I liked the original Star Trek but they had some weak episodes.
I have been watching it every Saturday night and for the last several weeks the show was pretty bad. Last night was a little better. They are in the last season and It definitely seems to be going down.
It was probably time to go ahead and end it when they did.
Yes Star Trek TOS went into a tailspin in its last season. The worst episode being the one about the space hippies! I can’t remember if that was in the last season or not but it was an absolute stinker! I still refuse to watch it.
Yup, I never missed an episode. I also liked Star Trek *Enterprize* with Scott Bakula. I did not care for the *The Next Generation* shows.
In the last season of the original Star Trek you could tell they were writing scripts just to use the existing costumes and sets at Desilu Studios. Nazi planet, Roman planet, OK Corral planet...
Thing is, Star Trek was a thing of its time. Most people didn’t see the UN for the evil it is, and it is true, the show is very liberal in many of its themes.
I watch a lot of movies. I am plumbing further and further into the past to watch movies, watching a lot from the 30’s, 40’s, 50s and 60’s now. I make it a point when watching it, to attempt to watch it from a cultural perspective of those times if I can, rather than watch it with today’s perspectives. It often isn’t easy to do, but I can occasionally succeed and it has helped me to enjoy a movie I otherwise might have turned off.
That is how I try to watch old Star Trek episodes when I encounter them. And even then, most of the time I get bored with it pretty quickly.
I must say-one of my favorite satire movies is “Galaxy Quest”! I find that movie hilarious, since it is so spot on!
IMHO, the best was “A Taste of Armageddon”. The sets and costumes were embarrassingly cheezy, but the story was really good.