The least disliked episode of TOS - Season Three

This is a game that was played here a couple of years ago, and it proved to be a lot of fun, spanning across each Trek series, as well as a great way to mentally revisit those episodes you may not have thought about in a while. With that in mind, why not play again?

So, here's the game. The basic idea is your standard elimination game. I'll provide a list of the episodes for each season and you need to eliminate your least favorite or the one you deem the 'worst.' Please provide an EXPLANATION for why you are eliminating your choice and be sure to copy and paste the list with your choice removed. Finally, leave at least 2 eliminations by other posters before you eliminate another episode.

No tactical voting! You cannot remove an episode because you feel they would threaten your preferred episode's chance to win. Pretty simple. Enjoy!

Winners
The Next Generation - The Measure of a Man
The Original Series -

Season One - Balance of Terror
Season Two - The Doomsday Machine
Season Three -

Spock's Brain
The Enterprise Incident
The Paradise Syndrome
And the Children Shall Lead
Is There in Truth No Beauty?
Spectre of the Gun
Day of the Dove
For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky
The Tholian Web
Plato's Stepchildren
Wink of an Eye
The Empath
Elaan of Troyius
Whom Gods Destroy
Let That Be Your Last Battlefield
The Mark of Gideon
That Which Survives
The Lights of Zetar
Requiem for Methuselah
The Way to Eden
The Cloud Minders
The Savage Curtain
All Our Yesterdays
Turnabout Intruder

 

I must eliminate For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky. That title is just too damn long! Also it's dull and almost completely lacking in humour.

Spock's Brain
The Enterprise Incident
The Paradise Syndrome
And the Children Shall Lead
Is There in Truth No Beauty?
Spectre of the Gun
Day of the Dove
The Tholian Web
Plato's Stepchildren
Wink of an Eye
The Empath
Elaan of Troyius
Whom Gods Destroy
Let That Be Your Last Battlefield
The Mark of Gideon
That Which Survives
The Lights of Zetar
Requiem for Methuselah
The Way to Eden
The Cloud Minders
The Savage Curtain
All Our Yesterdays
Turnabout Intruder

 

Easy one for me, I'm taking The Way To Eden out. The worst episode of TOS, it needs no explanation!

Spock's Brain
The Enterprise Incident
The Paradise Syndrome
And the Children Shall Lead
Is There in Truth No Beauty?
Spectre of the Gun
Day of the Dove
The Tholian Web
Plato's Stepchildren
Wink of an Eye
The Empath
Elaan of Troyius
Whom Gods Destroy
Let That Be Your Last Battlefield
The Mark of Gideon
That Which Survives
The Lights of Zetar
Requiem for Methuselah
The Cloud Minders
The Savage Curtain
All Our Yesterdays
Turnabout Intruder

 

I'll delete the Savage Curtain. Maybe because I'm English, I don't know, I just didn't find the whole Abraham Lincoln thing particularly entertaining.

Spock's Brain
The Enterprise Incident
The Paradise Syndrome
And the Children Shall Lead
Is There in Truth No Beauty?
Spectre of the Gun
Day of the Dove
The Tholian Web
Plato's Stepchildren
Wink of an Eye
The Empath
Elaan of Troyius
Whom Gods Destroy
Let That Be Your Last Battlefield
The Mark of Gideon
That Which Survives
The Lights of Zetar
Requiem for Methuselah
The Cloud Minders
All Our Yesterdays
Turnabout Intruder

 

I will delete my least favorite episode of the series "The Empath"

Spock's Brain
The Enterprise Incident
The Paradise Syndrome
And the Children Shall Lead
Is There in Truth No Beauty?
Spectre of the Gun
Day of the Dove
The Tholian Web
Plato's Stepchildren
Wink of an Eye
Elaan of Troyius
Whom Gods Destroy
Let That Be Your Last Battlefield
The Mark of Gideon
That Which Survives
The Lights of Zetar
Requiem for Methuselah
The Cloud Minders
All Our Yesterdays
Turnabout Intruder

 

I will remove what I feel is the most embarrassing episode, "And The Children Shall Lead".

Spock's Brain
The Enterprise Incident
The Paradise Syndrome
Is There in Truth No Beauty?
Spectre of the Gun
Day of the Dove
The Tholian Web
Plato's Stepchildren
Wink of an Eye
Elaan of Troyius
Whom Gods Destroy
Let That Be Your Last Battlefield
The Mark of Gideon
That Which Survives
The Lights of Zetar
Requiem for Methuselah
The Cloud Minders
All Our Yesterdays
Turnabout Intruder

 

I guess I will get rid of Spock's Brain it might not be the very worst but it is very far from the best.

The Enterprise Incident
The Paradise Syndrome
Is There in Truth No Beauty?
Spectre of the Gun
Day of the Dove
The Tholian Web
Plato's Stepchildren
Wink of an Eye
Elaan of Troyius
Whom Gods Destroy
Let That Be Your Last Battlefield
The Mark of Gideon
That Which Survives
The Lights of Zetar
Requiem for Methuselah
The Cloud Minders
All Our Yesterdays
Turnabout Intruder

 

I spit on you "Cloud Minders"
Spock would never fall for such a bimbo. Never I say never.

The Enterprise Incident
The Paradise Syndrome
Is There in Truth No Beauty?
Spectre of the Gun
Day of the Dove
The Tholian Web
Plato's Stepchildren
Wink of an Eye
Elaan of Troyius
Whom Gods Destroy
Let That Be Your Last Battlefield
The Mark of Gideon
That Which Survives
The Lights of Zetar
Requiem for Methuselah
All Our Yesterdays
Turnabout Intruder

 

I'll remove The Mark Of Gideon from the remaining. I do actually like the episode, but have always found the premise just a little silly.

The Enterprise Incident
The Paradise Syndrome
Is There in Truth No Beauty?
Spectre of the Gun
Day of the Dove
The Tholian Web
Plato's Stepchildren
Wink of an Eye
Elaan of Troyius
Whom Gods Destroy
Let That Be Your Last Battlefield
That Which Survives
The Lights of Zetar
Requiem for Methuselah
All Our Yesterdays
Turnabout Intruder

 

Goodbye to The Paradise Syndrome. I am KIROK!!!

The Enterprise Incident
Is There in Truth No Beauty?
Spectre of the Gun
Day of the Dove
The Tholian Web
Plato's Stepchildren
Wink of an Eye
Elaan of Troyius
Whom Gods Destroy
Let That Be Your Last Battlefield
That Which Survives
The Lights of Zetar
Requiem for Methuselah
All Our Yesterdays
Turnabout Intruder

 

I think I'm going to go for "Turnabout Intruder". It's message was a little heavy handed, we had already seen a female XO so a female CO isn't an unreasnable stretch.

The Enterprise Incident
Is There in Truth No Beauty?
Spectre of the Gun
Day of the Dove
The Tholian Web
Plato's Stepchildren
Wink of an Eye
Elaan of Troyius
Whom Gods Destroy
Let That Be Your Last Battlefield
That Which Survives
The Lights of Zetar
Requiem for Methuselah
All Our Yesterdays

 

Where?

 

Number One in The Cage.

 

Plato's Stepchildren......to me its just never fit.

Spock's Brain
The Enterprise Incident
The Paradise Syndrome
And the Children Shall Lead
Is There in Truth No Beauty?
Spectre of the Gun
Day of the Dove
For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky
The Tholian Web
Wink of an Eye
The Empath
Elaan of Troyius
Whom Gods Destroy
Let That Be Your Last Battlefield
The Mark of Gideon
That Which Survives
The Lights of Zetar
Requiem for Methuselah
The Way to Eden
The Cloud Minders
The Savage Curtain
All Our Yesterdays
Turnabout Intruder

 

^ List fixed.

The Enterprise Incident
Is There in Truth No Beauty?
Spectre of the Gun
Day of the Dove
The Tholian Web
Wink of an Eye
Elaan of Troyius
Whom Gods Destroy
Let That Be Your Last Battlefield
That Which Survives
The Lights of Zetar
Requiem for Methuselah
All Our Yesterdays

 

All Our Yesterdays... I don't like time travel episodes and Spock "in love" isn't very convincing.

The Enterprise Incident
Is There in Truth No Beauty?
Spectre of the Gun
Day of the Dove
The Tholian Web
Wink of an Eye
Elaan of Troyius
Whom Gods Destroy
Let That Be Your Last Battlefield
That Which Survives
The Lights of Zetar
Requiem for Methuselah

 

As well as "The Menagerie" which used clips from "The Cage"

 

"Requiem for Methuselah"...For one I can't imagine an educated immortal to be that unwilling to render aid, and Kirk falling madly in love with an android (and knowing she is not for real) is a thing I find impossible to believe.

The Enterprise Incident
Is There in Truth No Beauty?
Spectre of the Gun
Day of the Dove
The Tholian Web
Wink of an Eye
Elaan of Troyius
Whom Gods Destroy
Let That Be Your Last Battlefield
That Which Survives
The Lights of Zetar

P.S. Is the outstanding trademark of Season Three that all the principle characters fall in love with somebody and partially several times?!?

 

"Is There in Truth No Beauty?" It should have been titled, "Is There No Interesting Story To Tell?" It does have one nice FX shot, but besides that... Nutting, as Chekov would say.

What's left:

The Enterprise Incident
Spectre of the Gun
Day of the Dove
The Tholian Web
Wink of an Eye
Elaan of Troyius
Whom Gods Destroy
Let That Be Your Last Battlefield
That Which Survives
The Lights of Zetar
Requiem for Methuselah
All Our Yesterdays

 

List fixed.

The Enterprise Incident
Spectre of the Gun
Day of the Dove
The Tholian Web
Wink of an Eye
Elaan of Troyius
Whom Gods Destroy
Let That Be Your Last Battlefield
That Which Survives
The Lights of Zetar
All Our Yesterdays