YMMV / Star Trek S1 E27 "The Alternative Factor"

• Special Effects Failure: That constant "winking" effect with the overlays of the Trifid Nebula and two ghostly figures struggling against each other. It was probably trying to be arty, but it comes across as pretentious, confusing, and just plain boring. All the scenes that get cut for syndication, and they couldn't reduce any of this useless Padding?
  • When the Enterprise destroys Lazarus' ship, the ship's shadow is still visible.
  • Lazarus's wispy beard would look fake even if it didn't keep changing from one shot to the next.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot/Character: The idea of a man going insane when he learns he has a double from another universe and wants to kill said double at all costs is one of the more interesting concepts in the series. Unfortunately, the episode does little to effectively build upon it, primarily due to the fact that the audience doesn't even find out any of this until the last five minutes or so.

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