Star Trek. The show where there's only 1 good starship captain (Kirk) and every other planet is an echo of Earth's history.

Most of the time, TOS hits and ages really well. Rarely, TOS ages terribly and has an episode that by today's standards is problematic, racist, and uncomfortably idolising of the United States, this one of those rare times.

Booooo patriotism and racism (yay gay Spock)

a win for the star trek tradition of pre-industrial societies developing miniskirts

It was a run-of-the-mill two tribes fighting episode but then it was all of a sudden about nationalism. Hearing Kirk start reciting “We the People..” was not what I expected today.

A mix of "patterns of force" and "a private little war" but racist and stupid and boring

yiiiikes 😬

The worst episode of the entire show so far. I don’t see myself remembering anything about this in a week. Not a fan.

girl what 💀 (star only bc the fights were actually choreographed as fights? like they actually seemed to be following some kind of strategy or actual fighting moves. and also bc i find the speech at the end very funny knowing shatner’s canadian)

how does the federation function if kirk is the only good captain oh brother, how racist can one episode get sick ass drawing of spock in the bible though

bad episode but at least it had kirk shrugging very sassy when they brought out the american flag with the music i lost it wtf😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

Kirk recites the pledge of allegiance AND the constitution then looks wistfully at the American flag while the fanfare music plays 💀 i could forgive the patriotism if this was actually good though, but unfortunately it was also boring asf

kirk constantly getting his ass kicked by old men is so embarrassing

first 2 thirds of this ep isn’t even THAT bad but god the final third is awful, aged terribly. whole lotta flag waving bullshit.

Gene, that plot twist makes no sense. How did a flag and U.S. documents like the Declaration of Independence get to this planet? At least the other episodes this season that showed a world transformed by old Earth texts gave an explanation for how they got there. This is just lazy writing. The Pri

it went from slightly interesting, to boring, to weird but half a point for spock’s moment of fear

When I saw the title of the episode I was hoping for a lot more heat sex & a lot less racism :/

ME: Why are the ratings for this episode so low? Sure, it's a little hokey and rehashes some plots from previous episodes, but overall I'm having a good time-- *FINAL THIRD HAPPENS* ME: ........nevermind.

trocaram... trocaram os dubladores....... tinha uma mulher no episódio e o Kirk não beijou surpreendente

birth of the prime directive 🥹🥹

Seeing everyone bitching about this on here is hilarious. W Americanism, cry about it. Too bad it's just not a very good episode