A magician dressed up as an actual devil, with horns and tails and a moustache, named Dr. Faustus.
“breast like inflated bladders” (about some demon conjured up like the above magician).
After a shore leave at that starbase Kirk had to convene two summary court martial, issue four immediate demotions, and 5 severe reprimands, none of which surprised him?? (I mean this isn’t the 19th or 20th Century navy it’s the 23rd Century Starfleet!)
The Enterprise doesn’t have an arboretum, it has a herbarium.
Kirk is saddled with a son from a Starbase Admiral, a slacker, which Kirk tries to teach the Starfleet Way: “Well, Kirk new of no better way of training a crewman than by dropping him on an alien planet and seeing how he behaved himself.” This explains so many redshirt deaths.
One of the landing party members is clearly a stand in for some soldiers in Vietnam “we should burn a few of their huts to teach them a lesson”
