The least disliked episode 2021 - TOS Season Three

[BlueStuff]

Our addictive biyearly game of rapid elimination returns - now able to include Disco's third season as well as the debut years of Picard and Lower Decks. It's generally a lot of fun, providing a chance 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 just because you feel they would threaten your preferred episode's chance to win. Pretty simple. Enjoy!

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2011 - Mirror, Mirror
2013 - Balance of Terror
2015 - Mirror, Mirror
2017 - Journey to Babel
2019 - The Doomsday Machine
2021 -

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

 

[Spock's Barber]

Season Three

Spock's Brain
The Enterprise Incident
The Paradise Syndrome

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

So many choices to choose from in S3. Here goes nothing....literally and figuratively

Sorry to all the Federation kiddies out there, but The Gorgon gets whacked. Melvin Belli in a shower curtain dress...

And The Children Shall Lead is the first victim. Bwa-ha-ha!

 

[Swedish Borg]

"Spock's Brain" is a no-brainer, in more ways than one.



The Enterprise Incident
The Paradise Syndrome
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

 

[Indysolo]

Is There In Truth No Beauty? Who cares?!

The Enterprise Incident
The Paradise Syndrome
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

 

[BK613]

Spock and Kirk as horse and rider? Plato must still be spinning in his grave. At warp speed no less.

The Enterprise Incident
The Paradise Syndrome
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

 

[Brennyren]

In "Paradise Syndrome," Star Trek brought us Hollywood Indians decades before Chakotay. And like the horse ranch of Generations, this situation seems like an unlikely "heart's desire" for the JTK we know. I vote the episode gets hit by an asteroid.

The Enterprise Incident
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

 

[BK613]

That last episode? Why build a machine that does that?

The Enterprise Incident
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

 

[BlueStuff]

@BK613 your post is invalid; you have to wait until at least two other posters have played before you can play again.

However, it doesn’t matter because I’m eliminating Turnabout Intruder anyway. Not a fitting final episode.

The Enterprise Incident
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

 

[Noname Given]

Goodbye to "The Way to Eden". Hippies in space was about as subtle as hitting the viewer over the head with a sledgehammer. Not to mention they're ridiculous "Steppin' into Eden" 'jam session' with Spock on his Vulcan harp...

The episode in no way "reached" me.

The Enterprise Incident
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 Cloud Minders
The Savage Curtain
All Our Yesterdays

 

[Scott Kellogg]

I should probably abstain. In my opinion the entire Third Season should go.
Only a few rise above the level of "Awful"

But, if there's one left on the list that leaves no redeeming value it's "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield"
Honestly, I know they wanted to say something about racism, and we could sure use a good message on the subject today, but a ham handed preachy holier-than-thou, virtue-signaling episode like that is just unwatchable.

It doesn't even have any Ladies to put Bill Theiss's diaphanous dresses on.

The Enterprise Incident
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
The Mark of Gideon
That Which Survives
The Lights of Zetar
Requiem for Methuselah
The Cloud Minders
The Savage Curtain
All Our Yesterdays

 

[Swedish Borg]

"The Empath": because it reminded me why I hate mimes.

The Enterprise Incident
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

Elaan of Troyius
Whom Gods Destroy
The Mark of Gideon
That Which Survives
The Lights of Zetar
Requiem for Methuselah
The Cloud Minders
The Savage Curtain
All Our Yesterdays

 

[gottacook]

"The Mark of Gideon" gets the boot, for all the obvious reasons: How could they build a replica good enough to fool its captain for more than 0.1 seconds, how could the bridge crew get transporter coordinates mixed up, how would the Gideons have learned about Kirk's having caught the disease years earlier, etc., etc. I knew it was stupidly written when I was 12 and saw it on NBC.

The Enterprise Incident
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
Elaan of Troyius
Whom Gods Destroy
That Which Survives
The Lights of Zetar
Requiem for Methuselah
The Cloud Minders
The Savage Curtain
All Our Yesterdays

 

[Spock's Barber]

The Enterprise Incident
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
Elaan of Troyius
Whom Gods Destroy
That Which Survives

Requiem for Methuselah
The Cloud Minders
The Savage Curtain
All Our Yesterdays

Except for Jan Shutan, The Lights of Zetar doesn’t excite me at all. Bye, bye lights. You didn’t pay your electric bill.

 

[Methuselah Flint]

Requiem for Methuselah is my favourite episode, so I think it only fair I eliminate that inevitable choice myself

The Enterprise Incident
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
Elaan of Troyius
Whom Gods Destroy
That Which Survives
The Cloud Minders
The Savage Curtain
All Our Yesterdays

 

[Scott Kellogg]

Okay, it had some vaguely interesting concepts in it, but "Requiem for Methuselah" makes no sense.

Intensely creative Immortal guy with incredible technology and the wisdom of hundreds of lifetimes
decides to Cuckold himself by sic'ing his beautiful, but utterly-devoid-of-personality android chick on Kirk...
And Kirk falls for this lifeless doll enough to duel to the death with the guy?

No. Let it pass unmourned. Let there be no Requiem for "Requiem for Methuselah."

The Enterprise Incident
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
Elaan of Troyius
Whom Gods Destroy
That Which Survives
The Cloud Minders
The Savage Curtain
All Our Yesterdays

 

[Methuselah Flint]

Okay, it had some vaguely interesting concepts in it, but "Requiem for Methuselah" makes no sense.

Intensely creative Immortal guy with incredible technology and the wisdom of hundreds of lifetimes
decides to Cuckold himself by sic'ing his beautiful, but utterly-devoid-of-personality android chick on Kirk...
And Kirk falls for this lifeless doll enough to duel to the death with the guy?

No. Let it pass unmourned. Let there be no Requiem for "Requiem for Methuselah."

The Enterprise Incident
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
Elaan of Troyius
Whom Gods Destroy
That Which Survives
The Cloud Minders
The Savage Curtain
All Our Yesterdays

Beat ya to it

 

[Scott Kellogg]

Beat ya to it

Yes, but now I'm embarrassed that I gave such a nasty review of your favorite episode.
I'm sorry.

For what it's worth, I think it's my brother's favorite episode as well.
He's written something like 90 chapters of self-insertion fan-fic inspired by it over the last 20 years or so...

 

[BK613]

Never liked that Kirk didn't offer Deela the solution to their problem.

The Enterprise Incident
Spectre of the Gun
Day of the Dove
For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky
The Tholian Web

Elaan of Troyius
Whom Gods Destroy
That Which Survives
The Cloud Minders
The Savage Curtain
All Our Yesterdays

@BlueStuff Forgot about that rule. Sorry

 

[Takeru]

Spectre of the Gun is out, I don't like western and at that point in the series I've really had enough of the "look at these existing sets and costumes" money saving episodes. I also don't like the solution, the illusion can kill you unless you're convinced it can't or in Chekov's case if you're horny.


The Enterprise Incident
Day of the Dove
For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky
The Tholian Web
Elaan of Troyius
Whom Gods Destroy
That Which Survives
The Cloud Minders
The Savage Curtain
All Our Yesterdays

 

[Indysolo]

I have a tough time sitting through "The Cloud Minders" even though it has a great homage to Wile E. Coyote.

The Enterprise Incident
Day of the Dove
For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky
The Tholian Web
Elaan of Troyius
Whom Gods Destroy
That Which Survives
The Savage Curtain
All Our Yesterdays