(teaser:)
Character driven stories - you can see here Kirk's reactions , nothing is
stilted, sci-fi rockets-in-space kitsch ... the setting, the science fiction,
in this moment and many others, is secondary.  The scene is driven by the
character.  This is what made Star Trek stand out, what ascended it from
mere science fiction television to something higher, something real.

It was always about the characters first.  They could've been in a Western,
or on the prairie, or on a hunting expedition:  the backdrop really didn't
matter.

And this is what made it so extraordinary.  It was about the characters.
This is what made it real.



(finale:)
Using logic to outsmart a computer, to get it to fold in on itself logically:
Kirk has used this before.  It just never gets old for some reason.