In conceptualizing the Randy Awards, I wanted to create something that was both familiar and unique. In other words like the series, itself. The ninth award falls fully under the heading of unique. It is not "The Best Episode" GOLD award, though winning it doesn't exclude you from also striking Gold there. I am calling it the Most Ambitious Concept Episode Award. It weaves together other awards I'm not giving like "best writing"; but a well written episode is not the same as an ambitious one. It most certainly includes multiple plot lines, often interwoven, inter-connected, and/or interdependent. It can but doesn't have to reference previous episodes and or foreshadow ones yet to come. There ought to be a combined sense of challenge for multiple other disciplines like props, make-up, costume, special effects... It also ought to drive multiple character profiles forward by exposing past actions that explain (at least partially allude to) current character norms while offering up critical character interactions that deepen relationships; perhaps even introduce character interactions that become the basis for future conflict or growth.
Simply put, this is the episode that I walked away from feeling the most "Wow" factor, the one I have watched again the most, or the one that every time I watch it--I see something new.
For season one this honor goes to "Spock Amok," written by Henry Alonso Myers and Robin Wasserman. It aired for the first time on June 2, 2022. This is the 4th Randy Award of the night for this episode.
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