Favorite original Star Trek episode?

[Va Lefty]

Poll question: Favorite original Star Trek episode?

Mirror, Mirror


The Balance of Terror


The City on the Edge of Forever


The Enterprise Incident


The Trouble with Tribbles


The Spectre of the Gun


A Piece of the Action


Patterns of Force


Bread and Circuses

[chknltl]

1. 100% agree with my vote

well whoever votes first can lay claim to that statement!

[lost-in-nj]

2. Tribbles

as long as it doesn't have a GORN in it.....


lost


The one that scared me the most was the one with the children......


:scared:

[ChazII]

3. Great choices

but I will sheepishly admit to a soft spot for Tribbles.

[TZ]

4. I chose The Trouble with Tribbles

although City on the Edge of Forever is a close second....

[GoddessOfGuinness]

5. Devil in the Dark

Kirk and Spock being eco-thugs


"I'm a doctor, not a bricklayer!"

I like your choices too! :hi:

[Richardo]

16. No kill I !!!11!!

:D

[apocalypsehow]

6. The one with Joan Collins - "City on the Edge of Forever."

n/t

[Gidney N Cloyd]

7. All right, who the hell voted for "Spectre of the Gun"?

What was that? A protest vote because "Spock's Brain" wasn't available?

[Blue-Jay]

8. "Brain and brain. What is brain?"

That's my favorite stupid ST episode. Followed closely by....


"I AM KIROK" (The Paradise Syndrome)

[Gidney N Cloyd]

10. Paradise Syndrome at least tried. "Spectre of the Gun" was one of those "We have >>>

NO budget this week" episodes where they cranked up the dry ice and stole props from whatever was shooting in the next sound stage.

[Va Lefty]

11. What's wrong with Spectre of the Gun?

The settings of the town were incomplete because they were based on Kirk's fragmented and idealized memories of the old west. I agree it was kind of hokey to bring Chekov back to life after he had been shot, but how is that any more egregious than killing Scotty and erasing Uhura's memory only to "fix" both of them (The Changeling)? Anyway, I'm a sucker for Westerns, and no I didn't vote for it. I voted for The City on the Edge of Tomorrow

[harmonicon]

34. I did, and I'm proud of it

A rare Chekov-centric episode. A gem.

[Cruzan]

9. WTF -- How could you not include 'The Doomsday Machine' ?

It's the only one I've downloaded and I've watched parts of it countless times. Not saying it's my absolute favorite, but without question in any top 10, and probably any top 5. Actually, in reviewing your list again, which includes some rather IMO secondary episodes, I'm not sure now if you were trying to come up with a 'best of.'

[Babel_17]

18. You beat me to it with TDM.

Btw, check thius out.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0910481/

http://www.startreknewvoyages.com/episodes.html

Cheesy but wholesome fun.

[Maccagirl]

12. How about "Mudd's Women"

or the classic, "The Menagerie"

[Va Lefty]

14. Ran out of choices

I could easily list another 10-12 episodes. The Return of the Archons, Arena, I, Mudd, Amok Time, Day of the Dove, along with those two would be on it

[Capn Sunshine]

20. yeah, Menagerie

it's a stand alone ( as in you don't need the subtext of it being a Star Trek).
If I had to put one Star Trek in a musem, this would be it. I think it was the pilot.

[Babel_17]

21. IIRC Star Trek was the first show to have two pilots

All the stuff with Christopher Pike and the original Enterprise crew was from the stand-alone original pilot.

Hey, why waste good footage? So they blended in all the court martial stuff to make it a two parter.

[JTG of the PRB]

13. The City on the Edge of Forever, without a doubt in my mind.

A purely brilliant tale. That was the first episode I ever saw of TOS, and it helped solidify my love of Star Trek.

[LeftyMom]

15. The Enterprise Incident is brilliant.

Other than the usual and unavoidable flaws (Shat can't act, Shat can't convincingly wear makeup, Shat makes the worst Romulan ever until Denise Crosby comes along to outsuck even him in NextGen) the acting is good, the script is good, the effects aren't bad for the time and budget... The scenes with the Romulan Commander and Spock are brilliant and definitely make the episode.

[Babel_17]

17. Other: The Doomsday Machine

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0708461/

I thought it was a great relevant episode. The music hit all the right notes and the sound effect when the weapon fired was very cool.

William Windom was a great guest star and didn't let Shatner steal the scenes (or his lines, another Shatner trait :)).

Additionally, the episode has even grown in relevance. A lot of futurists think nano-technology could be the real Doomsday Machine. Unleash it into space and it really could obliterate everything in its path. The Doomsday Machine of this episode can easily be taken as a possible example of a bungled application of this technology.

Windom's performance was really stellar, man vs. the creation of man's madness.

Huh, Norman Spinrad was the writer, ok, great script is accounted for.

Off Topic: Bug Jack Barron, by Spinrad, is a read many here might enjoy.

Bug Jack Barron (1969), a pre-cyberpunk tale of a cynical, exploitative talk-show host who gradually uncovers a conspiracy concerning an immortality treatment and the methods used in that treatment, was serialised in the British magazine New Worlds during Michael Moorcock's editorship. With its explicit language and cynical attitude to politicians, it roused one English Member of Parliament's ire at the magazine's partial funding by the British Arts Council. A memorable quote from this novel is, "The saddest day of your life isn't when you decide to sell out. The saddest day of your life is when you decide to sell out and nobody wants to buy."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Spinrad

[Frank Cannon]

25. Another vote for Doomsday Machine

Particularly the new, remastered version. William Windom deserved at least an Emmy nomination for his performance.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PivO7K2zYII

[edbermac]

19. Oh, Tribbles is on soon; last week they showed The Ultimate Computer

I thought the reason they hadn't shown the spiffed up version of TUC until now was that they had some kick-ass FX of the war games scenes. Rather average looking they were.

[leeroysphitz]

22. Balance followed by mirror mirror. n/t

[Doc_Technical]

23. "A Piece of the Action"

There is no better card game than Fisbin.

[ruiner4u]

24. T w/ T all the way

[imperial jedi]

26. there all good picks but

The Trouble with Tribbles is my all time fave.

[Bryan]

27. "The Tholian Web"

Kirk is trapped in hostile territory on a ship that's phasing in and out between dimensions, and Spock and McCoy are at each other's throats over whether or not to risk getting into a firefight to save him. It's got tension, warmth, spectacle, cool aliens, Space Madness, and Scotty mixing scotch with Klingon nerve gas. You can't go wrong!

[Thepricebreaker]

28. I like tribbles - crossed over to DS9 and that episode was great.

[JVS]

29. Gotta get those heaters for some action

[Babel_17]

30. CBS allows you to view all episodes for free online

http://www.cbs.com/classics/star_trek/video/video.php

You just have to sit through a short commercial before the episode starts. I'm watching The Doomsday Machine now. Quality is quite decent. It uses "Flash".

Edit: It looks like they also have a few commercial breaks here and there.

[RushIsRot]

31. The Corbamite Maneuver

[Political Heretic]

32. Nearly a tie between Balance of Terror and City on the Edge of Forever

But I ultimately went with BoT because when I was a kid it was my favorite. Now that I am older I enjoy different aspects of City on the Edge of Forever more.

[Broken_Hero]

33. The one with the Gorn

and the Shore Leave one, I thought were pretty damn good.