History YMMV / StarTrekS3E2TheEnterpriseIncident

* {{Narm}}: This was one of the was the first episode Alexander Courage scored on his return[[note]]- he had gone to work on ''Film/DoctorDolittle'', but it may not be a coincidence that he come back to the series until ''after'' Creator/GeneRoddenberry had stepped down (Roddenberry's interference with the theme annoyed Courage) - [[/note]] and some of his cues can be a bit... unsubtle.

* HarsherInHindsight: Turns out the whole exercise was AllForNothing, as the Federation signs an agreement not to use cloaking technology.

* UncannyValley: Spock finds Romulan!Kirk not to be "aesthetically agreeable".

* TheissTitillationTheory: The Romulan commander dresses fairly modestly for a ''Franchise/StarTrek'' gal. Still, her uniform is tight enough to reveal panty lines, and has a short skirt leading to multiple panty shots. Her casual dress, though long and showing more arm than cleavage, with its over-sized earrings looks like the big print cocktail dresses popular in TheEighties. (Granted, in TheSixties, this was futuristic.)

* TheissTitillationTheory: The Romulan commander dresses fairly modestly for a ''Franchise/StarTrek'' gal. Still, her uniform is tight enough to reveal panty lines, and has a short skirt leading to multiple {{Panty Shot}}s. Her casual dress, though long and showing more arm than cleavage, with its over-sized earrings looks like the big print cocktail dresses popular in TheEighties. (Granted, in TheSixties, this was futuristic.)

* TheissTitillationTheory: The Romulan commander dresses fairly modestly for a ''Franchise/StarTrek'' gal. Still, her uniform is tight enough to reveal panty lines, and is a DangerouslyShortSkirt leading to multiple {{Panty Shot}}s. Her casual dress, though long and showing more arm than cleavage, with its over-sized earrings looks like the big print cocktail dresses popular in TheEighties. (Granted, in TheSixties, this was futuristic.)

* WhatAnIdiot: The Romulan commander has three ships surrounding the ''Enterprise'' and is busy trying to seduce Spock into defecting. Unbeknownst to her, Spock is using this to buy time for Kirk to beam aboard disguised as a Romulan and steal the cloaking device. By the time the commander realizes that Spock is playing her, the cloaking device is gone.\\
'''You'd Expect:''' That she would throw Spock into the brig for interrogation/execution and send her soldiers to seize the ''Enterprise'' and retrieve the cloaking device.\\
'''Instead:''' She delays taking any action while she grants Spock the Right of Statement. Spock, of course, uses this to buy more time for our heroes to install the cloaking device, retrieve him, and make their escape--with the Romulan commander as an unintended prisoner.

* WordOfSaintPaul: Spock acknowledges that "Starfleet intelligence reports Romulans using ships of Klingon design" but goes into no specifics as to why that development occured in universe. As early as the ''The Making of Star Trek'' by Stephen Whitfield and Gene Roddenberry[[note]]The very fact that Roddenberry was co-writer of this book should make this WordOfGod as he would have fact checked the parts that Whitfield wrote.[[/note]] as well as the ''Star Trek Concordance'' written by Bjo Trimble, the assumption was that there was some sort of treaty or pact between the Romulan and Klingon empires. Even in the movie era and Next Generation eras, there is no clear indication that the two Empires had any mutual alliances (in fact, in the TNG era, they are quite racist towards each other). The [[TabletopGame/StarFleetBattles Starfleet gaming universe]], however, does explicitly depict a loose alliance between the two explaining that the Romulans got more advanced ships from the Klingons, while the Klingons got the cloaking device from the Romulans[[note]]The game's rulebook explicitly acknowledges that it is an alliance based on political conveinence and not friendship[[/note]]. This seems to be the assumption in the traditional ''Trek'' universe as well, given that the Klingons and Romulans both have ''Bird of Prey'' designated ships.

* WordOfSaintPaul: Spock acknowledges that "Starfleet intelligence reports Romulans using ships of Klingon design" but goes into no specifics as to why that development occured in universe. As early as the ''Star Trek Concordance'' written by Bjo Trimble, the assumption was that there was some sort of treaty or pact between the Romulan and Klingon empires. Even in the movie era and Next Generation eras, there is no clear indication that the two Empires had any mutual alliances (in fact, in the TNG era, they are quite racist towards each other). The [[TabletopGame/StarFleetBattles Starfleet gaming universe]], however, does explicitly depict a loose alliance between the two explaining that the Romulans got more advanced ships from the Klingons, while the Klingons got the cloaking device from the Romulans[[note]]The game's rulebook explicitly acknowledges that it is an alliance based on political conveinence and not friendship[[/note]]. This seems to be the assumption in the traditional ''Trek'' universe as well, given that the Klingons and Romulans both have ''Bird of Prey'' designated ships.

* FanficFuel: This episode predominantly was the jumping-off point for Diane Duanne's ''Literature/{{Rihannsu}}'' novels, exploring Romulan culture in greater detail; in particular, their [[BlueAndOrangeMorality rather quirky]] code of honorable behavior, ''mnhei'sahe''. The main character of the ''Rihannsu'' novels, Ael t'Rllaillieu, is the aunt of the Romulan Commander from this episode. What happened to this Commander after the events of the episode is seldom-raised but ''very'' important plot point. Speaking of, the Romulan Commander herself is subject to many stories wondering WhatHappenedToTheMouse

'''Instead:''' She delays taking any action while she grants Spock the Right of Statement. Spock, of course, uses this to buy more time for our heroes to install the cloaking device, retrieve him, and make their escape--with the Romulan commander as an unintended prisoner.

* TheissTitillationTheory: The Romulan commander dresses fairly modestly for a ''Franchise/StarTrek'' gal. Still, her uniform is tight enough to reveal panty lines. Her casual dress, though long and showing more arm than cleavage, with its over-sized earrings looks like the big print cocktail dresses popular in TheEighties. (Granted, in TheSixties, this was futuristic.)

* FanficFuel: This episode predominantly was the jumping-off point for Diane Duanne's ''Literature/{{Rihannsu}}'' novels, exploring Romulan culture in greater detail; in particular, their [[BlueAndOrangeMorality rather quirky]] code of honorable behavior, ''mnhei'sahe''. The main character of the ''Rihannsu'' novels, Ael t'Rllaillieu, is the aunt of the Romulan Commander from this episode. What happened to this Commander after the events of the episode is seldom-raised but ''very'' important plot point. Speaking of, the Romulan Commander herself is subject to main stories wondering WhatHappenedToTheMouse

* {{Narm}}: This was one of the was the first episode Alexander Courage scored on his return[[note]]- he had gone to work on ''Film/DoctorDolittle'', but it may not be a coincidence that he come back to the series until ''after'' Creator/GeneRoddenberry had stepped down (Roddenberry's interfernce with the theme annoyed Courage) - [[/note]] and some of his cues can be a bit... unsubtle.

* MagnificentBastard: Kirk is one slick S.O.B. in this episode.

* WhatAniDIOT: The Romulan commander has three ships surrounding the ''Enterprise'' and is busy trying to seduce Spock into defecting. Unbeknownst to her, Spock is using this to buy time for Kirk to beam aboard disguised as a Romulan and steal the cloaking device. By the time the commander realizes that Spock is playing her, the cloaking device is gone.\\

* {{Narm}}: This was one of the was the first episode Alexander Courage scored on his return[[note]]- he had gone to work on ''Doctor Dolittle'', but it may not be a coincidence that he come back to the series until ''after'' Creator/GeneRoddenberry had stepped down (Roddenberry's interfernce with the theme annoyed Courage) - [[/note]] and some of his cues can be a bit... unsubtle.

* UncannyValley: Spock finds Romulan!Kirk not to be "aesthetically agreeable".