Star Trek Thoughts - Part 6
Feb. 17th, 2026 09:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chris_gerribI am continuing my ongoing (semi-) rewatch of Star Trek: The Original Series. This post will cover season 2, episodes 6 to 9.
Technical: I think the remastered version uses the same shuttle bay footage that the CGI-ed for "Galileo Seven" in season 1.
Story: This batch is wildly uneven! Episode 6, "The Doomsday Machine" is truly a masterpiece and holds up well today. Then the following episode, "Catspaw" which aired a mere 7 days later is truly shitty. (They tried to make a Halloween-themed Star Trek which originally aired on October 27. They failed.)
The next two episodes, "I, Mudd" and "Metamorphosis" are both breathtakingly sexist to a modern viewer. As a story, "I, Mudd" works, largely because Harcourt Fenton "Harry" Mudd is written as a sexist scoundrel, even by the standards of the time. "Metamorphosis" kind of doesn't. For those not remembering, this is the episode where we meet Zefram Cochrane. It's also where the sole female character, Assistant Commissioner Nancy Hedford, goes gaga over ole' Zef and his alien flying jellyfish.
Fandom frequently mourns the early cancellation of The Original Series. I think we forget sometimes how uneven the various episodes were.
Technical: I think the remastered version uses the same shuttle bay footage that the CGI-ed for "Galileo Seven" in season 1.
Story: This batch is wildly uneven! Episode 6, "The Doomsday Machine" is truly a masterpiece and holds up well today. Then the following episode, "Catspaw" which aired a mere 7 days later is truly shitty. (They tried to make a Halloween-themed Star Trek which originally aired on October 27. They failed.)
The next two episodes, "I, Mudd" and "Metamorphosis" are both breathtakingly sexist to a modern viewer. As a story, "I, Mudd" works, largely because Harcourt Fenton "Harry" Mudd is written as a sexist scoundrel, even by the standards of the time. "Metamorphosis" kind of doesn't. For those not remembering, this is the episode where we meet Zefram Cochrane. It's also where the sole female character, Assistant Commissioner Nancy Hedford, goes gaga over ole' Zef and his alien flying jellyfish.
Fandom frequently mourns the early cancellation of The Original Series. I think we forget sometimes how uneven the various episodes were.
