camwyn | (no subject)

Well, made it up to "Spock's Brain" last week. I have to say, it really isn't the worst original series Star Trek episode ever. I mean, stupidest, sure, it's beyond a doubt the stupidest of all the ones I've seen to date in my rewatch, but at no point during the episode did I start wailing that I swear I thought that part was something an Onion reviewer made up I thought it was just the Preamble, WHY IS KIRK QUOTING THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE, and at no point after Spock's Brain did I stare in horror at information indicating that Roddenberry submitted the thing for an Emmy nomination because he was just so proud of it (seriously, Gene, what the hell were you smoking if you thought The Omega Glory was somehow worthy of an Emmy).

Spock's Brain kinda works if you assume that the Enterprise inadvertently slid through a genre-shifting anomaly and spent the entirety of the episode in the Cheap 1930s Pulp Scifi Zone. Then you can just point and laugh and end the episode with ha ha Kirk broke your awesomesauce tech and literally everyone on this planet is an idiot, y'all gonna diiiiiiiiiiiiiiiie when the Federation leaves.

Spock's Brain was a stupid premise executed in a stupid manner but it wasn't outright painful to watch. Speaking of which, I'm still going in order and since last night was "The Enterprise Incident", the next episode is ... crap, I can't remember the name, it has the word 'Paradise' in it, it's the Native American Stereotypes In Space episode.

(I really liked The Enterprise Incident. Nowhere near as brilliant as Balance of Terror but it worked pretty well for me.)