Star Trek Retro Review: "The Infinite Vulcan" (TAS) | Worst Episodes Ever

[@RockSoup]

Your last few episodes have taught me that Kirk had kind of a habit of just...not resolving problems beyond the immediately safety of his crew. "Okay gang, we got Spock's brain back and had a good laugh, let's mosey." "Wait a second, without his brain to run our computer, our whole civilization will collapse and die!" "Oh yeah, that's a real problem! For you. Bye!"

[@glamourweaver]

They should make a movie about a problem Kirk never looked back at coming home to roost! What?

[@RossAllaire-wx4og]

@@glamourweaver 🤣

[@perryjohnson7529]

​@glamourweaver they kind of did. "The Wrath of Khan". Edit: Pretty sure you alluded to that and I missed it. Realized that 1.3 seconds after hitting the post button.

[@michaelhall2709]

@@perryjohnson7529You definitely want to watch that. (As Daffy Duck once said, “Never push the red one!”)

[@WhiteCamry]

@@michaelhall2709 "For a small price, I can install this blue button to get you down." Daffy Duck anticipated the red-pill/blue-pill syndrome by half a century.

[@euansmith3699]

A giant eugenicist who choses to wear a very short toga while interacting with small people seems sus.

[@steveng.clinard1766]

Don't kinkshame.

[@euansmith3699]

@@steveng.clinard1766😆😆😆

[@KaboomKrusader]

Brings to mind a certain MST3K episode...

[@slingovision]

And then he made Giant Spock a giant regulation Starfleet uniform. Giant Eugenicist has layers.

[@Canoby]

@@slingovision I'm sure Spock 2 balked at everyone looking at Little Giant Spock.

[@jimballard1186]

The title should have been "One Spock, Two Spock: Big Spock, Li'l Spock."

[@b.l7491]

And then if they did a parallel universe episode where Spock was in ops it could be "One Spock, Two Spock; Red Spock, Blue Spock."

[@TahoeNevada]

Red Spock, Green Spock

[@rickjohnston2667]

I'm surprised you didn't mention the callback to this episode from Lower Decks. The giant Spock skeleton.

[@DarthCalculus]

This is adorable

[@goodpeople25]

@@TahoeNevada Add a subtitle explaining his heritage and that's just his memoir/autobiography.

[@accidentallyderivative]

"...talking to your salad," is killing me. 😆After reading about what the various writers went through with GR over the course of the Original Series in books like These Are The Voyages, I have absolutely no trouble believing Koenig's account of the experience. He put experienced and renowned writers through the whole "How's about an unpaid ninth draft?" ordeal. This being Koenig's first outing, he didn't have a chance of getting out of the situation without three ulcers and entire swaths of hair falling out.

[@firefly4f4]

"Code of Honor" YES, CALLED IT! The episode so bad that even Mr. honor himself Worf doesn't appear in it.

[@Kleion_RFB]

Code of Honor is so bad that Jonathan Frakes has repeatedly described it as a "complete fucking embarrassment" It's one thing to say things like that behind closed doors, but if you're doing it in public while still actively working on Star Trek and not getting any repercussions for it, you KNOW it's bad.

[@MLeoDaalder]

Oohh... THAT episode. I couldn't come up with a bad Worf centric episode so that episode slipped my mind.

[@KassFireborn]

Whenever people go, "Was TNG's first season THAT bad?" I just pull up a screenshot from Code of Honor. I don't even need to speak. It truly is worth a thousand words. Steve could just do a musical montage of stills if he really wanted to.

[@firefly4f4]

​@@KassFireborn That is a fantastic idea!

[@KassFireborn]

@@firefly4f4 I'm sure Steve *does* have at least a thousand words he'd like to say on the topic. Though if he's short time....

[@punditsponge]

"where they're chased by more of those corkscrew, MorningStar Farms pterodactyls" I love the way your brain works sometimes.

[@DawnDavidson]

Me too. That made me literally LOL. 😂

[@jackabug2475]

"Pea protein" was a good jab, too.

[@ByrdieFae]

The thought of Spock going "Hi, Uhura. It's me, Spock. What's up?" is hysterical. I should not have watched this in the doctor's waiting room. 😂😂😂

[@LivelyPaint]

I like to imagine that when Big Spock was talking to Uhura we don't see the part of the conversation where Uhura is like "ow, Spock, why are you so loud? I had to take out my ear thingy." And then Big spock then spends the rest of the conversation whispering into the comparatively tiny communicator

[@ransom456]

Choosing "Shades of Gray" for the TNG episode would have continued the "first officer's brain" theme.

[@firefly4f4]

True, but that episode is more lazy bad than morally repugnant.

[@MattMcIrvin]

That one's on the boundary between "worst episode ever" and "not even really an episode". Go there and you're going to be tempted to count the "Webster" crossover.

[@andrewklang809]

​@@MattMcIrvinClip shows are not episodes. That's been proven. In a lab.

[@DoctorBabylon]

I look forward to you talking about Code of Honor. I was worried you were going to skip over it considering you've talked about this episode before in "Is Star Trek less progressive than you think?".

[@allanolley4874]

One thing I noticed about The Animated Series is that it has a lot of sequels. There is a Tribbles episode and a Harry Mud episode and a Shore Leave planet episode, Yesteryear is a Guardian of Forever/City on the Edge of Forever episode and this one having a Eugenic Wars/Space Seed reference if not quite a sequel, and as noted it somehow has elements of Spoke's Brain. I'm not sure all these call backs were at all a good idea, but they seem mostly harmless and fun to me.

[@BS-vx8dg]

"One thing I noticed about The Animated Series is that it has a lot of sequels. " That's a great observation, Allan, and I think there's a plausible explanation. Given that TAS episodes were only half as long as TOS episodes, doing a sequel means you don't have to spend (as much) time developing either the world or characters or whatever. Pretty smart, actually.

[@cyberius7042]

"You've been here cloning yourself and talking to your salad for 200 years." has to be one of my favorite lines ever.

[@tdpitt]

The skeleton of Giant Spock made its way to "Lower Decks".

[@bobmathis-friedman6742]

Even as a kid (which I was when it first aired), I noticed how the name "Phylosian" and the word Philodendron were quite similar(Roddenberry's naming conceits abound; "Romulan" Centurions, Vulcans with Saturnine features, Ferengi being the equivalent of "Yankee Traders", clearly named after the old Muslim World's derogatory term, "Pherengi" applied to the equally sneaky Portuguese traders of that era...)

[@SavageGreywolf]

"Mr. Sulu, you are the most scrutable man I know." Oh _my._

[@kurathchibicrystalkitty5146]

How about Good Clone Hunting? Or Spock's Brain 2: Electric Boogaloo? Also, 'a group of walking, talking asparagus appears' and 'a sentient side dish' had me laughing so hard. [How do you have plant-based pterodactyls anyway?] I'll admit, I usually just cringe at the animated series and marvel at how it was made on such a tiny shoestring budget with no shoe and half the string. [Yesteryear is okay, at least.] But you've made it entertaining, and, as an aspiring writer myself, I appreciated your little speech about writing. 😀

[@JonathanEzor]

The Greenery Lantern Corps!

[@salenstormwing]

0:30 I'm sure Aaron Reynolds, the man behind Swear Trek and said gif of Sulu & Bones, would thank you for the call-out.

[@nutherefurlong]

It was the TAS episode that showed me what imaginative background paintings could do to enhance a Star Trek story's scope. I liked the design of the aliens, too. Something less obviously human that would have been much harder to buy in live action at the time. Wonder how this would have played without the "giant" part

[@skug9bob]

Maybe Big Spock can use the radiation from the "Terratin Incident" to shrink down to the point where he can once again fir into L or at least single-X XL pants. (There were several pretty out there TAS episodes. A "three(?) weirdest animated series episodes" segment might be fun.)

[@ianmcintire6696]

I’ve always gotten the impression that “you’re the most scrutable man I know,” is a comment that Koenig lifted directly from conversations he and George Takei had on the set of the original series. I've never heard any anecdotes to support or refute this opinion, but I can definitely envision the line originally being delivered in response to George Takei complaining about how many acting opportunities for Asian American actors rely on stereotypes. I leave the determination of how well or badly such an exchange has dated as an exercise for the reader.

[@EricFarwell-gh9pw]

In the original "bible" of TOS, Gene described Sulu as "Oriental but not inscrutable." Maybe Gene always wanted that thought to be said by someone.

[@FailSonOfAnarchy]

Spock 2: Spock Harder

[@thomaskalinowski8851]

Spock 2: The Spockening

[@alenahubbard1391]

Do it? Viewers, I'm not a Captain Proton villain. Do you seriously think I'd explain my master-stroke if there remained the slightest chance of you affecting its outcome? I did it thirty-five minutes ago. 😅

[@alexanderjungroth7848]

The website I was watching The Animated Series on only had eight episodes uploaded. So when I saw it was the second to last episodes and the title, I assumed I was heading into the most profound and thought provoking episode yet. The giant clone of Spock was definitely those things. Then I finished what I thought was the last episode and didn't go back to check if they uploaded more until now. Thanks for correcting my misconception that The Infinite Vulcan was one eighth of the entire show.

[@Jastinato]

So, if a Humanoid crew member decides that a Phylosian crew member would go well with a nice vinaigrette, would that be an issue for Humanoid Resources, or for Beings with Atypical Morphologies Resources?

[@DawnDavidson]

😂

[@gothatfunk]

I look forward to your Worst Ever Voyager episode. No shortage of candidates. That's gonna be a funny video.

[@vamp_bat_chomp]

Threshold would be the most common, video pick, and it's funny bad, which might be more the mood he's going for, cause there also are some distressing bad *cough retrospect cough* I'd also vibe with a Tuvix or something. Suffice to say there are options 😅

[@pjlusk7774]

@@vamp_bat_chomp Honestly, Threshold is a pretty good body horror episode for the first 2/3rds of it or so. It's only when they get to the mudskipper shit that it truly goes off the rails.

[@pearl-may]

Every time you say Keniclius, I imagine a Roman ancestor of Zack Allen from Babylon 5, showing up in I, Claudius.

[@Canoby]

I like the alternate title "Two Many Spocks". This episode is just so silly you gotta love it.

[@michaelhall2709]

Why is Giant Spock wearing a giant Starfleet uniform? I haven’t seen the episode in forty years, and now I’m bound to lose sleep over this mystery.

[@sandrinowitschM]

I gotta rewatch TAS. Haven't watched it since I was a kid and forgot basically all of it. Nice video!

[@RockyRailroadProductions_B0SS]

You were so close to referencing Lost in Space's greatest and most serious and gritty episode, "The Great Vegetable Rebellion" (Which also stars Cyrano Jones, as the giant carrot, funnily enough)

[@mechfan01]

Buzz Lightyear: "Spocks... Spocks everywhere."

[@BCWasbrough]

I'm finally getting around to TAS, and I'm loving it. It's just so janky and bonkers. It feels like the writers were so excited about getting ideas on screen, without having to worry about props, costumes, or sets, that they just decided to swing for the bleachers every episode. Unfortunately, the budget was even lower than it was for the live action show, and it really hurt the animated series. Still, if you watch it for the low-budget, high-creativity anomaly that it is, TAS is pretty fun.

[@JDEhlert]

"Phylosians are delicious roasted with some olive oil, parmesan, and..." Guys, I think we just found the current Terran Universe Emperor slumming it here on our Earth! ;)

[@insilencea4599]

One could make whole conspiracy theories about the title being a hint that Giant Spock goes on cloning himself just to make sure the well-intentioned but megamaniacal eugenicist doesn't get up to anything in the future. A long line of Giant Spocks, hanging out helping their asparagus friends rebuild their society and wondering if Kirk's report got lost in the shuffle at Statfleet HQ. Not that I'm implying that's what the title actually means.

[@BS-vx8dg]

"It's not cannibalism, it's vegan!" Fantastic.

[@jacebales2951]

I've been looking forward to Steve's take on Code of Honor for at least two years now. Can't wait for this. 😂😂

[@landshark1215]

The visceral no that escaped me upon mention of 'Code of Honor.'

[@ShadSterling]

Well now I want to see Giant Spock make an appearance in Discovery

[@rudylikestowatch]

Sorry, but his corps made an appearance in Lower Decks. His skeleton in its blue uniform was seen in a collector's warehouse.

[@juansanchez209]

Let's not forget: Spock Two is still alive at the end of this episode! I'm going to ask what we're all thinking: what happened when Spokc Two inevitably underwent pon farr??? How's that for a mental image

[@BlackCover95]

Considering he’s canonically dead by _Lower Decks_ …

[@DawnDavidson]

😮😂

[@elim_inator]

Well, he's got another giant friend right beside him, so there's that. 😂

[@ianharac5153]

This explains the Giant Spock Skeleton in Lower Decks…

[@BlueBeetle1939]

That Sulu impression was great

[@Tolly7249]

"Code of Honour" deserves it. That episode is just plain bad. At least this one is silly! (Although I bet Koenig's original story was much sharper, thanks Gene. Mind you, Roddenberry was known for being a control freak and glory hound who did everything he could to either commandeer or destroy the good ideas of other people who worked for him...)

[@conrad4852]

Including parmesan makes eating them merely vegetarian not vegan! Pedantic victory!

[@imcarlabee]

Ugh. Roddenberry was like the dad who was a lot of fun when you were a kid but now he's showing up at your house parties and it's weird

[@kpfields7130]

The Finite Vulcan. The Slightly more Vulcan. One Spock, Two Spock, Big Spock, Small Spock.

[@JohnSipe-jt7bm]

The plant was called a retlaw, an anagram of Walter. 13:58

[@laikapupkino1767]

If MORNINGSTAR FARMS actually made plant-based corkscrew pterodactyls I might actually eat them. I imagine they'd taste like the fried squid on a stick they sell at ball parks in Japan. About a year ago I finally forced myself to get past the atrocious animation and watch TAS and I'm glad I did. Mixed in with the silly episodes like this it had a few gems (thank you, Ms. Fontana); there were some ambitious backgrounds and spaceship designs; and the original cast's voice acting was a nostalgic treat. And I did love Lieutenant Meow or whatever her name was, nice to see some Furry representation in Star Trek.

[@1ricollins]

I realize that you are not entirely pleased with "Lower Decks", and this may, in fact, play into one of your criticisms, but there is an homage to this episode in the background that made me laugh out loud when I caught it.

[@competesmith]

One thing I remember from this episode is that Kirk kept mis-pronouncing Kuniclius as Kunic-u-lous (yeah yeah rhymes with ridiculous), in the same way that people mis-pronounce nuclear as nuc-u-lar. Check out and please let us know if you found it as funny as I do. In general, the big issues with TAS were that while TOS was something of PG to PG13 sometimes thanks to Kirk and the ladies, this being Saturday Morning TV they couldn't do that at all. That, and the fact that they only had 30 minutes to do these episodes, created problems. I'm surprised that the Magicks of Megas Tu wasn't voted the worst. That was just a "what is going on here?" moment from beginning to end.

[@williamblakehall5566]

As much as I like Spock, I find it fascinating that two of the worst Trek episodes, Spock's Brain and The Infinite Vulcan, are based on the idea that Spock is so valuable an individual that the whole galaxy is out to kidnap him. (Whereas it's always more fun to try to seduce him, as in The Enterprise Incident or All Our Yesterdays.) All we need are enemy children -- Miri, And the Children Shall Lead, in spirit The Way to Eden -- and we could invent one very bad episode.

[@marykateharmon]

Which is kinda funny when we have fanfics about Spock being kidnapped by Federation and Vulcan scientists due to being a rare human-vulcan child that survived birth. Which honestly could be a legitimate reason to have Spock kidnapped.

[@icarusavery5691]

Something I hope you bring up in the Code of Honor review is that the writer, Katharyn Powers, is also credited as the writer of what is widely considered the worst episode of Stargate SG-1, that being season 1's "Emancipation"

[@matthewtyler-jones8317]

Surely the worst TNG episode is "Ghost Sex on Planet Scotland" or whatever it was actually called

[@jackabug2475]

Bad, but not 1/10 as bad as "Code of Honor" was.

[@radwolf76]

@@jackabug2475One might even say that it couldn't hold a candle to it.

[@Stettafire]

Think that one where Troi gets mind assulted is a good contender for the worst. Ghost sex and code of honor are also good candidates though.

[@Nickelodeon81]

The Inner Light? Oh that wasn't so bad.

[@skug9bob]

"How do you know all that?" - Starfleet does have FTL communications, as presumably do other space-going races, so Stavos and the phylosians may have been listening in on their super-science ham radios. Really, that should come up more often.

[@cawcawcaw9160]

"It's his brain, Jim." Actually JUMPSCARED me.

[@spikeoramathon]

are you familiar with the guy who's taken footage from the animated series and turned them into a series on the various logical fallacies? It's basically Spock lecturing all the other cast about their logical fallacies, and them *thanking him for correcting them*. It's informative and hilarious.

[@andrewcoulthard-clark]

I've been following Triangulum on the episodes that got rejected or couldn't be made of the various series; I would love an animated TNG or DS9(in the 1960s animation!) of those stories...

[@rickwhite3421]

When I was a kid I thought it was great. I looked forward to this show every Saturday

[@keverzoid]

The idea of giant peacekeeping clones seems fairly reminiscent of the Gort “army” from the original DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL.

[@bartbuckel6714]

Along with other such gems as King Bagdemagus, Chuck Biscuits, Sir Denis Eton-Hogg, Abe Froman, Artie Fufkin, Solomon Grundy, Navin R. Johnson, Fawn Leibowitz, Kurt Longjohn, Andre "Poodle" Lussier, Gorilla Monsoon, Parafaragaramus, H.E. Pennypacker, Dick Pole, Ignatius J. Reilly, Kyle Sackrider, Francisco Scaramanga, Carl Spackler, Biff Tannen, Studs Terkel, Nigel Tufnel, Thick Wilson, Russel Ziskey, and Danny Zuko, Stavos Keniclius 5 has made a list I began keeping about 15 years ago of (what I consider) some of the greatest names, real or fictional, in the history of speaking. Thanks Mr. Koenig for that addition.

[@martind7612]

It's vegan!! 😂 Damn, what would we be allowed to eat if even the plants were sentient?

[@carlapeay208]

From Steve's previous review that included the horrid Code of Honor: Did Picard just "Some of our best friends are black" an entire planet? Priceless.

[@distantcomets]

If the TNG episode was anything other than Code of Honor, I would have had to call BS. I kinda believe that Steve built this whole series around that horrific abomination of an episode. Looking forward to next week. (The one with Beverly banging her grandma's ghost is awful too, but Code of Honor is easily the worst episode of the entire series. Fight me.)

[@hagbardceline7118]

Now that 7th Rule Podcast has Walter Koenig around for their TOS run-through i think it's essentially we demand they get him to do some commentary on this episode. He wrote it and it's weird as hell and there's a lot of questions that need answering and it's likely this is our last chance to hold Koenig accountable. I need to know his writing process for this episode.

[@areed2000]

Sounds like Walter was willing to try 10 times to get his story told. Good on him.

[@glennledrew8347]

A clone is by definition identical. A giant version cannot be considered a clone. When scaled up so massively, the voice would necessarily be much deeper. Indeed, the additional tissue mass would impact all manner of body movement. Enunciation and pacing of words would be significantly altered. Any program dealing with giant people that handled this with any attention to detail would be awesome.

[@billhurt3644]

The moment Steve announced the theme of bad episodes, he barely got the words out of his mouth I was already shouting “Code of honor!” I don’t even know the names of that many episodes, but that one is so bad I know it by name.

[@johnchedsey1306]

My immediate thought about this plot is that the drugs in the 70s must have been quite potent and fun.

[@kevinkarmann1239]

Lots going on in this episode. The plant based life is actually fascinating. But giant clones seem… inefficient. I mean, wouldn’t they require more calories? Which leads to the awkward conversation about eating veggies…

[@moonkey2712]

You didn't mention that in an episode of lower decks, the skeleton of giant spock is visible in a collector's collection

[@MalzraAirwynn]

Steve really doesn't like lower decks, and its heavy use of callbacks to other series, so I'm not surprised that Steve either didn't notice or didn't care to mention it. Sometimes it doesn't even make it onto these theme lists.

[@SteveShives]

Oh, I noticed it. In fact, it's one of the relatively few times Lower Decks has gotten me to laugh out loud. It's far and away my favorite reference gag the show's ever done. I didn't mention it here because I already referenced the "his dick fell off" meme that comes from this episode, and I wanted the review to focus on the qualities of the episode itself, not other stuff that made reference to it.

[@ModerateHipster]

"The Infinite Vulcan" isn't great. But I like the Phylosians. I would nominated "The Magicks of Megas-Tu"

[@hagbardceline7118]

And yeah, the philosians do look delicious now that you mention. I picture like half way between an artichoke and Brussel sprout

[@renatocorvaro6924]

"Infinite" apparently just means "kinda big".

[@user-mg5mv2tn8q]

They didn't mention it, but when Agmar the chief asparagus cured Sulu, it made his urine smell funny.

[@WWZenaDo]

I have to admit that those plant creatures also looked delicious to me, although I thought of them as artichokes instead of asparagus.... With butter/garlic sauce with lemon juice... Mmmmm...😜😜😜😜😜

[@spikeoramathon]

I have a soft spot in my heart for these, terrible as they are, as I was just old enough to see them when they originally aired, as a tiny Trekkie toddler.

[@miguelvelez7221]

New Spock went over like New Coke.

[@uvp5000]

You're going to review "Code of Honor". May the deities that I don't believe in have mercy on all of us. I am rewatching everything Star Trek which will, based on my commitment to myself, include that "episode". Maybe I'm unconsciously cruel to myself. "The Infinite Vulcan" looks tolerable. When I get to it, I'll observe closely. Code of Honor? (shivering - throwing up a little). Yeesh.

[@CynthiaWarren]

Knowing your opinion of "Code of Honor," I had a feeling that would be your pick for TNG's worst episode. Plenty of them in the first few seasons were low quality and poorly thought-out premises. With "Code of Honor," they really needed more work on the script. The idea had promise, but its execution could definitely have been better.

[@MeganKoumori]

Filmation: The animation studio so bad they make Hanna Barbera look like Studio Ghibli. I wish someone would start a Kickstarter to reanimate some of these episodes. Some people find the Filmation style nostalgic and charming. I find it stiff, unappealing, and cheap.

[@MrChupacabra555]

3:02 : Literally the first time I have heard of this meme; going to have to look it up 😂

[@hd_inmemoriam]

Yeah yeah, Code of Honor had been a given. Looking forward to that video.

[@Stilesda]

If he cloned Spock's outfit does that mean it's cotton, not polyester?

[@BlackCover95]

So will you be reviewing any _Lower Decks_ episodes? Surely there’s one you hate above the others.

[@DrewLSsix]

Probably the one with dead big Spock.....

[@ConnieAlexander-m5s]

Please don’t get him started…

[@SteveShives]

No, the Retro Reviews series is just for previous production eras, so TOS through Enterprise.

[@DawnDavidson]

@@SteveShiveschicken. 😂😂😂

[@Bosiolio]

I appreciate the way you teased the next review. I don't know how any serious person could suggest any other episode than the one you're doing as the worst episode of TNG. There's many contenders for second worst TNG episode. But your choice is head and shoulders below them all.

[@MalzraAirwynn]

I wonder what the pick for DS9 is. For me it's Fascination hands down. The only good thing I have to say about it is it breaks off the Jake/Mardah relationship off screen. (While the age gap is only like 4 years, Jake is still a teen and young enough that those four years are a bit too much for me.) Just about everything else about the episode I hate. From the 'people randomly falling in love' premise to Lwaxana's annoying presence and Barail's yawn inducing presence, to the 'haha but maybe the feelings weren't 100% caused by the episode shenanigans and were partly genuine' at the end.

[@ousiavazia]

there was a ... naugh see ... movie called "the infinite jew" back in the 1930's. considering leonard nimoy's heritage, perhaps there's something there...

[@bennyfifeaudio]

The corpse of Giants Spock appearing in the Lower Decks episode makes this episode entirely worthwhile.

[@StormsparkPegasus]

Since we're on the subject of Spock, did anyone else know that Adam Nimoy (Leonard's son) is married to Terry Farrell? I just now found out.

[@TransgenderAncientHistory]

2 Spock 2 Furious was right there!

[@mitchellforney6109]

Not enough kudzu jokes in the world, thank you for that.

[@wehpudicabok6598]

Looking forward to your review of "Threshold," which I imagine is your pick for Voyager's worst... though I could be wrong about that?

[@MattMcIrvin]

I'm partial to "Twisted" which held the generally agreed-on worst episode title before "Threshold" aired. PHENOMENON......PHENOMENON.....PHENOMENOMENON....

[@JohnSheffield1963]

Because "The Effing Big Vulcan" just didn't sound cool, besides it was left over from the origional idea about someone planning to make an army of Spocks. I agree that it had far too many episode worthy ideas smushed in. I bet butter, garlic and parm would have been enough.

[@GameFactsSpecial]

So technically since the big clones live for 100s of years big spock could still be out there.

[@qwertyuiopgarth]

I'm sure I've seen every episode of the original series, every episode of the animated series, every episode of 'Next Generation', "Deep Space Nine', 'Voyager', and the first couple of seasons of 'Enterprise'. But I often barely remember seeing the episode that you are focusing on in any particular week: Star Trek is interesting in that it is very extremely cool, but so very many episodes are so forgettable. Like a lot of modern entertainment - entertaining enough to keep you coming back, but not as good as one wishes it was.

[@tyherty45]

Can’t agree more Steve, episode is all over the place and it is a lot of fun

[@billyinabox2278]

These Retro Reviews are great

[@nataschavisser573]

Camp silliness is infinately better than something boring that takes itself seriously.

[@alissapyrich1891]

Of *course* it's Code of Honor. 🎯

[@KassFireborn]

"It's a very crowded installment of a half-hour Saturday morning children's cartoon, is what I'm saying." Last year I tried to rewatch JEM and wound up with plot development overload six episodes in. They really liked to cram those things sometimes.

[@jackabug2475]

Yes, it was truly, truly, truly outrageous...

[@stewartthorpe2533]

It's not cannibalism, it's vegan! 😅