Worst Star Trek Episode

[Parche]

Series: 'The Original Series'
Episode Title: 'Obsession'
Episode Number: 218
Synopsis: "Kirk meets up with a gaseous being that feeds on human blood cells, which he failed to destroy during an encounter years earlier, costing the life of his captain. Now, with that captain's son on the Enterprise, he becomes obsessed with the creature's destruction."
Original Airdate: December 15, 1967


Credits

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Written By: Art Wallace
Directed By: Ralph Serensky


Guest Stars:


Stephen Brooks as Ensign Garrovick
Jerry Ayres as Rizzo
Majel Barrett Roddenberry as Nurse Christine Chapel

[Book Lover]

1. You are so wrong, my friend

The Way to Eden
TOS, Episode 3x20
Production number: 60043-75
First aired: 21 February 1969
← 76th of 80 produced in TOS →
← 75th of 80 released in TOS →
← 75th of 726 released in all →
Teleplay By
Arthur Heinemann

Story By
Michael Richards and Arthur Heinemann

Directed By
David Alexander


The Enterprise picks up a group of renegades who have rejected modern technological life to search for the mythical planet Eden.

[Parche]

3. Eden

You dont like Skip Homier's ears???? :rofl: :bounce:

[Book Lover]

6. I love the ears,

but the story is nowhere, man. :-)

On the other hand, how can I forget the contribution of the term "Herbert" to our collectvie vocabulary?!

[flamingyouth]

4. That is the BEST!

How can you hate Spock jamming on the Vulcan harp? I mean... HOW? :rofl:

[Book Lover]

7. You know, I am glad you are taking me to task

How can I forget indeed?

[flamingyouth]

14. B-movie tie-in:

Charles Napier is in it. He played Baxter Wolfe in "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls." :D

[Book Lover]

17. And Alfred in Batman

IIRC...

[Fenris]

32. That's actually Alan Napier in "Batman."

Hilariously, he was a cousin of Neville Chamberlain.

[Book Lover]

43. *sigh*

I'm getting old... I can't even keep my b-list actors organized!

[terrya]

42. Charles Napier is a fine character actor.

A lot of good stuff...he did a nice bit in "The Grifters" several years ago.

Charles Napier also does voiceover stuff...he's been on "The Simpsons" quite a few times, as well as one of my favorite animated series, "The Critic". :-)

[Bassic]

25. I agree

Eden was the suckiest piece of suck that ever sucked as far as Star Trek goes.

[begin_within]

34. .

[Frank Cannon]

41. HERBERT!

I LOVE that episode!

"I'm gonna crack my knuckles and jump for joy! I got a clean bill of health from Dr. McCoy!"

[flamingyouth]

44. LOL

I can't think of that episode without laughing to myself. :D

[ikojo]

46. Hey, hey let's jump for joy

I got a clean bill of health from Dr McCoy!

[JVS]

51. Space hippies eating poison fruit, what could be better?

[NewJeffCT]

2. And the children shall lead

the episode with Melvin Belli...

[Sequoia]

5. That one with the floating robot.

[edbermac]

8. Spock's Brain

Even Shatner thought it was a stinker.

[deucemagnet]

26. Brain! Brain! What is brain?!!11

Abso-fucking-lutely!

[Ariana Celeste]

9. Catspaw

TOS Season 2.

Two powerful aliens threaten the well being of the "Enterprise" and her crew, with their "magic" powers.

[Deja Q]

10. Some of the science is stupid, but the core plot idea of obsession was solid.

'The Masterpiece Society' falls under the stupid category; especially when the opposite moral message was given in 'The Ensigns of Command'!

[pokerfan]

11. "The Spectre of the Gun"

The one with the Earps and the OK Corral.

I can just see the writers sitting around a table completely out of ideas.

Finally one speaks up, "Hey, we're Paramount! Lets just use that sound stage stage used for that last western we shot."

"Yeah right. Next thing you'll be telling us we can reuse some 1930's gangster set."

[Parche]

15. spectre

Yes that one was one of the worst........

[ikojo]

47. Wasn't that a third season episode?

I think the third (and last) season of ST TOS pretty much sucked. Fred Frieberger, who went on to become a head of NBC, was at the helm of Trek.

[GalleryGod]

12. Easy. Where the Lounge Lizards try to invade and overtake the

G.D. Empire...it ends badly.
:puke: lotsa lounge lizard guts and blood:puke:

But,sadly, very "Cheesy" production values:wtf:

[Deja Q]

16. The original Trek was very expensive to make...

The original pilot, "The Cage", alone cost nearly $1,000,000. Which, in 1964 standards, was a truckload of money.

Almost the same amount was spent on the Batcave set (1966)...

[Madspirit]

13. Wrong...

The Way to Eden...by far THE worst.

Spock's Brain is at least funny when I indulge in that herb I so love..."brain and brain what is brain"....

...but The Way to Eden is just cringe-worthy.
Lee

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

18. That episode of Voyager that had WWF guest stars

made around the height of the late 90s wrestling craze

[terrya]

19. I distinctly remember a "Voyager" episode when they encounter Amelia Earhart.

I don't remember the rationale...they entered a wormhole or something...and they arrive on a planet where the crew encounters Amelia Earhart. Lord almighty, I thought it was completely idiotic. Needless to say, that was the LAST time I watched "Voyager".

[Madspirit]

21. The 39

I LOVED that episode.
Lee

[Cannikin]

50. I hate to be a geek here, but it was actually 'The 37's'

[Madspirit]

54. Yup

Sorry about that. The 37s. I loved that episode and I though Sharon Lawrence was very cool as Amelia...
I wanted her to stay on board Voyager.
Lee

[dysfunctional press]

23. that was a fairly early episode...you should have given it another chance.

granted, there are some clunkers- but overall it's a very good addition to the star trek saga.

i just hope there's another series to come...maybe a couple decades or so after the tng,ds9,stv era.

[Deja Q]

24. Things improve a bit when 7-o-9 arrives and Kes leaves...

But it is a show of acquired taste.

Which isn't always a bad thing; mainstream mindless mush is almost always less appealing than a targeted audience show that may or may not appeal to me.

[pokerfan]

20. Star Trek parodies

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2e5bTnNc1Yw

[Rabrrrrrr]

22. Conspiracy; Shades of Gray; Catspaw; Eden; Spock's Brain; Descent

[JVS]

27. that was a good one

[KamaAina]

28. The one where Shatner had the bad rug

yeah, like that really narrows it down... :P

[sarge43]

29. The Omega Glory - the Coms and the Yangs?

That one barked, whined, peed on the carpet and dug up the rose garden.

[Cobalt-60]

30. The last one of the original series

Where Kirk's body is hijacked by Janice Lester.
I have to admit that catspaw and spocks brain sucked too.
If you look at any of the great sci fi series they're maybe 25% gold,25% silver, and the rest is dung.

[baldguy]

31. "Turnabout Intruder"

[sarge43]

36. Short version of Strugeon's Law: 90% of everything is crud.

Only 50% dung is better than average.

When you consider what was involved in putting an hour long scifi episode, it's amazing the thing got done at all, let alone some real quality work.

1. Hyper egos. I gather the cast weren't all buddies.

2. The suits. Will the public accept a character with pointed ears?

3. Censors. I would have like to been present when they dropped Kirk/Uruha's smooch on the desk.

4. Budget. A real problem, especially the third year.

5. Writing: Trying to come with anything fresh and interesting with all these constraints, plus the setting.

[Cobalt-60]

37. thank Gene Roddenberry for the skimpy ladies costumes

that took a lot of the edge off the stinkers.

[sarge43]

38. But according to the writer who did the Tribble episode, the censors

nixed any exposure of the underside of a lady's breasts. Show 'em right down to the nips, but not right up to. Some southern exposure could have done wonders for the stinkers?

[Cobalt-60]

40. indeed. we didnt see that on tv until the 80s

Was it the David Lee Roth video?

[gmoney]

48. "Neathage"

Always a treat...

[Blue-Jay]

33. "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield"

Since "Spock's Brain" and "Specter Of The Gun" were already mentioned, I'll go with the third-worst.

Even Frank Gorshin couldn't save that episode. It was a good attempt at pointing out the idiocy of racism, but the delivery really sucked.


EDIT: "Eden" was unintentionally hilarious as well. "The Paradise Syndrome" was also idiotic. I AM KIROK!

[begin_within]

35. The very early episodes of the original series had some embarrassing overacting.

[GaYellowDawg]

39. ST:TNG episode 4

"Code of Honor." Completely awful dreck.

[ikojo]

45. Hands down the worst ST TOS episode is

Spock's Brain.

A group of females use this contraption to suck the contents of Spock's Brain out of his head. They want to use its contents to control a CPU.

[Frank Cannon]

53. I particularly loved the device clamped to Spock's head...

that allows Kirk to control him with a model airplane joystick.

[gmoney]

49. The one where they almost get off the island?

Or maybe the one where the Harlem Globetrotters inexplicably show up...

[knitter4democracy]

52. Original series: The one where Kirk lives with the Native Americans

He forgets who he is somehow, and he lives with a tribe on some planet that's exactly like a stereotypical Native American plains tribe (with teepees and everything). The moment when, during a voiceover, he hugs himself on the top of a hill while thinking, "I love me!" is the worst Star Trek moment ever. Unbelievably cheesy.