Q; Why does the kill-setting work on the affected officer, when stun won't?
A; Dunno, actually. What I suspect is that the creatures do rather more than just increase the output of adrenaline, giving greater strength. If you remember, Picard cut Beverly off when she was telling him what the creatures do to their host people, so we never got to hear what else she knew. I think we can put the greater effect the phaser had on Remmick down to the fact that he was a mother creature, and thus had a different metabolism from the others. Incidentally, some people will only have seen this show courtesy of Sky TV, who when they show it beam it all over Europe twice a day. One show is at five PM UK. time, and the other at ten PM. It is definitely worth catching the late screening of this episode, as the early version is cut to ribbons. Just compare the two to see what I mean. This particular show, with it's pseudo 'Watch the skies' type ending, showed definite homage to early sci-fi horror movies, and did it very well too. One of the better shows, I think.
Since when was full impulse anything like warp six? Just wondering. . .
Girly Captain alert! In La Scott we have the first four-pipperrette of the show!