Your top 10 favorite episodes

1. The Trouble with Tribbles
2. The Cage
3. A Taste of Armageddon
4. Arena
5. Where No Man Has Gone Before
6. The Doomsday Machine
7. Space Seed
8. Balance of Terror
9. The Ultimate Computer
10. The Immunity Syndrome

 

Where No Man Has Gone Before
The Doomsday Machine
The Corbomite Maneuver
Arena
The Cage
The Man Trap
What Are Little Girls Made Of
Charlie X
Space Seed
The Ultimate Computer

*this list is subject to change without notice

 

Might as well ask me which one of my kids is my favorite.

 

So difficult. Geez.

The Doomsday Machine
Wink of an Eye
Wolf in the Fold
Mirror, Mirror
Arena
The Devil in the Dark
Obsession
Friday's Child
The Ultimate Computer
Space Seed*

*today

 

1 This Side of Paradise (S1)
2 Balance of Terror (S1)
3 The Corbomite Maneuver (S1)
4 The Naked Time (S1)
5 The Empath (S3)
6 The Trouble with Tribbles (S2)
7 City on the Edge of Forever (S1)
8 Amok Time (S1)
9 By Any Other Name (S2)
10 The Menagerie (S1)

Honorable Mentions:
Space Seed (S1)
Let That Be Your Last Battlefield (S3)

 

Balance of Terror
The Doomsday Machine
The Corbomite Manoeuvre
Mirror, Mirror
The Cage
Amok Time
Devil in the Dark
City on the Edge of Forever
The Man Trap
Arena

 

Most of mine come from season one:

The Corbomite Maneuver
The Menagerie
Balance of Terror
Shore Leave
Arena
Tomorrow is Yesterday
Space Seed
The Devil in the Dark

And I'll round out with:

The Doomsday Machine (S2)
The Savage Curtain (S3)

I notice others are including "The Cage" in their season one picks. While it's my favorite episode of trek ever, It was a pilot, not aired uncut during any regular season, and I'm just old fashioned enough to make my picks accordingly.

 

City on the Edge of Forever - 1
Balance of Terror - 1
Doomsday Machine - 2
Mirror, Mirror - 2
Journey to Babel - 2
Immunity Syndrome - 2
Corbomite Maneuver - 1
Galileo 7 - 1
The Menagerie - 1
Conscience of the King - 1

subject to change, of course, but the first 6 are pretty much always in my top 10...

 

But if I take out the Cage I can't pick between Space Seed, the Trouble with Tribbles, the Enemy Within, the Tholian Web, Journey to Babel , and the Immunity Syndrome. It has to stay!

 

Hey, that's fine. I don't want cause anybody any angst. I'm only stating why I'm not including the episode. Cause, let's face it: if I included The Cage, I wouldn't have a list, because as far as I'm concerned, THE CAGE IS TREK! EVERYTHING ELSE IS DERIVATIVE!

 

yawn

 

In no order:

The Doomsday Machine
Amok Time
Journey to Babel
Balance of Terror
Space Seed
The Trouble With Tribbles
Mirror, Mirror
Errand of Mercy
I, Mudd
Mudd's Women

 

Excuse me, I meant

 

The Cage is really your favorite episode of Star Trek ever? TOS is deriviative???? Do explain.

 

The statements are self-explanatory.

First, yeah, my favorite episode of trek ever is The Cage. Period. End of discussion. it has my favorite characters and favorite story. I can't state it any more plainly. What, is it confusing because I'm not bowing at the altar of "City On The Edge Of Forever" or something? Sorry, I don't do that.

Second, look up the word "derivative." Everything in Trek's DNA, all the stuff that distinguishes trek from the other space franchises, the transporters, the warping, the "one ship, one crew," the "guy with the ears," - the source for all of it is The Cage, which makes The Cage the original work and everything else derivative of that original work.

Of course, The Cage is derivative of Forbiidden Planet, which in turn is just the sci-fi version of The Tempest, but its place in the Lineage of Trek is always "First," and I'm down with that.

 

The Cage stands up as an amazing piece of sci fi in its own right.