I have been doing rewatches of a lot of the Trek shows recently. Before Picard, Lower Decks, Prodigy, and DISCO ended their runs, I did a re-watch. Also rewatched SNW before S3 started.
And I am late S2 on a TOS rewatch at the moment. But TOS was my first Trek, and I have seen them all before.
As I went through them, I did so with an eye to trying to pick my favorite episodes out. Some that I thought I would love did not resonate as much this last time through. And others I thought were poor were better than I expected. Anyway, for NuTrek, I have a decent idea in my head, of what my favorites were and were not. And I wanted to bring that to the earlier shows, though it is much harder to do with many more episodes.
Anyway, I came up with 25% arbitrarily. The top quartile of episodes. I wanted a number where the great/my favorite episodes could likely all fit, and the cut off was in the very good range with a lot of options. Anyway, 20 out of 80 (Cage included) is a nice, round number.
I must admit, my list is pretty generic. Not a lot of novel choices. Maybe as I rewatch the back end of S2 & S3, I will revisit.
And I thought it might increase my appreciation for other episodes if other folk shared their top 20s as well.
Anyway, here goes:
1. City on the Edge of Forever S1E28
2. The Doomsday Machine S2E6
3. The Menangerie S1E11-12
4. Mirror, Mirror S2E4
5. Amok Time S2E1
6. The Corbomite Manuever S1E10
7. Balance of Terror S1E14
8. This Side of Paradise S1E24
9. Where No Man Has Gone Before S1E3
10. The Trouble with Tribbles S2E15
11. The Enterprise Incident S3E2
12. Journey To Babel S2E10
13. A Taste of Armageddon S1E23
14. The Devil In The Dark S1E25
15. Space Seed S1E25
16. The Tholian Web S3E9
17. All Our Yesterdays S3E23
18. The Cage, aired 1988
19. Tomorrow Is Yesterday S1E19
20. Let That Be Your Last Battlefield S3E15
Pretty standard fare for a top 20, save maybe for Armageddon, The Cage, and Tomorrow Is Yesterday. And that is technically 21, as Menagerie is a double.
Not quite room for "Arena," "Shore Leave," "The Galileo Seven," "The Enemy Within," "The Naked Time," or "A Piece of the Action."
Or guilty pleasures like "Errand of Mercy," "Return of the Archons," "The Conscience of the King," "Court Martial," or "The Squire of Gothos."
If I had to go 33% (27 episodes), they would probably come from those 11 atm.
I can get to 35-40 TOS episodes I like a lot without breaking a sweat. I think fully half.
Anyway, have at me, as Sulu would say. Feel free to share your top 20 and maybe I will appreciate some others a bit more.
And I am late S2 on a TOS rewatch at the moment. But TOS was my first Trek, and I have seen them all before.
As I went through them, I did so with an eye to trying to pick my favorite episodes out. Some that I thought I would love did not resonate as much this last time through. And others I thought were poor were better than I expected. Anyway, for NuTrek, I have a decent idea in my head, of what my favorites were and were not. And I wanted to bring that to the earlier shows, though it is much harder to do with many more episodes.
Anyway, I came up with 25% arbitrarily. The top quartile of episodes. I wanted a number where the great/my favorite episodes could likely all fit, and the cut off was in the very good range with a lot of options. Anyway, 20 out of 80 (Cage included) is a nice, round number.
I must admit, my list is pretty generic. Not a lot of novel choices. Maybe as I rewatch the back end of S2 & S3, I will revisit.
And I thought it might increase my appreciation for other episodes if other folk shared their top 20s as well.
Anyway, here goes:
1. City on the Edge of Forever S1E28
2. The Doomsday Machine S2E6
3. The Menangerie S1E11-12
4. Mirror, Mirror S2E4
5. Amok Time S2E1
6. The Corbomite Manuever S1E10
7. Balance of Terror S1E14
8. This Side of Paradise S1E24
9. Where No Man Has Gone Before S1E3
10. The Trouble with Tribbles S2E15
11. The Enterprise Incident S3E2
12. Journey To Babel S2E10
13. A Taste of Armageddon S1E23
14. The Devil In The Dark S1E25
15. Space Seed S1E25
16. The Tholian Web S3E9
17. All Our Yesterdays S3E23
18. The Cage, aired 1988
19. Tomorrow Is Yesterday S1E19
20. Let That Be Your Last Battlefield S3E15
Pretty standard fare for a top 20, save maybe for Armageddon, The Cage, and Tomorrow Is Yesterday. And that is technically 21, as Menagerie is a double.
Not quite room for "Arena," "Shore Leave," "The Galileo Seven," "The Enemy Within," "The Naked Time," or "A Piece of the Action."
Or guilty pleasures like "Errand of Mercy," "Return of the Archons," "The Conscience of the King," "Court Martial," or "The Squire of Gothos."
If I had to go 33% (27 episodes), they would probably come from those 11 atm.
I can get to 35-40 TOS episodes I like a lot without breaking a sweat. I think fully half.
Anyway, have at me, as Sulu would say. Feel free to share your top 20 and maybe I will appreciate some others a bit more.
