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* NotEvilJustMisunderstood: A rare double-sided case. The Horta was mistaken for malicious because it was acting in self defense to protect its eggs. Likewise, the Horta thought the humans were invaders trying to take its eggs, but they were just harmless miners who didn't realize that they were stealing eggs.
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* CharacterCatchphrase: The first ever use of [=McCoy's=] "I'm a doctor, not a [XXX]" catchphrase (in this case, "bricklayer").
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* AmbiguousSyntax: After the Horta etches "No Kill I" into some rock, Kirk comments to Spock that he wonders if it means that either the Horta doesn't want to be killed, or it's pledging not to kill ''them''.
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About familiarity with in-universe fiction.
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* LetsSplitUpGang: With the security guards and miners having headed off in two teams, Kirk and Spock head off together, only for their path to split into two, with tricorder readings indicating the tunnels meet up again further on. Kirk decides they should each investigate one tunnel, despite Spock [[GenreSavvy pointing out the risk]] in going on alone. Of course, Kirk promptly runs into the Horta; however, his PlotArmor naturally ensures that things don't go as they normally do in these situations.
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* LetsSplitUpGang: With the security guards and miners having headed off in two teams, Kirk and Spock head off together, only for their path to split into two, with tricorder readings indicating the tunnels meet up again further on. Kirk decides they should each investigate one tunnel, despite Spock [[GenreSavvy pointing out the risk]] risk in going on alone. Of course, Kirk promptly runs into the Horta; however, his PlotArmor naturally ensures that things don't go as they normally do in these situations.
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* EasilyForgiven: Once the Horta is able to communicate through Spock's Mind Meld, she is able to tell the miners that they destroyed thousands of her eggs. When she realized they didn't know that, a peace is formed and the Hortae go to work for the miners. Both sides forgive the other for the mistake.
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* AMillionIsAStatistic: According to Spock, the risk to the ''Enterprise'''s security guards doesn't outweigh the cost to science of destroying a [[LastOfItsKind rare]] and valuable alien creature. However, when [[HeterosexualLifePartners Kirk]] reveals that it's within potential striking distance of him, Spock immediately tells him to kill it.
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* EatDirtCheap: The Horta, being a silicon-based lifeform, eats minerals. Its pallate is apparently so refined it can easily identify different minerals and ores, making them, as the episode states, "the finest natural miners in the galaxy."
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* EatDirtCheap: The Horta, being a silicon-based lifeform, eats minerals. Its pallate palate is apparently so refined it can easily identify different minerals and ores, making them, as the episode states, "the finest natural miners in the galaxy."
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* ArbitrarySkepticism: Spock interacts with aliens that have [[RubberForeheadAliens somehow all evolved to look almost exactly like his own species]] on a daily basis, and yet it's the idea of a Silicon-based lifeform, something that is indeed scientifically plausible (if thought to be quite rare), that he finds incredulous.
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* ArbitrarySkepticism: Spock interacts with aliens that have [[RubberForeheadAliens somehow all evolved to look almost exactly like his own species]] on a daily basis, and yet it's the idea of a Silicon-based lifeform, something that is indeed scientifically plausible (if thought to be quite rare), that he finds makes him incredulous.
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Star Trek is full of one-off substances never mentioned again, not only a feature of Early Installment Weirdness
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The vital mineral that the colony mines is "pergium," which is said to be used for reactors. Despite occasional mentions of other valuable resources, antimatter (for energy) and dilithium (to harness and channel that energy) would be established as the premier elements for the Federation, their primary use being in warp cores.
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* SiliconBasedLife: The Horta.
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* SiliconBasedLife: The Horta.Horta is a life-form based on silicon instead of carbon. It lays eggs that are almost pure silicon, with a few trace elements.
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* FantasticallyChallengingPatient: The episode has a mining colony terrorized by an unknown creature. Captain Kirk and First Officer Spock explore the mine, and find the creature - a Horta. When it advances, they fire their phasers at it, creating a wound and causing it to retreat. However, once Spock conducts a psychic rapport with the creature, he and Kirk realize it's a brood mother defending her egg clutch. Doctor [=McCoy=] is brought in to heal the creature, which he does with silicon-based spackling compound. This ''ad hoc'' bandage works well, to the doctor's surprise.
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* ImADoctorNotAPlaceholder: A bricklayer, in this case. But [=McCoy=] still managed to cure the injured Horta.
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* ImADoctorNotAPlaceholder: A bricklayer, in this case. But [=McCoy=] still managed to cure the injured Horta.Horta, making an ImprovisedBandage out of the the silicone concrete used for building emergency shelters.
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The vital mineral that the colony mines is "pergium," which is said to be used for reactors. Despite occasional mentions of other valuable resources, antimatter (for energy) and dilithium (to harness and channel that energy) would be established as the premier element elements for the Federation, its their primary use being in warp cores.
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* LargeHam: A rare one for Mr. Spock, who goes all out in the mind-meld sequence.
