Star Trek: Season One (wrap up)

Data
Title: Star Trek: Season One
Year: 1966-1967
Etc: see individual episode posts (linked below)

My reaction
Concept: Note: the episode-by-episode "concept" scores average out to 3/4, but of course that's something different than the show's concept as a whole.
Story: Rounded down from an average of about 2.3/4
Characters: Average: about 2.5/4
Dialog: Average: about 2.7/4
Pacing: Average: about 2.8/4
Cinematography: Average: 2.0/4
Special effects/design: Average: about 3.6/4. But the design of the ship pretty much guaranteed this a 4/4, even without rounding up.
Acting: Average: about 2.6/4
Music: Average: 4.0/4
Subjective Rating: 9/10 (One of my favorites,  [edit: 5/4]). Even when it's bad, it's still awesome (with the exception of "The Alternative Factor").
Objective Rating (Average): [edit: 3.3/4 (Very good)]

The episdoes
sorted by subjective rating (objective rating in parentheses)
9/10
- "Space Seed" (3.6/4)
- "The City on the Edge of Forever" (3.3/4)
- "Balance of Terror" (3.1/4)
- "Court Martial" (3.2/4)
- "Dagger of the Mind" (3.4/4)
- "The Devil in the Dark" (2.9/4)
8/10
- "What Are Little Girls Made of?" (3.2/4)
- "The Man Trap" (3.3/4)
- "The Corbomite Maneuver" (3.1/4)
- "The Naked Time" (3.5/4)
- "Where No Man Has Gone Before" (3.0/4)
- "Errand of Mercy" (2.9/4)
- "The Menagerie" (3.2/4)
- "A Taste of Armageddon" (3.1/4)
- "The Enemy Within" (2.9/4)
- "Arena" (2.6/4)
7/10
- "The Galileo Seven" (2.7/4)
- "Tomorrow Is Yesterday" (2.7/4)
- "The Conscience of the King" (3.0/4)
- "Miri" (2.8/4)
- "Mudd's Women" (2.7/4)
- "Operation - Annihilate!" (2.4/4)
- "Shore Leave" (2.3/4)
- "Charlie X" (2.6/4)
- "The Return of the Archons" (2.6/4)
- "This Side of Paradise" (2.6/4)
6/10
- "The Squire of Gothos" (2.5/4)
3/10
- "The Alternative Factor" (1.5/4)

Star Trek: "Operation - Annihilate!"

Data
Title: Star Trek: “Operation - Annihilate!”
Year: 1967
Network: NBC
Episode: the last (of twenty-nine) from season one; 50 minutes
Creator: Gene Roddenberry
Director: Herschel Daugherty
Writer: Steven W. Carabatsos
Starring: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley
Music: Alexander Courage
I saw it: on video and TV several times, most recently yesterday (have on DVD)
Synopsis: a madness that has destroyed civilizations is spreading across the galaxy

My reaction
Concept: If your three heroes have to wrap up all the show's problems with a neat bow in under fifty minutes, please do not put them up against something that's stumped entire worlds across centuries.
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Special effects/design: Where things look like crap, it's really the fault of the writing. I mean, flying amoebas look like crap - no way around it.
Acting: Shatner's bad, but Nimoy's pretty good for a change.
Music:
Subjective Rating: 7/10 (Good, ). A frustrating mix of good, exciting bits and campy, bad-science bits.
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Star Trek: "The City on the Edge of Forever"

Data
Title: Star Trek: “The City on the Edge of Forever”
Year: 1967
Network: NBC
Episode: the twenty-eighth (of twenty-nine) from season one; 50 minutes
Creator: Gene Roddenberry
Director: Joseph Pevney
Writer: Harlan Ellison
Starring: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Joan Collins
Music: Alexander Courage
I saw it: on video and TV several times, most recently yesterday (have on DVD)
Synopsis: a time portal leads to 1930s New York, where history is being changed

My reaction
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Subjective Rating: 9/10 (One of my favorites, ).  Mmm, it sure is nice to watch an episode written by a real writer...
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Star Trek: "The Alternative Factor"

Data
Title: Star Trek: “The Alternative Factor”
Year: 1967
Network: NBC
Episode: the twenty-seventh (of twenty-nine) from season one; 50 minutes
Creator: Gene Roddenberry
Director: Gerd Oswald
Writer: Don Ingalls
Starring: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Robert Brown
Music: Alexander Courage
I saw it: on video and TV several times, most recently yesterday (have on DVD)
Synopsis: a raving guy with a beard is somehow connected with disturbances in reality

My reaction
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Dialog: Minus several points for crimes against science.
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Special effects/design: I'm willing to overlook a lot of awful when a Jetsons-style space car is involved. There really is a lot of awful here, though.
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Subjective Rating: 3/10 (Bad, ). Holy steaming pile of nasty. Even my undying love of classic Star Trek can't get me through this one.
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Star Trek: "Errand of Mercy"

Data
Title: Star Trek: “Errand of Mercy”
Year: 1967
Network: NBC
Episode: the twenty-sixth (of twenty-nine) from season one; 50 minutes
Creator: Gene Roddenberry
Director: John Newland
Writer: Gene L. Coon
Starring: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, John Abbott, John Colicos
Music: Alexander Courage
I saw it: on video and TV several times, most recently yesterday (have on DVD)
Synopsis: Klingons and humans both want control of a planet of pacifists

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Subjective Rating: 8/10 (Great, ). The first Klingon episode, and there's a reason they went on to become so popular. The Klingon commander just makes a perfect adversary to Kirk, offering a well balanced challenge and forcing things into Military Strategy Mode. Sadly the plot turns to crap, and nothing that the characters do ends up mattering. I've still got to call it great, though.
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