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Kirk and company beam down to Gamma Trianguli VI for exploration. It looks like a nice place with flowers and chirping birds and perfect weather. Then, a [[Red Shirt]] gets a chest full of poisonous spines. Still, they must press on and explore. There is, for example, an alien village worth observing.
Another Redshirt bites the dust when a lightning bolt seems to strike at random. Yet another has the bad fortune to trip over an exploding rock. They have the feeling they're being watched and discover Akula, the local priest, who seems shocked that anyone would react violently towards him. Akula takes the remaining crew to his village, which seems to be a perfect Utopia, were it not for the social stagnation and sex being forbidden. All this is due to their worship of a strange god they cal "Vaal".
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* [[Action Girl]]: Yeoman Martha Landon knows judo and is the only redshirt on the planet to get out of this episode alive.
* [[Adam and Eve Plot]]: Since it's scientifically unfeasible to believe that an entire race could grow from only two people, we're given a mid sized village. Still, it's the same plot and the Biblical story is alluded to.
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* [[Alien Non-Interference Clause]]: Spock's argument for letting the natives be.
* [[Angst]]: Poor Kirk is having a bad day. He's torn between following Starfleet's orders and doing what he feels is right. The [[Red Shirt]] [[Survivors Guilt|body count]] is 4 by the episode's end. Spock nearly got himself killed twice. Spock and Bones are arguing...again. And as if that wasn't bad enough, an AI gone mad is trying to destroy his ship. [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|Oh, and the cute blonde seems to like Chekov more than him.]]
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* [[Girl of the Week]]: We've never heard of Martha Landon before and never will again, but Pavel is head over heels for her!
* [[God Needs Prayer Badly|God Needs Food Badly]]: Vaal has tired of fruit and now desires a starship. [[Star Trek V: The Final Frontier|But what does God need with a starship?]]
* [[Heroic RROD]]: Vaal destroys itself in trying to reinforce its own energy field when fired on by the ''Enterprise''.The "Heroic" part is debatable as Vaal was only defending itself.
* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: [[Starsky and Hutch (TV series)|Hutch]] is an alien who wants to know what kissing is!
* [[Made of Explodium]]: The rocks on this planet. (Possibly just Vaal trying to keep out any threats to its existence.)
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* [[Understatement]] when Spock is struck by lightning, Bones decrees he has "Second degree burns. Not serious but I bet they smart." [[Deadpan Snarker|Spock commends him]] on his talent for understatement.
* [[Utopia Justifies the Means]]: The aliens sacrifice their ability to grow and develop plus making ritual sacrifices to Vaal in exchange for immortality and a life of mindless bliss.
* [[Who Wants to Live Forever?]]: The aliens are immortal, but in turn for stagnation and lack of choice. They do not create, or think or feel.
* [[What Is This Thing You Call Love?]]: Akuta comes out and asks "What is love?" Sayana and Hutch-uh, I mean Makora are intrigued by the concept of kissing and [[First Kiss|proceed to experiment.]]
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