for him, Kirk and Spock manages to escape their captors, and start wreaking havoc on Eminiar's tidy little war machine, with Spock torching every death chamber he can find (saving the ambassador's sorry life in the process), while Kirk has a good long talk with Anan, trying to intimidate the man by claiming to be able to destroy the planet with just his phaser. Unimpressed, Anan tries one last time to get Kirk to bring down his crew for the slaughter, but Kirk just orders Scotty to execute a genocide order if they don't hear from him within 2 hours, forcing Anan to make a threat of his own. Unfortunately for Anan, Kirk won't go down that easily, and manages to slip away into the war machine's central computer core, destroying it in his second-usual fashion (phasering it to death, instead of asking it to play tic-tac-toe against itself or something). Anan is understandably horrified by this, as this nullifies the agreement Eminiar had with Vendikar that created the war games scenario in the first place, and will now force both planets to result to bloody, messy real war...precisely what Kirk expected; he gambled that the same orderly mindset that caused both planets to find such a neat and tidy way of killing each other to avoid the horrors of war will now force them to seek a more peaceful solution to avoid the same. Anan acknowledges this, and with the help of the douchey ambassador ([[CharacterDevelopment now less douchey]], now that he's finally realized what his douchiness has gotten himself and the ''Enterprise'' crew into), makes progress in doing so.

Oh, and Kirk does call off the genocide order.

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: Scotty to Ambassador Fox when Fox orders him to [[spoiler: take a peaceful stance, that is lower the deflector shields]]. Scotty firmly tells the Ambassador [[spoiler:''No'', I will not]].
* CrowningMomentOfFunny: Spock, [[TheSpock of all people]], when he tricks a guard by telling him [[spoiler: "Sir, there is a multi-legged creature crawling up your shoulder]]

* IdiotPlot: Really, the Eminiars and Vendikars couldn't have ''signed a peace treaty'' if they didn't want to send their armies against each other? The crew of the ''Enterprise'' {{lampshade}}s this.

* TheissTitillationTheory: Mea 7's constume.

In another twist of fate, it turns out one of the simulated attacks has also "destroyed" the ''Enterprise'', forcing Anan 7 to hold the away team hostage until the ship's crew is beamed down and executed. Naturally, Kirk doesn't take kindly to this idea, and fights back, only to get captured and put under guard until he complies. To further complicate matters, Anan starts getting tired of waiting and opens fire on the ''Enterprise'' with ''[[SpaceIsNoisy sonic cannons]]'' (don't you just love ''Franchise/StarTrek'' and their love for HollywoodScience?), and even using a faked message from Kirk to try and trick the crew into coming down; [=McCoy=] and Scotty, in command, don't buy it, but unfortunately, the idiot ambassador does, and transports himself down to the planet after failing to convince the other two to comply with Anan's orders. As you might have guessed, the moron ends up getting captured and sent to a death chamber, himself.

Luckily for him, Kirk and Spock manages to escape their captors, and start wreaking havoc on Eminiar's tidy little war machine, with Spock torching every death chamber he can find (saving the ambassador's sorry life in the process), while Kirk has a good long talk with Anan, trying to intimidate the man by claiming to be able to destroy the planet with just his phaser. Unimpressed, Anan tries one last time to get Kirk to bring down his crew for the slaughter, but Kirk just orders Scotty to execute a genocide order if they don't hear from him within 2 hours, forcing Anan to make a threat of his own. Unfortunately for Anan, Kirk won't go down that easily, and manages to slip away into the war machine's central computer core, destroying it in his second-usual fashion (phasering it to death, instead of asking it to play tic-tac-toe against itself or something). Anan is understandably horrified by this, as this nullifies the agreement Eminiar had with Vendikar that created the war games scenario, in the first place, and will now force both planets to result to bloody, messy real war...precisely what Kirk expected; he gambled that the same orderly mindset that caused both planets to find such a neat and tidy way of killing each other to avoid the horrors of war will now force them to seek a more peaceful solution, to avoid the same. Anan acknowledges this, and with the help of the douchey ambassador ([[CharacterDevelopment now less douchey]], now that he's finally realized what his douchiness has gotten himself and the ''Enterprise'' crew into), makes progress in doing so.

In another twist of fate, it turns out one of the simulated attacks has also "destroyed" the ''Enterprise'', forcing Anan 7 to hold the away team hostage until the ship's crew is beamed down and executed. Naturally, Kirk doesn't take kindly to this idea, and fights back, only to get captured and put under guard until he complies. To further complicate matters, Anan starts getting tired of waiting and opens fire on the ''Enterprise'' with ''[[SpaceIsNoisy sonic cannons]]'' (Don't you just love ''Franchise/StarTrek'' and their love for HollywoodScience?), and even using a faked message from Kirk to try and trick the crew into coming down; [=McCoy=] and Scotty, in command, don't buy it, but unfortunately, the idiot ambassador does, and transports himself down to the planet after failing to convince the other two to comply with Anan's orders. As you might have guessed, the moron ends up getting captured and sent to a death chamber, himself.

Luckily for him, Kirk and Spock manages to escape their captors, and start wreaking havoc on Eminiar's tidy little war machine, with Spock torching every death chamber he can find (saving the ambassador's sorry life, in the process), while Kirk has a good long talk with Anan, trying to intimidate the man by claiming to be able to destroy the planet with just his phaser. Unimpressed, Anan tries one last time to get Kirk to bring down his crew for the slaughter, but Kirk just orders Scotty to execute a genocide order if they don't hear from him within 2 hours, forcing Anan to make a threat of his own. Unfortunately for Anan, Kirk won't go down that easily, and manages to slip away into the war machine's central computer core, destroying it in his second-usual fashion (phasering it to death, instead of asking it to play tic-tac-toe against itself or something). Anan is understandably horrified by this, as this nullifies the agreement Eminiar had with Vendikar that created the war games scenario, in the first place, and will now force both planets to result to bloody, messy real war...precisely what Kirk expected; he gambled that the same orderly mindset that caused both planets to find such a neat and tidy way of killing each other to avoid the horrors of war will now force them to seek a more peaceful solution, to avoid the same. Anan acknowledges this, and with the help of the douchy ambassador ([[CharacterDevelopment now less douchy]], now that he's finally realized what his douchiness has gotten himself and the ''Enterprise'' crew into), makes progress in doing so.

In another twist of fate, it turns out one of the simulated attacks has also "destroyed" the ''Enterprise'', forcing Anan 7 to hold the away team hostage until the ship's crew is beamed down and executed. Naturally, Kirk doesn't take kindly to this idea, and fights back, only to get captured and put under guard until he complies. To further complicate matters, Anan starts getting tired of waiting and opens fire on the ''Enterprise'' with ''[[SpaceIsNoisy sonic cannons]]'' (Don't you just love ''Franchise/StarTrek'' and their love for HollywoodScience?), and even using a faked message from Kirk to try and trick the crew into coming down; [=McCoy=] and Scottie, in command, don't buy it, but unfortunately, the idiot ambassador does, and transports himself down to the planet after failing to convince the other two to comply with Anan's orders. As you might have guessed, the moron ends up getting captured and sent to a death chamber, himself.

* TheissTitillationTheory: Mea 7's constume.

* RedShirt: Kirk and Spock have three with them for this mission and they ''all'' survive the story.

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In another twist of fate, it turns out one of the simulated attacks has also "destroyed" the ''Enterprise'', forcing Anan 7 to hold the away team hostage until the ship's crew is beamed down and executed. Naturally, Kirk doesn't take kindly to this idea, and fights back, only to get captured and put under guard until he complies. To further complicate matters, Anan starts getting tired of waiting and opens fire on the ''Enterprise'' with ''[[SpaceIsNoisy sonic cannons]]'' (Don't you just love ''StarTrek'' and their love for HollywoodScience?), and even using a faked message from Kirk to try and trick the crew into coming down; [=McCoy=] and Scottie, in command, don't buy it, but unfortunately, the idiot ambassador does, and transports himself down to the planet after failing to convince the other two to comply with Anan's orders. As you might have guessed, the moron ends up getting captured and sent to a death chamber, himself.

* PlotHole: Ambassador Fox, along with his assistant, beaming down to Eminiar 7 while the Enterprise's shields were up; one cannot use the transporter, at least not in the original series, when the shields are up.

* AssInAmbassador: Robert Fox is pretty much this until more than half way through the episode.

TROPES USED IN THE EPISODE

AssInAmbassador: Robert Fox is the epitome of this.
CrowningMomentOfAwesome: Scotty when [[AssInAmbassador Fox]] [[spoiler: orders Scotty to lower the deflector shields despite the fact it's obvious the government of Eminiar cannot be trust. ''No sir'' I ''will'' not]]
DangerouslyGenreSavvy: Scotty demonstrates this when [[spoiler: tries to trick the Enterprise crew into beaming down so they can be killed by impersonating Captain Kirk's voice. Scotty immediatedly runs the message through a voice analyzer which shows that it is ''not'' Kirk's voice]]
PlotHole: Robert Fox beaming down to Eminiar 7 despite the fact the Enterprise's shields are up; it's established that the transporter cannot be used, at least not in the original series, when the shields are up.

Luckily for him, Kirk and Spock manages to escape their captors, and start wreaking havoc on Eminiar's tidy little war machine, with Spock torching every death chamber he can find (saving the ambassador's sorry life, in the process), while Kirk has a good long talk with Anan, trying to intimidate the man by claiming to be able to destroy the planet with just his phaser. Unimpressed, Anan tries one last time to get Kirk to bring down his crew for the slaughter, but Kirk just orders Scotty to execute a genocide order if they don't hear from him within 2 hours, forcing Anan to make a threat of his own. Unfortunately for Anan, Kirk won't go down that easily, and manages to slip away into the war machine's central computer core, destroying it in his second-usual fashion (phasering it to death, instead of asking it to play tic-tac-toe against itself or something). Anan is understandably horrified by this, as this nullifies the agreement Eminiar had with Vendikar that created the war games scenario, in the first place, and will now force both planets to result to bloody, messy real war...precisely what Kirk expected; he gambled that the same orderly mindset that caused both planets to find such a neat and tidy way of killing each other to avoid the horrors of war will now force them to seek a more peaceful solution, to avoid the same. Anan acknowledges this, and with the help of the douchy ambassador ([[CharacterDevelopment now less douchy]], now that he's finally realized what his douchiness has gotten himself and the ''Enterprise'' crew into), makes progress in doing so.

The episode opens with the ''Enterprise'' shuttling a [[TheAssInAmbassador douchey ambassador]] to the planet Eminiar VII, in order to negotiate a diplomatic agreement with the planet. However, after several days of non-communication with the planet, Eminiar finally responds with a universal code ordering the ship not to enter their space for any reason. For once, Kirk is willing to respect the wishes of the planet...but the ambassador does not, instead pulling some bullcrap rank and forcing the ship to continue on course.

The episode opens with the ''Enterprise'' shuttling a bitchy ambassador to the planet Eminiar VII, in order to negotiate a diplomatic agreement with the planet. However, after several days of non-communication with the planet, Eminiar finally responds with a universal code ordering the ship not to enter their space for any reason. For once, Kirk is willing to respect the wishes of the planet...but the ambassador does not, instead pulling some bullcrap rank and forcing the ship to continue on course.