Star Trek S3E22: The Savage Curtain
Okay, so season three of TOS. IMO, there's three truly good episodes here: Spectre of the Gun, The Tholian Web, and The Empath. But the rest tend to fall into one of three categories:
- Nonsensical, but fun to watch (
Spock's Brain,
Plato's Stepchildren,
The Way to Eden)
- Kind of see what they were trying to do, but it didn't really work (The Mark of Gideon,
The Cloud Minders)
- WTF? (
Turnabout Intruder, Whom Gods Destroy)
The Savage Curtain
definitely falls into that last category.
Yes, Abraham Lincoln...floating in space.
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Apparently this rock guy brought Kirk, Spock, Lincoln, and Vulcan Jesus to this planet to fight, because... something about good or evil.
The opposing side is made up of Genghis Khan, some genocidal 21st-century dictator, Klingon Jesus, and... yeah, I don't even remember who the female is. Of course, the white guy is in charge.
So... basically a shittier version of Arena. With Abraham Lincoln and Genghis Khan. And Captain Kirk trying to punch an alien made of lava rocks.
Kirk, don't do that.