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The Best Episodes of Star Trek

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The Best Episodes of Star Trek

Space. The Final Frontier. The U.S.S. Enterprise embarks on a five year mission to explore the galaxy. The Enterprise is under the command of Captain...

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  1. Background image for The City on the Edge of Forever
    9.2/10(7.2k votes)

    #1 - The City on the Edge of Forever

    S1:E28

    Kirk and Spock must travel into the past in order to correct a change that will alter history.

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  2. Background image for Mirror, Mirror
    9.0/10(5.6k votes)

    #2 - Mirror, Mirror

    S2:E4

    A transporter mishap swaps Captain Kirk and his companions with their evil counterparts in a parallel universe. In the so-called Mirror Universe, the Enterprise is a ship of the Terran Empire, an organization as evil as the United Federation of Planets is benevolent.

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    Director:Marc Daniels
  3. Background image for Balance of Terror
    8.8/10(6.2k votes)

    #3 - Balance of Terror

    S1:E14

    Despite the earlier Romulan war, the Romulans have never been seen in person. The Enterprise, in pursuit of a Romulan aggressor, makes a discovery that causes suspicion about a senior crew member.

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  4. Background image for Space Seed
    8.7/10(5.9k votes)

    #4 - Space Seed

    S1:E22

    The Enterprise picks up a crew of genetic supermen from the 20th century... and their leader, Khan, plans to create a new empire.

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  5. Background image for The Trouble With Tribbles
    8.7/10(5.4k votes)

    #5 - The Trouble With Tribbles

    S2:E15

    The Enterprise must protect a very important shipment of grain from both Klingons and some adorable creatures called tribbles.

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  6. Background image for Amok Time
    8.6/10(5.2k votes)

    #6 - Amok Time

    S2:E1

    First Officer Spock returns to his home world for a brutal Vulcan mating ritual.

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  8. Background image for The Doomsday Machine
    8.6/10(5.0k votes)

    #7 - The Doomsday Machine

    S2:E6

    The starship Enterprise and its heavily-damaged sister ship, the USS Constellation, must work together to stop an alien planet-killing machine headed for the heart of Federation territory.

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  9. Background image for Journey to Babel
    8.5/10(4.4k votes)

    #8 - Journey to Babel

    S2:E10

    The Enterprise must transport dignitaries to a peace conference, with an assassin on the loose.

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  10. Background image for The Devil in the Dark
    8.3/10(4.7k votes)

    #9 - The Devil in the Dark

    S1:E25

    Kirk investigates a series of grisly murders on a mining planet that are the work of a seemingly hostile alien creature.

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    8.2/10(5.3k votes)

    #10 - The Menagerie (1)

    S1:E11

    Apparently summoned to Star Base 11, Kirk, Spock and McCoy visit a former Enterprise Commander, the paralyzed and horribly disfigured Christopher Pike. Uncharacteristically, Spock commandeers the Enterprise, then turns himself in for court martial.

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  12. Background image for The Menagerie (2)
    8.1/10(5.1k votes)

    #11 - The Menagerie (2)

    S1:E12

    Spock's court martial reveals the actions of Captain Pike on his previous visit to Talos IV, where the powerful Talosians tried to persuade Pike to breed with women provided for the purpose.

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  13. Background image for Errand of Mercy
    8.1/10(4.5k votes)

    #12 - Errand of Mercy

    S1:E26

    The Federation and the Klingon Empire teeter on the brink of war as Kirk investigates Organia, a humble planet, inhabited by pacifists, that is unwittingly caught in the middle.

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    Director:John Newland
  14. Background image for The Corbomite Maneuver
    8.0/10(5.4k votes)

    #13 - The Corbomite Maneuver

    S1:E10

    Threatened by the sinister captain of a powerful alien vessel, Kirk claims that the Enterprise carries a powerful explosive which will destroy both ships. The move produces unexpected actions from the alien adversary.

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    Writer:Jerry Sohl
  15. Background image for A Taste of Armageddon
    8.0/10(4.6k votes)

    #14 - A Taste of Armageddon

    S1:E23

    The Enterprise arrives at a planet to establish diplomatic relations and finds itself in the middle of a "peaceful" war that threatens to destroy the ship.

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  16. Background image for The Ultimate Computer
    8.0/10(3.8k votes)

    #15 - The Ultimate Computer

    S2:E24

    A skeleton Enterprise crew are assigned to test a revolutionary computer system that is given total control of the ship.

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  17. Background image for Arena
    7.9/10(5.0k votes)

    #16 - Arena

    S1:E18

    With both their ships held captive by powerful beings, Kirk and the captain of the alien vessel are placed on an asteroid to fight for their lives and the lives of their crews.

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  18. Background image for Tomorrow Is Yesterday
    7.9/10(4.7k votes)

    #17 - Tomorrow Is Yesterday

    S1:E19

    In a freak accident the Enterprise is sent back to 20th century Earth, and must find their way back without changing history.

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  19. Background image for The Naked Time
    7.8/10(5.7k votes)

    #18 - The Naked Time

    S1:E4

    An alien virus strips the enterprise crew of their inhibitions, causing chaos as each crew member is overcome by hidden emotions. Meanwhile, the Enterprise is being pulled inexorably into a nearby planet's gravity well.

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  20. Background image for This Side of Paradise
    7.8/10(4.5k votes)

    #19 - This Side of Paradise

    S1:E24

    The Enterprise crew try to rescue colonists from deadly radiation, but instead encounter strange alien spores that seem to offer paradise.

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  21. Background image for Where No Man Has Gone Before
    7.7/10(7.0k votes)

    #20 - Where No Man Has Gone Before

    S1:E3

    When Enterprise encounters a Force Field at the edge of the Galaxy, one of the crew members psionic abilities are accelerated to God like proportions causing him to become a powerful murderous being.

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  22. Background image for A Piece of the Action
    7.7/10(4.2k votes)

    #21 - A Piece of the Action

    S2:E17

    The Enterprise visits a planet with an Earth-like 1920s gangster culture.

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  23. Background image for The Enterprise Incident
    7.7/10(39 votes)

    #22 - The Enterprise Incident

    S3:E2

    The crew of the Enterprise are on a secret mission to steal a Romulan cloaking device.

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  24. Background image for The Enemy Within
    7.6/10(5.4k votes)

    #23 - The Enemy Within

    S1:E5

    Split by a transporter malfunction into two beings with very different personalities, the resulting twin Captain Kirk proves that neither a purely evil nor a sweetly good captain can survive without the missing half.

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    Director:Leo Penn
  25. Background image for The Galileo Seven
    7.6/10(4.7k votes)

    #24 - The Galileo Seven

    S1:E16

    Crash landing on a planet populated by hostile giants, the 7-man crew of the shuttlecraft Galileo find themselves unable to communicate with the enterprise or to escape the planet's atmosphere.

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  26. Background image for All Our Yesterdays
    7.6/10(33 votes)

    #25 - All Our Yesterdays

    S3:E23

    Kirk, Spock and McCoy are trapped in two parts of another planet's past - a world threatened with destruction when its sun goes supernova.

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Best Episodes Summary

"The City on the Edge of Forever" is the best rated episode of "Star Trek". It scored 9.2/10 based on 7187 votes. Directed by Joseph Pevney and written by D.C. Fontana, Harlan Ellison, it aired on 4/6/1967. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "Mirror, Mirror".