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The Star Trek franchise may be best known for Hugo-Award winning episodes like “The City on the Edge of Forever,” “The Inner Light,” and “The Trouble With Tribbles,” but no television behemoth makes it through more than 700 episodes without producing a few clunkers.
What follows is a list of twenty of those failures, misfires, and disappointments, including episodes from all five live action series. For simplicity’s sake, I’ve left out the movies, and ranked the following twenty installments from “best” to worst.
Without further ado, let’s take a look at the list.
20. Spock’s Brain (Tos)
CBS
“Brain, brain…what is brain?”
Perhaps the most infamous episode of the original series, “Spock’s Brain” is certainly a head-scratcher. Intended to capitalize on Dr. Christiaan Barnard’s recent success at performing the first human heart transplant, the episode has a group of aliens one-upping Dr. Barnard by surgically removing Mr.
The Star Trek franchise may be best known for Hugo-Award winning episodes like “The City on the Edge of Forever,” “The Inner Light,” and “The Trouble With Tribbles,” but no television behemoth makes it through more than 700 episodes without producing a few clunkers.
What follows is a list of twenty of those failures, misfires, and disappointments, including episodes from all five live action series. For simplicity’s sake, I’ve left out the movies, and ranked the following twenty installments from “best” to worst.
Without further ado, let’s take a look at the list.
20. Spock’s Brain (Tos)
CBS
“Brain, brain…what is brain?”
Perhaps the most infamous episode of the original series, “Spock’s Brain” is certainly a head-scratcher. Intended to capitalize on Dr. Christiaan Barnard’s recent success at performing the first human heart transplant, the episode has a group of aliens one-upping Dr. Barnard by surgically removing Mr.
- 1/26/2014
- by Michael Kmet
- Obsessed with Film
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