This may be the ultimate emperor's new clothes episode.
It's interesting as the first Trek courtroom episode, but the lawyer vanishes entirely. Shatner has a lengthy voiceover in the last act to cover this up.
Kirk's foe is impossibly deranged to have been hiding all this time and his "plan" is ridiculous.
I can live with the Enterprise falling out of orbit so quickly because orbital mechanics were much less understood by those outside the space programs in the 60s. But risking the ship by beaming almost everybody off for a court proceeding?
It's interesting as the first Trek courtroom episode, but the lawyer vanishes entirely. Shatner has a lengthy voiceover in the last act to cover this up.
Kirk's foe is impossibly deranged to have been hiding all this time and his "plan" is ridiculous.
I can live with the Enterprise falling out of orbit so quickly because orbital mechanics were much less understood by those outside the space programs in the 60s. But risking the ship by beaming almost everybody off for a court proceeding?