Several months ago I finished up re-watching the 3rd season for the first time in ages, and after the THAT WHAT REMAINS BEHIND or whatever the Julie Newmar episode is called (or was it Lee Meriweather? Or Eartha Kitt?) left such an awful taste in my mouth THE WAY TO EDEN was pleasant enough. Opticalguy's critique has helped me put it back in perspective as typical and mundane handling of the Hippie Movement on 60's TV. But it was still fun to see Spock sympathetic to their cause. And the music was fun in a totally kitschy way. I suspect THE WAY TO EDEN and SPOCK'S BRAIN seldom make people's "worse lists" because of their goofy fun quotient.

THAT WHICH REMAINS (Is that the title?) might very well replace THE OMEGA GLORY as my least favorite all TOS episode if I ever manage to force myself to re-watch that depressing and mean spirited episode that apparently put Carl Sagan off of Star Trek for life.

Did it never occur to anyone involved in the making of STAR TREK 5 that "As STAR TREK THE MOTION PICTURE was to THE CHANGELING, this movie is to THE WAY TO EDEN." I'm putting it that way would have snapped Shatner to his senses. (But I must confess to not "hating" ST 5 as well.).

-Clark