{"id":818,"date":"2026-02-21T17:25:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T23:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/?p=818"},"modified":"2026-02-21T17:25:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T23:25:19","slug":"star-treks-first-horror-episode-is-one-of-the-worst-of-the-original-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/?p=818","title":{"rendered":"Star Trek\u2019s First Horror Episode Is One Of The Worst Of The Original Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/screenrant.com\/tag\/star-trek\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><em>Star Trek<\/em><\/strong><\/a> franchise has done its fair share of horror episodes, but the very first is one of the worst outings of the entire <em>Original Series<\/em>. <em>Star Trek: The Original Series <\/em>is noteworthy for its utopian science fiction and thought-provoking stories with rich themes. However, the &#8217;60s TV gem also has plenty of off-the-wall moments and downright weird episodes.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Star Trek franchise has done its fair share of horror episodes, but the very first is one of the worst outings of the entire Original Series. Star Trek: The Original Series is noteworthy for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educationenigma.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}