Wait a sec, Ben Finney's ultimate goal was to frame Captain Kirk with the hope that eventually a court proceeding would occur and that the court would be moved to the enterprise after Spock was inspired by a Kirk chess reference and discovered computer tampering? At this point, (and with the enterprise near a planet) the plan was to disable the enterprise and have it fall into the planet and break apart?
What I took away from my viewing of this episode was how it must have had some inspiration on the vastly superior episode 'Measure of a Man'. I can tell you this ---- I would never want to be a captain of a starfleet ship with the fanatical oversight placed upon them. "Chill out man, I am Captain Kirk..." would be my go to line after being coldly accused.
I was enjoying the court room drama and the slightly over exuberant lawyer pontificating about books but this was all undone by a laughable conclusion with a completely unhinged starfleet officer coming up with a super villain plot to destroy the enterprise despite maintaining a correspondence with captain Kirk for years.
What I took away from my viewing of this episode was how it must have had some inspiration on the vastly superior episode 'Measure of a Man'. I can tell you this ---- I would never want to be a captain of a starfleet ship with the fanatical oversight placed upon them. "Chill out man, I am Captain Kirk..." would be my go to line after being coldly accused.
I was enjoying the court room drama and the slightly over exuberant lawyer pontificating about books but this was all undone by a laughable conclusion with a completely unhinged starfleet officer coming up with a super villain plot to destroy the enterprise despite maintaining a correspondence with captain Kirk for years.