As a continuation of my exploration of the Star Trek universe, I recently finished watching the second season of Star Trek: The Original Series. The first series ended on a high note with “City on the Edge of Forever” among other great late season 1 episodes. I was happy to jump back in expecting a great second season.
The season opens strong with the classic “Amok Time” which features the famous Kirk vs. Spock battle with the curved blades. This episode revealed a ton of information about Spock and Vulcan culture and was a great episode. The episode “Who Mourns for Adonis” was also fun since it played on the idea that the ancient Greek Gods were aliens. This was followed up by the classic “Mirror, Mirror” which featured evil goateed Spock. It was fun at this point to have a different view of the cast and to see the characters in a different light. We also get the return of Mudd from the first season and an appearance from Zephran Cochran, who would be familiar to anyone that saw “First Contact.”
Eventually I got to the episode “The Trouble with Tribbles” which I was looking forward to, but I ultimately found disappointing. I’m not sure what I was expecting, the Tribbles were cute and all but it was mostly boring. This marked a downward turn for the rest of this season with further episodes seeming to focus more and more with putting the crew into costumes and situations that dealt with Earth’s past. This was fun when they only did it during the first season, but here it felt overdone with half of the last episodes following this pattern.
Overall the season was almost the opposite of the first with great episodes at the beginning with bland episodes near the end. I’m interested in seeing what season 3 brings.
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