 Staff writer Tracy Tormé was not pleased with the " 1940s tribal Africa " theme of the aliens , and because the combat scene towards the end of the episode resembled the Kirk versus Spock fight in The Original Series episode " Amok Time " . Fellow Star Trek writer Maurice Hurley said that it was " a good idea , but the execution just fell apart . Again , if you take that script and if the actors had been told to give it a different twist , that show would have been different . But it became too baroque and fell apart . But the concept of having a guy say ' I have to have somebody kill my wife and this is the person ' is a good idea . " Some of the cast , including Jonathan Frakes , sought to prevent the episode from being re @-@ aired . In an interview with Entertainment Weekly in 2012 , Patrick Stewart agreed with fans that considered the season 2 episode " The Measure of a Man " to be " the first truly great episode of the series " , stating that the first season " had several quite weak episodes " ; referring to " Code of Honor " in particular he said , " I can think of one very early on that involved a race of black aliens that we all felt quite embarrassed about . " 
