The least disliked episode of TOS - Season Two

[BlueStuff]

This is a game that we play every few years or so, and it's generally a lot of fun, providing a chance to mentally revisit those episodes you may not have thought about in a while. With that in mind, why not play again?

So, here's the game. The basic idea is your standard elimination game. I'll provide a list of the episodes for each season and you need to eliminate your least favorite or the one you deem the 'worst.' Please provide an EXPLANATION for why you are eliminating your choice and be sure to copy and paste the list with your choice removed. Finally, leave at least 2 eliminations by other posters before you eliminate another episode.

No tactical voting! You cannot remove an episode because you feel they would threaten your preferred episode's chance to win. Pretty simple. Enjoy!

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Season Two

Amok Time
Who Mourns for Adonais?
The Changeling
Mirror, Mirror
The Apple
The Doomsday Machine
Catspaw
I, Mudd
Metamorphosis
Journey to Babel
Friday's Child
The Deadly Years
Obsession
Wolf in the Fold
The Trouble With Tribbles
The Gamesters of Triskelion
A Piece of the Action
The Immunity Syndrome
A Private Little War
Return to Tomorrow
Patterns of Force
By Any Other Name
The Omega Glory
The Ultimate Computer
Bread and Circuses
Assignment: Earth

 

[BigDaveX]

Let's get an obvious one out of the way at the start. The Omega Glory should have stayed in Gene's drawer of unused pilot episode scripts.

Amok Time
Who Mourns for Adonais?
The Changeling
Mirror, Mirror
The Apple
The Doomsday Machine
Catspaw
I, Mudd
Metamorphosis
Journey to Babel
Friday's Child
The Deadly Years
Obsession
Wolf in the Fold
The Trouble With Tribbles
The Gamesters of Triskelion
A Piece of the Action
The Immunity Syndrome
A Private Little War
Return to Tomorrow
Patterns of Force
By Any Other Name
The Ultimate Computer
Bread and Circuses
Assignment: Earth

 

[Myko]

Amok Time
Who Mourns for Adonais?
The Changeling
Mirror, Mirror
The Apple
The Doomsday Machine
Catspaw
I, Mudd
Metamorphosis
Journey to Babel
Friday's Child
The Deadly Years
Obsession
Wolf in the Fold
The Trouble With Tribbles
A Piece of the Action
The Immunity Syndrome
A Private Little War
Return to Tomorrow
Patterns of Force
By Any Other Name
The Ultimate Computer
Bread and Circuses
Assignment: Earth


Gamesters of Triskelion is gone, just a dreadful episode.

 

[ChasFink]

Assignment: Earth is now gone, not because it's truly terrible, but because it isn't a Star Trek episode as much as a series pilot with Star Trek guest stars. And that Saturn V stock footage that was old and tired even a few short months after being shot.

Amok Time
Who Mourns for Adonais?
The Changeling
Mirror, Mirror
The Apple
The Doomsday Machine
Catspaw
I, Mudd
Metamorphosis
Journey to Babel
Friday's Child
The Deadly Years
Obsession
Wolf in the Fold
The Trouble With Tribbles
A Piece of the Action
The Immunity Syndrome
A Private Little War
Return to Tomorrow
Patterns of Force
By Any Other Name
The Ultimate Computer
Bread and Circuses

 

[Maurice]

Actually, "Assignment Earth" is pretty terrible.
I'm chucking "Patterns of Force" because Nazis.

Amok Time
Who Mourns for Adonais?
The Changeling
Mirror, Mirror
The Apple
The Doomsday Machine
Catspaw
I, Mudd
Metamorphosis
Journey to Babel
Friday's Child
The Deadly Years
Obsession
Wolf in the Fold
The Trouble With Tribbles
A Piece of the Action
The Immunity Syndrome
A Private Little War
Return to Tomorrow
By Any Other Name
The Ultimate Computer
Bread and Circuses

 

[BigDaveX]

The Apple gets the push from me. Probably the most formulaic episode of the show.

Amok Time
Who Mourns for Adonais?
The Changeling
Mirror, Mirror
The Doomsday Machine
Catspaw
I, Mudd
Metamorphosis
Journey to Babel
Friday's Child
The Deadly Years
Obsession
Wolf in the Fold
The Trouble With Tribbles
A Piece of the Action
The Immunity Syndrome
A Private Little War
Return to Tomorrow
By Any Other Name
The Ultimate Computer
Bread and Circuses

 

[Sir Rhosis]

Bye, Mudd.

Amok Time
Who Mourns for Adonais?
The Changeling
Mirror, Mirror
The Doomsday Machine
Catspaw
Metamorphosis
Journey to Babel
Friday's Child
The Deadly Years
Obsession
Wolf in the Fold
The Trouble With Tribbles
A Piece of the Action
The Immunity Syndrome
A Private Little War
Return to Tomorrow
By Any Other Name
The Ultimate Computer
Bread and Circuses

 

[Garth Rockett]

I've never cared for Obsession.

Amok Time
Who Mourns for Adonais?
The Changeling
Mirror, Mirror
The Doomsday Machine
Catspaw
Metamorphosis
Journey to Babel
Friday's Child
The Deadly Years
Wolf in the Fold
The Trouble With Tribbles
A Piece of the Action
The Immunity Syndrome
A Private Little War
Return to Tomorrow
By Any Other Name
The Ultimate Computer
Bread and Circuses

 

[Qonundrum]

A Piece of the Action = toodles to bad fizzbin



Amok Time
Who Mourns for Adonais?
The Changeling
Mirror, Mirror
The Doomsday Machine
Catspaw
Metamorphosis
Journey to Babel
Friday's Child
The Deadly Years
Wolf in the Fold
The Trouble With Tribbles
The Immunity Syndrome
A Private Little War
Return to Tomorrow
By Any Other Name
The Ultimate Computer
Bread and Circuses

 

[gratone]

Pulling the plug on "Metamorphosis." Never cared for nasty Commissioner Hedford or the "aw shucks" version of Zefram Cochrane.

Amok Time
Who Mourns for Adonais?
The Changeling
Mirror, Mirror
The Doomsday Machine
Catspaw
Journey to Babel
Friday's Child
The Deadly Years
Wolf in the Fold
The Trouble With Tribbles
The Immunity Syndrome
A Private Little War
Return to Tomorrow
By Any Other Name
The Ultimate Computer
Bread and Circuses

 

[Brennyren]

Bye, "The Immunity Syndrome." Two words: giant amoeba.

Amok Time
Who Mourns for Adonais?
The Changeling
Mirror, Mirror
The Doomsday Machine
Catspaw
Journey to Babel
Friday's Child
The Deadly Years
Wolf in the Fold
The Trouble With Tribbles
A Private Little War
Return to Tomorrow
By Any Other Name
The Ultimate Computer
Bread and Circuses

 

[BoredShipCapt'n]

"A Private Little War" is still there?? But not anymore!

Amok Time
Who Mourns for Adonais?
The Changeling
Mirror, Mirror
The Doomsday Machine
Catspaw
Journey to Babel
Friday's Child
The Deadly Years
Wolf in the Fold
The Trouble With Tribbles
Return to Tomorrow
By Any Other Name
The Ultimate Computer
Bread and Circuses

 

[Vger23]

Adios, "Who Mourns for Adonais?"

I have no need for a bizarre, Greek god episode that has an implausible love story (Panamas fell in love in what...5 mins), cheesy sexism even for TOS, and a big bunch of absolutely nothing interesting.

One of my least-favorite episodes of the whole franchise.

Amok Time
The Changeling
Mirror, Mirror
The Doomsday Machine
Catspaw
Journey to Babel
Friday's Child
The Deadly Years
Wolf in the Fold
The Trouble With Tribbles
Return to Tomorrow
By Any Other Name
The Ultimate Computer
Bread and Circuses

 

[Commishsleer]

Its tough.
Wolf in the Fold.
I like it and its sort of Halloweeny but there's no way I ever believed Scotty killed anyone.
Also I'm not keen on the pleasure planet angle. The women are just there to pleasure the men? If it was an equal opportunity pleasure planet, then maybe...

Amok Time
The Changeling
Mirror, Mirror
The Doomsday Machine
Catspaw
Journey to Babel
Friday's Child
The Deadly Years
The Trouble With Tribbles
Return to Tomorrow
By Any Other Name
The Ultimate Computer
Bread and Circuses

 

[johnnybear]

I just don't get the hate for Omega Glory or Obsession which for me are two crackers!
Apart from Sylvia I've never been much of a Catspaw fan so I'm pulling that one!
JB

 

[BigDaveX]

Getting difficult now, but I'm going to get rid of The Deadly Years, as the old-age make-up generally looked pretty silly, whereas Commodore Stocker was just too dumb to be credible.

Amok Time
The Changeling
Mirror, Mirror
The Doomsday Machine
Journey to Babel
Friday's Child
The Trouble With Tribbles
Return to Tomorrow
By Any Other Name
The Ultimate Computer
Bread and Circuses

 

[Myko]

Couldn't decide between getting rid of Return to Tomorrow for Shatner's overacting or Friday's Child for the silly hats. Ultimately went with Friday's Child.

Amok Time
The Changeling
Mirror, Mirror
The Doomsday Machine
Journey to Babel
The Trouble With Tribbles
Return to Tomorrow
By Any Other Name
The Ultimate Computer
Bread and Circuses

 

[BlueStuff]

Bread and Circuses is gone. Come on! Worshipping the sun is primitive, but worshipping the "son" is proof of an advanced society? What? What makes one religion more valid than another?

Amok Time
The Changeling
Mirror, Mirror
The Doomsday Machine
Journey to Babel
The Trouble With Tribbles
Return to Tomorrow
By Any Other Name
The Ultimate Computer

 

[RColtrane]

The Trouble With Tribbles is gone. The only good scene in this one is when Chekov gets owned by Spock about smell in the vacuum of space!

Amok Time
The Changeling
Mirror, Mirror
The Doomsday Machine
Journey to Babel
Return to Tomorrow
By Any Other Name
The Ultimate Computer

 

[BigDaveX]

Gonna have to get rid of Return to Tomorrow. Not a bad little episode by any means, just not very memorable compared to the rest.

Amok Time
The Changeling
Mirror, Mirror
The Doomsday Machine
Journey to Babel
By Any Other Name
The Ultimate Computer