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ST:TOS 10 Best Episodes Per Season

 
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 03, 2015 12:15 pm    Post subject: ST:TOS 10 Best Episodes Per Season Reply with quote

Season #1(1966-'67)
(1.)City On the Edge of Forever.
(2.)The Menagerie,Parts 1 & 2.
(3.)Space Seed.
(4.)Balance of Terror.
(5.)The Devil in the Dark.
(6.)Where no Man Has Gone Before.
(7.)The Galileo Seven.
(8.)Shore Leave.
(9.)Charlie X.
(10.)A Taste of Armageddon.


Season #2(1967-'68)
(1.)Journey to Babel.
(2.)Amok Time.
(3.)The Ultimate Computer.
(4.)The Doomsday Machine.
(5.)The Changeling.
(6.)Mirror,Mirror.
(7.)The Trouble with Tribbles.
(8.)Metamorphosis
(9.)The Immunity Syndrome
(10.)Who Mourns for Adonais?


Season #3(1968-'69)Let's be honest,this season did not have 10 great episodes.

The Tholian Web & Spectre of the Gun were the best.
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 04, 2015 4:41 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Season #2(1967-'68)
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PostPosted: Fri Sep 04, 2015 8:15 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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PostPosted: Fri Sep 04, 2015 7:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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PostPosted: Wed May 09, 2018 6:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

For my money, it's hard to top some of the scenes in The Menagerie. Here's my list:

1. The female "#1" played by Majel Barrett. Although she reappeared in the rest of the series as Nurse Chapel, I always thought she looked better with her long black locks, in a position of authority.

2. The laser cannon blasting away at the elevator door, ramping up in power as it continued. ("More lightning, Igor!") Each time the power increased, the sound of the cannon would follow suit and some additional material would be blasted away from the target. In later episodes they would simply fire the ship's phasers from orbit to destroy anything on the surface. But that never had the same visual impact as the cannon in this episode.

3. The early hand lasers. As with the cannon, they would change settings to increase the power and continue blasting away. We rarely saw this later with the hand phasers.

Cheap thrills.

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PostPosted: Wed May 09, 2018 7:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I always felt that "The Menagerie" was the closest to the "Forbidden Planet" homage in the whole series.

The second pilot "Where no Man Has Gone Before" had a totaly different feel to it.

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PostPosted: Wed May 09, 2018 8:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It was interesting that both "pilot" episodes dealt with mental powers. In "The Cage" ("Menagerie") they were wielded by aliens using mind control, whereas in "Where No Man Has Gone Before" humans possessed the power, but as telekinesis.
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PostPosted: Wed May 09, 2018 8:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

orzel-w wrote:
1. The female "#1" played by Majel Barrett. Although she reappeared in the rest of the series as Nurse Chapel, I always thought she looked better with her long black locks, in a position of authority.

The network didn't have a problem with the character of Number 1. They had a problem that the character was played by G.R.'s mistress. They didn't want Majel Barrett on the show at all.

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PostPosted: Thu May 10, 2018 7:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

It's interesting that the "Roddenberry Vault" collection, with its twelve classic, fan-favourite episodes, does include:

Space Seed
The Devil in the Dark
The City on the Edge of Forever
Metamorphosis
Who Mourns for Adonais?
Mirror, Mirror
The Trouble With Tribbles

It also includes The Corbomite Maneuver, Arena, This Side of Paradise, Operation: Annihilate!, and Return to Tomorrow - not that they are necessarily superior to other episodes, but "chosen for their relevance to the previously unseen material" included.
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PostPosted: Sun May 20, 2018 7:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The 1st season was probably the best. I'm surprised no one has mentioned "Return of the Archons" Its one I always rewatch.

Great story, very well directed and acted. For me its the one I always come back and watch.

Another great 1st season episode is "The Squire Of Gothos"
That story has many layers to it.

And of course "Tomorrow is Yesterday" F-104s!
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PostPosted: Mon May 13, 2019 2:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I always loved Arena, The shock reveal of the alien Gorn scared the beejesus out of me back in 72 when I first saw the episode and it still gets me every time I get a rewatch!
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 25, 2019 10:51 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

mach7 wrote:
The 1st season was probably the best. I'm surprised no one has mentioned "Return of the Archons" Its one I always rewatch.

And of course "Tomorrow is Yesterday" F-104s!

It took me a moment to remember why Mach7 specifically mentioned the F-104 Starfighter (what a great name!). But then I remembered his models of the scene from Tomorrow is Yesterday.









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