Yeah, but she’s got a nasty habit.
- Smeagol, a nasty hobbit
You can be arrested for puns like that under Sharia law.
I’m with you. Antimatter was understood in late '40s sf. with Williamson’s Seetee series. If the bad, antimatter, Lazarus truly came to our universe, kablooey. And no great loss.
Do people know that not only did Roddenberry write “Omega Glory,” but it was one of the three scripts written for the potential second pilot? We’re lucky they didn’t pick it.
TOS didn’t jump the shark the third series - it walked into the shark’s jaws when Gene gave up after NBC put it on Friday at 10. (I don’t think he realized that all his proto-geek fans, like me, certainly had nothing better to do on Friday night than watch Trek. 
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I will take it to my grave secure that even the most treacly, embarrassing TNG or idiotic, lamebrained TOS episode will never approach the sheer lunacy and, I’m sorry, retardation of having Jonathan Winters play Mork’s son.
I just had to get that off my chest. Y’all may proceed. 
Well, as I understand it, Gene had made a deal with NBC to produce the 3rd season personally as long as they aired it on a good night (Monday maybe? I can’t recall), They agreed, but later when they reniged and stuck it on Fridays, he felt he had no choice but to back away from the position, lest he have no leverage in barganing with the studios in the future.
They did, actually! The writer’s must’ve said “Do you think hitting them over the head with this 10 pound sledgehammer is enough? No… let’s try with a 20 pounder too.”
Kirk asks Spock: “Isn’t that planet on the… southern side of the galaxy?”
“No, Captain, it is in the New Jersey Nebula.”
“What exit?”
Unknown, Sir.
Andorians have spray painted graffitti on all park…er, orbit way signs.
Those goddamn Andorians! -GET OFF MY LAWN!- There otta be a law …
In my native Wrussia, there IS a law. We inwented torture.
Yes, what can I do for you?
Remember we have full-service Dilithium stations here at least.
‘Live Long and Prosper’
There’s no bloody fries!
No fires dammit!
They screw you at the airlock drive through, man, they [/]screw* you!
I’ve never seen the space hippies episode (and from the sound of things I might want to count my blessings) so I say that the worst episode is the one with the Yangs and Commies. The ending is just too absurd for words. It was like they’d spliced a 1950’s Cold War propaganda film onto the end of the episode.
Arrested, hell. They’ll chop your hands off.
And rightly so!
If there is one thing that can be said in favor of Spock’s Brain, it’s that it directly inspired the porno parody Sex Trek: The Search for Sperm, in which the crew must get Spock’s penis back from the alien women who stole it for their all-female planet.
“Dick and Dick… What is Dick?”
The Paradise Syndrome is memorable as being an episode in which Spock does his darnedest to kill Kirk by sheer wooden-headedness. The Enterprise has had to scoot off at Warp Nine to intercept an asteroid that is on collision course with the planet where Kirk has got temporarily lost. It gets there just slightly too late to push it off course with a big burst from the deflectors, so Spock elects to phaser it in half and orders Scotty to bypass the overload systems and keep firing until the warp engines are burnt out and the Enterprise is a helpless hulk limping along under impulse power. (It will need a session in a space dock to fix it; and how the hell they are ever going to get there at sub-light speed is not even touched upon never mind satisfactorily explained.)
Now I am not a Vulcan-trained living computer, but I can think of several alternatives that wouldn’t entail crawling back to the planet a mere few hours ahead of the asteroid all the way (and why? Surely continuous acceleration over a period of several months sees the Enterprise belting along much faster than an asteroid in free fall):
[ul]Apply a tractor beam to the asteroid and spend several months applying the biggest delta-vee to it that the ship can sustain continuously at a large angle to its present course. How hard can it possibly be to get it to miss the planet from several AU away?[li]Go and find a smaller asteroid an AU or two away. Tow it onto a collision course with the big asteroid which it will hit at a respectable fraction of the speed of light.[]Don’t burn out the phasers or the warp engines until you have at least tried hitting the asteroid with every single photon torpedo the ship can let rip in one go.[]Beam over a landing party in spacesuits to place an absurdly large demolition charge, either a fusion bomb or, even better, a huge chunk of antimatter. We know that we can make antimatter bombs because we did it in Obsession and The Immunity Syndrome.Make the logical deduction that the ancient obelisk on the planet must be related to the planet’s anomalous survival in a hazardous environment, and warp back there straight away so you can spend several months investigating it with all the resources aboard ship, instead of getting lucky at the last minute.[/ul][/li]
And there may be others.
Yeah Spock was definitely out of character there, tho there were other eps (Galileo 7) which
questioned his command ability…
Okay, Mr. P.H., guy. 
True Blue Jack
Oh, sure, a lot of the really bad ones had some redeeming qualities or elements. (Are you aware that “Bread and Circuses” had a similar implied sex scene? A blonde Roman slave, IIRC. Kirk half-heartedly resists her charms, figures what-de-heck, then CUT to Jimmy-boy resting in bed. It all seems extremely tame to modern viewers, with all the explicitness around since the 90’s or earlier on even network TV. I mean, Putty and Elaine on Seinfeld, basking in a warm afterglow? There’s no ambiguity there. But censors gave “cautions” at every open-mouth kiss back then. These “cautions” were usually expressed as suggestions, but were mandatory.)
“Wink of an Eye” was spectacularly bad in concept, though. Buzzing in the ears? I’ve never heard of sonic booms expressed that way. O-dodo fast enough to dodge a phaser blast? Forget sonic booms, wouldn’t that take relativistic speeds? I mean, the blasts are electomagnetic energy, aren’t they? I don’t have my slide rule on me, but we’re talking minimally about energies in the H-bomb range. If not matter-antimatter.
But never mind all that. It’s all been rationalized in Flash comics by the “Speed Force” anyway.
The real problem is the two passages of time. The ultimate episode pacing problem. Any really bright ten year old could notice how silly it makes it all.
Shouldn’t Kirk at least have been a little less long-winded in the tape he recorded? And Spock, who is supposed to be computer-like in his decisions and actions, rather ponderously decides that the only solution (!) is to gulp some of the magical water; he is then considerate enough to waste how many decade-equivalents telling us what he intends to do.
It would have been silly anyway, but at least TRY to make some sense in execution!
True Blue Jack
The space hippies episode highlights a sad truth – hijacking the flagship of the United Federation of Planets just isn’t that hard to do.