Star Trek TNG Season 2 videos start on Monday!

TNG made me appreciate TOS all the more.

Your experience with this episode shows how, once Star Trek was cancelled and placed into reruns, many people discovered that these Trek episodes are endlessly rewatchable. And that made the Trek franchise the monster that it became!

Remember, it is essentially a remake of the 50's movie "The Enemy Below", a boat vs submarine story, so much of the plot is already hardwired in.

Thanks for revisiting this classic. My favorite scene is when they're in the strategizing room(?) and Stiles is presenting his case for attack while implying Spock isn't to be trusted... the camera shows Kirk's face, and he's just listening because that's what that room is for, speculation and opinion.. once Stiles is done, then Kirk gives him a quiet but in control "cool it" and Spock surprisingly agrees with Stile's recommendation... great stuff

What I always loved about Balance of Terror was how complex they made the Romulan commander, and through him Romulans in general.

"Dad!?!? You stood against me joining Starfleet, and here you are a commanding officer for the Romulans, starting a war!?!?"

Mark Lenard is the only actor to play all of the major aliens. The Romulan commander, Spocks father and the Klingon commander in Star Trek the Motion Picture.

I had nothing against the scene where Spock saves Styles. MY big problem scene is when Kirk embraces Janice Rand when it looks like they are about to die. In the book, ‘The World of Star Trek,” there is a memo from Gene Roddenberry where he quizzes the writers by asking what is wrong with this scene? And he poses a scene where a ship is under attack, and “the Captain hugs his pretty yeoman.” Roddenberry then states that a naval captain would NEVER do that during combat, and OUR show is realistic and OUR Captain wouldn’t do something that unrealistic either…. and then what does Kirk do in “Balance of Terror?” LOL….

Spock saving Stiles was another point of Spock not having emotions, or having them mastered. What Stiles said before didn't matter. He was still a life.

Unlike most tv series, you are finding out that you enjoy it more on a rewatch. It always seems to be fresh.

The first season wasn't "filmed out of order," they were aired out of order. If you had watched them in production order, instead of by airdate, you could have actually seen the evolution of lore, the changes in costumes, terminology, and character development. It's a much more satisfying watch.

Just remember we had over a decade rewatching these in reruns before The Motion Picture, let alone The Next Generation.

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“Don’t destroy the one named Kirk.”

The bride, Angela, was back in "Shore Leave."

It isn't that Spock flicking the switch and it made a sound gave them away.

"I didnt want them to battle..... for a ship blowing up"

Alex commented on something that is very key to being a fan of Star Trek: watching it on a television screen not a computer monitor or a tiny cellphone screen and then watching it again layer after some time has passed and then doing that again!

This episode is a top tiered TOS outing for so many reasons, with the things standing out the most from me are its impact on the rest of the franchise and its rich lore In universe.