The least disliked episode of TOS - Season Three
- Thread starter BlueStuff
- Start date
The Enterprise Incident
Is There in Truth No Beauty?
Day of the Dove
For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky
The Tholian Web
Wink of an Eye
Elaan of Troyius
Whom Gods Destroy
Let That Be Your Last Battlefield
Requiem for Methuselah
The Cloud Minders
The Savage Curtain
All Our Yesterdays
Turnabout Intruder
Plato’s Stepchildren bows out ungracefully. I tried to eradicate this episode using telekinesis. It didn’t work. I still have nightmares about the Kirk and Spock song and dance routine.
I think you know that I was born to wipe out this episode my Lord!!!
JB
The Cloud Minders then for me as my main target show has gone! 
Even if Vana was gorgeous in that dress!
The Enterprise Incident
Day of The Dove
The Tholian Web
All Our Yesterdays
How anyone can eliminate any of these four is beyond me totally!
JB
Even if Vana was gorgeous in that dress!The Enterprise Incident
Day of The Dove
The Tholian Web
All Our Yesterdays
How anyone can eliminate any of these four is beyond me totally!
JB
The Enterprise Incident
Day of The Dove
The Tholian Web
-----------------------------------
All Our Yesterdays sent into exile. I liked all the remaining ones but there is no Enterprise in this one.
Edit to explain: "No Enterprise" is a plus because the 3rd season is notorious for its odd set gaffes (like Kirk and Kang not looking in the direction of the ladder in Day of the Dove.)
Day of The Dove
The Tholian Web
-----------------------------------
All Our Yesterdays sent into exile. I liked all the remaining ones but there is no Enterprise in this one.
Edit to explain: "No Enterprise" is a plus because the 3rd season is notorious for its odd set gaffes (like Kirk and Kang not looking in the direction of the ladder in Day of the Dove.)
Last edited:
This is truly difficult. They are all superb episodes. I grudgingly take our "DAY OF THE DOVE". It is the least favorite of my favorites remaining.
Last episodes...
THE ENTERPRISE INCIDENT
THE THOLIAN WEB
Last episodes...
THE ENTERPRISE INCIDENT
THE THOLIAN WEB
Commander Loskene is jubilant! 
As much as "The Enterprise Incident" rocks and this choice is a virtual tie, there's only one major plot point: Could Scotty really make alien technology fit into the Enterprise's engine like trying to put in a ISA card into a Zorro II slot within ten minutes if their technologies are so radically different? (There's a fun reference or two...) Indeed, a follow-up episode could hint at shared or stolen technology, but usually one would want to differentiate it to make it harder to interface with? (Then again, the cloaking device is just a field that surrounds the ship and everything within, if the only issue is power - and Scotty WAS controlling the unit's off switch locally and not relayed through the ship... but how to guess at amperage, voltage, AC versus DC versus unicorn burps, and other factors - again, going from low to high - and hoping the ship has enough power. Scotty was taking big chances regarding lacking schematics to get it to run so quickly and without frying the device, or the Enterprise, in the process, there's nothing like a stout short-circuit to make one's day... of course, it's easy to find a ground trace on a circuit board, the issue is finding the number of +5 volt interfaces. Again, AC, DC, unicorn burps...)
So I answered my own question, sorta, but "The Tholian Web" was innovative with high concept sci-fi, which is also amazing given how it's mid-season 3. And in a bottle show setting. with horror, suspension, a big moral decision. And Loskene would make for awesome live wallpaper for a smartphone.
Then again, so would the Romulan Commander.
(And"Tholian" does have a plot point - if the ship is dissolving how come they're not floating downward due the force of their own gravity, if they can move forward and feel the table dissolve? YMMV, but I always found it easier to roll with it.)
Both episodes are well above first rate. It honestly is that simple, blueberry vs raspberry and both are in a great salad. Yum.
As much as "The Enterprise Incident" rocks and this choice is a virtual tie, there's only one major plot point: Could Scotty really make alien technology fit into the Enterprise's engine like trying to put in a ISA card into a Zorro II slot within ten minutes if their technologies are so radically different? (There's a fun reference or two...) Indeed, a follow-up episode could hint at shared or stolen technology, but usually one would want to differentiate it to make it harder to interface with? (Then again, the cloaking device is just a field that surrounds the ship and everything within, if the only issue is power - and Scotty WAS controlling the unit's off switch locally and not relayed through the ship... but how to guess at amperage, voltage, AC versus DC versus unicorn burps, and other factors - again, going from low to high - and hoping the ship has enough power. Scotty was taking big chances regarding lacking schematics to get it to run so quickly and without frying the device, or the Enterprise, in the process, there's nothing like a stout short-circuit to make one's day... of course, it's easy to find a ground trace on a circuit board, the issue is finding the number of +5 volt interfaces. Again, AC, DC, unicorn burps...)
So I answered my own question, sorta, but "The Tholian Web" was innovative with high concept sci-fi, which is also amazing given how it's mid-season 3. And in a bottle show setting. with horror, suspension, a big moral decision. And Loskene would make for awesome live wallpaper for a smartphone.
Then again, so would the Romulan Commander.
(And"Tholian" does have a plot point - if the ship is dissolving how come they're not floating downward due the force of their own gravity, if they can move forward and feel the table dissolve? YMMV, but I always found it easier to roll with it.)
Both episodes are well above first rate. It honestly is that simple, blueberry vs raspberry and both are in a great salad. Yum.
Last edited:
I think you know that I was born to wipe out this episode my Lord!!!
JB
Yes, as Adam said in Way To Eden...."We reach, brother."
I am a little confused... which one are you eliminating?
(Though to be honest, they are both so equally exceptional, a poll might actually work better in this case.)
(Though to be honest, they are both so equally exceptional, a poll might actually work better in this case.)
I think Cutie was eliminating Enterprise Incident....
If Tholian Web is the winner, that's okay with me. One of my favorite 3rd season episodes.
If Tholian Web is the winner, that's okay with me. One of my favorite 3rd season episodes.
Day of The Dove sort of inches it for me! 
JB
JB
I think you know that I was born to wipe out this episode my Lord!!!
JB
I think that episode was wiped out from the minute it was ill conceived.
I don't know my Lord, it has a bit of a following on here!
JB
JB
And The Children is another show hated on here but I thought it was okay although Gorgon rotting on the bridge scared me quite a bit as a kid! 
JB
JB
I don't know my Lord, it has a bit of a following on here!
JB
Yes, every time I name it as my least favorite episode I'm lambasted for ridiculing one of the worst TOS episodes. It's almost as bad as And The Children Shall Lead, if that's even possible.
And The Children is another show hated on here but I thought it was okay although Gorgon rotting on the bridge scared me quite a bit as a kid!
JB
That kid who whines about his ice cream really bugged me. He was Melvin Belli's son, too. I guess he inherited his acting ability from his dad.
Wasn't he called Caesar Belli my Lord?
Droxine keeps what in the running, Henny?
JB
Similar threads
