Kirk’s Comment in Elaan of Troyius

[Noname Given]

Not completely. Uhura still retained her command of Swahili—the imperialist Chapel admonished her for using that language—suggesting that the wipe wasn’t complete.


In other words, perhaps whatever intangibles that made Uhura unique were retained, including knowledge and skills developed at an early age, somehow escaping the effect of Nomad’s beam. At least that’s how I’ve reconciled this baffling development.

Yep she lost knowledge, not her memories or other things that made her unique.

 

[Tenacity]

lost her ability to access her knowledge?

 

[johnnybear]

Surely Balok's giant ship was a sphere? The cube was the fly paper thing at the beginning!
JB

 

[Mytran]

Surely Balok's giant ship was a sphere? The cube was the fly paper thing at the beginning!
JB

True, but his point was about too-small distances depicted on screen and me incorrectly saying that it never happened in TOS!