Favorite Star Trek Ship Design

[The Valkyrie]

Some, yes. but I think it was far better in the movies.

I'm 58 so I was a big fan of the original when that's all there was. Still, I'm a movies + 24th century fan today. McCoy could be an absolute backward-ass shit in the original series. He was much-improved in the movies IMO.

Some of the episodes age better than others. Off the top of my head, Balance of Terror, The Corbomite Maneuver and City on the Edge of Forever are every bit as good today as they were back then. But then there are so many episodes where McCoy's prejudices are on display or even worse, incredibly antiquated attitudes toward women. One that makes me just cringe is the sight of Don Juan on the shore leave planet dragging off Yeoman Barrows who was not a small woman. All she did was desperately cry for help. Even Deanna Troi would have kicked him in the balls to say nothing of what Yar, Kira or Dax would have done.

Yes, there are some truly great episodes of TOS, I've never denied that.

And, of course, much of the treatment of the women was how things were expected in those days.  Women were mostly for decoration and for the captain, especially, to seduce.

The same thing happened in the first season of TNG.  Denise Crosby and Gates McFadden both left after the first season because they didn't think their characters were being taken seriously.  And Troi was, of course, the eye candy that stood in the background and occasionally said something weak.