It took me 15 minutes to figure out what episode this was. At first it didn't seem familiar at all ... then oh yea, the one were Spock gets shot with confetti.Kirk, McCoy, Sulu and Spock beam down to a planet, there are these plants that shoot spores at you and it makes you very stoned. Spock turn into a giddy school boy as he frolics with an old girlfriend (played by Jill Ireland). Suddenly Kirk is the only sober one. The spores spread around the ship and mutiny breaks out.
This episode is rather funny and entertaining. Spock is hilarious as an emotional Vulcan. Kirk also gets shot but fight it off by being angry. The best scene is when Kirk spews out a string of ant-Vulcan slurs at Spock in an attempt to piss him off, "you belong in a circus, right next to the dog-faced boy!". And it works. Spock sobers up and his girl is mad at him, she tried to get him to come back down to the planet and get high again. Typical woman, always trying to change you. Kirk and Spock turn the rest of the crew back to normal. Spock has a good closing line saying "For the first time in my life, I was happy". Good stuff, I enjoyed it ... but this has been like the third time that the crew was "high" and it's only half way through season one. Oh the 60's.
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