The most disliked episode of Star Trek - Part Three

[BlueStuff]

Okay Trek fans, "least disliked" has concluded, so now it's time for the opposite. The basic idea here is your standard elimination game. I'll provide a list of the episodes for each season and you need to eliminate your favorite or the one you deem the 'best.' 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 play again. Pretty simple. Enjoy!

Season One - The Alternative Factor
Season Two - Catspaw
Season Three -

Spock's Brain
The Enterprise Incident
The Paradise Syndrome
And the Children Shall Lead
Is There in Truth No Beauty?
Spectre of the Gun
Day of the Dove
For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky
The Tholian Web
Plato's Stepchildren
Wink of an Eye
The Empath
Elaan of Troyius
Whom Gods Destroy
Let That Be Your Last Battlefield
The Mark of Gideon
That Which Survives
The Lights of Zetar
Requiem for Methuselah
The Way to Eden
The Cloud Minders
The Savage Curtain
All Our Yesterdays
Turnabout Intruder

 

[Quinton O'Connor]

Spock's Brain
The Enterprise Incident
The Paradise Syndrome
And the Children Shall Lead
Is There in Truth No Beauty?
Spectre of the Gun
For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky
The Tholian Web
Plato's Stepchildren
Wink of an Eye
The Empath
Elaan of Troyius
Whom Gods Destroy
Let That Be Your Last Battlefield
The Mark of Gideon
That Which Survives
The Lights of Zetar
Requiem for Methuselah
The Way to Eden
The Cloud Minders
The Savage Curtain
All Our Yesterdays
Turnabout Intruder

"Day of the Dove" is one of my all-time favorites from the series.

 

[Admiral Shran]

Spock's Brain
The Paradise Syndrome
And the Children Shall Lead
Is There in Truth No Beauty?
Spectre of the Gun
For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky
The Tholian Web
Plato's Stepchildren
Wink of an Eye
The Empath
Elaan of Troyius
Whom Gods Destroy
Let That Be Your Last Battlefield
The Mark of Gideon
That Which Survives
The Lights of Zetar
Requiem for Methuselah
The Way to Eden
The Cloud Minders
The Savage Curtain
All Our Yesterdays
Turnabout Intruder

The Enterprise Incident - one of my favorites of TOS and easily by favorite of Season Three. It's good to see Kirk and Spock engage in a little spy work.

 

[Fang66]

Spock's Brain
The Paradise Syndrome
And the Children Shall Lead
Is There in Truth No Beauty?
Spectre of the Gun
For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky
The Tholian Web
Plato's Stepchildren
Wink of an Eye
The Empath
Elaan of Troyius
Whom Gods Destroy
Let That Be Your Last Battlefield
The Mark of Gideon
That Which Survives
The Lights of Zetar
Requiem for Methuselah
The Way to Eden
The Cloud Minders
The Savage Curtain
All Our Yesterdays

Removing Turnabout Intruder: Shatner's turn as a woman

 

[Quinton O'Connor]

Spock's Brain
The Paradise Syndrome
And the Children Shall Lead
Is There in Truth No Beauty?
Spectre of the Gun
For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky
Plato's Stepchildren
Wink of an Eye
The Empath
Elaan of Troyius
Whom Gods Destroy
Let That Be Your Last Battlefield
The Mark of Gideon
That Which Survives
The Lights of Zetar
Requiem for Methuselah
The Way to Eden
The Cloud Minders
The Savage Curtain
All Our Yesterdays

Always liked "The Tholian Web" and its ties to a pretty nifty two-parter some thirty-seven years later help its cause retroactively too.

 

[Mr Silver]

Spock's Brain
The Paradise Syndrome
And the Children Shall Lead
Is There in Truth No Beauty?
For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky
Plato's Stepchildren
Wink of an Eye
The Empath
Elaan of Troyius
Whom Gods Destroy
Let That Be Your Last Battlefield
The Mark of Gideon
That Which Survives
The Lights of Zetar
Requiem for Methuselah
The Way to Eden
The Cloud Minders
The Savage Curtain
All Our Yesterdays

Removing "Spectre of the Gun", it's a good period episode and suprisingly works as a Western.

 

[TigerOfDarkness]

Spock's Brain
The Paradise Syndrome
And the Children Shall Lead
For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky
Plato's Stepchildren
Wink of an Eye
The Empath
Elaan of Troyius
Whom Gods Destroy
Let That Be Your Last Battlefield
The Mark of Gideon
That Which Survives
The Lights of Zetar
Requiem for Methuselah
The Way to Eden
The Cloud Minders
The Savage Curtain
All Our Yesterdays

Is There in Truth No Beauty? good story about jealousy, like the effects shots.

 

[jep]

The Paradise Syndrome
And the Children Shall Lead
For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky
Plato's Stepchildren
The Empath
Elaan of Troyius
Whom Gods Destroy
Let That Be Your Last Battlefield
The Mark of Gideon
That Which Survives
The Lights of Zetar
Requiem for Methuselah
The Way to Eden
The Cloud Minders
The Savage Curtain
All Our Yesterdays

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Wink of an Eye

Kirk beds down yet another hot alien, while on speed.

Bravo, Captain, bravo.


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[Mr Silver]

Spock's Brain
The Paradise Syndrome
And the Children Shall Lead
For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky
Plato's Stepchildren
The Empath
Elaan of Troyius
Whom Gods Destroy
Let That Be Your Last Battlefield
The Mark of Gideon
That Which Survives
The Lights of Zetar
Requiem for Methuselah
The Way to Eden
The Cloud Minders
All Our Yesterdays

Removed "The Savage Curtain" because it's a great little episode that features appearances from historical characters. Lincoln in particular stands out and his exchanges with Kirk are really well done.

 

[Fang66]

Jeeeeep? Did you use the learning device, take out Spock's Brain and then forget you had done it?

 

[Quinton O'Connor]

Added it back, Fang66.

Spock's Brain
The Paradise Syndrome
And the Children Shall Lead
For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky
Plato's Stepchildren
The Empath
Elaan of Troyius
Whom Gods Destroy
The Mark of Gideon
That Which Survives
The Lights of Zetar
Requiem for Methuselah
The Way to Eden
The Cloud Minders
All Our Yesterdays

"Let That Be Your Last Battlefield" has Lokai and he's awesome.

 

[Mr Silver]

Jeeeeep? Did you use the learning device, take out Spock's Brain and then forget you had done it?

I copy and pasted the previous posters updated list. I didn't notice it was missing!

 

[ToddPence]

Spock's Brain
The Paradise Syndrome
And the Children Shall Lead
For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky
Plato's Stepchildren
Elaan of Troyius
Whom Gods Destroy
The Mark of Gideon
That Which Survives
The Lights of Zetar
Requiem for Methuselah
The Way to Eden
The Cloud Minders
All Our Yesterdays

Removing "The Empath", the third season's best episode.

 

[Fang66]

Spock's Brain
The Paradise Syndrome
And the Children Shall Lead
For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky
Plato's Stepchildren
Whom Gods Destroy
The Mark of Gideon
That Which Survives
The Lights of Zetar
Requiem for Methuselah
The Way to Eden
The Cloud Minders
All Our Yesterdays

Removing The Empath: The episode has lot's of flaws but I still enjoyed it especially the performances from the big 3 and the beautiful performance from Kathryn Hays.

ToddPence beat me to it so I'll remove Elaan of Troyius. As a boy I had a huge crush on the Dohlman, think I touched her tears. That and the introduction of the D7 Class Battle Cruiser.

 

[DevilEyes]

Spock's Brain
The Paradise Syndrome
And the Children Shall Lead
For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky
Plato's Stepchildren
Whom Gods Destroy
The Mark of Gideon
That Which Survives
The Lights of Zetar
Requiem for Methuselah
The Way to Eden
The Cloud Minders

Removing All Our Yesterdays: Kirk's story is lame, but Spock's story is very moving- you gotta love it whenever he gets passionate - and I really like Zarabeth. One of my favorites from S3 alongside The Tholian Web, Is There In Truth No Beauty? and The Empath.

 

[Quinton O'Connor]

Spock's Brain
The Paradise Syndrome
And the Children Shall Lead
For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky
Plato's Stepchildren
Whom Gods Destroy
The Mark of Gideon
That Which Survives
The Lights of Zetar
Requiem for Methuselah
The Way to Eden

"The Cloud Minders" -- starting to get into the realm of 'cool concept, iffy execution'.

 

[Geck]

Spock's Brain
The Paradise Syndrome
And the Children Shall Lead
Plato's Stepchildren
Whom Gods Destroy
The Mark of Gideon
That Which Survives
The Lights of Zetar
Requiem for Methuselah
The Way to Eden

For the World is Hollow... allows DeForrest Kelley to do some great work, and is one of the more interesting eps left regardless.

 

[DevilEyes]

Spock's Brain
The Paradise Syndrome
And the Children Shall Lead
Plato's Stepchildren
The Mark of Gideon
That Which Survives
The Lights of Zetar
Requiem for Methuselah
The Way to Eden

Whom Gods Destroy - it's fun and not too cheesy (especially not by S3 standards) and Garth and Martha are interesting characters. Plus there's the classic 'shoot us both, Spock' moment.

 

[Quinton O'Connor]

Spock's Brain
The Paradise Syndrome
And the Children Shall Lead
Plato's Stepchildren
The Mark of Gideon
That Which Survives
Requiem for Methuselah
The Way to Eden

For introducing us to a term that would become all-important many years later, "The Lights of Zetar". Memory Alpha, anyone?

 

[Geck]

Spock's Brain
The Paradise Syndrome
And the Children Shall Lead
Plato's Stepchildren
That Which Survives
Requiem for Methuselah
The Way to Eden

I've always thought The Mark of Gideon is a bit underrated - it has some really great ideas even if the story direction and execution are a bit...questionable sometimes.