History YMMV / StarTrekS1E13TheConscienceOfTheKing

** Kodos's StartOfDarkness involved him losing most of their food supply, so he divided the population in half with no biases and exterminated one half. This wiped out exactly 50% of the colony, but he got away with it and later became a RetiredMonster [[spoiler:who dies after his sins catch up to him]]. While Kodos is suggested to have caused more death than that, one can't help but think of [[Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse Thanos]].

** Kodos is said to have exterminated 50% of the people in one human colony, and later became a RetiredMonster [[spoiler:who dies after his sins catch up to him]]. While the "50%" thing is a complete coincidence since Kodos is also said to have killed more than that, one can't help but think of [[Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse Thanos]].

* HilariousInHindsight: ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' has made it somewhat more difficult to be suitably grave about the possibility that the villain is the notorious Kodos in disguise.

** The plan of the person murdering witnesses was never particularly well thought out. Unfortunately this is actually a subverted trope once it becomes clear the killer isn't playing with a full deck. The plan is nuts because the one who concocted it isn't right in the head.

*** Eugenics as a whole was a widely discussed matter up until World War II. Many countries implemented policies that dabbled in it, and infamously ThoseWackyNazis had policies that prematurely terminated pregnancies that begot “life unworthy of life”, exterminated disabled people or sterilized them. In fact this is probably the biggest factor for why eugenics was discredited in most people's eyes.

** The plan of the person murdering witnesses was never particularly well thought out.

* {{Squick}}: Isn't it just a trifle odd that father and daughter were playing a married couple? True, Lord and Lady Macbeth don't have any big romantic moments (she spends much of their time together belittling his manhood) but still! It becomes more so when you note his daughter is unhealthily attached to her father.

*** Eugenics as a whole was a widely discussed matter up until World War II. Many countries implemented policies that dabbled in it, even ThoseWackyNazis had policies that prematurely terminated pregnancies that begot “life unworthy of life”, exterminated disabled people or sterilized them. In fact this is probably the biggest factor for why eugenics was discredited in most people's eyes.

* {{Squick}}: Isn't it just a trifle odd that father and daughter were playing a married couple? True, Lord and Lady Macbeth don't have any big romantic moments (she spends much of their time together belittling his manhood) but still!
** Becomes more so when you note his daughter is unhealthily attached to her father.

*** Eugenics as a whole was a widely discussed matter up until World War II. Many countries implemented policies that dabbled in it, even ThoseWackyNazis had policies that prematurely terminated pregnancies that begot “life unworthy of life”, exterminated people or sterilized them. In fact this is probably the largest factor for why eugenics was discredited in most people's eyes.

** When Spock says Kodos had his own theories about Eugenics, Bones replies that he wouldn't be the first. This episode is before we learn about Khan and the Eugenics Wars, which makes [=McCoy=]'s comment darker than was probably originally intended.
*** Eugenics as a whole was a widely discussed matter up until World War II. Many local level governments implemented policies that dabbled in it, even ThoseWackyNazis had policies that prematurely terminated pregnancies that begot “life unworthy of life”.

*** Eugenics as a whole was a widely discussed matter up until WW2. Many local level governments implemented policies that dabbled in it, even ThoseWackyNazis had policies that prematurely terminated pregnancies that begot “life unworthy of life”.

* WeirdAlEffect: [[http://www.avclub.com/tvclub/star-trek-conscience-of-the-king-balance-of-terror-24442 "While TOS was there first, the name "Kodos" has a very different meaning for anyone who didn't see this episode when it originally aired.]] (...) As such, the stinger on the cold open, which should have you thinking, "Oh my god! Who's that?" instead has you wondering if there's [[TheSimpsons a giant green one-eyed squid thing hiding behind the old guy on stage in the silly costume.]]"

** ''In A Mirror Darkly'' reveals (via a barely visible screen) that [[Series/StarTrekEnterprise Hoshi Sato]] was among the 4,000 killed by Kodos.

** When Spock says Kodos had his own theories about Eugenics, Bones replies that he wouldn't be the first. This episode is before we learn about Khan and the Eugenics Wars, which makes McCoy's comment darker than was probably originally intended.

* HarsherInHindsight: ''In A Mirror Darkly'' reveals (via a barely visible screen) that [[Series/StarTrekEnterprise Hoshi Sato]] was among the 4,000 killed by Kodos.

* WeirdAlEffect: Expanding on the joke that opens the main page: [[http://www.avclub.com/tvclub/star-trek-conscience-of-the-king-balance-of-terror-24442 "While TOS was there first, the name "Kodos" has a very different meaning for anyone who didn't see this episode when it originally aired.]] (...) As such, the stinger on the cold open, which should have you thinking, "Oh my god! Who's that?" instead has you wondering if there's [[TheSimpsons a giant green one-eyed squid thing hiding behind the old guy on stage in the silly costume.]]"

* FridgeLogic: The entire plot and string of murders is based on the fact that only a handful of people have seen Kodos in person and thus can identify him... but as SFDebris points out, why is that relevant when we see that Starfleet has a ''photographic record'' of him, which is apparently recent enough that you can tell he looks a lot like Anton Karidian?

* TheissTitillationTheory: Lenore wears a mink micro mini when she visits the bridge of the ''Enterprise''. Her other outfits (barring her Ophelia costume) are a strange blend of Greek chiton, Indian sari and early flower child.

* HarsherInHindsight: ''In A Mirror Darkly'' reveals (via a barely visible screen) that [[Series/StarTrekEnterprise Hoshi Sato]] was among the 4,000 killed by Kodos.