The least disliked episode of TOS - Final Round
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Where No Man Has Gone Before - 2
The City on the Edge of Forever - 0
Mirror, Mirror - 0
The Doomsday Machine - 0
The Tholian Web - 0
Me too. It's still the weakest here, by a smidgen.
The City on the Edge of Forever - 0
Mirror, Mirror - 0
The Doomsday Machine - 0
The Tholian Web - 0
Me too. It's still the weakest here, by a smidgen.
I'll go with "Tholian" again, for the same reasons I stated in the last round. I mean, C'mon! We HAVE to throw the third season episode out first! The weird purple transporter room is enough to discount it! 
Where No Man Has Gone Before - 2
The City on the Edge of Forever - 0
Mirror, Mirror - 0
The Doomsday Machine - 0
The Tholian Web - 2
Where No Man Has Gone Before - 2
The City on the Edge of Forever - 0
Mirror, Mirror - 0
The Doomsday Machine - 0
The Tholian Web - 2
Where No Man Has Gone Before - 2
The City on the Edge of Forever - 1
Mirror, Mirror - 0
The Doomsday Machine - 0
The Tholian Web - 2
Come on, people, WNMHGB is GOOD. I can respect votes for Tholian Web at this stage, but I gotta hit City again.
The City on the Edge of Forever - 1
Mirror, Mirror - 0
The Doomsday Machine - 0
The Tholian Web - 2
Come on, people, WNMHGB is GOOD. I can respect votes for Tholian Web at this stage, but I gotta hit City again.
Where No Man Has Gone Before - 3
The City on the Edge of Forever - 1
Mirror, Mirror - 0
The Doomsday Machine - 0
The Tholian Web - 2
+1 for WNMHGB. It's a pilot episode with just enough inconsistencies to tally one up for... and that's long before Spock's glorious line of "Ah yes, one of your Earth emotions!" Huh?!! A good episode, in a few ways - yes, but all the other stories trounce it with ease.
I cannot. Being bad because it's in season 3 is an illogical assumption. "Doomsday Machine" has by far the least sci-fi meat to it, and "Tholian Web" won awards for the f/x - which were not cheap to do back then. And the purple transporter room isn't any worse than teal sickbay or which gel lights were used for any given week through seasons 1-3.
Well, "City" is a bizarre one. If the pacifist isn't killed then the Nazis kill lots more. The story lacks the chutzpah to demand Edith be killed in any way other than a hapless car accident, which sorta kills the impact the story really could have had. 1960s or not, it's a big missed opportunity, instead relying on near soap opera romance... oh, and a vulgar joke about Spock's ears. I'm chalking the story's foibles up to rewrites rather than Harlan's original script, my gut tells me he wanted to do a lot more - I only know that he was upset with the network for rewrites having been done but at the time of this post I know no specifics about what was rewritten in 1967.
The City on the Edge of Forever - 1
Mirror, Mirror - 0
The Doomsday Machine - 0
The Tholian Web - 2
+1 for WNMHGB. It's a pilot episode with just enough inconsistencies to tally one up for... and that's long before Spock's glorious line of "Ah yes, one of your Earth emotions!" Huh?!! A good episode, in a few ways - yes, but all the other stories trounce it with ease.
I'll go with "Tholian" again, for the same reasons I stated in the last round. I mean, C'mon! We HAVE to throw the third season episode out first! The weird purple transporter room is enough to discount it!
I cannot. Being bad because it's in season 3 is an illogical assumption. "Doomsday Machine" has by far the least sci-fi meat to it, and "Tholian Web" won awards for the f/x - which were not cheap to do back then. And the purple transporter room isn't any worse than teal sickbay or which gel lights were used for any given week through seasons 1-3.
Well, "City" is a bizarre one. If the pacifist isn't killed then the Nazis kill lots more. The story lacks the chutzpah to demand Edith be killed in any way other than a hapless car accident, which sorta kills the impact the story really could have had. 1960s or not, it's a big missed opportunity, instead relying on near soap opera romance... oh, and a vulgar joke about Spock's ears. I'm chalking the story's foibles up to rewrites rather than Harlan's original script, my gut tells me he wanted to do a lot more - I only know that he was upset with the network for rewrites having been done but at the time of this post I know no specifics about what was rewritten in 1967.
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Where No Man Has Gone Before - 3
The City on the Edge of Forever - 2
Mirror, Mirror - 0
The Doomsday Machine - 0
The Tholian Web - 2
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Sorry, City, you get another vote. It’s a classic episode, but if I’m going to go back in time I’m going to get today’s Super Lotto winning numbers first. Then Warren Buffet will be the 2nd richest man in the world.
The City on the Edge of Forever - 2
Mirror, Mirror - 0
The Doomsday Machine - 0
The Tholian Web - 2
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Sorry, City, you get another vote. It’s a classic episode, but if I’m going to go back in time I’m going to get today’s Super Lotto winning numbers first. Then Warren Buffet will be the 2nd richest man in the world.
Where No Man Has Gone Before - 3
The City on the Edge of Forever - 2
Mirror, Mirror - 0
The Doomsday Machine - 0
The Tholian Web - 3
I gave it the boot last time, and I give it the boot for the same reason. The hated the Spock/McCoy friction. Not a stellar display of leadership after the Captain's death. The poor crew deserved better.
The City on the Edge of Forever - 2
Mirror, Mirror - 0
The Doomsday Machine - 0
The Tholian Web - 3
I gave it the boot last time, and I give it the boot for the same reason. The hated the Spock/McCoy friction. Not a stellar display of leadership after the Captain's death. The poor crew deserved better.
No Man is a fine episode, but I'm big on looks in Star Trek, and of course it doesn't look right yet. So . . . .
Where No Man Has Gone Before - 4
The City on the Edge of Forever - 2
Mirror, Mirror - 0
The Doomsday Machine - 0
The Tholian Web - 3
Where No Man Has Gone Before - 4
The City on the Edge of Forever - 2
Mirror, Mirror - 0
The Doomsday Machine - 0
The Tholian Web - 3
The City on the Edge of Forever - 0
Mirror, Mirror - 1
The Doomsday Machine - 0
The Tholian Web - 1
Mirror Mirror gets another whack from me because it's not in the same league, let alone universe as the others.
I disagree about WNMHGB because what that show has in spades is human drama; rather than butting into someone else's problem or having it foisted upon him, Kirk creates his own problem. He rather recklessly flies into the barrier right after they detect it and after they found this pitted, burned up recorder marker and Spock identifies it as a "Force field of some kind," and adds "Deflectors say there's something there, sensors say there isn't. Density negative. Radiation negative. Energy negative." The price? He cripples his ship, loses nine of his crew, and gets his old friend turned into a rapidly mutating danger to everyone. He spends the rest of the story facing the consequences of his decision, ultimately having to literally gun down a friend. He's responsible for what happens in "City" too because he doesn't have McCoy restrained or beamed up while he investigates the Guardian and whoops there goes history, and, again, he has to fix his mistake. That is real drama, unlike the puzzle boxes of segments like "Mirror Mirror" or "The Gamesters of Triskelion" or what have you.
Mirror, Mirror - 1
The Doomsday Machine - 0
The Tholian Web - 1
Mirror Mirror gets another whack from me because it's not in the same league, let alone universe as the others.
I disagree about WNMHGB because what that show has in spades is human drama; rather than butting into someone else's problem or having it foisted upon him, Kirk creates his own problem. He rather recklessly flies into the barrier right after they detect it and after they found this pitted, burned up recorder marker and Spock identifies it as a "Force field of some kind," and adds "Deflectors say there's something there, sensors say there isn't. Density negative. Radiation negative. Energy negative." The price? He cripples his ship, loses nine of his crew, and gets his old friend turned into a rapidly mutating danger to everyone. He spends the rest of the story facing the consequences of his decision, ultimately having to literally gun down a friend. He's responsible for what happens in "City" too because he doesn't have McCoy restrained or beamed up while he investigates the Guardian and whoops there goes history, and, again, he has to fix his mistake. That is real drama, unlike the puzzle boxes of segments like "Mirror Mirror" or "The Gamesters of Triskelion" or what have you.
The City on the Edge of Forever - 1
Mirror, Mirror - 1
The Doomsday Machine - 0
The Tholian Web - 2
I can't believe Web is still on this list.
Spock and McCoy truly hate each other, and show it to the crew. Uhura is assumed crazy when she sees Kirk, but when Scotty sees Kirk everyone jumps to recover him. Bad space indeed.
Mirror, Mirror - 1
The Doomsday Machine - 0
The Tholian Web - 2
I can't believe Web is still on this list.
Spock and McCoy truly hate each other, and show it to the crew. Uhura is assumed crazy when she sees Kirk, but when Scotty sees Kirk everyone jumps to recover him. Bad space indeed.
Shouldn't City be two?
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The votes go back to zero when an episode is eliminated. 
My vote is for The Tholian Web this time. Again I'm struggling to find actual reasons, I just like the others slightly more.
The City on the Edge of Forever - 1
Mirror, Mirror - 1
The Doomsday Machine - 0
The Tholian Web - 3
My vote is for The Tholian Web this time. Again I'm struggling to find actual reasons, I just like the others slightly more.
The City on the Edge of Forever - 1
Mirror, Mirror - 1
The Doomsday Machine - 0
The Tholian Web - 3
I haven't a fucking clue whats going on here
Surely you're least disliked is also your favourite episode by default ?
Why are we deliberately finding fault with good, some even very good episodes ?
Surely you're least disliked is also your favourite episode by default ?
Why are we deliberately finding fault with good, some even very good episodes ?
Sort of. If you play the game there is a chance your favourite may win, but in the elimination round anything can go out if someone doesn't like it, because your least favourites go out first.
What you then end up with are the least disliked episodes (or the consensus of whomever is playing) of each season. Then this round we combine our votes to eliminate each one to find the least disliked of the whole series. Whichever gets to 4 is eliminated, then scores are reset.
Sometimes dodgy/average episodes make it to the final which makes the final series voting more cutthroat.
I'm sure BlueStuff used to call the game something else in its first iteration.
What you then end up with are the least disliked episodes (or the consensus of whomever is playing) of each season. Then this round we combine our votes to eliminate each one to find the least disliked of the whole series. Whichever gets to 4 is eliminated, then scores are reset.
Sometimes dodgy/average episodes make it to the final which makes the final series voting more cutthroat.
I'm sure BlueStuff used to call the game something else in its first iteration.
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Indeed, it used to be called “Best Episode” but enough people pointed out that it’s more like “least disliked” than “best” that I changed the name.
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