Star Trek: Balance of Terror: DD vs Sub

[Gildor]

Just watched the original series episode of Star Trk called Balance of Terror. The Enterprise encounters a Romulan ship that just destroyed a Federation Outpost. The Romulan ship can cloak (submerge).

SOme of the corny things related to ASW that made me laugh:

- While the Enterprise waits quietly for the Warbird to run out of energy and decloak, Spock asks for permission to fix some equipment. Kirk says "To work quietly" as if sound can carry through space.
- The Enterprise fires its phasers at the aproximate location of the warbird similar to depth charges
- The warbird commander moves his ship into the tail of a comet without thinking about the fact that this would make him visible.
- The warbird commander jetisons debrie and bodies to try and fool the Enterprise that the warbird was destroyed.
- Kirk orders the Enterprise crew to monitor for the attempt of the warbird to "slip away under us" (In space?)
- The warbird jetisons a nuclear warhead in the path of the Enterprise which was narrowly avoided when Spock recognised it as a trap.

These are just some goofy things I observed. If you get a chance watch the episode and see it from a submarine view.