History Recap / StarTrekS1E24ThisSideOfParadise

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Spock's flippancy concerns Kirk. The spores soon make everyone act OOC.

Leila talks Spock into going flower picking with her. She shows him one particular flower. [[Music/EricClapton Leila, She's got Spock on his knees, Leila.]] Then he tells her [[WhamLine "I love you"]]

* BlondesAreEvil: Leila is a bit {{Yandere}} for Spock, tricking him into inhaling will sapping spores to make him love her. She is perhaps not completely evil. She was influenced by the spores herself and showed concern when Spock showed unexpected pain when exposed to the spores. In the end, she realizes that she has no choice but to let Spock go.

* BluntYes: Kirk accuses a red shirt lined up to beam down that this is mutiny. "Yes, sir. It is." he calmly replies.
* [[BreakHisHeartToSaveHim Break Her Heart To Save Her]]: Spock breaks up with Leila, causing an emotional reaction in her to overcome influence of the spores.

* DramaticIrony: Sulu comments that he knows so little about farms he wouldn't know if anything was wrong if it were just 2 feet away from him. Just 2 feet away from him are the spore producing flowers.

* LawfulStupid[=/=]LoopholeAbuse: Invoked and averted during Kirk and Spock's discussion after their fight.

** No animals either, since the spores couldn't affect them they all died from the radiation.

* ThatCloudLooksLike: Spock (under the influence of spores) and Leila go cloud gazing. Spock remarks that one looks very much like a dragon. (In this universe, dragons are real, but all live on the planet Berengaria Seven.) Unfortunately, to see what this scene looks like, you have to get the DVD!
* TheUnpronounceable: Leila asks Spock if he has another name. he tells her she couldn't pronounce it. Of course, you'll have to TakeOurWordForIt

* YourMom: When trying to anger Spock, Kirk tells him his father was a computer and his mother an encyclopedia.

The ''Enterprise'' arrives in orbit of Omicron Ceti III, planning to recover the bodies and record the destruction no doubt left by the deadly berthold rays. Our PowerTrio plus Sulu, [=DeSalle=] and Kilowitz beam down to find, surprise! Everyone is alive and well. A little ''too'' alive and well. A quick check up by Bones shows the leader of the colony is healthier than he was when he left earth. Apparently, Elias has been taking appendix growing lessons from [[Series/RedDwarf David Lister]]. Oh, and yet another blonde bombshell is head over heels for Spock.

* EverybodyMustGetStoned: Something was in the air that made an irradiated planet inhabitable, but made everyone happy and wanting to stay forever—except Captain Kirk.

* TheFinalTemptation: The spores caused the target to be content with living a simple comfortable life, abandoning any greater ambitions.

* NoMoreForMe: Bones tosses aside his mint julep when he realizes how ridiculous he's been acting. Subverted in that it was air born spores making him act strangely, not the liquor.

Leila talks Spock into going flower picking with her. She shows him one particular flower. [[EricClapton Leila, She's got Spock on his knees, Leila.]] Then he tells her [[WhamLine "I love you"]]

* LawfulStupid / LoopholeAbuse: Invoked and averted during Kirk and Spock's discussion after their fight.

* AccidentalInnuendo: Kirk says of Spock "[[HoYay Aroused, his]] [[IsThatWhatTheyreCallingItNow great physical strength]] [[HoYay could kill.]]"
** Which comes to be ''[[HilariousInHindsight precisely the case]]'' when "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E1AmokTime Amok Time]]" rolls around!

* TearJerker: Spock says about Omicron Ceti III that for the first time in his life, he was happy. Awww, Spock!

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Kirk has to deal a vicious one to Spock in order to piss him off enough to get over the spores' influence. An unusual case in that he didn't actually mean it.

* YourMom: When trying to anger Spock, Kirk tells him his father was a computer and his mother an encyclopedia.l

AKA "The One Where Spock [[WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}} Got High On Spores And Smacked Kirk Around]]".

The ''Enterprise'' arrives in orbit of Omicron Ceti III, planning to recover the bodies and record the destruction no doubt left by the deadly berthold rays. Our PowerTrio plus Sulu, [=DeSalle=] and Kilowitz beam down to find, surprise! Everyone is alive and well. A little ''too'' alive and well. A quick check up by Bones shows the leader of the colony is healthier than he was when he left earth. Apparently, Elias has been taking appendix growing lessons from [[RedDwarf David Lister]]. Oh, and yet another blonde bombshell is head over heels for Spock.

** Spockanalia, a late-60's fanzine, established Spock's last name as "Xtmpqzntwlfb." Unpronounceable, indeed.

->''[To LeonardNimoy]'' Remember that episode where you got high on spores and smacked Kirk around?''
--->'''[[{{Futurama}} Philip J. Fry]]'''

Tropes for this episode include:

* LawfulStupid/LoopholeAbuse: Invoked and averted during Kirk and Spock's discussion after their fight.

* YourMom: When trying to anger Spock, Kirk tells him his father was a computer and his mother an encyclopedia.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Kirk has to deal a vicious one to Spock in order to piss him off enough to get over the spores' influence.

* ProductPlacement: Kirk's suitcase is a Samsonite (tm), a luggage so durable it can take a beating from a grown Mugato!

* ProductPlacement: Kirk's suitcase is a Samsonite(tm), a luggage so durable it can take a beating from a grown Mugato!

* DeadpanSnarker: Bones gets couple. Of the living and walking Elias, Bones says that it's his professional opinion that this man is alive. When Elias tells him they don't need a doctor, Bones responds "Oh, no? Would you like to see how fast I can put you in a hospital?"