Worst Episode of Star Trek: Season Two Part One

[Garth Rockett]

The Second Round for Season One is now complete, with "The Alternative Factor" the (unsurprising) choice for TrekBBS's least favorite. It will compete against the "winners" from Seasons Two and Three. So on with the voting!

As with Season One Part One, in this round you can select the THREE episodes that are your least favorite. When this round ends, the five top vote getters will face off to decide which is the worst from Season Two. Let the voting begin!

 

[EliyahuQeoni]

Omega Glory is by far the worst of this bunch. The rest are among my favorites, but Catspaw and Gamemasters have never been favorites of mine. I hesitate to put them in the same class as Omega Glory, which is just a couple steps above Spock's Brain in my book.

 

[Garth Rockett]

For me, it was Return to Tomorrow (the premise just doesn't excite me), The Omega Glory (one of the weakest of the whole series) and Assignment: Earth (not bad, but loses points for basically being another show shoehorned in to Star Trek).

 

[T'Bonz]

There was only one "easy one". The rest aren't bad.

S2 was the best season.

 

[egonbeeblebrox]

"Catspaw" is pretty terrible. "The Omega Glory" is pretty good until the end, which is so unbearable I have to give up on it.
"Who Mourns for Adonais" annoys me.

 

[Kagan]

Catspaw = horror-bull episode
Who Mourns for Adonais? = god-forsaken episode
I, Mudd = be-muddling episode

 

[AdmiralGarak]

"Catspaw" is completely horrid. Apart from "The Simpsons", Halloween episodes usually bore me.

"Omega Glory" for the standard reason. Frankly, I didn't much care for it before the twist ending.

"Patterns of Force". John Gill: "Hey, y'now what would make this alien civilization better? Nazis! I'll get right on it. Oh, crap, they're actingly like Nazis! I hadn't anticipated that."

 

[Danny99]

Who Mourns for Adonais?
I, Mudd
The Gamesters of Triskelion

 

[Mallory]

Catspaw, Patterns of Force and The Omega Glory.

 

[number6]

Eeed Pleb Neeeesta

Assignment Earth was pretty weak.

Metamorphosis always irritates me, mosty because of the whiny Ambassador and the sappy music

 

[Winterwind]

There are some weak ones. Catspaw is one and is leading the poll so far which surprises me considering how utterly horrid the Omega Glory was. I'm in complete agreement with EliyahuQeoni. It's only marginally better than Spock's Brain. The only thing it had going for it in my opinion was a solid performance from Morgan Woodward.

 

[MeanJoePhaser]

Metamorphasis, Who Mourns for Adonias? and Assignment Earth.

All you Omega Glory haters are not for talking, only for killing.

 

[Stag]

Easy - Doomsday Machine, Trouble with Tribbles and Mirror Mirror...what do I win

Naaaaah, I was just jokin'.

I only voted for two and they really are the two most obvious ones. Not tellin' though, but I'll give you a hint - you really need a big hand to work those puppet creatures.

 

[MANT!]

For me..Catspaw..a Halloween story by any other name..
Omega Glory, the jingoistic speech at the end just ruined it for me...
The Apple..too many sucky redshirt deaths...none died for a reason..they just...died..

 

[Mallory]

goldbug said:
The Apple..too many sucky redshirt deaths...none died for a reason..they just...died..

 

[Basill]

Cat's Paw, Deadly Years, and Bread and Circuses for me. They are simply my least favorite and mostly boring to me.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Catspaw, Omega Glory & Bread and Circuses. Uhura's "Not the Sun in the sky" line is almost as bad as anything in Omega Glory.

 

[Hambone]

"Who Mourns For Adonais?"
"The Apple"
"The Gamesters Of Triskelion"

"Catspaw" doesn't bother me, I just don't care about it. When it's on I might watch. I always sort of liked "Assignment: Earth", but I'm not sure why. "The Omega Glory" has a good set-up and first three acts but it falls apart at the end. "Bread And Circuses"...meh. No strong feelings about it.

The second season was when we got most of the "parallel Earth" stories, and they're all really the same...yeah, "Earth history is full of messy situations, and we've evolved beyond all that..." big deal, okay, we get it.

 

[The Laughing Vulcan]

I could only choose Catspaw.

The others... It was like choosing one of my children. There's something to love in all of them. So yeah, just Catspaw.

 

[Garth Rockett]

TBonz said:
There was only one "easy one". The rest aren't bad.

S2 was the best season.

Personally, I prefer S1, but I agree that it's another difficult choice this season. Even though it was a little easier for me to pick three this time than last, none of the ones I dislike are as bad as The Alternative Factor. It's amazing the high level of quality TOS maintained through its first two seasons.