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* [[Alas, Poor Villain]]: Carolyn openly weeps at the virtual death of Apollo. Bones shows some remorse for [[I Did What I Had to Do|what they had to do.]] Kirk ponders if maybe they should've gathered just a few laurel leaves to make Apollo feel better.
* [[Ancient Astronauts]]: The reason given for the Greek Gods
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* [[Did You Just Romance Cthulhu?]]: Carolyn charms Apollo, and is charmed by him.
* [[Divine Date]]: Apollo demands some alone time with Carolyn. She doesn't exactly fight it.
* [[Executive Meddling]]/[[What Might Have Been]]: In the original version of the script, Carolyn ended the episode pregnant with Apollo's child, in the grand tradition of the Greek gods. [[Moral Guardians|NBC Standards and Practices]] insisted this be excised.
* [[Expy]]: Female ''Enterprise'' historian is wooed by superior being and briefly turns her back on the crew? [[Star Trek/Recap/S1/E22 Space Seed|Where have we heard this before?]] (It's especially funny if you assume Carolyn is Marla McGivers's replacement, though that raises the question of why their uniforms were different colors.)
* [[Fluffy the Terrible]]: Chekov mentions creatures that can produce their own energy, vis a vis,citing the electric eel, some creature from another planet and something he called "Fluffy".
* [[Gilded Cage]]: The pastoral setting Apollo has conjured looks like Paradise. But, it is still a prison if one is not allowed to leave.
* [[Girl of the Week]]: Carolyn Palamas