The Most Disliked Episode of TOS, Season 2 - 2025 Edition...

[Farscape One]

Welcome to our bi-yearly 'Most Disliked Episode' games! Now that the 'Least Disliked Episode' games hosted by BlueStuff (who inspired me to create these games, so thank you very much for paving the way) have concluded, we can begin the opposite side of that coin.

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 most 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 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!

Hall of Champions (or Failures?)
2011 - "AND THE CHILDREN SHALL LEAD"
2018 - "AND THE CHILDREN SHALL LEAD"
2019 - "AND THE CHILDREN SHALL LEAD"
2021 - "THE ALTERNATIVE FACTOR"
2023 - "AND THE CHILDREN SHALL LEAD"
2025 -


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

 

[Farscape One]

Kicking this season off by saving my other absolute favorite of TOS... "THE DOOMSDAY MACHINE".

This episode was flawless, even by today's standards. Great plot, great action, great drama. William Windom played the damaged leader perfectly. His sacrifice was truly felt. Casting Windom was what really elevated this from a great episode to a phenomenal one.

Spock was fantastic, as usual. "Vulcans never bluff"... DO NOT play poker with this man.

Scotty, of course, gets another shout out with all his miracle working, especially when he got that phaser bank recharged before Kirk even knew about it.

One of the easiest saves I have ever done.


AMOK TIME
WHO MOURNS FOR ADONAIS?
THE CHANGELING
MIRROR, MIRROR
THE APPLE
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

 

[Phaser Two]

S2 is my favorite season and, after "The Doomsday Machine," which would have been an extremely easy save for me too, "Wolf in the Fold" is my second-favorite episode of the entire series. As I've said before, Star Trek as murder mystery?? Kirk & Spock versus Jack the Ripper, revealed to be an immortal, evil alien?? Yep, sign me up immediately. The focus on Scotty is compelling, Doohan does an excellent job playing Scott's confusion and frustration, and Shatner and Nimoy are outstanding as they portray their characters' complete and utter fearlessness in a rather unsettling situation. (I'm also a big fan of any script that shows Kirk and Spock as equally brilliant in a cooperative and complementary approach to solving a problem.) For any dialogue fans, the extended, Agatha Christie-like briefing room scene is absolutely chock-full of (ahem) deathless lines. Finally—although I could go on and on—the savage kick with which Hengist/Redjac surprises Kirk as it attempts to escape is perfectly acted by Shatner and nicely scripted. Kirk obviously wasn't expecting that level of H2H skill from "Hengist,"and in fact that's one of the few occasions in the entire series where Kirk is caught off guard physically, if only for a moment. Ah, one more thing—Fiedler, Macaulay and Seurat are all superb guest performers. It's a true pleasure to save this one.


AMOK TIME
WHO MOURNS FOR ADONAIS?
THE CHANGELING
MIRROR, MIRROR
THE APPLE
CATSPAW
I, MUDD
METAMORPHOSIS
JOURNEY TO BABEL
FRIDAY'S CHILD
THE DEADLY YEARS
OBSESSION
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