Comments on: “The Alternative Factor” Remastered Screenshots [UPDATED + Video]

By: RD

RD — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 19:46:14 +0000

The color balance is way off in this episode. Too much red, evidenced by Spock’s almost human pink-skin tone and Kirk’s and others red faces. This makes the Gold shirts look especially orange here instead of the slightly greenish hue. Odd that they wouldn’t correct a simple color timing problem.

By: BillyBobby

BillyBobby — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 17:46:52 +0000

Worst episode of the entire series. You can’t polish this turd.

By: Loop

Loop — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:44:51 +0000

The only actual ‘bad’ episode. Only redeemable camp value is Laz falling off cliffs twice while screaming. Otherwise, totally pointless storyline with no ‘internal logic’ Even those other so called ‘bad episodes’ have their own logic, they are just campy fun. Some of you may not like them, but that doesn’t make them bad from a storytelling-logic perspective. This is the only episode that is really of that ‘bad’ caliber; just pointless, with the writer misusing terminology, pretending that certain words have different meanings than what they do. Like it was written by a nine year old who doesn’t know that just because certain scientific terms sound ‘cool’ it doesn’t mean that you can use them out of their contextual meaning. Embarrassingly stupid, justifies everything in ‘Galaxy Quest’.

By: dan

dan — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 03:48:38 +0000

I like it too. So many far out ideas and eerie elements, the very cool “spinning out — spinning in” effect, and a thought provoking and traagic ending. That being said, it is a total mess, but it earns lots of points for being so dang cool.

And Is there in Truth is my alltime fave episode–the cool elements to the story, Kollos’ great monologue, George Duning’s fantastic score.

Worst? Mark of Gideon, Omega Glory, Court Martial, Way to Eden, and the rest of teh usual srd season suspects

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 01:39:59 +0000

I like this episode! Very surreal and edgy. I like it because the cast (K, and S) are never really in command of the situation….they are along for the ride caught in a fundamental good vs evil (or is it?) battle… True Sci Fi:)

By: Eyedunno

Eyedunno — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 05:53:03 +0000

I just saw this episode for the first time, and I’m actually surprised at how negative the comments are here. Okay, the execution was really bad (annoying, ugly “SFX”, multiple similar “fight scenes” on the planet where one would have sufficed, pretty bad script) but the basic story was good, and Lazarus was an awesome character.

I’m going through the whole first season now, and I’m much more annoyed with how many “god-like intelligence” eps there are – “Charlie X”, “Where No Man Has Gone Before” (with its dumb ESP stuff thrown in as well), “The Menagerie”, “The Squire of Gothos”… even “Arena” and “Shore Leave” have traces of it…

By: Ensign Harris

Ensign Harris — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:24:14 +0000

Why didn’t they do something with the parallel universe shots?
I thought those would be the thing to update on this episode!

By: Alien Trek

Alien Trek — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 08:30:30 +0000

#95 What if Shatner had been cast as Batman and Adam West had been cast as Capt Kirk?

I think towards the later seasons Batman would’ve had a slight paunch.
I can just imagine Shatners delivery.
Commish Gordon… “What could this strange message mean?
Batman… “Commissioner, it could only mean… (pause for dramatic effect/slight stutter) the Riddler”.

Adam West, as Captain Kirk to Spock… “To the transporter room, chum”.

By: Charley W

Charley W — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 22:29:32 +0000

I fully agree with #80- there were a bunch of stinkers, but that’s true of virtually all shows (Sturgeon’s Law: 90% of EVERYTHING is Crap). But ST does better than most: EVERY episode has SOMETHING of interest- which is more than you can say about MOST shows, even nowadays. That’s one of the things that makes TOS a great show. Think, even Way to Eden tries to come up with a futuristic slang and give the ‘wackos’ viewpoint; “Triskelion’ (and some others) is a fun action episode; ‘Children’ at least has the kids missing their parents at the end and attempts to give a background to the situation (it fails miserably, but at least tries).

Here’s one for you ‘What if’ theorizers:

What if Shatner had been cast as Batman and Adam West had been cast as Capt Kirk?

By: Cezion

Cezion — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 04:48:33 +0000

Question…. Did the add a sound effect to the last phaser shot … the enterprise orbit shot?????