The Most Disliked Episode of TOS, Season 3: 2021 Edition...

"The Lights Of Zetar" isn't particularly memorable for me, but I also don't mind it. It's perfectly fine, I could put it on now and enjoy watching it.

Aside from the fun Shatner hamminess of the first half of "Turnabout Intruder", I would actively avoid all the rest of these.

SPECTRE OF THE GUN
LET THAT BE YOUR LAST BATTLEFIELD
THE WAY TO EDEN
TURNABOUT INTRUDER

 

Gotta save "Turnabout Intruder" for its historic import alone (last episode of TOS). Also the sight of "Kirk" filing "his" fingernails.

SPECTRE OF THE GUN
LET THAT BE YOUR LAST BATTLEFIELD
THE WAY TO EDEN

 

The atmosphere and creepy half sets of "SPECTRE OF THE GUN" helps elevate the episode. It is saved.

I have spoken.


LET THAT BE YOUR LAST BATTLEFIELD
THE WAY TO EDEN

 

I'm saving "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield." Once again, I'm saving an episode with a Batman actor!

That leaves...

THE WAY TO EDEN

 

"The Way To Eden" is appropriately horrendous. I find it literally unwatchable. So much terrible singing! And it took me awhile to realize it, but Chekov might be the worst regular character in the whole Trekverse.

 

"The Way to Eden" really shows that everyone in the main cast, as well as the production and post-production team, had stopped caring and had already begun to move on. Bad line readings, Kirk's reversed tunic, filling up the time with songs (not terrible, in my opinion) and song fragments and an instrumental, three different pronunciations of Irina's surname, etc.

 

Wow. This is the first time "AND THE CHILDREN SHALL LEAD" won't win. It's any episode's game now in the finals, which I will post tomorrow.

This is exciting! Thank you all for playing.

 

No, thank *you* for hosting!

 

Sorry about The Empath, I really hadn't realised it was gone! My target has always been Plato's Stepchildren!
JB