Best Trek Episode written by Roddenberry (poll)

[GulBahana]

Pick up to 3.

 

[BillJ]

Didn't he also write "The Cage"?

 

[GulBahana]

I already have the Menagerie and I didn't want to put two episodes that contain the same story. Someone else can create another poll if there hasn't been one already.

 

[Greg Cox]

I selected "The Menagerie," in large part because it contained "The Cage."

 

[Balok's Decoy]

The Menagerie is the only one of these that I really like. The others are just okay. Huh.

 

[feek61]

Not to nitpick but Roddenberry didn't write most of the episodes you have listed; he only came up with the idea which he called "springboards". The "springboards" were only a sentence or two long which could be given to a writer to come-up with a story. Really he only wrote "The Menagerie" and "The Omega Glory" all others you have listed were written by other people or Roddenberry with someones help.

"Mudd's Women" was written by Stephen Kandel
"Charlie X" was written by D.C. Fontana
"Corbomite Manuever" was written by Jerry Shol
"Return of the Archons" was written by Boris Sobelman
"Bread & Circuses" was written by Roddenberry & Gene Coon
"Assignment: Earth!" was written by Art Wallace
"Turnabout Intruder" was written by Arthur Singer
"Encounter at Farpoint" was written by D.C. Fontana & Roddenberry (and David Gerrold if memory serves)

So, saying all of THAT, I would have to vote for "The Menagerie" since that's about the only one he really wrote himself without other writers (even though John D.F. Black wrote a nice version of it before Roddenberry did)

 

[BillJ]

I'd go with "The Cage" and "The Omega Glory" (an episode I've always had in my personal TOS top ten).

 

[GulBahana]

Not to nitpick but Roddenberry didn't write most of the episodes you have listed; he only came up with the idea which he called "springboards". The "springboards" were only a sentence or two long which could be given to a writer to come-up with a story. Really he only wrote "The Menagerie" and "The Omega Glory" all others you have listed were written by other people or Roddenberry with someones help.

"Mudd's Women" was written by Stephen Kandel
"Charlie X" was written by D.C. Fontana
"Corbomite Manuever" was written by Jerry Shol
"Return of the Archons" was written by Boris Sobelman
"Bread & Circuses" was written by Roddenberry & Gene Coon
"Assignment: Earth!" was written by Art Wallace
"Turnabout Intruder" was written by Arthur Singer
"Encounter at Farpoint" was written by D.C. Fontana & Roddenberry (and David Gerrold if memory serves)

So, saying all of THAT, I would have to vote for "The Menagerie" since that's about the only one he really wrote himself without other writers (even though John D.F. Black wrote a nice version of it before Roddenberry did)

That's interesting. I haven't read the books that give the behind-the-scenes information on the writing process. I did hear in some docs that some writers were annoyed with Roddenberry for altering their teleplays without even letting them know.