The 5 most overrated episodes of TOS

[CorporalCaptain]

William Campbell carries The Squire of Gothos. If you can't get find pleasure in watching him go over the top like that, there's not enough in the episode to justify spending a whole hour on it, even with the pretty cool twist ending. I too came to appreciate the episode a great deal as I got older, or more precisely Campbell's performance; I had seen it first when I was very young, and while I understood the story I didn't initially appreciate how entertaining he was. It's also interesting to compare the mannerisms of Trelane with the mannerisms of Q.

 

[Isis]

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CorporalCaptain, I agree. Campbell gives an excellent performance that I didn't appreciate the first few times I saw the episode.

 

[TommyZ]

1. Managerie-Certainly a solid effort, but its often one of the most highly rated episodes and I don't feel its in the top tier.

2. Enterprise Incident-Again, not a bad episode overall, but there are so many dramatic and conceptual problems with it that I can't rate it as highly as some others.

3. A Piece of the Action-Ultimately too silly.

4. The Cage-A pretty good pilot but not as good as WNMHGB, and it's also really rough around the edges.

5. Space Seed- I really DO like the episode, but the story hinges on the betrayal of her comrades of a rather pathetic female officer...somewhat lessening it's impact.

I agree. Even though it was meant to be offbeat, A Piece of the Action was just too silly for me