Star Trek: Season Three (wrap-up)

Data
Title: Star Trek: Season Three
Year: 1968-1969
Etc: see individual episode posts (linked below)

My reaction
Concept: Once again, the concept of the show as a whole is great, although the episode-by-episode concepts average out to much less - about 2.2/4.
Story: Rounded up from an average of about 1.8/4.
Characters: Average: about 1.7/4.
Dialog: Average: about 1.9/4.
Pacing: Average: about 2.2/4.
Cinematography: Average: 2.0/4.
Special effects/design: Average: 4.0/4. I suppose I was a lot more lenient on this category than I should have been. Whatever.
Acting: Average: about 2.1/4.
Music: Average: about 3.9/4.
Subjective Rating: 7/10 (Good, ). It hurts me. It hurts me to only give classic Star Trek a 7/10. But I've got to be honest. Well, no, if I was honest, it would get a 6/10, rounded up from an average of about 5.8. Thing is, there are no great episodes in season three.  Some that I like quite a bit, but not a single great episode. And a surprising number of bad episodes. This whole looking at, and keeping record of my reaction to, every episode individually is quite revealing.
Objective Rating (Average):

The episdoes
sorted by subjective rating (objective rating in parentheses)
7/10
- "The Enterprise Incident" (3.1/4)
- "Whom Gods Destroy" (3.0/4)
- "The Savage Curtain" (3.0/4)
- "Day of the Dove" (3.0/4)
- "Spectre of the Gun" (2.3/4)
- "All Our Yesterdays" (2.9/4)
- "The Cloud Minders" (2.8/4)
- "For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky" (2.8/4)
- "Spock's Brain" (2.0/4)
6/10
- "The Empath" (2.4/4)
- "Elaan of Troyius" (2.6/4)
- "The Mark of Gideon" (2.5/4)
- "Turnabout Intruder" (2.6/4)
- "The Way to Eden" (2.0/4)
- "The Paradise Syndrome" (2.3/4)
- "The Lights of Zetar" (2.1/4)
- "Wink of an Eye" (2.2/4)
- "The Tholian Web" (2.2/4)
5/10
- "Is There in Truth No Beauty?" (2.3/4)
4/10
- "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield" (2.1/4)
- "Plato's Stepchildren" (1.7/4)
- "And the Children Shall Lead" (1.7/4)
3/10
- "Requiem for Methuselah" (2.0/4)
- "That Which Survives" (1.7/4)

Star Trek: Season Two (wrap-up)

Data
Title: Star Trek: Season Two
Year: 1967-1968
Etc: see individual episode posts (linked below)

My reaction
Concept: The concept of the show as a whole is great, although the episode-by-episode concepts only average out to about 2/4.
Story: Rounded down from an average of about 2.1/4.
Characters: Average: about 2.1/4
Dialog: Average: about 2.3/4
Pacing: Average: about 2.7/4
Cinematography: Average: 2.0/4
Special effects/design: Average: about 3.8/4
Acting: Average: about 2.3/4
Music: Average: about 3.9/4
Subjective Rating: 8/10 (Great, ). Although there are only a handful of great episodes this season, and the mediocre episodes are a lot worse than they were in the first season, I just have too much love for the show to give it less than an 8/10. There's a marked downturn in quality after "Tribbles" - I suppose the popularity of that episode encouraged them to not take things as seriously. Sadly, when Star Trek's sense of humor is off, it's way off.
Objective Rating (Average):

The episdoes
sorted by subjective rating (objective rating in parentheses)
9/10
- "The Doomsday Machine" (3.3/4)
8/10
- "The Ultimate Computer" (3.3/4)
- "Amok Time" (3.2/4)
- "Journey to Babel" (3.2/4)
- "Obsession" (3.1/4)
- "The Trouble with Tribbles" (3.0/4)
- "Wolf in the Fold" (3.3/4)
- "A Private Little War" (2.7/4)
7/10
- "Metamorphosis" (2.9/4)
- "Return to Tomorrow" (2.6/4)
- "Mirror, Mirror" (2.9/4)
- "The Immunity Syndrome" (2.5/4)
- "By Any Other Name" (2.9/4)
- "The Deadly Years" (2.6/4)
- "The Changeling" (2.6/4)
- "Bread and Circuses" (2.8/4)
- "I, Mudd" (2.7/4)
- "Friday's Child" (2.3/4)
- "The Apple" (2.1/4)
6/10
- "Catspaw" (2.5/4)
- "Who Mourns for Adonais?" (2.0/4)
- "The Gamesters of Triskelion" (2.0/4)
- "Assignment: Earth" (1.9/4)
- "A Piece of the Action" (2.0/4)
5/10
- "Patterns of Force" (2.1/4)
1/10
- "The Omega Glory" (1.7/4)

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)