What the hell, I’ll stop watching Star Trek
Well, sort of! My time with Star Trek has come to an end for now. I’ve made it to the end of The Original Series, but I do intend to watch the films at some point in the near-ish future. After that? I’ll almost certainly get around to The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager , and maybe some other things as well. I’m open to suggestions, but those are all stories for another time. Right now, I’m taking a look back at season three of The Original Series. I was interested in this season for extremely selfish and thoroughly disrespectful reasons. Or, reason: “Spock’s Brain.” For decades I had been hearing about how terrible this episode was. It wasn’t just the worst episode of The Original Series; it was among the worst episodes of television, full stop. How could I not want to watch it? That, as Van once put it, was honey to the bee. We can learn a lot from the way things fall apart. Sometimes it’s our only real chance to get a peek inside something we love. When a pi...