Logline
A distress call from Lt. Noonien-Singh compels Spock to disobey orders and take the USS Enterprise and its crew into disputed space, risking renewed hostilities with the Klingons in a bid to aid their shipmate.
Written by Henry Alonso Myers & Akiva Goldsman
Directed by Chris Fisher
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There wasn’t quite zero downside. M’Benga almost killed that guy he was interrogating, which is not only counter to his usual personality but a poor decision in an interrogation, so the potion at least interferes with reasoning somewhat or amps up anger.
I wish this kind of interrogation didn’t work, it is a dangerous stereotype to convey that torture works… it ends up with people supporting torture in real life when it actually really doesn’t reliably get truthful information from people.