Good, Bad, Ugly: TOS

Sionnach Glic · Post by **Sionnach Glic** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 3:37 pm

I just noticed we didn't have one of these threads for TOS yet.
So, like the other threads, list what you like and dislike about the series, the characters, and the plots via the following format:

Great:

Good:

Average:

Bad:

Terrible:

Aaron · Post by **Aaron** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 3:52 pm

Great: Kirk, Spock and Bones

Good: The Big E

Average: Rand

Bad: Any script by Roddenberry

Terrible: Let That Be Your Last Battlefield

mwhittington · Post by **mwhittington** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 3:58 pm

Great: City on the Edge of Forever, Kirk as the space cowboy/ladies' man, "abbreviated" female uniforms, Nichelle Nichols butt (mmmm hmmmm

)
Good: CGI remastering, Spock/McCoy arguements
Fair: Graphics of the time given the budget
Poor: Spock's Brain (can you smell the cheesiness?

)
Terrible: Can't think of anything to put in here....Hey, I got promoted! I'm no longer on the bottom of the totem pole! I have seniority! Yeeeaaaa!

Enkidu · Post by **Enkidu** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 4:01 pm

Great: The freshness and optimism, born out of the sixties and the Space Race, when every thing seemed possible due to technology and new ways of thinking.

Good: The interplay between the three main characters, and fairly strong characterization generally.

Average: The design of the ships, considering a TV budget and the limitations of the time where remarkable.

Bad: The can do attitude to story writing leads to some episodes that might seem a good idea as a sixties sci-fi short story, but make less sense as part of a long running series set in a realistic view of a possible future, such as the Romans in space episode.

Terrible: Some truly awful episodes, some due to the sixties sensibilities, like the Space Hippy episode (the Way to Eden IIRC)

Sionnach Glic · Post by **Sionnach Glic** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 4:03 pm

Right, I suppose it'd make sense if I'd actualy done this myself.

Great: The crew, the optimism, the whole sense of whacky fun and adventure.

Good: The NCC-1701 USS Enterprise. Best ship ever made by Starfleet.

Fair: The graphics. Cheesy as heck now, but they were good back in the day.

Poor: Most of the third series

Terrible: Spock's Brain

RK_Striker_JK_5 · Post by **RK_Striker_JK_5** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 8:51 pm

Great: The boundary pushing, the commentary, Kirk Spock and McCoy, City on the Edge of Forever, Let This Be Your Last battlefield, the Enterprise herself. the fact that it wasn't some dystopia.

Good: The Trouble with Tribbles, Scotty's obsession with the engines

Average: The graphics.

Bad:

Terrible: Spock's Brain, the Way to Eden... a lot of the third season.

Post by **Mikey** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 11:54 pm

Congrats, whittington!

How is it that nobody listed "Catspaw" under "Terrible?" Or "For the World Is Hollow..." under "Great" or "Good?"

Aaron · Post by **Aaron** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 11:55 pm

Which ones that again? The one with the ginormus cat, I assume.

Post by **Mikey** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 11:55 pm

The Halloween ep, with magic wand and witches and skeletons manacled to the wall.

Aaron · Post by **Aaron** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 12:00 am

I forgot about that one, what a drunk horror show.

mwhittington · Post by **mwhittington** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 12:04 am

Thanks, Mikey! I think Spock's Brain is probably the worst one of the bunch, and it's not as bad as some of the Voyager eps, although Let That Be Your Last Battlefield is also pretty close.

Post by **Teaos** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 9:26 am

Terrible: TOS. All of it.

Probably why I didnt make one of these for it.

Honestly I'd rather have cancer than watch Kirk and Spock and one of the Ugliest spaceships ever fight men in rubber suits.

Post by **Mikey** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 10:59 am

No regard, Teaos, for the grounbreaking nature of the show, the themes which had until then not been explored on television, or any of the moral ramifications which TOS discussed?

Post by **Teaos** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 12:49 pm

Nope no regard. Its craptastic.

Post by **Mikey** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 10:03 pm

Well, at least you stick to your guns...