The Enterprise is able
to travel 1000 light years to retrieve the Captain in approximately
12 hours. This is a much faster speed than we have seen in previous
episodes. It would make it possible for the Enterprise to reach
Andromeda in a year and a half, whereas in "By
Any Other Name" such a journey would have taken thousands of
years.
Kirk sends the landing party out to
do a "detailed" analysis of the planet. Then they get together,
report, and Kirk sends D'Amato out to look for water - shouldn't
that have been part of the analysis?
Sulu makes reference to
the events of "The
Devil in the Dark", even though he did not appear in that
episode.