Would you really want to see the more realistic "Lord of the Flies"-like version of this story? I'll take bonk-bonk threats over 20 kids with wrenches smashing the skull of a red-shirt.
The Most Disliked Episode of STAR TREK - Season 1...
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So MIRIR is the 'winner' of season 1. I gave already posted season 2 of this game, and it is currently underway.
Awww.... but "Mudd's Women" has Harvey Hart's direction, which is stellar. No other TOS director attempted such ambitious foreground/background compositions. Like this:I'll take "Mudd's Women" over "Miri". Honestly though, it is like asking whether I would like to be kicked in the left or right testicle.
Miri was the best of the four banned episodes on the BBC! Heck, they even showed it, once in 1970!!! 
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In my opinion, the worst of season 1 is still not all that bad.
I think "The Alternative Factor" is my personal worst TOS ep. I saw someone else describe it as an assault on the senses, and that felt dead-on for me as well. There's some terrible TOS, but I'm not sure there's one other episode so terrible that I literally can't make it through a rewatch (the Kolos fast-cutting craziness in "Is There In Truth No Beauty?" comes close)
I thought the story concept for AF was good, but somewhere between finished script and finished episode it was really messed up.
I thought Robert Brown did a good acting job portraying both a crazy Lazarus (most of the screen time) and a sane Lazarus. It was certainly not lack-luster, considering that he had -1 day to get familiar with the role (yes, negative one day once John Barrymore failed to show up for shooting). No onboard ship security was the norm throughout the series, so, no blame to the writers, here. Stumbling off cliffs got old, though. (I guess the producer kept yelling for more action, and the director said sure, give me a stuntman to fall off that cliff, again. 
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I find it hard to keep my Lazari strait in this episode. Did the same one fall twice, or was it one fall each. The one with the bandage on the head; was he crazy or sane? I always planned to sit down and map it out, but does it actually make sense if you map it out?
Awww.... but "Mudd's Women" has Harvey Hart's direction, which is stellar. No other TOS director attempted such ambitious foreground/background compositions. Like this:
I never noticed that but then again I am not very good at noticing that kind of thing.
You’ll be committed to Elba II if you try and figure that out. Trust me, I’ve tried and they’re coming to take me away.
Apparently, there were at least 3 Lazari.I think the makeup department had a crazy time putting Lazarus’ beard on.
I think the makeup department had a crazy time putting Lazarus’ beard on.
Looks like he got some depilation in the third one.
I guess the only thing that helps us is that there should be an even number of them, even if he has one or more identical twin(s).I hope Lazarus doesn’t have any brothers or I’m going to be really confused.
Easy to keep straight. Bandage Lazarus with the thinner beard is the crazy one from our prime universe. Non-bandage Lazarus with the thicker beard is the sane one for the antimatter universe. Crazy Lazarus fell off the cliff twice.
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