Star Trek: The Devil in the Dark (First Watch: E25)

Death count: 50 51 52 people in prison orange jumpsuits. (5 7 were guards), 1 red shirt, bunch of red shirts beaten

Hang on, “a lot can happen in three minutes”?  Wasn’t that…I need to watch Galaxy Quest again.

Janus?  Endings and beginnings, two-faced.

SPONTANEOUS HUMAN COMBUSTION

He’s the science officer.  It’s part of his duty to collect rocks.

So, really low pH, but also.  What type of acid attacks both biologicals and inorganics to the same extent?  Is it fluoric that eats through skin?

Uh, acid does linger.  Also you could easily check if it really is acid by throwing, say, baking soda on.

Silicon-based lifeforms!  Good science!  *dances*

Woke it up, maybe?

Doc, your science is out of date by a couple centuries.  The biggest issue for a silicon-based lifeform is the number of bonds it could form.  It’s harder for silicon to form the up to four bonds that carbon does.

…is that an egg???

Well, given quantum physics, flattering it actually might help.

Fifty-two, actually.

Moment of silence.

SPACE SLUGS FROM OUTER SPACE!

It’s still breathing!  The piece of it.

It’s not quite a dodo.  It is dangerous to us.  Us or them.  (Though the ‘need the metal’ probably doesn’t hurt either.)

Family first.

74% of statistics are made up on the spot.

Yes, but Kirk’s a bad influence ;)

It’s the psychics.  Probably.

You have never seen an early Earth horror vid, have you, Captain?

That’s a worried Vulcan.

And a creature actually…thinking?  Singling one human out?

You are involved in a Mexican standoff nowhere near Mexico.

Oh, Spock, it’s fine if a few red shirts bite it, but the Captain is a different story?  That’s most illogical.

True first contact.

He didn’t even touch it.  Must’ve been some pain.

That’s.  That’s Spanish.

Kirk can count on McCoy to pull off miracles.  Good to know.

I half expect ‘Elf-friends’ to come out of that mouth.

Hi, Bones.  Miracle time, miracle man.

What are we searching for, then?

Red shirt vs orange jumpsuit?

Bones is taking the whole ‘patient’ thing seriously now.

Yes, he can cure a rainy day, huh.

That’s a point where things went right.  Even the Doctor would be proud of the moment Kirk realizes the Horta’s not making any threatening movements and sits down on a rock and tries to talk to it.