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  • Ass Pull: McCoy's disease is an insoluble problem for most of the show, until Spock discovers that the Fabrini have extensive medical knowledge in their archives including, rather handily, a cure for the incurable (and one that works on humans, no less). At that point it takes about one minute of screen time to fix the good Doctor.
  • Narm:
    • The good people of Yonada worshipping a doorbell.
    • When he first catches sight of Natira, Bones looks like he's been frozen in place with some kind of Mind Control power instead of having fallen in Love at First Sight.
  • One-Scene Wonder: John Lormer's Old Man, whose sole scene consists of a kindly, sweet attendance on the main trio, attempts to help them with information and gets killed for his troubles; he also delivers an episode Title Drop. It is short, but surprisingly moving.
  • Theiss Titillation Theory: Natira wears a backless cut-out toga made of a green-gold satiny material. This contrasts with the psychedelic muumuus worn by the other Fabrini. Whatever takes our attention away from those Highlanders meets Hell's Angels outfits the soldiers wear!
  • They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: McCoy's illness. Just imagine what a modern day show could do with a character having a fatal disease and racing against time to find a cure, rather than knowing it'll be fixed somehow by the end of the episode. Especially as said character could be shown getting sicker and sicker over the course of several episodes for increased drama. For an extra kicker, the era of rigid Status Quo Is God ended a while ago, meaning the ailing character might not survive.

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