Season 1 really is a great a great season overall but Season 2 also had some Outstanding episodes too.
Yep. For me, overall Season 2 is my favorite.
Re/watching TOS: First half of season 1
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Yep. For me, overall Season 2 is my favorite.
One thing that has really struck me with the re-watch is there isn't really a "Season 1" or a "Season 2".
There is the more "SF" Season 1A of Gene Roddenberry and John DF Black, without the Federation and Prime Directive with the plot driven either by humans or "alien" aliens.
There is the Season 1B of Gene L. Coon as the new showrunner, with DC Fontana, which introduces most of what we consider Star Trek to be... Klingons, Khan, the PD, the Federation, time travel, "City"... More humor, more room for the characters to breathe.
Season 2A continues 1B, and arguably contains the greatest run of TOS episodes. My favorite "Mirror, Mirror", joined with "Doomsday Machine" ... "Amok Time" ... "Journey to Babel" "Who Mourns for Adonais?" ... "Tribbles". Only "The Apple" and "Friday's Child" are mediocre, with "Catspaw", "Wolf in the Fold", and "A Private Little War" more open to debate and individual taste.
Then Coon leaves and is replaced with John Meredyth Lucas. Season 2B. The prior quality just isn't there, and we get several mediocre episodes bunched up together. But, there is also "A Piece of the Action", "By Any Other Name", and "The Ultimate Computer." Then it concludes with two Gene Roddenberry driven episodes... "The Omega Glory" and "Assignment: Earth".
And, so far with Season 3, it seems for every step forward there are two steps backwards. I just finished "The Tholian Web" so I know it will get worse from here on out...
Plus, the two pilots make up a Season 0...
There is the more "SF" Season 1A of Gene Roddenberry and John DF Black, without the Federation and Prime Directive with the plot driven either by humans or "alien" aliens.
There is the Season 1B of Gene L. Coon as the new showrunner, with DC Fontana, which introduces most of what we consider Star Trek to be... Klingons, Khan, the PD, the Federation, time travel, "City"... More humor, more room for the characters to breathe.
Season 2A continues 1B, and arguably contains the greatest run of TOS episodes. My favorite "Mirror, Mirror", joined with "Doomsday Machine" ... "Amok Time" ... "Journey to Babel" "Who Mourns for Adonais?" ... "Tribbles". Only "The Apple" and "Friday's Child" are mediocre, with "Catspaw", "Wolf in the Fold", and "A Private Little War" more open to debate and individual taste.
Then Coon leaves and is replaced with John Meredyth Lucas. Season 2B. The prior quality just isn't there, and we get several mediocre episodes bunched up together. But, there is also "A Piece of the Action", "By Any Other Name", and "The Ultimate Computer." Then it concludes with two Gene Roddenberry driven episodes... "The Omega Glory" and "Assignment: Earth".
And, so far with Season 3, it seems for every step forward there are two steps backwards. I just finished "The Tholian Web" so I know it will get worse from here on out...
Plus, the two pilots make up a Season 0...
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