The Most Disliked Episode of TOS, Season 3 - 2025 Edition...

[Moopsy]

"Requiem for Methuselah" for the scene at the end with Kirk and Spock, with Kirk lamenting being a "lonely young man" and Spock compassionately "removing" Kirk's mental pain over losing Rayna.

THE PARADISE SYNDROME
AND THE CHILDREN SHALL LEAD
ELAAN OF TROYIUS
THAT WHICH SURVIVES
THE LIGHTS OF ZETAR
THE CLOUD MINDERS

 

[Sakonna]

OK, I'm gonna do it. At least "And The Children Shall Lead" is fun to laugh at! The rest of these are variously shrill, annoying, and/or boring.

THE PARADISE SYNDROME
ELAAN OF TROYIUS
THAT WHICH SURVIVES
THE LIGHTS OF ZETAR
THE CLOUD MINDERS

 

[Qonundrum]

Three I'd save in an instant, but since that's not allowed I'll start with the one time I actually believed Kirk was really in love:

THE PARADISE SYNDROME

Another tale from Margaret Armen, which is also a possible influence on "The Inner Light" of TNG fame, Kirk's amnesia due to being konked out by an alien obelisk that - thankfully - was designed to prevent big asteroids smashing into it but was just defective enough to give us the following 50 minutes of episode - leads him to believe he is someone else. Falls in love, he's going to be a dad, is found out by everyone else as a fake, and he and new wife are sentenced to being stoned in what is one of the dourest endings in all of Star Trek. While "Requiem for Methuselah" has that "Forget" scene at the end, it's impressive it's not used here. But if you realized you were banging a robot, that'd probably be the one time you'd use it as well and, yes, I adored "Requiem for Methuselah" for its ideas and would find it an easy save as well for sheer sincerity of the presentation and easily falling into the world of the episode... but I digress, what we really want is this:

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What's left:
ELAAN OF TROYIUS
THAT WHICH SURVIVES
THE LIGHTS OF ZETAR
THE CLOUD MINDERS

 

[Seven of Five]

The Cloud Minders had the cool visuals of the cloud city to make me want to save it.

We have the dregs of S3 left now, though I would have had the annoying kid one too.

ELAAN OF TROYIUS
THAT WHICH SURVIVES
THE LIGHTS OF ZETAR

 

[Farscape One]

Saving "THAT WHICH SURVIVES".

Losira's entering/exiting is CREEPY, and the mood on that planetoid was creepy, too.


ELAAN OF TROYIUS
THE LIGHTS OF ZETAR

 

[MarcKyle1964]

I'm gonna save Elaan of Troyus. Yet another lesson in Kirk/Alien female love, and again reaffirming how much he loves NCC-1701.

Which means TLoZ is this games winner.

 

[Seven of Five]

Two painful to watch in the bottom 2!

 

[MarcKyle1964]

The Cloud Minders had the cool visuals of the cloud city to make me want to save it.

We have the dregs of S3 left now, though I would have had the annoying kid one too.

ELAAN OF TROYIUS
THAT WHICH SURVIVES
THE LIGHTS OF ZETAR

The three remaining are all better than that kid episode.

 

[Qonundrum]

THE LIGHTS OF ZETAR wins? The one written by Shari "Lamb Chop" Lewis?

At least we didn't get a Lamb Chop crossover. Might have started like this:

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Now there's a triple crossover as that's Prof. Moriarty in there too!

 

[Farscape One]

And "THE LIGHTS OF ZETAR" wins this season.

I'm surprised "AND THE CHILDREN SHALL LEAD" didn't make it to the Finals... only once before has this happened. (And that was the only time it didn't win for the entire series.)

Thank you all for playing. I will start the Finals sometime in the next few hours.