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Orrex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-15-08 11:46 PM
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Best Star Trek:TOS episode other than The City on the Edge of Forever?
Let's omit Space Seeds too, while we're at it.

I've always liked Arena, but I'm not sure that I'd call it the best.


Thoughts?
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CGowen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-15-08 11:49 PM
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1. edited because I don't have a clue n/t
Edited on Tue Jan-15-08 11:56 PM by CGowen
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Orrex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-15-08 11:53 PM
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2. Nice post, Khan
:mad: Way to cheat! :mad:


And your fantasy woman's wings are totally the wrong color.
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Danger Mouse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-15-08 11:57 PM
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3. The Way to Eden and Spock's Brain and Turnabout Intruder...
examples of the finest in high quality science fiction writing.
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Orsino Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-16-08 06:02 AM
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23. That's just cruel.
This is like having the Three Tenors compete in a pie-eating contest, or judging them on their belches. :rofl:
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Danger Mouse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-16-08 11:20 PM
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33. Pavarotti would've out-belched them any day.
R.I.P.
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Liberal Veteran Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-16-08 07:29 AM
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25. "Brain and brain! What is 'brain'?"
My favorite line from any episode of Star Trek TOS.
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Danger Mouse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-16-08 11:20 PM
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32. I prefer the classic line: "Jim! His BRAIN is gone!"
Delivered with all the seriousness of an actor delivering the finest lines from Shakespeare.
Sometimes, the fact that the actors on TOS took themselves so seriously added to the fun...this was not one of those times.
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From The Ashes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-15-08 11:58 PM
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4. I've always gravitated toward the lighter ones...
hence, my two favorites are: The Trouble with Tribbles and I, Mudd.
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Kutjara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-15-08 11:58 PM
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5. Balance of Terror.
I can watch that episode again and again.
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Fire Walk With Me Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-16-08 12:02 AM
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6. Good one!
If the writers would take more from WW2 cat-and-mouse situations and dynamics, the series would continuously rock like that episode.
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Dr. Strange Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-16-08 12:02 AM
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7. I assume we're omitting all of the Mudd episodes too?
I'm fond of "Errand of Mercy." Quite the twist at the end.
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IndianaJones Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-16-08 12:04 AM
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8. the old west one. nt.
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Orrex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-16-08 12:07 AM
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9. Spectre of the Gun
That is a good one.
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Tikki Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-16-08 12:14 AM
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10. 'Whom Gods Destroy' and one of my first ......
Edited on Wed Jan-16-08 12:16 AM by Tikki
school girl crushes was on Steve Ihnat....RIP


Tikki
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LeftyMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-16-08 12:35 AM
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11. The Enterprise Incident.
:thumbsup:
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chknltl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-16-08 12:43 AM
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12. That's a goodun but I've always been fond of "Trouble With Tribbles" nt
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laconicsax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-16-08 12:45 AM
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13. Balance of Terror
Maybe not the best but holy crap! Sarek moonlighting as a Romaulan commander? A learns a lesson about tolerance? A wedding? Oh yeah it's got one of those, but only for a little bit. Spock making a mistake? No stupid deus ex machina ending? It's got it all. What more does it need?
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Hatchling Donating Member (968 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-16-08 12:48 AM
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14. The Trouble with Tribbles.
Edited on Wed Jan-16-08 12:49 AM by Hatchling
I especially liked Scotty's solution :)













*edited because spell check is NOT always your friend.
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-16-08 12:59 AM
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15. "By Any Other Name"
yes INDEED
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-16-08 01:03 AM
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16. 'A Piece of the Action'
Hey, shut up. It was funny. :P
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Orrex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-16-08 09:25 AM
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27. You mean cement overshoes?
That one's a blast, and it's actually important to the series canonical technology in that it establishes that the ship's phaser can be used to stun a crowd from orbit.

Odd that they didn't make some effort to retrieve Bones' communicator, though.
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GoddessOfGuinness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-16-08 01:20 AM
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17. Devil in the Dark
It's always appealed to the tree hugger in me.
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TZ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-16-08 02:07 AM
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18. okay call me silly but like many
Mine is "The Trouble with Tribbles" although I have to admit I also like the episode (oh shoot the name escapes me right now, but you are probably nerd enough to know it) where the Enterprise finds itself in the 60's and takes aboard a jet pilot who was chasing them (probably a cliched episode in some ways, still I enjoy it)
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YankeyMCC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-16-08 05:27 AM
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22. Not easy and some already mentioned but
The "second pilot" or first episode with Kirk as Captain "Where no man has gone before" is one of my favorites.
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Orrex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-16-08 09:22 AM
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26. Tomorrow is Yesterday
I suspect that what is cliche about it now might not have been so when it aired.

That's a good episode, and I especially like the part when they try to trace the pilot's impact upon future history to determine the importance of returning him to the timestream.


Geek.
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pokerfan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-16-08 03:35 AM
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19. Amok Time
Written by Theodore Sturgeon.
Vulcans in heat!
The duel between Kirk and Spock.
The lush Vulcan landscape.
And best of all, a genuine (not drug or time travel induced) emotional outburst by Spock when he learns that he didn't kill Kirk.
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Recovered Repug Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-16-08 03:55 AM
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20. Mirror, mirror
Spock should have kept the beard. Also, The Menagerie.
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ThoughtCriminal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-16-08 11:32 PM
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34. In This Universe
Spock will not only have a beard, he will have a Mohawk!
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krispos42 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-16-08 04:00 AM
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21. "Balance of Terror"
I think it is much more like space warfare will be when we finally get around to it.
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Richardo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-16-08 06:06 AM
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24. I'll throw my vote to 'Balance of Terror'
'Run Silent, Run Deep' in space. :)
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NewJeffCT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-16-08 11:31 AM
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29. That was a great episode
definitely one of the best.
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Rabrrrrrr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-16-08 09:56 AM
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28. Balance of Terror and A Taste of Armageddon
Taste of Armageddon is seriously underrated, IMO.
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Greyskye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-16-08 11:45 AM
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30. Tossup: Balance of Terror / Trouble With Tribbles

Two great, highly derivative episodes!

:evilgrin:
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-16-08 11:57 AM
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31. Other than those mentioned, I liked "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield" and "The Alternative Factor"
Have last watched them when I was 9. The duality fascinated me.
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