re: #66 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

I sort of liked the sister-of-Spock idea. Two of the movies had already introduced the idea that Spock had relations other than were in the original series.

When “long-lost relative of a man who series writers either explicitly or implicitly said was an only child” was one of the worst points of the worst film in the franchise, the idea should have been nuked from orbit the moment it was uttered in the writer’s room.

Basically every critic I’ve seen who made it through the first two seasons has said something to the effect of how the writers had so backed themselves into a corner, the only they could ever make the series canon was to write it out of existence. Which is basically what they did by sending the main cast to the far future and swearing everybody else to secrecy on penalty of treason.