Why people hate The Omega Glory I'll never know! 
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Season Two Episodes ranked by the TOS Forum
- Thread starter Botany Bay
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The only episodes that I'm not struck on in season two are I Mudd, and I'm not a great lover of A Piece of The Action or Return To Tomorrow but I can take them in preference to I Mudd!
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Well, it is fun to do. Most credit should go to @Botany Bay who keeps the voting threads going and posts the results.
Anyway here is another graph, with both seasons, and borrowing @TheGodBen's good idea of adding average lines. "The Cage" is excluded, BTW, even though it was voted on.
I can never understand why The Omega Glory rates so low on the forum? I thought it was a good episode...even if Kirk fails to drop Tracey at first in a karate bout but he wins four pins to two in the wrestling match at the end and who can not enjoy Irene Kelley as Sirah?
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The Doomsday Machine, Mirror,Mirror, Bread And Circuses, Journey To Babel, Obsession A Private Little War all rate quite highly on my list of favourites!
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Thank you Mr. JTB & Botany Bay - I really have enjoyed your hard work!
Yeah, @Botany Bay hasn't been heard from much lately, but he did a great job keeping the episode of the week thread polls going for two and a half years!
But surely it was Eeb Plebnista ? 
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TDDM? Surely it's TDM? Doomsday is one word surely? Can't argue with you about it's placing as top of season two it's a cracker as Frank Carson used to say!
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But surely it was Eeb Plebnista ?
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"You know many of our high worship words. How?"
Why people hate The Omega Glory I'll never know!
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I don't hate OG, but the 'parallel planet theory' was just overused during TOS.
When they brought out the American flag and the Constitution -- with the exact same calligraphy, no less -- my suspension of disbelief went right down the toilet.
I always thought it was "Ee Plebnista."But surely it was Eeb Plebnista ?
...and the background music playing a modified version of 'The Star Spangled Banner' added to the absurdity of that episode. I'm just glad that no aliens created a parallel planet modeled after The Village People.
Throughout the story, information accumulates connecting this planet's history to Earth's, according to that Hodgkins? Theory of Parallel Development (when did Trek talk about the theory by the way? This episode?). The pieces seem to start falling in place almost all at once. Then before you've dared to think that far, the American flag comes out. The parallel development idea is pretty dull, actually, without that jolt of finding out the parallel is so extreme. It was never about vague similarities....and the background music playing a modified version of 'The Star Spangled Banner' added to the absurdity of that episode.
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I suppose we could have been left with the knowledge of Kohms and Yangs being Communists and Yankees. As long as you've gone that far, why not have parallel symbols too? The same exact set of variables starting from the exact same starting conditions, leading in a stunning, remarkable way down through two planet's history until one event makes them diverge... it's an EXTREME idea, but let Trek sell it to you. TOS can do it, if you can suspend the usual grumbling jaded TV viewer cynicism.
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I've found it's the flag waving that makes most people mock this one. "Give me a break" is the reaction, not to parallel Earths, but to doe eyed patriotism.
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Eh, I've seen it both ways. Actually DDM often as well. A small thing.
