I like the old Trek series but I really hate episodes like this that use things like the Prime Directive just to make the show 50 minutes long. I can think of a couple of ways this episode could have been shortened to about 5 or 10 minutes just by finding this errant captain dude who ran amok and defected from Star Fleet (as someone else mentioned here - does Star Fleet not screen these friggin' captain guys?), and just beamed his butt back to the Enterprise and gptten out of there, but of course NOoo because they had to make an excuse to have a Roman sword fight and for Kirk to baazaang some catch-of-the-day floozy.
I would say hanging around and having sex with the locals would be breaking the Prime Directive far more than just high-tailing it out of there. Very, very dumb episode imo.
I would say hanging around and having sex with the locals would be breaking the Prime Directive far more than just high-tailing it out of there. Very, very dumb episode imo.