Star Trek Retrospective: Episode 75 the Way to Eden
This one made #3 on my list of all time worst episodes and for good reason: space hippies. Specifically space hippies who for some odd reason really identified with Spock and thought of him as some kind of guru. The only redeeming thing was the hippies all treating Kirk like a major dork, calling him a Herbert. I suspect since this was towards the end of the series Shattners influence over the writers and producers was greatly diminished, as in season 1 he would never had let any of that nonsense go on. Nor would he have let the romantic love interest go to any other character and in this one it is Checkov who gets the girl (sort of). Of course he gets his revenge at the end and Checkov gets nothing again (for some reason I feel a kinship towards Checkov. Did I mention I got rejected by yet another girl last night?)
I don’t know. This episode felt like a stretch all the way through. This is also a perfect example of why singing has no place in Star Trek. Normally it’s one of the main characters annoying us with his or her melodic noise hole (Uhura in the Conscious of the King, Spock in Plato’s Stepchildren, etc.), but this time it was the hippy sing along. Of course, the Star Trek singing tradition continues to haunt us in the form of Shattner doing songs with Metallica. If you have never heard him cover Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds it is something everyone needs to hear once and then never again. Google it.
Dave
P.S. the peace symbol I got from the Cheap T Shirt category .
D.
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