I got the impression that the Murasaki phenomenon was short lived, and it wouldn't be possible to return and study it later, towards the middle of the episode didn't it dissolve?
Worst command decisions by Captain James T. Kirk
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Maybe he got there by way of family connections and is trying too hard to prove that he deserves the posting on his own merits (and subsequently fails by trying too hard).
Now there's a novel idea! The original space footage of course was recycled in a fashion that omitted Murasaki from all the later shots, so one could argue that. But it's not as if there would have been much of Murasaki visually to begin with - Kirk's viewscreen showed the green blob, but the action shots with the shuttle never had any green to them save for the planet itself.
And TOS-R swings the other way, showing thick green mist everywhere, all the time...
As for dialogue, no mention is made of transience. Kirk's crew valiantly tries to improve the sensors and the transporters, and eventually they begin to work despite the phenomenon. That is, the phenomenon is not said to have gone away or weakened (although admittedly it is not said to have remained steady or even in existence, either).
Timo Saloniemi
Not checking in on Khan and his people on Ceti-Alpha V, or at least making sure that someone in the Federation was.
I always imagined that MU-Kirk used the Botany Bay for target practice. Of course, MU-Khan and his people were probably all good guys that used the BB to escape the tyranny of the early Empire back on earth.
I always imagined that MU-Kirk used the Botany Bay for target practice. Of course, MU-Khan and his people were probably all good guys that used the BB to escape the tyranny of the early Empire back on earth.
They had sexy females?
One of Kirk's worst command decisions was trying to strand me on Delta Vega.
Yeah, Kirk made the final decision, but it really was Spock's idea.
You were seen as a rival, and with you gone his power position aboard the ship was even more secure.
It was the logical thing to do.
I was just trying to add a little zip, a little pizazz, a little electricity to their humdrum lives and what do I get for it? A boulder for a hat.
Yeah, c'mon Mitchell. Use your God-like powers on the tombstone. 
Off day?
You were close. R, S, T....bingo! 
Dang. You are a God. I bow down before you.
I wonder what the R stood for?
Romulus?
Sounds logical. I guess it has to be something Roman-esque like Tiberius was.
Good one. I bow down before you.
