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Season three of TOS isn't that bad. It has some clunkers and lack of energy from the cast compared to previous seasons (of course that may just be me projecting since I knew this was the last season), but for me, most of the not-good episodes were just meh. The only truly bad one in my book was Way to Eden.

Also, the first two seasons over-used a singular idea. Season one used all-powerful villains, and season two used the prime directive not being followed and that leading to planets that mimicked certain Earth periods and cultures. Season three didn't do that. It re-uses some ideas from other seasons to ill effect, but it doesn't get lazy and follow one idea.

Basically, I think season three in unfairly picked on to an extent.
 
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I think the reason why Kirk does it is that in "Space Seed" the characterization of Khan is supposed to be more nuanced than how he is described later.

Exactly. Despite the "superior ambition" born of his genetic engineering, some of Khan's aspirations were no different than that of centuries of colonial powers (who, by the way, still do no apologize for any generational harm caused, particularly if the ruling class & ideologues still benefit from it). This is part of what Kirk zeroed in on in Khan's ambition in "Space Seed", which is not to be lumped in with the completely bitter, murderous, version he would become after the disastrous events of his exile, so some heavy-handed misapplication of the law may not necessarily be justified in the case of TOS Khan.


He's not talked about like he's a genetically engineered Hitler. It's not until you get to Wrath of Khan and arguably most decidedly in Into Darkness that they make him a tyrant that is said to have perpetrated genocide.

We have a more relevant version within the proper timeline in the form of Kodos the Executioner, who arbitrarily slaughtered colonists in a barbaric lottery played within his own mind, and it was this kind of criminal Kirk did seek to bring to proper justice.

Before things go off the rails in "Space Seed," both Scotty and Kirk speak of Khan with a degree of admiration (although, that admittedly shocks Spock), where they think of him as a relic of a backwards time, but recognize his abilities and leadership.

Indeed.

For example, if you switched out Khan for someone like Winston Churchill, and just imagined him being woken up in the 23rd century, there's a lot to admire. But he was also a politician that oversaw an empire that committed a whole lot of massacres and exploited multiple peoples and countries.

I think that was the kind of nuance they originally were going for with Khan.

Agreed.
 
Doesn't matter Khan's historic crimes.

He comitted crimes against Kirk, under his authority. He was also the victim and should have delayed prosecution of the case to a supervisor, unbiased, officer.

It was not justice.
 
I don't find the great romance convincing because continuity wasn't the norm for TOS. Kirks grief was over by the next episode

We do not know how long after TCOTEOF the season finale takes place in real time. Further, Kirk was not going to roll around in the floor crying in front of his shipmates, or even discussing it, since some people do hide their grief from others--its the one bit on "control" some will ever have over the situation (read: death) they cannot control.

CONTROVERSIAL OPINION:

Spock is a shit character.

I would never go that far about TOS/TAS/TOS-Movies Spock. that said, I would not go overboard butt-smooching & slobbering over him in the way certain YouTube episode review channel hosts do, and often for reasons showing how much they do not understand what Spock represented in TOS.
 
I hated it at first but now...

ST:ID's transwarp beaming into Kronos/Q'onos should be the norm by then and not something controversial.
I’ve always hated it as a concept, the same way I hate the 32nd century personal transporters, because it removes a limit on the transporters that makes it more believable as a tool. And it creates more problems for the narrative than it answers.

Why would you build startships to explore space if you can just beam people (or drones) to different planets light-years away?
 
Beaming to other planets would basically be Stargate, but you can only beam to planets you already know are there. To find whatever might be out there that isn’t observable from your starting point — the surprises— you’re still going to need either a ship or a probe.
And for some reason they still built ships in Stargate.

Probably to reverse the polarity or some such thing.
 
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