TOS Plotting
One of the things that all the episodes have done really, really well so far is tie the characters that span episodes into the action of the current episode. McCoy is visiting an old flame, Nurse Chapel is, too. One of Kirk’s oldest friends has something terribly wrong with him and Spock loses his inhibitions and cannot stay logical.
It’s truly one of the strengths of the show, and it reminds me of nothing more than the scenario-creation rules in my brother Josh’s Sons of Liberty, where it works similarly well.
