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Worst Episode of Star Trek Season Three Part One

Which are your THREE least favorites?

  • Spectre of the Gun

    Votes: 4 6.0%
  • Elaan of Troyius

    Votes: 4 6.0%
  • The Paradise Syndrome

    Votes: 1 1.5%
  • The Enterprise Incident

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • And The Children Shall Lead

    Votes: 49 73.1%
  • Spock's Brain

    Votes: 30 44.8%
  • Is There In Truth No Beauty?

    Votes: 3 4.5%
  • The Empath

    Votes: 6 9.0%
  • The Tholian Web

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • For The World Is Hollow And I Have Touched The Sky

    Votes: 1 1.5%
  • Day of the Dove

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Plato's Stepchildren

    Votes: 12 17.9%
  • Wink of an Eye

    Votes: 3 4.5%
  • That Which Survives

    Votes: 4 6.0%
  • Let That Be Your Last Battlefield

    Votes: 9 13.4%
  • Whom Gods Destroy

    Votes: 2 3.0%
  • The Mark of Gideon

    Votes: 7 10.4%
  • The Lights of Zetar

    Votes: 9 13.4%
  • The Cloud Minders

    Votes: 3 4.5%
  • The Way to Eden

    Votes: 34 50.7%
  • Requiem For Methuselah

    Votes: 2 3.0%
  • The Savage Curtain

    Votes: 4 6.0%
  • All Our Yesterdays

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Turnabout Intruder

    Votes: 9 13.4%

  • Total voters
    67
  • Poll closed .
I'm tempted to register a dual just so I can post another three. The only problem is I'd need a couple of duals to vote for all episodes I grade as D-.
 
And The Children Shall Lead
Let That Be Your Last Battlefield
The Way of Eden

There are so many more, but these will have to do.
 
too many to list..

And the Children Shall Lead
Spock's Brain
The Way to Eden..(Yeahhhh Brother!!!)


But Turnabout Intruder should be right up there along with The Empath...

but that's just me...
 
"And The Children Shall Lead" left a terrible smell on my new HD TV screen. This I do not like.

"The Mark of Gideon" is just silly and doesn't make any sense. It's boring. I do not like it, Sam I Am.

"Plato's Stepchildren" causes me extreme embarrasment and a rash around my nipples. Thank you, but no.


(p.s. for everyone who votes "Spock's Brain", you obviously have no idea what Star Trek is all about. It's the quintessential episode and is fun to watch.)
 
What's sad about the third season is The Paradise Syndrome, a really bad episode, only has one vote against it. There are so many other episodes more worthy of being voted against.

It would be a lot easier to vote for three good ones instead.
 
Spectre of the Gun
And the Children Shall Lead
and Turnabout Intruder

Not horrible episodes mind you, but simply my least favorite. They are my least favorite in the season, as well as for the series as a whole.
 
"And The Children Shall Lead" is the only one I can't take. I've also never been fond of "The Mark Of Gideon." I'm okay with the rest.
 
"The Empath" has never fared well with me.

I like the Vians' makeup(pretty good and even sorta TNG/DS9-era for 1968)and Kathryn Hays' Gem can be eerie to watch. But its too minimalist and budget-trapped even for a Season 3 episode and the way the Vians set up the "test" for Gem and her people just never made a whole lot of sense, seeing how they murdered members of other species to motivate the best and most humane instincts in others.
 
I strongly dislike The Empath too, but there are worse - IMO, the three episodes that most need the use of fast-forward whilst being watched are Plato's Stepchildren, The Way To Eden and the truely awful And The Children Shall Lead.
 
I bet Melvin Belli was wishing he were still stuck in a hot, humid Dallas courtroom defending Jack Ruby. Hey. A murder rap case beats having kids in gay futuristic jumpsuits holding hands and chanting.
 
Three? We only get three?

And The Children Shall Lead...
The Way to Eden
Turnabout Intruder
 
This one should have been divided up into 4 quarter seasons and even then it might be difficult to pick only 3 from each group
 
^ On the other hand, And The Children Shall Lead will probably win the whole thing anyways...
 
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