History Webcomic / PlanetOfHats

''[[http://www.mezzacotta.net/planetofhats/ Planet of Hats]]'' is a webcomic by David Morgan-Mar (author of ''Webcomic/IrregularWebcomic'' and ''Webcomic/DarthsAndDroids'') that recaps ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' in screening order. Unlike his other comics, these are drawn by hand.

** In "[[http://www.mezzacotta.net/planetofhats/episodes/0051.html Patterns of Force]]", Kirk's reaction to Ekos's Nazi society is to say, "[[Franchise/IndianaJones Nazis! I hate these guys.]]"

Named after the trope PlanetOfHats, itself named for the tendency of several ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episodes to display this trope, most clearly seen in the episode "A Piece of the Action". Inspired by Shaenon Garrity's ''Webcomic/MonsterOfTheWeek: The Complete Cartoon [[Series/TheXFiles X-Files]]'', which is likewise a 12-panel AbridgedSeries of a popular sf series, named after a trope.

* ChekovsGun: Seen in "[[http://www.mezzacotta.net/planetofhats/episodes/0038.html I, Mudd]]".

Named after the trope PlanetOfHats, itself named for the tendency of several ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' to display this trope, most clearly seen in the episode "A Piece of the Action". Inspired by Shaenon Garrity's ''Webcomic/MonsterOfTheWeek: The Complete Cartoon [[Series/TheXFiles X-Files]]'', which is likewise a 12-panel AbridgedSeries of a popular sf series, named after a trope.

** "[[http://www.mezzacotta.net/planetofhats/episodes/0072.html Let That Be Your Last Battlefield]]" has one to ''[[Creator/DrSeuss The Butter Battle Book]]''.

* {{Anvilicious}}: "[[http://www.mezzacotta.net/planetofhats/episodes/0072.html Let That Be Your Last Battlfield]]" ends with Kirk ''literally'' dropping an anvil as he delivers the Aesop.

* {{Anvillicious}}: "[[http://www.mezzacotta.net/planetofhats/episodes/0072.html Let That Be Your Last Battlfield]]" ends with Kirk ''literally'' dropping an anvil as he delivers the Aesop.

* ArtShift: "[[http://www.mezzacotta.net/planetofhats/episodes/0067.html Plato's Stepchildren]]" is done in crayon.

* CardboardPrison: Van Gelder escapes from the prison planet of Tantalus V by hiding in a box which is beamed up to the ''Enterprise'', in "[[http://www.mezzacotta.net/planetofhats/episodes/0009.html Dagger of the Mind]]".

** "[[http://www.mezzacotta.net/planetofhats/episodes/0070.html Elaan of Troyius]]" is an extended riff on ''Film/{{Casablanca}}''.

** "[[http://www.mezzacotta.net/planetofhats/episodes/0060.html Elaan of Troyius]]" is an extended riff on ''Film/{{Casablanca}}''.

* ActorAllusion: In "[[http://www.mezzacotta.net/planetofhats/episodes/0007.html What Are Little Girls Made Of?]]"Kirk says, "There's someone lurching around back there," referring to Ruk the android, played by Ted Cassidy, who played Lurch in ''Series/TheAddamsFamily''. Cassidy also voiced the Gorn in "Arena", who is introduced with a "Lurch!" sound effect.

* IdiotPlot: Everyone ignoring or overlooking obvious ways to help Sulu not freeze to death in "[[http://www.mezzacotta.net/planetofhats/episodes/0005.html The Enemy Within]]".
* InferredHolocaust: "[[http://www.mezzacotta.net/planetofhats/episodes/0029.html Operation--Annihilate!]]" ends with the caption "And within five years everyone on Deneva develops melanoma..."

* ScienceMarchesOn: "[[http://www.mezzacotta.net/planetofhats/episodes/0016.html The Galileo Seven]]" points out how knowledge of what a quasar is has changed since 1966 when the episode was made, casting the planetary system sized "quasar" Murasaki 312 as "a billion times smaller than normal and within our own galaxy".

* SocietyMarchesOn: Lampshaded in "Tomorrow is Yesterday".

* TechnologyMarchesOn: Lampshaded. In "[[http://www.mezzacotta.net/planetofhats/episodes/0028.html The City on the Edge of Forever]]", when Spock says he "needs radio tubes to access my tricorder's memory circuits", Kirk remarks "That thing has less functionality than an iPhone."

* YouLookFamiliar: Spock notes that the Romulan commander looks like his father in "[[http://www.mezzacotta.net/planetofhats/episodes/0014.html Balance of Terror]]". (Both characters are played by Mark Lenard.)

* CoughSnarkCough: * In ''Webcomic/PlanetOfHats''' "[[http://www.mezzacotta.net/planetofhats/episodes/0065.html For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky]]", Kirk tells [=McCoy=] he can't marry the high priestess of a primitive culture that worships a computer hidden in an obelisk. Bones replies "<koff> The Paradise Syndrome <koff>."

* HowDoYouLikeThemApples: Kirk munches an apple conspicuously at the end of "[[http://www.mezzacotta.net/planetofhats/episodes/0035.html The Apple]]". Not that surprising as the original episode is a loose allegory of the Garden of Eden.

Named after the trope PlanetOfHats, itself named for the tendency of several ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' to display this trope, most clearly seen in the episode "A Piece of the Action". Inspired by Shaenon Garrity's ''Webcomic/MonsterOfTheWeek: The Complete Cartoon Webcomic/XFiles'', which is likewise a 12-panel AbridgedSeries of a popular sf series, named after a trope.

Named after the trope PlanetOfHats, itself named for the tendency of several ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' to display this trope, most clearly seen in the episode "A Piece of the Action".

* YouMeddlingKids: "[[http://www.mezzacotta.net/planetofhats/episodes/0045.html The Trouble with Tribbles]]": "I would have gotten away with it if not for those meddling tribbles!"

** This being David Morgan-Mar, there are of course plenty of these. "The Menagerie, Part 2" has "Impale!" and "Vanish!", "The Conscience of the King" has "Intervene", "Arena" has "Disintegrate!", "Space Seed" has "Seduce!" as does "Catspaw", "The Alternative Factor" has "Fall", "J'accuse!", "Sneak", and "Steal", "Operation--Annihilate!" has "Drama!" and "More Drama!", "Who Mourns for Adonais?" has "Fade".

*** When the space amoeba wipes out Gamma 7A, Spock says "[[Film/ANewHope I felt a great disturbance. As if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.]]"

*** Later, Spock compares entering the body of the amoeba to "some kind of [[Film/{{fantastic voyage}}]]."

* TotallyRadical: Kirk attempts to adopt 1920s slang to fit into the gangster-era Chicago analogue in "[[http://www.mezzacotta.net/planetofhats/episodes/0047.html A Piece of the Action]]", with little success.