The best episode of Star Trek - Part One

[KeepOnTrekking]

Where No Man Has Gone Before
The Naked Time
The Enemy Within
The Corbomite Maneuver
Balance of Terror
The Galileo Seven
The Squire of Gothos
Tomorrow is Yesterday
Space Seed
A Taste of Armageddon
This Side of Paradise
The Devil in the Dark
Errand of Mercy
The City on the Edge of Forever

"Court Martial." Another whodunnit that's anticlimactic cause you know Kirk's going to get off the hook before it even starts.

 

[Mr_Homn]

This game kinda sucks, because nearly every remaining episode on the list is better than any season 3 episode, with the exception of one or two. I say that as someone who enjoys much of season 3.

 

[Claudia]

Where No Man Has Gone Before
The Naked Time
The Enemy Within
The Corbomite Maneuver
Balance of Terror
The Galileo Seven
Tomorrow is Yesterday
Space Seed
A Taste of Armageddon
This Side of Paradise
The Devil in the Dark
Errand of Mercy
The City on the Edge of Forever

The Squire of Gothos - Trelane... urgh...

 

[Seven of Five]

Where No Man Has Gone Before
The Naked Time
The Enemy Within
The Corbomite Maneuver
Balance of Terror
The Galileo Seven
Tomorrow is Yesterday
Space Seed
A Taste of Armageddon
The Devil in the Dark
Errand of Mercy
The City on the Edge of Forever

I'll take out This Side of Paradise, though at this point it's like choosing the child you love most.

 

[Admiral Shran]

Where No Man Has Gone Before
The Naked Time
The Corbomite Maneuver
Balance of Terror
The Galileo Seven
Tomorrow is Yesterday
Space Seed
A Taste of Armageddon
The Devil in the Dark
Errand of Mercy
The City on the Edge of Forever

The Enemy Within - for Shatner going balls-to-the-wall into Shatner-mode for Evil Kirk, Spock attempting to joke about how Rand was almost raped and the HUGE plot contrivance of apparently having no shuttlecraft.

 

[Mr_Homn]

Where No Man Has Gone Before
The Naked Time
The Corbomite Maneuver
Balance of Terror
The Galileo Seven
Tomorrow is Yesterday
A Taste of Armageddon
The Devil in the Dark
Errand of Mercy
The City on the Edge of Forever

Took out Space Seed. Khan is overrated and Mcgivers is a buffoon.

 

[A.V.I.A.F.]

The Man Trap

"Mudd's Women" -- sexist drivel, with a silly ending. The character of Mudd was put to far better use in the second season.

How very revisioninst of you. Keep in mind the era. I think Mudd's Women was extremely pro-feminist and forward thinking for its time. It attacks the barbie-girl image, it doesn't uphold it!

 

[DevilEyes]

Where No Man Has Gone Before
The Naked Time
The Corbomite Maneuver
Balance of Terror
The Galileo Seven
A Taste of Armageddon
The Devil in the Dark
Errand of Mercy
The City on the Edge of Forever

Tomorrow is Yesterday - I think it's a very overrated episode. Should have gone before This Side of Paradise, which is one of my favorites.

 

[Seven of Five]

Where No Man Has Gone Before
The Corbomite Maneuver
Balance of Terror
The Galileo Seven
A Taste of Armageddon
The Devil in the Dark
Errand of Mercy
The City on the Edge of Forever

The Naked Time - it's a really fun episode but the other episodes have more meat to them.

 

[Admiral Shran]

Where No Man Has Gone Before
Balance of Terror
The Galileo Seven
A Taste of Armageddon
The Devil in the Dark
Errand of Mercy
The City on the Edge of Forever

The Corbomite Maneuver - just the weakest left.

 

[WRStone]

Where No Man Has Gone Before
Balance of Terror
The Galileo Seven
The Devil in the Dark
Errand of Mercy
The City on the Edge of Forever

I'd remove "A Taste of Armageddon" for a couple of reasons. First, unlike most of the rest of the episodes, it doesn't age well. It's a late-60s kind of story that, when you really think about it, could never happen in real life.

I mean seriously: millions of people calmly standing in line to be voluntarily disintegrated? Seriously? No riots, no civil unrest, nobody even trying to make a break for it at the last minute? Just walk into the disintegration booth because the computer said to.

I don't buy it. It just comes across as one of those, "Dude, what if, like, nobody fought wars but they died anyway? Doesn't that just totally blow your mind?" ideas of the late '60s.

Within the confines of the premise of the story, it's a decent tale. I just can't suspend my disbelief of the premise.

The other thing that bugs me about it is the use of Ambassador Fox. When we saw Kirk's superiors in the series, they were generally incompetent in some fashion so as to make Kirk appear even better than he otherwise would. Fox is no exception.

Call me a heretic, but one of the things I think Star Trek 2009 did right was to treat Kirk's superiors as equally-capable (if not occasionally more so) than Kirk. Kirk's still cool when he's not surrounded by idiots.

Dakota Smith

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Where No Man Has Gone Before
The Galileo Seven
The Devil in the Dark
Errand of Mercy
The City on the Edge of Forever

"Balance of Terror" is gone - popular show, but at this point they're all good. It's too directly derivative of The Enemy Below.

Call me a heretic, but one of the things I think Star Trek 2009 did right was to treat Kirk's superiors as equally-capable (if not occasionally more so) than Kirk. Kirk's still cool when he's not surrounded by idiots.

Dakota Smith

Absolutely. The worst example of the everyone's-an-idiot tendency of Trek wasn't on the original series, though, but ST III: not just Kirk's superiors but virtually everyone they encounter and face off against in the film is varying degrees of Too Stupid For Their Jobs, including Kruge.

 

[DevilEyes]

Where No Man Has Gone Before
The Devil in the Dark
Errand of Mercy
The City on the Edge of Forever


The Galileo Seven - started the practice of having everyone on the bridge laughing and teasing Spock despite the deaths that have happened during the episode.

 

[Admiral Shran]

The Devil in the Dark
Errand of Mercy
The City on the Edge of Forever


Where No Man Has Gone Before - again, just the weakest one remaining.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Errand of Mercy
The City on the Edge of Forever


The Devil In The Dark - well, one has to go.

 

[Seven of Five]

The City on the Edge of Forever

I'll take out Errand of Mercy, which was good, but not as good as City.

The City on the Edge of Forever is one of the most essential episodes of the franchise, end of. It's wonderfully realised and I love watching it.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Cool.

 

[indranee]

I was waiting to see if anyone dared take out City