I’m only guessing that the writer somehow meant ‘one to the fourth’ somehow means 1111 or maybe even 1000. Further, as most audio engineers/philes are used to measuring dynamic ranger in tens of decibels isn’t that impressive.
Yes … but as Spock told Kirk in “The Immunity Syndrome,” “You, sir, are not a science specialist!” :dubious:
(In other words, Kirk didn’t know what he was talking about.)
Poetic license.
They do something similar in the ST:TNG episode with Lore and his Borg colony. Picard beams down virtually the entire crew to conduct a search on foot.
Whoever wrote that must have been related to the Our Gang episode writer who had this put on a blackboard in the episode “Come Back, Miss Pipps”: 1x1=2. :dubious:
And why does “logical” Mr Spock then commit the Enterprise to a course of action which leaves it a floating wreck given that they had several months to devise an alternative plan, of which I have thought of several and posted them in CS over the years?
Yeah … and then leaves Beverly “Yes, Sir!” Crusher in command with a bridge crew fresh out of the Academy.
What, there are no senior Operations officers left on board the Enterprise? Or all they all working down in the nursery, looking after the children? :dubious: 
That brings up another problem that I can’t believe I just thought of.
We can only assume that Starfleet is sending someone to help because AFTER Spock deflects the asteroid and rescues Kirk…how long do they have to sit in orbit waiting for help? It took some two months to get back to Kirk, and no help had shown up. God knows how long they would have to wait after that.
Wow, such hate for The Empath!! I’m shocked-- that is one of my favorite episodes, but maybe it’s because it was the first episode I caught when TOS was currently running in the 60s and was my introduction to the show. I can still remember watching it and being mesmerized. I thought it was just fantastic, but then again I was about 12 or 13. (It’s possible I saw this as re-run during the summer after it originally aired, if the network ran reruns of that show, but still I saw it when ST:TOS was a freshly minted TV series.)
ETA: But then, I also never really cared for The Trouble with Tribbles.
As for the worst, Spock’s Brain hands down. Nothing even close to being as bad.
Either most people’s brains have erased any memory of the Alternative Factor or self preservation caused them to change the channel when the episode came on. That’s the only explanation for why any other episode is mentioned in this thread.
**Turnabout Intruder **is the WORST episode ever.
You are expected to believe that women in the 24th Century are somehow “oppressed” and that switching their bodies to those of men would in some manner “alleviate” this. Huh? That sounds more like a Lifetime Channel fantasy film than an attempt at serious sci fi.
And William Shatner played a terrible woman/man. It was as if he were channel every 1960s gay stereotype in his performance. I wonder if it was a painful to act as it was to watch.
**Omega Glory **is the second worst. Mindless nationalism disguised as episodic television. While I know that Vietnam and the civil rights movements were going on when this was filmed, it is clear that Roddenberry was making this particular episode for his present more so than any posterity.
I referenced it. The character’s name was Lazarus.
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To give Kirk time to knock up the girl. Duh.
I agree, this is a terrible episode with Spock acting out of character and boring too.
Plus, even on impulse - half impulse - the Enterprise could have gotten back to the planet long before the asteroid. Hell, they could have beaten it on thrusters. Hell, Spock could have gotten out and pushed.
Scotty actually said something like that in one or the other eps…
“Hell, I’d piss on a spark plug if I thought that would help!”
(War Games)
Yeah, the likelihood that (whatever impulse power they have) that it’s exactly that of the asteroid is beyond silly. It would require some crazy technobabble explanation like a low level deflector shield has been set up and the asteroid is literally pushing them back.
Hell, from a basic physics standpoint they could have pushed the asteroid into missing the planet by raising shields and pushing sideways on the sucker. The distance it was from the planet means the slightest nudge would make it miss.
Funny Spock didn’t think of that.
They also could have used a shuttlecraft for that.
Sacrifice one for the team.
How about enveloping the asteroid in a warp field and moving it that way. It worked on Stargate.:smack:
Change the gravitational constant of the universe.
My vote goes to The Negron Complex, written by Paul Kinsey.
Terrible episode, but what a twist!