Worst Episode of Star Trek Season Two Round Two
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To borrow a line from Kirk in Star Trek II: "Aren't you dead?"You people that voted for The Apple better enjoy yourselves while you can.
"The Omega Glory." Honestly, the only genuinely bad episode on this list. "Catspaw", easily the next weakest show, is goofy, silly, but amusing campy fun, "The Apple" is pretty much the archetypal TOS episode - it's got a bevy of redshirts dying, Scotty doing magical repair work, Kirk destroying a computer god and initiating the 60s sexual revolution in the Garden of Eden, and Spock and McCoy bickering. Sometimes I think every cliche and preconception about the show came from this one episode.
Almost as influential, if only for its fight music, is "The Gamesters of Triskelion." And the idea of malevolent gamester brains is campily hilarious. I enjoyed "Who Mourns for Adonais?", one of the few god killing episodes when the crew kill a recognisable God. This is a pretty good entry.
And "I, Mudd" isn't just a genuinely good episode; it's the best comedy episode TOS did. Yes, it's funnier than "The Trouble With Tribbles." I said it, and I go now to my gallows for heresy, but it had to be said.
The dialogue is sharp and Roger C. Carmel is a blast.
"You see, gentlemen, behind every great man, there is a woman urging him on. And, so it was with my Stella. She urged me on into outer space– not that she meant to, actually, but with her confounded, continual, eternal nagging – I think of her constantly; and every time I do, I go further out into space."
Almost as influential, if only for its fight music, is "The Gamesters of Triskelion." And the idea of malevolent gamester brains is campily hilarious. I enjoyed "Who Mourns for Adonais?", one of the few god killing episodes when the crew kill a recognisable God. This is a pretty good entry.
And "I, Mudd" isn't just a genuinely good episode; it's the best comedy episode TOS did. Yes, it's funnier than "The Trouble With Tribbles." I said it, and I go now to my gallows for heresy, but it had to be said.
The dialogue is sharp and Roger C. Carmel is a blast."You see, gentlemen, behind every great man, there is a woman urging him on. And, so it was with my Stella. She urged me on into outer space– not that she meant to, actually, but with her confounded, continual, eternal nagging – I think of her constantly; and every time I do, I go further out into space."
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"The Omega Glory"
Gene Roddenberry certainly wrote the best of times ("The Cage")
and the worst of times ("The Omega Glory"). Or you could call them the Alpha and the Omega.
Gene Roddenberry certainly wrote the best of times ("The Cage")
and the worst of times ("The Omega Glory"). Or you could call them the Alpha and the Omega.
You people that voted for The Apple better enjoy yourselves while you can.
Heehee.
I have PayPal for bribes to see who voted how. And yes, I think I have access to that data.
Omega Glory... el sucko
Catspaw.
The Omega Glory has too much good stuff in it to ever make my 'worst of' list.
The Omega Glory has too much good stuff in it to ever make my 'worst of' list.
"Curious...the brochure promised a spanking every thirty minutes."
In order of worst to better than worst
Catspaw
Who Mourns for Adonis
I, Mudd
The Apple has one of the best lines in Trek - "You're fired, Scotty."
I take exception to both Gamesters of Triskelion and Omega Glory as being quality episodes. Gamesters for its alien female factor and Omega for relation to US/USSR relations. The eps had their flaws, but I took to the meaning behind the story for each rather than focus on the errors that it made.
Catspaw
Who Mourns for Adonis
I, Mudd
The Apple has one of the best lines in Trek - "You're fired, Scotty."
I take exception to both Gamesters of Triskelion and Omega Glory as being quality episodes. Gamesters for its alien female factor and Omega for relation to US/USSR relations. The eps had their flaws, but I took to the meaning behind the story for each rather than focus on the errors that it made.
Catspaw, by far the worst of the lot. Second only by I, Mudd... sorry, but the play-acting part really didn't do it for me.
Omega Glory actually had a decent plot.
-- ZC
Omega Glory actually had a decent plot.
-- ZC
The Omega Glory. 
"Omega" IS pretty damn stupid. But at least it had the neato death-by-crystallization and some awesome fight scenes.
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