#I'm officially starting a spirk tag on this blog now

[samthetrekkie]

this episode is great for being quite relevant today when it comes to ai technology, no doubt. but as usual I liked some other things about it more...

first of all, it was pretty unexpected to me that daystrom is a black man. of course I've heard of him before, and the institute, and the prize, but I didn't actually know who he was. it's great actually that the star trek universe is so big and rich with history that a name feels so familiar while not knowing where it actually came from. anyway, I didn't think 60s tos would make the greatest scientist of the time to be black. so kudos to that!

and of course I have to point out the little spock love confession scene to kirk. I think, in general, they were super close in this episode. really a little more than usual and it felt a little less platonic. that was probably not intended, but you never know with star trek. I'm definitely sold when it comes to spock/kirk now, though.