"79 Episodes, About 30 Good Ones"

My current favorite top 30 episodes:

1. Where No Man Has Gone Before

2. The Naked Time

3. The Enemy Within

4. Miri

5. The Corbomite Maneuver

6. The Menagerie

7. Balance of Terror

8. The Galileo Seven

9. Arena

10. Space Seed

11. A Taste of Armageddon

12. This Side of Paradise

13. City on the Edge of Forever

14. Operation - - Annihilate!

15. Who Mourns for Adonais

16. The Changeling

17. The Doomsday Machine

18. Obsession

19. The Immunity Syndrome

20. By Any Other Name

21. The Ultimate Computer

22. Bread and Circuses

23. Assignment: Earth

24. The Enterprise Incident

25. Day of the Dove

26. The Tholian Web

27. Wink of an Eye

28. Elaan of Troyius

29. All Our Yesterdays

30. Turnabout Intruder

 

One of the more obscure allusions was the "cone creature" from Lovecraft's The Shadow Out of Time in one episode.

 

I'd either forgotten that or never knew, as I don't rewatch ENT a whole lot. Thanks!

 

You must have enjoyed Journey to Babel twice as much since it is on your list twice (#3 and #16). This frees up one more slot, so, one guilty pleasure can be promoted up.

 

Maybe ten or twelve.

 

The Excellent:
“Where No Man Has Gone Before"
“The Corbomite Maneuver”
“The Enemy Within”
“The Naked Time”
“Balance Of Terror”
“What Are Little Girls Made Of?”
“Dagger Of The Mind”
“The Galileo Seven”
“Court Martial”
“Shore Leave"
“Arena”
“Tomorrow Is Yesterday”
“A Taste Of Armageddon”
“Space Seed”
“Errand Of Mercy”
“The City On The Edge Of Forever”
“Amok Time”
“The Doomsday Machine”
“Mirror, Mirror”
“Journey To Babel”
“Return To Tomorrow”
“The Ultimate Computer”
“Elaan Of Troyius”
“The Enterprise Incident”
“Is There In Truth No Beauty?”
“The Tholian Web”

The Good:
“The Man Trap”
“Charlie X”
“The Menagerie” (Part I)
“The Menagerie” (Part II)
“The Squire Of Gothos”
“This Side Of Paradise”
“The Devil In The Dark”
“Operation—Annihilate”
“Metamorphosis”
“Who Mourns For Adonais?”
“The Changeling”
“The Deadly Years”
“The Trouble With Tribbles”
“Bread And Circuses”
“A Private Little War”
“Obsession”
“The Immunity Syndrome”
“The Omega Glory”
“Spectre Of The Gun”
“The Empath”
“Day Of The Dove”
“Plato’s Stepchildren”
“That Which Survives”
“The Cloud Minders”
“The Way To Eden”
“Requiem For Methuselah”

 

This is very true! I was typing late at night!

[EDITED TO ADD: I changed it to "The Naked Time".]

Okay. I guess you're right. There are only 30 good ones, because there are really 30 excellent ones right above it.

 

Sowhat episode was that in?

 

I could almost adopt your list verbatim, with only two substitutions:
1. "The Naked Time"
2. "The Enemy Within"
3. "Miri"
4. "Dagger of the Mind"
5. "Balance of Terror"
6. "Shore Leave"
7. "The Squire of Gothos"
8. "Arena"
9. "Tomorrow Is Yesterday"
10. "Court Martial"
11. "A Taste of Armageddon"
12. "The Devil in the Dark"
13. "Errand of Mercy"
14. "The City on the Edge of Forever"
15. "Amok Time"
16. "The Changeling"
17. "Mirror, Mirror"
18. "The Doomsday Machine"
19. "I, Mudd"
20. "Journey to Babel"
21. "The Trouble with Tribbles"
22. "A Piece of the Action"
23. "The Immunity Syndrome"
24. "Patterns of Force" [I'd substitute "Metamorphosis"]
25. "Bread and Circuses"
26. "Spectre of the Gun"
27. "Wink of an Eye" [I'd substitute "Is There in Truth No Beauty?"]
28. "The Empath"
29. "Whom Gods Destroy"
30. "All Our Yesterdays"

(So when the hell can I graduate from Captain status?)

 

If I could choose out 30...

The Man Trap
Where No Man Has Gone Before
Charlie X
Miri
The Enemy Within
Balance of Terror
City on the Edge of Forever
The Squire of Gothos
Court Martial
Shore Leave
Arena
The Devil in the Dark
The Menagerie (parts 1 and 2)
Tomorrow is Yesterday
Amok Time
Journey to Babel
The Changeling
Mirror Mirror
The Changeling
The Doomsday Machine
The Trouble with Tribbles
A Piece of the Action
Patterns of Force
Metamorphosis
Spectre of the Gun
Is There in Truth no Beauty?
The Empath
Whom Gods Destroy
The Tholian Web
Turnabout Intruder

 

"A Bicyclops Built for Two" Season 2, episode 10
The groom changes form several times at the altar to match different brides showing up. I have a screenshot, but no image sharing service set up yet. If you have the episodes, you'll find it readily enough.

 

Yes, that does resemble one of the Great Race.

 

I'll have to re-read the story. Were the cone people the Great Race? Or were the mind travelers (from another star) the Great Race? The story had lots of holes, like the ghost things that were somehow restrained by locked trap doors and the need for the hypnosis machines.