Potential Hot Take

[BillJ]

There is absolutely no saving graces to "A Piece Of The Action"
It's cringe central from start to finish
It's not fun in the slightest, it's just plain bad

I actually think it is quite a clever episode. Love the humorous tone. I like when Star Trek went a little bit ‘out there’.

 

[Picard1994]

I'm one of the rare ones who likes this episode.

I'm another.

 

[fireproof78]

That's just crazy talk.

With a capital K.

 

[Ray Hardgrit]

My hot take is that A Piece of the Action is pretty entertaining and would've made my top five for season 2, if The Trouble with Tribbles, Mirror, Mirror, Amok Time, The Doomsday Machine and Journey to Babel weren't in a whole other tier.

Metamorphosis, on the other hand...

 

[Rockson]

Yes, "The Alternative Factor" was a bad episode. However, for me, the absolute worst episode was "The Mark of Gideon," because it made absolutely no sense whatsoever.

Of course one should take the story lines too seriously and that's where we allow the writers some leeway to do their best to spin a story. I kind of liked The Mark of Gideon for it had Kirk in a place which created within him a great mystery.