Star Trek fans - What is your Favorite original Star Trek episode?

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… and hanging from the branch of a tree 😀 and other similar things.
 
Another favorite episode for me is ‘Metamorphosis’, where ‘The Companion’, an electrical cloud-like being forms a bond with a marooned Zefram Cochrane, played by actor Glenn Corbett. In the end, ‘The Companion’ merges into the body of a dying lady ambassador played by Elinor Donahue in order to know what it feels to be human, although that decision means that it can never go back to the way it was again.

I guess I like that episode because of the sentimentality of the self-sacrifice that The Companion makes to become human and because I had a crush on Elinor Donahue and thought she was very pretty.
 
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Yes, ‘Space Seed’ was pretty good and paved the way for the ‘Wrath of Khan’, if I recall correctly. Ironically, those people (Montalban’s character, etc) were supposed to be from the big bad 1990s, which was decades in the future back then, and now decades in the past.

Interesting to see how Gene Roddenberry viewed the future. I guess he thought mankind would be more advanced technologically than we really were in the 1990s.
 
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A nod to Christianity takes place in episode ‘Bread and Circuses’ where, at the end of the gladiator-featured episode, the Enterprise crew speaks about how they were surprised that the people on the planet were advanced in many ways for a religion of “Sun worshippers”. Then Uhura corrects them by announcing that “They don’t worship the sun in the sky, but the “Son of God”. Slim chance of seeing that kind of thing on prime time TV nowadays.
 
The Trouble with Tribbles. One of Trek’s funniest episodes, and so quotable.

“Twice nothing is still nothing.”

“As for what you want … it has been noted and logged!”
 
The second pilot, “Where No Man Has Gone Before”, is also a favorite of mine. And if NBC hadn’t authorized it (after rejecting “The Cage”), we wouldn’t have Star Trek at all.

“The Cage” itself is worth a watch, if only to see what Trek could have been if NBC had accepted it.
 
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Tommy999 said:
Interesting to see how Gene Roddenberry viewed the future. I guess he thought mankind would be more advanced technologically than we really were in the 1990s.
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To be fair, a lot of people thought that. Witness 2001: A Space Odyssey, Space: 1999, and so on.

And Back to the Future predicted we would have Interstates in the sky by 2015…
 
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My go-to Star Trek TOS episode is The Doomsday Machine. It’s eminently re-watchable, thrilling to the end, and bolstered by William Windom’s excellent performance as Commander Matt Decker.

If you haven’t seen it in a while, do yourself a favor and give it a re-watch today!
 
“The Doomsday Machine”
Lots of episodes (some already mentioned) are great. Some were stinkers too. But this is one o remember from its first run.

And you gotta love William Windom 🤯
 
Great episode. Hard to overlook that one. Great acting throughout and riveting plot.
 
Some of my all-time favorite quotes came from exchanges between Dr McCoy and Capt Kirk in episode, ‘The Devil in the Dark’. One occurs when Dr McCoy is ordered to try to patch up the cave-dwelling, rock-burrowing creature.

In protest to Captain Kirk’s order after seeing the wounded stone-like creature for the first time, Dr McCoy exclaims, “I’m a doctor, not a bricklayer!”.

Captain Kirk replies, “You’re a healer. There’s a patient. That’s an order”.

Later, after surprising himself by successfully patching up the creature, McCoy gleefully declares, “By golly, Jim, I’m beginning to think I can cure a rainy day”.

The writers were creative and their humor was under-appreciated, in my opinion.
 
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“Doomsday Machine” was a terrific episode. Also, the one where Kirk made up a card game (Phizbin or something like that?). I think that may have been “A Piece of the Action”. Humorous episode!

“Tomorrow Is Yesterday” was a favorite of mine as a kid because it mentioned Offutt Air Force Base in my home state of Nebraska.
 
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My go-to Star Trek TOS episode is The Doomsday Machine. It’s eminently re-watchable, thrilling to the end, and bolstered by William Windom’s excellent performance as Commander Matt Decker.

If you haven’t seen it in a while, do yourself a favor and give it a re-watch today!
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This is so true – eminently re-watchable.
 
I know! I think I beat you by one minute with my post. Great minds think alike (and at the same time! 🙂)
 
It is a tough decision for me.
What really brought the series together for me was the Spock, McCoy, Kirk interaction.

You didn’t really get the whole dynamic in one single episode.
 
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