This one has just never worked for me.
I blame the script first. The whole concept forces every character into idiot plotting. The princess somehow doesn't know what she's getting into it. The leaders of the planets sent her into this knowing what a b-word she is. Starfleet is r-slurred enough to get involved.
Second the princess needs to deliver a really commanding performance here and it doesn't work for me. France Nuyen was a pretty accomplished actress. I think she did all right with what she was given. But that was a bad script, bad costume (very rare in TOS), terrible wig. Her motives flip around wildly.
Typical 3rd season TOS. Just going through the motions without really having any interesting ideas.
!trekkies if anyone sees some hidden virtue in the episode then change my view.
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This is the episode where
it turns out the foid's necklace is made from dilithium crystals and Scotty figures out how to refine them to fix the warp core and save the ship from the Klingon ship which is buzzing around. He then announces that this formula "would make a good whiskey mixer" and disappears from the bridge, apparently to go and get drunk 
during battle 
stations which I guess 
waylays any argument 
that he wasn't a real Scotsman.
The Klingon ship (the 'D7 Battlecruiser') was first
seen in this season. The show had undergone massive budget cuts and could only afford this new model 
because a toy company had agreed to design and pay for the model 
effects if they could make toys of both the D7 and the USS Enterprise.
But yes, you are right- this episode is a bit shit.
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I didn't know that but it makes sense. The damaged ships you see in season 2 are just models from the store where somebody burned them with a
cigarette lighterphaser.I've always been a fan of the D7.
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TOS had several good spaceship
designs way above par for 1960s TV. My favorite, the Romulan Bird of Prey, was damaged by it's creator Wa Cheng (he'd designed it as a one-off prop and had drunkenly wrecked it in his own work shop in stereotypical Chinese 
fashion) and that's why the Romulans are flying 
in D7s in 'The Enterprise 
Incident'.
Still, it's the Lambo of the show IMO.
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