10.0/101 votes#1 - Initiation (1)
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 1/27/1993
Shaolin priest Kwai Chang Caine reunites with his long-lost son, detective Peter Caine.
Director: Jud Taylor
Writer: Michael Sloan
9.0/105 votes#2 - Competence
Season 3 Episode 22 - Aired 5/10/2002
A mentally challenged girl with Down's Syndrome is pregnant, and the question is, was she raped or did she consent and is she competent enough to keep her child?
Director: Jud Taylor
Writer: N/A
8.8/104 votes#3 - Lowdown
Season 5 Episode 20 - Aired 4/6/2004
Detectives try to decipher a motive for the strangulation of a Bronx assistant DA in an area where hookers stroll. When the death of the prosecutor looks staged using information gleaned from a co-worker's caseload, Novak endangers her career to obtain a confession.
Director: Jud Taylor
Writer: N/A
7.9/107 votes#4 - Legacy
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 11/10/2000
An abused 7-year-old girl lays comatose as the detectives investigate members of her dysfunctional family to determine the source of the abuse, in a case that hits close to home for Munch.
Director: Jud Taylor
Writer: N/A
7.6/109 votes#5 - The Third Guy
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 2/25/2000
An elderly woman is found tied up and sexually assaulted in her apartment, and suspicion is initially on the young men that had broken into her home and robbed her, but once the detectives are surprised to learn that the rape was committed after the robbery – by someone else.
Director: Jud Taylor
Writer: N/A
7.4/107 votes#6 - Folly
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 3/23/2001
Male escorts are assaulted and one is murdered, and the police have a tough time finding the bizarre couple whose sexual fantasy has turned violent. The investigation uncovers a dangerous male escort service where the boss may have reasons for sending her staff on potentially deadly dates.
Director: Jud Taylor
Writer: N/A
7.3/1033 votes#7 - Wink of an Eye
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 11/29/1968
Invisible "time-accelerated" aliens take over the Enterprise and attempt to abduct the crew for use as "genetic stock".
Director: Jud Taylor
Writer: Gene L. Coon
7.0/1031 votes#8 - Let That Be Your Last Battlefield
Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 1/10/1969
The Enterprise encounters two duo-chromatic and mutually belligerent aliens who put the ship in the middle of their old conflict.
Director: Jud Taylor
Writer: Oliver Crawford
6.8/1029 votes#9 - The Cloud Minders
Season 3 Episode 21 - Aired 2/28/1969
Captain Kirk races against time to acquire plague-fighting minerals from a world in the midst of a civil uprising against a grievous social class disparity.
Director: Jud Taylor
Writer: Oliver Crawford
6.4/1037 votes#10 - The Paradise Syndrome
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 10/4/1968
An alien device on a primitive planet erases Captain Kirk's memory, and he begins a new life with the planet's indigenous people.
Director: Jud Taylor
Writer: Margaret Armen
6.4/1030 votes#11 - The Mark of Gideon
Season 3 Episode 16 - Aired 1/17/1969
A race of overpopulated aliens abduct Captain Kirk to solve their problem.
Director: Jud Taylor
Writer: George F. Slavin
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"Initiation (1)" is the best rated episode directed by Jud Taylor. It scored 10/10 based on 1 votes. It was written by Michael Sloan. It aired on 1/27/1993 and is rated 1.0 points higher than their second-best episode, "Competence".