Statistics Saturday: Episodes Where Captain Kirk Gets His Shirt Torn Or Taken Off, By Season

5 torn shirts the first season, 2 in the second, none in the third or the movies. 4 shirtless moments in the first season, 5 in the second, 4 in the third, and none in the movies either. — You can positively *see* the budget getting tighter!
First season totals include the pilot episode when they could throw some more money around.

There is a third-season episode where Kirk’s pants get torn. It’s the one where rock monster aliens pretend to be Abraham Lincoln so they can learn a little something about humanity. The pants-tearing probably wasn’t on purpose.

Author: Joseph Nebus

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4 thoughts on “Statistics Saturday: Episodes Where Captain Kirk Gets His Shirt Torn Or Taken Off, By Season”

ksbeth says:

March 13, 2016 at 1:06 am

this is one of my favorite graphs of yours. ever.

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1. Joseph Nebus says:
  
  March 14, 2016 at 3:09 am
  
  Aw, thank you. I’m weirdly delighted by it myself.
  
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Roy Kassinger says:

February 28, 2018 at 5:16 pm

It was likely just a coincidence that The Rutles’ producer Leggy Montbottom was showing the Liverpool lads around Desilu/Paramount the week the Lincoln/rock monster/trouser tearing episode was being filmed.

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1. Joseph Nebus says:
  
  February 28, 2018 at 10:01 pm
  
  I hope it was just coincidence. Still think we lost a little something in the draft that took the song away from “All You Need Is Pants”, although there’s probably some subject/verb number discrepancy between American and British English on this point.
  
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