Enterprise encounters the Greek God Apollo.
This is a fairly weak, mostly annoying, yet bizarrely compelling episode.
It has a standard Crew v God story, similar to 'The Squire Of Gothos' and gets irritating when Kirk and Apollo start posturing. Apollo wants to take life back to when Gods were worshipped by simple folk, but being such a developed society, the crew resist (all apart from Carolyn Palamas who is not as wise, for a woman, as Apollo thinks). Whilst it makes interesting observations about human nature and advancement of society, the tone of it all is a time portal to the 1960s, with gender attitudes more archaic than the visual effects.
Most characters have poor showings, with Kirk, Apollo, Palamas and Scotty all annoyingly written. Apollo and Kirk are equally as patronising when talking about Palamas. Scotty is in creepy stalker mode and shows none of his usual engineering charm. Palamas follows the Marla McGivers blueprint. Even Spock is slightly annoying in his harassment of 'Miss' Uhura's technical work on the communications system. In fact there is a pattern of male characters generally harassing the females. Chekhov does make up for things with some comical Russian cultural references.
Even though the predicament is resolved in an uninspired way, the sequence where Apollo is portrayed quite pitifully is probably the strongest part of the episode. Strangely, it's one that I always have to follow through to the end.
The costumes are camp and glittery on the planet surface and onboard the Enterprise Uhura looks more like a hairdresser than a Starfleet Officer working beneath her console. Giant hands and floating heads in space are memorable but not convincing.
Very few of the actors give likeable performances. Michael Forest does well with some fairly poor lines, as does Leslie Parrish. However, Walter Koenig is the only one of the regular crew who I actually enjoyed watching. DeForest Kelley is solid as ever, but has nothing particularly interesting to do.
I like the concept of portraying the Greek Gods as space travellers, but it could have been so much better.