#the galileo seven

[your-name-is-jim]

Just 20 years of captain-first officer professional relationship on the bridge.

[not-equippedforthis]

thinking about how in 'galileo seven' spock is absolutely adamant to ensure that they don't kill the spear guys despite them posing an active lethal threat to both him and his crew, not to mention they already killed one person. and then how in 'devil in the dark' spock spends half the episode demanding and risking mutiny to ensure they don't kill the horta despite it killing 50+ people. and then how kirk reveals he's standing face-to-face with it and spock without HESITATION

[lichqueenlibrarian]

Oh ouch ow ow ow

[electronickingdomfox]

And so began their feud...

[pieisnotreal]

Galileo 7 is the episode where Bones fell in love with Spock.

[favvn]

Rewatching The Galileo Seven is really fun from the standpoint of how Amok Time goes for Spock. Everyone wants to joke about how Spock would rather die than admit that he needs to return to Vulcan to either marry T'Pring or fight-to-the-death in the even she rejects him (it's about desire versus control! To admit to needing help would be admitting that he is not in control and to Spock's mind, his problem isn't actually serious because he is that locked in denial on top of why should the mission come to a screeching halt for one crew member? The needs of the many....), but this willingness to die extends from what he does in this episode (number 16 from season 1).

He was going to stay behind in The Galileo Seven owing to the weight limitations of the damaged shuttlecraft (the captain goes down with the ship) and certainly die having no phaser or true desire to harm the lifeforms that inhabit Taurus II. This changes when Lieutenant Gaetano dies as a result of Spock's decision to take a third alternative to dealing with the inhabitants of Taurus II, but after becoming pinned down by a boulder and trapped as a result, Spock urges the landing party to leave him behind as time is of the essence and they can't afford to waste a minute. Both Doctor McCoy and Lieutenant Boma save him anyways. It's all meant to be a showing of how, despite ideological differences between humans and Vulcans, everyone can agree preventable deaths should be avoided, both species are more similar than dissimilar, etc. (although whose death is to be prevented--the inhabitants versus the landing party--is the issue of contention).

This makes Spock's later words to McCoy in The Immunity Syndrome even more ironic. The entire Triumvirate share a martyr complex and they each take turns with it according to the given episode.

There's more that I could get into about it all, how Spock's willingness to die to save others stems from Vulcan altruism and "the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few or the one," but that would easily become a 4k+ wordcount essay.

[discoonthegrass]

The Galileo Seven: The Galileo, under Spock's command, crash-lands on a hostile planet. As the Enterprise races against time to find the shuttlecraft, Spock's strictly logical leadership clashes with the fear and resentment of his crew.

The Naked Time: The crew is infected with a mysterious disease that removes people's emotional inhibitions to a dangerous degree.

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[fabuladorah]

All the bridge crew plus the Galileo's survivors gathering around just to laugh at Mr. Spock may have cured me of all my problems.

[chernobog13]

After the Grateful Dead concert everyone suspected Spock was too stoned to drive the van.

[baronvolkov]

Star Trek The Original Series Season 1 - Episode 17 - The Galileo Seven

[trekmupf]

Trapped in a Car With Someone You Don’t Want to Be Trapped in a Car With

Pro

Kirk being torn between his "duties" in the military structure of Starfleet and the duty to his crew / his friends

McCoy waking up and immediately doctoring

The way McCoy sits in the chair; Once again I'm stating the obvious: McCoy is very beautiful in this episode and his winged eyeliner is everything

We're getting to know Spock better: his problems connecting with the human crew and understanding them (something he learns later on, which is great character development), a new side to his logic, the fact that he's not driven by power (getting command)

Also the fact that the McCoy / Spock dynamic this early on the show is different from later on: the disagreements are less friendly banter and more actual fights, McCoy doesn't know Spock that well (thinking he's interested in power / command is wrong) and they don't work together as well, which is a great way to mark their development in later episodes

there's also a clear separation between Spock and the others, Spock's alone and doesn't have someone to confide in; later on Spock and McCoy are a duo

especially the scene where they're fighting over the funeral service highlights why McCoy, Spock and Kirk work best together and what can happen when one of them isn't around to balance them out

Spock is genuinely so irritated by his logic not working, he's so visibly annoyed several times

"Strange. Step by step I have made the the correct and logical decisions, and yet two men have died"

Spock's failures as a commander also highlights what makes Kirk such a great captain, as he manages to use logic and command while also balancing the human and empathetic side of it

Spock learning so much and growing during this, technically a great leader but he learns his own limits

Scotty best repair boy, the way he crouches and crawls into spaces to repair the shuttle and then engineer magic!

Also Scotty's attitude in the face of death is so great and telling about him. He realizes first what's going to happen and accepts it calmly, smiles and compliments Spock, having an air of comfort and peace around him

@ Kirk and McCoy in the last scene, how close do you guys need to be to have a conversation?

Kirk pointing out that Spock's action was based on hope and was therefore human and Spock trying to explain it away as a non emotional and therefore Vulcan action and the others just like him so much while he does so; it's not mean spirited but just lovely and such a great contrast to the tension earlier in the episode

So many of the shots inside the shuttle are accidently funny due to the camera angles they had use because of the tight space

Direct and straightforward episode set up: We have limited time (medicine needs to be brought to another planet) and the shuttle with two of our main characters gets lost in a phenomenon

Kirks desperation rising during his scenes the longer his crew is lost

great tension by the double plot: the immediate threat on the planet and the time pressure on the ship

I absolutely prefer the original special effects over the CGI remake. Look at how good the shuttle craft looks in comparison – taken from this youtube video which I recommend

Con

even for Trek the monsters are sort of shit

very minor but I'm annoyed at the uniform inconsistency, its yellow shirts not red shirt dying, the travesty

I know the commissioner is there to remind us of the time frame but his constant repeating starts to be annoying. I'm Kirk, just done with this guy (even though yes, he's right)

everyone but the yellow shirts who die have shit to do and opinions to have except the women who is just scared and doesn't wanna die

Counter: none

Quote "Did I? I may have been mistaken" - Spock "Well, at least I lived long enough to hear that" - McCoy

Moment: When the group sits in the doomed transporter together, knowing they're about to die but they seem collected

Free Bones because you can see his great make up in this one

Summary: Not quite bottle episode (even though it feels like it) that focusses on Spock and his struggles as a (half-) vulcan working with humans and his disconnect with them using a gripping and tense narrative; Over the course of the episode Spock learns a lot about humans, his connection to them and himself and he and his companions gather more respect for each other Previous Episode - Next Episode - All TOS Reviews

[lichqueenlibrarian]

I am distressed

[boldlyexplorational]

Question (from a new trekkie): in tos season 1 was the yeoman in "Shore leave" and "the Galileo seven" supposed to be Janice Rand (but she couldn't be there or something) or is it intentional for them to be different actresses for different Yeoman?

[ffcrazy15]

(Thoughts on watching The Galileo Seven:)

Man everyone is being such a dick to Spock in this episode. Like guys I get the whole "three people have to stay behind and might not get rescued" thing sucks, but you are Starfleet officers, you should be volunteering to let your fellow crewmen get to safety first! And Spock is in the extremely unenviable position here of deciding who of you is necessary to get the shuttle into orbit. Y'all need to lay off the poor guy and just follow orders if you want any of you to get home.

[pavel-chekov-appreciator]

Thinking about Spock’s assessment in The Galileo Seven that they’d probably have to leave people behind, and his insistence that of course who was left behind would be chosen “logically”.

Because I don’t think for a single second it occurred to him that the “logical” choice would be anyone but himself.

Spock is demonstrably prone to self-sacrifice. And I’m sure he’d have spun up some logical sounding argument-Vulcans are so much stronger than humans and from a higher gravity planet, so it’s pretty common fanon that they’re denser/heavier than similarly sized humans-but ultimately he’d just feel too guilty choosing anyone else.