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* RewatchBonus: On second and subsequent viewings, the Organians' deadpan trolling of Kirk and Kor is absolutely hilarious.
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* HypocriticalHumor: Kor's very next line after indignantly dismissing Ayelborne's prediction that Humans and Klingons would eventually work together is to suggest to Kirk that they do just that to put a stop to the Organians' interference:
-->'''Kor:''' Captain, it's a trick. We can handle them. I have an army.
-->'''Kor:''' Captain, it's a trick. We can handle them. I have an army.
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* OffendedByAnEnemysIndifference: Kor is very upset that the Organians he's occupying don't even offer token resistance. Kirk and Spock try to fight the Klingons, much to the delight of Kor as he sees Kirk as a WorthyOpponent.
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** Apart from the fact that Klingons outward characterization faintly resembles their current look (no ridges and everything), they seem to lack the ProudWarriorRace attribute they are so well known for. Sure their leader Kor has it, but one of his men, for example, is easily intimidated into revealing important information by Kirk putting a garrotte to his neck -- a far cry from your current typical Klingon, who would sooner die rather than surrender. Also, quite obviously, there is no Klingon language yet.
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** Apart from the fact that Klingons outward characterization faintly resembles their current look (no ridges and everything), they seem to lack the ProudWarriorRace attribute they are so well known for. Sure their leader Kor has it, but one of his men, for example, is easily intimidated into revealing important information by Kirk putting a garrotte to his neck -- a far cry from your current typical Klingon, who would sooner die rather than surrender. Also, quite obviously, there is no Klingon language yet. No tri-pointed Klingon Empire symbol anywhere, either.
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* FairForItsDay: At the time, depicting "The Enemy" as an actual person and with so much in common with the hero Kirk (and played by the charming Creator/JohnColicos no less!) was still rare on television -- in fact, some newspaper columnists attacked the episode for its "unpatriotic" humanization of "the enemy" and for its depiction of Kirk as wrong for his initial Cold War assumptions.
** Similarly, the depiction of someone who is not caucasian as no less competent than our heroes was still rare (and even remarked upon favorably by some civil rights advocates at the time) and one more science fiction effort to smuggle some anti-racist sentiment onto popular television at the time, however awkwardly.
** Similarly, the depiction of someone who is not caucasian as no less competent than our heroes was still rare (and even remarked upon favorably by some civil rights advocates at the time) and one more science fiction effort to smuggle some anti-racist sentiment onto popular television at the time, however awkwardly.
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* FairForItsDay: At the time, depicting "The Enemy" as an actual person and with so much in common with the hero Kirk (and played by the charming Creator/JohnColicos no less!) was still rare on television -- in fact, some newspaper columnists attacked the episode for its "unpatriotic" humanization of "the enemy" and for its depiction of Kirk as wrong for his initial Cold War assumptions.
** Similarly, the depiction of someone who is not caucasian as no less competent than our heroes was still rare (and even remarked upon favorably by some civil rights advocates at the time) and one more science fiction effort to smuggle some anti-racist sentiment onto popular television at the time, however awkwardly.
** Similarly, the depiction of someone who is not caucasian as no less competent than our heroes was still rare (and even remarked upon favorably by some civil rights advocates at the time) and one more science fiction effort to smuggle some anti-racist sentiment onto popular television at the time, however awkwardly.
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* LesCollaborators: The Organians seem this way, at first.
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* LesCollaborators: LesCollaborateurs: The Organians seem this way, at first.
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* LesCollaborators: The Organians seem this way, at first.
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* TheQuisling: The Organians seem this way, at first.
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* SpaceRomans: John Colicos, who played Kor, had some influence on the makeup design and conceived Kor (and by extension all Klingons) as "a futuristic Genghis Khan". One of the early production memos for this episode specified that the Klingons should look like "the Ho Chi Minh type." This fitted well with the Klingons being a metaphor for the Communist bloc to contrast with the Federation's "West" due to the former's particular association with China and 'the East' in the American imagination at the time (for a much less subtle attempt at same, see "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E23TheOmegaGlory The Omega Glory]])".
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* SpaceRomans: John Colicos, Creator/JohnColicos, who played Kor, had some influence on the makeup design and conceived Kor (and by extension all Klingons) as "a futuristic Genghis Khan". One of the early production memos for this episode specified that the Klingons should look like "the Ho Chi Minh type." This fitted well with the Klingons being a metaphor for the Communist bloc to contrast with the Federation's "West" due to the former's particular association with China and 'the East' in the American imagination at the time (for a much less subtle attempt at same, see "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E23TheOmegaGlory The Omega Glory]])".
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* SmallRoleBigImpact: This was John Colicos' only appearance as Kor on TOS before reprising the role decades later on ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine''[[note]]They tried to bring him back in "The Trouble with Tribbles" and "Day of the Dove", but because Colicos was unavailable, the characters of Koloth and Kang were made for those respective episodes.[[/note]], but his UsefulNotes/GenghisKhan-influenced performance set the standard for all Klingons throughout the ''Franchise/StarTrek'' franchise.
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* SmallRoleBigImpact: This was John Colicos' Creator/JohnColicos' only appearance as Kor on TOS before reprising the role decades later on ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine''[[note]]They tried to bring him back in "The Trouble with Tribbles" and "Day of the Dove", but because Colicos was unavailable, the characters of Koloth and Kang were made for those respective episodes.[[/note]], but his UsefulNotes/GenghisKhan-influenced performance set the standard for all Klingons throughout the ''Franchise/StarTrek'' franchise.
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* ThirdPartyStopsAttack: The Organians take this UpToEleven by stopping a full-scale war.
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* ThirdPartyStopsAttack: The Organians take this UpToEleven up to eleven by stopping a full-scale war.
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* HannibalLecture: Invoked by Kor to try and persuade Kirk into turning traitor on the Federation, as he notes that the two of them have more in common with each other than with the "sheep-like" Organians. Kirk denies this, but the implication that Kor has a point is hardly subtle, especially when Kirk angrily declares his detestation of the seemingly spineless and sheep-like Organians, or when Kirk and Kor are both furiously berating the Organians for interfering in the war between their species.
-->'''Kor:''' You of the Federation, you are much like us.\\
'''Kirk:''' We're nothing like you. We're a democratic body.\\
'''Kor:''' Come now, I'm not referring to minor ideological differences. I mean that we are similar as a species. Here we are on a planet of sheep. Two tigers, predators, hunters, killers, and it is precisely that which makes us great.
-->'''Kor:''' You of the Federation, you are much like us.\\
'''Kirk:''' We're nothing like you. We're a democratic body.\\
'''Kor:''' Come now, I'm not referring to minor ideological differences. I mean that we are similar as a species. Here we are on a planet of sheep. Two tigers, predators, hunters, killers, and it is precisely that which makes us great.
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* HannibalLecture: Invoked by Kor to try and persuade Kirk into turning traitor on the Federation, as he notes that the two of them have more in common with each other than with the "sheep-like" Organians. Kirk denies this, but the implication that Kor has a point is hardly subtle, especially when Kirk angrily declares his detestation of the seemingly spineless and sheep-like Organians, or when Kirk and Kor are both furiously berating the Organians for interfering in the war between their species.
-->'''Kor:''' You of the Federation, you are much like us.\\
'''Kirk:''' We're nothing like you. We're a democratic body.\\
'''Kor:''' Come now, I'm not referring to minor ideological differences. I mean that we are similar as a species. Here we are on a planet of sheep. Two tigers, predators, hunters, killers, and it is precisely that which makes us great.
-->'''Kor:''' You of the Federation, you are much like us.\\
'''Kirk:''' We're nothing like you. We're a democratic body.\\
'''Kor:''' Come now, I'm not referring to minor ideological differences. I mean that we are similar as a species. Here we are on a planet of sheep. Two tigers, predators, hunters, killers, and it is precisely that which makes us great.
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* HannibalLecture: Invoked by Kor to try and persuade NotSoDifferentRemark: Kirk into turning traitor on spent the Federation, as he notes that the two of them have more in common with each other than with the "sheep-like" Organians. Kirk denies this, but the implication that Kor has a point is hardly subtle, especially when Kirk angrily declares his detestation of the seemingly spineless and sheep-like Organians, or when Kirk and Kor are both furiously berating entire episode trying to convince the Organians for interfering in of the war between their species.
-->'''Kor:''' Youwarlike and ruthless nature of the Klingons while offering the democratic benefits of the Federation, you are much like us.\\
'''Kirk:''' We're nothing like you. We're a democratic body.\\
'''Kor:''' Come now, I'm not referring to minor ideological differences. I mean that we are similar as a species. Here we are on a planet of sheep. Two tigers, predators, hunters, killers,dumbfounded at their ActualPacifist demeanor and refusal to take any action against the Klingon occupation. When the Organians reveal themselves as energy beings forcing a stalemate, Kirk suddenly finds himself side by side with Kor ''arguing for their right to wage war with each other''. When called out on this Kirk is unsettled with his own behavior and hasn't shaken it is precisely that which makes us great. off in the concluding scene.
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'''Kirk:''' We're nothing like you. We're a democratic body.\\
'''Kor:''' Come now, I'm not referring to minor ideological differences. I mean that we are similar as a species. Here we are on a planet of sheep. Two tigers, predators, hunters, killers,
