Whether it be Star Trek or Red Dwarf, I always cringe a little bit when I see that a “theme episode”is coming up. At least Doctor Who has a central time traveling theme to make this less silly, but some shows really stretch to allow for such things. Western episodes are especially goofy in UK-based sci-fi, as they take all of the tired cliches that were mainstays decades ago and exaggerate them to a spectacular degree.
And what kind of name is Doc Holliday? (wait…in Logan’s Run there are two people named Doc and Holly…I wonder if that’s a reference to him).
I never noticed that! surely there was some sort of reference there….lol
Nicely timed! I watched the North Star episode of Enterprise last night! (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0572225/?ref_=ttep_ep9)
Haha! I did this because I recently watched the Next Gen western episode! LOL
Yeah.
Along with the gangster themed episode, the mirror universe episode, the body swapping episode and the episode where one or more of the characters has become elderly.
The worst offender for me is usually the “space nazi”episode. Star Trek drives me crazy with those.