Worst Episode of TAS Part One

[Steven Of Nine]

Sorry, but they're all absolute shyte.

Can't I vote for 'em all?

 

[Emperor-Tiberius]

What?! Yesteryear is excellent! Easily comparable with the best episodes of the entire franchise.

 

[Warped9]

The only reason "The Infinite Vulcan" stumbles is because of the idiocy of a 50ft. clone of Spock. If the clone had been normal sized then presto! the stories fine as is.

 

[Christopher]

Another contender would be "The Magicks or Megas-Tu" - so the Devil is fun-loving and all that? I don't hate the idea, I despise the execution (no pun intended).

I always interpreted Lucien as being more of a faun or satyr. Any association of him with Satan would've been analogous to the way pagan deities came to be identified with evil by the Christians.

The only reason "The Infinite Vulcan" stumbles is because of the idiocy of a 50ft. clone of Spock. If the clone had been normal sized then presto! the stories fine as is.

Except for the profound implausibility that a scientist who left Earth in the 1990s -- well before warp drive -- could've somehow made it all the way to "the periphery of the galaxy" 200 years before the Enterprise did. Not to mention that Keniclius has supposedly been out of touch with galactic civilization for 200 years but has heard of the Klingons and Romulans.

 

[comsol]

Going back to The Terratin Incident, I thought that they were using the phasers to cut bedrock that the city was built on from the surrounding material before they beamed up the city.

 

[Mallory]

I'll give you four episodes that bug me:

Bem
The Practical Joker
The Terretin Incident
More Tribbles, More Troubles

I agree with the first three. I actually am OK for some strange reason with More Tribbles, More Troubles.

 

[blakbyrd]

Mudd's Passion
The Magicks of Megas-Tu
The Practical Joker

 

[Warped9]

The only reason "The Infinite Vulcan" stumbles is because of the idiocy of a 50ft. clone of Spock. If the clone had been normal sized then presto! the stories fine as is.

Except for the profound implausibility that a scientist who left Earth in the 1990s -- well before warp drive -- could've somehow made it all the way to "the periphery of the galaxy" 200 years before the Enterprise did. Not to mention that Keniclius has supposedly been out of touch with galactic civilization for 200 years but has heard of the Klingons and Romulans.

Yes, the story has inconsistencies (what Trek story doesn't :-)), but the 50ft. clone is the only truly stupid thing about it.

For me this is akin to "Spock's Brain," another reasonable science fiction story that veers off the rails for two simple and easily corrected mistakes:
1. CHANGE THE TITLE TO SOMETHING LESS DUMB and the thing is immediately fifty percent better.
2. Could the Imorg women be a little less air headed, please?

Fix those two little things and the story is much better. Sometimes it's fixing little details that make a huge difference. I often found the same thing with a lot of TNG stories including ones I liked.

 

[Christopher]

Going back to The Terratin Incident, I thought that they were using the phasers to cut bedrock that the city was built on from the surrounding material before they beamed up the city.

Ahh, yes. That's right, I remember now.

 

[c5maier]

Strange, when I started reading your sentence, I thought: "well - actually one change would make it almost good - and then you don't mention it! For me, the greatest blunder was not giving Spock a bandage around his head to make the surgery believable.

 

[Christopher]

For me, the greatest blunder was not giving Spock a bandage around his head to make the surgery believable.

Oh, that's not a problem. Just assume the brain was removed/restored via transporter and the neural connections severed/reattached by remote-controlled nanites. To be honest, the implausible thing is that they don't do more surgery via transporter in the Trekverse. Why open up a body and expose it to infection if you don't have to?

 

[Warped9]

For me, the greatest blunder was not giving Spock a bandage around his head to make the surgery believable.

Oh, that's not a problem. Just assume the brain was removed/restored via transporter and the neural connections severed/reattached by remote-controlled nanites. To be honest, the implausible thing is that they don't do more surgery via transporter in the Trekverse. Why open up a body and expose it to infection if you don't have to?

Or they're able to seal incisions right then and there without stitches or what have you. Of course there's also the fact that Spock hadn't even been shaved for cranial surgery.

 

[alchemist]

For me, the greatest blunder was not giving Spock a bandage around his head to make the surgery believable.

Oh, that's not a problem. Just assume the brain was removed/restored via transporter and the neural connections severed/reattached by remote-controlled nanites. To be honest, the implausible thing is that they don't do more surgery via transporter in the Trekverse. Why open up a body and expose it to infection if you don't have to?

Or they're able to seal incisions right then and there without stitches or what have you. Of course there's also the fact that Spock hadn't even been shaved for cranial surgery.

Actually, Star Trek may have been ahead of it's time with regards to the lack of surgical shaving. Current thinking and practice in surgery is beginning to move away from shaving. It's been shown that removing the hair all the way to the skin with a razor increases the risk of infection due to skin nicks and scrapes. So now, they're just trimming the hair where appropriate.