Spot the Impostor: Difference between revisions

**** Note: According to Spock, he did not make his choice based on the order to shoot them both, but rather based on which one was winning: Kirk was recovering from an illness and thus was at a disadvantage against the healthier duplicate.

** A variation of the above gambit happened in the episode "What Are Little Girls Made Of?": The villain creates an android clone of Kirk, but Kirk causes the android to insult Spock, which causes Spock to realize that the android is an impostor.

** The first episode ("The Man Trap") featured a shapeshifting creature that drained the salt from people. It shapeshifted several times before settling on shifting into McCoy's form. It could be spotted by its tendency to curve its index finger and nibble slightly on the arc of the finger.

*** Actually, that gesture was meant to be an outward expression of its craving for salt. See also the way alcoholics were often presented on film in that era.