Laugh all you want but it is still better than some of the stuff from TNG, DS9, VOY and ENT. Mostly because the computer animation was low quality and the other series were filmed with digital cameras with a fixed resolution. You can watch the original Star Trek in 4k if you want.
And, honestly, why is this episode not memed into oblivion? Gorn? Check. Pike beep boop? Check. Poisonous space yeti lizard thing? Nothing. Allow me to offer a crossover:
I originally replied thinking it was a yes, but sadly, I was wrong. I had to watch the whole episode to verify. There is some weird "magic" in this one that confused me there.
It was an amazing franchise to begin with. Yeah, there is a lot of cheese and camp - but, when it launched initially, it was relatively amazing character and story work.
The camp was kinda necessary to keep people there. They had to compete with this ffs: