#4 "Spectre of the Gun"
(originally titled "The Last Gunfight") is an episode from the third season of the original science fiction television series, Star Trek, that was first broadcast on October 25, 1968, and repeated on April 4, 1969. This show was the last episode to air on NBC at 10p.m. on Fridays. It is episode #61, production #56, and was written by former producer Gene L. Coon (under the pseudonym of Lee Cronin) and directed by Vincent McEveety.
In this episode, having been found trespassing into Melkotian space, Captain Kirk and members of his crew are sent to die in a re-enactment of the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral..
Loved the early 1950ish TV... minimalist set decoration--
But the Melkotian bad guy... and plot was way less than abstract artsy!
I'll take it from here, Bendy... and Gene Coon's nom de plume gets his just reward--
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#3 "And the Children Shall Lead"
is a third season episode of the original science fiction television series, Star Trek, and was broadcast October 11, 1968. It is episode #59, production #60, written by Edward J. Lakso and directed by Marvin Chomsky.
In this episode, on a distant planet, Kirk, Spock and McCoy find a scientific team dead, and their children who, unknown to the crew, have great powers at their disposal.
When the guest star is a lawyer, the results cannot be good and here they prove this to the nth degree.
No, you cannot do this-- I'm... a lawyer!
Logically, if they were my offspring... I'd whip their hind ends until they couldn't hold shucks!
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#2 "Spock's Brain"
is the first episode of the third season of the original science fiction television series, Star Trek, first broadcast September 20, 1968. It was the first episode to air after NBC moved the show from 8:30 P.M. to 10 P.M. on Friday nights. It was repeated July 8, 1969. It is episode #56, production #61, written by Gene L. Coon (under the pseudonym Lee Cronin) and directed by Marc Daniels.
In this episode, an alien female beams aboard the ship and, after incapacitating the rest of the crew, surgically removes Spock's brain. Kirk and the crew have just hours to locate and restore it before Spock's body dies.
Yes, the episode had some nice... eye candy for Kirk to charm--
But this abomination is almost a tie with #1 below, so, close, but no #1 cigar for Void-Head Spock--
Logically I deserved a bad review... but 2 years and a fine!
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Drum Roll... Please!
Maestro, the Fairfare... if you will.
#1 "The Way to Eden"
is the twentieth episode of the third season of the original science fiction television series, Star Trek was broadcast February 21, 1969. It was written by Arthur Heinemann, based on a story by Heinemann and D. C. Fontana (using the pen name "Michael Richards"), and directed by David Alexander.
In this episode, the Enterprise is hijacked by a madman-scientist and his fanatical, hippie-like followers who are blindly obsessed in finding a mythical planet of perpetual paradise. is the nineteenth episode of the second season of the original science-fiction television series, Star Trek, first broadcast February 2, 1968, and repeated on August 23, 1968. The screenplay was written by Gene Roddenberry, based on a story by Don Ingalls under the pseudonym Jud Crucis, and directed by Marc Daniels. It was intended as an allegory about America's involvement in the Vietnam War.
First, it is not the good Doc Sevrin using a hand sign... that make me throw up a little in my mouth--
But this attempt to pay tribute the 1960s 'Hippie... Movement' smells worse than the hippies ever did!
Did I really... look like that?
Did you... ever!
All these stinkers come from the final Third Season and the only one I've even seen in probably 30 years is "Spectre of the Gun" that I pulled up from Netflix to show a friend just exactly what early 1950ish TV minimalist set decoration was--
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Bender2
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Okay, y'all talk amongst yourselves...
while I make a beer run.
2 posted on
04/05/2017 3:54:42 PM PDT by
Bender2
("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
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The only hippies I hate worse than old hippies is future hippies.
3 posted on
04/05/2017 4:00:19 PM PDT by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: Bender2
At least the Space Hippies suffered at the end of the episode.
7 posted on
04/05/2017 4:07:07 PM PDT by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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13 posted on
04/05/2017 4:18:22 PM PDT by
Az Joe
(Gloria in excelsis Deo)
To: Bender2
By the third season the series had already been cancelled, and budgets cut. Many of those scripts were clearly written to take advantage of existing sets and costumes. Aside from OK Corral World, there was Nazi World, Roman World, 20s Gangster World, and a time travel trip to the Depression. Some like the last two were pretty good, the first two should have been on your list.
15 posted on
04/05/2017 4:23:41 PM PDT by
Hugin
(Conservatism without Nationalism is a fraud.)
To: Bender2
The Way to Eden?
Seriously? Sure, the plot is thin and the characters are cardboard cut-outs...
...but Kirk & Spock kick liberal’s butts...what could be wrong with that?
17 posted on
04/05/2017 4:29:40 PM PDT by
Jhadur
("You will fall on one another like wolves.")
To: Bender2
The best episodes of Star Trek are not to be found in TNG. Nor are the worst.
In the pale moonlight is the best Star Trek episode of all time. Period.
The worst probably is the Star Trek: Enterprise series finale.
I actually liked most of these TNG episodes. #4 is pretty good, as well as #3. #1 is pretty terrible. no comment on #2.
19 posted on
04/05/2017 4:31:35 PM PDT by
FreedomStar3028
(Somebody has to step forward and do what is right because it is right, otherwise no one will follow.)
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Assignment: Earth, Lame spin off attempt
To: Bender2
It would be cool to rank order all the Star Trek episodes from best to worst. There’s an endless parlor game for people, considering there are so many opinions as to which episodes are good and which not so great .......
To: Bender2
And the children shall lead: The skipper from “gilligans island” in a dress and five brats.
CC
26 posted on
04/05/2017 4:39:48 PM PDT by
Celtic Conservative
(CC: purveyor of cryptic, snarky posts since December, 2000..)
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I just looked them up and the last 3 episodes were all pretty bad. I liked Star Trek but it had run it’s course.
27 posted on
04/05/2017 4:39:58 PM PDT by
yarddog
(Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
To: Bender2
Any episode that has evil Lincoln
To: Bender2
The worse is IMO is the Alternative Factor. It is flat out boring. All the ones above at least have fun camp qualities
33 posted on
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Sybeck1
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36 posted on
04/05/2017 4:55:53 PM PDT by
Political Junkie Too
(The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
To: Bender2
The addition of Harry Mudd could have saved any of these 4.
41 posted on
04/05/2017 5:01:30 PM PDT by
LeoTDB69
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42 posted on
04/05/2017 5:02:40 PM PDT by
Bratch
("The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke)
To: Bender2
You got three out of four, not too bad, although I would switch one and two:
"Brain and brain! What is brain!?" pretty much cinches
Spock's Brain in the top slot.
Unfortunately, you blew yourself up completely with the #4 choice, which was actually one of the BEST Star Trek TOS of the third season. (Not saying a lot, but certainly it doesn't come anywhere close to deserving your ranking.)
Replace #4 with The Empath and you've got 100%.
48 posted on
04/05/2017 5:07:47 PM PDT by
FredZarguna
(And what Rough Beast, its hour come round at last, slouches toward Fifth Avenue to be born?)
To: Bender2
The Lights of Zetar is my least favorite.
50 posted on
04/05/2017 5:08:58 PM PDT by
aomagrat
(Gun owners who vote for democrats are too stupid to own guns.)
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53 posted on
04/05/2017 5:14:34 PM PDT by
left that other site
(You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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Oh, and by the way, I believe Spectre of the Gun was specifically done as an homage to Roddenberry, who wrote a number of episodes of Jefferson Drum, Bat Masterson, and Richard Boone's #1 hit series, Have Gun Will Travel.
55 posted on
04/05/2017 5:17:21 PM PDT by
FredZarguna
(And what Rough Beast, its hour come round at last, slouches toward Fifth Avenue to be born?)
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