"Captain Kirk orders shore leave for the Enterprise crew on a seemingly uninhabited planet in the Omicron Delta system. Spock discovers that the planet seems to be drawing a large amount of energy from the ship's engines, placing the Enterprise in danger."
Shore Leave is probably the most joke about, parodied and mocked episode of the Star Trek franchise. Sure there’s a giant Easter bunny, but honestly this episode is pretty darn good. It was written by sci-fi author Theodore Sturgeon. The idea of a planet in which anything you think of comes true is pretty awesome, but TOS explores the downside to this power. McCoy ends up getting shot, Kirk gets fucked up in a fight with one of the best guest characters in Star Trek - Finnegan, he also sees his old love Ruth, the sexy Yeoman Barrows gets sexually assaulted by Don Juan (a solid portrayal of a Hispanic male) and Sulu picks some flowers then finds a gun. What more could you ask for? |
| Ashford kind of looks like a Klingon actually. |
The fight scene between Kirk and Finnegan is so long though, like the one from They Live! That’s my only gripe, no one could take that many punches to the face. In the end Kirk orders everyone to stand at attention and not think of anything (que the stay-puff marshmallow man). If I was one of these crewman, boy what a disaster this would be. Kirk would be like … “OK, who is thinking of a camel with the head of Nick Ashford and breasts for it’s humps???” In the end, the caretaker comes out and apologizes for the inconvenience. McCoy shows up with two prostitutes and all is well.
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5 comments:
Worst vacation destination ever! What's their slogan? "Come have shore leaves where all your dreams come true... Provided you dream about getting shot, beat up, or raped."
I guess they didn't have holodecks then
It's like vacationing in Chicago
I'm glad I'm not an hispanic male right now.
But yeah, I love this episode, if only because McCoy gets the girl!
I know! And she's so hot too!!
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