Posted on 05/23/2017 9:10:47 AM PDT by EveningStar
At some point in life, you learn to take the good with the bad. It’s not that you necessarily become better at dealing with the bad things in life, but rather that you learn to appreciate that the bad is simply a companion to the good. If you grew up a Star Trek fan, you likely got a head start on this valuable life lesson. Regardless of which Star Trek series you became hopelessly addicted to, you eventually learned that you had a roughly equal chance of seeing something truly great or something truly awful on a weekly basis. Eventually, you come to accept that the bad episodes add a little flavor to the great ones.
Just because bad Star Trek episodes are a vital thread in the franchise’s rich tapestry, that doesn’t mean that they aren’t still some of the worst episodes to ever be broadcast on television. We’re not talking about episodes which stomp on the series’ continuity or ruin certain plot developments. These are the entries which Trek fans and non-Trek fans alike watch with their jaws agape. “How?” they say while struggling to reach some semblance of understanding. “How did this episode ever make it on-air?”
These are the 15 Worst Star Trek Episodes Of All Time.
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My personal favorite. But I am a sucker for time travel and alternate history stuff. Harry Turtledove wrote an amazing book called Guns of the South in that Genre. Not as much impressed with the rest of his stuff, but that one is a real winner.
>>The Devil in the Dark, with the Horta.<<
Poor thing doomed to spend its life looking for humans with pointed ears.
All I care about is TOS and the movies. The rest was a joke.
Hence Deacon’s complaint “I’m not a Red Shirt,” in this season’s 12 Monkeys.
The one with Julie Newmar and the one with Joan London are my favs!
I highly recommend “These Are the Voyages: TOS: Season One” and “These Are the Voyages: TOS: Season Two” to all Star Trek TOS fans. I have not read the season 3 book yet.
giant ice cream-cone planet eater = Death Star alpha version
That happened in every episode!
The klingons were the Russians the romulans were the Chinese
I think that was the episode with the flying fried eggs.
12 monkeys is a TV show?!
Or is it 12 Monkees?
“That’s a good idea, Chuck. But syrup won’t stop ‘em.”
We reach, brother!
Nope. That shot was from “Arena”. The ‘flying fried egg’ episode was “Attack of the Parasites”.
Try "Operation: Annihilate!"...
I agree. The one episode I can’t watch again.
I saw a picture of that actress. Ay carumba....
Did the German tribes take over Rome? That confusion only makes sense in Germanic languages and not Romance ones based on Latin.
I think the actress who played Tasha Yar got tired of them always trying to get her clothes off.
She was pretty hot
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