Episode Behind the Scenes

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At the end when the group is laughing at the entity, Leonard Nimoy (Spock) is struggling to stifle laughing along with them.
   
When Mara tries to convince Kang to listen to Kirk, there is a close-up shot with her and there's a intercom panel over her left shoulder. But in every previous and subsequent wide shot she's standing in front of that big wire-mesh grid that takes up one wall of Engineering.
   
No one notices the Klingons are beaming down a party (despite the fact we've seen in other episodes the sensors can sense transporter activity) or if they did, nobody bothers to warn Kirk.
   
At the end when the entity left the Enterprise, it came out of the secondary hull, however it left from the engineering dept. The Engineering dept. is located in the back of the primary hull.
   
Lt. Johnson had no gold braid.
   

Michael Ansara, who plays Kang, would later reappear in the role in "Blood Oath", an episode of "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" and "Flashback", an episode of "Star Trek: Voyager".