Trek two parters

[Pauln6]

Thing was in the episode, Kirk and crew act like Balance of Terror had never happened! They speak of the cloaking device and it's implications as though they know nothing about it despite their encounter with a cloaked ship two years earlier but even Chekov remembers it when they crossed the Neutral Zone in The Deadly Years!
JB

This is a newer cloak though. Tougher to detect with sensors and less power intensive.

 

[johnnybear]

Maybe it is, Paul, but Kirk and Spock are speaking as though they have never encountered cloaking technology before!
JB

 

[Commishsleer]

I think a bit more build up to make Kirk's attitude less jarring at the start, a bit of racist banter to make Spock seem more likely to defect, and finish episode 1 with Kirk's death. Episode 2 could then have been padded, with a couple of other crew being part of the IMF team to plug some of the gaping plot holes and dim-witted way the Commander left herself so open.

I don't think even a 10-parter would make me believe that Spock would betray Kirk like that.
I was into the fake as soon as Spock revealed they had no orders to enter the Neutral Zone.

As soon as Kirk beamed back aboard the Enterprise as dead I would have liked Kirk to reveal that he had told Spock to improvise and that everything wasn't going to plan. Perhaps then the crew would have helped in the caper IMF style rather than have Kirk don the ears.

 

[Pauln6]

I don't think even a 10-parter would make me believe that Spock would betray Kirk like that.
I was into the fake as soon as Spock revealed they had no orders to enter the Neutral Zone.

As soon as Kirk beamed back aboard the Enterprise as dead I would have liked Kirk to reveal that he had told Spock to improvise and that everything wasn't going to plan. Perhaps then the crew would have helped in the caper IMF style rather than have Kirk don the ears.

I certainly think that the mission required a lot more finesse and it could have been a lot more fun if, say, Uhura had to be involved in running interference, or Sulu had to sneak on board as well as a saboteur distraction. Does Kirk speak fluent Romulan? Are we to assume he was posing as an officer from one of the other vessels? Why would Romulans not think it odd that they did not recognise a senior officer? Lots of problems.

 

[Commishsleer]

In regards to content, "Journey to Babel" had enough action for a two-parter, The first part could end on Kirk's stabbing or the ship being nearly blown up, or Sarek nearly dying.