Star Trek: 10 Character Reveals That Didn't Have To Go THAT Hard

10. Spock's First Loyalty Is To The Man, Not The Ship

Part of the fun of The Original Series is that now, when one watches it through, one has the context of all of the Star Trek that followed it (and preceded it!). On first viewing, though difficult to bear in mind today, the audience were discovering new things about these characters week to week.

The Menagerie offered viewers a chance to enjoy The Cage, which at that point had never been aired in any kind of widespread format. So, Captain Christopher Pike was a surprise to the audience. So to, then, was Spock's apparent mutiny and theft of the Enterprise.

These days, the ships are stolen every other Tuesday, but in 1966 it was a shocking thing to see. Spock, that stoic yet fiercely logical crewman, was the very last person on the ship one would consider as a mutineer. Yet, here he was, knocking out engineers and kidnapping his former C.O.

There is something of a long history of huge character reveals encircling this man (see: Sybok, Michael Burnham, his child with Saavik) - but this was truly one of the most out-of-left-field shocks we had encountered. 

Spock may have been Kirk's best friend, but where did his loyalties really lie?