Okay, I've watched several more episodes of TOS since my
last report. Here are two of them.
The Ultimate Computer - before he was The King of Cartoons, Dr. Daystrom invented a really cool computer that was so awesome, it would make starship captains obsolete. Good think Kirk was around to prove him wrong! Pretty cliche idea, but the execution and dialogue wasn't too bad. I could've done without ANOTHER episode where Kirk beats a computer by asking it illogical questions and making it explode.
Assignment Earth was meant to be a pilot for a new show because at the end of season 2, he figured Star Trek was cancelled anyway. So for the last episode, he made the modern-day adventures of Gary Seven, his teenage sidekick Terri Garr, his sexy black cat who occasionally turns into an exotic adult woman and his wisecracking computer. To keep it very loosely tied to Star Trek, Kirk and the gang go back in time to follow him around in trench coats. Gary Seven DIDN'T get his own show, as it turned out, because he and his premise are a load of shit! He was clearly meant to be a suave spy, kind of a sci-fi shaded Our Man Flint. But he wasn't cool or charming at all, and his premise was really hard to follow. Anyway, I thought it was a pretty lousy episode to end the second season with.
Speaking of lousy episodes, next up was
Spock's Brain...