History Recap / StarTrekS2E19APrivateLittleWar

* LoveMakesYouStupid: Tyree doesn't even try to resist Nona's charms. Not even when he sees her using them on Kirk behind his back. Not to mention seeing Nona seducing Kirk using the same aphrodisiac that she actually told him about before, and getting jealous of his drugged friend.

* PummelingTheCorpse: The previously violence-averse Tyree snaps when he sees his wife stabbed to death. In the ensuing climactic battle, Tyree rushes and quickly overpowers the man who stabbed his wife, and staves in his head with a large rock. Tyree's mind, clouded with UnstoppableRage, does not register that his opponent is dead, so he spends the rest of the battle [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown bashing the corpse's shattered head]]. Even after the battle ends, Tyree continues to bash the unresisting corpse until Kirk stops him.

While Spock convalesces, Kirk and Bones beam back down to investigate this on going war. It seems those darn Klingons are at it again! They convinced one faction of natives that they could be more powerful than the others. All they needed was better weapons. As if dealing with them wasn't bad enough, there are these critters called the mugato to contend with. Kirk gets poisoned by one. Fortunately, Bones is able to get him to Tyree's tribe, where his wife Nona (Nancy Kovack) is able to heal Kirk.

* ItsPersonal:This is more than a random little planet for Kirk, having spend quite some time in the past familiarizing himself with it, and becoming close friends with the tribal leader Tyree. If the Klingons spoiling this "Garden of Eden" was not enough to make it personal, the first encounter with the imported weaponry results in Spock getting shot and nearly killed.

* TheMainCharactersDoEverything: Averted in this episode considering Spock's trauma care is being handled by Dr. M'Benga and Kirk reminds Dr. [=McCoy=] of that fact when he orders the doctor to join him in the investigation planetside.
* MenAreTheExpendableGender: Subverted - Nona, the FemmeFatale, is stabbed to death at the climax of the episode.
* NubileSavage: Nona, of the furry bra and leather pants variety. Her clothes look suspiciously new and clean, and she has makeup as well. (Cosmetics go back to prehistoric times so this isn't too unrealistic.)
* OrganDodge: It's a good thing Vulcans have their liver where a heart would be expected.

* PatrickStewartSpeech: Eat yer heart out, Picard! Kirk beat you to it, pointing out how humanity was once like Tyree's people and in time they too could emerge as a peace loving, intelligent society.

* SchizoTech: discussed, along with TechnologyLevels, to the point of ConversationalTroping, by the main characters, who upon first discovering that the Villagers have flintlock rifles, but not knowing these were provided by Klingon arms-dealers, consider whether the people of this planet might progress differently than the people of Earth. Later, upon their discovery of Klingon intervention, Uhura wonders aloud why the Klingons didn't just give the Villagers more advanced weapons like phasers or "old-style hand lasers." The rationale is that the Klingons could teach the Villagers how to make their own flintlocks, with the added benefit of making it [[PlausibleDeniability less obvious]] that the technology had been supplied by outsiders. See TechnologyUplift below.

** Vulcans have a version of this, which saves Spock's life. With their MindOverMatter powers, Vulcans can go into a healing trance which would focus all their mental and physical resources on repairing injuries(In this case, a bullet wound.)Apparently, it is a little known ability since Nurse Chapel seems clueless about what is happening.

** This leads to another one--after [=McCoy=] kills the mugato, Tyree tells him its mate will be nearby. Guess what shows up near the end.
** The love herb that Nona uses on Tyree early in the episode makes an encore appearance--being used on Kirk.
* CruelToBeKind: Spock needs to be put in pain to be brought out of his trance. [[AbuseMistake Scotty pulls Chapel away from Spock, thinking she's gone mad, slapping her patient around.]] Then M'Benga steps in to apply the necessary striking until Spock stops him saying that would be sufficient.

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The episode is an allegory of the then ongoing [[UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar Vietnam War]].

* BareYourMidriff: Nona, all day, every day. Does this planet have winter?

* CrusadingWidower: Tyree becomes one.

* AbsenteeActor: Sulu doesn't appear.
* ActualPacifist: Tyree. Until the end.

* AttemptedRape: Four villagers try to gang-rape Nona, who...well, ''kinda'' fights back (for a loose definition of "fights"). Once Kirk, [=McCoy=], and Tyree show up, however, the villagers sismply kill her.

* PummelingTheCorpse: The previously violence-averse Tyree snaps when he sees his wife stabbed to death. In the ensuing climactic battle, Tyree rushes and quickly overpowers the man who stabbed his wife, and staves in his head with a large rock. Tyree's mind, clouded with berserker fury, does not register that his opponent is dead, so he spends the rest of the battle bashing the corpse's shattered head. Even after the battle ends, Tyree continues to bash the unresisting corpse until Kirk stops him.

* ScreamingWoman: Combines with FightSceneFailure when Nona is attacked by the mugato. Running is for plebes; Nona falls over and rolls away across the ground, screaming.

** When Kirk snaps at his bridge crew for disputing his conclusion that the Klingons are involved, Scotty politely but bluntly asks him if he is no longer [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure willing to listen to honest opinions from his officers]]. Kirk apologizes, explaining that worry about Spock and the situation on the planet have gotten to him.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar:
** The [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything orgasmic thrashing and sudden climactic end]] when Nona casts a healing spell over Kirk's body.
** Also the scene where Kirk catches Nona bathing naked; the producers left in a breast shot knowing the censor would 'force' them to cut back to the titillating glance the audience got instead.