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The crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise is sent on a mission to intercept a mysterious starship that is dragging a comet behind it like a massive tail. It is soon revealed that the starship, known as the S.S. Beagle, is piloted by a group of free-spirited hippies.

The hippies, led by the charismatic Adam, are on a quest to find the mythical planet Eden, a paradise where they can live without rules and regulations. Despite their peaceful intentions, they are also in possession of an ancient alien device capable of great destruction.

When the Enterprise crew boards the Beagle, they come into contact with the hippies and their philosophy. While some members of the Enterprise crew, such as Lt. Uhura, are intrigued by the hippies’ ideals and optimistic outlook, Spock is more cautious and skeptical.

Meanwhile, the hippies receive a mysterious signal from deep space, which they believe is a sign from Eden. With limited resources, they set out to follow the signal, ignoring the pleas of the Enterprise crew to turn back.

As the Enterprise and the Beagle travel further into space, it becomes clear that the hippies’ mission is not without peril. They face numerous challenges along the way, from a malfunctioning nuclear drive to encounters with hostile aliens.

The crew of the Enterprise must ultimately decide whether to help or hinder the hippies in their quest for Eden. Will they choose to trust the hippies and their mission, allowing them to continue their search? Or will they intervene to save them from a dangerous and potentially deadly journey?

The crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise soon finds out that the true test of the hippies’ mission to find Eden is not only the physical dangers they face, but the challenge to find the courage to go beyond their own limits and the ideals of society to discover the true meaning of freedom.

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Original air date: February 21, 1969

Kirk and the Enterprise are in hot pursuit of the stolen spaceship Aurora . The Aurora isn't giving up easily and leads them on a high speed chase. The cruiser's engines become strained from the chase and the whole thing goes ka-blooey! Fortunately (or not), Scotty manages to beam aboard the six miscreants before the cruiser explodes.

The six spaceship jackers are a group of young idealists in search of the mythical planet Eden and led by the brilliant but insane engineer Dr. Sevrin. Among them are Tongo Rad, the son of a Catullan ambassador ( which prevents Kirk from simply throwing them all in the brig ), Adam ( Charles Napier ), who mostly sings Protest Songs , and Irina Galliulin , a New Old Flame of Chekov's.

Kirk wants to bring this group to the nearest starbase, but of course they have other ideas. They've come up with a Zany Scheme involving pressure points, ultrasonic sound waves, the Galileo , and a musical hubcap.

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• Actual Pacifist : Tongo Rad and Irinia briefly balk at Sevrin's plan to use sound waves to knock out everyone but them, noting that ultrasonics have the potential to cause harm, but he assures them he'll be careful.
• Alien Food Is Edible : It's really, really not. The "apples" are so acidic that a single bite can kill.
• All Planets Are Earthlike : A planet that was technically habitable (right sunlight and air quality), but all the flora secreted a deadly acid, and the fruit was lethal.
• Artistic License – Botany : Flowers would not form on a planet unless they were meant to attract pollinators. Flowers require a fair amount of resources and water to develop and maintain. One might make a similar argument about the fruit, except that some fruits disperse seeds via exploding fleshy capsules.
• Bald of Evil : Dr. Sevrin.
• Belief Makes You Stupid : The hippies' belief that Planet Eden existed and that it was a perfect place leads to Adam and Sevrin's death by alien fruit and painful injuries for the others.
• Beware the Silly Ones : Sevrin and his followers go from being a nuisance singing nonsense music to knocking out everyone on the ship and taking control. Kirk should've really had a talk with security after this fiasco.
• Contemplate Our Navels : The space hippies are into the philosophy of "One", from which all is derived, and seek to return to the beginning. You reach?
• Culture Clash : Starfleet may only be Mildly Military , but still military enough to seriously clash with the way of life and the attitudes of the space hippies. Ironically, Spock of all people is the crew member who has the least problems dealing with them. Adam, in particular really takes a liking to Spock.
• Deconstruction : A rather anvilicious one, of idealistic societies framed outside accepted social norms. A blatant Take That! at hippies.
• Didn't Think This Through : Picking the first vaguely Earthlike planet you stumble across to settle and going down with no supplies or equipment whatsoever, then going barefoot and eating random plants? Bad idea, it turns out.
• Dramatic Irony / Foreshadowing : One of Adam's songs, early in the episode, proclaims proudly that he is "gonna live, not die". In the one he sings just as the group prepare to land on "Eden", he declares that he will "eat all the fruit and throw away the rind". After arriving, he does indeed eat a fruit... and he dies, he doesn't live.
• Driven to Suicide : Dr. Sevrin had to have known the fruit was poisonous, but he was so distraught that he indirectly caused one of his followers' death he just didn't care.
• Evil Luddite : Dr. Sevrin. And wouldn't you know it? He's a carrier for a disease that makes it dangerous for him to visit any world that isn't sufficiently scientifically advanced.
• False Utopia : Eden, as the plants turn out to be acidic, and the fruit is poisonous.
• Flowers of Nature : You can't have hippies without them! Irina wears violets in her hair. Sevrin has a daisy painted on his bald head. Body artist George Barr did body painting for all the hippies.
• Foreshadowing : Spock's sensors indicate a total lack of animal life on Eden. Turns out that all of the vegetation on the planet is toxic and acidic.
• And if you don't like it, you're a total Herbert!
• That Vulcan instrument in Spock's quarters is real now!
• Good Is Old-Fashioned : Sevrin believes this.
• Gotta Get Your Head Together : Dr. Sevrin uses ultrasonics to stun the Enterprise crew. Even The Spock can't bear the pain and Kirk mimes turning his head into a Large Ham sandwich.
• The one Red Shirt assigned to watch Sevrin gets too caught up in listening to music to do his job. Meanwhile, nobody else is bothering to keep an eye on the other hippies.
• "Eden" turns out to be located in Romulan space, which naturally worries the hell out of Kirk after Sevrin and company take over; before beaming down, he tells Scotty to try and explain the situation if they show up * because that would clearly go SPECTACULARLY well — "Sorry, laddies, it wasn't our fault; our ship was hijacked by hippies!" . Somehow, though, the Romulans — who usually show up to surround the Enterprise the moment they stray into the Neutral Zone, and who would probably love to get their hands on Kirk after " The Enterprise Incident " — never show up. Presumably, everyone at the border monitoring stations was on break that day or something.
• Irina and Tongo Rad, both who used to be Star Fleet students, express concerns over Sevrin setting the speakers on a certain frequency, remembering their studies on high ultrasonic frequencies being fatal to humanoid life forms. They shrug off their concerns in favor of reaching “Eden”.
• Ignored Expert : Spock tells the hippies (who've stolen a shuttlecraft) that Sevrin is both dangerously ill and insane, even telling to them to look up Starfleet's files on him. Unfortunately, by this point no one's listening.
• Literary Allusion Title : Gene Roddenberry may have been a proud atheist (if not antitheist), but he was fond of alluding to themes from The Bible .
• Make Some Noise : Sevrin uses an ultrasonic tone to knock out everyone on the Enterprise so the hippies can make their getaway.
• Meaningful Name : The Space Hippie who ate the deadly fruit was named Adam. Also, the name "Irina" means "Peaceful". Good name for a hippie chick.
• My God, What Have I Done? : It’s implied by Sevrin’s expression that he realized he led his group to a dangerous and uninhabitable planet that resulted in the death of one in their group.
• New-Age Retro Hippie : Well, hippies weren't retro when the episode first aired!
• New Old Flame : Irina, one of the hippies, is an old girlfriend of Chekov's, whom he's never mentioned before and will never mention again.
• Out-of-Character Moment : Chekov's character (which in the original story, was meant to have been Kirk's character) is portrayed in this episode as a rigid, rule-quoting straight arrow, in contrast to the writers' initial concept of the character as a younger, less authoritarian character who might appeal to teenage viewers. Walter Koenig has called the episode "badly written" partly because of this. He also called this episode the low point of his character's tenure on the show.
• Pressure Point : Spock isn't the only one who can neck pinch! Tongo Rad used his knowledge of human anatomy to knock out an Enterprise crewman by squeezing the nerve pressure point at the back of the jaw, just under the earlobe ( Truth in Television , though it causes great pain and delayed unconsciousness rather than instant).
• Protest Song : Adam's raison d'etre, and he plays a bunch of them on an odd-looking guitar-stick thingy.
• Ragtag Bunch of Misfits : The Space Hippies see themselves as this. Spock sympathizes with their feeling of not being able to fit in, and is much more tolerant of them than Kirk is, which is why they take an immediate shine to Spock and immediately distrust and dislike Kirk. Spock : Miss Galliulin... it is my sincere wish that you do not give up your search for Eden. I have no doubt but that you will find it, or make it yourselves.
• Recycled Soundtrack :
• Rhymes on a Dime : That Adam's a real character. Adam: Gonna crack my knuckles and jump for joy; I got a clean bill of health from Dr. McCoy !
• Secretly Selfish : Sevrin is the carrier for a deadly disease which endangers the lives of those around him unless he's in a controlled environment, which he refuses because he hates technology. He hasn't told his fellow hippies, with whom he travels in close quarters with and hangs out about this little problem. His search for Eden is also implied to be more motivated by his desire to get away from technology than the "return to the beginning" the others seek.
• Some Kind of Force Field : Protects the door to the isolation cell that holds Dr. Sevrin.
• Soundtrack Dissonance : In an especially eerie moment, once Dr. Sevrin and the hippies have control of the ship and have knocked everyone else out, Adam plays one of his upbeat little folk songs... as we pan across all the unconscious crew members.
• They re-use the footage of Nurse Chapel being knocked out from " Spock's Brain " at the beginning of the season. That's why the lights go out in that shot whereas they don't anywhere else in the scene.
• A brief shot of the surface of Eden is reused footage of the lakeside from " Shore Leave ". A shot of the surface of Gamma Trianguli VI from " The Apple " is also recycled and used in the same scene.
• Strange Salute : The Space Hippies greet people by making an oval with their fingers; the future equivalent of the peace hand sign of the 60s. The oval is also seen in the ceramic egg-shaped pins they each wear. The egg represents their philosophy of "One," which Spock understands, as these people "seek the beginning".
• Subculture of the Week : Hippies IN SPACE!
• Want to live in an ideal society outside the established norm, hippies? Too bad, it will turn out to be a dystopia all along.
• The insult "Herbert" was apparently aimed at a real-life person, but it's still unknown exactly who. The most common theory is that the show's former production executive, Herbert F. Solow was the target, though others have suggested it was Herbert Hoover .
• Temporary Substitute : Uhura doesn't appear in this episode, her duties assumed by Lt. Palmer, played by Elizabeth Rogers.
• That Reminds Me of a Song : We spend quite a lot of time with Adam singing his songs.
• Too Dumb to Live : "Well, here I am on an unexplored planet! What will I do first? I know! I'll eat this fruit about which I know absolutely nothing!" Especially since the fruit tree is so far from the shuttlecraft that Adam must have been able to see and hear the others getting their feet burned by the grass.
• Tractor Beam : The Enterprise tries to take the stolen ship in tow with a tractor beam.
• Typhoid Mary : Dr. Sevrin, carrier of the Synthecoccus novae bacterium who was crazy more than he was malicious. While the episode had no reported infections, having to isolate him to ensure that did really tick off his followers.
• Utopia Justifies the Means : Reaching Eden justifies killing everybody on the Enterprise .
• Well-Intentioned Extremist : Dr. Sevrin and company see themselves as such.
• You Fool! : Kirk shouts this as Sevrin takes a bite out of the poisoned fruit. (Incidentally, the image of him yelling this is obviously flipped. His insignia is on his right instead of his left.)
• You're Insane! : A line that's blunt even for Spock. Spock (to Kirk): Dr. Sevrin is... insane.
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“The Way To Eden” Remastered Review + Screenshots & Video

| June 15, 2008 | By: Jeff Bond 144 comments so far

REVIEW by Jeff Bond

Finally Trek Remastered arrives at one of the biggest targets where classic Trek third season silliness is concerned: Star Trek’s infamous space hippies episode. You know the drill: the Enterprise overtakes the space cruiser Aurora which explodes while attempting to escape the starship; elephant-eared Dr. Sevrin (Skip Homier) and his gang of followers are beamed onboard, Spock-jams ensue. While people who actually watch the show may conjure up “Spock’s Brain” or “And the Children Shall Lead” as representing the worst of Trek, I’d argue a lot more casual viewers—or people who’ve never sat through an entire episode—can recall that there was a terrible Star Trek episode about space hippies.

So we all know the bad—I’d like to try to concentrate on what’s actually good about this episode.

Okay, gimme a minute…

Seriously—if you remove a few key squirm-inducing elements (Charles Napier’s grinning whack-job performance as Adam, the jam sessions and the soapy romance scenes between Chekov and his old flame), “The Way to Eden” is a serviceable episode with a few nice touches. Remember that the American counterculture was a huge force at this time, something both terrifying and compelling to the millions of viewers who would have been watching this show in 1969. Like Kirk himself, the production crew of the original series was made up of quite a few military men, and you have to acknowledge the bravery of the attempt here to reach out to the angry youth culture that was rebelling against the status quo at the time.

“Way to Eden” functions best as a time capsule—its hippy outfits aren’t really much more out there than a lot of what was being worn at the time, and if anything the whole story is just too on-the-nose. Where better Trek episodes clothed their metaphors in more elaborate sci fi trappings, Arthur Heinemann’s teleplay simply puts recognizable hippies in outer space (and the story is radically different from Dorothy Fontana’s original script “Joanna,” a story that would have not only fleshed out McCoy’s character but offered some unusually hard-hitting inter-character drama and conflict for Trek’s third year).

Nevertheless, the decision to have Spock mediate the conflict between authority figure Kirk and the countercultural Edenites was right on the nose. Spock was a figure who conceivably spoke to the counterculture well before this episode was written—he was hugely popular with young people and it’s clear from Leonard Nimoy’s thoughtful performance that he took the responsibility of playing this episode seriously. Shatner’s Kirk too is put in an interesting position, confronted with a group for whom he represents unthinking authoritarianism. Kirk is clearly ill at ease with the Edenites, yet Shatner underplays enough that there’s a sense that he’s rather more crestfallen and a little embarrassed than offended that these people just don’t “get” him. (By the time Shatner has to portray being attacked by sonic waves, however, any remaining subtlety is out the airlock)

Dr. Sevrin himself is a compelling figure and his concealed illness is quite forward-thinking as a concept—if you listen to McCoy and Sevrin describe it, they’re talking about the kind of “super-bug” that’s actually threatening hospitals right now due to the over-prescribing of antibiotics (and for all we know, the use of antibacterial soaps). Having Sevrin totally reject a technological culture that’s made him into a deadly Typhoid Mary, yet having him be in total denial about his situation, makes perfect sense. And blue-haired Tongo Radd is an interesting minor character, well played by Victor Brandt.

As for the rest, well…how do you produce a handful of songs that play as counterculture anthems but sound like they could be played 300 years from now? Charles Napier (who would follow up this role with bits in a number of Russ Meyer soft-core porn films before doing movies like Rambo: First Blood Part 2 and Silence of the Lambs) co-wrote and performed his own songs in the episode, and as goofy is the lantern-jawed actor looks in his half-dome wig and bare chest, he’s got a tough role (and some of the worst lines in the teleplay) as the poetic cheerleader for the Edenites. At least he’s better than Mary-Linda Rapelye as Chekov’s old flame Irini and her dueling Russian accents scenes with Walter Koenig (watching their two-shots in the new hi-def transfers you’re just blown away by all the friggin HAIR sticking out all over those shots). As for the songs, yes, they’re lame—but I’m more amused than embarrassed now by scenes like the Enterprise bridge crew rocking out while Scotty shakes his head disapprovingly. In fact, I’ve developed a weird fondness for Napier’s “Headin’ Out To Eden” song—so one of the big annoyances of the syndication cuts this time is that they eliminate it almost entirely from the episode, which drains the impact of some purely instrumental quotes of the material late in the story.

Speaking of which—the fact that Eden is a.) found so easily, and b.) covered with acidic plants doesn’t really help matters. It’s ironic, but wouldn’t Sevrin’s own disease killing off his followers have been a bit more appropriate? In any case, we can all give thanks for one thing about this episode: it inspired Shatner’s unforgettable Star Trek V: The Final Frontier. And in that one God’s planet was every bit as easy to find as Eden.

As CBS-Digital moves into the final handful of episodes on the Remastered project they seem to be pulling out all, or at least some, of the stops, which is ironic in itself since the episodes they’re lavishing some bold new shots on are generally considered to be the worst of the original series. “Way to Eden” gets a brand new Aurora, a nicely-detailed retooling of Harry Mudd’s ship from “Mudd’s Women” (appropriate since the opening chase sequence is almost a blow-by-blow remake of the Mudd pursuit sequence minus the asteroids). CBS-D takes a subtle approach to the Aurora’s overheating, adding a glowing impulse/antimatter mixing deck and gradually glowing engines to replace the overall red glow on the original miniature, as well as a nicely detailed explosion.

Other than library Enterprise shots that’s it until the starship reaches Eden, where CBS-D conjures up what may rank as the most “super-Earthlike” of all their Earth-like planets (so super it’s got two moons). But it’s also enhanced by a ravishing matte painting that really helps to open up the original’s simple planet set. Somebody should produce some posters of these matte shots as they crystallize Star Trek’s idealized Chesley Bonestell aesthetic better than just about anything I’ve seen.

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Herbert: if you don’t know what it is, you probably are one.

When people I know mention having seen this episode, I cringe in admitting I’m a fan of the series! What a stinker!

All the cgi came together nicely. I always enjoy seeing some of the original opticals recreated as in the overhead saucer shot. Overall, the use of cgi in the context and sensibility of what they might have done in back in the 60’s, really works with this episode.

And if they seems to pulling out all the stops in these last few episodes, whatever the reason, I’ll take whatever they can give. I was hoping for a little different take for only a few shots in remastered episodes, so I’m very glad they have done this project.

It gives me something to type about.

Pretty backdrop! Still a silly episode.

*illicit substances sold seperately.

Star Trek truly was a mirror of our species and the time it comes from, not surprising then that a reflection of the 60’s, including hippies and counter culture would be included.

I couldn’t help but think of other social groups that reject technology or modern society like the Amish or the FLDS group from Texas.

One of the worst episodes flat out. The episode wouldn’t have been so mad if it hadn’t fallen on its face at the very end. The scene on the planet was ridiculous. It’s like the director just told everybody to do whatever they wanted. How can the grass be acidic but not the tree Dr. Severin climbs up? He should not be able to climb up the tree or eat the fruit. The same goes for Adam. Ouch! This apple is really acidic. I’m gonna eat it!

I’m a firm believer that any story (even one that sounds weak) could be well-done, but that it depends on the execution. This could have been a good episode if some things were done differently. I agree with the point that it would be more interesting for Sevrin’s followers to die from his disease than the poisonous plants.

# 8. “How can the grass be acidic but not the tree Dr. Severin climbs up? He should not be able to climb up the tree or eat the fruit. The same goes for Adam. Ouch! This apple is really acidic. I’m gonna eat it!”

You’re being far too literal, dude! Look, it’s about hippies looking for paradise. And when they think they’ve found it, it turns out to be made of deadly… ACID!!!

Get it? ; )

Come on, get with the third season hit you on the head with a frickin’ shovel “half-black, half-white” social “messages”!

The only way a viewer can take “The Way to Eden” seriously is to see it as a parable of how idealistic young kids + an insane, charismatic leader = doom. Otherwise it has none of the inspired elements of the Godshow from STV, to which it is compared. One of the worst episodes of this or any other generation…only made more bearable by the excellent FX and matte work this week. Can someone post a larger, brighter still of the Eden planet matte? That was gorgeous.

Im gonna crack my knuckles and junp for joy i got a clean bill of health from dr. mccoy. Yay brother. True about the planet being acid like. How can you walk on the grass and not get burned and also why were they taken off the shuttle and then layed on the ground when there feet were badly burned. Should’t the ground burned them more and climbing the tree should have been a big no no. I liked the ship and the explosion was good to. But everyone listning to music on the bridge and kirk letting them. man im not reaching that. Thats the only time kirk ever relaxed the disipline on the bridge.Even though this was one of the worst trek from the tos it is still good trek.Yay brother. Are you reacing me brother. If not you must be a herbert.

herbert! herbert! herbert! herbert! herbert!

It’s really to bad that the original DC Fontana story wasn’t filmed. The idea of McCoy dealing with his feelings for his daughter and being confronted with seeing Kirk with the eyes of a father instead of a comrade would have made the episode the highlight of the otherwise dismal 3rd season. McCoy would not have simply rolled his eyes at Kirk’s advances or Joanna’s attraction. I can envision him lecturing both of them rather angrily.

i actually liked this episode- the space hippies are still not as annoying as neelix or the incomparable jar jar binks…

nice FX- wish they had done a set extension- butt new matts r always welcome.

I think there’s only ONE way to really watch this episode, (Cough)

*hides in corner and quietly admits to having liked this episode.*

Does being ashamed of it make me a herbert?

That groovy tune with Spock on harp and the alien hippy chick on bike wheel really reached me, bother! I’ve got it on an mp3 file and I’m gonna make it my ring tone.

Then I’m gonna have all my friends call me every 5 minutes.

For kicks, me and my buddy would drive around using his PA system in his car and sing that “steppin into Eden, yay brother!” and annoy the heck out of everybody that was within earshot.

Thanks for posting the video, but is it just me or… is the video pixelating wildly to be almost unwatchable in parts? It’s like it “burps” every so often.

Nice review (except for the “sonic over-acting”, of course – I mean, have you ever been attacked by sonic waves…?? Do you know what it feels like..?? Ok, shut up then, will ya…;)

I.do.like.this.episode. (No, I won’t run for cover;) I like the message, I like it when Spock tells them “I have no doubt you will find it… or make it yourselves”, I like the jam session and those crazy silly wonderfully oldfashioned hippy songs, and I like finding out whether I’m “Herbert” or not…

#18 We reach, sister..:)

Yeah…, …those guys must have been smokin’ some pretty crappy space weed… …a least Spock could jam with them ;-)

Michael Richards is actually a pen-name of D.C. Fontana. She also used it in TNG.

And the original “lake shot” on Eden was just stock footage from “Shore Leave”. I’ve noticed it first when I was ten years old. It was a huge disappointment.

Herbert….yeah….this video is of pretty poor quality. Too bad someone talented couldn’t post one that we could watch without spilling the bong water. I guess the life of BIG DADDY Herbert must be too overwhelming. Seriously…its jumps like a space hippie sitting in the Captains Chair with a ditch (or space weed) in one hand and a phaser on overload in the other. Just not kewl – cool!

Moral of this story: Acid is bad (in ALL its forms).

I’m not sure what I think of this explosion. I think the other one looked a bit more real.

GREAT matte shot. It almost looks photo-real. In fact, it makes me wonder if someoe on staff didn’t just contribute this photo they had of a real place, and they just photoshopped in a couple of moons.

Another good review by Jeff Bond (all you TREK people need to check out Film Score Monthly — is Mr. Bond still writing there?)

Yes, The Way to Eden is weird and dumb but it’s still, strangely better than Masks or Phantasms (both of which I sort of watched in syndication recently) — not meaning to make this anti-TNG, which I love sort of, but The Way to Eden almost exemplifies how the “worst” of TOS is at least more fully entertaining than the worst of TNG.. Not that that should be the mark of good television.

In some respect, The Way to Eden is a freaky (and foolish) peak and peek into 60s counterculture at least in TOS’s last season, and now it is a way for new fans to look into the America of 1968 that spawned some of TOS, as cartoonish as it may be depicted. Actually, watching the the third season again recently, I’m surprised how many good (and haunting) episodes there are– but thee are also a lot of dogs and dross.

I actually like Star Trek V’s revisionist take on the same basic material; it embraces what is the core theme of TREK: mankind’s rejection of Paradise in order to achieve something higher and more hard-earned on our own terms.

Also: “I’m gonna crack my knuckles and jump for joy, I got a clean bill of heatlth from Doctor McCoy!”; I know ot was said elsewhere but what the hell.

I love this episode. Wonderful music and some funny scenes. A camp classic.

I could swear that Dr. Sevrin says “Rejoice, brothren!”

Unfortunately, “brothren” is not word.

Yeah, brether!

We reach… I like the music. Damn KPDX Fox Frackin’ 49 in Portland, Oregon instead ran an infomercial on colon cleansing! Bloody hell! Borgus frat! Yes, I’ll buy the dvds and show these TV programmers who to mess with.

I think this episode really exemplifies the whole “Everything I know I learned from Star Trek” idea, for me.

Growing up in Iowa in the 80s, I didn’t know what a hippie was when I was a kid. But I was raised on Star Trek from the moment I could talk. I didn’t know what those weird people were in this episode. Later, when I was maybe 10 or 11, some of my family members were talking about hippies. I said, “Oh they sound like those guys on Star Trek!”

Amazing how many things that happened with . . . Oh how weird it feels to have your first memories of President Lincoln being the “Giant Space Abraham Lincoln” on the Enterprise View Screen. :P

I grew up in a house hold where pop music was basically verboden. As sad as it is to some to hear me say this….The Monkees and this episode were my introductions to something other than classical music. I seemed to also see a little deeper into this episode than some give it credit for. I saw a whole culture and language being introduced to the audience in a short amount of time (something I believe Star Trek’s writers did well). Even as a little kid I picked up on that and recognized how well done that was. Just dig that little exchange between Spock and Adam in his quarters. “Give”. (I use that to this day when I’m soloing in a group.)

Something I don’t think anyone’s pointed out….I always thought Sevrin was supposed to represent Timothy Leary and his ideas. Maybe I was wrong.

I still love seeing the crew being knocked out with the hippie pinch behind the ears and letting out a drug induced, orgasmic sounding groan.

Yay, brother.

Unfortunately, Star trek Remastered is not shown anywhere in Central, Southern, or Western Louisiana anymore, the stations that carried it up until last week now air infomercials in their place, money hungry I guess. Good news is it happened when this episode was to be shown, I think I just saw all the good parts on the remastered FX reel. Although #11 makes a good point, you have to view it in a certain perspective, not as just another sci fi story from outer space.

#33, I had to add this, how synonymous, as I pointed out in another post, I was flipped out by the songs in this episode when it first aired, and I still like the hippie songs from it, but I also was exposed to this and The Monkees and that was it, other than my Dad’s C&W and Bluegrass records!

And speaking of Tongo Rad’s groovy way of knocking people out (did anyone else think he looked like Mind Worm from Spider-Man 139 but me?)…there’s a topic that needs to be addressed some time…not really the physics of Star Trek but “The anatomy” of Star Trek. That maneuver is right up there with that blow right above the tail bone that seems to be part of hand to hand training at Star Fleet. We used to practice all these moves on each other as a kid.

Yay brother. That’s real now.

I reach that, brother. I really do.

That Spock Rock video is real now, brother!

A lot more watchable than all the bad episodes of TNG, though.

It may be hard to find, but there was an LP released in the 70s of Star Trek bloopers. Basically someone found magnetic tapes of the raw, on set audio. One track is listed as “The ol’ Vulcan Harp Bicycle wheel duet”.

It’s on the intrawebs if you google it.

Insert lame space hippy joke*

Well the new effects are decent anyway

The 1st window on the side of the Aurora looks like a stylized Peace sign.

We reach, baby.

This episode is, like, totally 1968. Dr. Sevrin totally deserved to buy the farm. He was a complete a**hole.

The rest of the Space Hippies probably got drafted and sent to Vietnam.

I wish the deleted scene with Uhura, McCoy and Spock in the rec deck had survived on film, all we have now are pictures. According to the script it would have been a nice scene.

Is it just me, or was there some effort to make Scotty sound old? “Why can’t a young mind be a disciplined mind?’ he asks here. And in “Lights of Zetar”, Kirk refers to “a man of Scotty’s years…”

The only TOS episode that makes me embarrassed to be a Star Trek fan!

Did anyone notice Phyllis Douglas, who played Yeoman Mears in “The Galileo Seven” was in this episode as the dark haired female hippie, listed as Girl #2 in the credits?

Herberts need to lighten up! This is fun stuff.

I reach brother, I reach!.

Very nice lipstick on a pig for this one!

I actually enjoy this episode. The only part that doesn’t work for me is the Chekov subplot — the rest is fun, and I even like the songs and the made-up slang.

Did they fix those two image-reversed shots of Kirk near the end of the episode?

No, they didn’t.

I know that, if they had flipped them, Kirk would then have been looking in the wrong direction when Dr. Severin ran from the shuttlecraft; but that’s the lesser of two evils compared to having the badge on the opposite side of Kirk’s shirt. Twice.

I really thought CBS-D would take a moment to flip those shots over. Ah well.

good move to cut the songs out, they sucked.

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Rapelye received a BA in theater arts from the University of Kansas. After returning from a theatrical tour in Europe, she was cast in the role of Susan Kidwell in In Cold Blood (1967, with Jeff Corey , John McLiam , and Nick Dimitri ). Two years later, Rapelye appeared as the daughter of Gregory Peck 's character in Marooned , which also featured Nancy Kovack , Mariette Hartley , and Bill Couch, Sr. .

Besides Star Trek , Rapelye guest-starred in a 1969 episode of NBC 's Ironside with fellow Original Series guest star Alfred Ryder . From 1969 through 1970, she was a regular on the soap opera Medical Center , co-starring James Daly and Barbara Baldavin .

Rapelye's fan film appearance

Following a ten-year absence, from television Rapelye returned to television in 1980 with a role in CBS ' Blind Ambition . Among her co-stars in this program were fellow Star Trek alumnae Ralph Byers , K Callan , James Greene , Graham Jarvis , Alan Oppenheimer , Lawrence Pressman , Logan Ramsey , Peter Mark Richman , William Schallert , James Sloyan , and William Windom .

Soon afterwards, she won the role of Faith Kipling on One Life to Live , from 1979 to 1980 working with Anthony Call . After just only one year, she left to star on another soap opera, As the World Turns , where she spent five years playing attorney Margaret "Maggie" Crawford Andropolous from November 1980 until September 1985, having been expelled and written out of the series. Among her co-stars on this series were Michael Forest and Kathryn Hays . Afterward, she once again left television behind and decided not to act for a time.

In 2006, she then returned to the world of Star Trek , playing Ambassador Rayna Morgan in the fan production Star Trek: New Voyages . She starred in the episode "To Serve All My Days", alongside her "The Way to Eden" co-star Walter Koenig and Trek performers John Carrigan , James Cawley , Jeffery Quinn , and Larry Nemecek . D.C. Fontana , Ethan H. Calk , and Jack Treviño wrote this episode.

Rapelye ran her own business, White Cottage Bed & Breakfast, in Boothbay Harbor, Maine. In addition, she occasionally taught acting classes in the same town. [1]

She passed away on 5 April 2021 after a fight with cancer. [2]

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The worst sci-fi show in TV history that's still on—and see the rest of the worst 40

Posted: April 25, 2024 | Last updated: April 25, 2024

Worst sci-fi shows of all time

The best science fiction TV is incredibly imaginative, allowing the audience to be completely absorbed by a foreign world. Whether that means conversing with a new species, exploring the possibilities of technology, or diving deep into the far reaches of space, a science fiction universe beckons the viewer into a place that is all at once fantastical and unknown. It allows viewers to believe that the unimaginable just might happen—someday, somehow—in a distant galaxy or aboard a spaceship traveling to one.

Successful science fiction shows are not just defined by ratings, awards, or critical acclaim. They also give rise to fandoms, whose passion and knowledge are as boundless as the stories and worlds they love. Often these shows reach cult classic status. But not all sci-fi shows find such loyal and devoted fans.

Maybe it's the fault of overused tropes, one too many manic plot twists, unbelievable acting, or silly dialogue. Perhaps it is remaking that which should not be remade or that which should never have been made at all. Whatever the reason, the sci-fi shows discussed on this list each have their shortcomings. In order to form this ranking, Stacker collected data from IMDb . All shows listed received at least 2,000 user votes; the lower a show's number is on the list, the worse it is.

This list features remakes that can't compare to the originals, shows based on novels that were much more successful, and animated adventures that weren't all that exciting. Whether it's a show about Mexican wrestlers, a family of superheroes, a battle between good and evil, or a janitor exposed to toxic chemicals, this list contains the worst of the worst. Without further ado, join us as we take a trip through the worst sci-fi shows known to humanity.

#40. Osmosis (2019)

- IMDb user rating: 5.9 - Votes: 2,568

This Netflix series set in Paris, France, blends science fiction and love. Singles use a dating app to find their soulmate by using an implant that mines data from their brain. Netflix did not pick up the series for a second season because, with little promotion, the show failed to find its audience.

#39. The Replacements (2006–2009)

- IMDb user rating: 5.9 - Votes: 2,616

Two orphans can replace adults whenever they want thanks to an ad they answered from the mysterious company Fleemco. While this Disney show received some positive, critical reviews , they weren't enough to save it, and "The Replacements" was canceled after three seasons.

#38. Painkiller Jane (2007)

- IMDb user rating: 5.9 - Votes: 2,903

Painkiller Jane, a comic book character designed in the 1990s, is portrayed by Kristanna Loken in this TV spinoff. Jane, beginning as a Drug Enforcement Administration agent, eventually discovers her own possession of superhuman abilities, like immediate healing after experiencing an injury. Unfortunately, the show's title may be its sole point of interest.

#37. Neo Yokio (2017–2018)

- IMDb user rating: 5.9 - Votes: 3,048

This animated sci-fi show featured some enviable talent like Jude Law, Jaden Smith, and Susan Sarandon. It focused on Kaz Kaan (Jaden Smith), a bachelor, demon hunter doing his best among the elite society of Neo Yokio. Writing for The Mary Sue, critic Vrai Kaiser found fault with the show's transphobia, classism, and misogyny.

#36. Mutant X (2001–2004)

- IMDb user rating: 5.9 - Votes: 3,947

A genetically engineered group of people known as "New Mutants" exists as the result of government experiments. The members of this group must protect the other victims of this experimentation and help them understand their power. Changes in the production company led to the abrupt cancellation of the show .

#35. Nightflyers (2018)

- IMDb user rating: 5.9 - Votes: 11,724

This SyFy series focuses on a common science fiction trope: A crew aboard a spaceship realizes they may not be alone. In this particular show, the mission that finds them on the ship is connected to a mysterious alien signal. The series was canceled after a single season due to its modest ratings.

#34. RoboCop (1994)

- IMDb user rating: 5.8 - Votes: 2,015

The premise of this Canadian television show—based on the film series of the same name—is pretty much summed up in its title: a high-tech, robotic cop fights crime. Starring Richard Eden, the show was anything but a hit, with moments of various insanity.

#33. ¡Mucha Lucha! (2002–2005)

- IMDb user rating: 5.8 - Votes: 2,502

Exploring the Latino cultural phenomenon known as " lucha libre ," the animated show follows three wanna-be masked wrestlers. While "¡Mucha Lucha!" was the first broadcast television show to feature all-flash animation, it didn't make much of a splash and only lasted for three seasons.

#32. Ben 10: Omniverse (2012–2014)

- IMDb user rating: 5.8 - Votes: 3,281

Superhero Ben Tennyson continues to save the day in this follow-up to the original. While many fans didn't hate "Omniverse," they did find it paled in comparison to "Ben 10," which received a much higher rating on IMDb.

#31. The Thundermans (2013–2018)

- IMDb user rating: 5.8 - Votes: 3,737

This Nickelodeon show featured a family of superheroes while focusing on the very different personalities and lives of the eldest twin siblings in the brood. While the show lasted for four seasons, it was a wonder given the unbelievable plotlines and subpar special effects.

#30. Bionic Woman (2007)

- IMDb user rating: 5.8 - Votes: 7,927

"Bionic Woman" first existed as a television series in the 1970s, and was brought back in 2007 with Michelle Ryan in the title role. Jaime Sommers (the lead character's name pre-bionic transformation) is nearly killed in a car accident, and the surgery that saves her also gives her bionic powers. The show experienced a massive ratings drop throughout the season and was subsequently given the boot.

#29. The Twilight Zone (2019–2020)

- IMDb user rating: 5.8 - Votes: 13,102

Though the original series created by Rod Serling is considered a classic in both television and the sci-fi genre, this remake, created by award-winning writer and director Jordan Peele, falls short. It was canceled after two seasons and will not run on the CBS All Access rebrand Paramount+ though it seems executive producers Peele and Simon Kinberg were the ones who wanted to step away from the series.

#28. Moonbase 8 (2020)

- IMDb user rating: 5.7 - Votes: 2,432

Featuring some truly funny people including John C. Reilly and Fred Armisen as astronauts attempting to land their first lunar mission wasn't enough to make this Showtime comedy funny. National Public Radio critic Glen Weldon notes,  "What the series' comedy is not, terribly often, is funny."  

#27. Galactica 1980 (1980)

- IMDb user rating: 5.6 - Votes: 3,407

After the cancellation of "Battlestar Galactica" prompted a public outcry, "Galactica 1980," was brought in as a replacement . In this next chapter, the crew discovers Earth, but learns that the planet has fallen victim to the Cylons. The show has most certainly not gotten better with age.

#26. Henry Danger (2014–2020)

- IMDb user rating: 5.6 - Votes: 3,437

Teen Henry Hart becomes a superhero sidekick to Captain Man in this unbelievable series that lasted five seasons on Nickelodeon. While many fans enjoyed early seasons of the show, many felt it grew stale and more ridiculous with each passing season. It was quietly canceled in 2020.

#25. Halo: Nightfall (2014)

- IMDb user rating: 5.6 - Votes: 4,744

Based on the massively popular "Halo" video game franchise, this TV adaptation follows a group of naval officers fighting terrorism on a space colony. Starring Mike Colter as the lead agent, the show got off to a very bad start —and only got worse from there.

#24. Bakugan Battle Brawlers (2007–2010)

- IMDb user rating: 5.5 - Votes: 2,231

In this Japanese anime series, pre-teenagers stumble upon Bakugan. The discovery of these ancient creatures changes their lives forever. While many fans enjoyed the first season, some felt the show went downhill after that.

#23. Hunters (2016)

- IMDb user rating: 5.5 - Votes: 2,545

Starring Nathan Phillips as Flynn Caroll, "Hunters" tells the story of a former soldier whose wife mysteriously disappears. In searching for her, Carol discovers—and ultimately gets roped into—a government group that fights aliens. The series is based on a 2013 best-selling novel called "Alien Hunter," but the single-season show was not so successful.

#22. The Stand (2020–2021)

- IMDb user rating: 5.5 - Votes: 14,646

While many of Stephen King's novels have been translated into movies and television series, they do not always translate well . "The Stand," based on his novel about the apocalypse and the battle between good and evil, may fall into this category. Ben Travers, writing for IndieWire, gave it a D+ and called the series, "needlessly grim and deeply unpleasant."

#21. The Mist (2017)

- IMDb user rating: 5.4 - Votes: 22,232

"The Mist" is based on Stephen King's novella of the same name. In the show, a deadly mist slowly envelops a small town, leading to various mysteries and phenomena taking place with increasing intensity. Morgan Spector and Alyssa Sutherland star as two of the town's residents, but the show itself died pretty quickly.

#20. Teen Titans Go! (2013–present)

- IMDb user rating: 5.3 - Votes: 17,507

Teen superheroes room together while fighting the bad guys in this animated series. While the show has been on for six seasons, it only received a 33% average audience score on Rotten Tomatoes.

#19. Golden Years (1991)

- IMDb user rating: 5.2 - Votes: 2,778

Written and produced by Stephen King, the "Golden Years" is about a janitor who is exposed to toxic chemicals that cause him to age in reverse. This strange event makes the man (Keith Szarabajka) a valuable target for the government; the show itself was not considered valuable to many.

#18. The Watch (2021)

- IMDb user rating: 5.2 - Votes: 3,241

A group of misfit police officers, based on characters from the "Discworld" book series by Sir Terry Pratchett, attempts to save their city which has fallen into corruption. Many have said the series, which only lasted one season, is a far cry from the novels , including Pratchett's daughter Rhianna and his friend, author Neil Gaiman.

#17. Johnny Test (2005–2014)

- IMDb user rating: 5.0 - Votes: 6,810

A kid from the suburbs, Johnny Test, played a hero who fought evil villains and was a guinea pig to his genius twin sister and her experiments. It appeared on Kids WB and moved to Cartoon Network, though many fans disliked it enough to recommend other shows in its place. The show appears to be getting a Netflix reboot .

#16. Inhumans (2017)

- IMDb user rating: 5.0 - Votes: 22,298

Marvel's elusive group of misfits and outsiders fight to defend their world in this ABC series that did not fare well. Even an IMAX debut of the first two episodes couldn't save the show from cancellation after a brief eight episodes.

#15. Another Life (2019–2021)

- IMDb user rating: 5.0 - Votes: 24,769

A group of astronauts goes on a space mission to explore an anomaly that may be of alien origin in this Netflix series. While it was renewed for a second season, many critics and fans are wondering why. The Hollywood Reporter chief television critic Tim Goodman wrote, "There's really no other way around this—the work on 'Another Life' is not good ." Eventually, it seems Netflix agreed, canceling the show in February 2022.

#14. Star Trek: Renegades (2015–2017)

- IMDb user rating: 4.9 - Votes: 3,423

Set within the Star Trek universe, "Renegades" is set a decade after the USS Voyager returns to its home base. This time, the Federation is in major trouble due to a lack of dilithium crystals. The project was largely funded by crowdsourcing , but it did not prove to be money well spent.

#13. Aftermath (2016)

- IMDb user rating: 4.9 - Votes: 4,245

"Aftermath" is set just as civilization is beginning to end due to natural disasters and supernatural beings. The show follows a single family, whose parents are portrayed by Anne Heche and James Tupper. The show was considered a passable guilty pleasure at best.

#12. Star Wars Resistance (2018–2020)

- IMDb user rating: 4.9 - Votes: 4,285

A pilot for the resistance, Kazuda Xiono, investigates a galactic threat, the First Order. Fans were disappointed with this latest installment in the Star Wars franchise, and the show received only a 56% average audience score on Rotten Tomatoes .

#11. Flash Gordon: A Modern Space Opera (2007–2008)

- IMDb user rating: 4.8 - Votes: 2,930

Steve "Flash" Gordon goes on a sojourn to another dimension to find the father he believed was dead. On Planet Mongo, Flash finds himself battling evil. The campy series, which didn't make it past the first season, has found a spot on many worst of lists .

#10. RoboCop: Prime Directives (2001)

- IMDb user rating: 4.6 - Votes: 2,334

The RoboCop franchise receives the honor of having two different adaptations on this list. "Prime Directives," a Canadian miniseries featuring Page Fletcher as RoboCop, takes place several years after the film. Four episodes of this concept were more than enough for viewers.

#9. Cavemen (2007–2008)

- IMDb user rating: 4.3 - Votes: 2,373

Perhaps it was the foolish plot or the ridiculous makeup that caused this ABC series to be canceled after only one season. It told the tale of three Neanderthals trying to live in the modern world. It may have been too much to expect a show spun from the Geico car insurance commercials to be a success.

#8. The Walking Dead: World Beyond (2020–2021)

- IMDb user rating: 4.2 - Votes: 8,769

A group of sheltered teens, the first to come of age during the zombie apocalypse, go on a journey to find the only person that they believe can save the world. While this is an AMC spinoff of the original series, the show did not perform as well and was  called boring . It did not continue past the second season .

#7. Pandora (2019–2020)

- IMDb user rating: 4.1 - Votes: 3,009

In the year 2199, a woman trains at Earth's Space Training Academy to protect the galaxy from intergalactic threats. The series received less than stellar reviews and a piddly 14% on Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer . 

#6. Stargate Origins (2018)

- IMDb user rating: 3.9 - Votes: 4,898

"Stargate Origins" is a series comprised of 10 episodes, each running 10 minutes in length. The series expands upon the "Stargate" universe, which revolves around a portal that allows transportation throughout the cosmos; its strange format led to some very unhappy reviews from hardcore "Stargate" fans.

#5. The Powerpuff Girls (2016–2019)

- IMDb user rating: 3.6 - Votes: 3,216

Though this animated series that followed a group of little girls with superpowers became a cult classic, many found it annoying and difficult to watch. The show's movie spoofs often fell flat and while many fans found the animation retro, equally as many seemed to find it amateurish at best.

#4. Jinn (2019)

- IMDb user rating: 3.5 - Votes: 9,518

This Netflix coming-of-age show focuses on Jinn, which are ancient supernatural creatures. When two Jinn are awakened in this Arabian-language series, things were supposed to get interesting. Unfortunately, fans did not seem to agree  and the show was not renewed for a second season.

#3. Batwoman (2019–2022)

- IMDb user rating: 3.4 - Votes: 32,784

In this superhero series, Batwoman fights crime in Gotham City. While the show featured an openly lesbian superhero, it was not without its issues including the departure of Ruby Rose , who played Batwoman, at the end of the first season. Writing for The Guardian , Lucy Mangan said, "…Batwoman's plot is ridiculously slight…her character is woefully underdeveloped and overtly presented as the real Batman's stand-in, rather than an opportunity to interrogate gender expectations, narrative norms and a variety of other fertile issues offered by the premise." Still, after Rose left, it went on for two more seasons with Javicia Leslie taking over the title role.

#2. Fanboy & Chum Chum (2009–2014)

- IMDb user rating: 3.2 - Votes: 3,327

With movie references outside of the target demographic , "Fanboy & Chum Chum" did not seem to understand its audience. The premise of the canceled 3D, computer-generated imagery, animated show focused on the adventures of two comic book obsessed kids who dress up in superhero costumes. Viewers found the characters much too annoying to connect with or enjoy.

#1. Ben 10 (2016–2021)

- IMDb user rating: 2.5 - Votes: 2,652

A boy named Ben discovers a device that allows him to turn into 10 different alien species. This animated action-adventure series is a reboot loosely based on the original that aired in 2005. The original had a much higher user ranking on IMDb, and many fans felt that the new series did not live up to its predecessor.

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