Let's talk about the shore leave planet. The gases play into what each person needs/wants (even if they didn't know they needed it) on their own journey. They are all also not uniformed. Spock hallucinates James Kirk (or so he believes) prehaps maybe due to their previous mind meld remnants. Why would he think that Kirk would still be kicking around up there? To which Scotty also wonders what that is about. He says they played board games all night, into the morning presumably. They go from room to room with each other, and just off sides when they go into the office. Or he's getting something to eat? It seems like Spock really just bared his soul to Kirk, just everything he's ever wanted to say to a human best friend, or anyone.













