Why would you conduct science where you can't see anything?
My wife asks that every time an episode of CSI comes on.

Yes.

@St. God, thanks for linking those Japanese titles. Awesome.

Kirk tells John Christopher in Tomorrow Is Yesterday that there are only 12 like it, in the fleet.

Now THAT'S interesting.

That 10-note motif is a syrupy re-arrangement for strings of a Spock motif from Gerald Fried's score for Amok Time.

The "Vulcans never bluff" line from season 2 is a nice follow-on to the poker dialog with Spock in Corbomite Maneuver from season 1.

Oh yeah. I have that reaction to it.

Agreed, esp about the Warp 11 engines from that episode with the Kelvins. Wouldn't the Klingons be surprised…

Spock's humiliation
One subtlety of Spock's reaction after the Tweedle Dee - Tweedle Dum scene, is that when he goes into that trance, he''s not specifically retreating from the humiliation. The thing that requires his intense concentration and trance, is the effort to master his ANGER. He''s actually more troubled…

Those bald fuckers in The Empath ought to be thankful…
…That Star Trek never bothered with continuity. Kirk & Spock could still have their kironine-derived telekinetic powers from Plato's Stepchildren, when The Empath starts. They would have kicked some ass.

@ Chico:
Dunno if this is the one you're thinking of, but listen to the very end of Doomsday Machine. There's a cue under or just after Kirk's line about how he found one planet killer to be quite sufficient. Some lilting woodwind jingle (I think it's clarinet) that smashes right into the closing Enterprise flyby…

Constitution was the flagship, I think.

I mentioned in last week's comments, the Star Trek novel The Final Reflection (1984), by John M Ford. There's a bit in there that Klingons also believe that Vulcans cannot lie. One of the Klingon characters even says something to the effect that, if it were to be discovered that Vulcans could lie then (something bad…

NB: Tholian Web score completely tracked from prior scores. No original music.

Season 3's music is the weakest. To begin with, only 9 original scores this season, compared to 11 for the first 2 (12 for season 1 if you count The Cage). So there's less music. Then, 3 of them are by George Duning, so right away a third of the season 3 scores are just annoying.

Cue Majel Barrett:
"Incorrect!"

How often did they hit that note, really? Twice a season?

Plato's Stepchildren original score by Alexander Courage, one of 2 he did in season 3 (along with Enterprise Incident). This was the last music to be recorded for the original series: on 10/25/1968 according to the Jeff Bond book. Bond writes:
"Courage had originated the music of the orginal Star Trek, and he brought…

Where did the "Spock can't lie" thing come from? I've heard it stated by fans as an iron-clad fact. It's obviously nonsense. When did it originate?