So, after a very slow and spread out re-watch (and in some cases, first time watching) I finished ToS yesterday.
I'm gonna be honest, better than I expected. Even the "bad" episodes (or some of them) had rather intriguing premises that often had some bad execution problems. That is one thing I really miss about Star Trek; being the intriguing premises. Like the planet that was about to die so they sent their surviving population to random periods in their history in order to survive. That was fascinating, even if the actual execution was very mediocre at best. I just remember thinking how cool of an idea that is. Or the planet that has essentially defeated death and is now looking desperately for a disease that can bring mortality back. Not the best execution, but a fantastic concept. I wish Star Trek was still about this, instead of generic mystery chasing, explosion causing, fighting action series set in space. I miss thinking about this stuff. I miss being challenged in some way. I miss the Trek (both physical and philosophical) that it used to have.
Definitely a lot of problems with ToS though. I can't hold the low low....LOW...budget against them, since they had no choice, but there were other things. Some really really shoddy acting, but mostly things like the treatment of women. EVERY woman has to be scantily clothed? One was literally living in an ice age and was barely wearing anything. Every woman is treated as a Siren who is able to cast a spell over men that have no control over how they act around her. Essentially the Enterprise is filled 100 sailors who have been at sea for 5 years and are eager to rape the first set of tits that they see. Just got annoying. Also the idea of the ultra beautiful (and scantily clothed) female who works with the bad guy but ultimately betrays him because she fell deeply in love with Kirk after 10 minutes. It just happened SO often that it became annoying.
But beyond that stuff, I really enjoyed it. Next week or so I'll star The Motion Picture and work through the movies before starting TNG. In fact, I'll even watch the first 10 or whatever minutes of Generations, to fully finish ToS crew and then finish the movie after TNG.
I couldn't write my thoughts on every, or even most ToS episodes, just like I won't with the other shows, but I'll probably share more about the movies since they're a bit easier to do.