Now It Gets Very Silly ... The STAR TREK Season 3 Poll

Only a handful of episodes worth watching in a dire third season. "The Tholian Web" gets my vote.

The Enterprise Incident is about as solid as this season gets, and it's got lusty Romulan captain.

Spock's Brain was tempting.

in retrospect it's a good thing this show got cancelled when it did

THE SPECTER OF THE GUN/

you've got to admit one thing, though -- most of these episodes have great, evocative titles. next generation and all the others always had lame one-word episode titles like "interface" or "descent."

"The Savage Curtain" is the one with Abe Lincoln et al., right? I vote for that.

Also, dude in the pic looks like the blond, curly love child of Quentin Tarantino and Will Forte, or maybe Amy Poehler.

saw 'zodiac' last night, didn't know there was a star trek connection

I saw Turnabout Intruder last night. I liked the Abe Lincoln one more.

saw 'zodiac' last night, didn't know there was a star trek connection

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should've asked to speak to shatner :(

yeah, The Enterprise Incident

Shatner's really terrible as Dr Janice Lester

Spock's Brain is the best TOS "bad episode"... the closeup of Bones, sweating profusely, trying to comprehend how to replace the brain is fantastic.

The Enterprise Incident is the only episode from this season to stack up against the very best of the series.

Even though I've seen every TOS episode, I can't remember the one with Abe Lincoln at all...

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I've loved the central conceit of "Wink of an Eye" since I was a kid so I voted for that.

Plato's Stepchildren has some absolutely killer monologues, voted for that one. altho space hippies are a close second

WE REACH

watched Savage Curtain recently cuz I was specifically trying to remember how they explain Lincoln's presence in outer space ... and then they never do! Also moral of the story: peace through violence. classic

Shatner's really terrible as Dr Janice Lester
Agreed, but that's what kept me watching it. I usually hate identity/body switcheroos, but I'll watch Shatner try to pull one off.
Especially a gender switch.

watched Savage Curtain recently cuz I was specifically trying to remember how they explain Lincoln's presence in outer space ... and then they never do!
The aliens on that planet could transform matter into anything that they wanted. They used the Enterprise officer's thoughts to form their ideas into flesh...or something.

yeah but earlier in the episode they make a big deal about how he really IS Abraham Lincoln and the vulcan dude really IS whatever his name is - a replica based on crew's memories /= actual people, so wtf.

I mean its still funny but that episode is really lazily written (by Roddenberry, right...?) Its basically just a variation of Gamesters of Triskelion.

cool Dr. Who-style rock monster though.

Yeah, I don't man. Nothing on Star Trek ever makes any sense.

Spock's Brain is the best TOS "bad episode"... the closeup of Bones, sweating profusely, trying to comprehend how to replace the brain is fantastic.

OTM -- although replace "spock's brain" with "the way to eden."

gotta love that episode for the especially obvious preaching and symbolism -- a space hippie named "adam" dies after eating a poison "apple" in a garden on the planet of "eden" and the other hippies (and chekov who has the hots for one of the hippies) all got burned by "acid" -- and if the foregoing wasn't obvious enough, it all gets repeated for those viewers with single-digit IQs who didn't get it at first.

i also kind of liked "the paradise syndrome" -- the ending where kirk's indian bride dies is very sad ;_; and the scene where spock mind-melds with kirk is a comic masterpiece :-)

I caught 4 minutes of Spock's Brain this morning, just as wtf stupid as ever.

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Watching Plato's Stepchildren right now, first huge LOL is when the "Greek" woman asks the away team to guess her age and Spock guesses 35.

"Where I come from, size, shape or color makes no difference."

kirk getting ye olde "stop hittin' yerself" routine.

lololol indigant kirk "YOU DARE TO CALL YOURSELF A DISCIPLE OF PLATO!?!"

oh wait upon re-watching, actual line is "AND YOU CONSIDER YOURSELF A DISCIPLE OF PLATO!?"

no matter what planet they're on, and what he needs to do, bones ALWAYS has the right shit in his little bag. how does he do that?

("tricorder") is NOT an answer.

lololol indigant kirk "YOU DARE TO CALL YOURSELF A DISCIPLE OF PLATO!?!"

lol ... esp. b/c plato was a TOTAL elitist douchebag who might very well have approved of the stepchildren's behavior!

"Where I come from, size, shape or color makes no difference."

ian, you cynic, Federation is post-Obama!

wehre is tEKwAR THREAD?

(xxxpost) a) needle-less air hiss hypo with seemingly every drug known to medical science loaded into it, b) thing that looks like a spinning flash cube stuck to a salt cellar (I never understood that - he's got a sickbay full of equipment, but the flash-cube-salt-cellar is all he ever uses to diagnose stuff)

That prop is a saltshaker! It's all NBC would pay for.

Yeah, it's mentioned in a great book called "The Making of Star Trek". It was bought as a prop for the "salt monster" episode, but because it doesn't look much like a salt cellar, Roddenberry realised that either he'd have to write a bit of insane dialogue where a character said "look at this salt cellar", or he'd just have to substitute a regular salt cellar from the studio canteen.

The Way to Eden is on right now. Lol Charles Napier.

Sort of Art Garfunkel look he has going on here.

... hair that is, not the clothes, sadly Art never dressed like this...

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