Your favourite...title...

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

Not necessarily the best episodes, but some of my favorite titles include:

Patterns of Force
Whom Gods Destroy
The Savage Curtain

 

[A beaker full of death]

On Who Mourns for Adonais: http://books.google.com/books?id=Aw...e&q=keats who mourns for adonais trek&f=false

The word happens to have the happy coincidence of containing "Adonai," which is Hebrew for "my God."

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

FTWIHAIHTTS

 

[Greg Cox]

FTWIHAIHTTS

Watch your language, young man! There are children present!

 

[Admiral2]

Candidly I find it hard to choose because TOS seemed to have a knack for evocative and even somewhat poetic episode titles. And it needn't have anything to do with whether you actually like the episode itself or not.

Actually, my favorite titles do correspond with my favorite eps:

"The Cage"
"Balance of TERROR"
"The DOOMSDAY Machine"

 

[A beaker full of death]

FTWIHAIHTTS

Watch your language, young man! There are children present!

Ah. The new "F-word."

 

[Wingsley]

"That Which Survives" - an ep title that's all hat and no cattle.

"Catspaw" - hey, at least there's a kitty running around. A BIG kitty, no less!

"Court Martial" - direct and to the point. Delivers the goods, too.

"The Enterprise Incident" - time for the Starship Enterprise to disappear...

"The Doomsday Machine" - right outta Hell... I saw it!!! (Invasion of the giant rotten carrot from Hell)

"The Galileo Seven" - If not for the courage of the fearless crew, Galileo would be lost...

"This Side of Paradise" - F. Scott Fitzgerald was not involved in this one.

"The Lights of Zetar" - They will not accept their own deaths. Well, duh...

"Spock's Brain" - a title so iconoclastic, it became a pejorative for bad TREK.

"The Ultimate Computer" - Steve Jobs was right! There is no floppy drive! Vindicated at last.

"Friday's Child" - we're not talking about King Friday XIII from the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, are we?

 

[Greg Cox]

Granted, there are fewer of them, but I find these old-school titles much easier to remember than the enigmatic one-word titles of later Trek series: "Cathexis," "Divergence," or whatever.

(I have no idea if those are actual titles, but they sound like they ought to be TNG or VOYAGER titles.)

 

[JonnyQuest037]

Probably "The City On The Edge of Forever." Harlan Ellison is GREAT at poetic, memorable titles. You'll notice that it's one of the few things that never changed in all the rewrites.

Agreed. Too bad they made the set "ruins" instead of "runes" (as written), with appropriate backdrop, i.e., a City.

Consult your local Ellison if this makes little sense.

I consulted my local Ellison. He yelled at me and now I'm being sued for some reason.

 

[sbk1234]

The Apple

 

[WisTrekFan]

My two favorite TOS titles are "For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky" and "Is There In Truth, No Beauty"? I find in general that the TOS titles are much more memorable than TNG's DS9's, VOY's or ENT's.

 

[JiNX-01]

Balance of Terror
The Devil in the Dark
A Piece of the Action
The Paradise Syndrome