This is such a sad episode. Spock doesn’t sleep for months because he thinks he’s left Kirk to die and he can’t figure out how to save him. Then when they finally find him they’re minutes too late to stop his wife and unborn child from being stoned to death. And the idea that Kirk had never felt happy or at peace until he reached that planet is very upsetting. 

And the way it ends with just music over a landscape shot instead of going back to the ship for a little joke and jaunty music on the bridge just emphasises how devastating the whole series of events must have been for them. 

I watched this a week ago and I’m still thinking about it 😭 