Many of the plotlines were derived (that is to say, blatantly stolen) from ST episodes (for instance, the episode where Quark ages rapidly). The set designs, costumes and Quark’s relentless chasing after skirts are contributing factors as well.
Which is proof enough that he should not have been allowed to have anything to do with Star Trek ever.
I always combine the Angel Melvin Belli one and the “Bonk bonk, bad kid!” one in my mind into one really laughable episode.
I’ve seen, and loved, Galaxy Quest. Like I said, I’ve watched a bunch of the newer Trek shows, just not the Original Recipe.
Last night I watched The Enterprise Incident (AKA Spock gets his freak on with a Romulan while Kirk puts on the most ridiculous disguise EVER). It was fun , a little goofy, and not nearly as sexist as I thought it might be.
I started watching The Tholian Web, but I got a case of the giggles when I saw these spacesuits, so I decided to take a break.
Just as a random aside, two of the most controversial Star Trek novels ever (The Price of the Phoenix and The Fate of the Phoenix) are based off this episode. The Romulan Commander is a main character, Kirk is cloned (and one of them stays a Romulan), and all sorts of kinky fun is had by all (depending on your definition of “fun”).
I love the books, but a lot of people hate them. They’re definitely on the “adult” end of the Star Trek fiction spectrum (though tame by today’s standards, they were pretty racy when they first came out in the late '70s.)
And George Takei called it “a chilling realistic documentary.”
M.O.D.O.K.!!!
As I said, “The effects in these, on the TV budget, worked well.”
re: effects optical: I’m not too crazy about the spotting of Kirk by onboard personnel while he was out in one of those suits (trying not to 'spoil" anything) but accept it, but about the suits:
My memory is they were original to the series, maybe only used for this and one suit one other time (my memory is not alpha-level), and with a $50k per ep budget (1965 dollars) I was impressed by their not being recycled from Destination Moon or I Dream of Genie, and looking sorta functional/NASA-like. Plus, after an season and a half of “Beam 'em down” it was heartening to see the question of spacesuits tackled head-on.
Definitely fitting into this category:
“Spock’s Brain” was the Season Three opener, and generally agreed to have made all those 1960s fans wonder why they bothered saving the show with a letter campaign. Still, the camp entertainment value is more than worth the time it takes to watch it.
Another favorite S3 episode of mine is “Whom Gods Destroy”. It’s the classic inmates taking over the asylum plot arc, but with a goodish helping of dark humor here and there. I thought Steve Ihnat as Lord Garth of the Universe was great and I’m sorry they didn’t use him more in the series.
They are one really laughable episode!
BTW did you also use to watch Star Trek on weekdays, in the TV room at the bottom of Blake Hall?
“The Cage” is the first pilot, basically the Talos IV story without the framing story of the court-martial. You can see how they hadn’t quite worked out the look-and-feel of the series. For instance in the bridge scenes, there are always two “space cadets”–kids looking like they are about fifteen–standing on either side of the entrance. In the regular episodes they would never had had that.
Strangely enough, the only thing I can remember from time spent hanging out there is hearing the theme song from Maverick a lot.
I always thought the third season episode “The Empath” as boring.
Barbara Babcock was also in the last episode of season 2, “Assignment: Earth”.
With Robert Lansing and a young Teri Garr.
Hubba hubba. (Teri Garr, not Robert Lansing. 
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The only other episode I can think of is “The Naked Time”, and those were different suits; iirc, not pressurized, only providing protection from cold and possibly oxygen.
If you read his book about it he comes off as just a fan off the street. I found out later that he had an agent and went the normal route to selling it, even if it was his first sale.
And the tribbles are Heinlein’s Martian Flat Cats from The Rolling Stones, but Heinlein was fine with Gerrold borrowing the concept.
QFT. The sad state of the franchise is no wonder when Paramount puts it in the hands of people who never watched the show and didn’t seem to particularly like it when they did watch. I actually liked Galaxy Quest, but it is the best piece of Trek fan fiction ever, not nearly the best episode ever.
They used some other type of suit in the beginning of The Naked Time when Spock and the landing party are investigating why the lab crew killed themselves and each other. In the very early episodes, when they had money, you’d sometimes see extras walking down the hallway in suits on the way to some duty station or other.