Seasons 1-2...yes. Season 3...eh...there it gets a bit dodgy.
Totally agree. Although it’s close with Voyager season 4 on.
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Seasons 1-2...yes. Season 3...eh...there it gets a bit dodgy.
Even season three tries to be fun adventure. I’ll take that every day over what comes later.
Although in Season 3's defense it does give us "The Enterprise Incident," "For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky," "The Tholian Web," "Requiem for Methuselah" and "All Our Yesterdays." It may be the worst but even the worst produced great and even amazing episodes.
And most of the rest are at least watchable.
Yeah, even "Whom Gods Destroy" is eminently watchable. Steve Ihnat sells Garth of Izar with pure, malevolent joy and it helps the episode rise above its flaws.
It's one of those scenery chewing roles actors dream of.
And when the therapy chair and the cure brought by the Enterprise restore Garth back to calm and sanity he wonderfully underplays his reaction to seeing Kirk standing before him. The extended hand to shake Kirk's is a great way to end our introduction to the character.
"Do I know you, Sir?"
"Do I know you, Sir?"
There's still huge chunks of Season 3 that I haven't seen. But, apart from "Spock's Brain," "That Which Survives," & "Turnabout Intruder," most of Season 3 is about on par with your average mediocre Season 2 episode and may even be better than some of the dodgier Season 1 episodes ("Miri," "The Alternative Factor").
Is it weird that my favorite TOS episode is "Court Martial"? I've never heard anyone else say that it's their favorite.
Is it weird that my favorite TOS episode is "Court Martial"? I've never heard anyone else say that it's their favorite.
I think that is one of the things later series are mostly missing: the scene chewing guest star.
One reason Peter Weller was so good as John Frederick Paxton on ENT. His absolute domination of any scene he was in was a big part of why the Terra Prime two-parter is so good and entertaining. Weller was also one of the standouts if not THE best thing about Into Darkness.
I love that line, that whole scene really.
He simply wasn’t a fit on DS9. Which had its own demigods to tell stories about.
DS9 is overrated.
I remember when that opinion was widely held. People took cheap shots at it all the time. But of all the Treks, it's popularity has grown the most with age.
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