Star Trek: The Gamesters of Triskelion (1968)
Season 2, Episode 16
9/10
One of My favorites
7 January 2015
Okay so this one is not the most intellectual show of the series. And some of the content was cheesy, sure...like the weapons and the Thrall fights. But some factors were very high on the cool chart: 1. Start with the name: Triskelion! What an unusual, creative name for a planet! Almost sounds like skeleton! Way cool! 2. The three talking brains. I saw the show when it first aired. I thought talking brains were cool then, and that was on a black and white TV. In color, they're even cooler! What other show has talking brains? 3. The hot green-haired babe with the tinfoil bikini! That alone is enough to rank this one among the most memorable shows of the series! Talk to anyone who's seen it, even years ago, and they might not remember the name, or what it was about, but EVERYONE remembers the babe in the tinfoil bikini! On my black and white TV she was a blond. And all the time it was green. Off the charts on this one! I was a preteenager at that time, but still joined thousands or millions of other boys/men at the time silently shouting "Go for it Kirk!!!" Yes, this may not have been one of the best episodes in any one category, but it is one of the most memorable and it therefore ranks in my top ten.
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