Worst Episode of TAS Part Two

[Garth Rockett]

Voting on part one has concluded. The top five are listed. Choose your least favorite. The episode receiving the most votes will be named TrekBBS's least favorite episode of TAS and will go against the winners from the other series to determine least favorite overall. This will be the final poll in this series conducted in this forum, so thanks to everyone who has voted!

 

[Warped9]

"BEM" is the worst for me.

 

[Kagan]

Bem...I can't abide Bem.

 

[Garth Rockett]

Magicks of Megas-Tu for me. Nothing particularly good about that one.

 

[Mallory]

The Infinite Vulcan. Like lawyers and children, fifty foot Vulcans do not belong in Trek.

 

[seigezunt]

I liked some of these. And CCI gave us the Aprils, famed in later fiction. I'd have to go with the Joker. Insipid.

 

[KeepOnTrekking]

I voted for "Practical Joker." The lame jokes, dribble glasses, bending forks, KIRK IS A JERK shirt, and the inflatable ship just are torture for me to watch before we make another pass thru the field and make it all right again. sigh.

 

[Kagan]

It looks like we'll have a Worst Episode of TAS Part Three thread because presently four different shows are within one vote of first place.

 

[pookha]

magicks..
counter clock would be except we finally got to see the aprils

 

[T'Bonz]

The Infinite Vulcan. Like lawyers and children, fifty foot Vulcans do not belong in Trek.

Ja. It pointed out that TAS was definitely a "children's cartoon" and in the case of that ep, a bad cartoon at that.

 

[Mallory]

It looks like we'll have a Worst Episode of TAS Part Three thread because presently four different shows are within one vote of first place.

Opinion certainly seems split on this one, doesn't it?

 

[MANT!]

Infinite Vulcan...sorry Walter Koenig , but this was just too silly a story to be Star Trek..
Lost In Space perhaps...

 

[c5maier]

It has to be "Magicks" as "Infinite Vulcan" and "Bem" can easily be salvaged through better graphics in a re-animation process.

 

[Christopher]

counter clock would be except we finally got to see the aprils

"Finally" is an odd choice of words, since that was the episode that introduced the Aprils in the first place. Before it, "Robert April" was just a rejected name for Christopher Pike in Roddenberry's first outline for "The Cage." It was "The Counter-Clock Incident" that first established the idea of Robert April being a distinct Enterprise captain who preceded Pike. And the character of Sarah April was created specifically for the episode.

 

[Garth Rockett]

It looks like we'll have a Worst Episode of TAS Part Three thread because presently four different shows are within one vote of first place.

There's a little more separation right now, but when I saw how tight it was looking yesterday I did start to think we might have to have our first run-off in the poll series. I'm looking forward to seeing what the numbers look like when the poll expires.

 

[Emperor-Tiberius]

I thought the "Infinite Vulcan" was fine, except for the gigantic Spock. If the story were ever redone in CGI or re-animated, that mistake could easily have been fixed. If anything, we got more Eugenics War info - thats always good.

 

[Michael]

I thought the "Infinite Vulcan" was fine, except for the gigantic Spock. If the story were ever redone in CGI or re-animated, that mistake could easily have been fixed.

What do you mean — fixed? It's a major plot point. Why should they fix it?

 

[Basill]

Practical Joker. Bleah.

 

[Christopher]

I thought the "Infinite Vulcan" was fine, except for the gigantic Spock. If the story were ever redone in CGI or re-animated, that mistake could easily have been fixed.

What do you mean — fixed? It's a major plot point. Why should they fix it?

I think he's suggesting that the story point of the clone be kept, but that it's unnecessary for the clone to be depicted as a giant.

 

[Michael]

I thought the "Infinite Vulcan" was fine, except for the gigantic Spock. If the story were ever redone in CGI or re-animated, that mistake could easily have been fixed.

What do you mean — fixed? It's a major plot point. Why should they fix it?

I think he's suggesting that the story point of the clone be kept, but that it's unnecessary for the clone to be depicted as a giant.

But that would not be "fixing" — it would be "changing". The giant Spock clone is not only visually shown, it is also refered to in dialog. I think they shouldn't alter the original episode.