Or, as I used to say, “Hooked on Phonics worked for Uhura!”
On of the hoods - the first one in the phoning process, was “put on ice” up there - I think we even see him in the transporter room. I was referring to the rest, especially the guy caught in mid-call.
That was Kracko, Joe Joe Kracko and he was going to give Kirk “a cut” skimmed right off the top!
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[li] Kirk vs. Picard. This was such a hilarious example of “firing first” Kirk that I could hardly believe it. Enterprise discovers 4 billion people dead. Suddenly they’re fired upon. They find the ship, then Kirk fires a photon torpedo; direct hit. Once they find out it did no damage at all, he then tells Uhura to hail them, and says “We are on a mission of peace!”[/li][/quote]
We’re re-watching all the old Star Trek, and this is one of the things that stands out to me. The crew of the Enterprise didn’t decimate every alien race they encountered, but they sure eliminated a whole bunch of them. “Well, I regret it, but they were asking for it, so we wiped them out.” It really is an artifact of the time, that you look after your own, and TFB about anyone who gets in your way.
This kind of thing is a little hard to take, and it is ubiquitous throughout the whole original series. I love old science fiction, but I really have to put my “women as valid human beings” ideas on hold while I read or watch them. Again, another artifact of its time, just like being touchy-feely nebbishes is an artifact of The Next Generation. 
Don’t forget what happened to Dr Miranda Jones, sickening.
What, when she fell down the elevator shaft?
Nah, that was Dr. Ann Mulhall.
I can’t deny this, but remember that Roddenberry had a woman as first officer in the original pilot. I believe NBC shot it down. Who knows what he might have done if he had been permitted it? Maybe let Uhura take over the Captain’s chair once in a while.