Except maybe 'Plato's Stepchildren.' And all those flashing light ones. If this is 'bad Star Trek,' I've got nothing to worry about in the voyages ahead. The incomplete set reminded me of the cardboard cutout frontier town in The Prisoner, and I didn't even mind that the characterisation of the Earps and Doc Holliday doesn't gel with more authentic accounts I've read, since this was all pulled from Kirk's unconscious anyway. What I especially liked about this episode is how it turns the low budget to its advantage.
#STAR TREK ORION PIRATES PIERCINGS TRIAL#
A good thing Q didn't run into this one, humanity's trial would have had a swift outcome.
I'd hoped he might learn something from Spock's philosophical solution to conflict, but even by the end of the episode he still seems inordinately amused by his ancestors' barbarism.
He got better, unfortunately.īeing a child of The Next Generation, it was a hoot to see Kirk recklessly disregard the stern and reasonable warning not to intrude on an alien system. Scotty gets unprofessionally drunk and Chekov sets a precedent for Wesley Crusher as he gets distracted by a make-believe prostitute and dies. You've got your triumvirate of Kirk being hostile and double-fist-punching people while Spock and Bones work on a scientific solution and bicker. But even through the absence, it's clear things have settled into a formula, if not a rut. As it was the first TOS episode I'd sat down and watched for a good few years, I can tell I enjoyed this first episode a lot more than I would have done if I'd watched it 56th in sequence (I've always liked production order over broadcast order for TOS deal with it).
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