SHORE LEAVE
NOTES

ED Feb 2267
SD 3025.3
AD Dec 29 1966


Oh finally, a non-desert unexplored planet!
That's not Yeoman Rand
It's Yeoman Barrows
Kirk thought Spock was massaging his back, once he realized the Yeoman was doing it he had her stop lol no wonder people thought him and Spock were gay
After what this ship has been through in the last 3 months - get dates to corroborate
From an episodic order perspective, that makes total sense though, coming off the heels of their encounter with the Romulans
Sulu and Bones like the planet
430 people aboard the Enterprise
Sulu doing botany stuff again
Oh shit there's a guy in a rabbit costume and now there's Alice. Bones is like "the fuck did I just see?"
They aren't wearing phaser belts, their guns are just clipped to their waists

Stardate 3025.3
Omicron Delta region
Describes Earth-like as parkland, lawns, green
THis is not Yeoman Rand
Spock declines shore leave and finds recreational use of energy to be illogical
Bones tells Kirk he saw the rabbit, Kirk thinks he's joking
Wait Spock's mom used to read him that book
Spock is like "medical reports indicates a crewman needs a vacation"
Kirk: that man NEEDS a vacation who is he?
Spock: Jim Kirk
There's a menacing shot of a gun under a hinged rock
A goldshirt flirts with a blueshirt and Kirk and Yeoman Who beam down
Bones shows Kirk the tracks, Kirk goes into detective mode and calls shore leave off
Mama Kirk gotta make sure the planet is safe
Oh shit, we're running!
Gunshots!
Sulu is shooting a fucking gun and smiling, he loves it - and apparently collects guns
Bones rolls his eyes at Sulu's enthusiasm
No wonder Kirk took it - remember The Naked Time?
Kirk is talking about an upperclassmen named Finnagan who picked on him
Bones called Kirk grim
Apparently Finnagan was a prankbro
There he is, old Finnegan
Oh shit, Finnegan fucking punched him
Is Kirk's greatest desire to beat the crap out of Finnegan for pranking him?
This FInnegan guy is obnoxious
Barrows is screaming
Her uniform is ripped
Did someone try to rape her?
Bones says it sounds like Don Juan
Lol Sulu ran after Don Juan
An antennae watches Kirk
Kirk is distracted by a flower
Enter Ruth
Is this perhaps the woman he almost married?

15 years since he's seen Ruth
Kirk's forgotten about Sulu
Kirk is fully enchanted by Ruth
Spock finds energy readings; industrial activity below the surface (of course!)
The antenna scans people and figures out what they want
Barrows is making a big deal about how the planet is so enchanting but it's a California park
It's a holodeck episode before there were holodecks
Bones wants to bone Barrows
"I am a doctor - when I peek it is in the line of duty"
Oh shit there's a tiger and it's got these two kids! Is one of them from Balance of Terror?
I could deal with Klingons, Romulans, basically anything but a tiger is where I draw a line and shit my pants over it.
Some samurai charges Sulu
Their phasers are out
Spock beams down hell yeah, it's Spock time
He's having trouble
He scienced a way to get down to the planet, but now everyone is stuck
Bones and Barrows holding hands
Bones totally bones Barrows at some point
Great now here comes a knight asshole
Bones thinks its a hallucination and cannot be harmed by it
He stands
IT KILLS HIM!
HE'S DEAD JIM!
Kirk shoots the knight with Sulu's gun!
Why isn't it called Sulu's Gun instead of Chekhov's Gun?
Kirk refers to Bones as his personal friend
Barrows is crying and says it's her fault
Kirk grabs her and tells her to do her duty, to which she aye aye sir and pulls together
Sulu examines the knight - it's like a dummy
It's an android - so are the trees - it's all artificial
The crewmen are being shot at by an airplane
The female (Angela) is down!
There's Finnegan again
Kirk is going after Finnegan in the hopes of catching him and finding out what's going on
There's more running in this episode than a Tom Cruise movie
Kirk demands answers, Finnegan attacks, Kirk fights
Kirk's shirt is torn
Finnegan beat him up

Kirk demands answers, Finnegan demands he earn them so they go fight again
15 years after Kirk was a plebe
Spock asks Kirk if he enjoyed beating up Finnegan
Kirk insists he enjoyed it
Spock has a theory
It's a holodeck
The tiger is there
Why not imagine a freight train coming to splatter the tiger? A detachment of allied troops to blow out the plane?
Don Juan appears to rape Barrows
Someone could think of a fixed shirt - apparently Barrows did
Some guy appears, claims to be the caretaker of this place
Apparently he just figured out they don't know wtf is going on
He explains it's basically a psychic holodeck
Bones appears with two bunnies on his arm
He went below the surface for 'repairs' and he is totally all about these people
Barrows does not like his friends
Bones is explaining and Kirk is laughing. Spock judging?
Bones is going to bone Barrows
The guy says they aren't ready to understand his race yet
He allows them to use his planet for their shore leave
Spock wants to go back to the ship. Kirk is about to go back instead and sees Ruth, deciding to stay
Everyone had a great shore leave
Spock judges it illogical, they all laugh it off