Name your favorite Original Star Trek Episode

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Journey to Babel

[Crazy Guggenheim]

1. Tribbles.

[DawgHouse]

13. The Trouble with Tribbles gets my vote too! NT

[Evergreen Emerald]

25. me too

I have it on tape...uh oh. I have just revealed my dorkiness.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

2. The Menagerie, without a doubt.

"Captain Pike has his fantasy, and you have reality. May you find your way as pleasing."

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4. Menagerie

A good thing for the Republicans to follow


"Wrong thinking is punishable, right thinking will be as quickly rewarded"

I love the Talosian "Buttheads" in that episode


"The vile contains nourishment"

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

5. I liked that the story was complex. Spock's motives were complex.

Until the very end, you see the Talosians as essentially all evil and bad. Yet they provide a very valuable service to Pike who had been their captive.

The ending, once the courts martial personnel disappear, and the Talosian says the closing words to Kirk, gives me chills.

I realize that the show was originally just the part on Talos, minus the courts martial, since I guess the original pilot/show was just going to have Pike as the captain, etc.

I thought what they did with the story once they had the new cast was brilliant. Truly one of the great examples of making lemonade out of lemons.

[AirmensMom]

3. Trouble with Tribbles.

"Who put the tribbles in the quadrotriticale?"

[CBGLuthier]

6. The Naked Time

Sulu with a sword. And the under used Riley (sp) singing his songs and making his pronouncements.

[Awsi Dooger]

7. City on the Edge of Forever

Joan Collins as a pacifist who has to die to insure American involvement and victory in WW II

[flamingyouth]

8. The Way to Eden

Spock jams with the space hippies on his Vulcan harp. Charles Napier is in it. It's really a thing of beauty. :D

[Gothic Sponge]

18. Headin' Out to Eden, Yay Brother!

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19. eden

That was kind of a goofy Star Trek


One of the worst episodes was "Let that be your last battlefield"

[DanCa]

24. Herbert herbert herbert (nt)

[Lethe]

29. "I...am not Herbert." - Spock

[Deja Q]

32. I didn't know Charles Napier was an it...

He was hot though, even with the hair dye and those goofy thigh-high boots!

[ReadTomPaine]

9. This one is hard...

but "Errand of Mercy" seems especially relevant these days. Another long time favorite is "What are Little Girls Made of". Ironically, I also enjoy "A Taste of Armageddon".

The original show remains my fave by a long shot.

[NewJeffCT]

10. The first episode with Romulans

The encounter with the commander who engaged in a cat & mouse game with the Enterprise, only to be outsmarted in the end...

that was good.

The other one i like is where Kirk is accused to ejecting a former rival too early and causing his death.

edited for spelling... thanks

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11. romulans

The Romulan commander, who was later Sarek Spocks father

that was one of the best

[baldguy]

21. Balance Of Terror

[Straight Shooter]

12. The Oreganians

Did I get that spelling right?

That's where Kirk and the Klingons were about to kill one another on a planet that the Klingons were trying to take over, and the elders stopped it by overheating the weapons in their hands. There was just something about the overall wisdom of the uselessness of war in that episode that really got to me. The show ended with the elders becoming very bright lights that faded away, to prove that they were never physical beings at all and were merely accommodating their visitors by giving them physical reference points.

Another great episode was The Library. ;)

edit: I loved Star Trek. I honestly believe it formed my moral reference structure.

[Tikki]

14. "Whom Gods Destroy"......Garth of Izar...

....One of my all-time favorite actors...Steve Ihnat (r.i.p.)






Tikki

[Lethe]

31. def. a great episode, "I AM LORD GARTH, KNEEL BEFORE ME" (nt)

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33. lord garth

That is what I told her last night...........................

[Gothic Sponge]

15. The Doomsday Machine

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16. doomsday machine

Are you talking about the Bush adminstration, or the Star Trek episode!!!! haha


Captain Dekker?

[Gothic Sponge]

17. Hehe!

Bush is a planet killer, so the name does fit. ;)

[KyndCulture]

20. I always liked I, Mudd...

[Marr]

22. Space Seed, because it has... KHAAAAAAAANNNN!!!!!

[DanCa]

23. Gary Seven

The series that never was.

[Dervill Crow]

26. Is there in truth no beauty? n/t

[General Zod]

27. Mirror, Mirror

The episode that inspired the greatest South Park episode ever.

Who can forget Spock with a goatee?

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28. Spock with goatee

That is illogical

[Lethe]

30. Journey to Babel was a good one....it's got my vote too (nt)

[Deja Q]

34. Hard to say, there are so many... but "Space Seed" wins and not because

Khan is in it.

Khan is in it but the talk of how technology has imporved but how mankind had NOT changed was a real eye-opener.

Season 1 had a lot of great episodes...

[DerekG]

35. "Where No Man Has Gone Before"

Wherein Kirk's friend--Gary Mitchell--transcends to godhood, and subsequently loses his sanity. It's one of the very few hard-edged Trek episodes.

[terrya]

36. "Who Mourns for Adonis"

[Straight Shooter]

38. "Didn't you know, I was just ...

"... studying you?"

It was a heartbreaker. Gives a whole new meaning to the phrase "blowing in the wind" though.

[Guava Jelly]

37. Arena

Kirk fights the gorn A reptilian creature with matching intellect and superior strength.
Kirk defeats the creature by using minerals and making gunpowder/ a cannon
But spares the creatures life to the surprise of a highly advanced omnipotent race

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

39. 'Look around. See if you can find materials to make a primitive lathe.'

[LeftyMom]

40. The Enterprise Incident eom