![]() But you’ll find that much of the bottom of this lost also comes from Star Trek’s wildly uneven last year.ħ7. That’s clear from the season opener, in which aliens remove Spock’s brain…because they can! Now, there are some good episodes in Season 3. Its original creator, Gene Roddenberry, was marginalized so NBC could make Star Trek almost a parody of itself. “Spock’s Brain” - The third season of The Original Series was a bit like the fourth season of Community. Luckily, there’d be 25 seasons of The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, and Enterprise to remove the awful taste in our mouths left by the end of The Original Series.ħ8. Kirk switch bodies with a female scientist that makes incredibly bizarre claims: like that women are barred from being starship captains in Starfleet, something that has been disproven by almost everything else we know about Star Trek. “Turnabout Intruder” - The very last episode of the original Star Trek series is also its worst, a dispiritingly sexist commentary on gender roles that sees Capt. ![]() We hate to be negative all upfront, but if we get the bad episodes out of the way first, we can spend more time relishing our faves. So in honor of the continuing voyages of the Starship Enterprise, we’ve ranked all 79 episodes of The Original Series from worst to best. Gene Roddenberry had one of the strongest visions ever brought to bear on the small screen. It was always brimming with ideas about the universe and our place within it. Even when it was bad - and it could be a bad a lot - it was always interesting. So why do we still care? Because The Original Series was just that compelling. ![]() The latest, Star Trek Into Darkness, is on track to make $100 million its opening weekend. 47 years after its launch it’s spun-off four live-action series, one animated series, dozens of videogames, and 12 movies. It’s hard to think of any other 1960s TV series with as much staying-power as Star Trek. ![]()
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