The episode fits nicely into the TOS canon of Pike losing crew on Rigel VII, but something is just... off about the plot devices.
The plot involves the Enterprise cleaning up a Prime Directive mess on the planet from that first visit. The problem with the planet is that radiation from a meteorite effects the areas of the brains memory functions. It is identified by Spock early on that the meteorite crashed into the planet 10,000 years ago. When Pike, La'an and M'Benga travel to the planet, they are almost immediately impact by the radiation. If this held true, would not his crew from the prior mission felt or recorded similar effects of the radiation? Tinnitus, brain fuzz, loss of time, etc. In the short visit? Anyhow. It turns out that one of the three crew members he thought he lost actually survived and was the cause of the Prime Directive issue.
The wrapped up the end of the episode WAY too fast. For some reason, they were able tractor-beam the meteorite off the planet and place it back into space AS A 10 SECOND ASIDE. No, "We found the culprit rock!", just Ortegas whipping it into space. Anyhow.
Good Trek - true to canon.
The plot involves the Enterprise cleaning up a Prime Directive mess on the planet from that first visit. The problem with the planet is that radiation from a meteorite effects the areas of the brains memory functions. It is identified by Spock early on that the meteorite crashed into the planet 10,000 years ago. When Pike, La'an and M'Benga travel to the planet, they are almost immediately impact by the radiation. If this held true, would not his crew from the prior mission felt or recorded similar effects of the radiation? Tinnitus, brain fuzz, loss of time, etc. In the short visit? Anyhow. It turns out that one of the three crew members he thought he lost actually survived and was the cause of the Prime Directive issue.
The wrapped up the end of the episode WAY too fast. For some reason, they were able tractor-beam the meteorite off the planet and place it back into space AS A 10 SECOND ASIDE. No, "We found the culprit rock!", just Ortegas whipping it into space. Anyhow.
Good Trek - true to canon.