I've always heard about the more eccentric and iconic instances of Star Trek's quirkiness, and I'm glad I finally got to see a couple of episodes (mostly because a few memes make a little more sense now since they've been given proper context).  I'm mostly speaking about the Trouble with Tribbles episode, because it was far more engaging and less full of these extremely gendered antiquities that I wish we could drop even now in the present.  

It was cute and needless of analysis for enjoyment, as I would assume most of the other veiled jabs at what used to be current international dilemmas would be.  Brazen in it's own way, Star Trek displayed such controversial topics of the time in such a negligible way, so as to keep some level in the entertainment business, but still instilling a sense of awareness to the kinds of conflict they present in countless analogous forms.  Groundbreaking in so many ways for it's casting and treatment regarding a diversity, I'm sort of wanting to watch them all for the sake of sci-fi nostalgia.  My grandpa and used to watch them all day before we moved to Texas, so I have a lot of bits and pieces that my barely five-year-old mind could remember (like Kirk's battle with the badly costumed lizard man).  When I got down to assessing why I liked the episode so much, while fully aware that TwT wasn't the standard for Star Trek, I guess it had more to do with the inane scenarios, which I happen to know is plentiful in Star Trek. 

I suppose this is more of an appreciation post again, and this is only the first and most shallow installation of the series.  I will admit that while I rolled my eyes and groaned for pretty much all of the other episode we watched, it still felt like the series could be a promising guilty pleasure of a tv series even today.  The insanity of the stereotyped gender stuff is miserable in my opinion, but I'm sure it was that era's cup of tea, and at least we don't have a ton of that now.  I mean Spock is with Ahura and Kirk is still an overbearing lady's man sometimes, but now those are the smaller, irrelevant tangents and not the drive for half of the story.