Series Significance
Gerald Fried's incidental music for the fight became a standard underscore for combat-scenes in season 2. It was notably spoofed during the Medieval Times sequence in the Jim Carrey movie The Cable Guy, in The Simpsons episode Deep Space Homer, and on Futurama as the national anthem of Dr. Zoidberg's home panet, Decapod 10.
Spock's famous Vulcan hand salute, repeated many times in later episodes and series, is given for the first time when Spock departs from T'Pau.
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