YMMV / Star Trek S1 E1 "The Man Trap"

• Fan Nickname:
  • The (unnamed) alien is almost universally known as "the salt vampire". Became Ascended Fanon in Star Trek: Lower Decks, 55 years after the episode first aired. (Memory Alpha, which is notorious for eschewing fan nicknames, had previously described the alien as the "M-113 creature", but finally relented and changed it to "salt vampire" once it became onscreen canon.)
  • Sulu's quip about the Great Bird of the Galaxy, which later became a fan nickname for Gene Roddenberry.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: McCoy says that he can't sleep. Kirk then advises him to take one of the red pills McCoy gave Kirk, then Kirk appears to eat something blue.
• Special Effect Failure: Beauregard the moving plant is doing pretty good when it gently interacts with Yeoman Rand. When it freaks out due to the creature's presence, though, Beauregard is all too obviously a glove with pink fluff glued to the fingers.
• Visual Effects of Awesome: The true form of the salt vampire is one of the show's most impressive (and scary) aliens. Too bad we don't get to see it for long.

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