In "Dagger of the Mind", they mention that Kirk and the psychiatrist Helen Noel apparently had some fun during a Christmas party.

The explanation in Catspaw was that the aliens tried to read the crew's conscious mind and "missed". They read the unconscious mind instead. Apparently, our unconscious minds are preoccupied with fake-looking skeletons, warlocks, and cats.

With Kate Vernon as Stella.

I should probably re-watch the space hippies episode, but it at least tried to (ineptly) tackle a social issue. Catspaw was just boring and dumb - it's not scary, and it's not fun. Interestingly, it was the first episode filmed for the second season, so maybe you're right and they said "The network wants a Halloween…

Clear memory from watching Catspaw last night - you don't need to rewatch it, barleycorn - it sucks. This one is downright AWFUL. Even the music cues are bad. I'll even go so far as to nominate it for worst episode of the entire series. Spock's Brain and the space hippy episode may be bad, but they're not as bad…

Which leads me to a question - do the AV Club reviewers make sure to choose classic shows that they've already seen? I'm guessing it would suck to get stuck reviewing a show week after week that you realized you hated after watching the first three or four episodes.

Since they've already chosen the next batch of shows, I was thinking of suggestions for the round after that. But I wouldn't complain if they tacked one of these two onto the summer schedule.

Out of cigarettes again, Mr. Aqualad?

Even a good actor can't save stupid technobabble dialogue. One of TNG's worst sins (I only watched two episodes of Voyager, but I assume that kind of dialogue carried through that entire show too).

Firefly and The Prisoner for the Next Go-Round
After all, each one would only take about four months - and that's if you restricted each entry to only a single episode.

You could have Christopher Walken do a new SNL skit - "What this movie needs is…more lens flares!"

That's pretty good! I haven't even seen the movie yet and it made me laugh.

That's a very interesting idea - that the transporter actually kills you! No wonder McCoy hated using it. Although in "Khan", Saavik & Kirk are having a conversation while being disassembled/reassembled (which always struck me as odd), so maybe it isn't quite that cut-and-dried. I'm assuming that the device…

They cut down some of the V'ger Cloud stuff (but added some bits too), but left the fly-by scene intact in part because Goldsmith's music for the scene was so good.

Bill Hicks put it this way….

You're right, Penguin. My mistake!

@Mr. Barleycorn -

Henry - I'm afraid you're doomed to spend your life stuck in the middle ages with no car, no gas, no S-Mart.

I only have the director's cut of TMP, but I remember a line that isn't in the version I have. After the accident, I remember Shatner delivering the all-time worst reading of a line: "Oh my god…" that was so flat it was embarassing. Was this in the original version, or am I thinking of another scene/movie?

Wow, I haven't thought of Cyborg 2 in years. "If you want to dine with the Devil you'd better bring a long spoon!" What a craptastic masterpiece…and I'm guessing still probably better than T4.