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The Paradise Syndrome is another, not Spock at his best.
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Well, he angers his underlings in both episodes. But in the first, he acts rashly, choosing high risk alternatives, and gets people killed. In the second, he acts with premeditation (and during-meditation!), ignores the obvious but fruitless courses of quick action, and succeeds in everything at the cost of no lives. That IMHO
is Spock at his best, and this amounts to a triumph. Even when Kirk and McCoy's inferior choices at the teaser result in considerable jeopardy.
Timo Saloniemi