Spock believes strongly in following doctor's orders, even if that doctor happens to be personally unpleasant, and so he has not organized a meeting with the captain to discuss their continued search efforts. Instead, he has organized a game of chess ( Read more... )

It's difficult to keep anything really secret on a starship, especially when a) you're the captain, b) you give inexplicable orders about apparently unconnected things, and c) you contact command and somehow neglect to relay this information to your first officer, who may indeed be a cold-blooded Vulcan but is (fortunately for your ship's survival ( Read more... )

Despite Mr. Scott's comments, Spock does not investigate the minor technical problems of the Enterprise personally because he is a 'controlling, nosy bastard who has nothing better to do than fool around in engineering', but because it is well known that when unsupervised human crew members will solve problems in inefficient ways that will create ( Read more... )