Season 3 and TOS, rated by TOS forum

[J.T.B.]

I hope I am not stepping on @Botany Bay's toes, but it has been a few weeks since he posted the last weekly poll, and so I thought I would summarize the results. Here are the results for S3:

The Tholian Web 8.23
Day of the Dove 7.88
The Enterprise Incident 7.83
All Our Yesterdays 7.64
The Paradise Syndrome 6.89
Elaan of Troyius 6.78
Spectre of the Gun 6.67
Is There in Truth No Beauty? 6.65
The Savage Curtain 6.23
The Empath 6.09
Wink of an Eye 6.06
That Which Survives 5.96
Requiem for Methuselah 5.89
Let That Be Your Last Battlefield 5.81
For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky 5.67
The Cloud Minders 5.57
Whom Gods Destroy 5.15
The Lights of Zetar 5
The Way to Eden 4.63
Spock's Brain 4.48
Turnabout Intruder 4.46
The Mark of Gideon 4.43
Plato's Stepchildren 4.29
And the Children Shall Lead 2.04

For an average rating of 5.85.

 

[J.T.B.]

So with that information, we can look at the whole series:

Average S1 rating: 7.52
Average S2 rating: 7.02
Average S3 rating: 5.85
Average rating for all three seasons: 6.8

Nearest average S1 episode: Shore Leave
Nearest average S2 episode: Friday's Child
Nearest average S3 episode: Let That Be Your Last Battlefield
Nearest average episode for all three seasons: Elaan of Troyius

 

[CorporalCaptain]

Wow. Very interesting results. Thank you!

 

[J.T.B.]

^ Sure! I thought a lot of S3 episodes were rated higher than I would have guessed, but I guess if the first two seasons average 7+ it's not so far out of line.

S1 is the most consistent, a pretty solid group between 7 and 9 scores, but no surprise there. The best stretch to watch, according to our voters, would have been the second half of S1, except for that "Alternative Factor" outlier. Which was only saved from being the worst of all by the infamous "Children."

 

[CorporalCaptain]

The downward trend over time is fascinating.