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Kraetos' guide to Star Trek
You know. 1966? 79 episodes, about 30 good ones.
- Phillip J. Fry
Ah, The Original Series. Where it all started. The show was tragically cancelled after three seasons, but on the other hand, it's easy to see why: the show missed more than it hit.
This guide has two sections:
- Complete guide. This is a list of all the episodes, sorted by production order with a quick description and it's rating, on a simple four tier scale: Engage, Just for Fun, meh, and Avoid.
- "30 good ones." If we take Fry's comment as gospel, which thirty episodes comprise the "good ones?"
Complete Guide
Season 1
| Episode | Title | Description | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 00 | The Cage | Aborted pilot, didn't air until 1988. No Kirk—instead, it's Captain Pike. Rejected for being "too cerebral." | Just for fun |
| 01 | Where No One Has Gone Before | Pilot, but didn't air until after the next two. The Enterprise leaves the galaxy and some crew members exhibit extraordinary powers. | Engage! |
| 02 | The Corbomite Maneuver | Kirk attempts to bluff his way out of a scrape with a much meaner alien ship. | Engage! |
| 03 | Mudd's Women | The Enterprise encounters freighter captain Harry Mudd, who travels with three beautiful women. | meh |
| 04 | The Enemy Within | A transporter accident splits Kirk into two halves—a "good" one, and an "evil" one. | Engage! |
| 05 | The Man Trap | Something is not as it seems when the Enterprise runs into one of McCoy's old romanic interests. | Just for fun |
| 06 | The Naked Time | The Enterprise crew becomes infected by a virus that has a similar effect as alcohol. | Engage! |
| 07 | Charlie X | A human boy raised by aliens has supernatural powers—can he adapt to Federation culture? | meh |
| 08 | Balance of Terror | A Romulan warbird strikes against Federation border outposts. Kirk must defeat the Romulan commander. | Engage!! |
| 09 | What Are Little Girls Made Of? | The Enterprise encounters Dr. Roger Korby, leading medical archaeologist, and Nurse Chapel's once fiancée. | meh |
| 10 | Dagger of the Mind | The Enterprise inadvertently picks up a stowaway from a penal colony. | meh |
| 11 | Miri | The Enterprise investigates a planet where virus kills everyone once they reach puberty. | meh |
| 12 | The Conscience of the King | A mass murderer may be loose on board the Enterprise. | meh |
| 13 | The Galileo Seven | McCoy, Scott, Spock and four other crewmen crash land on a planet, and not everyone gets along with Mr. Spock. | Engage! |
| 14 | Court Martial | When an officer (and friend) under Kirk's command dies in an ion storm, Kirk is accused of foul play. | Just for fun |
| 15 | The Menagerie (Part I) | Spock kidnaps his former captain, Pike, and takes the Enterprise to forbidden planet Talos IV for reasons unknown. | Engage! |
| 16 | The Menagerie (Part II) | Kirk discovers why Spock has stolen the Enterprise. | Engage! |
| 17 | Shore Leave | Kirk orders shore leave for the Enterprise crew, but the planet they've selected seems to be fulfilling everyone's fantasies. | Just for fun |
| 18 | The Squire of Gothos | The Enterprise is captured by Trelane, a seemingly omnipotent being. | Just for fun |
| 19 | Arena | The Metrons, an advanced alien species, pit Captain Kirk against a Gorn captain in personal combat. | Engage! |
| 20 | The Alternative Factor | The Enterprise is sent to investigate a mad scientist after a galaxy-wide spatial disruption. | Avoid |
| 21 | Tomorrow is Yesterday | The Enterprise accidentally travels back to the 20th century where they destroy a US Air Force aircraft and rescue the pilot, creating a time paradox as the pilot gains foreknowledge of events to come. | Engage! |
| 22 | Return of the Archons | The Enterprise visits a planet where an Earth ship was last seen before reported missing, 200 years ago. | meh |
| 23 | A Taste of Armageddon | The Enterprise discovers two civilizations fighting a computerized war—but the casualties are real. | Just for fun |
| 24 | Space Seed | The Enterprise rescues the SS Botany Bay without realizing the war criminal and genetic "superman" Khan is aboard. | Engage! |
| 25 | This Side of Paradise | The Enterprise investigates a colony where everyone should be dead from radiation exposure, only to discover the colonists are alive. | Just for Fun |
| 26 | The Devil in the Dark | The Enterprise crew must find a creature that has killed more than 50 workers at a vital Federation mining colony. | Engage! |
| 27 | Errand of Mercy | War breaks out between the Federation and the Klingon Empire, and Kirk is sent to fight the first battle over a planet called Organia. | Engage! |
| 28 | The City on the Edge of Forever | Dr. McCoy changes history in a manner which prevents the Federation from even existing. Kirk and Spock must follow him back and stop him. | Engage! |
| 29 | Operation: Annihilate! | Colonists on a distant planet are taken over by neural parasites. | Just for fun |
Season 2
| Episode | Title | Description | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Catspaw | Kirk and co. beam down to a Halloween themed planet. | Avoid |
| 02 | Metamorphosis | The Enterprise finds Zefram Cochrane, inventor of warp drive, on a distant planet, even though he's been believed dead for 150 years. | Just for fun |
| 03 | Friday's Child | Kirk attempts to negotiate mining rights with a primitive, honor-bound civilization. | Just for fun |
| 04 | Who Mourns for Adonais? | The Enterprise encounters an entity which claims to be the Greek god Apollo. | meh |
| 05 | Amok Time | Spock undergoes Pon Farr and must return to Vulcan to mate or he will die. | Engage! |
| 06 | The Doomsday Machine | The Enterprise encounters a planet killer and must stop it before it strikes again. | Engage! |
| 07 | Wolf in the Fold | Scotty is accused of murder during shore leave. | Just for fun |
| 08 | The Changeling | The Enterprise encounters Nomad, a human-built probe which has been altered to have one mission: the sterilization of all life. | Engage! |
| 09 | The Apple | A landing party explores a beautiful planet with primitive natives, before the planet begin killing redshirts. | Avoid |
| 10 | Mirror, Mirror | A transporter accident sends Kirk, Scotty, McCoy and Uhura to the "mirror universe," where good and evil seem to be inverted. | Engage! |
| 11 | The Deadly Years | The Enterprise crew becomes infected with a rapid-aging virus. | Just for fun |
| 12 | I, Mudd | The Enterprise bumps into Harry Mudd once again after a new crewman hijacks the ship. | meh |
| 13 | The Trouble with Tribbles | The Enterprise responds to a distress call from Space Station K7 when Klingons arrive at the station. | Engage! |
| 14 | Bread and Circuses | The Enterprise discovers a parallel Earth where Rome never fell. | Just for fun |
| 15 | Journey to Babel | The Enterprise transports Federation ambassadors to a conference on Babel. One of the Ambassadors is Sarek, Spock's father. | Engage! |
| 16 | A Private Little War | Kirk suspects that a primitive culture may have been armed by the Klingons. | Just for fun |
| 17 | The Gamesters of Triskelion | Kirk, Uhura and Chekov are kidnapped while preparing to beam down to Gamma 2. Spock must determine where the landing party has gone. | Avoid |
| 18 | Obsession | A cloud creature kills a number of redshirts on an away mission—but Kirk has encountered this creature before, and is determined to kill it. | Just for fun |
| 19 | The Immunity Syndrome | The Enterprise investigates the loss of the Federation starship Intrepid. | Just for fun |
| 20 | A Piece of the Action | The Enterprise encounters a planet where the culture is based entirely on 1920's mobsters. | Just for fun |
| 21 | By Any Other Name | While investigating a distress call, the Enterprise discover survivors who need the Enterprise to get home. | Just for fun |
| 22 | Return to Tomorrow | The Enterprise receives a distress call from a distant planet. | Just for fun |
| 23 | Patterns of Force | In search of Federation historian John Gill, the Enterprise discovers a planet modeled after Nazi Germany. | Just for fun |
| 24 | The Ultimate Computer | Kirk is ordered to test M-5, an advanced computer which can command a starship. | Engage! |
| 25 | The Omega Glory | A Federation captain breaks the Prime Directive and arms a primitive civilization. | Avoid |
| 26 | Assignment: Earth | The Enterprise travels back in time to 1968 and encounters secret agent Gary Seven. | Just for fun |
Season 3
The 30 good ones
The "30 good episodes" are, in production order: