probably the most whimsical installment of the first season and shore leave have it ups and down while some part drag on too long and others be unambitiously cut short and but one can not deny they throw in everything but the proverbial kitchen sink to make this an entertaining episode . kirk and crew seem to have find the perfect planet for shore leave after an extended tour of duty have leave everyone on board in need of rest and relaxation and so on . it appear for all intent and purpose to be an uninhabited earth and with beautiful scenery and an ideal climate . the first indication that thing might go just a little awry be when mccoy and lead an advance team and spot alice ( from wonderland ) follow a large white rabbit wear a vest . kirk beam down and find the others report similarly bizarre happening and encounter . the one thing they all have in common be that each crew member be think about the person or place or thing they discover right before they discover it . this doesn not immediately sink in with kirk or anyone else . more strangeness ensues and include sighting of don juan and a siberian tiger and a ww2 fighter plane and etc while kirk meet up with ruth and a gorgeous old girlfriend ( of course ) and a bully from his academy day and finnegan . the chase or fight scene with finnegan go on too long but at the same time and mccoy be run through with a lance by a knight on horseback and apparently kill . finally and an elderly man appear and explain what have be happen . the planet be a futuristic amusement park where visitor have only to imagine something to have it appear . nothing be permanent while mccoy isn not really dead . once this be explain and kirk decides to order shore leave for everyone after all . despite the it be all a dream sort of end and shore leave hold up a another first rate episode of star trek first season .