In the novelization, the crew was shrunk in order that the Terratins could beam some of them down without crushing their city. It was the only way they could get the crew's attention.

The idea that you can use the transporter to restore a person to normal was first introduced here.

Isn't it illogical for Spock to say "Good luck" to the captain?

It's been awhile since I've seen this, but why does Kirk order phasers set on the city (even Spock raises his animated eyebrow) but then the inhabitants are beamed up?

The phasers were used to cut the city and its foundations away from the planet's surface.

Isn't Kirk restored to normal by the transported in The Enemy Within?

Yes he is. In several Trek shows the transporter is used in this way. I believe Phil proposed using it to attain eternal youth. Boy, I bet that would raise the stock value!!

Oops, I see your point now. Your right, my bad.

Terra Ten is the missing human colony that Archer's Enterprise should have been looking for instead of Terra Nova. It would have been much for fun for those of us who will watch anything 'Trek' to know that the colony Archer's crew is looking for won't be found until Kirk's time, and in this 'episode.'

That would have been a good idea unfortunately it would have legitamized the animated series and there are too many who dont want that to happen.

Hello that wasnt me. I'm not sure what is goign on but that wasnt me as i was out with the wife on a rare and well deserved date. Although Granma managed to pump the kids full of sugar so i am staying up with them for awhile. I havent even seen the cartoon series.

nevermind I found out it was someone on my computer while we was getting ready to go out one of our friends dropped by and used the computer and he typed that. Sorry about that. He is a big trek geek but oddly enough doesnt have his own computer or interenet. I dont know what the deal is with him but he is otherwise cool.

The first time Kirk calls sickbay he uses the top left button on his console, the next time he uses the top right button.

the synopsis says that the living matter starts to sink, this should be shrink.

I believe it's McCoy who says that everyone maintains the same mass-- their atoms are simply packed in closer, so everyone would still weigh the same amount shrunken as they do full size. Given that, by beaming in a city of tiny Terratins, isn't the Enterprise being weighed down by as much as hundreds of thousands of pounds in that one spot on the transporter platform? Shouldn't it collapse the deck, and eventually fall right through the ship?

Christine makes a lousy Starfleet officer, when you consider she can't swim. Surely that would be a important factor when accepting recruits.

Whether Christine could swim or not is immaterial. If she weighed the same as she did at normal size, she would be far denser than water and couldn't float. She should have sunk straight to the bottom.

I'm not sure if the ability to swim should be a Starfleet requirement or not. Most officers don't even know how to handle zero-g!

There was a mistake in this episode:
When the bridge crew is being beamed up from the Terratin city, they have several dilithium crystals at their feet which are about knea-high. When they materialize aboard the Enterprise in full-size the crystals are ankle-high. However since the people were supposed to be a sixteenth of an inch tall, the crystals should've been smaller than a grain of sand.

The idea that you can use the transporter to restore a person to normal was first introduced here. - Kail

Actually, Kail, it was introduced in "The Lorelei Signal", an episode that was both aired and produced before this one.

When the energy beam from Terratin strikes the Enterprise, there's an inserted shot from the Conference Room. First of all, the silhouettes are almost certainly that of Kirk, Spock (definitely Spock), McCoy and Scotty all of whom are either on the Bridge, Sickbay or Engineering at the time this insert takes place. But also the arms of the Kirk silhouette covers part of the viewer in the center of the conference table - despite the fact he sits well behind the viewscreen.

Why is Dr. McCoy reporting no casualties in the corridor? Shouldn't he be reportng from Sickbay?

Nurse Chapel is surprised at how small the halo fish and gossamer mice have gotten. Considering that she and the rest of the crew are also shrinking, shouldn't these critters appear to be proportionately the same size to her? Or are the animals shrinking at a much greater rate?

Would a needle really be big enough to trip the electric eye that opens the doors to the ship? Seems to me it'd be too puny to register.

Then again, would there really be needles on the Enterprise? I would think that in the future, sewing might be done in a totally different fashion than it is today.

This is yet another episode that indicates there are more than one Transporter rooms on the Enterprise. In this ep, Kirk refers to Transporter Room 3.

How did the transporter know where Kirk was to lock onto him and beam him back aboard the ship? Normally, the communicators are used to locate crewmen on a planet. Kirk's, however, was destroyed by lava.

I sure hope Kirk was careful walking through the corridors of the Enterprise, lest he accidentally steps on one of his crewmembers.

Scotty must have some very powerful lungs if he can scream loud enough for Kirk to clearly hear him. As small as he is, I would think his voice would be too soft for Kirk to hear him.

On the main viewscreen, stars can be seen through the planet Terratin.

So the Terratins, not being able to communicate with the Enterprise, chose, instead, to use the spiroid waves on the crew, shrinking them as a communications substitute. Now that's just brilliant. And dangerous.

If the message the Terratins sent before was indecipherable to the crew of the Enterprise, how is it all of a sudden Kirk can clearly understand what they are saying?

Isn't it remarkable that when Kirk addresses the Mendant of Terratin, he has the same people behind him, in the same position they were in on the viewscreen? And isn't just incredible that Spock is able to aim the macroscope just so the Mendant will be seen?

"Live long and prosper."

Why did the Enterprise fire its phasers at the Terratin City before beaming it up?

Wasn't it to cut it loose from the surrounding terrain?

I dunno. They didn't mention it. It's possible.

Doesn't Trek exclusively use the metric system? Or did that just start with Next Gen? Because Spock mentions their height shrinking to 1 centimenter while Kirk continually states the 1 16th of an inch measurement.

I'm not sure about TOS but TNG also had a history of mostly using the metric system but sometimes the characters slipping and saying something in the imperial system. One of the easy mistakes for a show written by writers in the US.

Spock says he can find no match for the word Terratin.
1. That's amazing that no word match can be found in all the languages that the computer should have access to.
2. Shame the computers in the 23rd century can't do what Google can do now when you mistype a word. ("Did you mean: Terrapin?") ;-)

At one point it seems that Kirk & Spock are larger than the others on the Bridge. (Particular when reusing footage of Spock at his scanner & Kirk in his chair.)

So why did Scotty go back up to the Bridge after beaming Kirk down?

It was mentioned that the Terratin communicator had been buried so they had no choice, but to use their defense weapon...
Not really a GOOD defense weapon. Sulu, a trained officer of the Federation which believes in peace, realized they just had time & energy to fire at the planet. Just imagine a more aggressive race like the Klingons getting hit with this "defense weapon" I imagine they would raze the planet while they still could.

There's pride than there's prideful.The Mendant tells Kirk that he & his people do not want,nor seek,help from anyone else.Was this the attitude of the original colonists too? When they began to shrink did they attempt to contact the Federation regarding their plight at all? Throughout the animated series I've noticed that the section in Engineering that features the huge area where the grill is in front of the large tube structures is set lower to the deck than it was on ST:TOS.

NANJAO The authors of that episode solved what would have been the embarassing problem of the crew's clothes by explicitely making those clothes organic based, so they would shrink at the same rate as the people wearing them.

As the crew was shrinking, their voices should have become more and more high pitched.

It should also have quickly become impossible for them to breathe, the normally spaced atoms of the air being unable to move through the crew's narrowing airways.