Numbers
I'm very happy to see we get some new info on the numbers, but…still many more questions that I hope are answered.

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I echo the praise for Zach here. I've even gotten to where I look forward to Friday's for this. (And I'd probably guess I'm not nearly as big a fan of Trek as most people here.) Thanks, Zach, and can't wait til we get into season 1 of TNG.

I agree, Jim. I was on the "Eden"-hating bandwagon until I rewatched it a couple of years ago. It isn't great by any stretch, but I don't think it is as bad as "Spock's Brain." Take the space hippy songs out and it is basically an average episode.

Ah, I posted about this below; I'd forgotten about that particular TNG episode. I also remember "Contagion," "Masks" and "The Chase" being basically the same sort of thing. "Contagion" was fun when I was a kid; "Masks" is a guilty pleasure because it's just so batshit.

Eh
"Survives" is another example of a Trek episode that isn't great but isn't total (fun) shit, which, as I've said before, to me makes it worse. I had a hard time remembering this one until I rewatched it; I only remembered the women saying "I'm here for you" and killing guys by touching them. The overall premise…

Alright, that is a pretty interesting theory. Which I suppose would mean Locke/MIB could be killed if someone really wanted to? The only thing about the "free will on the island idea is that it doesn't seem to be that much free will. If the Magic Asian was implying to Jack that everyone - including Jack and co. -…

Questions, comments & concerns
Not sure anyone is still reading this thread, but whatever. I follow the Lost thread here religiously, but this is my first Lost comment.

Again, these episodes you mentioned are the same as my feelings about Gideon - they aren't hilariously bad like Spock's Brain, and they aren't pretty cool or good like, say, Tholian Web. I'm not sure how many times I've seen Zetar, probably two or three times in my life, and I can hardly remember a goddamned thing…

Gideon
In my opinion, The Mark of Gideon is maybe the worst kind of Star Trek; it isn't horrible like, say, Spock's Brain - which is at least fun to watch - and it isn't great. It just is.

So he was 86?
That's a good run.

The episode(s).

GodDAMN, Mary Tamm. I've had a hankering for her for 20 years (I'm 29). (When I was 11, I watched some 70s movie that ended up having Tamm in it, and she got nude in it. I wore the fuck out of that VHS.) But those episodes are mostly godawful. Fun, though, as you say. I have most of those on DVD. I'd be happy…

Right. I enjoyed the idea of the invisible spaceship that somehow deposits Gorshin on the ship and then destroys itself. But the ending with the two jogging through the Enterprise - at a leisurely clip - was a bit cheesy. But there's some great hammy acting there.

It must have been your lifelong ambition!

Hercules, the answer, I believe, is "rapey".

Fuck all ya'll.

Why not cover certain episodes? (Though covering the classics might not be as fun as making fun of some of the more egregious episodes). Maybe cover the episodes that are on the list of "best Doctor Who episodes" that was voted on? Also, the torrents are pretty easy to find. But I'd be more concerned with the time…

I have always loved that episode. Of course, the half black/half white thing is stupid, and the ending is a bit too forced, but Gorshin makes the episode a blast, and I do like the dialogue. Though I can remember that as a kid the ending did work for me. I always liked Gorshin's way of getting on the ship too.

I completely agree. "Elaan" didn't do much for me. That was the one that had me checking the clock. I didn't hate it I guess. But "Gods" was fun. As a kid, I loved the two Kirks sequence (which they re-used in Star Trek VI).