[Poll] Pick the next recap episode!

[thefourthvine]

So. My three-season DVD set of TOS arrived today. (I'm sorry, amireal; I COULD NOT WAIT. It was like a horrible sickness compelled me to spend a small fortune on ancient, overpriced, but remarkably awesome television. I don't know what came over me.) Obviously, the question is: what should I watch next? I could just do a poll with all the episodes in order, except a) 80 episodes, OMG and b) I'm really afraid you'd all pick Spock's Brain just to see me suffer. I know you, okay? You have a sick sense of humor.

So I went through the original suggestion post and I think I pulled out all the ones that got recommended there (if I missed anything that should be here for reasons of awesome, let me know), and I'm letting you guys guide me. (Although I cannot promise that the one with the most votes will be the first one posted or anything. The ways of Trek love are peculiar, unpredictable, and kind of unnatural, I'm finding.)

This, obviously, is for the dozen of you who have actually seen these episodes and who care which ones get recapped at ridiculous length next.


[Poll #1510412]

Comments

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

I think you would really enjoy Journey to Babel, because the entire main plot is about Spock and his relationship with his mommy and daddy. (And also Kirk meeting the in-laws for the first time.)

[http://users.livejournal.com/_medley_/]

Let me just say this about The Empath. Dumbest plot ever, practically nonexistent, but it's very Kirk/Spock/McCoy and there's h/c. And them protecting each other. Which entirely makes up for the plot in my opinion.

[brooklinegirl.livejournal.com]

Journey to Babel is one of my FAVORITES OMG. But omg, ENEMY WITHIN. MIRROR MIRROR. NAKED TIME. Dude, seriously, when my parents bought one of the FIRST VCRS back in 1983, they also bought four Star Trek tapes, WHICH I STILL OWN, and they were, I think, forty bucks for EACH TAPE? and SO WORTH IT. I imprinted on those four eps I mentioned up there. ♥ ♥ ♥ (It's awesome, b/c those VHS tapes weigh SO MUCH MORE than any tape you'd pick up today. God, I love the cusp of technology.)

SAVE Turnabout Intruder. SAVE IT. you have to BUILD UP TO IT.

[brooklinegirl.livejournal.com]

AGREED. PEARL SAYS SMART THINGS.

[amireal.livejournal.com]

It is what we call a '50 cent epispde'. Notice the lack of scenery? IT IS ALL DONE WITH MAGICAL LIGHTING!

[giandujakiss.livejournal.com]

That's why I love it so. It's like the most incredible badfic. It is awesome.

I ... may have only voted for episodes that can be characterized this way.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

It is one of my favorites anyway, but if you're watching as a Spock fangirl it has to be at the top of the list!

[amireal.livejournal.com]

First I will note that you did not include Spock's Brain, so I hearby cast my WRITE IN VOTE just to be mean.

Secondly, oh TFV, and here I thought you were sensible, welcome to the Dark Side of the Force. We have dental and Evil Cackles (tm).

Third, The Conscious of the King is truly and interesting and nibbly episode. It's very nuanced and more dimensional than most other episodes. I like it for a lot of reasons, not the least of which is backstory that's unusual and level headed thinking in the face of emotional turmoil.

[jacquez.livejournal.com]

I WANT TO CHECK THEM ALLLLLLL

[http://users.livejournal.com/_medley_/]

Bwahaha. It so is.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_medley_/]

IT IS. Definitely the awesome kind of badfic.

[sanj.livejournal.com]

Devil in the Dark. Seriously. Because I NEED to know what you think of the aliens and of (probably) the first telepathy on TV OMG.

[ellen-fremedon.livejournal.com]

SAVE Turnabout Intruder. SAVE IT. you have to BUILD UP TO IT.

AGREED. The Kirk-and-Spock (and Kirk/Spock) stuff is SO STRONG-- and the rest of the story is so toxic-- and you really have to build up antibodies to both of them.

[proleptic-fancy.livejournal.com]

The Naked Time is really the best thing ever, and Mirror, Mirror is classic. However, for pure Kirk/Spock spacemarried goodness, you really can't go wrong with Devil in the Dark or Journey to Babel.

Now I want to watch Star Trek.

[nestra.livejournal.com]

Excuse me, where is the space hippies episode?

[jacquez.livejournal.com]

AHAHA I NOTE THAT DEVIL IN THE DARK HAS THE MOST VOTES *points at icon*

[ellen-fremedon.livejournal.com]

I watched "The Empath" (http://ellen-fremedon.dreamwidth.org/680537.html) for the first time since junior high a couple of months ago. I had thought I had to have been misremembering how weird and sincere and straight-from-the-id-vortex it was.

And I had. It was even badficcier than I had remembered. It was AWESOME.

[auburnnothenna.livejournal.com]

FV, I have to throw in my votes for The Empath and Mirror, Mirror. Especially Mirror, Mirror. This is the prototype for all other AUs with evil goateed counterparts. And I love Uhura in it. (My memory of episode titles is atrocious, so I'm checking that Mirror, Mirror is in fact the episode I think it is. ETA, yep.) Go, watch, entertain me with a great review. Err, and enjoy.

In some ways, watching Original Star Trek is like due diligence to understand fan fiction, I swear. It might not have done everything well, but it did a lot of it for the first time.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_medley_/]

I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks so...

[ellen-fremedon.livejournal.com]

I think you probably want to watch "Balance of Terror" before seeing "The Enterprise Incident," but "The Enterprise Incident" is not to be missed. Vulcan handporn! By which I mean, Spock's hands get the Vaseline-lens treatment normally restricted to female co-stars! They are lovingly lingered on by a deeply sympathetic camera.

You know. If that sort of thing is relevant to your interests.

[travels-in-time.livejournal.com]

This. With the badfic and the OT3 and the h/c. I <3 it immensely!

O HAI MEL! Just saw it was you. :D

[eruthros]

I love SO MUCH that it's like "it's our soundstage! We bought some old props in to put on this shelving here!" Like, I always expect to see a glowing EXIT sign accidentally left in the background :)

Also, the Empath is an amazing episode of television in which the aliens really are just there to make the h/c plot work, and our heroes argue about who gets to sacrifice his life for the other two. I can't even deal.

[amireal.livejournal.com]

I cannot even talk about this episode without making *jazzhands*.

[amireal.livejournal.com]

This was totally the episode written so they could save up for the extra awesome phaser blast later. You know the one, it glows in and out THREE WHOLE TIMES.

[svmadelyn.livejournal.com]

MIRROR MIRROR.

WHEN HAVE I EVER LEAD YOU ASTRAY.