2. When Friends Clash
In one of the last scenes of the aforementioned Amok Time, TPring, the Vulcan woman betrothed to Spock, chooses Captain Kirk as her champion in a fight to the death against him. While most of the original series fight scenes were left to William Shatners Kirk, this time we get to see the captain fight his first officer in a brutal battle that involves two deadly Vulcan weapons, the Lirpa and the Ahnwoon. The fight culminates with Spock appearing to have killed Kirk, although it is really a ploy designed to end the fight with neither man dying, as Dr. McCoy has injected Kirk with a drug that simulates death. Upon learning that he has, in fact, not slain Kirk, Spock cries out, Jim! in a joyous display of emotion.
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