Court Martial
Court Martial (Memory Alpha; HD Video) is a Trek-flavored courtroom drama, and it pulls it off.
The Enterprise has just been through an ion storm, and a crewman has died. But the computer claims that Kirk jettisoned the ion probe before he needed to, so a court martial is convened. Did Kirk kill the crewman?
This episode keeps up its tension quite nicely, and even has a plot twist that I didn’t see coming. It falls into a few tropes of the genre (the old no-questions-from-the-defense) but otherwise does an admirable job; it plays a little with justice, a little with witch hunts, a little with man-versus-machine.
This episode is the first time we see another Starfleet capital ship, The Intrepid. We also see an Indian Starship captain. And we get to play in a Jefferies tube.
We also get to prove that McCoy gets all the best lines:
McCoy: Are you a friend of Kirk’s?
Areel: Yes. An old one.
McCoy: All my friends look like doctors. His all look like you.
Grade
A-
