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* YouLookFamiliar: Woodward would later play Captain Ron Tracey in "The Omega Glory".
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* BridalCarry: Noel induces an ImagineSpot for Kirk suggesting that he carried her into his quarters this way.
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* BridalCarry: Noel induces an ImagineSpot for Kirk suggesting that he carried her into his quarters this way. It was to remind Kirk of their one night stand after a prior Christmas Party.
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* TheDanza: One of Adams' assistants is named Eli. The actor playing him is named Eli Behar.
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* PressurePoint: Dr. Van Gelder is felled by Spock applying the Vulcan neck pinch.
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* TechnologyMarchesOn: That big ass tape deck that Kirk uses to record his CaptainsLog on.
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* ScienceMarchesOn: That big ass tape deck that Kirk uses to record his CaptainsLog on.
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* ScienceMarchesOn: TechnologyMarchesOn: That big ass tape deck that Kirk uses to record his CaptainsLog on. on.
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* FreakOut: Dr. Van Gelder has the mother of them all! Screaming, raving, crazy eyes, violent outbursts. He shouts "I am not a criminal!" (Yeah, Simon, there was this guy called RichardNixon who made the same claim.) Incidentally, the actor needed a four day reprieve after this emotionally taxing role.
* GildedCage: Kirk points out to Bones that modern mental institutions may as well be vacation resorts. Bones replies ""A cage is a cage, Jim."
* GildedCage: Kirk points out to Bones that modern mental institutions may as well be vacation resorts. Bones replies ""A cage is a cage, Jim."
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* FreakOut: Dr. Van Gelder has the mother of them all! Screaming, raving, crazy eyes, violent outbursts. He shouts "I am not a criminal!" (Yeah, Simon, there was this guy called RichardNixon UsefulNotes/RichardNixon who made the same claim.) Incidentally, the actor needed a four day reprieve after this emotionally taxing role.
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* GildedCage: Kirk points out to Bones that modern mental institutions may as well be vacation resorts. Bones replies""A "A cage is a cage, Jim."
* GildedCage: Kirk points out to Bones that modern mental institutions may as well be vacation resorts. Bones replies
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* PlotHole: Dr. Helen Noel is one of the Enteprise's psychiatristS. So, why Bones isn't assisted by any of them for the puzzling case of Van Gelder?
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* PlotHole: Dr. Helen Noel is one of the Enteprise's psychiatristS.psychiatrist'''s'''. So, why Bones isn't assisted by any of them for the puzzling case of Van Gelder?
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* HoistByHisOwnpetard[=/=]KarmicDeath: Adams dies by having his mind completely wiped by the same machine that he used on Van Gelder and Kirk.
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* HoistByHisOwnpetard[=/=]KarmicDeath: HoistByHisOwnPetard[=/=]KarmicDeath: Adams dies by having his mind completely wiped by the same machine that he used on Van Gelder and Kirk.
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The crazy old man is at first believed to be an escaped inmate from Tantalus, but to everyone's shock, he's actually Simon Van Gelder, one of the doctors! Dr. Adams tells Kirk that Dr. Van Gelder pulled a ProfessorGuineaPig and lost his mind in the process. And would he kindly return him? Bones tells Kirk he smells a rat. Kirk gives Adams some B.S. about how they can't due to some red tape. Adams good naturedly accepts this and cordially invites Kirk down for a visit. Kirk takes him up on this. Bones suggests Kirk take a psychological expert with him. He recommends Dr. Noel. It seems Kirk and Dr. ''Helen'' Noel have met before. Apparently, even in the future office Christmas parties can get out of hand....
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The crazy old man is at first believed to be an escaped inmate from Tantalus, but to everyone's shock, he's actually Simon Van Gelder, one of the doctors! Dr. Adams tells Kirk that Dr. Van Gelder pulled a ProfessorGuineaPig and lost while working on a device called the Neural Neutralizer, losing his mind in the process. And would he kindly return him? Bones tells Kirk he smells a rat. Kirk gives Adams some B.S. about how they can't due to some red tape. Adams good naturedly accepts this and cordially invites Kirk down for a visit. Kirk takes him up on this. Bones suggests Kirk take a psychological expert with him. He recommends Dr. Noel. It seems Kirk and Dr. ''Helen'' Noel have met before. Apparently, even in the future office Christmas parties can get out of hand....
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This episode is also known as "The One That Got Ripped Off By ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''".
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This episode is also known as "The One That Got Ripped Parodied Off By ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''".
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* TheissTitillationTheory: Dr. Noel's uniform is even shorter than what female crew members usually wear. Averted by that ugly ass dress Lethe wears. Did she forget how to color co-ordinate as well?
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* HeyItsThatGuy: Dr. Adams is James Gregory (Inspector Luger from ''Series/BarneyMiller'').
** Van Gelder is Morgan Woodward (Jock Ewing's old buddy Punk Anderson from ''Series/{{Dallas}}''.
*** YouLookFamiliar: Woodward would later play Captain Ron Tracey in "The Omega Glory".
* KarmicDeath: Adams dies by having his mind completely wiped by the same machine that he used on Van Gelder and Kirk.
** Van Gelder is Morgan Woodward (Jock Ewing's old buddy Punk Anderson from ''Series/{{Dallas}}''.
*** YouLookFamiliar: Woodward would later play Captain Ron Tracey in "The Omega Glory".
* KarmicDeath: Adams dies by having his mind completely wiped by the same machine that he used on Van Gelder and Kirk.
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* HeyItsThatGuy: Dr. Adams is James Gregory (Inspector Luger from ''Series/BarneyMiller'').
** Van Gelder is Morgan Woodward (Jock Ewing's old buddy Punk Anderson from ''Series/{{Dallas}}''.
*** YouLookFamiliar: Woodward would later play Captain Ron Tracey in "The Omega Glory".
* KarmicDeath:HoistByHisOwnpetard[=/=]KarmicDeath: Adams dies by having his mind completely wiped by the same machine that he used on Van Gelder and Kirk.
** Van Gelder is Morgan Woodward (Jock Ewing's old buddy Punk Anderson from ''Series/{{Dallas}}''.
*** YouLookFamiliar: Woodward would later play Captain Ron Tracey in "The Omega Glory".
* KarmicDeath:
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[[caption-width-right:320:Spock and Van Gelder share the very first MindMeld.]]
[[caption-width-right:320:Spock and Van Gelder share the very first MindMeld.]]
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The crazy old man is at first believed to be an escaped inmate from Tantalus, but to everyone's shock, he's actually Simon Van Gelder, one of the doctors! Dr. Adams tells Kirk that Dr. Van Gelder pulled a ProfessorGuineaPig and lost his mind in the process. And would he kindly return him? Bones tells Kirk he smells a rat. Kirk gives Adams some B.S. about how they can't due to some red tape. Adams good naturedly accepts this and cordially invites Kirk down for a visit. Kirk takes him up on this. Bones suggests Kirk take a psychological expert with him. He recommends Dr. Noel. It seems Kirk and Dr. ''Helen'' Noel have met before. Apparently, even in the future office Christmas parties can get out of hand....
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* HeyItsThatGuy: Dr. Adams looks a lot like Inspector Luger from BarneyMiller.
** Van Gelder is Jock Ewing's old buddy Punk Anderson from Dallas.
*** And would later play Captain Ron Tracey in TOS "The Omega Glory".
** Van Gelder is Jock Ewing's old buddy Punk Anderson from Dallas.
*** And would later play Captain Ron Tracey in TOS "The Omega Glory".
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* HeyItsThatGuy: Dr. Adams looks a lot like Inspector is James Gregory (Inspector Luger from BarneyMiller.''Series/BarneyMiller'').
** Van Gelder isJock Morgan Woodward (Jock Ewing's old buddy Punk Anderson from Dallas.
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* LiteraryAllusionTitle: From {{Macbeth}} "Or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?"
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* LiteraryAllusionTitle: From {{Macbeth}} ''Theatre/{{Macbeth}}'': "Or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?"
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* TheXOfY: The Dagger "Dagger of the Mind.Mind".
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* {{Expy}}: The Neural Neutralizer works a lot like the Ludovico Treatment from ''Literature/AClockworkOrange''.
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* HeroicWillpower: Kirk apparently has this or something similar, judging by Adams' comment about the strength used on him without effect having broken down Van Gelder.
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* NightmareFuel: Imagine death by having your mind completely wiped....
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This episode is also known as "The One That Got Ripped Off By SouthPark".
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''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''".
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* MentalFusion: Spock Mind Melds Van Gelder to pick info from his troubled mind.
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* AffablyEvil: Adams seems so charming and polite at first. [[WineIsClassy He makes a toast]] [[ThePowerOfLove to "love and warmth"]], but it's only a mask.
* AirVentPassageway: How Dr. Noel makes her escape.
* AirVentPassageway: How Dr. Noel makes her escape.
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* AffablyEvil: Adams seems so charming and polite at first. [[WineIsClassy He makes a toast]] [[ThePowerOfLove to "love and warmth"]], but it's only a mask.
MaskOfSanity.
* AirVentPassageway: How Dr. Noel makes herescape.escape to find the big ass (eveything in this ep is big ass!) circuit breaker that will turn off the neuralizer.
* ArcSymbol: The logo on Dr. Adam's boiler suit and that of his "helpers" is a hand freeing (or crushing?) a dove under a stylized sun. Or is that "sun" actually the round, flashy light of the Neural Neutralizer?
* AirVentPassageway: How Dr. Noel makes her
* ArcSymbol: The logo on Dr. Adam's boiler suit and that of his "helpers" is a hand freeing (or crushing?) a dove under a stylized sun. Or is that "sun" actually the round, flashy light of the Neural Neutralizer?
* BridalCarry: Noel induces an ImagineSpot for Kirk suggesting that he carried her into his quarters this way.
* BrokenAce: Van Gelder. Perhaps Adams to a degree.
* BrokenAce: Van Gelder. Perhaps Adams to a degree.
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* EmotionsVsStoicism: Spock says "Where there is no emotion, there is no motive for violence."
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* EmotionsVsStoicism: Spock says "Where there is no emotion, there is no motive for violence." "
* FreakOut: Dr. Van Gelder has the mother of them all! Screaming, raving, crazy eyes, violent outbursts. He shouts "I am not a criminal!" (Yeah, Simon, there was this guy called RichardNixon who made the same claim.) Incidentally, the actor needed a four day reprieve after this emotionally taxing role.
* GildedCage: Kirk points out to Bones that modern mental institutions may as well be vacation resorts. Bones replies ""A cage is a cage, Jim."
* FreakOut: Dr. Van Gelder has the mother of them all! Screaming, raving, crazy eyes, violent outbursts. He shouts "I am not a criminal!" (Yeah, Simon, there was this guy called RichardNixon who made the same claim.) Incidentally, the actor needed a four day reprieve after this emotionally taxing role.
* GildedCage: Kirk points out to Bones that modern mental institutions may as well be vacation resorts. Bones replies ""A cage is a cage, Jim."
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* GoMadFromTheIsolation: The fate of Dr. Adams. The complete lack of any mental stimulation at all made his brain shut completely down.
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* AirVentPassageway: How Dr. Noel makes her escape.
* BigDamnKiss: Kirk plants one on Noel. She reluctantly tells him that he was only hypnotized to think he was in love with her.
* BigNo: When Dr. Van Gelder tries to warn Kirk against staying on Tantalus.
* CantArgueWithElves: Spock finds it interesting that "Your Earth people glorify organized violence for forty centuries, but you imprison those who employ it privately." Even Bones has no come back for that.
* CreepyMonotone: Lethe. "I love my work."
* EmotionsVsStoicism: Spock says "Where there is no emotion, there is no motive for violence."
* GirlOfTheWeek: Dr. Helen Noel
* BigDamnKiss: Kirk plants one on Noel. She reluctantly tells him that he was only hypnotized to think he was in love with her.
* BigNo: When Dr. Van Gelder tries to warn Kirk against staying on Tantalus.
* CantArgueWithElves: Spock finds it interesting that "Your Earth people glorify organized violence for forty centuries, but you imprison those who employ it privately." Even Bones has no come back for that.
* CreepyMonotone: Lethe. "I love my work."
* EmotionsVsStoicism: Spock says "Where there is no emotion, there is no motive for violence."
* GirlOfTheWeek: Dr. Helen Noel
* MeaningfulName: Lethe is the name of the river of forgetfulness in Greek myth. Tantalus was sent to Tartarus for murdering his son and punished by being never allowed to eat or drink. And isn't it funny that the girl Kirk met at a Christmas party was named "Noel"?
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* MoreHypnotizableThanHeThinks: Had Kirk try out the Neural Neutralizer, complete with him not realizing he blanked out for a second when it was turned on.
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* MuggedForDisguise: Dr. Van Gelder knocks out a RedShirt and steals his jumpsuit in attempt to fit in. It only works for awhile.
* MuggedForDisguise: Dr. Van Gelder knocks out a RedShirt and steals his jumpsuit in attempt to fit in. It only works for awhile.
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* TheissTitillationTheory: Dr. Noel's uniform is even shorter than what female crew members usually wear. Averted by that ugly ass dress Lethe wears. Did she forget how to color co-ordinate as well?
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This episode is also known as "The One That Got Ripped Off By SouthPark".
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This episode is also known as "The One That Got Ripped Off By SouthPark".SouthPark".
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* AboveTheInfluence: Dr. Helen Noel flirts with Kirk, but he refuses to reciprocate. Later on, Kirk is {{Brainwashed}} into thinking he's in love with her and she desperately tries to explain what happened, in fact seeming rather creeped out.
* AffablyEvil: Adams seems so charming and polite at first. [[WineIsClassy He makes a toast]] [[ThePowerOfLove to "love and warmth"]], but it's only a mask.
* HeyItsThatGuy: Dr. Adams looks a lot like Inspector Luger from BarneyMiller.
* LiteraryAllusionTitle: From {{Macbeth}} "Or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?"
* MadDoctor: Dr. Tristan Adams went a little too [[BrainwashedAndCrazy happy]] with his machine for rehabilitating mental patients.
* MindControlDevice: A "hospital" basically zombifies people with a hypno-spinny-thingy. Trying to remember what happened to you, let alone tell others, causes increasing pain and eventually death.
* MoreHypnotizableThanHeThinks: Had Kirk try out the Neural Neutralizer, complete with him not realizing he blanked out for a second when it was turned on.
* NightmareFuel: Imagine death by having your mind completely wiped....
* PsychoPsychologist: Dr. Tristan Adams
* ScienceMarchesOn: That big ass tape deck that Kirk uses to record his CaptainsLog on.
* TeleportInterdiction: The Tantalus penal colony has a security force field which must be deactivated to allow beaming up or down. The RedShirt gets teased for forgetting that.
* TheXOfY: The Dagger of the Mind.
Tropes for this episode include:
* AboveTheInfluence: Dr. Helen Noel flirts with Kirk, but he refuses to reciprocate. Later on, Kirk is {{Brainwashed}} into thinking he's in love with her and she desperately tries to explain what happened, in fact seeming rather creeped out.
* AffablyEvil: Adams seems so charming and polite at first. [[WineIsClassy He makes a toast]] [[ThePowerOfLove to "love and warmth"]], but it's only a mask.
* HeyItsThatGuy: Dr. Adams looks a lot like Inspector Luger from BarneyMiller.
* LiteraryAllusionTitle: From {{Macbeth}} "Or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?"
* MadDoctor: Dr. Tristan Adams went a little too [[BrainwashedAndCrazy happy]] with his machine for rehabilitating mental patients.
* MindControlDevice: A "hospital" basically zombifies people with a hypno-spinny-thingy. Trying to remember what happened to you, let alone tell others, causes increasing pain and eventually death.
* MoreHypnotizableThanHeThinks: Had Kirk try out the Neural Neutralizer, complete with him not realizing he blanked out for a second when it was turned on.
* NightmareFuel: Imagine death by having your mind completely wiped....
* PsychoPsychologist: Dr. Tristan Adams
* ScienceMarchesOn: That big ass tape deck that Kirk uses to record his CaptainsLog on.
* TeleportInterdiction: The Tantalus penal colony has a security force field which must be deactivated to allow beaming up or down. The RedShirt gets teased for forgetting that.
* TheXOfY: The Dagger of the Mind.
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The ''Enterprise'' is delivering some huge ass bottles of drugs to the Tantalus PenalColony. (Wonder where they got big enough cotton balls?) They also pick up a box marked "Do Not Open" and addressed to "Bureau of Penology, Stockholm, Eurasia-NE". Not sure what it was supposed to be holding, but it is soon revealed to be holding a crazy old man who knows karate!
The crazy old man is at first believed to be an escaped inmate from Tantalus, but to everyone's shock, he's actually one of the doctors! Dr. Adams tells Kirk that Dr. Van Gelder pulled a ProfessorGuineaPig and lost his mind in the process. And would he kindly return him? Bones tells Kirk he smells a rat. Kirk gives Adams some B.S. about how they can't due to some red tape. Adams good naturedly accepts this and cordially invites Kirk down for a visit. Kirk takes him up on this. Bones suggests Kirk take a psychological expert with him. He recommends Dr. Noel. It seems Kirk and Dr. ''Helen'' Noel have met before. Apparently, even in the future office Christmas parties can get out of hand....
This episode is also known as "The One That Got Ripped Off By SouthPark".
The crazy old man is at first believed to be an escaped inmate from Tantalus, but to everyone's shock, he's actually one of the doctors! Dr. Adams tells Kirk that Dr. Van Gelder pulled a ProfessorGuineaPig and lost his mind in the process. And would he kindly return him? Bones tells Kirk he smells a rat. Kirk gives Adams some B.S. about how they can't due to some red tape. Adams good naturedly accepts this and cordially invites Kirk down for a visit. Kirk takes him up on this. Bones suggests Kirk take a psychological expert with him. He recommends Dr. Noel. It seems Kirk and Dr. ''Helen'' Noel have met before. Apparently, even in the future office Christmas parties can get out of hand....
This episode is also known as "The One That Got Ripped Off By SouthPark".
