Oh no wait now they’re discussing tape delay. gee it took you that long to get to a planet and FIGURE OUT it was automated? What did you just not feel like talking to them UNTIL you got there.

Uhura: We’re getting a distress call

Kirk: Set a course at maximum warp.

Uhura: Shall I let them know we’re coming?

Kirk: No! that would ruin the surprise!

McCoy: What surprise?

Uhura on Intercom: ENSIGN LYNDON, COME ON DOWN YOU’RE THE NEXT CONTESTANT ON THE PLANET IS WRONG!

Kirk: We want to give our redshirts a fighting chance.

A nation of 900,000? Yeesh that’s small. Nothing new for Stargate later on….