YMMV / Star Trek S2 E25 "Bread and Circuses"

• Anvilicious: The end of the episode, as delivered by Lieutenant Uhura.
• Genius Bonus: Flavius Maximus isn't many letters away from a similarly-named Earth Roman Empire commander, who won much advantage by knowing when not to fight.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • The gladiatorial games as they're presented here seem a lot like modern reality game shows like Dancing with the Stars and American Idol. Only with decapitations.
  • For electronic music fans, the fact the car in the magazine ad is called the Jupiter 8 can also qualify as a case of this trope.
  • Kirk is warned this isn't an academy training test, long before anyone wrote him cheating the Kobayashi Maru because he's bad with failure.
• Ho Yay: McCoy accuses Spock of being afraid of his own emotions, which leads to this exchange:
  McCoy: Why, you wouldn't know what to do with a genuine warm, decent feeling.
  Spock: Really, doctor?
  McCoy: (beat) I know. I'm worried about Jim, too.

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