History Recap / StarTrekS2E2WhoMournsForAdonais

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Kirk and Co. openly mock Apollo so that he will attack them, expending his energy and allowing ''Enterprise'' to counterstrike. Unfortunately, Carolyn [[PleaseSpareHimMyLiege interjects on their behalf]] and [[CooldownHug calms Apollo]], averting the fight -- and causing the away team to remain under Apollo's thumb a bit longer. Kirk even lampshades it with his sarcastic thanks. (In her defense, Kirk never told her what they were attempting.)

* ManlyTears: Apollo weeps when he realizes this universe has no room for gods.

* PhysicalGod: Apollo

* WhoWantsToLiveForever: Apollo just knew someday humans would go to the stars and has been waiting centuries upon centuries for them, only to find they have no interest in being his followers. No one does. He's so lonely.

* SadlyMythtaken: Kirk seems to have [[AssPull taken some liberty]] with his knowledge of ancient Greek and Roman mythology. Such stories include no element of gods needing to "recharge" after a good smiting of the mortals.

* GirlOfTheWeek: Carolyn Palamas

* PowerEchoes: Apollo loves using a booming, echoing voice that would put [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Princess Luna]] to shame. His voice softens when he speaks to Carolyn.

* FluffyTheTerrible: Chekov mentions creatures that can produce their own energy, vis a vis, the electric eel, a worm from Antes IV and something he called "Fluffy".

* BittersweetEnding: The crew effectively eradicate the power source holding them captive, and are free to leave... but don't feel so good about their victory after Apollo's emotional last words.

So, it's Kirk, Chekov, Bones, Scotty and Lt. Carolyn Palamas to beam down. Carolyn, it should be noted [[{{Redshirts}} does not wear red]] though we've never seen her before or will again. (She survives though.) Apollo makes his grand appearance, giving everyone the good news. They're all going to leave that stuffy old starship, come down to this crisp, green planet and worship him! Won't that be fun? Nah, didn't think Kirk would agree.

* AlasPoorVillain: Carolyn openly weeps at the virtual death of Apollo. Bones shows some remorse for [[IDidWhatIHadToDO what they had to do.]] Kirk ponders if maybe they should've gathered just a few laurel leaves to make Apollo feel better.

* AndImTheQueenOfSheba: Chekov responds to Apollo announcing who he is with "Yes, and I am tsar of all the Russias."

* GreekMythology: Apollo loves to name drop. Among the other Greek gods and Hercules he mentions people from ''Literature/TheOdyssey'' and ''Literature/TheIliad''.

* {{Expy}}: Female ''Enterprise'' historian is wooed by superior being and briefly turns her back on the crew? [[Recap/StarTrekS1E22SpaceSeed Where have we heard this before?]] (It's especially funny if you assume Carolyn is Marla [=McGivers's=] replacement, though that raises the question of why their uniforms were different colors.)
** They had different titles; Marla was a Historian, Carolyn is an Athropologist and Archaeologist, related but not identical fields.

* HalfHumanHybrid: According to the novelisation of the episode, Carolyn's flirtations with Apollo leave her pregnant.

* AncientAstronauts: The reason given for the Greek Gods

* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu: Kirk and co. turn their back to Apollo and laugh when he demands sacrafices of deer and laurel leaves in hopes of getting their point across.

-->Kirk: "Mankind has no need for gods. We find the one quite adequate."
-->Kirk(about Scotty):"Scotty doesn't believe in gods.
** Taken literally, this could mean that no one believes in more than one god. And that some people don't believe in less than one. Makes sense in a way since polytheism is now associated with primitive civilizations and all of the modern world's major religions are either non-theistic (many Jains, Hindus, Buddhists, Unitarians, some Quakers among others) or monotheistic (Abrahamic religions).

** An early draft of the script reveals at the end that Carolyn is pregnant, presumably by Apollo. This bit survived into the Blish adaptation, complete with [=McCoy=] complaining his medical training didn't cover being pediatrician for a god, but was cut by the time the script was shot for obvious 60's-TV-values reasons. It also survived into the Franchise/StarTrekNovelVerse, where Palamas' part-deity great-grandson is a main character in Literature/StarTrekNewFrontier.

* TheissTitillationTheory: Carolyn's pink toga.
* VisualEffectsOfAwesome: Pretty good even before the digital remastering. Subtle but effective: swaying trees and bird song make the studio set look like it really is outside. We really do believe from the arranged shots that Apollo is growing. However, even modern SFX can't keep a giant green hand in space from looking a little silly.

** They had different titles; Marla was a Historian, Carolyn is an Athropologist and Archaeologist, related by not identical fields.

** An early draft of the script reveals at the end that Carolyn is pregnant, presumably by Apollo. This bit survived into the Blish adaptation, complete with [=McCoy=] complaining his medical training didn't cover being pediatrician for a god, but was cut by the time the script was shot for obvious 60's-TV-values reasons.

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** They had different titles; Marla was a Historian, Carolyn is an Athropologist and Archaeologist, related by not identicalfields.

** Taken literally, this could mean that no one believes in more than one god. And that some people don't believe in less than one. Makes sense in a way since polytheism is now associated with primitive civilizations.

** Taken literally, this could mean that no one believes in more than one god. And that some people don't believe in less than one.