The explanation is easy: He originally was not conceived as being emotionless. That was added only after the first pilot, to make up for the “cold and efficient” Number One being cut from the cast. It took Nimoy until the middle of the first season to get the role down pat.
Watch him in every episode up to “The Galileo Seven,” and then in “Court Martial.” The change is obvious.
The same is true of Shatner’s interpretation of Kirk. In the first few episodes, he was a something of a dick.
I’m Free Garvin, male prostitute.
I also thought those puppets were very cool. I’ve heard them described as one of the worst special effects on TOS, presumably because of the clearly-visible strings. I never had a problem with that; watching all those Gerry Anderson shows as a kid evidently desensitized me to visible puppet wires.
I can’t remember if I’ve seen the “remastered” version of that episode, but I presume the strings were digitally removed.
“The women!”
First off I think that seeing that it was a “clip show” that “Shades of Gray” should be disqualified.
And although “Profit and Lace” has been mentioned, no one has gone into detail as to exactly how bad it really was. It was the worst Ferengi-centered episode, and that’s saying something. Quark in drag!!! Who thought anybody would want to see that?
Yes they were. They also added some extra smoke.
Not just the early eps. Here’s the ones i can remember off the top of my head.
“Any time you can bluff me doctor!!” Or something like that…I never quite understood what he was saying. (Corbomite Maneuver) He goes after Bailey a little hard.,Yes Corbomite is an early ep
“Lieutenant, you have the field localizer set to wide beam, narrow it!” Again, something like that. (Journey to Babel) He doesnt even apologize for that one nor should he.
Some snippet about his command crew conspiring against him. Don’t remember the ep,he quickly apologizes.
Half the plot of “Obsession” is him unfairly going after the guy who hesitated because HE hesitated,
In “Operation Annihilate” he can’t help but grrr at Bones for blinding Spock. OKAY everyone sat their and stupidly let Spock not wear glasses because it wasn’t field approximate…and then you’re going to get pissed at McCoy??
I don’t remember- was Bones not aware that Vulcans had that second eyelid (?). You’d think the ship’s surgeon would by familiar with Vulcan physiology.
That’s not an “explanation,” that’s the actual reason. No fun there. 
“A Private Little War”: “I did not invite a debate!” :mad:
You’d think so, but no. 
As a pretty big Star Trek fan, I hate to admit this, but I have no idea what you are talking about here.
Can you help a fellow nerd out?
(Unless you’re talking about The Motion Picture.)
What’s being referred to is a horrible episode of Voyager called “Threshold” Threshold (episode) | Memory Alpha | Fandom
Ahhh. Thanks much. Didn’t see much of Voyager. Was a TNG and TOS guy.
Voyager one of the early episodes, Paris perfected a warp-ten drive which caused him and Janeway to become giant salamanders before the end credits. As I recall the crew left their litter of offspring on a jungle planet when they tracked them down and forced them to get better.
There were a few like “The Game”, “Profit and Lace”, and “Meridian” (I remember the last as being particularly weak, between the whole Brigadoon-planet thing and the B-plot about the sleazy guy wanting a holobrothel session with an avatar of Kira, though the latter was somewhat redeemed by the final comeuppance).
Actually, he did immediately say that he regretted snapping, explaining it as a result of the more-than-usually stressful situation.
M’benga was the actual xenophysician, and the actual Vulcan specialist. McCoy, even as CMO, was (self-admittedly) less familiar and less skilled with non-human medicine.
Odder is the fact that Spock forgot about the inner eyelid, although the excuse that its use was reflexive (and the parallel assumption that it almost never gets used, even outdoors, in modern Vulcans) is a hand-wavy explanation for that.
That was also Obsession.
UHURA: Captain, the Yorktown requesting information on how soon we expect to rendezvous with them.
KIRK: Thank you.
SCOTT: The medicine for Theta Seven colony is not only needed desperately and has limited
KIRK: I’m aware of the situation, Engineer, and I’m getting a little tired of my senior officers conspiring against me. Forgive me. Perhaps I shouldn’t have used the word conspire.
SCOTT: Agreed, sir.
I am probably not the first one to think of this, but how about blaming a Universal Translator implant? He’s actually speaking French all of the time, but the UT is set to “English(UK)”.
I seem to recall a writer’s strike that may have been going on around that time.