@Grant, you are 100% correct! Thanks for playing. The next game is yours.
Clue 1: Investigating the fascinatingly impossible is what we do.
Mr. Spock: … the inconsistencies are so compounded as to present a seemingly
impossible phenomenon. Captain Kirk: But a
fascinating one, Mr. Spock.
An exchange between Spock and Kirk before Kirk announces he is taking a landing party to the planet to investigate it for their StarFleet report.
Clue 2: There is too much planning and not enough planning going on here.
The advance planning of the auto defense system outlived the Kalandans and its usefulness and became dangerous. The 4 person landing party beams down on this “ghost planet” with only 2 weapons? McCoy should really pack a few food supplements tablets in his medicine kit – for emergencies. If he did,
finding food and finding it fast! (Kirk), wouldn’t have to be a concern within minutes of being stranded.
Clue 3: Sabotage!
Losira fused the emergency bypass of the matter-antimatter integrator. The engines will overload and explode in less than 15 minutes.
Clue 4: This episode’s saboteur does a thorough job of deliberate sabotage.
Mr. Scott: The emergency bypass control of the matter-antimatter integrator is fused. It’s useless. And there’s no question it’s
deliberate.
Mr. Spock: Sabotage.
Mr. Scott: Aye, and a
thorough job. The system’s foolproof …
Clue 5: What I wouldn’t give for a can of WD-40 right now!
While trying to reverse the polarity on the magnetic probe, it gets stuck and won’t slide. Scotty wastes precious seconds fiddling with it.
Clue 6: I didn’t ask you what time it is!
Mr. Spock continues giving a countdown to explosion to Mr. Scott and it stresses him out.
Scott: I know what time it is. I don’t need a blooming cuckoo clock!
Clue 7: Some may say you are beautiful but all agree that you are an industrious disruptor.
Kirk and Sulu say Losira is beautiful. She is quite busy disrupting the landing party members and causing trouble and death aboard the Enterprise.