Leila brings Spock, wearing his Starfleet uniform to a place in the open countryside where the spore-generating plants are growing. Moments later, Kirk calls Spock on his communicator; Spock answers while lying in the field with Leila, wearing a green jumpsuit typically worn by all the colonists. Apparently Spock found a jumpsuit lying in the fields and quickly changed clothes before Kirk called.
When Sulu and DeSalle are digging in the garden, the lead-in shot shows a metal spade. However, when they pull back to the two men and their fight, they both have wooden tools.
At the end (in the re-mastered version), as the Enterprise leaves orbit, the view screen shows the planet from the rear of the ship, between the engine nacelles. In that view, the planet is lighted from the left of the ship, but in the last shot, as the credits appear, the planet is lighted from the right. This would indicate that the ship had reversed 180 degrees and flown past the planet again.
The knuckle holes that Spock punches into the side of the transporter control panel are already there before Spock punches the control panel. Spock very obviously just puts his knuckles into the holes. One knuckle hole is visible early in Kirk's insult barrage against Spock while Kirk is behind the control panel.
When Leila first lays eyes on Spock, the close up, tight shots of her face shows some shadows falling on it. When the camera goes wide, her face is evenly and brightly lit.
DeSalle is a botanist, but instead of a blue Sciences tunic, he is wearing a gold Command one.
As Kirk is packing his things to beam down, he is using what resembles a 1960s Samsonite suitcase, hardly what one would expect on a star ship in the distant future. Kirk has frequently been shown to have a quirky fondness for "antique" artifacts.
At about 28:30, Kirk beams aboard the Enterprise, but there is no one left on the ship by this point to beam him aboard. Indeed, a moment later, Kirk is on the bridge of the ship -- and there confirms that no one but he is aboard. Actually, in a last planetside scene halfway through the episode (before Kirk is alone on the ship), Spock tells Sandoval that "almost the entire ship's complement has beamed down". In other words, there are still some crewmen aboard, and one of them must have beamed Kirk aboard before beaming down themselves.
Elias Sandoval tells Kirk that their sub-space transmitter stopped working and they had no one there to fix it. As this is a colonization mission, they would have brought technicians to fix any equipment they had. However, the technician(s) could have died during the voyage to the planet or in an accident on the planet's surface.
The plant lying in front of the helm console has no way to lift itself. When it sprays Kirk it is clearly being held and moved by someone off-camera. However, as it is an alien plant, it may be able to move its stalk at least.
Obvious stunt doubles for Kirk and Spock as they fight in the transporter room.
Leila brings Spock, wearing his Starfleet uniform to a place in the open countryside where the spore-generating plants are growing. Moments later, Kirk calls Spock on his communicator; Spock answers while lying in the field with Leila, wearing a green jumpsuit typically worn by all the colonists. Apparently Spock found a jumpsuit lying in the fields and quickly changed clothes before Kirk called.
The Enterprise has exquisitely sensitive scanners that can easily detect the existence of life forms (both flora and fauna of any kind) from orbit. Thus, the presence of living humanoids at the Omicron Ceti III settlement shouldn't have come as a surprise to the landing party.
In the end credits, George A. Rutter is listed as "Scpipt Supervisor".
When Spock is exposed to the spores and falls down, a black pole attached to something white is visible in the background. This pole isn't visible in any previous or subsequent shot.
When Kirk is left alone on the ship, his takes his usual position on the bridge, and complains in his log about not being able to pilot the ship.
Had he gone to auxiliary control, he could have done just that. Of course, auxiliary control wont be introduced for some time.
Had he gone to auxiliary control, he could have done just that. Of course, auxiliary control wont be introduced for some time.
The spores are surely the greatest medical discovery in the Star Trek universe: They restore one to perfect health even to the point of regrowing lost body parts. And once a person has been cured of any malady, the doctor would only need to start an argument with the patient to finish the treatment. The Enterprise should have loaded itself to the gills with spore plants and put every doctor in the Federation out of a job. But we never hear about the spore plants again.
McCoy's tricorder would have detected the spores in the bodies of the colonists.
During his soliloquy on the bridge when Kirk is reflecting on being the last crewmember on board, he mentions that the spores affected everyone else because plants themselves were beamed up, and also because the ventilation system has spread spores to every part of the ship. If this is the case, then merely because the crew members and colonists were eventually "cured" by anger or other strong emotions, they realistically could have all been "re-infected" by plants remaining on board (as Kirk himself was) or by spores that continued to circulate throughout the ship's ventilation.
When Kirk goes to look for Spock, he tells McCoy, "Have the landing party work in teams of two, I don't want anyone left alone." After which he goes off to find Spock...leaving McCoy alone.
Leila states that she has never seen a star ship before. Since she was not born on the planet, it stands to reason that she was brought there by a star ship.
Kirk speaks of Spock's parents in the past tense, as if they are dead, but they are later shown in Journey to Babel (1967), very much alive.
Last scene, in the bridge, Kirk says "inch" instead of "centimeter" more appropriate unit of measure as the Federation adopted the metric system.
When the fight between Kirk and Spock ends in the transporter room, Spock still has the metal table in his hands. He lowers it, and drops it. He doesn't bend down to place it on the ground. Yet there is no sound of the table hitting the deck.