Like Twilight Zone, the original series version of Star Trek endures as one of my all-time favorite television series. It originally ran on NBC from 1966 to 1969 with three seasons and 78 episodes. Originally slotted in at 8 pm Thursdays, I would regularly miss the first half of each episode since my parents, who were autocratic when it came to TV shows they preferred, were big Bewitched fans...and that ABC comedy lasted to 8:30...keep in mind that we lived in more primitive times with only one television set. So I came to know the endings of a lot of episodes, only later discovering how they started out. A few years after the series was cancelled, Star Trek reruns became a favorite item on my local stations' schedules and I got to know each one well, often speaking the lines before the characters did. For this article, I have listed my 30 favorite episodes in order of liking. The titles are in capitals and I wrote something brief next to each so that you might be able to identify which episode I'm referring to. By the way, what are your favorite Star Trek episodes?
And here's my list...
1 THE DOOMSDAY MACHINE ...enormous cone-shaped weapon eats planets
2 THE CORBOMITE MANEUVER ...Enterprise threatened in space...or tested?
3 THE SQUIRE OF GOTHOS ...bratty Jack Cassidy kidnaps crew to his private planet
4 THE IMMUNITY SYNDROME ...giant one-celled organism in space
5 THE MENAGERIE, PARTS 1 & ...with series pilot flashback of Captain Pike
6 THE RETURN OF THE ARCHONS ...mindless platitudes dominate a planet's people
7 THE CITY OF THE EDGE OF FOREVER ...back to the '30s, with Joan Collins
8 THE GALILEO SEVEN ...Spock logically chooses desperation in decaying orbit
9 THE CHANGELING ...Nomad destroys everything imperfect
10 MIRROR, MIRROR ...alternate universe, Spock with beard
11 WINK OF AN EYE ...people living in accelerated time take over ship
12 WOLF IN THE FOLD ...Jack the Ripper endures
13 ERRAND OF MERCY...planet's pacifists ruin war between Kirk and Klingons
14 CHARLIE X ...rescued teen orphan with angst and powers
15 OPERATION: ANNIHILATE! ...Spock hit with pain-causing blob
16 SHORE LEAVE ...events on planet respond to crew's words
17 A TASTE OF ARMEGGEDON ...virtual war between planets
18 WHERE NO MAN HAS GONE BEFORE ...two of the crew grow godlike
19 THE CLOUD MINDERS ...city in the sky subjugates miners on surface
20 ALL OUR YESTERDAYS ...doomed planet finds its own past
21 A PIECE OF THE ACTION ...takeoff on gangland era
22 MIRI ...children left on planet fight the "grups"
23 THE NAKED TIME ...crew infected, change personalities
24 THE DEADLY YEARS ...Kirk and others age rapidly
25 OBSESSION ...Kirk pursues old nemesis: a deadly living cloud
26 THE TROUBLE WITH TRIBBLES ...tribbles vs. the Klingons
27 THE ALTERNATIVE FACTOR ...man fights his anti-universe counterpart
28 BALANCE OF TERROR ...wily Kirk battles Romulans and cloaking device
29 THE MAN TRAP ...salt-eating creature takes on familiar forms
30 THE DEVIL IN THE DARK ...miners face vicious monster
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