From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: graemecree@aol.com   
   Subject: Re: Which Are The 3 WORST Star Trek (TOS) Episodes?   
      
   On Nov 9, 4:04aam, Led4Aces  wrote:   
   > The first few episodes revolved around Number 6 trying to escape The   
   Village....that   
   > got old quick.   
   Unfortunately, there are only so many stories you can do about   
   somebody trying to escape and failing.  If you read the two unproduced   
   scripts, one of them, The Outsider is a LOT like Chimes of Big Ben,   
   with the major details changed.  Instead of an Estonian lady spy, the   
   outsider is a pilot whose jet crashed into the woods.  Number Six   
   hides him, arranges an escape with him, and in the end the pilot is   
   working for them and brings him back.  It's very well written, it's   
   just that we've SEEN this story before, too many times (which is   
   probably the reason they didn't film it).   
   > Then they started playing mind games and doing weird   
   > experiments and playing with reality a little....then they went off   
   > the reservation towards the end, almost to the point of being self-   
   > mocking.   
   Well, the only really comic episode was Girl Who Was Death, which I   
   like a lot more than I used to.  It's actually quite a good episode,   
   it's just not a Prisoner episode.  It's more like an Avengers episode   
   run amok.  But it was an unused Danger Man script, and probably   
   represents the direction that that show would have gone if Number Six   
   hadn't resigned from playing Drake.  It's a good hour of TV but I   
   don't think it would have worked as well as The Avengers in the long   
   run, just because you need a partner for that kind of humor and Drake   
   never had one.   
   > That said, I wouldn't mind visiting the actual Village in North Wales,   
   > I spent some time in South Wales growing up, and Portmeirion looks   
   > like an interesting place to spend a day or two.   
   It's a nice place.  I went there twice when I was living in Europe.   
   Spent a week there the second time.   
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