Totally disagree. The Enemy Within is, IMO, one of the worst episodes. If for no other rerason than that the subplot could be solved by a 5 year old. Or an 11 year old, which was how old I was when it was first broadcast and I fixed the problem before they went to the second commercial.
Beam down blankets and some shelter material.
Or, you know, firewood .
Well, that might just be in short supply on a starship. 
One of the sillier ones had these people inside a hollow asteroid. It was actually a spaceship.
They ruined it with this evil computer (disguised as a scary god/alter) that punished people for going to the surface.
Its worth a laugh because its so silly.
Which would materialize as something which sucks up energy maybe. C’mon, go with the flow.
I might have a year on you and it was a scary thought to be marooned or otherwise doomed and calmly have to accept it. Also I am always suspicious of solutions which require everything works like it does when an emergency is not happening.
Extraordinarily silly costumes too as I recall. Plexiglas kilts or something.
The woman who played the high priest had a marvelously attractive face though.
Spock-bot was a delight, but I think my favorite bit was the way Kirk said ‘We have to take him … IN SEARCH OF HIS BRAIN.’ <cue dramatic music> <cue giggles>
I’ve been saying Spock’s Brain needs to be the basis for the next movie.
I need to see Zachary Quinto playing the debrained Spock.
Esp. considering that they had shelter cement to help patch up the Horta several eps. later (and we won’t even mention shuttlecraft…).
Yeah I know, Early Installment Weirdness…
Two words: Replicator technology.
They only played it up once, in “Private Little War” (replicating 100 flintlocks for the Hill People), but they had the technology in Kirk’s era.
Naaaaah, if they had tried it, the wood probably wouldn’t have burned, or something. The blankets probably wouldn’t have held heat, either, and the emergency shelter concrete wouldn’t have set. A broken transporter is a broken transporter!
Whoops, twice! The other time was in “Catspaw.” (“We could manufacture a ton of these [precious gemstones] on the Enterprise. They mean nothing to us.”)
You guys are missing the point. The transporter duplicated the items, splitting them into “good” and “evil.” Send down blankets. Half of them will be evil blankets and give the natives smallpox. The other blankets will be great blankets and keep everybody toasty warm. Ditto everything else - keep the good, toss the bad.
Better yet, beam down the writer. Shoot the hack that wrote this garbage and get the good writer to write you a better script! Richard Matheson, I’m looking at you!
So … Sulu et al. tried only the evil heaters and gave up before they got to the good ones? :dubious:
I don’t think so. While the “evil” blankets are running around sopping up brandy, mauling the women, and grotesquely overacting, the “good” blankets grow increasingly weak and ineffectual, leaving the landing party little better off than before.
And lets all give a hand to “Mudd’s Women” for being the first episode I found to be personally offensive!* And Mudd is a recurring character? Oh, goody.
“Squire of Gothos” was fun, though. No more goofy than your average Next Generation ‘Q’ episode.
*A woman’s value isn’t in her looks! That’s shallow! I woman’s real value is her ability to wash your dishes, clean your house, and agree to live with you on your hellacious doom planet after knowing you for 20 minutes, 19 of which you spent berating her! But that’s a happy ending because we all learned a valuable lesson about confidence and inner beauty.
Recurring is putting it a bit too strong. He’s got one other TOS episode (“I, Mudd”) and an animated episode (“Mudd’s Passion”). And I think you’ll like the other TOS epsiode better, even though there’s some similarity in themes. (At least, I did, and I was also offended by “Mudd’s Women.”) I haven’t seen the animated episode.
“Mudd’s Passion” is a pretty good episode. Mudd gives Nurse Christine Chapel a crystal which he promises will make her attractive to Spock - but with unforeseen consequences.
Was The Doomsday Machine the one with the immense flying cigar/turd? That thing was revisited in a 1990s ST:TNG novel. They somehow figured out that the thing was a weapon created centuries earlier by victims of the Borg. It had theoretically been built and then basically just launched in a straight line for the Borg homeworld (apparently they had backtracked its trajectory to figure out where it came from, and found a dead civilization that showed clear signs of having been destroyed centuries earlier by the Borg). Or something like that.
What was the name of the episode that had the gelatinous face-sucker things? That was an episode I only saw once, as a child, but it stuck in my memory.
Operation ANNIHILATE!
Just watched “The Trouble with Tribbles”. Funny, engaging, well-paced. The bar fight with the Klingons was just gravy. A+, would watch again
“The Corbomite Maneuver” was also pretty good - although I didn’t find it particularly believable that Spock hadn’t heard of poker. Also, that little kid at the end was absolutely the scariest thing I’ve seen on this show so far.
Well, that sure sounds like it should be bumped up the list …