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YMMV / Star Trek: The Animated Series S1 E8 "The Magicks of Megas-Tu"

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  • Hilarious in Hindsight: Much like in The Lorelei Signal, Sulu's experiences with women come off as weird and/or hilarious if you know about George Takei being openly gay: here, Sulu uses his new magic powers granted by the universe they're in to conjure up a Bridge Bunny, only for her to be suddenly replaced with Lucien who's there to warn the crew about how casting spells inside their ship will alert the others of their presense, initially making it look like he suddenly changed his preferences or that the spell knew better than he did what kind of company he really preferred.
  • Magnificent Bastard: Asmodeus is a leader on the planet Megas Tu. The Megans came to Earth hundreds of years ago to use their magic to help humanity but were persecuted, leading to the Salem witch trials and causing the Megans to flee Earth and became distrustful of humanity. When the Enterprise accidentally discovers Megas Tu, one of the Megans, Lucien, helps the Enterprise crew. Asmodeus puts the Enterprise crew on trial for the crimes of humanity, in a setting similar to the Salem witch trials. Asmodeus allows Spock to defend humanity and Asmodeus studies the Enterprise's records and concludes humanity has changed, but declares Lucien a traitor for helping them and intends to send him to Limbo forever. Kirk defends Lucien and Asmodeus reveals that Lucien is really Lucifer and asks if he still will defend him and Kirk says yes, causing Asmodeus to battle Kirk for the fate of Lucien, though ultimately this was all test to see if humanity had truly changed.

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