Alltime BEST Star Trek Episode

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Series: 'The Original Series'
Episode Title: 'The City on the Edge of Forever'
Episode Number: 129
Synopsis: "An accidental drug overdose sends Dr. McCoy on a disastrous trip through a time portal, where he changes the course of Earth's history. Kirk and Spock pursue him into the past, where Kirk falls in love with a social worker whose life plays a pivotal role in the events McCoy will affect."
Original Airdate: April 6, 1967


Credits

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Written By: Harlan Ellison
Directed By: Joseph Pevney


Guest Stars:


Joan Collins as Sister Edith Keeler
John Harmon as Rodent
Hal Baylor as Policeman
David L. Ross as Lieutenant Galloway
John Winston as Lieutenant Kyle
Bart La Rue as Guardian voice
Adolf Hitler as Adolf Hitler

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1. Is that the one where they go back to the 1920s in New York? That was a good one.

[Parche]

2. Yes

That won an award for the writer Harlan Ellison, who also wrote 2 episodes for
'The Outer Limits' that also won awards

[Richardo]

3. Mine is 'Balance of Terror'

All space battle, no styrofoam planet sets - 'Run Silent Run Deep' with starships. :thumbsup:

[Bassic]

4. Yeah, that was a great episode. nt

[Parche]

13. Balance of Terra

Yes that is the tough one between that and the one I selected...............

[terrya]

5. I'll say the one where Spock has a reunion with his father and mother.

Just because no one else has mentioned that one.

Who knew that Spock's mother was the same one as in "Father Knows Best"? :-)

[Zomby Woof]

6. Let That Be Your Last Battlefield

This allegory on late 60's racial tensions ends bleakly - a cautionary tale which hasn't lost its impact.

[baldguy]

7. TOS: City On The Edge Of Forever

TNG:Family

DS9:Trials and Tribble-ations

Voy:The Year of Hell

Ent:Twilight

[GenDem]

8. I've always liked this two parter

Episode Title: 'The Menagerie, Part One'
Episode Number: 116
Synopsis: "Spock takes over the Enterprise and faces the death penalty to take his former Captain, who has been horribly disfigured in an accident, to a planet where an alien race has learned to turn thoughts into reality."
Original Airdate: November 17, 1966


Episode Title: 'The Menagerie, Part Two'
Episode Number: 117
Synopsis: "During Spock's court martial, Kirk learns of his predecessor Captain Pike's encounter with the illusions created by a race desperate for breeding stock to help them rebuild their planet."
Original Airdate: November 24, 1966

[Parche]

18. menagerie

Yes, with the famous Talosian 'buttheads'

[GenDem]

19. They communicated with their throbbing butthead veins

Captain Pike was a hottie.

[Va Lefty]

9. Spectre of the Gun

Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Scott and Chekov are "sentenced" by the Melkotians to relive October 26, 1881 in Tombstone Ariz. and fight the Earp brothers and Doc Holiday as the Clantons and the McLaurys at OK Corral

[Book Lover]

10. Doomsday Machine

A) William Windom. What else do I have to say?

B) Huge weapon destroyed original civilization and now runs amok. Excellent moral lesson.

C) Best redone FX of the remastered show, bar none!

[Cobalt-60]

22. I also also nominate the doomsday machine

A suicidal defense against a relentless zombie planet killer.
Who wouldn''t want to be there?

[Frank Cannon]

23. I third it

The remastered show featured special effects and action on par with the best Star Trek movies.

[ikojo]

11. My absolute favorite TOS episode

is Amok Time....Spock goes into heat and must.get.laid.NOW.

Trouble is his chosen wife, T'Pring, prefers another Vulcan, Ston. This means Spock must fight for his beloved who gets to select the adversary. She chooses Kirk. Deep in the Pon Far Spock battles Kirk to what appears the bitter end. Thankfully McCoy, using the extreme Vulcan heat as an excuse, gives Kirk an injection of a drug. It is this drug which causes Kirk to appear dead. Spock, thinking he has killed Kirk, tells Ston he can have T'Pring and tells T'Pring that sometimes having is not as good as wanting.

Since Kirk is supposedly dead, Spock is now in command. He instructs McCoy to prepare a security detail to arrest him and he returns to the Enterprise where upon seeing a living Kirk there is a spontaneous outburst of emotion by Spock.

A fine episode indeed.

[JVS]

12. that one where sally kellerman and some dude become gods

spock looked funky and was wearing yellow too

[Cannikin]

14. Here's Sally from a recent convention. BOY that face is pulle tight!

I was afraid it was going to snap back and kill me.

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17. If she opens her mouth, do her eyes shut?

[Cannikin]

15. Enterprise incedent

[Catshrink]

16. Gangsta Trek

"A Piece of the Action" where the crew ends up in Chicago Al Capone style turf wars. Spocko.

[pokerfan]

20. The Way to Eden

The one with the hippies. That one was the grooviest.

[darmok167]

21. TNG Frame of Mind. or...

The entire run of DS9.