Category: Trekathon

This is supposed to be the second worst episode of all time, according to [GEOS](http://www.geos.tv). Third worst is Spock’s Brain, and worst is the Next Generation Season 2 finale Shades of Grey (a.k.a. the clip show). So in order to prevent myself getting too depressed, I’ll be liveblogging my watching of the episode. You may…

There was a potential here for a truly fascinating character – a man who had not only lived through millenia, but had in fact been some of the greatest people in history. But instead the episode noticed that it’s been three episodes since Kirk last got the girl, so let’s focus on that. The episode…

Once again, it is very clear that the Enterprise very clearly needs a sexual harassment contact officer. Sexual Harassment Panda perhaps? But senior officers in love with junior officers just feels ‘icky’ today. Otherwise yet another Season 3 episode in the ‘dull’ column. Nothing much of interest here. Even Scotty’s ‘romance’ is just flat -…

Any episode that starts with a reference to ‘the fifth interstellar geophysical conference’ has a fair way to go before it reaches ‘fun’ or even ‘tolerable’. Ten minutes in, the direction is clearly ‘downhill’ – there’s a one minute montage of people scanning plants with tricorders. And the climactic moment of tension? Mr Scott with…

So having dealt so deftly with racism (*cough* not), Star Trek moves on to Abortion. A little less heavy handed, perhaps because the answer is a lot more complicated than in the case of racism. More potential than actual achievement, as the episode itself just doesn’t quite do anything with it subject matter. The idea…

Star Trek’s infamous ‘racism’ episode. The problem with this episode isn’t just that it takes its moral and beats you over the head with it until you plead ‘enough’. No, in addition to that it has some pretty bad acting from one of the guest stars (Loki, I thought the Commissioner was mostly OK), some…

Now that’s more like it. The Enterprise goes back to a high security facility (q.v. Dagger of the Mind), but they learnt from last time and so there are some effective security restrictions in place. In a lot of ways the plot of this episode is very similar to that of Plato’s Stepchildren just a…

Blerk. OK, let’s see if I have this straight – fierce women are bad, and they can be tamed only by Captain Kirk. Not a good episode. The actress playing Elaan never really worked out what the part was meant to be. Kirk never really seemed to be in love with her when the plot…

I was really torn in my reaction to this episode. Should I start this note with: “Star Trek, a one act play” or “Welcome to Planet Zero-set-budget”? Luckily enough, that at least gives me something to say about this otherwise soporific episode. Just dull, not even bad. Although I suppose super-powerful aliens who weren’t malevolent…

So far I’ve had at least some memory of the episodes I’ve seen. Only in a few cases has the episode been completely new to me, and most of those have been fairly mediocre. But this episode was new to me, and really clicked with me. I’d probably rate this one of the five or…