This 20 minute video makes a great deal of sense out of an episode I hated (the horror one) and an episode I really enjoyed — Why the Star Trek Puppet Episode Is the Most Important One of This Era
this wasn't just a stunt. We dive into Star Trek's long franchise history of "loaded frames"—from giant white rabbits in The Original Series to Data's cellular peptide cake in The Next Generation and Hoshi's transporter accident in Enterprise. [It was] the exact narrative vehicle needed to transition Ethan Peck's emotional Spock into the cold, logical Vulcan we know from Amok Time.