“Justice” swept the first round of the Sulfurous Sixteen, leaving “Operation: Annihilate!” in the dust. And our next round is the second TNG/TOS matchup, both season (and in one case, series) finale, and this one is gonna be ugly.
“Shades of Grey”
TNG, Season 2, Episode 22
It’s a clip show, although this was due to a writer’s strike. And, as our stalwart commenter redshirt pointed out, at least it got rid of Pulaski.
“Turnabout Intruder”
TOS, Season 3, Episode 24
This was the show the original series went out on, and it taught us a valuable lesson: William Shatner had never spoken to or otherwise interacted with a woman in his entire life to that point. Also that body-swap episodes are awful.
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Turnabout Intruder.
As bad as Shades Of Grey is – clip show, Pulaski and all – Turnabout Intruder is that rare kind of weapons-grade crap without a single redeeming quality.that stands alone – it’s arguably the single-worst TOS episode of all time, and can’t even throw the “so bad it’s good” card.
Besides; even a strike-crippled clip show can’t trump Shatner’s performance there. Ye Gods.
Turnabout Intruder.
The hypocrisy of profgessive Gene Roddenberry.
Isn’t it great we humans no longer have the ignorant prejudice that pit people against each otehr based on race. That’s something you will never udnerstand you pointy-eared, greenblooded Vulcan. The only good Klingon is a dead Klingon.
No war for oil. Just blow up the planet for dilithium crystals.
And women in really short Lt. Uhura skirts who would blow up a random planet every 28 days.
Well, I’d argue it’s a bit more nuanced than that, but when it comes to feminism, yeah, I wouldn’t trust the guy boning every woman on the set either.
Ooooh now we’re getting tough but I’ll go with Turnabout Intruder.
As lame as Shades of Grey was they were kinda stuck with the whole clip show thing because of a writers strike and as far as clip shows go this one wasn’t all that awful. But yes, a trek clip show is something that will live in infamy.
Bedroom Zapruder.
I mean Turnabout Intruder.
I think I saw “Bedroom Zapruder”. The magic bullet was…different.
I have to go Shades of Grey. When I do my bi-annual “Watching of Every Star Trek Episode Ever.” I still watch Turnabout Intruder, as bad as it is. I always turn Shades of Grey off 15 minutes into it and start Season Three.
Turnabout Intruder. Even after watching Starfire being turned into the Team Bicycle in the new DC Comics Universe, this is still worse overall to the Women’s Rights Movement.
This is another tough one. Shades of Grey. The loss of Pulaski was not a good enough quid pro quo to make it worth it.
Shat-her. Ye gods was that ever turrible.
Turnabout Intruder. I don’t see how this is even close. Shame on those voting for Shades of Grey. Shame on ALL OF YOU!
Looks like “Turnabout” is…
*adjusts sunglasses
…fair game.
YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
I agree with this except that you don’t adjust your sunglasses. If they’re already on you have to take them off. If they’re off you put them on. See chart for further explanation.
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Kirk goes diva. Jimmie does his nails and hugely overacts. But it’s still gonna win over a TNG that has the typical 49 minutes of buildup and 2 minutes of letdown. Many of them follow that simple template- even without writers they could fill it in with their crayons.