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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“As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both before and after.”
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