Top Ten Worst Episodes?
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Loathe to say these are 'the worst', but episodes only ever had interest in seeing once:
The Corbomite Manuever
The Man Trap
Charlie X
Miri
Shore Leave
The Conscience Of The King
Arena
Court Martial
Devil In The Dark
Altenative Factor
The Apple
Fridays Child
Wolf In The Fold
And The Children Shall Lead
Requiem For Methuselah
The Savage Curtain
A lot of the popular 'bad' episodes I find quite entertaining, unlike many of above.
The Corbomite Manuever
The Man Trap
Charlie X
Miri
Shore Leave
The Conscience Of The King
Arena
Court Martial
Devil In The Dark
Altenative Factor
The Apple
Fridays Child
Wolf In The Fold
And The Children Shall Lead
Requiem For Methuselah
The Savage Curtain
A lot of the popular 'bad' episodes I find quite entertaining, unlike many of above.
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Spock's Brain ("Brain and brain! What is brain?")
The Way to Eden ("Herbert! Herbert! Herbert!")
And the Children Shall Lead ("Busy. Busy. Busy.")
Miri ("Blah. Blah. Blah.")
Catspaw ("Go back! Go back! Go back!")
The Alternative Factor ("What of Lazarus? What of Lazarus?")
Patterns of Force ("Hail, Fuhrer! Hail, Fuhrer!")
The Mark of Gideon ("Yes, You Excellency. Yes, Your Excellency.")
Wolf in the Fold ("Die! Die! Everybody die!")
The Omega Glory ("We....The....People")
The Way to Eden ("Herbert! Herbert! Herbert!")
And the Children Shall Lead ("Busy. Busy. Busy.")
Miri ("Blah. Blah. Blah.")
Catspaw ("Go back! Go back! Go back!")
The Alternative Factor ("What of Lazarus? What of Lazarus?")
Patterns of Force ("Hail, Fuhrer! Hail, Fuhrer!")
The Mark of Gideon ("Yes, You Excellency. Yes, Your Excellency.")
Wolf in the Fold ("Die! Die! Everybody die!")
The Omega Glory ("We....The....People")
Charlie X seems to be on a few lists. I'm curious. What's so bad about it?
I find it an interesting story. A boy struggling with becoming a man plus the added complications of having been completely removed with his own people so he has no socialization skills and godlike powers to boot. Makes adolescence damned hard indeed.
I find it an interesting story. A boy struggling with becoming a man plus the added complications of having been completely removed with his own people so he has no socialization skills and godlike powers to boot. Makes adolescence damned hard indeed.
I`m sorry, I wasnt going to truly partake in this Trek bash thread, but today I watched what I absolutely believe to be Star Treks worst episode.
The Apple
Incredibly stupid, incredbly insensitive to the loss of 4 crew members, and I kept waiting for David Soul to burst into song
The Apple
Incredibly stupid, incredbly insensitive to the loss of 4 crew members, and I kept waiting for David Soul to burst into song
I really don't care for 'worst' lists, but I can give the last 10 of my favorite 79 episodes
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70 - Let That Be Your Last Battlefield - just too blatant
71 - The Man Trap - not what I would have picked for a premiere
72 - Spock’s Brain - actually, it's so ugly it's cute
73 - The Alternative Factor - why?
74 - Miri - kids, yechhh
75 - And The Children Shall Lead - ditto
76 - Mudd’s Women - I preferred Mudd's other appearances
77 - The Way To Eden - too '60s
78 - Plato’s Stephchildren - other than the kiss,
79 - The Omega Glory - even though it has Morgan Woodward
.70 - Let That Be Your Last Battlefield - just too blatant
71 - The Man Trap - not what I would have picked for a premiere
72 - Spock’s Brain - actually, it's so ugly it's cute
73 - The Alternative Factor - why?
74 - Miri - kids, yechhh
75 - And The Children Shall Lead - ditto
76 - Mudd’s Women - I preferred Mudd's other appearances
77 - The Way To Eden - too '60s
78 - Plato’s Stephchildren - other than the kiss,
79 - The Omega Glory - even though it has Morgan Woodward
Well, if given a choice between any of the episodes you people have listed, and an episode from an Irwin Allen show, I'll take the Trek any day of the week.
EDIT: And I find it kinda sad that a forum search for "Top Ten Best Episodes" yields no matches.
EDIT: And I find it kinda sad that a forum search for "Top Ten Best Episodes" yields no matches.
"Charlie X" is one of the best TOS episodes.
Least favorites:
76th: Plato's Stepchildren. This episode is deliberately embarrassing and that's hard to take.
77th: The Savage Curtain. Lincoln comes aboard? And then we fight weirdos for the edification of a rock monster? I'm stunned at how few others here have listed it.
78th: And the Children Shall Lead. The children are annoying, and the story uses a fantasy plot device to rationalize having characters behave in ways that real people never would.
79th: The Alternative Factor. The actor cast to play Lazarus went to lunch on day one and never came back. The producers had to scramble like crazy to bring in Robert Brown to play the part with no prep whatsoever, not knowing his lines, and no time to put together a decent look for his character-- and it showed. The whole episode was a trainwreck in production and it's hard to follow with all the Lazarus-switching.
If they'd had another week to iron things out, "The Alternative Factor" could have been a lousy episode like "Let that be Your Last Battlefield" or "That Which Survives." But there was simply no time to solve the problems, and the result was a wooden, jumbled, terrible episode.
76th: Plato's Stepchildren. This episode is deliberately embarrassing and that's hard to take.
77th: The Savage Curtain. Lincoln comes aboard? And then we fight weirdos for the edification of a rock monster? I'm stunned at how few others here have listed it.
78th: And the Children Shall Lead. The children are annoying, and the story uses a fantasy plot device to rationalize having characters behave in ways that real people never would.
79th: The Alternative Factor. The actor cast to play Lazarus went to lunch on day one and never came back. The producers had to scramble like crazy to bring in Robert Brown to play the part with no prep whatsoever, not knowing his lines, and no time to put together a decent look for his character-- and it showed. The whole episode was a trainwreck in production and it's hard to follow with all the Lazarus-switching.
If they'd had another week to iron things out, "The Alternative Factor" could have been a lousy episode like "Let that be Your Last Battlefield" or "That Which Survives." But there was simply no time to solve the problems, and the result was a wooden, jumbled, terrible episode.
I forgot to mention, I'm surprised at how many episodes I love are being listed in this thread. It really goes to show you, different ST fans like different things.
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