Episode of the Week : Shore Leave

A fun episode, though not great. It´s interesting to learn something about Kirk´s past and to see the crew react to all these unusual occurances. Shore Leave greatly benefits from having been shot on location and the use of dolly shots, which truly stand out when you think of all those "sound stage planets".
But the episode also features one of the worst stunt doubles (in terms of looking like the main actor) in all of TOS: the guy doubling for Finnegan is an old man!
The final solution though was unexpected and one more asset for Shore Leave.

I give it a 6.

 

I rate it as an 8. Not a great episode but fun. I actually find myself liking this more as the years have past by. As a kid, I didn't really care for this one much.

 

Sturgeon's one of my favorite writers. I just do not viscerally like this episode however. He was correct that the shots of the antennae in the bushes gives it away way too soon, btw.

 

Another 8.

Great fun to watch.

 

A fun episode with an appeal that only the Muppet faction could appreciate.
Barrows was hot!

 

Was it just me. Or did Ruth look ALOT older than Kirk? Especially when you consider she was from his younger days.

 

It's a very good episode for me as a Star Trek music fan. Gerald Fried came up with some great themes, including the love theme later used for Spock and Leila Kalomi in "This Side of Paradise."

It's always a plus to see them on location in the real outdoors. Kirk has a great, protracted fight scene with Finnegan. I give this one an 8.

 

Generally a fun episode, despite the deus ex machina ending and the fake-out "death" of Dr. McCoy. Unfortunately, the "let's kill off a regular character and then doubletalk them back to life" device became a Trek cliché, with Capt. Kirk holding the record for "dying" not once, not twice, but three times!

One minor quibble: The young actress portraying Lewis Carroll's Alice did a terrible pseudo-British accent.

It's certainly plausible that young Jim Kirk could have been involved with an older woman. BTW, Shirley Bonne, the actress who played Ruth, is actually three years younger than William Shatner.

 

It's kinda fun but dumb as a box of rocks. The characters act stupidly, especially once they realize there is some danger.

 

Apparently I missed something - "curly-haired Spock"?

 

Fun but silly. I liked Barrows though. Nice to see McCoy get a shot with a hot chick even if he's old enough to be her dad. Can't criticise Kirk for aiming for a mature woman with Barrows aiming for a mature man. What's good for the goose...

 

Never noticed that before. Thanks

 

I voted 8 because it's always been one of my favorites.


I don't know why, but I really don't have much to say about this one. I really like it, but it's not worth a 10 or 9.

 

Love this episode.

Love the fact that Kirk had his own personal bully back at the Academy. That, combined with Gary Mitchell's earlier description of Academy-era Kirk as "a stack of books with legs" hints at a much more varied and interesting background than just a cliche, one-note "bad boy."

Love the big fight with Finnegan.

Hell, love Finnegan, period!

Love seeing Bones in Southern ladykiller mode. (Not to be confused with Don Juan, who was an entirely different kind of ladykiller.)

Also, was the first Star Trek episode I ever saw in color, thanks to the friendly, old, retired couple and their big color console TV who lived next door to my cousin.

 

All right, Jimmy boy.


And Sulu's hobby of the week: Shooting with an old gun

 

Although to be fair, when you take a look at the dialogue it doesn´t seem to be so short-lived an interest in this case:

KIRK: What do you think you're doing?
SULU: Target shooting, Captain. Isn't it a beauty? Haven't got anything like this in my collection.
KIRK: Where did you get it, Mister Sulu?
SULU: I found it. I know it's a crazy coincidence, but I've always wanted one like this. Found it lying right over there. An old-time police special, and in beautiful condition. Hasn't been one like this made in a couple of centuries.

But of course, we´ve never heard of it before or after, so you´re right too