So much depends upon the context of viewing. Mt friends and I considered TOS to be complete rubbish! Why? Because the BBC, in their infinite ignorance of SF, decreed that, after the 1969 season of Doctor Who had concluded, it's Saturday tea-time slot should be given ot Star Trek or "that new American space programme".

So we had had six years of Doctor Who. We had been taken from the Stone Age to the far future, form the cities of the Aztecs to the Crusades. We had met the Voord, the Zarbi, the Monoids, the Sensorites, the Dominators and their Quark robots, the Meddling Monk, the Yeti, the Krotons andf, of course, the Cybermen and the Daleks! We'd seen William Hartnell regenerate into Patrick Troughton. The last story we had seen had been the epic The War Games, in whihc we finally learned who and what The Doctor was, met the Time Lords and seen the Doctor forcibly regenerated into Jon Pertwee and exiled to Earth.

Then we got TOS. After six years of seeing The Doctor think his way out of endless perils, stop wars, prevent wars, restore broken history, we got James T Kirk. A gunslinging bully with no respect for any rules but his own. No aliens, just the guy with the pointy ears. When we did get aliens, most of them looked human, apart from a few clumsy animatronics and a Gorn. Worst of all, there was snogging, all over the bloody place! This was the 60s', we were about 12. Girs were as alien as Cybermen and twice as scary. Kissing was gross!

We were incredibly disappointed. The general sense was that a squad of Cybermen or a single Dalek could have gone through the Enterprise and her crew like a hot knife through butter!