Dismissing ashore (Star Trek: The Original Series)

On a stellar date 3025.3, an Enterprise Federation spaceship under the command of Captain James Kirk arrives on one of the planets of the Omicron Delta system. Scanning the planet shows that it is suitable for life and there are no dangerous predators on it. The captain announces to the tired crew "shore discharge".

Soon after teleporting to the surface of the planet, crew members notice oddities. Mentioning " Alice in Wonderland ", Dr. McCoy meets a hurrying White Rabbit , and then Alice herself. Lieutenant Sulu finds a revolver, and then a samurai attacks him. Foreman Tony Barrows is attacked by Don Giovanni .

McCoy on the communicator tells Kirk about the characters from the tale of Lewis Carroll and the captain decides to go down to the planet. He initially did not believe in McCoy's report, but when he saw large footprints from rabbit paws, he changed his mind. Soon, Kirk meets the hooligan Finnegan from the Academy, and then his former lover Ruth, whom he had not seen for many years. Kirk orders the crew to temporarily stop teleporting until the nature of the strange events is clarified. Spock tells the captain that the planet has an unusual force field and that there may be some kind of production activity beneath the surface.

Burroughs imagines that she is a princess and a magnificent dress appears from somewhere that she is trying on. She also mentions the knight and soon there is a clatter of hooves. Dr. McCoy says it's all an illusion and gets in the way of a racing rider in armor. The knight spears pierces the doctor and he falls dead. Kirk shoots a knight with a revolver found by Sulu, and he falls from his horse. The captain opens the helmet visor and discovers that the mannequin is inside the armor. Suddenly, a Japanese fighter from the Second World War appears in the sky and shells crew members in low-flying flight. After several visits, he flies away, the doctor’s body and mannequin disappeared without a trace.

Spock realizes the connection between what is happening and people's thoughts. He asks Kirk what he was thinking about before Finnegan appeared, the captain replies that he remembered the years of study at the Academy, at that moment Finnegan appears again. A fight ensues between him and Kirk. After a grueling duel, Spock and Kirk realize that their thoughts can be very dangerous and lead to death, as is the case with the doctor. Kirk calls all the people and asks not to think about anything. At this moment, a person appears who calls himself the Ranger. Along with him comes unscathed McCoy with two girls arm in arm. The caretaker says that the planet is a huge amusement park in which complex machines below the surface materialize the thoughts of those on the planet. He says that visitors should be wary of their thoughts. At this point, Ruth appears again and Kirk permits further crew teleportation to the planet. Spock, on the other hand, was satisfied with his dismissal and returned to the ship.

In 2006, for the fortieth anniversary of the series, all episodes were remastered. Sound and video were improved, and Enterprise became completely drawn on the computer. An updated version of this episode was released on May 26, 2007. Specifically, the following changes were also made to this episode:

• The view of the planet from space has been changed for the sake of realism. Externally, the planet has become similar to the Earth.
• Enterprise began to move in an orbit counterclockwise, as in all other episodes of the series.

Zach Handlen from The AV Club gave the episode a rating of “A-”, noting that the episode turned out to be quite fun and with a share of self-parody ^[4] .

• “Dismissal to the Shore” on StarTrek.com
• “Shore Sailing” in the Memory Alpha Encyclopedia
• " “Coastal Disposal” ” on the Internet Movie Database
• “Coastal Discharge” on TV.com
• “ Coastal Disposal ” (English) Screenshots of the remastering version on TrekMovie.com