Best 'Star Trek' episodes

Stacker ^ | July 20, 2023 | Chris Compendio

[where's_the_Outrage?]

It's hard to think of a more everlasting and impactful science fiction property than "Star Trek." In 1966, what is now known as "Star Trek: The Original Series" premiered on NBC, the brainchild of creator, writer, and executive producer Gene Roddenberry. What made "Star Trek" unique for its time was its devotion to an optimistic vision of society, one where human civilization has moved past war and poverty, boldly going "where no man has gone before."

This utopian future was reflected by a diverse cast, with the crew of the USS Enterprise including a woman of African descent (Nyota Uhura, played by Nichelle Nichols) and an Asian man (Hikaru Sulu, played by George Takei). Starting in Season Two, "Star Trek" added a Russian character (Pavel Chekov, played by Walter Koenig) during a real-life period of tension between the U.S. and the Soviet Union.......

Read on to see if your favorite "Star Trek" episodes made the cut.

#25. Day of the Dove (1968)

#24. A Piece of the Action (1968)

#23. Where No Man Has Gone Before (1966)

#22. This Side of Paradise (1967)

#21. The Naked Time (1966)

#20. Tomorrow Is Yesterday (1967)

#19. Arena (1967)

#18. The Tholian Web (1968)

#17. The Ultimate Computer (1968)

#16. A Taste of Armageddon (1967)

#15. The Corbomite Maneuver (1966)

#14. All Our Yesterdays (1969)

#13. Errand of Mercy (1967)

#12. The Menagerie: Part II (1966)

#11. The Menagerie: Part I (1966)

#10. The Devil in the Dark (1967

#9. The Enterprise Incident (1968)

#8. Journey to Babel (1967)

#7. The Doomsday Machine (1967)

#6. Amok Time (1967)

#5. The Trouble with Tribbles (1967)

#4. Space Seed (1967)

#3. Balance of Terror (1966)

#2. Mirror, Mirror (1967)

#1. The City on the Edge of Forever (1967)

[where's_the_Outrage?]

I can name the Trek episode I disliked the most, The Pegasus S7E12 TNG with the crew being concerned about upholding a treaty instead of having cloaking capability.

[FatherofFive]

Definitely “The City on the Edge of Forever (1967)” hands down.

I loved this scene:

[Room]

(It must be some days later, because Spock has already built a 50's horror movie contraption, complete with static electricity running between two vertical wires. Kirk enters with groceries and turns the whining thing off.)
SPOCK: Captain, I must have some platinum. A small block would be sufficient, five or six pounds. By passing certain circuits through there to be used as a duodynetic field core...
KIRK: Mister Spock, I've brought you some assorted vegetables, baloney in a hard roll for myself, and I've spent the other nine tenths of our combined salaries for the last three days on filling this order for you. Mister Spock, this bag does not contain platinum, silver or gold, nor is it likely to in the near future.
SPOCK: Captain, you're asking me to work with equipment which hardly very far ahead of stone knives and bearskins.
KIRK: McCoy'll be along in a few days, perhaps sooner. There's no guarantee that these currents in time will bring us together. This has to work.
SPOCK: Captain. Captain, in three weeks at this rate, possibly a month, I might reach the first mnemonic memory circuits.
(There's a knock at the door.)
KIRK: Your hat.
EDITH: If you can leave immediately, I can get you five hours work at twenty two cents an hour. What? What on Earth is that?
SPOCK: I am endeavouring, ma'am, to construct a mnemonic memory circuit using stone knives and bearskins.

[Macho MAGA Man]

I like “A Taste of Armageddon” when Scotty is left in command of the Enterprise and goes full badass.

[SpaceBar]

Decker!

[Fish Speaker]

Harcourt! Harcourt Fenton Mudd!

[Jonty30]

I think Shore Leave was a nice whimsical episode.

[SpaceBar]

The one with the flying over-easy eggs was disturbing.

[fidelis]

I think "The Doomsday Machine" should have been rated higher. William Windom gave a performance for the ages.

[tumblindice]

The Return of the Archons
“You will be absorbed into the body of Landru ... hold still.”

[Retrofitted]

“City on the Edge of Forever” for serious writing skills. If you get a chance, read the original script before Roddenberry toned it down. It’s an interesting read.

For funsy, “A Piece of the Action”. Family has Fizben Friday nights. lol

[DIRTYSECRET]

Thanksgiving night-’66 or 67. Susan Oliver with those sultry eyes and Jeff Chandler. She played a beautiful sad character.

Same in The Disorderly Orderly w/Jerry Lewis.

[Mouton]

I agree. City on edge of tomorrow.

[metmom]

Trouble with Tribbles, City on the Edge of Forever, the ones where they go back in time to earth, Amok Time; The Corbomite Maneuver, and A Piece of the Action.

Not necessarily in that order.

[George from New England]

There’s one episode with Terri Garr.

[metmom]

That was a fun one.

Very light hearted.

[tumblindice]

Yeah, Susan was hot. She was also on The Man From Uncle.
She attempted to become the first woman to fly a single-engine plane solo from New York to Moscow, but was deterred in Denmark when the Soviet government denied her permission to enter their air space.
Maybe they thought she was a spy.

[MotorCityBuck]

It is the will of Landru.

[Antihero101607]

Dang, I was hoping this covered more than the original series. The Deep Space Nine episode “In the Pale Moonlight” had to be one of the best episodes of Trek ever.

[Salamander]

Grup!

/ blah blah blah

[tumblindice]

Episode ‘Patterns of Force’ where Kirk and Spock portrayed Notsees got the show banned in Germany.
Yeoman Rand’s wall of hair always intrigued me.