annotated scenes from tos 1x25, "this side of paradise"

this is the anti-communist, communes, "happy pills", and drugs episode.  it's also the episode with leila kalomi, one of spock's few canonical romantic attachments, so from a slash point of view it's important--you'll see references to it a lot. 

basically, spock cheats on kirk with this dirty ho hippie botanist who used to have a crush on him back in school, but he does it because he's on drugs.  specifically, the whole colony are telepathically linked in a big love fest by some alien plant ejaculate spores, and they feel driven to assimilate the entire crew of the enterprise... starting with spock, because the dirty ho botanist knows the only way she's going to get to molest him is if he's higher than a kite. 

( kirk finds spock... high as a kite, hanging from a tree, being fondled by some ho. )

all right, this scene is veeeeery long.  but it's important and stuff!  ( kirk insults spock's parentage and ears in order to free spock from the evol influence of those dirty hippie commune drugs. it works. )

( a bit of innuendo, for free. )

( bonuses include spock kissing a girl. )

annotated scenes and image sequences from tos 1x23, "a taste of armageddon"

a short dialogue-free sequence demonstrates how ( kirk thinks it's totally hot that spock is a telepath. )

annotated scene: ( kirk is no damsel in distress and he doesn't need to be rescued. )

later, spock says he thinks kirk's plan to bring peace to the planet might work, and kirk gives him ( this look. )

then in the closer scene, kirk talks suggestively about feeeelings, which flusters spock to the point of practically ( declaring his love. )

bonus: the vulcan nerve pinch, funny hats, wrathful kirk and some faces.  ( +7 )